Daomu Biji

We packed up our things, stumbled back to the stone chamber, and immediately saw the change.

On the stone walls of the stone chamber, I saw strange changes in the holes where ancient books were placed. In some cavities, the relief stones were pushed out, while in some cavities they were not.

The entire stone wall turned into a very strange puzzle. Some places were patched up, some were not, and it was still a hole.

"Is this the correct answer?" I murmured to myself.

Xiaohua sat down on the ground, unscrewed the bottle and took a few sips: "It's been a waste of time for us to do this. The answer seems surprisingly simple."

"What does this mean?" I looked closer.

He was silent. I wanted to continue thinking, but found that I was exhausted and my brain could no longer move at all.

After being silent for a long time, he rubbed his temples and said: "It's useless to think about it anymore. At this point, it actually has nothing to do with us. This should be the only result that can be obtained based on the tips from Guangxi. Let's review the process again. , see if there are any flaws, if not, then we should hand over the baton."

I understand what he means. We have obtained the "prompt", but the place where the prompt is executed is thousands of miles away and not on site. No matter how much we think about it, it is useless.

So they also sat down, and the two of them slowly thought about the entire process in their hearts. In the end, the two people unanimously confirmed that there was no big problem.

"If this is wrong, then we can only say that they are unlucky." Xiaohua took out her camera and started shooting, taking pictures of almost all the details of the entire stone chamber.

When I was there, I immediately relaxed my guard. It felt like this was more relaxing than any other trip I had taken. In this way, the work could come to an end.

"Tell me. Why do these descendants of the Zhang family make things so complicated?" Xiaohua said.

"It's not complicated at all. If you think about it yourself, you will find that this is the only way. Just imagine, if it is ancient times. We must be helpless. You have to draw all these things, and then hurry up and send them from Sichuan Guangxi, at that time, these two places were very deep mountains without any roads. Do you know how long it takes to go back and forth?" I said, "It can't be done in a year. Moreover, tigers, bandits, and robbers, I Damn, the Guangxi side used to be basically a no-man’s land, a place of exile for the Southern Barbarians, but here is the Black Tiger Qiang Fan, so in fact, in that era, it was impossible to enter Zhangjialou, not to mention, don’t forget Yes. This mausoleum is mobile."

"So,

The descendants of the Zhang family are also in great danger. Maybe several of their precious descendants will die on the way. Why do they have to bury all their ancestors together? Then he kept moving the tomb. "

"I think that must be done." I sighed.

The photos were imported into the computer and transferred to Banai, Guangxi through dial-up Internet access via public telephone lines in a nearby town, and then quickly delivered to the old woman by a clerk there.

I don’t know how they felt when they saw these photos, but it must be similar to how we felt when we first saw the photos they sent us. And what follows is a long wait.

We had nothing to do and I stayed in the air. Looking at the four snow-capped mountains in the distance, the clouds at dusk are like an illusion. With the fairy spirit and moist wind, chat with the little flowers.

Xiaohua obviously accepted me more than before. We talked about a lot of things, things about our childhood, things after we separated, and things about studying drama. Sometimes we laughed out loud, and sometimes we were filled with emotion. Because our backgrounds are so similar, and even our personalities are very similar. However, my grandfather was determined to clean up his roots, and he, because of his family relationship, had to inherit his family.

"God is fair. Everyone thinks that the Jie family is a standing family, but no one thought that it was like a curse. After Jie Lianhuan died, my father also died soon, and several of my uncles Then they all died of illness one after another, and my grandfather finally left. All of a sudden, I was the only one left in the whole family. So those female relatives separated their families, and those who remarried were divided into my hands. In fact, It's a mess." Xiaohua drank wine and leaned on the cliff. "You said that you have always been away from these things since you were a child, so you have no experience in many things. This is actually the blessing of your family. After my grandfather died, , there is nothing to clean up. The Jie family has nothing left. My mother worked hard to maintain the Jie family’s reputation outside. I had to come out to be my young master. I was only eight years old at that time." He paused, " I have all the experiences you don’t have, but you have to believe me, those experiences are really, really uncomfortable experiences.”

"When the Jie family fell, the trees fell and the hozens dispersed. Countless people came to trouble us. Fortunately, my grandfather was very cautious in doing things and had made preparations before his death. He arranged for me to learn opera from the second master. This is considered as an elder taking care of the younger generation. The signal that the Jie family and the current industries have allowed me to survive from the age of eight to twenty-six are all due to my grandfather's design before his death and the protection of my second grandfather." He said, "You don't know, but I want to remind you, if you have left this circle, don’t come in again, the people here are not good people.”

"So are you a good person or a bad person?" I asked.

"What do you think?" He looked at me and sighed, "Do you think a good person could hear that his childhood playmate was uncertain about his life or death, but he still ignored it and finished his own affairs first?"

"I thought it was a quality, and actually we don't know each other too well."

He smiled bitterly: "Yes, it is the rule set by my grandfather. My grandfather is too smart. He can calculate everything. I dare not think that he is wrong. Do you know how many times I have done this kind of thing before? A lot Every time, I would think, if I had not listened to my grandfather, but went back immediately, would those people still be alive?" He laughed himself as he said, "Once you have such thoughts, you can't have friends. Because you know you can't go back to save him, then if you become friends with him and something like this happens, you will be sad. In order not to be sad, in order to be able to abandon other people with peace of mind, I can't become friends with anyone. Friend. It sounds a bit pretentious, right?"

I didn't know how to answer his words, so I just laughed a few times.

He said: "However, these are my thoughts when I was a child. Now that I am older, many things have been figured out." He sighed and raised the bottle to gesture to me, "So. Mr. Mistress, stay with me." Together. You have to take care of yourself."

I returned the gift, and I felt that he was not very sad. Indeed, I often feel that way, and occasionally sigh, but there are not many things left that can be changed, so I have to do whatever I want.

Just talk about it. We chatted here and there, but after five days, there was no news feedback from Guangxi.

We saw more photos than we sent and I could see right away how they work.

On the stone wall over there, they scraped off the entire surface of the relief just like we did here. It turned out that the relief on the outer layer of the stone wall was carved on a layer of something very stone-like. Behind the photo, there was someone I wrote that it was a mixture of egg white and horse manure. It was glued to a flat boulder and then the patterns were embossed on it.

This explains why the reliefs are so sloppy, since the material cannot be carved too much.

After the relief is shoveled away. Only a few places are actually carved into that boulder. Those parts cannot be shoveled away, and a comparison shows that they are the same position as the holes in the wall here.

Moreover, these fragments that were actually carved on the boulder seemed to be a kind of button that could be pressed into the interior of the boulder. They pressed the corresponding fragments on the boulder one by one according to the photos we sent. . Then I saw a picture of a fat man standing shirtless and giving a thumbs up in front of a split boulder with a crack in the middle. There is a gap for people to pass through. Behind the photo it says: Well done.

Xiaohua and I high-fived to celebrate, but. We immediately discovered that behind these photos, there were other photos, which was another stone wall.

The postscript on the back is more concise: Four hundred meters after the first stone wall, a second stone wall appears. Please keep up your efforts.

There are many relief patterns in the photo.

Xiaohua and I smiled bitterly, but this time we didn't have any doubts, because no matter what it was in the photo, we didn't have to untie it, we just had to go down to the corridor of the second agency and do it again.

If it were a novel, maybe something else would happen during the period, but this time, it was really much easier than I imagined. We were more prepared the second time and got the arrangement tips for the second set of reliefs the next day. , and then three days later, they opened the third stone wall, and nothing happened again.

After unlocking the third stone wall, we got their feedback. Based on the number of mechanisms, I knew this was the last level. After they entered, they should face Zhangjialou. We packed up our things in the stone room. Finally, looking at those reliefs, I couldn't believe that everything was really over.

I have never been so relaxed, and I have never had such a sense of accomplishment. Ever since I was a child, everyone thought that I was someone who couldn't take on big things. This time I proved that I could do it, and that sense of accomplishment was really comfortable. , I finally understand why some people pursue success so persistently.

Xiaohua is also very happy, and her heart is relieved. Now she just needs to wait for news from their side.

We were sure we no longer needed to stay here, so we went down to the bottom of the cliff. If there was good news, we would return to the village, or even rush to Guangxi and wait for the celebration in Banai.

I was thinking about what the old woman promised me, but I was in no hurry to fulfill it. On the one hand, I was hurt all over, and I didn’t have the energy to think about it anymore. On the other hand, I didn’t want to appear too utilitarian, and I still wanted Xiaohua to come up with it herself. I.

But that was obviously impossible. On the second day of rest, Xiaohua had no intention of saying anything. In the end, I couldn't help but asked him first.

He was leaning against the cave wall and playing with his mobile phone. Hearing my sudden question, he showed a very apologetic expression: "I'm sorry, I forgot about this. I don't particularly care about this."

I said: "I can see it. For the sake of saving your life, please give me a good time."

"It should be right." Xiaohua put the phone back in her pocket, "But why do you want to know the truth of this matter so much? In my opinion, it is best not to know the truth of the matter in many cases."

I didn't want to explain too much, so I cursed, "Tell me what's going on. After I've heard it, I'll tell you what's going on with me."

"Okay." Xiaohua said with a smile, "Xiuxiu should have told you about the seemingly earth-shattering thing our grandparents did here, right?"

I nodded, and Xiaohua said: "Then I have saved a lot of things. Let me think about it. Where should I start talking about it?" He scratched his head, "Actually, the whole thing should have been started by Zhang Dafoye. , you should know this too, right?"

Lord Zhang is the head of the Nine Lao Sects. I have heard some anecdotes about him, but I don’t know if they are what Xiaohua wants to tell me, so I simply shake my head.

Xiaohua said: "Then let me tell you something, you -" he paused, "don't be surprised by what you hear. It is basically true."

Zhang Dafo of the Zhang family comes from the north and is a representative of the Northern and Southern traditions. However, before this family came to the south, their background in the north was very mysterious. It is said that they came from a large mountainous family in Jilin, but people from the north Speaking of this clan, not much is known about it.

It is Zhang Dafoye himself. When talking about his family's origin, he was also very confused. He said that he was in the north. The family's ancestral precepts were very low-key. He only knew that their family's background was not glorious. Their branch seemed to have been driven out by another large family named Zhang hundreds of years ago.

This story was told by Zhang Dafoye himself at the wine table. Now it sounds very cliché, and he himself seems to regard it as a legend.

Perhaps hundreds of years ago, in Jilin, there was a very mysterious family of tomb robbers. He lives in seclusion in the mountains and lives a life without caring about worldly affairs. They enforce a strict family miscegenation policy, except for selected stewards. Others live in gathering places in the mountains and have no contact with outsiders at all.

Later, one of their descendants fell in love with an Orion's daughter and got her pregnant. The family was so powerful that they wanted to kill the fetus in the daughter's belly. The descendant refused and finally chose to leave the family. They were tortured, stripped of the unique characteristics of that family, and then kicked out of the family.

This descendant and the Orion's daughter left the local area and came to the city of Jilin. Fortunately, the man was smart and tolerant, and gradually they relied on his tomb robbing skills to have a romantic relationship with the girl.

Because they were afraid of the family's surveillance, they lived a very low-key life throughout their lives. Later, this became the ancestral motto. After several generations, this family gradually became a very large hidden force in Kanto.

It is said that the second generation of that descendant once returned to the place where their parents were driven out and wanted to find their grandma and grandpa, but found that their ancestral clan had been turned into ruins and they did not know where they were. . However, in the ruins, they discovered the secret of why their ancestors wanted to isolate themselves from the world.

It is said that they discovered a huge cellar under the ruins, which was built by this family. There were countless iron-sealed coffins in it, all of which were the coffins of the ancestors of the family.

The cellar was frightening, but the oldest coffins on the lowest level of the cellar had been moved away. It was obvious that the family had relocated, and it was unknown what they were doing to escape. And all the remaining coffins showed a strange state.

They burned down the cellar to hide the secret, but the secret became a family legend.

Decades ago, during the most turbulent era in China, Zhang Dafoye, as the largest local force in Changsha, participated in the revolution at the time of the transition between the old and new regimes. A man of martial arts, possessing unique skills and great appeal, he quickly established a foothold in the center of power. We don’t know what pseudonym Zhang Dafoye used at that time. In short, his status at that time was very, very high, at least among the first power group.

With such a high status, he would naturally come into contact with some core figures. By chance, a certain leader learned this secret from him.

They may have told it as anecdotes during a nap, but the leader listened and became very curious about the secret.

After the revolution, everyone was getting older year by year. In order to avoid the big storm that followed, Zhang Dafo also retired to the countryside, thinking that he would spend his whole life like this. But suddenly one year, Zhang Dafo was secretly received and met that man again. leader.

The leader at that time was already in his twilight years. During the conversation, Zhang Dafo Ye clearly felt the leader's fear of aging and death. The leader asked him to find the secret of his ancestors.

Therefore, Zhang Dafoye had no choice but to check his family's information. Through his privileges, he checked many county annals. Finally, some clues were discovered. We have no way of knowing the specific process, but he found clues about Siguniang Mountain in Sichuan. As a result, "the largest tomb robbery in history" occurred.

At this time, the leader's health deteriorated rapidly. They had to carry out very risky exploration work when the time was not ripe. As a result, the largest tomb robbing activity in history turned into a disaster for Laojiumen. The backbone of the force at that time was almost destroyed and all the best players died. inside.

This project is directly responsible to the leader, so it is directly commanded by another deputy. However, during that year, the deputy and leader died one after another, and the entire project ended automatically. Almost no one knew about it.

I remembered the photo I saw from my second uncle. The person in the photo had such a high status that I couldn't believe it. But now it seems that it is indeed true.

"I'm very lucky, because this project is extremely confidential. So after the two people passed away, no one knew that such an incident had happened. What followed was the ultimate power struggle. In order to avoid being purged, all the old nine sects hid, and at the same time , many old people also died one after another. It can be said that the golden age of old Changsha Taosha Ke has come to an end. It has been calm since then, and everyone thinks that this matter has passed. Including Mrs. Huo, Xie Jiuye and others, They all consciously began to clean up their affairs and wanted to get rid of the shadow of this incident. At the same time, in order to take care of business, big families began to marry and cooperate based on regions." Xiao Huadao. "However, they didn't expect that this matter is not over at all. Once they enter the officialdom, their children have already been watched and cultivated. You know, the echelon concept of this force is very deep. While the old echelon is being used, the second and third echelons have long been formed.”

"It seems to be in the mid-1970s, when Huo Ling and your third uncle's generation were less than 20 years old, they had actually completed a search and selection. I believe your father, your second uncle, and your third uncle all knew This thing. And that era was very scary, and young people were very fanatical. While the old echelon was declining, the new echelon had actually begun to operate."

Xiaohua called the leader of that year the A force, so this A force did not give up the exploration of the secret. After the leader's death, the successors of the A force ostensibly acquiesced to the absence of the old nine gates, but in fact, after the archaeological team Huo Ling and others at work have already started the follow-up work. Moreover, during that time, their target had moved from Sichuan to Zhangjialou, and the relationship between Shi Shilei and Zhangjialou was also discovered.

Force A believes that after leaving Jilin, Zhang Dafo's ancestors probably took the coffins of those ancestors to Guangxi, built such an ancient building in the mountains, and hid the "secret" in this Zhang family building. So, Force A used emerging forces such as Huo Ling and Chen Wenjin to form an archaeological team and went to Guangxi to investigate.

"These are the things we speculated before we met you." Xiao Hua said, "Before, we always thought that the archaeological project gave Huo Ling a huge blow, making her seem to be possessed. Maybe it was to understand the happiness in the world. She went to Xisha, and something huge happened after that. The old lady couldn't find out no matter how hard she tried, she thought at first that her daughter was buried under the sea. In fact, she gave up and accepted it in the late 1980s. She was tired of it. After hearing what happened here, she wanted to leave China and immigrate to Canada, but at this time, someone suddenly sent her several videotapes."

I heard Xiuxiu say it, but I didn’t want Xiuxiu to be exposed, so I kept silent and listened again: "There is an image of Huo Ling in the videotape. They seemed to be imprisoned somewhere. She always thought this was a threatening image. She My daughter is being detained somewhere, threatening her not to go abroad, and continuing to look for the ancient Zhang family building. You know, for a mother, this is a very, very sad thing."

"So, the old woman said she wanted to know why her daughter disappeared, but she was actually threatened in this way to continue looking for that ancient building? Is that why she paid a high price for the blueprints of Shaanxi Lei?"

"Yes!" Xiao Hua said, "But your appearance disrupted everything, because you brought a shocking news."

Assuming that the person who sent the videotape was Force A, then Force A may not even know that the archaeological team they control has actually been compromised.

"What you found out about the demon lake in Guangxi tells us that in the whole thing, there is actually a deeper hidden force. It may be the only one you have found so far, Force B."

This force b is very mysterious, but its moves are extraordinary. As soon as it appeared, it used a very ruthless trick to kill all the archaeological team, and then replaced the archaeological team with its own people. . The entire process takes place in remote mountainous areas and happens very quickly.

It was obvious that Force B knew the situation of Force A very well, so it made preparations early, so the people who were replaced did not even notice what happened immediately, even the people around them. And Force A doesn't know that their team has been replaced by Force B.

Xiaohua said: "After hearing this news, Mrs. Huo's taboo disappeared. You know Mrs. Huo's character. She must avenge herself. These two forces, one killed her daughter and the other played tricks on her. After so many years, now, it’s time for her to fight back. So, she is going to find the Zhang family building first, get the things inside, and then force the people behind the scenes to show up. "

"This is a very dangerous thing."

"Yes, so when we were heading here, the rest of the Huo family had already left the country. The old woman was serious this time." Xiaohua said, "I'm sorry, but now you know why she chose you as her helpers. It’s because she can’t use people from her own family.”

I wasn't particularly scared when I talked about this, because after all, these are very illusory. I asked: "So, do you think who is this force b?"

"Force b must be secretly opposed to force a and cooperate on the surface. Otherwise, there is no need to be so secretive. I heard you talk about Xisha. Xisha must be the ultimate game of various forces, so it is so complicated. You Maybe Third Uncle was really kept in the dark to some extent." Xiaohua said, "Only when the parties involved confess everything, will you understand what happened there. Unfortunately, the parties involved are basically gone now."

I lay down on the ground and thought to myself, I really don’t know what the situation is. The third uncle’s reconciliation series respectively represents the power of Judekao and Laojiumen in the opposition faction. Are the others just b under the skin of a? At that time, which force did Menyoupin represent?

Xiaohua stood up: "Anyway, the fun is to come." He looked at the holes in the wall and shined his flashlight out of boredom, "The real fun will come when they take things out."

I nodded and was about to curse a few more times when I suddenly saw that Xiaohua seemed to have found something in the hole. I frowned and lowered my head to look at a hole carefully.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

He frowned, bit his lower lip, then reached into the hole, fiddled with it, and heard a series of rattling sounds coming from the hole, and another relief sculpture grew out of it.

Xiaohua took out a piece of gravel and showed it to me: "Holy shit, is this piece stuck?"

I walked over, my heart was already beating wildly, thinking what the hell is going on.

"We opened and closed too many times, and a piece of stone fell off and got stuck in the crack. This piece couldn't be pushed out." Xiaohua said.

Oops, I immediately gasped.

Taking a step back and looking at the stone wall, it turned out that there were four buttons in total, but now it has become five. Damn, that means that on the other side, there were originally five buttons that needed to be pressed, but now they only pressed four.

However, judging from the photo sent by Menyoubo, the stone wall is still open. The password is wrong and the stone wall is still open. So what will happen if they walk in? (To be continued)