The whole village looks small, but there is a mysterious cave, and the entrance of the cave is guarded by two villagers.

The two didn't speak, the old man took me directly into the cave, there is no other cave as imagined, it is an ordinary cave, but it is not damp, this patriarch does not live in a good house, does he live in the cave?

This cave is not very high, normal adults can touch the top of the cave with a strong jump, the road under the feet is quite smooth, it looks like someone has repaired it in the later period.

We kept walking inside, and then we met two more villagers, but both of them wore a leather-faced mask on their heads.

The two men didn't speak, but directly opened the wooden door on the cave, and the old man walked in first, and then I followed, and the old man followed behind him.

When I entered this door and began to walk down, I thought to myself, the patriarch who has lived for more than 3,000 years, isn't that a monster! How can anyone live for 3,000 years?

At a distance as high as a three-story building, a huge black iron curtain appeared in front of us, I reached out and touched it, it was cold to the bone, I had already been cold and heated, I could actually feel the coolness, which showed how cold the big iron sheet in front of me was.

"What kind of material is this? I can't feel it when I stand in front of it, it's so cold when I touch it. ”

"It seems that you are really the descendant of General Tianfeng, this is the Extreme Northern Xuantie, ordinary people touch it, which touch it and it will freeze into ice ballast in an instant, you touched it and only hurried to the cold, it is already very human. ”

If you touch a piece of black iron sheet, you are very human? You are very human when you live so old!

Bypassing the Iron Curtain, there is actually a paradise behind it, not only pavilions and pavilions, but also small bridges and flowing water. In the pond under the small bridge, there are lotus flowers that have just bloomed.

In front of the largest attic, there was a huge stele, on which was a stone tablet as transparent as blue ice, and I did not recognize any of the words on the inscription.

There were four people in black robes and masks standing on both sides of the attic, the old man bowed to the four black-robed people, the four black-robed people nodded at him, the old man turned his head to look at me, and motioned for me to go in with him.

The attic was brightly lit, and a hunched old man stood in the hall with a golden cane.

The old man knelt down at the hunchbacked old man, "Patriarch, this is the descendant of General Tianfeng." ”

The hunchbacked old man nodded and motioned for the old man to stand down, and the old man kowtowed, got up and went out.

"Sure enough, it looks exactly like Tianfeng. ”

I looked at the strange old man in front of me, "Have you seen Tianfeng?"

The hunchbacked old man nodded, "I've seen it, I'm still a defeated soldier under him, he spared my life back then, so that I can survive to this day." ”

I tried to think about it, but I didn't have the slightest impression, "And what's your name?"

"My surname is Jiang, and no one has called me by my name for more than 3,000 years, and I have forgotten what my name is. ”

"You can live for 3,000 years, what is the difference between that and immortality, and what is the secret of your longevity?"

The hunchbacked old man raised his crutches and pointed outside, "The secret is the stone tablet outside, if you can understand the secrets on it, you can know that our longevity is not a blessing, but a curse." ”

"Since ancient times, everyone has pursued immortality, and you can live forever, and you actually call this a curse?"

"There is reincarnation in the way of heaven, there is yin and yang in the world, there is life and death, this immortality itself is against the sky, how is it not a curse?"

Saying that, he walked slowly in front of me, "Since you are the descendant of General Tianfeng, then you must have heard of Xue Yao, right?"

I mumbled, "I've heard, what's wrong with her?"

If I'm not mistaken, Xue Yao should be called Jiahui in this life, and she inherits Chiyou's bloodline.

When I heard this, my eyes almost didn't pop out, "What are you talking about?" Jiahui is Xue Yao?"

The hunchbacked old man looked up at me, "Listen to you, you've already seen Jiahui?"

Not only have I seen her, but I have been married to her.

"Yes, but how did you figure it out?"

He stretched out his left hand, and a dark gray tortoise shell appeared in his hand, "Tortoise shell divination was learned by me more than two thousand years ago, and I was proficient in it more than a thousand years ago. ”

"You didn't count me coming?"

"I calculated, the gods descended from heaven to lift the curse for my clan, if nothing else, it should be you. ”

Although I don't believe it, the other party has lived for more than 3,000 years after all, and there is no need to lie to me, even if he is not that old, looking at his appearance, he is not too young.

"Then how am I supposed to help you lift the curse?"

"It's that stone tablet, which has a way to lift our curse. ”

"But I don't know the words. ”

"It's normal not to know, in the past 3,000 years, I have searched all the ancient books in the world, and I can't find the source of the words on them. ”

I turned around and came to the stele, stretched out my hand to touch the huge, the hunchbacked old man came up and hit my arm with a golden cane, don't look at the old man is quite old, his hand is quite strong, and it hurts me very much.

"Why did you hit me?"

"This beast can't be touched?"

I rubbed my arm with the red mark, "What's there that can't be touched, isn't it just a stone carving?"

The hunchbacked old man tapped the ground with his cane and shouted hysterically: "Don't be rude, this is not a simple stone sculpture, but the patron saint of our clan, if it weren't for it, we would all be swept away by the flood." ”

"Okay, I don't touch it. ”

I flew directly down on the back of the old man, turned my head to look at the hunchbacked old man, "I stepped on its back directly, you have nothing to say about this, right?"

The four black-robed men ran up to the hunchbacked old man, who pointed at me with his cane, "How can you be like this, even if you are the descendant of General Tianfeng, you can't be powerless against our divine beasts." As he spoke, he looked at the black-robed men on both sides, "You guys, get him down for me." ”

The black-robed man clasped his fist at the patriarch, then faced me, opened his hand, and a huge iron rope fell from the thick sleeved robe, and the four black-robed people stood in four directions, threw the iron rope together, and hit me in this direction.

On the side of my body, I dodged the two chains, then reached out and grabbed the other two, and with a sharp swing, the two black-robed people took off and dragged them directly.

When they couldn't fight back for the time being, I turned to look at the blue transparent stone tablet, although transparent, but very bright, I stood in front of it, I could see myself in the stone tablet, the face was exactly the same, but it was not the blue coat I was wearing now, but a suit of armor.

I looked at myself in the mirror in a daze, and I slowly realized that there was a person standing behind me in the stone tablet, no, it should be said that it was a monster with a tiger head and a human body. I jerked my head back, and there was nothing behind me. The hunchbacked old man and the four black-robed men all knelt on the ground, their heads bowed.

"Why are you all on your knees?"

The five of them were silent, and I continued to observe my stele.

When I reached out to touch the stele, the picture on the stele changed again, and it became a graceful girl, but this girl, I never seemed to have seen before, and I suspected that what was in front of me was not a stele at all, but a transparent monitor, and this hunchbacked old man was purely teasing me.

Of course, this year flashed by, I quickly reached out and touched the stele, it was not as cold and piercing as I imagined, it can be said that there was basically no temperature, neither cold nor hot. It's really a peculiar stone tablet, and I don't know what material it's made of.

While I was thinking about it, the iron curtain at the entrance began to rise slowly. If I hadn't known that behind the Iron Curtain was where I had entered, I would have thought that this Iron Curtain would open and some behemoth would come out from behind.

The hunchbacked old man and the black-robed man got up at the same time to look at the place where the Iron Curtain had risen, and when the Iron Curtain was fully raised, a faint ray of sunlight penetrated down from above, right on the stone monument behind me.

I quickly moved out of the way and let the sunlight shine completely on the stele, and the blue transparent stele slowly turned into a transparent color, and the inscription on it seemed to come alive, writhing back and forth.

"What's going on?"

The five people below were already at a loss, so I had to jump off the back of the bunch first.

Suddenly, the stele exploded with a "bang", and the pieces flew everywhere, and the black-robed man surrounded the hunchbacked old man with his back to the stele.

I saw two glittering golden objects in the place where the stone monument was, and flew forward. One of them is a black ring with a groove and the other is a blue gemstone.

I reached out and took the two objects in my hands, and the golden light disappeared instantly. I put the ring on the middle finger of my right hand, and then I put the blue gem on the groove of the ring, as if there was a suction, and with a "snap", it was firmly set on the groove.

I raised my right hand and looked at the ring against the sunlight, and the inscription slowly emerged from the ring.

"What kind of baby is this?"

As soon as I said this, the hunchbacked old man and the four black-robed people fell to the ground in an instant, and I quickly jumped down to them, the hunchbacked old man's skin was rapidly withering at a speed visible to the naked eye, and age spots were all over the body, and the same was true for the four black-robed people.

In less than five minutes, the five people in front of me were already skinny and bones, no different from dried corpses.

What's going on? Is this ring the secret to their longevity? If I take the ring away, how many people will die in the whole village?

When I got here, I immediately ran out, and sure enough, the people who were waiting at the door and the people who had brought me in had fallen to the ground, their faces were haggard, their hair was white, and they could not survive.

I saw the old man who brought me in, and quickly walked over, "Are you okay?"

The old man stood against the wall, "I don't know what's going on?" My body suddenly seemed to be emptied, and I was tired, what happened inside?"

"Your patriarch is dead, and so are the old people. ”

The old man looked at me with a surprised expression, "How can this be?"

I showed him the ring, "I just put this ring on, and they're like this, do you know what it is?"

The old man grabbed my hand and looked at my ring carefully.

His hands were not at all as strong as they had been when I met him in the morning, and their palms were wrinkled, lifeless, and had several age spots.

"I haven't seen this thing either, did the patriarch give it to you?"

"No, it's the stone tablet on the body of the gentleman who was illuminated by the sun's rays, and when it cracked, it was the ring inside. ”

The old man grabbed my ring-wearing finger tightly, "Could it be that the secret of our village's longevity is all because of this ring?

He looked at me as if he was going to eat someone, "What now? This ring can't be restored, and the stele can't be returned." ”

"I don't care, you can't take this ring anyway, quick, give it to me. As he spoke, he began to jerk down.

But this ring is like growing on my hand, no matter how hard the old man tries, the ring is not moving, but the old man is lying on the ground with his chest covered, only breathing, no breathing, and it seems that he can't live.