The stele that Ruier said is just a long stone slab half a meter square, I stood at the position of the slate and looked around, I felt that it should be not far from the place where we first found the "caterpillar", this slate seems to be inlaid in the ground, if you don't look carefully, it is really difficult to find, unlike the surrounding ground, the slate is very worn, and covered with dust, it should be quite old, I squatted down, brushed the surface of the slate with my hand, and finally saw the two lines of poetry engraved on the slate.

"The more you have to be a stranger for a thousand years, Mo Lun will be a joke in this life."

I paced back and forth as I recited the verses over and over again. What do these two verses mean? And who carved it here? Naturally, it won't be the "caterpillar", it shouldn't have this "craft", if someone carved it here, then when did he carve it? I guess it shouldn't have been carved after the appearance of this mechanical bug, because the bug has been staying here, if this person wants to engrave, I'm afraid he will have to kill the mechanical worm like us, and then go to engrave, but we just killed the mechanical bug, and I can be sure that it was the first kill, so the appearance time of the mechanical bug must be later than these two poems. Or did the person who carved the lettering have mastered some kind of skill and can quietly engrave the words and then leave without triggering an attack by mechanical bugs at all? It should also be impossible, lettering is a hard work, the sound is big, the action is big, even if the mechanical insect does not react to the sound, but the lettering is such a big action, and so close to it, it is impossible not to notice, although it is now ancient, but after all, it is not a martial arts novel, with what kind of magic to explain, I'm afraid it can't justify itself. There is also a possibility that the robot worm and the person who engraved the word "know", that is, the insect will not attack the person who engraves the letter, so of course this person can swagger away after the lettering, but there is no clue to support this conjecture at present.

Rui'er saw that I was just pacing without saying a word, so she simply asked:

"Don't shake it, I see that my head is dizzy, have you come up with something?"

I stopped and looked up at Rui'er.

"I don't have a clue at all, the literal meaning of these two poems should be to say, after thousands of years here, don't waste this life, this seems to have no point in line with the surrounding environment?"

"I've lived in this Yuelun Valley for many years, and I think I'm familiar with every plant and tree here, but I didn't expect to come across something that I've never seen before, maybe ........"

"Wait," I interrupted Rui'er's next words, "what did you just say, what is this valley called?" ”

"Yuelun Valley, didn't you see that stone tablet when you went ashore?"

I then remembered that when I came here with Zhou Cong, I did see a stone tablet on the shore, which was engraved with the words "Yuelun Valley", and I also asked Zhou Cong why this place was called Yuelun Valley, and Zhou Cong said that he didn't know either.

"Yue Lun Valley, Yue Lun, there are these two words on these two poems, is there any connection?"

Rui'er didn't say a word, ran to the corpse of the insect in a few steps, looked at the short knife inserted in the corpse, grasped the handle of the knife with both hands, kicked the body of the insect with one foot, and slammed it back, "poof", pulled out the knife, probably too hard, and his feet also took several steps back. Immediately afterward, Rui'er held the knife in her hand, ran to the slate, raised it high, and stabbed it down violently, only to hear a "click", and then look at the slate, which has been cracked into several pieces.

"What are you doing here?"

"Didn't you say there was something wrong with the slate? Anyway, I can't see anything famous when I look at it this way, so I just smashed it, maybe there's something under the slate! ”

What kind of crude theory is this, if nothing is found, won't the only clue be ruined? I was about to protest when Rui'er said excitedly: "There really seems to be something down here, I say, don't talk nonsense if you can do it." ”

This time it was my turn to give Rui'er a white look, walked closer, squatted down and looked carefully, from the crack in the slate could vaguely see something, was pressed under the slate, if you want to know what it is, I'm afraid you need to clean up this shard, I reached out and began to pick up the broken stone slab and throw it aside, Rui'er rubbed the knife on her clothes, and put the scabbard back to her waist, and also came to help.

After a while, the rubble was cleared, and the whole thing was revealed. It was a piece of metal in the shape of a six-pointed star, it looked like a badge, there were stripes on it, the badge protruded to the middle, there was a red transparent ball in the protrusion, I reached out and touched it, it felt like glass or transparent plastic, I put the badge in my hand and checked it, although it was metal, but it was much lighter than I thought.

"Well, you're right this time," I said, "and have you ever seen anything like this?" ”

Rui'er snatched the badge from my hand and stuffed it into her fanny pack as she said, "I haven't seen it, but this thing is so beautiful, maybe it can be exchanged for some silver." ”

I shook my head, glanced at the gravel on the ground, and suddenly found that there seemed to be something carved on the back of the rubble, so I hurriedly collected the gravel together, turned it all over to the back, and put it together piece by piece.

Rui'er has always used all her strength, there are too many pieces of the slate, I squatted on the ground and fought for a long time, my back hurts, I want to ask Rui'er to come to help, and I secretly looked, this girl ran to the side of the insect corpse again, a burst of knocking, I guess I want to find something valuable from the corpse.

It took some effort to finally put the slate back together, and I exhaled and began to examine the back of the slate. The back of the slate is engraved with some strange words, not a hieroglyph, nor the type of text I can know, I looked at it for a long time, I didn't understand a word, but the pattern under the text attracted my attention, it was a pattern of innate gossip, the position of the center of the gossip, there is a pattern similar to a tower.

"Rui'er, come and see this!"

Hearing my call, Rui'er walked over slowly: "What's it?" ”

"Look at this gossip map, the tower in the middle, is it possible that it is the legendary golden ancient building?"

"Possibly", Rui'er was a little absent-minded, now it was more appealing for her to scavenge something of value from the corpses of bugs, "By the way, I forgot to tell you, now that it's dawn, the voice in my head is gone." ”

This is not good news for me, we have been guided by the voice in Rui'er's head all the way, and now that the voice is gone, we have lost the most important clue. I looked up at the sky, the morning sun had already shone on me, the sun had come out, I stood up and looked around, it turned out that we were on a platform on the mountainside of a certain mountain, I walked to the edge of the platform, the view here is very open, as far as the eye can see, the scenery below the mountain is in full view.

"Wen San, look, our house is there." At some point, Rui'er also walked up to me and pointed in the direction of the mountain.

I looked in the direction Rui'er pointed, and I could indeed see the old house of Zhou Cong's family, or those stone houses, nothing has changed, since the voice has disappeared, let's go back first today, and I was about to turn around and leave, when suddenly a thought flashed in my mind, and I immediately looked in the direction of Zhou Cong's old house.

"Rui'er, how many rooms are there in the old mansion?"

"There are four rooms, the main hall and my father's house are one in one, my room is one, and one side room is reserved for guest rooms, and the other is the kitchen, what's wrong?"

I didn't answer Rui'er's question, I still looked at the old house of the Zhou family intently, it was indeed four stone houses, but the location of the stone house seemed to be very peculiar, it didn't seem to be placed randomly, Zhou Cong's room and the main hall were in a common stone house, it was at the front, Rui'er's room was lined up in the back, and the width was the same as the first stone house, and the rest of the wings and kitchens were lined up in a row behind Rui'er's house, and the two stone houses were separated by some distance, making this row as wide as the front. I thought of the gossip diagram on the back of the stone slab I saw just now, and I was shocked, isn't the shape of this stone house the same as the appearance of the exchange in the innate gossip? I once had a client who was very obsessed with divination and fortune-telling, so in order to facilitate communication, I went to read "Zhou Yi". Although I don't know much about it, I still remember that it was mentioned in the book, "Gen is the northwest of the mountain, and the southeast of the river is Ze, and the air is in the mountain, and the mountain is rain, and the mountain is in the ze, and the rain is the water and the spring." ”

If the placement of the stone house is really in the shape of the exchange, then what is "Ze"? I suddenly thought of the pool in Rui'er's house, and hurriedly asked, "Rui'er, where does the water come from in the pool in your house?" ”

"Oh, there is a small pool next to the kitchen, the water in the pool is always hot, my father said maybe there is a hot spring in the pool, and then he dug a waterway to lead the pool water to each house, specially used for bathing, very convenient."

I understood, this small waterhole is "Ze", and I asked again: "Who built the stone house of the old mansion, do you know?" ”

"I don't know, I heard my father say that his great-grandfather's family fled to this valley and accidentally found these stone houses, which were very dilapidated at that time, and his great-grandfather used to be a stonemason, so he repaired the stone houses and lived in them after that."

This is right, this stone house was built in that place a long time ago, and there is a waterhole next to the stone house, I can now be completely sure that the old house of the Zhou family is the exchange position in the innate gossip. Since the old mansion of the Zhou family is located in the southeast, then it is opposite the northwest Gen position, and the northwest should be a place with mountains, aren't we on the mountainside now, so will the Gen position happen to be in our direction? I withdrew my gaze and began to observe the peaks around me, and sure enough, the peaks were arranged in a fairly regular manner. The place where we are is is the mountainside of a large mountain, looking at both sides from the perspective of the platform, there are two slightly lower peaks on each side of the side on both sides, counting the mountain we are in, the arrangement of these five peaks is the pattern of the Gen position in the innate eight trigrams.

With the new discovery, I was very excited, now that the southeast and northwest have been determined, then, as long as I can determine the other directions, I should be able to find the center point of the Bagua map, and I looked elsewhere, but unfortunately, the peaks on both sides blocked the view, and I could not find other coordinate clues. Things had just started to progress, and I had encountered difficulties again, and the excitement I had just let off again, I raised my head and twisted my somewhat stiff neck, huh? My subconscious action once again made me clear, now although the sun has risen, but the moon can still be seen in the sky, that is, we can occasionally see the phenomenon of the sun and the moon in the same day, this is not the right to determine the direction! The so-called "the sun is in the east, and the moon is in the west", the current position of the sun is east, and the current direction of the moon is west, great, now the southeast, northwest, east and west have been found, I began to conceive of a plane of the Bagua map, with a straight line to connect the southeast and northwest, and then with another straight line to connect the east and west, then the point where the two straight lines intersect is the center of the Bagua map, so whether you can find other directions, now it doesn't matter. I looked at the place of the Zhou family's old house again, roughly estimated the distance, and found two basically symmetrical coordinate points vertically down according to the direction of the sun and the moon, and then attached the gossip map in my head, and finally determined the approximate location of the intersection point.

I stood on the edge of the platform and looked at the intersection, which seemed to be a depression in the valley, different from the surrounding dense woods, the trees on the depression were scattered, although the distance was very far, I could still see that there was a bare ground, there was a hill next to the depression, there was no vegetation on the mountain, the rocks were exposed, the mountain was not complete, the cross section was very large, this seemed to coincide with the legend, the monster crashed into the mountain, it seems that the ancient building should be there.

Rui'er was also next to me at this time, with her hands on the pergola, looking around aimlessly, I patted her on the shoulder, pointed in the direction of the depression and asked, "Do you know how to get there?" ”

"Huh? Which? Rui'er hurriedly looked in the direction of my finger, "Oh, that stone mountain, when I was hunting before, I once saw that place from the mountain, the surrounding woods are too dense to see the situation below, just break in, I'm afraid I'll get lost, so I never go there when hunting, why do you want to go?" ”

"That's right, I think that ancient building is there."

"Oh," Rui'er frowned, and suddenly stretched out again, "Then what are you waiting for, won't it be clear if you look for it there?" ”

"How to get there?"

"Go straight ahead!"

Rui'er said, and began to search back and forth at the edge of the platform, and after a while, she stood in one place, looked down, and raised her arm to write in the direction of the depression.

"That's it, let's go down here."

I walked over, leaned over and looked down, good guy, I can't see the bottom at a glance, look at this posture, here to the ground is at least a thousand meters, although the mountain is not steep, but there are no climbing tools, go down to the bottom of the mountain with bare hands, it is too dangerous.

"Do you mean jumping from here?"

"If you want to jump, I won't stop you." I successfully harvested another white eye, "I've seen it, other places are too steep, there is no place to start, just this position is still successful, I will go down from here, you can't get down?" ”

"Heroine, please let go!"

"I don't have time to be poor here with you, you wait a while," said Rui'er, and ran away again, and after a while ran back, coiled with a few circles of vines in her hands, "You tie one end of the vine to your waist, and I will tie the other end myself, and I will go down first in a while, you see where I start, you can start there, in case you slip, there is this tree and vine tied, I can pull you back, don't worry, it will be fine." ”

"You're holding me? Can you hold it? What if I take you down too? ”

"It doesn't matter, I have my own way," Rui'er said as she touched the short knife on her waist.

I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, but I was scared, and now I had no choice but to believe in Rui'er. I took the vine and began to wrap it around my waist, Rui'er couldn't stand it anymore, and grabbed the vine, "You wrap so many circles, how can I wrap it, are you going to let me carry you down the mountain?" After that, he squatted down, loosened me a few times, tied a dead buckle, and pulled hard, making sure that he couldn't fall off, and then began to wrap the other end around his waist.

Ready, Rui'er began to climb down, only to see her elbows propped up, stretched out her feet and probed down a few times, found a foothold, and after stepping on it, her hand shrank and disappeared from the platform, watching the vines on the ground slowly become shorter, I knew I should also follow.

Rui'er deserves to have grown up in this mountain, climbing mountains and rocks, for her is simply pediatrics, I saw her feet tossing and turning on the rocks, and her hands are constantly moving with the position of her body, it can really be said that she is walking on the ground, about to take care of my speed, Rui'er every time she climbs down a meter or two, she will stop and wait for me.

At this time, I was embarrassed, my hands firmly grasped the protruding rocks, one foot stepped on, and the other foot carefully went down to the next foothold, every step down, I was panting, the sweat beads on my forehead fell straight down, and I didn't dare to look down, I could only stare at the stone wall in front of me.

"Wen San, why don't I carry you down, look at your small body, it's not too heavy."

My face was flushed and my heart was angry, but I didn't dare to argue now.

I don't know how long it took, I finally went down to the bottom of the mountain, hey, it feels so good to be down-to-earth, I sat on the ground and gasped hard, Rui'er was not red and out of breath, I saw her take out a short knife, cut the vine around her waist a few times, and threw the knife to me.

"Cut the vines myself, I'll look around and see if there's any water," he said, and ran into the bushes.

I picked up the knife and began to scratch back and forth on the vine, which was indeed quite strong, and it had only worn some skin after grinding on the mountain wall for so long. It was easy to cut off the vines, and it just so happened that Rui'er also came out of the bushes, holding a water bladder in one hand and two fruits in the other.

"Here, let's eat something, I've tasted this fruit, and it tastes okay."

I took the fruit and took a bite, it didn't taste good, but the juice was quite sufficient, and I eliminated the two fruits by dividing it by two, and then picked up the water bladder and poured it violently, feeling a lot more relaxed.

"Where did this water come from?"

"There is a mountain spring water nearby, the previous water bladder was broken, fortunately I have a spare, I poured some, I don't know how far it is, no water is not good." After that, I also took a sip of the water bladder.

"Which direction should we go now? You can still see the direction from the mountain, but now at the bottom of the mountain, you can't see anything around except the trees. ”

"Don't worry, just follow me" Rui'er is full of confidence, "I'll tell you a secret, I have a natural ability, that is, the direction is very accurate, others walk in the mountains, after a long time, they will go around in circles, I won't, once I identify a direction, I won't deviate, when I was a child, I followed my father into the mountains to hunt, even my father had to ask me the direction." ”

This girl is not simple, not everyone has this ability, since Rui'er is so confident, then follow her, you should be able to reach the depression. After that, we packed up what we had at hand, filled the water bladder at the mountain spring that Rui'er said, and the two of us went one after the other, in the direction of the depression.