Chapter 11 Chapter 10 The Reversed Watch
Seeing the two of us following up, the old monk said: "The two benefactors have finished eating, do you want to eat more?"
Hu Songshan said with a smile: "No, thank you, Teacher. I don't know what the name of Teacher is?"
"The poor monk's dharma name is Dao'an, and he is the forty-third abbot of Bi Temple." The old monk said.
Hu Songshan said: "Teacher, the two of us are also good at catching monsters, but there are too many ghosts on this mountain, and we almost lost our lives. We are also the kind of people who hate evil and care about all creatures. I don't know if we can go together with Master Huh?" While speaking, Hu Songshan spoke earnestly, and I was thinking, if I were this old monk, maybe I would agree.
The old monk looked at Hu Songshan and me, and said, "It's so dangerous to subdue demons, you should not go."
Hu Songshan said: "Our ancestors belonged to the Maoshan School. This is my senior brother, and his kung fu is quite good." After speaking, Hu Songshan pointed at me.
Hearing what Hu Songshan said, the old monk couldn't help but look at me more, and said, "You are very much like an old friend of mine."
I asked, "Old man? Which old man?"
The old monk shook his head and said, "It's better not to go, it's too dangerous."
Seeing that the old monk disagreed, Hu Songshan said, "Master, let us go."
Seeing that we insisted on going, the old monk nodded immediately and said: "Okay then, but be careful in everything, this mountain is very dangerous at night, we have to get out of the mountain at four o'clock, so that we can leave here before dark." Hu Songshan and I naturally agree.
At present, our group went up to Deshan, and at a spring in front of us, everyone drank some water, especially Hu Songshan and I, it can be said that we opened our stomachs and had a good drink.And the two young monks also filled the water bottle to the brim, and everyone took a rest before climbing the mountain.
Ever since I came to Yibin, I have climbed all the mountains in my life.When I was young, there was no mountain at home, and I always looked forward to climbing it once.But this time, Deng suffered from cramps in his legs and feet, and his skin and bones were sore and limp.Everyone first bypassed the Grand Canyon, and then climbed up from the hillside on the left.When climbing the mountain, Hu Songshan and I were also very careful, for fear that the old monk would play tricks on us again.Fortunately, the old monk was quite friendly along the way, and he didn't suddenly kill us as we imagined.
The climbing lasted nearly two hours, and a mountain was turned over in the middle, which was really not easy.This mountain is really the highest mountain in the vicinity. When we climbed halfway, we can already see all the small mountains.
We continued walking for a while, at this time I felt my right foot became heavy, and looking at Hu Songshan, she also seemed to feel a little heavy.I whispered to Hu Songshan, "I feel like the dagger on my foot is always trying to pierce through my shoes, as if it was going underground." Hu Songshan said that she did the same, and she felt that the throwing knife on her waist had also become heavy.
At this time, I saw that the hands of my watch also had problems, always wobbling.Under normal circumstances, this pointer moves clockwise, but last night it turned counterclockwise, and now it has turned into a swinging hour hand.When I raised my hand horizontally, I saw that the reverse direction of the watch pointer was facing the direction of the mountain, and when I put the arm in a different direction, the pointer also changed accordingly. When the hour hand was stable, the pointer was still facing the mountain.
Hu Songshan was amazed and said, "Your watch is a mechanical watch, not a magnet. How did it become a compass?"
I said, "I'm also wondering, if it's an electronic watch, I'll recognize it, but it's a mechanical watch, relying on gears, why doesn't it follow?"
At this time, I saw an iron sword falling out of the little monk's back pocket. The iron sword was about half a meter long, black all over, and pierced straight into the stone surface.Hu Songshan and I were taken aback. We didn't expect the iron sword to be so sharp that it broke its own pocket and inserted into the stone with the remaining force of the falling body.
The old monk also found it strange that the iron sword fell into the stone.He bowed his body and pulled out the sword with all his strength, finally pulled out the iron sword, and said to himself: "It's strange, this thing will break the pocket by itself?" At that moment, he handed the iron sword to one of the young monks , told him to hold it with his hands and not to put it in his pocket again.
After the little monk took the sword, he said, "Master, why has the sword become heavy? It seems that everything in this bag has sunk."
Hu Songshan and I looked at each other, thinking that this old monk had brought a lot of iron tools.Fortunately, there is a special sword case inside our shoes to hold the dagger, so that the shoes will not be punctured by the sharpness of the dagger or the magnetic field here.
As things became heavy, the speed of the two young monks slowed down a lot.At that moment, Hu Songshan and I each took some things from the little monk, and then we resumed our speed up the mountain.It seems that this mountain is a huge magnetic field. If so, our actions will have great difficulty.No wonder the watch suddenly stopped working last night. It turned out that the magnetic field of the mountain here was at work.
Everyone reached the top of the mountain quickly, and I asked the old monk, "Teacher, you said we'd go back at four o'clock, how do you know when it's four o'clock?"
The old monk smiled and said, "Don't you have a watch?"
"The watch has long been broken, there is a magnetic field here." I replied.
Unexpectedly, the old monk didn't panic, and said: "It doesn't matter, we entered the mountain at seven o'clock, and it took only two hours to get down the mountain, and it took nearly two hours to go up this mountain, that is to say, it is eleven o'clock now. We just need to be quick, and we can leave the mountain before sunset."
After the old monk said this, I understood that this old monk must know the shortcut, otherwise he would not be able to walk down the mountain in two hours.And he definitely didn't come here to catch any demons or cast down any demons. If he had the ability, he wouldn't need to withdraw before sunset.I didn't expose it at the moment, and said to the old monk: "Then how do we enter the mountain?"
I thought the old monk would have some clever tricks, but he said: "This is easy to say, but difficult to do. We just need to fix it to the tree on the cliff with a rope, and then go down from the top of the cliff along the rope. "At that moment, the old monk found the thickest tree on the top of the mountain, and tied a knot on the tree with one end of the rope.Fortunately, the rope is long enough, more than 50 meters. Although it is not as high as this mountain, it is enough to find the cliff cave.
Hu Songshan said: "Three masters, you go down first, we go down later."
I heard a young monk say: "That's not okay, what if you cut this rope?"
Hu Songshan smiled and said: "No, we are not good at climbing."
The little monk said angrily: "Since your skills are not good, don't come up the mountain."
Hu Songshan had a good temper at this time, and said, "I knew this mountain was so difficult to descend, so I shouldn't have come. Then we'll wait for you up here?"
The little monk said, "Okay."
The old monk looked at us, looking very happy, and said, "Since you don't know how to climb mountains, just wait here." So the three of them went down the rope. The speed is extremely fast, obviously he has done mountaineering training.
Hu Songshan let out a sigh of relief when he saw them go down the mountain, and said: "These three old monsters must have come to rob the tomb, and they also descended and exorcised demons. Do we have to go out in the dark if we have that ability? We were not harmed by him last time." Die, we must be careful this time."
I nodded and said: "These people must have repeatedly observed the terrain and had done mountaineering training. Look at that old monk, he turned out to be a master mountaineering master. He is very old and looks like a monkey. But this old monk is not afraid We cut their rope."
Hu Songshan said: "That rope is not an ordinary rope. How can it be cut easily? This is a snakeskin rope, made of python skin, which is wear-resistant and cut-resistant. Why don't the old monk be so relieved." After finishing speaking, she looked at it. At the end of the rope tied to the tree, I saw that the knots on it were so intricate that I couldn't even find the end of the rope.At this moment, I admire that old monk more and more for being able to tie such a complicated knot.
I asked: "This old monk is really powerful, so why didn't we go down just now?"
Hu Songshan said: "Isn't there something I have to tell you, I'm afraid you still regard these three monks as saviors."
I smiled and said, "Come on, you don't talk about Master one by one, as if he is the King of the Golden Wheel."
Just when Hu Songshan and I were making up our minds to go down the cliff along the rope, we heard a voice behind us: "Little baby, don't go."
Hu Songshan and I were taken aback when we saw a man about fifty years old appearing behind the mountain.This man has a bald head and mustache, and is wearing a vest. He looks like a boy from Shanghai in the 1930s.
Hu Songshan asked: "Who are you?"
At this time, another voice from behind the mountain said: "This is Lord Dou." I turned around and saw that the person who spoke was wearing sportswear, a pair of hiking shoes on his feet, and a backpack on his back. It turned out to be Jiang Qiankun!
I thought to myself, that's great, these two are fine, it seems that the fourth uncle is also fine.
Jiang Qiankun asked: "Who are you girl?"
"Hu Songshan is Hu Songze's younger sister." I replied.
Both Jiang Qiankun and Dou Ye nodded, and Dou Ye said: "You two little ones are really brave. We followed those three people from the bottom of the mountain to this place. How are you, you dare to ask them what they want to eat! "
I scratched my head and said, "Aren't we too hungry!"
Lord Dou said, "Do you know who that old monk is?"
Hu Songshan and I naturally shook our heads, Master Dou said: "I tell you their names, you will know, he is Chen Daohe."
Hu Songshan and I were taken aback. We didn't expect this old monk to be Chen Daohe.Master Dou continued: "None of you have seen Chen Daohe. This man is unpredictable and rarely shows up. I have seen him once before. You Uncle Jiang also went to see him once before, so we recognize him. "
"Then why did he come?" I asked.
Lord Dou said: "For Liu Xuan's piece of jade. These jades are of extraordinary value to the descendants of you spies. Knowing this news, they will naturally come to snatch it."
Only then did I understand why Chen Daohe disguised himself as a monk and threatened us at the foot of the mountain. It turned out that he was trying to prevent us from going up the mountain.I asked again: "Why did Chen Daohe agree to give us something to eat?"
Master Dou smiled and said, "You two are stupid, if they don't give it, you will definitely grab it."
I nodded, thinking, if he doesn't give it, I will really grab it.
Master Dou continued: "If I give you food, you will be less vigilant, and then wait for the opportunity to kill you. If you went down the mountain first, we would not have appeared; but if you go down the mountain later, you will be in danger. So I and You, Uncle Jiang, had to show up early."
Hu Songshan said: "Why?"
Master Dou said: "It's very simple. They knew that you would definitely go down the mountain, so they waited for the opportunity to ambush. When you just arrived at the mouth of the cave cliff, before your feet touched the ground, they took the opportunity to kill you, and you would definitely fall off the cliff."
Hu Songshan and I were dumbfounded, and then we remembered why the old monk had a smile on his mouth just now, it turned out that he was waiting for us there.In the past, I thought that when Tang Yong was digging ancient tombs, he handled affairs in a very good way.
At this moment, I thought of something and asked, "Do the two uncles know the whereabouts of my fourth uncle?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished speaking, Jiang Qiankun and Master Dou drooped their heads and did not speak for a long time.After a while, Jiang Qiankun said: "Yishui, your fourth uncle will be fine. We haven't seen his body, which means he must be alive."
Master Dou also said: "When we came down from the mountain that day, we found that your fourth uncle was gone, and we were very anxious. But at the place where your fourth uncle disappeared, Ah Tian was already dead. Later, when we arrived at the foot of the mountain, we encountered ghosts and ghosts again. I beat Brother Jiang’s younger brother to death. Later, we found that we couldn’t get out of the mountain, so we took a rest. When we woke up, we found ourselves in the coffin on that mountain.” After speaking, we looked at Dou Grandpa pointed to the mountain where Hu Songshan and I were lying when we woke up just now.
I said, "We woke up on the same mountain."
Master Dou looked at me and Hu Songshan, with an evil smile on his face, and said, "Are you lying in the same coffin?"
I opened my eyes wide with an expression of disbelief, while Hu Songshan lowered her head and blushed.
Lord Dou laughed loudly and said: "Haha, you are really blessed, you won't be wronged if you meet a ghost, it's worth it. In fact, the two of us woke up in the same coffin, otherwise how would I have guessed it, haha."
Jiang Qiankun said: "Lord Dou, the old monk Chen Daohe is probably waiting in a hurry, right?"
Lord Dou said: "If you are in a hurry, let them wait for a while. If you want to hurt someone, you must be patient. Come on, let's pull the rope up." After Master Dou finished speaking, we went to pull the rope. I can't pull it out at all.
Master Dou smiled and said, "Unexpectedly, this grandson is really clever, he has a trick when he comes and goes, and he even tied the rope underneath."
Jiang Qiankun said: "Do you think this Chen Daohe will carry a pistol?"
Master Dou said, "It's very possible. Little boy, do you still have guns?"
The two of us shook our heads, Master Dou said: "You are so careless, you can throw away everyone who eats." After speaking, Master Dou pulled out his 79-style charge from behind.Unexpectedly, Master Dou's gun has not been lost, which is really admirable.
I just heard Mr. Dou say: "Mr. Dou, I know the truth of 'the gun is there, the gun is lost', and you will remember it in the future. In the past few months, Brother Jiang and I have been familiarizing ourselves with the terrain, and we went into the mountain on time every day. He came out of the mountain and dared not stay here overnight. Then Chen Daohe has lived here for several months, and he comes to observe the terrain every day."
After Lord Dou said that, I understood why Chen Daohe could come to the hinterland of the mountain in two hours. It turned out that he was familiar with the terrain. It seems that they also put the pigs in the coffin to attract crows.
I just heard Dou Ye continue to say: "It's not a big deal, these people are still training to climb mountains every day, the purpose is to enter the cliff." Hu Songshan and I looked at each other, only to know that Chen Daohe is such a powerful character.
At that moment, everyone started to prepare to go down the mountain, because there was too little time, so they couldn't stand in a stalemate with Chen Daohe here.Master Dou also brought a rope, which was not as long as Chen Daohe's, but it was still thirty to forty meters long.He also fixed the rope to the tree just now, and then threw it down the cliff.The rope thrown by Master Dou is far away from the one Chen Daohe threw, apparently to prevent Chen Daohe from attacking us.Everyone went down the mountain one by one, Master Dou was in front, Jiang Qiankun was behind, and Hu Songshan and I were in the middle.
In fact, there are not many caves in the cliffs here, and there are fewer cliff coffins.We went down the cliff and found a cave here when we were more than ten meters away from the cliff.Entering the cave, everyone looked around, only to see that the cliff cave was bare and there was nothing.Lord Dou smiled and said, "We're all coming in, I'm afraid that fake monk is still waiting for us on the mountainside."
Hu Songshan said: "Why is this Chen Daohe so bad? He stole his tomb, and I poured out our buckets. Well water does not violate river water!"
Lord Dou said: "This fake monk has been competing for the head of the Shengmen. Twenty years ago, after the death of the previous head, Yan Longtu, there has always been a vacancy for the head of the Shengmen. But the new head of the Shengmen is about qualifications. Yes, you need strength to speak in everything. Xiao Shengyun, who had the token of the Shengmen, the glazed dragon and phoenix jade, first went to the Guishan Han Tomb, hoping to steal a token to be the head, but he failed. Because Xiao Shengyun has not News, everyone began to compete for the head again. In this competition, Chen Daohe was the winner. He wandered around looking for a partner and entered the Guishan Han Tomb together. Later he found your fourth uncle and robbed it in the Guishan Han Tomb. The golden seal of the camel button established his position in the sect, and eventually became the head of Shengmen. After becoming the head, he wanted to be the leader of the tomb robbery industry, so he has been constantly pushing out other tomb robbers in the industry Those who want to win the leader position in the fighting world."
Everyone said so, and started to walk into the cave, only to see that the cave was extremely deep, as if it had been dug by hand.The more he walked inward, the darker it became inside, and finally Jiang Qiankun had to take out the flashlight from his bag.This is a wolf-eye flashlight they bought in the market. It is bright, small and easy to carry.There are a total of three flashlights in this bag, in order to prevent accidental damage to the flashlight.But the battery is a big pack, enough to last a few days.
At that moment, Jiang Qiankun gave me a flashlight, gave one to Master Dou, and took one for himself.After everyone entered the cliff cave, they saw a passage less than 20 meters away from the cliff cave.This passage is located on the right side of the cliff cave, it is not very spacious, but after passing through the passage, it is like going deep into a peach garden, suddenly enlightening.There is a cave at the end of the corridor, which is about the size of a basketball court. It is about three meters high, and there are four stone pillars supporting the cliff cave in the middle.This cave is actually a cliff cave, and it is connected to the cliff cave on the left through a passage.The entrance of this cliff cave is flat, and a half-meter-high fence protrudes from the lower end of the cave, like a threshold, probably for shelter from wind and rain.The cave cliff designed in this way can't be observed if you don't look carefully at the foot of the mountain.On the inside of the cliff cave, there are dressing utensils and daily necessities. At the entrance of the cliff cave, there is a wooden coffin, which is exquisitely carved and handcrafted.
When everyone came to the coffin, Lord Dou said: "Could this be the coffin of some king? It's quite rustic, it's not as rich as the coffins in the Central Plains."
Jiang Qiankun said: "This is not the coffin of the Boren King, but the tomb looks like a woman's tomb. I guess it belongs to the Boren King's wife."
After Jiang Qiankun finished speaking, Hu Songshan secretly smiled.Jiang Qiankun said: "What are you laughing at?"
Hu Songshan pointed at me and said, "Ask him."
Jiang Qiankun looked at me, and I said: "They are all bewitched, so there is nothing to say." Jiang Qiankun saw that it was not interesting, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Lord Dou said, "Shall we open it?"
Jiang Qiankun said: "We don't have much time this time, let's look for the coffin of the Boren King, this one will not be opened. Also, we need to look for any exposed corpses. We are looking for Liu Xuan's corpse."
I understand that Jiang Qiankun actually said that to remind me to pay attention to the traces of my fourth uncle.At that moment, I took a flashlight to illuminate the inside of the cliff cave, but this unintentional move made us another discovery. In the four corners of this cliff cave, there is a pair of coffins.Everyone was very surprised and did not understand why a coffin was placed in each of the four corners of the cave.
Master Dou said: "What kind of dragon gate formation is this, it doesn't have something to pay attention to, does it?"
Jiang Qiankun said: "I don't know why these coffins are placed, but although these coffins are also carved with flowers and birds, compared with the coffin with tigers carved on the coffin at the entrance of the cave cliff, the workmanship is much rougher." When Jiang Qiankun said this, everyone understood what it meant. The four coffins in the corner should be used to guard the coffin at the entrance of the cave, and the purpose is to protect the owner of the tomb.
At this time Master Dou smiled in the distance: "Haha, this bronze mirror is good, I have kept it." Hearing this, I turned around and saw Master Dou standing at the dressing table, playing with a rusty mirror. bronze mirror.I don't think it's good, things here can't move around.But before I could utter my words, I felt my left hand shaking endlessly.
I felt strange in my heart. After stretching out my left hand, I saw that the hands of the watch failed again. It didn't seem to go forward or backward in the past, but it was swinging back and forth, just like a pendulum clock, and it was particularly irregular.At this time, Hu Songshan also saw the watch hands swaying left and right, and she said: "No, there is something weird here."
Master Dou said: "No way, I've been fighting for so many years, and it's the first time I've seen a corpse cheated during the day."
After Lord Dou finished speaking, he saw the four coffin lids in the corner slowly lifted from front to back.When the lid of the coffin stood up like a small wooden wall, everyone realized that this was a real encounter.
After the lid of the coffin was slowly raised, four haggard, 1.6-meter-high mummies dressed in animal skins slowly sat up from their respective coffins.These mummies are not like the zombies we have seen before. Although their bodies are stiff, they do not extend their arms.Seeing such a scene reminded me of the old monster who carried me last night, and it was no different from the mummy in front of me!
These mummy snorted heavily, and slowly jumped out of the coffin. Before everyone could react, they began to jump towards everyone.Their take-off is also very characteristic. When they jump, their arms are stretched flat; when they fall, their arms are attached to the outside of their thighs.Seeing such a scene, everyone dared not underestimate the enemy.Master Dou and Jiang Qiankun fired several shots at the mummy first, and the mummy let out howls, but even so, they still couldn't stop their progress.
Those mummies were bearing bullets, and soon came to us as soon as they landed together.We were all dumbfounded and could only look forward to the mummy in front of us.These mummies do not breathe through their mouths, but through their noses. Their nose hairs are very long, two centimeters beyond the nostrils, where they meet the upper lip, which makes me want to vomit.
Jiang Qiankun and Lord Dou had already run out of bullets, and the mummy quickly surrounded us. They blew on us a few times, and the smell was extremely rancid, even dirtier than the water in the river under the Naihe Bridge.I saw Dou Ye still wanted to speak, but he didn't dare to open his mouth.
We were afraid of the smell, so we all covered our mouths.But after a while, when we wanted to take a breath, we found that we couldn't breathe anymore. No matter how much oxygen was around, we couldn't breathe in, just like we were in a vacuum world.
We couldn't breathe like living people trapped in a coffin, everyone became anxious.At the last moment, everyone was tearing apart the mummies like crazy, but the mummies wouldn't let us get close.Seeing us coming, the mummies began to circle us in circles, slowly at first, and then faster and faster.Although I don't know exactly what they are going to do, I know that it must be weird.Sure enough, after a while, we felt dizzy, and then we couldn't stand steadily and fell to the ground.