Chapter 55 Planning

From the words of the old Liu head, I vaguely heard a little something, before liberation, a businessman funded the construction of the fish bone temple in the Dragon Ridge, tribute to the Dragon King, which in itself is a little strange, why the Dragon King temple is not built in the riverside? In favor of building in the gullies and ravines of the mountains?

Listen to the old Liu said, the fishbone temple is not large, this is even more strange, so a small temple, why bother on such a tortuous, is that the Dragon Ridge is really what feng shui position, suitable for the construction of temples?

Should not be so simple, coupled with the old Liu said the Dragon Ridge hidden in a great Tang Dynasty tomb, that is even more fishy, I heart a cold laugh, heck, maybe that money to repair the fishbone temple is also my counterparts, he repair the temple is false, touch gold is true, repair the temple is to cover up the ears of others, under the temple digging a culvert into the tomb to touch the treasure is his real intention.

But I have a point to think do not understand, since the Dragon Ridge area of the terrain is treacherous, rare, why still so pants fart more waste a hand?

Then I thought, yes, must be that the tomb is very deep, not overnight work will be able to dig the channel into the temple of the underworld, he must have looked at the location, but feel that it takes quite a long time, think the whole day in the Dragon Ridge in the infestation, inevitably by the locals, will be suspicious, then repair a fishbone temple, the temple in the dark tunnels, even if someone occasionally passes by, will not be aware of, a high trick ah.

However, these circumstances, have to personally go to the Dragon Ridge on a walk, to determine, I do not know that pretending to be a merchant of the Golden Colonel, has not found the legendary tomb, no matter what, I want to go to the Dragon Ridge Fishbone Temple to take a look.

I also asked Old Liu Tou the detailed path to Longling, the local topography and landscape.

Old Liu said: “Fishbone Temple on the edge of the Dragon Ridge, you want to see the temple would be fine, remember not to go to the depths of the Dragon Ridge, that piece of the ridge, the terrain is very sinister, there are many places are trapped in the ground hole, in the outside at all look out, the surface of the earth shells, a step on the collapse, fell into the climb can not get out, it is said that the underground is the melting of the hole, the lost in total, the most complex twists and turns, locals call those holes Dragon Ridge, the Dragon Ridge. Local people tube those holes called Longling Maze Cave, more difficult to walk than the labyrinth, the more terrible is that the maze is haunted, listen to my advice, never go in.”

Old Liu said such a thing, there are five geology team staff, to go to Longling cave survey, the results of the collective disappearance, the people of the county have spread, said they met the ghosts in the Longling brick wall, which is not now is not seen dead body, this matter has been over for more than two years.

I thanked, said: “We just go to the fishbone temple to see a fresh, look at the bones of the iron head of the Dragon King, Dragon Ridge that piece of the wild mountains we go to do, you can rest assured that is.”

Old man Liu got drunk and returned, I closed the door to the room, with the fat man and the big gold teeth two people secretly discuss, will go to the Dragon Ridge Cave to walk up, see if you can find something good, even if the tomb has been stolen, maybe in the nearby villages, can also receive one or two things, so it’s not a waste of a trip to Shaanxi.

Fatty asked me: “Old Hu, how many percent sure this time? Let’s not be like the last time we went to the savage ditch, tired not less suffer, force not less out, almost accompanied by a few lives, the result is to get back two pieces of broken tile pawns, even jade is not.”

I said: “This time there is nothing to grasp, but easy to learn that there is a tomb in the Dragon Ridge, so far no one has found, I listen to the heart itchy, maybe God’s eyes, let us do back to the big deal, that will be able to pay back the American girl’s money, lest I can’t lift my head up in front of her, but the Dragon Ridge’s tomb can be preserved to date, but also have to be two say, according to my estimation, that before the liberation of the money to repair the fish. According to my estimation, the businessman who paid for the repair of the Fishbone Temple before the liberation is very likely to be a master of the inverted bucket, and he repaired the Fishbone Temple in order to dig a tunnel to enter the underground palace of the ancient tomb of the Dragon Ridge, and if he succeeded, we have no hope, anyway, be prepared to take a look at it there and then say.”

Dajinya heard to go to the bucket, also very excited, his eyes red this line of work for a long time, but every spring on the asthma, never really participated in the bucket, and his business dealings with those grave robbers, are some in the countryside digging chaotic digging thieves, digging out of nothing too good, Dajinya hate to do a big job personally, but there is always no opportunity, this time it is the end of the summer, his Asthma his disease is a kind of allergic asthma, this time is less prone to attacks, and there are fat man and I have interned many times in the two gold touching lieutenants, it is even more held without fear.

However, I still advise him not to enter the underworld temple, just stay outside to me and the fat man lookout, we are at the bottom, the upper side of the left a person, in case there is any failure, also have a person to take over a little.

At that moment, I carried out some deployment, this trip out of this did not expect to find a large tomb, for one thing, is in the interior, the second side of the ancient tombs are let people dig almost.

I did not expect that in this dragon ridge inside may have a large tomb of the Tang dynasty, is really unexpected, we do not wear too many tools, the engineer shovel which can both self-defense, but also digging the soil of the sharp weapon I naturally is not away from the body half a step, only in the Yellow River lost a hand, only one of the fat man to carry with him.

In the tunnel cave action, must also have enough lighting equipment, we have three wolf eye flashlight, this kind of flashlight is German goods, lighting range of thirty meters, light cohesion is very strong, can even be used as a self-defense weapon, encounter enemy beasts, in the close distance with the wolf eye flashlight shine their eyes, can make the other side of the instant loss of vision.

Wolf eye is with Shirley Yang and other people to go to the desert in Xinjiang when, by Shirley Yang provides advanced equipment, she returned to China most of the remaining equipment to me, I’ll be honest and nonchalant accept it in full, anyway, already owed her so much money, and even was saved by her in the snake’s mouth, so far also owes her a life, lice more than not to bite, debt more than not worry about it, and then add a debt of human kindness is also It’s not a big deal.

The biggest headache is not wearing a gas mask, only a few pairs of simple gas masks, it is not easy to find gas masks in this small town of Gutian, the former goldsmiths have an ancient way to avoid air poisoning, first of all, put a birdcage, we have used once in the Savage Gully, and secondly is to use candles, which are essential props of the goldsmiths, as long as there is no chemical gases, gas masks are also dealt with enough to use.

I opened a list, let the fat man in the nearby procurement, can buy all buy, can not buy and then think of another way, we need two geese, I especially emphasize to live, otherwise the fat man is likely to buy roast goose back.

We also need candles, ropes, fire hooks, gloves, canned goods, dried meat, white wine, and then see if the post office has a detailed map of the neighborhood, it is best to buy some more chocolate to supplement calories, the rest of the things we have on us, for the time being, that’s all.

Fatty asked: “There is nowhere to buy a gun to go ah, no gun how to do? I’m not bold enough without a gun in my hand.”

I said: “There is nothing near the beasts, no gun, even if you run into a work shovel to deal with enough, you think this is a deep forest ah, to be at the border or remote areas, you can find poaching to buy a gun, in the mainland is not easy to get a firearm, and then to gun is useless, we just so planned, plans can not catch up with the changes, maybe the ancient tomb of the Dragon Ridge in the kiln has long been emptied out by people.”

Dajinya nodded: “Master Hu is right, listening to old Liu said Longling underground many caves, is a typical karst landscape, this geological structure has more seismic zones, if there really is a large tomb from the Tang Dynasty, from the Tang Dynasty to now so many years, may happen what changes it, we do complete preparation, but also can not hold too much hope.”

I suddenly thought of, Shaanxi corpse raising place is very much, in case of encounter dumplings how to do, this matter said up to want to beat the big gold teeth, take two forged touch gold charm blind us, several times nearly put life on the ride.

Dajinya see talk about this matter, had to accompany the smiling face again to explain: “Hu master fat master, you can not be angry, I was not aware of, when our old man, is wearing this kind of touch of gold amulet, and did not have anything happened. In my opinion, this is actually a psychological effect, you two if you have not seen that really touch the gold talisman, has been to take me to your real goods, will not be like now so no confidence, back to us to find a way to collect two really to, the money counted on me. Although this object is ancient, but as long as you work hard, you can still collect it.”

I smiled and said, “Then I’d like to thank Master Jin to give a little attention to our brother and sister to get two real, to be honest, not wearing this thing to do inverted bucket, the heart is really no bottom, if you do not have confidence in the work, it can be more dangerous than anything else.”

Finally I said: “Come on, we do not need to be afraid of those evil and crooked, generally have a large tomb place feng shui are not bad, the possibility of zombies is too low, redundant to worry about that.”

Three people have decided to plan, then each rest, days of traveling, plus more drink a few cups, this sleep to the next day in the afternoon to get up, the fat man and the big gold teeth to go to the street to buy the application of things, I found the old Liu head, further understanding of the Dragon Ridge Cave of some of the relevant circumstances.

But the old Liu said, or last night said those things, this area on the Dragon Ridge Grottoes legend is a lot, but all are some catching the wind is not exactly the content of the untrue, very little accurate information, other people are also so, a talk about the Dragon Ridge Grottoes are a little bit of talk about the color of the tiger, said that there are ghosts infested with ghosts and spirits, unless compelled to do so, otherwise very few people dare to go to that area.

I see no longer ask not what, it is done, and rested a day in Gutian, we follow the old Liu pointed out the path, with bamboo baskets back two geese, set off to the Dragon Ridge Fishbone Temple.

This is: one foot into the road of life and death, two hands push open the door of right and wrong.