Chapter 4 Chapter Three

Long Shao's company has recently prepared an archaeological project, and the target is the Nanling City ruins mentioned earlier. According to the map they have deciphered, they are more confident in finding this ruins.And according to Long Shao, he has done nothing else in the past two years. It can be said that he has worked hard to collect information and spent an unknown amount of manpower and financial resources. What exactly is it? It is true that the basis of cooperation is that the other party has a necessary use for oneself, and it is impossible to find someone who has no use for oneself to cooperate with.I think Long Shao must think that I have some important information that is useful to them, but he can't pry my mouth open, so he adopted this method, and it is very likely that the value of these information is much higher than this thing, This is easy to see from the benefit distribution clause in the contract.

A series of incredible things happened these days, which has completely disrupted my life. I know very well that I will never be an outsider to these things, so I must use some power to explore something. Long Shao only gave three days of preparation time, but he didn't interfere in any way with what kind of help I was looking for.In my current situation, it is natural that the fewer people who know about this matter, the better, and it is best for this person to have experience in archaeology.This kid is really a person who is not used to living a comfortable life. As soon as he heard that I was going to engage in projects in the Southwest, he immediately let go of his job, as if he was afraid that I would leave him behind.

Three days later, we met Long Shao and a few others at Dongpo Restaurant near the Capital Airport, took the scheduled flight to Kunming, and then took this as a transit point, then took a long-distance bus to the west of Yunnan, six hours After that, we arrived at a place called Stone Village. This is the hinterland of western Yunnan, and further south is the endless mountains and forests. It belongs to the Gaoligong Mountains of the Hengduan Mountains and is the southern extension of the Himalayas.Just looking at those mountains is enough to make people's hearts surge. How can anyone know how many unknown secrets are buried deep in these endless mountains and mountains!

We spent the night in a small mountain town called Wushi Town. Early the next morning, Long Shao's people had already brought the guide we found.I was very puzzled, and then I learned that another team of Young Master Long had arrived deep in the mountains ahead of schedule, no wonder we went into battle lightly this time. That team was well-equipped, even equipped with M16 machine guns. Such a team was obviously not suitable for crossing villages and villages, so the two teams took two completely different routes, and they used GPS satellite phones to communicate with each other.However, we are conducting expeditions in wild and wild places, which are quite dangerous, and unexpected accidents will happen simultaneously or successively, so a strong rear rescue support system is indispensable.This kind of arrangement is not so much that Long Shao is cautious and meticulous, but it is better to say that he did it as a last resort after experiencing several painful lessons.

The guide's name is Ah Hai, a young man in his thirties with dark skin. He is a poor man in the local jade business. The road in the mountains is extremely difficult to walk. It can be said that there is no means of transportation that can drive on such a road except for feet. It was not until late in the evening that Ah Hai led our group into a village and said that it was far away from us. The destination is the nearest accommodation. If you don’t rest here, you can only sleep in the jungle. The village is composed of dozens of stone houses and wooden stilt buildings, very old and old, it should be quite old.Due to the language barrier, Ah Hai helped to organize the journey along the way, and soon we arrived at the high-storied building of A Hai's house for passers-by. Young Master Long lived in it without saying a word.

I heard from Ah Hai that although this place is remote, its location is very important. There is a river at the entrance of the village that leads directly to the town.Many people who do jade, dried fruit or even illegal business use this as a transit point to shuttle between China and Myanmar. Therefore, although this village is old, it is still relatively wealthy, and most of the villagers are unwilling to go out to make a living. I was quite puzzled when I heard it, because as soon as I entered the village, I felt a strangeness flooding in. The strangeness was that it was so quiet here, just like the legendary uninhabited village.If it was really like what Ah Hai said, how could such a situation happen?

Apparently Long Shao also realized this, and bluntly expressed his doubts to Ah Hai, who replied: "Some things have happened here these days, and many people have taken a detour. I brought it with you when you go here!" When everyone heard this, they hurriedly asked what happened, Ah Hai reluctantly said: "This has happened before, and it doesn't matter, just be careful and you'll be fine!" It turned out that a cold and hot disease similar to dengue fever was suddenly prevalent in this village a while ago. Many people in the village were infected. After a long time, they were not completely eradicated, and two children died of the disease.Originally, no matter what kind of illness a person had, it was enough to prescribe the right medicine, but in backward times or places, many people blamed natural disasters or plagues on evil spirits, so the villagers at that time believed that there were corpses in the mountains.

The strong labor force of the whole village was dispatched to search day and night on the barren hills within a radius of ten miles, and within a few days, they found a very suspicious ancient tomb.The tomb was located halfway up a hill, and part of it was exposed due to landslides, revealing a dark hole, and faintly, it seemed that strange sounds could be heard coming from the hole. Everyone was shocked, sure it was here, dozens of people forcibly dug open the ancient tomb, and saw a copper coffin covered with chi patterns.The copper coffin looked quite old at first glance, and a lot of mold-like patina had grown on the surface, and it would fall off when it was scraped.As long as you touch the copper coffin with your hands, you will feel the inner vibration, as if something is constantly pushing against the coffin lid, making a dull sound.

The coffin was strangely tight, but the scourge could not be cured, so everyone selected a few brave ones, lifted the copper coffin out of the tomb, gritted their teeth bravely, and pried off the coffin lid, surrounded by people Everyone held their breath, holding the things in their hands firmly, just waiting for the coffin lid to be opened, and no matter what they saw, they would strike hard first. Then, with a "crack" sound, the coffin lid was pried aside, and a choking stench also came out.Everyone was almost fainted by the stench. They held their noses and looked inside the coffin. They saw that the coffin was filled with all kinds of funerary objects. At the head of the coffin, there was a strange baby covered in white hair. , with dark green circles and red eyes, it is staring straight at everyone present with bared teeth.

An old man accompanying him stretched his head to look, and waved his big hand and said that it was this thing. Everyone was about to hit it when they heard the thing in their hands, but the old man stopped him with his hand.It turned out that after the old man carefully inspected the situation inside the coffin, he found that the specifications of the coffin were very regular. Judging from the funeral objects in the coffin, the owner of the coffin should be a woman, but now there is only a white-haired strange baby left in the coffin. There aren't any corpses, so it's pretty weird!

After saying this, everyone was a little scared, and no one dared to do anything again, so under the arrangement of the old man, they caught the white-haired monster baby and brought it back to the village, where it was locked in an iron cage.And no one dared to touch the things in the coffin, and after burning it clean, the coffin was thrown away. After waiting for a few days without any movement, when everyone was discussing how to deal with the white-haired strange baby, a bloody case suddenly occurred in the village: a bum named Sanwang died tragically in his own home inexplicably. He was caught to pieces, and the internal organs in his stomach were all emptied.There were some oddly long hair-like objects scattered around the scene, a blood-red nail more than an inch long, and an unusually chic and exquisite vanity mirror. The old man looked at the vanity mirror and immediately concluded that the thing came from the copper coffin. The villagers moved the coffin, and now the female corpse came to seek revenge. Everyone in the village was terrified. Although they killed people, no one dared to speak out.Not to mention whether anyone will believe this report, it is illegal to dig a grave without authorization, besides, if such a terrible thing gets out, who would dare to stay here overnight?Wouldn't the economic lifeline of the village be cut off all of a sudden! After some discussion, the villagers decided to keep the secret strictly, so they picked a day to put the white-haired baby on the fire and planned to burn it to death.The strange thing is that although the white-haired monster baby was not big in size, it was like a smoke bomb being fired when it was burned, and it kept emitting black smoke. A disgusting burnt stench could be smelled in the whole village.After the white-haired monster was burned to death, people in the village still went into the mountain in groups of three or four every day to search for the whereabouts of the female corpse. But the people in the village did not plan well to block the news, and the news finally spread like wings. No wonder the village we saw today was such a bleak scene. A Hai added a lot of embellishments, and I was skeptical, because I originally worked in a public institution and was accustomed to materialistic education. I was quite repulsed by this kind of thing. I never thought that I would encounter this kind of thing when I first started. After everything was settled, Young Master Long added some more money to Ah Hai, and asked him to help find out the whereabouts of the vanity mirror mentioned just now, and said that if it was good, he could buy it at a good price and return it to him at that time. Ah Hai some commission.Ah Hai was overjoyed, and his chest slapped loudly, saying that this matter was on him. Sanpao jokingly said, "Young Master Long, are you addicted to collecting light objects? You even want the dowry of that female corpse, so you are not afraid that the female corpse will stick to you and make a promise with you?" Long Shao frowned when he heard this, and smiled. without speaking. The first night was relatively peaceful, and the power facilities in the mountain village were not stable recently, so we had to study the map that had been extended under the dim oil lamp.The map was magnified 20 times by Long Shao's people with special technical means, but it was still difficult to observe. Compared with the modern map, it was barely possible to distinguish the direction.I don't know who carved the map on the bronze ware in such a complicated way for what purpose. Is it just for the convenience of future generations to find this place? I asked Long Shao my question, he smiled and nodded, and winked at a person called "Master Feng" who was accompanying him.Master Feng is one of the two people that Young Master Long took with him this time, the other is a tall retired soldier Yingge covered in scars. Reuse naturally plays the role of a military adviser. This guy is a ruthless character, with only nine fingers, the index finger of his left hand is only a small half, and he wears a gold finger cot that looks like a scorpion's tail and is full of exquisite patterns, called "Dragon Hook".Master Feng was well-known in the business back then, and later it was said that he was willing to chop off his left index finger for a woman to express his intention to withdraw from the arena, so everyone in the business used to call him "Nine Fingers Gold"! Master Feng understood, and then said: "I think Shen Gong, you don't know this thing: many scholars and treasure hunters have exhausted their efforts to find Nanling City, but the strange thing is that none of them succeeded at all. As a result, many experts simply concluded that Nanling City is just a fictional legend and does not exist at all. However, our young master has been immersed in it for more than eight years, and spent a lot of effort to prove that it exists, and finally obtained a A complete and reliable map!" After Master Feng finished speaking, he smiled mysteriously and continued: "After we studied this map, we realized why the previous people said that Nanling City doesn't exist! If we didn't get the information on it, I believe that even if you search the entire jungle, you will never be able to find it!" As soon as I got interested, San Pao on the side couldn't hold back any longer, and stepped forward and said, "What's the matter, is the city playing hide-and-seek with people? Why don't you just go underground without waiting for others to find it?" Master Feng grinned and replied: "Actually, Nanling City is just a name given to it by scholars. Nanling City, as the name implies, is the tomb of ghosts, and it can also be understood as what we call hell!"