Appear in a panic

We had almost gotten ourselves into trouble earlier, so we were much more careful this time around.

It didn't take long to follow the footprints, but a small cave with a very short opening appeared ahead of us, and the footprints eventually disappeared outside the opening.

The cave was not even one metre four high, so an adult would have to bend over to get inside.

"Come on, let's go in and have a look," Hong said as she looked at the cave entrance.

Researcher An probably had claustrophobic symptoms and she looked scared. I reassured her not to think too much about it, maybe there was nothing in there, just a small cave, no need to be afraid.

"Watch your head, be careful of touching your head," Hong admonished us from time to time to be careful.

The cave was about 40 to 50 metres long, and we could already straighten up when we reached the end.

As we looked around, there were burnt out twigs and charcoal on the floor and some small, crude stone jars. There was also a lot of hay piled up in the corner, which looked like it was used for sleeping.

I gulped, "How come animals still make fires and cook? Sister Hong, look at these stone tools on the ground, is this a golem returning to its ancestors and becoming a caveman?"

"No," Sister Hong said as she raised her eyes and looked around herself, "this is clearly a trace of human life, I don't think those things would have mastered these living skills, it doesn't make sense."

"People? Where are the people?" The place was this big, so I rummaged through the haystacks to see if there was anyone hiding underneath.

I didn't find anyone, but I did make a big discovery, I found an army green backpack hidden under the haystack!

"Look! Look! Something's been found! I knew something was up!" I was busy putting the pack on the ground and opening it up to see what was hidden inside.

After going through all the compartments of the pack, we found quite a few things.

There was a dagger, a torch, a couple of well-packaged bags of compressed dry food, a length of cut rope and a small box of gauze. This is enough to show that there was someone living in this cave before, and it certainly wasn't our current group, nor should it be Chen Jiansheng's group, the small skeleton head.

Then ..... Who is this?

"Shhh ....." Just then, Sister Hong suddenly pointed at the cave entrance and whispered, "Listen carefully, there are footsteps, someone is coming in."

Listening carefully, I heard footsteps getting closer and closer. I picked up a stone from the ground and clutched it in my hand as a weapon, thinking that if Chen Jiansheng's group caught up with me, I would have to strike first.

Soon, a figure came in at the entrance of the cave, and I was about to raise the stone and smash it against the man's head when he suddenly looked up and I met him eye to eye.

"How come it's you!"

"Why are you here!"

I knew this face, or it was too familiar to be familiar.

This person turned out to be Yao Yumen, whom I hadn't seen for months!

She stared at us blankly, obviously not expecting us to suddenly appear here either, and both sides just looked at each other for two or three minutes.

Yao Yumen pointed at the stone I was clutching and suddenly laughed out loud, "What, Xiang Yunfeng, you want to smash me to death after not seeing me for months?"

I was so shocked that I threw away the stone in my hand and ran over to her, "Sister Yu! What's going on! Why are you here all of a sudden? Didn't you leave Shunde long ago? Where is this and what the hell is going on!"

Sister Hong slowed down and nodded at Yao Yumen as a greeting. Only Fellow An stood where he was looking at a loss for words.

"Sit," Yao Yumen gestured to the haystack.

After a few people sat down, she looked at me and said, "It's a long story, and to be honest I was surprised, I didn't expect to run into a few of you here, where are the Sun brothers and did anything happen to them."

My eyes darkened and I sighed, "Big brother and third brother were captured, I don't know where they are being held now, and second brother doesn't know if he is dead or alive now."

Yao Yumen shook his head, "I advised you guys at first but you didn't listen, you can't blame anyone else now, it was in the plan for us to reveal ourselves only after a few days, but I didn't expect you guys to find out by mistake."

"We ... Sister Yu, what do you mean?"

At these words, Sister Hong looked at Yao Yumen, she thought for a moment and spoke softly; "I didn't expect ..... that it would be like this."

I was anxious because I couldn't understand what they were playing at.

Sister Hong looked at me and shook her head and said, "Yunfeng, haven't you seen it by now, this matter, in fact, we have been kept in the dark from the beginning. The funny thing is that we are still pretending to be mysterious and hiding it from the head of the handle, hey ....."

"Put .... Put the head!"

"The head of the handle is here too! How can that be!"

Yao Yumen told me not to get so excited, she briefly told what happened, but it took me a while to get over it. I didn't even know what to say about this.

It turned out that when the Sun brothers and I had conspired to plan to sneak into the underground palace under Moth Mountain to find my second brother, we had deliberately kept the whole thing from him, including buying equipment, water fields, calves and so on, because the head of the family did not approve. At that time we lied to the head that we would go to Dongguan to play, and we always thought that the head had left Shunde long ago to go back to Bei|jing.

It was only at this moment when we met Yao Yumen by mistake that we learned the truth, it turned out that from the very beginning, put the head did not leave Shunde, we did all this under his nose, he knew everything ...

"Sister Jade, then why didn't you advise us in the first place, and also, why was this matter hidden from us?" After thinking about it, I asked anyway.

"Persuaded? Oh," she looked at me and laughed, "Did I not persuade you guys in the first place? The question is, did you listen?"

I muttered; "That's you, put the head himself why did you pretend not to know, if he had said it himself, me and big brother and the others would have listened."

"No, Yunfeng you misunderstood Puttou, the whole thing is very complicated behind the scenes, Wang Puttou has his own concerns, in fact from the time I saw those dead bones, Puttou predicted that you would definitely go down to the tomb and open the underground palace, he knows the nature of the Sun brothers, the plan that Wang Puttou and I agreed on actually started from that day."

Sister Hong took a deep breath as she looked at Yao Yumen and said, "Now it's not just the North-South dispute, but the Changchun Association's small locks are also involved, and some pharmaceutical groups in Hong Kong are also involved, do you and Shou Tou know about this?"

"Heh," Yao Yumen stroked his bangs on his forehead and sneered, "This is the mezzanine of the underground palace, I've been living here for three or four months, what don't I know?"

My eyes glared, "Three or four months! So there are other entrances to get in besides that dungeon stone door! Sister Jade you said this place was actually the underground palace mezzanine, so how did you know about the gang's news?"

"Naturally, I have helpers to spy for me." After saying that, she suddenly snapped her fingers.

A few minutes later, two small, short men with straw hats burrowed in from outside the cave. As soon as they saw Yao Yumen, they began to squeak and bark incessantly.

Yao Yumen pointed ahead and said, "I have named them, the male on the left is called Dalang and the female on the right is called Xiao Cui."

As he said this, the mandrill called Dalang took off its straw hat. It had a long face with yellow and black fur, a red nose and two strands of white hair on either side of its snout.

At this point, it kept pouting at me, looking like it wanted to come up and kiss me.

Seeing my unhappy face, Yao Yumen smiled and reassured me, "You don't need to be afraid, they have been tamed and will not normally attack people."

I took two steps back sarcastically, "What's going on Sister Jade, you still know this kind of skill."

"No, you misunderstood, when I said they were tamed, I didn't say I had tamed them, I don't have that skill."

"Then who was it?" I asked curiously.M.

The smile on her face narrowed as she looked at me and said, "This person is not here right now, but we should see him soon, Chen Hong, you should have heard of this person Qi Liu in the Dao, right?"

Hong thought for a moment and said, "I haven't seen him, but I have heard of him, Qi Liu's sign of monkey juggling was very famous in Tianjin Wei back then, and rumours in the jianghu said that this man was very good at taming animals, and was said to have a set of methods he had passed down from his ancestors."

"That's right," Yao Yumen nodded, "in fact something like a mandrill is the king of the mountain, these beasts have a high IQ, once they get angry they are brutal in character, in the mountains even tigers and leopards are afraid of it, in order to tame them even the descendants of the Qi Liu family have seen blood. "

This thing I believe, although this thing looks not big and monkey similar, but the character of brutality is a fact, and has the habit of sharing the same kind of food, may not be able to eat people.

Sister Hong frowned at this point and asked, "Where is the head of the handle, where is the head of the handle now?"

I could hear a hint of gunpowder in Sister Hong's words, and I remembered that the little skeleton head had said earlier that he was keeping us to catch a big fish, to catch the person behind us.

I guessed that he knew that there were people behind us, but with Moth Mountain so far down, he didn't know if they had come down and where they were hiding.

Both the Head Handler and the Head Locker had been in the jungle for half their lives, and the Head Locker was a member of the Changchun Society, surrounded by expert and strange men. I guessed that the purpose of the Head Handler hiding so much was to win in the dark.

In fact it was these two playing chess, a game within a game, and although I didn't want to admit it, Sister Hong and I, along with the Sun brothers, were all being manipulated as pawns.

The little skeleton head didn't know what other tricks he had up his sleeve, and when I thought about what had happened over the past few months, I couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness in my heart, because, compared to these people, I was still too young.

These people have a wide range of contacts in the jianghu world, and they play games with each other, both explicitly and implicitly, and until the moment they finally meet and reveal their cards, no one knows who will win or lose.

In the end, the people involved in the tomb of the mustard marquis are still fighting for their own strength and connections in the jianghu.

By the way, thinking of this, I asked Yao Yumen a question about the Marquis of Mustard.

Yao Yumen leaned against the haystack, she squinted her eyes and said, "The one in the golden coffin and silver coffin is not the tomb owner, the Marquis of Mustard, I asked a friend to ask around at the National Museum of History earlier, and this friend of mine found a clue."

"In the Han Dynasty, there was a historian called Ban Chao, who, apart from writing the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, was also very keen on the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and his Book of the Kings of the Zhou mentioned the Husband of Mustard, and Ban Chao mentioned that the Husband of Mustard had a daughter whom he loved very much, but the daughter died prematurely due to a stubborn illness. He reported this to the Emperor of Zhou."

"If what Ban Chao said is true and the Emperor of Zhou agreed to this, then it is easy to see from this that the Marquis of Mustard was of a high status at that time."

"Is it not the tomb owner, the Marquis of Mustard, who is in the golden coffin and silver coffin, is it his youngest daughter who lies inside?" I was stunned to hear this, who was the corpse soaking in that large leather frame, could it be this Lord?

I asked Researcher An, "You said you had seen the corpse bite with your own eyes, was the corpse male or female indistinguishable?"

Researcher An recalled carefully for a moment, and she shook her head fearfully, "I couldn't tell the difference between male and female, I only took one look and didn't dare to look again, I only remember that the corpse had long hair, was not very tall and was puffy and dripping."

At this point, Yao Yumen sighed, took a deep breath and said, "That was the youngest daughter of the Marquis of Mustard, her golden coffin and silver coffin was opened by that group, the Evergreen Association found experts to try to suppress it, I knew something would happen sooner or later, you should also know that this thing, in fact, is the most terrifying."

"Sister Yu, you mean it's a fraudulent corpse?"

"No, it's not a fraudulent corpse, in terms of feng shui, it's a yin nourishing corpse that hasn't been seen for a thousand years, his youngest daughter could turn out like this, I shudder to think what this Mustard Husband has become now, the things we prepared may not even work."

My mind went back to the dream I had that day, in which the man on the bronze bed of the four dragons looked like that, and I got scared just thinking about it.

I asked if what she was preparing was a black donkey's hoof, because I had often heard people say before that you had to use a black donkey's hoof to deal with these things.

Yao Yumen snorted out a laugh, "Black donkey's hooves? Think about it, are there any black donkey's hooves among the feng shui objects handed down from ancient times in the major museums to ward off evil spirits."

"What about it? No, black donkey hooves were only made in large quantities after the Republic of China, as to why they were associated with tomb raiding, I don't know."

"Yin zhi corpses are something from ancient feng shui geomancy, so of course you can't use that kind of stuff. None of us have actually seen this thing, but I've heard my uncle say that once you come across it, it might be useful to use the old corpse-binding ropes and mouth-containing money that have been passed down from the western side of Hunan. It's a matter that involves the nightmare-suppressing technique."

The old corpse-binding rope handed down from the western Hunan region is naturally somewhat related to the Xiangxi corpse drive. It's a regional folklore legend, and is known as one of the four folklore arts, along with the great gods of the northeast, the Miaojiang art of raising parasites, and the southernmost art of descent.

If you go back a little further, you will find that these are all related to the art of nightmare suppression.

The term Nightmare Suppression was first found in the upper book of the Lupin Book, and it is rumoured that the lower book of the Lupin Book records the Art of Aversion to Victory.

Nowadays, the nightmare-suppressing arts may be inaccessible to ordinary people, but the aversion arts are often encountered. For example, the "aversion to victory" technique is often seen in antique markets, such as the "mountain ghost flower money", the posting of door gods at New Year's Eve and the crossing of fire pots at weddings, all of which are in fact inherited from folklore.

The authenticity of the Xiangxi corpse chasing is not to be discussed, as they are now cremated and not used, but in ancient times, the body is the parent of the body, and after death, people are concerned about returning to their roots. The earliest corpses in western Hunan were those of soldiers who died in battle.

The first soldiers were killed in battle and the first were the soldiers who died in battle. I was told by my third brother that there was a trade in the Seven Gates of Yin for corpse chasers.

The corpse-binding rope and mouth-containing money were originally used by corpse-drivers in western Hunan to deal with corpses, and it made sense that Yao Yumen said it would be used to deal with Yinzhi corpses.

Researcher An was now scared silly, and my heart was pounding.

I secretly prayed that these things would work, for if they didn't, then the consequences would be imaginable.

Not only did we have to fight the Changchun Society now, but we might also have to face the legendary Yin Zui corpses.

It seems that putting the head one in caution was the right thing to do.

You can never be too careful.

After packing up briefly, Yao Yumen said she had to leave the area because the little skeleton head's gang would follow her at any moment. She said that it was not the right time to take on the gang.

I asked her what time she was waiting for and why the others hadn't shown up.

Yao Yumen shook her head and said mysteriously, "You'll know when the time comes. Anyway, you all have to be careful, this isn't a game, it's going to kill you."

I was eager to know what the head turner's plan was, but the woman insisted on not saying, and I was too embarrassed to ask repeatedly. At that moment, I followed her to see where she would take us to hide.

The two golems were leading the way, and from time to time the two animals turned back and barked at Yao Yumen, not knowing what they meant.

"Can you understand them?" I asked.

"Don't look at me with that look, I'm a human, not a monkey, how can I understand what these beasts are saying?" Yao Yumen looked ahead and said in a deep voice, "Listen carefully to their cries, three long and one short means it is safe ahead, three long and two short means there is a situation ahead, this is what the descendants of the Qi Liu family told me."

I listened in wonder, in the end it was still a primate, after special training I didn't expect it to have this effect.

I looked ahead into the darkness and asked, "Sister Jade, you should have been here for quite some time, where does this lead to up ahead?"

"It's hard to say. It's a messy walk."

Suddenly, the two golems that were opening the way ahead squeaked and began to shout.

When I listened carefully to the screams, it seemed to be three long and two short ...

Yao Yumen waved his hand, "Be careful, they are warning that there might be danger ahead, this is a mezzanine, no one has found this place before."

"Why don't we take a detour and go somewhere else." Researcher An looked ahead at the darkness and was a little scared.

Sister Hong frowned and said discontentedly, "It's just the screams of two beasts, maybe there's nothing there, the number one taboo of going down to the tomb is to scare yourself." She turned her head and looked coldly at Researcher An, "If you dare to talk nonsense, you won't follow us anymore."

"I ..... I," Researcher An stammered and lowered his head, not daring to look Sister Hong in the eye.

A few people walked on a little further.

"Squeak! Squeak!" At that moment the mandrill with the straw hat shouted frantically, running back and forth, and kept pointing his finger underground.

Yao Yumen shone his torch down and we found something.

It was a molting skin of a snake-like animal.

"This ... Isn't this a four-legged snake, Shilongzi? How can something like this shed its skin? Isn't this a bit too big ..." I bent down and touched it.

Some of the snake skin was exposed on the ground, most of it was still underground covered by silt, I touched it with my hand and felt that the skin was somewhat weathered, it should not have been left here for a short time.

The snake skin is usually only a few dozen centimetres long, and anything longer than half a metre is considered exotic, but judging from the skin in front of me, it is much longer than that, as most of the skin is buried under the mud, so we don't know exactly how big this thing is yet.

Yao Yumen looked around with her torch and she said, "According to the environment, originally there were no shilongzi here in Shunde, and the reason why there is this kind of thing in the underground caverns under Moth Mountain may be related to the original tomb owner, possibly a special group of shilongzi."

"Such things are cold-blooded animals, and cold-blooded animals have underdeveloped brains, no self-awareness, and in addition, because their senses are highly specialised, they can only be used for hunting, not even for identifying static targets, let alone for identification, and cannot be controlled by humans."

"Yes, I agree," I agreed, "Sister Jade, we've seen that enclosed back garden before, this Mustard Hus may have been a hobbyist of rare animals and plants in his lifetime, with a special collecting fetish."

"No! Watch out! Something's going on underground!" Sister Red suddenly shouted.

"Squeak squeak squeak!" The two golems climbed straight up to higher ground by grabbing onto the protruding rocks, and they stared at a certain spot on the ground and yelled frantically.

"Stand back and lean together." Yao Yumen's face was stony as she fished a dagger out of her arms and clutched it tightly in her hand.

"Left!" By the bright light of the torch, I suddenly saw an abnormal bulge under the silt.

Immediately afterwards, a four-legged snake, over two metres in length and covered in yellow-brown, emerged from beneath the mud!

It was lying on the ground, probably less than ten metres apart from us, hissing and spitting its long letters.

Everyone was too frightened to move.

Was this a four-legged snake or a big lizard! This thing could bite a man's head off with one bite!

"Don't even move rashly, this thing can't recognise static objects," Yao Yumen was the calmest of all.

The beast hissed and spat its letters, its body twisting left and right as it crawled towards us, moving awkwardly.

Suddenly! Without warning, An Fellow pulled his legs up and started running backwards!

"Don't run!" Sister Hong shouted, but it was too late.

The beast landed on all fours and immediately flew and crawled after Researcher An in the direction he had fled! It was very fast, far faster than a normal human running!

When Researcher An looked back, her face turned pale with fear. Her feet slipped and she fell straight into the mud puddle.

The four-legged snake bit down on Researcher An's calf and started dragging her along!

"Help! Help! Help me!" She waved her hands haphazardly, looking in pain.

"Bang!"

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!" Four consecutive gunshots rang out.

Yao Yumen had a chilly face as she held a pistol in both hands and opened fire.

The beast immediately let go and An Fellow crawled towards us, crying and shouting, her body now covered in mud and blood pouring from her calves.

I rushed over and dragged her over.

And the beast stumbled and crawled for five or six metres before it stopped moving.

Forced the courage to go over and take a look, I found that the beast was already dead, Yao Yumen just now those four shots, shots to the head ...

Yao Yumen looked calm, like he was not frightened by this sudden turn of events.

"Must have to go now, I was not going to use it, as soon as the gun went off, the gang could definitely hear it, we have exposed our position ....."

"What about her? Can she still leave?" I pointed at Ann Fellow, who was now sitting on the ground, her calf trousers were chewed through, a bloody mess at the wound, and it looked serious.

Sister Hong said angrily, "It's all because of this woman's bad deeds! Otherwise we wouldn't have exposed our position so early, and the Evergreen Society gang must be heading this way now!"

"Let's go!" Sister Hong tugged me by the arm as she walked forward. Yao Yumen didn't say anything either.

We left Researcher An alone .....

From time to time I looked back and saw her sitting on the ground covering her calf, covered in mud, wiping her tears and looking pitiful.

She was wiping her tears and looking up at me, and the look in her eyes, as if she was saying to me, "Save me."

I couldn't bear it, so I looked at Sister Hong and pleaded, "Why don't we take her with us, Sister Hong, she looks so pitiful, we can't just leave her to die."

Sister Hong clenched her teeth and was about to say something.

"Bang!"

A gunshot sounded.

Researcher An fell straight backwards .....

Yao Yumen wiped the barrel of her gun as she said two words as if nothing had happened.

"Let's go."

I looked at the fallen Ann researcher and looked stunned ....

"You're crazy!"

I ran over in stride to take a look. Researcher Ann was not breathing with her eyes wide open and a bullet had hit her right in the eyebrow. She was dead.

I'd hijacked her before to stay alive, but I'd never wanted to actually kill her!

A person who had just been alive was now a cold corpse. I twisted my head around with red eyes and shouted, "Why! We'll be fine without her! Why do we have to shoot her!"

Yao Yumen withdrew his gun, glanced at me lightly and said, "She can't walk anymore, and she heard our plan before, so instead of letting her be taken back to suffer, we should give her a painful death, and also, if you try to save her, you will end up with only one result."

"It will end up dragging us all down."

"You're lucky, you've just joined the business with the king's head, if you'd followed the gang from the south, you'd have had someone bury you in the dirt."

"What? Are you going to stay with this corpse, or are you prepared to continue with us?"

"Let's go Yun Feng." Sister Hong sighed.

I knew she was right, but I just ...

"You guys go first, I'll be right behind you."

"Fine, whatever you want."

"If it's dead, it's dead, Yunfeng you hurry up." The two of them walked straight forward after they finished speaking.

Laying An researcher flat on her back, I covered her eyes with my hand and helped her close them.

"Sorry about that, you guys shouldn't have come to Shunde, hey, you're kind of reunited with Old Xu and Li Jing now, come along and go together." I smoothed out her legs, thinking to make her as decent as possible.

Just then, a small blue glass bottle rolled out of her trouser pocket without breaking and rolled twice before coming to rest at my feet.

Looking at Ann, who had her eyes closed, and somehow a thought came ghosting into my head.

"This ..... Does this work ....."

Unscrewing the cap and leaning it over Researcher Ann's mouth, I raised my hand and fed her a third of it.

I took two nervous steps back.

I don't know what happened, but what was expected to happen like Lao Xu didn't happen, and Researcher An remained the same, her eyes closed without a change.

"Yunfeng! Hurry up! What are you dilly-dallying for!" Sister Hong's shout came from the front.

"Coming, coming! Coming." I tucked the glass bottle into my trouser pocket.

I wanted to dig a hole and bury her, but we were running for our lives even now and didn't have the time for that.

I took one last deep look at Fellow Ann and trotted to catch up with Red.

Noticing my sullenness, Sister Hong frowned and said, "What? Are you in love with that woman from earlier?"

"No, no, it's not true," I waved my hands in a panic, "It's just a casual encounter, after all, we've been living together for a few days, it's normal to have some feelings."

"You don't have to lie, I can tell that you still care about that woman, if it were me, I would have done the same thing, when it comes to breaking off, I would have suffered the consequences, Yao Yumen didn't do anything wrong." .

I bowed my head with an empty heart and said, "I know Sister Hong, don't worry, I can distinguish between priorities."

"Good to know," Sister Hong patted me on the back.

I apologised to Yao Yumen, saying that I shouldn't have yelled at her so loudly earlier.

Yao Yumen nodded and didn't say anything more, except that she put her fingers together and whistled, and then the two golems went away on command.

"They have good ears and can tell if anything is moving within a kilometre, so I'll let them break off and help keep watch."

After continuing on for another hour or so, a mountain rock over a metre high crossed the middle of the road. Yao Yumen said to rest behind the rock for ten minutes before continuing the journey, and to take the opportunity to eat something to replenish their physical energy.

As we hid behind the boulders and ate our compressed biscuits, Sister Hong took two sips of water and handed me the bottle.

After gulping down a few mouthfuls of water and swallowing the dry food in my mouth, I wiped my mouth, "Sister Yu, I didn't expect you to have a gun and be so accurate, can you let me see it too, I've never seen a real one."

"Heh, forget it, I don't feel comfortable giving it to you, what if you were to go off."

"Normally, Taoists don't want to use this stuff, my accuracy is only average I guess, it's still quite poor compared to my brother. My uncle gave it to me for self-defence, after all, you can't be too wary of others."

Her face was calm and her words were spoken in a relaxed tone. I can't help but secretly stammer, who dares to hit you is afraid of not wanting to live, a shot to the head are face paralysis face, you don't take the initiative to find someone else trouble is thank God.

As for the little flathead Yao Wenze she mentioned, the only impression I got was that he said very little. He was a bit of a deep sleeper.

At that moment, one of the golems that had been letting the wind out suddenly ran up to us. There was a lot of gesticulating.

Yao Yumen's face changed.

"Go! Get out of here! That group is catching up, faster than I expected!"

"No, we'll be discovered sooner or later," she said, looking at the mandrill in front of her, "Take us to a place nearby where we can hide, a rock crevice, an underground cavern, or a cave, hurry!"

As if it understood human language, the beast turned its head and ran.

"Go on, follow!"

Thanks to this thing's help in leading the way, we didn't have to walk long before we saw a crevice, narrow but deep and just wide enough for a man. All three of us ducked into the crevice.

It wasn't long before we heard the sound of people talking from outside.

"Brother Jian, these people are moving too fast, we've been rushing, but we haven't seen anyone!"

Another man echoed, "Yes, Brother Jian, these bastards can really run. There's a lot of blood on the ground, I smelled it, it's human blood! One of them must have been hurt, we'll catch up sooner or later!"

Hidden in the crevice of the mountain, Red and I looked at each other in quiet silence.

"Only blood? They didn't see any others?"

"Where's Researcher An's body?"

"Hardly ..." I swallowed, not daring to get the words out.

"Come on, keep going, the gang can't get away."

...

Seeing these guys leave, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, so close, luckily I wasn't found out.

Sister Hong said, "Just now was a good opportunity to strike, why didn't you shoot? With your accuracy, it shouldn't have been difficult, right?"

Yao Yumen shook his head, "The one called Jian, you don't know him, not surprisingly, this man has been with Little Locker in recent years and rarely shows his face in the jianghu road, not only is this man good at hand-to-hand combat, he also has a godfather in the Changchun Association, the head said to try not to offend this man, or else it would be very troublesome, so I didn't dare to kill him."

"Oh, who is his godfather? Can make the head of the Shogun so scornful, tell me a name to hear it and see if I know it."

Yao Yumen looked at Sister Hong and spoke with a serious expression:

"His godfather is now locked up in a mental hospital, this person's surname is Xie."

Sister Hong's pupils shrank, "Xie ..... Xie Qirong?"

This person is actually still alive!"

"This is not the place to talk, follow me."

Yao Yumen then led us to a corner, which was hidden by rocks in front and behind, and was very private.

When we got here I asked, "You guys just said that Jian's godfather was called Xie Qirong, is this man or woman? What's his origin? Why do I see that you all are very scrupulous."

Sister Hong frowned and said, "The Changchun Society includes all kinds of people from the three religions and nine streams of the jianghu, and there is no shortage of capable desperadoes.

"The woman who used the white owl with the small mouth of gold to control people before is considered to be from the lesser faction, and the small locks of people are from the old faction. There was a rumour in the road that Xie Qirong had killed the whole family of a descendant of Swallow Li San back in the day and spoiled his wife and daughter, and it so happened that Shao Yuan, the meteor king of Beiping, was also a descendant of Swallow Li San's line."

"What happened, did this Wang Shao Yuan later avenge his fellow disciples?" I asked.

Sister Hong shook her head, "Later Wang Shao Yuan lost to Xie Qirong and had both of his eyes plucked out, he went from being a flying Northern Peace warrior to a blind man with both eyes overnight!"

"To deal with Xie Qirong, the president of the Changchun Society later sent seven experts to finally clean up the gateway."

"It happened more than ten years ago, I didn't expect ..... This man is still alive." Sister Hong shook her head and sighed.

Yao Yumen looked at Sister Hong and nodded, "You know a lot of things, it seems that you haven't collected much information about the Evergreen Spring Association."

Sister Hong clenched her fist and slowly unclenched it again.

"Let's not talk about that," Yao Yumen whistled and called for a golem.

She pulled a round pendant from her pocket and hung it around the golem's neck.

"There's been a change of plan and we need to meet up early to take us to someone."

The golem sniffed the orb with its nose and immediately squeaked and jumped out.

Taking seven turns, we followed this golem for a long time before finally arriving in front of a cave.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, another mandrill jumped out. When I looked, I saw that this one also had the same small round ball around its neck.

The two golems, with the orb pendant around their necks, went into the cave together.

Less than five minutes passed.

About the time, Yao Yumen stood outside the cave entrance and shouted, "There is a fierce tiger in the cut twist, a green dragon in the reverse twist, a flowing water in the yang twist and a Qi Liu in the secret twist."

Shortly afterwards, footsteps came from the cave and a middle-aged man came out with a torch in one hand. The middle-aged man had very white skin and distinctive features, but had a large burn scar on the left side of his face, and the golem with the orb pendant around his neck followed behind this man like a servant.

Yao Yumen bowed slightly and said, "Yao Yumen of the Northern School, I bring my uncle Yao Wenzhong to greet the Qi Liu family."

The middle-aged man nodded his head and smiled, "There is no need to be polite, girl, just call me Liu Yushan."

Yao Yumen shook her head and said, "Generations should not be messed up, since you said so, then I will dare to call your Excellency Brother Liu."

The middle-aged man smiled and nodded, not objecting.

It was only later that I learnt why Sister Yu respected this man.

In 1942, Henan was hit by a severe drought, followed by a locust plague, which affected millions of people, especially in the eastern and southern parts of Henan, Zhumadian and Xiping.

The head of the Qi Liu family was called Liu Yuan, who held a high position in the Changchun Association and was a prominent figure on the road at the time, so anyone who met him had to call him Master Liu.

When Liu Yuan arrived in Henan and saw the starving victims, he was heartbroken and wept.

The Liu family had emptied the family's wealth of over 100 years and used it all to buy food for the victims, but in the end it was still a drop in the bucket.

This led to the famous incident in which the family moved the granary.

In the winter of 1942, on the 17th day of the lunar month, a strange incident took place. This incident was included in the Top Ten Strange Stories, along with the later cat-faced old woman's fraudulent corpse in Harbin and the haunting of Li Zhi Wan in Guangzhou. According to eyewitnesses, untold numbers of large rats and weasels appeared in the streets that night, in the tens of thousands.

These rats and weasels came and went in packs and came and went again, emptying the local granaries of the then ghost army overnight. The rats and weasels took all the stolen grain to the victims, and this grain saved the lives of an unknown number of people.

Later the devils traced the matter and finally established that it was the Liuyuan family of Tianjin Wei who had planned the affair, and the Liuyuan family suffered a catastrophe, not only losing their ancestral home, but also having many people shot. The righteous Liu Yuan died a generous death. This is what happened in Henan in '42 when the grey and yellow moved the granary.

To this day, in a large mountain to the west of Zhumadian, a temple of the Rat Fairy is still preserved. Throughout history, this is the only one that was purposely built for rats.

Since then, although the Qi Liu family of Tianjin Wei has fallen into decline, they have always been respected in both the black and white worlds. Naturally, I also respect these people for their feats back then.

Upon entering the cave, Liu Yushan stuck his torch in the wall as he greeted us and sat down to talk.

"Brother Liu, according to the plan it will be a few days before we meet, but because of what happened to Yunfeng and Chen Hong, we can't keep waiting, what about the head of the handle and those two?" Yao Yumen glanced left and right.

Liu Yushan pointed backwards, "Look, there they are, aren't they here."

"The head!" Three men came in, and when I saw the old man at the head of the group, I jumped up from the ground and exclaimed.

The old man was dressed in black, and although his temples were white, his eyes were radiant, and he was none other than Wang Zhaotou.

"Yunfeng, it's been a few months since you've seen me," said the head of the family, smiling as he walked over and patted me on the shoulder.

"Wang Xiansheng, this is the young man you mentioned, isn't it?"

I looked backwards and saw that the man was covered in rags, his clothes looked like they hadn't been washed in years and had a shiny black coating, his hair was in a mess like a chicken nest covering half of his eyes. But this man's eyes were bright and pure, like a baby's.

With a bow, Yao Yumen saluted this beggar, "Master Liu."

The other helper that the head of the group had found was very old, and this man was not very tall and about the same height as Sister Hong. Dressed in black, with a head full of white hair and a lot of age spots on his face, he stood there with a navy blue cloth bag still a little hunched over, giving him a deadly look.

"Yunfeng, this is Master Zhao who came from western Hunan." Put the head introduced.

My heart shivered, I knew that this master was the Xiangxi corpse chaser that the head had hired, no wonder he was covered in a deadly aura. I bowed my head and called out to Master Zhao in deference.

The hunchbacked old man narrowed his eyes and swept me away without saying a word.

Putting his head down, he coughed and said, "Yunfeng, Xiaohong, are you sorry? Regret not listening to my advice in the first place?"

"Especially you, Yunfeng, you and Lao-san fooled me about going to Dongguan to play? What did you do? Did you come here?"

Sister Hong embarrassed to say the words, recalled in they only want to find the second brother."

The head patted me on the shoulder and looked at me and Sister Hong and said, "Jianghu is a dangerous place, Yunfeng, Xiao Hong, consider it a long memory this time."

He looked at the wavering torches on the wall and said, "I can't afford to mess with the Evergreen Association, but I, Wang Xiansheng, am no slouch either."

"If you dare to touch my people, whether they are human or ghosts."

"All must be given an answer."