Chapter 12: Exploring Bottle Mountain
This old beaver to deserted graveyard as a nest, perennial saliva and urine in the circle around the grass, colorless and odorless, as long as into the circle will be the old beaver lost in the mind, is a blindfold, unless there is an external intervention, the trapped person will wake up, otherwise it can only let it be slaughtered, just like the real round light art, the old beaver is also focused on all the mind to casting, so that the person delirious to see some strange scenes, but once the recipient of the art to wake up! But once the recipient comes to his senses, the spell caster will eat his own fruit. The old beaver is old and cunning and can still escape, while the young beaver will not be able to withstand it, and spit out his bile and died.
With this yellow demon’s bones crushed into powder, after taking can break a variety of illusions, so Chen blind man carried the old civet body, don’t have three moving mountain Taoist, at this time the color of the sky has been slightly bright, foraging for the road back to the ridge of the Grandma Temple Yi Zhuang.
Luo Lao crooked and other people are restless waiting for the night, also thought that the theft of Quei in the mountains encountered untoward, went out to look for a few times are not seen, is planning to raise troops to come to search the mountain, but see Chen blind not slow from the ridge walked back, mouth read aloud: “Heaven and earth have the right gas, miscellaneous endowed with the popular, under the river and the mountains, on the sun and the stars … … …”, demeanor dashing and calm, a good dispatched to the dust of the state, the crowd saw the great heart, secretly praised the head of the general is really “the exit”, hastily went to meet.
Chen blind special to their own face gold, adding oil and vinegar said once again how he was how to track the crippled cat, mistakenly entered an ancient tomb forest, that the ancient beaver monument in the old beaver to make the illusion of harm, he will be in addition to the hand, and came back to meet a group of moving mountain Taoist, by their bitter invitation to discuss the grave robbing until the jade rabbit fell in the west, which delayed the time, finished that the old beaver’s body along with the ears of the female body, and After that, he threw the old civet’s body together with the female corpse’s ear on the ground for Luo Laocuan and others to watch.
Luo Lao crooked, flower ant crutch and other people marveled, even praised Chen blind means strong, which has become a fine old civet is how treacherous, but also was unloading Ling thief Quei kicked a broken bone and tendon, Chen blind heart secretly pleased, on the surface to pretend to be frivolous and do not care about it, only to let the mute Kunlun Mole that the old civet pulling the skin and picking out the bones, but also to let pestle to make the body of the flower ant crutch, the rats two nuns’ ears to the sticky back, to leave a whole body, standing stiff, and then The body of the old beaver will be plucked from the skin and bones.
In the morning, I ate some noodle cake and dried meat, and went to the village to find a caveman as a guide, the western Hunan Miao people have “raw Miao” and “cooked Miao” points, the so-called “cooked Miao” are those who are friendly to the Han Chinese, and even intermarried with each other, and they have been Chineseized. Even intermarried Hanhua, they can also speak the language of the Han Chinese Miao; “raw Miao” is the complete opposite, are living in the mountains, quite good at witchcraft such as poisonous insects and grasses, especially on the Han people hate to the bone.
Chen blind man looking for a guide, since the mature seedlings in the mature seedlings, although this guide is an authentic hole barbarians, can be followed by Sa Jia merchants to and from the operation of the Han language and Han accidents are very familiar with the fierce cave anecdotes also know a lot of legends, is an extremely appropriate candidate, so Chen blind man lied to the barbarians guide, said his group heard that Bottle Mountain precipitous and majestic, is a place of the world’s rare wonders, this time the traveler walking to the old Bear Ridge This time, the travelers walked to the old bear ridge, want to go by the way to visit a time, that the cave people covet the reward they promised, immediately agreed, the mountain is in the rainy season, at any time there may be rain, so a line of people changed to wear straw shoes and rain hat, went straight to the bottle mountain to survey the direction of the ancient tomb.
Old Bear Ridge is located in the hinterland of western Hunan, the local forests and deep valleys, and this mountain range is shaped like a sleeping bear, isolated from the outside world, the local mountain people talk about the tiger’s color, “Bottle Mountain”, it is the old Bear Ridge mountain range of a branch of the vein, the more remote and inhospitable, rare, Chen blind gang of thieves in the guide’s leadership, all the way through the ghosts walk green, rock climbing Drill holes, trekking through the mountains and water to go a lot of distance, which is difficult since needless to say.
Starting from dawn, straight to near noon, the red sun hanging high, a group of people finally climbed the old bear ridge after a dangerous cliff, this ancient cliffs on the top of the weeds and trees, high above can look down on the “Bottle Mountain” vein, put down the view, only to see the main ridge behind the deep mountains, all are conical peaks of the dangerous rock, seat of the continuous peaks in the distance, one after another. A piece of the mountain peaks in the distance, like a thousand bamboo shoots out of the ground, 10,000 watts towards the sky, peaks are connected, peaks after peaks, endless filled in the world between.
That Miao guide pointed to a rocky mountain under the cliff: “Good to teach you to know, that place, is the bottle mountain.” All eyes look over, only to see “bottle mountain” shape like a big belly ancient bottle skewed, the mountain situation as much as the magic of creation, the terrain is dangerous peeling off, all the apes and brisket road of the cliffs, although the mountain is dangerous shape can be feared, but in the layers of mountain ranges surrounded by green peaks surrounded by the appearance of the smoke and trees floating such as in the paintings, look at the mountains, there are a few white fog rising, there are rainbow-colored fog Colorful gas is hidden.
Luo old crooked see the situation is very happy, asked: “Chen general head, that the tomb is spoiled, this bottle mountain trapped in the land surrounded by mountains, the tomb mercury mercury gas volatile not to, want to be cohesion into the mercury fog, which rainbow light is the tomb has a treasure gas rushing to the sky? Fuck his grandmother’s, that red red white white, than his mother’s dick but also good-looking ……”
Chen blind man replied: “not yet known, but this mountain situation is really unique, can be said to be – the mountain has a hide and seek, the soil color has a firm thickness, the earth for the high veins, the flow of water should be circling the mountain Dragon God does not go down to the water, the water in the Dragon God does not go up to the mountain, look at the mountains and water here, the gas swallowed all the elephants is the true dragon, should be a piece of Noble treasure, from the high place can not see where the entrance to the tomb, we still have to get close to take a look again.” He has always been good at Qimen Tanjia, astrological divination techniques, Jiangxi Situation Zong Feng Shui is also very knowledgeable, but does not understand that set of gold touching school tomb raiding feng shui techniques, in the high place can not see the pattern of the ancient tombs.
Said to ask the caveman guide to lead the way, who knows that familiar seedlings but said nothing to refuse: “good to teach you guests know, do not look at the old Bear Ridge barbaric isolation, but we have this Bottle Mountain’s scenery of the strange, is indeed the world no two places, but here to see it is just, how to dare to go to the mountains? Think that the top of the mountain growing Ganoderma lucidum and nine dragons disk, often inhabited by pythons, idle up to pick medicine is also no return, and that cave has an ancient tomb, a hundred years ago earthquake, bottle mountain tomb cracked open a few cracks, inside the treasure gas compelling, there are many shares of grave robbers and bandits want to go in to make a fortune, the result is not a few in a few deaths from no one can come out of the tomb, said that the mountain buried in the King of the corpses, you are all the principal of the businessman. Businessman, why go to that fierce and evil place, why not listen to my good advice, to this end, or early return to their hometowns …….”
Luo Lao crooked hear impatient, a foot kicked over the guide, took out a revolver on his head: “Fuck your grandmother to put a bright move, who is the people? You barbarian in the mountains have not heard of my butcher king Luo Laocuan’s reputation? If I tell you to lead the way, then lead the way. If you say another word, I’ll shoot you in the face and kill your whole family!”
Luo Lao crooked is a big warlord in Xiangyin, do before the commander is really killing people, in the local, heard his name children do not dare to cry at night, but in the western Xiangxi Old Bear Ridge this closed place, those who know the cave people who know him Luo commander.
But there is a saying that “the name is not as good as the head of the gun”, the cold muzzle of the revolver on the top of the head, the caveman was shocked nearly pissed his pants, and only then know that this group of merchants are ringing the horse son, one does not deal with the eyes of the slaughter of the living, where still dare to do not come from, and hurriedly agreed to tremble: “Good teachings! …… Good teach all good men learned that, to go up the mountain to take some sticks first, hit the grass to scare the snake ……”
Do not wait for the guide to finish his words, Luo old crooked will kick him again: “What is noisy, you this guy is to rattle the grass to scare the snake’s stick, you give the old man in the front trips to the grass to go!”
Chen blind man has always been to the generation of self-righteousness, although not accustomed to the Luo old crooked body overbearing bandit, but they are using each other’s relationship, who can not be separated from who, but also had to turn a blind eye to his behavior, let the Luo old crooked escorted that ripe seedling, go to the bottle mountain to see that the tomb cracked open the cracks.
All the way down, around the mountain to the bottle mountain pass, here there is a “giant rock hollow” formed by the natural stone door, the local natives call it “ground door”, with the Tianmen Mountain “Heaven’s Gate” is the same name, from which to cross even into the mountain pass. Through even into the mouth of the mountain, the bottle mountain surrounded by peaks and forests, although the mountain is smaller than those lofty mountains, but at least is also a hundreds of feet of stone mountains.
At a close look, it turned out that the whole mountain is a large piece of dark green mountain stone, stone color dark green sex is cold, touching the cold, and the surrounding landscape geology is very different, heaven and earth creation of the devil’s work, so that this piece of since the opening of the heavens and the earth since the existence of a huge green stone, into the shape of a big belly like an ancient bottle, the base into the earth, the entire bottle-shaped mountain body to the north tilted to fall back to the mountain cliffs so that want to fall back to fall back! Overhead tilted thousands of tens of thousands of years, a thousand points of the absolute danger with ten thousand points of bizarre, forming a strange and dangerous rare scene.
Because the mountain is too tilted, rocky mountain falling force, after a number of earthquakes, so that the sunny side of the mountain appeared countless large cracks, small cracks are brought by the wind of the mountains filled with soil, growing a spaced out plant belt, not cracked places are still exposed to the dark green rock, those green grasses and trees embellished with its, as the ancient vase painted on the pattern of patterns, depths and shades of to, staggered and stretched out.
Those very wide cracks, but not covered by the soil, in the bottle-shaped mountain body between the formation of more than ten huge fissures, in the mountain as a knife cut axe cut straight down, mountain gap within the cloud lock cover, bottomless, dangerous cliffs on both sides of the strange pine hanging upside down, absolutely dangerous and incomparable.
This “bottle mountain” situation geomorphology, Chen blind, Luo old crooked and others have long been in the old Bear Ridge on the cliffs to watch over the big cracks between the stone bridges built in ancient times connected, the crowd along the road up the mountain, people and mountains compared to, as small as the ants crawling on a large porcelain vase, from the mouth of the mountain there will be a wide green stone road, the avenue by the momentum of the mountain rocketing straight up through the road! Road layers of jungle cliffs, winding distribution of ninety-nine bends, bends connected, layers stacked up, like a dragon circling, straight to the sky.
When the crowd went up the mountain, the weather was a bit gloomy. Walked to the halfway up the mountain, the original rainbow between the mountains have been hidden disappeared, replaced by a misty rain, fine rain like silk, under the hairy rain, the large green stone mountain road was covered by water, everywhere is slippery, the rain and fog gradually rise, the mountain shape tree shadow are hazy up, become blurred.
The people are falling from the sky of the rain mist stirred upset, and worried about the slippery mountain road danger, is trying to find a place to avoid, but at this time, the sun but suddenly squeezed through the clouds, the sunlight shining in the mountains, deep in the mountains of those rocks and forests and springs, magical all reflected in the eyes of the grass and a leaf are clear and unparalleled, but did not have to look at it carefully, in a flash, the colorful fog in the valley rises, and then to the deep and quiet place to cover the swallowed.
Chen blind man and others stood in the mountainside looking at the mountain scenery, only to see “half-empty clouds and rain in the square inch between, the gullies and springs now in the snap of a finger at the time”, are secretly marveled at this “Bottle Mountain” is really a place of smoke and clouds changing scenery covered by the cave of the gods, who could have thought earlier in the Who would have thought that in the poor and barbaric Old Bear Ridge, there are such real mountains and real water.
This tilted and crooked bottle mountain, there are two mountain tops, one is relatively flat bottle shoulder, there is also a very wide mountain stream, the other high point is in the bottle mouth, above the strange trees and rocks, the ancient wall chipped up, is a place of strange and dangerous, the crowd stood in the bottle shoulder to look around for a long time, but also did not see any python, and that the guide has never been on the mountain in his life, the things on the Bottle Mountain are all hearsay, and do not know the ancient tomb of the Cracks in what place, angry Luo Lao crooked want to be a gun on the ground avalanche that guide, thanks to the Chen blind man stopped.
Chen blind man see the soil on the mountain where the forest is dense, no soil layer is a dark green rock, with the look at the word skill of the view mud traces discernment of grass color method, it is difficult to find out the location of the Tomb of the Palace, and the bottle mountain solid, not ordinary soil ridge, to aimlessly unloaded layer by layer to the Tomb of the Palace of the Tomb Road, for fear of mobilizing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses is also difficult to do.
Now have to try “smell” word trick, he let the people to the top of the mountain at the deep stream, only to see the depths of the white fog, difficult to measure the bottom of the mountain wall, leaning down, let Luo Lao crooked to the mountain stream to fire a few shots, in order to show means to detect the general location of the tomb in the mountain.
Luo Lao crooked his large-caliber revolver aimed at the bottom of the deep stream, a trigger on a gun, the sound of the gun echoed in the valley for a long time, Chen Blind man took the opportunity to show the “smell” in the word know-how, listen to the wind, listen to the thunder, “smell the mountain discernment of dragons” method, he was born with five senses of sharpness He was born with five keen senses, under the sky, there is no second person with his body skills, this time sticking to the wall to listen up, distantly heard the bottom of the mountain air, seems to have a space as big as the city.
With Luo Lao crooked six rounds of bullets into the deep stream, Chen blind man has been big to listen to a few tomb road and the outline of the three dungeons, most likely that is the piece of the mountain was occupied as a Yuan people’s tombs where the temple, the largest dungeon, at the top of the mountain cracked under this deep cliffs.
Luo Lao crooked see bottle mountain fruit has ancient tombs, and the entrance of the palace is under the wall, and even “as big as a city”, how much gold, jade and precious goods must he have?