Chapter 10: Coffin Gorge
I have seen in my life, the “severe and treacherous” place is not comparable to this place, even in this “Coffin Gorge” to hide 100,000 troops, but also absolutely no trace, if the “Tomb of the Earth Immortals” was built in it, outsiders do not know the details and secrets of it, I am afraid that even the immortals can not find it. If the “Tomb of the Earth Immortals” is built in it, outsiders do not know the details and secrets of it, and are afraid that even the immortals cannot find it.
I said to all of them, I am afraid that it is harder than ever to search for the dragon and the gold in this place, or we should think of a way to find the “Hundred Steps Bird Path” first, now it seems that the several hints left by the head of the Feng Group have a lot of correspondences. We are now located in the periphery of the “Coffin Gorge”, wait to go in to see the situation and then make plans, improvise is.
Fatty heard that we probably have to go on this “thousand-foot bird path”, look up to see the eyes for the dizzy, look down for the eyes for the dizzy, too high and too dangerous, and immediately beat the drum, find an excuse to say that the Guanshan Taibao is definitely not in the “Coffin Gorge”, or return to the Qingxi air raid shelters to catch monkeys to lead the way, the only way to go. The best strategy.
I used the method of provocation and patted Fatty’s stomach, asking him if he had recently become gutless from enjoyment. “Coffin Gorge” this place is indeed “any heroes of the world, but also should be scared of the heart” of the strange and dangerous place, but if not, “the ancient tomb of the village of the earth immortal” could not have been preserved to this day have not been stolen, buried inside the tomb of the village of the earth immortal. Been stolen, buried inside the tomb owner, it is the year Guanshan grave robbers giant pirates, which hides the gold beads and jewels of the much, almost can be said to be countless, you Wang Commander and then not as soon as possible to go to the reception, sooner or later will become someone else’s bag of possessions.
The fat man was touched by my words in the heart, heard the word “gold and jade”, but also “light in the eyes, the heart of the fire”, gritted his teeth under the determination of half a day, said: “Let you see this day, the fat master I am not retired. Not retired it, fat master I fucking dare to struggle, dare to win, if there is no kind of wind and waves, steady to do the fishing platform of the boldness of the courage, but also not worthy of doing the cause of this inverted bucket.”
The people will be packed up and down the body tightly said that the sharp, see here from the bottom of the gorge closer, and this absolutely dangerous bird road only through the bottom of the gorge, had to go down from the near-vertical crags in the bird road, along the way, found that the ancient walls are very primitive petroglyphs, probably thousands of years of history, we in the bird road to look at a few, can not help but look at each other in the petroglyphs suffer from the wind and rain corrosion of the ancient remnants of the paintings, are depicting a scene of hellish scenes. In the ancient remnants of those petroglyphs, which have been eroded by wind and rain, they depict a scene of hell.
Ancient cliffs at the rock paintings, like totems like legends, strange and rare style, through the thousand-foot bird path and down, only to see the mountains are all, I do not know from what era left to date, which depicts the situation, almost all all sorts of horrors and disasters, locusts, flooding, but also mountain fires, landslides, humans and beasts of prey to each other … … …
I was surprised to see how many great calamities destroying the sky and the earth were greeted by Qingxi Coffin Gorge. It can really be called “deep water and hot fire”, but I see this criss-crossed canyon, like an old dragon hovering and lurking, the clouds between the mountains are ethereal and misty, and the cliff waterfalls are like the Milky Way falling into the sky, which is mostly a “hidden, hidden fairy” place in the feng shui situation, is it possible that it could be an abyss of hell in the ancient times? Is it possible that in ancient times it could have been an abyss?
Shirley Yang said, “Rivers gushing with blood, frogs flooding, lice swarming, plague of beasts, plague spreading, skin rotting, hail and fire, locusts falling from the sky, darkness invading, and the tragic death of the firstborn are the ten kinds of heavenly wraths recorded in the Bible. Although there are differences between Chinese and Western cultures, I think this place is just like what is mentioned in the Bible, which was once a lost place forgotten by the gods. ”
Professor Sun does not agree with our views, he immediately pointed out: “Do not only believe in what the gods and the wrath of God, to my experience speculation, these petroglyphs are older than the warring states era remains, in the pre-Qin construction Dujiangyan water conservancy project before, the Bashan Shushu water between the disasters are frequent, every time there are mountain fires and floods outbreaks, is not a false legend. ”
I would like to argue with him a few sentences, but the bird road more and more dangerous, and then can not be distracted to talk, or to pay attention to the rock paintings on the crags, everyone had to back post wall, gradually move, the fat man is even more pale, closed his eyes do not dare to look down, surrounded by a vast swirling, all are hazy smoke and mist, such as in the body in the clouds in general, do not discern the east and west and north and south.
The people in the chiseled wall bird road on the line for many hours, suddenly heard the sound of water tumbling thunder at the foot of the cold rock wall is full of water droplets, think it is not far from the bottom of the gorge, at this time walking in the forefront of the Shirley Yang stopped, the bird road is cut off, and no longer viable, but the height of the ground to the ground here is only about three meters left.
Shirley Yang said that the following can land, put down the “flying tiger claw”, let the people one after another grasping the steel chain down to the bottom of the valley, the bottom of the gorge is a turbulent rushing river, on both sides of the many natural green stone beach, in the “rocks through the air, waves and rapids,” the Between the dangerous beaches, there are a number of winding stone trestles can pass.
Fatty’s feet on the ground, put feel safe and sound: “Old Hu, where are we? The Earth Immortal’s Tomb Museum is hidden in this canyon?”
I look around, the top of the head is full of swift gathering and dispersal of the mist, the bottom of the gorge is splashing and rising water, what I can see is full of mountains, really do not know where we are, I do not know how to answer the fat man’s question.
But listen to Shirley Yang said: “you look at the back ……” we hurriedly turned our heads to look, the original behind the bottom of the cliff are spoiled fallen debris, rocks in the exposed several close to the stone beams and stone door of the building traces, it looks like before the bottom of the cliff there is a very large stone door Cave, but has been completely blocked by the falling rocks.
Shirley Yang said, “The youngest sister said that this place is the edge of the Coffin Gorge, the tunnel behind the stone door, may be the path from the outside of the Gorge, we are now to the gate of the Coffin Gorge.”
Sun Jiuji and I feel that in all likelihood this is the case, but the “Coffin Gorge” terrain is treacherous, I do not know if there is a vein of ore wells, it seems that the Qingxi air raid shelters have not been extended into the town to find the map have lost their role, although the door into the mountain, but the face of this mysterious and unpredictable deep mountain canyon, do not know where to go from here.
The people on the ground to discuss a few sentences, then decided according to the direction of the stone gate of the gorge, thus entering the depths of the canyon to find out, we carry enough dry food, can support the short-term needs, just “Coffin Gorge” isolated from the outside world, the interior of the deep deserted, I am afraid that will meet the unexpected dangers of the equipment is a little bit thin, I see that! Although the youngest sister is very courageous and not small, and the mountains are used to, but after all, the lack of experience, they instructed Shirley Yang to take care of her, do not let her walk in front, and do not fall in the end.
Fatty thought of the Tomb Museum in the “gold beads and precious jade”, then carried a fast offspring in front of the road, while walking to Sun Jiuji inquiring: “Nine masters, you first give us some inside information, gold beads are not pure gold? What is the extent of the treasure jade?”
Professor Sun heard him this head is not right, quickly said: “You this fat man, how want to change their minds again, said you only need to Dan Ding, Dragon Bone trigrams belong to me, the rest is considered to be our joint discovery, reported up to the credit must not be small, how to play up other ideas?”
The fat man said: “You don’t need to talk nonsense, now is the people are in charge, your pigtails grasp me to our hands, is not the fat master want to do what, which have you bargaining room? That work notes still want to want it?”
Professor Sun said, “Well well, I just want the Dragon Bone trigrams, something else …… you love how it is, but in the future you can not say to others that my Dragon Bone trigrams are found in the tomb, I am not greedy for this thing, just do not tolerate it forever buried underground, but also to take this opportunity to wrestle with a chance to make a name for yourself! ……”
The fat man said: “Sun nine masters you don’t be embarrassed, is not just a few pieces of tortoise shell? Do you remember what Mr. Lu Xun said? Reading books is not considered stealing, nine masters you drank a bellyful of ink, and now go to rob the tomb to steal the book of heaven, what else can be embarrassed about it? Solely thick skin to, greatly generous dry is it, go back to destroy that gang of dog-eyed low reactionary academic authority together, also long we touch the gold lieutenant of the wind.”
Although the fat man said everywhere through the banter, but all cut with today’s disease, listening to Professor Sun face green a burst of red a burst of good embarrassment, murmured to the mouth to ask the heart: “readers stealing books is not considered stealing …… Mr. Lu Xun said?” He seems to feel depressed, can not help but look up to the sky and sigh, suddenly pointing to the mid-air to us, “Look quickly look quickly, there really is a hanging coffin!”
We raised our eyes and looked up, and we really saw many coffins hanging on both sides of the cliffs, the distribution of high and low staggered, the location is extremely decentralized, the highest place is so small that there is only a black spot, the number of people can not be counted in detail, a rough estimate can be tens of thousands of people, it is simply a piece of rare wonders.
And the deep canyon, but also since then gradually close, look up, when the head of the clouds and sky only a line, as if from where we step infinitely far away, if a small stone fell from a high place, smashed into the head is enough to take a person’s life, in this kind of deep mountains and steep gorges in between, all people have a chestnut fear of the intention.
Although I know that this place is called “Coffin Gorge”, expected to see hanging coffins hanging wall, but at the moment see the opposite side of the cliff wall hanging coffins more than surprising, can’t help but curiosity in mind, stand still and watch for a long time, the fat man wanted to leap up to me to climb the cliffs up to look at the coffins, what are in the coffins, I said: “Hanging coffins do not belong to the Burial, not in the ground for peace of mind, you see these coffins in the wind and rain in the high-outside for a long time, more than rotten, and the process is simple, are the natives cut down the wood growing in the nearby primeval forests, directly hollowed out the core of the tree, the bones of the deceased will be hidden in which, covered with bark coffin board, there is no value of the “Ming ware” accompanied by the burial, since ancient times, the trend of grave robbers prevail, but few people Since ancient times, tomb raiding is prevalent, but few people are willing to steal hanging coffins, because there is really not much oil water can be salvaged.”
Prof. Sun said: “Not necessarily true, hanging coffins according to the form of different, can be divided into cavern type, rock gap type, pile rock type three kinds of, and regular graves have the same high and low nobility, this large area of hanging coffins, belongs to the pile rock type, it should be all the poor people’s hide bones of the place ……”. He said here, suddenly said: “not quite right …… you have not felt some strange …… how hanging coffins are concentrated in one side? The other side is not even a ……” This is not yet finished, Shirley Yang suddenly interjected: “Everyone look carefully at those hanging coffins arranged into the outline of …… like what? What does it look like?”
At this time we are traveling to the hanging coffins of this cliff below, I do not know what Shirley Yang said this meaning, immediately according to her prompting to look up and look out, it so happens that the clouds in the mountains, from this angle to see, only to see the high scattered pieces of a set of hanging coffins, appear to be suddenly dense, coffins concentrated in the outline of the place, vaguely outlined as a tall and lofty figure of a giant.
The more you stare at a long time, the vague outline of the large hanging coffins is more and more clear, sitting on the front of the form is extremely realistic, two shoulders flat end, hands on the knees, two giant feet stepping on the bottom of the gorges of the rushing water, but this piece of cool like the outline of the human figure, although exquisite, but there is no head, such as a tall and mighty headless god, motionless embedded in the thousands of feet above the cliffs, we are the five people, are as small as the bottom of the foot of its The five of us are as small as ants under its feet.
I looked out of my mind, until I felt a pain in the neck, only then came back to God, a look around the Sun Jiuji masters and others, still lifting their heads to stare at the wall of hanging coffins, open mouths and even wondered, at this time, in addition to the “marvel” in the minds of the people should be more coincidentally think of the sentence “good king, the headless”, “the headless, the headless”. The body without a head” hinted.
This countless hanging coffins composed of headless figure, if not from the giant statue feet look up, no matter from any other angle, will not appear so realistic, as if the ancients is deliberately so arranged, so that the people here all look up and worship.
Prof. Sun was overjoyed: “this ten thousand coffins puzzle figure hidden shape, majestic and solemn, as an ancient king, and missing the outline of the head, should also have body without head of the language, when the difficult friend Feng head really did not lie to me ……”
Although I stood at the foot of this headless god-like silhouette, also know that these thousands of mysterious hanging coffins, and the hints left behind by the Feng leader, but there is no sense of joy, but instead, I feel that the mystery of the “Tomb of the Earth Immortal Village” is by no means easy to unravel.
It is said that before the burial of the Earth Immortal, some people in the family did not believe in his “subtle mystery” and did not want to enter the tomb to become an immortal, so as the head of the “Guanshan Taibao” of the Earth Immortal, leaving his descendants a hint, as long as you follow the clues, you can enter the “Tomb of the Earth Immortal Village” at any time! So, as the head of the “Immortal Village Tomb”, he left a hint to his descendants that as long as they follow this clue, they can enter the “Immortal Village Tomb” at any time to refine their bodies, ascend to the sky, and become an immortal with the sun and moon.
Mr. Feng is the one who holds this secret, but how can he divulge this kind of mystery so easily? He wanted to persuade Professor Sun to abscond with him, and only then said one of the paragraphs, the content is extremely limited, just the first few sentences, since we entered the Qingxi, one after another to see the things corresponding to the hints of this paragraph, the local not only “witch salt vein”, there is more “Wu Yang stone beasts “Now we have seen a large number of hanging coffins arranged like the “Headless King”.
Although these clues, all from a side proved that the “ground immortal village tomb” in Qingxi, but things are not as smooth as what we see, the most critical is the “witch salt vein, the ewe stone beasts, the headless king” and other clues, there is no connection, but rather The most critical thing is that there is no connection between the clues such as “witch salt vein, the stone beast of Wuyang, and the headless king”, instead of making people confused.
I said these concerns to the crowd, even the Sun Jiu master is not happy: “This old Feng …… and I played more than ten years of mute riddles, so far, people are still puzzled, since the fight into the coffin gorge, things seem to go well unbelievable, but now carefully think about it! …… none of the clues found actually work.”
I nodded and said, “It is true that the mistake of blind optimism has been made …… before, I always think that the Guanshan Taibao is just a landowner, worth what catty? Now it seems that I’m afraid that there are really some brilliant skills at hand.” I have some confusion in my head, see the mountains in the canyon in front of me, no clues to find, can not help but be a little anxious, good thing there is Shirley Yang this understanding people to help ideas, so ask her opinion, according to the military regulations, staff officers have three times the right to recommend the commander’s specific decisions, don’t waste it.
Shirley Yang looked at the crag for a while before saying: “All assumptions and inferences, must first be based on the head of the year left Feng hints are real basis, I think the witch salt vein, Wuyang stone beast, the headless king’s silhouette, are all real monuments in the Qingxi area, so that we can rule out the hints is a crossword puzzle and hidden poems such as hidden riddles, most likely with one of the local monuments, and the headless king, the headless king is the headless king. Mostly it is related to a certain ancient legend of the region, and the entrance to the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal Village is hidden in this legend.”
Master Sun Jiu said, “Miss Yang is right, to the point, but what kind of legend is this? Ancient wall hanging coffins composed of the king’s figure, I think it is implied that the first sentence mentioned the headless king, but it this headless king, only the ancient people left the totem remains of the town of the mountain and the gorges, or in the ancient times there really was once such a king?”
Shirley Yang and Professor Sun just said some words, although there is no clear result, but it makes me by a lot of inspiration, exclude the content mentioned in the hints are riddles, but from the perspective of hiding the ancient legends to think, these seem to be through the words, perhaps hiding neither legends nor riddles of the content.
I asked my heart, and turned those hints in my head several times, “A good king has a body without a head; if the maiden does not come, the mountains do not open; burning wood to start a pot, boiling the liver and lungs; digging a well to cut salt, asking ghosts for money; bird paths are long and wide, with a hundred steps and nine times; if you want to visit the earth immortal, you have to find the black sheep first …… “I raised my head again to look carefully at the countless hanging coffins on the cliffs, a flash in my mind, suddenly thought of one of the most important, but has not been able to attract attention to the link, this paragraph looking for the entrance to the “Tomb of the Earth Immortal Village” hints at the mystery contained in it must be in this place.
I cursed myself really more and more confused, such an important thing was always ignored, busy asking the crowd: “Guanshan Taibao’s most skillful thing is what?”