Chapter 232: The Underground Palace
Yan Bo, who was standing behind me, didn't understand what I was saying, and followed me out of breath.
"What's wrong?"
I didn't speak, and the light of the flashlight froze in place for a moment. The seven identical doors in front of him were lined up, all of them black and hollow, and there was no difference to be seen. Not only was I dumbfounded, but even Yan Bo was dumbfounded, looking at the scene in front of me in disbelief.
I ignored Yan Bo's expression and asked with a hint of hope, "Which door shall we go to?" ”
"In this book...... Didn't say it......"
What? Didn't say that? Are you kidding? set up such a complicated gate, and it was bloodletting and password infusion, and it was useless to come in together. I couldn't cry or laugh, the sense of responsibility that had just surged up suddenly disappeared, and the whole person was like a deflated ball, almost pushed hard, and fell to the ground.
Yan Bo frowned, scratching his head anxiously with one hand, as if he was recalling something.
"This ...... Think about it, seven doors, seven doors......"
I can't help much anyway, so I'll just take a look around and see what's going on. The iron birch door behind him had been closed, and there was a thick stone on the back, which was pressed against the wooden door. If there is an entrance at that time, then this entrance must be a one-way street, and the exit must be somewhere else, and it is impossible to escape at that time. Looking around, what I thought was a simple underground palace is actually not simple. The whole space is square, and there is a boxy pool in the middle, and the water in the pool is swaying leisurely, as if it is attracting the living water underground, and when the light shines up, the water shadow is immediately reflected on the stone wall above, which is indescribably quiet and smart.
I walked into the waterhole, and something seemed to be floating on the surface. I thought about it. I still don't want to touch it with my own hands, in case there is any mechanism, it is not worth dying here. But the bulging thing, which looks like a sharp cone, is a little like a wick, but put the wick under the water, just kidding.
Then he turned his head to look at the seven doors lined up in front of him. Say yes is the door. But there is no fixed one on each door. The thing called the "door" is just a square and square-circled frame, and there is no bottom inside. I shone my flashlight inside. I didn't see any clues, so I gave up the idea of moving forward.
In order to prevent tomb thieves, the ancients could be said to have exhausted the design of the tomb. Whether it's a spontaneous mechanism or a movement caused by an alien invasion, tomb robbers will have a thousand ways to die. But the Xujia underground palace is different. There's only one treasure in it, and that's the fan bone. If you can enter the bottom, there is a ** out of ten who is also the Xu family. But there is still a certain element of other people mixed in. I thought about it, the door outside. It's not like there's no way to crack it. As long as you coerce a Xu family member who knows the inside story and force him to open the mechanism, you can still enter here. So these seven doors. Not to be underestimated.
The Xu family is capable, how to prevent outsiders from coming in and highlight their own characteristics?
I searched my stomach and scraped my stomach. Suddenly an idea came to mind.
Dream control.
This is not something that can be mastered by just learning from books, or by apprenticeship for decades, it must be carried out with the continuation of the bloodline. Even if the people outside coerced the Xu family to enter the underground palace, in the face of these seven doors, there must be something that they couldn't deal with.
Sure enough, Uncle Yan, who had been thinking about it for a long time, also had his own guesses.
"Lord, I thought about it, the number seven had a lot of meaning in ancient times. For example, the seven, the beginning of the four seasons of heaven and earth, the seven main stars, the seven days, etc., and what are the seven treasures, seven places, seven years, seven ranks, etc., but these things are not compatible with this underground palace. The only thing I find reliable is seven. ”
"What seven?" I leaned away from him and walked in.
"The law, there is the law. Doctors, there are medical cases. Dreams, naturally, there are also dream cases......"
"Slow down......" I interrupted Yan Bo and filtered his words through his mind, "You mean, classic dreams will also be written down and formed into dream cases?" ”
Yan Bo nodded.
"Yes, but not entirely. Thousands of years ago, when we dreamers were still officials in the court, dream control was actually a programmed process. Although the dream master is a single transmission, there are many branches, and there is more than one. The new dream master who came to the top later, without the guidance of the previous generation of dream masters, it is impossible to achieve it quickly. Therefore, a lot of knowledge has to be understood and speculated by relying on the things on the dream case. If Xu Jingchuan's descendants inherited his ability, it would be impossible for the fan bone to be placed in such a place, and it would definitely be used to the best of its ability and passed on for eternity. ”
I understood, and the general meaning is that the training of the dream master depends on the record of the dream master, which records how the dream master controls dreams. Due to the scarcity of dream masters in modern times, and there are factional killings that interfere with it, my grandfather, or a generation above my grandfather, seems to have deliberately begun to downplay this training process, so let alone the dream case, I haven't even heard of a serious dream master.
"And what does this have to do with the seven doors in front of you?"
Yan Bo tied his hands behind his back, shook his head and said unhurriedly. "That's what I'm talking about."
"Xu Heyuan is certainly a very important figure in the Xu family, young and promising, self-sacrificing, and has become a model for future generations to learn. Although he didn't write down his dream control notes, the people around him who had been in contact with him helped compile the seven dream cases, which are what I call the seven dream cases. ”
"Seven of the seven dream cases should have the most to do with these seven doors. If I'm not mistaken, at the end of this door, there may be Xu Jingchuan's dream case, one of which will definitely hide traces of fan bones. ”
As soon as I had a clue, I opened my legs and prepared to enter through the first door. Seeing this, Yan Bo hurriedly grabbed me, and asked me nervously, "Chief, are you going in?" ”
"yes, not really." I think he's making a little fuss, seven dream cases, isn't it just seven little stories, what's there to be afraid of. If you look at them one by one from left to right, won't you find the fan bones? But I really have to thank the people in the past, cut down the complicated and simplified, and made up seven of them, and if I made up seventy and seven hundred on a whim, then I don't know how busy I would have to be to find the fan bones.
Yan Bo saw my innocent face, and he couldn't bear to tell me.
"Chief, since this thing is to protect against outsiders, it must have its dangers. It's not safe for you to walk in so rashly, and besides, ......"
"And what?"
"Besides, the main thing is self-taught, and I haven't experienced systematic training, so I'm afraid I ...... if I go in."
"Uncle Yan, do you look down on me?" I crossed my hands on my hips and pretended to be unhappy.
"No, no, no, that's not what I meant," he waved his hand immediately, "I'm worried...... After all, the Xu family is your lifeblood......"
"Okay, okay, don't worry." I symbolically patted my chest, as if to reassure him, "You, just wait outside, I'll go in and have a look, and promise to come out in a moment." ”
Yan Bo saw that I was full of confidence, and he was embarrassed to frustrate me again, but the word worry was still written on his face, and when he saw that I was about to walk in, he suddenly stopped me.
"Hey, Lord."
"What's wrong?" I turned back.
Yan Bo rarely looked timid, and suddenly became so indecisive, I was a little uncomfortable.
"Be careful in there, I...... I'll just stay outside, if you have something, call me, and I'll help you immediately......" Yan Bo's voice softened a lot at once, it sounded like he was explaining something to his own child, my nose was sore, and tears almost fell out.
I didn't show Yan Bo the way I cried, and I had already turned my head back.
"You just stay outside, get some sleep, maybe I'll already appear in front of you with a fan bone!"
With that, he didn't look back, and stepped into the first door.
If you want to be afraid, there must be. Inexplicably came to this kind of black rumbling underground, and anyone would have a heartbeat and a cold sweat. Just now, with the company of Yan Bo, now I became a person again, and the darkness around me swallowed me up at once, not even giving me a breath, this darkness seemed to be alive, and I was pulled into it in a daze.
The sound of my footsteps echoed in it, kicking and tapping, accompanied by echoes, and there seemed to be a long path waiting for me inside. The flashlight was left for me, in the room outside, I don't know what is far away, I always feel that it is not so dark, at least it is much better than behind this door.
I walked cautiously little by little, for fear that something in front of me would suddenly scare me, and my original confidence had long since disappeared, and the rest was all timidity.
Let you be strong, let you be majestic...... I kept blaming myself and regretted it.
The light source in the hand is charged, and the light is not as bright as before after a long time. To be safe, I had to check the road in front of me repeatedly to make sure it was okay before I stepped out.
A semi-oval appeared in my sight, just as I swept the field in front of me.
I rubbed my eyes, I always felt that I had seen the flowers, and when I swept it again, I found that the mark was still in place.
I walked over suspiciously, crouched down next to the mark and looked at it again, and suddenly reacted violently.
What a footprint!
Half to be exact. The owner of the footprint must have been in a hurry when he left this mark, half-running and half-twisting, so that such a sign could appear.
My whole body was cold all at once, and it seemed as if someone had poured me a basin of ice water from top to bottom, and it was completely cold.
I immediately reversed course and turned around and ran as hard as I could.
"Uncle Yan! Yan Bo, are you there! I see footprints here! Someone has come in! Someone came in before us!! (To be continued.) )
ps:I'm sorry to everyone.,Yesterday the day after tomorrow I had a convulsion.,I can't send it up.,After it's posted, it becomes two chapters.,I can't delete it yet.,I'm sorry, I'm sorry tt.