Chapter 12 Answers
Hearing me squeeze her, Ah Xia reacted, and found that her hand was still being caught by me, her pretty face became more and more crimson, and she quickly retracted her hand, don't look over, and couldn't help whispering: "It's a little ...... Handsome ......", as soon as the words came out, I realized my way, I couldn't care about the tears in my eyes, and couldn't help complaining to me coquettishly: "Who asked you to come with me?" I don't know how dangerous it is! Didn't you see the note I left for you? ”
I saw that she was really happy, so naturally I didn't care about her, I lit the extinguished torch that Feng Jinhua dropped from the ground before, handed it to her, stood back to back with her, and didn't answer her, only said: "Xia Beauty, thank me until I go out, now help me first!" ”
Ah Xia, who was reloaded, naturally had a good heart, and after nodding his head, he had already answered with actions, fighting side by side with me, and swept out a torch first, scattering the handful of Gu worms that were rushing towards us. When I saw her return to normal, I was overjoyed, and I hurriedly cooperated with her to swing a blow to burn back the Gu worms that attacked from behind.
In an instant, I saw Ah Xia pointing east and west, cooperating with me to rush left and right, scattering waves of crazy insect tides one after another, gradually grasping the initiative, taking me to spin my footsteps, cutting into the center of the insect sea, and burning those Gu poisons up and down. How dare I do such a dangerous thing with her in normal times? It's just that right now, I took two big sips of wine in succession, although most of the spirits were spit out by me as a fierce material to help the fire, but there was still a little infiltration into the body, so that I was also a little upset, and I couldn't help but use the strength of the wine, and dance with her to kill the sea of insects, like a double round dance, and if the wings fly together, the mandarin ducks play in the water, turning into a fire phoenix, three in and three out, actually washing away the sea of insects, and when they returned to Uncle Dachuan and his ears to stand for a while, there were only some scorched insect corpses around him.
"Uh, man, your previous Beastmaster (a character in the Dota game) had a good time with his ultimate...... However, it was still Ah Xia's 'Red Lotus Flurry' just now that the combat power was off the charts...... "As soon as I heard the tone of the three sentences in my ears, I didn't know how to answer, and suddenly found that Ah Xia was looking at me, so I quickly turned my head to find some potions from the medicine box, and instructed Ah Xia to apply it to the wound to relieve the poisonous pain, so I blushed and went to find the pile of insect corpses squatting in the distance with a torch, and thoughtfully Uncle Dachuan went to talk.
"Xiao Li, look at this," Uncle Dachuan saw me coming, put me aside, pointed to the corner behind the eggs, and said to me: "God has eyes, it's really an endless road!" ”
I saw that at that finger, it was a culvert that could be passed by bowing your head and bending down!
I was about to beckon everyone to follow Uncle Dachuan into the culvert, but Ah Xia stopped us, and I was wondering why she was exchanging information with me at such a critical juncture, but it turned out that the information she told was indeed much more comprehensive and critical than what she got from Zhang Yan's mouth:
In addition to what Zhang Yan said, Ah Xia's main focus was on the strange coffin in the main room.
It was a very strange coffin, the outermost layer of which was a hard and quaint slate—I had naturally looked at it carefully, and there was nothing too strange about it; And the second layer, which is even more bizarre, is actually made of ice! That was what we didn't expect, and the rare ice coffin was naturally melted by the reckless Feng Jinhua with a torch after Ah Xia opened the coffin with the Cultural Relics Office. I can only see the hazy image of the wonderful and beautiful ice coffin hidden in the mist.
And the third layer, which is even more strange, turned out to be a kind of charred black volcanic rock, but it is not very strong, and it is broken from the outside—but it is broken in the hands of Liang Hu. I recalled that when I was in the main room, I did see some charred black gravel in the coffin—at first, I thought it was a burial jewel, and I was overjoyed—but I didn't expect it to be part of the coffin. Judging from the photos, the complete black sarcophagus seems to be rippling with fiery red slender cracks, and through the image, it is still showing heat, which makes me wonder.
Looking at the fourth layer again, it was a stone box inlaid with cast silver, but it was still unexpectedly fragile, Liang Hu and the others lifted the box out, and when they put it on the ground, they didn't pay attention to the strength, and it was actually shattered. It's no wonder that the stone chips I saw shattered in the ground before should have come from this layer. Judging from the photo in Ah Xia's hand, the lines on this cast silver stone box are very clear, and at first glance, it looks more and more like some kind of spell with profound meaning.
The last layer, unexpectedly, turned out to be a small wooden box. Judging from the photos, the proportions are bizarrely small, almost the size of Liang Hu's palm. I couldn't help but look at Ah Xia in disbelief, and when she saw that I was suspicious, she still gestured to confirm the size of the wooden box with me - only the wooden box was finally smashed by the angry corpse ghost vine, otherwise, I really want to know how the thousand-legged centipede, which was so large in arms, was put in at first.
Ah Xia naturally understood what I was wondering about, and said frankly that when she first saw this wooden box, she only felt that it was impossible to put a person's body inside, even if there were reports in the foreign archaeological community about the smallest dry corpse - the dry corpse that was said to be only 7 centimeters long, I had heard of it, but no one could confirm the authenticity of the online photo. So Ah Xia naturally felt that the outer coffin was huge, but the inner coffin was so narrow, that it should only be buried with a part of the remains, such as the remnants of the internal organs.
Speaking of this, Ah Xia suddenly asked me a question: "Plum, what do you think, what do you think is in it?" ”
From her big flickering eyes, I could naturally tell that she knew the answer, but it seemed that she didn't have enough confidence to confirm that she needed our affirmation. I had to be bold and tentative: "What kind of treasure is it?" ”
Naturally, I just said it casually, and I just wanted to lead Ah Xia to tell the truth she saw or deduced. How do you know that the ear, as soon as he heard that there was a "treasure", he immediately came to the spirit, and immediately arched over, and did not ask whether the history of the era was within the scope of his knowledge structure, like a keen connoisseur, he wanted to snatch Ah Xia's camera in my hand, and I couldn't resist him, he snatched the camera, stared at the strange wooden box on the photo, looked at it for a long time from a different angle, and didn't see the reason, and finally, only spit out a sentence hatefully:
"Rub, a broken box the size of a palm, can it hold a ball? At most, it's almost as good as a cricket! ”
I sneered when I heard this, I didn't bother to listen to his nonsense, and I didn't want to argue with him more, so I just turned my head to look at Ah Xia, and couldn't help but want her to "release the rooster" (that is, to uncover the mystery), but I saw that she just looked at the photo blankly, her expression was motionless, and she seemed to be in a bitter thought, and instead thought about the words of the ear......
Oh, my God! Could it be, it's really a "worm" in it!
When I thought of this, I only looked at Ah Xia, and when I saw her head, I still didn't dare to confirm it, so I simply explained: "You mean, this wooden box is filled with 'pang'?!" ”
Ah Xia nodded, powerless but unbelievable. After all, we have received more than 20 years of modern education, and it is really difficult to convince and accept the facts of the myths and legends that have long been lost under the wheel of history in the world we know, and the life experience of this day lacks the soil for the growth of such ancient anecdotes.
Fortunately, what we have encountered in the past few days is no longer "ordinary" in any case. So, compared with Ah Xia, who has a stubborn and rigid personality, it is much easier for me to accept the reality when I am relatively easy-going. To be honest, since Miao Village, I have long discovered and believed that the world is far wider than what I have seen before; There are still many things in the world that I don't know, but just because I can't see them doesn't mean they don't exist.
And Ah Xia, a good girl who believes in science, must be able to quickly discover and accept this shocking reality over time.
However, this so-called "reality" is not intended to leave us with a sense of time. As soon as I felt relieved and ready to accept all the strangeness I was about to face, I was silent, and my voice was amazing, Uncle Okawa, and immediately brought us a bad news that couldn't be worse-
This tomb may be a terrible cursed mausoleum.
As soon as he said this, everyone was stunned. It is true that all this after entering the tomb can no longer be described as a simple "danger", but as human beings, the only remaining trace of luck in our hearts still hopes that we can find a way out in the face of adversity. It's just that we think too much.
Seeing that we were puzzled, Uncle Okawa simply drew a few symbols on the ground with a tree branch - I understood at a glance that it was a diagram of the five elements being born and restraining each other as recorded on the Feng Shui Zhou Tiandi Bagua Plate - Uncle Okawa explained while drawing: "According to Taoist theory, there is a relationship between the five elements, water gives birth to wood, wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, earth gives birth to gold, and gold gives birth to water; Jin overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, soil overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes gold. In this way, according to the photos shown to us by Xiaoxia, the coffin in the main room, nested in order, from the outside to the inside, is: earth-water-fire-metal-wood, which is completely the layout of the outer and inner compartments. In other words, these layers of nested coffins are simply superimposed in the form of seals! ”
When he said this, he suddenly remembered something, paused, and then said: "According to the situation described by Xiaoxia before, this coffin is actually very simple to destroy from the outside, and it is not like an anti-theft design at all, but it is more likely that it was built to prevent the things inside from escaping!" ”
When we heard this, we were so shocked that we stood still, and no one responded. After being silent for a while, I heard Ah Xia say to herself in a trembling voice: "If only I hadn't found the flaw in the sarcophagus trap...... I didn't expect that either...... I also want the wooden box to contain artifacts...... Who knows, after opening it, so many things happened......" Zhang Yan heard her say, and also thought of the dead Liang Hulai, and couldn't help crying: "Ah Hu, it's gone, Sister Hui is gone, the expert is also dead, the guide ran away again, it's over, we're all finished......"
Hearing her crying, she hurriedly asked Gao Maocai to do her ideological work. I saw Ah Xia muttering tears and couldn't help but step forward to comfort her. bluntly said that all this was not the ghost of Feng Shui Zhou, if he hadn't instigated Gao Maocai and them, Ah Xia would not have been easily dragged into the water. However, the pressing question now is, is it the millipede we killed earlier?
Hearing my question, Ah Xia shook her head helplessly. I was also shocked, but I didn't dare to interrupt her sorting out her memories, and quickly flashed back to the moment when I opened the wooden box, and the moment when the shock occurred, after a while, I saw her take out the pencil and notebook she had with her, draw something on it, and hand it to me.
After I learned from her that the gourd was not the insect king that we had solved, my heart was already half cold, and then after seeing the ladybug-like hard-shelled insect restored by Ah Xia's sketch, I couldn't help but think of the story she told on the road, if the legend is true, then, this gourd, maybe has grown up a lot now!
"Damn! The old centipede is too, and so is the pang, why is it always the same story as the 'alien'! Hearing us say this, he could no longer hide his collapse, and began to appear hysterical, and tried to kick a dead snake away, but accidentally kicked a rock in the dark behind the insect corpse, and the pain made him jump up holding his feet. I suddenly realized that the top priority was to find a way out as soon as possible, otherwise, if I stayed any longer, everyone would collapse and the team would be wiped out, and it would only be a matter of time.
Uncle Okawa and Ah Xia naturally thought the same as I thought. After unifying our minds, we had to let go of the many mysteries left behind by the dead Feng Shui Zhou, as well as the Boss Mi who once saved my life, but now cut off our way of life, put all our doubts behind, and forced our tired spirits to get into the passage to the unknown, bent on finding a way out.
For convenience, I asked Ah Xia to take out a pen and paper, and we brainstormed together, outlining the route we had traveled and the cave chamber we had explored from memory. At present, we have a clear grasp of the layout of the ground floor: with the main room where the sealing box is placed, the passage to the upper floor has been blocked by Boss Mi; To the north, is the Gu Cultivation Cave where we are currently located; To the west, in the direction of the waterfall and the camp, is where the sarcophagus trap is located, the exit has been destroyed by the sarcophagus, and the passage to the Rakshasa cave on the upper floor has also been buried by the collapse; To the south, it should lead to the corpse breeding ground, and the exit was destroyed when Uncle Okawa came out; To the north is the Bat Cave, where there are many difficult scarlet poisonous bats, but luckily when we left the main room, we were blocked by the stone slabs that had fallen from the collapse. As for the upper layer, according to the information we had when we came, it is certain that whether it is a Rakshasa Cave or a cave burial pit, we can all work backwards according to the way we came, and we can finally get out of the tomb! From this point of view, we can only gamble first and see if the passage in this Gu cave can lead to the upper level.
The plan stopped, we immediately set off, lined up, and followed the passage of the Gu cave and drilled in. Fortunately, I just followed Uncle Okawa for a few steps, and I was pleased to find that this passage is indeed climbing upward!
The passage was not long, and it came to an end in a short time, and everyone couldn't help but hold their breath, only staring at Uncle Dachuan's hand that was about to push towards the stone gate at the end-
God forbid, it must be opened!