What Professor Holt took out from the wooden box was a piece of yellow paper about three fingers wide and half a foot long. On the paper, there were some complicated and difficult to understand line patterns drawn with cinnabar.
Xu Chuxiang recognized what it was at a glance.
As long as they are Chinese, there is basically no one who does not recognize the thing that Professor Holt is holding in his hand at this time.
That is the yellow talisman paper that Taoist priests often use in their practice.
Thanks to her extremely superstitious father, Xu Chuxiang has seen Taoist priests practice countless times since she was a child. After every battle, her father Xu Pingxi would invite Taoist monks to come to his home to perform the rituals. Or the whole country has been scolded by the president of the Republic of China, and he has to invite Taoist monks to his home to do the ritual. Sometimes he even asks the Taoist monk to come to his home to do the ritual if he loses money in gambling outside.
When Xu Chuxiang was a child, she loved watching Taoist priests do it, especially the Taoist priests who could light yellow talisman paper and then swallow it in one gulp. She thought it was particularly amazing.
Of course, when she grew up, she knew that these Taoist priests were often charlatans, and the yellow talisman paper was just made from eggshells and straw poles ground together, and mixed with egg whites. None.
Professor Holt now holds such a yellow talisman in his hand.
"As long as you burn this talisman, you can contact that extraordinary person. This is what Shi Zibin recorded in the manuscript."
Professor Holt continued to smile and said:
"As for why he threw such important things in the palace, I guess he might not want to contact the extraordinary person anymore. In fact, it can be seen from the words in his manuscript that Shi Zibin should have been suffering from the disease at that time. Severe mental depression."
"Okay, now let's see if the records in Shi Zibin's manuscript are true!"
Professor Holt took a deep breath of the cigar, and the cigarette end suddenly became brighter. Then the cigar in his hand came close to the yellow talisman paper, and the thin talisman paper started to burn.
He won't be able to swallow it...
Such an inexplicable thought flashed through Xu Chuxiang's mind.
Of course, Professor Holt did not swallow the talisman paper. The talisman paper, which was three fingers wide and half a foot long, burned quickly in his hand, then turned into a ball of blue smoke, curled up into the sky, and disappeared.
At this moment, everyone in the hall waited with bated breath.
Some people are waiting to see if the immortal will appear.
Some people are waiting for the opportunity to take action.
When Professor Holt was speaking, everyone seemed to be listening attentively, but in fact there were two people who only seemed to be listening.
These two people are naturally Shu Guan and Han Biao.
From the moment Professor Holt started speaking, the two of them kept exchanging glances.
The two flying knives were close to the skin under Han Biao's clothes. Following Han Biao's deep and slow breathing, and driven by the internal energy in his body, they slid from Han Biao's left and right chest along his arms like swimming fish. in the palm of your hand.
Shuguan slowly approached Larson, his hand on the handle of the sharp knife at his waist.
In fact, Shu Guan also heard what Professor Holt said. To be honest, he was also very curious about whether the talisman paper could really summon the immortal from more than two hundred years ago.
But compared to this curiosity, he was more concerned about revenge at this time.
Ten meters...
Eight meters...
Five meters...
Shu Guan approached his goal with extremely slow and hidden steps.
His target was Larson.
As for the other two mercenaries, they were left to Han Biao to deal with. This was decided during the exchange of glances between the two of them.
The talisman in Professor Holt's hand turned into the last wisp of smoke.
Shu Guan finally came within three meters of Larson. His waist was slightly arched, and his hand tightened on the handle of the knife, like a beast preparing to prey.
At this moment, no one or anything could stop Shu Guan from killing Larsen. Even if the immortal really appeared, he would kill Larsen first and then marvel at the wonder of this world.
Shu Guan kicked the ground with both feet, ready to fly out... Then, his body fell straight down.
The wonder of this world was beyond his imagination after all.
Because the moment he pushed his feet on the ground, the ground beneath his feet suddenly cracked, and a hole appeared.
This hole appeared inexplicably and suddenly, without any warning.
There was neither shaking of the hall nor abnormal sound of mechanical activation, otherwise Shu Guan might still be able to react.
At that time, the ground with a radius of two meters under his feet disappeared out of thin air and turned into a dark hole. Shu Guan fell into the hole.
"ah……"
An unexpected shout came from Shu Guan's mouth.
When he traveled to this world eighteen years ago, he fell from the sky like this.
Of course, this time, he didn't fall for that long, it only lasted about four or five seconds. He fell on something hard like a step and rolled down for more than ten meters before stopping.
Then Shu Guan sat up.
He felt a little pain in his butt.
So Shu Guan was silent for a short while.
He spent such a short time thinking about a question: How far did an object fall in total for five seconds?
This is a physics question that could be solved by junior high school students in the previous life on Earth, but Shu Guan had forgotten a little. Mainly because he was a liberal arts major before. What is the acceleration of a free fall? Nine o'clock or what?
It must be more than two hundred meters anyway!
Shu Guan estimated a rough figure.
Then the bigger problem came.
I fell from a height of two hundred meters, and the final result was a bit of pain in my butt?
Shu Guan knew that there was something wrong with his body. For example, his strength suddenly became much stronger, and his ears and eyesight became extremely sharp, but he really didn't expect that the problem with his body was so big.
In the past two days, he didn't have much time to think about his physical problems, and at the same time he was subconsciously avoiding them, because his physical problems were related to the strange dream and the old cripple.
But now it seems that this issue can no longer be avoided.
It seems that I am no longer an ordinary person, well, I should get rid of that.
"Haha... Miss Xu, look... there are really some secrets in this Taoist temple!"
Professor Holt's voice came faintly from above.
Shu Guan looked up and saw a hole high above his head, from which he fell just now.
There is also a step sloping downwards below the cave entrance.
Then Shu Guan quickly turned his head and looked around him, and found that there was a very broad space under the hall, and it was not dark, because there were many shiny beads inlaid on the surrounding walls. Each one is about the size of a pigeon egg, and the brightness it emits is roughly equivalent to a thirty-watt light bulb, but the light is much softer than an electric light, giving people the feeling of flowing water.
Could this be the legendary Night Pearl?
Such a thought flashed through Shu Guan's mind.
In front of the stairs, there is another passage.
At this time, Professor Holt's laughter came again from the hall above. Thanks to his extraordinary hearing, Shu Guan could hear the sounds above clearly.
"McGraw, take Carl and Larsen down to investigate first."
"Miss Xu, you will come down with me later. Haha, maybe this cave is the real Qixia Temple."
Shu Guan's eyes flashed and he walked quickly towards the passage.
