I then asked Songzi, "We have all gone into this sewer. It is full of chaos. How did you find the exact location and dig the hole?" Songzi smiled and said, "That's not easy. I know Feng Shui. Although the environment below is complicated, I still have a compass and a dragon-seeking ruler. Using the two together, I can basically lock a large area." With a little time spent eliminating some of the most unlikely places, you can finally lock in that spot. After saying that, he smiled and said, wasn't this how I found the center of the Witch King's soul?
When he heard this, Qin Bukong seemed a little impatient. He said, yes, yes, you know how good you are. Please tell us what you encountered when you were digging the hole. Why did you look like this when we found you? Sun Tzu, do you know that if we had been a day and a half later, you would have rotted into a pile of bones. You also drew a true picture of the Five Mountains on the side, and you did it with fucking blood. If plumbers see it in the future, do you want to scare them to death?
I couldn't help but burst out laughing, and then looked at Songzi. Indeed, I was also very curious about what happened at that time. Songzi calmed down for a moment, and then exhaled a long breath. It seemed that even though he was in the hospital now, he still felt frightened when he recalled the original scene.
He told us that he used the compass to lock the position and began to use Xunlongchu to find a suitable place to start. However, the underground pipelines were only built after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The materials used were reinforced concrete. This kind of place with steel bars actually had a great impact on Xunlong Ruler. So he had to go back and forth several times. When two or three consecutive overlapping and consistent directions appeared, he finally decided to drill the hole in that direction. However, the inner wall of the sewer is very hard. With just the few tools you bring, you are not qualified to drill holes. It may even cause the sewer to back up. Then you will become a sinner of the people.
I said yes, we found a lot of footprints going back and forth on the ground. It was probably because you were hesitating at that time. Songzi nodded and said yes, and then said that he then searched in the established direction and finally found a small slope. Although it was not the best location, it was the easiest location to dig. But when I dug more than two feet deep, I didn't dig again with the dragon-seeking ruler in the hole. I found that the dragon's head was pointing in the direction of the bottom of the hole, which meant that I had found the right place.
Songzi said, since the senior wants to bury something, then this thing must naturally withstand the years. Just like the stone box we dug out at the site of the Shadowless Tower earlier, it must have a solid appearance to withstand the passage of time. So I thought that what was buried underground should also be a stone box, but after I dug more than two meters into it, it was still just soil, and I began to have doubts again.
We have already dug so deep. If we don't dig now, all our efforts will be wasted. So he continued digging until the place where the shovel struck had become hard and without much moisture. When it turned into stone, he knew that he might have dug the stone box that contained the secret.
Songzi told us that she was very excited and more motivated at the time. I started digging along the stone, and gradually I discovered that the stone was indeed square in shape, so it looked more like the stone box we found earlier. However, as I dug, I felt an urgent need to urinate. When I came out of the hole to pee and planned to go back in and dig again, something strange happened.
The place where the surface of the stone was originally exposed was actually covered with a layer of mud in just a short period of time.
Qin Bukong and I looked at each other and thought this was really strange. I have heard that plants and fungi can grow wildly in a short period of time, but I have never seen mud do this. So I asked Songzi, did you see it wrong, or maybe you were tired at the time, or you were dazzled. Songzi said that with his personality, he would definitely not be so confused, but at the time he thought it was possible because there was no other possibility. Secretly keeping an eye on it, he had to continue digging forward, and once again the surface of the stone was exposed, so Song Nu stopped to see if it was caused by loose soil. After waiting for a long time, nothing changed.
Songzi said that he was a human being and not a machine. It was already a little late at that time, so he planned to rest for a night before digging. However, he was worried that it would be covered with mud again, so before leaving the hole, he embedded the shovel between the rocks and the mud. I inserted it into the gap, thinking that this way I wouldn't have any more hallucinations. So that day, I returned to the opening of the kiln manhole cover where I came down from. That place was relatively dry, so I simply spread it with my coat and slept there for the night.
I took out the piece of clothing I picked up at that time from my canvas bag and asked, "This is it, right?" Songzi nodded and said yes with a smile, and then said that you two are really amazing, you can actually find me like this. I felt a little ashamed, so I said, in fact, it was not me who found it, but Qin Bukong. He guessed that you might be here, so we came to try our luck. It can be regarded as a blind cat meeting a dead mouse.
Songzi pushed himself up with some difficulty, sat on the bed and saluted Qin Bukong, saying thank you to senior Qin for his generous search, and the junior was grateful. His tone was quite pedantic, like that of an old man. Qin Bukong said, please put down your cat paw quickly. There is nothing to thank you for. We were originally looking for something. Who knew you were there, so we saved you by the way. Songzi smiled slightly and said nothing. He knew in his heart that Qin Bukong was just being tough. This man with thorns all over his body had gradually become a little more humane after we had been together day and night for so long.
Songzi went on to say that after sleeping for a night, he secretly went to the ground to find something to eat the next morning without anyone noticing, and then returned to the sewer to continue digging. According to his own speed, it will only take another day at most before the stone box can be taken out, so that he can come back to us directly with the results to show that he is also a useful person.
But when he returned to the cave entrance again, he discovered that the shovel he inserted there last night was now covered with soil to the wooden handle. When he left the first night, he only inserted the shovel head. It was less than two inches deep, and most of the iron parts were still exposed. How could it cover more than a foot in just one night?
At the moment, he was not in a hurry to pull out the shovel, but lay down in the hole and observed the soil around the shovel. The soil was evenly distributed, no different from the surrounding soil. It didn't want to be covered with new soil suddenly, but more like digging a hole and digging a shovel. The strangest thing is that if you dig out the newly grown soil with your hands, you can occasionally find some tree roots, just like when you dug them out for the first time.
Songzi thought that something might go wrong now, but now that the matter was at this point, he was determined not to just withdraw. He thought that since the soil would cover him as soon as he stopped, he might as well not stop at all. At worst, he would get tired and get this thing out in one go. Immediately, he started to continue digging, but this time he dug more than one meter inward. The stone box that was still there yesterday was nowhere to be seen. It was as if he knew that the pine nuts were going to be dug up, so he moved his position.
What Songzi said made me feel incredible. I turned to look at Qin Bukong. Although half of his face was covered by his beard, I could still read a sense of surprise in his eyes. Song Zi is a person who likes to face difficulties. Seeing this situation, he suddenly became stubborn, so he kept digging towards the inner wall, and finally dug out the stone box again at a depth of more than two meters.
This time he did not dare to pause, but continued to dig deeper. After cleaning almost all the soil around the stone box, he also saw clearly the appearance of the box. In fact, it was not much different from the one we found earlier. , that is, the carvings are somewhat different, and even the opening and closing forms are the same, with a relatively closed lid. Songzi used a shovel to pry loose the part of the stone box that was sunk into the soil, and planned to slowly pull it out of the hole. Just as he was dragging it outward, he suddenly felt a cold feeling on the back of his hand.
Songzi said that at that time, he had spent a long time and his whole body was covered with hot sweat. At that time, it was like eating popsicles in the summer, the feeling of melted ice water dripping on the back of his hands. At that time, he felt this After it cooled down, he immediately turned to look at the back of his hand, only to find some red liquid that looked like blood, and this blood was slowly seeping out from the cracks in the lid of the stone box.
Originally, he could escape at that time, because something was obviously wrong, but seeing that he was not far from the entrance of the cave, he gritted his teeth and continued dragging out. When his body had just emerged from the hole, he planned to stand firm and hold the stone box. When he pulled it out, he suddenly felt a pain in his neck. He only saw a very blurry figure passing by. He didn't even see the person's height, fat and thin, and his whole neck was wet by a gush of blood.
He told us that he felt three very clear scars on his neck at that time. The three scars were basically parallel, and the middle one was the longest, as if he had been caught by a wild animal. At that time, while I was covering the wound to stop the bleeding, I was looking around for the figure who had hurt me. I didn't see anything, but I could hear the very plaintive moans coming from all directions in layers.
I asked Songzi what the moaning sound was like, please describe it. Songzi began to hold his throat, making a long-drawn-out "Ah..." sound mixed with a thick guttural sound.
