After treating the injury on Fatty's hand, Zhang Zhuxun also told him what they had encountered along the way. When they talked about the water pool in the cave, Fatty said that they had made a major discovery there.
The fat man touched the jade wall a few times and felt a burning pain in his palms. When he looked at it, he realized that his hands were rotten and he immediately realized that there was poisonous powder on the wall.
Later, they found a lot of bones in a slightly shallower pool. They belonged to people and various unknown beasts. They tried to use tools to fish out the bones, trying to find some clues on them. They found that the bones of those bones were The quality is very fragile, almost to the point of breaking when touched.
There were many small holes on the surface of the bones, as if they had been filled by ants, with no trace of blood or flesh remaining on them. They analyzed that there was probably some kind of tiny creature in the water that could not be detected by the human eye, which made them even more confused. Dare to go into the water to check.
If the waterway is impassable, we can only find other ways out.
At this moment, they heard someone knocking something nearby, but they couldn't listen carefully. They thought someone was trapped inside through the wall. It happened that the fat man had a detonator in his backpack, so they decided to use explosives to destroy one side of the cave. explode.
And because they remembered that Zhang Shuxun had said before that there was Milotuo that hunted according to the temperature hidden in the mountain, they prepared the strong alkali they brought in together, put on protective clothing, and then determined the location to explode.
The wall was thicker than they thought. Fatty used up most of his hidden explosives before blasting a hole in the wall, which was equivalent to using directional blasting to create a short tunnel directly into the mountain.
It turned out that there was more than one cave, which Zhang Zhuxun had not expected before.
Fortunately, Fatty came over. To be honest, Fatty was the only one who had the courage and ability to "blow up a way out". Others even wanted to blow up, but they didn't have so much inventory.
The arrival of Fatty also proved that this is indeed the end of the stone path, and the entrance to the Zhang Family Ancient Building is here.
But this is like a multiple-choice question with unknown options. Since there is more than one cave, no one knows whether the cave with the entrance is the one they are in now.
Their equipment was not enough to support them until they searched all the caves, so there was still no solution.
The fat man looked left and right, and suddenly had an idea, "Hey, do you think the reason why we came here is because of some unknown deception? It's like a ghost punching a wall. The agency is hidden, and we can only rely on us." It’s definitely not feasible to search hard like this.”
Huo Xiangu looked at him and asked, "Do you have any good ideas?"
"Fat Master suspects that the situation we are encountering now is the same as when we were in Yunding Heavenly Palace." The fat man sat down cross-legged and started the enumeration method.
"We might as well boldly hypothesize a few possibilities. First, there is a maze mechanism in this tunnel that we cannot understand, similar to the Qimen Bagua, or a more complex mechanism that can support the operation of the entire mountain."
The fat man raised his two paws wrapped in gauze and tapped his chin on the ground. "Come on, Muyu, write it on the ground for me."
Zhang Zhuxun took out a marker and wrote what he wanted.
The little brother had been staring at the wall, but when he saw this, he also sat over.
"The second possibility." Fatty deliberately lowered his voice and said quietly, "That is, the Zhang Family Ancient Building is not actually in our time and space. It has transcended the limitations of time and space, but the passage to that time and space has not yet been opened, or Said that time has passed, but it’s a pity that we arrived late and missed it.”
As soon as this statement came out, everyone's expressions became a little weird. They looked like they didn't believe it, but there seemed to be a voice screaming in their heads telling them that this is it, that's it, otherwise how could they have encountered such inconveniences? Nonsensical, unexplainable situation.
The atmosphere was solemn, and even Huo Xiangu couldn't help but start to doubt this possibility. Fatty cleared his throat and said the third possibility, "There is another possibility, that is, ghosts cover their eyes, and we met and Like a little black ghost child, or something more powerful than it, we are trapped in a ghost wall."
What the fat man said was true, and everyone couldn't help but follow his train of thought and start thinking carefully. Compared with the second unbelievable possibility, it was easier for them to accept it.
"How to verify?" Huo Xiangu asked.
"Simple." The fat man shook his head, "If it's a ghost breaking into the wall, we can test it by burning a rhinoceros and looking at the ghost."
As the old saying goes, "Don't dare to burn a raw rhinoceros. If it is burned, it will smell strange and stick to your clothes and belts, and people can communicate with ghosts."
The fat man decided to sacrifice his gold-touching talisman again. He raised his head and motioned to Zhang Zhuxun to take the gold-touching talisman out of his neck.
Zhang Zhu touched it, took it out and looked at it, only to find that there were two of them.
One is that after the rhinoceros horn gold-touching talisman was burned in Yunding Tiangong, he used his free time to borrow Pan Zi's hand and collected a black gold-touching talisman at a high price from the old northern tomb robbers who had washed their hands in gold basins. , said to be passed down from his family’s ancestors.
I don’t know if it was passed down from ancestors, but the thing is indeed a genuine pangolin claw, black and shiny, and extremely hard.
The other one was much newer than the one he gave Fatty. It had the same style, was black, and had a layer of gold runes on it.
"Both of them are pangolins?" Zhang Zhuoxun asked, "Then I'll burn a hammer."
"The new one is fake." Fatty explained, "Last time I bought the fake gold-touching talisman from Da Jinya. I went to find Ya to settle the account, and I pulled out another one from his hand. I saw that old boy had a sly look on his face. With his expression, I knew this must be fake."
Zhang Zhuoxun took off the new one, took out a lighter and lit it, then held the burning rhinoceros horn in a circle around everyone. The small green flames made people panic.
After walking around the stone path, he went to the cave again and stayed at the end of the cave for a while.
Everyone held their breath, followed him quietly three meters away, and looked around.
However, the result was disappointing. Not to mention a ghost, not even the shadow of a ghost was found.
The rhinoceros horn touched the golden talisman and burned most of it. Zhang Zhuxun put out the fire and returned the remaining half to the fat man.
The fat man rubbed his chin with the back of his hand and murmured: "Is it because the ghost's hiding ability is too powerful this time and it's not afraid of rhino horns at all?"
"What should we do?" Huo Xiaoli asked anxiously, "Is there any other way to get rid of evil spirits?"
"Of course there is to remove evil spirits..." The fat man was about to say something, but he stumbled over his words. He changed his words before he came out, "There is... there is black dog blood, a big rooster, black donkey hooves, small glutinous rice, and a dozen Fighting ghosts under the rice dumplings.”
Huo Xiaoli looked at him speechlessly, and said with a sad face: "Fat Master, it's already this time, please stop joking. No matter how useful what you said is useful, we don't have it on hand now."
"Then there's nothing we can do." The fat man put away the rhinoceros horn and walked back to the place where he had just written in the stone path. "Cross out the third one and let's verify the first two."
Huo Xiangu glanced at her brother and Zhang Zhuxun a few times with some uncertainty. Just as she was about to speak, Zhang Zhuxun beat her to it.
"Don't think about it, Qilin blood only protects against poisons and insects, it is useless against ghosts."
Every drop of my brother's blood is precious. Even if it is useful, he will not let me bleed him. What's more, there are no black little devils here. Bloodletting is a waste.
The fat mother finally managed to use various tonic soups to replenish the little brother and him a little bit of blood, but with a single cut, there was nothing left.
Although Huo Xiangu was doubtful, she didn't say much.
The idea of a mechanism was rejected by Fatty. He had realized when he was blowing up the cave before that if the mechanism wanted to operate unconsciously, then the mechanism buried in the wall must not be large, and the place where it should be placed would not be large. Not very deep.
But the jade wall is more than six meters long, and there is nothing inside. Besides, the little brother also said that there are no mechanisms here.
The second is that they have no choice, not only physically, but also mentally and physically. They have determined that they can't get out, there is not even a glimmer of hope, and waiting for death is the only option.
Even Huo Xiangu felt a hint of despair. She focused her eyes on the pool again. Just as she was about to speak, the fat man suddenly jumped up, "There is another way!"
Without paying attention to the people around him, the fat man pulled Zhang Zhuxun and his little brother, "Come on, let's verify the fat man's conjecture together."
As he spoke, he pushed Zhang Zhuxun and his younger brother toward the entrance of the cave. He backed away and said, "We have people standing at both ends of the stone path. The people at the entrance will not change. If the exit of the stone path can move, , when walking back through the stone path, the mechanism is activated, and the person guarding the entrance will definitely see the movement of the stone path."
After speaking, he used the hand whose fingers were not completely wrapped in gauze to make a cheering gesture to Zhang Zhuxun and the two of them in front of his chest with a smile.
Zhang Zhuxun looked at the fat man who had stepped back two or three meters. The moment his eyes met the other person's eyes, his heart was shocked and a wave of panic arose. He was a little unbelievable, but the look in the fat man's eyes told him that he was sure. s answer.
Fatty already knew, and based on his long-term tacit understanding, he guessed it.
So he took advantage of the verification agency's opportunity to let Zhang Zhuxun and his younger brother leave the team and do what they wanted to do.
The cave is indeed the end point, the end point left by the little brother and Zhang Zhuxun to the fat man.
His eyes suddenly felt sore. Zhang Zhuxun lowered his eyelids and took a breath, "Brother, let's go."
The younger brother nodded silently, and the two of them turned around and walked into the cave step by step.
Huo Xiaoli leaned against the stone wall listlessly, holding a compressed biscuit in his mouth feebly. Thanks to his previous experience in the ancient building waterway at the bottom of the lake, although he was a little desperate, he did not completely collapse. After seeing the situation, he thought about it, and then jumped up and down. He trotted over to catch up with the fat man, "Fat Master, I'm coming with you."
Huo Xiangu waved her hand, and Huo Chushi immediately brought someone with him and waited in the middle of the stone path.
On the other side, after Zhang Zhuxun and his brother entered the cave, they walked around the pool on the ground without stopping and walked straight to the end of the cave.
The two finally stopped at the place where Zhang Zhuxun had stayed for a little longer when he was circling with the burning rhinoceros horn.
"Turn out the lights." The little brother said softly.
Zhang Zhuo turned off the flashlight, and the pale green jade light in the cave immediately surrounded the two of them.
The little brother moved his shoulders a few times, made a shrug with his arms and pulled them together inward. At the same time, his body twisted a few times strangely. He only heard a few soft clicks, and his whole body suddenly lowered a little, and then squatted down. He took care of the trouser legs of the protective suit, stood up and slightly raised his head to look at Zhang Zhuxun.
"..." Zhang Zhuoxun couldn't help but take a few glances at Xuan'er above his head, then looked at the green wall, stretched out his hand and gestured, okay, it really has to be reduced to this little bit.
Then he moved the big joints, used a shrug to dislocate the bones, and then quickly reorganized them. The same went for other joints.
Okay, now both of them are 1.5 meters tall.
The little brother closed his eyes, reached out and touched the wall, then turned sideways and bumped into the wall, and immediately hit the fluorescent light. The green light swallowed him up, and he was gone in the entire cave. traces of existence.
Zhang Zhuxun clicked his tongue lightly, then closed his eyes, felt a narrow gap in the jade wall, and slipped in sideways.
They still closed their eyes and walked forward little by little. The space here became wider and wider as they went back. Zhang Zhu estimated that he should have walked more than fifty meters.
Suddenly there was nothing under his feet. Zhang Zhuxun did not expect that this would be the case ahead. He stumbled for a moment before he stepped firmly. He opened his eyes. There was no longer the fluorescence of jade. His eyes were all gray with a little black shadow. He was standing on a stone pillar. In front of me, I was looking at something with concentration.
He walked over and took a look and realized why the brother didn't turn on the flashlight.
The stone pillar was engraved with complex and simple patterns, but these patterns were not all the focus. There was a fluorescent light from the top of the stone pillar, passing through some of the patterns, and converging on the base of the stone pillar.
The space here is larger than the cave just now, as big as two basketball courts, slightly higher than a one-story bungalow, and it is a sealed space.
There are many similar stone pillars with carved patterns at the back. These stone pillars are made of stalactites that originally hung from above to the ground, and were repaired into regular column shapes, with these messages carved on them.
Looking around, the stone pillars here are densely packed, and there are no rules in their arrangement.
So if you want to get out from here, the focus is still on the fluorescently marked lines on the stone pillars.
The little brother has turned around to look at the second stone pillar nearby.
Zhang Zhuxun also picked a stone pillar and carefully studied the patterns on it.
At first glance, there seemed to be nothing unusual about the place marked by fluorescence. After Zhang Zhuxun's eyes followed the fluorescence, a sudden inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately turned around to look at the pillar that the little brother was looking at just now, his fingertips. Xukong traced it, and then looked at the third one.
"No, this isn't it." Zhang Shuxun murmured and walked a little further inside, "Strange, this isn't it either."
Did he guess wrong just now?
It shouldn't be, he could draw this pattern in reverse even with his eyes closed.
Wait, draw it backwards!
He immediately turned to look at his little brother, only to find that his surroundings had been submerged by stone pillars at some point.
The little brother who was just at arm's length from him was gone!
Thanks to the boss [who was most naive when he was young] for the reward, which is bigger than a big heart ()
(End of chapter)
