Volume 1Chapter 8: The Valley

Uncle San frowned: ‘Just human heads? No bodies?’

The girl said: ”Yes, isn’t that terrible? Since Since the place collapsed, there is no way to go, even mules can’t get in. If you want to go there, you can only climb over it one foot at a time. I think even if you get there, you can only look at it. Several groups of people have been to that place before. When those old men saw the mountain collapse like this, they shook their heads.

Uncle San glanced at the bottle and saw that he had no reaction at all, so he asked the waiter, “Before the mountain collapsed, someone must have gone in, right?”

“Yes Yes, but I saw them go in for a few days, and they came out like this in the end, with nothing to show for it. They came in happy, but when they came out, their clothes were like those of beggars, and they stank to death. My grandfather said they probably didn’t even find the bucket. Why, you guys want to try it too?“

”Look what you said, you have to go and take a look when you come. Otherwise it’s a waste of a trip.” Uncle San laughed and didn’t say anything else.

The waiter The waiter went to the kitchen to hurry up the food, and Pan Zi said, “It seems that the big bucket we are going to is definitely in that area, but from what this girl said, it is probably difficult to transport our equipment to the mountains.”

“There is a way to dump equipment and a way to dump equipment. This war In the Warring States period, tombs were generally straight pits, straight up and straight down, with no burial chambers. We still have to go to the site to see how big the tomb is and how deep it is buried. I’m afraid it’s really different from the ones we’ve buried before. Look at the collapsed human head in the mountain. That’s what our ancestors called the ghost pit. It must have been the burial pit for their human sacrifices. Uncle San took out a map and pointed to a circle on it, “Look, this is the place. It’s far from the main tomb. If you follow the theory of finding the dragon’s acupoints, you must stop here. This is the dragon’s head. Generally speaking, the tomb must be under here , but if you look a little further, this place is a gourd mouth. If you don’t go in, you won’t know that there is a cave inside. This is where the real dragon head is. The person who designed this tomb must have known a lot about finding dragon points and acupuncture points, and specially set up a trap for them to fall into. If If I’m not mistaken, there must be a fake dragon head under the tomb, and it’s full of traps!” Uncle San looked at us as we listened intently, and continued proudly, ‘Without this map, even our ancestors would have been lost. Tomorrow, we’ll bring what we need and go light. First, we’ll take a look at the site. If it’s really impossible, we’ll come back and move the things.’

We nodded and said yes, and then we drank some more wine and went back to our rooms.

Then We disassembled the equipment. Of course, we didn’t use the traditional Luoyang shovel this year. Uncle San took out an archaeological shovel. This shovel is made of steel pipes screwed together. You can take as many as you want. It’s much more concealed than the wooden Luoyang shovel. This Warring States tomb is always more than ten meters below, so it’s unavoidable. The steel pipes are packed up, and each person carries ten of them, with a shovel head for each person. Pan Zi has a short rifle, which is usually wrapped in a leather case. Now it has been taken out. This gun is much shorter than the double-barreled gun bought on the black market, and it can be put in clothes so that others can’t see it. He stuffed these, along with a few bullets, into his backpack. Uncle San said that going down with a double-barreled gun would make it impossible to turn around. Pan Zi’s short gun is much more practical. I I prepared a digital camera and a mud knife. I thought there was nothing else to bring, and I was just an apprentice grave robber.

We slept soundly all night and after a long day of travel, I woke up feeling refreshed. The girl was very helpful and asked a child in her village to take us there. After walking for more than two hours on the mountain road, the naked child pointed to the front and said, “It’s over there!” I I looked and sure enough, it was obvious that the mountain hook in front had been washed away by a mudslide. We were now standing between one mountain range and another. The canyon was very long. During the rainy season, it should have been a river, but after the mudslide and the drought of the past few months, there was only a shallow stream in the middle.

The mountains on both sides were very steep and could not be walked at all, and the river in front had been blocked by rocks from the mountain collapse.

I took I took a picture of the naked baby’s head and said to him, “Go back and play. Thank your sister for me!”

The baby reached out and said, “Give me 50 yuan!”

I was stunned. The baby didn’t say anything, just stared at me with his hand out. I said, “What 50 yuan?”

Uncle San laughed and took out 100 yuan to give him. He grabbed it and ran away, skipping and jumping.

I suddenly realized and laughed, “Now the kids in the mountains are so mercenary.”

“People for the birds to die” – Da Kui muttered, and Pan Zi kicked him: ‘Are you educated? For the birds to die, you should die for the dick.’

We started climbing without saying a word. The rock was not loose, and in a short while we had climbed over it. It wasn’t as scary as the girl had said, but we didn’t see the heads she had mentioned. Behind the collapsed slope was a canyon at first, and then slowly it was all trees. In the distance, there was a dense forest. I don’t know how this ecology came about.

At this time, we saw an old man in the canyon below the collapsed slope, drawing water. At this time, we saw an old man in the ravine below the collapsed slope, drawing water. I took a closer look and realized that it was the same old man who had led us into the cave. The old man suddenly saw us and was so scared that he fell into the stream and then climbed up and ran. Pan Zi laughed and scolded, “I told you to run!” He took out his pistol and shot the old man in the sand at his front feet. The old man jumped up in fright and ran backwards. Pan Zi fired three shots in a row, each one hitting the old man’s footprints. The old man was smart enough to see that the other party was playing with him and knew that he couldn’t escape. He fell to his knees on the ground.

We We ran downhill, and the old man bowed to us: “Grandpa, please spare my life. I really had no choice but to hit the idea of the grandpas. I didn’t expect that the grandpas were like gods. This time I really didn’t know who I was dealing with!”

He said this with tears in his eyes. Uncle San asked him, “What? I see that you are full of energy. What can’t you do?”

“Actually I don’t want to lie to you, but I really am sick. Don’t look at me like I’m healthy, but I have to take several doses of medicine every day. Look, I’m going to fetch some water to make the medicine.“ He pointed to the water bottle on the side.

”Let me ask you, old man, how did you suddenly disappear in that cave?“

”If I tell you, will you not kill me?“ The old man looked at us.

”Don’t worry, we live in a society ruled by law,“ said Uncle San. ‘Confess and you will be leniently treated, resist and you will be severely punished.’

”Yes Yes, I confess,” said the old man. ”It’s not a big deal. You don’t see that the hole is a straight hole, but in fact there are many holes on the ceiling of the hole. Those holes are very well hidden. If you don’t look for them, you won’t find them. I took advantage of the fact that you weren’t paying attention and stood up and went into the hole. When When you leave, I will come out. The donkey will hear my whistle and pull a wooden basin over. I will go out like this. After the job is done, the boatman Lu Er will give me my share. In fact, I don’t get much.” He suddenly thought of something. ‘Right, where is Lu Er? Presumably he was also caught by you gentlemen.’

Pan Zi made a gesture of beheading. ‘He has already reported to the authorities.’

The old The old man was stunned at first, then slapped his thigh: “Good riddance. In fact, I didn’t want to do that either. That Lu Er said that if I didn’t do it, he would do me in as well. Gentlemen, you see, I had no choice. Please let me go.”

“Don’t give me that,” said Uncle San. “Where do you live? Why are you fetching water here?”

“I live there,“ the old man pointed to a cave nearby, ‘You see, I’m an old man, I don’t have any land, my son died young, I have no house to live in, now I’m just waiting to die, poor me.’

”Then you’re familiar with this area, that’s good, if you want us to let you go, you have to take us to a place.” Uncle San pointed to the forest, the old man suddenly changed his face in fear, “My grandfather, dare you come to dig up the tombs? You can’t dig up the tombs! There are monsters in there!”

I knew there was something going on as soon as I heard that. This old man must know something. Uncle San asked him, “What, have you seen it?”

“Hey Oh, a few years ago, I also took a group of people there, saying that I was going to do some archeology. I knew right away that they were there to dig up graves, but these guys were different from the others. The little thieves I had seen before would just dig up graves. That group of people, I won’t lie to you, they had an air about them that showed they were not ordinary people. They didn’t even look at the graves next to them, and they just said they wanted to go into the ravine. At that time, I was the only one in our village who had been to that place. Those people were very rich , and they gave me ten big bills at once. I was so excited by the money that I took them into the forest and kept walking until I reached the place I had been to before. They wanted to go further, but I refused. I said that ten big bills couldn’t buy my life. They said they would give me ten more. I said I wouldn’t do it even if they gave me a hundred more. The leader of the group then turned his face and put a gun to my head. I had no choice but to take them further into the forest.

He scratched scratching his head, he continued, “Then they said they had arrived at the place. These people were so happy, and then they started to make something there. They said it was right under here. That night I drank too much, so we found a place to set up camp. I fell asleep and didn’t feel a thing, but when I woke up, guess what? These people were all gone, but everything was still there, and the fire was still burning. I I was scared, so I called out everywhere, but no one answered me for a long time. I thought something was wrong, and I thought to myself that since they weren’t there anyway, I’d just sneak away, so I ran away.”

The old The old man seemed to recall seeing something horrible, squinting his eyes and saying, “I had only run a few steps when I heard someone calling me. For the first time, I saw a woman from their team waving at me. I was about to scold her for running off without me so early in the morning, Suddenly I saw a big tree behind her, with fangs and claws. I looked up at the tree and saw that it was full of dead people hanging from it. Their eyeballs were popping out. I was so scared that I peed myself. I ran for a day and a night before I finally made it back to the village. You see , this must be a tree demon. If it weren’t for me, who grew up eating solid meat, I would have been possessed by this demon.”

Uncle San sighed: ‘You really are a solid meat eater!’ Then he waved his hand. Pan Zi understood and tied up the old man. With him leading the way, we could save a lot of trouble.

The old man was a hundred times unwilling, but there was no way. According to him, it would take a day to get to the place he said. Da Kui was leading the way, and we quickened our pace. We looked at the map while walking, hoping that with the map and the old man’s memory, we could get there before dark. We had been walking for half a day. At first, we could still talk, but later, we felt that the green all around us was blurring our eyes, and we kept yawning and wanted to sleep. Suddenly, the old man stopped walking.

Pan Zi scolded, “What are you playing at now?”

The old man looked at the trees on the side and his voice trembled: “What… is that…?”

We turned around and saw that there was a flashing light in the grass. It was a mobile phone.