Volume 3 The Silver City of the Dome Chapter 15 The Secrets of the Illustrated Sutra
We didn't expect this cave to be so long, and the twists and turns are never endless, seeing that Li Long is already angry, we are also very anxious, Li Long should be the most depressed person on our trip, in the cave of Dangling Snow Mountain, was knocked out by the giant ape and taken away, he was injured once, and finally healed the injury, this time he was bitten by the candle dragon, and both legs were bitten off.
After all, Mao is Li Long's cousin this Tuesday, so he is even more anxious and irritable, making trouble and scolding all the way, and we also understand Tuesday Mao's mood, everyone is extremely depressed and groping in this cave.
After walking again, there was a fork in the cave, one going up and the other going down.
Pasang looked at the ancient Tibetan script on the wall and pointed to a way down: "This should be the exit down the mountain." ”
I wanted to give up the plan and withdraw together, but on Tuesday Mao said that now that everyone is leaving together, it is a bit worth the loss, and he and Zhao Qiguan should be able to cope with it.
Baynt took out some medicine and wrote us another note, telling Tuesday Mao that there was a Catholic hospital in the Ali area. Tibet had always been a Buddhist sphere of influence, and there were very few Catholics, but because of the presence of the British, a hospital and a church school were built.
If the treatment is timely, maybe Li Long can still save his life.
So we handed over some of the excellent and easy-to-carry equipment to Zhou Mao and Zhao Qiguan, and the two helped Li Long down the mountain to the hospital as soon as possible.
On Tuesday, Mao whispered to me as he left: "Be careful of that Englishman, that guy is very thief." And that Basan, I don't think it's easy. It's really not good, start first! ”
I nodded in agreement.
After bidding farewell to the three of them, there are now a total of nine people left, the four of us, Ma Bai, Chen Yutian, Bai Yukun and me. The three of them were Baynt, and the two of Liam.
Bayant looked at his watch and said, "Why don't we leave today, just find a place to rest here." ”
By this time, it was already close to night, and after another fierce battle, everyone was indeed extremely tired, so everyone agreed to rest and adjust for the night before making a decision.
I've been thinking about the three of Mao on Tuesday who went down the mountain overnight, and my heart is mixed, if it weren't for what Zizi Dzi, we should have arrived home by now, eating the hometown dishes made by Lan Meizai, drinking a little wine, Tuesday Mao estimated that he would be back from listening to the drama now.
Now sitting in the depths of this bitter cold mountain, starving, and the key is whether this dzi can really have such a miraculous effect, there is no way to know.
I moved my sore arms, today can be described as a dangerous day, but people in the most nervous time, can not feel fatigue, now as soon as I relaxed, I feel that the whole body is extremely painful, I don't want to move.
In order to save power, we picked up some remnants of the pillars in the cave, burned a bonfire with wood, and everyone hastily ate some dry food, and then fell asleep.
The ventilation in this cave is good, and there are many holes in this underground that are connected to the outside world.
I was already drowsy, but I felt that this chest was always being held against the discomfort, and I took it out of my arms, it was the cloth bag wrapped in the Buddha Sutra, when I saved Li Long just now, it was estimated that the bag was stained with Li Long's blood, and now it was baked by the bonfire, and the bag became a little hard.
I unwrapped the bag, the book was covered in blood, and the book was useless now, and I wanted to throw it into the campfire.
When I picked up the book, I realized that something seemed wrong, it was not many pages, but it was extremely heavy because it was written on cowhide.
I've read this book a few times a while ago, and I still remember the contents of each page, but now that I take it out and look at it, it seems that something is wrong, so I strangely leaned close to the campfire and looked at it carefully.
I saw that the first page was originally a pattern of white werewolves hunting and sacrificing, but because it was soaked in blood, some blood-red fine lines appeared on this cowhide, and I didn't expect this book to have another purpose.
This unexpected discovery made me suddenly a little at a loss, at this time everyone was already snoring, and Ma Bo, who was on duty at night, was also napping with a gun, I walked to Ma Bo and pointed to the contents of the book to show Ma Bo.
Marber, who was also the one who had read the book, was also surprised.
I turned on the flashlight and looked closely at the tiny lines, and found that they seemed to be paintings, but I couldn't see why.
I turned to the second page, and this one was not very wet, and the lines were not very noticeable, only the edges were some.
I was anxious to figure out the pattern, and Ma Bo said, "Do you want to get some blood to soak in?" ”
I gave him a blank look and said, "Where did you get me some blood?" ”
Ma Bo patted his head and smiled.
I suddenly remembered, and then I picked up a little soot from the ground, and smeared it evenly on the kraft page, and found that the soot could penetrate the fine paper.
Now that I think about it, this cowhide must be after the leather has been bleached and dyed, and then made with a small carving knife in the way of Yin carving, this "Yin Book" process in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in the "Taigong Liutao" has been recorded, often used to make secret letters, but later because the production is too complicated, and was replaced by some secret medicines.
I was a little excited, picked up the carbon ash and smeared it in the book for a while, sure enough, there was every page, but there was only a part of each page, and it was repeated that there were Wanqu people and the boat that fell into the waves, and there were white wolves, and there were some lines, stars, but they couldn't see a name.
Ma Bo said: "Why does this look like it was cut out of something, piece by piece?" ”
I was shocked, and I was overjoyed. Pull out the knife, cut the leather rope of the cowhide book, and put each page out in order.
Sure enough, a large picture appeared on the ground.
I took a sip of wine to calm my nervous and excited mood.
I was amazed to see that the abyss was depicted on this picture.
Unexpectedly, this white werewolf actually recorded the void in this abyss in such a way.
At the top of the picture is a starry sky map, and a little below are two wave boats, one of which is still smoking behind it, and one of which is a wave boat with a person who looks like a canal flying in the air.
The first thing I paid attention to was this astrological chart, I always felt a little strange, this astrological sign was extremely strange, it was obviously a wooden touch golden dragon, and the fire entered Jin Zheng's star fate.
There are countless round objects on the right side that are several times larger than the Wave Boat.
Could it be... My heart tightened. Suddenly remembered a record about this kind of astrological phenomenon, there is a record in the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" that "Emperor Xia was in the fifteenth year, and the stars fell like rain in the night", isn't this the manifestation of the starfall like rain?
Could it be that the wave boat in the air encountered a meteorite rain, and the scenes in my mind began to emerge, the Wanqu people that Li Shilin said were a civilization higher than our planet, and the huge crater in the canyon where my uncle lived in seclusion...
I thought about the piece of metal again, and reached into my bag and pulled out the piece of metal with some mysterious symbol, could it be that this is the part of the ship that was smashed by a meteorite?
When the boat came to our earth, it suddenly experienced a meteorite rain, and the boat was hit by a huge meteorite and fell into the snowy mountains.
What about uncles? Could it be that all those years have been searching for the whereabouts of the Wave Boat in that canyon? Where did they get this information?
And the direction of the other wave boat has obviously landed uncontrollably on the other side.
Two lost boats?
Maya? The White Wolf Ancient Country? Qin people? Wanqu people? Abyss? Divine Phoenix Stone? Dzi? Curse?....
Mystery after mystery was spinning in my head, and I seemed to feel that I was close to the answer, but when I thought of specific questions, I overturned them one by one.
I had to stop thinking and keep looking.
On the left below, there is a huge stone with a long howling wolf standing on it, and below it seems to be the pattern on the metal plate in my hand, but the pattern in our hand is incomplete, and this is indeed an original picture.
Below, a man who looks like a canal man and a person with a wolf's head are worshipping the white wolf.
Behind the two of them, a neatly dressed white wolf warrior on a horse, seemed to be performing a pre-war sacrifice.
We are not surprised by this scene, it was originally Wanqu people helping the white werewolves in the war.
However, the Mayan warriors are not depicted in this picture.
It may be that when this map was made, the Wanqu people had not yet found their companions, and it is not known.
And next, it turned out to be the void in the abyss behind the stone wall!