Chapter 23: The Stele
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I regained my strength and walked cautiously.
What makes me feel a headache is that this tomb road is not directly connected to the tomb, but opened in mid-air, like the tomb of King Zhou on the mountain wall of the Shinto, if not afraid of any mechanism, I walked more carefully, the pace is slow, I have to step on the air to fall.
I held the mermaid candle in my hand and poked half of my body out, but it was still dark and rumbling and nothing shone, it seems that this place is not small.
I felt a "groan" in my heart, this is bad, jumping from such a high place, if you don't die, you have to fall and be crippled, but at present, I only have this way out, this can not advance or retreat, it is really no way to go to the sky, no way to enter the ground.
I'm really stuck here today?
I shook my head, shook off these negative emotions, took out my mobile phone, turned on the flashlight and shone it out, although the flash of the mobile phone was bright, but it was relatively divergent, and it couldn't shine too far, I could only vaguely see that there was an artificial river two meters wide ten meters below, and the flow speed of the river was very slow, almost stationary, otherwise I couldn't hear the sound of water so close.
My tense heartstrings finally relaxed, I took a mermaid candle from the wall, let go and threw it down, listening to the sound of falling water, the river is estimated to be two or three meters deep, this is just right for me, jumping will not hurt or drown, it is really an endless road.
If those old professors at the school knew that I used something like a mermaid candle as a stone to explore the depths of the water, they would have to die of anger.
I sat down, lit a cigarette by the candle fire, took two puffs, slammed the cigarette butt on the ground, then took a few candles from the wall and blew them out, took off my clothes with all my hands and feet, wrapped the candles, hesitated a little, gritted my teeth, and threw them across the river.
Then I did some preparatory exercises, and the water below must have been so cold that if I hadn't warmed up first, I jumped into the river and cramped, and I would never have been able to get ashore again.
When everything was ready, I pinched my nose, closed my eyes, and jumped out with a slight jump, and jumped into the water with a "poof".
It's not that I'm acting recklessly, I don't know how long it will take to find a way out of this situation without supplies, and I must make a decision as soon as possible, or I will be so hungry that I will not be able to crawl anymore, and I will have to wait for death.
I jumped from a height of more than ten meters, and the huge kinetic energy caused me to sink directly to the bottom of the water, but fortunately my clothes were wrapped in something and thrown far enough, otherwise I would not have been wet by the splash.
The cold water of the river made me shiver, and the water poured into my nose and mouth, choking me almost suffocated, and my mind went blank for a few seconds, and then I came to my senses again, and I finally got ashore with my hands and feet.
Fortunately, there are no unclean things such as black hair dumplings in this river, otherwise I would have to give an account of my ten lives here.
By feeling, I found my clothes in the dark, and immediately took out a candle that was wrapped in it, felt the lighter in my jacket pocket and lit it, and only after making sure that there was no danger nearby, did I put down the candle, shake the water off my body, and put on my clothes.
I put the mermaid candle by the river as a reference, and lit another one, holding the candle in one hand, and the seven-star sword turned out of the skeleton in the other, and walked along the river bank in one direction, my idea is to trace the source, as long as you find the source of the water, you can find the exit.
But then I realized that I was wrong, and the river turned out to be circular, and I walked for a long time, and then I came back and returned to the place where I had placed the candles.
It seems that the river has no source, or that the source comes from the ground, and the water in the river is all groundwater.
I patted my head and said to myself that I was so confused, I was already deep underground.
But the good thing is that I figured out how big this place is, I just walked for half an hour, a normal person's pace is six kilometers per hour, I walked more quickly, a little faster, so the length of this crater is 4 kilometers, roughly calculated, the length of the entire underground palace is about a thousand meters.
I suddenly felt very thirsty, so I squatted down, picked up a handful of river water, smelled it carefully, there was no peculiar smell, and I should not have diarrhea after drinking, so I lay down and put my head into the water and poured it into the water, and drank it to my heart's content.
After drinking the water, I ate the last bit of chocolate, sat down for a short rest, picked up the candle and walked towards the center of the dungeon.
The road was relatively calm, did not encounter the organ zongzi and the like, not long after, I suddenly saw a one-person high stele standing in front of me, what surprised me even more was that the text on the stele turned out to be traditional Chinese characters, that is, the age of this stele standing here is not far away.
I leaned over and looked at the stele with a candle, and then I understood why there was such a tomb under our library.
In ancient times, our school generation was a city tower, called "Da Yue Lou", and then I don't know because of the war or what, the city tower collapsed, this place slowly became abandoned, the dead people in the county town were buried here, and over time it evolved into a cemetery.
In 1945, our school was built, the address was selected here, during the construction, a copper plate was dug out, this copper plate recorded a secret, roughly the reading floor is built here, in order to suppress something underground, if you see this copper plate, please quickly fill it back, do not dig down, otherwise there will definitely be a big incident.
The old headmaster didn't believe it at first, and continued to dig down, and sure enough, he found a large tomb, and he wanted to report it all to the top, but then he saw something in the tomb dispelled this idea, and it was not said what it was.
After that, except for the old principal, the people who knew about it at that time died almost overnight, but the situation was turbulent at that time, the news was not well-informed, and there were not many people who knew about it, so there was no news over time.
The old headmaster refilled the copper plates and, at the suggestion of a friend, rebuilt a building according to the method described above, and his friend bought a batch of books to hide them in the house, which is the origin of the library.
To my surprise, the name of the old principal's friend is Mo Xingyun, and it is the same name as Lao Zhao's master, the head of the Mo family.
Not only that, but the successive principals of our school used pseudonyms, and their original names were all surnamed Mo.
My intuition tells me that this has nothing to do with the Mo family.
At the end, because the word was at the bottom, I was a little fat, so I simply put the candle on the ground, lay down to look at it, and was fascinated by it, when the candle was suddenly taken away.
"Xiao Zhang, give me the candle!" I shouted, suddenly realized that something was wrong, the whole body froze there, I was confused just now, I even thought that I was robbing the tomb with Lao Zhao and them in Python Mountain, isn't I the only one in this place, what the hell is it that took my candle?
I was covered in a layer of white sweat, and when I turned my head suddenly, I suddenly saw a strange hairy face!