He thought for a while, what is the Wu family's principle of doing things? In addition to being an excellent dog breeder, Grandpa seems to be famous only for his popularity, which does not seem to be a good thing now.
"Okay." Wu Xiaoxie sighed and found a place to sit down. "Little Master Jiu, what should we do now?"
"Let's think about it together, mistress." Xie Yuchen patted him and said with a smile, "Use your advantages."
Hearing this long-lost title, Wu Xiaoxie suddenly felt his heart twitch for some reason, and an inexplicable feeling of melancholy spread in his heart.
Perhaps because the two people's brain circuits are similar, he always felt that the smile on Jie Yuchen's face was a bit familiar. It was very similar to the same look on his face after he was forced to accept all the arrangements of his third uncle, which seemed numb and relieved. expression.
It is true that both of them are burdened with many similar things. In fact, in the end, you will find that there is nothing forced or unforced, only the helplessness of having no choice.
He might be angry and confused at the beginning, but the further he goes on and the deeper he sinks, the more he can feel that his third uncle's behavior seems to contain many unspeakable secrets.
And starting from Changbai Mountain, and then after the third uncle disappeared in Snake Marsh, Muyu, as his good brother, seemed to have taken over the compass from the third uncle's hand, especially during the trip to Banai some time ago, he could feel Muyu must have gone through something during the time he left, and only after returning did he reveal a hint of urgency in his actions.
He could feel the changes in Muyu. When he went to look for the ancient Zhang family building this time, he also knew that Muyu, like his little brother, had a certain purpose.
So when he saw that the wooden fish was the only thing missing from the photo, Wu Xiaoxie immediately thought about whether he had done something alone and worried that something had happened to him.
After knowing it was a false alarm, I breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, it was Muyu who caused the disappearance, and he was no better than the stuffy oil bottle of my little brother.
When the time comes, he will have three uncles and three brothers, Muyu, to look for him together. Thinking about it, he is extremely devastated.
Muyu seems to be easy to get along with, relatively easy-going, and doesn't care about anything in particular. But in fact, what can be seen on the surface is just an illusion. This invisible mask-like illusion is exactly what he wants you to see. of.
Only those who truly know him will know that it is difficult for this kind of person to warm his heart, let alone take the initiative to accept someone else, because there are really very few things he is willing to care about.
But the strange thing is that from the beginning of getting along, he could feel that Muyu was very good to him, and also very good to the little brother and the fat man. This kind of goodwill did not seem to be the result of getting along with each other over time, but more like the first time they met in junior high school. The kind that recognizes the other person is good.
Sometimes he would even have some funny whims, wondering if he and Muyu and the others were good brothers in the previous life, and Muyu was reincarnated with memories to find people.
"Time is running out."
Wu Xiaoxie couldn't help but think of this sentence.
This sentence once lingered in his mind like a nightmare, lingering in his mind.
Muyu seems to know a lot of things, and he seems to want to accomplish something in a hurry.
But he didn't feel helpless like he did when he faced his third uncle, who wanted to break the casserole and ask for the truth, but ended up in vain. He would not embarrass the other party. Perhaps it was because he had experienced too much in these days, Wu Xiaoxie felt that his state of mind was also different. Some unpredictable changes have occurred.
No matter what they wanted to guide him to do, he always believed that Uncle San would not harm him, and Muyu would not harm him either.
Something suddenly struck his palm. Wu Xiaoxie looked down and saw that it was a pack of beef jerky.
Jie Yuchen smiled at him, "What are you thinking about? You're so absorbed."
Wu Xiaoxie breathed a long sigh of relief, "No, I was just thinking that if we could directly contact Banai with a signal, we could directly ask Mrs. Huo what they did back then..."
The words suddenly stopped, and a flash of inspiration flashed in Wu Xiaoxie's mind, "Wait, signal, photo, yes, it's a photo."
Wu Xiaoxie suddenly became excited and said to Jie Yuchen, who looked slightly confused: "Xiaohua, our initial thinking was wrong.
Yes, my grandfather once told me, "When looking at things, you should not just be confused by their appearance, but you must break away from the inherent thinking." "
"As soon as we received the photo, we immediately thought that the things in the photo were the most critical clues to the incident and a reminder to us. But in fact, the photo itself was of little significance, because in the past, there was no such thing as taking a photo. Technical."
Wu Xiaoxie continued: "Because there was no such convenient technology as now, the most the Gu Zhang family could do to convey information was copying or simply relying on memory. However, these methods were ultimately flawed and they could not guarantee the details in the process. It will not be lost and is very unsafe, which contradicts the original intention of setting the key thousands of miles away."
Xie Yuchen nodded thoughtfully, "So, what you want to express is that the meaning that these photos want to convey is not just a simple relief image, but the meaning contained in them should be beyond the picture."
So, what is the meaning beyond this picture?
The two looked at each other in silence for a while.
Wu Xiaoxie was chewing beef jerky and thinking hard. He suddenly remembered something and immediately went to dig through the treasure box that the wooden fish in his backpack had given him before going to Banai.
He remembered that before leaving, Muyu had jokingly reminded him that if he encounters any bottlenecks in completing the task, he should find the note pad at the bottom of the box and take a look at it. It contains the tips and tricks he left behind.
Because the tone of his words was so inappropriate, Wu Xiaoxie thought he was deliberately making fun of himself, so he didn't take it to heart.
At this moment, I suddenly remembered that Wu Xiaoxie was also a dead horse and a living doctor. After all, Muyu is a member of the Zhang family, and it is perfect to use the thinking of the Zhang family to solve the Zhang family's institutions.
I quickly found the palm-sized white note pad, and when I opened the first page, I saw a cute sketched puppy with a line of words written on the side, "Puppy Wu personally."
Wu Xiaoxie: "Fuck..." His fist became hard.
Continuing to browse, the steps in front are all sketched out, such as what to do if you encounter a clay pot with long hair, and even mentioning that there may be problems with the air in the cave. Wu Xiaoxie couldn't help but sigh that this guy Muyu is really good. He knows things like a god.
When he turned to the end, Wu Xiaoxie's hand suddenly stopped because the penultimate piece of paper showed a messed up Rubik's Cube, and on the last picture, the Rubik's Cube was violently dismantled.
There is a sentence written below, "Break the confinement, emerge from the cocoon and become a butterfly."
Wu Xiaoxie immediately understood what Zhang Zhuxun wanted to express, and immediately turned to look at Jie Yuchen, "Xiaohua, I have... Huh? What are you going to do?"
Jie Yuchen was instructing the men to wash away the blood on the iron plate, and they had already put the pig down and put it aside.
Jie Yuchen packed up the simple equipment without looking back, "I plan to use a barbaric method to break through from the inside. What did you just want to say?"
Wu Xiaoxie thought for a moment and handed the note pad to Jie Yuchen, "Read this first."
Jie Yuchen finished browsing quickly and was silent for a few seconds. He became suspicious of the identity of the person named Zhang Zhuxun, "Is he really a member of the Zhang family?"
"I knew you would definitely say that." Wu Xiaoxie said clearly, "Of course Muyu is a member of the Zhang family, otherwise do you think Mrs. Huo would be so relieved to let him go to Banai with her? She must have investigated him long ago. It’s been eight hundred times.”
"What you said does make sense." Xie Yuchen chuckled and shook the small book in his hand, "But how do you explain this thing? It's hard for me not to doubt him and the group of people who entered here after the Nine Gates There is a connection between them.”
Wu Xiaoxie immediately denied it, "This is even more impossible."
Seeing that he was so sure, Xie Yuchen couldn't help but feel strange, "You deny it so firmly. Could it be that you have already guessed who those people are?"
Wu Xiaoxie hesitated, "I can probably guess it, but I'm not very sure. I just think that their behavior styles are very similar. Those people are also related to the things I have been pursuing. In short, we have a resolutely hostile relationship with them." .”
Jie Yuchen stared at his face, was silent for a long time, and suddenly said, "Why do you believe him so much? This is really hard for me to understand."
"Of course I believe him." Wu Xiaoxie put the note pad away and returned to the box to put it in. "My third uncle also believes in him."
Jie Yuchen lowered his eyelids. Wu Xiaoxie's behavior of unconditionally trusting people other than himself was very, very stupid in his opinion.
Because his experience over the past ten years has taught him that entrusting trust to others is tantamount to hanging one's head on that person's blade, and betrayal or not is only a matter of that person's thoughts.
So he will never have friends, and others will never be friends with him.
In his view, interest affiliation is stronger than any commitment.
"Have you not had any brothers who have died in all these years?" Wu Xiaoxie saw something from his expression, and suddenly felt that the experience of such a little flower must have been very painful.
Xie Yuchen's eyes moved slightly and he smiled suddenly, "There are people who have passed away, but they are not brothers."
"If you are like me and stay in this position for a long time, you will find that when you are alone, it is good for yourself and others."
Without expectations and trust, there will naturally be no betrayal.
Seeing that Wu Xiaoxie's expression was somewhat indescribable, Xie Yuchen patted him comfortingly and said nothing more.
The best way to restore a messed up Rubik's Cube is to cut out the pieces and reorganize them according to your own ideas.
The sacrificial plate without blood has returned to its original appearance, spinning slowly.
The two repacked the self-defense lighting items in their equipment, and then worked together to lift the iron plate, exposing the hole and using iron rods to support it to prevent the mechanism from suddenly starting and falling, trapping the two of them inside.
Wu Xiaoxie saw that there were two safety buckles in the box, and knew that since Muyu could guess that there were clay pots from the Queen's Mother Kingdom here, that kind of snake would naturally be indispensable, so he prepared anti-snake things in advance.
He handed one of them to Xie Yuchen, explained its purpose, and reminded: "In addition to the unknown thing you mentioned, there is probably a snake down here, a snake with a red comb that can imitate human speech."
Xie Yuchen shook the safety buckle. He had seen this thing in someone's hand. At that time, he thought it was from a tomb, but it turned out to be from here.
"Don't believe it. When we were in the Snake Swamp, there were swarms of pheasants chasing us with their necks. If we hadn't been protected by this thing, we would have been bitten to bloody skewers," Wu Xiaoxie said.
"I know." Xie Yuchen put away the safety buckle.
Then cut a piece of meat from the dead pig on one side, tie it with a rope, and lower it little by little from the hole.
I kept pushing it very deep, but there was no reaction in the hole.
Jie Yuchen was a little confused, but decided to go down and have a look.
Worried about a sneak attack from the tricky thing below, the two of them put an iron plate on their chests and backs as a buffer to prevent the thing from suddenly digging out their hearts.
"I'll go down first, and you can follow me after I signal the safety."
After Jie Yuchen finished speaking, he ducked into the cave entrance.
Wu Xiaoxie lay down at the entrance of the cave, with his heart in his throat, watching the light of the flashlight go down quickly, and was soon blocked from sight.
Five or six minutes later, light came up from below and flickered twice. Wu Xiaoxie breathed a sigh of relief, picked up his equipment, and got in.
The mechanism bearings at the bottom of the entire iron plate were very complicated, and were connected with countless iron rings and thick chains. It was intricate. Wu Xiaoxie carefully climbed on the chains and went down to Xiaohua. Only then did he have time to carefully look at the stone mechanism room here.
The lower part of the stone chamber is something like a water wheel, which is inserted into the mouth of a well below. The water in the well is turbulent. It is a living water vein in the rock. The water flow drives the gears and chains to the bearings, so the iron plate above will Endless rotation over the years.
Wu Xiaoxie lit up a cold firework and looked around, but did not see the thing that scratched Xiaohua, but strangely, the piece of bloody pork that was hung first was missing.
Wu Xiaoxie's eyes widened and he immediately looked at Xiaohua.
Xie Yuchen's expression was also solemn and he said softly: "The piece of pork is gone. I didn't see it when I came down."
Two people in a stone room
After searching carefully, no trace of pork was found, only a ball of blood staying at their feet.
"That thing must be hidden, it's very fast, we have to be careful." Xie Yuchen said solemnly.
Cold sweat broke out on Wu Xiaoxie's back, "What should we do next?"
The enemy is in darkness and we are in the clear, their situation is too passive.
But now that I have worked hard to get down, there is absolutely no reason to go back. If you want to know the answer, you have to pass this level.
Jie Yuchen pointed to the stone chamber wall on one side with the light of a flashlight. There were three cracks as wide as one person there, from low to high, much like a deliberately narrow corridor. All the chains extending from above were evenly dispersed and merged. In these three gaps.
The light moved upwards, and there were three or four meters high places on the top of the three gaps. There were feldspars hanging with chains. Under the feldspars, there were many pottery pots that they had seen in the underground palace of the Queen Mother of the West neatly arranged. Son.
