Maoshan Taoist priest

Chapter 39 Banquet (15)
The reason why Thomas and the others came here was because his department sent an expedition team here 30 years ago, but all of the expedition team disappeared when they arrived here. Later, many search and rescue teams were sent one after another, but none It was successful and returned, and it cost many lives, so this incident has become a heart problem for this research institution.
The matter was not mentioned until 30 years later. Thomas said that the upper management of the organization was afraid of repeating the same mistakes. They did not agree with this expedition, but Thomas tried his best to fight for it. First, the current expedition equipment is very different from that of 30 years ago. Improved a lot.The second is that Thomas' father was included in the missing expedition team.The third is that there is a document in the department where Thomas is deeply attracted to Thomas.

Thomas made many plans for this operation to deal with unknown accidents.The higher-ups of the organization also read Thomas' report and discussed for a long time before allowing this investigation.Moreover, eight team members were sent here to follow Thomas, but what he didn't expect was that everything that happened here was beyond Thomas' expectations.

Thomas said that he slapped himself several times, and then broke down in tears, crying and saying that he had harmed these young people.

Both Chen Shaoxian and Xiao Zhuang could understand Thomas' current mood and quickly comforted him.

After Thomas stopped crying, he stabilized his emotions, and then told all the things that happened here.

After hearing this, Chen Shaoxian sighed, handed Thomas a cigarette, and asked, "What was recorded in the document you organized?"

Thomas took a deep puff of cigarette, and said to Chen Shaoxian: "It is recorded in the data that this mountain was a place for ethnic sacrifices in ancient times. A lot of Japanese troops. After many investigations and research by the organization, it was learned that these missing Japanese troops came here because they wanted to obtain some mysterious power, and they never appeared again after arriving here."

"And we have investigated that these Japanese soldiers went up the mountain after they came here and captured some local Burmese. They really didn't show up after that. Some local elderly Burmese said that these Japanese soldiers were swallowed up by this mountain. All became sacrifices to the mountain god. It was because of this that the upper management of the institution at that time thought that the mountain was of great research significance, so they sent the expedition team."

Hearing this, Chen Shaoxian and Xiao Zhuang looked at each other at the same time, thinking: "It seems that Thomas doesn't know much more than himself." Why is it that he always jumps into the fire pit for nothing, but Chen Shaoxian admires the courage of these foreigners to explore the unknown, but he just scolded them for the wrong method.

Chen Shaoxian collected his thoughts and asked, "Just now you said you could find a way out?"

Thomas nodded, then habitually went to look in his pocket and found that he was wearing other people's clothes. He blushed when he thought of what happened just now, and said in embarrassment: "It is like this that many ancient oriental sacrificial activities cannot be carried out according to the original The way back, so I judge that the place we came from may be the way back or the way back, although it is blocked, there must be a way out."

Chen Shaoxian thought for a while, and felt that what Thomas said was very reasonable, because many places had the custom of burning paper to sacrifice to their ancestors, and they were not allowed to turn back on the way back after the sacrifice. This custom also came from what Thomas said.

Chen Shaoxian looked at the others, briefly discussed with Xiaozhuang, and said to everyone: "Let's go home."

Hearing the word "go home", everyone's originally negative and tired faces were shocked, looked at Chen Shaoxian with hopeful eyes, and stood up one after another.

Xiaozhuang allocated weapons and equipment so that everyone had something for self-defense, and arranged the formation.Chen Shaoxian and Chen Shaoxian led the way side by side, leading everyone to the depths of the cave.

The stone steps under the feet lead to the depth of the cave. The stone steps should have existed a long time ago. Some places are very damaged and have not been repaired. Obviously, the Japanese army at that time did not care about repairing here.

Chen Shaoxian and his group walked in cautiously. The deeper they went, the heavier the humidity became. The cave walls were wet, and the stone steps under their feet were also slippery.

Suddenly, a tall stone gate appeared in front of them, blocking the way of everyone.

A group of people came to the stone gate. Chen Shaoxian visually judged that the stone gate was three meters high, and knocked with his hands. Hearing the sound, the stone gate should be very thick.

"My, God." Chen Shaoxian, who was still observing Shimen, heard an exclamation, and turned to look at the three foreigners.

The three of Thomas stared excitedly at the cave wall next to the stone gate, muttering something incessantly.

Chen Shaoxian walked over and saw that the cave wall on this side was polished very smooth, and there were many murals carved on it. The murals were very simple, as if they were randomly carved with sharp tools.

The first picture shows four people standing in a square, the second picture shows four people surrounding a mountain soaring into the sky, the third picture shows four people working together to smash a mountain, and the fourth picture shows four people standing on a cloud in the sky and heavy snow falls. The fifth blessing is that the heavy snow that fell turned into twelve shape-like creatures, but the depiction is very vague and it is impossible to see what they are. The sixth one is that some people kneel on the top of the mountain and worship the four figures in the sky.

Chen Shaoxian scratched his head, looked at the three foreigners, and saw that they were still staring at the mural, so he patted Thomas lightly.

Thomas came back to his senses, looked at Chen Shaoxian excitedly, and said incoherently: "Chen, you must have never thought of it, you must have never thought of it."

Chen Shaoxian nodded, and said in his heart: "Well, I didn't expect it, and you fucking can explain it."

Thomas swallowed, collected his thoughts, pointed to the mural and said, "If I'm not mistaken, this is a mural of the ancient Yi nationality. I have studied many of your oriental legends about the creation of the world and the creation of man. Although they are all similar, but Among them, only the ones of the Yi people are the most distinctive." After finishing speaking, he looked at Chen Shaoxian and asked, "Magic Chen, do you know how many murals there are on the walls of this cave?"

Chen Shaoxian looked at the paintings on the cave wall and said with certainty, "Six paintings."

Thomas shook his head and said, "Wrong, it's seven."

Then pointing to a blank space in the front of the mural, he said: "This blank wall represents the chaos of heaven and earth. At that time, there was no air, no sky, and the sky and earth were just chaos."

Then Thomas explained to Chen Shaoxian one by one, like a commentator in a cultural relics museum: "The four people on the second picture represent the great gods who created the world."

"The third picture is very interesting. It is not as simple as the creation of human beings by the western gods. It is said that the Sifang gods of the ancient Yi nationality first created a huge creature that could not speak or think. In the fourth picture, the four gods worked together to smash it. ...I think the mountain in the painting represents the monster."

"The fifth picture shows these four gods ascending to the sky and falling heavy snow."

"The sixth picture is that these snows have turned into twelve kinds of creatures, one of which has the ancestor of human beings." Then he pointed to Chen Shaoxian the creature in the fifth mural that was one head taller than the other eleven, and said: " He represents the first ancestor of mankind."

"The last one is human beings worshiping the gods, and this one is the most verified among the seven murals." After speaking, he pointed to the mountain in the mural solemnly and said, "Chen, do you know what this represents?" ?"

Chen Shaoxian was very depressed, and thought: "Why do these intellectuals or experts, whether Chinese or foreign, like to ask questions knowingly, so just say no, it's really taking off your pants and farting." So he glanced at Thomas in confusion, and turned his head Staring at the mural for a while, he suddenly blurted out: "You mean the mountain where we are now is the place where they worship."

Thomas was very happy to hear what Chen Shaoxian said, and pointed to the mural again and said, "Chen, you are so smart, and not only that, Chen, you can look at the third and fourth pictures." looked at Chen Shaoxian.

Chen Shaoxian said uncertainly: "Could it be that this mountain also represents the first behemoth created by those four gods?"

Thomas nodded excitedly and said, "I'm not sure that's the case, but I can't rule out the possibility. You have to know that science is rigorous, and you can only know it after research, but do you know what it means to us?"

Chen Shaoxian sighed and said: "Mr. Thomas, I don't know what it means, but if we don't find the way out, it means that we will die of starvation or thirst." After finishing speaking, he ignored Thomas and called out Guo Xiaozhuang and the others were ready to push open the stone gate together.

Thomas suddenly said loudly, "Chen, that's not the case." Then he walked in front of Chen Shaoxian, put his hands on Chen Shaoxian's shoulders, and said quickly: "I have studied the mythology of all ethnic groups. There is a resonance, that is the chaos of heaven and earth. The day after tomorrow Everything in the world was created through God or the Tianshan Mountains.”

"These things are not groundless, just like the cultural relics of the ancient Shu Kingdom produced in Sanxingdui. There are many bronze statues that resemble us Westerners. What is amazing is the characters engraved on many cultural relics. There are many languages ​​​​of different nationalities, including the characters of the Yi nationality. , and can be explained in the language of the Yi people.”

"That is to say, it is possible that there was a period of national integration in ancient times, or that human beings lived together in a certain place in ancient times, just like the ancient Shu Kingdom, which appeared 5000 years ago and flourished for a thousand years. More than 500 years, but suddenly disappeared, and when the history is connected, there is a gap of more than 2000 years in the middle. No one knows how it disappeared."

Then he pointed at Shimen tremblingly and said, "Maybe our discovery today will shock the world just like Sanxingdui."

But at this moment, the stone door creaked and opened slowly.

Thomas glanced at his fingers, then at the stone door opened by his finger, and was stunned with his mouth wide open.

The stone door opened with a click, and Chen Shaoxian pulled Thomas, throwing him behind him, then quickly picked up the weapon, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at the open stone door.

After the stone door was opened, the inside was as dark as a ghost.

Everyone waited for a while, except for the dark and cautious people inside the door, nothing else happened. At this moment, Howard stammered, "Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." Said Wan also pointed to the place he had moved just now.

Chen Shaoxian glanced at Howard angrily, and asked, "What did you do just now?"

Howard was a little cautious, looked at Chen Shaoxian timidly and said: "You were talking to Professor Thomas just now, so I went to the other side and found a stone statue carved in the wall here, and the stone statue held a staff in the shape of a bird in its hand. , I thought the carving of this bird was too realistic, so I touched it with my hand, but I didn't know that the bird could turn, so I turned it, and then the stone door opened," Howard lowered his head and didn't dare to look again Chen Shaoxian.

Chen Shaoxian pursed his lips helplessly, then walked to the cave wall that Howard was pointing at, "Huh?" There was nothing on the wall, and turned his head to look at Howard.

Howard looked at the bare cave wall, his eyeballs were about to pop out, he ran over quickly, touched it with his hands, and said in a crying voice: "It was really here just now, really here, Chen, I am so grateful to God. Swear." Then he kept muttering cursing and swearing, looking a little crazy.

Chen Shaoxian looked at Howard who was about to cry, shook his head and before he could speak, the foreign girl named Elena walked up to Chen Shaoxian and stared at him and said: "He has already admitted his mistake, what else do you want?" Beside Howard, who started to cry, and comforted him by touching his head.

Chen Shaoxian scratched his head, and said in his heart: "Where is this going? I have provoked whom."

Xiao Zhuang walked up to Chen Shaoxian, patted Chen Shaoxian on the shoulder, and smiled helplessly.

After hearing what Howard said, Thomas seemed to remember something, walked up to Howard who was still crying and asked softly, "George, describe the stone statue you saw just now."

Howard listened to Thomas asking himself, touched his nose like a child, and described the appearance of the stone statue intermittently.

After hearing this, Thomas' eyes lit up, he comforted Howard, and then came to Chen Shaoxian and Xiao Zhuang and said, "Chen, our previous guess was correct. That stone statue should be Bimo of the ancient Yi nationality, a priest of the gods." Then Pointing to the dark door, he said excitedly: "There must be a shocking secret hidden inside." After speaking, he felt eager to try and take the lead.

Chen Shaoxian and Xiao Zhuang looked at each other helplessly, wondering whether the brains of these three foreigners were squeezed by the door, why are they so abnormal, a mad scientist, a soft and timid sissy, a savage Bold tomboy, these three really are a fucking classic combination.

Chen Shaoxian stopped talking to Thomas, who was already insane, but said to Xiao Zhuang: "Brother Xiao Zhuang, I don't know what danger there is, but the place where the entire Japanese army can disappear is definitely not easy. Let's take care of it later." Check the weapons and make sure there are no accidents." Then he yelled at Thomas and the others: "You must take care of these three treasures, we don't care about life or death, just don't cause trouble for us."

Hearing what Chen Shaoxian said, Thomas felt as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him, his body that had just stood up quickly became shorter.Elena gave Chen Shaoxian a hard look.That bastard Howard was really sorry for his name, he cried again after hearing what Chen Shaoxian said, so Eileen quickly coaxed him again.

After seeing the performance of these three live treasures, Xiaozhuang nodded heavily, and then called Song Yumu, Zhang Zeshan, and Yang Xiaoang and told them to watch them one-on-one, and use force when necessary. Anyway, nothing will happen here. In international disputes, the hard fist is the truth.

Chen Shaoxian opened his bag, turned out a small wooden box and took out a small bell, then opened the wooden box and took out a small half of incense, put the small wooden box on the ground, lit the incense, and shook the bell lightly. Ding Dong actually made a crisp tinkling sound, which echoed in the cave for a long time.

Putting the bell down, Chen Shaoxian said softly: "Open the bell, borrow the incense from the road, walk into the Tao, avoid the ghost road, only borrow the road, the gods will not invade, and the ghosts will not disturb." Then he put the incense on the wooden box, and it turned out Standing still, Chen Shaoxian stared at the smoke that was flying straight up. Suddenly, the smoke drifted into the dark door. There was a gust of wind gushing out, and the incense sticks on the ground were swept away together with the wooden box, and the incense sticks fell on the ground, and were soaked by the wet ground with a creaking sound, and the wind stopped as soon as the incense sticks were extinguished.

Except for Xiaozhuang, no one else had ever seen this posture, standing there with his mouth open.Especially the three of Thomas. Thomas seemed to have discovered the New World. He ran over to pick up the soaked incense from the ground, touched it in his hand and kept looking at it.Elena stared at Chen Shaoxian for a long time.

Xiaozhuang knelt down and asked, "Shaoxian, what happened just now?"

Chen Shaoxian said with a gloomy expression: "This time, it might be a little tricky. I was borrowing the way just now. If there is nothing inside, the fragrance will keep floating upwards. That's the best."

"But if there is something inside, there will be two situations. One is that the incense keeps floating in, which means that as long as the well water does not interfere with the river water, everyone will live in peace. It shouldn't be a big deal if we are careful."

"The second is that the incense floats out, which means that the things inside don't want us to go in, but this time there is a strong wind, and it is estimated that if we want to go in, the things inside will die forever."

After listening to Chen Shaoxian's words, Xiao Zhuang's complexion also sank: "Now we can only go hard." Then he turned around and ordered his soldiers to check their weapons and equipment carefully.

Chen Shaoxian bent down to pick up the small wooden box, and looked at the soaked incense in Thomas's hand.

Thomas thought that Chen Shaoxian wanted to return the small half of the magical incense in his hand, so he handed it over with some reluctance.Chen Shaoxian waved his hand casually, and Thomas took the small half of Lu Xiang close to him as if he had been pardoned.

When everyone was fully dressed, Chen Shaoxian asked them to stand in a row headed by Xiaozhuang. Chen Shaoxian poured some from the plastic bottle, found the prepared white wine, and wiped some on Xiaozhuang's hood and shoulders. He said lightly: "Tap the heavenly sun to penetrate the divine light, point to the earth's sun to protect the body, point to the human yang to avoid evil spirits, and light up the three sun lights to avoid ghosts and exorcise evil spirits and illuminate the four directions." Xiaozhuang's head and shoulders flashed with fire.

This posture also stunned the others. Thomas and the three foreigners all looked straight, especially Howard shrank back in fear after seeing the flash of fire.

Seeing Xiaozhuang's flickering flames, Chen Shaoxian nodded, and lit up the three sun lamps one by one. When he met someone with dim flames, Chen Shaoxian tapped the person's forehead and shoulders with a vermilion pen dipped in nectar.

For those who did not wear gastrodiae armor, Chen Shaoxian took out three small submersibles, placed them on the top of their heads and on their shoulders, and lit them with Sanyang lamps in the same way.

When it was Thomas' turn, this guy asked Chen Shaoxian this and that in amazement, but Chen Shaoxian ignored him, and directly threw him aside after clicking, so that Song Yumu could look after him, while Elena saved a lot of trouble. Walked over, but kept staring at Chen Shaoxian, making Chen Shaoxian a little nervous.

Soon he arrived in front of Howard, who was in the last place. Howard lowered his head and didn't know whether he was nervous or afraid. He was shaking and sweated a lot. He was very dirty, but he was soaked in sweat and gave off an unpleasant smell. smell.

Chen Shaoxian covered his nose, and said in his heart: "This guy has to pull his pants." Similarly, he put three small dishes on Howard's head and shoulders. At this time, Howard's legs were already trembling. There was more sweat coming out of his body, coupled with his already thin body, he looked a bit haggard, Chen Shaoxian finally managed to stabilize him.

(End of this chapter)