Chapter Twenty-Three: The Past

Bin Zi and Brother Liao were shoveling snow on the side, while Zhang Hefang and I chatted little by little about how their all-star team came here 31 years ago. After listening to Zhang Hefang's account, I roughly sorted out the ins and outs of the matter, and also gained a certain degree of understanding of the investigation 30 years ago.

That expedition can be said to be the first time in the thousands of years of the existence of the Nanwu Group that they have carried out a certain work in such unity, and what I didn't expect was that the main planner of that event turned out to be the one-eyed old man. At that time, the one-eyed old man was still very young, and the witchcraft and Taoism were naturally perfected, coupled with a natural yin and yang eye, which allowed him to gain a firm foothold in the Nanwu Group.

The Nanwu Group has never had a formal organizational form, and no one can presumptuously claim to be in charge of the Nanwu Group. Everyone knows in their hearts that in the world of Nanwu, the strong have their own strong players, and no one dares to claim that they are the strongest. Even during the expedition thirty-one years ago, although the one-eyed old man was nominally the planner and team leader, among the people who accompanied him, the strength of Azuna and the Gu Master alone far surpassed him, but this did not prevent the mission from proceeding.

According to Zhang Hefang's recollections, he can't remember exactly how many people were on that expedition, but there were at least 20 people, there is no doubt about it. Everyone came to the snow-capped mountain, did the same thing, and soon found the entrance to the stone gate of the sacrificial burial pit.

At that time, those people were extremely cautious, and after discovering the entrance to the stone gate, they did not rush to push open the stone gate, but a group of people sat around the top of the snow-capped mountain, chanted spells and practiced witches, and only began to try to open the stone gate after making sufficient preparations for entering the stone gate.

However, just as the group began to prepare to push open the stone door, all of a sudden, the surrounding mountains began to make strange noises. It's not an absolute no-man's land, but everyone knows that since this altar has survived for thousands of years without being discovered by the world, it means that there are very, very few people coming and going here.

At first, it was thought that the voices of people from other mountains were echoing in the valley, but soon they realized that this was not the case. The sound they heard was not something that could be made by one person, it was the voice of thousands of people in unison. It's just that the voice is uniform, all of them are women's voices, and when you listen carefully, you can see that it is singing.

When everyone heard this, they began to be a little worried. Although it was dark all night, the plateau was uninhabited, the air was thin, the moonlight was unusually bright, and all of them had a fierce eye, so they began to look left and right for the source of these sounds. They had thought it was a sound coming from the entrance of the stone gate, but this possibility was quickly ruled out. At the end of the day, they could only come to the chilling conclusion that these voices came from the surrounding mountains, and that they were singing.

Such a conclusion is certainly ridiculous in the eyes of normal people, but don't forget that in the world of wizards, everything in this world has spirituality, mountains, rivers, plants, trees, sun, moon and stars, birds and beasts have no divinity and no magic.

Just when everyone thought that the surrounding mountain gods were angry and knelt down to pray, all of a sudden, there was an exclamation from the crowd. Everyone was so frightened that they hurriedly looked back at the man and asked him what was going on. The others trembled and pointed to the entrance of the stone gate, and everyone looked forward with his fingers, and couldn't help but gasp, and the heavy stone gate entrance was quietly opened at some point. At this moment, the inside of the entrance was as black as ink, as if beckoning to them with an evil smile, luring them in.

Everyone involuntarily stepped back and asked each other who had opened the stone door, but the result was even more unsettling. No one had ever tried to open the stone door. That is to say, the entrance to the stone door opened by itself.

How is this possible? How could a heavy stone door open on its own? Is it a mechanism? A few people in the crowd who had studied ancient mechanisms stepped forward, examined the stone gate carefully, and came to the conclusion that it was impossible for the stone gate here to contain any mechanism.

There was no mechanism, and no one tried to open the stone door from the outside, but the stone door was opened. In this way, there is only one situation, and that is - there is something inside the stone door that opens the stone door.

Everyone was shocked again, and said what the hell is going on, could it be that some monster came out of the stone gate? However, everyone looked left and right, and did not find any situation, but found that the demon song in the mountains that was like embattled just now stopped at some point.

At this time, cold sweat had begun to ooze from the forehead of the youngest Zhang Hefang, and others such as Old Man Yuan Baqian and Professor Li Zhongkai gradually began to feel that something was wrong.

Soon, everyone's attention was drawn to another unexpected event. Following the moonlight, everyone turned around and was surprised to find that the surface of Lake Kurosawa, which had been empty since then, had become lively. There was not the slightest ripple on the dark surface of the lake, and what made people shudder was that above the surface of the lake, there were hundreds of women dressed in ancient women's clothes. These women, dressed in gorgeous clothes, danced on the surface of the lake, but the dance steps were awkward, and the crowd was full of knowledgeable people, and at a glance it was clear that it was not dancing, but a trick.

What's even more confusing is that after dancing for a while, those women actually sang together, wasn't that song the demon song from the mountains just now! The women sang and waved at the crowd, apparently having spotted them.

Some of the shallow (but relatively shallow) wizards looked over and waved their hands in fascination, and it wasn't long before everyone was surprised to find that the women had begun to salvage something in the water, as if a person had been dragged out of the water. The one-eyed old man (not one-eyed at that time) picked up the binoculars and looked at them, and with a low cry of "ah", he saw that the salvage from the water was none other than the young man who had just waved to the women. The young man who had been salvaged from the water drooped his shoulders, his face expressionless, his head lowered, and he let the women around him mock him for fun, obviously the soul of the young man. The one-eyed old man put down his binoculars and looked back at the young man, only to see that the young man's face at this time was pale, and his seal hall was black, which was already a sign of death.

"Not good!" The one-eyed old man quickly noticed that something was wrong with the problem, and shouted at everyone, "Don't look at those women, this is witchcraft to seduce the soul." ”

The crowd listened to the order and hurriedly turned away from the woman in the Kurosawa Lake. It's just that when they turned around, everyone's scalp almost exploded. I saw that there were two blood-red eyes like small lanterns at the entrance of the dark stone gate just now.

"Not good! Evacuate! The young Yuan Baqian shouted, and after speaking, he picked up Zhang Hefang, who was only twelve or thirteen years old at the time, and ran wildly in many ways.

At that time, Zhang Hefang, although he was talented and intelligent, but in the extreme fright, he was still a little confused, after all, this experience of only a few dozen minutes was too dangerous, so that his little heart was overwhelmed. He said that he only vaguely remembered that Azuna and the Gu Master wanted to compete at that time, but soon, they found that the monster that came out of the entrance of the stone gate was not something they could resist at all, and many people were pulled into the stone gate by the monster at once.

As they ran down, they found that at this moment, the women who were standing on the surface of the Kurosawa Lake had also run towards them along the river, and in the blink of an eye, they were attacked on their backs, and there was no way to retreat, so they could only fight to the death.

The young Zhang Hefang wanted to help, but Yuan Baqian suddenly covered his head in his arms and said: "Don't look, it's not your turn to make a move now, save your life, the old man is very optimistic about you." ”

Zhang Hefang couldn't see what was happening, he only vaguely remembered the sound of chanting, shouts of killing, and the heavy gasps that Yuan Baqian made as he ran......