Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen

The mountain wind was raging, and the night rain was about to hit. Huang Qianshan wanted to tell Gu Changtian to climb up quickly, but Gu Changtian told him to go down and have a look.The soil layer under the hole was muddy, and Gu Changtian was already covered in mud. If it rained again, the hole might be filled with rainwater.Huang Qianshan just wanted to cut through the mess quickly, so he jumped down without even thinking about it. First, he looked at the "weird" that Gu Changtian said, and then left before the rainwater filled the hole. After Huang Qianshan jumped down, the first thing he noticed was not what Gu Changtian said was weird, but that the soil under the cave was different from that on the walls, it was a rare off-white color.Huang Qianshan immediately thought that this might be the burial pit of the ancient Guo State, and the bones of thousands of years ago had already decayed into ashes, so the soil layer was so obviously different.As soon as he remembered that this was a sacrificial pit, Huang Qianshan wanted to climb back to the ground, but Gu Changtian was watching a mud wall and told him to ignore it, as if possessed by a demon.

"Brother Gu, let's go back quickly, Miss Lao will worry about you if you've been out for a long time." Huang Qianshan played the card of Lao Yue, trying to persuade Gu Changtian to go back. Hearing this, Gu Changtian shook his head and said, "Don't worry, Brother Huang, look at this wall, is there anything weird?" Huang Qianshan thought to himself, could it be a pair of human bones embedded in the wall, he walked over suspiciously, but was immediately stunned.The mud wall that Gu Changtian was looking at corresponds to the rocks on the ground. This mud wall is flat and unremarkable at first glance.Huang Qianshan took a closer look and realized that the mud wall should be called a stone wall.The soil on the wall was constantly peeling off, Huang Qianshan thought to himself, maybe the old tree hit the rock just now and destroyed the hole, now the soil on the wall is peeling off, revealing a stone wall.This stone wall is also like a mountain rock. There are many cracks on its surface, and purple divine water slowly flows out of the cracks. There are also moving things in the cracks.

"Will this stone wall be connected to the stones on the ground?" Gu Changtian asked suspiciously. "It should be, but..." Huang Qianshan looked at the stone wall suspiciously, thinking that this wall is really weird. The rocks on the ground have irregular shapes, and they look like stones rolled down from the mountain. If the stone is connected to the soil layer, it means that the stone is natural, rather than artificially transported here.However, the part exposed above the ground has an irregular shape, while the part buried underground is flat. This kind of stone is almost hard to find in nature.

The wind howled in the forest, and it sounded like thunder when standing in the underground cave. At this time, there was thunder in the sky, which made the two people in the underground cave even more uneasy.Huang Qianshan couldn't figure out the cause of the stone, he thought it would be impossible to figure it out for a while, so he urged Gu Changtian to leave immediately.However, when Huang Qianshan turned around, he saw the corpse lying in the corner, and he immediately forgot about leaving. This pair of bones was hidden in a mud hole. After many years, the white bones turned into yellow bones, and they were riddled with holes. It seemed that they would be turned into ashes in an instant.Huang Qianshan thought, the people at the weather station must have been in danger due to an accident, so they hid in the cave, but never expected to be able to climb out.After the person at the weather station disappeared, someone may have come to look for it, but the mountains and fields are so vast, it is not easy to find someone.After many years, Huang Qianshan could not see the cause of death from the surface of the bones. He thought that it was impossible to starve to death. If he was hungry, he could climb out, and he would not be so stupid as to sit here and wait to die.

Gu Changtian squatted down to look at the bones, and said, "Brother Huang, how did you say he died, did he fall to death?" Huang Qianshan said intently: "It doesn't look like he fell to his death. You just fell down and lay in the middle of the hole. He leaned against the corner. At least he didn't die after entering the hole." Gu Changtian continued to speculate, he said: "That's not necessarily true. I fell unconscious just now, but my body is strong. Maybe he was unlucky and seriously injured and couldn't climb up. There was no one in the mountain, so he had to wait in the cave. I'm dead."

Huang Qianshan knelt down and said, "It's also possible what you said. The person at the weather station may have been in danger at the time, and he fell when he ran away in a hurry. However, this is all speculation, and the only way to find out how he died is— —” The air in the cave seemed to have condensed. Gu Changtian stood up in surprise while holding the flashlight. At this moment, Huang Qianshan stretched out his hands and carefully untied the rough green coat around the corpse. Huang Qianshan wanted to see what the corpse was under the clothes. form, to infer the cause of death.It is disrespectful to untie the deceased's clothes, Huang Qianshan naturally understands the reason, but the deceased did not seem to have died accidentally, if the cause of death can be found out, maybe the secrets in the mountain can be unlocked, and he can also avenge his death.

Before taking off his clothes, Huang Qianshan prayed three times, hoping to get the forgiveness of the deceased, and then slowly untied the clothes of the deceased.The clothes were covered with dirt, grass and moss, and a foul smell would come out as soon as they were touched. The air flow in the hole was not good, but soon a bad smell spread from the hole, and the faint fragrance of the purple water was completely covered. live. After a while, Huang Qianshan took off all the clothes of the deceased, and a terrifying scene was revealed before his eyes.The sternum and ribs in the bones were all broken, and some of them were even shattered into powder and no longer existed.After looking at it, Gu Changtian only said that the deceased may have fallen and broken it, or the bones had been rotten and turned into ashes after staying in the humid environment for a long time.Huang Qianshan felt that this possibility was very small. If he fell head-on, the sternum and ribs would be broken, which would make sense. However, if he falls in an accident, his head will land on the ground faster than his chest, and the injury will be more serious. Therefore, the nasal bone will definitely be damaged. But the nasal bone of the skeleton was intact.If you fell with your back to the ground, the injured part should be the spine, never the sternum and ribs.

Gu Changtian's head got dizzy when he heard that, and he asked, "Then how did he die? Did he already..." Huang Qianshan nodded. He said, "It's possible. He was seriously injured at the time, so he couldn't get out after he fell down. If he got out, he might not be able to recover with the level of medical treatment at that time." Gu Changtian said in disbelief: "It's too strange how he was injured. If he fell, he should go to the hospital directly. Why did he run to the foot of the mountain instead of going outside?" Huang Qianshan thought for a while, and said: "He may have been injured. Think about it, the people at the weather station evacuated in a hurry. They must have encountered danger at that time. There was a man who was laughing all the time just now, and then the old tree was killed by him. Breaking, is that the strength a person should have? The person at the weather station was broken, and it is likely to be related to that man."

Gu Changtian was horrified when he heard this, and he said, "So the mountains are really dangerous." Huang Qianshan couldn't help smiling wryly, even a fool could see that there was danger in the mountains, Gu Changtian only took it seriously now.After Huang Qianshan looked at the bones, he slowly put clothes on the bones and sighed heavily.After putting clothes on the bones, Huang Qianshan wanted to find a place to bury the bones properly. Although yin and yang met each other, they were at least their predecessors. They took off their clothes just now and buried the bones as atonement.

Gu Changtian heard Huang Qianshan's thoughts, and he didn't object, he just said: "Brother Huang should be rewarded for his compassion, but we will definitely use all four claws when we climb up, so how can we take it out?" Huang Qianshan felt that what Gu Changtian said made sense, he couldn't just throw the bones up, if it fell apart, wouldn't it cause others to die without a whole body.Huang Qianshan stood up, and he was worried about how to take the bones out. He didn't have any tools around him, so it was not wise to move them with bare hands.Huang Qianshan was walking under the hole, thinking that he had to go back to the dilapidated house and ask Lao Yue to borrow some tools and manpower, so as to get the bones out of the hole.

Thinking of this, Huang Qianshan decided to do this. He happened to be standing by the stone wall. After making up his mind, he habitually clenched his hands, and then punched the stone wall with his fist.Unexpectedly, Huang Qianshan beat the stone wall in such a way that it broke the stone wall, and a stone fell from the place he beat.Huang Qianshan was stunned immediately, he wondered when his strength became so great, he could crush a stone with just a single blow, could it be that he was a natural born Hercules? After Gu Changtian saw it from the side, he was also surprised, but he was even more surprised at the back. After the stone fell, many slender red tentacles protruded from the stone wall. Looking at the broken place, It is full of wriggling red tentacles, which makes one feel chilled and itchy just looking at it.Huang Qianshan didn't expect this to happen, he backed away again and again, red tentacles mixed with purple water flowed out, and then rushed straight towards the person along the ground.Seeing this, Huang Qianshan hurriedly picked up Gu Changtian, and then lifted him up, allowing Gu Changtian to climb out of the hole immediately. "Damn it, this isn't a natural stone, it's man-made!" Huang Qianshan cursed secretly. Due to the lack of light at night, Huang Qianshan didn't pay attention to the physique of the stone. It turned out that the stone was a kind of man-made stone.In ancient times, there was something similar to concrete, which was made by mixing soil, glutinous rice, special wine, and some special materials.In addition to bonding stones, this kind of concrete can also create a large stone, as if it were fake.Although this kind of ancient artificial stone is hard, it is not as hard as natural stone. After thousands of years, artificial stone has been eroded by nature and is no longer as hard as natural stone.Huang Qianshan just found out that the stone was cracked by an ancient tree. He felt very strange. He thought that the quality of the stone was not good, but he didn't expect it to be an artificial stone at all. After Gu Changtian climbed up, he yelled from above, saying that the stones on the ground also started to loosen, and they might break apart too.Huang Qianshan was not surprised when he heard this, the punch he just hit might have caused a butterfly effect, pulling his whole body with one blow, the stone might not be able to hold on.The red tentacles in the stone were not like good people. Huang Qianshan looked at the hole, and it was difficult for him to climb out without anyone as a backing.At this time, the red tentacles flowed to Huang Qianshan's feet and bound his feet suddenly. Suddenly, the tentacles exerted great force, as if to drag Huang Qianshan into the stone. The artificial stone keeps peeling off, and the stone is full of red tentacles. I don't know what kind of creature can survive in the stone for thousands of years.Huang Qianshan didn't care about the nausea, bent down and wanted to tear off the red tentacles, but the tentacles were too tough and couldn't be broken at all.Huang Qianshan picked up the peeling stones in a hurry, and smashed the tentacles desperately. The tentacles were hit hard by the stone a few times, and then they broke off one by one.Because the strength of the tentacles disappeared, Huang Qianshan, who was unprepared, fell back and bumped into the corpse in the corner. Huang Qianshan said in his heart, brother, don't blame me, I don't want to hit you either.The purple water under the cave began to rise. If he didn't leave to take away the bones, the bones might be damaged.Huang Qianshan was impatient and didn't know what to do. Now it was difficult for him to climb up, and with a pair of bones, even if he had eight hands, it would be difficult for him to climb out immediately.Thinking of this, when Huang Qianshan turned his head and looked back, the bone of the left hand of the corpse that was knocked over just now was lifted up, pointing directly at the ground.Huang Qianshan is surprised, does this man want him to leave immediately and leave him alone? Gu Changtian was terrified on the ground, he shouted: "Brother Huang, come up quickly, I will pull you!" The stone wall was almost completely peeled off, and most of the holes had been occupied by red tentacles. Huang Qianshan had no choice but to say sorry to the bones, and then stepped on the wall, grabbing Gu Changtian's extended hand, and crawled up with all his strength. go out.The stones on the ground also began to loosen, probably because rainwater seeped into the cracks and destroyed the internal structure.Huang Qianshan and Gu Changtian ran away panting, not daring to get close to the stone. The red tentacles in the stone kept spreading, and they hurriedly dodged, but the red tentacles seemed to have eyes, chasing them wherever they went. After running more than ten meters away, the red tentacles stopped. Huang Qianshan heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that the red tentacles were only so long.Gu Changtian gasped at the side, amazed that the creatures in the stone were so miraculous that they could survive in the stone.Huang Qianshan remembered that the old man in the mountain said that in ancient times, there was a creature called stone vine, which had changeable colors, was born in jade, and could live for thousands of years by eating the essence of the stone.Stone vine is very rare. It does not need air, light and water. It is neither a plant nor an animal. It is difficult to define its type. The old people in the mountains of Guangxi call it a stone demon.Shiteng's excrement is purple magic water, but it is not poisonous. Ishiteng can't be allowed to touch the human body, it can't pierce the human body and suck the bone marrow essence.Some mountain jades are parasitized by stone vines, and after the essence of jade is eaten up, they will turn into lime-like powder, and the stone vines will also die. After hearing Huang Qianshan's words, Gu Changtian asked, "So, there is a piece of jade in the man-made stone? How big is that jade, or Shi Teng would have starved to death long ago." Huang Qianshan said to Gu Changtian: "The stone vine eats jade very slowly, and it doesn't need to be big. I don't know why the ancient Guo State put the stone vine here?" There was thunder in the sky, but Huang Qianshan didn't want to leave at this time, he wanted to see what was in the stone.The night rain came down with the thunder, and the two people in the mountain forest seemed to be in a waterfall, and their vision was blurred.The rain washed away the purple water, and the red stone vines were immediately washed to pieces, and the tentacles struggled and squirmed in the grass, like a group of snakes dancing.Stone vines don't need air, light, and water. Not long after they are hit by rain, they obviously lose their vitality and gradually lose their attack power.Huang Qianshan and Gu Changtian waited in the rain, and only after confirming that Shi Teng was dead did they dare to approach the artificial stone. After wiping off the rain on their faces, Huang Qianshan and Gu Changtian used branches to push away the red tentacles, and walked back to the artificial stone on tiptoe.Huang Qianshan murmured in his heart that there might be a coffin inside the artificial stone, because there is a tomb of the ancient Guo State in the mountain, so there will be an accompanying mausoleum beside the mountain.This is not in line with common sense, and it is not unusual, but this kind of burial method is so strange that people can't figure it out.The artificial stone was covered with red tentacles of stone vines, Huang Qianshan smashed all of these tentacles, and the white jade parasitized by the stone vines was slowly exposed. Gu Changtian wiped the water off the flashlight, and then pointed it at the white jade. After seeing the white jade, he and Huang Qianshan were so surprised that they couldn't speak, not because they were surprised by the beauty of the white jade, but because a pair of eyes appeared on the jade. Amazing patterns. Huang Qianshan couldn't help shaking his head and said: "Who is buried in the mountain, who is so bold as to dare to bury this jade picture under the mountain?"