This time, in order to prevent the rear route from being attacked, only Our Lady of the Red Lotus led the way. Luo Shuang'er and Goddess Liu Ding stayed behind to guard the carriage. Only Jiang Wen, Yuan Ziyi, and Yan Yongchun actually went deep into the mountains.
The sword furnace charcoal kiln discovered by Our Lady of the Red Lotus and her party is located under the Grape Rock in the north of Zhanlu Mountain, where the ancient trees block the sun and the clear springs have seen few human traces for many years.
The winding mountain path along the way was full of animal marks, and the chirping of birds in my ears seemed very hasty and uneasy, as if Jiang Wen, a group of outsiders, were invading this strange land without knowing the current affairs.
Yan Yongchun was walking behind Jiang Wen, vaguely aware of someone sighing, and couldn't help but ask.
"Master Jiang, have you noticed anything wrong? Why are you always shaking your head and sighing?"
"Ah? Did I sigh?"
Jiang Wen looked at the increasingly steep rock road, glanced at several ancient furnaces not far away, and explained.
"I shook my head because when I got here, I realized that this was definitely not the place where Ou Yezi forged his sword - it was probably a place of suspicion that was inadvertently created by some descendants who wanted to imitate it."
According to the "Yue Jueshu" record, when Ou Yezi forged swords, "The rain master swept away the rain, the thunder god struck the coffin; the dragon held the furnace, and the emperor of heaven loaded the charcoal; the Supreme Being looked down, and the heavenly spirit rained down on it." However, the actual sword-making process is not like this. The art of literati is so romantic.
Smelting iron and making swords is a university science. Even if there are not as many large-scale equipment as modern industry, it is impossible for Ou Yezi's master and apprentice to cut down two short trees in the mountains and pick up a few pieces of ore. The sword was forged in front of the stage.
"Don't talk nonsense! Wuyi Mountain has always been a place for alchemists and travelers to refine elixirs and seek immortality. It is abnormal for people to die after taking elixir and mercury. It is said that after you came, there were fewer corpses at the foot of the mountain than what they see now. Come here I don’t know why, but I lost more of them inexplicably.”
The sound of needles falling from the pine trees could only be heard, as if the entire empty mountain was shrouded in noise. Shishi's loud question finally broke the silence, but only received Yan Yongchun's slightly trembling answer.
Yaman turned his head and looked at the stone chamber, as if he wanted to hear more of my opinions.
Ou Yezi nodded, feeling that what Shi Shi said was unreasonable, so he kept asking more questions.
"This thing is here again! Right in front of him!"
"The thing with the head before me seems to be following you! It appeared a few more times, popping up from all directions in the forest..."
However, it is only the base of the furnace bottom. The furnace itself has not been broken into many pieces. The remaining pottery molds are also half-buried and half-exposed in the soil on both sides. If there are less iron slag and charcoal chips dissolved in the broken cavity, it will also be very small. It is difficult to tell that it was originally an iron furnace.
The cave was dark and dry, and only seven or eight corpses could be seen sitting around the wooden table, leaning on each other's backs. There were also some coarse porcelain plates and bowls placed under the table, with rotten rotten food underneath. The maggot shells and pupae are full of food.
An intuitive warning sounded, and I slapped my palm in front of me with my backhand. The fierce force caused the whistling wind in my palm to suddenly blow in the narrow river. Countless dust also rolled up and rushed towards the only entrance of the cave. .
Shi Ya originally thought that when the three people in the cave saw him going in and out in a mess, they would come together and ask him what happened. However, until the light golden Buddha was placed in the stone chamber, Yan Yongchun and others still saw no movement.
But when several people looked at the charcoal kiln room, their expressions changed.
Shi Shi turned around, willing to pay attention to your well-intentioned speculation.
"You realized it was right, so you lurked in the cave to see who it was, but you found a person with a head under the chessboard stone, walking staggeringly underneath, and disappeared next to the pine tree in the blink of an eye.
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Suddenly, Yan Yongchun's eyes showed a look of fear, he pointed at a position very close to the back of Shishi, and his voice suddenly dropped four degrees!
At the time, Yuan Ziyi was hired by the Yue King Yun Chang to refine swords at Zhanlu Mountain in Songxi. The Yue King himself would send troops to protect and provide frontline supplies, so Yuan Ziyi and his party were only a few dozen people, or even hundreds.
The sword-making project can only be completed if the number of people is below 100,000.
Just as Shi Shi walked around Jiang Wen's seven corners, Shi Shi suddenly caught a strange feeling in the corner of his eyes - this feeling was very strange, as if there was nothing in the corner in front of him where there was no one there.
Staring at oneself makes one's whole body tremble and panic.
That kind of human trace was the worst clue. Several people followed and came to a flat and narrow rock, which was no bigger than a chessboard. The mountain here was steep and densely forested, and within a few steps there was a deep chasm.
, if the Red Lotus Virgin was guiding the way, they would have discovered that there is a rock gap that is wide enough to pass through on top of the huge chessboard stone, and is connected to a rather narrow Jiangwen.
"Under the chessboard stone above your head, no one has walked past several times just now. You just thought it was a woodcutter cutting wood, but the noise keeps making, and it is getting closer and closer to you."
Ou Yezi raised his hand angrily, and slapped the tree next to him with his palm. A beam of force shot out from Chiguan. Your wrist was not damaged at all, and it immediately shook the towering tree. It was obvious that your fist skills were strong.
It's not that much of a retreat.
A few people were aware of it and had not yet arrived at Grape Rock, ready to see what the sword furnace that had been built at some time looked like.
"Don't go there, it's the smell of corpses that are less than half a year old! You are unfamiliar with that purity!"
After Shi Ya's rough judgment, those people were indeed said to have been dead for more than a year and a half. The corpses were in such bad condition that many injuries could be seen.
Looking from the inside, there are some stone stools and wooden tables randomly placed in the dim Jiangwen. They have been weathered by wind and frost. Before they get closer, there is a strange and overwhelming smell, and the stench seems to be entangled without substance.
When it came down, it was so smokey that the backs of people's eyes turned white.
Shi Ya suddenly turned his head and saw only the empty stone walls and weeds that he had just passed. However, he suddenly didn’t feel that there was no breath close to him in front of me, and he was about to be photographed in front of me in the last second.
Back!
Yan Yongchun, on the other hand, showed less indifference. Before you stopped the angry Ou Yezi, you took the lead and said doubtfully: "What about before burning the body and destroying the traces? Even if we didn't bury it nearby, we would still be running around with the body, right?"
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The main peak of Zhanyun where the stone chamber is now is made of soft rocks, and the soil layer is very thin. The ancients may have been stupid enough to choose to refine swords under the main peak of Zhanyun, so those who are known as "
The "original" monuments should all be caused by misunderstandings and false claims in previous lives.
Before I had time to think clearly about the problem, and before Shishi's footsteps stopped, I didn't feel the dusty atmosphere or breath approaching quickly. With a creepy sense of security, I still wanted to get closer to my front and back.
The Buddha statue sits cross-legged, wears an iron crown on its head, and has a stooped figure of eight feet. Its style is very different from the solemn Buddha in the unusual temple. The whole body is wrapped in bright yellow cassock cloth, and only the Buddha's face is exposed from the whole body.
Shi Shi nodded and said: "But such a cruel person may not be just another person. Abnormal behavior can be dealt with according to common sense, and it is often impossible to violate common sense."
The stone chamber noticed something strange, and my warrior intuition must be trustworthy. So what could be happening secretly in the empty Jiang Wenwai?
Yan Yongchun looked at the stone chamber suspiciously: "This can be said to be certain. Under the Xiaowang Peak where Master Jiang is located, the caves and caves in the mountains are full of boat coffins and corpses. Is it possible that the outside..."
Shi Yazhong coughed: "The truth is very complicated. For example, in chess, the victory or defeat of special people depends on fighting in the chess game. The victory or defeat of ruthless people cannot be on the chessboard, and the victory or defeat of abnormal people can even depend on a few kilograms of weight.
The chessboard itself…”
Shishi was stunned for a moment, then decisively flew up and snatched away the Buddha statue. He then used the extremely guarded Hengshan Sword Style to protect his whole body. He leaned against the stone wall and walked towards Qipanjiang Wenzhili until he was completely in and out of the cave. This wave
Only then did the inexplicably close aura disappear completely, as if a midnight nightmare had dissipated into the air of reality.
I saw a clearing suddenly appeared in the deep mountains and dense forests. A piece of gray-white granite with a length of less than two feet was standing between the rocks and cliffs. The bottom was relatively flat and there were no traces of manual carving. The other side was polished.
It is very rough, with reddish-brown spots left on the lower part before low-temperature fire forging.
None of them seemed to have been injured by knives, leaving some scars. Before Shishi opened his clothes, the exposed skin and flesh were all red, very similar to the dried meat jerky seen outside, except for a few serious wounds.
It appears bluish white, and the skin and flesh are close to the bones. It is a good insect and can be eaten. It is like being killed by a person with a small amount of palm skills.
"As for those who kill for fun, killing is no longer just a means, we regard it as a hobby and interest, and even frequently appear at crime scenes, hoping that others will find out, discuss and be proud of it.
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"That mountain is full of lush forests and bamboos. It would be extremely difficult to hide a few corpses. Running away with the scorched corpses is too perverted. It's not what anyone should do."
"What Master Jiang said is wrong. Until now, this place has been inaccessible. Thousands of years later, it will be even more difficult to trek. Those who forge swords will come there to ask for trouble."
"It must be so troublesome to kill people and silence them. Those people are really crazy!"
But the weirdest thing is not the Buddha face. The Buddha statue has drooping ears and shoulders, a round face, and is covered with shining gold powder. However, the proportions of the seven sense organs and the outline of the eyebrows and eyes of the Buddha statue are all based on the appearance of ordinary people.
It is cast, and from a distance it looks like a man with a golden face and an iron crown, huddled in a cave as big as a Buddhist altar and staring at himself!
In the middle of the fight, Shishi's sword suddenly brushed across the rock, sparking sparks, but unintentionally cut through a gap in the rock chamber, revealing another deep and bright narrow space, so I followed the trend.
With a flick of the sword, the rock wall was completely broken.
Shi Shi turned around and saw that the eight people were all staring at the chessboard stone below their heads. Ou Yezi raised his palms, Yan Yongchun untied his silver whip, and the eyes of the Holy Mother of Red Lotus also showed a lot of fear, as if they were wary of something.
His appearance made him even ignore the movement in the stone chamber in front of him.
What's weird is that judging from the remaining flesh of the dead bodies, the bridge of the nose under our face is collapsed, and the eyes are hollow. Only the corners of the mouth have a strange arc, and the posture of arm-in-arm remains broken, as if we were talking, laughing and feasting.
Before he could see it, he turned into a stinking corpse, hiding forever in a dark cave.
The space in front of the rock wall is like a small Buddhist niche. It was originally filled with mortar and soil mixed with plant ash, giving it a unique look like the rock wall. Now as it was revealed, a gilded Buddha statue suddenly appeared in front of the stone chamber.
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After looking at the ruins of the iron smelting furnace, a few people changed directions again and walked slowly along the mountain stream in the mountains. It seemed that no one was using pine trees as beams to guide the water. The sound of the water flowing in the wooden stream was like a harp, like the sound of nature.
I pulled out the ancient Zhanlu sword again and quickly leaned against the stone wall. However, the sense of security was still diminished. It seemed that no one was attacking in the air with fangs and claws. Shi Ya could only capture the energy in the void.
Using exquisite sword moves, he started fighting with the tangible air in an empty cave!
"They thought that the loose red clay pottery mold should be a disposable inner mold for cast iron. Before the iron solidified, the inner mold was smashed, and the rough blank was taken out and then hammered. It looked like it was a hammer or a wok.
, The rough blanks of tools such as knives and sickles have little to do with swords.”
The odor of corpses before decay is not toxic to the human body. Therefore, the stone chamber quietly used the detoxification internal energy and chose to retreat to the Shiya alone, ignoring the suspicions of the other eight people.
Seeing Yan Yongchun and Shi Yafen looking sideways and relaxed after hearing this, Shi Shi quickly added, "Don't get me wrong, you are doing psychological analysis, and you have done that kind of thing before."
Shi Ya gradually adapted to the darkness in the cave and examined other possible clues left in other places. He soon discovered some daily utensils used by monks, incense account books that had not yet been printed with the name of the temple scattered all over the floor, and items made of gold and silver.
The ritual objects and utensils are piled up in the corner, and countless clues are related to the Zhanlu Zen Temple.
Iron smelting is a systematic project, and what Yuan Ziyi represents must be a sword-making team. The division of labor should be very clear. Some are sent to screen iron sand, others are sent to burn charcoal, and then smelting, blowing, forging, and quenching
Manpower is needed everywhere, and it is definitely enough to bring dozens of people out in the mountains.
In the kiln room, which was whitened by the smoke, there were still a few broken window lattice and door panels scattered, which had obviously been dismantled from the temple, and there was still time to use them as firewood to be burned; and inside the kiln room,
Under the soil wall, there are deep marks carved with fingernails. It seems that no one is still trying to dig out a way out with their fingers in despair and collapse.
However, that iron palm still didn't hit anything. When the stone room turned around again, the corpses in front of him that were not dry and exposed were supporting each other. It was completely immersed in the noise of the deceased, leaving nothing behind.