Volume 2 The Stone Man of the Western Regions The Stone Man of the Western Regions Chapter 72: A Fork in the Road

I held my breath, not daring to catch my breath, for fear that my exhaled breath would cause the rope to shake and the copper plate to fall.

It wasn't until the fat man took the copper plate off that I let out a breath.

Just listen to the fat man say, "Follow me!" Once you're in the door, no matter who calls you, don't look back, and don't respond! ”

I've always had a grudge against what the fat man told me before, "There are still panting people in the city." I don't know what he said, someone told us not to respond, what the people here refer to.

The rope beside me, which had just been thrown into the city wall by the fat man, lay straight across it, separating us from the "Dumen" on the right-hand side. I looked at the fat man and asked him how to go. He handed the "Five Elements Bagua Plate" taken from the rope to my eyes, pointed to it, and said, "Have you seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?" ”

I didn't know what he meant, I looked at him suspiciously, and I heard him continue: "Xiao Su, you don't have a life, thanks to your smart head, you have been suspended for almost half a year, and you can still be admitted to university!" I haven't even heard of this familiar method of breaking the gossip array! This broken gossip array needs to be entered from the east "Shengmen", to the southwest "Humen" to kill, and then from the north "open the door" to kill, this array can be broken. ”

I looked up and looked around, and to our left and right were the endless city walls, and on either side near the bridge, there was a slowly flowing underground river. The color of the river blends with the darkness, and it is impossible to see what it looks like under the water. I silently recited in my heart what the fat man said, the "closed door" in the southwest, the "open door" in the north, and the "birth gate" in the east.

Suddenly, I felt that something was wrong, and called the fat man to say to him: "I said touch Jin Fat, are you fucking framing me again!" Come on, come on, tell me, how do we get over this due east? ”

Seeing that I had found a problem, the fat man touched his chin and smiled: "Xiao Su, you are also a little naΓ―ve!" Can you believe that thing? Answer: I can't believe it! ”

I said in my heart, sure enough, this unkind fat man is playing tricks on me! I saw that the fat man waved the "Five Elements Bagua Plate" in his hand at me, and said: "Romance is right about one thing, breaking the gossip array is indeed to enter from the Shengmen, kill from the Hugh Gate, and then enter from the door!" But the orientation of these gates will change, and they will not be dead! If it is someone else, they want to go to the sky, but our old Zhang has this "Five Elements Bagua Plate". Not to mention the eight gates, even if you add the Five Elements Array, my brother can also break it for him! ”

I didn't believe it, so Yiyi walked up, pointed to a direction on the "Five Elements Bagua Plate", and said to me: "Su Mo, my senior brother is right, the location of all the city gates here is on this copper plate!" ”

I looked in the direction of her finger and saw that the eight directions on the copper plate were fixed there, and no matter how much she moved it, the small plate on the copper plate did not move. In the direction opposite me, there are just four doors, which are written: life, injury, Du, and well, and on the back are another four words: Hugh, death, shock, and open! ”

The position of Dumen is on the far right, according to the mark on the copper plate, our left hand side, is the "Shengmen"!

Follow the fat man's advice, our feet

The steps were very light, and he quietly followed him towards the "birth gate".

My eyes were always on the copper plate in the fat man's hand, and I found that this gossip copper plate actually moved again when it was close to the "Shengmen". The small disc in the middle of the large disc rotates slowly, constantly pinpointing its position as we walk. It didn't stop until the four of us reached a city gate. The pointer of the small disc really pointed at the position of the "Shengmen", opposite the city gate in front of us!

This is the first time I have seen the power of this copper plate, and after observing it for a long time, I have not found its principle.

The fat man saw that my eyes had been staring at the copper plate, so he said, "Xiao Su, this thing can't be given to you yet." When you and Yiyi have a little baby, I, who is the eldest brother, will give this "Five Elements Bagua Plate" to my eldest nephew! ”

Yiyi raised her eyes and glared at the fat man, and the fat man immediately stopped talking. Then he took out a black donkey's hoof from behind him and handed it to Yiyi, grabbed a handful of glutinous rice and put it in his pocket, and held the copper plate in his other hand.

I also took out the donkey hooves that the fat man had prepared for me in Beijing from the backpack on my back, and when I took out the donkey's hooves, I found that the fat man's eyes were a little evasive, and I didn't know what he meant.

When I pulled out the black donkey's hooves, it felt completely different from what Yiyi was holding in her hand. Although the color was the same, but the size was almost half the size, I reached out and touched the donkey's hooves with a thick layer of black oil. When I cleaned the oil, I found that it was a dog's leg!

I finally know the reason why the fat man's eyes dodge, this big fat man with bad intentions, suddenly took a dogleg to fool me!

The fat man looked at the dog-legged stick I was holding, and said with embarrassment: "This, Xiao Su, brother and I went out early that day, and Yiyi was left in the store with this donkey's hoove, and the rest of the hooves were still on the live donkey!" I thought that I couldn't let my brother be empty-handed, so I got you a dog's leg and asked the boss to brush me with some donkey oil. You make do with it first, this thing is zongzi, a little donkey oil is enough! ”

I said in my heart, you can really fucking fool, are you blind when you are a zongzi! On second thought, this zongzi may really be blind! Hurriedly wiped the donkey oil back in his hand, the dog's legs were covered in the plastic bag for a long time, emitting a fishy smell!

I held it in my hand, thinking to myself, "I think it's a test subject, and if it's really hard to use, I can use it as a weapon!"

The fat man was the first to step into the city gate, and I hesitated for a moment, and then followed in! followed by Xiaoqian and Yiyi.

The left and right sides of this gate are much wider than the "Du Gate" that we just entered, and the height difference is almost the same. At first glance, it looks a bit like the gate of a cemetery!

As soon as we entered the city gate, I immediately looked up at the lintel inside the gate. With the beam of the strong flashlight, I saw the position in the middle of the city gate, and the word "Shengmen" was written impressively, which was still engraved in the official script of the Han Dynasty!

The appearance of the word "Shengmen" made me breathe a sigh of relief, and secretly praised the copper plate in the fat man's hand!

The street inside the "Sheng" Gate is almost the same as that inside the "Du Gate", and it is also a whole naturally formed stone road, which has been manually excavated and polished to make the street. The difference from the "Dumen" is that the wooden houses on both sides are relatively well preserved, although some of the houses also have cracks in the wood, but the whole is relatively intact.

As soon as we stepped into the gates, we stopped communicating, and we did as the fat man had instructed us. In the words of the fat man, there are some things that will learn to speak in a human voice, and once you open your mouth, you will be heard and learned by these things, and you will be lured over! At first I thought he was joking, but he said it so badly that I had to believe it.

The streets of the city were quiet, and the silhouettes of the wooden houses on both sides, under the halo of our four flashlights, were imprinted on the streets, pulling out long mottled shadows.

The fat man walked in front, and I lagged behind. In this way, if something happens before and after, the fat man and I can help Yiyi and Xiaoqian resist.

Walking at the back of the four, I always feel a cool breeze on my back, as if someone is blowing on my back from time to time! As soon as I walked, I would move the flashlight behind me to look, but it was still empty behind me, only the gloomy wooden houses on both sides, and the dark path between the wooden houses did not know where it led.

I think that this kind of psychology of mine is probably due to the emotional tension caused by the scene in the "Dumen" before.

I looked down at my body, and I was now looking like a fool, with the black doglegs I had put back into the plastic bag and hung on my chest. I was holding a flashlight in my left hand and placing it under the butt of my pistol in my right hand. Greasy and greasy, covered in donkey oil. I thought to myself, if it is really as the fat man said, those rice dumplings are afraid of donkey oil, then I am a big black donkey hooves that can move! Then I'm invincible!

Thinking of this, my courage also strengthened, and my waist pole became stiff when I walked!

After we had walked a few hundred meters, Yiyi in front of me suddenly stopped, and I whispered to her what was wrong.

She pointed to the fat man, and I walked two quick steps to the fat man, and I saw a fork in the road in front of us, a crossroads to be exact!

I just wanted to ask the fat man how to go, but I found that there was something wrong with the fat man's eyes! Following his gaze, I suddenly became the same as him!

At the intersection that appeared before our eyes, the streets on the left and right could not be called roads at all, although the width of the street was about the same width as our longitudinal stretch, but it was full of holes!

Each hole is the diameter of a soccer ball, and it is densely packed all over the street. I used a flashlight to pass by, and there was no end in sight!

From the moment I entered the city, the word "Broken Formation" always echoed in my mind, and I had no intention of looking at the surrounding situation, including the style of the buildings. I just want to hurry up from the "birth gate" out of the "closed door" and then enter the "open door" to break the formation, and leave the place of right and wrong!

But sometimes, it always backfires, and the more you try to finish something quickly, the more things will turn in the direction you don't want to see

The direction of development!

I took a deep breath and asked the fat man softly, "Do you know what these holes are for?" ”

The fat man shone his flashlight left and right, shook his head, and said he didn't know either.

I said to them, "Could this be a rat hole or a snake hole?" It's dark and damp, and rats and snakes like it. Maybe it's the hole they've carved! ”

Yiyi denied my conjecture and said, "It can't be a mouse or a snake hole, you look at these holes, each of them has obvious traces of artificial chisel!" And look at the side of the street, in front of each wooden house, there are countless big black jars! I'm afraid there's something in these holes! ”

I didn't pay attention to it, and I didn't even see the black jar in front of the wooden house before. Under the beam of Yiyi's flashlight, I found that those black ceramic jars were somewhat familiar, the kind of ceramic jars that the fat man and Zhang Xiuxiu studied for a long time in "Dumen"!

The fat man also found the jars in front of the wooden houses on both sides, touched his chin with both hands, and said to me: "Xiao Su, look at these jars, they don't look like those wine jars in Zhao Tuo's underground palace!" ”

When he said that, I really noticed the similarities.

Yiyi has never been to Zhao Tuo's underground palace, and I don't know what the wine jar we are talking about is. The fat man described the Gu worms in the jar in Zhao Tuo's underground palace to Yiyi, and Yiyi retched for a while!

I looked at the holes and the number of large jars of black ceramics, and I felt a little tingling all over. He said to the fat man, "Let's walk down the straight street, I'm afraid there won't be anything good in that jar!" ”

I saw the fat man wipe his face, and then said leisurely: "Xiao Su, tell you unfortunate news!" We have to walk this street! Because, the exit of the "Hugh Gate" is right there! ”

(End of chapter)