Chapter Eighty-Six: Jiao Statue and Bronze Mirror
"Everyone!" I sat up in a panic, and everything that had just happened flashed before my eyes like a dream. I just felt my head dizzy.
I slapped my head hard a few times until the vertigo passed. I looked up again.
Over here...... I was so shocked I couldn't believe my eyes.
Am I being teleported? Or is it still under Koriyama? I thought to myself, and looked around again.
Everything around me is exactly the same as the scene in my grandfather's secret cave that I found in the ghost town of Xudu.
From the table to the chair to the wooden cabinet on the wall, both the degree of decay and the way it is placed are carved out of a mold.
Thankfully, there was a noticeable difference in one place that made me discourage myself from being sent here.
Unlike the caves in the ghost town of Xudu, there is no exit like the cave, it is closed on all sides, and no light can penetrate it.
I can see now that the kerosene lamp above my head provides me with the only glimmer of light.
The power of the mobile phone is not much left, but the uncle's old man machine is the same as if it has not been used, and it is still full. Thinking that every time I would ridicule a few words, the uncle was still using the old man's machine, I couldn't help but sigh......
Taking advantage of the fact that my smartphone could last a while, I turned on the camera and recorded the screen
The first is to record this place, and the second is that the mobile phone can illuminate some things that are invisible to the naked eye.
I recorded it in a circle, and sure enough, on one wall, I noticed that there were red dots flashing in the camera.
Sharp, I immediately determined the location of the red dot. Then, I fumbled around the corresponding wall for a while and found a small hole.
The hole is not big, just the size of two fingers.
I gestured, stretched out two fingers and pulled a string of wires out of it. At the end of the wire, something like an LED light flashes every once in a while. This is probably the thing that just flashed red in my phone's lens.
So, I took apart the wires and unpacked them along with the LED light.
Immediately, a small SD card burst out of the lamp.
I stared at the SD card in my hand and the almost ruined LED light, and suddenly realized what it was.
It's a pinhole camera......
I sneered and smashed the pinhole camera. As for the SD card, I plugged it back into my phone.
I'm not in a hurry to check the contents right now. Because I remembered one thing.
If the structure here is exactly the same as the cave in the ghost city of Xudu, will the secret room inside also be reproduced?
With that in mind, I walked over to the rotten wooden table and opened the dusty drawer. At that time, I found a pull ring from behind the drawer of the wooden table, and thus opened the secret door.
And here, too, I found an identical tab.
But when I pulled the tab, there were no secret doors around.
I don't believe in evil, so I pulled it a few more times, but the result was still the same, not even the shadow of the secret door.
Don't...... There are no secret rooms here? I wondered, if that were the case, wouldn't I be in a room with no exit right now?
No, what the hell is this place? How did I get in?
I slowly began to recall, but as soon as I remembered the image of our group of people entering through the corridor, my head felt like it was tearing.
I had to give up my memories and sit down in a random place against the wall.
At this moment, the kerosene lamp hanging above my head flickered for some reason, as if the wind was blowing.
I looked at the flickering flame of the oil lamp and was curious. He simply stood up again, reached out and took off the kerosene lamp, and held it in his hand.
And after the kerosene lamp was removed, the candle flame still did not change its previous state.
I examined it carefully, and finally found a clue in the kerosene lamp core.
It turned out that the fire line that ignited the kerosene lamp had been touched by someone, and I don't know what was wrapped around it. Also, there was not much oil left in the kerosene lamp.
I estimated that according to this burning method, this kerosene lamp would only last for about seven or eight minutes at most. After that, I'm going to fall back into the darkness......
Gotta find a way out as soon as possible!
So, I took a second look around. From the table to the chair to the wooden cabinet, to the corners and walls.
I took a hard look at every place. Eventually, my eyes were fixed on the tab behind the wooden table.
A hunch tells me that there must be something wrong with this tab.
I stepped forward again and pulled the tab. This time, I vaguely heard something moving behind the wall.
I pulled the tab repeatedly, and the movement behind the wall grew louder and louder.
Suddenly, with a "bang", the wall began to crumble from the pull ring. Soon, the wall shattered into a half-human-high hole.
I was stunned for a moment, and forgot to use a kerosene lamp to search inside. By the time I reacted, the kerosene lamp in my hand had gone out.
I pulled out my lighter and tried to light it a few times, but it didn't work, and in the end it didn't last seven minutes......
I had no choice but to put the oil lamp back on the wooden table, and took the old man's machine and shrank into the hole in the wall.
With the only light I had in the old man's machine, I could see the layout of the cave clearly.
Like the previous room, there is a wooden table and a wooden cabinet.
I slowly touched the edge of the wooden table, and then I saw a phone on the table.
Almost instantly, the phone rang. I hesitated, but picked up the handset.
"Hey—" A familiar voice rang over the phone.
"It's you again." I was a little angry, "What the hell do you want, you got me here, right? What about my friends?"
"Your friends are safe, and if nothing else, they'll do as I want. As for you—" The man suddenly changed his words, "you've so often disobeyed the routine, and you've changed your plans several times, so I'll have to leave you here alone for a while." ”
"So, you're imprisoning me here?" I asked deliberately rhetorically.
"Not really, you'll still have to find the few remaining boxes, and this is the best place for you to complete your mission."
"If you fart, there's no way out here! How do I find the box?"
"I've already given you a hint, and the answer is on your back......"
After the man finished speaking, the only sound of electricity remained on the phone.
The more I listened, the more angry I became, thinking that I had become a pawn of someone else, and I was very irritable. In a fit of rage, I snapped the microphone back onto the phone.
I don't know if it's because I'm too strong or because this table is old. The force generated by my phone deduction directly collapsed to the ground.
Looking at the mess, I was stunned.
After casually lifting my foot and kicking some wooden planks away, I accidentally found a special object in it.
It was a sculpture of a dragon's head, about the size of a human fist. The workmanship is still relatively fine, but it is not clear what material it is made of.
I flipped it over and looked at it, but I didn't find anything out of the ordinary. However, the tattoo on my back is also a dragon head. I still pinned it seriously into my pocket. Other than that, I didn't find anything in the planks anymore.
Then, I put my target on the wooden cabinet next to me.
When I opened the wooden cabinet, I was greeted by a smell of aging. I didn't expect it to be full of small miscellaneous items.
I covered my nose and picked up the small items inside.
One of the bronze mirrors caught my attention.
It stands to reason that a bronze mirror should not be placed in a wooden cabinet. This is a big taboo in Feng Shui, just like the mirror can't face the bed, it belongs to the evil phase.
However, there are two sides to everything, and this one is no exception.
In one case, the bronze mirror had to be placed in a cabinet. This is when there is another big evil thing in the room, the bronze mirror is placed in the wooden cabinet, which can effectively balance another big evil thing.
It's just that...... Is there another big thing in this room?
I continued to look at the last few small objects, and found that they were all normal, and they were basically common antique items.
Well, there's only one thing left. I looked down at the sculpture of a dragon head pinned to my pocket.
The more I looked at it, the more I felt that something was wrong, so I took it out again and rechecked it.
This inspection scared me, what kind of dragon is this, it's obviously a Jiao!
Ancient saying: The dragon gave birth to nine sons, and there was a Jiao.
This Jiao is the greatest of the worst of the worst, and it is generally impossible for anyone to use its image to make sculptures.
What's going on......
I can't think of any way that this Jiao's statue and this bronze mirror will help me find the kyanite glass box? Or is this the man's guidance to me?
No, recalling the man's words just now, it doesn't actually know where the rest of the box is, right? Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered to find the box.
That means it's not what it puts here, it's someone else!
The first thing I thought of was my grandfather, who had come into contact with kyanite glass boxes. It was the purple kyanite glass box I first came across.
It disappeared along with the crystal coffin in Egypt, and I didn't have time to look for it at the time. Could it be that this is the purple box I'm looking for this time?
And it was really brought here?
Can't figure it out...... I subconsciously hugged my head and shrank in the corner.
The bronze mirror in his hand accidentally fell to the ground and shattered. At the same time as the bronze mirror shattered, the statue suddenly vibrated as well.
I didn't hold it steady for a moment, and I let it fall to the ground.
Thankfully, the statue didn't break......