Nuqing Xiangxi Chapter 24 Shanyin

The group of thieves cut off the chicken's head and burned yellow paper, and made a covenant: the pill pearls in the ancient tomb were all owned by the mountain movers, and the rest of the treasures of the funeral vessels were obtained by the thieves in the unloading mountains. Then he lit the lantern torch, the bright seed pine, left the old Xiongling Yizhuang, and took advantage of the moonlight to enter the mountain to rob the tomb.

The team that entered the mountain to rob the tomb was led by the mountain sappers, and many of the sappers under Luo Lao's crooked hands were also planted with incense sticks in the "Changsheng Mountain". The incense head is the meaning of joining the gang in the green forest, and this part of the people are the same as the thieves in the mountains, and they all tie cinnabar silk as a symbol on their arms.

The rest of the sappers were no different from those of ordinary warlords, carrying machine guns, explosives, and tools such as pry, pickaxes, shovels, and axes to dig through the mountains, in addition to each carrying an extra live chicken in a bamboo basket and bamboo cage. The sappers marched in loose queues amid the chaotic crows of chickens.

Although they walked crookedly on the mountain road, the faces of these soldiers were excited, and they did not intend to be in danger of robbing tombs in Bottle Mountain in the past two times, because the vast majority of them were counting on making a fortune by robbing tombs with Shopkeeper Chen and Luo Dashuai. Once the real underground palace is dug up, although the soldiers can't share too much oil and water, according to the past practice, ten pieces of Xiangyang and a large piece of Fushou paste are indispensable. Although tomb robbery is indeed risky, but in today's world, warlords are fighting, and people's hearts are in turmoil, even if the tomb robbery encounters evil spirits and ghosts, it is better than going to the battlefield to be shot directly, at least to do the work of digging graves and digging graves, after bleeding and sweating, really give silver yuan, and the soldiers eat food just to mix bowls of rice, and there are a few who come to be soldiers for war.

Behind the engineer troops, there were the Xieling bandits directly commanded by Chen Blind, who had lost 100 brothers twice before, and temporarily transferred a group of shrewd and capable thieves from Xiangyin.

And the mountain movers, the partridge whistle, with the old foreigners and flower spirits, were also mixed in the group of thieves in the unloading mountains. Partridge Whistle himself loaded the Angry Chicken with a bamboo basket and concealed twenty mirrored box guns. His younger brother is an old foreigner, his appearance is too unique, at first glance, he is a man from the Western Regions, and he is only in his early twenties, his sideburns and beard have grown very thick, and his physique is very burly, so he looks like a middle-aged strong man in his forties. This person has a generous personality and is not good at words, anyway, he will do whatever his senior brother Partridge Whistle says.

The appearance of the flower spirit is similar to that of the partridge whistle, except for the slight characteristics of the eagle's nose and deep eyes, it is no different from the Han people, and carries a medicine cage with him. Now the only mountain movers who can come out to rob the tomb are these three people. This time into the bottle mountain, the three of them also carried a heavy mountain digging armor, this thing is the secret of the mountain movers, no one has ever seen them with their own eyes, even the blind man Chen of the unloading mountain thief does not know its details.

The mountainous area of Xiangxi is 800 strange peaks, 3,000 beautiful waters, ten steps and one heavy sky, and the mountain topography is very different from the outside world. The group of thieves came to Bottle Mountain, the sky was already bright, and I saw the mountains and jungles, lush and green. But there is a miserable mist in this mountain ravine, and there is a faint demonic aura, and there are many demonic and evil things like the old lady Bai, but a large number of troops have entered the mountain, and the murderous aura of the soldiers is heavy, but the demonic fog has been diluted.

Blind Chen asked the partridge whistle to watch the bottle mountain shape shì, moving the mountain and unloading the mountain will not touch the appearance of the mountain and the ability to check the leylines of the earth inside, but the blind Chen is good at using the word "smell", where there is a lot of space in the mountain has long been explored, the urn city that does the infusion of mercury has been buried by the quicksand in the mountain, and there should be a hall of the underworld in the mountain, and the approximate location is in the middle of this bottle belly.

However, due to the fact that the mountains are all bluestone, it is difficult to see the grass color and distinguish the mud marks, looking for the entrance to the real underground palace tomb, or there may be no entrance at all, the real entrance is only the organ city, which was blocked by the copper juice of the boulder when the temple was closed. If you want to enter the ancient tomb to steal treasures, it seems that the only way to go down is from the cliff on the top of the mountain, where it leads directly to the apse, but the apse and the underground palace hall are also blocked by stones.

Blind Chen planned to take people down from the mountain gap, first scatter the live chickens of the crowd, clean up the poisonous insects hidden in the apse and the mountain crevices, and then blow up the explosives to a passage to the temple of Hades; Or still use explosives, choose a weak position on the ridge, blow through the stone mountain, and dig out the underground palace. This is the usual routine of the unloading wrestlers, although it is feasible, but it requires a lot of time and manpower and material resources.

The partridge whistle looked at the bottle mountain and pondered for a moment, this mountain is too peculiar, the mountain is crooked, the huge crack in the mountain will be broken, and the mountain is like a bottle, I am afraid that it is really a treasure bottle containing the elixir in the sky and fell into the mortal world, otherwise how can there be such a miraculous creation? He looked at it for a long time, and suddenly his heart moved, he couldn't get into the mountain, so why not go in from the bottom of the mountain?

I saw that the mountain body of the bottle mountain fell down, forming an angle with the ground, during which the vine rose upside down, the flowing water gurgling, the angle between the mountain and the ground, with the slope of the stone wall above gradually shrinking and narrowing, the sunlight was blocked by the mountain clouds and mist, and the bottom of the mountain was like a dark night.

Although Partridge Whistle does not understand feng shui, he is clever and has the ability to look at the soil and distinguish the soil. There is no sunlight in the big gap at the bottom of the mountain for thousands of years, and it is a shady place, but the vines are dense inside, indicating that the root of the mountain is not all rocks, and digging from the bottom of the mountain is definitely more labor-saving than digging from the top down.

After discussing it on the spot, it was decided that the soldiers who moved the mountain and unloaded the mountain were divided into two routes, Chen Blind and Luo Lao led the engineer battalion to bury a cannon hole at the ridge, bomb the mountain and blow up the stone to dig the cemetery, while the partridge whistle led the mountain movers and a group of unloading bandits to find the entrance from the bottom of the mountain. This time, there are enough people to enter the mountain, and it should be a two-pronged approach, no matter which way is successful, the treasures in the ancient tomb of Bottle Mountain will be counted.

A large number of live chickens were confiscated and used by Chen Blind, and these big roosters were enough to drive away the poisonous insects in the tomb. The roosters crowed all over the mountain, so that the poisonous mist and mirage in the cracks of the bottle mountain completely disappeared and hidden, and the centipedes, large and small, seemed to know that a nemesis had entered the mountain, and they were all hidden in the depths of the roots of the rock crevices and dormant without moving, where did they dare to spit out the poisonous miasma. Chen Blind Man and his people were immediately busy digging holes and digging cannon holes, and they didn't mention it.

In addition to the other two mountain movers Hua Ling and the old foreigner following him, the Red Girl led more than a dozen unloading thieves to complement him. Ready to stop, then turn to the back mountain, the bottom of the mountain is not so light to go, from the mountain pass to the bottom of the mountain, all of them are steep rocks, there is no road at all, you must go down from the steep mountain.

From top to bottom, although there are dangerous paths to climb, almost all of them are cliffs and dangerous rocks that go straight up and down, and those who are timid will feel their legs and stomachs turn when they look down. Partridge Whistle and other mountain movers are all brave and daring, and a group of brothers led by the red girl are also good hands in Changsheng Mountain, using centipedes to hang mountain ladders to climb down the cliff and dangerous paths, and it is effortless.

Although the centipede hanging ladder is simple in structure, it is a unique tomb robbery instrument, which has a great effect, and he can't help but secretly admire this set of things handed down by the group of thieves.

A group of people are like apes, climbing vines and hanging ladders, going down to the bottom of the mountain lightly, looking up, the bottle shoulder and bottle mouth of the bottle mountain are hanging high above their heads. In the distance, in addition to the mountain is strange and precipitous, I will not feel that there is anything terrible, really to the bottom of the mountain, only to see that this bluestone mountain is majestic and solemn, tens of millions of huge rocks are hanging obliquely in the air, and I don't know that it has been tens of thousands of years. If the mountain suddenly collapses, everyone below will be smashed to pieces, even the gods can't dodge, although the thieves are bold, but seeing that the danger of this mountain is really terrifying, the breathing can't help but become heavy.

A few steps further, the droplets of water seeping out of the rocks fell on their heads, and the water was so cold that everyone had to put on their hats, put on their robes, carry the lanterns, and from time to time remove the vines that stood in front of them, and walk very slowly. The rocks above the mountain are getting lower and lower, and the gloomy humidity around them is particularly heavy, making the thieves feel oppressive.

Walking hundreds of steps, there is a pool of water formed by the accumulation of rainwater in the mountains, and the ground has sunk down due to being soaked all year round. The water is very deep, the surface of the water is full of duckweed, and the ripples are stirred by the dripping water, and there are many long vines hanging in the water. The partridge whistle saw that there was really a hole at the bottom of this mountain, and it confirmed his previous judgment more and more, but this place is deep and closed, and the water is deep, and if you want to continue to go inside, you can only climb the vine in the past, and this kind of means can be used by the partridge whistle, but the rest of the people may not be able to do it, is it possible to swim in this biting cold water? Thinking of this, I couldn't help frowning slightly.

The red girl saw what he meant, so she asked her subordinates to put the centipede hanging ladder into a net, the bamboo tube was hollow, and the buoyancy was extremely high, which could be used as a bamboo raft to cross the water.

The partridge whistle nodded in good faith, and immediately stepped on the raft made of bamboo ladders, picked up the lantern to illuminate it, saw the direction clearly, and ordered everyone to paddle forward, and the three rafts sailed towards the center of the pool.

Halfway through the water, the red girl was in front of the bamboo raft, and she could hear that there seemed to be countless wriggling things in the dark, although she was also a person with excellent eyesight, but she was not as good as Chen Blind Man was born with adventures, and opened his night eyes in the ancient tomb, and he couldn't really see it in such a dark place.

She had seen this bottle of poison hidden in the mountains with her own eyes, and she expected that there was something wrong ahead, so she hurriedly took out three flying knives, staring at the front with all her attention, and once something came out, she would first use the means of the moon gate to nail it a few times.

The partridge whistle had already noticed, but he was so experienced that he carefully used his ears to distinguish it. As the raft moved forward, the movement in front of it became louder and louder, as if a group of rats were biting each other, and the number of dense rats could not be heard. A flash of thought flashed in his heart, and he shouted "low", and hurriedly lay on the bamboo raft according to the flower spirit next to him.

The red girl and the others were stunned when they heard this, and they also quickly bowed down. At this moment, I heard a rumbling noise, and countless bats flew out of the rock wall in front of me, like a black tornado, between the narrow rock wall and the water surface, flying outward. Because there were so many of them, and they were frightened to fly out, many of them were crushed by their companions and fell into the water, or slammed their heads against the stone walls and rattans, and let out a miserable hissing that echoed at the bottom of the mountain.

There was a thief on the bamboo raft who reacted a little slowly, and was wrapped in countless bats. The bat did not intend to hurt people, but subconsciously bit it when it hit something after being frightened in order to protect itself, and its claws were also very sharp, and it could bring off a large piece of flesh and skin when it was hung up, which allowed the person to resist and struggle, and the flesh and skin on his body were torn off in an instant, leaving a blurred skeleton and falling into the water, and his screams before death echoed freely on the rock wall.

The partridge whistle didn't expect that there would be so many bats hidden in the rock crevices at the bottom of the mountain, he was in a hurry, and hurriedly slapped the chicken coop hard, and the angry chicken inside suddenly crowed, and the sound resounded through the water. The rooster singing is a sign of the division of yin and yang between heaven and earth, and the bats only haunt at night, and the nature of things is naturally restrained, and the angry chicken is not a mortal thing, and it really frightened a large group of bats to scatter and escape, and they did not dare to pass over the bamboo raft again, and they scattered in a short time.

When the group of thieves saw that they had just entered the mountain, they all felt that they were in danger, and they felt that this bad omen was not very good. These people are used to licking blood with knives, and life and death have long been seen, and it is not surprising that a few people died during the tomb robbery, but the death of the accomplice just now was so tragic that it had to be creepy.

Fortunately, the large swarms of bats came and went faster, and the waterhole at the bottom of the mountain was soon coming to an end. The bottle mountain is inserted into the earth here, and the bottom is full of rocks, and the narrowest point is no longer accessible, and when you stand up straight, you will encounter the cold rocks above.

Everyone followed the partridge whistle to get down from the bamboo raft, and suddenly heard the sound of drinking water in front of them.

In the dim light, I saw that there were more than a dozen mounds of earth in the root of the mountain, which were grave piles close to each other, and most of them were drenched with mud, so that the coffins in the graves were half exposed. Among them was a conspicuous white stubble coffin, and a large pool of foul blood oozed from the top of the coffin, and a little raccoon dog was lying on the lid of the coffin, greedily sticking out its tongue and licking the black blood.