Chapter 135: The Vanishing Altar
The triangular indentation suddenly bulged outward.
Then a slime of the same shape appeared, mixed with blood and dirt, as thick as yogurt, and bubbled incessantly, making a slight cracking sound.
This slime gushed up from the ground like a fountain, the thickness of an arm, and one guy flew up more than a person high, and then a black shadow burst out of it and rushed straight to the top of the old monk's head.
The old monk didn't make the slightest move, and was still looking at the slime with a surprised expression.
Obviously, he couldn't see the black shadow that rushed out in his field of vision.
Wei Chaoyang put his right hand on the old monk's shoulder.
The old monk's instinctive shoulder collapsed, and he removed the hand he had put up, and followed the elbow back.
This is the instinctive reaction of a martial artist.
Although they bowed to Wei Chaoyang, after all, the two had only known each other for less than a day, and they could not reach the level of absolute trust.
Wei Chaoyang was not in a hurry, raised his left hand and pushed it on the elbow that came to him, and his right hand followed the old monk's shoulder to fall, and then gently pulled it back, and the old monk involuntarily turned half a circle and left his original position.
The black shadow fluttered into the air, and his movements were slightly paused.
This moment can be seen clearly.
It's a two-headed black snake with a single horn!
The whole body is full of black gas, the eyes are blood-red, and the table is clear and explosive, but the state is not very stable, and the body keeps flickering and disappearing.
The old monk turned around, and then hammered Wei Chaoyang's back with a fist.
Wei Chaoyang seemed to be unable to dodge, he was hammered by a punch, made a muffled bang, and involuntarily staggered forward two steps, waved his arm and grabbed the two-headed black snake.
But when his finger almost touched the mouth of the two-headed black snake, the two-headed black snake disappeared all at once.
Triangular slime spilled to the ground with a thud.
Wei Chaoyang stood still, and a faint wisp of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
He immediately raised his hand to wipe the blood away.
The old monk was stunned for a moment, stepped forward, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I thought someone was sneaking up and couldn't stop it." ”
"It's okay, I'm strong, it doesn't matter if I punch me." Wei Chaoyang smiled heartily, but coughed twice involuntarily.
The old monk asked with concern: "Why don't you go to the hospital for a check-up, my punch is too heavy, and I couldn't contain my strength just now, don't leave internal injuries." Alas, I'm getting old, and when I'm young, I could have withdrawn at any time, but now I can't react. ”
Wei Chaoyang said with a smile: "Just now I dodged forward in time and unloaded a lot of strength, there is no problem." Don't worry, Brother Wei. ”
The old monk breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay." By the way, what just happened? Why is there mud on the ground? Is there something wrong? ”
"Didn't do badly. This reaction validated my guess! Wei Chaoyang said, "Below this is the leyline that leads to the furnace of the refining crypt, because it has lost the suppression of the valve of the altar, it is recoiled out by the pressure of the leyline, and it cannot reach the location of the furnace, which is actually a method of safety control." If there is a problem, removing the altar can vent the pressure of the furnace through the leylines and ensure the safety of the person presiding over the refining. It's just that in this way, the location of the cathartic pressure will be difficult at least and natural disasters at worst, and the entire area will become a hell on earth! ”
The old monk said: "So, I was really deceived, I was deceived by that fairy, that woman for seventy years? ”
Wei Chaoyang said: "I can only say that you are part of her or some people's plans, as for how things happened back then, it's hard to say." Maybe this is not a plan, but just a guide due to the situation, and there is something out of the chapter book first, so you can enter the game. ”
The old monk said a little dazedly: "Then what should we do next?" ”
Wei Chaoyang said: "Block this opening, so that the furnace tripod lacks a path to ignite and relieve pressure, but if you have points in your heart, you will no longer use the preset furnace tripod to refine the earth." ”
The old monk sighed and said: "Then you must be careful, no matter who it is, the bureau that has been laid out for hundreds of years is destroyed, and they will not give up, and they will definitely come to you for revenge." ”
Wei Chaoyang looked at the top of the old monk's head, smiled slightly, and said, "If they really can't swallow this breath, if they want to come to me to take revenge, it will actually be a good thing." I'm really looking forward to them coming! However, whether they will come or not is not something we can control, now we just need to do what we can do. ”
He looked up and told Fu Tong, who was standing on the edge of the pit, that he could take the next step, and then asked the old monk to go up first.
A soft ladder was placed next to the pit, which was originally intended for the old monk.
But this hundred-year-old man didn't use the soft ladder at all, but jumped over, stretched out his hand to the edge of the pit, and with a little force, he turned over the pit, and his movements were crisp and neat, which ordinary young men were far from being able to compare.
However, Wei Chaoyang did not jump, but honestly climbed up the soft ladder, and paused a little in the middle, as if he was a little unwell.
Yan Ruoning noticed this, grabbed him and pulled him, and asked with his eyes by the way, Wei Chaoyang nodded slightly, and then stood up straight as if nothing happened, watching the staff of Fu Tong's command committee deal with this shallow pit.
A water pipe is connected and quickly filled into the pit. The water was foaming white and had a pungent smell of quicklime
The water injection stopped when the waterline reached half of the pit, and the staff carried bags of bloody rubber wire bags and kept throwing them into the soil pit, until they filled to two-thirds of the position, then poured a large amount of black soil, and repeatedly compacted and flattened, and finally re-erected a stone integrated pavilion in this position, and the workmanship was very exquisite.
After placing the gazebo, it was not over, but a circle of locust trees was transplanted around the gazebo.
In less than half a night's work, a small scene appeared behind the graduate building.
The gazebo woods, the location is quite private, perfect for a cheating date in the middle of the night or something.
I can't see the appearance of the ugly bull when he stood here.
Although there has always been a prejudice against the committee, seeing this scene, the principal also had to sigh at the strong strength of the committee, which was not only reflected in the fact that they could quickly prepare these things and arrange them one by one according to Wei Chaoyang's requirements, but also in such a tight time, they could also notice the matching effect of the pavilion forest arranged with the original style of the graduate school.
It is obviously a small scenery that was established urgently, but it complements the overall style of the graduate school, and there is no abrupt discomfort at all, and it even has a great beautification effect!
This shows that such an urgent task is nothing more than a trivial matter for the Committee.
And the problem is that similar action groups, the committee sent eleven at the same time!
The headmaster had never been very clear about the strength of the committee and the major spirit master families.
As he said, this is an extremely closed circle, it is difficult to break into it without a spirit carrier, even if he is rich, in the eyes of the spirit carrier, he is just an ATM, or even pigs and sheep to be slaughtered, such as the Feng family, although he spent a lot of money to donate an identity to the committee, but he is still an outsider, Wei Chaoyang is in a uproar, and the spirit carriers all over the world already know it, but Feng Yang, who is close at hand, can still only get second-hand news that is seriously delayed.
So the principal thought that the committee was just an industry association or something, but today, when I look at it, it is not like that, which simple industry coordination organization can mobilize such a large force casually!
And this is just a local committee in Haicheng, and there are also continental-level committees on it, as well as a general committee that controls the world!
If it weren't for Wei Chaoyang's involvement, he would probably never have seen this side of the committee.
Only a small part of the strength is already shocking.
This realization made the principal fall into silence for a long time, and it was not until Fu Tong led the team to evacuate that he came back to his senses, although he had no good attitude as always, but he still added Fu Tong's WeChat after all.
The operation of Tianke University went smoothly beyond imagination, and the other nine teams that destroyed the nodes also did not have any twists and turns.
Each group successfully found the formation point, and after excavating on the spot, all the excavated array equipment was taken away, and then it was processed in a unified manner according to the plan given by Wei Chaoyang.
This is a common method for destroying the refining array.
Locations polluted by this means can no longer be used to lay formation nodes.
The nodes of the refining array have strict requirements, and they cannot be chosen casually, once the selected array is destroyed by pollution, it is basically impossible to rebuild the refining array in the original area.
For the Haicheng Committee, the biggest gain is that through this operation, a prototype of the refining array has been drawn, and it has officially had a window to understand the alchemy, and at the same time, it has also obtained a method to crack the refining array.
Over time, relying on continuous in-depth research, the committee can largely develop a set of standard methods for dealing with the refining array, providing strength support for the confrontation with the refining master.
It is conceivable that if the European Regional Committee had a similar method back then, it would have been able to destroy the refining array set up by Teng Wenyan in advance and prevent him from causing the earth fire disaster, even if Teng Wenyan could not be caught, he would not be defeated and ridiculed for a hundred years.
The only thing that went wrong was the group of people in the big pit of the Qi family.
After Wei Chaoyang forcibly robbed Qijia's land transportation, causing the mountain to collapse and expose the big pit, the committee organized the staff of the research center to enter it for an in-depth investigation.
Preliminary findings suggest that the pit was not dug artificially, but was naturally formed, but there were traces of man-made modifications.
The straight-line distance between the mouth of the pit and the bottom of the pit is 3,333 meters, which is not a single cent.
The bottom of the pit is an underground cave that extends in all directions, except for the position that is facing the mouth of the pit artificially leveled about more than 1,000 square meters, the other positions are in the original form.
But five passages were trampled flat, and it was clear that a large number of people had repeatedly passed for long periods of time.
The research center wanted to investigate further, but the investigation was shelved just in time for the purge of the family, everyone passed the test, and a large number of personnel were directly expelled from the committee.
But with this foreshadowing, everyone thought it was the easiest task.
According to Xiaobai's statement provided by Wei Chaoyang, this altar is as big as a small mountain, and it is located in a cave in the southeast of the crypt, and the blind can find it.
As a result, the working group went all five ways, but Leng did not find the hill-like altar.
It's not that nothing has been discovered.
At the end of each of the five roads is a large underground cavern.
One was full of bones, all of which were cut down from the traces, and it was preliminarily judged to be a human sacrifice of some primitive religious sacrifice.
One was filled with all kinds of weapons and armor, all rusted and rotten, and so neatly arranged that it looked like a warehouse for hiding soldiers.
There is a huge stone statue in one, carved on the stone wall, with a helmet through the armor, and a halberd double-wielded, quite mighty, but the position of the face is blank, but it seems that when the face is carved, it stops work and gives up.
There is an extremely round underground lake in one of them, and there is a bronze tree five meters high, and the leaves are all dyed red, which is in full swing and is particularly eye-catching.
The last one, the cave to the southeast, was empty, except that the four walls and the ground were charred black, as if they had been burned by fire.
It's just that according to what Xiaobai said, the big altar is made of stones, which is extremely solid, not afraid of thunder and fire, and not afraid of impact.
Of course, even if it is exaggerated, and the altar is burned out, so a large thing should leave a lot of wreckage, how can it be so clean that there is not even a single piece of it?
Ju Qiangguo, who led the team, was dumbfounded at that time, and hurriedly called Fu Tong to say about it, wanting him to ask Wei Chaoyang if the news was accurate.
Fortunately, Wei Chaoyang left Ketianda with Fu Tong.
Yan Ruoning also followed.
However, the old monk was so shocked that he needed to digest it well, so he broke up with Wei Chaoyang at Tianke University and returned to Wenhui Temple to rest.
Hearing that Ju Qiangguo failed to find the altar, Wei Chaoyang hurriedly took Xiaobai and Fu Tong over to check the situation.
When he arrived at the ground, he saw the empty scene, Xiao Bai was shocked, and said incoherently: "It's just that there is nothing wrong here, the altar is in the middle of the cave, after it is built, it is lit up with the method of worshipping the spirit, and the whole thing becomes black and red, and it also flashes with a dark light, which is particularly wonderful, which I have seen with my own eyes." How could something so big be gone? ”
Wei Chaoyang asked it, "When was the last time you saw this altar?" ”
Xiaobai said: "Every year when I come to Haicheng with Lao Teng, I will take the time to take a look. ”
In other words, until last year, the altar was still here, but this year it is gone!
Wei Chaoyang looked at Xiaobai's eyes with some suspicion.
Xiaobai was anxious at the time, "What I said is true, I didn't lie to you, the altar is here." ”
Wei Chaoyang asked again: "You haven't said what is the real purpose of the Spirit Worship Sect to tempt the Jurchens to build this altar?" Not to mention that it can help the Jurchens seize Zhao Song's luck. ”
Xiaobai said: "That's what they told the Jurchens at the time. But from what I overheard, it seems that they are trying to establish a solid connection with someone or place through this altar.
But after the altar was consecrated for the sacrifice, it was extremely unstable and exuded a certain power, and under the influence of this power, people kept turning into unlucky dead, and the 100,000 Jurchen troops who were conscripted for construction here at that time and guarded them were mostly killed in the massacre after the unlucky dead appeared.
The Worshippers cordoned off the place and forbade anyone to enter. My partner at the time was bent on snooping into the secrets of the altar and sneaking into the crypt, but when it came out, the whole person was crazy and stupid, and could only mutter inexplicable things like the destruction of the heavens, and could neither respond to people normally, nor eat or drink, and the person died in a few days.
Then I left here and never came back. If Lao Teng hadn't teamed up with Di Duping and Huo Shen to explore the secret and found that altar model, I would have almost forgotten that there was such a thing here. ”
Wei Chaoyang looked at Xiaobai and said, "So, what can't you say, as soon as you say it, it will affect the luck of many people and cause terrible consequences?" ”
Xiaobai hesitated and said, "I can't say this." ”
Yan Ruoning interjected and asked: "Who told you that you can't say these contents, and once you say them, they will be widely implicated and cause terrible consequences?" ”
Xiaobai replied honestly: "That woman." ”
Wei Chao didn't ask any more questions, and turned his head to watch the videos of the other four caves.
Ju Qiangguo's team brought a number of drones, two of which were placed in each cave, so that they could turn the scene around from time to time.
And outside each cave there is a team of committee staff on standby.
After Wei Chaoyang saw the cave full of human bones, he instructed the staff there to clear a piece of the ground that was covered by white bones.
It turned out that the ground covered by white bones was carved with dense runes, and it was covered with black and red blood mud.
Look at the ground of the cave where weapons and armor are stacked, and it is also engraved with runes.
The same runes also appear on the surface of the statue's armor and on the red leaves of the bronze tree.
After reading it, Wei Chaoyang looked solemn, found Fu Tong and Ju Qiangguo together, and said: "Judging from the situation on the spot, this is undoubtedly the furnace set up by the refining and land transportation. It's just that the start time of this earth transportation refining is far from about forty-six years as I guessed, but in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty!
The cave full of bones is the place where the ritual is held. Through the slaughter of a large number of human animals, this crypt furnace was activated, and from that moment on, this earth transportation refining began.
Tibetan soldiers and statues are the methods of transforming meaning in alchemy. From this design, it can be seen that the land movement to be refined here should be the type of main killing campaign.
Wherever such a fortune is born, there will inevitably be a large-scale war, and the fortune will not disappear, and the war will not stop, and in turn, the fortune can make itself stronger through the war! ”
This refining array has been operating silently underground in Haicheng for thousands of years.
The war in the north, which had barely stopped, provided enough sacrifices for the refining array to keep it running.
From this point of view, what happened more than a hundred years ago was not the beginning of the refining of the earth, but the end.
It is not uncommon for such a huge refining bureau to end in a hundred years!
What kind of land fortune will be refined in a thousand years?
Fu Tong couldn't help but be nervous, "That altar disappeared, could it be that the refining was successful?" What are the consequences and what do we need to do about it? ”
Wei Chaoyang waved his hand and said: "With such a refining situation, if you really want to succeed in refining and transporting, it is a matter of whether Haicheng can exist or not." Now that Haicheng is safe and sound, it proves that it has not succeeded! As for the reason for the disappearance of this altar, I can't say, but it's easy to solve this problem, even if there is no altar. It was this crypt that was set as the furnace, not the vanished altar. Originally, I wanted to find the altar and take a closer look at the situation of this refining array, but now there is no need, blowing up this crypt can solve all the problems! ”
Speaking of this, his body suddenly shook slightly, and blood flowed from the corners of his mouth and nostrils.
Yan Ruoning was shocked, stepped forward to support him, and asked in a low voice, "Was it hurt just now?" ”
Wei Chaoyang wiped away the blood stains and whispered: "Wei Xingguo's fist strength is not weak and prime, this is very unscientific, I think something is wrong, I didn't dare to let him know that he injured me." Just now, I thought it was just a little tightness in my chest and shortness of breath, but now I was panicked and tingled in my cavity. He must have used yin energy in this punch, which was to hit people with internal injuries. I won't be able to move my hands for a short time. ”
Fu Tong also saw this scene just now, Wei Chaoyang was fine, how did he know that he would be so seriously injured, and hurriedly said: "Consultant Wei, I will arrange for someone to take you to the hospital, and leave the matter here to me, you can explain anything." ”
Ju Qiangguo also squeezed over and said, "That's right, Consultant Wei, don't worry, we are here." Hey, Commissioner Fu, or you can go to the hospital with Consultant Wei, just leave it to me here. ”
He understood the abacus in his heart, if Fu Tong was allowed to stay here, he would definitely share his credit.
When this matter is mentioned, everyone else has done it independently, but he can only complete it with the help of Fu Tong, so how can he seek promotion?
Fu Tong glanced at Ju Qiangguo, and immediately guessed the little Jiujiu in his heart, and he was a little unhappy at that time, but after thinking about it, there was no need to fight with this old fox now, but he reminded him right, protecting Wei Chaoyang's safety now is the most important thing.
He immediately said to Ju Qiang: "Since this is the case, then I will send Consultant Wei to the hospital for examination and treatment, and you will have to take more responsibility for it." ”
"You can go with peace of mind, I promise to do things beautifully."
Ju Qiangguo patted his chest and promised, and couldn't wait to send Wei Chaoyang, Yan Ruoning and Fu Tong away.
When the three of them got out of the crypt, Fu Tong directly transferred a helicopter, pulled himself up, plus Wei Chaoyang and Yan Ruoning, and didn't take many other people, and flew directly to the hospital under the committee.
Originally, Fu Tong wanted to take Wei Chaoyang to the First People's Hospital of Haicheng, where the level of medical technology is the highest in the province.
But Wei Chaoyang vetoed his idea and asked to go to the hospital under the committee.
He said to Fu Tong: "Now the person who is secretly planning this game does not know what the situation is, and I must not let too many people know about my injury, otherwise it is likely to make the person in the secret think of revenge." I am a martial arts practitioner, and I know how much I have been injured, and I don't need any complicated treatment, but I mainly rely on rest and recuperation to recover slowly, and the committee hospital can deal with it. ”
Fu Tong gave up his original plan, commanded the helicopter, and flew the committee hospital instead.
The in-service doctors of the committee hospital who had been notified in advance poured out of the nest, pushed the emergency bed, and waited outside with first-aid medicines, and as soon as the helicopter settled, they immediately rushed up, scrambling to help Wei Chaoyang lie on the emergency bed, and without saying a word, he tied the drip first.
As the jargon goes, it's called building a passage first.
After pricking the needle, everyone pushed Wei Chaoyang to run to the hospital.
All kinds of inspections have been opened to green channels, and they are directly prioritized everywhere, and those who are cut in line dare not complain.
The people who can come here to see a doctor are all spirit masters, who doesn't know Wei Chaoyang's name, not to mention that he is still followed by Fu Tong, a big man, and being inserted by this kind of big man is also in vain, if you are not convinced and want to do something, it will only be worse than being inserted in vain.
After a round of ultrasound filming, the last item is a whole-body MRI.
Wei Chaoyang was pushed into the MRI room, and the others never let it go, nor could they stay, so they could only withdraw honestly.
The noisy, uncomfortable sound of the machine running sounded for a few moments before it was finished.
The moving bed exits the resonance machine.
Wei Chaoyang saw a tall figure.