I quickly returned to the monkey's dwelling and returned the black sign to him. That night, I stayed awake all night, and the monkey Dajing stayed awake all night, and he sat cross-legged on the ground as if he had settled down.

"What did you encounter in the depths of that gate?" I asked, "Can you tell me about it?" ”

"A ball of light." The monkey opened his eyes, slowly stretched out his hand, and gestured to me: "A big ball of light, I want to get close to it." ”

Monkey Dajue said that there seemed to be an aura in that huge ball of light that attracted him. It was this kind of breath that made the monkey Dajue have a premonition, and he had a hunch that this ball of light was the key to solving the problem, and if he could be familiar with it, and then master this ball of light, then all crises would be turned into dangers.

Monkey Dajue's narration is more subtle, but I am very keenly aware that the meaning he wants to express is actually very simple, and he suspects that the legendary world is in that ball of light.

I can't judge this question for the time being, but I also saw the ball of light with my own eyes, although it was far away, but in that environment, the ball of light was the most dazzling target in my line of sight. The ball of light is very large, and it is difficult to estimate the volume, however, no matter how big the ball of light is, it only exists in the space behind the gate, and the legendary world can be contained in the ball of light?

The monkey had forgotten everything at that time, and when he wanted to get close to the ball of light, he even forgot about me who was following him. When I stumbled and fell into the hollow abyss next to me, the monkey didn't even know anything.

But in the end, he fell short, and the ball of light was at the end of the narrow and dangerous path, but after running for a long time, the monkey did not reach its destination. He gritted his teeth and persisted, and persisted for a long time, but finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell into the abyss.

I don't know if there was any moisture in Monkey Dajue's story, but one thing is for sure, he definitely failed.

The monkey was very disappointed, and during the narration, there was unconcealable despair in his tone. He could imagine that even if he found the gate marked in the stone leaf book again and rushed in, it would still be fruitless in the end. That huge ball of light is like a mirror, and anyone who enters the gate can see it, but it can never be touched.

Zhangxiong's fate seems to have been sealed.

At this time, Jedan Dumbadun came to see the monkey Dajue. They knew I didn't know Zhang-zhung, so they didn't shy away from me. The two of them talked a few words, and Zhedan Dunbatun showed a very embarrassed expression on his face, and he was very careful to persuade Monkey Dajue, but Monkey Dajue shook his head and waved his hand to let Zhedan Dunbatun leave.

When Jedan Dumbard left, there was worry and helplessness in his expression.

"The world should only exist in legends." The monkey looked at me again and said, "The Dome Silver Castle will soon become an empty city, what are your plans?" ”

"You gave up?"

"It's not what I want to give up, but in this world, no one can enter that ball of light and find the world. knows that it is futile, but he is obsessed with it, and in the end it is thousands of people who are implicated, and it is himself who suffers. The monkey smiled bitterly: "In this life, it is difficult to choose to give up." ”

I know that Monkey Dajue's exploration of the world, or the entrance to that very special gate, was his last effort and attempt, and after the attempt failed, he had to continue to force the Zhangxiong people to migrate. This choice may not be close to people, but for the Zhangxiong people at this time, there may be no other choice.

"Doing so will stir up resentment among the people." I already know from Apu Zongshen's account at the time that Monkey Dajue was forced to move by the Zhangxiong people, which eventually caused the dissatisfaction of the people and was expelled from Dapeng Silver City: "As you said, there are no gods in this world at all, and your people regard you as the messenger of the gods, but when they can't bear it anymore, their anger will make them destroy the gods in their hearts with their own hands." ”

I was indeed kind to persuade him, but the monkey had made up his mind, and no matter what I said, he would not listen. I have no way, no way to convince a stubborn old man.

It is the case that in the passage of time, what has already happened has become a kind of rule, and no matter who it is, no matter what method it uses, it cannot be changed.

This is the fate of Monkey Dajue, and it is also the fate of Zhangxiong.

"All I'm worried about is my country, my people, what their tomorrow will be, I don't know anything."

"In this world, there is nothing that happens overnight, don't worry, do your best, no matter what the result is, there will be no regrets in the end." I counted the time, and now it was almost twenty years before Zhangxiong disappeared.

Moreover, all of this I have personally experienced has invisibly confirmed my previous speculation. Monkey Dajue himself has studied the world for so many years, but he has not had an impact on the big event, and the occurrence and origin of the big event have a lot to do with his son Bandacsada.

"I went to the holy well once, and Bandatsardo took me there." I shifted the subject to the holy well, and I had to try to convince the monkey that I could go to the bottom of the well: "He told me that the well had dried up three or four years ago, and when I looked at it, I found that it had really dried up, and there was not a drop of water. ”

"It's drying up, and we have to block the news that the holy well has dried up, so as not to cause panic."

"Is there anything underneath the holy well?" I asked further tentatively.

"That holy well is the ancestral land of our sheep and people."

In the ancient legends of Zhangxiong, many of them are about this holy well. It is said that the ancestor of Zhangzhung was born from the place where this well is located, and when the tribe gradually prospered, this place became the place where the Zhangzhung people worship their ancestors every year. As Zhang-zhung continued to grow, they began to build the Dome Silver Castle, and it was during the construction of the city that they inadvertently dug water from the sacrificial ground.

The Zhangxiong people felt that this was the blessing of their ancestors and the gift of the gods, and when they appeared from the Dapeng Silver City, this well became a holy well.

"I want to go down to the well, okay?"

"What did you find?"

"Not yet, I just think it's strange that the holy well is drying up."

The monkey was silent, and drank silently, and after a while, he stretched out his finger, made two strokes on the table, and said, "The structure under the holy well, which is not complicated, is like this. ”

The lines drawn by Monkey Dajue are so simple that I can read them. The vertical line represents the holy well, and after reaching the bottom of the holy well, there is a line that extends horizontally, which means that at the bottom of the holy well, there is a hidden passage, and I don't know where it leads. When the holy well does not dry up, perhaps no one will notice it, and they will not notice that there is such a mystery hidden at the bottom of the holy well, and only when the well water completely disappears, the passage will appear.

I felt both excitement and an inexplicable hint of danger at the same time. Bandacsada told me that after the holy well dried up, someone went down to investigate, and the results of the survey were unknown, but the surveyor himself disappeared for no reason, as if the earth had evaporated. This kind of thing doesn't need to be thought through, you can guess it with your heels if you think about it, and most of the surveyors have been killed.

What's underneath the holy well?

"I just wanted to check it out." I pleaded with the monkey, "I won't have any effect on the holy well, just to see." You know my background, and you know where I come from, I don't plan to stay in this place for long, I'll leave soon, let me see the holy well, how about it? ”

"If you want to check it out, you can." Monkey Dajue nodded and said, "It's just that I want to give you a piece of advice." ”

"What advice?"

"You are a wise man, and my advice to you is that even if you enter the holy well, you will not gain anything. You'll come back with nothing on your own. ”

I don't know what the monkey meant by that, but I've made up my mind, and I'm going to see it with my own eyes anyway.

The secret of the holy well recorded in Li Guan's Codex has been imprinted in my heart like an indelible imprint. The holy well is the center of this world, and what will be in the center of this world?

The monkey Dajue summoned Zhedan Dumbardun, whispered a few words to him, and handed him a key. Jedan Dumbard himself led me out of here, and then came to the well-guarded well. He used the key that Da Jue had given him to open the heavy iron door.

"You go in." Jedan Dumbadun pushed open the iron door and said to me, "I am outside the door, and I can call at any time if there is anything." ”

I knew there were no tools in this room, so I asked for a rope from Jedan Dunbardun. As I entered the house, I quickened my pace, a little impatient to go under the well.

I secured the rope and slowly slid down the rope towards the well. Bandacado had already tested it last time, and the air quality in the well was certainly not very good, but it would not suffocate people. I slipped to the bottom of the well in one go, and after three or four years of drying, all the water had evaporated, and as soon as I stepped on it, I stepped on a piece of soil that had dried and peeled.

The diameter of the holy well should be more than three meters, and I am holding an oil lamp, which can illuminate and monitor the air quality, and the oil lamp is out of oxygen, so I have to go up.

I slowly turned around with the oil lamp, and before I could finish the circle, I saw a hole in the wall of the well on the left side with a diameter of a little more than one meter.

The monkey didn't lie to me, and the structure of the holy well he drew was exactly what I saw now.

This small hole is actually the entrance to the passage. It was dark inside, and I wanted to take a tentative look with an oil lamp to see how far the light could be refracted. However, as soon as the oil lamp reached the entrance of the passage, a very soft sound came from the dark passage.

The hairs on my body immediately stood on end, and my hand holding the oil lamp trembled. I could tell that there was a very soft, soft sound coming from the passage, like a steady breathing.