We immediately packed up our gear and continued on our way. We passed through thorns and dense forests, with intertwined branches and leaves. Thousands of towering giant trees divided the heaven and earth into thousands of paths and sky. Birds screamed strangely, and animals walked strangely.

Among the primitive dense forests, there is a mountain road with obvious traces of manual excavation. The terrain is gentle and it is probably a transportation artery.

"This should be the secret passage used by the ancient Tibetan religion to transport it from the foot of the mountain."

At noon, a group of us walked to the northern edge of the basin. In front of us were the majestic and majestic mountains. The peaks were hidden in the sea of ​​clouds. A closer look showed that the trend of the mountains was like a roc spreading its wings, with a high bulge in the middle.

The roc holds its head high, and its peaks are like beaks, piercing the sky. The mountains on both sides stretch endlessly, like wings spread out, and they are majestic and intimidating.

On the mountain wall opposite the rock hill, a building suddenly appeared.

"Look, the Lama Temple is there!"

"Damn, I'm so exhausted, fat man, I finally found it."

There is a huge cave on the rock wall. If you look closely, there is a stone tablet more than ten feet high beside the cave entrance, which reads "Holy King's Cave".

"I didn't expect that the legendary Holy King's Cave of Dapeng Golden Wing Mountain is right here!" Ella said with emotion.

"This is not the Holy King's Cave, this is the Devil's Cave!" I suddenly recalled the terrible experience in Mawanggou. "This Holy King's Cave is a forbidden area of ​​ancient Tibetan religion. The people in Mawanggou regard this place as the holy king's cave."

Territory, I don’t dare to set foot here easily.”

The cave is bottomless, and two people can walk side by side in the tunnel. The rock walls are smooth and have traces of manual grinding. The giant cave resembles a cave landscape, with biting cold water eroding along the cracks in the limestone layers.

The cave is filled with dripping stone deposits of various weird shapes.

"Guys, be careful." I kept reminding, "The ground here is a little wet, and you may fall if you are not careful."

The beam of our flashlight is reflected on the smooth and moist cave wall, which is a strange and strange place. The tunnel is slippery and filled with water. The undercurrent of the mountain drips through the cracks in the gorge, and the echo of the water droplets makes a ghostly sound in the deep and bottomless cave.

After walking for more than a hundred steps, I looked back and saw that the cave entrance was no longer visible. The dark and narrow cave passage was twisting and turning; about two miles away, the cave suddenly opened up. The cave dome was a hundred feet high, the cave hall was wide and deep, the dark caves were intertwined with black paths, and the dark sounds of the underground river were heard.

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"When I came here before, I never saw anything so gloomy."

Upon closer inspection of the cave hall, we found that it is not only wide and deep, but also has an extremely complex topography. Various types of caves can be seen everywhere on the cliffs, passages and caves of the main cave hall, the scale and complexity of which even exceed the cave system in Guizhou.

"If you walk a little further, you should reach the underground river."

"It seems so." In my mind, the underground river once blocked our way, and Cheng Yiyun and I swam across it in the freezing cold water.

"There are so many of us now that there is no need to go into the water." Huo Xinlan commanded.

The underground river rushes and rushes beside the west cliff of the cave hall, forming a large underground waterfall. The impact of torrents over thousands of years has formed a deep underground cave with no light reaching the bottom. The sound of the roaring Yin River waterfall echoes loudly through the various caves.

Looking down into the deep cave is like standing at the entrance to hell, which makes people feel frightened.

"After passing this underground river, we don't know the way forward." I turned around and said to Huo Xinlan, "Last time you followed us all the way here, and no one knows the way forward."

Looking at the thousands of cracks and deep gaps in the fault cliff, the entire huge cave is a dark underground nest. There are creek caves and lake caves on the north and south sides of the cave hall. In the gaps on the top of the cliff, a little sunlight penetrates, and water vapor passes through.

The wet mist is refracted to form a cave of strange light, and the white mist of the lake, cave, and river shrouds the dim light, like thousands of cold eyes staring coldly at strangers.

Huo Xinlan looked around and said, "Aren't you Marshal Mojin? Then you can judge where we should go."

"There are so many holes here, and there are twists and turns inside. Who knows where to go?" I waved my hand, "Back then, the old nine gates did have the skill of identifying the location of iron marbles after hearing the sound, but it has been lost long ago.

Even my wife who touches Colonel Jin can't, please teach me how to tell the difference."

Although Cheng Yiyun is a descendant of the Faqiu sect, she has never learned this skill. The only descendants of her lineage are all touching the gold sect, and the gold-touching sect has long been scattered and withered. Who in the world can know this unique skill?

I'm afraid no one knows.

But Cheng Yiyun is the only one who can be counted on at the moment.

So, Cheng Yiyun used her methods. She put down her backpack and took out a few copper coins. These copper coins were all brand new and shiny, but they were not newly processed objects with modern technology. They were all coins from before the Ming Dynasty.

While she was talking, she threw the handful of coins in all directions, and the coins in her hand flew out. They splashed on the ground and then started spinning on the ground. I don't know if it was a coincidence or just the skill of this skill.

In this way, all the coins were kept spinning on the ground for a long time.

Cheng Yiyun closed her eyes and listened.

From the perspective of outsiders, there is no way to tell the clues. Although I am not an expert, I can tell a few things. This skill is probably from the same origin as the gold-touching captain's method of identifying the position of iron marbles by hearing the sound.

After that, the places where they fall are different, and there are subtle differences in the air flow in different places. Although ordinary people can't reach it, it is much clearer to the ears of Colonel Touch Jin and General Faqiu.

The coins thrown down by Cheng Yiyun were like the iron marbles thrown by Captain Jin. The difference was that these coins rotated and rubbed against the flowing air. These extremely subtle changes in convection became the basis for her to identify the direction.

The rest of us stood there stupidly, not making any noise for fear of disturbing her. After about twenty minutes, Cheng Yiyun opened her eyes. During this period, she also scattered a few coins one after another, and finally she could

There is a conclusion.

"How is it?" I asked eagerly.

"have."

"Great, tell me now." I was a little overjoyed.

"However, there are two exits here, and I'm not sure which one leads to the lair."

"You mean, there is still a way out of the Holy King's Cave?"

"Yes, this is definitely not their lair. Their lair is outside this cave." Cheng Yiyun affirmed.

"What should I do?"

Huo Xinlan frowned. It wasn't that she didn't believe Cheng Yiyun's judgment. On the contrary, she approved of Faqiumen's method, but the current dilemma made her a little sulky.

"If it doesn't work out, then choose one of the two." Fatty Guo said impatiently from the side, "In the worst case, we can turn back."

"Don't say it yet. It's not crude. It's simple and crude. There's nothing wrong with it."

"Besides, there's no other way right now."

Huo Xinlan glanced at my face a few times, said nothing, and continued to be silent. After a while, she finally said, "Where do you want to go?"

"Left!"

"Why?"

"Guess!"

Huo Xinlan was so angry that she didn't say anything, but in her heart she was probably scolding me to death. How could she treat such an important matter as a joke?

A group of us crawled into the cave on the left like headless flies. After twists and turns, our eyes suddenly opened up, and we saw a lake in front of us.

"Damn it, it's better now." Fatty Guo said in despair, "What a mistake!"

"During the Song Dynasty, Song Jiang and others used Shuibo Liangshan as a dangerous place and Luocao as a bandit. They occupied the mountain as their king and defeated the imperial court many times.

The imperial army is encircling and suppressing it. If the ancient Tibetan sect uses the lake as a danger to hold the key point, I am afraid that one man will be able to guard the pass and ten thousand people will not be able to open it."

My hypothesis is just based on thin air, but the ancient Tibetan sect is dormant and waiting here, so it naturally knows this place. More importantly, there is a dock here, and there are several boats there.

"Get aboard!"

The lake area is not large, and soon the boat has reached the northern shore of the lake.

When we arrived at the north bank, we learned that the ancient Tibetan religion had built water conservancy facilities here. This lake was an artificial reservoir. There was originally a village on the north bank, but due to water storage, the village was forced to move to the mountain.

"What happened to this village?" Huo Xinlan asked.

"I asked Yiyun to take a look. Just like Mawanggou, the people inside are not normal."

"It seems that the ancient Tibetan religion controls them."

"The villagers here should be guarding this water source for them."

There are herds of cattle and sheep on the hillside, and occasionally a clever antelope leaps away. The vegetation on the hillside gradually decreases, and there is no man's land further up.

"Now that we're here, let's go in and take a look." Huo Xinlan said.

"Okay, if you want to go, I'll let you see as much as you want." I sighed, "But I promise, you won't want to see this kind of situation again in your next life."

Enter the village.

At this moment, the peaceful and smiling clear sky suddenly turned gloomy, and dark clouds gathered in the northern sky like a black sea, swallowing up the bright sunshine in an instant.

"How do you say that everything changes when things change?"

A strong wind blew between heaven and earth, and within a short while, torrential rain poured down.

The vast sky, earth, and mountains reveal their ferocious faces, dark clouds surge into the sky, and black waves roll in the sky. Wild winds rage across the earth, ghosts cry and wolves howl, and the mountains become blurred and distorted in the rain world. The accumulated water in the grassland makes walking difficult, and your feet feel like they are being dragged by ghostly hands underground.

Stay, I'm stuck in the mire and can't bear the strength.

"Aw...aow..." There was the sound of a wolf howling nearby.

"What the hell, let's get into the village quickly!"

We walked forward one foot deeper and one foot shallower.

The water flowed gurglingly on the muddy ground and formed small streams.

"Woo...ow..." The howling of wolves in the distance made our pores shiver and numb. There seemed to be countless wild beasts staring at us with fierce eyes in the dark rain.

"Let's talk after we go in first," Fatty Guo urged, "It doesn't matter who is inside!"

"Fat man, don't be impulsive."

Before I finished speaking, Fatty Guo ran into an old courtyard like a headless fly. The door of the courtyard was open and the wood creaked in the wind.

"Is there anyone? Is there anyone?!" Fatty Guo shouted, "Is there anyone?"

"There's no one here, so I'm coming in!"

In the wind and rain, the courtyard door fan swung, "crunch...crunch...crunch...pop!" The door suddenly closed.

The courtyard is in ruins and overgrown with weeds. An old house in the main courtyard is dark and cannot see the light. The two wooden houses on the left and right are decayed and swaying. The wind and rain are coming in. The old house is crumbling and making creaking and cracking sounds. At this time, it is almost completely dark.

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"anyone there?"

Still no response.

I also tried calling a few times and was relieved when no one answered.

"It seems no one lives here. Let's take shelter from the rain first."

Just when we lowered our guard, a bald and lame old woman came out of the dark room. She walked staggeringly and limped. The old woman was using a cane and was wearing a black cotton coat and black trousers.

"Who are you looking for..." The old woman's voice was cold and cold, and her mouth seemed to be leaking, with no teeth.
Chapter completed!