What I am about to read below is also the most critical part, the part we most want to know, how the professor and the two students entered the cave and how they found the Taoist priest.

One thing I'm confused about is that even experts like my cousin don't know where the ancient place names on the stone slab refer to today, but the professor was able to find out by looking up the information. This shows that the professor's Sinological attainments are indeed unfathomable. , In short, after the professor saw the address on the slate, he quickly figured out where it was, and took the two students to quickly feel it.

The professor said in the book that this expedition was the most challenging of all his expeditions, because the danger he was about to face on the mountain he was going to was not "physical", that is to say , It’s not that the terrain there is so dangerous or the natural environment is so bad, the professor knows that the danger they have to face is an extremely weird danger, a danger that is completely beyond human imagination.

It seems that the professor knows this mountain very well, so why is he so familiar with a mountain in a remote area of ​​China when he is far away in the United States? Although the professor's grandfather served as a missionary in China, his understanding of this mountain is not Not through grandpa, but through a very strange book.

It was a book written by a Jew, and it was written very early. It was probably written in the early years of the Qing Dynasty in China. In fact, this book was not published publicly, but was just some of the things the author wrote in his old age. After the book "China's Strange Experience" was written, I printed hundreds of copies, and then mainly shared it with relatives and friends.

The professor happened to find this book when he was looking for some books about China in the school library. However, when he first saw the appearance of the book, the professor was not attracted by the book because it was printed by himself. , so both the binding and the cover look very rough.

The professor just picked it up casually, intending to flip through it casually. He did not intend to read the book seriously, but as soon as he read a paragraph, he was deeply attracted by the book and could not put it down.

The professor clearly remembered that time when he opened this book one afternoon. Because he was deeply attracted by the content of this book, he read it almost continuously from the time he found it. After finishing, in addition to eating, he even went to the toilet. He couldn't bear to put down the book. He still squatted on the toilet, reading it like a charm, and read it from beginning to end, word for word. At night, he barely slept and read all night long. Not only did he read, he would sometimes stop and think over and over again.

The professor also thought at that time that this book was a thousand times more beautiful than "The Biography of Marco Polo". If it was officially published, its popularity would definitely exceed that of "The Biography of Marco Polo".

The Jews who wrote the book came to this place in the early years of the Qing Dynasty to do tea business. In the book, the Jews described some incredible experiences. For example, when they first came to this area, there were several Jews who had never been seen by the locals. The tea farmers who had passed away Westerners thought they were monkey spirits who had escaped from the mountains. They arrested one of the Jews and drowned him alive, because for those tea farmers in the mountains, they could not imagine that human beings could still exist. Look like that.

In addition, the book also mentioned that a Jew who had an affair with a local Chinese woman had a strange bug in his head. This bug had a body like a roundworm and a head like a human face. It was very scary. The Jew, He died because of this kind of parasitic bug in his brain, and after his death, the bug came out of the corpse's eyes, which was very terrifying. (When I read these quotes from the Jewish book in the professor's book, I felt very Surprised, because it is an amazing coincidence that the Jew who wrote the book turned out to be a Jew who did business here with Gao's father).

The Jew who wrote the book said that because he likes adventure, he often explores the mountains in this area when he has nothing to do. He said that he has the soul of an explorer. The more inaccessible places are, the more he wants to go, and in our area The mountains aroused his interest.

The mountains in our area are relatively steep in terrain, and deep in the mountains, there are virgin forests that are thousands of years old. Until the Republic of China, the population here was very sparse. Walking dozens of miles into the mountains, it is even more... There is no human habitation, so we locals don’t know much about this mountain. Most of us have been to the depths of the mountain all our lives.

The Jew who wrote the book felt that this mountain was very unusual not long after arriving in our area.

In a certain year, this Jew experienced a solar eclipse in our area, and it was through this solar eclipse that he felt the strangeness of this mountain.

At that time, this Jew was only in his twenties, but because he had been traveling around the world doing business with his elders since he was a child, he had a lot of experience. He had already seen total solar eclipses three times, which for ordinary people at that time It is not bad to say that you can see a total solar eclipse at most once in your lifetime, because it takes at least 450 years for a total solar eclipse to appear in the same place. Even a strange person like Gao Xiazi who has lived for more than 300 years may not be able to see a total solar eclipse.

It just so happened that when the total solar eclipse occurred, the Jew who wrote the book happened to be at the innermost part of the mountain, which was the farthest away from the inhabited areas. He could not see anyone for many months, and these were the Jews. What he expected was that he walked in the deserted mountains and was intoxicated by the beautiful and original environment of the mountains. The sky was clear and there was no cloud at all. But because it was early autumn and he was in the mountains at a high altitude, So the climate is cool and pleasant.

The Jew was a little tired after walking, so he sat on a boulder to rest. He took out the water bottle from his waist and drank some water. At this time, the cool mountain breeze blew by, making him feel refreshed and relaxed, so he lay down Standing on the boulder, squinting at the blue cloudless sky, I felt extremely comfortable.

Suddenly, he felt that the sky was getting darker, as if it was about to get dark, but it was only noon, and the sky was clear, and there were no dark clouds to block the sun. What was going on, but the Jew soon Understand, it was a solar eclipse. This change was the same as what he had encountered in the desert a few years ago. He suddenly felt really lucky that this was the fourth solar eclipse he had ever encountered.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the birds and various beasts in the mountains suddenly became very panicked, as if they had suddenly encountered some disturbance. For a while, all kinds of birds and beasts flew around and bumped into each other in a panic. Running away, but seemed not to know where to escape; the stars in the sky slowly appeared, and as the sky darkened, the stars became brighter and brighter, and there were more and more stars, and the day suddenly became brighter and brighter. In the dark night, the feeling is really wonderful.

Just as the Jew was sitting on the boulder, observing this wonderful change with great excitement, suddenly, he seemed to hear a strange sound. The sound was very much like a woman's moaning and breathing during sex, and as the sky changed, It became darker and louder, as if the entire mountain peak was enveloped in such a low, but very shocking sound. The sound seemed to come from the mountain. Not only that, the huge rocks under him also It was moving slowly, which frightened the Jew. He had seen solar eclipses, but he had never encountered anything like this during a solar eclipse. What was going on? Did he encounter some monster? Well, for a moment, the Jews were dumbfounded, not knowing what to do.

He suddenly wondered in his mind whether this solar eclipse could be a certain day in the world. Otherwise, why would there be such a strange phenomenon, and it would feel like the world is falling apart.

After a few minutes, the sky gradually brightened again and quickly returned to normal. The sun was still shining brightly and the sky was blue. Everything that happened just now seemed to be just an illusion and had never happened in reality. And that kind of The wheezing sound that made people's ears redden and their hearts beat beating slowly disappeared.

The Jew was still sitting on the stone blankly. For a while, he still couldn't react to what had just happened. Everything was too sudden and too strange. It took a long time for him to recover. Although Just like in a dream, so many incredible things happened in a very short period of time, but his reason told him that they were all true and really happened.

He jumped off the boulder and observed it carefully. He found that the boulder had moved a full five or six meters away. It was originally close to a big pine tree, but now it was several meters away from the big pine tree, and A bottomless crack appeared on the ground next to the boulder. This crack was also two or three meters wide. It was dark and eerie inside, which made people a little creepy. Was there an earthquake just now? The appearance of this crack was extremely scary. Like the consequences of an earthquake.

The Jew picked up a fist-sized stone on the ground and threw it into the crack. He thought he could hear the sound of the stone hitting the stone wall, but unexpectedly, after throwing the stone in, he did not hear the sound. Instead of any impact, there was a sound like a woman's coquettishness, which was very similar to the coquettish and complaining voice of a woman after being accidentally touched by a man.

What's going on? Is this a "monster mountain"? It's really weird.

The Jew was afraid that he had heard wrongly, so he saw a few more stones and tried to throw them into the crack. Yes, a woman's moaning sound would appear every time, and the bigger the stone, the louder the sound. The Jews had a strange feeling. It feels as if the mountain is a woman. When you disturb it in different ways, she makes various sounds like a woman.

The Jew suddenly felt horrified. He had experienced countless difficult and dangerous situations, but this was the first time he encountered such a strange phenomenon. He felt that he was brave enough, even in the dark night, alone in a cemetery in the wilderness. He had never been afraid before, but this time, he felt fear from the bottom of his heart.

He didn't dare to stay longer, but immediately walked out of the mountain, a little panicked and stumbled. He didn't think about anything else but to get out of the depths of the mountain quickly.

By the time he actually came out of the mountain, it was already midnight, and he was so exhausted that he felt numb all over and almost lost consciousness, but he finally made it to the foot of the mountain, where he often stayed at the house.

The family was sleeping soundly when they suddenly heard a knock on the door. At first, they did not dare to open the door immediately. Instead, they shouted loudly in the yard: "Who, what's wrong with knocking on the door so late?"
Chapter completed!