The Huai Shui God's Cave

Chapter 9

He came directly to Professor Han's room, carrying a very large woven bag on his back.He walked in the door and greeted the professor lightly with cupped fists: "Hi, Professor Han, I'm Tang Mei." When he put down his burden, I saw that his hands were wearing those black leather sheaths with bare fingers .

There are only two kinds of people who wear leather gloves in this weather: one is a fool, and the other is a person who needs to wear gloves to cover up.

However, no matter how deep a person who has received special training hides, most of them will leave calluses on their hands after practicing swords and guns, which can be seen by experienced people at a glance.Obviously, although he looks a little sick, he is by no means a fool.He should not be a simple person.

At that time, Yang Xiaoxie also came over to the professor's room to look at the tools Ma Chuchen had prepared with me.Hearing that he said his name was "cousin", Yang Xiaoxie couldn't help but burst out laughing.Although I also thought it was funny, I still tried my best to suppress it, and quickly apologized for him: "This kid is just crazy, don't mind."

That "cousin" turned a deaf ear, didn't even look at us, and didn't answer the question, just sat on a chair and drank water.

Yang Xiaoxie muttered: "This man is sick, he has such a strange name, and he doesn't talk to him, what's the big deal?"

Professor Han chuckled and said, "His name is Tang Mei, Tang from the Tang Dynasty. It's presumptuous. He's not an uncle or a cousin of the uncle's family."

What a strange name it was, and what a strange man this man was.He didn't care about other people's criticism. After drinking the water, he asked the professor: "When will we leave?" It’s best to take a roundabout route and go through the primeval forest after dark, there is a road there that the Ma family once explored.”

Hearing this, I was shocked and said to the professor: "It is said that no one has ever walked that road. Even if there is one, there is no return. Can your body bear it? Besides, how can you be sure that you can find it if you enter there? How about the passage to the ancient tomb?"

Professor Han smiled lightly and said: "Archaeological tracing is my lifelong wish. Even if I die on the road, it is a kind of happiness for me. You don't have to worry about my body, I can still persist."

I couldn't help admiring this old man with gray temples.

I asked again: "Why don't we take a boat from the lake to the cliff and climb up?"

Professor Han shook his head: "There is no need to think about this road. A group of geological experts in the province conducted a field investigation more than ten years ago. There is a sea eye near the cliff, where the vortex is full of whirlpools, and it is impossible to approach it. The South China Sea is connected..."

What he said surprised me: "This place is thousands of miles away from the South China Sea, how can it be connected by the Sea Eye?"

Professor Han explained: "The geological team collected a long-armed hermit crab in Xiaonan Lake, which is a unique species in the South China Sea. Therefore, we speculate."

At this time, Ma Chuchen interrupted and said: "My second uncle and Taoist Qingfeng saw a majestic mausoleum by the lake at the end of the primeval forest, so I can't think of a wrong way to choose it. That ancient tomb should be The scale is huge, and part of it is under the cliff of the army’s back wall, but there is a cliff there, which is not the best route for investigation, and the front hall of the ancient tomb should be built from the edge of the virgin forest in the southwest.”

During everyone's discussion, Tang Mei didn't say a word, squinted his eyes, and leaned on the chair to recharge his energy, as if what we said had nothing to do with him.

Ma Chuchen distributed the weapons to us. The professor and Lin Xiaowei each carried a steel ball gun. I originally had a May [-]th pistol issued by the bureau. I carry one of each.

Ma Chuchen took out a crossbow and handed it to Tang Mo.He shook his head and said, "Thank you." Professor Han said next to him, "Tang Mei himself has a good weapon, so there is no need to prepare it for him."

A good weapon... I looked at the big bag he threw on the ground, and there was a long stick-like object in it, but I didn't know what it was.

Ma Chuchen asked us all to put on long clothes and trousers.Because you have to enter the virgin forest, there are mosquitoes, leeches and poisonous snakes everywhere, if you don't protect it well, it will be difficult to have a good piece of meat on your body.

That night, after dark, a group of five of us first entered the pine forest where blind Yuan lived in seclusion from Xianling Road, and planned to stay overnight in blind Yuan's hut, and then entered the virgin forest at dawn the next day.

Because we have been here once and there are so many people, it took us less than an hour to arrive at Yuan Xiazi's hut.The door wasn't locked, so we pushed it open and walked in.The room was very dark, Lin Xiaowei took out a candle and lit it.

There was a very stale, cold air in the room.Ma Chuchen touched the table with his hands, and said, "There should be people living in this house, Yuan Xiazi must have come back."

I thought so too. Blind Yuan has not been involved in the world for more than 20 years. In order to avoid us, the best place to hide after running away is his lair.It's just that there were too many things before, and he was unwilling to cooperate, so we didn't deliberately look for him.

The old man Yuan Xiazi has too many secrets.In this house where he has lived for more than 20 years, he must be able to find some clues.I shared my thoughts with Professor Han, and he also thought it was reasonable, so he began to examine the small house carefully.

This is indeed a very simple adobe house with a thatched roof, and some places have been in disrepair for a long time, and holes have been exposed.The simple furniture in the room is nothing special, the only thing that looks intact is a bed.

I stared at the old-fashioned carved bed for a long time.This bed should be quite old. There are screens on three sides of the bed, and a small baffle on each side of the front. The baffles are as high as a screen, and there is a space in the middle for people to go up and down. The legs of the bed have tooth boards, but the middle is broken and incomplete. .

The bed was supposed to be empty, but an earthen kang was built up, as if it was relying on the bed board.I walked over, pulled aside the messy and old quilt on the bed, and knocked on the bed board with my hand.The bed board made a "dong dong" sound, which was slightly hollow.

I was about to invite Ma Chuchen to come over and have a look, when suddenly, the candle on the table went out, and before the light went out, a black shadow jumped down from the beam, and two strange green lights flashed across.

Then I heard the sound of overturning tables, chairs and benches, and the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.I reached into my bag and quickly took out the flashlight, opened it to take a picture, and it turned out to be Yuan Xiazi's black cat.It was kicked to the ground by Tang Mo, struggling to prepare to jump up.

Tang Mei had quick hands and quick eyes, stepped on the cat with one foot, pulled out a strange weapon from his big woven bag with the other hand, and pointed at the cat all at once.The cat seemed to feel great danger, so it was not hit, but let out a miserable scream.

I saw that the front end of the weapon looked like a sharp awl in the palm of a human hand, and a ray of blue light shot out from the high-stilted thumb, and then the light diffused, and the cat seemed to be immobilized. He couldn't move his whole body, and there was a venomous light in his eyes, but he could only let Tang Mei swing the weapon again, and cut off the cat's tail with the awl head in his hand.

We were stunned, it was incredible, could it be a super magic wand!

The ray of light was on for five seconds before disappearing.The black cat regained its mobility again, jumped onto the window sill, turned around and gave us a hard look, then quickly jumped out and disappeared.

Lin Xiaowei lit the candle again, Tang Mei gently picked up the broken tail with his hand, and observed it carefully.I couldn't help but look over, the cat's tail had no bloodstains, and in less than a moment, it had lost all its old hair, shriveled and shriveled, looking like a piece of dry bone.

Professor Han took out a magnifying glass, carefully observed the severed tail for a while, showing an unbelievable expression, and said, "We all saw with our own eyes that Tang Mei just chopped it off, why does it look like it has been dead for a long time now?" Withered limbs?"

I said, "I have long known that Yuan Xiazi is not simple. He might be a century-old zombie. Could it be that the cat he raises is also a zombie cat?"

Professor Han shook his head and said: "It should not be a zombie. Zombies have stiff limbs, expressionless faces, numb personality, no thinking, and can't see light. Mr. Yuan and this cat don't seem to belong to this category. I suspect now Are they related to witchcraft!"

Tang Mei said: "This cat is different. It seems to be thinking and full of resentment. It will definitely come back for revenge."

Professor Han said: "This cat is so weird, I need someone to test the truncated tail, maybe there will be some results."

I nodded, called Yang Xiaoxie, and asked him to drive to retrieve the cat's tail for a forensic test.That kid was strictly ordered by his father to stay at home. Before we left, we deliberately avoided him. He was playing games at home depressed. When we heard that there was a task for him to do, he happily agreed.

Only then did I notice Tang Mei's weapon.It was something I had never seen before. There was a hand cast on the front of an iron rod, holding an awl-like thing with a thick top and a thin bottom.

We were all very surprised, but we all just glanced at it and didn't say anything.At this time, there was a strange noise outside the window, tigers howling and leopards roaring, ghosts crying and wolves howling, and when I opened the door, I saw black magpies and birds flying all over the sky, and there were groups of wolves, cats, tigers and leopards around the hut, and countless snakes Worm ant.For a while, there were roars and birds chirping.

Our scalps were numb and we looked at each other. The scene in front of us was really weird.

At this time, Tang Mei pointed to a big tree and said, "Look, that black cat!"

Sure enough, on the tree, there were two faint green lights shooting over, and it really was the black cat.Seeing that we found it, it didn't hide. It jumped directly on the head of a leopard, raised its neck, and meowed a few times.Those birds and beasts seemed to have received an order, and they were ready to attack us.

Several of us were very surprised and couldn't recover for a while.It was still Tang Mei who reacted quickly, and he whispered: "Take care of the professor, I will deal with that cat."

Tang Mei flew out with that strange weapon, jumped up, climbed up a pine tree with two feet, waved his hand, and the awl at the front of the weapon pointed directly at the cat.

The cat had obviously learned the power of this weapon, and with a meow, it drove the leopard under it to leap forward and escape to the virgin forest behind.Tang Mo followed closely, and Professor Han shouted from behind: "It's dangerous inside, come back quickly!" Tang Mo didn't answer, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

(End of this chapter)