As the smelly water seeped into the ground along the soil and stones, only a layer of oil was left on the surface of the soil. Only then did I see clearly what was inside. Those things seemed to be made of glass, and they were all scattered. I picked up one of them, it was shaped like a peanut, crystal clear, and there were some fine textures inside.
This texture is somewhat similar to the cube I just chipped, but it seems that the hardness is not as high as before, and it is light and airy in my hand. But it looks particularly beautiful in the light. I jokingly asked Songzi, could these be the jewels left over from that dynasty? If so, we would be considered rich. If we just buy a few of them, why should we be considered Taoist priests? Why are we looking for the soul of the Witch King? I’m afraid I’ll be able to live without worries about food and clothing for the rest of my life.
Qin Bukong frowned on the side, seeming to have discovered something. Then he stretched out his palm to me and asked me to give him the "jewelry" I had just held in my hand. I said, what are you doing? Just give it to you as you said. You are not my father, do you want to keep it to yourself? Although he knew I was joking, Qin Bukong still rolled his eyes at me impatiently and said, "Take it, this thing is not a gem!"
When I heard it, I handed it to him obediently. In the meantime, Qin Bukong cleared the ground, leaving only many "jewels" of different lengths, and then began to piece them together. There are about ten pieces of this pile of transparent "jewels". The longest one is almost three inches long, and the longest one is also the thickest, about the thickness of an egg. It's just that although that one looks big, its surface is covered with cracks, and its transparency and luster are not as good as those of the smaller ones. And when Qin Bukong started to piece together these little things, the more I looked at them, the more panicked I became.
Because it wasn’t until he finished piecing it together that I discovered that it was a right hand bone. Fortunately, this is a jewelry product and not a real human bone. When I was comforting myself like this, Qin Bukong sneered and said, you idiot, this is a real human hand bone! Didn’t you become a jewellery? Don’t you want to use it to sell it and make a fortune?
His tone was teasing and sarcastic, which clearly humiliated me. So I said hard, what are you talking about? Your bones look like this? Are your bones transparent? But after I finished speaking, I felt weak for a moment and felt that my words were a bit strong. Qin Bukong pointed to the transparent fragments that we knocked off just now and said, these transparent things are formed by hardened materials such as stones and bones soaked in water for a long time. They are not ordinary water. You guys We also saw the layer of oil floating in the water just now. Although we don’t know what it is, these shiny-looking things are actually stones and bones!
I still said stubbornly, how is that possible? You said that the stone turned like this after being soaked. I may also believe that the bones are made of organic matter. After soaking for so many years, they have long turned into a puddle of water. How could it still be crystallized? At this time, Songzi pulled my sleeve and said, Situ, don't think it's impossible, this is really feasible. Just like some animal specimens are preserved in hospitals, they are soaked in a medical liquid so that they can be preserved for many years. And the water we poured out just now must be weird. Otherwise, wouldn’t the person who buried the stone box have worked in vain?
I thought to myself, if the senior didn't want the things here to be destroyed, he would naturally not bury it under the water. Since it was buried under the water, it means that he had already done some processing inside.
Although I didn’t understand at the time how the transparent right hand bone was formed, I learned from others many years later that if a liquid could extract the phosphorus material from the bone, leaving only As for carbon, it does take a long time for the substance with only carbon left to turn into a crystalline form. It's just that I have never learned this kind of chemical knowledge, and at that time, there were many things that I couldn't understand, and this was just one of them.
Qin Bukong said, among the things we can find now, the only things we can take away are this bead and this pile of hand bones. I don’t know if there were other things inside originally, but now they have turned into a puddle of water, so I’m afraid there is nothing we can do. Verified. It is said to be a breakthrough, but now it is more like leaving us with a puzzle, asking us to find an inevitable connection between these two things. Otherwise, it will be useless for us to take these things.
Qin Bukong went on to say, do you still remember that when we inserted the seventh vajra prong yesterday, the stone brick with the word "魑" popped out by itself, but the remaining stone bricks did not move? Songzi and I both nodded and said yes. Qin Bukong went on to say, let's make a bold guess. Only after we pass the first level can we trigger the second level, and the stone bricks in the second level should pop up accordingly. If that's the case, this isn't a challenge, but a treasure hunt.
I nodded, thinking what he said made sense, because we haven't encountered any trouble since yesterday. This doesn't feel like breaking through. So Qin Bukong said, in that case, let's stand still for the time being, put the stone box at the bottom of the pit again and backfill it, and let's take the rest back and study it.
At the moment, this seems to be the best and only way. So Songzi and I covered the lid of the stone box in a hurry, put it at the bottom of the pit, and buried it again. However, this time we did not compact the soil and stones on the surface to avoid future damage. Wrong direction and we have to dig again.
Just as we finished filling in the backfill and were about to leave, a man's voice suddenly came:
"Who are you and what are you doing here?"
The sound was very close, and from where we were, it would actually take a while to get here. However, none of us noticed when this person was approaching. After hearing the sound, I turned around and saw that not far behind Qin Bukong, there stood a man wearing a dark blue tunic suit and black-rimmed glasses. He was about fifty years old. He was not tall because of the winter. Although the Mao suit is not very warm, the clothes on his body look a bit bloated, as if there is a layer of sweater underneath the Mao suit.
According to Qin Bukong's temper, he would not pay attention to such a gentle-looking old man at all. On the contrary, I was a little worried that he would be rude to others, so I quickly got ahead of him and said, Sir, we are here to play, come to play. Yes, let’s go. But the man said in a teacher-like tone, scolding, "Are you kidding?" What's so fun? Is this where you should come?
I was talking nicely at first, but when the other party said this, I became a little unhappy. Firstly, there are no roadblocks here. Secondly, there is no barbed wire fence. Thirdly, it is not anyone's private land. How can we say it is not the place we should come? Seeing that the other person was an older man, I didn't say much. I just stretched out my foot and stamped on the newly filled hole, and then said to Songzi, "Let's go. It's really not much fun."
So after Songzi put her things on her body, she planned to go with me. But the man dressed as an intellectual muttered to one side, "If you are young and do not learn well, you come here to cause trouble. People like you should be arrested one by one, lined up and shot!"
I am a bit dumbfounded. Is this person mentally ill? To put it simply, although the world is chaotic, it is not chaotic enough to shoot people easily. Besides, where we are going, this is personal freedom, and this place is not a military restricted area. , anyone with legs can come, why don’t you learn it at a young age? Songzi couldn't help it anymore, so he said to the old man, "Sir, why are you running here? If you don't learn well, shouldn't you be arrested and shot together with us?" ?
The old man ignored Songzi's words and continued to mutter to himself, "If you don't obey me, you should be beaten!" There is a road to heaven, but don’t take it! There is no door to hell, you break in!
These inexplicable words made me realize that this old man must have some mental problems, because his words sounded so ridiculous. When I was about to tell Songzi to ignore him and let's go, I suddenly caught a glimpse of Qin Bukong's eyes. It was a cold look, full of hostility.
I suddenly woke up. From the moment the old man appeared, Qin Bukong didn't say a word. This really didn't look like his style. The old man kept mumbling, facing in our direction, Songzi and I They all thought that these words were spoken towards us, but in fact his eyes were never looking at us, but he happened to be facing our direction.
So I observed the old man carefully. His hair was neatly combed, and the blue tunic suit on his body was also very clean and tidy, with no wrinkles at all. On the left breast pocket, there was a pen stuck with the pen cap. It happened to be exposed outside the bag, and next to the pen, there was a badge with three red flags, and a badge with a leader's head glowing. What surprised me the most was the other person’s feet. A pair of black leather shoes looked clean and unstained. It stands to reason that if a person walked to where we are now, his shoes would not be stained at all. That is absolutely impossible, because there is nothing but mud here. But when I looked closely at his shoes, I discovered clues.
His toes were slightly raised, and the shoes did not feel any compression when he stepped on the soil. This meant that his body had no weight.
Turning to look at Qin Bukong, a trace of disdain flashed across his indifferent expression. It seemed that he had discovered very early that this old man was not a human at all, but a ghost.
