Volume 1, The Lost Valley Blood Tree Chapter 5, The Bronze Man
Lying on the bed, Chen Tao did not feel sleepy at all. Haozi on the side was sleeping fragrantly, and the snoring sounded so loudly that Harazi slid down the corners of his mouth to his neck.
Chen Tao stared blankly at the dark roof, as if there were fire clouds rolling in the darkness, sometimes rolling up to the roof, sometimes pounced on his face.
The sound of rain outside was ticking, and Chen Tao thought about his past over and over again.
He is just an ordinary person who can no longer be ordinary, he studied a second university, studied a so-so and unpopular history major, and after graduation, he relied on the little knowledge he learned to work in Uncle Long's shop.
He only knew that his grandfather had worked hard for his family all his life to build a huge antique business, and even the entire business in the ancient city was dominated by his family surnamed Chen.
For as long as he can remember, the guys in the family have changed one after another, and there are always a few fresh faces appearing in this Chen family's old house, but it won't be long before they are gone.
Until one day, he inadvertently broke into the Chen family ancestral hall and found a secret passage under the tribute table where the spirit cards were placed.
The secret passage was so dark and deep that Chen Tao didn't dare to go down at that time, so he could only poke his little head and keep looking inside.
This look directly scared me into peeing my pants at that time!
In the darkness, all he could see was a pair of glowing eyes staring at him in the depths of the secluded tunnel!
Since that day, Chen Tao seems to have lost his memory, only vaguely remembering that he had a serious illness, and when he woke up, he found that he was blind.
For three whole years, he couldn't see anything.
How good his eyes were later, but Chen Tao has no memory at all, the time of those years seems to have skipped by inexplicably, and Chen Tao himself can't even remember whether he was blind or not.
"That's right, Bronze Man!"
Chen Tao remembered the bronze man.
Chen Tao groped his way up, looked at Li Hao, who was sleeping like a dead pig, through the light of his mobile phone, crept out of bed, poured a glass of water and sat down in front of a wooden table outside the bedroom, and took out a copper magnifying glass from the drawer, which was also carved with delicate patterns.
"It seems that Haozi, this kid has a lot of good things hidden, and a magnifying glass is so fancy."
"I can't sleep anyway, I'm going to see what kind of cat you have!"
With the help of a magnifying glass, Chen Tao carefully studied the bronze figure in his hand.
The bronze figure under the lamp is not unusual, under the illumination of the table lamp, it glows with a metallic luster unique to bronze.
"I've been carrying it in my pocket for the past few days, and it's quite bright."
After pondering it for a long time, this bronze man was nothing special except for the strangely long limbs and the head that was simplified into a circle.
Chen Tao felt a little disappointed, propped his chin and tilted his head, and rubbed the thumb of one hand against the bark-like armor on the upper body of the tree man.
"Huh? These bulges! ”
In an instant, as if grasping something, a flash of light flashed in Chen Tao's mind. He sat up with great interest, picked up his magnifying glass and looked carefully at the small bulges on the bronze man.
With the help of a magnifying glass, it can be seen that the raised surface of the treeman is not purely smooth, there are many small black spots on it, and there is a little bit of patina, pitted.
"Like, nothing special?"
Chen Tao was a little disappointed, took a sip of water, and kept tapping on the table with one hand, and in the silent night, there was a knocking sound.
I don't know what my brain is pumping, Chen Tao unconsciously picked up the bronze man on the table and threw it into the transparent glass cup, and then buckled the magnifying glass on the rim of the cup like a lid, and unconsciously held a small flashlight in his hand to shine on the bronze man in the cup.
"What's the secret?"
Chen Tao muttered quietly, but he moved the cup to the edge of the table, revealing half of the bottom of the cup, and took a small flashlight to shine up from the bottom of the cup.
The light shines through the bottom of the cup, the water, and the magnifying glass, and some large and small shadows begin to appear on the surrounding walls.
Chen Tao was interested, slowly turning the cup, the dark shadows around him began to change, slowly beginning to converge towards a certain place, and when he turned to a certain angle, he saw a scene that made him unbelievable.
"Damn, no!"
The black shadows finally gathered on one of the walls in the room, and Chen Tao could see clearly, it was a mountain! A fairy mountain on the sea!
In order to see more clearly, Chen Tao turned off the lamp and carefully looked at the pattern on the wall.
In the picture, a majestic mountain range stands among the clouds, and below the mountain is an endless sea, and the waves are rolling against the reef below. The auspicious clouds on the top of the mountain are ethereal, and several small black shadows are shuttling through it. Chen Tao stared fixedly, it was a crane.
"Damn, it's really fake!"
I don't know if it's a coincidence, or if my imagination is too rich, what in front of me makes Chen Tao a little unbelievable, if it's a coincidence, this TM is too much of a coincidence!
Shocked, Chen Tao continued to slowly turn the cup, and the pattern on the wall began to change. Little by little, the mountains split, the sea rose, the clouds gathered, the cranes fled in all directions, and all the black shadows began to gather, squirming like a black mist, and gradually turned into an immortal with long hair hanging down and fluttering clothes, all the while raising his fingers and pointing ahead.
Chen Tao followed the fingers of the immortals, and it was due east.
"It's ...... Immortals show the way? ”
For a moment, Chen Tao only felt as if his head had exploded, and countless fragments were churning and flickering in his mind. He seems to have accidentally opened a certain clue, but this clue makes him unable to do anything. In the midst of his thoughts, he remembered some of the myths and legends he had seen before.
In ancient times, the ancestors believed that there were five sacred mountains on the sea: Daiyu, Yuanqiao, Fanghu, Yingzhou, and Penglai.
According to "Liezi Tang Wen": "Its mountain is 30,000 miles high, its top is 9,000 li, and the middle of the mountain is 70,000 miles apart. Its appearance on the stage is all gold and jade, and the birds and beasts on it are pure.
The knots of the pearl tree are clustered, the Huashi has a taste, and the food is immortal. The people who live are all immortal saints, and there are countless people who fly back and forth day and night. And the root of the five mountains has nothing to connect with, often going up and down with the tide waves....... "the last two mountains drifted away without a trace, only the three mountains of Fanghu (abbot), Yingzhou, and Penglai remained."
In ancient times, there were countless people who followed the trails of immortals. Because the class level difference was too large at that time, people living at the bottom have been enduring the exploitation and oppression of the powerful, and many people with courage and knowledge have the psychology of escaping reality and looking for some beautiful places to cultivate their sentiments.
Especially in the era of constant beacon fires, there are many people who want to leave the difficult place of life and find another place to live a leisurely and comfortable secluded life.
However, what makes people feel very distressed is that although it is rumored that there are endless delicious fruits on the Middle East Sea Fairy Mountain, there are strange scenery and scenic spots that you can't get tired of playing. But these five mountains have no roots, and they are drifting like ships on the sea, gradually drifting towards the dark and cold North Pole, where the sun does not shine and the moon does not shine......
Although no one has ever actually visited the so-called fairy mountain, the description of the fairy mountain in the legend: beautiful natural environment, immortal fruit that eats immortality, spring water that drinks like fine wine, and more mysterious immortal protection, these are the places where people at that time longed for life and residence. Many stories of beautiful myths are based on the legendary East China Sea Immortal Mountain, which has been passed down to this day.
"Tut-tut, it's incredible! How did the ancients hide such two large pictures on the armor of the bronze man? It's amazing! ”
After the surprise, it was an irrepressible excitement, Chen Tao turned the cup for a long time, and found that only at a certain angle would these two patterns appear.
Chen Tao took out his mobile phone and took two photos as much as he could, put away the bronze man again, returned to the quilt with excitement, and turned over and over for a while, thinking nonsense in his mind,
"That's not right...... The pattern on this bronze figure is the seaside...... But the guy sent back by Uncle Long disappeared in Shanxi, could it be ...... What is the relationship between the two? Or ......".
Thinking of the series of bad things that have happened these days, Chen Tao has a hunch in his heart, this matter is not so simple!
But......
Dad, Mom, Uncle Long, where did you go?
Can anyone tell me what all this is all about......
"Alas......"
Chen Tao in the dark sighed heavily, just thinking like this, his consciousness became more and more difficult to concentrate and became more and more blurred......
In his dream, he was paddle adrift in a small boat above the endless sea, when suddenly, the sky was stormy, the clouds were thick, thunder and lightning were combined, and in the storm, he was like a leaf on the sea, and the sea slapped his face again and again, poured into his mouth and nose, and made it impossible for him to breathe.
I don't know how long later, he appeared under a majestic mountain of high pines, auspicious clouds rolling on the mountain, cranes crying, and an immortal with white hair and beard and a feather coat beckoning to him......