I shook my head and said, I don't know what to say.

Lao Zhang said: "Actually, I don't know the way. But listening to what you said about Lao Jia's strange behavior before he died, combined with the black box device I took out from the base, I can guess about one or two. ”

"Tell me about it." I'm interested.

Lao Zhang smoked a cigarette, pondered for a moment, and looked at me. I could see that there was still some hesitation in his eyes, and when a cigarette was halfway gone, he said slowly, "Do you know what I do?" ”

"Explorer?" I question.

Old Zhang Ha laughed: "What a bullshit explorer." That's all out of the novel, and there is no one in this world who can support himself by pure exploration. You see these people in this team, they are ostensibly expeditions, but in fact, they are driven by other interests behind them. The so-called explorers, their real purpose is to hunt for treasures, or scientific research, or to explore ruins, or to take precious photos, etc., for the sake of adventure, that is the work of rich people. ”

"What about you? What do you rely on to support yourself? I asked.

Lao Zhang knocked on the ashes and said for a while: "I am a private archaeological team." ”

I didn't get it. He looked at me stupidly, and he smiled: "In other words, I am a tomb robber." ”

"You ......," I was speechless in astonishment. Tomb robbery, don't look at the novel, it's actually an illegal act in reality, and it's a big crime to catch it, and there are seven or eight years, and there are even death sentences. Lao Zhang can tell such a secret thing, it seems that he trusts me a little.

"Tomb robbers, right?" Lao Zhang said slowly.

"Zhilu said, there are many novels on the market that rob tombs."

Lao Zhang spat out thick phlegm: "Those are all." I can make up a career to lie to you and be honest with you, because the premise of our cooperation is trust, and by the way, it is also so that you can better understand what I am talking about below. ”

I listened attentively to what he had to say.

Lao Zhang said: "Let's talk about the black box first. By the way, where is that thing now? ”

"The last time I saw it, it was in Yao Bing's hand." I say.

Lao Zhang nodded: "This person is not simple, he must know the inside story of the Dao." You've seen black boxes with a back that looks like a hand-cranked generator with two electrodes sticking out of the front. At that time, I just put the electrodes on my spine, and I was stimulated by an electric current, and the result was ......."

He paused, his eyes were a little confused, and he suddenly asked an irrelevant question: "Liu Yang, have you seen anything other than Lao Jia?" ”

I nodded, I've been there a lot of things like this.

Lao Zhang said: "Walking in the yin is to use spells to make people go to the underworld." There is a detail that you may not know, after going yin, most people will have back pain, especially the back will be sore for several days. Do you know what the Tao is for? ”

I shook my head, I hadn't heard of this before.

Lao Zhang said: "It is said that the spine is an organ in the human body, which can pass through yin. It is the main reason why people can walk yin, and the spine can connect the two worlds of yin and yang. ”

I opened my mouth wide and listened without blinking.

"I saw a schematic diagram of the human body under the base, and there was a Japanese description of the black box on it, which was clearly marked and attached to the spine with black box electrodes."

The more I listened, the more I wondered: "Then the electric current stimulates the spine, and it will be ...... Can you go to the yin? ”

Lao Zhang nodded: "That's pretty much it." It's easy to say, but in fact, the requirements for going yin are very demanding. On the surface, it is enough to look at the current stimulation, but the frequency, intensity, and duration of the current are extremely strict. I estimate that the Japanese must have gone through a lot of human tests and analyzed the best amount of current from a lot of data. ”

I swallowed my saliva and said slowly, "You mean, the Japanese are studying how to get people to go to the underworld?" ”

"At least it's one of the projects they're working on." Lao Zhang nodded.

"Did you go, then?" I asked.

Lao Zhang was expressionless and smoked silently. The foliage was thick, blocking the sun, and after the rain, there was a little eerie coolness here. I only saw the cigarette butt in his mouth flicker and go out, and it was obvious that he was lost in thought.

I was a little frightened by this atmosphere, and I didn't dare to urge him. After a long time, Lao Zhang said slowly: "It should be." ”

I didn't bother him and let him say it himself. Lao Zhang said: "The underworld I have seen is not quite the same as the traditional concept. So I'm not sure if it's Hades or not. ”

Lao Zhang put the electrode on his spine at that time, and under the stimulation of the electric current, he unconsciously went to another place. It was a long asphalt road, and it was dark and dark. This asphalt road is flanked by dense jungle as far as the eye can see. In other words, the only way you can walk in this place where there is no village and no shop is the asphalt road under your feet.

Lao Zhang drove a car down the road. I can't remember how he got the car, and how he drove it on the road. It's as if this is a piece of his life that has been cut off and edited by outsiders.

If you go on like this, it's okay, and when you open it, suddenly a pack of vicious dogs emerges from the bushes. Speaking of these dogs, Lao Zhang had palpitations, he braked urgently at the time, but he still couldn't react and hit a dog. Dog hair and dog blood spilled on the car window.

In the light of the headlights, he saw that the dogs were all dressed in black hair, all the size of calves. He didn't scream, but stood on the road and watched his car like a man.

Originally, he was groggy and couldn't remember his origin at all, but the moment he saw these vicious dogs, his body was full of spirits, and scenes of the past came to his heart. He remembered that he was in the mountains of the Xing'an Mountains, and it was because of the electrodes that he came to such a place inexplicably.

He was so frightened that he never thought that what he saw might be an illusion. At that time, I really thought that I was likely to be brought to such a place by some enemy. As for how he got dizzy and how he got here, there is no memory of what happened in the middle.

Very annoyed, he groped in the car and found a steel rod. Push the door and get out of the car, and you have to give these dogs a little color. When he came, the dogs ran away without a sound, and disappeared into the woods.

Lao Zhang got into the car and started it again, but the strange thing was that it couldn't catch fire. The air rang for a long time, so I had to give up. He flipped over the contents of the car, and there was not even a bottle of water, so he had to get out of the car with a stick and walk along the road.

It's very cold here, look at the sky, it's dark, not even moonlight. In Lao Zhang's words, what kind of person am I, a tomb robber! What kind of tomb crypt haven't been to? But this well-informed and angry old Zhang, walking on this road, actually felt scared that he had never felt before. I can't tell why, I'm afraid.

I don't know how long I walked, but I didn't feel tired at all. At this moment, he saw a faint light on the side of the road not far ahead.

He stepped up, and the place looked quite close, but it seemed like he didn't have a head to walk, and it took him a long time to get there.

It's a forest hut, built of logs, and it's quite chic. Through the window, you can see that the lights are on inside, and a figure is shaking. Only then did Lao Zhang feel tired and tired, and he was thirsty. He also thought that strange places might hide dangers, but relying on his tall men and horses, and steel rods in his hands, three or five people could deal with it.

He went up and knocked on the door, and suddenly he smelled the smell of meat coming from the door, and he was immediately hungry.

After knocking on the door a few times, no one opened the door, although a figure swayed. Lao Zhang was a little annoyed, and added strength to his hands, but he didn't expect that the door was unlocked, and it opened as soon as he pushed it. He walked in, and it was very basic, there were no tables and chairs, and the floor of the empty room was covered with meadows. The most bizarre thing is that there is a boxy pit in the middle of the room. There was a pile of firewood in the pit, and it was burning, and a large black cauldron hung from the ceiling, and it was on top of the fire, and the hot water was boiling, gurgling, and steaming. There is a lot of meat in the pot churning with the boiling water, and the meat residue is floating and floating, not to mention the aroma is more tempting.

There was also a door in the corner of the room, which was not closed, and it seemed to lead to the backyard. Maybe the figure in the house I saw just now went out of the door along this door. Lao Zhang originally wanted to shout, which was regarded as a greeting. But after thinking about it, what if the family is stingy and doesn't give him anything to eat, it's better to be self-sufficient.

He was also hungry, came to the front of the pot, smelled the aroma, and the more he smelled, the more hungry he became, like thousands of hungry worms crawling out of his stomach.

But in the boiling hot pot, there is not even a spoon, so you can't just reach into the pot with your hands. He thought for a moment, put the steel rod in his hand into the pot, and with great effort, he dug out a piece of meat, one of which accidentally fell on the meadow and was still steaming.

Lao Zhang didn't care about getting dirty, because it was too hot to pick it up, so he simply knelt on the ground and crossed his ass like a dog, leaned in front of the piece of meat and bit it carefully.

At the time, he recalled, it was really strange why he would do such a thing. I can't really describe the smell of hunger, especially the smell of meat, which is strange. Lao Zhang is usually a social activist, with countless friends in black and white, and he has a lot of wine and dinner every day, and he has eaten a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but he has never eaten such a fragrant thing, and he simply uses his taste buds to make love.

Soon the piece of meat was finished, and he used a steel rod to fish out another piece of meat. Scooping and fishing, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, and some meat scraps were tumbling up at the bottom of the pot, and there was actually an eye in it.

He was just puzzled, eyes were not uncommon as food, and the most common thing was to eat fish eyes. The eye in front of me was quite large, like a quail egg, round and round. Looking at this eye, he was a little frightened, and then he felt that he was sensitive, maybe the eyes of some kind of livestock.

At this moment, something suddenly appeared from the bottom of the pot, which frightened him.

What appeared under the pot was actually a human face. The face was like a mask of human skin, with no flesh or bones, just a piece of skin. Its face was expressionless, and its eyes were two dark deep holes, which were half-sinking and half-floating on the surface of the water at this time, and its empty eye sockets looked at Lao Zhang outside the pot.

Lao Zhang almost turned his back on his breath, he knew this face, it was the face of his companion Lao Jia.