Tomb Robbery: Successor to the King, starting in Yunnan Worm Valley

Chapter 22 Finally arrived at the entrance of Worm Valley
  After walking forward for about a few dozen meters, the cave became more and more open.

Soon another underground river appeared ahead.

On the edge of the underground river, there are many obvious traces of excavation.

There are even stone steps in some places.

This is obviously a place where someone has been here before, or even lived there!

"I understand. This should be the underground river that Peacock and the landlady mentioned. We are back on the right path."

Lao Hu was attentive and reacted immediately.

Several people looked around with flashlights.

Soon some grotesque bodies were discovered on the shore.

These corpses have long since decayed and turned into withered bones.

Even the clothes on his body were torn.

Higher up, you can also see some cave entrances.

These holes are arranged neatly, and it seems that they were dug by someone before.

On some of the bones, you can still see tattered armor and swords and guns.

Wang Ye walked over and took a look. Most of the armor and weapons were in bad condition and had no value at all.

"These should be the bandits that were sealed in the tunnel as the landlady said." Hu Bayi also looked carefully with a flashlight.

"Looking at the age, it should be from the late Ming Dynasty."

After all, Lao Hu and Fatty Wang had been practicing in the antique street for a while, and they could still tell some tricks when looking at these things.

Fatty Wang looked disgusted, "It's not worth anything. It's not even worth the freight to drag it back to the capital."

Wang Ye didn't look any further.

Originally, there was nothing of value here at the Zhelongshan Tunnel exit.

Follow the water to the end, the river is still flowing forward, but it flows into the ground. The cave is lower than the ground level outside the mountain.

So we couldn't see the big river in the mountains outside, so we climbed up a section of rocky slopes.

There are traces of water soaking here. It seems that the large-scale rainfall across the country some time ago has a great impact on the large and small caves in "Zhelong Mountain".

In the middle of the gravel slope, my eyes lit up, and a hole was revealed that was obviously once washed away by water. Now the water has receded.

During the day, it is easy to find this exit with the sunlight outside.

The stones here are obviously blocked artificially. If there were no floods in the mountains, it would be difficult to open them manually.

Wang Ye and the other four have now put on sunglasses, emerged from the cave, and finally successfully passed through "Zhelong Mountain".

When I came outside, I looked back and saw that I was under the steep walls and dangerous peaks of "Zhelong Mountain".

At the highest point above the head, there are thick clouds, and the outer shell of "Zhelong Mountain" is full of dark green granite with green stains.

There are countless vine-type broad-leaved plants growing on the cliff, which are green everywhere you look. If you look for this small gap from the outside, it is very difficult to find it.

Looking ahead, there are mountains all around.

The terrain in the middle is getting lower and lower, and is full of large virgin forests.

The trees are vast and green, and all kinds of plants are extremely dense. The canopies of old trees cover the sky and avoid the sun. There are many strange flowers and trees that cannot be named at all.

There are countless ravines and deep valleys scattered among them, as well as dangerous streams and pools. In some deep valleys, the grass and flowers inside can be clearly seen in the sunlight.

However, the more I look at it, the more unfathomable it becomes. The depth is so dizzying that people are dazzled. In some places, it is covered in clouds and fog, creating a hazy and mysterious scenery.

This is a primitive land located between the "Nujiang River" and the "Lancang River", blocked by snow-capped mountains and rivers, and completely isolated from the world.

Hu Bayi took out the human skin map and began to confirm the path into "Insect Valley".

"so beautiful."

Shirley Yang said with emotion from the side.

Girls always have a unique love for these beautiful scenery, which is normal.

"Lao Hu, how do we get to Worm Valley next?"

Fatty Wang geared up and said excitedly.

Well, the tomb of King Xian is a royal tomb after all, and there must be many rare treasures in it.

By then, any one item will be enough for a year. The more Fatty Wang thought about it, the more excited he became. If Hu Bayi hadn't stopped him, he would have sprinted forward.

"Don't worry, it's a little hard to find."

Hu Bayi frowned and said to the human skin map.

The records on the human skin map are rather vague.

Moreover, the topography and landforms were thousands of years ago, so it is inevitable that considerable changes have occurred.

According to the instructions on the map, you can follow the underground river where the human skin figurines and corpses were before, and go all the way forward.

Unfortunately, it is the rainy season recently, the water level has risen, and the underground river is connected to other waterways.

Now it is difficult to tell which canal was dug when King Xian built the tomb.

"I remember Blind Man Chen said that he visited Worm Valley decades ago. What did he say?"

Wang Ye asked.

When Wang Ye asked, Hu Bayi immediately remembered.

"By the way, Blind Chen found the Snake River along the mountainside of Zhelong Mountain, and then walked downstream along the Snake River."

"It is said that there is a broken stone wall downstream. It should be a dam or something like that built when King Xian built the mausoleum."

"It is said that the dam was built to maintain the feng shui pattern of the water dragon halo in King Xian's tomb."

"The Tomb of King Xian was demolished after it was built, but there are still many remains."

"Since Blind Chen has seen it, the stone wall should still be there only a few decades ago."

“After passing the stone wall, you’ll find Worm Valley.”

Now that we have landmarks, the next route plan is easy to determine.

The four of them discussed for a while and looked at the time.

At 3:30 in the afternoon, several people took a bamboo raft into "Zhelong Mountain" from about 9 in the morning, and have not rested until now.

So we decided to use the place as a "relay point", rest for twenty minutes, and then head north, trying to find the entrance to "Insect Valley" before sunset, then camp there and enter the valley early tomorrow morning.

Twenty minutes later.

After a few people rested at the entrance of the cave, they began to walk north along the foot of Zhelong Mountain.

Instead of going into the forest, look for the Snake River.

Hu Bayi cleared the compass, redetermined the direction and altitude, and walked ahead to clear the way.

Not far away, several people felt the power of the subtropical jungle.

There is no road here.

Although we did not enter the jungle directly and only walked on the periphery at the foot of the mountain, the vegetation was still dense.

There are tall grasses everywhere.

Vines grow everywhere.

If you want to move forward smoothly, you can only use a machete to cut the branches of various trees and cut off the vines blocking the road.

These are not the most annoying.

The mosquitoes in the woods and grass are the most exaggerated.

As everyone walked, they could see groups of large mosquitoes as long as finger knuckles from time to time.

Various colorful spiders.

There are all kinds of strange insects on the trees.

As for the scorpions, centipedes, ants and the like on the ground, they can't be seen clearly because the vegetation is too dense.

Wang Ye, who has the blood of the ancestral dragon, feels much more relaxed walking in the woods.

All the mosquitoes began to flee a few feet away from Wang Ye.

Wang Ye's ancestral dragon bloodline exerts great pressure on these insects.

These insects did not dare to approach Wang Ye at all.

(End of this chapter)