In front of the bronze coffin.
The five people were silent for a long time.
A long while.
"Sisi, on our way up just now, did you notice anything was wrong or anything strange?"
After hearing Meng Lian's words, Si Si closed his eyes and began to recall in his mind.
After a moment, she shook her head slightly.
"No, I just modeled the situation of this mountain in my mind. We are walking up the wooden steps. There should be no large darkrooms on the walls of the mountain."
"If there are other possibilities in this mountain."
As she spoke, she fixed her gaze on the blue pool.
"Is there..."
After understanding what Si Si meant, several people frowned.
In fact, when they first entered the mountain, everyone noticed the extremely unreasonable Bitan that existed in this pool.
Because this pool of water looks really weird.
That greenish green color does not come from ordinary algae, but seems to be mixed with some substance in the water, dyeing it an almost completely opaque green.
Meng Lian patted the coffin lid reluctantly and said through gritted teeth.
"Let's go! Since there's nothing we want up here, let's go down!"
When going down, the wooden steps looked more frightening than when they came up. The feeling of being doomed if one foot was missing made the fat and thin people in the team who were relatively experienced couldn't help but shake their legs.
All the way down, by the time the five people walked down, the time had already reached three o'clock in the afternoon unknowingly.
Standing in front of Bitan, Meng Lian stared at it for a long time, then picked up a few pebbles and threw them towards the Bitan.
When the stones hit the pond, they don't shoot out little splashes of water like ordinary people use stones to float water, but like they are thrown into oil with a relatively high viscosity.
After throwing a few stones in succession.
Meng Lian frowned slightly and said: "There are hidden piles in the water, thin man. Go out and get something to eat, and then find a longer wooden pole to come in."
Seeing the thin man climbing up the wall with a few light steps and getting out of the gap, Meng Lian sighed softly and sat on the ground staring at the Bitan.
"Boss, this pool of water may not be really dangerous, right? How about I go down and take a look?"
Xiao Bai couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard Shi Laoer's words.
Where did this warrior come from? He actually said that this place may not be dangerous and wanted to go down and see for himself. Is this serious?
Meng Lian decisively rejected this proposal.
"Fat man, stop making trouble. This kind of green water is no joke. I've seen it in other places before. This water has no buoyancy at all. Let alone people, even ducks can't flutter if they fall in."
"Just wait and wait, don't rush."
Seeing Meng Lian's bad expression, Shi Laoer didn't speak again after all.
Ten minutes later, a backpack full of food was thrown in through the gap.
It took another half an hour before the thin man came through the gap with a bamboo pole more than four meters long with twigs and leaves removed.
After taking the long bamboo pole, Meng Lian put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands and walked towards Bitan again.
As Meng Lian continued to test the bamboo pole into the pool, his brows continued to frown.
After a while, he withdrew the bamboo pole and put it aside, then returned to the people who were eating.
"There is some trouble. There are many stone pillars about ten centimeters below the water. They are most likely some kind of mechanism."
As Meng Lian finished speaking, Xiao Bai saw Sister Si in the team frowning.
Xiao Bai also understood that this person's role in the team was dedicated to cracking various hidden weapons.
Obviously, even she found this underwater mechanism to be extremely troublesome.
After all, it can't be seen clearly or touched. Judging from the simple preliminary inspection close to the shore, there are at least hundreds of underwater stone pillars.
And if this number of stone pillars are really some kind of mechanism, it would be almost impossible to open the mechanism without any clues.
Seeing her bad expression, Meng Lian sighed softly.
"Sisi, there's no need to worry. The supplies we carry can still sustain us staying here for another two days."
If it can be cracked within two days, that would be the best, but if not, we will map the positions of all the stone pillars, take them back to study, and come back after a while.
…
Soon, after eating, Meng Lian and the others began to use wooden sticks to determine the positions of the underwater stone pillars one by one while it was still light.
Every time he determined the location of a stone pillar, he marked a point on the paper laid aside.
After getting busy, in just two hours, he mapped out the locations of more than thirty stone pillars before the sky completely darkened. It could be said that he had surveyed the entire surrounding area of Bitan.
But that's all. The diameter of the Bitan in the mountain is nearly a hundred meters. Meng Lian and others were worried about accidentally touching the mechanism, so they did not dare to step on the stone pillars and continue to explore the inside of the Bitan.
Seeing that the situation had reached a deadlock, Xiao Bai, who was sitting aside, was pulled to the pond by Meng Lian.
"Xiao Xiao, let me lend you some blood."
Before Xiao Bai could react, Meng Lian took out a sharp knife and cut Xiao Bai's finger.
A few drops of blood fell into the green water.
Seeing Xiao Bai suddenly withdrawing his finger, Meng Lian didn't pay attention.
He squatted down and stared carefully at the spot where Xiao Bai's blood was dripping, hoping to see if the Gu could change the green water and make it clear again.
few minutes.
Ten minutes.
Seeing that the clear water remained unchanged, Meng Lian sighed and sat back in the tent disappointed.
Originally, he brought Xiao Bai here thinking that maybe the Gu worm in Xiao Bai's body could be the key to unlocking something, but now it seems that he is overthinking.
The sky was getting dark, and because of the two days of traveling, everyone went to bed early.
Dream.
Xiao Bai felt that the stars in the sky had returned to his side.
Just like last night, he kept climbing up the stairs in his dream.
while walking.
Xiao Bai stepped on the air and fell from a height.
After an instant feeling of falling, Xiao Bai saw Bitan getting closer and closer to him.
Just when he thought he would fall into the pool of water, the stars surrounding him slowly dragged him back.
Immediately afterwards, the stars swam away from him one by one and landed on the water surface, paving a star path leading to the center of the pool.
As the stars left one by one, his body slowly descended and sank into the water after a moment.
With a strong sense of suffocation, Xiao Bai suddenly woke up from his sleeping bag.
He looked at the stars on the top of the mountain and unconsciously got out of his sleeping bag and stood up.
After a while, Xiao Bai discovered that the starlight passed through the hole on the top of the mountain and was refracted by the bronze coffin and fell on the Bitan. It actually paved a star road that led directly to the center of the pool. Xiao Bai couldn't help but rub it. Eye.
He didn't expect that his dream would coincide with reality. If he hadn't woken up at this moment, he would never have seen such a scene.
