Chapter 40: Evil Shadow in Human Skin
Follow the flashlight to see, only to see a palm tightly gouge in the pillar of the pagoda, the back is connected to half of the small arm, there is a section of grey pulling the sleeve on the ground, the back of the small arm is not connected to the body, although it is already a white bone, but from the degree of decay and the color of the bones to analyze, the time is obviously not as long as the Hou Jin. Zhang Guozhong squatted down and took a closer look at the break of the small arm bone, like it was cut by a sharp weapon at once, a bloody scene immediately surfaced in front of Zhang Guozhong's eyes, a half-dead person was being dragged down the stone steps behind the pagoda, and when he arrived at the pagoda he still didn't forget to grab the pagoda's pillar with his hand, but he was chopped by the person who was dragging him with a knife and cut off his arm that was grasping the pillar.
"Senior brother, whose arm do you think this is?" Zhang Guozhong was furious, he wanted to ask "is it the arm of a grave robber", but ended up asking "whose arm is it".
"I'm not from the Public Security Bureau..." said Mr. Liu, squatting down, "Strange, it doesn't look like it was cut by a Qing Dynasty sword..."
"Mr. Liu, I don't understand what you mean..." said Qin Ge, "Is there an age for the knife cut?"
"Look, the breaks in the bones are flush..." old Liu Tou was well versed in famous weapons and sharp blades, to him, this bit of common sense seemed like nothing. (China's sword casting technology and some other stunts, the later the era, the more lost stunts, the real history of the blade, after the Tang Dynasty, never appeared, before the Tang Dynasty, China's smelting technology even modern people are impressed, the Yue Wang Goujian's personal sword after more than 2,000 years is still sharp, the surface of the chromium salt oxidation technology, was used in Germany, the "chrome salt oxidation" technology, is the first time to make the sword. The "chromium salt oxidation" technology used on the surface of the sword is a modern antioxidant technology invented by Germany in 1937 and the United States in 1950. But such sword casting technology in the Tang Dynasty will be gradually lost, Tang after the sword, from the smelting technology, antioxidant, toughness, metal strength and many other aspects are poorly, chopping the human bone, at best, "split" broken or "smashed" broken, broken bones at the touch up! Is very uneven, some "miscellaneous edge" even to repeatedly cut several times, just like the pork stall boss with a cleaver repeatedly chopping pig bones, and this half of the broken bone in front of me, the fault is neat, there is no unevenness, is obviously a treasure blade cut off at once.)
Qin Ge touched the cross-section of the broken bone with his hand, and then looked at the blackened stone steps, and his face was a shade of iron. "Killing each other?" Qin Ge remembered the two Ming Dynasty corpses at the Star Sucking Platform.
"It's not self-murder, but a deliberate sneak attack." Zhang Guozhong said, "If one is caught in the path, it is absolutely impossible to know how to chop off hands. (People who are mad after being charged with a body have no reason at all, only tremendous strength, even when they can't pull, they don't have the consciousness to cut their hands with a knife, at most, they just pull hard one after another)"
Old Liu head also nodded, think this is indeed a deliberate sneak attack, from the reasoning, that Shi Jing瑭于情于理理也不应该在阵眼上弄什么花里胡理的东西了，那九个镇台已经够狠了，如果弄的再复杂，自己取财宝也麻烦，看来这有可能是清朝的墓盗贼为了独吞财宝而偷袭同伙所致。
Although according to the reasoning should not be dangerous, but the old Liu head still stood up, toward the Qin Ge made a "please" posture, implying that let him first down. Qin Ge did not hesitate, drew out the pig knife, flashlight, without saying a word down the stone steps.
About forty or fifty meters down the way, the end of the stone steps open up, is a huge stone room, is still a half artificial half natural cave, the floor is covered with square tiles, but the four walls do not seem to be how to deal with, only for the natural rock wall.
Not two steps forward, Qin Ge suddenly stopped, squatted down, and slowly raised his head again, using the flashlight to shine around.
"Master Qin, the shoelace is loose?" Old Liu Tou seemed to be fighting Qin Ge to the end.
"Sect Leader Zhang... do you guys really think... that the broken hand just now... wasn't the work of a god or ghost...?" Qin Ge's tone was a bit shaky, but he was still forcing his composure.
"What...?" Old Liu head quickly stepped forward, only to see a corpse on the ground has become white bones, but what makes the heart tremble is that the bones have been cut into several sections by knives, each knife cuts the entire body flush, the interval is long and short, exactly, it simply looks like a group of people hacked to death indiscriminately.
"Damn, even if there is a deep hatred of extermination, there is no need to report here ah..." Zhang Guozhong carefully looked at the white bones, murmured, at this moment, old Liu took out the compass, pointer does not have any reaction, "Guozhong ah, we do not scare ourselves, it is not possible to be chopped up The master suddenly went crazy..." Old Liu Tou made a wild guess.
"Then why did he suddenly go crazy?" Qin Ge really got to the bottom of it.
"I don't know why he went crazy!" Old Liu Tou also got impatient.
At this moment, Zhang Guozhong stood up, a person slowly walked to the side, the visibility of this big cave is not very good, is also foggy, but than the beginning of the Star Sucking Terrace to be a lot stronger, with this American flashlight, the visibility is about a dozen meters.
Zhang Guozhong a go, the old Liu head and Qin Ge also followed up, this hole can be too big than the previous to the Zhentai hole, walk along the cave wall less than say thirty meters, flashlight light suddenly a layer of boxes.
Walked to the front of the box, Zhang Guozhong carefully check the box, did not find any organs connected, pulled out the Qin Ge's pistol, bang a shot to break the serious corrosion of the chain, a foot kicked open the box cover, through the flashlight, the three immediately stunned, the box is placed in the box is a whole box of gold bricks.
Old Liu could not help but take a piece, weighed it, there are ten pounds, the creases on his face immediately smiled into a slit again. "Guozhong ah...look at this..." said the gold brick into his pocket. Zhang Guozhong is not a saint, couldn't help but take a piece as well, put it in his hand and weighed it, well, building two Tongtian Guan are affluent...
Qin Ge is not interested in gold, but by himself along the rows and rows of boxes continue to walk, from time to time with a flashlight around the light, his goal is not gold bricks, but that piece of national treasure seal. Walking along, Qin Ge's flashlight light suddenly fixed on a human-shaped black shadow, which startled Qin Ge as well, "Who!?" Qin Ge let out a shout and took four or five steps back, his whole body instantly broke out in a layer of cold sweat.
Loaded two gold bricks, the old Liu head also worried, she mother of this thing is too heavy, with their own body this rag pocket, just loaded two has been fast pocket can not, think or now the convenience of the banknote, is at this time, suddenly heard the Qin Ge shouting, the old Liu head also startled, do not care about loading the gold bricks, busy pulling out the compass, only to see the compass pointer drastically swayed non-stop, and from time to time, a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle of a circle, as if Before the plane crashed, the old Liu head of so many years have not seen the compass so turned, scared immediately threw the hand of the third gold brick, a dagger drawn, yelling Zhang Guozhong's name, "Guozhong! There is a situation! Quickly don't take it!"
Hearing the shout, Zhang Guozhong had already arrived next to Qin Ge, shining his flashlight on the silhouette in front of him, as if nothing was moving.
"What the hell...?" Zhang Guozhong's brain also broke out in a layer of sweat.
"Guozong, be more careful, this hole is too evil...!" At this moment, Old Liu Tou also rushed up, and when he shone his flashlight around, his soul almost flew away.
"What the hell...?" Only to see the old Liu head flashlight to the place, appeared a lot of the same silhouette.
People have fear, this old Liu head and Zhang Guozhong know more about their own catty, Maoshan art to today, the lost things more than what is passed down, extinct material more than the material to find, past generations of Maoshan masters, planted in the hands of unusual evil spirits and animals and more than one person, not to mention that he is now located in the future of this Jin dumped the efforts of the country to build a treasure cave, with their own two, can be safe to the Now already counted life.
Three people are each body was old Liu head pasted live talisman, * back and stand, with a flashlight on the opposite side of the shadow, only to see the shadow as if slowly approaching, in the flashlight, as if with the kite like a thin layer, and two feet hanging in the air.
"Sect Leader Zhang...what is this thing?" Qin Ge's head was sweating, clamped the flashlight under his armpit, and drew his pistol with a rubbing sound, even though he said that he knew that this thing was not good, but as a modern man, a gun in his hand was after all more assured than a pig-killing knife.
"Seems to be the Eight Immortals Bureau..." Zhang Guozhong replied, this is still broken Zhao Le that "Three Deadly Bureaus" when Ma Zhenren explains the descending art of the curtain bureau mentioned, in addition to the "Many Deadly Bureaus", the descending art also has a number of other ways of doing things. "In addition to the" many fury bureau ", descending art there is also a special use in the" cave tomb "evil curtain bureau called" eight immortals bureau ", also known as" meat skin bureau ", as the name implies, is to use the human skin to descend the curtain bureau, cloth method As the name suggests, is the use of human skin down the curtain, cloth is in the Qian, Kun, Zhen, Sundance, Kan, Li, Burgundy, Tui eight directions each set a whole human skin, if there is a tomb trespassers, will be inexplicably these sets of human skin on the body, if there are accomplices, to see their own companions were suddenly set on a layer of human skin into another person, I do not know will be scared to what kind of. Although the "Eight Immortals Bureau" is only a legend, but this kind of tomb bureau's function is certainly not just as simple as scaring people.
"Isn't that...something from the Surrender Cult...?" Old Liu has also heard of the "Eight Immortals Bureau", but the thinking of the elderly is always more conservative, descending magic is something out of the end of the Song Dynasty, and here is the treasure of the Later Jin Dynasty, the difference is nearly a thousand years, so I did not think that way. Although he couldn't be sure if it was a descending art or not, he didn't have much in his heart, but from the wild swinging of the compass pointer, the thing he encountered this time was more powerful than ever before, and it could even be said that it wasn't in the same order of magnitude.
"Calm... must be calm..." Zhang Guozhong kept reminding himself, this was the way of danger that his master had always taught him, there was a way to crack anything, and thinking calmly was the only way out of a crisis.
"First we need to figure out how big this hole is!" Zhang Guozhong gritted his teeth and said, although the late Song descending magic appeared in the treasure of the latter Jin Dynasty is difficult to explain, but at the moment these several imitation floating human skin shadow, can only be temporarily according to the "Eight Immortals Bureau" to deal with, if this is really the "Eight Immortals Bureau", want to find the "heart of the Bureau", and the "heart of the Bureau". If this is really the "Eight Immortals Bureau", in order to find the "heart of the Bureau", we must understand the shape and size of the tomb.
Hear Zhang Guozhong so, Qin Ge immediately from the bag pulled out a strange "tube gun", a burst of rush work, according to the opposite side of the "pounce", a flare immediately half of the cavern will shine brightly, at this time, Qin Ge according to the diagonal in front of another shot, to say that the flare is powerful, at this moment, the three are not the same, the flare is powerful. Flare is awesome, at the moment the three military hand power down, at most can only shine out ten meters, but the two flares out, the layout of the entire cave in front of the eyes of the three, the original hole is not the three blind men like guessing the square, but a similar to the shape of the cat's paw irregular graphics, at the moment the three are standing in the "cat's paw" side, the front of the cave, the three are not the same, the three are not the same, the three are not the same. "side of the cat's paw, look forward, not out of thirty meters, layers and layers of boxes, must be gold bricks, not hundreds of tons also have a few dozen tons. In the "cat's paw" in the middle finger part, there is a black square doorway, must be the "entrance".
Some people say that money can make people forget about death, Lao Liu Tou is a typical example. At this time the old Liu head, attention has long been transferred from the surrounding figures on the see so much "gold box", first a burst of excitement, and then a burst of depression, in their own imagination, the treasure cave should be full of antiques and paintings pearl emerald, but now it seems to be really should be "the world of antiques in chaos! Gold" this sentence, if these boxes are gold, they can take away one or two pieces of even good, alas ...... keep the gold mountain cry it ...
At this time, Qin Ge, attention from the silhouette transferred to the treasure cave around, hoping to borrow the flare to find a possible place to put the seal of state. Only Zhang Guozhong carved the approximate shape of the hole on the ground with his dagger as fast as he could, after taking a close look and measuring a few times with his fingers, Zhang Guozhong tugged at Old Liu Tou's corner of his coat in a cold sweat, "Elder brother... look at this terrain..."
As he was talking, Qin Ge suddenly noticed a stone platform in the center of the treasure cave with a jade box on it.
"Sect Master Zhang! What is that?" Qin Ge pointed at the stone platform.
As soon as Qin Ge spoke, Zhang Guozhong didn't look at the stone platform, instead, he remembered the silhouettes just now and jerked his head up, looking around. Strange to say, the flare illuminated the treasure cave, a few silhouettes had unconsciously disappeared, a few seconds of distraction, when the three of them looked for those silhouettes again, they had already disappeared.
