Chapter 371: The Mysterious Ghost Valley
Dragging our tired bodies, we continued to search in the cave.
The cave was not very long, with a bend in the middle, covered with layers of vines, and upon closer inspection we found that the cave had two openings, one leading to the hollow pine tree, and the other on the face of the cliff. Other than that, I was somewhat surprised that no other cave was found, because I thought that this cave was only a part of a cave that was hundreds of miles long, and how could it be a stand-alone one?
Around this cave, there is another mystery - why did the blind man come to this cave tonight? And still hiding behind that stone door?
After searching and finding nothing, Madman Six came to the stone gate again, and he shone his flashlight and carefully observed the recessed part behind the stone door.
The grooves in the walls of this cave are very smooth, just the size of a person, but apart from this, there is nothing special, what is this groove for?
"You see, there's a hole down there."
Hearing what Madman Six said, we quickly looked down - and sure enough, at the bottom of this groove, there was indeed a hole.
This hole is only the size of a fist, a black hole, as if leading to another place, when I saw this hole, I suddenly thought of the one in the old mansion of the Zhao family.
The hole periodically grows larger or smaller, and it is from this hole that the monster escapes.
If this is the case, this hole and the big hole are likely to be connected, as I guessed before, not only me, but also Xiao Lei, Sister Li, and Hongmei, all thought of this.
Just as we were searching in the cave, we suddenly heard an urgent shout from above, something happened above?!
It's the two Japanese women above who are shouting, because it's Japanese, except for the Japanese female translator, we don't know what they're shouting, but from the sharp, eager screams, we can feel that something must have happened above!
At this time, the female translator shouted loudly: "Hurry up!" ”。
Before she finished speaking, Xiao Lei was already the first to climb the vine, and went up in three or two clicks, and we followed one by one.
I was the second to come up, and when I poked my head out of the hole in the stump and saw the scene in the moonlight, I was stunned: Xiao Lei was fighting with a strange thing - the head of that thing was triangular, more than a meter high, on both sides of the head, there were two rabbit-like ears, straight upright, the body was a bit like a human and a bit like a monkey, the movement was extremely agile and fast, and from time to time let out a ghost crying wolf howl, and Xiao Lei was fighting together.
I quickly turned on my flashlight and shone it over.
The monster seemed to be afraid of the bright light, howled, stopped attacking Xiao Lei, jumped to the side, and the two forelimbs kept waving, trying to block the light of the flashlight, and under the light of the flashlight, the thing looked even more terrifying - its skin was blue, and it had similar facial features to people, but those facial features were very deformed and distorted, and it looked chilling.
At this time, Xiao Lei shouted angrily, and rushed over with a dagger, the thing was obviously distracted by the flashlight, and Xiao Lei's attack speed was too fast, so he couldn't dodge, and was stabbed by Xiao Lei, and then he howled miserably, jumped three times and jumped like a gallop, and disappeared into the grass.
At this time, everyone came up, and they all saw the monster, but they were all confused by this sudden scene, and I did the same, and I stood there for a long time before I slowly came to my senses.
It was then that we noticed that one of the Japanese women, who seemed to be injured, was sitting on a rock, moaning in pain, and we hurried around to inspect her injuries.
Hongmei and Maniac Roku are both doctors, and they examined the Japanese woman's injury, which turned out to be a cheek bone, and was kicked hard by the monster, and it was bruised and swollen, but fortunately, after Hongmei and Maniac Roku's diagnosis, it was determined that the bone was not broken.
Maniac Six took out a plaster from his pocket, put it on the wound of the Japanese woman, and then pricked her acupuncture points with a silver needle.
It worked, and the woman's pain was greatly relieved.
We all know that these two Japanese women are not ordinary people, they are both excellent and have received extremely professional martial arts training, otherwise, they may have died a long time ago.
And the monster just now is likely to be a fully developed amphibian.
At this time, everyone was already exhausted, so they decided to go back to the hotel to rest immediately.
Although we were very tired, on the way back, we still discussed the life and death of the blind man - everyone obviously watched him fall from such a high cliff, even if he was an immortal, I am afraid that he would not be able to escape his life, so thinking about it, everyone's hearts were a lot more relaxed, this most terrible and difficult enemy, maybe he was really killed like this.
However, it is only when we see the body of the tall blind man with our own eyes that we can truly feel at ease.
When we returned to the hotel, it was already dawn, and Tanaka, my cousin, and the Japanese historians had not yet slept, they were sitting in their rooms, anxiously waiting for us to return, probably wanting to ask about the operation, but seeing that we were all too tired, they didn't say anything more.
Although we were very tired, we slept for about three or four hours, and then got up again, because we were going to the bottom of the cliff to find the body of the tall blind man, which was too important for us, and only by seeing the body of the tall blind man could we really be considered done.
But what we didn't expect was that we encountered unexpected difficulties in how to get into the valley below the cliffs.
Don't say that we young people, even the madman Six and his cousin, they have never been to the bottom of that cliff, and they wanted to find a map to see, but the scale of the general map is not so large, and the cliff cannot be found at all.
I don't know where the bottom of the cliff is, so how do I get there?
This mountain is hundreds of miles in circumference, and the terrain is dangerous and complex, what if you go down the few known mountain roads and can't reach the bottom of the cliff?
As a last resort, my cousin first called a feng shui master and asked about the mountain path to the bottom of the cliff.
Although the Feng Shui master is from Shanghai, he has lived in this mountain for decades and knows a lot about the secrets of this mountain, perhaps he knows the road to the bottom of the cliff?
But the result disappointed us, and the feng shui master didn't know the way.
This was somewhat unexpected, because none of us had ever imagined that the road to the bottom of the cliff would be a difficult one.
We were a little anxious until the afternoon, because the longer the time dragged on, the more variables there were, and the more difficult it was to accurately determine whether the blind man was dead by the corpse.
But it's useless to be anxious, I don't know the specific terrain and mountain roads of the road, and we can't go if we want to.
Just when we were at a loss, my cousin suddenly thought of an old friend of his, who worked in the Provincial Geological Bureau and was a senior expert in the geological field.
During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to our county geological institute, because he was very interested in geology and keen on field exploration, so the decentralization was not a bad thing for this geologist, just so he had the opportunity to explore in the field, and he was happy to do it.
It took him a few years to visit almost every corner of the nearby mountain, so he knows more about the mountain than we locals.
And when my cousin called, his friend didn't disappoint us - this geologist had really been to the bottom of the cliff.
But after listening to the geologist's full story, all of us were amazed, because we didn't expect that the valley below the cliff could have so many incredible mysteries, and the geologist's experiences in the valley were a little incredible.
It was a few decades ago, geologists were exploring the area, it was the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, and the temperature in the mountains was already quite low, and this time was also the season when the mountains were at most foggy.
Because the fog was so heavy, the geologist did not go to the depths of the mountains, but wandered around the mountains near the county seat, and when he came to the cliff, he suddenly noticed a very peculiar phenomenon:
In the thick fog, only the space on the edge of the cliff, within a radius of several miles, was not foggy.
The geologist had never encountered this phenomenon before and had never heard of it.
He was immediately excited, because with his profound knowledge of geology, he vaguely felt that the valley below this cliff must be extraordinary, and thus caused the space above the valley to form a wonderful "fog-free zone".
He immediately wanted to look at the bottom of the valley, but he didn't know how to go down to the bottom.
For more than a month, the geologist tried all the roads leading to the bottom of the mountain, but none of them led to the bottom of this cliff.
Could it be that the valley below this cliff has no road to the outside at all?
The old medicine farmer told him that the valley below the cliff used to be a special "ghost valley" in this area - it is said that in ancient times, whenever a plague occurred in this area, people would throw the infected people into the "ghost valley" alive, and it was said that by doing so, the spread of the plague could be quickly curbed.
There is also a legend in the village near the cliff that from the "ghost valley" below the cliff, there will be a little ghost with fangs on the face who climbs up and steals people's corpses.
And the reason why there is a plague is that this imp brought it, and they want to get more people's corpses, so after throwing the infected people with the plague down, the imp will not climb up again.
Although this legend is a bit mysterious, it is true that no one has ever gone down, but there are medicine farmers who have picked herbs on that cliff, and the old medicine farmers themselves have done so.
On that cliff, there are many precious medicinal herbs, and there is even a very large Ganoderma lucidum, if you are lucky enough to dig one, you can break out, but even so, very few medicine farmers dare to take risks.
Because it is too dangerous, and this danger is very mysterious - no matter how thick and strong the rope is, something will always bite it, and when the rope is broken, the medicine farmer will fall into the abyss.
But it is not that the medicine farmer has succeeded, in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a medicine farmer, who used a very ingenious method to successfully dig up a few huge Ganoderma lucidum from the cliff and gave it to Emperor Yongzheng.
Emperor Yongzheng has a habit, that is, he likes to listen to the following reports "auspicious rui" - what "the thousand-year-old tree is resurrected", "eight ears of grain grow on a stalk" and the like, because he feels that the appearance of these "auspicious" is God's reward for his good governance of the country.
When he saw such a huge Ganoderma lucidum, Emperor Yongzheng was of course overjoyed, and immediately rewarded the medicine farmer and gave the medicine farmer a meritorious name.
But later, those who wanted to follow suit fell into the valley one by one and died, and no one ever succeeded.