My daily mountain driving, I met a fox at the beginning and got married

Zhang Qilin nodded slightly and recounted what happened that day at the Xiangjiang River.

After hearing this, Hao Xie couldn't help but look at Zhang Qilin in amazement and said, "Stealing the sky and changing the day! Oh my god, Brother Zhang Hao actually has such a great ability! He used a sleight of hand in front of thousands of Yincha to successfully escape! This..."

Zhang Qilin was wiping the ancient black gold sword at this time, and then said: "I was also shocked! When I saw those ghosts, I thought I would never come back. But I didn't expect that all this was expected by the shopkeeper, and he had been prepared for it. Shopkeeper Zhang... is unfathomable!"

Hao Xie narrowed his eyes, thought about it thoughtfully, then shook his head and said, "Hey... Fortunately, Brother Zhang Hao anticipated everything. Otherwise, you would be in big trouble this time. But I'm still very puzzled, how did the Yinchai find us? Why did he suddenly come to us for no reason? Along the way, we didn't use the Zhengqin official position, let alone attract the Yinchai. It's a bit confusing."

Zhang Qilin stared out the window in a daze. He was thinking about this question when he left Tanzhou.

This time, the ghost messenger came to find him, obviously well prepared, and seemed to know that they were the ones pretending to be Fourth-Rank Zhengqin.

But it seems that he is not very sure, otherwise he would not have called only two ghost messengers to test him at the beginning.

After a while, Zhang Qilin shook his head and said, "I don't know. It seems that the ghosts were prepared this time. It's possible that one of us was discovered by the ghosts when we were using the fourth-rank official position, so they came to us. The shopkeeper said early on that powerful ghosts are not so easy to deceive."

After saying this, Hao Xie seemed to understand something.

Several of them have the official rank of Fourth Rank Zhengqin but he has never used it. Zhang Hao has used it countless times and has become very proficient in it. Moreover, his own level and strength are also there. If he says that he is the real Fourth Rank Zhengqin, no one will believe him.

And because Zhang Qilin pretended to be like last time, nothing unexpected happened after he used the official seal of the fourth-rank official.

Is it...

Hao Xie smiled bitterly and then said, "I guess it's probably because Fatty gave it away when he was using it. He tends to be proud on weekdays. Forget it, if something went wrong with one of our own people, then it would be fine. I'm just worried that if something went wrong with someone other than our inn and it attracted the Yincha, then our next mission would be much more dangerous. Now that I've figured it out, I'll go back to sleep."

Zhang Qilin nodded slightly and did not see Hao Xie off.

On the other side, Zhang Hao was in his room, looking at the Soul-Calming Tower in his hand and slowly curling his lips.

"This thing is quite useful. But the next thing is troublesome. If other ghost messengers come to visit every few days like Zhao Li, I won't be able to do business. It seems that I have to deal with it properly."

As soon as he finished speaking, a cold snort came from the Soul Calming Tower: "Humph! If you catch me, the people from the Underworld will find this place sooner or later. Then you can just wait to die! So I advise you to let me go. I will pretend that I have never been here today! This will be good for all of us."

Zhang Hao raised his lips, picked up a brush and drew a spell on the yellow paper, then said calmly: "Let you go? Wouldn't that be equivalent to telling you that I am the ghost messenger pretending to be a fourth-rank official, and that I am the one who captured your seventh-rank ghost messenger? Will you act as if nothing happened? Do you really think I'm easy to fool?"

After saying that, Zhang Hao pasted the talisman on the Soul-Calming Tower and continued, "You have been suppressed here, so just stay here quietly for a few days."

At the same time, in a cave under the Miaojiang Canyon.

Huo Xiu'er and the archaeological team members were walking mechanically, exhausted.

They didn't know how far they had walked, they only knew that their strength was almost exhausted.

In addition, there was no light in the cave, so the few people were just exploring aimlessly with torches in hand.

When several people's cell phones ran out of battery, they completely lost the concept of time.

Even if someone is wearing a watch and the hour hand on the watch points to one o'clock, they still don't know whether it is one o'clock in the afternoon or one o'clock in the morning.

"Miss Huo, if there wasn't the Gu Bell your friend mentioned, wouldn't we all be trapped here to death?" an archaeologist asked tiredly.

"Yeah, it feels like we've been walking for a long time! I don't know if we'll continue like this... Oh." Another archaeologist also complained.

"Why is this cave so deep?" another archaeologist asked in confusion.

"It's not that deep, but there are too many forks in the road. When we came here, we encountered a total of 17 forks in the road. Now we have walked through 14 of them. There are only three more forks to go before we can walk through this entire cave." Huo Xiu'er replied.

"I feel like I have no strength left!" said an archaeologist weakly.

At this moment, Huo Xiu'er couldn't help but glance at the archaeological team members under the firelight, then shook her head silently.

Their cell phones were out of battery, so it was impossible to contact Hao Xie now.

However, Huo Xiu'er firmly believed what Hao Xie said, there must be something in this cave.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many forks in the road, right?
And looking at the shapes of the caves inside, it is obvious that these caves were not formed naturally, but were dug out by humans.

So Huo Xiuer said firmly at this time: "Everyone hold on a little longer, we will definitely find the Gu Bell!"

"Don't be discouraged, everyone."

"There are many caves here. As members of the archaeological team, I think you have already noticed the problem."

"The excavation marks on the walls suggest that the caves were artificially excavated."

"Since it was man-made, there must be some clues left behind."

"Now we only have three forks left to explore, and I feel the answer is not far away."

Professor Jin couldn't help but look at Huo Xiu'er in confusion at this moment, and began to question whether Hao Xie's words were true, so he asked:
"Xiao Huo, if you have walked through all these forked roads and still haven't found the Gu Bell your friend mentioned, what should you do?"

Huo Xiuer glanced at Professor Jin, barely suppressed her anger, and asked back:

"Professor Jin, what do you mean?"

Professor Jin sighed and continued:
"I just think that your friend might just happen to know about the death worm and happen to guess something correctly."

“Perhaps he doesn’t know much about Kuiliang’s tomb, otherwise, we should have gotten out by now.”

"But I'm not blaming you. I'm just thinking that if I really can't get out, I might as well dedicate my life to archaeology and find the gate to the Kuiliang Tomb. Even before I die, I can see the true face of the Kuiliang Tomb!"

As soon as Professor Jin finished speaking, the other archaeologists turned their heads and glared at him.

"Professor Jin, you've lived for more than sixty years, so of course you don't care about death, but we don't want to follow you to die!"

"That's right. And I remind you, if you really find a way out, don't become a burden to us! When you came down from the cliff before, you attracted death worms. If this cave wasn't too small and they couldn't get in, we would be in trouble!"

"That's right. His archaeological attainments are not that high, but he is quite good at deceiving people."

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At this moment, everyone's heart was filled with nameless anger. After all, they were trapped here.

If you go out, you will face the risk of being devoured by death worms. The root cause of all this is the wrong information.

Professor Jin aroused public anger at this time, so naturally no one looked at him well.

Professor Jin also tactfully shut his mouth and made no more sound.

Just when everyone felt that their physical strength had reached its limit, someone suddenly discovered that under the dim firelight, a huge shadow appeared not far ahead.

"Look!" an archaeologist said in surprise, pointing at the shadow in front of him.

"There seems to be something ahead!"

After hearing the news, everyone seemed to be less tired and became alert all of a sudden, so they ran closer to take a look.

As a result, they found that at the end of this fork in the road, there was a huge bronze bell. On the surface of the bronze bell, there were countless snakes, insects, rats, ants, and five poisonous sacred treasures carved.

At the same time, there were densely packed characters engraved on the surface of the bronze bell, but no one here could recognize the characters on the bronze bell, so someone looked at Professor Jin and asked:

"Professor Jin, do you recognize the words on it?"

Professor Jin shook his head, indicating that he had never seen it before. He said:

"Kuiliang is not a big country. Although the existence of this country has been mentioned in history, there is no information about this country!"

"So I don't know much about the writing system of Kuiliang."

"I know a few of the characters, but when so many of them are put together, I don't know."

For a moment, everyone shook their heads helplessly, and suddenly someone asked:
"By the way, Huo Xiu'er, there is so little information about the Kuiliang Kingdom, why is your friend so familiar with the Kuiliang Tomb?"

"You even know about something like the Gu Bell?"

Huo Xiu'er also shook her head, thinking that she hadn't seen him for several years and no one knew what he was doing now.

To be honest, she was shocked when Hao Xie told her about Kuiliang's tomb.

Shocked that Yu Haoxie actually knew so much!

"I don't know either. He has never been here, but he knows this place very well. To be honest, I want to ask him what's going on!" Huo Xiuer explained, "But let's not worry about it now."

"Let's first think about whether this bell is a Gu bell!"

At this time, the archaeological team looked at the surface of the bronze bell, especially the many snakes, scorpions and poisonous creatures carved on it, and couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Miss Huo, since your friend said that the bell is a Gu bell, then it should be related to Gu."

"There are so many poisonous creatures carved on this bell that can only appear when practicing Gu in Miaojiang. It should be the Gu Bell, right?"

"But what does the charm on this bell mean?"

At this time, everyone had noticed that there was a yellow talisman paper pasted on the Gu Bell, and they couldn't help feeling a little confused.

"My friend said that there was a swindler who did some tricks because he saw how sinister and dangerous the Kuiliang Tomb was."

"Unless Mr. Walker comes, no one can enter Kuiliang's tomb again."

"This talisman looks like the kind used in ancient times to suppress ghosts."

"I think this must be the work of the walking master!"

"If you think so, then this bell should be a Gu bell!"

As soon as the words fell, everyone couldn't help but reveal a hint of surprise in their eyes, looking at the Gu Bell as if they saw hope.

Some people even excitedly struck the Gu bell, which produced a dull and melodious sound.

"when"

However, as soon as the sound of the Gu Bell rang out, everyone frowned and slowly felt a sense of discomfort.

It feels like bugs are crawling all over your body and makes you feel very uncomfortable.

"Ah! It's so itchy. What the hell is going on with this bell sound? After I heard this sound, I felt like bugs were crawling all over my body!"

"Me too, is this why it's called the Gu Bell?"

"It seems that we have found the right place this time. Great, we have a chance to get out!"

"In ancient times, did the people of Kuiliang use this thing to tame death worms?"

"Damn it, if I kept hearing this sound, I'd be tamed, too!"

"This is amazing, but how can we transport this thing outside? It looks like it must weigh one or two thousand pounds!"

"Yeah, we can't leave anyone here to ring the bell, right?"

Huo Xiu'er couldn't help but frown at this time. If a bell was rung here, this cave would become an amplifying loudspeaker, which would indeed transmit the sound to the outside.

But everyone wants to go out, so it’s impossible for anyone to stay here and ring the bell!

"Hey, there seems to be something under this Gu Bell!" someone said suddenly.

Because the bottom of the Gu Bell is not flat, but corrugated.

Therefore, you can see the inside of the bronze bell through some gaps.

After hearing the sound, everyone couldn't help but look towards the bottom of the Gu Bell in confusion.

Some people even stuffed torches in, and then used their cell phone screens as mirrors to see what was inside the bronze bell.

As a result, someone saw what seemed to be a human figure appearing inside the bronze bell.

"It looks like there's a person imprisoned inside this clock!"

"Ah? People!"

"No way, who would put someone in a Gu Bell?"

"Could it be the funeral culture of their Kuiliang country?"

"Stop it, this kind of funeral culture is too ridiculous, isn't it?"

"How about putting it down and see?"

"Stop messing around. How can you stand it up again after you put it down? It weighs a thousand or two thousand pounds!"

"If you put it down, you can let it roll to the hole!"

“Even if we roll to the entrance of the cave, no one can stay and ring the bell!”

For a moment, everyone was caught in a dilemma, but what they were more curious about was why there was a corpse under the Gu Bell!
"Could it be?" Huo Xiuer frowned and looked at Gu Zhong thoughtfully and said, "Could it be that this is the method used by the footman?"

As soon as he finished speaking, all the members of the archaeological team looked at Huo Xiuer and began to make associations in their minds.

Walking master.

Dead body.

There does seem to be some connection between the two!
Huo Xiuer stared at the talisman on the Gu Bell, then walked over and peeled off the talisman. (End of this chapter)