The bamboo raft stopped in front of a wooden stack, and night had enveloped the entire village.
Zhang Zhuxun and the others got off the raft. In addition to the remaining payment as previously agreed, Zhang Zhuxun gave two more.
Lan Baihong thanked them and rowed the raft back overnight.
The roads in Banai Village were so familiar to them that they quickly found the gravel road to Agui's bamboo house with a light on, and the group of people found it.
Smelling the scent of rice lingering in the air in the village, everyone was starving and rushed to Agui's house without stopping. In the distance, they saw the newly built tall bamboo stand at the door.
Seeing a group of people coming this way from a distance, one of the Huo family members on guard asked vigilantly: "Who is it?" At the same time, he turned the big light on the shelf.
This situation looks like the puppet troops guarding the city gate during the Anti-Japanese War, holding high-power searchlights to illuminate the death squads preparing for a night attack.
Huo Xiaoli hurriedly put his fingers to his mouth and blew a few regular whistles, which was the Huo family's unique way of contacting him.
The two Huo family members who were on guard above heard the sound, looked at it with binoculars, and immediately came down and opened the wooden door for them.
When he walked in, the fat man immediately scanned the layout inside. When he saw that there were basically no major changes, his dissatisfaction eased a little. He almost thought that the Agui family had let the Huo family turn it into a village on the Green Forest Hero Mountain. .
After Huo Xiuxiu went up the mountain, the person in charge here is now a middle-aged Huo family member named Huo Qiji. The fat man even complained about this name at the beginning. This man can be regarded as a relatively loyal member of the Baoding Party.
"Aren't you working with the head of the family? Why did you suddenly go down the mountain?"
Huo Qiji asked, glanced at Zhang Zhuxun and the others, and realized that the situation might have changed. He immediately put his left hand behind his back and made a gesture to the person in the dark, instructing the messenger to go up the mountain to investigate immediately.
The person in the shadow of the bamboo building received the order and was about to exit from the other direction, but saw Zhang Zhuxun turning his head directly to look in his direction. He immediately stopped his movements and held his breath and stopped. He could feel that... Master Yu was staring at him.
Thanks to Huo Xiaoli's timely explanation of the situation, although Huo Qiji was doubtful, he didn't say anything more. He only arranged for someone to go down to boil water for cooking, prepare the room, and then asked the remaining Huo family members to wait at the meeting place. .
Zhang Zhuxun then looked away, smiled at Huo Qiji who noticed the direction he was looking, and then called the fat man and the two to go up to the bamboo building where they lived before.
Watching the three people's backs disappear upstairs, Huo Qiji narrowed his eyes slightly, waved his hand gently to ask the messenger to step back, then walked to his room next door and looked around at the faces of Huo Xiaoli and the others. , then spoke, "Tell me, what exactly happened."
Huo Xiaoli and the others told the whole story of the incident, and then he gave up his doubts about Zhang Zhuxun and the others.
After a night's rest, Zhang Zhuxun and the others went up the mountain in the light rain early the next morning and rushed to meet Huo Xiangu and the others.
After spending a day and a night on the road, when the clinker arrived, they discovered that Huo Xiangu and the others were not there in the camp. After asking the people who stayed behind, they found out that Huo Xiangu sent a team to search for Wu after losing contact with them. As a result, he personally led the team and reopened the mechanism. He led the team into Fengshi this morning and has not come out yet.
It was now morning. Zhang Zhuxun and his younger brother looked at each other with serious expressions. They then packed their backpacks and packed some light equipment inside.
Then he pulled the fat man over, avoiding everyone's sight, and lowered his voice in his ear: "Although I don't know exactly where the problem occurred, there has been an error in the operation of the third door sealing mechanism. According to the innocent reminder, this error is There is a limit on the number of times. My brother and I will go in and take them out. You should also pay attention to safety while staying in the camp."
When the lynx army attacked last time, the mole who secretly helped Tumbo to break the tent lamp has not been found yet. The situation was critical at that time and the scene was too chaotic. No one noticed the mole's actions.
This person is a time bomb. Although Zhang Zhuxun has a few suspects in his heart, he is not 100% sure.
Some of the people Huo Xiangu took with her when she left were those who had gone in last time, and some were people who had stayed in the camp before. Although the Huo family members that Zhang Zhuxun suspected also followed this time, there was no guarantee that there would be no more people in the camp. There will be other moles hidden deeper.
Huo Xiangu activated the second sealing stone, and the mechanism has not been closed yet. After Zhang Zhuxun and his brother entered, they should be able to catch up with them as fast as possible.
The fat man pulled him and frowned: "Since there is a limit on the number of times you can go in, what should you do if you get stuck in there and can't get out?"
Zhang Zhuoxun patted him on the shoulder and reassured him, "The trial and error mechanism of the Zhang Family Ancient Building cannot be limited to this one time. We at least have one chance to escape unscathed."
The fat man knew that if he went in together, he would definitely slow down the two of them, so he nodded seriously and said, "Okay, you two should also be more careful. Go early and come back early."
After giving some brief instructions, Zhang Zhuxun and his brother walked into the cave again and quickly entered the third sealing stone.
The tomb passage inside was almost unchanged from before. It was still a flat stone road. However, after walking a hundred meters, the two discovered something strange.
This time the stone road was much longer than last time, and the two of them found a particularly small fire mark in a very secret place near the end of this road.
This mark is different from the previous two sealing stones. The direction of the flame pattern is more complicated, as if it is conveying some meaning.
It has the same function as the Zhang family's unique mark, but Zhang Zhuxun can't figure out what it means. He can only guess that Zhang Menyu may have discovered a certain pattern of passage changes, so he left a mark for himself who entered for the third time. mark to verify his guess.
The next section was still a straight square tomb passage, and the old traces of man-made repairs on the mountain wall were very clear. After advancing about 500 meters, they found some biscuit packaging bags left by Huo Xiangu and the others when they rested. There were bullet marks on the floor, and there were spurts of blood on the ground that spread all the way to the wall.
Something had obviously happened here, something so serious that one of the parties had used firearms.
But except for a pool of blood on the wall, there is no corpse here, and the amount of bleeding is not enough to cause death from excessive blood loss. Perhaps Huo Xiangu took the initiative to get out of the way of this shot, for the purpose of temporarily With the help of intimidation, one of the small leaders was seriously injured to suppress this small group of people.
As long as no one is dead, the remaining minions will not be able to fight back, not to mention that there are other small forces waiting for the opportunity.
The little brother stared at the pool of blood, flickered the lamp in his hand, then squatted down and took out a bullet from the crack in the stone wall with his fingers. After looking at it, he handed it to Zhang Shuxun.
Just by looking at the spiral scratches on the warhead, Zhang Zhuxun knew that the bullet was fired by the MP5 in the hands of one of Huo Chushi and the others.
It seems that his speculation just now is correct. A small group of Huo family members may want to secretly kidnap Huo Xiangu while they are resting, and hold the emperor hostage to order the princes. After all, the styles and photos are in Huo Xiangu's hands. Is the road right? Correct, only Huo Xiangu knows.
Zhang Zhuxun let out a light tut. The master behind this group of people was so uncontrollable that he dared to challenge Mrs. Huo face to face.
If it weren't for an extraordinary period, mushrooms would probably start growing on my grave once it rains.
Zhang Zhuxun whispered his reasoning to the younger brother, "When they entered this time, they did not bring as much equipment as last time. It seems that Mrs. Huo is already prepared for the second failure."
Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so impatient, and led the people in in a hurry even though she knew her brother had lost contact.
This time she entered was just an experiment to verify what the problem was, and to deal with some minions who were about to lose their temper, so as not to get in the way at the critical moment.
The little brother nodded, turned on the light and looked at the stone path ahead, and whispered: "Let's go."
The two continued to move forward faster. This time they found a lot of scattered wood on the stone path, with the bark scraped off. The specifications were very uniform. The length was visually measured to be one meter, and the diameter was as thick as the mouth of a normal eating bowl. , is a very regular long cylindrical shape.
Although the wood has dried out, there are no serious signs of dryness, cracking or mildew. It can be seen that it has not been here for a long time.
"This is Eucalyptus macrophylla wood. The most common tree species in Guangxi is eucalyptus. This kind of tree grows very fast and can grow to be so thick in three or four years." Zhang Zhuxun squatted down as he spoke and pulled several pieces of wood from their original places. "And you see, there are obvious creases underneath the wood, which reminds me of the sleepers that were laid under the train tracks."
The younger brother frowned slightly and said concisely, "Someone has used them to transport things."
"That's right." Zhang Zhuoxun nodded and added, "And judging from those marks, it should be something relatively heavy."
Using these pieces of wood to place under heavy objects is equivalent to installing rollers on the things to be transported, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
So the question is, who laid these timbers here, and what were they transporting?
The two of them walked forward along the wood and found that there were still indentations on the ground in some places where there was no wood. In other words, the original wood in these open spaces was taken away directly after they finished transporting the things. gone.
How to explain the remaining residual wood?
Zhang Zhuoxun pondered for a while and then suddenly said, "Brother, do you think that Chen Wenjin's expedition team lingered in Banai for so long, really just for archeology?"
The little brother pursed his lips, thought for a while, and finally shook his head. His memory had recovered a little bit, but it was still incomplete. The memory fragments in his mind lacked a key string that could connect them in series.
Zhang Zhuxun said in a deep voice: "I think that although Siguniang Mountain suffered heavy losses, the people behind the organization must have got some clues from it. Only then did they reorganize the new generation of young people from Jiumen, under the guise of archeology. In the name of searching for the ancient Zhang family building in Banai."
"During the two years that Banai was entrenched, they should have found the entrance to the ancient building, and then used the password obtained from Siguniang Mountain to unlock the sealing stone and bring in the wood prepared in advance. The ultimate goal was actually to What should I send to the Zhang family’s ancient building?”
"But something happened and their plan failed."
The people behind the scenes may have gotten the wrong password from Siguniang Mountain like them, but they didn't know about it. At first, they just wanted to find the way to the Zhang family's longevity from the Zhang family ancient building. At the same time, Zhang Qishan knew that they wanted to enter Zhang's house. Jiagulou must be under the leadership of the head of the Zhang family.
So at that time, "it" relied on its own power to search for Zhang Qiling across the country who disappeared after Siguniang Mountain.
The slumped shoulders are what Zhang Qishan found, the closest substitute to Zhang Qiling.
Then, under the guise of archeology, a group of people searched for traces of ancient buildings in Banai. During this period, they must have discovered Milotuo that existed between the mountains. The iron blocks fished up from the bottom of the lake were used to deal with Milotuo. tool.
However, in the process of searching, the health of the person who wanted to obtain the magic of immortality deteriorated sharply, and he was about to return to the west. It was no time to delay entering the Zhang family's ancient building.
When they finally found the entrance to the ancient building, the man had passed away, so the original plan to find the secret turned into a funeral.
When Chen Wenjin and others went to explore, the team staying outside was killed by Panma's greed and abandoned in the lake. Jie Jiuye took the opportunity to fill the vacancy with his own people.
Because they entered with an incorrect password, Chen Wenjin and the others encountered a strong alkali trap in the ancient building and were almost wiped out. Only a few of them, Chen Wenjin, accidentally escaped from the underwater passage of the ancient building.
Due to time constraints, they did not find that the team members outside had been replaced. Similarly, Panma thought that the person he killed had come back to life. Jie Jiuye made a small plan, and he was already frightened and had no idea what happened at that time. Tight-lipped.
The fake Zhang Qiling was seriously injured by strong alkali corrosion and was abandoned by them in an ancient building. He finally escaped in a thrilling manner, but was considered dead by it. From then on, he hid in the mountains, cooperated with Panma, and used his familiarity with the terrain and environment to realize his dream. People who entered the Zhangjia ancient building were murdered, and the mummy of crooked nuts on the tree in the valley was evidence.
With the experience of the first exploration, Chen Wenjin and others entered the ancient building for the second time. At the same time, they laid rolling logs and transported the leader's coffin in, hoping to replace the coffin of the Zhang family ancestors.
During this process, members of the fake archaeological team suddenly attacked, snatched the leader's body, sealed it with molten iron, burned all the documents, and then fled with the body.
Immediately, after it discovered something strange, it began to hunt down Xie Jiuye's team from all over the world. In 1979, Xie Jiuye and the others fled to Hangzhou and were hunted on the largest scale, so they had no choice but to ask Wu Laogou for help.
At that time, Wu Sansheng was exploring a secret Southern Song Dynasty imperial mausoleum underground in Hangzhou in the name of building a shop. Wu Laogou simply used a golden cicada to escape from its shell and hid the body in the imperial mausoleum.
Without worries, Jie Jiuye began to fully confront its forces.
Thank you [Bu Nian] for the reward, I have a huge heart...*
(End of chapter)
