Chapter 175
Chapter 175
Shirley Yang mustered up the courage to take the human skin map in her hands and study it.
Although this human skin map is old, the location of King Xian's tomb is still clear.
The terrain of the entire Worm Valley is also summarized in it.
This is a tributary of the Canglan River called the Snake River. The shape of the river is winding, like a big python penetrating it and bypassing the Great Snow Mountain.
This snow mountain is called Ai Teng by the locals. The map is marked as Zhalong Mountain. Judging from the height marked on the map, the highest point has an altitude of 3,300 meters.
Although the Snake River is not as turbulent as the Yellow River, it also stretches through the mountains and forms a very low valley.
The terrain is too low, which means that this place is shrouded in water mist all day long, and it is full of wetlands, which nourishes all kinds of snakes, insects, rats and ants.
This is what the locals call the Worm Valley.
In the Insect Valley, due to the low terrain, living here for a long time is prone to rheumatism, and there are too many poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, so it is rarely visited by people and has become a paradise for animals.
After passing Zhalong Mountain, there is a wonderful scenery in front. You can see groups of colorful butterflies everywhere. The middle section of the road is full of blank white circles. Shirley Yang thought it was a cliff, but Chen Yulou said it was a poisonous miasma as white as thick smoke. No one can say when it will cover everyone. It is only known that this poisonous miasma will not dissipate all year round. Ordinary people will foam at the mouth after inhaling the poisonous miasma and will die within five minutes.
Chen Yulou's eyes were broken in this poisonous miasma. If he had not been discovered in time by the people on Zhalong Mountain and his eyeballs and the surrounding blood vessels were dug out, he would not have the opportunity to listen to this legend in the Insect Valley here.
This poisonous miasma surrounds the tomb of King Xian, as if it is a barrier set by King Xian here, allowing him to lie in this paradise forever, never disturbed by outsiders.
When Chen Yulou was recuperating in Zhalong Mountain, he heard the natives of Zhalong Mountain talking about this poisonous miasma, saying that it was a demon cloud. Unless there was a storm and the demon cloud was temporarily blown away, no one could enter.
The map shows that further down, there is a huge waterfall, which is the water dragon mentioned in Feng Shui. If you want to enter the tomb of King Xian, the only entrance is at the dragon eye of this water dragon.
At this point, the guidance about the tomb of King Xian ends.
Shirley Yang turned over the human skin map, and there were several lines of incomprehensible text at the back. It seems that it is the unique text of the ancient Dian Kingdom.
The writing of the ancient Dian Kingdom was extremely complicated. Just a glance at it gave Shirley Yang a headache. She asked quickly, "Grandpa Chen, do you know what is written on the back of this human skin map?"
Chen Yulou shook his head: "When I got this human skin map, I was also very curious like you. I also specially found dozens of people who claimed to be knowledgeable to help me translate it. It turned out that they were all a bunch of idiots. In order to get my reward, they all made up nonsense. I still don’t know what the text behind it says!"
Hu Bayi took the human skin map and was really distressed: "There are too few written records of the ancient Dian Kingdom. Few people have studied it. It may be a bit difficult to crack it."
As soon as the voice fell, Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang's eyes suddenly lit up, and they both looked at Huo Jilin who was eating preserved vegetable braised pork.
Shirley Yang picked up the human skin map with both hands and handed it to Huo Jilin: "Mr. Huo, would you like to take a look?"
Hu Bayi's eyes were full of expectation: "Brother Huo, if even you don't recognize this text, I'm afraid we will never know what is written on it."
Huo Jilin put down the pork with preserved vegetables, and the next second, the last piece of pork with preserved vegetables was taken away by Chen Yulou with a chopstick.
This operation was smooth and flowing, and Huo Jilin looked at Chen Yulou in confusion: "Excuse me, are you really blind?"
Chen Yulou swallowed the piece of meat with satisfaction and smacked his lips: "Why, do you want me to take off my sunglasses to show you?"
Shirley Yang quickly asked the waiter to serve another plate of pork with preserved vegetables, and then the human skin map: "Mr. Huo, please take a look at what is written on it first."
Chen Yulou also pricked up his ears.
Huo Jilin took the human skin map and read it twice:
"It says here that this entrance was chosen by the great wizard under King Xian based on the weather and terrain, and it is called "Water Dragon Halo"."
"The water vapor at the entrance forms a faint and moist ring. This ring is visible at a glance, but invisible at a closer look. It is the place where the vitality condenses and the spiritual light appears."
"If you bury people here, the vitality will not leak, the body will not rot, the water ants will not invade, and the mountain torrents will not collapse. The most amazing thing is that there are poisonous snakes, poisonous insects, poisonous plants and trees outside, as well as a piece of poisonous miasma, so it will never be robbed by anyone."
After hearing what Huo Jilin said, Chen Yulou's face changed, and he collapsed on the stool, muttering: "It's all my fault. I was obsessed with greed at the beginning.You wanted this fortune, so you made hundreds of my brothers in Xiling suffer!"
Hu Bayi thought for a while: "Maybe you didn't have the necessary equipment, such as gas masks? I think, as long as you prepare the gas masks, you won't be afraid of these things after you go in."
Chen Yulou smiled bitterly: "If it's really as simple as you think, I couldn't get through this poisonous miasma. No one knows what strange things are inside."
Huo Jilin put down the human skin mask: "Don't worry, we will know soon."
Shirley Yang's eyes turned: "Since this King Xian doesn't want others to find him, why did he leave such a map? It won't be used to confuse people and cheat the lives of the world's tomb raiders, right?"
Hu Bayi felt terrified at the thought: "Shirley Yang is right, he buried himself in such a place that no one can reach, why did he leave such a clear map? "
Chen Yulou's face was very ugly: "I found this map in the coffin of the King of Dian. Logically speaking, the King of Dian and the King of Xian had a bad relationship. Why would he want to leave a false map of the King of Xian's tomb after his death?"
Just when the three were puzzled, Huo Jilin slowly spoke:
"What's so strange about this? He himself doesn't want to return to the ancient Dian Kingdom, but it doesn't mean that others don't want to."
"These traitors want to return to their own country. Can they go back with just a little talk? That is definitely impossible. The King of Dian is not a fool."
"If there is nothing he can't show, the King of Dian will not let them come back."
"Gold, silver and treasures, the King of Dian will definitely not look down on them, so what else do they have?"
"In addition to drawing this map of the King of Xian's tomb and paying tribute to the King of Dian, they have no other choice."
After listening to Huo Jilin's words, the three of them all looked enlightened.
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