Luo Wenbing looked like a heavy smoker. In the time he was talking, the fat man had smoked most of the box of cigarettes.
He puffed out the cigarette in his hand until there was only a bit of the butt left, stuffed it under the sole of his shoe and stubbed it out. The fat man shook the cigarette case over again, and waved his hand, "I won't smoke anymore, as long as it's satisfying."
While he was talking, Wu Xie squatted in front of the iron cage and observed the old monkey inside. He saw that it had been huddled in the corner, its mouth was moving slightly, and it seemed that it was really chanting something, and its voice was very low.
Wu Xie was doubtful of Luo Wenbing's words, so he pointed at Granny Monkey and said, "You said you could understand some of Granny Monkey's words. What is she saying now?"
Luo Wenbing walked around to the other side of the cage, approached carefully, listened carefully for a while, and then said, not quite sure: "I don't know what it means by letting loose, just listening to it talking about it, it's time to chat, it's time to chat, I'll know it." It said it’s time to chat.”
Wu Xie and Fatty looked at each other, and both thought of a certain possibility. If that were the case, all this would have been calculated in advance by Muyu.
"Open your display cabinet and take out the mummy for me to see." Wu Xie said to Luo Wenbing.
Luo Wenbing rubbed his nose, took off a bunch of keys tied to his trousers, turned on the light with the largest wattage in the yard, walked to the front room and said: "Bosses, please stop being so pretentious." Well, I already know that you guys are working together, so why not just buy the spicy mummy and the spicy monkey mother-in-law and spread them out, so that I can sleep comfortably at night."
The fat man followed him, and the two brothers patted his arms, "Don't be impatient. We'll say goodbye to you after we've seen each other."
Luo Wenbing knew there was a way when he heard it. If he could deal with this thing quickly, he would feel better. He immediately opened the glass door of the cabinet happily and moved the mummy inside to the yard with the fat man.
"Come, come, come and have a look. This thing can hold up well even in the world of ancient corpses." Luo Wenbing enthusiastically promoted the ancient corpse, "I will never get slapped or fooled if I buy it. .”
Wu Xie stretched out his hand to push him over, "Don't block the road. We will decide whether to buy it after seeing it."
As he spoke, he started to remove the tattered linen clothes on the ancient corpse, and carefully looked at the patterns on it. He found that there were many strange animal pictographic patterns, and the place closest to the navel was a scorpion.
The eight legs of this scorpion are connected to the petals of the lotus, but the last petal goes straight to the scorpion's tail and merges with the snake body below.
Moreover, Wu Xie also discovered that the ancient corpse was ridiculously light. He peeled off some dry skin and looked inside, only to find that the inside of the ancient corpse was completely hollowed out, and the entire body was inserted into the skin with bamboo strips. It looked like a human being, but due to subsequent dehydration, the body was twisted and curled up into what it is now.
This situation can be compared to the shape of a roasted suckling pig. The whole inside of the dried bamboo strips carcass is supported by thin but strong bamboo.
The fat man touched the stubble of his beard and said to Wu Xie, "What do you think this thing looks like? Does it look like a scarecrow in a rice field that scares sparrows?"
"A bit." Wu Xie also felt that this description was very similar.
If his conjecture was correct, the ancient mummy was buried in that place, and it did not play the role of burial. There must be many clues under the wooden tower that Nie Xiaoba and the others discovered.
He winked at Nie Xiaoba and the others, then stood up and told the fat man to leave, "We may have to sleep in the car tonight. Go there early. That place may have been invaded first."
The fat man immediately became anxious when he heard this, "Come on, hurry up, those wild lamas are not as polite as us. They will leave late and there won't even be any oil residue left."
Wu Xie looked at him speechlessly, "Can you be serious? We are here to do business, and I can feel from this ancient corpse that the place is not simple. You'd better not touch the things inside. "
The fat man patted his chest and said with a serious face: "That's necessary. Fatty, I'm such a tight-knit person. Don't worry. Besides, Muyu is also my dead brother. We must put his affairs first." .”
Luo Wenbing was originally waiting for these two wealthy patrons to buy the mummy with a wave of their hands, but to his surprise, the two of them left directly and rushed to stop him.
Before Clinker's words even came out of his throat, he felt a pain in the back of his neck, froze immediately, rolled his eyes and fainted.
Nie Xiaoba caught Luo Wenbing who was about to fall and told the remaining guys, "Dafu, you and Tie Tuo go to the hotel and drive our car over. We'll take the cage and the mummy with us tomorrow morning." If it’s not bright, you have to go up the mountain.”
"Yes." Several boys responded and immediately took action.
They drove all the way to the village at the foot of the mountain and stopped the car in the courtyard of a house. Wu Xie looked at the time on his watch and saw that it was about 1:40 in the morning. He used the intercom to inform everyone to take a break. , get up at 4:30 tomorrow morning.
Nie Xiaoba, the night watchman, would naturally make arrangements so that there would be no words for the whole night.
They got up when it was slightly brighter the next day. Large thick clouds gathered on the top of the mountain like a market, blocking the little bit of sunlight from being seen. A light morning mist floated in the forest at the foot of the mountain. It seemed that It's a cloudy day today, I wonder if it will rain soon.
Wu Xie and the others took the time to have breakfast at a fellow villager's house, and when they put on their equipment and headed towards the mountain road, the fat man saw a khaki-colored van parked in the yard of a family, with the surrounding area covered by fodder for livestock. .
"Tianzhen, look over there, could it be the car of the group who played monkeys digging graves before?" said the fat man.
Wu Xie took out his binoculars and looked for a spot. He saw that the letters in front of the van's license plate, which was not covered by grass, were Sichuan D. He looked at the tightly locked door again.
"It seems that the group is local. Of course, it is also possible that locals brought outsiders here to look for treasures." Wu Xie raised his eyebrows and looked at Luo Wenbing, who was wilting aside, and asked him, "Do you know this family?"
Luo Wenbing woke up early in the morning and found that he had been kidnapped. Only then did he realize that what he had encountered was not an ordinary cultural relic dealer. This group of people was a coffin-climbing dog.
"It's going to happen, it's going to happen this time." Luo Wenbing looked sad and regretted it too much.
"What are you talking about here alone?" The fat man slapped him, "Hurry up, the third boss is asking you something, answer him honestly."
Luo Wenbing frowned and sighed, "Big pots, where are you going to get me? I don't even know. Really, I swear."
The fat man laughed mischievously, "Of course I'm going to help you get rich. Don't be afraid. Just cooperate obediently."
Luo Wenbing knew that he had accidentally boarded the pirate ship. Now it was too late to get off the ship, so he had to cooperate honestly.
He didn't dare to run. There were so many people. If he ran away, this gang of idiots would be armed with knives and sticks. How would he deal with his family members if they took revenge?
Wu Xie asked again, and Luo Wenbing said: "That's Li Shengbao's house. That son of a bitch is still a bachelor in his fifties. He is a famous second-rate man in our town. He has been taken away by the police station many times. He is not a good person. .”
"But it's strange to have an idea. You can get such a big car in a short while, isn't it because you are so poor? How can you make a fortune in a short while?"
Wu Xie understood that it looked like locals and outsiders came here to fight.
Everyone stopped staying and continued to climb over a mountain under the leadership of Luo Wenbing and walk towards Jianping Mountain.
There is only a mule trail here, which is so steep and rugged that even a bicycle cannot ride up it. It is estimated that if the motorcycle speeds up, both the person and the vehicle will lose their effort in turning.
The mountains are vast and deep, and the scenery is quiet and lonely, full of mystery and cold mist. Slowly, fewer and fewer people come out on the roadside. At the back, there are only a few people wearing ethnic minority costumes and carrying backpacks. Mountain people going to the morning market at the foot of the mountain.
Wu Xie also saw among them a little boy who was not much taller than the large backpack he was carrying. The backpack was separated in the middle. On one side, he placed dried herbs and curled up with his fingers in his mouth. His little face was flushed with sleep. 's little sister.
I heard the child say that his parents died in an accident on the mountain a few years ago. His grandpa left earlier, and he and his little sister were the only ones left at home to depend on each other.
The fat man was probably going to be a father in a few months. He didn't want to see such a scene. He asked the kid for directions and secretly stuffed a small wad of money into the pocket of the little girl in the backpack. He put it in the wallet specially given to him. Before leaving, he took a handful of candies from Wu Xie's pocket and put them in the child's palm.
"Poor boy." The fat man sighed. He remembered that when he went to the countryside with the team, he also ran up the mountain with a load of pigweed on his back.
The sky soon brightened completely. The Jigong Liangzi they were going to was on the opposite mountain, with a cliff in the middle. When they looked down, they saw that it was full of fog and clouds.
The fat man looked at Luo Wenbing with unkind eyes, "You are dishonest. If you hadn't asked that kid just now, we would have almost been led astray by you."
Luo Wenbing was surrounded by strong young men with big shoulders and round waists in front and behind him. How could he dare to make mistakes? He hurriedly explained: "There is a way, and the way I lead is the enemy. Don't just look at the cockroach and Liangzi you see now. In fact, more parts of it are in Yundian, and if you have to go up from the bottom of the mountain, you can go directly to the province."
The fat man snorted coldly, "You kid, don't try to play any tricks. How are you going to get out?"
"Go further and climb over the ridge above this village. Come with me."
Luo Wenbing walked in the front. The scattered houses on the mountain could no longer see their shadows. When they reached a higher place, there were no paths at all. They walked directly among the trees.
Worried about snakes escaping from the grass, everyone had a long stick in their hands.
In the afternoon, drizzle began to fall from the sky. Everyone put on raincoats over their clothes and continued on their way. Finally, in the evening, they reached the place where Luo Wenbing met the ancient corpse of the monkey and snake.
The sky was gloomy, there was no sun, night was falling quickly, the rain was still falling, and it was impossible to move forward even if every step slipped. Wu Xie ordered that they camp here to rest tonight.
Nie Xiaoba directed the men to set up a tent to hide from the rain. Wu Xie and Fatty carried Luo Wenbing under the lychee tree.
"Is this where you found the mummy?" Wu Xie asked him, pointing to the grass behind the tree.
Luo Wenbing nodded, and Wu Xie looked up. The leaves and fruits were very dense, and he couldn't see anything strange. He decided to go up the tree to have a look.
"Be careful." The fat man warned him.
After training with Heixiazi for many days, Wu Xie felt that he was much more flexible when climbing trees. His hands and feet were as nimble as a monkey. He could easily climb to high places and hold on to the branches at hand to stand firm.
He always kept in mind the strange thing about the experience Luo Wenbing told about that he didn't pay attention to when catching fruits on the fruit tree.
He suspected that there might be something else on the tree that Luo Wenbing had overlooked.
Half an hour later, the fat man below was waiting a little anxiously, "Have you found it? How about I come up too and we can look for it together."
"Found it." Wu Xie poked his head out from among the leaves, with a smile on his face. He raised a large black mass in his hand, "This is it."
After saying that, he slipped down from the tree. The fat man gave him the towel in his hand and held up the flashlight to shine on the thing. "What the hell is this black cloth?"
Wu Xie wiped the rain off his face and shook the thing in his hand, "Let's go to the fire and talk in detail."
The two returned under the awning, and Nie Xiaoba quickly filled two bowls of ginger soup for them to ward off the cold.
"Little Third Master, what did you find?" Nie Xiaoba asked curiously.
Wu Xie let it cool down a little, drank it in one gulp, put down the bowl, turned over what he had just gotten from the tree, pointed to a triangular bulge on it, and said, "Look, does it look familiar?"
The fat man looked at it carefully, opened his hand to compare it, and hissed, "Why does this thing look like a motorcycle helmet? But what is this triangular convex for? Isn't it afraid of hitting the head?"
Wu Xie nodded, "Yes, but it's not a helmet, but a specially made mask. Do you still remember the mummy made of monkeys and snakes? Its head is very, very small, and there is a similar shape on its forehead. Triangular hole.”
"This thing should have been the thing on the face of the mummy, or it can be said that this thing is the face that the mummy really wants us to see."
Wu Xie said, turning the "helmet" to the front. The moment he saw the thing clearly, the fat man suddenly took a breath.
Under the light of the fire, Fatty could clearly see that it was the face of a human-faced bird!
"F*ck!" Fatty exclaimed, "What the hell is going on? Why does this ghost bird appear here?"
Wu Xie's face was solemn, "Do you still remember the two specimens that we saw in the secret room of the underground palace of the Queen Mother of the West? The two human heads were interchanged with snakes and centipedes. Think about it again. The monkey and snake mummies are also different animals. The bodies are spliced together.”
"Actually, we overlooked something at the beginning." Wu Xie said.
The fat man looked at the face of the human-faced bird and finally came to his senses, "What?"
"Monkeys are wise." Wu Xie looked at the old monkey chained under a tree on one side.
"What is the form of the Gu King who turned into a monster in the story Cai Laojiu told, and why is he called a monster."
The fat man's mind immediately turned around, "Are you saying that the Gu King in the Tusi's tomb is actually a monkey?"
"No, maybe it's not a monkey." Wu Xie stared closely at Granny Monkey's face, "It's a person who has become atavistic for some reason."
In the shadow of the light, Granny Monkey seemed to have a devilish smile on her face.
Wu Xie sighed, "It seems that there is bound to be a fierce battle tonight."
Sorry dear friends, I have been dealing with some trivial matters in my hometown these days, so I didn't have time to type. I'm extremely sorry.
Thank you [Amnesia Will Not Lose You] [The Most Innocent When I Was Young] and other bosses for the rewards, show your appreciation...*
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