We looked along the windward finger and saw that in the distance ahead, there was a pass between the two mountains. Judging from the direction of the road in front of us, it leads to the pass. The lower part of the pass looks like it's blocked, and it can't be passed through at all...

I looked at the crowd and said, "Could it be that is where the landslide was?" ”

"Let's take a look." Master said.

The road on this mountain wall is very narrow, and there is a cliff on one side, and when you look down, you will be dizzy. The grass on the road was drenched in the rain, and the feet were slippery and slippery, so we didn't dare to be careless, and walked with one by one's clothes.

Finally, through the most difficult section of the mountain wall, looking back, everyone was as relaxed as if they had unloaded a big stone. Xiang Feng said that in the past, when the porter was passing through the section of the cliff, someone would often stumble and fall. The ancients were very superstitious, believing that the people who fell off the cliff were unwilling to die, and if the corpse was not fished up from the bottom of the cliff, the soul of the dead would not be able to linger, and over time, it would harm other passers-by. Therefore, every once in a while, someone will salvage the body of the cliff man, and after the body is brought up, it will be disposed of uniformly. Many people die every year on the Ancient Tea Horse Road, not only those who fall off the cliff and die, but also those who die of illness, freeze to death, exhaustion, etc., so in many places along the way, there are 'Ten Thousand Bone Pits' formed by corpses being disposed of...

After a short rest, we worked hard and finally arrived at the pass at dusk. Come to the front to take a closer look, the earth and stone in the middle of this pass are dozens of stories high, very steep, due to the perennial wind and rain, can no longer see the appearance of the landslide, the stone crevices are full of grass...

"This should be it." Xiang Feng said.

"But this—" I looked up and said, "Isn't that the place where Yang Xiansheng was in danger back then?" ”

Master thought for a moment and asked me, "That old man in the ghost realm told you that Yang Xiansheng got into a cave at that time, so he escaped the disaster, right?" ”

"Well, Yang Xiansheng got lost after he got out of the cave, and he kept walking until he reached a river... Master, if we can find that cave and see where it leads, and then according to the map, we should be able to determine which river Yang Xiansheng went to back then... With that in mind, one thing comes to mind..."

Everyone looked at me.

"What's the matter?" Master asked.

"We have overlooked a problem..."I said, "everyone thinks, those remnants of the Ran tribe are said to live in seclusion in the mountains downstream of the tributaries of the Min River, and the tributaries of the Min River, whether it is the Dadu River, the Qingyi River, or here in the west of Ya'an, are not downstream..."

"Not downstream?" Old Man Yang asked stunned.

"Ah Leng is right," Xiang Feng said, "from Ya'an to Leshan, it is the downstream, not here in the west." ”

"We are now in the Qionglai Mountains, and there are all kinds of indications that those Ran people must be in this area. If it weren't for the old man's misstatement, then I think that the so-called tributaries of the Min River are not first-class tributaries (Dadu River) or second-class tributaries (Tsing Yi River), but third- or fourth-class tributaries that run through the mountains, that is, the tributaries of the Dadu River or Tsing Yi River..."

"Huh..."Uncle Yang grinned, "If that's the case, then the range is large, the tributaries have tributaries, and the tributaries have tributaries, and the tributaries are endless, and we are in this mountain, even if we all wear rotten clothes and become wild people with big butts and bouncing around, it is estimated that we can't figure out which tributary it is..."

"Alas...," Old Man Yang sighed, "If it weren't for the fact that I would find out the source of the curse as soon as possible, I would have found a place to sleep with my big ass exposed, and I would have slept well for ten fucking days and eight months, my old waist would be broken..."

The master looked at the sky and said, "It's getting dark soon, let's cast a spell to test it first, and see if there is a cave entrance here in this pass..."

Xiang Feng and I assisted the master, according to the gossip position of the day after tomorrow, on the mountain stone where the pass was buried, we laid out eight Dao Liuding Liujia runes, and the talismans were two meters apart from each other, forming a circle. The Master erected a small altar on a protruding stone in the middle of the ring. Then, the Master stood close to the altar, pointed at the altar with his sword, closed his eyes, and said something in his mouth, and after a while, the Master measured his body, and the sword pointed downward, pointing to a place...

"How is Master?"

Seeing Master open his eyes, I asked.

"The location I'm referring to has the entrance to a cave where it's buried," Master said.

"Is there a cave?!"

"Hmm."

"I think this must be the place where Yang Xiansheng was in distress back then, at the moment when the mountain collapsed, he got into the cave on the mountain wall of the pass, thus escaping the catastrophe." Master said.

"But this hole is buried, how are we going to get in?" Old Man Yang asked.

By this time, it was already dark, and the rain was falling heavily. The master looked at the time and said, first find a place, eat and rest, and think of a way tomorrow morning, if you can't enter this cave, then find a way to make a divination, see where this cave leads, and then go over the mountain...

We left the pass, walked about 200 meters to the west, and came to a place in the depression of the mountain to take shelter from the rain, and each of us ate some food in our bags. As the night wore on, the mountains stood like giants in the darkness, looking mysterious. After walking for a long time, everyone was tired, and Uncle Yang had no interest in laughing. We leaned against the mountain wall, listened to the sound of rain near and far, and fell asleep. In the second half of the night, I felt uncomfortable in my stomach, and when I woke up, I looked at everyone, and they were still asleep. The rain was still falling, and it was dark outside.

I was afraid of waking the master and them, so I cautiously fumbled through my bag to find a flashlight, put on a raincoat, and went outside. After walking twenty or thirty meters, I shone a circle with a flashlight, and there was no suitable place for convenience, so I walked another section. Under the flashlight, I saw a big tree in front of me, with very dense branches and leaves, so I quickly came to the bottom of the tree.

I don't know how many years this tree is, it's so thick that I hugged it with my hand, but I couldn't hold it at all. I patted the tree with my hand and said, "Tree, tree, I think you have been standing here all year round, sucking wind and drinking dew, lonely, this master will contribute some fertilizer to you..."

After saying that, I was about to untie my pants when suddenly a person ran over from not far away!

I was startled, "Who?!" ”

There was no response, only the sound of the rain. I mustered up my courage and took a few steps forward, shining my flashlight around, but there was no one at all. I picked at the back of my head, and my heart said, could it be that I saw the flowers? If not, then...

In this barren mountain range, it's hard to guarantee that there are no spirits or anything like that... Thinking of this, I got goosebumps on my body and planned to go back. Just as I turned around, the flashlight swept away, and I suddenly saw that there was a cave about ten meters away from me...

Could it be that the 'person' just now, or the 'thing' just now, went into the hole? … After all, I have had many experiences dealing with ghosts, and I put my hand in my pocket and touched the lonely rune, and my heart settled down a lot. Holding the Lonely Void Rune in my hand, I came to me step by step, and as soon as the flashlight shone, it was indeed a cave...

I used my hand to push away the grass at the entrance of the cave, and shone it in with a flashlight, and it was so dark that I couldn't see the bottom. After a moment of hesitation, I decided to go back. I was about to get up, when suddenly, I noticed that there were traces of man-made excavation at the entrance of this cave! … I touched the chisel marks with my hand, and said to myself, could it be that there is no one living in this cave? … I decided to go back to tell Master about this discovery, and at this moment, I was suddenly tapped on the shoulder, and I jumped up like a reflex, and was about to hit the talisman out, and I saw clearly that the person who patted me was actually Xiang Feng...

"I'm scared out of you," I said, patting my chest.

"When I woke up and found that you were gone, I came to look for you, why are you running here?"

"Ah Feng, look—" I stepped out of the way and pointed to the hole, "Look at the entrance of this hole, has it been chiseled?" ”

Xiang Feng squatted down and touched it, "Not bad..."

After speaking, I was about to drill in, but I pulled him, "What are you going to do?" ”

"Go in and have a look..."

I told Xiang Feng what I had just seen and it seemed like someone had run past.

"Then it's even more important to see."

"I think it's better to go back and tell Master."

"No, let Master sleep a little longer. If Master Leng doesn't dare to enter, go back to sleep, and I'll go in by myself. ”

"Would I not dare? Come in, go in, who's afraid of whom..."

Xiang Feng and I got into the hole and climbed inside, which was narrow at first, and then wider and wider the further we went. After walking about twenty or thirty meters, I was already able to get up. After another walk, the space grew larger and larger enough for me to walk side by side with the wind. The two sides were illuminated, and there was no trace of excavation.

"It seems that the entrance to the cave should be for people to enter and exit, so it was artificially excavated and enlarged." I said.

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt as if I had stepped on something on the soles of my feet, and there was a crunch sound. I hurriedly stepped back, and under the flashlight, I saw that what I had just stepped on was actually a bone...

"It's human bones," Xiang Feng said, looking at it.

My nerves immediately tensed, and I shone forward with a flashlight, only to see that the hole turned to the left in front of me.

"Let's go...," said Xiang Feng.

When I came to the turning point, my hair stood up at the roots... In front of me is a large space, full of human skeletons, I know how many, stacked together, up to the top of the cave...

"Why are there so many dead people?" My legs are a little shaky.

Xiang Feng walked up to him and looked at me, turned his head to me and said, "Do you remember what I told you about the 'Ten Thousand Bone Pit'?" ”

"Hmm." I nodded.

Xiang Feng pointed with his finger, "This is similar to that nature, this is a hole of ten thousand bones." ”

"Ten Thousand Bone Caves? Do you mean that these people are all the porters who died on the Ancient Tea Horse Road? ”

"Hmm."

"Oh my God," I looked at the skeletons in shock, "this is terrible, isn't it? ”

"It's not a day or two deaths, it's that every time someone dies, they get their bodies here, and over the years, it's like this. These people are estimated to be from all dynasties and generations. I think that since the road we were walking was blocked and abandoned due to landslides, this hole has also been abandoned..."