With the car engine starting and we waved goodbye to Sajang, we returned to Xi'an after a few days of bumpy journey. Pei was admitted to the hospital, and Huzi was in Guta for some time. He also stuffed some gold bars, pearl chains and other small things into his pocket, and then sold them for money. dragged the legs that were not yet neat, and went to spend time drinking.

Li Zhen and I went back to Master's house, and there were just the two of us in the house. On the table were gold, wood, water, fire, earth, a rune of mine, and the golden box that contained the secrets of the ages.

"Yang Xiuyuan!" We've found the key, it's time to turn it on. Li Zhen couldn't wait to look at the golden box and said.

Not only him, but also my heart was constantly rising and falling, thinking that a secret that had been buried for thousands of years was about to be revealed in my hands. In addition to excitement and nervousness, I had a lot of things in my heart that I couldn't put into words.

In the order indicated on the gold box, I carefully put the runes into the grooves on the gold box's body one by one. Knowing the inlay of the last earth rune, the gold box "clicked", and the lid slowly rose. There are no treasures in the box that I imagined, no mythical beasts and aliens that I imagined. In its place was a neatly folded handkerchief-sized scroll of animal skin.

I carefully removed it, and when I opened it, I found that the scroll had what looked like a map drawn on it. A swirling mark is drawn in the center, as if to make it famous that this is where the treasure is located.

In the upper right corner of the map there is a text that I can't read, and the two of us are lying on the table. While discussing where the places marked on this map belong, there was a sudden "boom". A puff of white smoke came out of the center of the map, and in a human instinct, I covered my face with my arm.

But when I looked at it again, the whole map had already begun to burn rapidly, and I panicked. I slapped my hand on the burning hide map on the table, but despite our best efforts, all that was left was a map that was less than a third of the missing.

"What the fuck! Is it so tricky, Lao Tzu almost took his life to open this box. I haven't studied the contents yet, and I'm left with this half of the map that I can't understand. "I'm so angry that my blood can flow backwards, and after all I have wasted, all that's left is this incomplete map.

"Yang Xiuyuan, don't be angry, leave it to me, I'll figure it out." After Li Zhen put the incomplete map in his bag, he went back.

I was so angry that I kept spinning around the room, and at the same time I was trying to remember every line of the map until late at night.

The next day, before dawn, Huzi came to the house and asked me about the situation in the gold box. I told him about the spontaneous combustion of the animal skin map last night, and Huzi was so angry that his fist almost collapsed the Eight Immortals table in my living room.

"What the hell is going on, look at the wounds on my brother's body, this is really not worth the fuck." Huzi complained angrily.

"Don't worry, let's wait for Li Zhen and see what he can do."

"It seems that this is the only way to go." Huzi was so angry that he blew his nose and glared, twisted his ass and left.

Time passed day by day, and it has been more than half a month since we returned to Xi'an. The fracture on Pei's chest has also been removed from the plaster, and the recovery is almost complete. Huzi has come to me from time to time to inquire about the situation in the past half a month.

Since Li Zhen left last time, he has been concentrating on map research. I became a big idler, wandering around some antique markets in Xi'an all day long.

Another day of wasted time, in the afternoon I just arrived home from the antique market, and Li Zhen sat on the sofa in the living room with a big leather bag. Still flipping through the thick pile of paperwork in my hand, I wondered if I would find something.

"Li Zhen! How is there any situation. I walked briskly into the living room.

"Hmm," Li Zhen nodded, "I have found several old friends of my grandfather in the past few days, and with their help, I finally got some clues." ”

Professor Wang is engaged in archaeology, and there are many talented people around him, and it is not difficult to restore a broken ancient map.

"Yang Xiuyuan! According to my search, I found that this map seems to be a map of the Qin Dynasty. "Li Zhen handed me a map of the territory of the Qin Dynasty.

Pointing to the area above, he said, "Look here, this vassal state was only marked on the map of our country during the Qin Dynasty, when the Qin Emperor ruled the world, and the subsequent dynasties did not mark this place." ”

I nodded and motioned for Li Zhen to continue, "You are looking at this animal skin map, whether the shape of this corner inside is consistent with this map of the Qin Dynasty. ”

I compared the two maps, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that as Li Zhen said, the two maps have something in common. There is a region where this vassal kingdom is located, "So let's follow the map of the Qin Dynasty, can we find what we want." ”

Li Zhen nodded and smiled slightly, "Seeing that you are happy, I think you can basically think so." ”

"Call Pei quickly."

Pei and Huzi, who received the notice, rushed to the master's house in a hurry.

"Yang Xiuyuan! Tell me what's the matter, it's so hot, I just heard Li Zhen that you have something urgent. Huzi just entered the door and asked with a pant, Pei also looked at me with a puzzled expression.

"The secret in the golden box Li Zhen has almost been investigated, let's discuss it now and tell each other our opinions." As I spoke, I took out the map of the Qin Dynasty and the incomplete map of animal skins, and told me and Li Zhen's discoveries.

"This vassal state, according to the location on the map, should belong to the Yunnan region, if it is said to be the Qin Dynasty. So where should it belong to the wild area at that time, mainly inhabited by the exiles at that time, with the Qin Dynasty was destroyed by the Western Han Dynasty. This place became a no-man's land, and later dynasties were sparsely populated because of the lack of people. And there is no economic output, so it is left behind and belongs to the area under no one's jurisdiction. ”

Pei pointed to the location of the feudal kingdom on the map.

"This swirl-like marker happens to appear here, so what you mean is that the place we're going to is here?" Huzi finally got smart once.

"I think it's possible, but whether our guess is correct or not is still a trip to us." I handed them a couple of flues

"Another point was discovered, I found the word that originally existed on the animal skin map, and after many archaeological professors confirmed that the word was a 'hole', which belonged to the long-lost Guloulan script." Li Zhen added.

In my impression, the most famous in Yunnan is the Alu Ancient Cave. "Alu Ancient Cave" is Yi language, which means "Tiger Cave with flat grassland in front", which is the cave dwelling of "Alu Department", one of the "37 barbarian tribes" in Yunnan during the Song and Yuan dynasties, and belongs to the naturally formed karst cave.

In addition, there are some famous caves such as Tianlong Cave, Butterfly Cave, etc., but these caves have been called tourist attractions. If there really was any treasure or something, it should have been discovered a long time ago. In my imagination, this cave should be a cave in the rainforest of Yunnan that has not yet been discovered.

(End of chapter)