The other party took us to a lakeside villa before stopping: "Let's go in first." ”

I've been quietly watching the house since I got out of the car. This villa seems to be pure and luxurious, but in fact it hides murderous motives, and traces of traps and ambushes can be seen in many places, and some of the methods are very similar to those of hunters in the mountains.

The owner of the villa is either extremely afraid of death, or he is on guard against someone.

The man took me into the living room of the villa and sat down, and then said slowly: "My name is Chen Mingyu, and I am the person who did business with Chen Hui back then. ”

I looked at Chen Mingyu: "You also have a heavy weapon in your hand?"

Chen Mingyu said calmly: "Yes, it was brought out of Fuxian Lake." Although I didn't die in the lake, I felt worse than death. Over the years, I have been avoiding the water god, and I have always wanted to get the heavy weapon in Chen Hui's hand back. ”

I asked in a deep voice, "The Chen Hui you said is the owner of the antique shop?"

"Yes. Chen Mingyu said, "Back then, we entered the underwater temple together, and only Chen Hui was safe and sound. He must have secrets that we don't know. I kept asking Chen Hui, but he wouldn't say anything, and we turned around. ”

"Huh?" I couldn't help but frown.

The dead ghost Chen Hui said that they turned their faces on the spot when they came out of Fuxian Lake, but Chen Mingyu said that they turned against each other after the fact, and there was a big discrepancy between this issue alone, and it seemed that Chen Hui did not tell the truth at that time.

I looked at Chen Mingyu and said, "Can you tell me about the situation at that time?"

Chen Mingyu looked at me in reverse: "I still say that, how can I believe that you can deal with the water god?"

I naturally looked at Chen Mingyu and said, "Boss Ma is a well-informed person, didn't you hear that the bodies of three water gods were found by the lake this morning?"

Chen Mingyu was obviously stunned: "No." ”

This time it was my turn to be stunned. We didn't go out of our way to clean up the corpse of the water god at that time, after all, we can't completely eradicate the corpse. Instead of hiding and bringing trouble to yourself in the future, it is better to throw the trouble to someone else to deal with.

According to my thoughts, even if the police block the news, there will be legends from the people near the lake. But how could Chen Mingyu say that he didn't hear the wind? Could it be that the corpse was taken away by other water gods?

No way!

I immediately dismissed my idea. The few times I saw the god of water was at night, which proves that the god of water is also deliberately hiding his whereabouts. It was already dark when we left the lake, and it was impossible for the water god to disappear for no reason.

I couldn't figure out the whereabouts of the water god's corpse for a while, so I naturally put this matter aside for now. The top priority is how to get Chen Mingyu to believe in us.

When I didn't know how to explain to Chen Mingyu, Ye Xun had already pushed open the guitar box, took out a spirit rune from it and put it on the table: "This can be proven, right?"

Chen Mingyu's eyes lit up: "You are Maoshan disciples?"

The Qing spirit runes on Maoshan are unique, and some spirit runes can even be traded as antiques. Chen Mingyu is doing business in the secret door, it is impossible not to know the Maoshan spirit rune, the other party just glanced at the spirit rune, and his eyes can no longer be pulled out.

Ye Xun casually put away the spirit rune: "Do you believe it now?"

Chen Mingyu's attitude suddenly took a big turn: "I offended just now." Wait a minute, I'll have you drink and make amends. ”

Ye Xun said casually: "There is no need to make amends, if our senior brothers don't come out...... I won't meet you when I come out to practice, and I don't need to drink your wine. You just have to do what my brother says. ”

I have to admit that sometimes people who don't like to squeak are more effective in deceiving people. Ye Xun is definitely not a disciple of Maoshan Mountain, otherwise, he would not be like me, and he can't even tell what the water god is. He probably got the talisman somewhere.

Ye Xun didn't say a word since he saw Chen Mingyu, but he said these words just right now, which just gave Chen Mingyu the illusion that he disdained to communicate with the other party, which was the pride that a disciple of the great sect should have.

I looked at Chen Mingyu: "I want to know what happened back then?"

Chen Mingyu said: "Back then, several of our brothers went to Fuxian Lake to fish for goods, but we met a ghost-faced shark ......."

The first paragraph of Chen Mingyu's narrative is roughly the same as Chen Hui's, but the rest of it has completely changed. They weren't chased into the temple together, the only person who entered the temple was Chen Hui himself, but Chen Mingyu and they hid somewhere else, until they saw Chen Hui swimming out of the temple with the heavy weapon, and then they thought that there might be something life-saving in the temple, and Chen Mingyu went into the temple alone.

I heard this interrupt and said, "What do you see in the temple?"

Chen Mingyu said: "I only saw heavy weapons scattered on the ground. I saw that it was similar to the thing that Chen Hui had taken away, so I grabbed one of them and escaped. I didn't see anything else. ”

I hesitated for a moment before saying, "Show me a picture of that heavy weapon." ”

"Wait a minute. Chen Mingyu quickly took out three photos, one of which was the one I saw in Chen Hui's hand. One of the other two photographs shows a cylindrical bronze vessel with a pattern like an ancient script cast from top to bottom, and from the curved lines of the pattern, it looks more like a piece of bark.

In another photo, it is a disc that looks like it has been buckled upside down, with an extremely flat bottom and undulating bumps at the top.

I looked at it for a long time before I said, "Do you know the order in which the three photos are arranged?"

Chen Mingyu arranged the three photos in the order of the bottom of the copper pillar and the top of the disc: "Chen Hui said that this was what he looked like when he first saw it, and I don't know if he was right." ”

After reading it, I couldn't help but gasp: "Does this bronze still have a base?

Chen Mingyu shook his head and said, "I don't know either." Except for Chen Hui, no one has seen the whole picture of the bronze. He wouldn't say anything, and we fell out. ”

Ye Xun asked in a deep voice, "Do you see something?"

I said with a solemn face, "This could be a World Tree. ”

Ye Xun and Chen Mingyu asked in unison, "What do you mean?"

I slowly explained, "There were legends in both Persian and Greek mythology that resembled the World Tree. Legend has it that the giant tree is home to immortal fruits, and it is also home to all kinds of life, such as plants and animals, and it is also connected to the world. ”

"The top layer of the canopy is connected to the heavenly realm, and the trunk part is the human world, and the roots rooted in the earth are connected to the underworld. This is called the World Tree. ”

Ye Xun heard this and said, "What you say are all foreign myths, what does it have to do with us?"

I continued: "There are similar sacred trees in Chinese mythology. The building wood recorded in "Huainanzi" is a world tree. Legend has it that ancient emperors such as Fuxi and the Yellow Emperor traveled between the heavens and the world through Jianmu. Chen Mingyu: The temple they entered should be a witch temple. ”

"According to the tourist brochure, the underwater ancient city of Fuxian Lake should have sunk to the bottom of the lake more than 2,000 years ago, when Yunnan had not yet accepted Buddhism and Taoism, only Wumen activities. It is very likely that this bronze tree was the object of worship of the witch sect at that time. ”

I reached out and moved around the photo: "If I'm not mistaken, these three photos should be reversed, and the section with the soldier should be at the bottom, with the tree trunk at the top, and the round celestial realm at the top." ”

Ye Xun retorted: "But the section with the soldiers obviously has a dome, shouldn't it be connected to the heavenly realm?"

I shook my head and said, "You think to yourself, how can the soldier be in mid-air, and that ghost-faced shark, can it fly in the sky? What I'm thinking now is, do those water gods come from above or below the World Tree?"

Ye Xun couldn't help but say, "You mean, that World Tree really exists?"

"Yes," I nodded heavily, "where did those water gods come from if it weren't for that eternal tree that could give birth to life? So, I'm sure that the World Tree is just below Fuxian Lake. ”

Ye Xun was puzzled: "If the real world tree is in Fuxian Lake, why do those natives want to build a bronze tree? ”

I waved my hand and said, "The more sacred it is, the more it should be in the hands of a very few." The reason why legends can be obsessive is because they allow you to see a very small part of it, but not the whole picture. In this way, the person who has recently approached the myth is the spokesman of God. If everyone knew the secrets of the gods, would the ancient wizards still be equal to the gods?"

Ye Xun looked at me in surprise and said, "How do you know these things?"

"It looks like it's in the book. "I didn't lie to Ye Xun, these things are indeed what I read in books. My family has been collecting all kinds of ancient books since my grandfather's generation, and all the legends recorded in the books are all kinds of legends, and other people read fairy tales when they were children, but what I read when I was a child was myths.

My dad didn't want me to touch those things, but my dad was very indulgent to me, and he explained to me little by little some things that I couldn't understand. But he wouldn't let me go out and talk about those myths. He said that all the books he got were evil books, and the things in them couldn't be counted, and it made people laugh when they told them.

But I don't think so, I always think that my grandfather's myths are more interesting. I could instantly recognize it as the World Tree, all with drawings from a book. However, what is in the photograph is plausible to the drawing.

When I was looking at the photo, Chen Mingyu suddenly said: "I think the water god is under the tree." ”