Flip it off, to be exact.

The shadow under the firelight actually came from a piece of cardboard pasted in the middle of the scroll, and Wu Lin just picked it up, just lifting the edge of the note.

I immediately pulled Wu Lin's arm and motioned for him to stop.

The adhesion between this note and the scroll is very high, and if he tears it like this, he is afraid that when the note is torn off, the content of the scroll itself will also be destroyed.

I lay the scroll on my lap, trying to spread the part of the note as flat as I could, and pulled out a hook knife and a little bit of non-organic grease.

I sprinkled the paper strip with this grease that was specially used to clean the ancient color ware, and when it was soaked through, I hooked it off bit by bit with a hook knife to make sure that neither the paper nor the scroll were damaged.

Surprisingly, there is nothing hidden in the area covered by the note.

Originally, I thought that the person who got this note was trying to cover something in the scroll.

Since nothing is covered in the scroll, there is something hidden inside the note, otherwise it wouldn't have appeared on the scroll.

By the way, this strip of paper is connected to the ancient scroll in a sticky way, the so-called sticky, is to glue and repair some of the original broken ancient paper, this special technique can restore the ancient paper that was originally broken into several pieces to almost no cracks, and the reason why the other party used this statement to glue the paper strip to the ancient scroll, to put it bluntly, is to cover up the existence of this note.

Because after using this special technique, the paper and the scroll were completely integrated, and if it weren't for the shadow reflected in the fire through the scroll, even I wouldn't have been able to see the problem.

The reason why he hid it shows that either there is a secret hidden in the note, or there is a secret hidden in the ancient scroll.

Since the note was completely soaked, I had to place it near the alcohol lamp and dry it at the temperature of the flame.

Under the action of grease, the glue that was originally pasted on the paper strip has been soaked open, and when the grease is dried at the fire temperature, the paper strip has already unfolded on its own, revealing the contents inside.

There was a half-incoherent map drawn on it, and judging from the strength of the pen and the way the lines were composed, this half of the map, and the map of the inner world on the ancient scroll, should have been written by the same person.

I was shocked: the map on the scroll must have been tampered with!

Thinking of this, I immediately picked up the note, carefully compared the similarities and differences between the two maps, and sure enough, I found some problems.

This small map on the slip of paper fits perfectly on the big map!

It was as if the map had been cut from the larger map, and the operator had not only cut it off, but also tampered with the original map on the scroll.

I handed the unfolded note to Wu Lin and asked him to keep it carefully, then took out a magnifying glass and carefully looked at the large map on the scroll.

Sure enough, under the magnifying glass, two textures appeared on the white paper that could not fit together at all, and the map had indeed been tampered with.

This man is a master who can first cut out a part of the map, then find a piece of paper of similar age and workmanship, cut it to the same size as the paper strip after unfolding, and then glue it together with the original paper on the scroll in a sticky way, and finally, draw the lines that he has thought in advance to forge a new map.

Wu Lin pointed to the fake picture and said quite abruptly: "The most difficult part of the whole world is here. ”

I frowned and asked him, "Because the old pedant's description of this place is different from reality." ”

Wu Lin nodded.

If Xu Blind was the old pedant, it was certain that if he hadn't done anything to the ancient scroll, he wouldn't have noticed that the map had been tampered with.

If the map has been tampered with, why hide the cut original map in the scroll?

The mind of this usurper is really unpredictable.

At this time, Wu Lin put the unfolded note on the big map, so that the big map could be restored to its original appearance.

Judging from the current map, after crossing the Red Clay Plain, you must first pass through a very long road to reach a huge underground lake, and then as long as you find a dark well near the lake, you can directly bypass the second half of the world and reach the end of this world.

Wu Lin smacked his lips: "It turns out that there is such a shortcut." ”

I shook my head and said, "The map only says that there is a hidden well near the lake, but it does not say where the hidden well is, so it is not easy to find it." ”

On the map, in fact, the location of the hidden well is not marked, but it is written "Xiangliu Lake?? There is a well", not far from the lake, there is also a well, there is a well, the beginning of the well is painted with some clouds, and the tail is connected to the end of the world.

Since the two words behind Xiangliu Lake are now unclear, we can't determine where the well is, and we don't know whether the clouds at the mouth of the well mean that there is indeed a cloud near the lake, or whether this cloud and mist should have meant "fog", which means that the well does not know where it came from.

In addition, there is a platform next to the lake.

This Xiangliu Lake is really big.

There is a record in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": "The name of the Gonggong minister is called Xiangxiang, nine snake bodies, self-ringing, and eating in nine soils." The place where it is is the source of Ze, not hard but hard, and the beasts can not deal with it. Yu annihilation flood, killing each other, its bloody stench, can not grow valley. The land is watery and uninhabitable. Yu annihilation, three and three frustration, is thought to be a pool, the emperor is because it is thought to be Taiwan, in the north of Kunlun. ”

Xiangyi, that is, Xiangliu. It was originally a courtier of the old gods, some say it was a hydra, others say it has nine human heads and a snake body. This thing is very large, with nine necks stretched out, and nine heads spanning mountain streams, which can eat the soil of nine mountains at the same time.

Legend has it that the vomit of the willow forms a swamp, and the smell is so disgusting that even the wild beasts can no longer stay nearby.

Later, when Dayu ran into this goods when he controlled the water, he killed it, but he didn't expect the blood of Xiangliu to be extremely smelly, but where the soil soaked in its blood could no longer grow food, and it didn't take long for the surface there to return to moisture, forming a large area of swamp, not to mention growing food, normal living is impossible.

Dayu asked people to fill the swamp, but they all fell into the swamp three times, and then there was no way, Dayu could only dig the swamp into a huge pond, and unite several other emperors at that time to cast a high platform by the pond to suppress the demonic nature in the pool.

According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, this pond and high platform are both north of Kunlun.

Because the geographical location depicted in the Book of Mountains and Seas is very inaccurate, it is not right and cannot be said to be inaccurate, but the person who wrote the book did not want to write the real place at all, so the geographical location he abruptly gave in the end was naturally wrong.

In the past, when I looked through the Classic of Mountains and Seas, I only read it as a foreign body chronicle, and I almost never took it seriously, but now, Xiangliu Lake has appeared in the first world, which makes me have to believe it.

Contacting Wu Lin before, there was a thousand-year-long war between the surface world and the inner world, and I can't help but wonder if it could be that the strange mountains and beasts depicted in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are many of them in the inner world.

The reason why Dayu killed Xiangliu is most likely because the two were originally in an antagonistic relationship in the war, and it is normal to attack each other.

Moreover, no matter what kind of sect X religion or what kind of mythological system, in their ancient documents, it seems that similar monsters have appeared.

Including Xiangliu, including the ancient Greek legend of Hydra who was killed by Hercules, the doomsday serpent of Persian mythology, the giant snake of the doomsday of Aridahaqi, and the Japanese mythology of the eight-fold snake (this thing has nine heads), are all similar images.

And the endings of these monsters also have a lot of similarities.

Although in myths and legends, the time of the appearance of such monsters is different, but myths and stories cannot be applied to historical chronology.

I hadn't thought much about it before, but now that I think about it, the monsters mentioned in these myths and legends may all be the same.

But why the people who killed or sealed the Hydra in each mythological story are different, it may be because there were many people involved in this battle at that time, they came from different civilization systems, different countries, but at the same time gathered in the First Mile, and their descendants only remember what their ancestors did, and over time, this battle of unity has also become a legend of individual heroism to save the world by himself.

In the surface world, these snake heroes really can't gather together, after all, the area of the surface world is too large, and the transportation is inconvenient, they can't spend years or even more than ten years to meet the teacher, but there is definitely more than one way to the inner world, maybe in that generation, all over the world can find the entrance to the inner world, they did not meet in the outside world, but after entering the inner world, they reached a cooperative relationship.

As for what happened at the beginning, and how everyone joined forces to deal with Sang-ryu, I can't give an answer.

Even all of the speculations I've listed may be wrong, but I can't think of a more plausible explanation.

I was so contemplative that I had already ignored the people around me, and it wasn't until Wu Lin patted me on the shoulder with his hand that I came back to my senses and found that the others had already packed their bags and were ready to pull out.

"What do you think, so engrossed." As he spoke, Wu Lin handed over my palladium compass.

I don't even know when he took the compass away.

I took the compass and asked, "Leaving so soon?" ”

Wu Lin nodded: "Since you have found a shortcut, let's act as soon as possible, there is no point in delaying any longer." ”

Probably seeing that my face was difficult, Wu Lin couldn't help but ask more: "What, do you have other ideas?" ”

I shook my head and said no, put my backpack on my back, and stood up.

However, before leaving, I still reminded Wu Lin that this road at the moment may not be a shortcut, it may also be the most dangerous road.

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