Chapter 27: The Path

It was too late to rush over when we rushed over. Pan Zi had fallen out of sight. There were turns in the hole and the flashlight could not illuminate the bottom. I don’t know if it was death or life.

When my mind was hot, I wanted to jump down, but the fat man was faster than me. He pulled the rope on his feet and pulled out the saber and jumped into the hole. He slipped in an instant. I wanted to jump again, but he grabbed Monk Hua, saying that the diameter was too small, and even you jumped down, and he couldn't beat him. If he was used, he could save someone alone. If he didn't use it, he would be killed.

I coughed and looked into the hole, but I could not see anything. Then I heard the sound of the fat man sliding down. The rope on it was quickly pulled into the hole, and I couldn't help but feel anxious.

After a minute, the rope suddenly stopped, and then there was a vibration from the other end of the rope. Then the fat man suddenly shouted deep below: "Take the rope!"

We quickly pulled the rope and pulled it up desperately. Soon the fat man dragged Pan Zi and appeared. Pan Zi was still kicking her feet, obviously the corpse still had not let go.

Chen Pi A Si asked us to get out of the way, frowned, took out an iron bullet in one hand, and hit Pan Zi's ankle hard, and hit the big head of the corpse fetus. The corpse fetus screamed and let go, but after it was loose, he immediately wanted to rush up.

Chenpi A Si didn't give him a chance, and another iron bullet hit him, it turned over and rushed again, and another one rolled down this time.

We took the opportunity to pull both of them out of the hole, and a few people immediately left the entrance. Monk Hua took the engineer shovel and waited aside. Sure enough, within a few seconds, the thing suddenly rushed up again. Monk Hua slapped it with a "clang" and we heard a scream and quickly fell to the depths of the cave.

The fat man looked pale. He gasped and said to Panzi: "See you, you still like you a little more."

Pan Zi was so scared that he waved his hand: "Let's stop talking, let's even," asked Monk Hua again: "Is this mother's hole the corpse's nest? If so, I will blow it up. Let it be reincarnated as soon as possible."

Monk Hua waved his hand: "No, the corpse and fetus are not animals, so where does this cave come from? What did you see inside when you just fell down?"

The fat man said, "I don't wear flashlight and can't see anything, but I touched several stone slabs. The hole should have been manually repaired."

The man-made one? Monk Hua looked a little concerned. I also turned my attention to this big hole again.

The entrance of the cave looks a bit like a well. It's a bit deeper for his mother. I thought it was an abandoned pile hole well, but it wasn't. The diameter of the well hole was a bit large. At that time, the pile hole well could not have been drilled to this extent. There were traces of chiseling at the edge of the well hole. It was not the kind of volcanic lava hole that was naturally formed. After taking the photo, the corpse inside was gone and it seemed to have fallen inside. I don't know if it had been shot to death by Monk Hua. This thing was a little scary. It was not very powerful.

The well wall inside had some stone slabs inlaid at the beginning, but it was gone at the back, and it was very uneven, a bit like the inner wall of some people's duodenum, wind blowing in from the well, mixed with a hint of dampness. After protruding into the head a few meters, it was pitch black inside. I don't know where it leads.

The fat man looked at it and said strangely: "It's a bit like the cellar in the Northeast? It shouldn't be the time to build this spiritual palace. The place used by craftsmen to pickle cabbage."

Monk Hua ignored him and felt the hole with his hands: "The wind blows from here, this well is not solid, so it must be where it will go."

The fat man asked, "Can it be the back door that leads to the Heavenly Palace and the Earthly Palace, what do you think is the secret path between the three-headed dragons?"

I whispered: "The Three-Headed Dragon Bureau has proven to be fake, and even if it is true, the secret path should be opened in the underground palace. How can it be opened here?"

The fat man said, "You don't understand. This is called "striking the world". Didn't you listen to Chairman Mao? The most dangerous place is the safest place. Maybe this is the "barking" strategy."

The fat man couldn't remember Wang Zanghai's name for a moment, so he gave him a nickname. I almost laughed when I heard this and said angrily, "Please give me the key point. No matter how you say Wang Zanghai is also a master of this sect. You have to call him Master when you see it. And that's not what Chairman Mao said, it was what Chu Liuxiang said."

The fat man said, "Don't recognize my ancestors, what kind of ancestors? If he recognizes me, I won't recognize him anymore. Let's not talk about this. What should I do if I take this hole? Should I go in and take a look? Maybe I'll really make a mistake. The corpse fetus is here. If it's a nest in this hole, it may even harm people. Let's go down and kill him."

Monk Hua shook his head and said it was impossible: "Since the dragon throne is fake, there is no need to dig through three mountains. This is reasonable. They have no manpower or energy to do such a huge project. It is probably difficult to build a Genting Heavenly Palace. This cave is probably very knowledgeable here."

I saw that his eyes were a little radiant, and obviously he had an idea, so I asked him to tell him out, so everyone could discuss it.

Monk Hua said: "I am just a preliminary idea. You may not believe it if you say it."

The fat man said: "It's okay, let's say it out first. If there is any mistake, comrades will help you correct it."

Monk Hua laughed and nodded, "Okay, then I'll talk about it: I won't talk about the other things. It's very interesting to say that the hole is opened in the ground below the Spirit Hall. You think that opening this hole here must be for the sake of concealment. The wind blows out to indicate where the hole leads to. Look, the traces of chiseling on the wall of the cave are all reverse chisels, which means that the hole is opened from the inside, not from here. Three key points, according to our experience, we can infer that this may be a staging path, and it may be the retreat left by the tomb craftsmen who built the tomb. If the ancient tomb is sealed, you can escape from here."

I said strangely, "Paidao? No, so, there is still an underground palace below? Although there are not three dragons here, a burial tomb was still built?"

Monk Hua shook his head: "The possibility is not great. We did not find the entrance to the underground palace under the tomb-sealing stone. The entrance to the underground palace must be there. If there is no entrance, there will definitely be no underground palace. This is the eternal truth. Cultivating the entrance outside the Feng Shui level will be very disadvantageous to the master."

The fat man said, "Wow, this person is very obedient in doing things. Maybe he just built the entrance somewhere else."

Monk Hua waved his hand: "Don't think so complicated. Wang Zanghai still has the limitations of the times. If he doesn't even obey the burial scriptures and makes a mess, it will not be enough for us to die ten thousand times."

I thought it was true. If I didn’t even follow the burial scriptures, then I didn’t have to look at Feng Shui. I just found a place like Genghis Khan and dug a hole and buried it. No one found it yet. He asked him, “Since there is no underground palace below, where do you think this trajectory leads to?”

Monk Hua said: "The method of elimination is, first, this pavilion is built under this fake burial tomb. Then it must be related to the craftsmen of the Yunding Heavenly Palace. Second, where can such a pavilion be built nearby? There is no doubt that there is only the underground palace of the Yunding Heavenly Palace! So my conclusion - the pavilion is in the tenth. It is dug all the way from the Tiangong Underground Palace at the foot of the Sansheng Mountain."

I immediately shouted, "How is this possible? It's too far. If they really want to dig a lane to make a back road, they don't have to dig a hole here. They can directly go to the Sansheng Mountain. Wouldn't that save a lot of effort? And it takes at least twenty or thirty years to dig such a long lane in the mountain. Can people do such a project?"

Monk Hua explained: "In ancient times, a huge project like the Yunding Heavenly Palace would have taken sixty or seventy years, or even several generations to build. I think it is not impossible for the craftsmen inside to secretly dig out a lane when they know that they will die in the end. As for why they opened the cave entrance on another mountain so far, there must be reasons why they cannot do it themselves. Let's go down and take a look. We will definitely know."

He kept listening to Di Ye Cheng asking, "Monk. Are you sure about your thoughts?"

Monk Hua paused for a moment. He said, "To be honest, I dare not say it, but I think it is worth trying it. It is better than the one we go out and then we go out. Now all the signs indicate that this is a scheduling road. If I am wrong, then there is another place below, and entering is not a bad thing. This is not the first time we have seen this scheduling road. There should be no danger. No one will set up a scheduling road on his way to escape."

After thinking about it, Monk Hua's statement was really attractive. First, the Feng Shui statement here was too chaotic, and I could no longer understand what Chenpi A Si and the others said. I was not interested in whether the Feng Shui here was good or bad. Second, on the other hand, An Ning and the others were not sure how it was. We have wasted a lot of time. Until now, we still don't know the purpose of Uncle San's arrangement for this "going to the ground". If it was a complete loss of this round trip, I would really be sorry for him.

Another consideration is that Shunzi may basically know what we do now. Now he stands aside in a quiet voice and doesn't speak, but this person is not stupid. I have been watching his hand and never left his knife more than two feet, which means that this person is already on guard against us. Once this person returns to the village, who knows what he will do, maybe he will sell us immediately. Chenpi A Si must have taken this into consideration. If we are not allowed to come out and start over, then the first thing before entering the village will be to kill people to silence or buy them for a lot of money. When you find a guide, you may not be able to find the land. You go to the snow mountain once, but the guide has not come back. Who will take us in again? Secondly, there are probably not many people in the village who can bring people to the snow mountain.

Several people discussed it and weighed it again and again, but their opinions were not unified. Ye Cheng was afraid that the fetus would not agree. Pan Zi also felt it was mysterious. Fatty and I thought it could be a try. Monk Hua asked Chen Pi A Si and said, "Old man, why don't we just go there?"

Chen Pi A Si kept sitting there listening to us with his eyes closed. Monk Hua asked several times. For some reason, he did not react at all, as if he was asleep.

The fat man couldn't help but patted him and said, "Old man, you say something, don't pretend to be cool here." After pushing, Chen Pi A Si shook for a moment, but still didn't open his eyes.

When Monk Hua saw it, his face changed. He ran over and grabbed the old man's hand, and his face turned pale. When the fat man saw it, he ran over and touched the old man's neck, and he suddenly changed color and said, "Fuck, I'm dead!"

When everyone heard this, they were stunned. What? Dead? How is it possible? Didn’t it be fine a few minutes ago?

But as soon as we saw the fat man's face, the sweat on Monk Hua's forehead, and the unresponsive Chenpi A Si, we realized something was wrong, and everyone immediately surrounded him.

The old man on the side seemed to be stiff, with his eyes closed and motionless, like an ice sculpture.

I touched Chen Pi A Si's wrist. I couldn't touch the pulse anyway, but I just felt that his skin was dry and astringent, and it was terrible. And the meat inside seemed to be stiff.

Is it really dead? I was shocked. Just as we were studying the hole there, Chenpi A Si was sitting here. His heart slowly stopped beating?

Although this is very consistent with the way of dying of hypothermia, hypothermia requires at least twenty minutes to truly die at low temperatures. We only sat for less than five minutes, so why did he die suddenly? This doesn't make sense.

I still had a glimmer of hope in my heart. The fat man was unreliable. He only touched Chen Pi's neck and judged that death was too arbitrary. It might be just shock. He ran too fast just now. How could the ninety-year-old man suffer?

However, Monk Hua frowned, opened the old man's eyes and illuminated it with a flashlight. His face became increasingly ugly. Finally, he looked back at Ye Cheng and shook his head.

Monk Hua had some medical knowledge. When we saw him shaking his head, we immediately took a breath and knew that we would not be wrong. We were really dead.

Pan Zi asked softly: "What's going on? How did you die?"

Monk Hua sighed, not knowing whether he didn't know or didn't want to speak, but suddenly slumped on the ground with a gloomy face. The fat man pulled Pan Zi and said, "You're so old. You can die no matter how you die."

I couldn't help but sigh. Sure enough, it was too forced to come here for the old man in his 90s. It was reasonable to say that this happened to be an accident. Chen Pi A Si probably never thought that he would die like this. It was his retribution.

My grandfather died suddenly in the end. I was having a meal at the time. He asked me to bring him wine one minute before, but he went there one minute later. My father said that many tomb robbers were exposed to a large amount of earth tomb energy in their early years, so most of them died like this when they were old. It's good that this is the most comfortable way to die.

We were all a little at a loss. On the one hand, Chenpi A Si was their scoop. Now that he was dead, it would be meaningless for Ye Cheng and Monk Hua to stay here. Secondly, we got a big advantage and arrived here smoothly, but when Chenpi A Si died, the oil bottle was not there. It would be a big problem to rely on Fatty and Pan Zi to take us.

Just as I was thinking about it quickly, Chenpi A Si suddenly trembled. I was shocked and thought it was a conditioned reflex corpse. Who knew that my neck would be pinched tightly with a "pop". At the same time, others kept suddenly and their eyes opened.

We were all shocked. Ye Cheng fell down five or six meters with a slip. Fatty and Pan Zi also hurriedly retreated. The fat man screamed: "Scam the zombie!"

I quickly tried to spread my hands apart, but I didn't expect that the old man's hands, like a withered branch, had extremely strong strength, like a vise, and could not even move. He quickly coughed and shouted: "Come... the hooves, hurry!"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Pi A Si suddenly let go of my neck, pushed me, and scolded: "What are you talking nonsense?"

My mind was already in chaos. I quickly retreated behind the fat man, but I was stuck by the fat man and couldn't let me go. At this moment, I suddenly thought, "It's wrong, I can still talk?" When I looked at Chenpi A Si again, it was obvious that the human and earth's spirit had also risen and my breathing had recovered.

We looked at Chenpi A Si with confusion, not knowing what happened just now. The fat man glanced at Chenpi A Si, very confused, but at this moment, Chenpi A Si seemed to have returned to normal, and there was no way he could tell that his pulse had stopped beating just now. It seemed that at that moment we saw hallucinations.

Monk Hua stayed for a while before reacting and asked, "Old man, are you okay? You were just..."

Chen Pi A Si didn't seem to know that he had just died. He looked at him for no reason, lit a cigarette, and said, "What?"

Monk Hua looked at Chen Pi A Si's expression and felt a little dizzy, not knowing what to say.

Chen Pi A Si looked at him coldly and said, "Don't worry, old man, I didn't die so easily."

I looked at Chen Pi A Si's appearance and tone, which was no different from what I had just done. It didn't seem like I was resurrecting the soul of some people. I suddenly felt that I was fooled by him just now? But why did he play such a trick? He is so old.

Chen Pi A Si was "resurrected" all of a sudden, and no one could react, but judging from his appearance, we could not press him down and dissect him to see what was going on. I gradually wondered whether the monk Hua and the fat man had made a mistake just now. The pulse of the elderly was difficult to touch, and the two barefoot doctors might not touch the right place at all. Chen Pi A Si was old and it was normal for him to be dazed by chance.

Several people looked puzzled, but they couldn't express it.
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