readx(); "A mountain, a pair of chopsticks?" Lian Jiuqi didn't understand, "What do you mean?" ”

Wu Zi'an carefully recalled: "There is only one mountain in the whole painting, there is a house on the top of the mountain, and there is a bowl painted in the mountain, and there is a pair of chopsticks standing in the bowl, the lines of the mountain are very clear, and the rocks and trees are also engraved, the surface pattern of the bowl and chopsticks is also very clear, the appearance of the chopsticks is exactly the same as the thousand-year-old Wuxiang chopsticks found in the coffin. ”

Xingshu and Lian Jiuqi glanced at each other, and Xingshu said, "I don't understand." ”

Wu Zi'an sneered: "In short, there are generally two things in Qimen, the first is the place where the first generation of cast iron immortals hid their treasures, and the second is the place where the miracles of the Manichaean prophets can be recovered, what are them, even the group of palms who found the iron coffin don't know, they just want to use the power of other people to let everyone look for it together and see if they can find the location of the miracle." ”

The torture technique thought for a moment and asked: "So, the thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks have been in the hands of the Zhangrong chasers, and they released false news for other chasers to find, deliberately making this story full of loopholes even more porous, just like a person told a lie, and the lie became a rumor, and then the person who spread the rumor used other lies on the original basis to make up for it, and over time, the original flawed thing became true?" ”

Even Jiuqi also said: "Back then, Xing Renju was also a member of the Zhangrong Cargo Chasers, and at some point, their organization decided to restart the operation on the search for miracles or strange gates, and sent him to start a series of so-called clue hiding plans, on the one hand, to eliminate other cargo chasers, and on the other hand, they were really looking for them again?" But why do you do it? Now that you have a real clue, can't you just look for it yourself, why bother doing such a thing? ”

Wu Zi'an said lightly: "Because hundreds of years later, there was a Zhangrong chaser who felt that the iron coffin still had a secret that had not been solved, so he took people to venture back to that place, dug out the coffin, studied it carefully, and found that there was another word in the coffin, and the group of people only found the picture on the surface of the coffin, but did not find the words inside, so he hollowed out the coffin and washed it, and completely rubbed the words inside, but he didn't know the words on it, all of them were ancient Persian, Surely you can't guess what is written in Persian? ”

Everyone thought for a long time, and they all shook their heads and said that they didn't know, and even Jiuqi and Torture could only guess that there was something related to Qimen or miracles written on it, but they didn't know the specifics, and in the end they had to look at Wu Zi'an, looking forward to his detailed explanation.

"It records the events of the prophet's descendants, that is, the Helian family." When Wu Zi'an spoke, his eyes kept falling on Lian Jiuqi's face, watching Lian Jiuqi change from doubt to surprise.

Lian Jiuqi was surprised: "You mean, Helian family is ...... Descendants of the Prophet? ”

Xingshu looked at Wu Zi'an with suspicion, and the other people's faces were also full of all kinds of surprised, puzzled and puzzled expressions, Ma Fei stood behind Xingshu and asked in a low voice, "Do you think it is credible?" ”

Torture replied: "I don't know, listen to what he has to say." ”

Wu Zi'an said again, the Zhangrong merchant tried his best to find a Persian merchant who could speak Chinese and asked him to translate the above text, and the Persian merchant was shocked when he found that the records in the text were related to Manichaeism, and told the Zhangrong merchant that he had found something amazing.

But in order to keep this secret, the Persian merchant was tricked into the desert and brutally murdered, and then returned to poison the fifty-six people who were traveling with the merchant, and set out alone on a journey to find the thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks and Helian's house.

Lian Jiuqi hurriedly asked: "Isn't that pair of chopsticks in his hands?" ”

Wu Zi'an shook his head: "The whereabouts of those chopsticks were unknown at that time, only that they fell into the hands of a certain Zhangrong chaser who was in charge, except for the group of people who opened the iron coffin at the beginning, no one knew ......"

On the surface, it is easier to find someone than to find chopsticks, because people are alive after all, but this Zhangrong chaser has been finding the dead, and has not found the Helian family in the record, because every place he follows the clues to find can only find traces of their existence and some fragmented clues.

At this point, the torture asked a crucial question: "What exactly does that text say?" What exactly? ”

Wu Zi'an said: "The above is a simple description of the life of the first generation of cast iron immortals, when he left Persia, when he came to the Central Plains, after coming to the Central Plains, he had been depressed for a period of time because of the foreign face, although he had a secret, he held a thousand gold, and he did not dare to show it, so he could only live on the streets all day long, and finally met the Helian family in Bohai County......

Ma Fei asked, "Bohai County?" Where is it? ”

Xingshu said: "Today's Cangzhou area of Hebei Province was called Bohai County in ancient times, and it was changed to Cangzhou during the great cause of the Sui Dynasty, which was under the jurisdiction of the Youzhou Thorn History Department in the past. ”

The Helian family that the cast iron fairy met at that time still belonged to the big family of Bohai County at that time, of course, the Helian family was also the name of the Xiongnu after the sinicization, after the family took in the cast iron fairy, found that the cast iron fairy was completely different from the beggars in the usual days, extremely knowledgeable, and also had unique skills, and finally married the youngest daughter of the family, Helian Youmeng, to him, hoping to leave the cast iron fairy, and also expected this person to be able to strengthen the Helian family.

However, the purpose of the Cast Iron Immortal when he came to the Central Plains was to preach, but the beliefs of the Helian family were completely contrary to Manichaeism, and if he spread the teachings of Manichaeism in the Helian family, it would only cause very bad consequences, and the Cast Iron Immortal had to leave quietly in the middle of the night.

After the cast iron fairy accepted the first disciple, he also learned that Helian Youmeng gave birth to a son for him, although he was worried about his family, but for his own ideals, he had to endure, but before he died, he entrusted the location of his treasure and part of the secret about the miracle, that is, the disciple who later became the commander of the Tang Dynasty forbidden army, to his wife and children.

However, as for the way in which the secrets were transferred, and what those secrets were, only the Helian family knew.

Before he died, the Zhangrong chaser who was looking for Helian's house informed his disciples of his wishes, and made them swear that no matter what generation they passed on, they would definitely find the location of the miracles of the Qimen and the Prophet.

"It's been passed down from generation to generation, and I don't know how many generations it has been, and finally in the Republic of China, the descendants of the Zhangrong Cargo Collector have been exiled to Zhejiang for a generation, continuing to look for those secrets, and at the same time accepting the first apprentice in his life." Wu Zi'an said this, looking at Lian Jiuqi and torture, "This old beggar's disciple is called Chen Wenjing, that is, your master's master!" ”

The more he listened to it, the more surprised he became, and the more he listened, the more he said, "You mean, my master knew very well from the beginning what he was going to do and what he was looking for?" And he was originally directly related to the Zhangrong Chaser? ”

Lian Jiuqi asked: "Tell me first, how did he find my family, and why do you think that my family is the Helian family that the Zhangrong chaser wanted to find back then?" We are not the only ones in the world with the surname Helian! ”

Wu Zi'an shook his head: "As for why, you have to ask your master in person to know that if you are not a descendant of the Helian family, he will not be so concerned, I know Zheng Cangqiong too well, and you carefully recall the torture technique, did your master Zheng Cangqiong know from the beginning that the pair of thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks were in the Tian family?" And why did his master marry his daughter to the Tian family? Isn't it just for the sake of those thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks? ”

Xingshu and Lian Jiuqi were silent, they were also a little confused, they didn't expect things to be so complicated, but they were so closely connected.

"The matter of chopsticks is finished, the secret of Helian's family is also finished, now it should be said that the bowl, that bowl we studied later, Qian Xiuye and I tried our best to find the location of the iron coffin, dug out the coffin, reprinted the words and patterns in it, and finally found that the mountain painted on it is the Four Seasons Mountain, so he contacted everything before and after, and concluded that the bowl should be hidden in the Four Seasons Mountain." Wu Zi'an raised his eyes and looked at the dome of the hall again, "This is the reason why he was desperate to set foot here, this is the reason why he wanted to hide the city of Khan in the "Nine Sons", and this is why after I faked my death, he went to great lengths to send me here to pretend to be a prophet. ”

If you want to gain a foothold here, or be rejected by the remnants of the Bohai Sea here, there is no other way than to pretend to be a prophet, this practice is exactly the same as the original batch of Zhangrong cargo divisions, since a method was effective in the past, and it was not recognized, then it will not be recognized later, which is the same as Wan Qingquan and Cai Nayun both chose to use a stand-in and then fake their deaths, normal people would not have thought that the same means and strategies, there would be different people at almost the same time to use twice.

In the past, it was a little difficult for the Zhangrong chasers to pretend to be prophets, but it was much easier to exchange for Qian Xiuye and Wu Zi'an, after all, they came with countless modern items, and these things were simply miracles among miracles in the eyes of the remnants of Bohai.

"Of course, after we discovered the secrets of Khuhan City, we wondered, what is modern technology? The city is full of institutions, all made of iron, extending in all directions, and it is difficult for us to imagine how many years it took the remnants of Bohai to build this place into its current appearance. Wu Zi'an got up and walked to the people below, "But not long after Qian Xiuye left, I regretted it, because I haven't found out where the bowl is, and I can't ask those Bohai remnants, because I am a prophet, and prophets are omniscient, if I ask them questions, they will doubt me, even the slightest suspicion, it will shake my rule over them, and in the end, I can only keep guarding here, looking for the bowl that may not exist, but I finally found ......"

According to Wu Zi'an's observations, there is a green strange man and a vicious water monster living in the waterhole, every once in a while, the Bohai remnants will rush in through the sluice to feed, most of the time it is a goat, a few times it is a cargo chaser who walked into Kuhan City and Four Seasons Mountain, and what is even more terrifying is that those Bohai remnants will also make the corpse of the chaser into something like dried meat, Then feed the water monster in batches to achieve the purpose of sacrificing and calming the water monster's emotions.

Wu Zi'an said, got up and said, "You come with me." ”

Wu Zi'an led everyone to the well with murals and stood in front of the six repetitive paintings: "As you can see, three of these six paintings are repetitive, but in fact these three paintings can be moved and coincide. ”

As he spoke, Wu Zi'an overlapped the six paintings on the middle one in a certain order, and when he was done, he took out a brick under the painting, reached in and grabbed an iron chain and dragged it out.

Torture and even Jiuqi also stepped forward to help, and while the iron chain was pulling, the entire well made a roar of water, and at the same time, the surrounding well walls began to rotate slowly, making a sound like a monster grinding its teeth, so that everyone couldn't help but raise their hands to cover their ears.

As the walls of the shaft slowly turned, the people on the six overlapping paintings began to move, each demonstrating how the prophet used his three miracles, as if in stop-motion animation.

"Watch the back, there's still behind, the secret is hidden behind." Wu Zi'an pointed to the overlapping mural and said word by word, for fear that they would ignore the torture technique.

After the three miracles were demonstrated, the whole picture suddenly turned black, and then the waterhole appeared in the middle of the picture, and then the water monster, the strange man, and the bowl floating at the top of the waterhole cave also appeared in the waterhole.

After the bowl appeared in the mural, another knife appeared, and the appearance of the knife was almost the same as the Sealing Knife, and the original water monster and strange man gradually disappeared, and a key appeared in the original position of the water monster, and the key began to move slowly from the bottom to the top, until it moved to the bottom of the bowl, and the outline of a palace appeared around the location of the bowl.

The picture of the palace, the bowl, and the key stopped there, and after a long time, it suddenly darkened, and then it all disappeared, and then the whole mural became black again, and after a few seconds, the green strange man who lived in the waterhole appeared on the mural, and the outline of the strange man covered the whole mural.

At this point, the mural begins to return to its original position as the rotating wall of the shaft stops rotating, and the chain slowly retracts into the opening.

Wu Zi'an turned around and looked at everyone: "Do you understand?" ”

"That bowl is hidden in a palace on the top of a hill here, but the key to open the palace gate is in the hands of that water monster?" ”

Wu Zi'an shook his head slightly: "Half of the answer is correct." ”

Lian Jiuqi said again: "Could it be that you want to kill that water monster with the Sealing Sword?" The key is in the body of the water monster? ”

Wu Zi'an pointed to Lian Jiuqi and said: "My speculation is the same as yours, I also think that the key should be in the body of the water monster, that's why, I found the mechanism on the iron seat, after opening the dome of the hall, I found that I could see the top of the Four Seasons Mountain as soon as I looked up, at first I didn't understand why, until I unlocked the secret hidden in these paintings, I knew that the bowl was hidden in the palace on the top of the mountain." ”

Maffei asked, "Before that, you didn't know that there was a palace on the top of the mountain?" ”

Wu Zi'an shook his head: "You know? ”

Mo Duqiao nodded and said, "We know, didn't you read the password diary you sold to the reed flute according to Qian Xiuye's instructions?" ”

"No, I can't read Russian." Wu Zi'an shook his head and said, "Back then, I just did what Qian Xiuye told me, he just said that he did it for the future layout." ”

Wu Zi'an untied the sealing knife on his waist: "I think that the Cast Iron Immortal originally asked the second generation of Cast Iron Immortal, that is, his disciples, to build the Sealing Knife, on the one hand, in order to hide his tomb map in it, and on the other hand, it was also to be able to find the bowl, this is a double trick, just as I first thought that this knife only hid the tomb map, there will be no other things, and I didn't pay attention to it. ”

At this time, Angu asked a question that he wanted to know the answer to the most: "What is the Son of Bohai?" ”

Wu Zi'an was obviously stunned, looked Angu up and down, and knew what was going on: "If I guessed correctly, you are the son of Bohai who was saved by Qian Xiuye, and he also used my identity to accept you as an apprentice and taught you for so many years." ”

Angu nodded: "What is the Son of Bohai?" ”

Wu Zi'an pointed to the mural: "The person in the previous mural is the son of Bohai, and he changes every fifty years." ”

Angu was frightened and took a step back: "You mean, I'...... Will it be like that? ”

Wu Zi'an looked at Angu: "Yes, if you want to protect yourself from being devoured by the water monster in that pool, you have to take the plants around the pool, that plant has a strange smell that only the water monster can smell, but if you take it for a long time, your body will become the same as that strange person, and you will be with the water monster for fifty years." ”

The torture technique glanced at Angu and asked, "Fifty years?" What to eat? Eating grass? ”

Wu Zi'an said: "Eat the monster's egg, the monster's lifespan is only ten years at most, after ten years, the monster will die, and the son of Bohai will re-raise the water monster hatched from one of the eggs, continue to accompany it, and repeat the cycle." ”

"Wait!" Maffei realized the loophole in the matter, "What about the key?" Isn't the key in the body of the water monster? ”

Wu Zi'an explained: "Yes, after the death of the previous water monster, the Son of Bohai will burrow into his body and take out the key, only the Son of Bohai can, because he has been taking the eggs of plants and monsters for a long time, and a membrane will grow on the surface of his body, which can prevent him from being corroded by the gastric juice in the monster's body." ”

After speaking, Wu Zi'an paused: "I can't do this, I'm old, and the fifty-year deadline is coming soon, but if you want to wait until the water monster dies, there is still half a year, you can't wait, I can't wait, I can only kill it with the Sealing Knife, and then let the person who replaces him become the new son of Bohai, so that the previous son of Bohai will help us get into the body of the water monster and take out the key, any step is fine." ”

Angu was stupid, took a few steps back, and said against the wall of the well: "You can wait for another half a year, right?" Half a year later, when the son of Bohai takes out the key, won't we just grab it? ”

At this moment, An Gu understood why Qian Xiuye wanted to save him in the first place, why he taught him, and why he wanted to let him come to Kuhan City in the situation of repaying his kindness......

And Wu Zi'an also understood, in fact, Qian Xiuye had already discovered the secret of the mural at the bottom of the well, but he didn't say it, he was worried that Wu Zi'an would go to get the key in advance, which would ruin his overall plan.