Everyone was nervous when they heard that there was a house, and it was not small. There was a house in the deep mountains, and it was a deep mountain that King Liang had ordered to prohibit others from entering 20 years ago. When they thought about it, it made people feel that there was a deep meaning.
Qin Fang frowned and chose a tree to climb up.
When Qin Fang climbed, Captain Lu and others also climbed the tree. There was indeed a house in the southwest. From their angle, the house was not small, but the rest could not be seen clearly because the house was among the trees and weeds.
Everyone got down from the tree. Captain Lu looked at Qin Fang and said, "General?"
Qin Fang said, "Tao Shan and I will take five people to investigate. You go and call for help to surround this place. The house is a bit far from here and we can't observe what's going on here. Unless we have been discovered when we arrived at the Beast Mountain, then if we have been discovered by then, we will have already made a fuss and it doesn't matter if we call for more people."
Captain Lu: "Yes."
Captain Lu took the remaining five soldiers down the mountain. He went to the East Suburbs Barracks to call for help, and the five soldiers called the other companions on the mountain to prevent them from going deep into the mountain and causing other movements.
Qin Fang and others continued to move forward. Actually, this stairway does lead to the house in the southwest. However, looking at the appearance of this stairway, it means that the people in that house have been walking for a long time. After the stairway, it turned into a stone road, which was very smooth.
Tao Shan: "General, there are things staring at us in the dark."
Qin Fang: "Yes, there are several of them, they should be wild beasts, ignore them." The eyes of wild beasts are different from those of humans. Only wild beasts can stare at them in this place without causing any noise. If it is a human, they will be discovered when they get close. After thinking for a while, Qin Fang explained, "Under normal circumstances, wild animals will not attack people, unless they are hungry, feel threatened, or when the mother is breastfeeding. If people or other animals approach it, it will also attack because it wants to protect the young. However, some wild animals are exceptions, such as tigers." When
Qin Fang was young, he often went to the mountains to play, so he knew a little about the wild animals in the mountains. Later, he served in the army at the border and went hunting, so he naturally summed up his own ideas. "Do you know why wild animals don't attack people?"
Tao Shan: "Why?"
The other soldiers were also puzzled.
Qin Fang said: "Because people are afraid of beasts, beasts are also afraid of people. In this world, people are the masters. No beasts catch people to sell, only people catch beasts to sell. So even though they are beasts, in the beasts' consciousness, they also know that we humans are powerful and dangerous. Therefore, unless it is a special situation, they will not take the initiative to attack people." This is actually similar to the psychological tactics in the art of war. If two armies are fighting, they will only test if they don't have a bottom line. But between humans and animals, there is no need to test each other, because humans have already occupied a dominant position.
Hearing Qin Fang say this, Tao Shan and others felt a lot more relieved. However, in order to prevent the beasts such as tigers and lions from monitoring them, they are still cautious.
However, they were right to be cautious, but here, they can rest assured. Lions live in grasslands, so they are the king among animals, but they are the king of grasslands. Tigers are also the king among animals, but they are the king of the forest. Therefore, there has always been controversy over which one is the king of beasts, the lion or the tiger, because they live in different places and cannot be compared.
And here, there will be no lions, so the only beast that Qin Fang considers dangerous is the tiger. But the tiger's living habits make it unlikely that it will come out at this time, because tigers basically come out at night to look for food, and during the day, they basically sleep.
Therefore, Qin Fang let the soldiers rest assured and not to pay attention to the beasts staring at them secretly. Of course, being at ease and not paying attention is not the same as being careless. In the wild, it is still necessary to be cautious.
The group walked for another quarter of an hour before they arrived near the so-called house. However, they were all dumbfounded. Because the house was surrounded by weeds, it was impossible for people to live there. So no matter how you look at it, it makes people feel incredible.
One of the soldiers said, "General, is there an organization here?"
Qin Fang said, "I don't feel that there are people here. Taoshan, you stay here to support, and the rest of you follow me in."
"Yes." One of the soldiers came to Qin Fang, "General, I will lead the way."
Qin Fang did not ask his own people to take the lead and take risks. He said, "You come behind me." If he encounters danger, his kung fu is better than the opponent, and he can always deal with it.
The soldier's heart was slightly moved: "Yes."
Qin Fang walked in front, leading five soldiers along the mountain road. Tao Shan hid outside, watching them go in, and was worried again, but there was no way, someone had to be left outside.
Not to mention, Qin Fang and others were very cautious along the way, but with Qin Fang's sharp intuition, he really didn't find anything unusual here. No matter how you look at it, this is an abandoned yard. Oh no, it's a Taoist temple. They arrived in front of the door of the house and saw the plaque on the door: Changshou Hall.
I don't know why, seeing this name, Qin Fang is more willing to believe that this is a Taoist temple. But who would build a Taoist temple here? King Liang?
Qin Fang couldn't think of anyone except King Liang.
"Everyone get ready to sneak in." Qin Fang reminded softly.
The door of the Taoist temple was open, or rather, the door had fallen to the ground due to being worn out. There was no door at all.
However, after entering the Taoist temple and walking a few steps inside, a sound was heard. The rustling sound was the sound of an iron chain being pulled on the ground.
Qin Fang: "Be careful, there is something inside, probably a person." The sound of the iron chain rubbing against the ground was so obvious, indicating that someone was moving. The possibility of it being an animal was extremely small.
Therefore, there was someone here.
Qin Fang drew his knife: "You guys hide and get ready for support. I'll go and take a look."
"Yes."
Qin Fang sneaked in with a swift movement and came to the place where the sound came from. He came to the window and could see the situation inside at a glance, because the windows were all worn out and could not block what was inside at all. But that's why he was surprised. The face of the person inside could not be seen clearly. His hair was disheveled, and his hands and feet were tied. He rolled on the ground, so there was a sound of iron chains rubbing against the ground.
He rolled for a while, and then lay flat again.
Qin Fang looked at it, really puzzled. Looking at the situation in the room again, it looked like an alchemy room. Oh, there was a piece of meat on the ground, bloody raw meat.
Qin Fang found that there was no one else in it, only the person tied with iron chains, and he climbed in through the window with light movements. Just as he was about to walk over, he suddenly heard a sound outside, and saw a figure coming in quickly from outside. Qin Fang tightened his hand holding the knife, it was really what he feared, the one coming in quickly was a tiger. However, this tiger was very old, and its old age was very obvious.
The tiger roared and stood in front of the chain man.
As the tiger roared, the soldiers came to the window: "General?" When they saw the tiger through the window, they were all shocked. "General, why is there a tiger?"
The man in chains was also shocked by the movement. He got up from the ground, then looked at Qin Fang, then at the tiger. He looked confused. It was obvious that he was not a normal person.
"Roar..." The tiger did not take the initiative to attack. This was not in line with the tiger's habit. Generally speaking, when a tiger sees its prey, it will pounce directly. Tigers are fierce. Whether it is speed or strength, they are the best, and they are not comparable to humans.
Even if the tiger in front of him is very old, it should not be staring at Qin Fang so vigilantly.
Qin Fang did not have any murderous intentions towards the tiger. In such a dilapidated Taoist temple, especially after the movement, no one else showed up, which meant that there were only the Chained Man... and the tiger in the temple?
The Chained Man was tied up and couldn't move, so how could he survive? Looking at the raw meat on the ground, the tiger was feeding the Chained Man?
Thinking of this possibility, Qin Fang found it even more incredible. Qin Fang didn't have any killing intention towards the tiger for the time being, and he found that the tiger didn't mean to attack him either. So, he turned his attention to the Chained Man: "Excuse me, do you understand what I'm saying?"
"Excuse me...Excuse me...Do you...Do you understand what I'm saying?" The other person's voice was hoarse, and this hoarseness seemed to come from a broken throat.
Qin Fang said, "Who are you? Why are you here?"
"Who...who?" The Chain Man looked at Qin Fang, "You...who are you?"
Soldier: "General, is this a fool?"
Another soldier said, "You are the fool. If he is a normal person, can he be here?"
Qin Fang: "Go search the other rooms and see if you find anything."
"Yes." The five soldiers left immediately.
"Silly...silly?" The Man in Chains shook his head, "I'm not a fool...I'm not, I am...immortal, I have the elixir of life. Yes, yes, yes, I want to make the elixir of life..." As he spoke, the Man in Chains walked around the house, "Where's the elixir? Where's the elixir of life?"
Qin Fang thought for a while: "Are you a Taoist priest? Are you refining elixirs here?"
The Man in Chains' eyes lit up when he heard this: "Yes...yes, yes, yes...I refine elixirs, I refine the elixir of life."
Qin Fang: "Do you know King Liang?"
King Liang?
The Chained Man wondered at first, then his eyes lit up: "King Liang asked me to make elixir, King Liang... King Liang wants to be immortal..."
Qin Fang came to some conclusions based on what the Chained Man said. This Taoist temple was built by King Liang, and the Chained Man should be a Taoist priest captured by King Liang to make elixir. The reason why he was captured instead of invited was because he was tied up with iron chains. King Liang has been dead for twenty years, so this man was captured twenty years ago, which means that he was most likely tied up here for twenty years. But how did he survive for these twenty years? Did this tiger raise him?
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