Jie Ling Lu

Such a discovery made everyone's faces freeze, and at this moment Xun Youling's cell phone rang suddenly, and the sudden sound made everyone stunned, subconsciously put on a defensive posture, and it took a while to realize that it was The notification tone of the mobile phone.

"Isn't there no signal after entering the mountain? Xiaochun, why does your mobile phone still have a message notification?" Xun Zuo asked strangely, taking advantage of the situation, he took out his own phone to check, and it was still in a state of no signal.

Xun Youling was also surprised. She took out the phone and found that it was a location sharing message sent by Xun Yang. She clicked on it almost at the same time as she saw the message, but as soon as Fang connected, the positions of the two red dots flashed on the phone screen. After that, it shows that the sharing has been interrupted.

She immediately re-initiated the invitation, but the mobile phone prompted her to connect to the network. She saw that her mobile phone had become in a state of no signal.

Since knowing the news of Xun Huai's accident, Xun Youling has been calling Xun Yang's number every once in a while since Dingxuan Temple, but all these calls indicate that they cannot be connected. This time the location sharing is still from Xun Yang's time. After calling from the commissary, this is the first contact.

Frustrated, Xun Youling shared the news with several people, handed over his mobile phone, and motioned them to move around to see if there might be a signal. Xun You took Xun Youling's mobile phone, and then handed over the jade pendant in his hand. , and motioned for Xun Youling to keep it.

Xun Nagan patiently waited for a few people to test the phone signal. During this period, he deduced the state of Xun Yang and the others again, and his complexion did not improve at all. After waiting for a few minutes, several people were still walking around. He could not believe the current technology. Xun Nagan lost his patience.

"It's almost enough. Everyone pack up and we'll move on. If Xun Yang really has so much free time, we don't need to come here." After Xun Nagan finished speaking, he took the lead in carrying his own backpack.

Xun Youling stood up with Ji Xinxi on his back and said, "I just took a quick look and probably know which direction to go. I'll take the lead."

Xun Ge walked up to her and said, "Xiaochun, do you want me to recite Xiaoxi?"

Xun Youling shook his head and rejected his kindness. Of course, his wife had to recite it by herself. She was worried about others. Her physique was more than enough to recite a Ji Xinxi, but in order to avoid unnecessary wear and tear, Wen Lianzhen reminded Xun Youling to put her tablet away On Ji Xinxi's body.

Xun Youling did as he said, and suddenly felt that Ji Xinxi could hardly be felt on her shoulders, and she could recite ten more Ji Xinxi like this.

Several people packed up their things, replenished water in the camp, and some food such as beef jerky and chocolate, and set off to move forward again. It was already three o'clock in the morning.

There is no lighting equipment on the mountain, and you can't see your fingers when you look out. Fortunately, the camp has excellent lighting equipment, which solves this problem for them.

Xun Ge walked beside Xun Youling to prevent any accidents, and took advantage of the opportunity to find a topic to chat with: "Xiaochun, do you think the people in this camp are the ones who were fed ghost vines?"

Xun Youling glanced at him, and still complained in her heart that the other party pulled her away from Ji Xinxi's side just now, but she also knew that Xun Ge was out of concern for her, and it wasn't intentional for her to get angry. Pursing his lips, he continued: "Probably a wave of people, I don't know where this wave of people came from, it seems that the equipment is all excellent, it will take a lot of effort to prepare, it must be with reason."

Seeing that Xun Youling was willing to speak up, Xun Ge breathed a sigh of relief, and continued along the topic: "It looks a bit like tomb robbers but a little different, and I'm not sure who they are, but I just found them in the camp. this."

Xun Ge showed something in front of Xun Youling, and Xun Youling found that it was a silver lighter with a black pattern on it. She felt that the pattern looked familiar, so she gave a light snort and said, "Xi Xi you Look, isn't this..."

Subconsciously, Xun Youling wanted to ask Ji Xinxi for confirmation, but then she looked at the face with her eyes closed and leaning on her shoulders, her eyes darkened and her mouth was filled with confusion.

Seeing her like this, Xun Ge immediately followed the conversation and drew Xun Youling's attention back.

"Xiaochun, what do you see on this lighter?"

Xun Youling turned his gaze back to the lighter. There was a crow spreading its wings on it, which was very similar to Geng Sheng's tattoo, but Geng Sheng's tattoo was two, and it was much more complicated than that. If you take it out and look at it, the pattern is almost the same.

She couldn't help guessing in her heart, assuming that this group of people belonged to Geng Sheng, those people disappeared after leaving Qu Ruogong's tomb, and even when the official archaeological team went to the tomb to investigate later, there was no follow-up report on this and news spread.

And Geng Sheng appeared alone in Feng Moxuan's tomb, and died on the spot. Now this group of people appeared near the place where Xun Huai's accident happened, as if they had been circling around their Dingxuan Temple. If this was not a coincidence, what happened? Who knows their whereabouts so well.

Thinking of this, Xun Youling opened his mouth and called Xun Nagan. Xun Nagan walked a few steps slowly and came to her and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xun Youling asked if Xun Nagan and Xun Yang had found anything about Qiye after they came out of Feng Moxuan's tomb.

Xun Nagan's small eyes glanced at Xun Youling, a little surprised that Xun Youling asked what he was doing at this time, but he still said along the words: "I told you before that the people in the north are good at robbing tombs, and most of the tomb robbers are greedy. Bold, they have long guessed that our Dingxuanguan hides a huge tomb, so they have been probing openly and secretly for a hundred years."

"But they are also the ones who are most afraid of Taoism among the other three parties. After all, they are considered to be on the front line of the underworld when they go to the tomb, so they are also the ones who need Taoist priests to exorcise evil spirits the most. Although they have doubts in their hearts, they dare not take action."

"After you told me that time, I preliminarily judged that the people over there did the tricks, so I followed this idea to investigate with Xun Yang, but in the end, I only found out that the Geng Sheng you mentioned was a group of people secretly accepting all kinds of desperadoes. An underground gang that buys and sells."

"This group of people is not well-known, so it took a lot of effort to find out, but there was no information about the Seventh Master. It was as if people appeared and disappeared out of thin air. Geng Sheng was hired by this Seventh Master. Lord, offer this man up like a God of Wealth."

"I guess this Seventh Master is probably from the north. That group of people do extreme things and never keep their tails. It is basically impossible to verify."

After hearing this, Xun Youling felt that according to what Xun Nagan said, her conjecture could be established, so she told Xun Nagan what she had found. Xun Nagan patted his fan on his palm with a thoughtful face.

"According to what you said, it is not impossible. Now that group of people have received the news that I have a tomb in Dingxuan Temple, they naturally think that we still have other tombs hidden. It makes sense to follow us to see if we can find anything. .”

Then he shook his head again, and continued: "But this is just one of the speculations, and we can't verify it now. If we are fundamentally wrong, and this group of people has nothing to do with the people in the north, then we are delving into the dead end."

Xun Youling nodded, feeling a little lost in her heart. If Ji Xinxi was awake at the moment, she would think about things more comprehensively than her, and maybe there would be a new way of thinking. She gently supported Ji Xin on her back with her hand. In the past, I hurried on my way with my head bowed and a muffled voice.

The atmosphere in the world returned to the previous silence again. The road up the mountain was difficult to walk, and the weeds were overgrown with unknown species. Walking while chopping with a machete, the terrain winds up, and it seems that you can't see the end in it.

Because he wanted to chop plants, Xun Youling, who was carrying Ji Xinxi on his back, retreated to the middle of the line. Xun Zuo and Xunyou led the way. , Since the work in their hands has no technical content, they do it very casually.

There was a muffled blunt sound, and Xun Zuo Ya lifted up the machete in his hand and moved his wrist, and said in a low voice: "Oh~ what is so hard, it makes my hands numb."

Hearing this, Xun You brushed away the weeds in front of Xun Zuo with a machete, and a stone statue was revealed inside. The statue was covered with moss and could not be seen clearly. He scratched it randomly with the machete in his hand, revealing the original appearance of the stone statue come out.

It was a statue of a boa constrictor hovering over it. It was carved so meticulously that even the scales on the snake's body were clearly visible. It looked like it was in a good dream.

Xun Zuo and Xun You were amazed to see it, and they kept beating around with a machete to see if there was a mechanism or something else.

Seeing this, Xun Ge stepped forward and shouted: "Don't be so reckless all the time, don't touch it casually if you don't know what it is, what if something goes wrong?"

As he said that, he was going to get the machete in Xun You's hand, intending to take over the work of the other party and open the way ahead. He was walking there when he suddenly tripped over something and fell forward. Xun Zuo and Xun You were just caught by him He scolded the childish one for not reaching out to help.

Xun Ge staggered and stabilized his figure, then felt his wrist sink. He subconsciously looked for something to support his body just now, and now he just pressed it on the snake's head of the statue. His height of nearly two meters is not small in itself. He practiced Taoism all the year round, and with this palm, the stone statue was sunk by him.

Alarm bells were ringing in his heart, and he suddenly felt bad. Seeing this, several people were about to turn around and leave, but at this moment, the ground under their feet suddenly became soft, and followed by the rattling sound of the statue turning, the coiled snake actually swam Standing up, the snake's head was straightened up.

The footsteps of the few people could no longer move, and they were deeply sunk in the mud under their feet. Immediately, the surrounding vegetation began to collapse. Xun Naqian shouted: "No! It's a swamp!"

He slapped the fan in his hand quickly, trying to shake the dirt that bound his feet away, but the force continued, but the ground surface only slightly shook and sank faster. He couldn't help but widen his eyes, seeming very surprised by the result. And the snake head over there opened its mouth strangely, and a puff of blue smoke spewed out, and the few people who were busy getting away were suddenly hit by it.

Supporting Ji Xinxi's body, Xun Youling felt that her brain was dizzy instantly, and the things in front of her eyes swayed in the blink of an eye, and she fell into a drowsy consciousness the next moment.

At the last moment before losing consciousness, she felt that Ji Xinxi behind her seemed to be slowly moving away from her.