Chapter 8 Chapter 7: The Strange Man of the Mural

Kangbasa moved his position for Yuan Sen. Yuan Sen looked at it from top to bottom. The more he looked, the more startled he became. The people carved on the wall turned out to have four hands and four feet.The strangeness of these people is really hard to describe in words. They have handsome faces and a happy expression, but they have four arms on their shoulders and four long legs on their hips. They look like animals. Kang Basa's face was a little stiff, and he said to Yuan Sen: "How can there be such a person in the world?" Yuan Sen was dizzy, he touched the cave wall and tried to stand up, but he stepped on something soft, and then heard Ai Kailamu's scream: "Who stepped on me?"

Yuan Sen hastily withdrew his feet, stepped on the edge of the cave wall and climbed up. With the light of his headlamp, he saw two dark figures behind him also climbed up, presumably they were Akailamu and Kangbasa.Ai Kailam cursed while touching his arms and legs: "His grandma, you bastards, if I have a pile of dry wood and dead trees, I will never make it easy for you beasts." Yuan Sen looked around with his headlamp, and saw a hole about one meter in diameter on the granite slope in front of them. They just slid down this hole. If there was no hole, the charcoal fire on the stone platform would have Burned out, the earth pit they dug was not sealed at all, so many evil pigs swarmed up, I'm afraid they were torn to pieces at that time, this accidental hole actually saved the lives of the three of them.

Ai Kailam looked around and said: "Guys, don't look around, let's quickly find stones and soil to seal the hole, otherwise, with the personality of yin pigs who won't let you go, if they get in, we will There is no way out." Ai Kailam's words reminded Yuan Sen and Kang Basa. Yuan Sen looked around and saw a big hole here, and there was a big thick column not far from him.From his point of view, he could only see a corner of the column, and it was impossible to estimate how thick the column was, and the ground was full of potholes, rocks and gravel.The three of them hurriedly picked up large and small stones and sealed the hole in the cave wall.When the last hole the size of a fist was about to be sealed, a pig's head appeared in the hole. Kang Basa calmly inserted the muzzle of the slightly punched gun into the hole, and fired four or five times. The Yin pig's head drooped feebly.Yuan Sen stuffed a stone of about the same size, and sealed the opening on the cave wall firmly.

Akailamu found a piece of wood that was as thick as an arm, and he leaned the piece of wood against the cave wall to support the pile of stones so that there would be too many yin pigs on it, which would crush the stones that built the entrance of the cave. Kang Basa stood on the spot and turned around, saying: "This should be the center of the stone platform. It turns out that this stone platform is hollow." Yuan Sen gave a "hmm" and walked past Kangbasa, trying to go around the central stone pillar to see clearly what was going on inside the stone platform.Akailamu went around from the other side.

Just as Yuan Sen walked around Kangbasa, Kangbasa suddenly took two steps forward and squatted down.Maybe he thought the light from the headlights was too diffuse, so he turned off the headlights, turned on the military flashlight, put his face close to the stone pillar, and stared at the wall, as if he had found something. Yuan Sen turned his head and whispered, "What's wrong?" Kambasa said: "There are statues on the wall. They look very strange. I can't figure out what they are." Yuan Sen leaned over and saw many villains engraved on the wall within the range of the flashlight's aperture.The walls are all made of crimson granite, and the characters on them are all outlined by lines, about the size of a palm.In such an environment, if you are not careful, it is difficult to find such things on the walls of the stone pillars.

Kangbasa moved his position for Yuan Sen. Yuan Sen looked at it from top to bottom. The more he looked, the more startled he became. The people carved on the wall turned out to have four hands and four feet.The strangeness of these people is really hard to describe in words. They have handsome faces and a happy expression, but they have four arms on their shoulders and four long legs on their hips. They look like animals. Kang Basa's face was a little stiff, and he said to Yuan Sen: "How can there be such a person in the world?" Yuan Sen pondered for a while, then said, "Maybe it's a kind of totem, let's see if there are any murals like this around."

Kangbasa nodded, and wiped off the red dust on the wall near the row of murals with his hands.The interior of the stone platform is extremely secretive, and it is unknown how many years it has existed here alone. The dust accumulated on it is several inches thick, and it is a big lump when touched, making the two of them cough. Kangbasa wiped away the dust on the surrounding walls, revealing the murals under the dust.The first row of murals they saw just now were all multi-angle close-ups of the weird four-legged man. There were nearly twenty pieces.About half a meter to the left of it is the second mural.The strange man does not appear in this row of murals, but there are many masked men in armor. Their costumes are nomadic costumes, and some of them are riding horses, and they are also wearing tight armor. They look high-spirited and majestic. noodle.The characters in this row of murals are exactly the same as the mysterious and beautiful people in the Flame Mountain that Ekailam said. It seems that Akailam's statement is not the nonsense that Yuan Sen thought before.

Ai Kailam is particularly like the kind of small businessman in the market, who can talk nonsense for a little profit, and it is difficult to give people a sense of trust.Yuan Sen didn't have a good impression of Ai Kailam at the beginning. He felt that Dr. Tian brought him here, maybe he just thought that his experience might be related to the mysterious phone call from Professor Yang Jian from the Flame Mountain. He can come as a backup, so Yuan Sen didn't care about some of the unofficial history of the Western Regions he told.Now that these vivid pictures are in front of him, Yuan Sen can't help but feel shocked. Ai Kaila is not simple, maybe he knows more than these.

Kang Basa looked at the murals several times, and said: "This row seems to say that these soldiers are very powerful, with advanced weapons and high morale. They have nothing to do with the weird people in the first row of murals, right?" Yuan Sen didn't answer, he moved half a meter forward and wiped off the dust on the wall. There was indeed a row of murals under the thick dust. Kangbasa leaned over to take a look, and said, "There is a connection." There is a rather small opening in the mural, and the opening is guarded by soldiers in armor. The following paintings show a group of soldiers returning in triumph, with heavy things on their horses. According to the rough outline of the lines, it seems to be corpse.A mural at the back depicts soldiers carrying corpses into the cave and closing the cave door.The bottom painting depicts a space, and there is a huge shadow in it, and the outline seems to be the four-legged and four-handed monster.According to this row of murals, it is speculated that the soldiers should have returned in triumph to send the spoils to the strange man in the cave. The strange man in the cave actually lived by cannibalism.

Ai Kailam once mentioned that Qiliren harassed the tribes near the Flame Mountain. Every time she wins, she will carry a large number of corpses of the enemy soldiers. up.And the reason why the beauty came back with the corpse of the enemy soldier she killed was to feed this four-handed and four-legged monster.In other words, this weirdo is not a totem, but a living being. After reading this row of murals, Kang Basa was also extremely surprised, and said to Yuan Sen: "Mr. Yuan, how is this possible? How can there be such weird people in the world, it doesn't conform to the laws of nature at all."

Yuan Sen said: "These are all the statements on the mural, but judging from what we know, the situation at that time is exactly the same as that described in this mural." Then, he told him about the I told Kangbasa about the past and the beauty's history, and Kangbasa was dumbfounded and couldn't believe it. Yuan Sen moved forward another half a meter, wiped off the red dust on the wall of the stone pillar, and revealed a row of murals. The first few paintings were all about beauties lying dead all over the place, and their death conditions were quite miserable.There are no enemies in the painting, only large pieces of corpses of beautiful women, and some armors have been shredded and torn.But without exception, no matter how tattered the armor on these corpses was, the helmets covering their faces were intact, making it impossible to see their faces. The mural below is even more strange. It tells the story of a four-handed and four-legged grotesque leading Qie Liren's remnant soldiers to a mysterious place where the clouds and mist are steaming like a fairyland. The beauties supported each other and climbed upwards, as if they were climbing a mountain. This thing is too strange, under the Flame Mountain, where is the mountain for them to climb?Moreover, there is a sea of ​​clouds under the mountain, so imposing, I am afraid that only a mountain like Wuyue can have it.In the Turpan Basin deep in the Huoyan Mountain, the altitude is only five or six hundred meters above sea level. How could the sea of ​​clouds be trampled underfoot? Kangbasa already knew the history of Qie Liren after listening to Yuan Sen's recitation of Ai Kailamu's words. After seeing this mural, he already knew it in his heart, and said: "This row of murals should be Qie Liren's history by Anxi Sisi in the Tang Dynasty. The scene where General Gao Xianzhi was defeated by the Zhen Jiedu envoy, and they were finally taken away to a high mountain by four-handed and four-legged monsters." Yuan Sen asked back: "Turpan is surrounded by the Gobi Desert, where do the mountains come from?" Kang Basa said: "I am also curious. The other situations in the murals are consistent with the history of the beauty described by Akailam. This is very unrealistic. And after the beauty was defeated, she fled in a hurry. It should be Fleeing into the desert, how could you run into such a high mountain all of a sudden?" Yuan Sen wiped off the dust on the front walls again, but there were no more scratches on these walls, and the third row of murals was the final outcome. Kangbasa said: "Ai Kailamu is the one who knows the most about Qili. I'll call him over to have a look. Maybe he can understand the meaning of the last mural." Yuan Sen nodded. Their attention was all attracted by these bizarre murals just now, and they almost completely forgot about the existence of Akaila wood. I don't know if this guy has any new discoveries on the other side of the stone pillar. The two stood up and walked in the direction of Ai Kailamu, but at this moment, they suddenly heard the sound of "rustling—" radio waves coming from behind the stone pillar, which was the response to the signal received by the walkie-talkie. Yuan Sen and Kang Basa glanced at each other, and Kang Basa said in a low voice, "It's Ai Kailam." He wanted to go forward, but Yuan Sen blocked him. That "rustling" radio wave sound lasted for a few minutes, then gradually weakened, and after a while, it was almost inaudible at all.Kangbasa whispered, "Is something wrong with Akailamu?" Yuan Sen said: "It shouldn't happen, we are very close, we can hear any movement, don't startle the snake first." The voice was silent for a while, and suddenly it rang again, and it was several times louder than before. The "rustling" sound was sometimes sandwiched with the "popping" crackling sound, which sounded like Akailam's walkie-talkie Will explode anytime. Kambasa asked: "What's going on here? The frequency band of the walkie-talkie we use is specially modulated and encrypted. In this underground, only our three walkie-talkies can communicate with each other, but we didn't give Ekela Wood sent a signal, where did the signal he received come from?" Yuan Sen's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "You mean it's impossible for our walkie-talkie to receive other external signals, right?" Kang Basa nodded affirmatively and said: "Yes, and when we transmit the signal, we use a special encryption method, so the noise is very small, but the signal that Akailamu just received was so loud, it's too outrageous .” In order not to disturb Ai Kailamu, the two spoke in a very low voice, which could be ignored in the noisy radio waves.The sound of the electric wave gradually became smaller again, and suddenly, Yuan Sen heard a familiar sigh coming from the sound of the electric wave, it was still the voice of that woman.In this dark underground stone platform, this resentful and miserable sigh made people feel their scalps tense and their hearts faintly suspended, it was really weird. Yuan Sen glanced at Kangbasa, who nodded and listened carefully.When receiving that mysterious radio wave a few times before, Yuan Sen subconsciously judged that it was an illusion caused by the oppressive underground environment, but this time, he was absolutely sure that there was nothing wrong with it, it was definitely a woman's voice, a living voice .But where did this weird female voice come from? After the woman sighed, she paused for a moment, and the noisy radio waves on the walkie-talkie were lowered. In this way, the woman's voice became extraordinarily clear.She sighed several times at first, and then murmured, as if she had said a lot, but her language was weird, with broken and mixed tones, like talking in sleep and talking, not like what Yuan Sen had heard before. any language. The two looked at each other, and the expressions on their faces were extremely horrifying. The walkie-talkie in Ekailam's hand, which could not receive any signals outside the frequency band, actually received a strange signal inside the underground stone platform, and the signal was An incomprehensible female voice, is there anything weirder than this in the world? Kangbasa said to Yuan Sen: "Let's go over there. There is a recording function in the walkie-talkie. Let's record the sound first, and then take it back to decipher. Maybe it will be more effective in solving this underground mystery." Yuan Sen nodded in agreement, the two walked around the stone pillar, and walked cautiously towards the place where the sound came from. They took every step very carefully, as if the woman was talking softly in sleep beside them, and if they were not careful, they would It would wake her up. They circled the stone pillar for half a circle. They estimated that the radius of the stone pillar was about seven or eight meters. When they walked close to the place where the sound came from, they saw Ai Kailam standing there in a daze, with a walkie-talkie in his hand and a headlight. I didn't open it either, and I became crazy when I heard it. Kang Basa called Ai Kailam, but Ai Kailam didn't seem to hear him, he was still staring at the walkie-talkie intently, listening to the weird voice inside. Yuan Sen's eyes moved away from Akailamu's body, and he was suddenly taken aback, because what stood in front of Akailamu was not an uneven wall, but a stone statue with teeth and claws. The stone statue had four hands and four legs. The eccentric seen on the mural.When Yuan Sen saw his hands and feet, his heart sank suddenly, and he almost cried out. Yuan Sen was standing beside Kangbasa, and Yuan Sen's strange performance attracted Kangbasa to follow his gaze, and saw the strange scene: the four-handed and four-legged weirdo looked fiercely, glaring at the front, as if he wanted to shake them off People are swallowed alive.Looking at Ai Kailam again, he was still staring at the walkie-talkie in his hand dumbfounded, listening to the murmuring whispers from which world he didn't know, how could one not feel fear in this situation. The voice on the walkie-talkie rang for a while, then suddenly stopped, and there was a "cracking" radio wave sound inside, and it automatically switched to the search signal state soon. Kangbasa said urgently: "Ai Kailam—" Ai Kailam woke up, saw Yuan Sen and Kang Basa in front of him, and said to them: "His grandma, it's too evil, why is there a woman talking to me?" Yuan Sen said: "Ai Kailamu, did you hear what she was saying clearly?" Ai Kailam rolled his eyes, and said: "Yes, I have traveled all over the world, and I know all the languages ​​of the northern and southern Xinjiang, but this bird language is completely different from any language I have ever heard. Like, that's weird." Yuan Sendao: "The signal transmission of our three walkie-talkies is specially encrypted, that is to say, only our three walkie-talkies can communicate with each other, and it is impossible to cut in the signals of other communication devices, but the signal you just received—" Akailam asked back: "Who said I received someone else's signal?" Yuan Sen and Kang Basa were taken aback, and asked almost at the same time: "What do you mean?" Ai Kailam pointed at Yuan Sen: "Isn't your number Dongyao? Look at the data receiving record on my walkie-talkie." Then, he pressed the display screen of the walkie-talkie to call up the communication record. That row of communication records is exactly Yuan Sen's walkie-talkie number. Yuan Sen was completely stunned. He took off the walkie-talkie hanging from his belt, and searched through the communication records on it. He didn't find any communication records with Ai Kailamu during the period just now, but why did Ai Kailamu Kailamu's walkie-talkie shows that he is the sending unit?Yuan Sen couldn't believe it. He snatched Akailamu's walkie-talkie and dug up the record. The time was exactly the same as when they heard the strange female voice just now, and the signal was indeed sent by his walkie-talkie. All of these were correct. When he was outside the entrance of the cave, Yuan Sen noticed the strange female voice. At first he thought it was a hallucination, but the second time he was on the stone platform, his walkie-talkie was automatically turned on, and he also heard the deep sigh of a woman. Kailam and Kang Basa were being hunted down by Yinzhu, so he didn't have time to think about it, but the third appearance of the female voice was jaw-dropping.The woman even borrowed his walkie-talkie to communicate with others. Yuan Sen said: "Ai Kailamu, when I was talking to Kangbasa at the entrance of the long cave, the woman's sigh was embedded in his voice, isn't that voice very similar to the female voice you heard?" Kang Basa was taken aback, and said, "Mr. Yuan, what's going on?" Yuan Sen stared into Akailam's eyes, Akailam nodded and said, "It's very similar." Yuan Sen said again: "Do you know that when you were being chased by the evil pig, I heard that woman's voice on the stone platform again, her voice was much louder than the first time, and also I said a few words." Then, he told the two of them what he saw and heard on the stone platform one by one, and both Akailam and Kangbasa were taken aback. Kang Basa said: "When you were looking through your communication records just now, did you see the signal from which unit the woman spoke for the second time?" Yuan Sen shook his head and said, "There is no record." He handed the walkie-talkie to Kangbasa, and Kangbasa checked it again. At that time, there was indeed no communication record, which means that the woman did not use the unit for the second time, but she used the unit for the third time. Yuan Sen's walkie-talkie. Kang Basa said: "Could it be that there is a female ghost hiding in the ground?" Yuan Sen said: "We don't know what she is yet, but she seems to be trying to communicate with us, so the further we go, the louder we hear her voice." Ai Kailam looked at the huge stone statue in front of him, and said, "I think it's playing tricks!" Both Yuan Sen and Kang Basa turned their attention to the stone statue, which was inlaid in the stone pillar. It was huge, with unusually long hands and feet. The four hands were twisted together in the air, and the palms were palm-shaped, as if ready to tear something into pieces at any time.This stone statue is very different from the image of the eccentric in the mural. The eccentric in the mural is quiet and happy, with a detached temperament, but this stone statue has a ferocious face, as if ready to fight with others at any time. Yuan Sen was full of suspicion, and said: "This stone statue is playing tricks, what basis do you have?" Ai Kailam laughed and said, "Brother Yuan, do you think that those three strange female voices, the closer they were to the stone statue, the louder they sounded? So, it is likely that the stone statue is playing tricks." Although Akailamu's statement is sound, but after careful consideration, there is no basis for it.The weird female voice comes and goes invisible, but it is only a guess based on the fact that the closer you are to the stone statue, the more obvious the female voice is. Obviously, it can only be a guess, because there are so many changing factors, and there is no trace of the appearance of the female voice. , cannot be verified multiple times. Yuan Sen said: "Ai Kailamu, have you ever thought about what the beautiful woman built this stone platform for?" Ai Kailam's eyeballs rolled around a few times, and said: "In my opinion, this stone platform is probably an execution ground. You can see that there are corpses hanging in the air, and there are braziers on the stone platform. The execution ground is too perverted, people don’t want to die peacefully after death. Even I can’t stand it, his grandma, this bunch of beauties are really fucking useless.” Kang Basa interrupted: "Then what is this stone statue for?" Ai Kaila said woodenly: "Resist evil spirits, look, so many people died on the execution ground, can these ghosts and wild ghosts let go of Qili who killed thousands of knives? They are also afraid, so they made this thing and put it on the stone Under the stage, I thought, this thing should be a god worshiped by beautiful women." After Yuan Sen asked for so long, he couldn't get a word out of Ai Kailamu's mouth, and said angrily: "Besides, Liren is civilized, you know more than that, right?" Ai Kailam blinked his eyes twice, and said: "Oh, brother Yuan, you are trying to trick me, but I really know that such trivial things about sesame and mung beans are all rumors on the road. It's not that I don't want you to trick me, There’s really nothing to do with it.” Yuan Sen saw Ai Kailam's thieves' eyes wandering around, and felt that this guy was extremely treacherous and not a good bird.But he, this old ginger, is afraid that it will be difficult to capture it for a while, and if he goes deep into the ground, is he afraid that he can hide his tail? Seeing that Yuan Sen was choking on him for a long time, Ai Kaila said, "Brother Yuan, did you find something related to beauty? I want you to identify it." Yuan Sen thought to himself: "Ai Kailam's eyes are really bright." So, without hiding anything, he simply told Ai Kailam about the mural on the stone pillar.After hearing this, Ai Kailam yelled strangely, and hurried to the back of the stone statue to have a look. Aikelamu turned on the military flashlight and carefully looked at each row of murals. When he saw the third row of murals, he squatted and looked at them for a long time, then took out a sharp dagger from his backpack, and wiped away the surrounding murals. The dust is scraped clean, it seems that only in this way can we see the most complete mural effect. Yuan Sen and Kang Basa looked at Ai Kailamu's actions, although they felt strange, but they didn't stop them. They hoped that he could find something out of it.At least in their eyes, Akailam was the first to know and be civilized. There is no reason for him not to know something deeper. Akailamu scraped the dust around the third row of murals outward for half a meter. After scraping for a while, he stopped suddenly, put his ear on the wall, and knocked on the wall with the iron handle of the dagger a few times. , There was a "dong dong dong" sound on the wall.Yuan Sen and Kang Basa were also surprised, the wall was actually hollow.The two soon joined in the effort to remove dust from around the mural.About five meters away from the third row of murals, they found a closed round arched stone door with a width of one meter and a height of two meters.The stone door is quite well concealed, the gap between the door and the wall is so small that it is difficult to insert a needle, and even such a small gap is covered by dust that is the same color as the rocks that make up the wall.If it wasn't for deliberate cleaning, the chance of this stone door being discovered would be almost zero. The three of them used their daggers to pry the stone door open a gap that could be reached with their hands, and then exerted force together. With the "click" sound of the friction between the stone shaft and the ground, the stone door was completely opened, and a choking smell came out from inside. Rancid smell. Ai Kailamu drilled in first, and found that it was a stone room of tens of square meters. The floor of the stone room was full of human bones, and he could step on a rib when he lifted his foot, making a "popping" sound.Hearing the sound of bones breaking, the three of them felt their hearts panic and their backs felt chilly. Ai Kailam looked around and muttered, "The house is full of bones again, his grandma's. This isn't another execution room, is it?" Starting from pushing open the stone gate, Yuan Sen's mind was filled with pictures of murals and beauties pushing open the stone gate and stuffing corpses inside. The door they opened was very similar to the one in front of him.Although the murals are outlined with lines, the posture of those people pushing the door and leaning over is the same as the way they entered the stone room now. Yuan Sen's mind was in turmoil. He compared the objects and scenes in the murals with the things in the stone room now, and looked at the piles of bones on the ground. He finally confirmed that this stone room was the one where the beauty put in the spoils at that time.Since the stone room is the same as the mural, then this stone room must be the place where the four-handed and four-legged monster lived. That is to say, the strange man painted on the mural really once lived in this world.Yuan Sen thought of this, and then thought about the strange line descriptions on the murals, and his heart unconsciously hung up. How many bizarre and terrifying civilizations are hidden in this huge underground world? Ai Kailamu was squatting on the ground, poking a fist-sized thing with a dagger, which looked like a lump of soil, Ai Kailamu was poking it again and muttering: "His grandma, what the hell is this thing?" , why is it so hard?" Yuan Sen took a flashlight to shine on the ground, and there were many such clods piled up in several corners of the stone room.When he looked at the thing, coupled with the deduction just now, he probably understood it in his heart, and said: "It's the excrement of a monster with four hands and four legs, don't poke it." When Ai Kailam heard Yuan Sen's words, he jumped up in fright, with an extremely disgusted expression on his face.He pointed at the lump he poked just now, and said, "Brother Yuan, tell me—you said this thing was pulled out by that disgusting thing?" Yuan Sen nodded and said, "Look at the stone gate, and then look at the outline of the stone chamber. How similar is it to the scene on the mural?" Ai Kaila was stunned for a moment, he and Kang Basa entered the stone room, their attention was completely attracted by the strange scene in the stone room, and they didn't have time to think about it, now after Yuan Sen's point, they immediately understood.Ai Kailamu smacked his lips, with a sad face, and said: "I've been in the ground all my life, and the **** didn't expect to be planted under the ass of a dead monster, and I went to poke his shit. His mother is so unlucky. It's not good to start a teacher, and you have to find the Buddha to recite the scriptures when you go back." Yuan Sendao: "I originally thought that the murals and stone carvings were just the gods worshiped by Qiliren, but I didn't expect this monster to be alive. Then the monster described in the last mural brought Qieriren's remnants of the defeated army to a cloud-shrouded cave. The mountain is mostly true, so where is this mountain?" Ai Kailamu also fell into deep thought, not to mention the Huoyan Mountain, the entire Turpan Basin, and even the entire southern Xinjiang, could it be the desert grassland, where can there be such a high mountain?And Liren was massacred by Gao Xianzhi's army, with the speed of Gao Xianzhi's cavalry marching, how far can this group of Qili's defeated soldiers escape?These questions are difficult puzzles to answer. While the two were deep in thought, there was a sudden violent vibration in the stone room. The two were caught off guard and were shaken to the ground.In the stone room, for the convenience of lighting, Yuan Sen and Ai Kailamu both used flashlights. When they fell to the ground, the flashlights also turned off, and the whole stone room was pitch black.Ai Kaila got up and began to swear at his mother indiscriminately. Kang Basa hugged a thigh-thick red pillar in the corner of the stone room to avoid falling. After the stone room shook violently for a while, it gradually calmed down.Ekailam patted the dust off his body, muttering indiscriminately.Yuan Sen picked up the flashlight and turned it on again, only to see Kang Basa hugging the stone pillar tightly, hanging in mid-air.Ai Kailam saw the monkey-like virtue of Kangbasa's grandson, and he couldn't get angry, and cursed: "Special soldier boy, why are you climbing so high?" When Kangbasa heard Ai Kailam's cry, he looked down and was startled, and hurriedly slid down, leaving Yuan Sen and Ai Kailam dumbfounded. Ai Kaila said awkwardly: "Special soldier, are you playing stunts?" Kang Basa said: "During the earthquake just now, I held the stone pillar and didn't move. The stone pillar went up by itself. It's so strange." Yuan Sen walked around the stone pillar, but didn't see any sign of the stone pillar rising by itself. He said to Kang Basa, "Did you move anything nearby?" Kang Basa shined the flashlight on the place near the stone pillar, showing a puzzled expression.Yuan Sen touched the stone pillar. One end of the stone pillar was buried in the ground, and the other end was embedded in the ceiling of the stone room. The body of the pillar was polished so smooth that there was no sign of movement at all. Yuan Sen stood beside the stone pillar, hung his flashlight on his belt, hugged the stone pillar as thick as a tree stump, and climbed up with his legs clamped. At the same time, Yuan Sen could feel the stone pillar rising slowly. Ai Kailam grabbed his beard and said to Kang Basa: "This thing is really interesting. I just can't figure out what a four-handed and four-legged monster would do with such a thick pillar in the room, to dance pole dancing?" Kang Basa didn't answer, Yuan Sen slid down from the stone pillar, looking thoughtful, Ai Kaila said woodenly: "Brother Yuan, do you have any other discoveries?" Yuan Sen shook his head, and Kambasa slapped his head suddenly, and said, "I remembered, have you noticed that the brazier's frame on the stone platform has a stone pillar besides the wood, could it be this?" Akaila shook his head again and again: "Certainly not. According to my experience, this stone pillar is so thick that the stone pillar on the brazier frame is no more than the thickness of an arm. It is not the same thing at all. But since the stone pillar can move, the ground and the ceiling must be It's all active." Yuan Sen nodded and said, "I knocked on it just now. The ceiling is hollow, but we have no way of judging whether the Yin Pig has retreated. If we rashly open the ceiling, the risk factor will be very high." Ai Kailam also sighed, and said: "His grandma, I just need a big fire. If I have a fire, I will burn the corpses of these animals all over the field, leaving no one behind." Yuan Sen and Kang Basa didn't answer Ai Kaila's words, and walked around the stone room with their heads depressed, trying to find more clues.They searched the stone room several times, but they couldn't find anything new, so they had to give up in the end.They cleaned up a little at the place farthest from the excrement of the four-handed and four-legged monster, ate some dry food, and sat back to back to rest. Yuan Sen looked at his watch and said, "We have been down for twelve hours." Ai Kaila said: "It's not a problem for us to hide here all the time. Although the yin pigs are cunning, they have to look for food in such a large group. They are surrounded by terracotta sand and stones. They will definitely disperse. It's just that the timing is not right. It's too easy to grasp, if not, the three of us will become the tooth sacrifices of yin pigs." Yuan Sen poked Kambasa, who was looking at something with a flashlight shining on the ground.Yuan Sen said to the two: "Let's rest here for an hour. After an hour, we will remove the baffle on the top of the head and go out. No matter what, we have to take this risk." Then, he said to Kangbasa: "Kangbasa, what do you think?" Kangbasa waved his hand, stopped Yuan Sen's words, and said in a low voice, "Don't interrupt, I found something." Hearing Kang Basa's mysterious tone, Yuan Sen and Ai Kailam turned their bodies around to watch Kang Basa grab a handful of red clay from the ground and smell it under their noses. Ai Kailam asked: "Special soldiers, is there something wrong?" Kangbasa dipped his tongue in a little powder and put it in his mouth to lick it. He said with certainty, "Just now I smelled something wrong with the air in the room. After searching for a long time, I finally found this thing." Akaila said woodenly: "Isn't it just red soil?" Kang Basa shook his head and said seriously: "These are not ordinary soil, but sulfur, which is buried under this stone chamber." Ai Kaila's expression changed, and he said, "Dynamite?" Kangbasa nodded and said, "These are sulfur that have not been refined and screened. The purity is relatively low, not comparable to explosives, but so much sulfur buried in the stone chamber is enough to destroy the entire stone platform." As he said that, Kang Basa stabbed it hard on the ground with the dagger, and then quickly pulled it out. The blood grooves of the dagger were filled with reddish yellowish soil, which was exactly the same as the ones that Kang Basa pinched.Kang Basa poured out the soil in the blood tank, and then pricked several times in the nearby area, and the red soil he took out was all sulfur. Yuan Sen watched Compasa's demonstration without saying a word. No matter what, he already understood in his heart that there was a way to deal with the evil pig.Kangbasa used a dagger to dig out soil samples from every corner of the stone chamber. He took out a lot of them, all of which were sulfur of the same color, which completely verified his guess that this stone chamber was filled with sulfur, and it was certain that the sulfur They were all buried artificially.Although Huoyan Mountain is not short of sulfur, the color of pure natural sulfur mines is not so uniform. The yellow sulfur in the crimson must have been mixed with other things. Although Ekailam's understanding of gunpowder was not as good as that of Kangbasa, he followed the group of tomb robbers who ran across the northern and southern borders. Tomb robbers dug graves, and they had to use gunpowder, so he was no stranger to sulfur.Seeing Kangbasa's verification, he was overjoyed, so he took out a cloth bag and filled it with a large bag of sulfur yellow soil.He said to Yuan Sen and Kang Basa: "You guys should put on some more too. We won't be afraid of those damn pigs when we meet them." Both Yuan Sen and Kang Basa packed a large bag of sulfur yellow soil.Yuan Sen climbed up the stone pillar, scraped off the dust on the ceiling with a dagger, found the place where the stone slab and the surrounding masonry occluded, pushed the stone slab up, and there was a hole about one square meter in the ceiling, and inside was a three-meter-high space.According to the calculation of the height of the stone platform, the space above must be the surface of the stone platform. Yuan Sen climbed through the three-meter-high space on the floor and reached the stone slab on the top floor. He pushed hard several times, but he couldn't move the stone slab on the stone platform, so he called Kang Basa and Ai Kailam to help . The three of them worked hard together, barely pushing the stone slab through a gap.康巴萨双腿箍在石柱上，肩膀用力一顶，那缝隙变成了一个不小的口子。袁森和艾凯拉木用双手举千斤顶的架势才将那石板顶住，康巴萨趁机钻了出去。 石板重得没法形容，不到一分钟的工夫，袁森和艾凯拉木在下面就顶得骨头接近散架。他们瞧见康巴萨钻出石板，不开头灯和手电，就朝周围一顿扫射，接着用极快的速度把一包硫黄土泼向四周。子弹打到花岗岩上溅起的火星点燃了硫黄，火焰一沾硫黄就烧，很快在康巴萨身边织成一个半径颇大的火网。 借着火光，可以看到火网外无数双怨毒的眼睛在盯着火网，有一些来不及躲避的阴猪刚好被火网圈住，很快烧成肉饼。空气里弥漫着一股脚臭味。 康巴萨在地上找到几块石头，撑住石板，把袁森和艾凯拉木给拉了上来，两人好一阵气喘吁吁。 袁森看着火网外的阴猪，密密麻麻的，猜测石台下面的阴猪都没有散。他们身上带的硫黄土虽然不少，但是一下子对付这么多阴猪，也实在是麻烦，胜算不高。但是那根从石室伸出来的石柱，却在石台上升高了十来米，如果再这样上升的话，完全可以接触到半空中倒悬的石柱。 袁森顿时心生一计，便问康巴萨和艾凯拉木道：“面对这么多阴猪，你们觉得咱们有没有逃出去的可能性？” 康巴萨摇了摇头，艾凯拉木垂头丧气地瞪着袁森，不知道他葫芦里卖的什么药。袁森道：“我也觉得要跟它们硬碰硬，虽然咱们有硫黄，但是阴猪数量太多，很难起到效果，所以我想到一个下下策。”说罢，袁森停了下来，看看艾凯拉木，又看看康巴萨。 艾凯拉木道：“你先说，我们听着，反正是九死一生，我也不是怕死的人，特种兵应该更不会怕死。” 康巴萨“哼”了一声，表示对艾凯拉木的反击。 袁森道：“我们可以借助这根石柱爬上半空倒悬的石柱，然后炸掉这座石台，以石室内硫黄的数量，势必会对阴猪群造成巨大伤害。但是伤害程度如何，却是没办法估算。” 艾凯拉木一听袁森要炸石台，吓得一身冷汗，道：“袁小哥，我觉得你这策略还真他娘的是下下策。这么多硫黄一爆炸，万一把整个地穴都炸塌了，你说咱们还有活路吗？” 袁森看向康巴萨，道：“康巴萨，你的意思呢？现在别无他法，如果有两个人同意了，咱们就干。” 康巴萨道：“根据我的专业知识判断，地穴未必会被炸塌，但是风险也存在。最危险的情况是，这些花岗岩被炸开，空中的石柱距离石台只有几十米，咱们很有可能会被飞射的石头伤到。这些石头冲击力相当大，一块石屑，就足以致命。” 袁森点了点头，道：“那你的意思呢？” 康巴萨沉吟了一会儿，点头道：“炸——” 袁森道：“好！” 说罢，袁森和艾凯拉木把背出来的硫黄土倒在石板周围，三人再合力把石板掀开，使石台上的洞口尽可能的大。做好这一切之后，康巴萨当头，艾凯拉木殿后，三人就这么爬上了石柱。他们一边爬，石柱一边自动往上升，就这么爬了二十多米，终于靠近一根倒悬在石台顶部的石柱。 他们爬上倒悬石柱，石柱上的那具骸骨被捆了五段生牛皮，随着千百年岁月的打磨，骸骨已经牢牢地箍在了石柱上，怎么敲都敲不下来。 倒悬石柱比那根能自动升高的石柱粗糙，而且上面还有凹口，能让双手借力，被捆得紧紧的骸骨也可以用来做阶梯，所以三人爬上倒悬石柱并不吃力。 袁森打着手电朝倒悬石柱上面照去，发现这一块的石柱距离顶端有十来米的距离，石柱顶部是斜压下来的山体，山体面呈褶皱形，山体面上到处都是镂空的小洞，对于这种倒立爬行来说，最是方便不过。但是越往前，山体就逐渐走高，石柱自哪里来完全看不清楚，手电筒聚光到一定高度就自动散了。 康巴萨坚持要留在石台中央的那根倒悬石柱上丢炸弹引爆石室内的硫黄，袁森和艾凯拉木就像壁虎一样爬上斜压山体，又爬上了距离中央石柱不远处的两根石柱。三人分开到三根石柱上，一来可以在山体遭到爆炸冲击波压力的时候，能够减轻倒悬石柱的压力；二来也能避免被飞溅的碎石击中。 康巴萨见袁森和艾凯拉木都爬到了安全的位置，便从口袋里掏出三颗手雷，顺着倒悬石柱的方向垂直掷入石室内，又掏出一颗，丢到石板上。 四颗手雷落下去之后，石室里先是传来一声闷哼，仿佛地雷被引爆，接着从石板口子冒出一片火光。袁森所在的位置正好能将这一切看得真切，只见石台口子里烈焰翻腾，犹如火海。石板上的手雷比石室的爆炸略晚一些，随着石板上“轰隆”一声巨响，石室内又连响两声，接着就是一声震天巨响。倒挂在斜压山体上的三个人全身一震，耳朵陷入长时间的蜂鸣状态。石台口子里窜出一条巨大火龙，射到了十多米高，那逼人的热浪几乎把艾凯拉木的满脸卷须全部烫焦。 火龙过后，又是一声震天巨响，巨型石台从中间一分为二。熊熊燃烧的火海就像大海上的巨浪一样朝四周铺开，火舌四处翻滚，竟然横向冲了数十米远。地上黑压压的阴猪群只是闪了一闪，就被庞大的火舌吞没撕碎。大火在方圆上百米的范围内翻滚燃烧，灼热的气浪烫得倒挂在斜压山体上的三个人几乎快要放手跌下去。 下面的大火燃烧了半个小时左右，才慢慢暗了下去，半空中的三人也随之心里一松，眼前也恍惚了起来。 艾凯拉木却在此刻大喝道：“别放松，手都抓紧了，清醒一点，掉下去就跟那帮阴猪冤魂做伴了。” 袁森使劲摇了摇头，用手死死地抓住一处凹进去的石洞，想起刚才精神模糊时艾凯拉木的喊叫，心里也后怕起来。 艾凯拉木爬下斜压山体，滑到倒悬石柱底部，用手电在下面一照，满目都是阴猪的尸体，地上都是黑乎乎的一片。火海之外的地方，阴猪尸体也不在少数，估计多半是被爆炸产生的热浪烫死的。手电能照到的地方，几乎没有一只活物。 艾凯拉木朝也举着手电往下看情况的康巴萨和袁森招手，示意下面没有问题，他们得想办法滑下去，老待在半空中也不是个事儿。 袁森深吸了口气，正待滑到艾凯拉木所在的那根倒悬石柱上，他的手电筒突然在前方几十米的地方照到一个东西。那东西灰蒙蒙的，就挂在一根倒悬石柱的底部。袁森挂在斜压山体上，从上往下看显然比从下面往上看来的清楚，那东西似乎是一个人，正搂着倒悬石柱。他的正面被石柱挡住，只露出手和脚，在袁森这个角度，几乎可以猜到那人正以蛤蟆张开四肢的姿势抱着石柱。 看到那双手脚，袁森心里一震，这山洞里就只有他们三个人进来，怎么还会有别人？ 他再细看那个位置，突然想起在地面看到倒悬石柱上的那个灰影，似乎就在他现在所看到的位置。看那石柱对着自己的那一面并没有捆牛皮带的痕迹，也就是说那根倒悬石柱上的人，应该还是个活人。想到这里，袁森的背上瞬间冒了一层冷汗。此刻在这地下，撞见死人是很常见的事情，碰上活人就不对劲了。 艾凯拉木见袁森还趴在斜压山体上一动不动，招手招得更厉害，手电不时地朝这边照。袁森只觉事情太过蹊跷，如果大声冲艾凯拉木叫喊，势必会打草惊蛇，惊动了那人，于是他便向艾凯拉木打了个噤声的手势，指了指趴着神秘人的石柱。 艾凯拉木在下面，视线完全被星罗棋布的倒悬石柱挡住，看着袁森的手势不明所以。袁森也懒得再解释，便身子一缩，贴着斜压山体的面，小心翼翼地朝几十米外的石柱爬去。 袁森爬行的方向，斜压山体一路走高，袁森几乎是倒挂在山洞洞顶上朝前爬行，稍有不慎掉下来，必定会粉身碎骨。爬过几根石柱，就能感觉到洞穴里暖风阵阵，这股暖风起初被斜压山体挡着，一旦避开障碍物的阻挡，就刮得格外猛烈。袁森只觉得自己像飞在空中的一只风筝，随时有被暖风刮落的可能。 袁森一步步逼近神秘人所在的那根倒悬石柱，心里砰砰乱跳，不知道那神秘人到底是何方神圣，如果对方仓促攻击起来，他避无可避，就只能迎头受死了。袁森知道艾凯拉木和康巴萨此刻正盯着他，也不回头看，就朝着他们的方向打了个手势，让他们把手电筒照向神秘人所在的那根倒悬石柱上，自己关了头灯和手电筒，避免引起神秘人的注意。 袁森又爬了二十多分钟，终于抵达那根倒悬石柱的底部。袁森从神秘人趴的背面滑了下去，一步步接近神秘人。他在爬行的时候，一只手始终放在能够到皮带上挂枪的位置，以便随机应变。 艾凯拉木和康巴萨看不到倒悬石柱的对面，却能将袁森的一举一动看得清清楚楚。他们盯着袁森玩火的动作，吓得汗毛倒竖。 袁森爬到距离神秘人不到三米的距离，突然掏出枪，指着那人的背影，吼道：“别动——” 那神秘人的确是没有动，在袁森喊话的时候，他搂着石柱的双手没有丝毫反应。如果说镇定，这人也镇定得太不正常了。如果说对方根本不是活人，那他怎么能够不借助牛皮带就能挂在石柱上？ 袁森在脑子里假设了几十个可能，无一能说得过去，他又叫了一声：“我不管你是谁，赶紧给我转过来，否则我就要开枪了。” 袁森这一声吼得更大，但是对方还是一动不动。袁森现在趴的位置，只能用眼角余光瞥到那人的手脚，他似乎还是没有反应。袁森无奈之下，一手提枪，一只手抓着石柱上的凹槽，小心地滑到了石柱的对面。他居高临下看到石柱底部的那个神秘人，顿时大吃一惊，吓得差点跌了下去。 袁森又朝下滑了两米，就趴在那神秘人身边，更确切地说，不是神秘人，而是一张神秘的人皮。那人皮蜕得只能用完美来形容，从袁森的角度看起来，没有一丝破损，活脱脱就是一个个头一米八几的成年人。人皮所处的位置，刚好有暖风灌进来，瘪下去的人皮就自然而然地鼓了起来，如果不是近距离仔细看，他那身形模样完全就是一个大活人。完整的人皮有多处被挂在倒悬石柱凸起的石钩上，而且固定得相当好，任凭地下空间的暖风肆虐，也没有毁坏分毫。 艾凯拉木和康巴萨见袁森爬到石柱对面就没了动静，担心他着了道儿。康巴萨就用手电筒当信号灯，对着石柱的方向一熄一灭，连闪两下，这是他们特种部队的一种打信号灯的方式，表示问情况如何。 袁森会意，冲两人喊道：“我没事，只不过在这根石柱上发现了一张人皮，你们先下去，我把人皮带下来。”说着，袁森将那张人皮扯了下来，塞进背包里。然后取出长绳在石柱上捆了几段，把腰上的安全扣挂在绳子上，人就顺着绳索从几十米高的倒悬石柱上滑了下去。 袁森一滑下地，艾凯拉木和康巴萨就跑了过来。 艾凯拉木道：“袁小哥，你小子有本事，这种惊险的事儿也敢干，我算是服了你了。咱们就光趴在石柱上，看你爬斜压山体，身上就尽冒虚汗，服了。” 袁森拍了拍艾凯拉木和康巴萨的肩，道：“我在斜压山体上看到一个东西，隐约觉得是个活人，就爬过去看，没想到是一张被风吹鼓的人皮，你们也看看。”说着，他就从包里掏出人皮，找到一块爆炸没有波及的地方，把人皮铺开来给他们看。 袁森完全摊开人皮，拉人皮的手一僵，艾凯拉木和康巴萨也看到了，他们也是满脸惊异，这张皮并不是简单的人皮，而是一张四手四脚怪人的皮。 在石柱上的时候，人皮的另外两只手脚都被石柱挡住，袁森的神经绷得很紧，也无暇仔细看，现在看到真正的情形，一下子反应不过来。这张皮竟然是那个四手四脚怪人的皮。 艾凯拉木手里掂着人皮，啧啧叹道：“完美，太完美了，这张皮绝对没有人能剥，我敢打包票。” 袁森问道：“难道是他自己蜕的皮？人也会蜕皮？” 艾凯拉木不屑地“哼”了一声，道：“袁小哥，你见过长四只手脚的人吗？” 袁森被他的话给噎住了，想想那四只手脚的怪物的确不能算人。几个月前，他在贺兰山地底下，曾亲眼看到黑面男为了得到《西域惊言》，用水银剥了奇人算天道的皮。那剥皮技术可称完美，但是比起这张皮，却有天壤之别。 怪人的皮挂在倒悬石柱上，千百年来受到地下暖风的吹晾，颜色已经变成淡灰色，薄而富有韧性，如果不看形状，很难让人相信这会是一块人皮。 康巴萨随时忘不了他作为一名特种兵的职责，端着冲锋枪去周围警戒，看到有零星乱跑的阴猪，就补上一枪。 艾凯拉木对着人皮发了一会儿呆，突然像是醒悟过来了一样，神秘兮兮地说：“袁小哥，你猜为什么这张皮会挂在那根倒悬石柱上？” 袁森专心查看人皮，随口道：“别卖关子了，有什么话你就说吧。” 艾凯拉木说：“袁小哥，不是我吹牛，这张人皮的来龙去脉，如果不是我这种高智商之辈，还真没人能想得出来。” 袁森听艾凯拉木说得玄乎，停下手里正翻看的人皮，道：“你知道这张皮是怎么来的？” 艾凯拉木道：“我不但知道皮是怎么来的，还知道倒悬石柱上绑的骸骨是怎么回事。”说罢，清了清嗓子，得意扬扬地道，“为什么那石室里要放这么一根古怪的石柱，能自动升降，你当且丽人吃饱了撑着没事儿干，其实不然，依我的见识，那根能自动升降的柱子就是为四手四脚的怪物准备的，那怪物有了这根石柱，才好爬上倒悬石柱。” 艾凯拉木说到这里，袁森心里立刻变得澄明无比，道：“你是说怪人爬上倒悬石柱，目的就是那些骸骨。不对，千百年前，它们或许还不是骸骨，而是尸体，说不定就是且丽人带回来的战利品。” 艾凯拉木道：“我完全可以想象，那怪物在倒悬石柱上跟壁虎一样爬来爬去，嘴里咬着一根大腿，尾巴左右乱晃，说不出有多恶心。” 两人正说着话，袁森突然感觉到挂在腰上的对讲机震动了一下，这是收到呼叫信号的提示。他的脑子里立刻浮现出那几次接受到的诡异信号，仿佛来自另一个世界的奇异女声，不属于他所知道的任何一个语系的语言，难道，她又来了？