Is the world crazy?

The handprint on his back is shocking, even if someone pushes it, how can there be such a handprint left on his back, unless......

Chen Tao swallowed a mouthful of saliva tremblingly, his brain could no longer think, and an unprecedented suffocation enveloped his whole body.

In the mirror, he was pale, weak, and eerie like a dead man.

He trembled all over, stepped back step by step, tripped over the bed coldly, and fell straight backwards.

The moment he fell, everything around him seemed to slow down, Chen Tao's head shook violently, and his eyes became hot and painful. Things in front of me began to become blurry and chaotic, like a broken TV set on a thunderstorm, and the images of various channels overlapped and separated indiscriminately.

Everything around them has reverted back to what it was after the fire, and it has become intact again. Chen Tao only felt that the air around him was getting thinner and thinner, and his lungs were suffocating like a piece of ice.

His eyes were burning and aching so much that he almost fainted. If Chen Tao could see his eyes at this moment, he would definitely faint with fright.

His eyes turned red at this time, and the bloodshot threads wriggled like worms, strange and seeping.

But Chen Tao won't have a chance, his consciousness is getting more and more blurred, and in just a short moment, he completely loses consciousness.

......

Somewhere in the ancient city, a group of people was standing in an old-fashioned study, and one of them was carrying a young man on his back.

The old man at the head raised his hand and turned an ornament on the table, only to hear the click of the machine, and the two large bookcases full of books and other objects slowly parted, revealing a large wall behind them.

The old man led the group to the wall, stretched out his hand and touched the wall, and with a rumbling sound, the wall began to turn, and the group turned behind the wall. There was another click, the bookcase was reset, and everything was back to its original state, as if no one had ever been here.

Bang bang, one after another lights in the dark passage, illuminating the road ahead.

If Chen Tao woke up now, he would definitely drop his jaw in shock.

The old man at the head is none other than Li Lao, followed by Uncle Long, his parents, uncle, third uncle, and fourth uncle.

What is such a group of people doing here?

After passing through a short passage, everyone came to a spacious secret room.

The secret room is very clean, with a huge stone seat in the middle, and on the seat is a bagua-shaped stone platform, on which various lines are carved, complex and intertwined, like a map.

In the staggered lines, there are nine human-shaped depressions. In addition, there is a large groove in the center of the entire stone platform, which looks like a part is missing, and all the lines are broken when it reaches that groove.

"Quick, put Tao Tao down!" The third uncle, Chen Hongyi, pulled over two long wooden tables and swept the books and miscellaneous items on them to the ground with one arm.

"Second daughter-in-law, take a look!" Uncle Chen Hongshan shouted at Chen Tao's mother.

"It's a phantom poisonous weed!" Chen Tao's mother looked at Chen Tao in tatters and unconscious.

"I was obviously detoxified last time, why did I get hit again?" Fourth Uncle Chen Hongzhou was a little anxious.

"When he looked for me this morning, there was obviously nothing wrong, why did he get poisoned not long after he went out?" Uncle Long said.

"No...... Tao Tao is afraid that he has been hacked! Father Chen Hongwen clenched his fists as if he suddenly thought of something.

"What! Could it be ......" everyone's faces changed drastically.

"Those beasts dare to attack Tao Tao! I fought with them! The third uncle slammed his fist on the table, and the echo vibrated and hovered in the secret room.

"Fight? What do you fight, don't forget the current situation of the Chen family! The fourth uncle said with a gloomy face.

"It takes at least half an hour for the phantom poisonous weed to be poisoned to hallucinate, what do they want to do with this chronic poisonous weed on Tao Tao?" Chen Tao's mother frowned.

"Could it be...... Tao Tao received the news that the bronze man was leaked out? Uncle Long's expression became serious.

"TND, this is a declaration of war on us! Although our father is gone, if they really do it, the Chen family may not be afraid of them! ”

"Third child, don't always be so reckless, you're a father, pay attention." Uncle patted the third uncle's shoulder and said.

"Phantom poisonous grass is not lethal, but it is hallucinating, in the end, it is some deceptive tricks, but where did Tao Yanzi get those things?" Li Lao shook his head and looked at Chen Tao who was unconscious, "But they don't seem to have killed Tao, which is really unexpected to me!" ”

Uncle Long took out the bronze figure and put it on the stone table, and several people gathered.

"Anyway, they're already eyeing Tao Lingzi." Li Lao picked up the bronze man and looked at it, "These people are really bloody!" ”

"Tao Tao is still an outsider about this matter, can he? After all, what we are facing is not ordinary people......" Uncle said in a deep voice.

"Are these people dogs, they have very smart noses!" The fourth uncle's eyes flashed with a cold light.

"If they dare to touch half a hair, I'll fight with them. It's better to tear your face than to be stiff now. The third uncle clenched his fists.

"Third child, now is not the time to tear your face with them." Elder Li coughed, "Don't forget the alliance leader's plan. ”

"I believe in my father, I believe that he has a reason for this arrangement." Chen Tao's father looked up at everyone.

"What's next?" Elder Li asked Uncle Long.

"I contacted the Northeast Wang family and asked them to bring that person over." Uncle Long said.

"You mean ......"

"Well, that's him!"

There was a moment of silence in the chamber.

"If it's that person, if he's willing to make a move, Tao Yanzi will be fine." Elder Li nodded.

"But you two ......," Chen Tao's father was a little worried.

Elder Li shook his head, "That's all the grievances of the older generation, not to mention the affairs of the ancestors, for our juniors, it is not a good thing to carry those grievances." ”

After a pause, Elder Li said again: "Now, the Spirit Alliance is no longer the Spirit Alliance of the past, as soon as the alliance leader leaves, they will come out to bite people." Special times, special treatment, remember, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. ”

The secret room fell silent, and after a while, Uncle Long spoke: "Tao Tao, he should have felt something." ”

"I can't tell him right now, in my father's plan, he is the key, and he must not be sloppy." Uncle snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand.

"No......" Li Lao shook his head, "The matter is beyond our control, and the secret on his body can't be hidden for long." Although I don't know what he will be like in the future, the alliance leader has been carefully taught, and he will definitely not become like them! ”

"One more thing." Uncle Long took out a cup filled with water. "Tao Tao, read the information on the tree man!"

"What!" The rest of the crowd gasped.

Taking the bronze man from Old Li's hand, Uncle Long threw it in the cup, and with the help of a flashlight and a magnifying glass, he projected the two patterns on a stone wall.

"This kid!." Chen Tao's father smiled.

"What's wrong with this kid, this kid can do it!" The third uncle echoed.

"We've been studying something for so many years without progress, and this kid actually read it! My father's choice was right! Uncle looked very excited.

"No, not all the information, just a small part."

Li Lao stared at the patterns on the wall, "It's not just a few pictures, what is hidden on it is far more complicated than this." ”

"Second brother, put the bronze man in your hand and try it too!" The fourth uncle is anxious and eager to try.

Chen Tao's father took out a quaint wooden box. The wooden box is square, carved with two unknown giant beasts, the body of the beast gold and silver threads, inlaid with large and small five-colored jade, very exquisite.

"Exquisite Thousand Locks! Elder Li, this ......," the uncle said in surprise.

"The alliance leader left something is more important than my life."

Li Lao picked up the small wooden box and rubbed it with a nostalgic expression.

"Now, you're the only one who can open this box." Uncle Long said.

"And that guy." An indescribable look flashed in Elder Li's eyes. "If you can cooperate with them, the odds will be more than 100%."

"It's difficult......" Uncle Long sighed.

As he spoke, Li Lao pressed the beast's eyes, and then two fingers quickly groped under the box.

The so-called "exquisite thousand locks", as its name suggests, in a small wooden box, there are thousands of hidden organs, which are interlocking and move the whole body.

At the bottom of the box are neat rows of dark gold rivets, only the size of mung beans. If you count carefully, no more, no less, just a thousand. Each rivet is involved in the internal bracket of the box, as long as the order of pressing is wrong, the protective mechanism is triggered, and the lockpicker will be instantly pierced into a hedgehog by a poisonous needle.

If it is forcibly opened, the mechanism will be destroyed, and the poison needle will be sprayed out instantly, and the contents of the box will also be destroyed. The two beast eyes, one is a lock opening insurance, and the other is a self-destruct switch.

Li Lao held the wooden box with one hand, and the other hand was under the box. Everyone couldn't see the movement of the fingers under Li Lao's wooden box, they could only see the tendons on the back of his old hand beating with the movement of the fingers.

There was a clear click, and the lid of the box suddenly turned up a crack, and Li Lao put down the wooden box and took out something from it. If Chen Tao saw it, he would definitely be surprised.

Inside the box, there is another bronze man!

There is no difference between this bronze and the appearance of the one that Chen Tao received, the difference is only the texture on the back.

The fourth uncle carefully took out the bronze man and threw it into the water cup with a clatter.

To everyone's disappointment, this time, the walls were speckled and nothing was shown.

"This ...... Could it really be a coincidence? Uncle Long wondered.

"Yes and no." Elder Li chuckled and shook his head.

"Old Li, what the hell is going on!" The fourth uncle asked hurriedly.

"According to the jade plaques that the alliance leader took out from the strange Sui tomb on the stone wall back then, if you want to read the information on the tree man, you need a specific artifact." Li Lao looked at the big empty channel in the center of the stone table,

"We've been looking for thousands of years, and the most critical part is still nowhere to be found. The Sui Dynasty monk who was holding the bronze man in his hand must have looked around for the artifact that could read the information of the tree man before his death, but before the thing could be found, the person died. ”

"The jade said that when reading the information of the bronze man, it is necessary to 'Xi and Li, the jade plate is present, and the nine sons are concentric', Xi He, in ancient mythology, is the mother of the sun, which should mean the sun. The jade plate, possibly referring to the moon. I suspect that the thing that reads the treeman's information may have something to do with light. Uncle Long looked at the spots on the wall and said.

"If what Tao Yanzi came up with is correct, the thing that can read the information must use the refraction and reflection of light to image." Mr. Li straightened his body and looked at everyone.

"How could there be such technology in those times?" Uncle was puzzled.

"Don't underestimate the wisdom of your ancestors!" Elder Li's voice became serious, "You should understand that for them, even if we are now, there is not much difference between us and monkeys. ”

"What's next?" Uncle looked at Uncle Long and said.

"Take Tao Tao directly to Heizigou, since they are all staring at him, then they will be counted."

"Brother Long, you are confused, what if Tao Tao has three long and two short?" The third uncle slapped the table and said.

The others didn't speak, they all looked at Chen Tao's father.

"Go ahead, I believe in Yilong."

"Second brother......" The third uncle wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Chen Tao's father.

"He is my son, and he is also our Chen family, this way, there is no choice ......"

"Alas......"

Uncle Long didn't speak, he scooped up the bronze figure from the cup, wiped it clean, and inlaid it into a human-shaped depression on the stone platform.

Li Lao coughed, and the two fingers of his right hand groped along the lines on the stone platform, and when he reached a certain humanoid depression, he pressed the bronze figure that Chen Tao had collected into it.

Syllable......

In the silence of the secret room, the voice echoed for a long time.

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