Chapter 10 Chapter 9 Distinguishing between the true and the false, bravely entering the ghost town

Although he was very strange at the time, Matsui Shangyuan didn't dare to involve too much because of the last sentence that he was not allowed to ask.But at this moment, I remembered that those workers were sent to this Paoju Prison to dig out the sewers. Could it be that they discovered something?Thinking of this, Matsui Shangyuan couldn't sit still anymore, he knew that he had to meet someone, maybe this person could solve the doubts in his heart. Matsui Shangyuan stood up and hurriedly got into the car, the black car slowly drove away from Paoju Prison under the cover of night, Matsui Shangyuan sat in the car thinking, judging from the man's fluent Chinese It will be a Japanese. If he is a Chinese, then who on earth can have such extraordinary abilities?All these questions kept spinning in Matsui Shangyuan's mind. He knew that if he wanted to find out the identity of this person, the only clue should be on that person.The car shuttled quickly in the dark night of Beiping City.

The night breeze is cool, and a few dots of torches are moving quickly in this dense forest path. The frenzied sound of horseshoes startles the pheasants and quails hidden by the roadside from time to time, and the sound of "flapping" is heard from time to time, and then a Or several pheasants perched on the side of the road boiled up from the grass as if fleeing for their lives, and then landed in the grass in the distance. This group of six men and one woman galloped towards the ghost town on fast horses. When the night dew first came, the vibration of the horseshoes made the dewdrops fall from the grass blades. There was a forty or fifty li mountain road from the inn to the ghost town. , although it is a mountain road, it is relatively flat because merchants come and go here all the year round.The group spent more than half an hour crossing a winding mountain road, followed the winding mountain road straight up the mountain road and passed between two hills, and when they walked between the two mountains, a small basin surrounded by mountains suddenly appeared in front of you.

The business road in front of me spreads from the mountainside around the mountain to the opposite mountain pass, and there is actually a town under the mountain pass. Several people stop the horses under the crotch at the pass. The weak night wind blows at the pass. It also became intense, making people feel cold.And the ghost town of blue bricks and green tiles at the foot of the mountain two to three hundred meters away from this mountain pass is brightly lit at the moment. Shi Miaomiao stood at the front and counted in detail. There are sixteen courtyards in this ghost town, lined up neatly in fours and fours, and the layout of all the courtyards is almost exactly the same, all of which are spacious. The lanterns in the courtyard or at the entrance of the courtyard were all lit, as if someone lived here.

"Did you see it? I didn't lie to you, all the lights in this ghost town will be on before night!" After the bumpy road and the night wind, the man's alcohol had already woken up. Said the ghost town below the mountain. "Oh my god, it's true!" A young man with a little less courage stretched his neck and looked down the mountain and said, "What the hell, a person without these lights is still on!" "Hush!" The leader made a silent gesture to the people around him and whispered, "Listen..." Everyone stopped their voices and listened sideways. Even the horse seemed to feel the tense atmosphere and stood motionless.

Apart from the "whirring" wind in my ears and the rustling of insects in the grass, there seemed to be no other sounds.The men listened for a while, then glanced at the leader impatiently, seeing that his eyes were slightly closed and he was always listening with his ears sideways, so he followed his example and continued to listen with his brows frowned. Shi Miaomiao listened for a while with her ears sideways. Apart from the sound of wind and insects, there seemed to be the sound of "rushing" water. Just when she was a little impatient, there was a faint voice of human conversation coming from her ears. The ethereal voice was covered by those voices just now, if you don't calm down, you will never hear it.

"Is there really someone?" Shi Miaomiao said to herself in surprise. "Girl, I'm right!" said the leading man, "I guess it's a fucking ghost language!" Shi Miaomiao smiled disapprovingly, although the voice was so soft that she couldn't tell what those people were saying, but she had dealt with Japanese people before, and those people obviously spoke Japanese, which just made Shi Miaomiao feel puzzled What's more, there is no one in the town, but where did the voice come from? Thinking of this, Miaomiao jumped off the horse and took two steps forward, but was stopped by the big man in a low voice: "Girl, what are you going to do?"

Shi Miaomiao stopped in her tracks and whispered, "Go in and find out!" "You don't want to die? This is a ghost town, you can't get out if you go in!" Although the voice of the leading man was extremely low, it was not hard to hear the voice, but it took all the strength of his body. "Hehe, this ghost thing is probably caused by someone, if you are afraid, go back!" After Shi Miaomiao finished speaking, she walked forward, and saw a narrow path covered with wormwood at the mountain pass. Miaomiao walked down the path to the ghost town down the mountain without hesitation.

Several men looked at each other, and the leader also jumped off the horse and said to the people behind him: "If you are a man, go with me, if you are timid, go back by yourself!" The few remaining people hesitated for a moment, dismounted one after another and tied the horses to the pine trees by the side of the road, then trotted along the path that Shi Miaomiao had just stepped down to catch up, Shi Miaomiao stopped, Seeing that the men behind him all came down, I couldn't tell what it was like. "Why are you here?" Shi Miaomiao whispered. "Even you, a girl, dare to visit the ghost town at night. If we men go back like this, we will have to live with our heads stuck in our crotches!" the leader said with a sense of loyalty.

"Hehe, aren't you afraid that there are evil spirits in this town?" Shi Miaomiao asked while walking down carefully. "Haha, it's best that they are all female ghosts!" A young man standing behind the man said jokingly, and his words caused a burst of laughter from the surrounding people.Having said that, Shi Miaomiao was not so relaxed. She vaguely felt that this ghost town should be the secret base that Aixinjueluo Gengnian said that the Japanese raised Mongolian death bugs. It is not difficult to see from the description that that kind of insect is extremely ferocious, and if you are a little careless, these people may really go there and never return.

A few people followed Shi Miaomiao carefully down the mountain to outside the town, squatting in the tall grass.Shi Miaomiao saw the deathly silence in the town, without the whistling wind in his ears, the rambling conversations of those people became more clear at this moment. "Did you hear that?" Shi Miaomiao turned her head and said to the people behind her. "Yeah!" A few men nodded and said in a low voice, "Why does it sound like a devil's language!" "Really!" Another man echoed, "Could it be that this ghost town is created by those fucking Japanese devils?"

While speaking, the leader of the man had already held his bastard box in his hand, and was about to move forward, but Shi Miaomiao grabbed him, the man turned his head and looked at Shi Miaomiao in amazement, and saw Shi Miaomiao Pointing to the front.The man looked in the direction of Shi Miaomiao's finger, and saw a few thin steel wires looming about one meter in front of them. "Hey, what are these steel wires?" the leading man whispered. At this moment, a grasshopper hiding in the grass was startled by a group of people just now, and it jumped up in horror and hit the wire impartially, only hearing a "pop", the grasshopper was bounced back , a few people around were shocked. "This steel wire should be electrified. Once people touch it, they will be stunned and lose consciousness, or they will be electrocuted to death on the spot!" Shi Miaomiao was even more puzzled as he said this. The surrounding area of ​​this huge town is connected to the grid. , but where does the electricity come from?Suddenly something flashed in her mind, she lowered her head and whispered, "Is there a water source near here?" "En!" The leader nodded, pointing to the mountain to the north and said, "There is a reservoir behind that mountain, what's wrong?" Shi Miaomiao smiled secretively, no wonder there was the sound of running water besides the wind just now, she shook her head, the power grid in front of her must not want to attract the attention of outsiders, so it is not too high, and it can be easily lifted by raising her legs over.After Shi Miaomiao passed the power grid, the leading man no longer dared to walk in front of her. The streets of the town in front of me are exactly as the man said, very wide, it can accommodate two carriages passing by side by side, and they are cleaned very clean.Shi Miaomiao stood at the entrance of the town and looked at the road in front of him with some hesitation. Where would those Japanese hide?Shi Miaomiao led the men around the street against the wall. All these houses have red gates, the gates are closed tightly, and there are two lanterns hanging on both sides of the gates, and the lanterns are electric lights, which made Shi Miaomiao more sure of his guess.They stopped in front of the northernmost house. Shi Miaomiao and three men climbed the wall and entered the big house one after another. The remaining three hid outside with guns in their hands to observe the movement outside. The courtyard was empty, without even a shadow of a ghost. Shi Miaomiao led three people into the room. The room was just like the one in the legend. All kinds of utensils were neatly arranged on the kang. There are a few neatly folded quilts, and four or five kettles hanging on the wall, just like a military camp. "Girl, look at this!" The leading man found an incompletely burnt piece of paper from another room. Although he couldn't make out what was written on it, he was sure that it was all in Japanese.As expected, this must be the place where the Japanese trained the Mongolian death bugs! At this moment, a gunshot suddenly came from outside, and the gunshot was strangely amplified by the valley, followed by several more shots.Several people in the room looked at each other and were about to go out when they heard a strange cry from outside. The leader grabbed Shi Miaomiao and said, "That's... that's the sound!" Seeing that the man's face was pale at the moment, Shi Miaomiao stammered and couldn't speak clearly. "The last time we were attacked after this kind of sound!" As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a few screams from outside, and he didn't need to ask to know that it was a few people guarding outside to observe the movement.It seems that their whereabouts have already been exposed. "Girl, what should I do?" The leading man has completely lost his backbone at this moment, and the others are also looking at Shi Miaomiao, hoping that this strange woman in front of them can come up with an idea, and Shi Miaomiao is also very upset at the moment, what should I do?what to do?Now that the whereabouts have been exposed, the Japanese must immediately surround this place. If Pan Jun is here, he will definitely come up with an idea! Pan Jun, who was walking in front of Xue Gui, suddenly sneezed. Xue Gui looked at Pan Jun with concern and said, "Master Pan...you have a cold?" Pan Jun smiled slightly and went to the door with Xue Gui. Xue Gui gently pushed the door open. As soon as the door was opened, there were two people standing at the door. One was Feng Wanchun who left in the afternoon, and the other was actually Xue Ping.At this time, Feng Wanchun held Xue Ping with one hand and put his hand behind his back, and said with a smile to Pan Jun, "Pan Jun, this kid is just as you said, he sneaked out of the yard as soon as the fireworks were set off." !" "Master Pan, what's going on here?" Xue Gui looked at Pan Jun in confusion. Feng Wanchun had already left tomorrow, and Pan Jun hadn't sent a message since then. How could he suddenly appear outside Xue's house, and will Xue Ping caught it? "Mr. Xue, do you still remember the question I asked you in Miss's boudoir?" Pan Jun said with a smile, "At that time, I asked if Miss's boudoir was built after Miss fell ill." "Yes, Lord Pan once asked this question before. I thought that Lord Pan, you had been to Lanzhou City before, that's why you asked this question!" Xue Gui recalled. "Well, I'm afraid that the idea of ​​building that house came from this person too?" Pan Jun pointed to Xue Ping in front of him and said. Xue Gui frowned slightly, thought for a moment and said, "Exactly!" "That's right, he was afraid that the lady would wake up in a noisy environment, so he suggested that you build the house!" "But..." Xue Gui glanced at Feng Wanchun suspiciously and said, "Didn't Master Feng already leave this afternoon? I remember that I sent them to the Cordyceps Hall, why?" "Haha!" Feng Wanchun said with a smile, "Actually, when I left, Pan Jun secretly told me with the hand gestures of an earth-type insect expelling master, after I returned to the Cordyceps Hall, I returned to wait outside the gate of Xue's house to see you. Whoever follows you when you come out, once the fireworks are set off at the gate of the house and someone leaves the house, take it down immediately!" "Then Master Pan, you want me to buy those two white paper men?" Xue Gui seemed to understand a little bit, and now he just wanted to get a definite answer from Pan Jun. "Haha, those two white paper men are just to paralyze him!" Pan Jun said with a smile, "Since he thought of moving the lady's boudoir to a secluded place in the gate, he must know the taboo of treasure. If he saw the magical effect in it, he would definitely run away immediately, and I was not completely sure it was him at the time. I asked you to buy two blank paper figures, and he kept following you without knowing the details, seeing that what you bought was just blank paper People must have thought that I was nothing more than a witch doctor, so he watched the changes with peace of mind. But when he found out that we started setting off firecrackers and beating gongs and drums, he really lost his temper and fled in a hurry!" "Haha, but I don't know that my old Feng has been waiting for him here for a long time!" Feng Wanchun smiled and pushed Xue Ping hard, only to see that Xue Ping was not tall, with wicked eyebrows, and his hair had fallen out sparsely when he was less than forty years old. , he kept his head down, not daring to look up at Xue Gui. Xue Gui walked up to Xue Ping at this time and said: "Xue Ping, I have treated you kindly for so many years, why did you poison Xue Lan?" "Brother, I was confused for a while!" Xue Ping knelt on the ground and kowtowed with a "plop", and said as if smashing garlic, "Just forgive me this time!" "Where are the things in my study?" Xue Gui gritted his teeth and said coldly. "Hmm, um!" Xue Ping said angrily, "It's in my pocket!" Xue Gui stepped forward in three steps and took out a delicate small box from Xue Ping's pocket. He looked at the box carefully and made sure it was the same before he put it in his arms and said, "Xue Gui, you know this is a small box. The family heirloom of the Xue family has been passed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years, and for this heirloom, countless people of the Xue family ancestors died, have you forgotten all of this?" "Brother, I haven't forgotten, I haven't forgotten! Just let me go!" Xue Ping took two steps forward and looked at Xue Gui with tears in his eyes. For any mistake, please forgive me!" Xue Guichang sighed and said: "Forget it, you go! Don't say that you are from my Xue family in Lanzhou!" "Thank you big brother, thank you big brother!" Xue Ping kowtowed quickly, and then Xue Gui waved his face sideways, Xue Ping stood up as if he had been pardoned, turned his head and ran towards the dark place. When they returned to the hall, all the servants of the family had already gone to perform their duties. Xue Gui invited Pan Jun to take a seat. The young man in front of him was not only highly skilled in medicine but also extremely intelligent, which was by no means unmatched by ordinary people.Therefore, Xue Gui has a little more respect for Pan Jun in his heart. Everyone in the world thinks that most of the people under the prestige are not worthy of the name, but this one in front of him is really an extraordinary person. "Master Pan!" After Feng Wanchun and Pan Jun sat down, Xue Gui stood up and took out the exquisite box from his arms and said, "The contents inside are the treasures of the Xue family. It has a history of thousands of years, and the Xue family has experienced ups and downs in the world for thousands of years, but they have never thought of this treasure." "What kind of treasure is this inside?" Feng Wanchun stared at the box in Xue Gui's hand and asked carefully. Xue Gui frowned and said, "Master Pan, I must have told you in Gengnian about the legend about rats transporting food during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty?" (see "Insect Totem II" for details) Pan Jun nodded. When he returned to Beiping for the second time, he had indeed heard Aixinjueluo Gengnian talk about Shuoshu's transportation of food. Even today, Pan Jun still can't believe it completely, but Xue Gui suddenly asked about this, and he couldn't help asking curiously: "Is there something wrong with that big mouse transporting grain?" "It's true!" Xue Guichang sighed and said, "It must be that what Aixinjueluo Gengnian told you is not complete!" "I would like to hear the details!" Pan Jun stared at Xue Gui and said, Xue Gui pondered for a moment and said, "You two follow me!" After finishing speaking, Xue Gui took Pan Jun and Feng Wanchun to the door, and returned to the secret room where the family treasure was kept just now, and tapped the corner of the table a few times, only to hear With the sound of "squeak", the wall in front of him actually moved aside.Pan Jun and Feng Wanchun looked at each other, Xue Gui stretched out his hand when he saw the secret room opened, and said, "Please, please!" Pan Jun and Feng Wanchun entered the secret room one after another. It turns out that the secret room is much larger than the study just now, and the furnishings inside are more complicated. There are various famous calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, among which there are many priceless and rare ones. belongs to.In the middle of the secret room is a table with the Four Treasures of the Study on it, and the most conspicuous one is the portrait behind the table. The person in the portrait is wearing a silver helmet and standing on a horse holding a Fang Tian painted halberd. , the bow and arrow hung on the side of the horse's back, heroic and heroic. There was an incense burner tablet in front of the portrait. Xue Gui respectfully picked up three sticks of incense and lit them. After paying homage, he turned his head and said to Pan Jun and Feng Wanchun, "Master Pan, Master Feng, do you know who is in this portrait?" Pan Jun looked the portrait up and down and said: "If my guess is correct, this person should be Xue Rengui, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty who "three arrows set the Tianshan Mountain"!" "Pan Jun, what this person is holding is Fang Tian's painted halberd. Isn't it Lu Bu who makes good use of this weapon in "Three Kingdoms"?" Feng Wanchun retorted. "Master Feng, you don't know, but it is said in "Three Kingdoms" that Lu Bu was good at using Fang Tian's painting halberd, but it is often suspected of being far-fetched by later generations, and there are clear records in history of famous generals who made good use of Fang Tian's painting halberd. It was Xue Rengui of the Tang Dynasty! ("Old Tang Book" written by Xue Wei)" Pan Jun eloquently narrated. Xue Gui nodded approvingly and said: "Master Pan really deserves his reputation, he is knowledgeable about the past and the present, his guess is right, the person in this portrait is exactly Xue Rengui, who is also the ancestor of my Xue family." "I see!" "The story of Shuoshu transporting grain was passed down from him. Historically, people only know Xue Rengui's 'Three Arrows Set the Tianshan Mountains' and his expedition to Tibet, but very few people know the real purpose of his expedition to Tibet!" Xue Gui stretched out his hand to gesture to Pan. Jun and Feng Wanchun sat down, and then continued, "After the matter of the rat transporting food, the emperor respected and feared the insect repellent master, and as the national power grew stronger, the fear of the insect repellent master's ability completely outweighed the respect." , So the emperor began to secretly strangle the insect repellent masters all over the country. The last few insect repellent masters fled all the way to Tibet, and the emperor ordered Xue Rengui to fight against Tubo in Tibet!" "Although Xue Rengui was defeated in this battle, Xue Rengui got this treasure!" Xue Gui put the heirloom on the table and said, "When Xue Rengui attacked Tubo, several insect masters offered this treasure to avoid fighting. Give it to Xue Rengui." After Xue Gui opened the box gently, Pan Jun and Feng Wanchun couldn't help standing up from their chairs curiously, and there was a piece of black ink inside, which had a delicate luster under the candlelight , the body is round and round, and there is a small hole above the ink stick, which is the size of a pinhole. "According to my ancestors, there is a map hidden here, but there is no way to open it!" Xue Gui said helplessly, "Many years ago, Aixinjueluo Gengnian learned that this object was in my I hurried here from Beiping with my hands in my hand, and I saw that he could tell the beauty of this thing, so I showed it to him. After he read it, he told me that there is only one person in the world who can open this thing, and that person is... Xue Gui looked up at Pan Jun and said, "It's you, Master Pan!" "Me?" Pan Jun looked at Xue Gui in surprise, and then turned to look at the ink stick on the table. He could vaguely feel that the ink stick in front of him seemed to be related to the insect repellent, but he never listened to his father's words. Said.He looked at Feng Wanchun for a while, turned his head and said, "Feng Wanchun, have you ever heard of the legend about this ink stick?" Feng Wanchun rubbed his chin and looked at it for a while, then shook his head helplessly: "I've never heard of this thing before!" "I was asked to give this item to Lord Pan in the year of Geng, but it is a family heirloom that has been handed down for thousands of years." Xue Guichang sighed and said, "But since a few years ago, people have been spying on this treasure secretly. , and the Japanese have sent people to me many times to ask me about the whereabouts of this object. I would rather destroy this object than hand it over to those Japanese devils. And for many years I have heard that Master Pan is a young talent, and he is also a chivalrous man Heart, I have already thought of giving this thing to you. I saw it today and it really deserves its reputation, and I think it should also find a master who can control it!" Xue Gui put the wooden box cover on his hands and handed it to Pan Jun. "Mr. Xue, this is a treasure left by your ancestors, how do you make it?" Pan Jun declined. Xue Gui said sincerely, "Does Master Pan want this treasure to fall into the hands of the Japanese?" Feng Wanchun nodded aside and said: "Mr. Xue is right. If you don't accept Pan Jun, I'm afraid he will fall into the hands of the Japanese sooner or later." Only then did Pan Jun take the box with both hands, carefully carrying it in his arms, and then they left the secret room and returned to the living room.Just as he was seated, he saw the servant of Xue's house leading a person hurriedly in from the outside. As soon as he entered the room, Liu Jin was sweating profusely, and said in panic, "Young master, something happened!" Pan Jun was startled and quickly asked: "What's the matter, Uncle Liu Jin, please speak slowly!" "Miss Ouyang is missing!" Liu Jin said out of breath. "What?" Pan Jun and Feng Wanchun looked at each other and stood up from their chairs, "When did this happen?" "This afternoon!" Liu Jin wiped the sweat off his forehead, "I have searched all over the Cordyceps Hall, and now I have sent all the guys to the street to search. But I have never found Miss Ouyang's whereabouts!" "Yan Yun has just arrived in Lanzhou City, and he is not familiar with the place of life, so he probably won't go far!" Pan Jun always had an ominous premonition. Who is the insect repellent, but it always appears from time to time, as if to remind them of the existence of that person.They have always had an enmity with Ouyang's family, if Yan Yun falls into his hands... Pan Jun couldn't help clenching his fists tightly thinking of this. At this moment, Xue Gui came over and said: "Master Pan, don't worry, I, Xue Gui, can still speak in Lanzhou City, I will contact the police station immediately, as long as this girl Ouyang is still near Lanzhou City, I will definitely be able to turn up!" Pan Jun cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Mr. Xue!" "Where is Master Pan?" After speaking, Xue Gui waved to the servant and said, "Go and bring some people to the street to find Miss Ouyang with the people from Cordyceps Hall!" After speaking, Xue Gui went to the side, picked up the phone, and dialed I made a phone call with the head of the Lanzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau. After hanging up the phone, Pan Jun and Feng Wanchun bid farewell to Xue Gui and Liu Jin, got in the car that had been parked at the door and returned to Cordyceps Hall.At this moment, the staff and long-term workers in the Cordyceps Hall have been sent to the street to look for Yan Yun. The three of them passed through the first and second courtyards, and when they came to the third courtyard, Pan Jun suddenly grabbed Liu Jin's arm and said, "Uncle Liu Jin Can you tell me in detail how Yan Yun disappeared?" Pan Jun has been thinking all the way, although Yan Yun's temper is hot and impatient, but Yan Yun's temper has changed a lot after the trip to Anyang. No matter what happens, you will never leave easily. Liu Jin hesitated for a moment and said, "Young Master, follow me!" After Pan Jun and Feng Wanchun looked at each other, they followed Liu Jin to the third entrance courtyard. As soon as they entered the courtyard, Duan Er'e rushed up with Jin Long, and Duan Er'e said with tears all over her face, "Brother Pan Jun, Yan Miss Yun..." "What's going on?" An ominous premonition crept into Pan Jun's heart quietly. "It's the Mongolian death bug!" Duan Er'e said, turning her head and pointing at the ground behind her.There was a hole in the ground, and the worst thing Pan Jun could imagine finally happened, and the branch of the Fire Element was following Pan Jun and the others.Thinking of this, a burst of severe pain suddenly came into his mind. Duan Er'e's face in front of him kept shaking, gradually becoming more and more blurred, and gradually turned into a delicate and exquisite face - Shi Miaomiao.