palm river mountain

Chapter 112 Revisiting Wuping Mountain

Before dawn, Qingyun Mountain looked like a huge beast coveting passers-by in the vast night, as if it wanted to swallow people into its belly.

Duan Yi jumped down from the courtyard wall, dodged out of the alley, took a broom to sweep the fallen leaves in front of the concierge, rubbed her eyes, looked at the dim yellow lantern dangling in front of the opposite house, and complained Voice.

"It's blaring and windy today! I don't know there are a lot of fallen leaves to sweep! It's better than before. The master's house is not here, so it doesn't matter if you don't sweep."

Duan Yi shook her head, and together with Zhiqiao, she got on her horse and galloped away.

At dawn, Wuping Mountain is full of birds and animals, and the withered grass is covered with frost, and the snakes have already hibernated in their caves and disappeared.When the pheasant heard the sound of the horse's hooves, it burrowed its head into the thorn bushes, and when it got close, it jumped up in fright, and shed a beautiful coat of hair.

Because I have been here once, this time I went up the mountain faster, and when I got to the small forest, the east side just shone brightly.

There are already many people here, the living and the dead.

As soon as Duan Yi got off his horse, Su Yun and the old ghost immediately surrounded him.

The old ghost poohed, spat out the wild pepper he was chewing, and cursed, "I asked someone to take the lead. Yesterday I didn't find that there were bugs behind me, but I didn't want to expose my whereabouts. I should have just entered, and the blood was all gone." Still hot, not dry."

"I originally wanted to enter the tomb immediately, but that Mr. Cui said, wait for the third girl to come..."

Duan Yi nodded and looked behind him.

Passing through the grove, the Wuping Mountain, which looks like a palm print, appeared in front of my eyes. It was just like yesterday, and the white mist around the mountain was like rolling waves, ready to move.

But the difference is that on the flat ground, it looks like a slaughterhouse.

Bird corpses and human corpses were mixed together above, scarlet blood spilled all over the ground, it looked like a purgatory on earth, and broken weapons were stuck in the soil, like tombstones lined up one by one.

That fishy smell, just smelling it, makes people sick.

Looking further ahead, one can vaguely see that the spot Duan Yi marked on the tree yesterday has been dug up.

The newly dug out soil was much darker than the ground, piled there like a lonely grave.

Duan Yi narrowed her eyes, "Don't worry, someone is rushing to use corpses to pave a wide avenue for us, wouldn't it be a good thing. I didn't go back yesterday and asked someone to dig it immediately, so I expected this might happen."

As the old ghost listened, the big stone in his heart fell to the ground.

This time, when he went to the grave, after all, he was just here to help, Duan Yi was the master, so if she didn't panic, he wouldn't panic.

Su Yun on the side listened, and pointed forward eagerly, "As you said, I called the old ghosts and the others. They are nice and greedy. Obviously, before we came out, we ate sesame seed cakes, but they still returned them. Greedy for Xuan Yingjun's steamed buns."

As soon as the word "momo" came out, a hand was stretched out from behind him.

On that slender big hand lay a cold bun. Duan Yi resisted the urge to take a step back and shook her head, but the hand stubbornly stretched out and never retracted. Duan Yi had no choice but to grab it. He came over and stuffed it into his mouth.

Good guy, I have a toothache!

"We've run out of food, let's go. My old ghost and Cui Zi will take the lead. Su Yun and Lao Jia will guard the two gentlemen and close the old man. A few more nimble brothers will follow up, and the others will lie in ambush on the top of the mountain." on."

"If they take the first step and carry the treasure down the mountain, they will be stopped. Follow the arrangement given yesterday. Brothers who have come down to the tomb, don't touch the mechanism casually..."

When the group of veterans chewing steamed buns heard this, they automatically divided into two groups, and a few people who were astute at a glance stood up.

Duan Yi looked at it, and suddenly remembered Duan Hao, the unlucky guy who can be stepped on by any agency, and said, "If you often step on shit when you go out on weekdays, go back consciously."

As soon as this remark came out, the whole room roared with laughter, but there really was a little soldier with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, scratching his head, and took a step back, "Then I won't go, I didn't step on shit, but every time I beat eggs, I beat them out." It's all rotten eggs."

Now even Duan Yi laughed.

Cui Zi watched and gestured, the troops he brought were also divided into two groups as Duan Yi said.

But it's different from Duan Yi's laughing and joking like a rabble, the people over there seem to have only one tone when they walk.

Duan Yi saw it and glanced at Cui Zigeng.

Cui Zigeng took out a bamboo tube and handed it to her, "Isn't it disgusting and choking? There is a saying that domestic pigs can't eat coarse grains."

Duan Yi chuckled, "Well, wild boars don't even care if they have chaff in front of them."

As she said, she didn't pick up the bamboo tube, and rolled her eyes at Cui Zigeng.

Qi Langzhong and Mr. Yan took a look at each other, and they hated each other even more, so they separated and followed their students.

"Let's go!" Cui Zigeng said, leading the old ghost into Wuping Mountain first, Duan Yi nodded, pulled up her spear, and walked ahead.

As soon as she set foot on the open space, within fifty steps, the cloud hiding the white bird began to churn, Duan Yi's heart tightened, she glanced at Cui Zigen, Cui Zigen shook her head.

They agreed that they would not bring the sheepskin fragments with them when they came today. The left and right tombs have been found, and the map is no longer useful. It doesn't matter if there are sheepskin fragments or not.

But today's big bird is much more restless and violent than yesterday.

Mr. Qi stroked his beard and looked up to the sky, "My parents and brothers just died, and they are rolling with anger, what's wrong?"

Mr. Yan nodded, "Maybe it's going to be a funeral, look, it's spinning in circles in the sky! Dutiful sons and virtuous grandchildren send people up the mountain, and they circle around the coffin like this, dutiful sons kneel!"

The corners of Duan Yi's mouth twitched, and the tension that had arisen earlier was completely wiped out by these two old men.

The big white bird flew out of the clouds and mist, circled and neighed above everyone's heads, but never came down to bite.

Duan Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at each other tacitly with Cui Zi, both of them quickened their pace and walked towards the tomb door.

The road is extremely difficult to walk, because there are horribly dead corpses everywhere, and the sharp claws of the big bird have almost grabbed all the dead here.

"There are the most corpses in front of the tomb gate. They probably used crowd tactics. A group of people fought hard, while the other group dug three feet into the ground to dig out the tomb gate. The location is almost the same as what I said yesterday. not bad."

Duan Yi said, standing in front of the tomb door and stopped, "There is a lot of blood on the ground, there are quite a few of them, they should be seriously injured."

Su Yun stood behind and watched, and couldn't help interjecting, "But logically, birds shouldn't attack them. Where are there so many pieces of sheepskin?"

Duan Yi shook her head, "Birds jumping down are very scary. Most people will rise up and resist consciously. As long as they take the initiative to attack, they will also be attacked by birds. There are too many of them, and when there are too many people, chaos will occur."

"After all, there are really not many people standing like you waiting to be caught."

If it wasn't for Su Yun's audacity to attack those white birds yesterday, they would not have discovered the secret.

The people in front wanted to get ahead, but they didn't even have time to think about it, and directly pushed a bloody path with their lives.

"Go into the tomb, remember, don't touch it casually, everyone follow closely", Duan Yi said, looking at Mr. Guan who had been watching silently, "The next step is up to you."

(End of this chapter)