Before Yichao say something, "I don't know what this arrangement means, but it is certain that the bronze coffin is a tough guy," said Wenbin. "With my ability, if I do something to it, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave the village today."
Xiong Zhuo has been deeply shocked at every step from entering his hometown. His father always say this is a barren land, but there are so many mysteries. Why has he never told him? The doubts in his heart are not even a little bit, he can't wait to go out of the valley and ask his father why? Although he doesn't believe in ghosts and Gods, but everything in this village goes beyond the description of a remote mountain village that depends on collecting herbs for a living.
Yichao looked at Wenbin Zha and knew that he was not lying. In all these years of archaeology, they met many strange things, moreover, the father repeatedly explained that when he was not sure of something, then listen to Wenbin's arrangements: "Wenbin brother, was there something sinister in this coffin?"
Wenbin Zha nodded his head. "from the moment we walked into this village, I felt that although it was strange, it was a little too quiet. This kind of wild place has not been popular for a long time. It is quite normal for some lonely ghosts to stay here. However, I didn't find any breath, which can only show that there is something beyond ordinary ghosts: evil spirits."
"The demon."
If I'm not wrong, the ancestral hall is supposed to be a coffin home. Bronze -- it should be a royal thing in ancient times, and it has the effect of dispelled evil spirits. Such a large bronze coffin, suppressed by the eight trigrams, is still not enough. It also gives back the fierce beast of Taotie. Have you discovered this door? It should be made of the legendary Gold Nanmu, a person whose standard has surpassed that of ordinary emperors. I don't know who it is, but it is beyond my control. If we touched the coffin, I'm afraid it would break the formation ancestors put here. In my opinion, the village itself should be a vast and complicated formation, designed to suppress something evil."
Yichao listened and got anxious, "how about leader Wang and the Yiran Leng?"
Wenbin Zha looked up into the sky of darkness, "Yichao, they had used this place to set up such a big formation, certainly they were not simple human, you can see, here cannot see the starlight all the year round, which is not let people explore it. But no matter how clever the formation is, there must be a loophole. Leader Wang and Yiran Leng are still alive, we have to continue to search. According to the compass noise, there should be similar stone, we will go find them one by one, pay particular attention to this kind of ancestral hall. We should all concentrated and remember not to touch anything here."
Looked at the locked door, Wenbin with two young man walked toward the middle of the village…
The compass was useless, and before he left, Wenbin Zha took out a piece of twine from his bag and hung a small bell on it. The twine and bell was pulled on the ground from the front door of Coffin home. He hung a bell on the twine every other section of the way. Two young men did not know what does it mean, but Wenbin Zha did not explain naturally has his reason.
Until they reached to the center of the village, then they walked toward the other side, because in the afternoon when they searched the village, they found there was also a huge house on the other side. There were four such big houses in the whole village, in four directions of South, North, West and East. The hall with Tao Tie lock was located in the North side, at first they thought it was just an ancestral hall, but in the house on the South side they locked the gate with almost the same lock, except that the couplet on the door was different and the lock pattern was different, which was another odd shape. It was like the shape of a tiger body, hair carved like a dog, a man faces above with the pig's teeth and with a long tail dragged, it looks very scary.
Yichao He took a look at the lock pattern and said, "Wenbin brother, is this animal Taowu?"
Wenbin Zha also looked carefully and then answered: "Yes, this should be a Tao Wu, the legendary fierce beast."
"Oh, what are you two talking about? It's obviously a tiger." Xiong Zhuo doubted.
Wenbin Zha pointed to the lock and explained to Xiong Zhuo, "although it is with a tiger's body and claws, but when you look it carefully, the tiger has a human face, with a long tusk of a pig, this thing is Tao Wu, the legend described it was the incarnation of Yu Gun (the name of a villain), one of the ancient fierce monsters. Now, we first open the door to have a look."
With the experience of the last time, it is easier this time. As soon as the door was opened, the inside layout was almost the same: the black stone tablet with the Eight Trigrams, except that the supporting beast underneath became Tao Wu. Passing through the stone tablet, there was another row of coffins, in the middle, there was almost an identical bronze coffin. They then carefully went out, Wenbin Zha again pulled a twine rope.
Then the East and West Coffin home were opened, apart from the beast was different, everything else was similar. The beast used in the West house was Hun Dun, and the one in the East house was Qiong Qi.
After saw all this, Wenbin Zha was already in a cold sweat, which completely surprised them. The four ferocious animals of ancient times, Tao Tie, Hun Dun, Qiong Qi and Tao Wu were guarding four huge bronze coffins in this small and remote village respectively, they also used four extremely rare natural lodestones to create the eight diagrams to suppress it. It is known that these four beasts almost represented the utmost evil, they are the incarnations of the four "great villains", which are San Miao, Huan Dou, Gong Gon and Yu Gun. They were killed for rebelling against the powers, their heavy spirit was immortal after death, and were referred to "evil spirits" by the powers, which are the four ferocious monsters.
These four ferocious monsters constituted such a huge formation, which had already exceeded the limits of human production at that time. So, how could someone in this small village capable smelt such a huge bronze object, to lay down such a monstrous formation constituted with four ferocious beasts, and what purpose was this big formation for?
Four swine ropes were collected in the center; the position was just on the old well. Wenbin Zha tied a knot in the middle of the old well, touched the bag there was one more bell, and he hang the bell on top of the knot.
He thought since this is a big formation, then it should be decorated by humans. Leader Wang and the girl disappeared for no reason, maybe its because of this strange big array. Now, this situation is very passive, so he simply does not do anything, just waiting there. As long as something appears tonight, it may come in contact with these ropes. After the arrangement is complete, Wenbin Zha glanced at the house nearby, picked the nearest house and asked other two men to hide in with him.
The real wood house did not repair for many years, a smell of mildew went straight into the nose when they went in. But at this time they did not have time to think so much, can only wait quietly. After all the light had been extinguished, the whole village was plunged into darkness, and the lost village was devoured in an instant, as if in hell. And the three men struggled to adjust their breathing rate to keep their movements to a minimum. They were just waiting there, did not know how long to wait. For a long time to keep a posture unchanged, their legs are somewhat numb, especially at the command of Wenbin Zha, because of the fear of smell, so even do not let them pee. So how uncomfortable it was, everyone can imagine.
The world outside was nothing but pitch black and deep silence, it was so quiet that it would have been devastating. If the two young men were not trained scouts, they couldn't bear it.
Yichao raised his hand to look at his luminous watch. The pointer was close to 12 o'clock. He patted Wenbin Zha on his side with his hand, indicating whether to make something. Wenbin Zha held the back of his hand, indicating not to move, and continued to wait, even wait until dawn, they had to wait. Because he knew that the divinatory signs had said that they can only wait, and they did not know what to do apart from waiting. "Ding, Ding..." Suddenly there were two ringing bell sounds outside, in this deserted village it was so loud and so ear-piercing. Wenbin Zha knew that after waiting all night finally it came, without waiting for him to call, the two young men on the side quickly turned on the spotlights, lunged out of the dilapidated wooden door with the shotgun. With the clanging sound they leaped out toward the bell sound: the old well.
Wenbin Zha followed closely did not dare to have little lax. The tactical spotlights swept, the darkness village appears as white… At the moment they leaped out of the wooden door, two water dripping sounds came from somewhere not far away, Wenbin Zha shouted in the back: "something went wrong, we have to go there immediately!"
The scout's physique at this moment is fully manifested. Three of them dashed towards the ancient well with their full speed. The light had not yet reached, the sharp-eyed Xiong Zhuo saw a figure-like shape flashed at the end of the village under the distant light. He handed up and shot subliminally, the strong backward force made him pause for a moment, and when he looked up, the shadow disappeared. Wenbin knew what he found, but at moment he did not have time to catch it, because what was over the ancient well was the most important, he slightly looked at the direction of the gun, and shouted: "In the middle, quickly!" Xiong Zhuo had to put down the gun and run quickly towards the center of the village…
（To be continued…）