Blue Core asked, "Must it be the claws of the prehistoric beast?" ”

The old man nodded slightly, and actually thought of a piece with Lan Xin, and he was also studying this issue.

Xia Yulong shook his head, put forward his opinion, and said: "I don't think so, this claw mark is much smaller than the claw of the prehistoric beast, think about it, the prehistoric beast is so huge, although its claws are very sharp, but large and short, it can be concluded that each of its scratches is much larger than the marks on this wall, and I believe that the size of the claw marks it draws is the same, you see that the scratches on this wall are long and small, the upper side is slightly larger, the further down the smaller it becomes, and finally disappears." ”

The sharp claws of the prehistoric beast quickly flashed in the old man's mind, he nodded, "um", and said: "Indeed, the claws of the prehistoric beast are several times larger than this claw mark, but it is not like the ...... of the prehistoric beast."

Before the words fell, I only heard Xia Yulong shouting: "Grandpa, look ......"

Xia Yulong found five clear scratches on the wall near the bottom of the pit wall, and there was a depression similar to a palm print above the scratches, which could not be observed if it was not close to the pit wall.

Xia Yulong stretched out a palm and compared it, the five scratches and the depression on the wall were as wide as his palm, but the scratches were much longer than his fingers, which was not surprising, if the claws kept stretching down, the claw marks would definitely be longer than the claws.

All three tensed......

The old man was even more shocked: "Could it be that someone did it, and what do you want to do when you dig him out?" ”

Lan Xin also said: "Could it be that his senior brother dug him up and brought him back after seeing him buried here, and he had no tools to dig the soil, so he could only dig by hand?" ”

The old man nodded and said, "It's very possible, if he was really taken away by his senior brother, then it would be fine, and I can't think of a better reason." ”

Xia Yulong was different, thinking to himself, last night there was lightning and thunder on the Spirit Mountain, the wind and rain were fierce, and it was extremely terrifying, who still had the leisure time to dig him out. And before he was buried, if he was discovered by his brothers, why didn't he take him away, and had to wait until he was buried to dig him up, wouldn't this be an extra move? I'm afraid that his senior brothers are no longer on Lingshan.

And judging from this scratch, there is always an indescribable weirdness, I don't know if grandpa and Lan Xin feel it, he has a hunch, this shouldn't be done by people, but he has no good reason to explain what kind of weird method it is......

After thinking about it, Xia Yulong looked at the pile of loess next to the grave, and wanted to find some clues from there, and found a footprint at the intersection of the northwest corner of the loess and the green grass.

Xia Yulong carefully observed and compared it with the soles of his feet, but the soles of his feet were the same size as the soles of human feet, which really made Xia Yulong gasp, could it really be done by people? Or do you think too complicated? He began to doubt what he had anticipated......

Xia Yulong asked Grandpa and Lanxin if they had stepped on the pile of loess, Grandpa and Lanxin both shook their heads and said no, he looked along the front of the paw prints, and found a number of shallow footprints on the grass, he immediately followed, followed by the old man, Lanxin and the three wolves.

The shallow footprints on the grass are intermittent, the direction is to go up the back mountain, the more you go to the back mountain, the footprints are getting fewer and fewer, more and more faint, although there is only one single road leading to the back mountain, but the back mountain is wooded, the roadside is overgrown with weeds, the dead branches are vertical and horizontal, and the footprints on the ground have been annihilated by weeds.

Xia Yulong found traces of yellow mud on some dead branches, and they searched forward along the traces on the dead branches for a long distance, a black and oppressive dense forest was not far ahead, and when they were about to enter the dense forest, those traces of yellow mud feet disappeared completely.

Xia Yulong immediately called Da Tianyi, asked Da Tianyi to sniff on the dead branches stained with mud marks, and whispered a few words in Da Tianyi's ear, and Da Tianyi led Da Tianyi and Da Tiansan to search and walk towards the dense forest.

Lan Xin whispered "wow", looked at the old man, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, the three wolves still have this kind of ability, how did you teach them?" ”

The old man smiled: "They have followed us since childhood, they are very loyal, and their noses are very sensitive, they will not act without our orders." ”

Lan Xin nodded, admiring the three wolves from the bottom of his heart, and gradually changed his opinion of the three wolves, but felt that they were getting more and more cute.

After Xia Yulong and the three of them followed the three wolves through the dense forest, they tracked them to the edge of the cliff in the northeast corner of the back mountain, and the three wolves sniffed on the ground for a long time, looking towards the opposite side of the cliff from time to time.

After a while, the three wolves stood side by side on the edge of the cliff, whining and howling towards the opposite side, and then turned their heads to look at Xia Yulong and the old man, as if to tell Xia Yulong that the guy who left the footprints of the three of them had gone to the opposite side of the cliff.

The fog under the cliffs is rolling and unfathomable, and the mountains are opposite......

This clue was broken on the edge of the cliff, Xia Yulong was a little unwilling, he stood for a long time, he couldn't understand it for a long time, and when he was half-loud, he spit out: "What kind of guy dug up that corpse?" Have such a great ability to cross this cliff? ”

Blue Core asked, "Or did they go too fast, couldn't see clearly at night, and fell off the cliff?" ”

The old man shook his head and said, "If you fall off the cliff, you will leave some traces on the edge of the cliff, and these three wolves are howling towards the opposite mountains, not towards the cliff." ”

Xia Yulong thought about it and said: "If he is a human, his kung fu is very good, and he can fly from this cliff to the mountain over there, and this distance must be more than 100 zhang?" I wonder what he wanted to do when he dug up this dead man? ”

The old man stared at the opposite mountain and sighed: "There are more and more strange things on this Spirit Mountain, I am afraid that this world is really not peaceful." ”

Lan Xin smiled: "What's so strange about this, I can escape from the underworld, what else is impossible?" ”

After a long time, the old man said to himself: "That's right, there are west wind tribes in the north, there are underworld and spirit world in the underworld, and there are prehistoric beasts that have escaped, they are ferocious, and everything is not easy to mess with, I really don't know what will happen next, I hope that the people on my spiritual mountain and our grandchildren are safe and sound." ”

It was already noon when the three of them came down from the back mountain, and they simply ate some dry food, and then hurried to repair the broken wooden house, and there was a special room in the wooden house for Blue Core to live in.

All the beams and pillars of the wooden house have been replaced with new wood, these woods are cut by the old man and Xia Yulong from the back mountain, the old man is responsible for cutting down the trees and trimming the excess branches, Xia Yulong carries the wood back to the wooden house, and the blue core bundles the scattered dead grass bundled together, this is the most important thing to build a wooden house, without these dead grass, the wooden house is like a skeleton without meat, it will be ventilated on the four walls, and the beams will leak.

The three wolves circled around the old man and Xia Yulong, and they followed Xia Yulong through the wooden house and the back mountain world, having a lot of fun.

The three of them had built the hut, and the sun was already setting in the west......

Xia Yulong stood shirtless at the door of the wooden house, looking at the built wooden house, his face showed joy, and his heart was full of a sense of achievement.

Xia Yulong's chest and abdomen were full of bronze light in the sunset, and the whole person was full of energy, showing his handsome and masculine temperament, even the old man was envious when he saw it, and he shouted vigorously: "I know that your chest muscles are big, put on your clothes quickly, and you will catch a cold later......"

Lan Xin's face was crimson, and he lowered his head and handed Xia Yulong a pink handkerchief, telling him to quickly wipe the sweat off his body, and said, "Oh, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, grandpa is right, I'll catch a cold later." ”

Xia Yulong smiled and asked, "Shy?" What's so shy, when it's hot, my grandparents and grandchildren are often like this, I don't wear it, it's cooler, when we were young, we even ...... pants."

At this point, Xia Yulong stopped, he thought it was not elegant to say this in front of a girl, he rolled his eyes with a grunt, and sighed in his heart: "Fortunately, I didn't say anything......

The old man came out of the wooden house and said angrily: "What do you kid say you have to bring grandpa with, at that time there were only our grandfather and grandson, even if your kid didn't even wear pants, no one would pay attention to you, now it's different, there is one more girl, but you have to pay attention to the image, it's not big or small, hurry up and put on your clothes." As he spoke, the old man threw the clothes in his hand to Xia Yulong.

Xia Yulong took the clothes and said with a crying face: "Grandpa, do you have to make the words clear?" ”

Lan Xin blushed, pretending to be surprised: "Ah...... I really didn't hear what Grandpa said! ”

Xia Yulong grinned, pursed his lips at Lan Xin, and said, "It's best if you don't hear it, and it's better not to listen to what you shouldn't hear." Relieved, he unfolded his clothes and flung them behind him, his hands neatly digging into his sleeves.

Lan Xin pursed his lips and smiled, and said: "Originally, I should pay attention to my image in front of girls, even grandpa can't look at it." ”

Late at night, a cloud of mist pressed down layer by layer from the mountain behind Lingshan, wrapping the wooden house tightly, and the visibility was extremely low.

The old man looked at the fog and thought to himself that it might rain again this day, and it was better to rest early after a tired day.

Lingshan mountain range from the northwest direction zigzag to the southeast direction, is the Central Plains and the northwest desert junction of one of the barriers, the ridge is high and uplifted, the more to the southeast direction the mountain is higher, like the backbone of the earth, and like a dragon entrenched in the border of the Central Plains.

The peak on the top of the Lingshan ancient tomb is the highest peak, it is the end of the Lingshan mountain range, also called the top of the Lingshan mountain, commonly known as the dragon's head, the northwest extends to the Yelang tribe, it is the dragon's tail, it is an excellent feng shui treasure land, the officials of the past dynasties have selected the cemetery on the Lingshan mountain range, the Lingshan ancient tomb is very old, I don't know which dynasty and which generation can be traced.

When the old man was young, he was called by the gods to guard the tomb, and he never mentioned to outsiders where he was from or where he came from, and his identity is still a mystery to this day, and in the following chapters, the old man's identity will be revealed one by one.

Xia Yulong and Blue Core have already entered the dream realm......

The old man took a nap and opened his eyes in the darkness, and he thought of the missing corpse, and his heart was faintly worried, and he calmed down and listened carefully to the movement outside the house.

Listening to the sound of crickets in the second half of the night, if there is anything abnormal outside the house, the three wolves will howl, but the outside of the house is surprisingly quiet, the old man is a little unsteady, could it be that they have encountered an accident in the first day? In the past few days, there have been many strange things on Lingshan, so it is better to pay more attention, the old man got up, put on his coat, took the shovel next to the pillow, and gently opened the wooden door.

In fact, Xia Yulong and Lan Xin were not asleep, they were also thinking about the corpse, wanting to see the true face of the guy who dug up the corpse, seeing that grandpa hurriedly went out of the door, presumably grandpa found something, they got up one after another and came to the door, but the two of them bumped into each other in the dark.

Lan Xin was shocked and almost screamed, she wanted to use the pure fire of the dark sun to illuminate the wooden house, but Xia Yulong hugged her, covered her mouth, and said softly: "Don't make a sound, it's me, Brother Yulong, grandpa may have found something, let's follow him to protect him, don't alarm grandpa." ”

"Well, okay!"

Xia Yulong and Lan Xin tiptoed to follow......

The old man came to the wolf's cave, and saw that the three wolves were looking at him with green eyes, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said in his heart, fortunately, it was all three, and when he stood still, he suddenly heard a slight noise behind him, which was coming towards him.

The old man was alert, could it be that the guy appeared, anyway, first knock him down, he squeezed the shovel tightly, and when he turned around, he had already picked it up high.

Xia Yulong's reaction was also very sensitive, he pushed the blue core first, and he flashed to the other side, and said: "Grandpa, it's us, it's us." ”

With a "whew", the shovel split between Xia Yulong and the blue core, and the old man scolded in a low voice: "You two rabbit cubs, don't die, you don't sleep in the middle of the night, you run out and pretend to be a ghost, you want to scare grandpa to death, right?" ”

Xia Yulong smiled: "Grandpa, why did you come out, we thought you had found something, so we came out." ”

Lan Xin also said: "Yes, we are worried about your safety, and we will follow behind to protect you." ”

Lan Xin wanted to use the pure fire of the dark sun to illuminate the surroundings, but the old man stopped: "Don't light the lamp, he is in the dark, we are in the light, it is easy to be targeted by him." ”

Blue Core let out an "oh" and put the Dark Sun Pure Fire into his body.

Xia Yulong asked, "Grandpa, that guy appeared?" ”

The old man replied: "Don't talk nonsense, you really want that guy to appear, and you don't think there are enough things?" ”

"I really want him to show up, to see if he's a human or a monster?" Blue Core should be harmonious.

The old man sighed and said: "If he appears again, it will be troublesome, he is very good at kung fu, with the strength of the three of us, we can't fight him, I haven't seen a few people in the Central Plains who can have such heavenly skills, but those are decent people, and they won't do anything wrong, unless they are foreigners or not people at all." ”

Xia Yulong frowned slightly, and said: "Grandpa, I also have a hunch, that guy may not be a human at all, the scratches on the grave wall and the footprints on the grave soil are very weird, and the chill is pressing, I don't believe that people left it, but what is the purpose of him digging up the corpse?" ”

Lan Xin asked, "Could it be that it is just like what grandpa said?" ”

The old man thought for a long time and said: "No matter what it is, we still have to pay more attention these days, okay, it's almost dawn, go back to sleep, don't think too much, increase the psychological burden, it's a blessing or a curse, you can't avoid it, everything goes naturally." ”

In this way, after more than ten days, everything on Lingshan was safe and sound, and things were as before, and the old man felt a little relieved.

On this night, the moon and stars are scarce, from the foot of Lingshan Mountain from time to time blowing up gusts of cold wind, the old man looked at the bright moon hanging in the northwest sky, thinking that tonight is fifteen, the weather has entered autumn, he thought of the things of decades ago, a little gloomy.

The three of them sat around the fire in front of the wooden house, and Xia Yulong said: "It's rare to have such good weather, don't you sleep tonight?" ”

Lan Xin clapped her hands and applauded, and said, "Yes, yes, we have been roasting the fire like this, and then roasting some wild pheasants to eat, wow, it's so beautiful......" She pursed her lips and smiled, looking around at the old man and Xia Yulong.

The old man knows that everyone's mood has been hanging in the past ten days, it is rare to have such a relaxing moment, and the weather is very good tonight, maybe tomorrow night will change again?

The old man nodded and smiled, and took out a yellow gourd from the wooden house, this gourd has been with him for most of his life, and he usually hangs it around his waist, but for some reason, he has rarely used it in recent years.

There was still some wine in the gourd, and the old man raised his head and drank two sips and said, "It's okay to play, but not too late, I'm old, not as good as you young people, I may have to go to bed earlier, you just play." ”

Xia Yulong saw that the old man hadn't drunk for a long time, so he was a little curious and asked, "Grandpa, you are drinking again, you will get drunk later, and you will talk nonsense when you are drunk!" ”

The old man smiled and said, "Grandpa is in a happy mood tonight, this wine has been stored for a long time, the more you put it, the purer it becomes, and you won't get drunk." He looked up at the full moon, sighed and said, "Grandpa is a person who knows the destiny of heaven, and his body below his head is buried in the soil, and the time is not long, I'm afraid I won't see my grandson marry his mother-in-law." He looked up and took two more sips.

Listening to the old man's words, Xia Yulong's mood was slightly heavy, but he smiled and said: "Grandpa, you are too old to walk and Yulong is still with you, grandpa will live to be at least more than a hundred years old, and grandpa will have a great-grandson by his side at that time." ”

Lan Xin's face was slightly red, and he responded to the side: "Yes, grandpa must live a long life and live a long life." ”

The old man squinted his eyes and looked at Lan Xin, then at Xia Yulong, smiled hehehe, and said, "As soon as you two little ghosts sing and harmonize, you will make grandpa happy." He turned his head and looked at Lan Xin again, and said: "Grandpa is getting old, and he is becoming more and more useless, I'm afraid I can't accompany you to go outside, grandpa is going to die with the Lingshan Ancient Tomb, grandpa handed over Yulong to you, Yulong is kind-hearted and not bad in nature, you have to treat him well." ”

After this period of observation, the old man knew that Lan Xin was not a spy sent by those big men, he gradually recognized her identity, regarded her as his granddaughter, and even regarded her as a candidate for granddaughter-in-law.

Xia Yulong hurriedly said: "Grandpa, I'm not going anywhere, I want to take care of grandpa for the rest of my life." ”

The old man smiled: "Silly boy, when people grow up, they have to go out to the outside world for a walk, gain more knowledge, learn more skills, grandpa will only have these skills, and he will be with grandpa all his life, and when you are tired, you will come back, grandpa will always wait for you in the ancient tomb, I will not go anywhere, and you have to go with Lan Xin to find and rescue her sister." ”

Listening to the old man's words, Lan Xin chuckled in her heart, there was such an open-minded and reasonable old man, she was calm and looked at Xia Yulong shyly, she didn't know what to say, she only felt beautiful in her heart.

In fact, during this time, the old man has been thinking about the bag that Xia Yulong's mother gave him, and Xia Yulong's life experience can be recorded in the bag, Xia Yulong can't open the bag before he is eighteen years old, this is what Yulong's mother specially explained before she died, and it must not be violated......

But during this time, the old man had an ominous premonition in his heart, he had a premonition that he might die soon, and then no one would know Yulong's life experience, how would he explain to his dead mother.

The old man's heart was naturally entangled, but he thought about it but was relieved, it was less than two months before Yulong's eighteenth birthday, and he could reveal his life experience if he held on for a while, and he also wanted to know Yulong's life experience, and then he would also tell Yulong his life experience.

Every time Yulong asked about the old man's life experience, he said that he was an orphan, a tomb keeper on the Ling Mountain, he concealed his life experience in front of Yulong, and he felt really guilty, after Yulong knew his life experience, he was going to stay and make other arrangements, Yulong was young and vigorous, he should go out and break through, and the Zephyr tribe was behind him, they would come to the door at any time, he really hoped that Yulong would not get involved in this family feud prematurely, and hoped that he would hide as far away as possible......