There is a very special layer of lock on the white wood carved box, and only the octagonal silver dart that Zhang Qixun brought to Wu Xiaoxie before going to Changbai Mountain can be opened as a key.

Zhang Qixun knew very well in his heart that this time in Zhangjia Gulou, he was destined to face the Wang family, and he already faintly felt the atmosphere of the wind and rain.

In fact, whether he can come out of the ancient building or not, he himself has no score.

The box was kind of an insurance policy he had added to that plan.

If, if he really folded in the Zhangjia Ancient Building this time, he hoped that Wu Xiaoxie could follow the guidance in the box, take fewer detours, and pick up the little brother from the bronze gate as soon as possible.

It's just that when the time comes, he can't be with him.

Zhang Qixun's explanation, Pan Zi seemed to believe it on the surface, but in fact, he still had doubts in his heart, and he always felt that this kid had something to hide from him.

Pan Zi stared at Zhang Qixun for a long time, but he never saw any flaws in his expression.

From the outside wall of the arch, there was a shout of serving food, "Here comes the sour carrot beef shutters, the purple eggplant salted eggs, and the vinegar loin flowers!"

The female guy was carrying a large wooden plate full of dishes, and a gust of wind blew over, and put it neatly with her hands and feet, "This is rice, the two of you eat it first, the crayfish will come out of the pot immediately, and a few dishes will soon come out."

Pan Zi put the white wood carved box on the edge of the table, picked up the chopsticks, and put vegetables in Zhang Qixun's bowl, "When the New Year is over, I will also try to slowly retreat from my current position, the third master's stall will eventually have to be handed over to the little third master, and after it becomes a family, I guess I won't have time to take care of the affairs of your young people, no matter what you want to do, go three times and go four times, you just have to know it in your own hearts."

Zhang Qixun smiled and nodded, "Okay, I remember."

After that, we chatted about some inconsequential things, and the meal was quickly finished.

Out of the hotel, the two got into the car.

Panzi put the box in her backpack, lit the fire, and asked, "Where do you want to live?" Hotel or mine?"

Since he has a person in his heart, after thinking about it, Pan Zi used the money he saved over the years to buy a few houses in some places with good environment and convenient travel, and he usually lives in the old alley in front of Tangkou.

Zhang Qixun shook his head, "Let's go directly to the airport, I have to hurry up and get back to Banai, the little brother and the fat man are still waiting for me."

"Yes." Panzi nodded, didn't say anything more, and didn't ask anything superfluous.

Leaving Banai that day, Zhang Qixun pinched the time and returned to Yaozhai on the morning of the fifth day.

It hasn't rained again for the past few days, and the road up the mountain has been opened.

Zhang Qixun came to the entrance of the village in the villager's ox cart, and happened to meet Huo Xiuxiu, who was directing his men to carry equipment to the donkey cart.

This little girl doesn't know what she has experienced in the past few days, the expression on her face is ugly, and she didn't even smile when she saw Zhang Qixun.

Zhang Qixun thought about it for a while, and then understood what was going on, and didn't get up to touch the mold, planning to go up the mountain to see the fat man and the little brother first.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he took two steps, he heard Huo Xiuxiu calling him behind him.

"I've already messaged my grandmother before, and she asked you to come back and go up the mountain with us." Huo Xiuxiu said.

Zhang Qixun pondered the intentions of Mrs. Huo in his heart, and silently squatted down on the stones on the side and waited for Huo Xiuxiu and them to finish loading.

It seems that after a few days of delay, the old lady is indeed angry, but listening to Huo Xiuxiu's tone, this anger does not seem to be directed at him, then it can only be a fat man.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qixun laughed a little in his heart, this fat guy really specializes in treating old goblins.

I just don't know what this kid is doing, causing the old lady to get so angry.

An hour later, the team departed.

It's still the same way, the road that Agui took them on at the beginning is still very strong, so many heavy rains, only a small part of the mountain in the forest has collapsed, and the detour is not very troublesome.

On the morning of the seventh day, the procession reached the river.

Zhang Qixun returned to the tent and looked, small

The brother and the fat man were not there, but there were several pieces of paper under the marching bed frame, on which were the messages left by the fat man for him.

After reading this, Zhang Qixun immediately understood why the Huo family he met when he returned to the tent on the way didn't have a good face for him.

In the past few days since he left, the fat man thought of an idea that was particularly lacking in morality.

The fat man delayed time in order to follow Zhang Qixun's intentions, and found that other strategies seemed to be useless, so he asked the little brother to pretend to be sick.

In fact, there is no need to pretend to be obvious, as long as the little brother lies there, whether he is sick or not, Huo Xiangu will understand.

As long as the little brother doesn't want to move, no matter how anxious she is, she can't get in, so she can only wait.

But that's it, after all, everyone knows it.

Huo Xiangu's technicians could take advantage of this time to expand the passage behind the ancient tree.

But the fat man is a lot of drama, crying all day long, leaning in front of Huo Zhizhi's eyes, with an expression that the little brother is about to run out, trying to pit some precious medicinal materials and other good things from Huo Zhizhi's hands.

Huo Zhizhi was so angry that he was half dead, but the children cultivated by a big family like him, the most people who usually followed Huo Xiangu were some conspiracy and conspiracy to calculate, and when they finally tore their faces, everyone was a ball of harmony on their faces.

Suddenly, in the face of the fat man's pancake-like rogue play, in the case of cooperation between the two parties, he was really helpless.

Mrs. Huo arranged a lot of things, and he didn't have time to talk to this dead fat man.

And recently, Mrs. Huo's health has deteriorated, and several close insiders have a string hanging in their hearts, which is tight, and the entanglement of the fat man annoys them.

In the end, the matter still reached the ears of Mrs. Huo, and Mrs. Huo directly asked her to bring a message to the fat man, saying that she would wait for Zhang Qixun to come back and act together, and it was useless for the fat man to toss again, and it was impossible to give medicine.

The fat man was bored and stupid.

But he didn't bother, and the next day he took the little brother who was "recovering from a serious illness" to follow the Huo family's team up the mountain, in the words that the fat man wrote on the paper, that is, he couldn't trust Mrs. Huo, so he had to keep an eye on it himself.

The fat man also wrote on the paper that the Huo family had detected that there were three stone sealing things in the depths of the crack.

and relayed a lot of words from the little brother and Mrs. Huo, with a lot of fat people's own private words in the middle.

To sum up, those three sealing stones are the legendary Qianli Lock, and the Siguniang Mountain where Wu Xiaoxie went is the "key" of the Qianli Lock.

The day before yesterday and yesterday, it took two days for them to clear the outer edge of the crack and open a passage through the sealed stone.

This morning, he and his little brother took someone in to see the situation again, and then got in touch with Wu Xiaoxie.

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The camera shifted to the side of Siguniang Mountain.

Because they had to wait for special equipment, Wu Xiaoxie and Xie Yuchen's side set off a little later than Zhang Qixun and them.

The next day, hanging on the towering cliff face, it was unexpectedly smooth, and they found the fortified cave that Mrs. Huo said.

Soon a little hole was dug up, and a hideous corpse was found inside.

The corpse was covered with a large amount of mold-like hair, and Xie Yuchen tapped open its skull with a small hammer, and found that it was also squeezed with a large clump of black hair.

"It's not good." Xie Yuchen sighed.

Wu Xiaoxie looked up into the cave, and there were several white bones diagonally inserted into the reddened cement surface of that area, and it seemed that the situation inside was even more serious.

He couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart, and he didn't know how these hairs got into this person's head, and he was very suspicious that the reason why the team of the Nine Gates had suffered heavy casualties back then was because there were many forbidden women hidden in them, and there were even more weird things than forbidden women.

He told Xie Yuchen about his guess, and Xie Yuchen was silent for a few seconds, and said, "I took a closer look, and these hair-like things seem to have grown out of this person's body, and they are probably something in the cave

If something is sucked into our bodies, we might as well wrap all the exposed skin around our bodies, put on gas masks, and cover our mouths and noses tightly."

The implication is that they must enter this hole.

Without much hesitation, Xie Yuchen picked up the walkie-talkie and informed the people below to send a few sets of sturdy and durable protective equipment, as well as gas masks, goggles and the like.

The equipment was quickly delivered, and after Wu Xiaoxie and the two of them put it on, they wrapped the cuffs and necks with each other's tapes, leaving no gaps in the air, and finally put on gas masks.

Before entering the cave, Wu Xiaoxie was already sweating, and the sweat all over his body was dripping down like money.

Xie Yuchen handed him the pickaxe, and the two continued to clean up the remaining part of the cement.

Careful excavation was carried out on the side of the bones, and soon the second skeleton was excavated, followed by the third, and even more.

What made them feel strange was that the bones were all held together one after another, and the shape was tragic.

At first, Wu Xiaoxie thought that they were fighting for something, but as the more bones were dug up, he gradually realized that these people's actions were not fighting, but pushing the people in front of them out.

Wu Xiaoxie can even imagine through these that after the accident, when the people outside were pouring cement into it, how these people trapped inside went from desperately struggling to having no hope of escaping, and were filled with a large amount of cement and hair into their mouths and noses with despair, and finally suffocated to death.

Xie Yuchen quickly knocked open a few more skulls, looked at the situation inside, turned his head and said to Wu Xiaoxie angrily: "Your previous guess is right, the closure of this cave was not after Granny Huo left, but when that incident happened, they quickly closed the entrance of the cave, so as to prevent these people who had no time to retreat, and the things that caused this incident from coming out of it."

"But one thing is very strange, since Granny Huo knows about this, why doesn't she tell us?"

Wu Xiaoxie found a place to sit down, took a breath, and shook his head when he heard the words, "Not necessarily, since we want to cooperate, there is no reason for Old Lady Huo to hide such crucial information from us. It is possible that after they withdrew first, the rest of the people were not reconciled and continued to search the cave, and then ......

"No, it's still not!" Wu Xiaoxie frowned, staring closely at the large number of gray-red cement stones that were piled aside after they smashed them, and suddenly turned his head to look at Xie Yuchen, "This is a premeditated situation, they already knew the situation before entering the cave, so they installed a cement filling system on the cliff just in case, before going in, they were ready to die."

Xie Yuchen obviously also took this into account, "She didn't tell us, it is likely that she herself does not know the situation here."

"But since she was the main force of the team back then, and she participated in the whole event with full authority, there was no reason for such an important matter, but she didn't know, so there was only one explanation for all this." Xie Yuchen looked at Wu Xiaoxie.

Wu Xiaoxie immediately thought of a deeper layer, and as soon as the mountain wind blew, a coolness seeped out from his back, "These corpses are not from the Old Nine Gates. After the people of the Nine Gates left, another group of people came here, and it won't be too long now, you see that in the cement, the blood is still red."

He didn't know if the other group of people in his speculation would be the so-called "it" people, but it was very likely.

Installing a cement canning system on a cliff is a very large and difficult project, and it is impossible to complete it without strong and strong capital strength.

Jiumen was too busy to take care of himself at that time, and the only one who could do this, and quietly did not alarm any forces, seemed to be the mysterious and treacherous "it" hidden in the shadows.

Xie Yuchen silently added: "You are right, and besides, the other group of people has a very strong team, and they have installed cement tanks in advance, which shows that they did know the situation inside before entering, and these people must have something to do with the events of the year."

"Granny Huo said that the team that went to Siguniang Mountain was very large, and the characters in it were mixed, and it was not surprising that some people from other forces were mixed in." Xie Yuchen continued, "But after what happened back then, that force probably didn't

They found what they wanted, but they didn't give up, so they came back after years of hibernation."

Wu Xiaoxie subconsciously looked inside the cave, at this time the sun was shining outside the cave, and the wind was beautiful.

The cave was gloomy and cold, I don't know if it was his delusion, I always felt that something seemed to be staring at them coldly in the depths of the cave.

He said softly, "So, in this cave, there is something more important than Lu Huangbao."

(Supplement as you go)

Looking at those blood-stained dried corpses with hideous postures and curled up, Wu Xiaoxie's heart swelled with an indescribable disgust and disgust, what was it that was worth making such meaningless sacrifices again and again.

As he said before, this group of people seems to be death squads, ready to sacrifice themselves, so there can only be one explanation for their terrible state of struggle before they die.

These disgusting, hair-like things, when attacked, are scarier than death.

It is likely that the process of dying is so painful that it terrifies even the dead.

Thinking of this, Wu Xiaoxie couldn't help but smile bitterly and looked at Xie Yuchen, "It seems that we are destined to suffer some hardships this time."

Xie Yuchen was silent for a long time, he was not as optimistic as Wu Xiaoxie, and it was unknown whether he could come out alive.

He didn't think that the people who had learned about it and prepared in advance would have been less than they were now.

"Regardless, it looks like they failed and triggered a deadly mechanism. The mechanism inside has already been triggered, and they have also been hit, so the mechanism inside is not a one-time thing, and it is extremely dangerous, and the two of us may not be able to dodge, so we have to be more careful."

Xie Yuchen sighed, picked up the pickaxe again, and began to chisel the remaining cement stones.

Wu Xiaoxie also sighed heavily, those three people were not there, he always felt that something was missing around him, and his heart was empty, and he didn't know what the situation was on Banai's side.

I have been busy for more than three hours, and finally cleaned up the cement stones that were blocked by the hole.

The two piled up all the bones together, making a passage in the middle so that they could run away in case of emergency.

Back in the sunlight at the entrance of the cave, the two took a short rest, ate something to replenish their energy, and then changed into new protective suits and masks, and put on their backpacks.

As soon as he took two steps inside, Wu Xiaoxie suddenly stopped Xie Yuchen, took out five or six octagonal silver darts from his backpack, and handed them to Xie Yuchen, "Take it, you may be able to save your life at a critical time."

"What's that?" Xie Yuchen pinched it and looked at it carefully, and soon found the strangeness on it, and looked at Wu Xiaoxie with a smile, "This thing is not yours."

Wu Xiaoxiao patted his backpack proudly, "Of course, our Muyu prepared it for me, a life-saving escape treasure chest."

Xie Yuchen smiled and shook his head, "You......

Wu Xiaoxie pointed out the use of the octagonal silver dart to Xie Yuchen, and the two of them turned on the miner's lamp and entered the cave.

The space that stretched out at the rear was a little larger than they thought it would be, and it was so deep that it was impossible to see the end.

When you walk in, the first thing you see is a square pit full of white bones and broken crockpots.

The bones in the pit were also covered in hair, yellowed and brittle, and looked older than the corpses trapped in the cement outside.

Xie Yuchen held the sapper shovel and reached into the square pit and fiddled with it a few times, and the small piece of moss-like rough hair shattered like a dry leaf falling on the ground in autumn, and under the light of the miner's lamp, puffs of blue-gray mold smoke rose in the air.

"The people of the Old Nine Gates?" Because he was wearing a gas mask, Xie Yuchen's voice sounded muffled.

Wu Xiaoxie nodded, "Perhaps, this pit doesn't look like it exists in the first place, could it be that the later batch of people also collected the bones of the Jiumen people who died here at the beginning?"

Xie Yuchen glanced at him, "Do you think those people would be so kind."

Wu Xiaoxie looked at him silently, "Then what do they have to collect these bones?

What does it do?"

"How do I know?" Xie Yuchen straightened his waist and walked directly around the square pit and walked back from the edge.

Wu Xiaoxie puffed out his face, missing the first few days of Zhang Qixun's triumph.