Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 90
I don't know how to describe these two birds?From the appearance, these two birds are huge, and they feel like they are covering the clouds and avoiding the moon when they swoop down like this. Their white bodies always make me feel faintly golden.

I saw them staying on the corpse, like the vultures eating the corpse on the Tibetan celestial burial platform, pecking at the corpse extremely fast.However, in just ten seconds, one of the corpses was pecked clean, leaving only the white bones, and it felt even more strange under the reflection of the moonlight.

The other four corpses also failed to escape this fate, and soon became skeletons under the pecking of white birds.

After eating enough, the two white birds honked at the corpse driver a few times, as if thanking him, and then circled and disappeared into the surrounding mountains...

"This, this can't be the sun god bird?" Yazai's startled voice raised slightly.

Fortunately, the corpse exorcist was kneeling down and performing a ceremony similar to worshiping, so he didn't notice it.

Lao Yan shook his head at Yazai, telling him to rest for a while, but my heart has already set off a huge wave, and I wish I could grab Yazai and ask him now.However, I also know that now is not the time, so I have no choice but to suppress the excitement in my heart!
According to legend, there are several iconic things in the ancient Shu Kingdom - standing statues, golden rods and bronze sacred trees.

The first two have been excavated in the Sanxingdui site and are now key protected cultural relics, but the latter still exists in legends.

It is said that the bronze sacred tree is as high as three feet, integrating multiple functions such as "Fusang", "Jianmu" and "Ruomu". It is divided into three floors and has nine branches. There is a bird standing on each branch. Not a simple bird, but a divine bird representing the sun.

Although no trace of the bronze sacred tree has been found so far, the traces of the sun god bird have also appeared in other places. For example, there are two opposite birds, one female and one male, carved on the golden rod. Archaeologists believe that this is very likely It is the sun bird.

Now that the legendary sun god bird appeared in the valley, does it mean that the ancient Shu kingdom or the tomb of Cancong is nearby?

I took a look at Lao Yan and saw that although he looked calm on the surface, his eyes were shining brightly, so I knew he was also enduring it.

I suppressed the excitement in my heart, and turned my attention back to the corpse driver, only to see that he finished a set of movements similar to worshiping, then turned and walked back blankly.

And the five skeletons fell directly to the ground and broke into several pieces.

Lao Yan said in a low voice: "There must be something strange about this depression, let's look at it later, now follow the corpse hunter!"

Naturally, we will not object, after all, the depression is here and will not run, and there are obviously more secrets on the corpse driver.If it was said that following him before was just because he felt that his purpose of expelling corpses was not pure, but now it has more meaning, such as what relationship does he have with the ancient Shu Kingdom, why did he feed the sun god bird here?

That's right, it was feeding. Looking at the black water in the depression, if it was really caused by too many corpses, the exorcists should have been feeding them for a long time.

We followed the corpse driver silently. This time there was no bell as a guide. We dare not follow too far, and we are afraid that he will find out if we follow too close, so it is a little more difficult than when we came.

The corpse driver walked back according to the way he came, and would look back from time to time along the way, which made us think we had been discovered!But every time we saw him and walked back as if nothing had happened, he didn't seem to see us, which made us a little confused.

The road in the mountains was not easy to walk, but the corpse driver seemed to be walking on flat ground, and his speed was not affected at all. After walking for about ten minutes, he even accelerated his speed, and in a blink of an eye he dropped us by a certain distance.

We also hurriedly chased after him, for fear that he would disappear if he was not careful.

creak...

The crisp sound of the branches came, and we all looked back, only to see Yazai staring at us innocently, and the broken branches were under his feet.

Lao Yan glared at him resentfully, and quickly pulled us to hide in the bushes on the side.

The sound of broken branches may not be obvious during the day, but now it is night, everything is silent, even the sound of insects has disappeared, and the sound is undoubtedly amplified many times.

Sure enough, the corpse driver in front turned his head and walked back a few steps in doubt. We covered our mouths and noses and dared not breathe.

He walked to the place where Yazai had just stood, bent down to pick up the broken branch, looked at it and threw it away.From his appearance, he didn't seem to notice anything, but when he walked back again, the speed was obviously faster.

After he had walked a certain distance, we got out of the bushes and followed him at a faster speed. In this way, we followed back and forth, and in the middle of the night, we were able to fall far behind without losing track.

At this moment, the moonlight was suddenly covered by a dark cloud, and our vision was hindered. After we got used to the darkness again, the figure in front of us had disappeared.

"Where is the person?" I ran two steps forward. Although the road was rough, this section of the road was relatively straight. There was no reason for him to suddenly disappear in front of us.

Lao Yan and the others followed, lay down on the ground for a closer look, and then said, "I'm afraid this person has discovered us..."

"Lost it?" I said in awe, this is a rare clue, it would be a pity if I lost it.

Lao Yan laughed inexplicably, pointed at Kumbu and said how could we lose him with him?

I also understood that during this period of time, Kumbu should have made some preparations. Sure enough, he nodded and said that he had put Shadow Gu on the corpse chaser from the beginning, and now he only needs to use Shadow Gu Just get in touch.

Yazai asked a lot on the side: "Since there is Shadow Gu, why are we working so hard?"

Kumbu gave him a blank look and did not speak, but Lao Yan reached out and patted the boy on the head: "If you say you are stupid, you still don't believe it. Shadow Gu is just an insect that can communicate with its master. It loses contact after a certain distance. Isn't it Blame you, what are you doing stepping on the branches, otherwise we will lose it?"

Yazai said aggrievedly that the branch had to stay there, he couldn't help it?

Lao Yan didn't bother to talk to him, but just asked if there was any news from the Shadow Gu on the side of Kunbu.

Kunbu closed his eyes, moved his hands slightly, and at the same time said something I couldn't understand. Lao Yan explained in a low voice that it was Miaojiang dialect, which was used to control Gu worms.

I yelled, and saw Miss Qiu looked at Kumbu with a complicated expression. I asked her what was wrong, and she leaned into my ear and said, "The induction between Shadow Gu and Kumbu shouldn't be so difficult..."

I couldn't quite understand, and she didn't continue to explain, but just waited quietly.

After about half a minute, Kumbu opened his eyes again, and there was no good or bad from his expression.

"What's the matter, why don't you just say something?" Lao Yan's patience was about to be worn out, after all, with this time, the corpse chasers didn't know where to go.

Kumbun said with a sigh: "The Shadow Gu is not lost, but the position is a bit strange!"

strange?
We asked him why it was strange, but he didn't speak, just let us follow up first.The farther away the Shadow Gu is from him, the weaker the induction will be. Since the induction is still strong now, it's important to follow up first.

But Kumbu didn't go straight down this straight road. Instead, after walking about ten meters, he turned directly into the bushes, which left us dumbfounded.

He explained that the connection left by Dao Shadow Gu is here.

"That's right, there are indeed traces of people walking here!" Miss Qiu squatted down, and illuminated the road under her feet with a flashlight.

I looked at it but didn't see any tricks, I just thought it was miraculous.Ms. Qiu smiled and explained that this is nothing, but that it requires careful observation. Whether there is anyone walking by in a place, even the dust is different. Where no one is walking, the dust is evenly distributed, and there are people walking by. No matter how light the person's footsteps are after walking by, the dust will be relatively messy.

The same is true for the bushes. There is a difference between someone walking by and no one walking by. Although the corpse driver's movements are very slight, which almost erases this difference, it can't completely fool her.

I was dumbfounded when I heard it. What Miss Qiu said was actually a tracking technique in the army. I heard Company Commander Chen mention it before.But because we are transport soldiers, we don't focus on training in these aspects, and I only know a few simple tracking methods. I really don't have the ability to observe the details like her.

When she was explaining, Kumbu had already gone out first, and we quickly followed, but we still didn’t dare to turn on the flashlight too blatantly. After all, no one knows where the corpse chaser is?
So only Miss Qiu held a flashlight in her hand, shrunk the light to her feet.

"Why do you feel like you're walking into a deep mountain?" I looked around. Originally, we were going down the mountain, but after such a turn, it seemed that we were going up the mountain again. Although the slope was not obvious, after walking for a while, I clearly felt The altitude is much higher.

Kumbun let out a cry, saying that he was indeed going deep into the mountains, which was why he felt strange just now.

No wonder, we all thought that the corpse driver would go down the mountain, but what we didn't expect was that he turned a corner and walked up the mountain again. What was he doing in the deep mountains in the middle of the night?
(End of this chapter)