I looked at the name displayed on the screen of my phone, and the shock in my heart could not be calmed down for a long time, so I hurriedly grabbed the doctor and asked him about the content of his message.

The doctor's expression was a little strange, he looked at me, opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word, as if he didn't know what to say. After a long time, I was really impatient to wait, so I told him how the original words were written on the stone wall, you can repeat it.

The doctor then said, "Well, I don't know how to explain the message, but the original words on the rock wall are like this:

We have gone through arduous tracking to this point, I thought I had found the root place, but what I didn't want to find was just a mirror, the lock demon lake is not the lock demon lake, we were deceived, everything is just a reflection! If there are latecomers who see this message, they should retreat quickly, if they are descendants of the Zhang family, they should try their best to ban - the eye of the earth!

- Zhang Lingjin! ”

After listening to the doctor's dictation, I finally knew why the doctor was so difficult to speak, the root place, the mirror, the reflection, what is this?

The doctor looked at me and asked a little strangely, "What?" Even you can't understand this passage? ”

I looked at him and said to myself, why do you ask? It looks like I'm very familiar with this Zhang Lingjin.

"Aren't you talking nonsense? I don't even know who Zhang Lingjin is, and she said this so vaguely, how do I know what she wants to express? ”

The doctor lifted his glasses, a habitual gesture that only occurs when he is deep in thought or when he figures out a problem. I don't know if he was thinking about the question or coming up with the answer when he was holding his glasses at this time, and I didn't dare to disturb him, so I had to wait.

At this time, behind us, the strange black fog was in hot pursuit, and the distance that had been narrowed up was being shortened little by little, but we were never able to find the exit from the lock demon lake, and we couldn't help but start to get anxious.

However, at this moment, the doctor who was deep in thought suddenly raised his head and asked me a strange question without a clue: "Reporter, if I remember correctly, is your grandfather the only biological son of your father?" ”

I was puzzled by the doctor's sudden question, nodded, and said, "That's right, I just learned not long ago, my three uncles turned out to be picked up by my grandfather, and my father is the only one!" ”

The doctor's gaze froze, and then he saw him raise his hand to support his glasses, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing a faint smile.

As soon as I saw his appearance, I knew that he must have figured out the meaning of the message, and hurriedly asked, "I said, do you know the meaning of the message?" ”

The doctor glanced at the back of the boat, saw that the black fog was still some distance away from us, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to me: "I don't know if you have noticed that this woman named Zhang Lingjin has been running through all your experiences over this period of time, no matter where you go or what you experience, there is her shadow, she is like an invisible thread, tied to your body, and has been leading your nose to move forward?" ”

I understand what the doctor wants to say, he just wants to say that Zhang Lingjin is the mastermind behind everything I have experienced during this time, to put it bluntly, I am like a chess piece, Zhang Lingjin is the chess player, and all this I have experienced is the trend and process of the whole chess game, since I received the first letter, I have fallen into the control of others, and I can't help myself.

In fact, as early as after experiencing Fengyang's encounter, I thought about this possibility, and then the experience of my hometown Yeling made me more suspicious of this mysterious woman named Zhang Lingjin, but I really can't believe that so many bizarre and treacherous things can be manipulated by man, after all, every time I go through danger, it is nine deaths, if it is a man-made conspiracy, there are too many variables, this is simply uncontrollable, besides, if this is really Zhang Lingjin's conspiracy, what is she trying to do?

Seeing that I didn't speak, the doctor continued: "Combined with your previous experience, Zhang Lingjin's intention to deliberately guide you to dangerous forbidden places is already obvious. The original letter led you to Fengyang, thus inducing a curse and forcing you to return to Yeling, and the message in the sinkhole took you into the Hell Tree, and then our trip to the ancient town seemed to have nothing to do with her, but as early as more than a year ago, she had already laid the groundwork in the ancient town.

Now, I suddenly feel that it may not be accidental that you can pick up the notebook she left in the ancient town, just imagine, why did her things fall into the hands of Chen Daochang, who was in the front door? I happened to pick it up for you a year later, and the notes also recorded a map of Toast?

Don't you think it's too much of a coincidence?

Also, have you ever thought that since you have obtained her notes, it is equivalent to knowing the existence of the Secret Letter Demon Lake, but why did she send you a second and third letter in a row? ”

I had already been asked a series of questions by the doctor, and when he talked about the next two letters, I subconsciously shook my head and asked, "Why?" ”

The doctor's eyes flashed with a gleam, pointed at me, and smiled, "Because of you!" ”

"Because of me?" I was stunned, not understanding what the doctor meant.

"That's right, because of you! Under normal circumstances, a person who has experienced those things in Fengyang, Yeling and Guzhen one after another, will inevitably have doubts about this series of things in his heart, and if he has doubts, he will pursue the answers behind them. The notes you get in the ancient town, which include both pictures related to Yeling and pictures related to the ancient town, if the average person gets the notes, the first reaction must be to pursue the rest of the pictures related to Yeling and the ancient town. ”

Speaking of this, the doctor couldn't help but laugh, looked at me, and continued: "Maybe that Zhang Lingjin doesn't know much about you, you are not a person who will stalk the mystery and swear not to go back if you don't hit the south wall, on the contrary, your attitude towards everything is very Buddhist, and you don't want to cause trouble, unless a problem comes to the door and you have to do it, you will be in it."

It is precisely because of your personality that the notebook did not play its corresponding role after it was in your hands, and if it weren't for the accident, the notebook fell out, I'm afraid we don't know about the notebook until now! Because the notes didn't work, the second and third letters, as well as the accident that happened to your father, became very necessary! ”

The doctor's face was full of embarrassment and shock at the same time. I was embarrassed by the doctor's summary of my character, indeed, if they hadn't found the notes, I'm afraid we would still be trapped in the shark's lair, and what shocked me was that Zhang Lingjin had completely become a sinister and vicious mastermind in the doctor's speculation, which really made me a little difficult to accept.

Prior to this, we had some impressions from Xiu Ling's description of Su Jin, in Xiu Ling's mouth, Su Jin was a very gentle and kind person, how could such a person be the evil conspirator in the doctor's speculation?

The doctor seemed to be able to understand my feelings, and patted me on the shoulder: "You don't have to care too much, I just said that Zhang Lingjin may be the one who pushed you to the forbidden places one by one, and I didn't say that she had malicious intentions towards you, besides, this is just my speculation, and it is difficult to say what the truth is." ”

His words made me feel a little better, and I remembered the question he asked me just now, so I asked him why he just asked?

The doctor told me that whether it was the initial letter or those rumors, there was no exception the generation of 'descendants of the Zhang family', Zhang Lingjin surnamed Zhang, Zhang Juming surnamed Zhang, Zhang Tianxing surnamed Zhang, and I also surnamed Zhang, so he suspected that there was probably some kind of connection between us.

And this time in the message, the words used have changed, from the previous descendants of the Zhang family to the descendants of the Zhang family, which made the doctor suspicious, and he remembered that I said before that several of my uncles were actually not born to my grandfather, so aren't my father and I the descendants of the old Zhang family?

With this in mind, the doctor connected everything.

I still couldn't understand what the connection was, so I asked the doctor to explain it carefully. At this time, Xiu Ling had already relieved herself, and her skills in driving the boat were better than those of the Taoist, so she took over from the Taoist. The Taoist priest who had his hands free immediately came over, and he had been listening to us on the side for a long time, but he was about to start the boat, and the sound of the engine was noisy, and he only listened to it.

The doctor told me that Zhang Lingjin deliberately guided me to these places have one thing in common, that is, the eye of the earth!

Every place has an earth eye that has been unsealed or is about to be unsealed, and I have previously told the doctor about the origin of our old Zhang family and Yeling, as well as the conjecture of the earth coffin proposed by my grandfather Zhang Tianxing's codex, and this time Zhang Lingjin clearly said that the descendants of the Zhang family must seal the earth eye in the lock demon lake, which made the doctor have a bold guess.

That is, Zhang Lingjin and I are relatives, we are both descendants of the Zhang family mentioned in the message, Zhang Lingjin guided me to the forbidden place where the Earth Eye is located, and its purpose is to let me seal the Earth Eye.

As soon as the doctor's words came out, they were immediately overturned by me, I shook my head and said it was impossible, because I had the same suspicion before, Zhang Lingjin and Zhang Juming were both surnamed Zhang, and they were both related to Yeling, but I had already asked my grandmother and confirmed that these two people were not relatives of our family.

Hearing me say this, the doctor frowned, and after thinking about it, he also shook his head, saying that he didn't know about this, either his guess was wrong, or my grandmother lied to me.

Grandma lied to me, is that possible?

I thought about it, thought it was impossible, and shook my head.

The doctor didn't dwell on the question and told us the rest of the things mentioned in the message. From a literal point of view, after Zhang Lingjin and others arrived here, they found that this was not the place they were really looking for, which is not difficult to understand, but she said that the lock demon lake is not the lock demon lake, and the lock demon lake is just a mirror, everything is just a reflection, this is a bit unbelievable, could it be that everything we see now is fake?

"I thought about this just now, reporter, do you still remember the Yin Town and Yang Town of Suoming Town?"

I nodded, the formation of the town is more special, it is formed under the joint action of the grievances of thousands of townspeople in the ancient town, the eye of yin and yang and the eye of the earth, divided into yin town and yang town, yin town is the reflection of the ancient town in the past, yang town is the reality in real time, the two are equivalent to the past and present two opposites of a thing, because of special conditions and coexist together.

The doctor talked about the ancient town at this time, could it be that the Lock Demon Lake is also similar to the ancient town?

"What do you mean...... This is the same as the ancient town, and it is also the same space of two time and space? ”

The doctor shook his head and explained, "No, the special situation of the town of the underworld is not replicable. Judging from the message, Zhang Lingjin seems to be looking for a place they call 'Root Land', I think that this 'Root Land' is very likely to be the same as the place we are in now, at least the environment should be exactly the same, but their essence is different, so Zhang Lingjin will say that she was deceived, this is just a reflection reflected in a mirror, although it looks exactly the same, but it is not the place they are looking for. ”

After listening to the doctor's analysis, I think it makes sense, after all, even a place like Suo Hades can appear in parallel with two time and space at the same time, and it is not unusual for another reflection space to appear here, but since there is a reflection, where is the real place in the reflection?

Suddenly, I had in my mind the demon lake that often appeared in nightmares, and the black mountain surrounded by the demon lake, wasn't it the same as the lock demon lake here and now?

I was almost certain that the demon lake that kept repeating itself in my nightmares was not the lake at this moment, because I couldn't feel the strange feeling that the demon lake in my nightmare gave me at all, which means that the doctor's speculation was probably right.

Five years ago, Zhang Lingjin entered this place and found that this was not the place where they were looking for the roots, so she carved that message near the chain, as for why it was engraved in that place, I think maybe it was really as the doctor said, she was sure that I would be here, because I had that diary, there was a route map she left, and I would definitely see that message in the end.

What a meticulous woman! I sighed in my heart, because the Taoist priest came in halfway, he didn't hear it all, and his head was full of confusion at this time, but his focus was not on the secret contained in the message, what he was more concerned about was whether Zhang Lingjin left after he arrived, and if she left, how did she leave?

I comforted the Taoist priest and said that she must have left, because a year and a half ago, Zhang Lingjin also went to Suoming Ancient Town as a cameraman, and if she hadn't left five years ago, there would be nothing to do with Suoming Ancient Town.

The Taoist priest relaxed a little after hearing this, "That's good, as long as they leave safely, there will definitely be a mark on the map she gave to mark the escape route......

Speaking of this, the Taoist priest seemed to remember something, and suddenly turned around excitedly and drilled into the cabin.