Tomb Raiders

"I heard from the old people that there are big cats in this mountain, and few people who go hunting on the mountain can come back alive. After a long time, no one dares to come up." Zhang San split the branch in front of the road and continued: "But the world is not peaceful recently. There was already a shortage of food and clothing, and those officials would come to ask for food from time to time, so a few poor families in our village were forced to go hunting in the mountains, and it has been more than a month now. Not even the body was found."

Shen Liaobai stopped to take a breath, his eyes were full of greenery, and he heard the sound of rushing water, which should be a waterfall, so even the air was slightly moist, "I don't think this mountain forest is deep, really Is there a big cat?"

Zhang San waved the hatchet in his hand: "Who knows, I didn't see it anyway, here, it's just ahead."

It took them two hours to climb to the top of the mountain, and another hour to go to the place where the last group bid farewell to Zhang San—a cliff.

Shen Liaobai supported the boulder on the edge of the cliff, and the dark cloud seemed to be within reach. The fierce mountain wind made him stagger, and he almost fell off the cliff. This shock relieved most of his fatigue.

This cliff is already the highest point on the top of the mountain. Standing on it is very convenient for viewing the terrain. I can see that there are continuous peaks here, and the nearby mountains converge to form a mountain depression. Not far away, a huge waterfall rushes down and pours into the mountain depression. .

"Surrounded by mountains, there is running water in it, which contains its energy." Chu Qianyang said softly, "This is it."

Shen Liaobai has read some books on metaphysics superficially, so he can understand the general idea.Qi, anger, it is said that burying the corpse in a place with strong vitality will keep the corpse immortal.The vitality of each mountain has a fixed direction, and the col in front of you should be a gathering point for the vitality of the surrounding mountains.That waterfall acts as a boundary water, enclosing all the vitality in this mountain depression.

Wen Hao took out the gold from the bag and stuffed it into Zhang San's hand, saying: "Okay, stop here, you can go back."

Zhang San took the money and stared at Wen Hao blankly, "This is not acceptable, I promise my sister will take you back safely."

"No, we have our own arrangements." He took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Zhang Sandao: "If someone comes looking for us in the future, give this letter to him."

Zhang San looked at the few people in front of him. When he was about to come to Houshan from the beginning, he packed his bags and brought them here. Mr. Shi Lang came back after looking for the sign, please be careful in everything."

Chu Yuyang stood on the cliff with his hands behind his back, the corner of his robe was torn by the icy wind, he nodded slightly with his usual indifference, as if looking down on all living beings.

"The mist is thick under the mountain depression, don't go down rashly, go and check if there are other roads leading down." Chu Yuyang looked at Shen Liaobai and Song Qiancheng again and said, "You stay here."

Song Qiancheng waited for them to go far away, then stretched his waist and said: "It's fun to not have to work, brother Shen, wait here for a while, and some go to relieve yourself."

After finishing speaking, he trotted away, only Shen Liaobai was waiting in place, looking at the thick fog under the mountain depression, it seemed to be thicker than the thick fog that he usually saw, like milky white silk threads entangled in layers, just covering the mountain depression among.

"Hey, come on, come on..."

Not far away came Song Qiancheng's cry, sounding anxious, Shen Liaobai regretted not going with Song Qiancheng just now, what if something happened to him.

Fortunately, Song Qiancheng was intact and was standing by a big tree waving to Shen Liaobai. When the other people heard the cry, they also rushed over.

"Xiucai, what are you yelling about?" Hanzhang said dissatisfied.

Song Qiancheng pointed to the big tree next to him, and saw the thick hemp rope tied to the tree, and the other end of the hemp rope hung down into the mountain depression, so he couldn't see it in the mist. "Also," he motioned everyone to look at the bottom of the cliff, where a steel nail the size of a thumb was hammered into the cliff, "do you think it is possible for the last group to go down here?"

Wen Hao put away the hemp rope hanging in the depression, at most three long hemp ropes tied together, not very long, he looked at Chu Yuyang and asked: "Shall I go down and have a look?"

Chu Yuyang nodded.

Hanzhang snatched the rope from Wenhao's hand and said, "You wait well, I'll go down and take a look first."

He tied the rope to his belt, then held the rope with both hands, stepped on the steel nails and went down.

Shen Liaobai watched Hanzhang's body disappear into the mist, and there was no movement for a long time, only the rope in Wen Hao's hand was being let down little by little. Liao Bai was taken aback, fearing that something would happen to Hanzhang, "What's going on?"

"It's okay." Wen Hao looked at the remaining few feet of rope in his hand. It seemed that the mountain depression was not as deep as imagined. "It's a signal. It's safe down here. You can go down."

Shen Liaobai breathed a sigh of relief just now.He followed Song Qiancheng down, the cliff didn't even have a place to step on, but fortunately there was a steel nail a few steps away, which could take the opportunity to use a little strength, so it wasn't too difficult to climb.I don't know if the sky is getting darker, or because of the mist, the mountain depression is gray.Hanzhang made several torches and distributed them to everyone.

This mountain depression is the place where vitality gathers, so the trees grow particularly lush, the branches are intertwined, and the top of the head is covered in black, even the insects are much bigger than those outside, which looks a bit infiltrating.

Because Chu Yuyang said that there might be a muddy pond inside, Shen Liaobai stepped on the thick dead leaves very carefully, but the mountain depression was very quiet, only the sound of them crushing the dead leaves and the sound of the waterfall not far away could be heard. The more so, the more uneasy Shen Liaobai felt.

Suddenly stepping on something hard under his feet, Shen Liaobai stopped, subconsciously moved the torch to look, and saw a rotten corpse covered with maggots, and he was stepping on the arm of the corpse.

Shen Liaobai hurriedly moved his foot away, followed behind him, and Song Qiancheng, who almost ran into him, was about to ask, but when he saw such a scene, he was so frightened that he began to chant Amitabha.

"Looking at the clothes, it should be the mountain people who got into it by mistake." Hanzhang said.

Shen Liaobai remembered that the missing people mentioned by Zhang San were a few mountain people, and it seemed to be about the same.

"Ah—the corpse has been raised!" Song Qiancheng suddenly yelled, "Look, he, he is laughing."

"Could it be that the scholar was frightened?" Hanzhang laughed, "How could a dead body..."

His words stopped abruptly the moment he saw the face of the corpse. The corner of the mouth on one side of the corpse was slightly upturned. With the tearing of the mouth, the carrion on the other cheek was torn open, exposing the white bones inside.The corner of the mouth was split to an exaggerated degree, almost reaching the root of the ear.

Shen Liaobai secretly held the dagger in his sleeve, but the corpse's smile stopped. A worm, about the size of a baby's fist, came out from the crack in its mouth. With a gloomy green light, it moved the sharp horns of its head, pierced into the rotting skin of the corpse, and burrowed in again.

Song Qiancheng retched while watching.

Shen Liaobai stood up holding the torch, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he was pulled behind him by Chu Yuyang.

With the light of the fire, he saw the silhouette of a person appearing in the thick fog, walking slowly towards this side.

"Who is here?" Hanzhang asked loudly.

There was no answer, but piercing laughter, like the sound of fingernails scratching on the wall, and hoarse.

Hanzhang took out a handful of exquisite crossbow arrows from the bag on his back and held it in his hand, and asked again, but there was still only piercing laughter over there.He shot a crossbow arrow without hesitation, the man's figure paused, and then slowly moved towards this side.

"Ah—" Song Qiancheng yelled again.

Shen Liaobai turned his head, followed the direction of Song Qiancheng's finger, and saw the rotten corpse on the ground slowly sitting up.

The crossbow arrows immediately sank between the eyebrows of the carrion corpse, but the carrion corpse was not affected, and a pair of hands with only bones left supported the ground and was about to stand up.

"Brother Hanzhang, you, your crossbow arrows are too small, you can't even peel off the fur." ​​Song Qiancheng didn't know whether he was frightened out of his wits or what, but he joked at this moment.

Hanzhang stared, "If you have the ability, come here."

"Then let you see and see."

Song Qiancheng took off the object that had been tightly wrapped on his back with a black cloth, and shook the black cloth to reveal a knife with a red tassel hanging inside. When the blade turned, a sharp whistling sound was heard. It's cold and it's a really good knife.

Song Qiancheng held the knife in both hands, blushing, "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you help me lift the knife quickly."

……

Wen Hao held the knife lightly in one hand, and with all his strength, he chopped off the head of the carrion corpse, and the carrion corpse just sat upright and didn't move.

"Huh," Song Qiancheng wiped off the sweat from his forehead, "Brother Wenhao is really good at asking."

Even Shen Liaobai tugged at the corners of his mouth helplessly, not knowing what to say, but now is not the time for a joke, the people walking towards them are getting closer, and the corpse whose head has been chopped off actually let out a piercing laugh , Laughing continuously and uninterruptedly, piercing ears hurt.

The dark worm came out of its headless neck, flapped its wings suddenly, and rushed towards Shen Liaobai's face. His eyes were less than a little finger away and split the bug in half.

The bug fell to the ground, bleed out green blood, struggled for a while, the green fluorescence at the tail gradually went out, and stopped moving.But the headless carrion was still moving. It held its head and finally stood up. Dense black worms emerged from the wound on its neck and rushed towards them.

Chu Yuyang made a prompt decision, "Run."

The group of insects flew much faster than expected, and seeing that they were about to overtake them, Shen Liaobai touched the pot of wine at his waist.He took a sip of the wine, pointed at the torch and sprayed towards the insects, a stream of flames shot out, and the insects flying ahead fell down one after another.Seeing this, everyone followed Shen Liaobai's example and sprayed fire at the insects.

There was a burnt smell in the air, but luckily the insects had been burned, and everyone sat in front of the insects' corpses to take a rest.

"Where did the master learn the moves? It's quite effective." Hanzhang laughed, rarely teasing Shen Liaobai.

Shen Liaobai still had the hot smell of wine in his mouth, "It's just a trick I saw on the street."

Chu Yuyang's sharp eyes scanned the surrounding grass, "Something is wrong, get out of here quickly."

It's still too late.Carrion corpses drilled out of the grass one by one, there were about a dozen of them.Thinking about it, the group of bugs just now forced them here on purpose, but they were quite smart.

It's just that this group of rotting corpses is different from the one just now, with only bones left on their faces and iron helmets. Although their clothes are tattered, they can vaguely be seen as armor.

"Well, we haven't entered the tomb yet, why did the tomb guards come here? I don't want to make a nest for those bugs." Song Qiancheng said with a mournful face.

As the group of corpses walked towards them, they twisted their heads off with their hands.The black bugs that flew out of their necks were larger in size, and their wings flapped like sharp laughter.

"Run in the direction of the sound of water." Chu Yuyang kicked the tomb guard who was close to him, making a path.

The water was not far from them, and before the black worms surrounded them, they ran to a small river.

"Quickly jump." Chu Yuyang shouted.

Shen Liaobai didn't care about anything else and jumped into the river.He was not good at swimming. The river was close to the waterfall, and the current was so fast that it rushed him far away. He wanted to float up to take a breath, but the top of his head hit the rock hard, and almost took his last breath away. Spit it out.

He stretched out his hand tentatively, but the top of his head was covered with stones. This fatal river actually passed under the rocks, and he was about to lose his breath.

He waved it around, as if grabbing a corner of his clothes, one hand wrapped around his waist, and someone's lips pressed against his lips, allowing him to take a breath.

Shen Liaobai clung to this man with all four limbs, and soon he didn't have enough energy to get over it. He felt his chest was so tight that it was about to explode. Just when he was about to faint, the hand around his waist squeezed hard. Son, lift him out of the water.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Shen Liaobai coughed out the water he choked in just now, panting heavily, unable to move his hands and feet heavily, lying on his back on the grass, he could only look around from the corner of his eyes, five Individuals, quite a few, were lying down and resting at this time.

Chu Yuyang was lying beside him, the person who gave him his breath in the water just now should be Chu Yuyang, didn't Chu Yuyang say that life and death have destiny, why should he save him?Speaking of which, Chu Yuyang saved him twice today.

Although I don't know the reason, I still feel that I should thank Chu Yuyang. Shen Liaobai struggled to get up, and pressed a hard object with his palm. He looked at his palm, maybe it is pressing on the bone again, it should be... ...You won't carry it like this?

He pushed aside the dead leaves on the hard object, and took out the fire pocket from his sleeve. Fortunately, it was not wet, and with this faint light, he saw a jade pendant under the dead leaves.

Shen Liaobai picked up the jade pendant, and it was cold, but the fire was too weak to see clearly, it should be a good piece of jade.He wanted to stuff the jade into his bag, but was snatched away by Chu Yuyang.

Chu Yuyang's face changed slightly, "This is my father's."

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