In the early hours of the night, before the police station arrived, everyone on the bus dispersed.
There are no surveillance cameras on such remote roads between villages. If you take the small roads to the county town and check into a hotel, you can't find them even if you try to find them.
Next to a big tree on a country road, Tian Sanjiu and I stood behind the tree and puffed away. We hadn't had much rest in the past few days. We both had dark circles under our eyes, mine was more serious.
"Tian Bantou, the self-harming snake appeared on the DVD we watched tonight. What do you think this person is going to do next?"
"what to do"
Tian Sanjiu rubbed his temples and suddenly said: "Go down."
I was stunned, "You mean to let me go down now to find the boss and Brother Yu?"
"Not just looking for it, but urging it."
Tian Sanjiu turned around and said, "The time that Wang Xiansheng and I set at that time was three and a half days, and no more than four days at the latest."
"But today is the fifth day. Judging from Wang Xiansheng's style, there are two possibilities. One is that something happened to someone, and the other is that they encountered difficulties."
"I can't leave. I'm your logistics now. I have to ensure the safety on the ground. Only you can go down. You can hold this thing."
As he spoke, he handed me the short-barreled shotgun.
He said: "This is a gun made by the people of Guzhen themselves. It has no serial number and cannot be traced. It can still shoot seven rounds."
"hiss!"
My mind was groggy, and I suddenly felt a burning pain on the back of my hand.
"It hurts so much! Why are you burning me?" I casually took the gun.
Tian Sanjiu threw away the cigarette butt and said with a smile: "Look at how bad you are, you're going to fall asleep just standing there. Let me cheer you up."
Looking at the dark circles under his eyes, I said you are no better.
I wanted to burn him with a cigarette butt to get it back, but I got a slap on the back of the head.
People are alive, and plans cannot keep up with changes. If changes occur, corresponding adjustments must be made.
This is what I decided with him.
All the five ugly people have appeared. This is the result of our efforts. It is a good thing. At least we know what the people we have to deal with look like. The self-harming snake said that we don’t understand the five ugly people and we don’t want to know them. We just want to find the tomb.
Take out all the valuable items in there and leave quickly.
Tian Sanjiu stayed up there and watched. I wanted to sleep for three or four hours, and then at noon, when everyone was eating and taking a nap, I would take the gas bottle and go down to the pond.
After more than an hour, I entered the cave.
It's much warmer in the south than in the north at this time. It's so cold in Mohe that I don't want to get up. There was heavy dew on the mountain in the morning, and my trouser legs were soaked with water.
Water droplets condensed on the walls of the cave. The moment I entered, the water droplets dripped onto the ground with a pitter-patter sound.
As we walked all the way to the deepest part of the cave, we heard the melodious sound of a harmonica. It was very clear and pleasant, and the melody was very familiar. I didn’t know what song it was.
"Little sister, I'm back."
I turned in, and when the little girl saw it was me, she immediately turned her face aside.
She grabbed the harmonica and said in an angry voice: "Why don't you say a word?"
She groped around her body, looking for the mask to put on.
I said you don't need to bring it. We're here. What else do you need to bring? It'll be fine.
The little girl hesitated for a few seconds and then slowly turned her face.
I was mentally prepared, but this. "I look ugly, I know."
I quickly said: "No, haha, it's not ugly, little sister, you have a very distinctive look."
She still put on the mask, then hugged her legs with her hands and sat there in a daze.
"Hey, where did the red eyes go? Why didn't you see him?" I asked, changing the subject.
The younger sister said that he was in the mountains and woods. He kept running to the mountains after waking up and only came back at night. He didn’t know what he was doing.
His red-eyed thinking was different from that of ordinary people. No one knew what was going on in his mind. He might squat under a tree and watch bugs for a day, but as long as he knew he would come back, I didn't take it to heart.
I didn't sleep for two days and two nights. I was so sleepy that I had a headache. I didn't take off my shirt. I pulled the quilt over me and fell asleep against the wall. There was a faint fragrance on the quilt.
Strange things have happened since I arrived at Guizailing. I have had nightmares several times, and this time I also had a very bad dream.
I dreamed that my little sister was squatting by the pond with her back to me. He called me over. As soon as I walked over, I saw snakes rolling and swimming in the water. Thousands of them were like boiling water.
Same as noodles.
I was just about to run away when my little sister suddenly turned her head and opened her mouth wide, filled with little snakes.
I woke up from the nightmare, sweating on my back and gasping for air.
I calmed down for a while and looked at the time. It was almost noon. I slept for three and a half hours.
"I'm leaving." I picked up my bag.
"You want to go down?"
"I want to go down too. That fool is fine and I don't need to watch anymore. I'm worried about my sister."
I shook my head: "No, I only have one gas cylinder. Also, your sister has told you before that it has not been half a month since you had surgery on your face, so you should not get it wet, otherwise it will be very troublesome."
"You just stay here, Tian Sanjiu said, he will come to you as soon as possible and make arrangements."
After coming out of the cave, I stepped on the weeds and walked on the mountain path. As I walked, I suddenly heard laughter with red eyes.
"Hehehehe."
I ran up the slope and looked down, and I was shocked.
I saw Red Eyes standing next to a big tree. His left leg was not moving, and his right leg was raised high and kept still, as if he was kicking in goose.
A bald monkey with a red face and no hair was holding his thigh with both hands and was wandering there. His red eyes looked down at the monkey swaying back and forth, and he kept laughing.
I hurriedly ran down the slope, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it.
"Dead monkey!"
The bald monkey squeaked strangely and ran to the tree in an instant.
The red eyes slowly retracted their legs and looked back at me.
I ran over and pushed him and said angrily: "What are you doing! This is the monkey of Dragon Monkey!"
"It's not a good thing! I won't kill you!"
When I looked up, I saw the bald monkey hiding in the tree and looking down. I picked up stones and threw them at the tree.
Before it was thrown out, a sudden strong force came from it.
Red Eyes pushed me, causing me to stagger several steps and fall.
"You are better than me! How dare you push me and you!"
As soon as I stood up, he pushed me again.
I got up and kicked him hard.
"You're fucking crazy! Do it to me!"
That ghost monkey was climbing up and down the tree, jumping up and down. I angrily took out the gun Tian Sanjiu gave me and prepared to hit the monkey.
Red Eyes suddenly hugged me and strangled me very tightly, preventing me from hitting.
"He. Fuck, let go, I. I can't breathe."
He let go of me, and the ghost monkey on the tree ran away without a trace. I looked back and forth, not knowing where it went.
The red eyes kept making gestures to me. After spending time together, sometimes I could understand that he might mean to ask me not to hit the monkey. He liked this bald monkey and wanted to be friends with it. That was probably what he meant.
I don’t know if he listened, but I warned him sternly.
This is a medicine monkey, not a domestic species. Drinking monkey urine will make you addicted. If you become addicted, he will not be Chaoshan Powerful Monkey Huang Tianbao.
He became the Five Chou, Dragon, Monkey and Huang Tianbao.
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If Red Eye drinks the drug monkey urine, then within half an hour of the drug taking effect, I guess neither Brother Yu nor Sister Achun can control him. Who can control him?
That's it. I've said everything I can. I don't know if he can understand.
I don't have time to search for monkeys in the mountains and plains now. I have more important things to do.
At around 12 noon, I changed into a wetsuit behind a tree in Guizailing. I put the clothes I took off into a waterproof bag, put it in the bag and carried it close to my body, and then I waited.
Forest ranger Lao Hu was sitting on a horse outside the hut, holding a bowl and eating. There was a radio on the ground next to him. The antenna for receiving the signal was pulled out half a meter high. I couldn't hear what was being played.
After waiting for nearly twenty minutes, when Lao Hu finished eating and returned to the house to deliver bowls, I walked quickly to the pond with my waist bent, looked around, and jumped into the pond with a pop.
The sun was shining brightly at noon today. The water temperature in the pond remained at 7 or 8 degrees Celsius, not too cold. Moreover, the underwater visibility was pretty good. You could see some small fish and aquatic plants without turning on a flashlight.
The mask was bubbling, so I paddled hard and swam deeper into the pond.
First I saw the black hole at the bottom of the pond. I swam closer and inadvertently turned my head to take a look.
A pale human face suddenly appeared in front of me.
It's the dragon monkey Hu Liqun who has been dead for many days.
He opened his eyes under the water, his body was swollen from the water, and a small grass carp came out from the back of his head and then came in again.
The rope tied to the dragon monkey was loosened a lot, but one end was still connected to the stone sculpture of the ghost cub sunk at the bottom of the water.
Therefore, under the effect of the buoyancy at the bottom of the water, Hu Liqun smiled and moved his whole body up and down, as if he was still alive, struggling, and wanted to swim to the surface.
I quickly turned my head away from looking and got into the dark hole.
After about ten minutes, I surfaced and took off my mask.
It was dark all around and there was the sound of dripping water.
When I got ashore, I found the reflective marker posted on the wall.
I followed the reflective signs all the way and soon reached the slope. If I remember correctly, I slid down from here and then walked to the left along the underground river. After walking for about two hours, I will reach the deep pit with bats. It is different from walking with the leader and others. You have to be careful when walking alone. If your feet slip and fall into a dark pit, no one can find it. I know this very well, so I am very careful when sliding down. Only the rope stops shaking.
Only then did I dare to go down.
Wearing a headlamp, when I was slipping in the middle, I suddenly saw a reflection on the wall illuminated by my flashlight.
It was bright, like a mirror on the wall.
"what?"
I grabbed the rope and swung to the right, and got there.
There is a small rectangular hole in the wall, only twenty centimeters long and wide. It looks like it was cut by someone. If you shine a flashlight into it, light will be reflected in the wall hole.
Afraid of bugs, bats, etc. living inside, I took out my knife and poked inside. It was obvious that I hit something hard.
I reached in and to my surprise, I pulled out a handful of copper coins.
This small hole in the wall is full of copper coins, there are a lot of them, some are rusty, and some are still golden when they are taken out because they were pressed underneath.
These copper coins were originally hidden in a clay pot and stuffed in the wall. Now the clay pot is broken and most of them are scattered out.
I don't know who hid it here before, but after I took it out, I took it out and took a look.
They are all Qing Dynasty copper coins, not only Guangxu Tongbao, but also Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Shunzhi. Some are in good condition, and some are rotten.
"These few copper coins"
I picked up some unusual copper coins, two Tiancong sweat coins from Huang Taiji in the Qing Dynasty, with Manchu characters on the front and back, two Yiji coins from the Qing Dynasty and a rotten Emperor Tongbao.
I remember that Yi Ji Qian was an uprising by a few people in the late Qing Dynasty and established an organization called Qian Hui. They minted and issued it themselves, and there were relatively few. The dead Emperor Tongbao was made by the Tiandi Hui in the Qing Dynasty, and there were also relatively few.
This must have been hidden here by someone in the late Qing Dynasty. I didn't want anything else. I just took these few coins away. These few copper coins can be sold for a lot of money.
I collected the rope, picked up my bag, and continued walking, and soon I reached the deep pit.
We saw the rope bridge, which indicated that we had passed the end.
I grabbed the rope and climbed over, and saw the four-eyed god mural for the first time.
after an hour.
"The head? The head?"
"Brother Yu? Bean sprouts? Xiaoxuan?"
I lay down on the robber's cave and shouted several times, but no one answered.
From the Robber's Cave to the corridor, I walked forward slowly with a flashlight. Several Vajra doors in front of the tomb had been opened. I knew that there was a flap at the sixth door, so I followed the safe route marked on the ground.
It was quiet all around, I could only hear my own breathing and footsteps.
When I stood in front of the seventh door, I was stunned.
Where are people?
The crystal glass door was not opened and intact, and the cartoon smiling face on the door was vaguely visible.
That's not right. I can get here in half a day, but they have been here for four days. There is no way they can't get here, but where have they gone?
"who!"
Carrying the bag, he turned around sharply.
I heard footsteps clearly just now. It was someone running from behind me.
"who is it!"
"say!"
I held up the flashlight and shouted twice, turning my head nervously to look back.