in the name of evil

Chapter 96 The Earth Is Round (7000 words)
The skin of the mummy in the stone figurines is gray and white, and the skin is tightly attached to the bones, without the slightest feeling of fullness of flesh and blood.

Such a corpse reminded Jiang Li of that army inexplicably.

Tan Chufeng took a breath, and said solemnly: "This is different from the terracotta warriors and horses unearthed in the Qinling Mountains. Those terracotta warriors and horses are hollow, but these seem to be fired with living people."

Hearing this, Jiang Li felt chills down his spine. Just imagining these words, he seemed to feel the pain of these people being poured into concrete.

"I seem to have heard that there was no terracotta army at the beginning, but that living people were prepared to be buried.

But it seems that because Qin Shihuang was obsessed with the way of longevity at the end of his life, the alchemist Xu Fu said that doing so would harm the peace of heaven, so he finally replaced it with stone terracotta warriors and horses.

But now it seems that this is not the case.”

Tan Chufeng looked around and found many such stone figurines, and suddenly felt the bloody and dark side of history.

Ling Le nodded, and added: "I guess this is the real terracotta warriors and horses. The unearthed terracotta warriors and horses that are open as scenic spots are just incomplete pieces."

Jiang Li was puzzled, and asked, "Why do you need to do so much? If you have to pour living people into stone figurines, if it's just for burial, isn't it a little troublesome?"

Tan Chufeng felt cold all over, couldn't help tightening his clothes, and looked at the stone figurines with compassion:

"It's a sorcery."

He paused, as if he didn't want to mention this aspect, but seeing Jiang Li's face full of question marks, he sighed and explained:
"There is a sinister magic called Soul-Sealing Art, which is to insert soul-sealing nails into important acupuncture points of the body when a person is alive, and then bury them alive or pour them with cement.

After a person dies, the soul is locked in the body and cannot break free, and it will become an earth-bound spirit, staying in the corpse.

After a long time, the grievances of these earth-bound spirits will become more and more serious, ranging from psychic corpses into zombies, or even straight into earth-level ghosts! "

Jiang Li's eyes widened in shock.

"Look carefully at the mummies whose heads are exposed. Are there nails embedded in their celestial caps?"

Tan Chufeng pointed out a few to Jiang Li, who looked carefully and found that the heads of the mummies had exposed nails deeply embedded in the skin.

If it weren't for the lack of moisture in these corpses, the flesh and blood were shriveled and collapsed, and the deeply hidden nails could hardly be seen.

"Amitabha." Lingle sat on the ground, closed his eyes, and silently recited the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra, hoping to appease the dead souls.

Jiang Li couldn't understand, and he didn't know how to chant sutras and mantras, so he simply said: "The dead rest in peace, and the dead are great."

The sad and cold atmosphere was broken by Jiang Li, and Tan Chufeng finally got rid of that mentality. He gave Jiang Li a blank look, and laughed and scolded: "Look at you, you haven't read any books at all."

Jiang Li smiled embarrassingly, and then hesitated: "Should I continue to move forward? Hearing what you said, those things below seem to be very dangerous. If you continue to move forward, I don't know what else is there. Why don't you let me go back?" Directional blasting?"

You always think about what your b blasting is doing?
Ling Le stood up after reading the scriptures, wanting to complain about Jiang Li.

"Go on, the main thing is, we don't seem to be able to go back." Lingle said with a wry smile.

Jiang Li and Tan Chufeng touched their heads in confusion, and looked at the way they came. The bronze door was still open, and nothing had changed.

"Why can't you go back, just go back the same way"

Before Jiang Li finished speaking, he closed his mouth.

"Did you find out?" Lingle sighed.

The fun that can make the fun people sigh is the fun that happens to the fun people.

There are gravel roads on the edge of the cliff, and there will be no footprints left when walking on it, but the strange thing is that there are no traces of the three people walking through the door!

This shows that the passage has changed before the three of them knew it, and it is no longer the passage they walked through before.

There is no big difference between going back the same way and continuing on.

"I found a problem."

Jiang Li looked at Lingle expressionlessly:
"It was the same just now, and it is the same now, as long as you look at the road first, nothing good will happen.

You are not allowed to watch it next time, I will watch it! "

Lingle's face twitched, how the hell can you shake this hard?
"But I thought of one thing, those three people should be in front of this."

Jiang Li rubbed his chin, thinking about this possibility.

Tan Chufeng and Lingle were also smart people, and they understood Jiang Li's meaning immediately.

"You mean, I didn't find their footprints when I first came here, just because the passage kept changing. We didn't take the same passage, but their destination is indeed ahead?"

Tan Chufeng asked uncertainly.

"It's possible, but I'm not sure, because I can't figure out the meaning of the channel change. Let's not talk about the principle for now, but if the destination is the same, why bother?"

Jiang Li frowned:

"The only thing I can think of is that only one of the roads leads to the right place, and the others... are just for the sake of confusion."

"Seven-star coffin?" Tan Chufeng, who was familiar with the tomb robber's notes, immediately thought of this similar design.

"Very likely." Jiang Li nodded.

Ling Le had never read the novel, and did not understand the meaning of the seven-star coffin, so Tan Chufeng patiently explained it to him.

After listening to it, Lingle suddenly realized, but raised a new question: "It's fine if it's just a fake like what you said about the seven-star coffin, but what should I do if it's a trap?"

"I'm also worried about this." Jiang Li simply sat down and rubbed his hair vigorously.

"I can't figure it out, it's so annoying!"

Tan Chufeng and Lingle also realized that something was wrong, and the atmosphere was a little depressed for a while.

But just when the two of them were thinking about it and regretted it, Jiang Li suddenly stood up.

"Is there a possibility that this is also a formation?"

Jiang Li looked at Tan Chufeng with burning eyes:

"The four-element formation is guarded outside, which means that the people who built it must be very good at formations. For formation masters, the things built must fit a certain kind of formation. You can think of a way to see if you can support it." Rigid?"

Tan Chufeng slapped his forehead, and after Jiang Liyi reminded him, he suddenly realized that this is indeed very possible.

"Don't say it, it does make sense."

After speaking, he took out a compass from a small kit, adjusted the accuracy and pointed to different directions to measure the required information.

Lingle looked at Tan Chufeng enviously, thinking that Taoist priests really know a lot.

Jiang Li, on the other hand, looked up at the huge enclosed underground space, estimating the height and the time it took the three of them to descend the stairs, trying to estimate the thickness from the top to the ground of Qinling Mountains.

If I blow up a nuclear bomb with my hands, is it possible to blow up the ground and attract Daoist Zhang's attention?
"Yes, there is good news and bad news."

Tan Chufeng heaved a sigh of relief. Looking at his expression, it seemed that good news accounted for a larger proportion.

"Details." Lingle stared at Tan Chufeng.

"I figured out that coming down from the same entrance, there should be four randomly opened passages in four directions on that platform, with eight bronze doors at the end.

These eight bronze doors correspond to the eight doors of Renpan, that is, Qimen Dunjia.

The Eight Gates of Renpan are Shengmen, Kaimen, Shumen, Death, Jingmen, Hurtmen, Dumen and Jingmen.

The good news is that we should not be in the dead door, the bad news is that it is not Jimen either.

So if you go on, there will be no big disasters, and it won't go smoothly either.

But if you go back the same way, if you are lucky, you may walk to the lucky gate, or you may walk into the fierce gate. "

Tan Chufeng told the two of them what he had measured.

Listening to Tan Chufeng's analysis, Jiang Li had an idea: "If it's really according to what you said, then I have a rough guess about the structure here."

Jiang Li leaned over and squatted down, pulling away all the gravel on the ground, exposing the dirt floor, and then explained while collecting the gravel.

"If the eight channels are randomly changed, then these channels must not be far away. When changing, they are either rotated around the platform or folded and spliced.

But where we are now is a cliff, with a big difference in height, and there is only this suspension bridge in sight, and there are no forks along the way, so I personally think that the possibility of folding and splicing is not great.

So I guess the structure here should be like this with a high probability. "

He piled the rubble into the shape of a small tower, and then centered on it, he spelled out eight lines in eight directions:
"Look, this small tower is where we are now, these eight lines are eight passages, and the end of the passage is the bronze gate.

Although we can't see other doors here, I guess there is also a drawbridge in front of each door, leading to different places.

So in fact, this place can be regarded as a basin. The place where we are now is a mountain in the center of the basin. I don’t know what it looks like on the other side of the suspension bridge, but I guess the eight areas we walked over are not all connected. Eight roads are meaningless.

So it doesn't make much sense to go down, but when we go back, we don't know how many times we have to try to find the correct passage, and we don't know whether the bronze door corresponding to the passage is fixed, that is to say, even if we find the road with the footprints of those people , and the last one they faced might not necessarily be the same door. "

Tan Chufeng and Lingle felt that Jiang Li's analysis was reasonable, but the results of the analysis were very unfavorable.

"Then what to do, isn't this equivalent to a dilemma?"

Lingle's face was not very good-looking.

But Jiang Li seemed to have a plan in mind: "I have a way to verify my conjecture, and if I'm lucky, I can also determine the door those people walked through."

"What way?" Tan Chufeng asked impatiently, even if he was proficient in formations, he still felt helpless at the moment.

"This method is a bit simple and crude, that is to climb along the cliff's rock wall around the mountain where the bronze gate is located!"

Jiang Li didn't seem to realize how crazy his method was.

Tan Chufeng and Lingle looked at Jiang Li stupidly, their expressions seemed to say: How many dishes do you drink like this?
Seeing the foolish expressions on their faces, Jiang Li said calmly:
"I know you may find this method a bit difficult."

Yes, point?
"But I just estimated that it took us less than 10 minutes to walk through the whole journey. Calculated based on our walking speed, the total length of the passage should be within 800 meters to one kilometer. In order for the formation to run smoothly, the length of each passage It should be the same all over the place.

In other words, the points where the eight doors are located should be connected to form a circle with a radius of 800 meters to one kilometer and a circumference of about six kilometers.

Although it is difficult for ordinary people to do what I said, it is possible for us to do it.

If there is no problem with Tan Chufeng and my speculation, then as long as we climb along the rock wall, we can see the other seven doors. As long as we observe which door has opened traces, we can know who those people walked through. which way. "

As if to comfort the two, Jiang Li added:
"If you're lucky, maybe it's next door."

Tan Chufeng had a constipated expression on his face: "Then why don't you say that if you are unlucky, you went around and realized that although you are next door, you chose the wrong side?"

Jiang Li scratched his head: "Luck should not be so bad."

But Jiang Li thought about it again, his aura was so red that it turned black, accompanied by a sound of calamity, it seemed that it was not impossible for him to slip his hand while playing with his mobile phone while lying on the bed and just hit his eye.

Thinking of this, Jiang Li asked: "Which of you two has a smooth life and a harmonious family, let me know."

Lingle replied faintly: "I was abducted by human traffickers when I was a child, and I happened to be rescued and adopted by the master who traveled down the mountain. If Shaolin Temple is my home, it should be regarded as family harmony."

Tan Chufeng gave Lingle a sympathetic look, and said, "I want to be better. My family is harmonious, but life is a bit rough. No matter what I do, I'm a little short of my goal. I'm not afraid of your jokes. Tsinghua's score line is only one point away.

If this is the case, forget it, but later I heard that the college entrance examination questions were difficult that year, and the scores of candidates across the country were not satisfactory. Tsinghua University did not recruit all the places, so the score line was lowered by one point. Volunteering away.
So in a fit of rage, I went to Zhongnan Mountain and became a Taoist priest. This is why I studied the formation very deeply, because I am a science student. "

The corner of Jiang Li's mouth twitched: "Good guy, three people get together to get a pair of parents, and the only one who is not an orphan is still unlucky."

The two sighed: "Life!"

Jiang Li rubbed his forehead and shook his head: "Let me choose."

Although my life is accompanied by disasters, death is always one step behind me.

Jiang Li walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down, observing the positions of the stone figurines. After a while, he said with certainty:
"Go this way. You see, the stone figurines below are all facing the same direction. As funeral objects, they must be guarding something. The direction their backs are facing should be the direction we are looking for."

Ling Le was stunned: "Is there a possibility that they are worshiping something, and the place they are facing is our destination?"

"No! Just listen to me!" Jiang Li was furious.

Seeing this, the two nodded helplessly, slandering Jiang Li in a hurry.

After the decision was made, Lingle still took the lead.

I saw him repeating the same trick, tying his coat around his waist, his muscles swelled, his hands wrapped in aura pierced straight into the rock wall like a chisel, pulled out the hole, and moved horizontally bit by bit.

"You just follow me along these holes."

Tan Chufeng stared straight at Lingle's muscular muscles and the looming dragon and tiger patterns, sighed, and followed Lingle up the rock wall.

Jiang Li shook his head, and understood why everyone said not to exaggerate in muscle training. Proper fitness attracts the opposite sex, and excessive fitness attracts the same sex. This makes sense.

"Follow up quickly." Seeing Jiang Li groping for something on his body and not following them for a long time, Tan Chufeng urged.

"Don't worry."

Jiang Li took out a piece of talisman paper from his body, lit it after writing and drawing, and two balls of earthy yellow light appeared on the soles of his feet.

Afterwards, Ling Le and Tan Chufeng watched in shock as Jiang Li walked straight up the rock wall in a way that did not conform to the laws of physics.

"Fuck!" The two exclaimed in unison.

Jiang Li clasped his hands behind his back, looked at the two people hanging on the rock wall with a lonely expression on his face, and clicked softly:
"vulgar."

"what are you"

"Do you want it?" Jiang Li squatted down on the almost [-]-degree vertical rock wall, looking at the two with a smile.

"If you have such a good thing, why don't you say it sooner? Hurry up!"

The two yelled in dissatisfaction.

Jiang Li raised his eyebrows with a grumpy face: "Be a dog to me!"

The two stared blankly at Jiang Li, not knowing what to say for a moment.

After 1 minute, after tugging, the two compromised.

Jiang Li walked leisurely and relaxedly at the front, humming a ditty with his hands behind his back.

He originally wanted to tease them, but who knew that Tan Chufeng had already experienced Jiang Li's devil's contract when he died, and seemed to have awakened some incredible attributes, so he hesitated for a while before agreeing to be a dog in exchange for benefits.

Seeing that Tan Chufeng nodded, Lingle also nodded with difficulty.

"You are not allowed to say it!" Lingle was young and thin-skinned, and it was difficult for her to accept herself who gave up her dignity for comfort.

Jiang Li turned his head and nodded, thinking it was interesting, and then deliberately teased the two of them.

"Don't worry, how could I spread this kind of thing to the outside world? It will be my own people in the future.

From now on, we will talk about our own business. You call me Brother, and I call you Dagou Ergou.

Well. From now on, Lingle will be the big dog, and Chu Feng will be the second dog. "

Hearing this, Lingle gritted her teeth, while Tan Chufeng was anxious:

"No, why am I the second dog, not me first."

"That's right." Jiang Li smiled like a devil: "You've been an apprentice twice, so you're a second dog."

At first, Lingle thought that Tan Chufeng was going to sue Jiang Li, but unexpectedly...
He looked at Tan Chufeng in shock with an ambiguous expression.

Tan Chufeng wanted to explain, but Lingle didn't listen and covered her ears: "Don't tell me these things, I'm still a child!"

Tan Chufeng wanted to cry, but Jiang Li sighed in a strange way: "No matter what I do, I almost pinch it."

However, Jiang Li was still afraid that Lingle might be misunderstood, so he explained:
"I said being a dog was just a joke. In fact, my idea is very simple. When I am in trouble in the future, just do your best to help me within your ability."

Lingle nodded, and accepted the words that made him feel more comfortable: "Don't worry, as long as you are willing to accompany me for a while, you will be my good brothers in the future. If you have anything to do, it doesn't matter if I can help you or not." I'm busy, I'll take it as my own business."

Tan Chufeng also heaved a sigh of relief.

Jiang Li patted Lingle's shoulder in satisfaction, turned his head, and there was already a wicked smile on his face.

The first step of PUA, playing hard to get!

It's just that!

The three of them simply walked side by side on the vertical cliff as if they were walking on flat ground.

"How long have we been walking, these stone figurines are still so dense all the way here."

As a Buddhist, Ling Le could clearly see the resentful karma in the basin, and always felt uncomfortable.

Tan Chufeng also looked at those dangerous stone figurines solemnly: "It is estimated that there are all such stone figurines down here. The tens of thousands guessed before are less. Not to mention how long this circle is, just the scene farther on the opposite side. I can’t even see it here, it’s estimated to be tens of millions?”

Jiang Li nodded: "Since it is to set up a circle of doubt, no matter which bronze gate you come out from, you should see the same scene, but I don't know how many of them have reached the level of prefecture-level ghosts with such a huge base. "

Mentioning this, all three of them shuddered.

"I said. Are you insured? Will it fall suddenly?"

Tan Chufeng suddenly felt a little weak in his legs.

Jiang Li shrugged his shoulders: "Don't worry, if you fall from this height, even if you startle the stone figurines below, you won't survive until then, you will fall to your death directly."

Lingle wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "I didn't feel any comfort from this sentence at all."

"Don't you like watching fun the most, show everyone a show of opening champagne in the air."

Jiang Li added fuel to the fire.

"what are you"

Ling Le was about to use the most vicious words he had learned on the Internet to accuse Jiang Li, but was interrupted by Tan Chufeng.

"Stop bickering, look, it's really the same as what Jiang Li said!"

Tan Chufeng had been paying attention to the changes around him, and suddenly opened his mouth in surprise.

The two looked forward, and the suspension bridge that was exactly the same as the one they had seen before was in front of them.

Although the cliff is cylindrical as a whole, the three of them can only see part of it due to the angle, but they still feel ecstatic.

Jiang Li leaned down directly, and carved a line of words on the cliff with his fingers wrapped in aura——

It was the first day in Jiangcheng that I visited here.

Tan Chufeng and Lingle's eyelids twitched, and they felt that every step Jiang Li did was beyond their expectations.

Afterwards, the three of them quickened their pace, and not long after, they saw the same stone platform and the same bronze door.

Although the bronze door was tightly closed, and the gravel-filled ground did not leave traces of the bronze door being opened, the three of them were not too disappointed. They never thought that their luck would be so good. The walk is right next door.

"There's drama!" Jiang Li finally relaxed.

People are like this, when they can't see the future, they will appear depressed and negative, but once they have expectations and hopes, and they are sure that the path under their feet is correct, they will be full of energy.

After confirming that Jiang Li's deduction was correct, the speed of the three of them increased significantly.

"The road is a bit farther than I calculated, but it's not too far off. I've been counting my steps just now, and I walked for more than a kilometer, which means the whole journey is [-] kilometers. Work harder!"

Because Jiang Li's kung fu was not in place, although the three of them were impatient, they walked very steadily. They didn't dare to run for fear of falling, but their speed was obviously much faster.

When they reached the place where the second bronze door was, the time was shortened by one-third.

"No, next one!"

After confirming that there was no sign of opening the bronze door here, the three of them rushed to the next bronze door without stopping.

I don't know how long they walked, and the enthusiasm of the three gradually faded away.
"It's more than halfway, how long have we been walking?"

"It's almost an hour."

"They didn't come down at all, did they?"

"No way, if this is the case, what are we going to do?"

"Picture WeChat steps"

"You can shut up, it's the side you chose!"

"Then you guys return the talisman to me, and climb up by yourself!"

"Go on. Ugh."

Finally, at a certain moment, Tan Chufeng almost shed tears:

"Fuck! Got it! Finally found it!"

The bronze door in front suddenly opened a big gap.

The three left a mark before leaving, so it can be determined that this is definitely not the way they went around and returned to the original point.

At this moment, the three of them could not wait to embrace each other and cry, like Columbus who discovered the New World, like Fan Jin who passed the Juren exam, like IG who won the championship in S8!

"I just said, my deduction can't be wrong, brothers, this is God's reward for those who persist!"

Tears welled up in Jiang Li's eyes, and he tasted for the first time the taste of hard work being rewarded.

Lingyue also recited the Buddha's name with a pious face, and then asked with a smile, "Which door is this?"

Tan Chufeng recalled it for a while, and said with certainty: "The seventh fan."

Jiang Li laughed loudly: "Fortunately, it's not the eighth fan, which means I'm not so unlucky yet."

Dazed by joy, Tan Chufeng also nodded with admiration.

Only Lingle touched her smooth little bald head, as if trying to figure something out, and then asked uncertainly:
"If it's the eighth door, then we're back to the original point. Does that mean that this door seems to be next to the one at the beginning, but we chose the wrong side?"

The atmosphere of joy and harmony suddenly dropped to freezing point.

Jiang Li coughed twice: "People are not sages, and no one has faults. Anyway, we succeeded, didn't we?"

"But we obviously took a long way." Ling Le said with a blank expression.

Jiang Limo smiled as if pointing his fingers: "Amitabha, benefactor, the earth is round!"

　I was a little uncomfortable last night. I woke up today and found that I felt like I had a cold. I am sorry that it has been delayed until now.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)