The cellar is not deep, and it is only two or three meters high from the ground. But because the dirt stairs are crudely made, narrow and low, they seem to have many steps, giving the illusion that the cellar is deep.

After Chu Yuan bent over and came in, the entrance to the cave was blocked by clumps of weeds. Blocked out by the light, the whole cellar was dark again. Luckily, both men were carrying flashlights, a new type of flashlight. Don't look at its small appearance. But there is plenty of electricity, and the light is bright. When the light is turned to a strong light, the luminosity can be close to the brightness of an incandescent lamp of 60 watts. It can also last for seven or eight hours. If you adjust to the power-saving mode, the light is similar to candlelight, and it can last for about three days. The cost of this product is very high. Therefore, only high-level departments are equipped and used, and they are not seen in ordinary places at all. At this time, both of them coincidentally adjusted the brightness to the highest mode. The cellar, which was already small, was immediately illuminated by two bright lights, as bright as day.

The cellar seemed to have been cleaned, with only a few fragments of broken clay pots except for the dead branches and leaves that had fallen from the hole. One side of this cellar is a rock wall, and the other three sides are filled with earth. The cellar was supposed to be shared by the whole village, and the space was dug deep and then covered with many wooden beams. But I don't know if it's in disrepair or for other reasons, more than half of the space inside has collapsed. It is probably that the people of the Dragon Soul came here to clean it up and dig up the soil again, but they can still clearly see the traces of collapse in many places.

Chu Yuan only looked at it for a moment, and then asked, "Is it here?"

The drunkard nodded, "Yes, that's it." He walked over to the rock wall, crouched down and reached out to pat the rock wall and said, "That thing is frozen here." ”

Chu Yuan shone around with a flashlight and asked, "What about the corpses of those monks you are talking about?"

The drunkard smiled: "I will be sent back to Shaolin Temple early." How can you let those senior monks abandon the corpse wilderness. ”

The drunkard shook his flashlight deeper into the cellar again. "When we found this place, there were four bodies lying in this place and that thing," he said. Later, when the clean-up was carried out, twenty-three more corpses were dug up from the collapsed mud and sand, and as for the remaining seven people, I don't know where they went, maybe some wild beast came in and dragged the corpses away, or died somewhere else while fighting the nine-tailed fox. ”

Chu Yuan walked over to the drunkard and squatted down. Reach out and touch the rock wall a few times. "There are no fluctuations in ice energy. ”

The drunkard rubbed his nose and smiled bitterly: "This is exactly what I think is strange, such a powerful ice energy suddenly disappeared without a trace, and I can't even sense a single element." ”

Chu Yuan looked up at it. "It's not about the environment. ”

The ghost agreed: "This is not a yin ** leyline, and there is no possibility of ice elemental existence. ”

"Since it's not an environmental factor, what is it that has frozen the nine-tailed fox here for five hundred years?"

The drunkard shrugged and said, "You ask me." I asked who was going? It couldn't be a human being. The human body is confined. Definitely not that capable......" When he said this, the drunkard seemed to be shocked by something, suddenly stopped talking and turned his head to look at Chu Yuan, who was also looking at him at this time.

The drunkard asked, "What are you thinking?"

"Just as you think. ”

"How do you know what I'm thinking?" the drunkard paused, then shook his head, "Not really. The nine-tailed fox can't have that much ability to use absolute ice to seal itself. If it can be used up with absolute ice. Not to mention that there are only thirty-eight Shaolin monks, even if all the monks of Shaolin Temple come, it will not be enough for it to see, let alone force itself to be frozen. ”

Chu Yuan asked, "Then do you have a better explanation?"

The drunkard smiled bitterly: "That's why I have a headache." What is it that can freeze the nine-tailed fox? How did it come out? It is impossible for such powerful ice energy to disappear as soon as it disappears, but they really disappear out of thin air. ”

Chu Yuan knocked on the stone wall, and instead of answering, he asked, "Why didn't you chisel this stone wall down with the nine-tailed fox and bring it back?"

The drunkard said angrily: "As soon as you get close, you will be frozen into a popsicle, who has the ability to dig the wall." ”

This is Chu Yuan suddenly let out a light "huh", stretched out his hand and touched the stone wall. "What is this?"

"What...... Hmm?" the drunkard finally came up with the idea that there seemed to be something carved on the stone wall where the nine-tailed fox had been frozen, as if it were two lines of small characters. It's just that these two lines of small characters are not like the words of any known country, and they are crooked and skewed, but they are a bit like ghost drawings. His yellow nails scratched at the words and said, "Hey, what is this?"

Word. ”

"Words?" the drunkard tilted his head and looked at it for most of the day, pointing to two lines of small words on the wall, "Do you know these words?"

Chu Yuan shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

"How do you know it's a word if you don't know it?"

"Guess. ”

“……”

Chu Yuan touched the two lines of small characters and said, "It should have been carved by the nine-tailed fox." ”

The drunkard was stunned: "How do you know?"

Chu Yuan patted the stone wall and said, "The nine-tailed fox is frozen in this position?"

The ghost nodded.

"And you can't get close?"

The drunkard nodded again.

"Then no one but the nine-tailed fox can carve these things in this place. ”

The drunkard nodded and said, "It's a bit of a point, but that doesn't mean that these are words, right?" Can't the nine-tailed fox just carve something on it to beat the time because it's too boring?"

Chu Yuan said lightly: "Extend it down and bring it back to the experts for study, don't you know." ”

The drunkard gave him a thumbs up and touched his pockets. However, all that was found in my pockets were two small flasks and a handful of paper bills that were dragged into a ball, and it was estimated that the money was also used to buy wine. He asked Chu Yuan, "Do you have any paper and pen?"

Chu Yuan shook his head slowly.

"What then, how can I expand without paper and pen?" the drunkard rubbed his chin and thought for a moment, and suddenly his face was overjoyed. I took off my coat three or two times, and was about to take off the yellow vest I was wearing inside. But when the corners of the clothes are just rolled up to the lower abdomen. The drunkard seemed to think of something and stopped. Then he looked at Chu Yuan with a strange smile.

Chu Yuan tilted his head to the side, pretending not to see it.

"Ahem!" The drunkard coughed dryly and was about to speak, Chu Yuan took a step forward and said, "Don't expect me to take off my clothes." ”

The drunkard yelled, "Little bastard." Do you know that you should respect the old and love the young? Can you bear to watch me, an old man, running around naked in this dangerous wood?"

Chu Yuan squinted at him and said lightly, "You can not take it off." ”

"If you don't take off your clothes, what else can you do with these words?"

"It's you who want to extend. Not me. ”

"Roast, I'm here to help you. ”

Chu Yuan said lightly: "It seems that I am helping you, right?"

"You ......" the drunkard gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. It took a long time before he said hatefully: "You are ruthless." With that, he simply took off his vest and tore off a large piece of cloth and stuck it on the two lines of words on the rock wall. Then a hand gently brushes it over the cloth. A line of water stains appeared on the yellow white cloth.

The drunkard carefully folded the white cloth into small pieces and put it in his coat pocket. Seeing that Chu Yuan looked at this piece of white cloth without any of his own with some doubts. The drunkard snorted and said proudly, "What are you seeing? This is my old man's mastery." Don't look at the words now, wait until you go back and let the fire roast it. Immediately the words came out. ”

Chu Yuan let out an "oh" and stopped talking.

The drunkard puts a white cloth in the jacket pocket of his coat. He put his coat on the outside with his bare upper body, and kept rubbing his arms and said, "Why is it so cold." ”

Chu Yuan glanced at him and said lightly, "Idiot." ”

The drunkard glared as if he had been stepped on by his tail and shouted, "Bastard." You still dare to say cool things. You have no public morality. Do you understand?" As he spoke, he took out the white cloth with the handwriting on it and shook it in front of Chu Yuan, and said, "When it is deciphered, you don't want to ask anything from me." You don't have to beg me, it's useless for you to beg me......"

"I don't ask you. Chu Yuan gently tapped his head with his index finger. said: "I remember this, I don't need your piece of cloth." ”

"Remember?" the muscles on the drunkard's cheek twitched violently twice. Gritted his teeth, he asked, "You...... Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Chu Yuan replied very seriously: "You didn't ask." ”

"......" After a long time, an earth-shattering roar came from the cellar: "Bastard, do you know how many years this vest has been with me!"

"Idiot ......"

When Chu Yuan and the drunkard returned to the base, the drunkard still looked like he didn't have a different face. As soon as he got off the bus, he didn't say a word like a gambling little old man, and plunged into the dormitory building until lunch.

Of course, Chu Yuan was indifferent to the drunkard's reaction, and besides, he didn't have the extra time to care about whether the gambling little old man was unhappy. As soon as I got back to base. Chu Yuan also plunged into the computer room, wrote the two lines of small words in his mind on the paper first, and then scanned them into the computer for analysis and verification. But he was busy until the afternoon, and Chu Yuan still didn't find anything. The small characters of these two sexes left behind in the sleeping place do not belong to any known script at all, and it is impossible to check the translation. Now the only way to do this is to pin the results on the drunkard's side, hoping that he can find a word expert to decipher these two strange lines of text.

Except for these two lines, Chu Yuan found nothing in the sleeping place. It was as if all the clues had disappeared overnight, leaving not a trace of them.

Where did the nine-tailed fox go? Was it really frozen for 500 years and then resurrected? Who made this absolute ice seal back then? How did it come out? Why did such a powerful ice energy disappear without a trace overnight, and even he, the ice control supernatural ability, could not sense the existence of the ice element?

Just as Chu Yuan was thinking, there was a knock at the door. The computer room is divided into an outer room and an inner room, and the outer room is a hall, just like an Internet café, which can be used by many people at the same time. The inner room is a separate room, and if you don't want people to know about it, you can lock yourself in the inner room and use the computer. At this time, Chu Yuan was in a separate room in the inner room.

Chu Yuan glanced at the two lines of strangely shaped text on the computer screen again, and after closing the program casually, he got up and went over to open the door. There were two people standing outside the door, a man and a woman, both smiling at him. It's just that the laughter of the two people is a little different, and the man's smile is gentle. It's like meeting old friends. And the woman is charming with a smile, and there is always a faint temptation between the smiles.

When he saw these two people, Chu Yuan didn't have much surprise, but glanced at the two of them very indifferently and asked, "It's your turn to be on duty again?"

This man and woman are the iron generals and roses who went to the airport to pick up Chu Yuan and the drunkard last time.

The Iron General shook his head and smiled, "No, it's still free time." However, the team leader specially transferred us back, not only us, but as long as the members who did not have a task have already received orders to come back. ”

"Yes. Rose said dissatisfiedly: "I have already gone abroad to travel, and I have been pulled back." "When speaking. Rose walked around Chu Yuan to the computer, and asked as she walked, "What are you doing with locking yourself in?"

The program that recorded two lines of strange characters had been closed by Chu Yuan just now, and it had not been saved in any way. Therefore, Chu Yuan did not stop Rose from approaching the computer.

The iron general asked, "Is something wrong?" This is the second time that the team leader has urgently summoned all the members of the group to come back. ”

"Second time?" Chu Yuan asked, "Is there another time?"

The Iron General nodded and smiled, "Yes." The first time, though, was a drill. Hopefully this time it's not a whim and another exercise. ”

Chu Yuan smiled faintly. Then he asked, "What didn't he tell you?"

The iron general shook his head and said, "It didn't say anything in the notice. Just asked us to assemble urgently. ”

"Oh. What are you looking for from me?"

Rose said angrily: "The team leader and the deputy team leader don't know what they're doing, we arrived early in the morning, but the two of them haven't come out of the room for several hours." We have nothing to do, the bandits said you are in the computer room, and I will come to you with the iron general. That's right. What were you doing?"

At this moment, all three of them raised a hand in unison. On each of them were wearing a watch of different styles, all three of which were vibrating slightly, and there was a small red light flashing on it.

When they saw the strange appearance of the watch, the three of them were slightly stunned, because this signal was the red warning signal of the dragon soul. Generally, it is only used if there is a heavy dà event. If every member of the team sees the red light flashing on their watch, no matter how important the matter at hand, they must get to the base in the shortest possible time.

The iron general sighed lightly and said with a wry smile: "Something really happened." ”