Among the archaeological team that returned from Banai, Jie Jiuye's people had taken the opportunity to sneak into the organization and destroyed relevant materials in large quantities. At the same time, they gradually replaced some key figures such as Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling.
Before 1984, Huo Ling who returned to the Huo family was "Huo Ling" under Jie Jiuye.
Although it is not clear how Xie Jiuye dealt with Chen Wenjin and the others (it was most likely that they were sent to Golmud Sanatorium, where they met the imprisoned brother, and then worked with Xie Jiuye to rescue the little brother), but after entering Xisha Previously, the real Huo Ling and Wen Jin used forged transfer letters to deceive the fake Huo Ling and Wen Jin into going to Changbai Mountain.
Later, when they were exploring the undersea tomb, something strange was noticed and it was directly used for longevity experiments and then imprisoned in Golmud Sanatorium.
These are the clues and conclusions that Zhang Zhuxun came to through his own understanding and analysis of the original plot.
He didn't intend to hide it from his little brother, so he told him all these inferences. There might be some errors in the details, but they were pretty much the same.
He couldn't tell Wu Xiaoxie and Wu Xiaoxie these clues orally, so he could only leave them messages on paper. But when facing his younger brother, he no longer had these taboos.
The little brother has experienced this personally. Although his memory is incomplete, his basic judgment ability is still very strong. What Zhang Zhuxun provided can help him connect the memory fragments together.
When Zhang Shuxun was analyzing, the younger brother didn't say anything right or wrong. He just listened quietly. Finally, he looked at Zhang Shuxun, his eyes paused on the right side of his face for a moment, and said, "Are you talking about this?" Looking for him?"
Zhang Zhuoxun was stunned for a moment, then realized that the "him" the little brother was talking about was Zhang Menyu, who left the fire mark, and nodded, "I did come to find him at first, but later I found out that the situation was more complicated than mine. It’s even more complicated than I imagined, and I have to finish the things he hasn’t finished yet.”
As he spoke, he couldn't help but laugh, "Mrs. Huo said that he once appeared under Zhang Qishan. Maybe you two have met."
"Maybe." The younger brother also smiled slightly.
The two continued to move forward, and after about a kilometer, a faint sheen suddenly appeared on the stone wall in front of them. It was not the bright light of a flashlight or sunlight, but a soft cyan warm light like fluorite warm jade.
The little brother put his hand against the stone wall, took two steps forward, turned back and looked at the stone wall when they came, thoughtfully.
Zhang Zhuxun pulled out his dagger and stabbed it hard on the stone wall. The tip of the dagger only made a very shallow white dot on it. He turned on the flashlight to the brightest and pressed it against the stone wall to shine in. It was discovered that there was a thin layer of ore between the glowing jade veins and the outside.
He spoke softly, "This kind of stone seems a little different from the ones we have seen in Milotuo Cave before."
The stone wall in front of me is closer to stone than the jade veins that Miloduo can travel through, and it is also harder, almost the same as the surrounding stones.
And this thing suddenly appeared here. Could it be that between the mountains, when Huo Xiangu and the others passed through, Milotuo was already following them with the sense of heat source?
Then why didn't Milotuo get out of the wall and attack Huo Xiangu and the others? He didn't think this thin stone wall could block Milotuo's attack.
Thinking of the strange and intelligent black-haired snake inside Milotuo, Zhang Zhuxun took a deep breath, and he suddenly had an ominous premonition.
Back in Snake Swamp, the pheasant necks they met had a certain social hierarchy like an ant colony. The ordinary pheasant necks were the lowest worker ants and were numerous in number.
The two golden-scaled pythons they met in the jungle were male snakes, but they were actually pheasant necks. The python they met in the underground shaft was the same male snake after shedding its skin. They were large in size and few in number. , responsible for mating with snake mothers and breeding offspring with the help of pheasant necks.
The snake mother under the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West is the "queen" of the entire snake group, and she is the only one.
If these Milotuos also have a certain hierarchy under the control of the black-haired snakes, then behind them, is there also a supreme ruling existence equivalent to the "Snake Mother".
If this is the case, then the Miluo Tuo who is following Huo Xiangu and the others in the stone wall is most likely under the command of High Miluo Tuo and is chasing or even driving away prey through the jade veins, thereby making it easier for High Milo Tuo to hunt and kill.
The stone wall under his hand still felt warm and cold, and Zhang Zhuxun couldn't help but feel a chill in his back. He raised his eyes to look at the younger brother, only to see that the younger brother's expression had also changed.
"Let's go." The little brother said, walked forward quickly, and finally started running.
Zhang Zhuxun followed closely beside him, both of them moving forward as fast as possible.
The smell of blood in the air became stronger and stronger, and there were a few sporadic gunshots.
When Zhang Zhuxun and the two arrived, Huo Xiangu was sitting upright on a chair, exuding the majesty of a superior. Three people were already lying in a pool of blood. Two people were kneeling in front of her, and her arms were in abnormal shape. His posture was slumped.
Huo Chushi, who was holding a gun, heard the sound of slight footsteps and immediately looked over with vigilance. After realizing that it was Zhang Zhu and the two of them, he did not let go of his vigilance.
Seeing that the accident here was only caused by man, the younger brother slowed down, reached out and touched the stone wall, and nodded to Zhang Zhuxun.
Zhang Zhuoxun smiled at the vigilant Huo Chushi and said lightly: "What's going on? It's worthy of the old lady being so angry."
Seeing the two of them coming, Mrs. Huo was a little surprised. After hearing this, she said calmly: "I dealt with a few things that were eaten inside and outside."
Zhang Zhuxun made a look of realization, "Then hurry up and let's get out of here as soon as possible."
Huo Xiangu heard the connotation in his words and waved her hands gently. Before the two kneeling Huo family members could say anything about begging for mercy, after two gunshots were fired, the expressions of horror on their faces had already froze, and their eyebrows were swollen. A bloody hole was made.
After the body fell, Huo Chushi had people drag him aside.
The Huo family members in the team did not dare to say a word. After this, they tightened their tails even more carefully.
Continuing forward, Huo Xiangu asked Zhang Zhuo about their loss of contact after patrolling the valley.
Zhang Zhuxun recounted it casually. After all, Huo Xiangu would definitely call the people who were with her to inquire after she left, so there was no need to go into so much detail.
Ten minutes later, the familiar light from last time appeared in front of me, and the sound of gurgling water rang in my ears. I opened the vines and walked out, feeling a cool and refreshing moist breath.
Outside this exit is a very beautiful waterfall, pouring down vertically from the cliff cut on one side, slapping on the stone slabs below. The sound of water vibrates, and the splashing water mist is vaguely visible under the refraction of the sun. Saw a rainbow.
The expressions of the Huo family were a little dull, and they almost had doubts about life written in big letters on their faces.
Seeing this scene, Huo Xiangu sighed softly, walked to a clean stone slab and sat down, thinking carefully about what went wrong along the way.
The steps were obviously the same as last time, so why was such a puzzling situation happening?
She looked at her brother and hesitated to tell her guess, "Could it be that some mechanism appeared in the stone passage, which gave us an illusion and made us go down the wrong path without knowing it. "
The little brother shook his head, "There is no mechanism."
Huo Xiangu didn't believe it. She still thought that they might have accidentally touched some mechanism and caused the movement of the tomb passage, but this was actually not acceptable.
If you want to move the entire tomb passage, the mechanisms that need to be set up cannot be described as huge, but are truly moving mountains and reclaiming seas. She doesn't think humans can have such inhuman abilities, even the Zhang family who once had great supernatural powers.
So, what exactly is the problem?
Huo Xiangu took out the three photos of the sealing stone codes from her arms and looked at them carefully one by one. If there was no problem with the first two sealing stones, then the problem must be with the third sealing stone.
"The Zhang family went to great lengths to set up a thousand-mile lock thousands of miles away. It must not be as simple as letting us open a door." Huo Xiangu said in a deep voice, "This is not in line with common sense, so the third door must have been sealed. question."
"You want to say that as soon as the third sealed door is opened, we entered an illusion? Or, the third sealed door is a trap?" Zhang Zhuxun did not deny Huo Xiangu's guess.
"Yes, let's go back and try again. This time we will send someone to tie the rope. If it is an illusion, then people outside the sealed door will definitely notice it." Huo Xiangu said.
Zhang Zhuoxun chuckled lightly, "Then have you ever thought about what if we go in again this time and we can't get out?"
Huo Xiangu's expression changed, "If we can't get out, it means we have entered the Zhang family ancient building."
Zhang Zhuoxun spread his hands and said, "Then please do as you please." After saying that, he walked to sit down next to the younger brother, took out two candies from his pocket and gave one to the younger brother.
Huo Xiangu stared at him suspiciously. Suddenly, the actions of the two people when they appeared flashed in her mind, and she asked tentatively, "Have you discovered something inside the stone road?"
"I did find something." Zhang Zhuxun deliberately let it slip, raised his chin to the other side where there were few people, got up and walked over.
Huo Xiangu winked at Huo Zhizhi, and then asked Huo Xiuxiu to help her walk to the other side of the waterfall. Huo Chushi and the others stood up neatly, separating Zhang Zhuxun and her from the Huo family members.
"You can talk now." Huo Xiangu had a hint of urgency in her eyes.
Zhang Zhuoxun said calmly: "Do you think the Zhang family is a benevolent family?"
"What do you mean?" Huo Xiangu frowned.
"Don't you think this is very strange? Why can we come out of here unscathed twice?" Zhang Chuxun continued to remind her, "Except for only receiving a few innocuous warnings."
Huo Xiangu already understood the meaning of his words, but she still insisted that this could not be a scam. The Zhang family's ancient building must be in Banai, and Style Lei could not go wrong.
Seeing how stubborn she was, Zhang Zhu could only say helplessly: "There is nothing wrong with the entrance. What is wrong is the way we entered. The reason why we can still breathe fresh air leisurely here is because the Zhang family set up a trap to protect future generations." A fault-tolerant mechanism is installed to avoid accidental killing of future generations. After all, no one can guarantee everything in the process of transmitting information."
"While opening the third door, we have already touched the mechanism in the stone passage, causing the original passage leading to the Zhang Family Ancient Building to divert to another road."
The wrong mechanism was activated, and Milotuo's movement also caused changes in the mountain. This is the secret of the mechanism originally set up by the Zhang family.
Huo Xiangu thought for two seconds and still denied: "If this is the case, the existence of this mechanism has no meaning. Everyone can keep trying, and there will be no danger even if they make mistakes."
Zhang Zhuoxun looked at her coldly, "Do you think the Zhang family will tolerate an outsider jumping on their ancestral grave three times in a row?"
Huo Xiangu was also a little sullen, "Since the stone gate is open, it proves that the password is correct. Since you said there is a limit on the number of times, let's go back this time and not enter through the main entrance. We can always find places that we have ignored."
After saying that, she let Huo Xiuxiu support her and turned around to leave.
Looking at her decisive and heavy back, Zhang Zhuxun understood her desperate decision. She had no choice, and everyone in the game had no choice. This was a predetermined fate.
Huo Xiangu directly announced that after everyone rested for a while, they would return from where they came out and carefully inspect every inch of the stone path.
As soon as these words came out, the Huo family had different expressions on their faces. Some were looking at Huo Xiangu, and some were looking at Zhang Zhu and them, trying to gauge the meaning of the conversation between the two parties.
After burning a stick of incense, the team geared up and returned to the passage.
All the processes were almost the same as before, except this time they were more focused. Everyone worked hard to search the stone wall inch by inch, trying to find the points they had overlooked.
But this time they found that the exit seemed to be extra long.
Originally thinking that they would have no success at all, they returned to the entrance of the camp. However, this time they walked three times longer than before and still could not find the exit.
They seemed to be trapped in an endless maze.
Everyone's faces showed panic, and they knocked on the stone wall, trying to find a flaw on it.
Huo Xiangu ordered with a stern face, "Go back, turn back."
Everyone turned back in a hurry, and the team was almost in chaos.
However, when they ran far enough, they found that the passage had changed again.
The few corpses that were left here before have disappeared. Not to mention the bullet casings, not even a trace of blood remains on the ground.
Someone finally couldn't hold on anymore and collapsed, "What on earth is going on? Who the hell did this? Come forward!"
Another person was also upset and said angrily: "What the hell are you yelling at me for? It wasn't me."
"Why the hell did I just yell at you?" The man immediately yelled back.
The bomb's burning line finally reached its end and exploded, filling the entire cave with all kinds of vulgar and obscene words.
The lamp shook, and I didn't know who made the move first. What started as a push quickly turned from a verbal quarrel into a group fight, with people from all groups fighting together.
Outside the battle circle, Huo Xiangu was protected by her confidants. She looked at the chaos over there with indifference, without any extra emotion in her eyes.
Good night Makabaka~
(End of chapter)
