Fortunately, the path trodden by the tea pickers led smoothly to the bottom of the mountain col. Below the mountain col is a stream beach. It is the dry season now, and the pebbles are exposed on the river bed. Although there is still a little stream flowing, the gurgling sound of the stream can no longer be heard.
Lin Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled happily at me, "I finally survived. This day scared me!"
"That's nothing. God knows what's inside?"
"Hmm, I don't feel good either. This time I encountered a tough opponent. I'm afraid that we will be defeated by him."
"Bah, bah, bah, who can bring us in when you say something depressing?"
We were talking there, and suddenly I saw a flash of light in the woods not far away. I noticed with alarm, "It was like the light of a flashlight."
"Who will be here this late at night?" Lin Xiaoyu asked.
"I think we've encountered someone who's fighting for food!"
"You mean there are people who want to go to the grave, but who can find this real dragon?"
"You can't say that. There are people outside the mountains. There are always some people who know this secret!" I motioned for her to speak in a low voice, then squatted down and touched it. There seemed to be a camp in the woods, with five or six tents set up. There were basically no lights inside, but there was a light shining in one tent, much like the fluorescence of a computer screen. It was probably a place to store equipment.
Suddenly, a man in white clothes hurriedly ran out of one tent, then ran into another tent, and ran out again not long after, then wailed on the spot like crazy, and suddenly ran away again. He ran towards the creek beach.
I hurriedly hid in the bushes, but he stopped before he could take a step, as if someone was calling him. I whispered to Lin Xiaoyu that he might be possessed by something evil, he looked so weird. As soon as he finished speaking, the man rushed towards the camp with all his strength. Before he could run ten meters, he stumbled and fell to the ground.
He lay on the ground and touched a soft object at hand. When he took it over, he was so frightened that he peed. He cried out, "Hand! Hand!" He saw a blood-red arm thrown out of his hand. , when he looked around again, the camp was littered with corpses, all of them bloody and missing limbs and arms.
Lin Xiaoyu couldn't help but pale when she saw this situation, "What is this? Why are so many people dead?"
She swallowed unconsciously, "What a massacre!"
I checked on the ground and said, "These people are not ordinary people. Do you know who they are?"
Lin Xiaoyu shook her head, "How do I know, who are they?"
"It belongs to the archaeological team." I found a small shovel from the backpack under a person. "This kind of shovel can only be used by the archaeological team, but no archaeological team will sneak into the mountains, so these people are not ordinary people." archaeological team."
"It's not an ordinary archaeological team, it's from Class 2?"
"Yes, from Class 2, these guys are tomb robbers with official background. We jokingly call them red-topped peasants. You think it's interesting or not!"
"Red-topped native master? I think your name is more interesting!"
The woods were filled with the smell of blood and terror. Not far away, the stream flowed slowly between the cobblestones. The faint lights flickered in the forest, and the empty valley echoed, like a ghost walking at night.
When we walked over, the man lying on the ground had already passed out, his eyes staring straight at the dead body in front of him, staring at him fiercely.
I just felt that the smell of blood in the air was too strong. It was also the first time I had seen such a cruel scene. "You are absolutely right, it was a massacre!"
Lin Xiaoyu looked at me fearfully and asked, "Should we call the police?"
"Do you still have a signal on your phone?" I was looking at the screen of my phone as I spoke. "These people are not ordinary people. How could they die here? Don't you think it's strange?"
"I don't have a signal either." Lin Xiaoyu shook her head anxiously, "Especially because they died outside the ancient tomb."
"They must have come here for this tomb, but who killed them?"
Lin Xiaoyu was also very uneasy. She searched the camp nervously. She suddenly shouted, "Li Rui, come and see."
Li Rui saw a dark light on the ground, which turned out to be the light of a mobile phone screen. "This is the satellite phone they left behind. The screen is still on, which means they were all killed in a very short period of time. Even the screen was on." They’re all still on!”
"This is definitely not something that can be done by humans. Even if it was done by a group of people, it would be possible to do it so cleanly and neatly!"
"Not human power? What do you mean?"
"The master below is very evil, we'd better be careful."
I looked around in the tent and found nothing except that these people were all wearing uniforms. However, Lin Xiaoyu found an electronic map on a computer, "The map they made is very detailed, and it is almost the same as what you analyzed before. We came down from the fork, and they went upstream from the lower reaches of the stream." of."
"You see, they have marked the location of the sacrificial pit on the map and followed the corridor into the tomb."
I took a look at the map and nodded, "These guys are not bad. They are from a major, and they are in the same industry as me. No wonder the employment pressure is so high now!"
"You still have the guts to make a joke!"
"What else should we do?" I smiled, "Look, these little forks they made above are probably the holes they dug. Let's go up there and have a look."
Not far away, near a small mound, stood an aluminum alloy pole. "Good guy, this kind of exploration shovel is so rare!"
"This is a detachable exploration shovel. It can be installed section by section, which makes transportation easier." I smiled, "Look, this exploration shovel has not been picked up yet. Where is this person? Could it be possible? Is that the person who ran out just now?"
"It seems so. He must have discovered something, got frightened and ran back."
I pulled out the shovel, and there was a bunch of soil on the shovel head. I shook it with the flashlight. The blood-red rammed soil was eye-catching. "Look!"
"Under the red rammed earth, are there the bloody corpses you're talking about?"
"It's not just that!" I squatted down and took a sniff, "Maybe there are other things, the smell of earth is so overwhelming!"
I took off the equipment, took out the masonry knife from it, and was about to start. Lin Xiaoyu also got a shovel from the camp. The two of us kept turning it up and down, and soon it took shape.
"Something's wrong."
"What's wrong?"
I pointed to a newly dug mound about ten meters to my left, "Look there!"
"Why didn't you see it just now?" Lin Xiaoyu looked down. This was a hole that had been dug, "This-"
"Root hole!" I confirmed, "This hole was dug about a week ago."
"These local masters are really amazing. They can be found here. I thought they were all heading to the virtual tomb in the back mountain."
Lin Xiaoyu tugged at the corner of my clothes, "Let's not talk about this for now. Do you think they have dug this robbery hole? Have they already gone down?"
"There are two groups of people in front and behind, plus we are at least three groups of people who are going to fight. Everyone in the camp has given up. Do you think these local masters have a chance to survive if they really go down?"
"ah?"
"Don't believe it, have you seen it? There is a brick roof underneath, and this thin layer of anti-theft tiles is filled with kerosene, which can be easily touched. The glazed tiles haven't been broken yet, which means they didn't go down, maybe. They encountered something, and then they got scared, and finally these guys in white clothes heard something and touched here!"
"Indeed, the dragon fire tiles are still there, and it seems that these tomb robbers have not dared to attack. But, you said that if there is something really causing trouble, then-"
"We're both close at hand!" I said casually, looking at the soil beside the thief's hole. "You don't have to look at it. We're only a dozen steps away, but the hole we just dug and this hole are still the same. There’s a big difference.”
"Aren't these all glazed roofs? Is there anything special about them?"
"Exploring caves to share gold is a common practice for all authentic tomb robbers. Luoyang shoveled down the main coffin chamber and the ear chambers accurately, but you can see that except for the group of white-clothed ones who dug up blood and soil, we can't It’s all in vain!”
"That's not bad. Digging into the bloody corpse field won't be much better. Besides, unless we dig a side hole to get in, we really can't get in."
"A real gold-dividing master doesn't use a Luoyang shovel at all, but relies on the method of dividing gold to fix holes. The fire dragon oil glazed roof is not really made of porcelain, and many ancient tombs have gaps." I laughed. He smiled and said, "However, I still have to say that the guy below is really a scheming person. He got the bloody corpse under the gap, so those who don't know how to do it will directly get into the trap and they will definitely die!"
"You don't mean to go down from the Bloody Corpse Ground."
"What's there to be afraid of? Isn't it a piece of cake for you and me?"
"You're kidding, the bloody corpse field is full of nitric acid. Wouldn't it be disfiguring if you go down there?" I patted Lin Xiaoyu on the shoulder, "I'm just teasing you, why are you so nervous."
We dug a side hole from the back of the mound outside and entered the corridor. As usual, there are some sacred beasts keeping watch on both sides of the corridor, but they were probably not completed when they were placed in the tomb. Their heads were carved very finely and were lifelike, but their lower bodies only had a rough outline.
"How's it going? What did you find?"
"This guy probably died in a hurry. The inside was not finished yet."
"Yeah, it's a pity that he tried so hard to find peace after death." Lin Xiaoyu held a broken brick in his hand, "Look, even the final brick wall that closed the tomb was not finished."
The brick wall was only half completed, and there were three or four white bones lying alone next to it. They looked like workers who built the ancient tomb. Behind the brick wall is an open tomb chamber, with a lotus-shaped floor tile on the ground in the middle. The entire tomb is supported by four pillars. The pillars are engraved with characters, and the lamps hanging from the beams are filled with lamp oil.
