"Captain Peng, I...I really don't want to go on anymore. I'm afraid of death. I want to go back..."
Zhang Rong hesitated to speak. Zhao Man looked at Zuo Shisan who was standing aside and asked:
"Thirteen, what are your plans?"
Before Zuo Thirteen could speak, the sound of whispering voices could be heard again from the depths of the dark jungle.
"What?" Chang Deming was so frightened that his whole body trembled.
A copper coin popped out of Shang Yunsu's hand and shot into the jungle.
Then the sound disappeared.
"There must be someone in there!" the fat man said, staring in the direction where the sound came from.
"Maybe it's the people from the Nine-Headed Buddha. They have been following us." Zhao Man said.
At this time, the fat man was a little anxious:
"How about we bring our equipment and rush in to take a look?"
Shang Yunsu persuaded the fat man:
"The enemy is in darkness and we are in the dark. We must not rush in without thoroughly understanding the opponent's strength."
"Then what should we do now?" the fat man asked.
Shang Yunsu thought for a moment and said:
"The rain has stopped. Let's light a bonfire first and let Captain Peng arrange for someone to keep watch. The others will rest on the spot. We will return the same way early tomorrow morning."
After hearing what Shang Yunsu said, Peng Changsheng immediately said:
"I disagree!"
"Captain Peng, I know it's very difficult for you to give up now. In fact, I don't want to give up halfway unless I have to. After all, we have risked our lives to get to this point. But if we choose to continue taking risks to find the tomb of the King of Dian, the consequences are likely to be for the entire army.
Destroyed, you also saw the scene just now, we absolutely cannot compete with those evil soldiers!" Shang Yunsu said.
After hearing this, Peng Changsheng was silent for a while, raised his head and looked at the starry sky and said lightly:
"A person must do one thing right in his life... Tomorrow morning, you go back and I stay."
Shang Yunsu, Li Hong and others could not understand Peng Changsheng's stubborn words:
"Captain Peng, if you stay here you will lose your life in vain, and you will not be able to protect the tomb of the Dian King at all." Li Hong said.
Zhao Man also continued to persuade:
"Captain Peng, I can understand your mood, but there are some things that we cannot change. If we keep the green hills, we are not afraid of running out of firewood. When we go back, we will be better prepared to come back. And we are not
Nothing has been found, at least we can confirm that the burial place of the ancient Dian king is on the Dian Mountains."
Peng Changsheng remained silent. He coughed twice, turned around and walked back to the tent without saying a word.
At this time, Zuo Shisan also felt a little melancholy in his heart, because retreating along the original route meant that his plan to go to the Valley of Death had also failed. If he could not enter the Valley of Death, he would not be able to find his way back.
the real reason.
Zuo Shisan doesn’t want to give up, but everyone’s life safety is more important.
The fat man completely forgot about the real purpose of their trip. He looked at the tent where Peng Changsheng was and said:
"Is there really no one else in your cultural relics bureau? Why did you find such a stubborn old antique? Even if you don't want to live, you still want to bury us together!"
After Peng Changsheng returned to the tent, he could no longer hold back the tears and flowed down the corners of his eyes.
He took out a photo from his breast pocket. In the photo was a handsome man who looked to be in his early twenties. The person in the photo was none other than Peng Changsheng's son: Peng Qidong.
Peng Qidong was influenced by his father since he was a child and was particularly interested in ancient culture and history. After graduating from university with a major in archeology, he immediately went to the front line to excavate and protect cultural relics.
Three years ago, they came to Yunnan. On their way back from excavating cultural relics, they disappeared mysteriously together with the local driver and two colleagues. To this day, no one is alive or dead.
Everything at the crime scene was normal, there were no signs of a fight. The only clue found by the criminal police who investigated the scene was a pencil sketch, which showed the seal of the King of Dian!
The image of this golden seal has always been engraved in Peng Changsheng's mind. The size of the seal is less than a square inch, and there is a snake coiled on the back of the seal. He looks back at it.
A line of words at the bottom of the drawing gave Peng Changsheng a glimmer of hope, so he persisted until now.
That line of characters is exactly Peng Qidong's font: "The Tomb of the King of Dian."
His son disappeared mysteriously, and the only clues were the seal of the Dian King and the three words "Tomb of the Dian King" drawn on the drawing, and it was impossible to find out whether this seal actually existed in history.
However, Peng Changsheng was convinced that the seal of the Dian King must exist, and he also felt that it might be the wronged soul of the Dian King that brought his son into the ancient tomb. Otherwise, why would these four living people disappear out of thin air together?
So starting from three years ago, in order to find his son, Peng Changsheng began to study the history and culture of the ancient Dian Kingdom crazily, and determined the location of the tomb of the Dian King. Therefore, he has been waiting for an opportunity to deliberately remove the Dian King's tomb.
The news about the tomb was released, leading Nine-Headed Buddha and others to rob the tomb, so that he could enter the ancient tomb together and find out whether there was such a seal of the Dian King in the tomb of the Dian King.
Is my son in that ancient tomb?
…
Zuo Shisan and Fatty took the initiative to apply for vigil. Zuo Shisan asked An Rushuang to go back to the tent to rest first.
The two lit a bonfire and sat outside the tent. The fat man kept complaining about Peng Changsheng's stubbornness and one-sidedness.
Zuo Shisan occasionally chatted with him for a word or two, but spent most of the time in deep thought.
He was very worried about his current situation. As time passed by, Zuo Shisan could clearly feel that his physical condition was changing every day, and he even had a premonition that he was aging rapidly!
The skin loses its elasticity, the fingernails begin to turn white, and even one's own thinking becomes dull.
"Senior brother, if I say, it's okay if we don't go back tomorrow. When we actually find the tomb of the Dian King, we can secretly pick up one or two antiques and make a lot of money when we go back. Then you and I won't have to worry.
I have a wife, and shouldn’t our Qingzhu Temple also need to be renovated? Everything requires money.”
"Money or life?" Zuo Shisan looked at the fat man and asked.
"It takes money and lives. The key issue now is not with me, but with that old antique Peng Changsheng. As the captain, he doesn't agree with us going back. If we really leave, he will be left alone in this forest. He probably won't be able to use it."
You have to let the wild beasts eat all the bones in three days." The fat man said, taking out a pack of compressed biscuits from his backpack, tearing it open and eating it.
Zuo Shisan looked at the bonfire and said nothing.
The fashionable Yunsu walked out of the tent and walked to Zuo Shisan and Fatty:
"I can't sleep, let me chat with you for a while."
The fat man glanced at Shang Yunsu and said:
"Miss Shang, I think what you said before is absolutely correct. We can't continue. We have almost lost our lives several times along the way. If we continue like this, the tomb of King Dian has not yet been found. Our little
Your life will be lost first!"
Zuo Shisan shook his head helplessly when he heard the fat man's ability to talk nonsense to people and ghosts.
Shang Yunsu had been playing with a yellow copper coin in her hand. After listening to the fat man's words, she said:
"Captain Peng has agreed for us to return the same way we came. We will return home early tomorrow morning."
