Although I have lived under Bamenling for many years, I have never looked closely at Bamenling, and it is not until today that I have looked at Toudaomen for the first time.

The first gate on the Bamen Ridge is like two sharp swords, starting from the mountainside to pierce into the clouds, as if the ridge has been cut in two sections, and the gate railing condescendingly crosses the mountain range.

As soon as I walked not far from the first door, I was stopped by Tan Yue: "Look behind you carefully!" ”

I followed Tan Yue's finger and looked inside the door. From where I am standing, I can clearly see the hillside pushing upward, and the bottom of the slope is exactly the same as the threshold of the first gate, and at first glance it looks like someone has built a gate against the hillside.

"Grave!" My first instinct was to see the tomb door.

In this place, except for the cemetery, there is no tomb that can erect a monument directly in front of the grave as shown on TV. Instead, a square door was built in front of the grave with three flat stone slabs, meaning that ghosts could enter and exit.

If the head gate of Bamenling has an upper beam, it is no different from a tomb gate.

"It can't be a grave, right?" Dakang shook his head and said: "After the Tang Dynasty, there was no such large-scale effort to open mountains as mausoleums. Besides, there really hasn't been a decent tomb in the Northeast. Could the mountain behind the door be a tomb? ”

I said in a deep voice, "Didn't you say that the person who brought you here opened a thief hole?" Take me there. ”

"Okay! Come with me! "After taking me around a few times, Dakang finally stopped at the bottom of a hidden hillside.

The sloping land was littered with footprints coming and going, most of which were military shoes, as well as some of the agricultural shoes that rural people often wear. It seems that the army used to develop this place at the beginning.

When I turned my head to look at Chang Ke, the latter replied, "Not long after we came up with the technicians, we started dying inexplicably. Later, we didn't dare to go any further, so we cordoned off the scene and retreated to the village. It said that it would send us a group of consultants, and we have been waiting for consultants. ”

I frowned slightly: "Those so-called advisors are here?" ”

Chang Ke was surprised: "Aren't you just consultants?" Who else? ”

The consultant Chang Ke is talking about is definitely not us. The above must have negotiated with a certain magic force, but they haven't negotiated yet, maybe the other party didn't have the heart to wade into this troubled water, so we inserted a pole in.

Tan Yue asked, "How long have you abandoned here?" ”

"It's been almost a month!" Chang Ke said: "After we gave up digging the underground palace, people in the village kept getting sick. The institute felt that it was the result of an outbreak of some kind of bacteria or virus in the underground palace, and immediately applied for the blockade of Lijia Village. ”

"The troops not only did not allow people from Lijia Village to go out, but also did not allow anyone to go up the mountain, and in order to prevent anyone from climbing the mountain, they also specially sent a patrol team. Since then, no one has crossed the mountain from the bright side, and we have been doing research in the village all the time, but ......"

Chang Ke paused: "However, the patrolling people can always find corpses on the mountain, including villagers, soldiers, and even our researchers. No one could figure out when they arrived on the mountain and how they died near the dungeon. ”

I nodded without saying a word, but Tan Yue asked, "How did those people die?" ”

"There are many ways to die." Chang Ke said: "Some people obviously have traces of poisoning, some people have been decapitated, and some people seem to have been dismembered by wild beasts...... The strangest thing is that someone was actually killed by thunder. ”

Chang Ke said: "It's not the rainy season, and there has been no natural discharge on this hillside, but the villager was split into charcoal by lightning. ”

"Could it be a spell like the Five Thunder Righteous Method?" Tan Yue frowned and muttered to himself, instinctively sniffed, and said, "Where did the smell come from?" Which of you smelled it? ”

I sniffed twice, but I didn't smell anything. If he had brought the ribs this time, he would have been able to find the source of the smell at once, but I couldn't smell anything.

Ling Yun sniffed and said, "It seems to smell of rotten meat." It looks like it's over there......"

When Ling Yun pointed his finger at the barren grass barley in the distance, the barren grass over there, which was more than one person tall, also shook a few times. I walked over and used my knife to cut through the grass, and immediately a man appeared underneath.

Half of the man's face was full of wounds, large and small, and it looked like someone had torn off a small half of the skin on his face, and the whole face was patchy, and it was impossible to see his original appearance at all.

Although the man was not dead, his mouth trembled uncontrollably, as if he had something to say, but he could not speak.

I grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out, and the man immediately let out a beastly scream, as if he couldn't bear the pain, and his whole body shrunk into a ball, and he convulsed.

Only then did I see that the flesh on his legs was gone, and only a pair of bones remained. I dragged him out of the grass, but there was a large patch of foul-smelling carrion.

"His leg is rotten, but the man is not dead?" When I raised my eyes to look at Ling Yun, she had already covered her nose with a handkerchief and walked towards the grass, reached out and pulled out a silver needle, and stirred it twice in the carrion: "He is not poisoned, his legs should be festering naturally." ”

"Impossible!" Chang Ke immediately shook his head and denied: "The blood vessels on a person's legs are extremely dense, if it was a natural ulcer, this person should have died of sepsis a long time ago." Even if someone gave him medicine and watched him rot, he would not have survived to the day when his legs were rotten. Unless, his leg is rapidly decaying in a short time. ”

I crouched down, supported the man's head with my hand, and injected a true qi into his body with the other hand: "Can you still speak?" ”

"I ......" As soon as the man said a word, a stream of blood gushed out of his mouth, and the man also lost his breath with his eyes wide open.

I shook my head and said, "Forget it, let's steal the cave first!" Dakang, you lead the way. ”

After Dakang led us into the cave, I realized that all the flashlights I had prepared in advance were useless. The troops who excavated the underground palace had already built brackets and wires in the tunnel, and the inside was even brighter than the outside.

Dakang led me to a secret room about 200 square meters before stopping, pointing to the wall in front of me, and said, "This is the lock I saw at the beginning." Hey? How is it different? ”

Dakang walked in front of the lock in a few steps: "This lock has been polished!" Originally, there were no words on it. ”

I took a closer look, and the nine-square grid on it was indeed full of traditional Chinese characters, which at first glance looked a little like ancient things; If you look closely, it's a bit like it's just been polished.

I knocked twice on the stone block of the nine-square grid with my hand: "Dakang, can you open it now?" ”

"It's much easier to have words. Give me some time......" Dakang stretched out his hand to control a few stones, and pushed them a few times, and four words came out in the middle of the nine-square grid: "'God punishes the rebel'." What does that mean? ”

I had barely read the words when I heard a loud click on the wall on one side of the hall. By the time I turned around, the skin of the wall had completely shattered, falling off the wall and piling up on the floor.

There was a vivid picture on the stone wall. In the painting, a god stands at the entrance of the temple with a long knife in hand, but at his feet lies a corpse with a different head and blood flowing all over the ground; Behind the god-man was an offering table, the yellow cloth covering the table was lifted in half, and an old woman cowered under the table revealing half of her head.

Most of the mural is painted in oil, but the corpse on the ground is like a photograph, which is not only unusually clear, but also out of place in the whole picture. In particular, the head that rolled to the ground was placed upright on the ground, as if it was deliberately designed to make people see the appearance of the deceased.

The whole painting feels like someone has cut out a picture of a corpse and forced it into the painting.

Chang Ke exclaimed, "That dead man...... That dead man is the decapitated researcher! You see......"

I jerked back and said, "Are you sure?" ”

"Can't be wrong! Damn...... Look at that old lady......" Chang Ke exclaimed, and took two steps back. I followed his hand and looked at the mural.