Volume 3 The Ghost Boat of the Sand Sea Chapter 22 The Palace of Eternal Life
I immediately dived underwater, and found that the diving equipment in the jar was indeed caught, but it was not a human or a ghost, but a small wooden plank. His oxygen cylinder was jammed by a protruding plank.
I helped the jar untie it, and the jar breathed a sigh of relief: "His grandmother's, I'm scared to death!" Where did you get the wooden board, just take Lao Tzu to have fun! ”
We looked at the plank carefully, and it felt like the wreck of a ship, and wiped the algae off the board with our hands, and there were some signs, but it was too long to see clearly.
"Look here!" The jar cried again. The jar points under the water, let us see. I looked down and saw that there was not only this plank in the water, but many other things, shards of porcelain, rusty iron tools, broken tables and chairs, and all sorts of bits and pieces.
"Where did all this stuff come from? Is there a shipwreck in this place? I asked Xu Yunshu.
"Shipwrecks? No way! Xu Yunshu said, "How can a big boat come here in such a big pond?" I guess, isn't this Dragon's Breath Pool connected to the ocean? Could it be that the tides or currents of the sea brought the shipwrecks of the sea into this pool, and then they were washed into this hole by the whirlpools in the pool? ”
I woke up from a dream and said, "Yes, yes! It must be like this! Didn't Uncle Zhang say that during the earthquake in 63, someone still fished antiques in the pool? It must have been because of the earthquake that the flow of the water in the pool changed, and the things here were washed out, so that people picked up the cheap. Later, the water cleared up and the flow returned to normal, so no one ever picked up the treasure again! ”
But Xu Yunshu was a little skeptical about her conclusion: "This is a bit too coincidental, right?" ”
"No book is made without coincidence! There are so many more coincidental things in the world than that! What is this? I said.
"Yes!" Xu Yunshu nodded and said, "But how can you explain these corpses, they can't also come from the sea, right?" ”
"I know that!" Tanzi stretched out his finger and said, "When you two went on a date by the pool the night before yesterday......"
I hit the head of the jar so hard that I said, "What date?" Don't talk nonsense! ”
"Yes, yes, yes!" The altar agreed, "You two go to the pond to make an appointment..... When I was walking, I went back to chat with Uncle Zhang, but he remembered a strange thing again! ”
"What's weird?" I hurriedly asked.
"Uncle Zhang said that this Longxi Lake is very strange, and people in the village never swim in the pool." Jar said.
"Why is that?" Xu Yunshu asked.
"Because several people die every year in this Dragon Breath Pool!" Jar said.
"What's weird about this? Isn't that always the case at the water's edge? I sneered and said, "The reservoir next to our house, no matter how many people die in any year, they all go there to swim and drown, it's normal!" ”
The jar said: "It is normal to drown people! But no matter where it is, as long as it is not a river, after the drowned person is sent to salvage, most of them can find the body, but in this Longxi Pond, no one has ever found the body of the deceased, never! In the end, these people are conclusive because they are missing. Strangely, these people disappeared when it was a good day......"
"Isn't that nonsense?" I interrupted the jar and said, "If the weather is bad, who's going to go swim?" ”
"That's just as well!" Tan Zi thought about it for a while and smiled and said, "But some people say that those who disappeared were left in the Crystal Palace by the Dragon Lord as errands; Some people also say that these people have found a way to make people immortal in the pool, and they all stay below to practice the secret of immortality...... Of course, no one has died in the past ten years, because everyone in ten miles and eight towns knows about this evil sect of Longxitan, and no one dares to come. ”
"Then it seems that these dead people should be the ones who drowned and disappeared, but their bodies were washed here by the current after they died, and where did they go to fish?" I finally got it.
After figuring these out, Xu Yunshu and I were just about to walk forward, but we found that the jar had gone underwater, looking for something in the fragments of the wreckage.
I pushed the jar and he came up and asked me what was wrong.
"I also ask what you're doing lying down there?" I say.
"That's not to say that someone has caught antiques, since the antiques caught outside are rushed out from here, then there must be good goods here...... But I've been looking for a long time, and I haven't seen a complete object, so are all the good things rushing out? The altar said a little unwillingly.
"Let's wait until we come back to talk about the treasure hunt, time is limited, let's get down to business first!" I told the altar.
Not far ahead, on the shore, the waterway ends here. The three of us were cautious when we walked ashore, because there were also many corpses scattered on the edge of the water's edge, some of which had become white bones, and of course, many of whom had become Tai Sui.
"It's so big!" We took off our diving equipment and shone our searchlights around, looking at the tall space around us and sighing.
"Let's go inside! ...... here," Xu Yunshu said, sweeping around the corpses on the ground, "it always makes people feel uncomfortable!" ”
That's what I thought, I really don't want to stay in this kind of place for a moment, but those non-decomposing corpses make me feel weird. Although it is located in a deep pool and does not see sunlight all year round, it is not a place where yin qi gathers, so it is not a place to raise corpses, but why are there so many corpses that do not decay for many years? If one or two are accidental, this can be explained, but there are so many dozens of them that are a bit too much to say.
We left the shore and walked slowly forward, and about a mile away, a magnificent palace appeared before our eyes. This palace is more than 10 meters high, more than 20 meters long, carved beams and painted buildings, flowing eaves and arches, the appearance is very magnificent. It's just that no one has been here for a long time, and the dust accumulated over the years has cast a dull gray color over this palace that was built at some unknown time.
"I'll go, there's a crystal palace here!" The altar couldn't help but cry out excitedly when he saw the palace.
"What Crystal Palace? Do you know how to read? The sign on it clearly reads three big characters - 'Palace of Eternal Life'! I pointed to the crooked sign on it and corrected the jar.
"Hall of Eternal Life? Well, is there really a secret to immortality here? The altar shouted, "The three of us can be saved this time!" ”
"If you call it the Hall of Eternal Life, you will definitely live forever?" I hit the jar and said.
"What is the Hall of Eternal Life called if you can't live forever?" The altar was not convinced.
"The meaning is good! Just like when we celebrate people's birthdays, we always say that longevity is boundless, which one have you ever seen that really lived for 10,000 years? I said to the altar.
"Turtle King Eight!" Jar said.
"Get out!"