Chapter 100: The Three Tripods Gather

Since this is a tourist attraction, it is naturally indispensable to stay, so Wang Chao came to Babao Lotus Peak here to find a hotel to live in, naturally he doesn't pay attention to what star rating, as long as there is a place to live, it is good, otherwise the sleeping bag he prepared will be used.

Although the facilities are average, but the price is not general, this is the tourist season, the ordinary standard room is 480 yuan per night, Wang Chao booked a week, lived in, at this time close to noon, I ate here, took a little rest at noon, and then went out of the hotel gate, walked around here.

Speaking of which, although it is a tourist attraction, it is only that pond that has been developed, and most of the other places are pristine, even if there is a road, it is also walked by medicine pickers, not to mention tourists, even the locals do not go deep into the mountains to wander.

To say that the scenery here is indeed good, full of emerald green, the eyes of people who look at it are a little stiff, Wang Chao is not in a hurry to find it, and ordinary tourists, around this pond circle, and then find a recliner to lie down.

The ancients referred to the lunar month of June for midsummer, and according to those words, "Midsummer night, when the moon is full; The meaning of "three tripods gather, the door of the cave is wide open", that is, it refers to the fifteenth day of June in the lunar calendar.

Today is just the twelfth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, and there are still three days before the fifteenth, so Wang Chao is naturally not in a hurry.

The occupancy rate in the hotel has been 60%, on the deck chairs by the pond, there are people coming out one after another to enjoy the coolness, ready to wait for a while to go into the water to soak in this natural hot spring, among them are men and women, fat and thin, but it is worth Wang Chao's attention is a pair of men and women in the south of the country, the two of them have crossed their arms along the pond for several times, and their low voices are talking. The man is smiling, about 40 years old, and his demeanor is not ordinary, and the woman is in her thirties, and the charm is still there, and the two of them are talking about something while walking.

The breeze was blowing, the willows were still clinging, the temperature was neither hot nor cold, and Wang Chao fell asleep unconsciously.

Soon in the evening, Wang Chao had dinner first. After that, a man came out and began to walk gradually into the depths of the mountain. There are a total of eight peaks around here, and I chose one of them first and climbed up the path of the herb picker's intestines.

For him, there is no difference between night and day. When encountering tangled branches, there is no way out. Take out the dagger you carry with you and cut it. Standing on the top of the mountain and looking down, the pond in the middle was like a pearl in the middle of the peaks. The most discordant were the lonely inns and an asphalt road leading to the mountains.

Looking around, I saw that there are about 500 square meters above the peak, the mountains are rocky, there is no trace of artificial excavation, and such a high peak, it is estimated that no one has moved things = to collect here.

After checking the summit again, and even knocking on each rock with trekking poles, there was still no gain, and it seems that there should be nothing left here.

So I went down from one side to the other mountain. At this time, it was already the middle of the moon, and it was about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and when I was going down the mountain, I inadvertently glanced down, "Huh? "I found that there seemed to be a flash of light, and the place where the light was shining was in the pond, "Could it be that someone got up in the middle of the night and shone a flashlight on the pond?" ”

Suppress the doubts in your heart and continue to climb another mountain.

By the time we reached the summit, it was already about two o'clock in the middle of the night, and although it was not a full moon, it was still very cold, and the moon was like water, and the water was sparkling, as if you were in the water.

Looking down from the peak, there was not much difference, except for the lights of the inn and the moonlight in the pond, which were not unusual.

The top of this mountain is about 500 square meters, and after careful inspection, there is still no gain, and I run to the third peak again, it is about 4 o'clock in the morning, and it is the same here as the previous two, there is not much difference, so I have to check and go down the mountain.

Suddenly, under the whitish light of the east, I found that there was a strange small tree in the middle of the half-waist of the peak, the branches were entangled, and the strange thing was that its leaves, which had never seen before, were octagonal, and the leaves were deep, as if it was a thick zigzag round cake, and at the top of each branch, there was a red round fruit, which was similar to the shape of a cherry, which made people salivate, Wang Chao couldn't help but grab it with his hand, but when his hand just touched the fruit, suddenly there was no wind and he fell down.

Wang Chao thought that he was ripe and happened to fall down, so he went to grab another one, who knew that it still fell down before it was touched, such as one, two, three, Wang Chao no longer picked it with his hands, as if this red fruit and his hand were restrained.

After thinking about it, I took the dagger in my hand and touched it, and this time I touched it well, but I didn't catch it, and it fell again.

Wang Chao took off his clothes in advance this time and spread them on the ground, and then touched them with a dagger again, this time when he was stable, he fell on his clothes, and saw that this method worked, so he used the dagger to touch everything he could one by one, covered his clothes, and put them in a cloth bag that he carried with him

This cloth bag was prepared in advance by him in order to dig up the treasure underneath, and there were nearly ten pieces of bag like this, and if they were all full, they would be enough to be a cube in size, so there were not many fruits in it at all.

Seeing that there are no trees around it, and then carrying a cloth bag down the mountain, the red sun rises in the east, and it is a sunny day, but for here, it only adds some temperature, and there is no heat outside, which can be described as a good place to cool off on vacation.

Back to the room to take a shower and change clothes, climbed three peaks one night and was a little sleepy, so I closed the curtains and fell asleep, slept until noon before getting up, the tiredness of the whole body has disappeared, after eating lunch back to the hotel this poured out those red fruits, only to see the crystal dripping, closer to the magic is that it is transparent, like the orange fruit that is drunk, through the outer layer of the peel can actually see the fruit inside, but I don't know.

It's a pity that I didn't have a computer with me, so I couldn't take pictures and surf the Internet, so I had to put it in an incubator and put it in the car when I left.

Out of the hotel gate, after thinking about it, he did not continue to rest by the pond, but was ready to explore the other five peaks alone during the day, of course, in order to avoid the attention of others, he paced slowly to the bottom of the fourth peak, and then climbed up along the sheep intestine road, because it was daytime, he chose to climb in the deep part of the secluded forest. Even the steep cliffs were climbed, and I waited for the peak for an hour.

I still searched every stone on the top, and tapped every inch, but unfortunately I still found nothing.

The day after that, it took another day and a night to climb all the remaining four peaks, and nothing was found, and the little tree with long red particles was never seen again, but at the bottom of the sixth peak, I accidentally stepped on a stone, and the stone rumbled down, but the stone was obviously not small. It is worth noting that on the mountain wall after the stone blocks have been peeled off. Traces of what appeared to be an artificial axe chisel were found.

It was like a giant arrow, pointing straight at the pond.

Wang Chao's heart moved, and he looked in the direction pointed by the arrow, and found that it was pointing to the pond. It's a pity that it's hard to see anything from this sign alone. I had to give up.

The third day is the day of the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar. Wang Chao changed into a swimsuit and began to go into the water like those who came here to soak in the hot springs.

His purpose was not to soak in the hot springs, but to see what traces were under the water.

The pond is not reached. It took him less than an hour to swim in one lap, and he was thrilled to find that he didn't need to breathe at all, as if his 108,000 pores were like a fish that could draw a meager amount of oxygen from the water.

But his action also made the lifeguards patrolling the pond very startled, plopping down several young men, stretching out their arms and legs to pull him up, seeing that he did not come up for ten minutes to breathe and still jumping alive, very surprised, are admiring his strong lung capacity, to the depth of thought.

However, in this process, Wang Chao swam all underwater, but found nothing, the traces of manual excavation on the shore here are obvious, it is estimated that even if there are any secret marks have been removed, I can't help but be a little frustrated.

It seems that we will have to wait for the full moon on the fifteenth tomorrow.

In fact, it is not just a midsummer night, the moonlight on almost every full moon night is as bright as a mirror, but many artificial factors believe that August 15 is the roundest.

It was the same tonight, under the moonlight, many people who came here came out one after another, or in piles of three or five, or in groups of two, and those who took red wine took red wine, and those who took beer took beer, and sat by the pond, drinking and having fun.

Even lasted until around twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, there were still a few groups of people who did not return, a little anxious, seeing the moonlight like water, still hanging in the sky, the heart moved, and then took out the three bronze tripods from the bag they carried, found no one, and placed them in a three-legged manner, but half of the head passed, the night was as cool as before, and the bronze tripod still did not change, so it had to be re-reversed to the next position, and changed to an open place, and waited for a while and still did not get.

At this time, all the people who were out to enjoy the cool returned to the hotel room, leaving only Wang Chao's lonely figure outside.

The moonlight began to turn west, it was already more than one o'clock in the second half of the night, the bronze tripod was still the bronze tripod, there was no change, and the excitement in my heart was already half cold.

Suddenly remembered the huge arrow at the foot of the mountain peak that I saw yesterday, so I took the tripod to the bottom of the arrow, found an open place, still placed it in the form of a triangle, and there was still no movement after a while, I thought about it, and walked to the arrow at the foot of the peak, and looked in the direction of the arrow in the arrow shaft, and found that the tripod was slightly deviated, so I ran over to straighten it, and then came back to watch it again.

This time the direction of the arrow is the middle of Sanding, but it still has not changed, at this time the afterglow is skewed to the west, just when Wang Chao was discouraged and wanted to simply go back to the room to rest, he found that there seemed to be a bright light in Sanding, but if you look closely, there is no abnormality.

This time, he simply looked directly at the corner of his eye, and saw that there seemed to be a ray of moonlight reflected from the middle of the tripod to an area in the lake, and after quietly observing for a while, he saw that the moonlight gradually dimmed and finally disappeared, and the area that was reflected had been remembered by him.

So he hurried back to the pond, put Sanding back in his bag, and hurried back to the hotel room.

At that time, I deliberately found a room on the first floor for convenience, and when I came out, the window was covered up without latches.

Entering through the window, I put my bag away, took out a folded shovel and a waterproof bag, which contained quite a few of those bags, and a powerful flashlight and glow stick, and then changed into a swimsuit and went back to the pond.

There was a hint of coolness in the water at night, Wang Chao went down to the water to the reflected area, which was a place on the left near the middle of the pond, where the bottom was still covered with sludge, and he began to dig down with a shovel at the bottom of the water, stirring up the water to be muddy, but because it was under the water, there was no sound of water outside.

Digging down to a depth of about one meter, I suddenly felt a shovel stumbling underneath, as if something had been dug underneath, but it was flooded in an instant, fortunately the water did not enter much, otherwise if there was a huge hole below, it would leak the water of the entire pond into it, and the secret would be revealed to the world.

"Isn't it that deep down there?" Wang Chao was secretly a little frustrated in his heart, but he had to enter at this time to take a look.

The master of the art is bold, and gradually digs the hole wide, this hole is indeed not big, and he just allows a person to get into it, ruthlessly, first probed the shovel into it, and then climbed over, at this time, the black hole under the water, even if he has practiced, the visibility here is less than three meters.

It was still water, and I thought it was going to be deep, but I didn't know how deep it was to go into the cave and start to tilt back and up after entering the cave at a distance of less than two meters.

Swimming nearly twenty meters further, although the hole was still deep, the water was gone, and it turned out that the water was level with the water outside.

Drilling out of the water, I breathed a long sigh of relief, the air here is not turbid, and it is not too different from the outside world, so I was slightly relieved. At this point, the entrance to the cave was already large, and it was still possible to walk up straight, and as it gradually went up, the hole got bigger and bigger.

Straightening up, Wang Chao took out a powerful flashlight from the bag, unscrewed it and shone it forward, and found that the cave was not completely openly chiseled, and it seemed that some of it was natural.

With the trend of the cave, I walked forward a few hundred meters, and the front suddenly opened up, and I came to a huge cave in front of it, as if a mountain had been hollowed out, about 100 meters high, and the bottom was 300 meters in circumference, so wide place.

Hurriedly walked a few steps forward, and as soon as he stepped into this huge cave, he heard a huge echo from inside, which startled Wang Chao, and then stopped and looked around, and saw that there seemed to be a faint hole in the wall of the cave where torches were stored.

Shine to the middle and around, and find that this place is empty, except for a high platform, there is nothing in other places, turn your head and turn your head under the cave wall, there are several rows of bones, because of too long, there is no skin and flesh, let alone clothes, only the skeleton remains, the empty eye sockets and the jaw of the chin grinning, it seems to be laughing at Wang Chao: You are late, hahaha! (To be continued......)