Archaeological Notes

Chapter 22 The Hundred Poems of Bronze
I stared at the thing hanging on the bronze tree, swaying back and forth, not daring to breathe, for fear that it would be disturbed in the next second.Only then did he realize the true face of Lushan Mountain, which was not a jar at all, but human heads!

In the quiet and eerie cellar, a five-meter-high bronze tree appeared in front of me, with a hundred or so shriveled heads hanging from it.At the back of each head, there is a small braid tied to the branch of the tree, and the dark eye sockets suddenly light up with two small red dots!

Those heads seem to be captives who were surrendered by the Jurchen tribe, because I know that a handful of melon skins like this are braided like a raccoon tail. precious.This ancient tomb of the Jin Dynasty, it seems that the doorway is not simple, I have never seen such a weird burial technique.

This idea was just a flash in my head, and I didn't care about it. I hurriedly scanned the entire cellar with a flashlight, and finally saw a gap that collapsed from the top of the bronze tree crown. There is still a person's height directly above, and it is not easy to climb up.There were no other exits around, and the group of Dabeitou must have gotten in from there.

I don't have time to look forward and backward at the moment, the head on the bronze branch makes people feel terrified, and I am jealous, but thinking that they can go up with the big back, I have no reason not to.Abandoning the travel bag, he spit into the palm of his hand, put the flashlight in his mouth, approached and hugged the bronze tree and rubbed it up.

The trunk is not very thick, about the thickness of a monk's thigh in my arms, and there are spiral lines all over it, which undoubtedly provides me with great benefits.I arched and rubbed like an old sow on a tree. After a few times, I finally landed on the branch of the tree. I was so tired that I was about to catch my breath when I suddenly saw a human head standing in front of me. close at hand.

The flesh on the outside of the skull was rotten to pieces, strips of rotten cotton wool hung down on it, and the teeth protruded.But the eye sockets suddenly lit up, and the blood-red eyes stared at me like a soul, and vaguely, I saw a mass of things wriggling inside.

I thought to myself, what the hell are you doing to turn on the red light for me?If you don't let me go up, the head of a dead person will move. This is the first time I have seen it.Although it felt creepy in the dark, to protect myself, I couldn't control its strange powers, so I had to punch it.

But I didn't think about this, the head was unprepared, and couldn't get my punch, so it fell down rumbling.

I hurriedly propped my whole body up on the branches, and before I had time to rest, I desperately climbed up the tree crown.The branches of the bronze tree are uneven in shape, and they feel stiff when grasping, and it is very difficult to leverage; in addition, I wear a lot of clothes, so I have to find the branches with large gaps to climb up, and if I don’t pay attention, I will be caught. stuck.When I climbed to the height of three or four meters of the bronze tree, I felt that the whole tree began to tremble slightly. I looked around in horror, and my heart almost stopped.

Strange to say, the human heads that were originally hanging on the branches all seemed to have "grown feet" one by one, climbing the trunk of the tree, rustling towards me.I couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, and I didn't play like this after hitting a ghost, and I was so scared that I had to close my eyes and climb up desperately.

All of a sudden, I heard a series of "beep..." sound of liquid rushing out, and the clothes on my body began to "chichi" white smoke, a sticky smell came to my nostrils, I went crazy Climbing, the ends of the branches cut through the gloves and cut the flesh, completely ignoring, with an air of ecstasy.When I climbed to an unknown height, I looked down and saw that the human head on the tree branch was climbing up the trunk, like a snail, not very fast.

I looked at the cotton coat on my body, it was covered with small black holes that had been corroded, and I couldn't help but feel very lucky that the strange man's head didn't get sprayed on my face, otherwise I would have turned my face back.I took a flashlight and took a photo of my feet, and saw a human head had crawled onto my shoe. I was so frightened that I kicked it hard, and the head was kicked off by me.

I looked up and saw that the soil hole on the top was still two people stacked up from me, and it was simply out of reach.There was a lot of noise all around, and those people at the lower end climbed up towards me with their heads shaking. There were so many of them that I was in a hurry.The whole person felt terrified, his calves started to tremble while standing on the branch of the tree, more and more heads gathered under his feet, and there was chaos under the battered state.

That is, when I was almost at the end of the road, there was a muffled voice from under my buttocks, which was deliberately suppressed: "Quick! Turn off the flashlight, that damn thing is shining brightly."

I wondered if I was hallucinating, and farting was regarded as a rescuer, but when I came back to my senses and thought about it carefully, I realized that it was not at all.Looking under the buttocks, it was a rotten tree hole, going down to the main pole, with a lump of flesh stuffed inside.Insects the size of rice grains kept tumbling among them, and the white flowers looked like a mass of rotten flesh full of maggots at first glance.

At this moment, a familiar voice came from below again: "Quick! There is no time."

I just came to my senses, turned off the flashlight hastily, and was plunged into darkness, the head on the branch fell silent, and the whole cellar was eerily silent.

I swallowed my saliva, calmed down and asked the tree hole: "Then what should I do?"

Unexpectedly, when I asked this question, no one made a sound below, and a few seconds later, I seemed to feel a dark mass coming out of it.Just as I was wondering if it was a human or a ghost, a lump of sticky stuff hit my face directly, the smell was incomparable, and I was so shocked that I wanted to break free, but a person whispered in my ear: "If you want to survive, just hold on!" , after this thing is painted, your human smell will be covered up."

I didn't dare to move anymore after hearing that, and he patted some more on me. It was all slime mixed with small bugs, probably he pulled it out from the tree hole.I was about to vomit, but the man said to me, "It's alright, turn on the flashlight."

Only then did I turn on the flashlight tremblingly, and found a dirty person sitting next to me, as if squeezed out of the placenta, the whole body was covered with sticky liquid.But I'm not much better than him, I looked at his strange face for a long time before I realized, "Brother Liu Mao?"

The man grinned, showing a mouthful of big teeth, and smiled plainly: "It's me."

Immediately I was very excited, thinking that your buddy is really rare, right?Still miss me so much.But at the moment I didn't have time to talk to him about the old days, so I watched the situation quietly and found that those heads either fell to the tree, or they returned to hang on the branches and remained motionless.After a short rest, Liu Maodi motioned me to climb up, and when I got to the top of the tree, he pushed his shoulders under my buttocks, and then entered the soil hole above my head.

I pulled Maodi Liu up, and the two of them leaned against the cave wall to rest for a while. I lit a cigarette for Maodi Liu, and he took two puffs before he heaved a sigh of relief: "Damn, I'm suffocating."

I couldn't figure out which song he was singing, so I immediately asked him, "How did you hide in that tree hole?"

Brother Liu Maodi looked at me, lowered his head and said, "Someone told me that you might still be alive, so she told me to take care of you. What I just painted on you were insect eggs, and there are big insects living in that person's head. Once it's on, it can't tell the difference."

"Who ordered it?" I asked.

He took another drag on his cigarette and licked his lips: "Mother-in-law."

Among the group in Dabeitou, there was only that dead old woman, and this must be the person Liu Maodi was referring to.After all, she once wanted to harm me, so that I didn't like her very much. To be honest, I don't quite believe that she specially ordered Liu Maodi to rescue me.

Liu Maodi seemed to see what I was thinking, so he explained again: "Do you remember that in the valley, in the lunch box I gave you, there was also the writing on the arched door of the stone room outside? Do you know who wrote it?"

I shook my head to show that I didn't know, but he said, "This is what my mother-in-law specially ordered me, and it wasn't my original intention."

After hearing this, I was completely confused, and I didn't know what the truth was. According to my estimation, this old woman might not be in the same group as Dabeitou.Although they appear to be a group of people, they actually have their own agendas. I don't know the purpose of saving me, but one thing is certain, it cannot be out of good intentions, and there must be an element of interest in it. That is to say what she wants from me.

Brother Liu Maodi had been thinking about something on his mind at this moment, and they were silent for a moment, then he suddenly raised his head and glanced at me, as if he had something to say to me.I'm a straightforward person, and I don't like to beat around the bush, so I asked him to talk about things.

Unexpectedly, he shook his head, and lay down on the dirt wall with a worried face, "You look like an old buddy, but actually, I'm not in any of my gangs this time."

"Not from any group?" I didn't understand what he meant by that, the words didn't convey the meaning.

"I'm not pretending to be rude to you, that is to say, I am neither from Boss Hu's side nor from Master Shuanzi's side." He was silent for a while: "Actually, the third brother is not dead! But Seems like I lost my memory."

Brother Liu Mao is in the village, I feel that he is timid and fearful, and he is the type who adapts to the wind. I thought to myself, do you mean that you are in Cao Ying and your heart is in Han?Maybe it's always squinting three.At this time, I suddenly remembered that Tian Rui once told me that Slanting Eye San was indeed dead, but because I saw Slanting Eye San in the log cabin, I, who had seen the dead body, also began to doubt what Slanting Eye San was. dead or not.However, now that the second person said that Slanting Eyes Three is not dead, I had to find out what was going on. I thought about it and asked, "How do you say that?"

After he finished smoking, he asked me for another one, and I noticed that his hands were trembling with excitement, "You are stepping on a land mine, when we got off that land road, the third brother passed away after a short while." He rushed over from behind with a chainsaw, Boss Hu couldn't kill him with a gun. We ran away, but he didn't recognize me, he seemed crazy."

"Sure enough it's him!" I was startled, and suddenly remembered the oversized footprint I saw in the stone path, so I asked him again: "Then Squint followed you, why did you disappear?"

Liu Maodi said he didn't know, with a puzzled look on his face, "We were so scared that we just ran away, and we didn't know when we threw him away."

"Actually..." He paused, fell silent for a while, hesitant to speak: "The third brother is not as you imagined, he is still very upright with us brothers, he did this for Save the entire ghoul village."

"Save the village?" I don't know why.

He nodded heavily and motioned me to put my ear close to him. I thought to myself that there was no outsider here, and it was just the two of us who were still doing something mysterious, but I wanted to listen together because of my eagerness.

"Our village hides a monstrous secret!" Liu Maodi lowered his voice, "Do you want to know?"

After what he said, I felt tickled all over my body, and I nodded vigorously with excitement on my face, "I want to!"

But he smiled meaningfully, "Then tell me, the third brother entrusted you with anything in the village?"

With just this one sentence, I suddenly came back to my senses. I have been in the business field for several years. Slanting Eyes Three entrusted me with my "little golden coffin", trying to arouse my curiosity and tell me what to say.I am naturally not stupid, I can understand him at a glance, but my face is pretending to be calm: "How come, you are his brother, it is impossible to entrust an outsider like me with anything, besides, he and I have festivals, are you really Will guess."

I looked at Liu Maodi without changing expression or heartbeat. This is a skill I have cultivated in the business field. He stared at me for a while, then put out the cigarette in his hand, and pointed behind me. "Let's go down, so that we can quickly follow Boss Hu. Don't worry, my mother-in-law will speak for you and won't embarrass you."

The direction of the earth cave was obliquely downward, and Liu Maodi led the way in front, and we went down one by one.After the end, I looked around and saw that it was a relatively spacious cave with a pool of water beside it, and the teams of Dabeitou were scattered on the land in twos and threes, sorting out their equipment.

After I passed by, they also just ignored me. Although they were not enthusiastic enough to greet me, they did not deliberately make things difficult for me.According to Liu Maodi, although some equipment was thrown away on the road, they were all tools for exploring the tomb and locating it. Now that the tomb has been found, it is useless.Our position has already entered the range of the ancient tomb, and above our head is Fotouling, the place where the bandits raised their flags and became kings.

The shriveled old woman was still dozing against the earthen wall, and when she heard my voice, she raised her heavy eyelids and only glanced at me, then closed them again.Dabeitou wanted to win me over, and patted my shoulder symbolically, pretending to reassure me that I was fine, saying that I am blessed and blessed.I'm too lazy to flatter him, I just say what is useful to me, after all, I'm under someone else's fence, and I can't do whatever I want.

Every guy with a big back carried a bulging bag. I noticed that they were playing with diving equipment on the ground, such as portable scuba, waterproof miner's lamp, diving goggles, and crowbars.It can be seen that before he entered the mountain this time, he had made a lot of plans and preparations.It is understood that Dabeitou brought a total of five men into the mountain this time, and Xuegu Beng killed a man named "Duck", leaving only four.No matter how poor I am, I can be considered as someone who can contribute something, so I discussed with me with my back, hoping that I can also help, and my benefits will be indispensable after the matter is completed.

In the past, I often invited friends to go diving in my spare time, and it was no problem to go to the water pool. After I put it on, I stuffed the clothes into the diving suit, and it looked like a club, so bloated.Everyone except the old woman went into the water.I once asked Da Beitou the purpose of going down this time, but he refused to tell me. He only said that he would follow his orders after going down and be smart.

Portable scuba tanks are much smaller than oxygen cylinders, and they can only last for more than two hours. After biting on their respirators, several people entered the water one after another and began to dive to the bottom of the pool.

The water in the pool is green, but the water is steaming, not biting.The underwater vision will be greatly restricted, and the big back swims in front with the miner's lamp on his head, and the few of us dive along his route.

Diving deeper and deeper, after going down seven or eight meters, I could vaguely see ruined walls soaked in water all around, and aquatic plants as tall as a person stretched around.And at the bottom of the pool, among the ruins, I saw a coffin covered in hair.

(End of this chapter)