Night Watchman - C278

However, the only difference was that one could see the broken pieces of himself on the python’s body while the bodies of the missing people were hanging on the bodies of the griffins!

Although Li Kangsheng was like the vast majority of people present, receiving a red education, when they saw the frightening scene in front of them, they began to have a kind of fear towards the sculptures on the wall, and even began to believe the legends of the history of the mausoleum.

The tomb was built in the first year of Tang Guang Mansion and was built in the second year of Shen Long. It is the tomb of Li Zhi and Wu Zongtian, the ancestors of Tang Gao and Gao Zong. The Mausoleum Area used the original structure of the capital’s Chang’an City. Other than the main tomb, there were seventeen other small tombs that were filled with the royal family’s members and meritorious officials.

Rumor had it that Qian Ling had been robbed countless times, but without exception, all the tombs robbers came back empty-handed. Including the Yellow Nestled Intifada, there have been seventeen instances of large-scale excavations with names in the historical records!

The army of four hundred thousand from the Yellow Nest Intifada had dug up the entire Liang Mountain, but they hadn’t even found the entrance to the tomb!

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Kuomintang general, Sun Lianzhong, had also brought a regiment to search for the tomb. Although they had indeed opened the tomb door, in the end, they had no success.

Someone had specifically recorded the scene of Sun Lianzhong’s team leaving in defeat. He said that everyone, including Sun Lianzhong, was wounded and almost everyone was dejected. The entire army was like a procession of mourning, even the number of people had been reduced by more than half!

As a result, the more outrageous the rumors about Liang Shan’s Qianling became, the more they spread. The common people in the area almost didn’t dare to move around Liang Shan’s area, fearing that they would anger the ghost soldiers stationed in the mausoleum and bring about a fatal disaster.

Li Kangsheng had also heard of these legends. Although he had treated the legends as superstitious thoughts, he believed it when he saw the horrible and weird scene unfolding in front of him.

The way the people in front of him died was too strange. Some of them had their bodies pierced by the spikes on their heads, some of them had their ribs trampled by the griffins, and some of them even seemed to have been eaten by the griffins. The upper half of their bodies had already entered the griffin’s stomach, and only their ankles were exposed …

In short, the scene was extremely bloody and bizarre. For a moment, some of the cowards couldn’t help but scream as they charged out!

Although Li Kangsheng was still very young back then, when he saw this scene, he immediately fired a shot that shocked everyone. They waited for the voices to die down before they quickly returned to their original locations. And it all started at that moment!

When entering the tomb path, Li Kangsheng took the lead and walked at the front, but if he went back the same way, then the team would have to change to the front, and Li Kangsheng would naturally fall to the back.

They had only taken a few steps when the scene in front of them started to become chaotic. The crowd, mixed with screams, immediately retreated back into the tomb chamber as if they had gone mad!

Due to the large number of people, coupled with the fact that the people in front seemed to have seen something extremely terrifying, they had completely lost control after being frightened. They pushed and pushed their way back!

When a large group of people and horses were thrown into chaos, an accident would inevitably occur, and it was at this time that Li Kangsheng was knocked down by someone and was then stomped onto the ground by the large group of people.

When Li Kangsheng woke up, he was already lying in the township’s health clinic. However, after he woke up, he only saw Li Jianyi with wounded men. As for the others, they had all disappeared into the mountains, not a single one of them had returned!

In those days, spreading superstitious thoughts was bound to be capped, so Li Kang Sheng didn’t dare to reveal it, and could only privately talk to Li Jianyi.

However, Li Jianyi said that after hearing some weird sounds, he immediately fell to the ground to play dead. After that, in the entire tomb chamber, other than those weird sounds, there were only miserable screams! After all the sounds had stopped, Li Jianyi closed his eyes and touched back according to his father’s instructions. No matter what he heard, he would not dare to open his eyes.

And Li Kangsheng, it could be said that his life shouldn’t have ended. When Li Jianye’s blind man was trying to find his way back, he coincidentally tripped and fell right on Li Kangsheng’s body. Li Jianyi discovered that there was still someone with a heartbeat, so he dragged that person back in the direction of the wind until he ran into a mountain looking for his old branch book.

In just a few days, the huge village with a thousand people had become an empty shell! At that time, it could be said to be an earth-shattering thing! Naturally, the higher-ups sent people down to investigate.

At that time, Li Kangsheng was also a tough nut to crack. He directly told the whole story to the investigators.

The investigators obviously did not believe him, so they sent people to find Li Jianyi to testify for him. However, what they did not expect was that the old branch teacher’s family had actually gone missing!

The moment Li Kangsheng heard the news of Old Branch Book’s family’s disappearance, he immediately understood. The reason why the Old Ancestor’s family left was because they didn’t want to be dragged onto the arena. Only then did they leave.

It was precisely because he understood this point that Li Kangsheng’s brain turned around. He said that when he was searching for someone on the mountain, he ate a wild fruit due to greed, and what happened afterwards seemed to be both real and an illusion. In short, he couldn’t figure it out.

Li Kangsheng’s job was originally his father, so he was already familiar with some of the tricks used by martial artists and the raw materials needed for magic. Thus, he led the investigators and found something in the forest that the locals called the Epilogue Goat Fruit.

Later on, it was confirmed that this plant called the Epilogue Goat Fruit did indeed have the ability to make people hallucinate, which was why Li Kangsheng was able to get rid of his sin.

Later, Li Kangsheng was transferred to a provincial military hospital for treatment for eating poisonous fruits. As for how that matter was resolved, he had no idea.

After Li Kangsheng left the military district hospital, he also went back to the Ganling Village. But when he returned to that place, everyone in the village had already been moved, leaving behind a deserted village.

After many enquiries, Li Kangsheng finally found some information about the Qianxing Village and Liang Shan in a remote mountain village nearby.

According to the information he had gathered, on the third day after he had been transferred to the military hospital, someone had found the bodies of many people in the ravine. Most of those people had fallen into the ravine and died because of the landslide. Not long after, a large number of people entered the village. After that, every path that led to that place was sealed off. Although the people nearby knew what had happened there, no one knew exactly what had happened there. Not long after, the higher-ups began to arrange for the transfer of the remaining villagers. As for what happened there and where the villagers were moved to, no one knew.

There was another version. It was similar, but slightly different. When mentioning those who died in the ravine, one of the people who claimed to have participated in the search said that there were no injuries on the bodies when they found those bodies! If they fell into the ravine and died, they would usually suffer a head bleeding injury. However, on those people, other than footprints, there were no other fatal wounds! It was as if he was stepped on to death!

It was because of this difference that Li Kangsheng spent his entire life wanting to know the truth.

He clearly remembered what Li Jianyi had said to him before they entered the mountain, and if there really was someone else entering and exiting the mausoleum in perfect condition, besides that old branch book, he couldn’t think of anyone else!

After nearly a decade of covert investigations, he came across some clues regarding the matter back then. However, as the investigation progressed, more and more mysteries were revealed!

At an exchange meeting, he would occasionally hear someone talking about what had happened back then, and then he would hear from that person the names of the people who had been in charge of searching and transferring information about the village ever since he had left.

Soon after, after twenty people had been interviewed, he finally pieced together everything that had happened after he left the village.

Three days after he left, the higher-ups sent people to rescue him. However, as soon as they entered the valley, they found the corpses of dozens of people in a ravine.

Those corpses were just like the second version of the rumor. Other than the numerous shoe prints on their bodies, they did not have the slightest bit of injury! He was obviously stepped on to death by a large group of people!

After that, they concentrated all their efforts into searching around the ravine. However, after a week of searching, there was still no progress!

On the contrary, just as they were about to report to their superiors and request for more manpower to expand their search range, they suddenly encountered an old hunter in the mountains.

According to the hunter, there was a ravine at the back of the mountain. When he was hunting, he saw a pile of dead people in the ravine. He didn’t know why, but when he heard that there were troops there, he rushed over to inform them.

After hearing this news, half of the people in charge of the search immediately followed the hunter to the ravine behind the mountain. Then, sure enough, more than three hundred corpses were found in the ravine that the hunter mentioned!

At this point, including the first batch of Red Guards that entered Mount Liang first, all of their corpses were found in the ravine.

Li Kangsheng spent nearly half a year to visit everyone he could find in China, and also got them to describe the appearance of the old hunter verbally at the end. Almost everyone described the hunter’s appearance to be the same, and this person was the missing old branch master!