Coincidentally, at this time, Xiao Maitreya came back from going to the toilet outside, and as soon as he entered the room, he heard the words "Phoenix Ass Door".

After he sat down, he said with a smile: "That's it, this phoenix ass door has become a hot topic in our neighborhood in the past two days." The guests who came to eat here were also talking about this matter, saying that this phoenix ass door and this deep pool had never been done by the elders. Not only has it never been dry, but it is also said that the water level of this deep pool remains the same throughout the year. Even in a year of great drought, it remains. In addition, it is rumored that you pump the water level of this deep pool down during the day, and by the next morning it will naturally return to its original water level. Moreover, the water temperature in this deep pool remains at a constant temperature all year round, and the water is lukewarm all year round. In winter, some of the other places freeze over, but here it still has a faint steam, a bit like the smell of hot springs. ”

The doll said: "I heard about the Phoenix Ass Gate earlier, and there is a relative of mine in the Huangshan Village below the Yellow Mountain. It is said that the stonemasons who quarried on the Yellow Mountain in the early years drank the water there, and in that deep pool they also happened to catch a strange little fish that could not be named. The small fish are usually small, but the color is unusually snow-white, and even has a translucent feeling. It's just that if you take it home and put it in ordinary well water, it won't be long before it dies, and you can't feed it no matter how you feed it. ”

Mengshan Turtle said: "I seem to remember that Master Hou originally mentioned to me this very evil place, isn't that Huangshan a small hill seven or eight kilometers east of your village? But I remember what you said at the time that it didn't seem to be a problem with the water in this deep pool, as if you just said that the place was very evil at night, and the people in the local vicinity generally didn't dare to go anywhere at night, right?"

Xiao Qingfeng said: "Yes, I also remembered that I once told you about it, this is this place." As you said, the biggest evil thing about this place is not the perennial room temperature water in the deep pool, but that this place is rarely visited. Even the old stonemasons who had been quarrying on the Yellow Mountain for many years and the old people who had cultivated the land nearby only dared to go together during the day. As soon as the sun goes down, no one dares to go to that place, not even the nearby valley. ”

Mengshan Turtle said: "Why is that, why don't the villagers near the sun dare to approach as soon as the sun sets? ”

Xiao Qingfeng said: "I just heard that even in a few villages near us, as big as me, when I was a child, I would be severely warned by the adults in my family, and I would never be allowed to go to the place of Phoenix Ass Gate, otherwise I would be severely punished or even beaten by the adults." This second brother should also know very well that this can be said to be an unwritten civil ban in our area. ”

The dumb man said: "Yes, even adults have rarely visited that place over the years." Because it is said that anyone who strays into the valley near the Phoenix Ass Gate after the sun goes down will die or become insane for no reason. It's not really a scare, it's something that really happened. In the early years, our local elders had specially invited so-called mages to carry out exorcism here. But in the end, the accident happened again, and the so-called mage himself went in at night and never came out, and it is said that he himself jumped into a deep pool and drowned for some unknown reason. The attendant who followed him was later discovered, turned into a madman, and died within a few years. It is said that until he died, he never really came to his senses. Since then, the place has become even more eerie and mysterious, and no one in the vicinity dares to approach it after the sun goes down. ”

At this time, Xiao Qingfeng drank a glass of Mengshan Turtle and poured wine, smiled slightly, and then said in a dumb voice: "Not only is this the case in folklore, but there are also official records that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was also a bizarre collective death of a Japanese army team here. It is said that the Japanese army attacked Shandong on a large scale back then, and our current YZ City was not spared, and it became an enemy-occupied area in 1938. However, at that time, there were still some scattered anti-Japanese forces, relying on the vast hills and mountains here, stubbornly carrying out all kinds of resistance. There was a very active anti-Japanese contingent in our area, and most of them were the wounded and sick scattered in the villages when the Kuomintang troops retreated. ”

After a slight pause, Xiao Qingfeng continued: "After their injuries were healed, they voluntarily chose to stay and continue to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines in the local area. Because they all had a certain degree of military literacy and rich combat experience, with the help of the local underground party of the Communist Party of China, they united with some anti-Japanese bandit forces on various local hills, and gradually formed a local anti-Japanese contingent with strong combat effectiveness. They carried out sabotage operations on some important communication lines one after another, and even took the initiative to attack small groups of Japanese puppet army strongholds. Due to their frequent attacks, a small upsurge of armed resistance against Japan was quickly set off in the local area, and this team once grew to hundreds of people. ”

Doll said: "They are such an anti-Japanese team, it is impossible for the Japanese army to tolerate their existence like this." ”

Xiao Qingfeng said: "Yes, after being disturbed by continuous attacks, the local garrison immediately attached great importance to this rapidly developing team. They mobilized the strength of a brigade of the Japanese army and a regiment of the puppet army, and carried out a frenzied encirclement and suppression of this anti-Japanese army. Due to the huge disparity in weaponry and numbers, as well as the complexity and variability of the internal personnel, after more than two months of fierce fighting, this anti-Japanese armed force basically suffered casualties. In the end, dozens of surviving soldiers were pursued by the Japanese army all the way to the small hill of Yellow Mountain, where they relied on the stone wall on the top of Yellow Mountain to put up stubborn resistance. They struggled from the afternoon to the evening, and in the end, there were only about a dozen of them. At this moment, a local warrior thought of the mysterious forbidden place behind the mountain, the Phoenix Ass Gate. He led everyone to use the only remaining ammunition to open a bloody road and break through to the back of the mountain. By the time they broke through and entered the valley of the back mountains, there were only five fighters left, and all of them were already scarred and out of ammunition. At this time, the commander of the Japanese army saw that it was getting late, and knew that the number of people who broke through the siege was not large, so he left only a ten-man Japanese squad and a squad of puppet troops to be killed, and the others withdrew to the city for repairs. ”

The doll said: "Then what happened later, did there be any other turnaround?"

Xiao Qingfeng said: "Those Japanese puppet soldiers found a local traitor and asked him to lead the way in pursuit. At first, the traitor was reluctant, because he had also heard of the weirdness in it, and knew that the valley around the Phoenix Ass Gate could not be entered and exited casually at night. He suggested that the neighborhood be cordoned off first and wait until dawn to go in and search, but the Japanese squad leader was resolute and scolded him and forced him to lead the way immediately in pursuit. As a last resort, the traitor had no choice but to chase them down. After the Japanese puppet army pursued them, they quickly caught up with the five soldiers who broke through the siege, and finally shot them all near the deep pool. ”

The little Taoist priest said: "His grandmother's, this kind of traitor puppet army is the most hateful!"

Xiao Qingfeng said: "Not only that, but those angry Japanese puppet soldiers also threw all their corpses into the deep pool to vent their anger. But a strange thing finally happened, and when these Japanese puppet troops returned triumphantly, they found that they couldn't get out of this small valley anyway. In the end, after tossing in the middle of the night, except for the traitor who led the way, who became a complete madman, the other more than 20 Japanese puppet soldiers all died mysteriously inside. On the morning of the next day, the Japanese troops in the city saw that the pursuit team had not returned for a long time, so they sent a capable Japanese team to drive the nearby villagers to lead the way to the Phoenix Ass Gate to search. ”

The little Taoist priest said: "You deserve it, retribution!"

Xiao Qingfeng said: "When they arrived, they were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them, the bodies of the five soldiers were floating on the surface of the deep pool, and the more than twenty Japanese puppet soldiers all fell scattered in the valley near the deep pool. In addition, each of them had very strange expressions, all of them stared at their big eyes, their eyeballs seemed to bulge out, and the clothes on their bodies looked as if they had been soaked in sweat. On the surface, they all seemed to be extremely frightened, and they kept running wildly until they finally died of exhaustion. And the heavily unconscious traitor who was still breathing was also like being frightened by some strange phenomenon, which led to an extreme mental breakdown. ”

The doll said: "What happened then, didn't the Japanese analyze this bizarre incident on the spot and explain it accordingly?"

Xiao Qingfeng said: "Afterwards, in order to cover up this strange and bizarre incident, the murderous Japanese soldiers killed the nearby villagers who were driven and led by them on the spot. Then, with the corpses of those Japanese soldiers and the traitor who was still in a heavy coma, he quickly fled back to the city. Since then, I have never heard any reports about that incident from the Japanese army, nor have I heard that the Japanese army has ever been to the place of Phoenix Ass Gate, and this matter is over. Until after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, people from relevant departments also specially investigated this strange and bizarre incident, but there was no result. It is said that even the crazy traitor who led the way has mysteriously disappeared since then, and some people speculate that the Japanese may have taken him somewhere to study. Of course, this is all speculation, and there is no conclusive basis. It's just that, since then, the place of Phoenix Ass Gate has become more mysterious and terrifying. ”