And what I'm going to read next, and the most crucial, part of what we want to know most about how the professor and his two students entered the cave and how they went to find the Taoist priest.

One thing I am more puzzled about is that even an expert like my cousin doesn't know where the ancient place name on the slate refers to now, but the professor was able to find out the information through guò, which shows that the professor's attainments in sinology are indeed unfathomable.

In the book, the professor said that this expedition was the most challenging of all his expeditions, because the danger he was about to face on the mountain was not "physical", that is, not how dangerous the terrain was and how harsh the natural environment was. The professor knew that the danger they were facing was a very strange danger, a danger that was completely beyond human imagination.

It seems that the professor knows this mountain very well, so why is he so familiar with a mountain in a remote area of China when he is far away in the United States? Although the professor's grandfather was a missionary in China, his knowledge of the mountain was not that of Grandpa Guò, but of a very bizarre book.

It was a book written by Jews, and it was written very early, probably in the early years of the Qing Dynasty in China. In fact, this book was not published publicly, but only some of the author's bizarre experiences in China written in his old age, and after the book was written, he printed hundreds of copies himself, and then mainly shared them with relatives and friends.

When the professor was looking for some books about China in the school library, he happened to turn to this one. However, when he first saw the appearance of the book, the professor was not attracted to the book, because it was a self-printed book, so both the binding and the cover looked rough.

The professor just picked it up and was about to flip through it, not ready to read the book seriously. But as soon as he finished reading a passage, he was deeply attracted by the book, and he couldn't put it down.

The professor clearly remembers that time, he turned to this book one afternoon, because he was deeply attracted by the content of this book, so from the beginning of the discovery of this book, he actually read it almost continuously in one breath, except for eating, he was reluctant to put down the book even when he went to the toilet, still squatting on the toilet, reading it in a daze, and from beginning to end, word for word, that night, he almost did not sleep, read all night. Not only reading, but sometimes stopping and thinking repeatedly.

At that time, the professor also thought that this book was a thousand times better than "The Biography of Marco Polo", and if it was officially published, it would definitely surpass "The Biography of Marco Polo".

In the book, the Jews recounted some unbelievable experiences, such as when they first came to this area, several Jews were arrested by local tea farmers who had never seen Westerners as monkey spirits running out of the mountains, and drowning one of the Jews alive. Because for those tea farmers in the mountains, they can't imagine that human beings will look like that.

In addition, the book also mentions that a Jew who had an affair with a local Chinese woman had a strange bug in his brain, which had a roundworm-like body and a head like a human face, which was very terrifying, and the Jew died because of the parasitism of this bug in his brain. And after he died, that kind of bug came out of the eyes of the corpse, which was very terrifying. (I was astonished when I read these references from the Jewish book in the professor's book, because it was a striking coincidence that the Jew who wrote the book was a Jew who was doing business here with his father, who was blind.)

The Jew who wrote the book said that because he liked to explore, he often explored the mountains in this area when he was not working, and he said that he had the soul of an explorer, and the more inaccessible the place, the more he wanted to go. And the mountains in our area aroused his interest.

The mountains in our area are relatively steep in terms of terrain, and in the depths of the mountains, there are primeval forests that have been thousands of years old. Until the era of the Republic of China, our population here was very sparse, and there were no people in the mountains for dozens of miles. Therefore, we locals do not know much about this mountain, and most of us have even been to the depths of the mountain in our lifetime.

And this Jew, who wrote the book, soon after he arrived in our area, felt that this mountain was unusual.

One year, this Jew experienced a solar eclipse in our area. And it was this eclipse that made him feel the strangeness of this mountain.

At that time, this Jew was only in his twenties, but because he had followed his elders and traveled around the world to do business since he was a child, he had a lot of experience. He had already seen a total solar eclipse three times alone, and for the average person at that time, it would be good to see a total solar eclipse at most once in a lifetime. Because the total solar eclipse occurs in the same place, it will be at least 450 years apart, and even a strange person like Gao Blind, who has lived for more than 300 years, may not be able to see a total solar eclipse.

As it happened, at the time of the total solar eclipse, the Jew who wrote the book happened to be in the innermost part of the mountain, which was the farthest from the populated place, and he had not seen a single person for many years. And that's exactly what the Jew expected. He walked in the barren mountains, intoxicated by the beautiful and pristine environment of the mountains, the sky was clear, there was not a trace of clouds, but because it was early autumn, and it was at a high altitude in the mountains, the climate was cool and pleasant.

The Jew, who was a little tired from walking, sat down on a boulder to rest, took out the jug from his waist, and drank a few sips of water. At this time, the cool mountain breeze blew, which made him feel relaxed and relaxed, so he lay down on the boulder, squinting at the clear blue and cloudless sky, feeling extremely comfortable.

Suddenly, he felt that the sky was getting darker, as if it were about to get dark, but it was noon, and the sky was clear, and there were no clouds to obscure the sun. What's going on? But the Jew soon understood that it was a solar eclipse. This change is the same as what he had encountered in the desert a few years ago. He suddenly felt that he was so glad that this was the fourth solar eclipse he had ever encountered.

The sky became darker and darker, and the birds and beasts in the mountains suddenly became very alarmed, as if they had suddenly encountered some disturbance, and for a while, all kinds of birds and beasts flew up and ran in all directions in a panic, but they did not seem to know where to flee; The stars in the sky slowly appeared, and as the sky darkened, the stars became brighter and brighter, and the day suddenly turned into night, which was a wonderful feeling!

As the Jew sat on the boulder, watching this wonderful change with great excitement, he suddenly seemed to hear a strange sound, very much like the moaning and wheezing of a woman in the zuo-ai, and it became louder and louder as the sky darkened, as if the whole mountain was enveloped in such a low, but very shocking sound, which seemed to come from the mountain. Not only that, but the boulder under him was also slowly moving. This frightened the Jews, and he had seen a solar eclipse, but he had never seen such a thing in a solar eclipse. What the hell is going on, did you encounter any youkai? For a moment, the Jews were stupid and didn't know what to do.

He suddenly thought in his heart, this solar eclipse, could it be a certain day in the world, otherwise why would there be such a strange phenomenon, and it felt a little like the sky was falling apart.

After a few minutes, the sky gradually brightened again, and soon returned to normal, the sun was still shining, the sky was blue, and the qiē that had just happened seemed to be just an illusion, as if it had never happened in reality. And the wheezing sound that made people's ears red and heartbeat slowly disappeared.

The Jew still sat on the stone in a daze, and for a moment he still couldn't react to what had just happened. It's too sudden, and it's too weird. After a long while, he came to his senses, although it was like a dream just now, in a very short period of time, so many incredible things had happened, but reason told him that it was all true, it really happened.

He jumped off the boulder, took a closer look, and found that the big rock had moved a distance of five or six meters, originally close to a big pine tree, but now it was several meters away from the big pine tree, and on the ground next to the boulder, there was a bottomless crack, this crack was also two or three meters wide, and it was black inside, eerie, and a little creepy. Was there an earthquake just now? The appearance of this crack is very similar to the result of an earthquake.

The Jew picked up a fist-sized stone on the ground and threw it into the crack. He thought he could hear the sound of the stone hitting the stone wall, but unexpectedly, after the stone was thrown in, he didn't hear any impact sound, but a voice like a woman's coquettishness, which was very similar to the slightly coquettish and complaining of a woman after being accidentally touched by a man.

What's going on, is this a "demon mountain"? It's so weird.

The Jews, fearing that they had misheard, saw a few more stones, and tried to throw them into the cracks, and yes, every time there was a woman's coquettish voice, and the bigger the stone, the louder the noise. The Jews had a strange feeling that the mountain was a woman, and when it was disturbed in different ways, she made all kinds of women's voices.

The Jew was creepy, he had experienced countless difficult circumstances, but it was the first time he had encountered such a strange phenomenon. He felt that he was bold enough, even in the dark night, alone in the cemetery in the wilderness, he had never been afraid, but this time, he felt fear from the bottom of his heart.

He didn't dare to make any more stops, but immediately walked out of the mountain, and was a little flustered and stumbling. He didn't think about anything else in his head, he just wanted to get out of the depths of the mountain as soon as possible.

By the time he actually came out of the mountain, it was already midnight, and he was so tired that he was numb enough to almost lose consciousness. But I finally arrived at the foot of the mountain and the family that often stayed overnight.

The family was sleeping soundly, when they suddenly heard a knock on the door, and at first they did not dare to open the door immediately, but shouted loudly in the courtyard: "Who? , what's the matter with knocking on the door so late? ”

After the Jews were weak enough to use stiff Chinese to identify themselves, the family opened the courtyard door. By this time, the Jews were already slumped on the doorstep and could no longer stand up.