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I turned around and looked at Xia Xi.

Xia Xi said: "Yes! It's most likely in one of the cliff caves."

Master Bo said, "But there's no way to find it!"

"If it's a big mountain, we can ask Xiaohu to take us into the mountain. But it's almost a [-]-degree cliff. How do we get up? Moreover, there are so many caves on the cliff, and we can't take Xiaohu by helicopter to the cliff. I checked one by one in front of the cave, and I don’t even know which cliff cave contains your friends.”

This is true.

There seems to be an impasse here.

Although Xiaohu knows the information, firstly, he cannot speak, and secondly, he cannot use laser light to indicate to us which rock wall cave there is someone inside.

Xia Xi said: "How to get up is easy to solve. There are three burial methods in cliff burial. One is the ladder method. Cross the river by boat, fix the boat at the bottom of the cliff, raise the ladder from the boat, and send the coffin into one of them through the ladder. Cliff cave.”

"The second is the hole method. There is a large hole at the bottom of the cliff. This place can lead to all the rock caves above. People can climb up through the hole with the coffin and send it into a certain cliff cave for burial. "

"The third is the hanging rope method. The cliff in front is a mountain. From the back of the mountain or somewhere on the side of the mountain where you can climb, first send people to climb to the top of the cliff cave, put a copper ring on the top of the mountain, and fix the long rope. , people slide down through the rope, first find the entrance to the rock wall to be buried, and then hang the rope to the river. People on the shore take the coffin to the bottom of the cliff in a boat, tie the coffin with a rope, and then lift the coffin up. Go up and put it into the cave in the rock wall, and then come down through the rope."

"I don't know which method this village will take, but as long as we know which cliff cave Lao Wu entered, we can always find a way to get in. The key to the problem now is that there are dozens or hundreds of cliff caves on the opposite cliff. Which one he enters is indeed a big question."

We stood there and looked at the cave on the opposite side of the rock for a long time, but we couldn't figure out why.

At last.

I had no choice but to say: "Let's go back and think of a solution first."

Several people returned.

When passing by the village ancestral hall, I saw many villagers inside, and they seemed to be holding some kind of ceremony.

Lang Zai is also helping inside.

I saw him and waved to him.

Lang Zai ran over: "Brother Su, what's wrong?"

I asked: "Lang Zai, what are you doing in the village?"

Lang Zai replied: "Widow Du moved her husband's grave. Her husband was buried behind the cliff. The family was very unhappy. The child had been sick for several years. The farmer at home was sacrificed by wild boars every year. The last time it rained, the house was given to It collapsed under pressure. Mr. Geography said that the place where her husband was buried had bad feng shui and he planned to move it to another place."

I asked again: "When will we do it?"

Lang Zai replied: "Mr. Geography said that at eight o'clock tonight, the coffin will be raised to make a fortune."

I asked again: "None of us have seen cliff burials, can we see them?"

Lang Zai said: "Okay! The more popular you are, the more money you will have!"

I was full of curiosity: "How did you send the coffin up?" Hearing this, Lang Zai smiled honestly: "With a rope, I have to climb from the back mountain to the top of the mountain to make copper rings later... ...By the way, Brother Su, this is the dish I got today, you can cook it yourself, I am not free today."

It seems that the third method adopted in this village is the hanging rope method.

We return home.

Mr. Bo cooks by himself.

I sat in the yard smoking a cigarette.

Xia Xi asked: "What are you thinking about?"

I said, "I feel a little weird."

Xia Xi asked: "What's weird?"

I said: "I asked Lang Zai before if anyone came to play in the village recently. Lang Zai told me that five people came in with fishing gear more than ten days ago, but after they came in, they didn't know He went fishing along the river, probably somewhere else, and he never saw them again. Judging from this information, this group of fishermen must be Bian Wu and others."

"You said there are three ways to enter the cliff cave, ladder, hole, and hanging rope. Bian Wu and others used the ladder method to enter the cliff cave. The first thing to exclude was because even if it is a telescopic ladder, a group of people would set up a hundred-meter ladder on a boat. Entering the cliff cave, if there is too much movement, the villagers will definitely notice it.”

"The first thing I thought of was the hole method. Bian Wu and others swam over quietly and found a large hole under the cliff that could lead to the top. A few people passed through the big hole and secretly went up to the cliff burial cave. But it seems impossible at the moment. , if there were such holes, the village would not use the strenuous method of hanging ropes to move the tombs."

"Then Bian Wu and the others entered through the hanging rope method. They first climbed to the top of the cliff from the back mountain or side mountain, fixed it with copper rings, and then slid down through the rope and entered one of the cliff caves. But there is The most critical issue is that the hanging rope method can be used to get in, but they still have to rely on the copper ring to lift the rope out in the end, because the cliff cave is almost a hundred meters high, and it is impossible for them to jump from the cave entrance into the river. Or climb to the top of the cliff with your bare hands.”

"But we didn't see any ropes left on the cliff. Doesn't this mean they are cutting off their own escape route?"

Xia Xi blew out a smoke ring: "I heard Lang Zai talking about using the hanging rope method, and I also thought about this problem."

"Perhaps Lao Wu has the ability to fly over walls and climb over walls. He can leave from a height of [-] meters without a rope?"

I said speechlessly: "That's nonsense! It's okay for Bian Wu to climb the wall and enter the house, but for him to do this on such a [-]-degree cliff is like wanting to reincarnate. Besides, even if he can, how awesome are the other four? "

Xia Xi said: "There are only two possibilities. One is that they already knew that after entering the cliff cave, there are other exits in the cave and there is no need to return from the original cave entrance. The other is that they may not be using me to enter the cliff cave. The three methods mentioned.”

I nodded: "We seem to have reached a dead end now, let's not worry about anything else for now. Later we will follow Lang Zai to the top of the mountain to see if there are any traces of the latest copper ring piling on the top of the mountain, and to confirm how they got in." "

Xia Xi threw away the cigarette butt: "Nothing wrong!"

After lunch.

Xia Xi and I found Lang Zai.

Lang Zai and a few other men took their tools and prepared to go up the mountain.

I smiled and said: "Lang Zai, we have never seen this kind of burial method. If we want to see something strange, please take us there." (End of Chapter)