I walked up to the bow of the boat and saw that the boat had sailed through a narrow channel and had come to a lake that seemed to have something else resembling the foundations of a building on the surface of the lake not far away. The water flows through the middle of those foundations.

"It's a remnant of an ancient castle building." Rong Jitong's eyes lit up, and he leaned on the bow of the boat and looked forward.

As far as the eye could see, section by section of falcon rivets and wooden stakes were stuck upside down in the dirt like tombstones. It is clear that the ancient city has been flooded.

"Shinto, this is Shinto, it's ruins, and in front of it is the ancient city." The short one jumped out of the boat, jumped onto a stake, and picked up something.

"It's a jade cong." Rong Jitong took the fragment from the short hand and said: "The bottom of the fragment has a very obvious subtle wavy pattern, which is commonly known as 'hemp bottom', which is a distinctive feature of Han Dynasty jade. ”

Will there be an ancient city ahead? Nothing can be seen in the depths of the dark lake, and the darkness beneath the earth is incomparably deep.

We continued on the boat for a few more minutes, and finally the building came into view. It was a ruined wall, and there was no oil on the lake, and only faint wooden beams and tiles could be seen, but from the area of this building, it should not be a city, but a separate building.

"It's an ancestral hall! A place for worshipping the gods! Rong Jitong flashed a huge stone stele, the stele fell on the wooden stake, the text on it has long been blurred, but its overall outline can still be seen clearly, there is a carved stone dragon entangled, that is the negative stele.

"Hey, look over there!" Brother Men's searchlight, at this time, was shining on another body of water, and he looked over and saw that there was actually a bronze tripod there. A huge bronze tripod, so large in size, like a yacht. I saw that its two-sided body was all cast with 4 convex ridges, and the side mouth was also decorated with cloud and thunder patterns, and a whole sinuous dragon was also carved on it. The shape of the dragon is coiled on the bronze, the claw horns are there, and the facial features are like life, giving people a solemn and gorgeous feeling.

"It's from the past!" I immediately thought of the thing that existed in my dad's story.

We drove the boat over, I could even clearly see the ebony in the giant ding, I approached, with a flashlight carefully shined, found that the root of the ebony has cracked, at this time the discerning person can see that the ebony at this time is like the charcoal of the winter fire at home, black and not slippery, occasionally you can see the black inner shell from the leakage.

"The reason why we went to Dingzhong in the first place was because of this piece of wood." Rong Jitong said, and then gently knocked open the trunk with a shovel, only to see that the outer layer of the wood that seemed to be wrapped in a mat quickly cracked by itself, revealing the transparent jade that shimmered inside.

"What is this? Damn, is it wood or jade? Brother Menge rubbed his eyes and looked at the ebony, and said incredulously.

I looked at the ebony under the light of the flashlight, and thought to myself that this piece of jade was actually buried deep in the trunk of the ebony tree.

"What's in there? Can we take it? Brother Mengo glanced at it, and the greedy look on his face was exposed.

Rong Jitong smiled bitterly and said: "I became what I am now because of this thing, if you are interested, you can naturally take it." You promised to come with me, and I promised to help you find the baby, but of course, if you want to die, this is not part of our business. ”

When I heard this, I finally understood that it should be just a transaction between Rong Jitong and these three people, Rong Jitong needed someone to help him find a passage to enter the ancient tomb from under the murderous building, and these three people needed the gold, silver and jewelry in the ancient tomb.

Brother Men was choked, and he didn't know what to say, but at this time, the sharp-eyed short man suddenly exclaimed, "There is something in the jade." ”

I saw that in the peeling bark, a black shadow could be seen swimming in the middle of the jade.

The light and the dark shadow formed a strong visual difference here, and the dry old bark was also driven by the air flow from the trunk of the tree little by little, and an oval ball of light appeared in front of us in the empty trunk.

A faint light emanated from inside, like a wave of air heat under the illumination of the light source, and there was really a "person" inside.

That's right, when we see the whole picture, we realize that there is really a person in it.

"Not good!" Rong Ji seemed to remember something, and he shouted: "Hurry up!" ”

But the two guys in charge of the boat, seeing such a strange jade at this time, were greedy, and for a while they wanted to reach out and touch the oval ball of light.

"Don't touch it!"

Sure enough, the next second, the egg cracked on its own, and I saw white things coming out of the egg.

At the beginning no one saw it, for it was so inconspicuous, and it was so fast that the dwarf fell hoarsely.

"What's going on?"

"Ke Zhizhi is dead." The woman said, she didn't panic, she held a flashlight in her hand and looked around vigilantly.

The rest of us scattered in all directions. The sudden change was so quick that we were all overwhelmed.

At this time, I saw one by one snake-like monsters crawling out of the ebony, the strange beast head open to show sharp teeth, like a baby who had just woken up, I watched the pupils of those things shrink, and thought to myself that it must be this thing, biting the short one to death. He hurriedly stepped back and shouted, "We need to get out of here quickly." ”

"Buzz!" The woman listened to me, and immediately ran to the stern of the boat and started the throttle of the boat, and the power carried us away from the bronze tripod in an instant.

The remaining four people looked at the short corpse at this time, although they felt afraid for a while, but they had to evacuate in time, and they were more or less relieved, thinking that it was only a momentary thing, how toxic this thing should be!

But just as we were thinking about it, suddenly we focused on the short corpse, and saw a snake-like thing crawling out of his clothes, it had a hairy human face, two claws on the front body, the upper body was like a dog, and the neck was covered with snake scales, exactly the same as Rong Ji's face, and not only did it have snake scales, it also had a long tail like a snake, and a pair of wings at the junction between the tail and the body.

And the monster, at this time, was full of blood, and it slowly folded its wings and prostrate on the ground, raising its upper body to look at us. A snake's tail is a sinuous crawl.

"Don't worry, don't worry." Brother Mengo said, "Look what this thing is." ”

But as soon as Brother Men's voice fell, the thing flapped its wings and flew towards him, Brother Menge was startled and hurriedly retreated, but even if he retreated, where could he retreat? It's just a small boat.

"Smack." Suddenly the thing flew up to the doorman's neck.

"Don't move!" Suddenly, the woman pulled out a gun and pointed it at her brother.

Brother Men's eyes widened, although he was trembling with fright, but after the woman finished speaking, he didn't dare to move, but even so, the monster would not let go of the prey in his hand, it opened its mouth wide, and bit down. But just as the moment of the fire, the gun went off, and then the monster exploded on the shoulder of the mengo, and scarlet blood splattered everywhere.

Brother Men wiped his neck, ripped off the body of the thing above, and fell to the ground with the lower half of his body spread out.

"It's a snake." The woman said, "The ancient books record that this thing is something that caused the flood disaster. ”

"It doesn't matter what the hell it is, it's good that Xiaohu has accurate marksmanship, otherwise my life can be regarded as being explained here." Brother Mengo gasped for breath.

"Dispose of the corpse!" The woman surnamed Hu looked at me, she put away her gun, and grabbed the short two hands.

I swallowed, slowly stepped forward, grabbed the short leg, and threw him off with a single force.

The corpse entered the water, making a popping sound, like my heartbeat at this time, I still can't believe that a living life died in front of my eyes in such an instant.

In this way, the danger is temporarily over, but I hold my breath, I don't dare to come out, I walk back and forth on the boat with a flashlight, I don't dare to sit down now, I really don't dare, the picture of short death will play back in my mind every time I calm down, it was the first time I saw someone die in front of me so closely, I even wanted to gag.

But at this time, Rong Jitong was standing on the edge of the boat, looking at the huge ding, Rong Jitong was silent, as if everything just now had nothing to do with him.

I knew what he was thinking, he had thought that this Ding had been rushed out of the ancient tomb of the Marquis of Haidu, but it was clear that this was not the case, it seemed to be just an ancestral hall. And after the flood, the buildings of this place have been washed away and scattered, and there is nothing left. It is from here that the tripod is washed ······ Wait a minute, rush up? I looked at the tripod and thought to myself, this is not a bubble, how can it rush up?

"Can you go to the side of the lake and have a look?"

Rong Jitong was not complaining, but had the same problem as me, just imagine that such a big tripod could never be made to float by violent currents.

The woman set the boat in the back, and we soon approached the edge of the lake, where there was a mountain wall, in the shape of an arc, with more and more elaborate reliefs, and the carvings were more about scenes from mythology.

However, it seems that the lake should be circular, and it is surrounded by mountains. And where we came in, it was the outlet of the water, and there was another exit directly opposite.

"Did you find anything?" Rong Jitong asked me.

I wondered if this guy was crazy again, and after a circle, he actually started asking me what I had found, could it be that I told him that the water here is turbid and not suitable for fish farming?

"It's not a lake, it's a cage, and at the end of '07, something must have escaped from here." Rong Jitong pointed to the entrance of the lake and said.