Chapter 6: The Afterlife
From the day the First Emperor's guard of honor left Dune City, it began to rain heavily in the sky. The pouring rain rained for three days in a row, and it was even more extreme in the middle of the night on the third day, accompanied by lightning, the heavy rain poured down, and it looked like a hole in the sky, pouring down the water of the Milky Way.
A freshly erected dirt bag outside Dune City was washed away by the heavy rain, revealing a ** corpse in the thunder. When the corpse was rediscovered, the lightning in the sky began to concentrate on this location.
"Click!", and the first lightning bolt hit the corpse of **. The corpse trembled violently, and then a second lightning bolt struck, and the corpse opened its eyes violently.
The corpse stood up slowly in the heavy rain, looked around a little confused, and slowly walked a few steps forward. At that moment, a third bolt of lightning struck the man, and he fell unsteady in the rain. In the distance, another flash of lightning swept through the sky, instantly lighting up the dark rainy night as if it were day.
By the light of lightning, the man saw himself in the reflection of the puddle. What appeared on the surface of the water was the appearance of a young man with white hair, and at this moment, this person remembered everything. He touched the gray hair on his head, and said to himself, "The hair is gray—it's not bad."
The white-haired young man got back to his feet, made his way through the dark and rainy night, and began to walk down to the northeast. After just a few steps, a thunderous "click!" sounded in the sky, and a bolt of lightning struck him again. Beat the man to a stumbling ground and hold on to a big tree next to him so that he wouldn't fall. Before he could get to his feet, another bolt of lightning struck the man's back.
Next, lightning kept coming down in the sky, all hitting the white-haired young man without exception. Not long ago, the thing called the 'seed' that someone had buried in his chest had slowly begun to melt, and the blood of the white-haired young man was flooding his body.
The lightning in the sky still slashed down one by one, hitting the white-haired young man's body. Thunder and lightning were transmitted from his body to the trunk of the tree he was holding onto, and smoke rose from the tree, which had already been watered by the rain. After a while, only the sound of "Whew!" was heard, and the tree burst into flames in the pouring rain, and although it was immediately extinguished by the heavy rain, the trunk could no longer withstand such torture, and the sound of "boom!" broke into two sections.
Finally, the white-haired young man became impatient with the thunder and lightning. "That's enough!" he yelled, slamming himself into the spot where the lightning had struck him in the back. Just in time a bolt of lightning struck down and struck him in the fist. In an instant, the electricity was bright, but in an instant, it dimmed. The lightning was shattered by the white-haired young man's punch, turning into countless white electric flames scurrying in midair.
The white-haired young man didn't expect such an outcome, and he looked at the fist he had withdrawn in amazement, leaving not even a single burn mark on it.
At the same time that the thunder and lightning were shattered by the white-haired man, the pouring rain that was still pouring suddenly stopped. The thick layer of dark clouds in the sky slowly dispersed, revealing the stars in the sky.
After a pause, the white-haired young man returned to normal, he glanced back in the direction of Dune, and muttered, "Even if it's the beginning......
More than a month later, a strange young man appeared in the market at the foot of Yanshan Mountain in Liaodong, he was in his early twenties, but with white hair and his single clothes, it seemed out of place in the environment here. At that time, it was the middle of winter, the whole Liaodong was already covered with snow, and the locals had already changed into thick winter clothes.
The white-haired young man first inquired about the path up the mountain, then bought a dozen or so multigrain cakes, and was ready to go up the mountain. Seeing this, the pavilion chief of the local training street hurriedly came over and stopped in front of him, looking at the young man's white hair, the half-old pavilion chief in his forties and black hair, and held back for a long time before he said: "I said that this little brother doesn't dare to go up the mountain now. The heavy snow has closed the mountain, don't mention it, there are big insects on our Yan Mountain, and a while ago I was so hungry that I went down the mountain and hurt the people here. Looking at your little brother is also capable, but don't be surprised if you say something unlucky, if you go up like this now, you will either freeze to death on the mountain, or feed the big insects on the mountain. If you want to go up the mountain, you can wait for two months, and when the snow melts after the beginning of spring, it just so happens that several of our villages are going to organize a hunting and medicine collection in the mountains.
This white-haired young man was none other than Wu Mian, who had come back from his death outside Dune City, and not long after he had been gone that night, he encountered several bandits who had come to rob him blindly. The current Wu Mian is no longer the miscellaneous servant who let the chief of Fang Shi beat him before, and he finally found a way to vent with his stomach in his stomach. One of them came down, and several bandits died on the spot. Wu Mian ate black and turned over the silver money on the bandits, so that he would not walk all the way to Liaodong naked.
Wu Mian continued to walk up the mountain as if he hadn't heard it. However, it also gave the old pavilion a little face, and he said as he walked: "It's like someone hasn't died......
Only Wu Mian understood what he meant, but coupled with his unique caustic tone, to the old pavilion chief, this was a rush and not a deal. Waiting for Wu Mian to walk away, the old pavilion chief said to the people watching the excitement around him: "How is it, it's hard to persuade the damned ghost with good words." You all testify to me, I persuaded him for a long time, and he died on the mountain in the future, don't blame the Pavilion Elder for not persuading him......"
With Wu Mian's current ear power, he could hear the old pavilion chief's words clearly, but he only acted as if he hadn't heard it, and walked all the way forward with the memory of the map in his mind. The further you go up the mountain, the thicker the snow becomes, and before you get out of the bottom of the mountain, the snow is already up to your knees. Fortunately, Wu Mian didn't feel cold, and although he walked slowly, he was getting closer and closer to the location of the map.
From the morning to the evening, although Wu Mian's physique no longer needs food to replenish energy, he still can't stand the hunger in his stomach. After eating a few multigrain cakes in the snow water, they didn't rest, they just walked all the way, and they didn't encounter the big insects mentioned by the old pavilion chief, and the pheasants and hares all encountered a few, but they ran away after seeing Wu Mian. I walked all the way, and finally in the afternoon of the third day, I found the place marked on the map.
The location of the map is underneath a cliff, which is bare, with nothing but thick snow. Seeing that no one has been here all year round, Wu Mian turned around a few times, but did not find the entrance to the cave marked on the map.
Could it be that he remembered it wrongly? Just when Wu Mian was about to give up and go around. He inadvertently glanced at the rocks on the edge of the cliff in front of him, and the shadows caused by the sunlight slanting on the rocks were distorted and changed direction.
Wu Mian walked to the front of the rock, stretched out his hand and touched it, but he saw his hand reach into the rock, but he didn't feel anything in his hand. Wu Mian understood in an instant, but he didn't expect that he could even see through Xu Fu's illusion at the beginning, and now standing next to the mountain rock face to face, if he didn't try it himself, I'm afraid he would never be able to see it.
This is the entrance! Wu Mian no longer hesitated, and the whole person took a step towards the mountain rock. Then it was dark in front of him, and he actually walked into the rock, and according to the distance, he had already reached the inside of the cliff.
It was pitch black, but Wu Mian's eyesight was not hindered, and he still saw the things around him clearly. This place is supposed to be a cave, and it is full of 180 wooden chests against the gable. Wu Mian opened one of the boxes and took a look, there was a box full of gold cakes, picked up a piece and weighed it, there were almost fifty or sixty taels.
Although the gold was dazzling, Wu Mian's mind was not on it, he opened several boxes one after another, and there was nothing in them except gold cakes.
Wu Mian went back and forth in the cave again, but still didn't find anything. At this time, his heart began to murmur: Could it be that Dafang Shi calculated that he was now poor and white, and he had to rely on robbing bandits to survive, so he gave him this cave gold?
However, Wu Mian never believed that Xu Fu would take such care of him, and there was really nothing to rummage through, so he aimed at the gable where the gold cake box was placed.
Thinking that he was about to do it, Wu Mian directly overturned these boxes, and thousands of golden cakes were scattered all over the ground. It was at the back of these boxes that he finally found what Wu Mian wanted. I saw that the position that was blocked by the box just now revealed a piece of handwriting on the gable.
This word was written by Xu Fu, which probably means that this was originally the place where the last generation of Yan King of Yan - Xi hid gold. After the prince Dan of Yan State instructed Jing Ke to assassinate King Yingzheng of Qin in an unsuccessful attempt, the general of the Qin Dynasty, Wang Jian, broke through the capital of King Yan. Yan Wangxi had transferred the gold in the palace to this place in advance, in order to restore the country in the future, but unfortunately he died soon after, and this place became an ownerless treasure.
A few years later, this place was accidentally discovered by Xu Fu, and at that time he had a plan to leave it to future generations, so he set up an illusion formation at the entrance of the cave to block some people who were messing around. In addition to the gold, he also left something in it that really interested Wu Mian.