The Huai Shui God's Cave

Chapter 24

1. Secret Road
Yang Xiaoxie asked: "How?" I pointed to the higher end and said: "Go up!" He asked again: "Why?" Tomb, if you want to dig an exit, will you choose to go up or down?"

He nodded and said, "You're right!" So everyone followed my train of thought and headed hard toward the higher part of the cave.Since the cave is very narrow and the height is limited, we stopped for a while after walking for a while.Professor Han gasped and said, "This should be the escape route dug secretly by the craftsmen who built the mausoleum at that time, so it is so simple and narrow."

His judgment was very reasonable, but we crawled for a while with our heads buried, and suddenly the space became open again, and we felt a gust of cool wind pouring in, and the temperature dropped a lot.After walking a few more steps, there was a fork in the road, and everyone stopped.Yang Xiaoxie asked: "How should I go this time?"

I thought about it and said, "Then choose the one with the larger hole." I remembered digging loaches and eels in ponds when I was a child.

We then walked forward for a short distance, and there was another fork in the road. This time I chose the one with a larger cave entrance.Not far away, there was a three-way road. This time I chose the middle one.I think no matter how many forks there are in this road, as long as we walk in the middle, even if we go wrong, we can still find other roads.

I found that the more forked roads, the bigger the space. It is no longer like the original artificially excavated shapes. It seems to be naturally generated. There are holes in holes, holes in holes, holes in holes, holes in holes, strange. Spectacular, there are actually lifelike stalactites, various statues and various bird-like human-shaped landscapes.

The professor exclaimed: "This is a mountain cave group!"

Yang Xiaoxie said: "I said, why do I feel something is wrong? The craftsmen who are still thinking about building ancient tombs have time. They have made so many escape holes!"

As soon as he finished speaking, I suddenly found that there seemed to be a person lying vaguely beside the cave wall in front of him.Ma Chuchen, who had been following me all this time, also saw it. She stopped suddenly, and suddenly shook my hand and said, "There is a ghost!"

We were all taken aback, and I asked in a low voice, "Are you sure, how many are there?"

She closed her eyes slightly, as if sensing something, opened them after a while, and said, "There are three entrances to this cave. They are the craftsmen who built the tomb back then. They were trapped here and want to go home."

After she said it, I felt chills all over, as if there was a faint voice sighing beside me, an indescribable grievance.My heart "thump-thump" jumped up.I had never encountered such a thing before, and I asked her with a trembling voice: "It's not like they won't be able to go home, so they will put us at the bottom."

Ma Chuchen shook his head and said, "They don't mean anything malicious, they just want us to take them out!"

We boldly stretched our heads and walked forward a few steps. Sure enough, there were three human-shaped skeletons lined up on the ground, one of which was leaning against the cave wall, and the remaining two had collapsed to the ground. They were all male and rotten. All that remains is the skeleton, and there are no traces of injuries or struggles in the bones before death.

Seeing this, Yang Xiaoxie sat down on the ground in fright.I gave him a hand and said, "Calm down!" Only then did he manage to regain his composure.

I saw Ma Chuchen took out a rough piece of uncut jade from the backpack, and then chanted something to the skeletons, then she raised her head and said: "I have already recited the soul-absorbing spell to take their souls in. Just wait until you get out and then let it out for a while."

We were a little dazed watching, but after her tossing, it seemed that she really didn't have that kind of gloomy and resentful feeling.Yang Xiaoxie said: "Sister Ma, can you teach me the soul-absorbing curse? I'll collect a ghost for fun in the future when I have nothing to do."

Ma Chuchen didn't bother to talk to him, but the old Taoist Qingfeng said: "Brother Yang, since ancient times, it's easier to invite ghosts than to send ghosts away. Nowadays, many rich people like to raise ghosts to gather wealth, and they often end up with bad endings."

Yang Xiaoxie gave him a hard look, probably because he thought he was talking too much, but Qingfeng was telling the truth.

Stepping over those skeletons, I suddenly thought of an important question, stopped in my tracks and yelled "Oops", and my face became very ugly.

Ma Chuchen asked several times: "What's the matter? What's the matter?" Everyone looked at me.One of the most important questions came to my mind, and I looked straight at the skeletons.Everyone followed my gaze and looked at the past together.After a while, Tang Mei spoke: "Since they are craftsmen digging tunnels, why did they die here, because they couldn't find a way out."

After he finished speaking, the rest of the people were dumbfounded. Obviously he was telling the truth. This underground cave complex is complicated, and there are forks everywhere. We have been walking for a long time, and we still can't distinguish the north, south, east, and west.

I sighed and said, "No matter how they died, we can't just sit here and die. We should move forward and find a way out."

Yang Xiaoxie whispered again: "I didn't expect to go into the wolf's den just after leaving the tiger's den!"

Everyone ignored him, and what he said was true.

I walked forward for more than an hour, and forked roads kept appearing in the middle.Usually we choose the one in the middle, and saw a few rotten skeletons with only bones left; Ma Chuchen felt sorry for their resentment, and received them all in the uncut jade to be taken back for salvation.

A few people walked more and more cold, and the cave in front seemed to have no end; after a few hours, we were exhausted.At this time, I, who had been leading the way, suddenly found a mineral water bottle at a fork in the road, so I stopped.Yang Xiaoxie stretched out his head to look, and shouted: "Didn't I throw this away after drinking it? It should be far behind, why did it appear in front of us!"

Tang Mei glanced at it and said coldly: "Because we walked back again!" He said what I thought in my heart. In fact, I had a bad premonition from seeing the skeleton corpses of those craftsmen. I walked away in the cave. After traveling for a while, my premonition grew stronger, and I realized that we seemed to be going the wrong way.It wasn't until I actually saw the mineral water bottle that I had to admit that we were indeed going in circles.

We're running low on food and water, and we won't last long.However, at this time, it is even more impossible to mess up.Now that everyone has focused on me, I have to show my courage and measure.

I coughed heavily, and tried to stabilize my voice and said: "Let's all take a rest first, and after recovering our energy, maybe we can think of a way."

Everyone ate something as promised, and sat down to rest for a while at the fork in the road. At this time, I suddenly had a strange feeling again. This feeling was the same as when I first entered the primeval forest, as if a pair of eyes were watching in the dark. us.

I looked up and looked around. In order to save power, I turned off the flashlight and only used a fluorescent stick for lighting. The surrounding area was pitch black.I found that Tang Mei was also looking at the front of one of the forked roads vigilantly.When I was about to ask a question, he stretched out his hand and made a silencing motion, and then he held the King Yu's spear, and while listening carefully, he moved forward slowly.

He stopped suddenly, turned on the flashlight suddenly, and a black shadow jumped up from the ground, making a strange cry, and the black shadow jumped about three feet away from Tang Mo.Under the illumination of the flashlight, I realized that it was actually a black cat, Yuan Xiazi's black cat!

It lay on the ground, looking at Tang Mo with murderous eyes.Its tail was cut off by Tang Mo. At this time, the enemy was very jealous when they met, and it made a threatening sound, as if it wanted to tear Tang Mo into pieces.

At this moment, a muffled voice shouted: "Xiao Hei, come here!" A figure flashed out from the darkness, and the thin Yuan blind man in long gown and green clothes appeared in front of us like a zombie old ghost.The black cat got the order and jumped into his arms quickly.

I was shocked in my heart. I don't know why Blind Yuan appeared here. He has always been very mysterious, like a ghost zombie, but he has never harmed us. He even saved my life from the mouth of a snake spirit. Friends are not enemies.

Thinking about it this way, I gained confidence in my heart, so I asked him: "Mr. Yuan, why did you appear here!"

He smiled coldly and said, "I'm here to take you out. If I didn't lead this underground mystery cave, I believe that you will be like those craftsmen, and eventually exhausted, exhausted, and starved to death here!"

I was secretly surprised at what he said, but I couldn't help believing it.Because we have already gone almost desperate, we are still circling in place.

Yang Xiaoxie said disapprovingly: "Mr. Yuan, this place is so complicated that we can't get out with our eyes. You..." He stopped, but we all understood what he meant: a blind man can compare Are we more capable?
Blind Yuan laughed and said, "This was originally a group of natural underground karst caves. It was accidentally opened up by the craftsmen who built the mausoleum, but they couldn't get out. In the dark world, what the blind man can hear and feel is far away." There are far more people with normal vision. Although I cannot see, my little black can see, it is my eyes!"

The hearing and sense of smell of the blind are more sensitive and developed than normal people in long-term use and exercise.I believed this, so I sincerely said to Yuan Xiazi: "Thank you, Grandpa Yuan!"

With Lin Xiaowei's support, Professor Han also stepped forward to thank him.Blind Yuan waved his hand, hummed lightly, and signaled us to follow him.After walking a few steps, he suddenly turned to me and asked, "My son of the Wu family, why do you have one more person?"

I said "oh", remembering that when blind Yuan helped us kill the snake spirit in the primeval forest, Qingfeng old man hadn't shown up at that time. When he was chasing blind Yuan to beat and kill him, he probably didn't expect that he would be in trouble today. , need help from the other party.At this time, the Qingfeng old man cowered at the end, looking evasive and downcast.

I told Yuan Xiazi about Qingfeng's old ways.When talking about Xiao Liu from Beijing Boguzhai, Yuan Xiazi's expression changed slightly, and he murmured: "Xiao Liu, Xiao Liu...how old is he?"

The veteran Qingfeng bit the bullet and said, "About 50 years old..." I added an excuse: "It should be Manager Liu of the collection company that sponsored the inspection and excavation of the ancient tomb."

I introduced the situation about Manager Liu and the sponsorship of Beijing Shengshi Collection Company, especially the fact that Manager Liu is a local and worked in Mr. Sun's company after going out more than 20 years ago.

Yuan Xiazi fell into deep thought after hearing this; he led us forward silently, without saying a word for a long time.After a long time, he sighed and said, "I finally understand, no wonder people come here to look for Prince Ma Chu's ancient tomb. That's how it is!"

What he said made us puzzled, and it was not easy to ask in depth.At this moment, everyone just wanted to get out of here quickly, and they didn't have time to think about what he said.

Suddenly, Blind Yuan stopped again, turned his head and said to Qingfeng: "Master Daoist, a few days ago I met a Taoist who called himself Qinglan and wanted to seek revenge on his junior brother. I don't know if the person he is looking for is you? "

Qingfeng let out an "ah" and stepped back involuntarily, with a panicked expression.Yuan Xiazi's words reminded me of some places that Qingfeng Laotao told stories, which I felt were vaguely wrong. Looking at his expression, I was even more sure of my guess.

I stared at Qingfeng and said: "The mind is wrong, the person who killed the master and ancestor is not Qinglan, but you, Taoist Qingfeng, right?"

There were big beads of sweat on Qingfeng's forehead, he stepped back and said in a trembling voice: "You, you, how do you know, what did Blind Yuan tell you, did my senior brother speak ill of me? "

Yang Xiaoxie was at the side, smiled coldly, and said: "I knew you were not an authentic Taoist priest. It is not something ordinary people can do to snatch corpse pills from the mouths of dead people."

I went on to say: "There are many flaws in what you said before, I just don't bother to expose you. Since your master relies on you so much, why did you let you wander around, and why didn't you stay after you built the Taoist temple, but made the world your home?" , that's because you found out that Senior Brother Qinglan was seeking revenge on you, am I right?"

In fact, I was only speculating based on some minor clues, but seeing the expression on Qingfeng's face after hearing this, I knew that what Qinglan did in his mouth was actually his own despicable behavior. The two people said it upside down.

Qingfeng had retreated to the edge of the cave wall at this time, and there was no way to retreat. He simply confessed in anger, "Since you already know, I will not hide it anymore. It is true that I was reprimanded by the master for practicing heresy ways, and drove me out of the house." I heard that there is an undeveloped ancient tomb in the primeval forest. I wanted to make a fortune, so I went in with Mashicheng. Who knew that I was so unlucky that I was poisoned by the corpse, so I had to go back and ask Master for help. I blame Qinglan for being too selfish. He didn't let Master expend energy to save me. That's why I knocked Qinglan unconscious and set fire to the Taoist temple after Master fainted from exhaustion. Only after I rebuilt the Taoist temple did I find that Qinglan was not dead. Looking for revenge, I started hiding in Tibet..."

Sure enough, as I expected, Qingfeng is indeed a treacherous and evil person. At this time, he showed his treacherous and ferocious face, which made us shudder.Blind Yuan said sharply: "A heinous person like you deserves to go to hell. After I get out of the secret way, I will contact your senior brother and let him deal with you!"

As soon as he talked about the secret way, Qingfeng became dejected, he knew that he had to rely on Xiazi Yuan to lead him if he wanted to go out, so he stopped arguing and said, "Okay, I'll go with my senior brother, but I hope you don't mind our sect's affairs. "

I saw his eyes wandering, revealing a sly look, and I knew he was just making excuses.It's just that what he said is true, it's inconvenient for us to meddle in the affairs of other sects.

Yuan Xiazi led us around and around, through one cave group after another. After walking for about an hour, there was only one passage left.I found that this road was obviously dug by hand. It should be the same as the secret passage we fell into from the folding space before. It was built in a hidden place in the mausoleum. A passage was dug secretly by craftsmen, but it was unexpectedly opened. Natural karst caves in the mountains.

At the end of the passage, there is an upward stone staircase.All the way up, I vaguely felt a faint light above my head.Blind Yuan stretched out his hand and pushed it, and it was instantly brightened.After being underground for a long time without seeing light, my eyes couldn't bear it for a while and couldn't help closing them. When I opened them, I found that the light was shining from above the wooden board pushed away by Yuan Xiazi.

A group of people climbed up one after another, only to find that this place looked very familiar.Dilapidated chairs in a dilapidated thatched hut.This is actually Yuan Xiazi's residence, and that wooden plank is like his bed plank!
I remembered that when I was resting in his small room before departure, I was attacked by black cats and various animals. It turned out that the purpose was to force us to leave this room, so as not to find the secret passage hidden under the bed board.

2. Lower Riba people
A few people stood in the thatched hut and took a big breath of fresh air. This feeling of escaping from death made us feel like a world away.I couldn't help but look at Ma Chuchen, she happened to be looking at me too, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled.This feeling is like the fragrance of newly blooming flowers, pouring into my heart.

I raised my hands and scratched my head in embarrassment. I didn't take a shower or wash my hair for a long time, and I felt uncomfortable all over.Unexpectedly, old Taoist Qingfeng pointed at my arm and said in surprise, "Xiao Wu, your hand..."

Everyone looked at my hand, and I turned my arm to look too.sky!At some point, a red line appeared again on the left arm that had been bitten by corpse insects. I pulled up the sleeve, and it was still stretching. I simply took off my coat, and found that the red line ran along the arm The chest stretches all the way to the heart, close to the chest, there is a red mark the size of a little finger under the skin.

My scalp is numb and I feel bad. I remember that when I was bitten by corpse insects, I had already used the Xuanyuan Mirror to stick the wound to absorb the venom. Why did it seem to be more serious now, and just at this moment , I felt the whole left arm become numb again.

I groped to take out the Xuanyuan Mirror from my underwear pocket, and stuck it to my arm, hoping to absorb the venom again.Everyone looked at me with concern, while Ma Chuchen helped me to sit on the stool.

No one noticed when Qingfeng Laodao took the opportunity to escape quietly. By the time Tang Mo found out, he had already run away for a long distance.It seems that he reminded me of the poison of corpse insects on my arm, but he just wanted to find a loophole for himself to escape.

Blind Yuan sighed and said: "Let him go, his fate is predetermined, and there will be a day when evil will be rewarded with evil!" After he said it, everyone no longer cared about Qingfeng's whereabouts.

Xuanyuan Mirror was absorbed on my wound for a while, and the red line faded away, and it was no longer visible, but the little finger-sized red mark on my chest remained unchanged.

I have a very bad feeling in my heart.

Professor Han came over, carefully looked at the red mark on my chest, and remained silent for a while.I saw that his complexion was very bad, so I pretended to be calm and said: "Professor, what do you see? Why don't you speak up!"

The professor said: "Xiao Wu, I can't tell you about your situation. That kind of corpse worm is not an ordinary corpse worm, it's something that has a witchcraft on a thousand-year-old corpse. .”

From seeing this red line recur again, I knew it was not that simple.What he said made me feel cold.

At this time Yuan Xiazi had already learned from Yang Xiaoxie about the process of me being poisoned by corpse insects, he also said softly: "This old gentleman is right, it seems that he is very familiar with this kind of witchcraft, The ancient corpse of King Chuxiang was poisoned with blood gu, and after being bitten by the corpse insect, a red line could be seen, which was the poison of the corpse insect spreading in the blood. Xuanyuan Mirror only detoxified the blood poison, and the corpse insect returned It will lay eggs in the blood, and the eggs will advance to the heart along with the blood, feed on the blood, grow up slowly, and when they grow to maturity, they will devour the human body."

(End of this chapter)