Chapter 525: Giant Ditch
Maobi Village is located in the middle of nowhere, and few outsiders come here. Our group was surrounded by enthusiastic villagers. I've seen this kind of battle a long time ago, but I'm at ease. Chen Qing, Lu Mangjing, and Wu Kai, the three Maoshan disciples, obviously had never seen this kind of scene, and they looked a little restless.
"Who's here?" The third sister pulled me and said loudly to everyone.
Immediately, a young woman smiled and said, "Ouch, whose pretty brother is this?" ”
The third sister glanced at her and said, "Just your sharp mouth, I used to think about it every day, and I always said that Xiaojing didn't come back to see us." Now that he's back, you don't recognize him! ”
She said this well, and I was immediately surrounded by a group of women, some pinching their faces, some pinching their noses, chattering, and laughing. In a trance, I seemed to be back to when I was twelve. It's just that the original group of girls had already combed their hair at this time and married other women.
I finally broke free from the encirclement, and I saw Chen Qing and several others staring at me with strange faces. The Reckless Spirit, in particular, looked at me several times in a strange way.
That night, we stayed in the village, and the villagers brought out their own meals to entertain us outsiders. I sat with my third sister and learned that a year after her father's accident, she got married and married a young man from the village.
I thought of the little old man of the village chief, and I couldn't help but feel guilty. Back then, he also suffered an unjustified disaster, was involved in this right and wrong, and finally ended up in the tomb, and his head was stacked into a pile.
I took a look and asked the third sister why I hadn't seen my brother-in-law. The third sister sighed slightly and drank a small bowl of fruit wine.
After listening to her, I learned that more than half a year ago, a group of men in the village went to the back mountain to hunt, but there was a landslide that day, and everyone was buried underneath, and none of them came back. Many daughters-in-law in the village became widows, including the husbands of the third sisters.
I listened to the misery in my heart, silently took a sip of fruit wine, and after thinking about it again, I felt that something was wrong, so I asked how the landslide happened in the first place.
The third sister told the story of the day as it was. I calculated the time, and it seemed to be very close to Sect Master Feng's landslide. It's just that I went to see the landslide at that time, and it was not on this side of Maobi Village, but in another place in southern Xinjiang, which is quite far away.
I pondered for a while, but I didn't know if this was a coincidence, or if there was any connection in it.
After settling down, I asked if there were any outsiders who had come here these days. The third sister frowned and said, "There are outsiders who were accidentally discovered by the villagers. However, these people are mysterious, and they have not entered the village, and now they do not know where they have gone. ”
I remembered that the black monkey said that Yang Yi and the others also arrived near Maobi Village, so they sent him away and didn't let him lead the way again. In this way, it should be around here.
That night, she stayed at the third sister's house, her father turned out to be the village chief, and the house was spacious. In the second half of the night, I let Zhong Lingxiu and the white-faced demon stay here, and I quietly left the room and plunged into the night.
After leaving the village, they quickly walked around Maobi Village, taking the village as the center, and gradually exploring outward. Sure enough, I found some clues along the way, and it should be that someone with a magic sect had passed here.
Distinguishing the traces traced up, I followed to a valley in the south of Maobi Mountain, looking down from a high place, the shape of this valley is like a big mouth, listening to the third sister, this valley is called Guikou Ao by the locals. It's full of rocky cliffs, with no grass, and there are often strange whirlwinds swirling, which is very weird. Almost no locals go in.
I felt the entrance to the valley and looked outside for a while, but I felt that something was wrong. After walking further in, I saw that the whole valley had been flooded with earth and rocks, and it seemed that there had been a large landslide.
I wandered around the valley for a while, and judging from the traces left on the ground, there should have been several groups of people who had entered this ghost mouth before, presumably heading straight for the tomb of the Xuannu. It's just that this valley has collapsed so badly that it is completely impossible to see the original landform, even if you want to dig up the soil and rocks, you don't know if it is the Year of the Monkey.
After returning from Guikouao, he didn't have the heart to sleep, so he walked around the village. After a whole night like this, I met the third sister early the next morning, only to know that just two days ago, the ghost mouth suddenly collapsed. Fortunately, no villagers usually enter that ghost place, and recently the mountains have collapsed badly, and everyone didn't pay too much attention to it.
After Chen Qing, Lu Mangjing and Wu Kai found out, they immediately rushed to Guikouao, and when they came back, their faces were pale.
"Lu Jing, you say...... Could the tomb of the Xuannu be somewhere else? Recklessly, his eyes were red.
I don't know what to say for a while, at least for now, the first few groups of people have never come out after they entered the Ghost Mouth. According to common sense, they should have found the clue to the tomb of the Xuannu in the valley, but then I don't know what happened, and the entire valley collapsed.
Chen Qing frowned and said, "Maybe they have already entered the tomb." ”
"Yes, Brother Qing is right!" Wu Kai clapped his hands and shouted happily, "As long as Master and Master are in the tomb, people will be fine." We just need to dig up the earth and rocks outside, and we can get them out. ”
A few people said to do it, and immediately went to find the villagers of Maobi Village, these mountain folks are simple and warm-hearted people, and without saying a word, they picked up the guy business and rushed to Guikou Ao to help dig soil and pick stones.
I didn't go to help, but I picked up my body and ran through the mountains and forests, finding out the collapsed mountains one by one, and remembering them in my heart. I always feel that the frequent landslides and those collapsed ghost pits in this area have something to do with the tomb of the Xuannu.
Towards evening, I had already drawn the various collapse points on paper, deduced them according to the theory of arithmetic, and found that a very large range of formations had indeed been formed. Judging from the current collapsed mountain, at least two formations can be deduced. One of them is roughly located in the middle of the Devil's Mouth, and the other is supposed to be to the west of Maobi Village.
When you come to the threshing field in the west of the village, the terrain here is quite high, and when you stand in the local area and look into the distance, you can see a large flat woodland in the west, and at a glance, it is like a dark and heavy sea, and the waves are not prosperous. That's where the Giant's Gully is.
When we first came here, the third uncle and the dead man's face saw this giant ditch, their faces changed greatly, and they were very secretive about it. Climb the side peak of Maobi Rock, condescendingly look down, you can see that the color of this forest is divided into several different color areas, I have heard the village chief say before, this forest seems to be calm, in fact, there are many deep ravines and valleys hidden below, so from a high place, the color of the forest sea is deep and shallow.
The sea of forests, together with the nearby mountains, was undulating and endless, as if a giant was lying underneath.
I overlooked the peak for a while, returned to Maobi Village, when I passed the entrance of the village, I saw the two stone statues of the sacred beasts standing there, majestic and majestic, several old people in the village burned incense, and were kneeling down to the sacred beasts, praying to bless the village with good weather and good weather. I looked at it from afar for a while, and I still remember that the base of this stone statue was engraved with the words "Offering to me, bless Funing".
At this time, I heard the sound of footsteps behind me, and then the voice of the reckless spirit shouted behind me. When I looked back, I saw the three of them walking over with a dejected expression.
"I can't dig it." Chen Qing shook his head.
I knew this was the case, so I turned around and looked at the two stone statues again, and said, "You keep digging, and I'll go to another place to see." ”
Immediately, he took Zhong Lingxiu and the white-faced demon out of the village. It's just that when they were halfway there, the reckless spirit and the others followed again, and Wu Kai also held Elder Na Yue, saying that it was enough to have villagers on the other side of Guikouao, and they wanted to go on the road with me.
I really didn't want to take them with me, because I wasn't sure they were going to go. I'm thinking, since the ghost mouth can't work, let's try to start from the giant ditch. However, this is purely my speculation, and it may be wrong.
What's more, this mistake could cost everyone.