Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen Convergence

Zhuo Xiong and He Yichao in the village shouted towards the ancient well for a long time, but there was no sound from below, naturally they were mad with anxiety. In a panic, He Yichao collected the equipment around him, grabbed a few indiscriminately, and stuffed them all into his backpack. After putting on his gloves, he grabbed the rope and was about to go down the well: "Blind man, let me watch from the top, I'll go down and see Depending on the situation, needless to say, something must have happened!" Zhuo Xiong stopped He Yichao: "Let me go down. I used to do airborne descents in the army. When it comes to rope descents, I'll be number two in the entire company. No one dares to be number one!"

"The people here are from the same archaeological team as me. Brother Wenbin is my eldest brother, Old Wang is also my uncle, and the little witch is my own sister. Besides, your mission is to take us into the mountains. It's done, you can leave now! The life and death of this well is unknown, if you are taken in again, there will be no one to collect the body for us!" Zhuo Xiong threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, stomped hard, and shouted at Chaozi: "He Yichao, what are you talking about! Is Zhuo Xiong a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death!? Not to mention that we are What is the relationship? Although I have only been with you for two days, I already regard you as my brother and Wen Bin as my elder brother! Since we are friends, you and I are comrades-in-arms and brothers, if I run away at this time, I am sorry The years when we were soldiers together in Tibet?"

After hearing Zhuo Xiong's roar, Chao Zi's eyes were already filled with tears. He never thought that this seemingly dull comrade in arms would have such a heroic spirit!Then he hugged Zhuo Xiong, and patted Zhuo Xiong's back vigorously. After parting, he clapped his palms together very tacitly, and squeezed hard!The two most combative people in this team finally joined forces and stood together! Besides, Cha Wenbin in the underground, since he took the first step, found that someone in the deep pool deliberately arranged that "road" for him to walk, but at this time he had no time to think about it. Although the bones have been carbonized and are much more brittle, if one accidentally trips and stabs into the body, it can kill a person.It seems that if you want to go there, you have to take this "road".Zha Wenbin walked along that road, and when he got to the front, a fork in the road began to appear.

In advance, Zha Wenbin stood on the big rock and looked at the bottom of the pool below, and found the "road" here. No matter where you go down, if you want not to touch the bones, you have to pass the bronze coffin hanging in the middle, and then Then spread out in all directions on the opposite side, and almost instantly, he thought: Here are the bones piled up according to the directions of the five elements and eight trigrams!Who actually used Taoist patterns to pile up such things here?Zha Wenbin is naturally very familiar with gossip. Recalling the "road" he saw on it just now, Zha Wenbin walked along it and arrived in front of the bronze coffin in a short while. The bone should be able to go to the center.Just as he was about to pass, there was a shout from behind...

Just a few minutes ago, above the ancient well. The quality of the soldiers, especially the scouts, was beyond the reach of ordinary people. In just ten seconds, both of them were fully equipped, their ammunition had been inspected, and all their pre-war preparations were in place. He Yichao was the first to go down the well. He didn't have the time to appreciate the murals and lines on the rock wall of the ancient well. It was the kind of high-altitude rapid descent in the army. Fortunately, he was wearing tactical gloves. It took Zha Wenbin several hours from top to bottom to complete the heat brought by friction, while He Yichao only took three minutes!When he landed, he pulled the rope and told Zhuo Xiong above that he could get off, while he stood on the spot and waited for his comrades.Sure enough, two minutes later, Zhuo Xiong appeared in Chaozi's line of sight, and He Yichao murmured in his heart: Oh boy, is this kid a pervert!Such a fast deceleration, didn't the palms get burned...

After Zhuo Xiong landed, he glanced at Chaozi provocatively: "How about it, is it faster than you? I didn't brag about being the first person in the company's rappelling back then, hehe!" Chaozi choked unconvinced: "I just slowed down to find the way for you, you know what a ball!" Zhuo Xiong didn't argue with him either: "Okay, you let me do it. Haha." Scouts are scouts, and they have spotted even tiny things in the distance. The river is not straight, and there is a sharp turn less than ten meters ahead of them. Cha Wenbin's current position is about 80 meters away. The spotlight on the camera was dangling back and forth, and there was a piece of quartz on the opposite stone wall, and a glimmer of light happened to flash by. It was this reflective spot, which was discovered by He Yichao. He put his index finger on his lips and made a silent sound. He said softly, "Blind man, there is a situation ahead, prepare to fight!"

After a command, there is no need to make too many movements, and almost at the same time, the two held shotguns, separated into a distance of about five meters, and moved forward alternately. Suddenly, Zhuo Xiong, who was at the turning position, recognized the person walking in the distance at a glance. Cha Wenbin, the two of them were overjoyed and shouted: "Brother Wenbin!" Chaozi from behind stepped over in a few strides.When Cha Wenbin turned around and took a look, yo, these two boys are all down. The two trotted all the way, and before they had time to check the situation, they jumped off the big rock one after another with two "swish" sounds. The moment they landed, they only heard the sound of "crash, clatter". Cha Wenbin was still smiling. His face froze for an instant, and the two boys looked at it, what the hell was that thing under their feet?It was pitch black, and when I took a closer look at the distance, there were all these black human bone-like things. I lowered my head again, and my feet were all black powder, realizing that I was stepping on bones this time.

"Stand there and don't move. This place is arranged according to a special path. You two stand in place and wait for me to come over!" Cha Wenbin was afraid that something would happen if these two daredevils rushed over later.He had to go back again. The two of them were soldiers, so they were indeed much more courageous than ordinary people. Chaozi had done archaeology, so he naturally knew that this was a charred human bone. When Cha Wenbin stood in front of them, Chaozi turned towards Chawen Bin stuck out his tongue, for fear of being scolded. Zha Wenbin was very angry and funny, and the two of them made trouble for him as soon as they came, "Didn't I tell you not to let the two of you come down? Why, you are afraid that I will die below, so come to collect the body?"

Seeing Zha Wenbin again, the two seemed to have found their backbone: "Brother Wenbin, there was an earthquake just now? By the way, we both saw a dragon jumping out. What's going on?" "Earthquake your head, what you saw just now is the brother here." After speaking, Zha Wenbin pointed at the densely packed bones with his fingers, and then pointed at the top of his head. Zhuo Xiong's eyes widened: "Brother here? Brother Wen Bin, is that dragon your brother? You are too capable! Even the dragon is your friend?" Cha Wenbin looked at this stunned boy, and his anger disappeared immediately: "I will tell you about this matter when I go back. Lao Wang and Miss Leng are in front. Fortunately, you two are here too. Hurry up and let me know." Go and save people!"

When Chaozi heard that the two of them were here, he shouted at the top of his throat, "Little witch, little witch, Uncle Wang, where are you?" No one responded. Chaozi looked at Zha Wenbin suspiciously, and Zha Wenbin also realized that something was wrong: "It's just in the crevice of the rock on the opposite cliff. You were talking to me just now. Something happened, right? Let's go there first!" As he said that, he took the lead and walked forward, followed by the two behind, walking carefully so that they would not touch those bones again. As for this person, he really can’t be in a hurry at a critical moment, and something will happen if he is in a hurry. Cha Wenbin just thought that it was not easy to hang the bronze coffin here, but the road could only be detoured in front of it. You can only choose to go here.When he was the first to walk past the bronze coffin, he only had eyes for the stone wall in front of him, and he didn't have time to say hello to the two of them. It was such a simple sentence that he forgot to say, which eventually led to a catastrophe!

Originally, there were only roads that could be barely passed by one person in those bone piles, so the formation of the three of them was Zha Wenbin at the head, Zhuo Xiong in the middle, and He Yichao at the rear.There was no response to Chaozi's shout just now, and everyone was already extremely nervous at the moment, and walking naturally turned into jogging. When Zha Wenbin passed the bronze coffin, he slowed down a little, went around and continued on.When Zhuo Xiong passed by here, he saw, my god, there is a bronze coffin here, and the volume is bigger than the four above!He paused for a while and glanced at the bronze coffin, not thinking that Chaozi behind him only had the opposite stone wall in his mind at the moment, a brake failed to stop, and hit his back with a "bang". Zhuo Xiong didn't stand still, and almost subconsciously supported the chain hanging on it with his hands. His palm hurt, and he let out a "hiss" in his mouth. He opened his palm and saw that his middle finger had been punctured. There was an opening, Zhuo Xiong was originally wearing downhill gloves on his hands, but for the convenience of movement, the index fingers of this kind of military tactical gloves are exposed outside. It turned out that there were still a few empty shells of snails left on the chain. This snail was the kind of nailed snail with a particularly hard tail. It had been dead for a long time. The exposed finger was pierced. This level of skin damage was not even considered an injury to this guy who was born as a scout, but just like that, it almost killed everyone! After Zhuo Xiong grabbed the chain, Chaozi behind him didn't know what happened, and muttered: "Blind man, hurry up, you are saving people in front, what are you doing here?" Cha Wenbin in front heard In the following conversation, turning around, Zhuo Xiong was pointing at the coffin and said, "Chaozi, look, there is another coffin bigger than the one above!" Shouting the phrase "Hurry up and get your hands away!", the drop of blood on Zhuo Xiong's finger "ticked" and landed on the bronze coffin. Gravels kept falling on the ground, and the sudden scene in front of them made Chao Zi and Zhuo Xiong unexpected, but the scout's keen premonition was still vividly reflected at this moment. Before Zha Wenbin uttered the word "Run", the two of them jumped up, crossed the trail that could only be passed by leaning their bodies, and rushed towards the front. There was only one thought left in Zha Wenbin's mind: Hurry up and get out of this bone array first!The crackling sound of broken stones falling and smashing bones in the back can be heard endlessly, combined with the "cracking" sound of the ancient bronze chains thousands of years ago, resounding throughout the ancient underground river road. If they could stop and take a look, they might be even more surprised. The moment Zhuo Xiong's blood dripped onto the bronze coffin, the bronze rust caused by long-term water seepage began to peel off slowly, and the original hidden patterns on the coffin lid appeared. If Cha Wenbin had time to take a look at it at this time, You will definitely find that these patterns belong to the same type of characters as the ones he saw on the wall of the General Temple. These ancient and mysterious patterns seem to have been wiped by someone, and they have returned to their newly cast appearance. The solemn and sacred bronze emits The dazzling light, after all the patina peeled off, the entire coffin was revealed. From the perspective of craftsmanship alone, this bronze coffin can already be called the pinnacle work in the history of metallurgy: The entire coffin is about five meters long and three meters wide. In addition to the engraved inscriptions, there is also a huge tree engraved on the coffin cover, which covers the entire coffin cover. The trunk has three branches; There are three branches, nine in total; three bronze leaves are engraved on each branch. Different, no one alike. The entire coffin cover, totaling one tree, three branches, nine branches, twenty-seven leaves, and eighty-one insects!The inscriptions are lined every seven characters, a total of seven lines, a total of 7749 characters! The front of the coffin is engraved with a dragon's head, and the rear is engraved with a dragon's tail. If you look carefully, you can see that there is a wing engraved on each side of the bronze coffin. In the shape of a dragon, when the last two pieces of copper rust on the dragon's head are peeled off, a pair of huge longan eyes stand out, occupying a quarter of the entire dragon's head, which is very frightening! The chains that were originally bound to the bronze coffin began to make a loud cracking sound of "squeak, la la", and they were about to break in a vague way. The three people in front didn't care about the changes that happened behind, because the entire water pool was falling apart. The boulder fell, smashing the carbonized human bones into pieces, and the powder was flying everywhere. The three of them were running at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, and they didn't care about the sharp bones at their feet. Fortunately, Cha Wenbin was already very familiar with this gossip formation, and the two behind them were agile scouts. The moment they ran out of the pool, all the chains binding the bronze coffin broke. The three of them ran to a safe place and crossed their psoas one after another, panting there. Looking back, they saw that the bottom of the pool, which was still bony and bony, was already full of rocks of different sizes. The largest one was as big as a truck, and the smaller ones The size of a basketball. Looking at the appalling scene behind him, Chaozi stuck out his tongue and panted and said to Zhuo Xiong, "My dear, blind man, what did you do just now? If it weren't for the three of us being so agile, even if we weren't poked by a bone, If you die, you have already been smashed into meatloaf by those stones!" Although Zhuo Xiong is a scout, his feet are already shaking at this moment. Even though he has experienced the training of the military camp, this kind of escape on the verge of death still shocked him enough: "What did I do? Don't blame you? Hit me in the back For a while, I didn’t stand firmly alone, so I supported a chain, and it became like this. If I knew that if I supported that one, it would drop the stone, I would rather fall down! What do you think, brother Wenbin?” Zha Wenbin himself didn't know much about such weird things, but when he saw the blood on Zhuo Xiong's finger was about to drip onto the coffin, a thought suddenly burst out in his heart: "Run! Something is going to happen here!" He himself doesn't understand why he has such an idea, why he has a deep fear of that bronze coffin, he has seen many coffins, but he has never touched this kind of bronze ancient object, and this kind of thing is in the That kind of ancient times full of legends of gods and demons only existed in ancient times. God knows if the ancestors of that era would do the opposite. If we say that the current cycle of life and death is controlled by the underworld, but that is also the case when Shang destroyed Zhou Xing and sealed off. God only came up with a specific statement later, it seems that the things here have far surpassed that era, God knows that the main lecture here does not talk about the current rules. Zha Wenbin's forehead was already covered with cold sweat. If there was a ghost jumping out, he could handle it at least. If this kind of mechanism-like thing, a mortal body, was hit by a stone, it would be dead at this moment.From the day he started to learn Taoism, he learned a rule from his master: Never tell your fortune for yourself, otherwise you will be punished by God!So Zha Wenbin himself doesn't know when he will encounter unexpected disasters, disasters from the sky, people who learn Taoism, apart from comprehending the Taoism and saving people in the world, are more concerned with their own destiny. Like him, he thinks about going against the sky But for those who vainly try to break the will of heaven, it is actually a Taoist taboo! Zha Wenbin didn't even have time to think about it at this moment. What happened to Lao Wang and the others just now?He remembered that the position where Leng Yiran was waving the white clothes was above where they were standing at the moment, and when he looked up, there was indeed a crack in the rock: "Chaozi, you are very skilled, try to see if you can climb to the top," he pointed Looking at the location of that gap, "Old Wang and the others are in that rock gap." The stone wall was about 20 meters high from the ground. Chaozi glanced at it. It was almost difficult to gain strength on the bare rock, but he had to go up as soon as possible, "Blind man, lend me your dagger." use!" Zhuo Xiong didn't dare to delay, he pulled out the military dagger he was carrying, and Chao Zi took it: "Thank you." Holding a dagger in one hand, with another dangling in his mouth, and a bundle of ropes on his shoulder, he walked towards the stone wall. The stone wall was smooth, but there were gaps. Chaozi inserted the dagger into those tiny holes. In the gap, relying on his excellent skills, he inserted the knife alternately with both hands, forcing him to climb halfway up in a few minutes, and smiled at the two people below: "It's not a big problem!" Those boulders had already blocked the sight of Cha Wenbin and Zhuo Xiong below, and they didn't notice anything unusual, but Chaozi stood tall, so he could see far away. When he looked back, he found the coffin that was originally tied to the coffin that passed by just now. The chains had completely broken at this moment, scattered all over the place, and the originally sealed coffin lid had cracked a gap. The coffin lid was originally made of bronze, and it weighed a thousand catties anyway, so it wouldn't have been moved by such a shaking, and there were no stones around the ancient bronze coffin, and Chaozi saw that the thin seam was opening. Slowly expanding, something is about to break out of the coffin. Chaozi has been lying on the cliff for more than a minute, and his eyes are not looking at the two people below, but in the distance. In this critical moment, how can he still be in the mood to rest? Zhuo Xiong shouted upwards at the top of his voice: "Chaozi, what are you doing there stupidly? Hurry up!" He Yichao held the dagger with one hand, pointed forward, his face was flushed, and it took him a long time to choke out a word: "Then..." Zhuo Xiong below was not happy: "Then what? If you can't climb up, come down for me and replace me!" After speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and planned to climb the rock. As for Zha Wenbin at this moment, he felt very strange when he saw that Chaozi had paused on it for so long. Looking in the direction of Chaozi's finger, he saw that the vertical chain connecting the top of the cliff had faintly cracked. The traces, the four chains seemed to have been subjected to a great force, and began to slowly descend, and the force brought along made the cracks spread to the surroundings, and it seemed that they were not far from their temporarily safe area. Cha Wenbin realized that something was wrong, and it would be futile to use any manpower to resist this natural force at this time: "Chaozi, don't be dazed, hurry up and bring the two of them down, we are too late! It is very possible here It's going to collapse!" Chaozi was on the top, and he saw everything in his eyes. Hearing such a shout from below, he didn't look back. What he can do now is to go up to the next person as quickly as possible.Swinging the dagger, his veins bulged, and Chao Zi climbed up to the crack of the rock wall like an ape with lightning speed, before he even had time to say hello to the people below, he got into the narrow space , went in and took a look, sure enough, Lao Wang and Leng Yiran were both lying inside, their faces pale and unconscious. Chaozi tested it with his fingers, and both of them were still breathing. In contrast, Lao Wang was weaker, with only a trace of breath still lingering.Aware of the current situation, Chaozi took out a rope, tied it behind a boulder above, threw it down, and shouted: "Both of them are here, and they are still alive. Blind man, hurry up and carry someone! " The news came under such a dangerous situation as a shot in the arm for them. No matter what happens next, at least their companion is still alive at this moment, as long as they are alive, there is still hope! Without saying a word, Zhuo Xiong grabbed the rope. After all, he was a professional. The 20-meter-high rock wall took less than ten seconds, which was about the same speed as ordinary people walking on flat ground.Zha Wenbin saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, because the crack not far above was getting bigger and bigger, and it was in danger of collapsing at any time. "Hurry up! Time is running out!" The urging is urgent at the bottom, and the top is equally urgent. Chaozi is responsible for carrying Leng Yiran, but the girl has lost consciousness and has no strength in her body. If someone is not careful when going down the cliff, she will be fine on the top, and she will fall down. Now, that would be a big trouble, the two of them took off their vests, tore them into strips of cloth, made a simple bandaging frame, tied the people on their backs, and tried to make sure there would be no accidents, That's how I get ready. Because this climbing rope has been disassembled, the weight it bears at this moment is not enough to support four people, so it can only be separated. Now it seems that Lao Wang's situation is more urgent. The first person to go down is Zhuo Xiong. Because he is afraid of accidents, his speed has slowed down a little compared to the previous speed. Cha Wenbin below kept urging: "Hurry up!" Hurry up!" Chaozi on the top was naturally clear, because besides seeing the crack on the top of the cliff, he also saw that the coffin had been opened two-thirds at the moment, and he was so anxious that he stomped there, if it wasn't for the current position It's too high, he wants to jump right now. The moment Zhuo Xiong landed, Chao Zi grabbed the rope and descended without hesitation. Cha Wenbin below and Zhuo Xiong who had already landed shouted: "Chao Zi, hurry up!" The cracks are about to be torn apart, and the seemingly indestructible rock is as fragile as tofu.In fact, if Chaozi turned around to look at this time, he would find that the coffin had been completely opened. Finally, when Chaozi was less than five meters away from the ground, "Boom, boom..." The huge roar was mixed with flying stones, and the cliff top finally couldn't support it and broke completely, followed by "咚咚咚咚" four huge metal impact sounds came out, they joined together, oscillating back and forth in this semi-enclosed space, hitting each other, the loud sound made everyone cover their ears, and the sound could not stop for a long time.Chao Zi, who was still hanging on the cliff at this moment, had no time to descend, and was shocked by the impact, and fell off the rope, and fell straight to the ground. The moment he was about to hit the ground, Chao Zi burst out with amazing strength, Wielding the dagger in his hand, he stabbed fiercely at the stone wall, forcing him to plunge into a small stone wall. The huge impact force and inertia made his tiger's jaw tear apart instantly, excruciatingly painful.Right now he can't take care of that much anymore. Fortunately, he got rid of the danger of falling, stabilized his figure, and jumped down. In order not to hurt the little witch behind him, Chaozi's body bent forward due to the effect of gravity, Both knees "slapped" and knelt on the ground, and this time it probably hurt a lot. Waiting for the dust in the sky to disperse, the three of them wiped off the dust on the spotlights, and after a closer look, everyone was covered with ashes from head to toe, and the original pool was completely covered by rocks at this moment. Check the two people on their backs. Cha Wenbin took the pulse of the two people respectively. It seemed that he had gone through a huge catastrophe and exhausted his energy. He fed the two people with some water respectively, and found the antibiotics and antibiotics he had brought from Zhuo Xiong's backpack. Shengmai gave the two people intravenous injections. After a while, the two people's breathing became stable, and Zha Wenbin was relieved. But once the opportunity is missed, it is a missed opportunity. When they carried the two of them on their backs and climbed up the pile of rocks in front of them, the scene in front of them was shocking enough. So wrong.At this moment, the original water pool no longer exists, replaced by a pile of rocks, and those charred bones must have been buried underneath, but the few extra things made the three of them gasp, except for the original they In addition to the big bronze coffin that I saw, there are four more copper coffins at this moment, centered on the big one in the middle, and distributed in the corresponding four corners. Each bronze coffin is connected to the big one in the middle by a chain. The three of them have seen all four coffins before, and they are in the ancestral hall above, and there are some wooden coffins scattered around, which have been thrown to pieces, with blackened bones scattered all over the ground. Since Zhuo Xiong entered his hometown, the shock brought to him by everything has completely surpassed his cognition of the world, and he didn't know if he was really destined to get mixed up with them, he opened his mouth wide He said word by word: "Brother Wenbin, aren't these the four in the village?" Chaozi was the only person who saw the whole process. The big coffin in the middle had its lid fully opened and fell to the side: "The big one in the middle was already moving slowly when I went up. I wanted to inform you. But it’s too late, it’s fully opened now.” Cha Wenbin didn't know whether it was a ritual event that led to such a result, or everything was preordained.What is waiting for him in front of him?It seems that the four coffins were pulled down by chains. What kind of force can make the four coffins weighing several thousand catties pass through the 200-meter-thick rock formation to reach this place, or the four coffins are not on the top at all. Those four were hanged on the top of the cliff!Since he wanted to go back, he had to go this way, no matter whether it was a god or a ghost in front of him, if he was blocking his way, Lord Hades would lick his beard when he came down! Suddenly a gust of wind blew, almost making the three of them unable to stand still. Looking at the five spooky coffins in front of them, needless to say, what should come will always come!