Chapter 171: There is a black shop inside the River Styx
When it was dark, a small van also delivered several large boxes.
I don't know what's in the box, but it's heavy to move anyway.
We moved our stuff to a hotel room and basically didn't go out for the rest of the day.
But not going out doesn't mean we're idle.
Zhang Sanfen told me a lot about the promotion and rules of the Land of the Dead.
What four ghost kings, two evil corpses.
What a Styx black shop, what a village of sin.
There is also the only way to enter the land of the dead, the town of the dead that Yu Bushun controls.
According to the information we have gotten, Academician Han's research location has been in the Styx Black Shop.
Because this place is extremely hostile to the people of the Secret Bureau, few people know the identity of Academician Han.
He rented a small courtyard in the Styx Black Shop, and had two doctoral students as his assistants.
There are also two Secret Bureau masters who are in charge of security.
These people have all disappeared with Academician Han.
Similarly, before the disappearance, the second search and rescue team had sent a message that the team had arrived at the hut rented by Academician Han, but that it had been devastated.
There were scattered documents and materials everywhere, as well as some unimportant crushing instruments.
There were blood stains on the ground, and it was preliminarily judged that it was left by two doctoral students and two masters of the Mobei Branch.
However, the blood left behind by Academician Han was not found, and it is speculated that Academician Han may not have been injured.
After the team sent out the news, it originally said that it would continue to report after the details were available.
As a result, after hanging up the communication, the other party lost contact and has not responded until now.
Calculating the time, it has been eight days since the second rescue team lost contact.
Among the supplies sent by the old lame, there was a very important thing, and that was the detailed map of the land of the dead.
This place is an irregular oval, a bit like a bottle, running east-west, about 200 kilometers long.
As for the width, the east end, which is where the mouth of the bottle is, is about eighty kilometers. The west end, which is the bottom of the bottle, is about 150 kilometers.
A blue dotted line runs from the bottom of the bottle to the mouth of the bottle, and this is the River Styx in the Land of the Dead.
In fact, the Hidden Bureau's definition of the River Styx is very harsh.
It must be an underground river that does not see sunlight all year round, and has an independent source that flows all year round. The nature of the river water is extremely cloudy, and the water quality is cold, but it is not frozen.
Such a river would be called the River Styx.
There are currently three Styx rivers discovered.
One is in the depths of the Uncursed Road, also known as the main stream of the River Styx.
It was a river that really formed in the dark underworld.
The river is wide and has a huge amount of water, and there are yellow springs in it that do not rot corpses, and there are all kinds of water ghosts swimming in it.
Such a river, the living do not dare to enter it, it will be washed by the yin qi, directly take away the yang qi on the body, and then die.
The second river Styx is the river that runs through the entire capital of Xudu.
The famous capital city was built along the river.
In terms of water quality and quantity, this river is slightly smaller than the Styx River of the Uncursed Road, and because it is under the jurisdiction of the capital, it actually has its own rules of life.
At present, Middle-earth has been studying whether the Styx of the Uncursed Road and the Styx of Xudu have figured it out.
But no evidence has been found.
The third river is the River Styx in the Land of the Dead, and it is the only River Styx that flows on the surface.
In fact, compared to the previous two Styx, the Styx in the Land of the Dead seems a bit unworthy of the name.
The source of this river is also an underground dark river, the water of the river is cold to the bone, but it does not freeze all year round.
There are water ghosts in the river, countless floating corpses, and there are even rumors of ghost boats roaming in it.
Because it originates from an underground river, there is no so-called dry period and high water period in this river. Anyway, the river flows all year round, and after spreading for more than 200 kilometers in the land of the dead, it quietly burrows into a canyon and disappears without a trace.
If the river is compared to a dragon, the dragon's head and tail are both underground, but a spine is exposed in the land of the dead.
Because of this river, the land of the dead has become prosperous.
However, due to the special geology of the Land of the Dead, the river is diverted throughout the year.
Every three or five years, it has to spread, and then I don't know where to divert.
This has also led to the land of the dead being a labyrinth of dry rivers for hundreds of years.
It is also because the river is diverted from time to time, and the principle of living by water does not apply here.
If you want to follow the river to find the Styx Black Shop, or the town of the undead, it's basically for nothing.
In this case, the map provided by the old cripple is very important.
In addition to eating and sleeping, Zhang Sanfen and I were studying the map, trying to find a suitable path.
Occasionally, I have to sort out my equipment and analyze the situation.
Unconsciously, the three days passed quickly, and there was also news from Lao Lu's side that the vehicle had been completely modified according to Zhang Sanfen's requirements.
After Zhang Sanfen hung up the phone, he told me to clean up the house and put everything together.
Then he drove the second-hand car he borrowed from Lao Luna, loaded it into a box, and went straight to the auto repair shop.
In the garage, the modified car was already parked in the yard.
Zhang Sanfen spent more than an hour checking the performance of the vehicle, and only after all aspects were satisfied did he transfer the payment.
I heard the prompt for the transfer, 230,000, which should be the voice after the fraction was exempted.
The price makes me secretly smack.
Two hundred and thirty thousand, I am afraid that it is enough to buy another car.
And that's just the retrofit fee.
Zhang Sanfen saw me sticking out my tongue and said, "What? Think it's expensive? ”
"For the modification of this car, Lao Lu and his apprentices didn't close their eyes for three days and three nights. Some necessary things were specially transported from Hohhot urgently. ”
"Lao He, this car is our leg in the land of the dead, and if our legs are sharp, we can do things neatly. It's worth the money! ”
After we thanked Lao Lu, we packed everything up and put it in the rear compartment.
Just as he was about to drive away, suddenly a dusty Grand Cherokee crashed directly through the fence and rushed in.
When I saw the Grand Cherokee, I chuckled, mainly because I had seen White Curse drive this kind of car when I was in Mass Grave Mountain before.
And the white curse left a heavy psychological shadow on me, so much so that I was a little nervous when I saw the Grand Cherokee.