Chapter 8 Chapter Eight White Rock Mountain

Climbing up a dam covered with weeds, and then bypassing a small depression, the bare earth ditch immediately came into view. In the morning light, the robbery hole dug when we escaped last night was particularly eye-catching. Old man Qiao and I looked at each other, and we were still afraid of each other. . "It's not right! The evil spirit seems to be gone." Old Man Qiao's expression darkened suddenly, and he took out Luo Geng from his arms to play with.It seems that he can't live without this thing for a moment, it should be a necessary tool for tomb robbers!When I go back, I will buy it as soon as possible.Perhaps, this is just the habit of their Xiangtu Sect... I purposely thought about it in a wild way, so as to dilute the fear that was accumulating.

"This old man is so weird!" Tianbao leaned over with a hoe and asked quietly, "What is he doing?" "It's okay! You go to the foot of the mountain and sit for a while, and come over to help later." After leaving Tianbao, I approached old man Qiao, and was about to speak, only to hear him say in horror: "No! This big seven-star formation has also been destroyed by us, and it has completely lost its evil spirit. I have an ominous premonition that the evil spirit below Things may have changed again." Before I could react, the old man Qiao had already opened the yellow cloth, took the two instruments in his hands, and said to me word by word: "This year is the year of Geng Shen, Tai Sui is Mao Zi, and the orientation is in the southwest. You should pay attention to it." For any movement in that direction, I'll go down to see what's going on, and tidy up Master Ren's bones by the way."

"It's all dust, how can we clean it up? Let's just fill up the hole as soon as possible." I grabbed old man Qiao, I really didn't want to stay here for a second. I don't know which nerves these words touched the old man Qiao, he suddenly changed his mind again, patted me on the shoulder and said: "Let's go down together! The two of you have something to meet." Changed to Fuchen again, and just after taking a step, he took the short sword and changed back to Fuchen... "It's all up to you!" I was so annoyed. Old man Qiao gave me a blank look, and was embarrassed to change it again. He took the whisk and walked to the mouth of the pit. He warned, "Be careful not to break the sword", and jumped down.

I followed closely behind, and as soon as my feet touched the ground, I saw a pile of dark brown things, a bit like burnt firewood, presumably this was his ancestor Ren.Old man Joe was not in a hurry to clean it up, but looked inside vigilantly. I handed him a flashlight, but he didn't want it. "The hole is not deep, and there is some light in broad daylight. Once you get used to it, you can see clearly, but the sight of the flashlight will be limited." Old man Qiao explained it in this way, so I had no choice but to give up and follow him to stare around.After a while, the facts proved that his approach was completely correct, but after his eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, the scene before him was so creepy——

I saw Li Zhi's dark body sitting in the center of the tomb, with his head down and his hands on his lap, as if he was an old monk in meditation. "Strange! How did it turn black? It was still shiny last night." I looked at old man Joe in surprise, and waited for him to take the lead in retreating.Unexpectedly, he showed a strange smile at this time, picked up the whisk and waved it a few times, and then strode into the tomb.Old guy crazy?My heart tightened, and I rushed over to pull the hem of his coat. "It's okay, the evil thing has already run away." "You... how do you know?"

"It's not what you said, the corpse has lost that weird brilliance, which means that Rouzhi has left." The faint morning light slanted in from the entrance of the escape hole last night. There was some dim light in the tomb, and I could vaguely see the general idea, but I would rather it was pitch black, because Li Zhi's corpse was too scary—the shriveled and skinny body was covered with The tiny holes seemed to have been gnawed away by something, and a lock of long hair combed into a ponytail hung down on the back of the head, and it looked like it was about to fall off.And the scariest thing was his face, his facial features could no longer be distinguished, his mouth shrunk out of shape and formed a big hole, it felt like he was making a silent cry...

I couldn't help spitting, and the old man Qiao immediately scolded me, "You're looking for death! You can't spit in the tomb." "Why was Li Zhi's body still looking good when Rouzhi was also borrowed, but why did your master turn into ashes?" This is what puzzled me the most. "What's the difference? My master Ren was still alive when he was killed, but this Li Zhi is a corpse that has been processed. Quanzhen Sect's corpse protection pill is not built. Besides, he was borrowed for a short time. Only one night." "Where did that evil thing go? Could it be hiding nearby?" I asked anxiously, while gripping the handle of my sword and looking around.

"It must have sneaked into the soil. But, why did it leave Li Zhi's body? Is there a better one nearby? If so, why didn't it go before?" Old man Qiao rubbed his nose. , muttering to himself with his chin in his hand, suddenly, he looked up at me and said, "Last night, you guessed right, this thousand-year-old meat was trapped in this ditch by Li Zhi. The reason why he did this was because he made such a big fuss." It is definitely not for himself, but to guard the tomb of a certain important person, to protect the body from being invaded by meat. I think that tomb is nearby... It's all our fault Wrong, broke all three formations."

"so what to do now?" "It doesn't matter that much, fill up the pit and leave." Old man Qiao ran out of the tomb in a sudden gust of wind. I was taken aback and followed without knowing it. Climbing out of the hole, Old Man Qiao took out that treasure Luo Geng to play with again. I raised my hand to call Tianbao to come over to work, but I couldn't help asking, "Where do you think it will go? I've never heard of any What kind of ancient tomb, let alone a big man's." The old man Qiao looked around, and finally fixed his eyes on the depths of the back mountain. He stared at it with all his attention, and said word by word: "The southwest, facing Baishi Mountain, should be there."

Before the words were finished, there were calls from the top of the slope, and a figure ran down quickly, with a distraught look that made one wonder if a group of wild animals were following behind. It's Uncle Li!Didn't he go to Baishi Mountain to pick stones?Why are you so scared? "Something went wrong! Let's go and ask." Old Man Qiao said with a serious face. At this time, Uncle Li had already run down the ditch, dancing and shouting: "Ghost... There are ghosts..." It seemed that he was going crazy. I pressed his shoulder hard, adjusted my tone, and said as calmly as possible: "It's okay, Uncle Li, there are quite a few of us here! Please speak slowly."

Uncle Li regained his composure a little bit, but his whole body was still trembling uncontrollably, he couldn't speak, and his whole face was flushed red.Seeing the situation, the old man Qiao went around behind him, and stabbed his back with something. Uncle Li screamed, and began to breathe heavily, and then intermittently talked about the experience just now—it turned out that there was a "ghost" who killed him. Two yellow dogs were sucked to pieces. If it wasn't for the stone materials, Uncle Li wouldn't dare to approach Baishi Mountain alone, but people are like this, once he finds that he is taking advantage of less than others, he will inevitably feel unbalanced, and his guts will also swell, not to mention that the location is only at the foot of the mountain river bed.So he was heartbroken, took the two dogs with courage, and galloped straight away. That is, the two yellow dogs started barking as soon as they reached the foot of the mountain. The more he listened, the more frightened he became, but he was not willing to part with the stones that came in vain, and he wanted to pack up a load and leave.At this time, he saw a pile of stone bricks of similar size in front of the dog, so he hurried over and pulled them out one by one with careless hands.Suddenly, his dog rushed up like crazy, and with a "crash", the whole stone pile collapsed, revealing a gloomy cave entrance, and the two dogs rushed into the cave with a "huh".This sudden change made him froze on the spot. At this moment, the scream of a dog came from the cave. His heart tightened, and he subconsciously looked inside, only to see a white mist-like ghost squatting in the darkness. In the middle of the hole, he was raising his hand, calling to him one by one, and under the ghost's feet was a shriveled, dark dead dog... "Go, take a look." After listening to Uncle Li's narration, the old man Qiao shouted, and ran up the slope. I comforted Uncle Li and advised him to go back to the village first. , Don't let this stunned young man get involved in this kind of thing, so he told him to stay and fill the soil, and go home directly after finishing. ... Climbing up to the top of the hill, running down a winding path, it didn't take long to turn into a col, and the whole Baishi Mountain lay in front of you like a screen. "This... this is Baishi Mountain." I said panting. "I'll know if you don't tell me." Old man Qiao stopped, covered his forehead with his hand, and stared at the surrounding mountain scenery. "Sure enough, it has the aura of an emperor. Look, this mountain is green and majestic, with stone walls like a city. There is a small river facing east under the ridges on both sides, and there is a flat and wide land at the foot of the mountain. The whole terrain is surrounded by mountains and rivers. , the layout of the Great Forbidden Land..." Old man Qiao was showing off his physiognomy again. At first I didn't take it seriously, but the last few sentences were a bit familiar, as if there was such a description in a book, it was about the dragon-seeking formula. "From south to north, the entrance of the cave should be here." Old man Qiao pointed his finger, and his feet had already taken big steps. He stepped on the dry grass up to his knees and ran all the way, and soon came to the open space at the foot of the mountain.In my memory, this place should have been covered by river water before. At this time, old man Joe was not in a hurry to find the hole, but made a strange movement—squatting down to touch the stone. "Look at this open space and the riverbed, it's full of crushed stones, and there are traces of man-made excavation." Old man Qiao looked at the top of the mountain again, and said thoughtfully: "The amount is so large, I'm afraid the whole mountain will be destroyed." Hollowed out." "Empty? Is there really a big tomb inside?" "This is the basic knowledge of Fentubian acupoint. Haven't you learned it? There are so many broken stones in the barren mountains and ridges for no reason. Tell me, what else could it be if it weren't for building a mausoleum? Use your brain, please!" Qiao said. The old man scolded me fiercely, then rubbed his nose habitually, frowned and muttered, "The custom of burials with mountains as mausoleums has existed since the Tang Dynasty. Which generation of emperors will it be?" From the moment I boarded the train, I was led by the nose like a cow by the old man Joe. Although his bad temper is annoying, I must admit that the old guy is indeed a strange person. I may not learn many things in my life. , I admire him more and more in my heart. With emotion, the old man Qiao had already run to the stone wall at the foot of the mountain, and slowly followed the trend to find the entrance of the cave.Suddenly, he squatted down, struck a match, and slowly stretched forward.I took a closer look, and saw a round hole covered with moss appeared in front of me. Old man Joe was testing the hole for ventilation. The cave diggers were really thoughtful, this place is really hidden, it's in the pile of rocks, if Uncle Li hadn't pulled out the stones above, maybe no one would have found it for ten thousand years. "This should be a robbery hole!" I learned to analyze.Because the hole was small and irregular, it was evident that the hole had been dug hastily. "Nonsense, this is not a karst landform, so of course there won't be any natural caves." Old man Qiao was not polite at all. He rubbed his nose and said disdainfully, "Teach you a few tricks. Most of the round robbery caves are Before the Qing Dynasty, most of the modern ones are square. Judging from the chisel marks of this hole, it should be the handicraft of the Heshui School in the south of the Yangtze River. They are good at breaking stones..." "I know this, first dig a small hole, and then inject the special acid they prepared. After the stone is decomposed, it will be as easy to handle as sand." Thinking of the description in the book, I rushed to say, don't let old man Joe say I have no brains. The old man Qiao smiled slightly, without saying a word, turning his body to one side, staring intently at the distant ridge.Suddenly he stood up and said in surprise: "I recognized it. A few years ago, I was called to Baotou by my junior brother to 'work' on the opposite mountain. At that time, I was deeply impressed by this rock, but I didn't see the pulse clearly at night." "What a coincidence? Why are there tombs everywhere?" "That is a terrible Yuan tomb. It looks like a good hole, but there is nothing in it. It is full of traps. My junior brother died in it. Now that I think about it, that tomb is a death-killing tomb specially set up for this king's tomb. Just like Li Zhi's tomb, one left and one right form a dragon and tiger guard..." Old man Qiao was a little incoherent with excitement. It turned out to be a painful experience, no wonder I hesitated when I asked last time.Whose mausoleum is in Baishi Mountain?Come up with so many tricks. "By the way, Old Qiao, you said that the death tomb belongs to the Yuan Dynasty, and Li Zhi is from the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, and has a lot of connection with the Mongols. Could the owner of this royal tomb be..." Suddenly, the two of us seemed to realize something, looked at each other with wide eyes, and shouted almost at the same time—"Genghis Khan?" "No, no! The mausoleum of Genghis Khan is in the banner of Ordos City, more than 100 kilometers away from here." "Silly boy, that's just a tomb with no body. It has been rumored that he was buried secretly in the Lingwu Grassland in Ningxia. No trees were sealed and the cemetery was leveled with horses. Heh! Maybe this is just a cloud of suspicion cast by the Mongols. " Old man Joe quickly regained his composure, and I knew this was a sign that he wanted to do something.Sure enough, I only heard him say: "Generally, the tombs of kings are located from north to south, and the entrance of this cave is directly facing the dragon's lair. Let's go in and have a look, so we can understand." "Not so good! This is a forbidden place in the village. There was another incident just now. Someone will come soon. Let's not get into this muddy water." I stretched out my hand to block the way, but I was actually more afraid. "Forbidden area? What forbidden area?" Old man Qiao turned and looked at me with doubts in his eyes.So far, I can only tell the truth about the various taboos about Baishi Mountain. "Are there many people surnamed Li in Dabagou?" Old man Qiao suddenly asked a strange question. "mostly." "I understand." Old man Qiao said, patting his thigh, "They must be the descendants of Li Zhi, who have guarded the tomb for generations." Shouling?No way!I've never heard of this, and if there is such a thing, it can't be out of nowhere.Suddenly, I thought of the ancestors of the Geng family. They must have known that there was a tomb here. Why is there no record of excavation?There must be some reason for it. "Then we shouldn't go in." "Tianhua, do you know that being able to touch the royal tomb is the lifelong wish of every sand-scourter, and I never dreamed of it! No matter what, I must go in today to see and see, even if I die in it, it will be worth it. "Old Joe shook off my hand and resolutely got into the hole.I hesitated for a moment, but bent over and followed in. Just two steps away, I saw a dead black dog lying across the entrance, shriveled like dried salted fish, it should be Uncle Li's dog. "It was made by the meat mushroom. It must have followed the aura of the emperor's body." Old man Qiao stepped over the dog's corpse and continued to walk inside. "It's that evil thing again?" I shuddered, and unconsciously felt disgusted, "Let's be careful, that guy is not easy to deal with." "Well! What I said is that the thousand-year-old meat mushroom is an immortal evil. Fortunately, we now have these two magic weapons. Although they can't destroy them, they can at least last for a while." Old man Qiao gave me the dagger, This time I didn't change it again. ... The diameter of this robbery hole is about 1.5 meters, and he can barely walk with his waist bent, but the walls of the hole are very uneven, with protruding edges and corners scratching his arms from time to time.Old man Qiao turned on the flashlight, and the strong light shone on the white stone wall, reflecting a vast amount of fluorescent light. Although the vision was good, it felt very uncomfortable. "Old Joe, why didn't they dig from the front? It takes a lot of effort to dig this stone path." I asked, but unexpectedly, it caused a huge echo, and it was repeated repeatedly in the depths of the tunnel. "You don't understand. How many stones and traps are there at the entrance of a mountain mausoleum like this? It's more dangerous than opening a passage from the side." The old man Qiao looked amiable at the moment. As it gradually deepened, the robbery hole suddenly widened and extended upwards. At this corner, Old Man Qiao found a corpse, to be precise, it was a human skeleton. "Hey! This man also washes the sand." Old man Qiao observed carefully for a while, and then continued to move forward. "Is it the Jiangnan Heshui school who dug the hole?" "No! The Heshui faction disappeared two hundred years ago, but this man is carrying an engineering shovel and has braids on his skull. He is obviously from the late Qing Dynasty." Old man Qiao explained as he walked, maybe it was the death of a rabbit. !The tone is very gentle. "It seems to be quite lively, and the things inside may have been touched long ago!" "Shut your crow's mouth, if there is an empty hole, will the thousand-year-old meat mushroom find it?" Old man Qiao became angry from embarrassment. His words were clearly self-comforting. Tomb robbers and Rouzhi have different purposes, and they are not the same. What evil things want is only the flesh. The owner's bones were taken away.I don't bother arguing with him, maybe I'll have coins in my mouth again... When I passed the skeleton, I shone the beam of light on Bai Sen's head, there was really something that looked like a braid, and suddenly the hair stood on end, and there was a faint smell of death.Suddenly, the old man Joe in front quickened his pace, and then, the light of the flashlight became hollow, and it turned out that we had already entered the mausoleum. I curiously held up the flashlight and shone randomly, and soon felt weird.This is a strange cylindrical tomb, with a dome-like vaulted roof, like a big yurt. "This is called the Great Spirit Bag, which is the front hall of the royal mausoleum." Old man Qiao explained excitedly, "The Mongolian royal family advocates simple burials, which are not as luxurious as the Han Tombs, but the scale is not small. Usually, there are three such Great Spirit Bags." It consists of the front hall, the main hall and the bedroom..." Indeed, as old man Qiao said, although this tomb is large, it is extremely simple, with almost no decorations, and even the tomb walls are not painted, reflecting the light smoothly.When I moved the beam of light to the ground, I couldn't help but be shocked by the white bones all over the place. I saw a dozen pits, large and small, under the tomb. These pits filled with sand were full of messy white skeletons. .Obviously, it was copied by the tomb robbers who entered first. Old man Qiao was taken aback for a moment, picked up a big bone at his foot and looked at it carefully, then smiled wretchedly, "Hehe! It really is a camel bone." "What do you mean?" I was still so curious, but my heart suddenly became vigilant, holding the sword handle and looking around. "This proves that the rumors in the market are true. Mongolian emperors are buried in secret. From the site selection to the construction of the tomb, only the owner of the tomb and his confidantes know about it. After the burial, all those involved will be silenced. In the end, only that confidant, and after he has taken care of everything, he will commit suicide in public, so that no one will know the whereabouts of Wang Ling." Old man Qiao shook the bone in front of me, pretending to be profound and said: "What if future generations want to worship? It all depends on this. It is rumored that the Mongols thought of a cruel way, that is, after the burial, In front of the female camels, a large number of camels were killed in the tomb. After that, if you want to find the royal tomb, these female camels will lead the way. The place where they stop and scream is the cemetery. Keep that tradition going." "What should we do after the female camel dies? Kill another batch of camel cubs?" "As long as you talk a lot, you think Wangling is a tourist spot, why are you here for nothing important?" Old man Qiao straightened his face immediately. Now I know the old guy's temper very well. Whenever I ask him a question that he can't answer, he looks like this, or he scolds in anger.I immediately smoothed things over, "Are these all camel bones?" "Of course not. The owner of the tomb will put the livestock dedicated to the gods in the front hall, including horses, cows, sheep, etc., including living people." After the old man finished speaking, he threw the camel bones aside and turned his head to the side passage Go, I quickly follow. This corridor is not long, only more than ten meters long, but it is very wide and neat. At the end, there is another huge cylindrical tomb. This should be the main hall that old man Qiao mentioned, right? Different from the front hall, this room is full of colorful paintings, which makes people feel dizzy, but it is still empty. Old man Qiao sighed again and again, looking very aggrieved, "The shit is unruly, nothing is left, at least there is nothing left. Some worthless weapons, horse gear, even a broken blanket!" When I looked at the murals, they were nothing more than flower decorations, cattle and sheep, and pictures of marching and hunting. The more I looked at them, the more boring they became.Suddenly, something on the dome startled me, and I stepped back unconsciously—right in the center of the dome, a lifelike giant wolf was staring at me. It feels like it's going to jump off. "Let's go! Go to the bedroom and have a look." Old man Qiao ignored the change in my expression, and ran towards the corridor with great strides. At this moment, he just wanted to get something, which could be used as evidence that he touched the royal tomb, so that he could make a name for himself in the public. ! As soon as he stepped into the second corridor, he obviously felt a gloomy chill, the temperature seemed to drop suddenly, and his breathing was not so smooth, accompanied by inexplicable heart tremors.After walking a few steps, the feeling of fear became more and more intense. With each step, there was a rattling echo from the depths of the corridor, as if a large group of people were following them.What's worse is that I always feel a pair of dignified and focused eyes cast on me, peeping quietly... I couldn't help but feel chills, my heart beat faster and faster, and a strong thought came to my mind - go back, go back to the mausoleum outside. "What is the bedroom for?" I asked tremblingly in panic, trying to break the suffocating weird atmosphere. "The dormitory is the place where the owner of the tomb is buried, and it is the last one." Old man Qiao explained as he walked, "Ordinary Mongolians usually use hollowed out rough wood as coffins, and find a place to bury them. For emperors, they use silver coffins." The coffin made of seven treasures was buried deep in the palace..." Suddenly, old man Qiao changed his tone and said solemnly: "That meat mushroom is nearby, I can feel its existence, it is exactly the same as when I first arrived in Tugou, it has a great evil spirit." "It...it's in the bedroom?" I opened my mouth wide. "Hmm! It seems that it has borrowed its upper body. The physical body must be a prominent emperor, and this evil spirit is much stronger than last time." "Then shall we go in?" I asked slowly.Although I don't know what the evil spirit is, it is obviously not a good thing. Old man Qiao hesitated for a moment, but quickly made up his mind. He raised his whisk, said, "Get your sword ready", and rushed in with big strides.Just like that, the two entered the bedroom tremblingly. ... I had countless assumptions before, and even guessed that the emperor who was borrowed by Rouzhi was sitting in the middle of the palace. However, when the steps suddenly stopped, the scene in front of me was so unbelievable—— The first thing that came into view was a wolf, a huge, dark green wolf. It bared its teeth and faced the entrance with its robust body in a snapping posture.Behind the wolf, however, was a docile white deer. These two animals, which were almost the same size but extremely uncoordinated, gave people a very strange feeling. After a suffocating confrontation, I finally realized that these two guys are not alive, nor are they sculptures, but like specimens made of real objects.Then another question came to mind—is there really such a big wolf in this world? "How could this be? The ground is made of stone?" The old man Qiao suddenly yelled, which really startled me. Only after I came back to my senses did I realize that this bedroom is completely different from the previous two. coffin. "What's that?" I suddenly saw a pile of dark things, right next to the wolf's feet. "Bah! It's another dead person." Old man Qiao had sharp eyes, and quickly saw that it was two corpses stacked on top of each other, but at this moment he was in no mood to go and inspect it. I took a closer look, and suddenly an indescribable feeling of nausea came to my heart.I saw these two shriveled corpses entangled face to face, their postures and movements were almost the same - their heads were thrown back, their facial features were extremely distorted, their four legs were curled and twisted into a ball, and the strangest thing was that their hands were choking each other's neck ... Cannibalism?I immediately thought of this, and looked again full of doubts.Although the clothes on them were in tatters, it could still be seen that they were all coarse mandarin jackets from the Republic of China period, and one of them was wearing glasses, which showed that they were from modern times. "It's over, it's over, if only my girl was here, she must know why this happened..." Facing the still empty bedroom, old man Qiao chattered sadly, almost crying out loud.I understand his mood at this moment. After a long time of trouble, he didn't touch a single gadget. How can you make him feel so embarrassed?However, he still didn't give up, and walked around along the tomb wall, hoping to find traces of secret passages and the like. As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. I didn't have any purpose at first, but I was calmer than him when I got to this point, and I didn't care about the two strange corpses. I just wanted to prove that the wolf and the white deer are real. ? I slowly walked up to the wolf, looked at it carefully, and found that besides being huge and strange in color, there was a bulge in the center of his forehead, which made his face even more ferocious.It should be true!I reached out my hand in a strange way, and gently pulled its fur.At this time, a strange thing was suddenly discovered—the whole body of the wolf had been cut several times.Are there treasures hidden inside?I glanced at Old Man Qiao, and without making a sound, I grabbed the cut part of the wolf skin and lifted it up... Along with a pungent herbal smell, all I saw was an unknown pile of hay mixed with cotton and charcoal, which was frustrating.The moment I put down the wolf fur, I caught some black characters out of the corner of my eye. I lifted the wolf fur again like an electric shock, and saw a palm-sized pattern on the inside of the shiny wolf fur. On the top was a conspicuous The wolf head, below which are mountains and rivers drawn by various lines, and there are five lines of Mongolian characters in the middle, which seem to be annotations. This should be a map, right?Hidden so deeply, it must contain very important information.Without even thinking about it, I cut off the small piece of wolf skin with a dagger and stuffed it in my trouser pocket.As soon as he finished this action, he heard the sound of footsteps coming from the corridor.