237. Enigma
Although the barren mountain is difficult to walk, after all, it is not a hundred thousand mountains, and it is not so high, but in half a day, we crossed the mountain and arrived at the shore of Fuxian Lake. Even though I couldn't see it, I could still smell the fresh smell of the lake, and I finally came here.
Zhuang Yu was not in a hurry to enter the water, but set up camp to make various preparations. There are busy figures walking back and forth, and I am sitting there alone, Sheng Shiyao is discussing the specific plan with Zhuang Yu. I felt that someone was sitting next to me, but he didn't make a sound, his eyes were obviously fixed on my face, and I asked tentatively, "Liu Yue?" ”
The other party was silent for a few seconds, and asked in a low voice, "How do you know it's me?" Sure enough, it was Liu Yue's voice, I pursed my lips and smiled, it was actually very easy to guess. If it was Zhou Tong, he shouted without sitting down; If it is the sixth son, he should not sit down and have something to say; If it is Jian Ningyi, after sitting down, he will definitely ask with concern; Others, Sheng Shiyao, I can see that Zhuang Yu's momentum is too strong to perceive, so these people who may find me will be excluded, and only Liu Yue will be left.
Although she asked me to answer, she said to herself: "Cheng Xiao, you are actually lucky, everyone is revolving around you." Not only Brother Yao, but also Zhou Tong and Liuzi and others. How exactly did you do that so that they could do this to you? ”
I thought about it and said, "They're just taking more care of me because I'm blind, don't think too much about it." "I thought she was concerned that her companions were focusing on me, so I ignored her. But I heard her say abruptly: "It's not like this, Cheng Xiao, many things are wrapped in layers of Mizhang, and when Mizhang dissipates, you will understand that this is the case." ”
After Liu Yue said this specious sentence, she got up and walked away, leaving me alone to stare in place, what did she mean? When I saw Sheng Shiyao come back to my side, I took away my thoughts and asked when I was going to go into the water.
Slightly surprised, he actually said that it would take two days later, would it take so long to prepare? His heart tightened, and he grabbed his sleeve and asked, "You won't quietly leave me at night and dive to the bottom of the lake with them alone." ”
He shook my hand in his palm and whispered, "Where did you think you went?" After a pause, he said: "Don't worry, it's not me who went into the water to observe, and when the specific offshore data is measured and all preparations are made, I will lead you down with a rope." The reason why it takes two days is that one is to measure the distance between the depth and the shore, and the other is to go to the vicinity to do something. ”
Hearing this, I breathed a sigh of relief, but I still asked with some anxiety: "What is Zhuang Yu going to do?" ”
Sheng Shiyao pondered slightly, and then said slowly: "There are three mountains on the shore of Fuxian Lake, named Shizhai Mountain, Lijia Mountain and Jinlian Mountain, according to archaeological evidence, they are the cemeteries of the ancient Dian royal family, nobles and commoners. The closest to this place is Shizhai Mountain, the royal tomb has been excavated, and the seal of the Dian King is also collected by the state, which is listed as a forbidden place, but he still wants to go over to see if he can find out the information related to this underwater city. ”
Shizhai Mountain, the tomb of the royal family. suddenly remembered Sheng Shiyao's previous life, Wu Wangyao was the son of the last Dian King recorded in history, wouldn't it be that his own father's coffin was not far away? In fact, he was going to go originally, after two thousand years, he has recovered the memory of his previous life, no matter whether the King of Dian and him have a father-son relationship, but it can't change their blood relationship.
Suddenly I also understood why Zhuang Yu insisted on taking a trip, as the last king of Dian in the real sense, it was common sense that he would think about the tombs of his ancestors. That night, Zhuang Yu took five or six people, including Jian Ningyi, and went to Shizhai Mountain. The tomb has been unearthed, and the tomb mechanism should have been broken, so this trip will not be too dangerous.
But two days have passed, but Zhuang Yu and others have not returned, all the preparations here have been made, and they can act as long as they return. waited until nightfall, and before the people returned, they knew that something must have happened in the middle. Zhou Tong proposed that he take people to explore, although this place is a barren mountain, it is not as dangerous as a hundred thousand mountains, so Sheng Shiyao agreed with a little hesitation.
After they set off, they felt a little uneasy in their hearts, secretly wondering what happened to Shizhai Mountain that delayed Zhuang Yu's return trip. I didn't think that Zhou Tong would come back in the middle of the night, and he also brought back two people in Zhuang Yu's team, but one of them was already dead, and something really happened. This person was left outside by Zhuang Yu to pick him up, but he didn't wait for Zhuang Yu outside the tomb, only waiting for a teammate who only had one breath left.
According to the man's deathbed, after they infiltrated the royal tomb, they were about to come up after searching to no avail, but suddenly they didn't know who had touched the mechanism, and everyone fell into a deep cave and found an extremely deep passage. Zhuang Yu judged that the passage must not have been discovered by archaeologists, and there might be some secrets hidden in it, so he immediately decided to explore inward. The passage was very long, so long that they didn't reach the end of walking for nearly two hours, and then Zhuang Yu started to leave, because he had agreed with us to meet in two days, and the business was important, and he planned to come here when the matter of Fuxian Lake was completed.
But just as they turned around, suddenly countless hands stretched out from the originally dark wall, and they could see clearly that they were all human hands. After catching them, they dragged them deep into the passage, and because Jian Ning was at the forefront with Zhuang Yu, she was the first to be dragged away. In this way, Zhuang Yu could not leave her alone, and waved his palm to send the last person away from a zhang away, that is, the person who came out to report the news, and ordered him to find a way to go up and tell us about the matter there.
The messenger was seriously injured and fainted after saying this, and it is not known how he came out, but seeing that he was covered with wounds, he could already guess the difficulty of the return journey. The people who stayed behind knew that the matter was serious, so they immediately picked him up and rushed back, and met Zhou Tong and a few people who had gone to look for people on the way.
With a companion, it was impossible to expose him to the wilderness, so he also brought him back.
Such a change was really unexpected, how could an unexcavated passage in the tomb of the Dian royal family in Shizhai Mountain suddenly come out of the wall with countless people's hands? It's very sensational, if it weren't for the facts, a person would die in front of his eyes, and it would be hard to believe that such a thing existed. With Zhuang Yu's ability, it is not so easy to kill him, but it is difficult for others to say.
Zhuang Yu is the chief planner of this operation, and now that he has no news, it is up to Sheng Shiyao to make up his mind whether he should go to Shizhai Mountain to save people or what. As I expected, Sheng Shiyao decided to go down to the lake after dawn, and Zhuang Yu's group of subordinates jumped up and asked why they didn't go to save Brother Yu immediately.
But who is Sheng Shiyao, and how can he be afraid of these people, I can't see his eyes clearly, I can only tell from the cold breath he exudes, it must be that his eyes swept away everyone, so that the jumping person was silent.
Then I heard him say in a cold voice: "There are seven ancient mysteries in Fuxian Lake, which have not been solved yet. One of the mysteries is that there is a natural human body reservoir somewhere under the lake, and the corpses are so large that they are all tilted underwater, with the male corpses leaning forward and the female corpses leaning backwards, and moving naturally with the current, as if they were living people. No one knows where the exact location is, but the passage under the tomb of the Shizhai Mountain King is very likely to have entered the center of this human body bank. If you think you can go in and come out in good condition, raise your hand, more than half of the number, and immediately go to Shizhai Mountain. ”
After listening to his explanation, I was amazed, the corners of my mouth twitched, there are many people left, there are five people on our side alone, Zhuang Yu took six people, and the person who came back to report the news, there are only five people left with him, where is it possible that more than half of the number is there. What's more, just imagining the images of countless hands reaching out to grab people makes me feel terrifying.
How could these countless corpses not decay for so long? Who died at the bottom of the lake, could it be the people of Dian two thousand years ago?
Don't...... These irrationalities are all related to Ningcheng's withdrawal from time and space, prompting the disappearance of the Dian Kingdom? Sheng Shiyao said that there are seven mysteries of Fuxian Lake, and these countless human hands and underwater ancient cities are among them, and what are the other five? Countless questions swirled in my head, and I couldn't get answers.
Under Sheng Shiyao's deterrence, no one dared to dispute anymore, and decided to act according to the original plan when it was dawn. After sending those people aside, I quietly asked Sheng Shiyao, "Do you have anything else hidden that you haven't said?" He reached out and stroked my hair, put it next to my ear and said, "Xiaoxiao, you are becoming more and more sensitive now." Shizhai Mountain is not far from this place, at most half a day's journey, if we wait for the ancient city at the bottom of the lake to be really the original royal city of the Dian Kingdom, then the passage found under the royal tomb of Shizhai Mountain is very likely to lead to this ancient city. That road is not feasible, and we can only find them if we get into the water from here. ”
It turned out that he was thinking about this, that is, he was actually suspecting that those hands that suddenly came out of the oil were the ones who disappeared with the ancient Dian Kingdom. Two thousand years ago, the price he paid to gather soul qi for Ying Ning was too great. I panicked and uneasy for no reason, these are all killings that Sheng Shiyao inadvertently formed in his previous life, I didn't believe in any cause and effect before I met him, but now I am very afraid, afraid of the cause of my previous life, and plant the fruit of this life.
If one day, Sheng Shiyao has to pay the price for the sins of his previous life, what should he do?
"Tiny, you're thinking too much." Sheng Shiyao interrupted my meditation, "What is the cause? What is the fruit? I don't believe it, those are all false theories. And the bizarre disappearance of the Dian Kingdom is not necessarily caused by me withdrawing Ningcheng from space. ”
I was shocked in my heart, and I fixed his outline and asked in surprise, "What did you say?" "Didn't Zhuang Yu say that Sheng Shiyao used magic to remove Ningcheng, causing the entire Dian Kingdom to disappear? But I heard him say in a low voice: "That's just Yu's speculation, but I don't think that I had the ability to move the entire Dian Kingdom at that time, just a Ning City alone exhausted all my ability." ”
"Could it be a butterfly effect?" I propose another possibility.