I'm not surprised that Gu Zangfeng woke up early.
But when I saw Gu Zangfeng appear in front of me refreshed, with two scouts in the same condition standing behind me.
Only then did I realize that they might not have fallen asleep at all.
I haven't read the book yet.
Gu Zangfeng chuckled and said to Xiaohua, "This girl."
"No, you are a few years older than me. You should be called Xiaohua. Forget it, let's call you Xiaohua."
"You do have some tricks, but you seem to have forgotten that we are not Han people, and our physical foundation is still somewhat different from Han people."
"As for the barbaric skills you used, to be honest, even though I don't know how to do it, it's actually quite childish."
"Didn't the person who taught you tell you that this barbaric technique came from our Raojiang Twelve Cave?"
A few light words made Xiaohua's face turn green and red for a while.
However, Gu Zangfeng did not pursue this issue further.
Instead, he said: "Actually, you don't have to avoid suspicion like this. We were invited by Master Chen's uncle to help. We are really not that interested in your so-called elixir."
"Life is normal, old age, illness and death are normal. Going against nature will only be counterproductive."
"I wonder if I'm right?"
Xiaohua didn't speak, just looked at me, as if asking for my consent.
At this time, there is no need to hide anything.
Simply, I looked at Gu Zangfeng and said, "Please, Mr. Gu, please help me wake up Li Dabao. Since you want to listen, then everyone should listen together."
Gu Zangfeng smiled slightly and nodded lightly at A Lang behind him.
After a while, Li Dabao rubbed his groggy glasses and came over with two other waiters.
Ah Lang and Ah Cai started to light a fire and made some simple food.
While everyone was eating, they listened to Xiao Hua describing what happened in the mountains.
Xiaohua's original name is Zhao Juan, and her nickname is indeed Xiaohua.
There is a stockade deep in Shennongjia. Before the death of Qin Emperor Ying Zheng, this stockade secretly ordered some of his descendants from far away to be brought here.
Xiaohua's ancestors were the first to follow, and at that time they were personally led by Qingyi Taoist Chen Fengnian.
There is actually only one purpose for them to come here.
The first is to find the cave where the so-called Shen Nong practiced, and the second is to build an alchemy place by taking advantage of the Feng Shui situation here.
Because the formula of the elixir that Chen Fengnian, Xu Fu, and many other people had originally developed had major flaws.
Back then, a group of them found a thousand-year-old turtle that had been dead for a long time in the Shennong Cave in Shennongjia.
The recipe for the elixir is recorded on the old turtle's shell.
Later, large-scale construction work began here, and an alchemy site was built, which was quite grand in scale.
However, when Qin Shihuang was halfway through construction, Qin Shihuang died suddenly, and Chen Fengnian left the place.
His whereabouts are unknown since then.
Although Chen Fengnian left, he still let his subordinates continue the remaining operations before leaving.
Various experiments were carried out in endlessly, until there was no more money from the top to put them down.
After the addition of Qin II, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, came to power.
In the first two years after taking office, many soldiers were sent to Shennongjia to look for the people inside.
But all the soldiers sent by Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, died in the primeval forest of Shennongjia, and no one survived.
A total of three teams were dispatched before and after, but there was no trace of them all.
Because of the large number of people at that time, there was not only one village but many villages now.
With the passage of time, the outbreak of internal and external troubles, and the ensuing natural disasters, the number of people has decreased significantly.
Even the Palace of Immortality was completely buried deep under the mountain after an earthquake.
Later, those people who were originally from the Qin Dynasty built a very large mausoleum on the ruins.
As for why they didn't go out to live in the mountains.
Xiaohua’s explanation is this.
"After experiencing so many things and the changes of several dynasties, we have long been integrated with this vast mountain."
"What's the benefit of going out?"
Li Dabao interjected: "But if you don't go out, your bloodline will become less and less in the end. Aren't you afraid that your own people will marry your own people?"
Xiaohua smiled bitterly and said: "That's right, so the number of people who still exist here is very small. In fact, we have already started trying to contact the outside world more than a hundred years ago."
"We have also attracted some people in, but it is still a drop in the bucket. Maybe when all our people are dead, maybe the secrets here will be completely hidden."
"However, the temptation of the elixir is too great. Anyone who knows about it will come to search for it without fear of death."
As she spoke, Xiaohua told a story after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
At that time, Shennongjia was completely undeveloped, both in its periphery and in its depths.
People who have always claimed to be a regular exploration team entered here.
They discovered that there were savages in the depths of Shennongjia, so they reported what happened here.
I don’t know whether it was reported to the government or to a non-governmental organization.
I only know that many years later, some development began on the periphery of this place, saying that they wanted to turn this city into a tourist attraction.
Those years were also the craze for expedition teams to enter Shennongjia.
Of course, much of this is done in secret.
As things progressed, they, the tomb-keepers, knew that there were some things that simply could not be guarded.
It was also at this time that some of the men and women who were originally absorbed into Shennongjia left.
The secret got out.
Between 1975 and 1985, three groups of people came here, each with a different number of people.
The first group had the largest number of people, hundreds of people.
It's just that when they entered Dawu Mountain, they lost their way, and finally some of them died and left.
Although the second group of people was not large in number, they almost touched the village.
It is very close to the Immortal Palace.
This is because someone from the village led the way and touched it.
In the end, the people in the village designed to keep this group of people, and even executed the 'traitors'.
But when it comes to modern firearms, many methods from ancient times are naturally no match.
Even if they have the right time, place and people, it is quite unrealistic to want to keep all those masters.
As for the third group of people, it was what happened after grandpa stole the bronze mirror of the Warring States Period.
Xiaohua said: "The third group of people is the least like me. There are less than twelve people, and only two of them are women. They entered the village and also went to the Palace of Immortality."
"But only one person came out alive, and that was a young man. He was crazy and didn't know anything anymore."
"He lived in the village for some time and suddenly disappeared in one day. No one knows where he went."
Gu Zangfeng frowned slightly and said, "Could it be that there are other places deep in the Immortal Palace?"
Xiaohua said bluntly: "Of course, we have survived here for so long, and we dare not say that we have explored the entire Shennongjia area."
"There is no way for people to pass deeper there, because even the air there is poisonous. If a person just takes a breath, his intestines will be pierced and his stomach will be rotten, and he will die beyond death."
"The reason why I say this is because someone in our ancestors must have done this before...!!!"
