Vermillion mole

Five days later, a group of six people boarded a long-distance bus bound for Linyi, Shandong.

These six people are Zhu Sha, Wu Sansheng, Wu Xie, the young man who bought the sword, Wu Sansheng's buddy Pan Zi, and Da Kui. The car was speeding on the high speed, and the journey was long. Zhu Sha passed the time by sleeping. After twelve hours of turbulence, Arrived in Linyi.

I got on the local dirt bus, and sat all the way to Guazi Temple, which is more than 40 kilometers to the west, then changed to dirt bike and walked down the small road, and finally took the bullock cart to turn around the dirt road of Panshan Mountain.When I got down from the bullock cart, I found that there was nothing modern except for the hills that couldn't be seen.

They all thought they had arrived at the place, so they all jumped out of the bullock cart. At this time, a dog ran up ahead. Wu Sansheng was amused when he saw it. He patted the old man who was driving the cow and joked with him, "Old man, let's go on the next journey." Do you want to ride this dog, I'm afraid this dog is tough enough!"

"How can you ride a dog?" The old man laughed loudly: "This dog is used to announce the news. For this last journey, there are no cars. It has to be a boat. The dog will bring the boat."

As he said that, he drove the ox cart down a slope, and they all followed in a hurry.After descending into the valley, there was a green mountain stream in front of me, with the width of five or six boats, and the depth of the water could not be seen. On both sides of the stream, there was a flat mountain rock, and other places were towering cliffs. , the top of the canopy is covered with branches and leaves, and the sun is covered with thick shade, covering most of the sun, which makes the surrounding temperature drop several degrees.

Wu Sansheng supported the back of the bullock cart and asked the old man, "This dog can swim?"

"It's a good swim, it's a good swim." The old man sat in the car and tapped the dog's head with a pipe: "Donkey Dandan, go swim and have a look."

The dog was really intelligent, jumped into the river with a "woof", and swam around.He came up to shake his hair, and stuck out his tongue on the ground.

All happy, the old man looked at the sky and said: "It's still too early, the boatman must have not started work yet, let's take a break and smoke a cigarette."

Wu Xie looked at his watch: "We haven't started work at 2:[-] p.m. What is your boatman's work and rest time?"

"He is the only boatman here. He is the most powerful. When he wakes up and starts working, sometimes he doesn't start working for a day. He can kill people in a hurry." With such a boat family, he can do whatever he wants, and the village chief can't help him."

"Then why don't you hold a congress, remove him, and replace him with a neat person?" Wu Sansheng asked him.

"We also thought that you are from other places. I don't know. The mountain god here only sells his face. Once others enter the cave, they will definitely not be able to get out. He can go there with him, and he doesn't know how to clean up the ground. "

"Ah, there is a cave ahead?" Wu Sansheng was taken aback, and immediately took out the map. After looking at it, he seemed to suddenly realize: "It's really a river cave, how old man, this cave can still eat human?"

The old man chuckled: "That's the words left by the previous generations, and I can't remember clearly. I heard from my family that they said it, but I don't know if it's true."

When they heard it, they thought it might have something to do with the ancient tomb, so they hurriedly asked him to talk about it. The old man saw that we were interested, and he got excited, so he chatted for a while after smoking a cigarette.

It turned out that the cave was already there before the village. Unfortunately, no one knew that the two ends of the cave were connected. The cave was very strange, and people could not get out after entering it. Over time, the village said that there was a snake spirit in the cave. , Hidden piles were placed in the water to prevent the boat from entering. .

Then one day, a man suddenly propped a shopkeeper from the outside out of the hole. The village chiefs didn't believe him, and they all said that he was transformed by a snake spirit and wanted to beat him to death.Fortunately, there were a few daughters-in-law from the next village in the village at that time, and when they heard this man with a Xiangxi accent, they recognized him, saying that he was a real shopkeeper, who went to the next village every year, and that he sold all the rouge in .

A few clan heads ran to the next village to ask about it, and it was true, so they let him go.Since then, the cave seems to have recognized someone. Only the boatman's family can go straight in and out, and there has been no mistake for hundreds of years.

"Is that dog okay?" Wu Xie asked curiously, "Didn't you use it to report the letter?"

"Then I don't know, the old man. They say it's passed down from generation to generation. Who knows if it's true." The old man tapped the pipe on the ground. "We seldom take this waterway. There is a mountain road on the top of the mountain. We usually go there, but you have too many things. The mountain has been uneven in recent years. It keeps dropping rocks. It's not a big deal. Let’s play several times, let’s not dispute this tone, just wait and wait.”

Zhu Sha clapped her hands: "Donkey Dandan, come here"

That dog was really obedient, so he ran over, and Zhu Sha frowned when he sniffed the dog: "Wu Sanxing, you smell it..."

When Wu Sansheng picked him up and smelled it, his expression changed: "My grandma, why does it smell like this..."

Wu Xie also picked it up and smelled it, and he coughed because of the choking smell of dog show.Pan Zi laughed loudly: "You want to imitate your third uncle and sister Zhu Sha, you are still young."

"This dead dog, why is it so smelly!" Wu Xie grinned heartily.

Wu Xie approached Zhu Sha curiously like a baby, he lowered his voice and asked me, "Zhu Sha, what did you smell?"

Zhu Sha replied lightly: "The corpse stinks."

"No way." Wu Xie was so frightened that his hair stood on his head, and even the expression of the silent young man changed.

Wu Sansheng lit a cigarette, looked at the dog with a frown, and said to us: "Take all the guys, the cave in front is probably a corpse cave, cheer me up."

Da Kuita was about the size of the ox pulling the cart, but he was timid. He asked softly, "What the hell is that corpse hole?"

Wu Sansheng told everyone about his previous experience in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and then asked the old man: "My father, your boatman ancestors came from Xiangxi, right?"

The old man's face changed slightly, and he shook his head: "I don't know, it was something about his great-grandfather at that time, and he didn't even belong to a dynasty." He looked at the sky and barked at the dog: "Donkey egg!" Dan, go and bring your boat over here!" The dog whined, jumped into the water and swam to the back of the mountain.

At this time, Wu Sansheng winked at Pan Zi, and Pan Zi secretly took out a backpack from his luggage and put it on his back. The young man who was sitting on the side also stood up and took out his own bag from the pile of luggage. .

Zhu Sha said softly to Wu Xie: "This old man has a problem, be careful."

Wu Xie nodded, indicating that he knew.Afterwards, they all took out their luggage from the cart and carried it close to their bodies, so as not to be taken away with the ox cart if something happened.

"Donkey Dandan" swam back with a plop, and the old man slapped his bong on his trousers, "Go! The boat is coming." A flat boat came out from behind the mountain. The boat was made of cement and was dragged behind. It was a raft, with a middle-aged man who looked like a mountain man standing at the bow.

Cinnabar looked it over, it was very ordinary, he belonged to the kind of person who can't be found after being thrown into the crowd, the man yelled at us, leaned the boat against the rock, the old man patted the cow's neck, and beckoned us to board the boat .

All the luggage was dumped into the bucket, and the ox carts and oxen were pulled onto the raft behind. This time, there were too many things, and people had no place to sit, so they had to sit on the side of the boat.

Wu Sansheng negotiated the price with him, and he called for the boat to sail. The middle-aged man pulled the boat very deftly, and the boat floated out in no time.

The man propped up the boat and floated down the current. It took a long time to pass through the complicated river veins before he stopped the boat and said to us, "Wait a minute, there is a water hole ahead. When you are in the cave, please speak in a low voice, don’t look into the water, especially don’t speak ill of the mountain god.”

Pan Zi asked the third uncle in Hangzhou dialect: "What should I do? Do you want to listen to him?"

Wu Sansheng thought for a while, and replied in Hangzhou dialect: "Now I don't know if there is something wrong with these two people. The twists and turns here are more dangerous than I just expected. Let's listen to him for now. Come back, one step is one step, fuck the dick first"

The boat made another almost 180-degree bend, rounded a prow cliff, and the cave appeared in front of us. When we discussed it just now, we always imagined it as a large karst cave, but when we actually looked at it, it couldn’t be called The cave, which can only be called a hole, is just ten centimeters wider than the boat. The most terrifying thing is its height. People can't get in even sitting down.

Pan Zi scolded: "Damn it, this hole is too chilling."

Zhu Sha looked at the top of his head: "Sanxing is a robbery cave."

Wu Sansheng reached out and touched the cave wall, with a puzzled look on his face, "Fuck his grandma, it's really a robbery cave, the ancient circle is close to the square, and it's been quite a while."

The middle-aged man knelt on the bow of the boat with his waist bent and one hand, one point and one stroke. After hearing what a few people said, he interjected: "Oh, this person seems to have some background, and what he said is good. We now The mountain we passed was called Wufen Ridge, and it was passed down earlier, saying that this entire mountain is actually an ancient tomb, and there are many large and small water caves around here."

"Oh, it looks like you're an expert too." Wu Sanxing politely handed over a cigarette.

He shook his head and said: "What kind of expert, I also heard from those people who came here before. After listening to a lot, I can also say a few words, and I know such a simple thing. You must not Say I'm an expert."

Both Pan Zi and Dakui pressed their hands on their knives, chatting and laughing, while watching the movement around them vigilantly, Zhu Sha glanced at Wu Xie beside him, and it seemed that nothing was wrong, but Zhu Sha knew that his heart must have been beating gongs and drums .

Wu Sansheng lit a cigarette and asked the boatman what happened in the cave.While they were talking, the young man waved his hand suddenly and called softly: "Shh, listen! Someone is talking!" They were all startled by his sudden movement, and they all quieted down when they heard Xixisu's voice coming from from the depths of the cave.

Hearing this voice, I cried out in my heart that it was not good, and when I looked back, there was still a boatman on the bow, who had long since disappeared.

"Wu Sansheng, the boatman is gone," Zhu Sha reminded Wu Sansheng.

"Pan Zi, where did they go?" Wu Sanxing shouted anxiously

"I don't know, I didn't hear the sound of diving." Pan Zi also panicked, "I seemed to be distracted just now."

"Come on, we don't have corpse breath, so we don't know what will happen!" The third uncle became annoyed, "Zhu Sha, is there anything you can do?"

"It doesn't matter and keep going." Just as Zhu Sha finished speaking, the boat suddenly shook. Pan Zi hurriedly picked up the miner's lamp and shone in the water. Using the light, he saw a huge shadow swimming past in the water.

The young man stared straight into the water with both eyes, as if he was looking for something intently.

At this time, Wu Xie leaned into Zhu Sha's ear and asked me about this person's background. Zhu Sha motioned him to look at his hand with his eyes. "His middle finger and index finger are particularly long. In ancient times, there was a kind of skill of digging holes with the two fingers of General Faqiu. The master of Faqiu Lang, these fingers are as stable as Mount Tai, and they are extremely powerful. They can easily crack the hole in the tomb." However, in order to develop such a unique skill, one has to practice it from an early age, and the process is bound to be unbearable."

Wu Xie nodded understandingly, and saw him raise his right hand and insert it into the water like lightning. The movement was so fast that it was almost a flash of white light. Seeing a black bug, he threw the bug on the deck and said, "Don't panic, it was this thing just now."

Zhu Sha looked down, and couldn't help being stunned: "Isn't this a dragon louse! So the big shadow just now was just a large number of water louse swimming past?"

"Yes" the man rubbed his hands with his clothes.

Zhu Sha looked at the worm curiously, but the next moment her face froze: "That's not a water lice, it's a corpse weed!"

Everyone was stunned, "This corpse caterpillar eats carrion. There are many places where there are dead objects. If they eat well, they will grow bigger. It seems that there must be a place in the upper reaches where corpses are piled up. And the area is still large. Not small." Wu Sanxing looked at the dark hole.

At this time, Zhu Sha vaguely heard a strange sound coming from the depths of the cave, and kicked Wu Xie directly. Wu Xie lost his balance and fell into the water. After that, everyone except Zhu Sha jumped into the water.

Zhu Sha saw a corpse fly pounced on Pan Zi's head, raised a pair of big aokas and inserted them into Pan Zi's scalp.He flipped his left hand, the saber was already in his hand, and he directly tilted the knife towards the worm's mouth, and dug out one of his worms, and was thrown out by Pan Zi, and the worm directly pressed Wu Xie's face up.

Now Zhu Sha couldn't sit still anymore and stopped watching the fun, and stretched out her hand to hold back the disgusting impulse to take down the corpse.The corpse was in Zhu Sha's hands and pretended to be dead. The young man jumped onto the boat and threw the corpse to him.

The young man glanced at Zhu Sha, turned the worm over, and saw a hexagonal copper sealed wind chime the size of a fist on the worm's tail in a second. It was planted at some time, and it was already a mess of copper green. , the six sides of the wind chime are engraved with dense mantras.The young man shook the bug, and the hexagonal bell suddenly moved by itself!

Pan Zi was annoyed when he heard that, so he wanted to step on him, but he didn't expect that the bronze shell had actually aged badly, and the bell snapped, and he cracked it.An extremely foul-smelling green water burst out from inside, and Wu Sansheng punched Pan Zi angrily, wanting to knock on Pan Zi's head, thinking that his head had just been pierced with two holes, and his punching was probably the same as this bell I had no choice but to give up, and changed the beating into scolding: "You kid can't let me be more honest! This thing is a magic weapon to say the least, you ruined it for me just like this!"

"Okay, okay, stop arguing. Hurry up, if you like to turn around, I'll get you a box to hang on your bedside." Wu Sanxing's face froze when he saw Zhu Sha say that, and Wu Xie gloated and suppressed a smile.

Wu Sansheng hurriedly said: "Anyway, we're not going to quit, I want to see what is ahead that can produce such a big worm. Just follow Zhusha's advice and move forward!"

Wu Xie asked Zhu Sha on the side: "Zhu Sha, look, these are all whole stones. How did the ancestors of Daodou dig them out in ancient times? Even now, I'm afraid there are only a few hundred people who can't dig so deep. cave."

"Look at the round hole, it's very old. It's estimated that the person who dug this hole back then must have been an official, an army dedicated to fighting. It seems that we are going to find the tomb marked on the map. I'm afraid it's not as easy as we thought. .”

"Sister Zhu Sha, why are you so sure that the tomb is still there? You see, an army has come and dug such a long hole, so it's hard to guarantee that all the things have been removed!" Da Kui said, "I think, maybe we When I went in, there wasn’t even a coffin board.”

Wu Sanxing snorted and said, "If this bucket has been stolen for thousands of years, then we have nothing to say, but you must know that this cave does exist on that map, which shows that this The robbery hole already existed when the owner of the tomb was buried. The date of the robbery hole should be before the ancient tomb we are looking for. And there must be more than one tomb in this area. Who knows when this robbery hole was dug .”

"That is to say... everything we have encountered now, including the age of the huge corpse and the hexagonal bronze wind chimes, their owners may be earlier than the Warring States period?" Wu Xie shuddered.

Wu Sanxing shook his head, "I'm more concerned about why the owner of our tomb wants to place his tomb around another tomb that has been robbed, isn't this a big taboo in Feng Shui?

The young man waved his hand suddenly, telling everyone to keep quiet, and pointed to the front, and then he saw a green phosphorescence in the depths of the cave where the miner's lamp could not reach.Wu Sansheng sighed: "The corpses are here!"