Chapter 10 The Golden Ancient Building

The ancient poem "I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain", when I observe on the mountain, I feel that the distance is not far, but it is really not an easy thing to walk over with both feet. In order to avoid being attacked by wild beasts at night, Rui'er and I took turns keeping vigil to ensure that the bonfire was not extinguished, anyway, I didn't see any traces of wild beasts, but in this valley, it always hurts to be cautious. Rui'er's hunting skills really didn't say, when I traveled every day, I could always hit rabbits and pheasants or something, and occasionally picked some wild fruits, and I was responsible for processing the prey, and the only way to cook the prey was to barbecue, and occasionally you could find some fragrant plants in the valley, and pick a few leaves at will, Rui'er because she often went into the valley to hunt, so she always carried salt with me, so for me, a foodie who has made countless strings, bay leaves and salt, Coupled with my own precise grasp of the heat and grilling time, the barbecue I make is never left.

A whole rabbit was set on the fire, the fire was very strong, the rabbit meat was roasted to a bright oil, occasionally a few drops of oil fell into the fire, making a "zizi" sound.

"You say, how far do we have to go? It's been three or four days. "I turned the rabbit on the rack a little bit to heat it evenly.

"It should be fast, our feet are not slow." Rui'er was staring straight at the rabbit at the moment, swallowing her saliva and answering a little absent-mindedly.

This place was not set foot in the past, the jungle area, tree roots and vines are all over, like us can walk about four or five miles a day, it is indeed not slow, since we have walked so far, there is absolutely no possibility of giving up, as long as Rui'er points in the right direction, it must be found, since it is an adventure, patience is still necessary.

"Alright, it's ready to eat." I took a closer look.

Rui'er immediately got up and drew her knife, cut off a hind leg on the rabbit, and began to feast on it, regardless of the fact that the rabbit meat had just been roasted and was being hot. I was tired of eating meat every day, so I took the knife and cut a small piece of roast rabbit, with the wild fruits picked on the road, and I was able to deal with this dinner.

Tonight I was in the middle of the night, had dinner, chatted casually with Rui'er, yawned, and fell asleep by the fire.

"Wen San, hurry up, Wen San!"

I was asleep, suddenly I felt that someone was pushing me, and when I opened my eyes, it turned out to be Rui'er, she was excited, and when she saw that I was shaken awake, she went to the side and began to pack up.

"What's wrong? Is it my turn to keep vigil? ”

"I hear that voice again, hurry up, let's go." Rui'er said as she cleaned up her things.

I knew what the "voice" she was talking about, but since we came to the bottom, the "voice" seemed to have disappeared, and for three or four days in a row, I didn't hear Rui'er mention it, and then the "voice" appeared again, and I had a hunch that maybe we were already near our destination.

Thinking of this, I also got up with all my bones, took the remaining wild fruits in my arms, lifted the dust cover with my feet to extinguish the fire, and ran after Rui'er.

Rui'er dodged and jumped between the grass and vines, and the fisheye stone in her hand for lighting also went up and down with her rhythm, the fisheye stone could illuminate a limited range, and I ran desperately behind her footsteps so as not to fall too far.

I don't know how long I ran, it was almost dawn, Rui'er suddenly stopped in front, I didn't brake the car, and almost hit her.

"We're here."

I walked to Rui'er's side and took a look, yes, the originally dense woods around me suddenly disappeared in front of me, the red earth on the opposite side was bare, occasionally there were a few trees, scattered and scattered, everywhere you could see stones emerging from the ground, not far away is the broken stone mountain, from this distance, there is a sense of solemnity.

"This is it, the voice says what are we going to do next?"

"No, when you get here, the sound is gone." Ruil shook her head.

After resting and drinking some water, we discussed a search here to see if we could find anything more.

The broken stone mountain is preferred, and if it was really crashed by a monster, maybe there would be traces left by the monster, so we walked to the front of the mountain and began to search in the direction of the section. This stone mountain is not too big, but after years of wind and sun, the edges and corners on the section have been worn away, and it has long become a rock wall, the rock wall is very clean, although it is at the bottom of the valley, there is no moss and weeds or the like, occasionally there will be one or two small broken stones, blown down by the wind in the valley.

"You'll have to look closely, it's all a relic from a long time ago, maybe the clues are long gone," I reminded.

"yes, got it."

After searching for a while, he didn't find any valuable clues on the stone wall, so he squatted down with his back against the rock wall to rest. Suddenly I felt that there was a small point of light that was very dazzling, and I looked closely, and it was a thin flake of something, inserted in a large stone, and the thin flake was angular and angular and reflected by the sunlight, reflecting a dazzling light.

"Rui'er, look at what that is!"

Rui'er rushed to hear the sound, and saw that I was pointing to the thin piece, so she stepped forward to pull it out, and with a few strokes, the thin sheet did not move, maybe it had been too long, and it became one with the stone.

"Don't bother, you can't take it," I waved my hand at Rui'er, "I mean, do you think we've seen this flake somewhere?" ”

Rui'er thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "When you say that, I think about it, this thing is very similar to the monster we killed before, that is, the hexagonal brand on those spikes. ”

"That's right," I nodded, "it must have fallen when the monster crashed into the stone mountain behind us, it seems that the legend is true, let's look again and see if there are any other clues." ”

Rui'er and I searched around for a while, but we didn't find anything.

"Let's look for the depression." Rui Er proposed.

I agreed, and in order to increase the speed, we decided to search in different areas at a distance, anyway, the depression has a wide field of vision, and if there is a problem, you can find each other at any time.

There are a lot of gravel on the depression, walking on it a little awkward, I was carefully searching the ground, to see if I would find anything like a hexagonal brand, suddenly I felt that my feet were empty, and I sank down violently, I secretly screamed "not good", and was about to call Rui'er for help, but unfortunately before the mouth could be opened, the whole person began to fall down.

The body fell very fast, and the rubble and clods around me quickly scratched blood marks on my body, I clung to it randomly, hoping to grab something to stop me from falling, but I tried many times and failed, I was wondering where I would fall, and suddenly there was nothing around me, and before I could figure out the situation, I fell straight into the water with a "poof".

I struggled desperately in the water, and finally balanced my body, and then I felt that the water temperature was quite high, and I swam towards the surface with my feet, poked my head out of the water, and found that it was not far from the shore, and hurriedly swam over. The shore was very slippery, I tried twice, and finally climbed on the shore, and after a long breath, I finally recovered, and the hole I fell down just now is still there, and by the light that came down from the hole, I can finally see where I am.

This seems to be an underground cave, the space is quite large, from the ground to the top of the cave is about ten meters high, the width of the left and right is about five or six meters, the river in front of me should be an underground river, the width is about two or three meters, from the darkness at one end of the cave to the darkness at the other end of the cave, I stood up, walked to the cave wall and touched it, the cave wall is quite smooth, it looks like a whole stone extends from the bottom to the top of the cave, there is nothing else in the cave, recalling the tomb robbery novels I read in the past, I don't think this is a tomb, so the hole I fell down before should be caused by the collapse of the ground due to the insufficient support of the stone on the roof of the cave, and it will not be a robbery hole. I turned around and looked up at the hole that had fallen before, and then at the underground river, and I couldn't help but be a little glad that I had fallen from such a high place and fell so accurately into such a narrow river, how lucky it must have been, if I hadn't fallen into the river, but fell on the shore, then I would have fallen so hard that I couldn't even recognize my own mother.

I was thinking about how to get out of here next, when I suddenly saw a black shadow flash through the hole in the top of the cave, and then fell into the water with a "poof" sound, I hurriedly looked into the water, and in a moment, something floated to the surface, it was a person! If you look closely, it's Rui'er! I hurriedly shouted, "Rui'er, I'm here!" ”

Hearing my voice, Rui'er swam over, and I reached out and pulled her ashore.

"Why did you fall off too?"

"What fell, I came down with you." Rui'er adjusted her breathing and replied, "I was looking for clues over there, and suddenly I saw you disappear from the ground, and I hurriedly ran over and found a hole, I guess you should have fallen into it, and I followed it without thinking too much." ”

"Thank you!" I whispered a sudden warmth in my heart.

Hearing me say thank you, Rui'er paused for a moment, and quickly returned to her usual tone: "What now, we're both down, who will save us?" There's no one left to tell the news! ”

I was stunned and said, "I blamed me for being too careless and bore you too." ”

"Okay, it's useless to talk about this now, let's find a way to get out first, what do you suggest?"

I thought for a moment and said, "Let's go down the river and maybe find an exit." ”

"Okay, there are only two directions here, which way do you say you are going?"

"Let's go downstream in the direction of the river, the so-called water flows to a lower place, this dark river must converge into the large water system outside, as long as you follow it, you will definitely find an outlet."

I cast a persistent look at Rui'er, who looked at me and nodded.

Although Rui'er has a fire sickle in her waist pocket, there is nothing to ignite in this cave, and it is useless to dry the clothes, but fortunately, because the dark river continues to emit heat, the temperature in the cave is quite high, so even if the clothes on our bodies are soaked, we don't feel cold, Rui'er took out the fisheye stone from the bag to illuminate, and I followed her to walk downstream.

There is a smell of sulfur in the air, usually this kind of underground hot water contains sulfur, and the water temperature is high, and although the river water will drive the air flow, but the space is limited, and the smell is difficult to disperse, so I am afraid that there are no other living creatures in the cave except us. The ground was slippery, and we almost fell several times, so we had to move slowly.

I don't know how long I walked, but Rui'er stopped.

"Why don't you go? Did you find an exit? ”

"No, you come and see."

I dodged over to Rui'er and took a look, and the light in front of me became a little brighter, and the originally narrow cave suddenly became wider. There is a large depression in front of him, about more than 2,000 square meters, and the top of the cave is suddenly much higher than before, and there is a spire-like building in the middle of the depression, which is emitting a faint, golden light, and the dark river around it flows down the waterway to the minaret, and then flows out from the other direction.

"Golden Ancient Building!" Rui'er and I shouted almost at the same time.

Seeing the legendary golden ancient building really appear in front of us, we were so excited that we couldn't care about the slippery ground, and almost climbed over.

As the distance got closer and closer, the whole picture of the ancient building finally showed clearly in front of my eyes. Said to be "building", I think it is more appropriate to call it "tower", we circled around the tower, the tower is not big, only about three stories high, four thick pillars are obliquely gathered at the top of the tower, constituting the framework of the whole tower, the wall from the bottom up, the whole tower is tightly enclosed, there are a lot of strange reliefs on the wall, I touched the wall, this tower should be made of steel, there are a lot of fork-like things standing on the tower, there is a red light on the top of the tower, flashing and flashing.

This doesn't look like an ancient building, how can an ancient building be made of steel? And the forks on those towers, could it be antennas or something? This is obviously a modern building! I felt like my mind was in a mess, and I didn't have a clue at all.

"Wen San, come and see, is this a door?"

I saw Rui'er pointing to a place on the wall and waving at me.

I walked over and looked, there is a three or four meters square frame on the wall, the part of the frame, there is a thin slit in the middle, one part of it is two, the inner part of the frame fits the surrounding wall too well, if you don't look closely, I really think it is a whole wall.

"Well, it should be a door." The word "elevator" flashed through my head.

"How do you open this door?" Rui'er's voice was a little anxious, probably in a hurry to find the treasure in the tower.

"Look to see if there's any mechanism!" As I spoke, I walked over to the door and searched carefully.

Suddenly, I noticed a groove in the relief on the wall, and according to the routine of so many adventure novels I had read, there should be something to put in.

I remembered that I had found the badge under the slate, so I said to Rui'er, "Give me the treasure you found under the slate." ”

As soon as Rui'er heard that I was going to take her baby, she couldn't figure out what I was going to do for a while, so she rubbed for a long time before she took out the thing and handed it to me, and she didn't forget to remind me: "You be careful, it's worthless if it is broken." ”

Taking the badge, I put the badge in along the outline of the groove, and it just fitted impartially, and it seemed that this badge was the key to open the door. As soon as I put the badge in place, the red ball on the badge suddenly lit up and bounced, and without thinking about it, I reached out and pressed the red ball down.

"Dididi........" With the sound of an alarm, the wall next to it split in two and slowly moved to both sides.

The door opened.