"What's the matter? Tell me." I never expected that Zheng Shitou would suddenly take the initiative to say something to us. I felt suddenly excited, but I couldn't show it.
"This, this..." Zheng Shitou is relatively stupid. He can speak fluently when chatting, but when there is something serious, he may not be so fluent, and he also has to organize the language. He babbled for a long time before he said: "You guys
If you want to play, you can wander around here, you can go anywhere, but... you can't go to the mountains six or seven miles east of the village."
My heart suddenly moved. Stupid people are stupid people. Originally, we couldn't find clues at all, but he took the initiative to give us clues.
"Why can't we go to the mountain?"
"This, this..." Zheng Shitou's expression was very unnatural. He thought about it for a long time and probably couldn't think of any explanation. He said: "You can't go anyway, people will die. You can just play around. Don't go."
,can not go."
"Old Zheng, you should explain clearly what is going on."
"The old rules in the village have been passed down for so many years. They all say this. You can't go anyway, so you can take a rest. I will take a rest too." Zheng Shitou said no more to us and turned around to leave.
As soon as he left, Li Fusheng and I laughed. When Zheng Shitou saw those white quartz, he wanted to warn us something. When he said that, he made the specific location and direction clear at once. I was like
I couldn't help it anymore. It was still early anyway and I couldn't fall asleep lying here. However, Li Fusheng was not so impatient. Walking on the mountain road at night would not be so practical. It would not be too late in the daytime.
We got up very early the next day, but we didn't show any intention of going to the mountains over there, and we didn't mention anything about yesterday's events. Zheng Shitou was a little worried at first, but we concealed it well, and gradually he became too
There was no doubt about anything. After breakfast, Zheng Shitou took his things with him to trap the rabbit as usual. The three of us waited for a while, packed our things and went out.
We followed the direction Zheng Shitou told us and walked east after leaving the village. In fact, the village is built on the mountain. It is only six or seven miles away. But here is located in the Taihang Mountains, and the mountains are connected one by one.
, there is no isolated mountain peak. We stand here and look up, not knowing which one Zheng Shitou is talking about.
"Look for it, it's probably nearby."
It is easier to say, but we don’t know the characteristics of that mountain. Quartz is difficult to find on the surface. If quartz cannot be found, the target mountain peak cannot be identified. Anyway, we are already here, and we just hold on to it.
The attitude of trying, if you really can't find it, you have to go back and try Zheng Shitou's idea again.
We climbed up from a nearby hill first. There was no road and we had to climb up. The overall altitude of the Taihang Mountains is relatively low, especially in this section of the foothills, which is only about 200 to 300 meters. We searched as we walked.
I climbed three mountains but gained nothing.
When we climbed up the third mountain to the neighboring mountain, we suddenly discovered something strange. We hadn't actually climbed to the top of the mountain yet, but we could already feel that the mountain seemed to have been slashed horizontally from the top.
Same. The mountain is a bit steep, and I finally climbed to the top. The crack is at least twenty meters wide. From the current position, it is obvious that there is an extremely huge pit below the crack, like a sinkhole left after a volcanic eruption.
"There are so many mountains near and far, but maybe this one is a bit unusual." Li Fusheng looked elsewhere and said, "I hope this is the place we are looking for."
I have seen too many very huge pits. When I saw this one, I couldn't help but observe whether it was dug by humans or formed naturally. It is actually easy to distinguish such a huge pit. If it was excavated, it would take thousands of people to dig it out.
Tens of thousands or even more people have been working on it for many years, and the traces are very obvious. But based on what I have seen so far, this huge sinkhole on the top of the mountain is not man-made.
Deep pit, and then think of the cage used to keep shadow creatures in Zheng Chu's family, the exploration value of this place suddenly increases. We tried to see the depth of the pit under the crack, but once the depth of the pit exceeds fifty meters,
It's difficult to judge specific data from above.
We basically had all the necessary equipment with us, but I'm afraid there wasn't enough rope. We fixed one, swung it down, and after some discussion, Kuang Haige went over to take the lead. The signal of the walkie-talkie was very good, and communication could be maintained at all times. He probably went down.
For ten minutes, we skated very slowly, and then a signal was sent to us, roughly explaining the following situation.
As expected, there are many traces in this tiankeng that suddenly appeared in the mountains. The traces have become very obvious. Although it may have been many years, the traces are still clearly identifiable. The cracks around the top of the mountain
After that, there were chisel marks like steps on the wall of the tiankeng, and there were very thick logs supported between the stones. If you are brave enough, you can almost crawl down along the chisel marks little by little.
The situation was normal. Kuang Haige found a place to stay below, and we followed him down. Stepping on the crisscrossing gouges, we fixed the second rope, which was more convenient and we could stop whenever we wanted.
He stopped there. But he turned around and looked down. Like many deep pits he had seen before, the light was swallowed up by boundless darkness.
The gouge marks went down for about thirty meters, and were still very obvious. When we arrived here, the wall of the pit suddenly seemed to be hollowed out, like the steep mountain plank road in Sichuan, which was about three meters long.
It is high, and people can easily stand in it. But it is much deeper than the plank road. We got in and stood upright. When we flashed the flashlight, many things appeared indistinctly over there.
There were a lot of those things, and they were lined up deep in the plank road. My eyes might not be able to adapt to the absolute darkness at once, so I squinted and didn't recognize them for the time being. But Li Fusheng is very good, and his eyesight is super good, so he scanned
After a few glances, he said: "Coffins, many coffins."
"Coffin?" I was stunned: "Is this a cliff burial? So many, a group of tombs?"
"They probably weren't buried together. There was a time difference." Li Fusheng pointed outward and said, "It's so remote here. There's no one there except that village. There probably won't be that many people heading here at the same time.
Sai, come over and take a look."
Kuang Haige still stayed outside, responsible for security. Li Fusheng and I walked towards the depths. Coffins are almost extinct in modern cities. This is probably the most I have seen in my life. Walking inside
After walking away, my sight became clearer. There were many, many coffins, arranged very neatly. The coffins themselves were not very particular. They might have been made of wood from the mountains, and there were all kinds of them. As expected, it was the same as what Li Fusheng said. The innermost coffins were
The row of coffins has been there for a long time. The coffins are so bad that they can be easily kicked to pieces. There are many young people in the outer row, and it is so dark that it makes people feel a little suffocated.
We walked slowly over row by row, looking around. Some of the coffins were made of poor wood and the coffin boards were cracked. In a mass burial like this, there probably wouldn’t be too many burial objects.
Through the gap, you can vaguely see the body inside.
"Could it be that the people who died in that village, generation after generation, were buried here?" I guessed.
"It's very possible." Li Fusheng nodded, pointed to the outermost row, and said: "This may be a stereotype of the old village, which was later abandoned. Especially in recent years, only the old, weak, sick and disabled are left in the village.
Even if you carry the coffin, you can't bring it here."
"Is this why Zheng Shitou didn't let us come?" I thought about it. No one wants anyone to interfere with their clan's ancestral graves, but the reason why Zheng Shitou stopped us might not be that simple.
"There are many coffins, and they probably don't have much value. Just take a look at them." Li Fusheng said, "Let's walk through them separately."
"This..." I looked at the rows of coffins, feeling a little guilty: "There is no such thing as corpse fraud, right?"
"Don't worry, absolutely not." Li Fusheng smiled, then put away his smile and said: "Don't be afraid, sometimes, fear is of no use. Maybe in the future, you will have to walk alone on some roads.
You have to get used to it now.”
In order to save some time, Li Fusheng and I separated from here, one person on each side. I didn't think there would be anything important in this coffin, so I looked at it quickly, almost at a glance. After a while, he and I went our separate ways.
When we arrived at the end of the plank road, the coffins at the ends of both sides were probably the oldest ones. They were in bad condition and full of holes. Occasionally, a blackened bone could be seen sticking out from the cracks in the coffin.
At this time, the flashlight illuminated something reflective on the rock wall. When I looked at it again, I found that it was a piece of quartz stone embedded among the stones. It was impure and milky white in texture. I went over to take a look, and there should be nothing there this time.
Wrong, this sinkhole was most likely a place Zheng Chuyi often visited back then. If he came across relatively pure quartz, he would dig it out and take it away.
Suddenly, there was a soft click in the coffin behind me. The sound was very low. This was probably caused by some accident. But it happened here and now, and I couldn't help but scare me.
Jump, I turned around suddenly, and the coffin was still the same as before.
I wiped the sweat from my head, thinking that sometimes people are actually scaring themselves, and they will think of many things. I gave up the piece of quartz, turned around and walked a few steps forward, and then followed another coffin path.
Go back through the passage between.
While I was walking, I heard another soft click, and this time the sound was very close behind me, almost coming from my back. In this situation, people can hear
Whether it is intentional or subconscious, it is impossible not to look back at the sound, and I am no exception, but when I turned around this time, my eyes immediately straightened.