Chapter 326: The Source

There are a total of seven mountains in front of the XX Temple, like seven giants standing directly opposite the temple. The bright light that came out of the bronze mirror was shining at the foot of the mountain in the middle.

Zhong Ling'er and I were amazed, is this the so-called bronze mirror moonlight guiding the way? In this way, the entrance to the tomb is at the foot of the fourth peak!

"Take back the bronze mirror!" The master said suddenly, and as he spoke, he raised his hand to block the light with his sleeve, and I hurriedly put away the bronze mirror, and the white light flashed and disappeared, and the surroundings suddenly became dark. And the red on the full moon also slowly receded, and gradually turned back to brightness.

"The tomb is down that hill!" The master said excitedly, "The key is there!" ”

Zhong Linger and I looked at each other and were pleasantly surprised. I stretched out my hand and saw that there was a deep chrome mark in the palm of my hand, as if it had been chromized by hot iron, and it was a pattern on the back of a copper mirror.

Downstairs, Yu Feng and Mu Lanlan greeted me, and Yu Feng asked me if the place where the strong light was just now was the entrance to the tomb. I said yes, and Mu Lanlan immediately said, "Let's go right away!" "I thought about it for a while, and felt that we couldn't go now, because we were going underground, and if we didn't have tools, we couldn't go at all, and even if we went down, if we didn't have lights, open roads, and other tools, we were afraid that there would be no entry or exit.

I told my doubts, Mu Lanlan said: "That strong light just now will definitely attract a lot of people, there are many people in the base who are looking for death forbidden books, if they let them take the lead, won't we lose all our efforts?" ”

Yu Feng said: "I think the knife's words make sense, although we know the approximate location of the tomb, but we still have to find where it is, especially if we want to go underground, it is definitely not possible to go down with bare hands." We've been looking for the forbidden book of death for so long, and we're not in a hurry for this time. ”

Originally, I thought we would have to go down the mountain to buy the necessary tools for the expedition, but luckily there are two shops next to the temple that sell mountaineering and dry food, but they are more expensive and only accept cash. We only pick what we need, and we don't treat money as money at all.

We set off at noon, and the master himself accompanied us, and he also brought two strong monks. In fact, we have crazy trouble, I didn't want to trouble the master, but the master said that from here to the opposite mountain if there is no acquaintance to lead the way, you can't go at all, although it seems not far, but to get there, it takes at least half a day, as the saying goes, see the house, go to cry, that's the truth.

Without going into further ado, by the time we reached the foot of the mountain, it was indeed dusk. The master said that this mountain is called Dragon Bone Mountain, and when you look up, the majestic mountain is majestic and unclimbable. The upper half is white, the upper part is a snow-capped mountain, the sun sets, the afterglow reflects the top of the mountain, and the snow-capped peak is dyed like a girl in a red veil, slim and elegant.

There is a small river under the Dragon Bone Mountain, about two meters wide, which flows from the ground, and the water is gurgling and crystal clear.

The foot of the hill is so wide that we don't know where the entrance to the tomb is. The master said that you will not know until you use a bronze mirror at night. So we sat down by the river and rested, ready to go.

Crazy kept looking at the water in the river, as if looking at his own shadow.

When the moon rose in the sky, I took out the bronze mirror and pointed at the moon, and a white light shot out of the bronze mirror, pointing straight into the river. I hurriedly put away the bronze mirror, and came to the river with everyone, looking at the river that was slightly dark under the moonlight, and I asked the master, is the entrance to the tomb in the river? That is, the tomb was buried at the bottom of the river? The master thought for a moment and said that he was not sure yet.

"Could it be that the bronze mirror could be wrong?" I was about to send He Shuo to the bottom of the river to explore, Crazy suddenly walked towards the top of the river, I asked where Crazy was going, Crazy stopped and didn't look back, just said lightly: "Let's go to the source to see." ”

I walked up to him and asked him why he had to go to the source, and he looked into the river and said, "If the entrance is in the middle of the river, then it must be in a wider place, because it is a tomb, and if it is too narrow, the tomb cannot be buried." ”

"Maybe it's down the river."

"Not downstream." "There is a lot of sand downstream," said the madman, "and only a fool would bury himself downstream, and there are very few people who bury their graves at the bottom of the river, and if I guess correctly, the mausoleum will never be at the bottom of the river, but underground." ”

"But why is the light of the bronze mirror shining into the river?" I'm still confused.

Yu Feng walked up and said, "The bronze mirror is telling us that the answer can be found from this river. ”

We went up the river and turned half the way up the mountain. It turned out that the river went down the foot of the mountain, like a belt that surrounded the foot of the mountain in a half circle.

It took more than an hour for us to reach the source. We found that the river was flowing from a cave, which was about a zhang wide and more than two meters high, and it was dark inside, I don't know how deep. The boulders above are craggy.

I took out the bronze mirror and pointed it at the moonlight, and the white light reflected from the bronze mirror pointed straight at the cave, and I hurriedly withdrew the bronze mirror, and I had to admire the madness, his guess was right.

And now, how do we get into the cave? And it's from the water.

Yu Feng took a photo of the grass outside the cave with electric light, saying that someone had been here, and I walked over to see that there were traces of being trampled on the ground. That is, someone went into the cave before us. The man must have been attracted by the light of the bronze mirror last night and found this place, and made the first move.

Mu Lanlan was very displeased, "I said a long time ago, we have to act earlier, so as not to be preempted by others." ”

According to our experience of going to Li Fu's underground mausoleum, anyone who goes underground to explore will be dangerous, so I don't think it's a bad thing to be preempted, at least the other party can open the way for us.

The master told the two monks to go to the mountain and cut down a few big trees to make a raft, and we could use the raft to get in. Yu Feng and I also went, and cut down several cedar trees with thick bowls, and I saw that although the entrance to the cave was wide, I didn't know the situation inside, in case it was very narrow, and the raft would not be able to pass if it was too big, so I suggested not to take one raft, but to make three small rafts.

The recommendations were adopted unanimously.

We made three rafts, each about two meters long and one and a half meters wide, which could accommodate three people. So we were divided into three groups, me and Zhong Ling'er and the master were in a group, Yu Feng, Mu Lanlan and Crazy were in a group, and the two monks were in a group. I originally planned to open the way with Zhong Ling'er and the master in front, but the two monks disagreed, fearing that it would be too dangerous to enter the cave, afraid that something would go wrong, and worried about the master's safety, so they were very stubborn about playing forward.

So, two monks opened the way in front, followed by Zhong Ling'er and the master, and after sealing their palace, everyone cautiously and rushed in.

Because it was darker and not very wide, and the raft was heavier, we walked more slowly in the water. At first, the water surface is relatively straight, and after entering seven or eight meters, it begins to bend, but fortunately, the current is not large, and the raft is also small, so it can be flexibly controlled.

After a total of about 10 meters of progress, a fork appeared in front of it, one from the left to the right, separated by a stone wall in the middle. The water was a lot narrower, but it was two meters wide. The two monks in front of me stopped and asked which way we were going, and I took a flashlight at the two waters, and when I noticed that the water on the left was wider, I said to the left. When she arrived at the fork in the road, Zhong Ling'er had sharp eyes, and said with a flashlight on the water: "Knife, look at it, the water flowing out of these two places is different." ”

When I looked closely, I saw that the water coming out of the left side was darker, while the water coming out of the right side was clearer. I wondered, it was flowing from the bottom of the same mountain, why was the water different?

The master explained that it is possible that the minerals contained in the water are different.

"There's someone up ahead!" Suddenly, I heard a monk shouting.

We hurriedly approached the raft and found an inflatable rubber boat on the water two or three meters in front of us, which was a bit big and almost filled the water. Perhaps because of the current, it swayed slightly on the surface of the water. It's just that there are no people in there.

How can there be rubber boats here? Did someone bring it in before us? But where is the man?

"Where is the person?" I asked.

One of the monks said, "There was someone just now, but I still saw his head?" But in the blink of an eye, he was gone. ”

Another monk said, "The man has gone into a rubber boat and hidden." ”

It turned out that the man the two monks saw was lying on the rubber boat, and probably noticed that someone was coming, so they slipped back into the rubber boat. The dinghy had a certain depth, we were far apart, and the light was not very good, so we couldn't see anyone inside.

I put the end of our raft together, and I jumped onto the monk's raft and slowly slid the raft closer to the dinghy. When I was a meter or two away, I finally saw the people inside. The man was lying in the rubber boat, it was a man, he didn't move when we came, I shone a flashlight at them and called twice: "Brother? Brothers? ”

The man ignored him and did not move. But the dinghy was still rocking slightly.

I sensed something was wrong and decided to take a closer look, Zhong Ling'er called me, I looked back at her, she said with concern, "Be careful." I said I felt warm, said I understood, and touched the dinghy with the penny, and the dinghy shook violently, but the man inside did not move.

Could it be that the man died? I wondered, or was the man unconscious? Even if he fell asleep, he should have woken up if I made such a big movement, if he didn't pretend to be asleep?

Yu Feng asked what the situation was in front of him, I told the situation, Yu Feng told me not to move, he came up to take a look, I said no, the space is small, and it is on the water, it is inconvenient, remind him to be careful behind, and then push the rubber boat with a wooden penny, the rubber boat moved, and slid towards the cave, and the person was still lying there without moving. I was stunned for a moment, it didn't feel right, because the water was flowing out from the inside, I just pushed it heavier, but it wasn't so much that the rubber boat kept sliding inside, and what was even more weird was that I found that the rubber boat was empty inside, that is, the bottom of the rubber boat was broken, and the person had been lying on the water!

It was a dead man.

However, just now a monk clearly saw him move!