Chapter 32: Star Sucking Platform
Because of this accident, three people had to change the trip, this Qin Ge although more strange, but also a reasonable person, this time the trouble is he, so there is no complaint.
Xizi village from Yuanba town about two days of mountain road, but if directly over the mountain, it is much closer, over two mountains to, but deep in the mountains there is no road, the more forward, the more difficult to travel. After walking for a whole morning, even Old Liu Tou was starting to pant heavily.
"Sect Master Zhang, are you... really prepared to go and find that madman?" Qin Ge was puzzled by Zhang Guozhong's decision.
"Yes, I promised Village Chief Li."
"Then where are you going to look for it?" Qin Ge looked behind him, the endless deep mountains, the few broken houses in Silk Village were already only the size of fingernails.
"Climb to the top of the mountain and see where in this mountain might be hiding dirt!" Zhang Guozhong said under his breath as he climbed upwards, "Mr. Qin... if you feel tired, you can wait here with my senior brother for me, I'll go take a look and come down." Although Zhang Guozhong's understanding of the feng shui theories of the Cult of the Cave and the Cult of the Pavilion remained in the realm of "understanding", it was not difficult for him to find a "Yin gathering pool" or a "corrupted land".
Old Liu was not polite, when he heard Zhang Guozhong's words, he immediately found a stone and sat down, wiping his sweat while complaining, "You know how to brag, what kind of treatment for the guest with the village chief? It's killing my old bones..."
Zhang Guozhong himself climbed to the top of the mountain, look out, honestly, this is the first time Zhang Guozhong from such a high place to look down, the legs and stomach is really a little cramp, the distant mountains, high winds and clouds, this Zhang Guozhong was a quite emotional people, at this moment would like to recite a few poems to express their feelings.
Just came a little emotion, the face of the mountain cranny but immediately attracted the attention of Zhang Guozhong.
Originally in Zhang Guozhong feel that even if he has an ancient map, it is impossible to find the location of the nine platforms, because these mountains in his eyes are the same, but at the moment Zhang Guozhong pulled out the old Liu head according to the ancient map copied the map of the mountain a pair of the mountain cranny is nine platforms in the "Star Sucking Platform".
"Are you sure you've read it correctly?" Qin Ge was skeptical of Zhang Guozhong's ability to read maps.
"Look, two mountains over here, there is an opening in the middle, this is called the Falling Sucking Cliff in the Cebu Sect, the Cebu Sect believes that this landform is made by the impact of the falling stars in the sky, and in the Formation Technique of the Zongge Sect, this Falling Sucking Cliff is a channel for the flow of yin and yang between the mountains, and the map labeled it the same way, you see..." Zhang Guozhong pointed at the mountain exclusion on the map, Qin Ge and Old Liu Tou both came up. "This place... even if it's not Star Sucking Terrace, it should be the place where Li Erzhuang landed on the path... the Yin Qi of several mountains is silent in this mountain exclusion... from the top of the mountain, this is the only place where something might be buried!"
In fact, Qin Ge has never been here, only heard his father described it, Zhang Guozhong said so, he also believed, three people together towards the top of the mountain to climb, at this time Zhang Guozhong suddenly reacted, the heart began to curse, these two old lazy donkeys, as early as with me to go up to the present are here, causing me to climb twice, heck...
"That's right, it seems we don't need to go to Yuanba..." On the top of the mountain, Qin Ge used binoculars to look at the mountain, and took out a small book from his pocket to look at it, to make sure that this is the place marked on the map.
Looking close, climbing up is not close, to the bottom of the mountain exclusion, the sky has already rubbed dark.
"Guozhong ah, the night is too heavy with Yin Qi, we'd better sleep here for the night and do it tomorrow morning!" Old Liu Tou was already panting at the moment.
Zhang Guozhong took out dry food, Qin Ge took out his sleeping bag and set up camp outside the mountain slit.
The three of them agreed to take turns on duty at night to prevent wild beasts and other things.
"Both of you...turn on the safety like this and aim at the target...understand?" Qin Ge took the pistol and showed Zhang Guozhong and the others the usage of the pistol, Old Liu Tou was simply disdainful to the extreme, as soon as he drew the Dragon Scale from Zhang Guozhong's waist, he riveted his strength and threw it out, and with a thud, the Dragon Scale was inserted into a tree trunk, and a large part of the blade was deeply inserted into the tree pole.
"Master Qin, I know guns are powerful, but against certain things, guns ...... are not good...!" Old man Liu said as he walked to the tree pole, and with one hand, he pulled out the dragon scale again with a miso sound. These two even Qin Ge are secretly admired, alone is to pull out the dagger this time the explosive force, less than a few hundred pounds.
Three people discussed, Qin Ge value of the first half of the night, Zhang Guozhong and the old Liu head value of the second half of the night, Qin Ge on duty when the sleeping bag is given to the old Liu head with.
Just when Zhang Guozhong was sleeping soundly, he was suddenly awakened by a crisp gunshot, "What's wrong!?" Zhang Guozhong's first reaction was to draw out the dragon scale dagger in his waist and rolled over to stand up.
"Hush..." the gun in Qin Ge's hand was still smoking, and with a flashlight, he furtively signaled Zhang Guozhong not to speak.
"What?" Old Liu Tou also woke up, and took half a day's effort to get out of his sleeping bag.
"I saw him..." whispered Qin Ge.
"Saw who?" Zhang Guozhong asked in a low voice.
"That crazy man... "Qin Ge shone his flashlight, and suddenly the bushes shook.
"Don't shoot!" Zhang Guozhong held the gun in Qin Ge's hand with his hand, "I'll go take a look."
Zhang Guozhong took out another flashlight from his bag, holding the Dragon Scale tightly in one hand, and slowly walked over towards the bushes.
"Guozhong! Wait for me!" Old Liu Tou took out his compass and shone it with the flashlight, the compass pointer didn't react at all. (The compass is actually a special kind of magnetic needle, the root compass is almost the same, but much more sensitive than an ordinary compass, reacting to both biomagnetic fields and static electromagnetic fields, but the amplitude is very subtle.)
"There's no reaction..." old Liu head looked down at the compass, "Are you looking at it wrong?" Old Liu Tou turned back and asked Qin Ge.
This time he turned back, the disk in Old Liu Tou's hand almost threw out, a silhouette stood behind Qin Ge, you could tell from the size, Li Er Zhuang!
"Behind Master Qin!" Old Liu Tou shouted, Qin Ge was shocked in his heart, he didn't even look, a forward roll immediately turned back, only to see Li Erzhuang pouncing towards himself with a wail.
Qin Ge can not be as merciful as Zhang Guozhong, shining Li Erzhuang even fired several shots, but the gun hit on Li Erzhuang chest seems to be the same as hitting on the cotton condom, no effect at all, Qin Ge's hand also trembled, this is the first time in his life he was really afraid, because this thing in front of him is really too evil.
In Li Erzhuang from Qin Ge is still missing at most 1 meter away, a cold light straight to Li Erzhuang's chest, this Li Erzhuang's reaction speed is simply faster than ordinary people do not know how many times, stabbing a dodge, flying knife grazed his ribs, but this knife seems to hurt him, only to see Li Erzhuang is another scream, fast to the direction of the mountain exempted from the direction of the disappeared in the darkness.
Zhang Guozhong quickly ran over, at this time, Qin Ge still maintains the posture of shooting just now, the hand holding the gun slightly trembling.
"I shot him at least 4 times..." the tone of Qin Ge's voice had completely changed. At this moment, Qin Ge's skepticism towards supernatural things had completely fallen apart like Zhang Guozhong did back then.
"What now?" Old Liu Tou ran over with a compass as well, "We can't sleep, this madman is dangerous for us." Qin Ge wiped his sweat.
At this moment, Zhang Guozhong was also in a difficult situation, now it seemed that the possibility of capturing Li Erzhuang alive was slim to none.
The three people just kept their eyes open until dawn. Although it is summer, but the mountain night is still cool to death, and did not sleep, early in the morning, the three people decided by Zhang Guozhong duty, the two old people first sleep a while, ready to wait until noon when the yang qi is the most prosperous into the mountain.
Although it is noon, but the mountain exclusion is still cloudy as hell. Three people as if special forces, Zhang Guozhong holding the dragon scale in the front, the old Liu head with a compass in the center, Qin Ge raised his gun in the back, slowly marching in the mountain openings.
"Stop!" When the mountain is getting narrower and narrower, almost to the end, Lao Liu Tou shouted, the three people stopped, only to see the compass pointer in Lao Liu Tou's hand slightly trembling.
Old Liu head slowly toward the cliff on the left side of the mountain openings, the closer *, the needle shaking more powerful. Walking towards the bottom of the cliff, Lao Liu Tou raised his head and looked up, in the crag about ten meters from the ground there was a crack, probably less than a meter wide.
"This is it!" Said Old Liu Tou, putting his compass into the bag behind him, was the first to climb up the cliff.
Said the cliff, that is for the angle, the cliff is overgrown with weeds, there are plenty of places to grab hands and feet, with the three people's hands, quickly climbed to the crack, Qin Ge took out his flashlight, and shone it inside, the crack is not deep, the three people climbed into the crack, and sure enough, there is a one meter square hollow, surprisingly there is a staircase.
Three people open the flashlight, all the guys are clenched tightly, at this moment is not compared to the field, in case Li Erzhuang scurried out from here, run are no place to run.
Stone steps down to repair ten or so meters, leading into a natural cave, a darkness in front, with a flashlight, the light column disappeared in the endless darkness, the top of the head non-stop water droplets dripping down.
"Don't enter!" Old Liu Tou waved his hand, the three of them stopped at the mouth of the steps, only to see Old Liu Tou took out the small yellow flag from his bag and inserted it on the ground, and then he touched seven copper coins from his bosom, pierced his finger with a needle, rubbed blood on the copper coins, and arranged a strange pattern around the yellow flag.
When Old Liu Tou's seven copper coins just landed on the ground, only to see the pole of the yellow flag clicked and folded into two, Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu Tou's beads of sweat fell off at the same time.
"What's wrong?" Qin Ge did not pay attention to the cold sweat on Zhang Guozhong's forehead, but concentrated on this folded yellow flag pole, instead, he found it very interesting, since he started to gradually believe in supernatural phenomena, this is the first time that he saw Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu head artificially creating supernatural phenomena, and thought that this flag pole was wiped out something once it was broken.
"Qin...Master Qin...this hole...can't be entered..." old Liu Tou stuttered, barely able to speak even a full sentence.
"Why?" Qin Ge thought Old Liu Tou was joking.
"We'll explain it to you later, now go!" Zhang Guozhong said while helping Old Liu Tou to collect half of the yellow flag and the copper coins on the ground, the movement was as wretched as when the Kuomintang escaped, and he turned his head to go out of the cave.
"Sect Master Zhang, the joke is too big, isn't it?" Qin Ge realized that Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu Tou did not look like they were joking.
At this moment, Zhang Guozhong and Old Liu Tou had already packed their things into their bags and turned their heads towards the top of the steps.
Grandparents and grandchildren's efforts for three generations, and now he finally stepped into this legendary treasure of the Later Jin Dynasty, only one step away from the dream of the He Shi Bi He Guo Xi, the answer to China's greatest ancient mystery, right in front of his eyes, how can he back down?
Thinking of this, although last night's fear of a scene oil in the heart, but Qin Ge still clenched his teeth, drew his pistol, a step into the cave.
Zhang Guozhong and Lao Liu head up half of the steps, feel wrong, look back, Qin Ge is gone.
"Alas! This person!" Zhang Guozhong was helpless and turned his head back.
Old Liu knew Zhang Guozhong's temper as a person, and when it came down to it, he also followed down with a stiff upper lip.
"Mr. Qin!!!" Zhang Guozhong riveted himself to the cave entrance with a loud roar, the cave was dark and rumbling, there was no echo.
"Master Qin! Master Qin! Ouch my dear grandfather...!" Old Liu Tou was so anxious that he stomped his feet, neither retreating nor entering. According to reason, Qin Ge should be playing the flashlight, and according to the time calculation, at most out of a dozen meters, but at the moment the hole is dark, not half a bit of bright light.
Zhang Guozhong drew out his dragon scale with a searching sound, "Senior brother, wait for me out of the cave, I'll go in and look for him!"
"Guozhong! You... ugh!" Old Liu Tou slapped his thigh, helplessly copied the folding shovel, hit the flashlight, and walked into the darkness with Zhang Guozhong with fear and trepidation.
