There is a very special machine lock on the white wood carving box. Only the octagonal silver dart that Zhang Zhuxun asked someone to bring to Wu Xiaoxie before going to Changbai Mountain can be used as a key to open it.
Zhang Shuxun knew very well that this time in the Zhang family ancient building, he was destined to confront the Wang family, and he could already vaguely feel the aura of an approaching storm.
In fact, he has no idea whether he can come out of the ancient building.
This box is a layer of insurance he added to that plan.
If, if he really broke into the Zhangjia Ancient Building this time, he hoped that Wu Xiaoxie could follow the instructions in the box, avoid detours, and pick up the little brother from the bronze door as soon as possible.
It’s just that when the time comes, he won’t be able to accompany you.
Pan Zi seemed to believe Zhang Zhuxun's explanation, but in fact he still had doubts in his heart. He always felt that this boy was hiding something from him.
Pan Zi stared at Zhang Zhuxun for a long time, but never saw any flaws in his expression.
From the outer wall of the arch came the shouts of food being served, "Sour radish veal leaves, purple eggplant and salted eggs, and vinegar kidney flowers are here!"
The female waiter brought a large wooden plate full of dishes and blew it over like a gust of wind. She put it on the table with her hands and feet neatly, "This is the rice. You two eat first. The crayfish will be out of the pot soon, and several other dishes will be out soon."
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Pan Zi put the white wooden carved box on the edge of the table, picked up the chopsticks, and put vegetables into Zhang Zhuxun's bowl. "When the new year comes, I will try to step back from my current position. In the end, Sanye's stall will still be
It has to be left in the hands of the mistress. After we get married, I probably won’t have time to take care of the affairs of you young people. No matter what you want to do, just go three steps forward and four steps behind. You just have to know it in your mind."<
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Zhang Zhuoxun smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll remember it."
Afterwards, we chatted about some irrelevant things and finished the meal quickly.
After leaving the hotel, the two of them got into the car.
Panzi put the box into his backpack, lit it on fire, and asked, "Where do you want to stay? A hotel or my place?"
Since he had someone he cared about, Pan Zi used the money he had saved over the years to buy several houses in places with a good environment and convenient travel. He usually lived in the old alley in front of the hall. Zhang Zhuoxun shook his head, "Let's go directly to the airport. I have to hurry back to Banai. The little brother and the fat man are still waiting for me."
"Sure." Pan Zi nodded, said nothing more, and didn't ask any unnecessary questions.
After leaving Banai that day, Zhang Zhuxun squeezed time and returned to Yao Village on the morning of the fifth day.
It hasn't rained in the past few days, and the road up the mountain is open.
Zhang Zhuxun rode a fellow villager's ox cart to the entrance of the village, and happened to meet Huo Xiuxiu who was directing the men to carry equipment to the donkey cart.
This little girl doesn't know what she has been through these past few days. The expression on her face is always ugly. She didn't even smile when she saw Zhang Zhuxun.
Zhang Zhuoxun thought about it for a while and understood the whole story. He didn't want to get involved and decided to go up the mountain to meet the fat man and the little brother first.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he took two steps, he heard Huo Xiuxiu calling him from behind.
"I have communicated with grandma before, and she asked you to go up the mountain with us when you come back." Huo Xiuxiu said.
Zhang Zhuxun thought about Mrs. Huo's intentions in his mind, and silently squatted down on the rocks on one side to wait for Huo Xiuxiu and the others to finish loading the car.
It seems that after these few days of delay, the old lady is indeed angry, but judging from Huo Xiuxiu's tone, it seems that the anger is not directed at him, so it can only be the fat man.
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhuxun laughed a little in his heart. Fatty really specializes in treating old goblins.
I just don’t know what this kid did to make the old lady so angry.
An hour later, the team set off.
It was still the same road. The road Agui took them on was still very solid. After so many heavy rains, only a small part of the mountain in the forest collapsed, so it was not very troublesome to take a detour.
On the morning of the seventh day, the team arrived at the river.
Zhang Zhuoxun returned to the tent and took a look, Xiao
Neither brother nor the fat man are here, but there are several pieces of paper stuck under the camp bed frame, which are the messages the fat man left for him.
After reading this, Zhang Zhuxun immediately understood why the Huo family he met on the way back to the tent had a bad attitude towards him.
During the few days he left, Fatty came up with a particularly wicked idea.
In order to delay Zhang Chuxun's wishes, the fat man made a mental calculation and found that other strategies seemed to be of no use, so he asked the younger brother to pretend to be sick.
In fact, there is no need to pretend to be obvious. As long as the little brother lies there, whether he is sick or not, Huo Xiangu will understand.
As long as the little brother doesn't want to move, no matter how impatient she is, she can't get in and can only wait.
But let it go like this, after all, everyone knows it.
Huo Xiangu's technicians can take advantage of this time to expand the passage behind the ancient tree.
But the fat man is a man of many dramas. He looks sad all day long and approaches Huo Zhizhi with an expression as if he is about to die, trying to steal some precious medicinal materials and other good things from Huo Zhizhi.
Huo Zhizhi was so angry that he was half-dead. However, for a disciple of a big family like him, what he usually saw most with Huo Xiangu were plots and conspiracies. Until they finally broke up, everyone showed up.
Everything is peaceful.
Suddenly faced with Fatty's rogue style of fighting like spreading pancakes, when the two parties cooperated, they were really helpless.
Mrs. Huo has a lot of things arranged, and he doesn't have time to argue with this damn fat man.
Moreover, Mrs. Huo's health has been deteriorating recently, and several close insiders have a tight knot in their hearts. The fat man's entanglement makes them extremely annoyed.
In the end, the matter finally reached the ears of Mrs. Huo. Mrs. Huo directly asked someone to send a message to Fatty, saying that she would wait for Zhang Zhu to come back and act together. Fatty's fuss would be useless because it was impossible to give him the medicine.
The fat man made a fuss and was very angry.
But he didn't hesitate. The next day, he took his little brother who was "recovering from a serious illness" and went up the mountain with the Huo family. To use what the fat man wrote on the paper, he couldn't trust Mrs. Huo and had to keep an eye on her personally.
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The fat man also wrote on the paper that the Huo family had detected three stone seals deep in the crack.
He also quoted a lot of words from the younger brother and Mrs. Huo, mixed with many of the fat man’s own private comments.
To sum up, the three sealing stones are the legendary Thousand Mile Lock, and the Siguniang Mountain where Wu Xiaoxie went is the "key" to the Thousand Mile Lock.
The day before yesterday and yesterday, they spent two days cleaning out the outer edge of the crack and opening a passage directly into the sealing stone.
This morning, he and his younger brother took someone to check out the situation, and then contacted Wu Xiaoxie.
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The camera turns to Siguniang Mountain.
Because they had to wait for special equipment, Wu Xiaoxie and Xie Yuchen set off two days later than Zhang Shuxun and the others.
The second day after hanging on the towering cliff went unexpectedly smoothly. They found the reinforced cave that Mrs. Huo had mentioned.
I quickly dug a hole and filled it with cement, and found a dead and hideous corpse inside.
The corpse was covered with a large amount of fungus-like hair. Xie Yuchen used a small hammer to crack open its skull and found that there were also large clumps of black hair inside.
"The situation is not good." Xie Yuchen clicked his tongue.
Wu Xiaoxie raised his head and looked into the cave. There were several white bones stuck diagonally on the red cement surface in that area. It seemed that the situation inside was more serious.
He couldn't help but feel a little scared. He didn't know how these hairs got into this man's head. He suspected that the reason why the Nine Gates team suffered heavy casualties was because there were many forbidden women hidden inside, some even worse than the forbidden women.
Want something weird.
He told his guess to Jie Yuchen. Jie Yuchen was silent for a few seconds and said, "I took a closer look. These hair-like things seem to have grown out of this person's body. It is possible that there are things inside the hole."
What
If something is inhaled into the body, then we might as well wrap all the exposed skin on our body, put on a gas mask, and cover our mouth and nose tightly."
The implication is that they must enter this hole.
Without much hesitation, Xie Yuchen picked up the walkie-talkie and notified the people below to send over several sets of strong and durable protective equipment, as well as gas masks, goggles and the like.
The equipment was quickly delivered. After Wu Xiaoxie put it on, they wrapped each other's cuffs and necks with tape, leaving no gaps for air to enter, and finally put on gas masks.
Before entering the cave, Wu Xiaoxie was already sweating profusely, and the sweat all over his body was dripping down like nothing.
Xie Yuchen handed him the pickaxe, and the two continued to clean up the remaining cement.
Carefully digging around the bones, soon the second skeleton was dug out, followed by the third, and even more.
What surprised them was that the bones were all hugged together one after another, and the shape was tragic.
At first Wu Xiaoxie thought they were fighting over something, but as more bones were dug out, he gradually realized that the actions of these people were not fighting, but pushing the people in front of them away.
Through these, Wu Xiaoxie could even imagine how the people trapped inside went from struggling desperately to having no hope of escape when people outside were pouring cement into the house after the accident.
Pour it into your mouth and nose, and eventually suffocate to death.
Jie Yuchen quickly cracked open a few more skulls and looked at the situation inside. He turned around and said angrily to Wu Xiaoxie: "Your previous guess was right. The sealing of this cave was not after Granny Huo left, but what happened."
When the incident happened, they quickly sealed the entrance of the cave to prevent those who had no time to retreat and the things that caused the incident from coming out."
"But one thing is strange. Since Granny Huo knows about this, why didn't she tell us?"
Wu Xiaoxie found a place to sit down, took a breath, and shook his head when he heard this, "Not necessarily. Since we want to cooperate, Mrs. Huo has no reason to hide such crucial information from us. It's possible that after they evacuated first,
The remaining people were unwilling to give up and continued to search inside the cave, and then..."
"No, it's still wrong!" Wu Xiaoxie frowned, staring closely at the large number of gray-red cement stones that they smashed and piled aside, and suddenly turned to look at Xie Yuchen, "This is a premeditated situation, they are here
They had already predicted the situation before entering the cave, so they installed a cement filling system on the cliff just in case. Before entering, they were already prepared to die."
Xie Yuchen has obviously taken this into consideration, "She didn't tell us. It's probably because she doesn't know what's going on here."
"But since she was the main force in the team and fully participated in the entire event, there is no reason why she doesn't know about such an important matter. Therefore, there is only one explanation for all this." Xie Yuchen looked at Wu Xiaoxie.
Wu Xiaoxie immediately thought of a deeper level. When the mountain breeze blew, a chill seeped out from his back, "These corpses are not from the old Jiumen. After the people from the Jiumen left, another group of people came here.
, and it hasn’t been too long since now. Look, the blood in the cement is still red.”
He didn't know whether the other group of people in the speculation would be the so-called "it" people, but the possibility was very high.
Installing a cement tank system on a cliff is a very large and difficult project. Without strong and strong capital strength, it is impossible to complete it.
Jiumen was too busy to take care of itself at the time. The only one who could do this without alerting any forces seemed to be the mysterious and treacherous "it" hidden in the dark.
Xie Yuchen silently added: "You are right, and the other group of people is very strong. They installed cement cans in advance, which shows that they did know the situation inside before entering. These people must be related to what happened back then.
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"Granny Huo said that the team that went to Siguniang Mountain was very large, and the people in it were a mixed bag. It is not surprising that some people from other forces were mixed in." Xie Yuchen continued, "But after what happened that year, that force is likely to
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They found what they wanted, but they didn't give up, so they made a comeback after years of dormancy."
Wu Xiaoxie subconsciously looked inside the cave. At this time, the sun outside the cave was bright and the wind was gentle.
The cave was extremely dark, damp, and cold. I wonder if it was his imagination, but he always felt that something was staring at them coldly deep in the cave.
He whispered: "So, there are things more important than Lu Huang and silk in this cave."
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Looking at those blood-stained mummies with ferocious postures, curled up and curled up, Wu Xiaoxie felt an indescribable revulsion and nausea in his heart. What on earth could be worth those people making such meaningless sacrifices again and again?<
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As he said before, these people seemed to be suicide squads, ready to sacrifice themselves, so there can only be one explanation for their terrifying struggle before death.
These disgusting hair-like things are more terrifying than death when they attack.
It is very likely that the process of death is extremely painful, so painful that even these dead soldiers are afraid.
Thinking of this, Wu Xiaoxie couldn't help but smile bitterly and looked at Xie Yuchen, "It seems that we are destined to suffer some hardships this time."
Xie Yuchen was silent for a long time. He was not as optimistic as Wu Xiaoxie. It was still unknown whether he could come out alive.
He doesn't think that the information and advance preparations that those people received back then would be less than what they do now.
"No matter what, it seems that they failed in the first place and triggered a fatal trap. The trap inside has already been triggered by the people of Laojiumen, and they were also tricked, so the trap inside is not a one-time thing, and it is highly dangerous.
It’s so huge that we both may not be able to escape it, so we have to be extra careful.”
Xie Yuchen sighed, picked up the pickaxe again, and started chipping away at the remaining cement stones.
Wu Xiaoxie also sighed heavily. Without the three people, he always felt that something was missing around him, and his heart felt empty. He didn't know what the situation was like in Banai.
After working non-stop for more than three hours, I finally cleaned up the cement stones that blocked the hole.
The two of them piled all the bones together and opened a passage in the middle to facilitate their escape in an emergency.
Returning to the sunlight at the entrance of the cave, the two took a short rest, ate something to replenish their energy, then put on new protective clothing and masks, and put on their backpacks.
Just two steps inside, Wu Xiaoxie suddenly stopped Xie Yuchen, took out five or six octagonal silver darts from his backpack, and handed them to Xie Yuchen, "Take this, it may save your life at a critical moment."
"What is it?" Xie Yuchen pinched one and looked at it carefully, and soon discovered something strange on it. He looked at Wu Xiaoxie with a smile, "This thing is not yours, right?"
Wu Xiaoxie patted his backpack proudly, "Of course, our Muyu prepared it for me, a life-saving escape treasure box."
Xie Yuchen smiled and shook his head, "You..."
Wu Xiaoxie showed Xie Yuchen how to use the octagonal silver dart, and the two turned on the mining lamp and entered the cave.
The extended space at the rear was a little larger than they imagined, and it was so deep that they couldn't see the end at a glance.
After walking in, the first thing I saw was a square pit filled with bones and broken pots.
The white bones in the square pit are also covered with hair. These white bones have become yellow and brittle, and they look older than the corpses trapped in the cement outside.
Xie Yuchen reached into the square pit with his engineering shovel and fiddled with it a few times. The small piece of moss-like hair was crushed like a dry leaf that fell on the ground in autumn. Under the light of the miner's lamp, a wave of smoke rose in the air.
A blue-gray moldy smoke.
"A person from Laojiumen?" Because he was wearing a gas mask, Xie Yuchen's voice sounded muffled.
Wu Xiaoxie nodded, "Maybe, this pit doesn't look like it was there originally. Could it be that the later groups of people collected the bones of the Nine Sect people who died here?"
Jie Yuchen glanced at him sideways, "Do you think those people would be so kind?"
Wu Xiaoxie looked at him silently, "Then what do they do with collecting these bones?
What effect does it have?"
"How do I know?" Xie Yuchen straightened up, walked directly around the square pit and walked back from the edge.
Wu Xiaoxie puffed up her face, thinking about the days when Zhang Zhu and the others had spent together.