Chapter 8: The Cave

The night was peaceful, there were no more waves, and we all slept comfortably. Early the next morning, we had some dry food and set off. After walking for less than half a day, and when it was almost noon, we had come to the vicinity of the place where the spirit mirror was.

At this point, the sun was in the sky and the temperature had risen, so we put down our bags and prepared to rest for a while. After we ate some dry food and drank enough water, Lao Zhao took out his pipe and smoked the cigarette, Lao Zhao said while sucking: "We have arrived, let's split up and look around here later, to see if there are any caves or something." ”

When the monkey heard this, he immediately said, "What's the old Zhao, are we really going to go to the ground?" Lao Zhao took a few puffs of cigarette and replied: "This mirror must be hidden in an extremely secret place, it is difficult to put it on the ground and wait for you to pick it up, if this is the case, even if there are a hundred for thousands of years, it will not be your turn to pick it up!" ”

I can almost conclude from Lao Zhao's words that my previous guess has come true, we are likely to go to the cave or even the depths of the underground to search for the mirror, I can't help but feel a little timid, who knows if there are any beasts and poisonous insects hidden in this cave, if you can't get out, what if you are trapped inside. Now that he has come here, he will definitely be scolded by Lao Zhao and the monkey again if he retreats now, so it is better to go with the flow and make plans.

We rested for a while and then began to look around, the environment here is very peculiar, surrounded by dense jungle, the center of the jungle is about ** ten square meters of irregular stone forest, the stones here are very large, the largest is three or four meters high, the smallest is also the size of the Eight Immortals Table.

We searched the surrounding jungle for a long time and found nothing, when the monkey said, "Could it be that this mirror is hidden in this rocky forest?" So we went to the stone forest and began to search, and we searched in the stone forest for more than an hour, but we still found nothing.

We were exhausted, and we rested for a while and continued to search, until we found that it was almost dark, and we were about to turn the stone forest upside down, as long as there were stones that could be moved, we moved them away, but we still didn't find anything.

We were all tired and lay down, seeing that it was almost dark, then Lao Zhao said: "That's all for today, let's continue to look for it tomorrow, the mirror must be near here." Then he took out his little pipe and smoked it, and the monkey and I were so tired that we could hardly straighten up, and we took a few sips of water and rested against a stone slab.

Slowly it got dark, we made a fire and ate, and then the monkey said: "I said Lao Zhao, let's not find the wrong place, this bird place has been searched by us, there is nothing!" Lao Zhao took a puff of cigarette and said unhurriedly: "It's not wrong, according to the instructions on the map, it must be here." "I also think it's strange that we've searched all over this area, and if there were, we would have found it long ago.

At this moment, Lao Zhao suddenly put out the pipe in his hand and put it in his pocket, and stood up and looked at a big stone not far away, we also stood up, and was about to ask Lao Zhao if he found anything, only to see Lao Zhao stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the big stone, and told us to look, I and the monkey also looked over, only to see that at the root of the big stone that was three or four meters high, there was a luminous body about the size of a palm, we immediately walked over, and took a closer look, At the base of this large stone, there was a round part that was glowing.

The monkey was surprised and said, "What the hell is going on, why is it that only this part is glowing and the rest of the place is not glowing?" Lao Zhao looked at this glowing part carefully, touched it with his hand, and said after a while: "Ingenious, really ingenious!" Lao Zhao laughed a few times and then said: "This is a piece of luminous stone, it is first to chisel a round pit on this big stone, and then put the luminous stone of the same size as this pit into it, which is just spliced seamlessly, and the color of the luminous stone is very consistent with the color of the big stone, so it can't be seen at all during the day, and only at night, the luminous stone can be detected when it emits light." ”

When the monkey heard this, he immediately said: "The design is so ingenious, this must be artificial, is this a button of a mechanism?" As he spoke, the monkey reached out to press the luminous stone, and Lao Zhao saw that the monkey was going to press the luminous stone and immediately shouted, "Don't!" But it was too late, the monkey had already put his palm on it, only to see the monkey gently press with his hand, the luminous stone was concave, and then I heard a sound that seemed to come from the inside of the big stone, as if the whole stone was about to crack from it, and suddenly, the place where the three of us stepped on suddenly fell short, and the three of us fell straight down before we had time to react.

In the process of our fall, I thought to myself that this is going to hang, maybe how deep this pit is! Maybe there are some python poisonous insects or something like that, just when my mind was confused, I suddenly felt a huge pain in my buttocks, we are in the end.

This pit is about three or four meters deep, and the three of us were immediately dizzy, I was the first to hit the ground with my buttocks, and I immediately felt that my butt was gone, and I didn't know if I had broken the flowers, and I didn't know how Lao Zhao and the monkey fell.

Then I heard the monkey scream: "Oh shit, my ass is about to break into pieces!" Then I heard Lao Zhao scold: "You dead monkey, it's all your fucking cheap, nothing to do!" The monkey snorted and said, "That luminous stone makes people think that it must be the button of some kind of mechanism at a glance, I didn't even think about it and pressed it, who knew that the mechanism was under our feet, and I fell no lighter than you." After the monkey finished speaking, he smacked a few times, Lao Zhao also scolded the monkey while scolding, I heard that the two of them still had the energy to scold, so I knew that the fall was not very strict, and the monkey saw that I had not said anything, so he asked: "Lao Yang, how did you fall?" No, no, no, it's okay! I gasped and said, "It's okay, but my fucking ass hurts!" ”

We rested in place for a while before we breathed our breath, and then we found that there was a rectangular hole about one meter wide and three meters long in the place where we had stood above our heads, and on the short side of the rectangular hole there was a stone stepping step that led to the edge of the hole, and the position we are now on is a resting platform for stepping steps, and there are steps below the platform that lead to the bottom, and the whole thing is an oblique downward passage, no one knows how deep the passage is, and we have no equipment on us now. I didn't dare to rush down to the depths of the passage, so I had to go to the ground first and then make plans.

We followed the steps up to the edge of the cave, and when we looked down at the hole, there was no light in it, and it was pitch black, as if it were a bottomless abyss. We went back to the fire and sat down, ready to discuss what to do next.

At this time, the monkey asked Lao Zhao: "I said Lao Zhao, this cave entrance is like a man-made catacomb, could it be that the mirror is hidden in this tomb?" Lao Zhao pounded the firewood with a branch and said: "It is very likely, thousands of years ago, Master Huachen said that the spirit mirror is a divine object, and those who are destined to embrace it will be blessed, and those who are not destined to hold it will be a disaster. Lao Zhao laughed as he spoke, I and the monkey didn't know what the word "Fu" meant, we only thought about how much this mirror was worth.

The monkey said: "Since we have reached this point, the door of the cave where the mirror is hidden has been found by us, there is no reason not to enter the cave, not to mention that we call ourselves tomb robbers, if we finally find the entrance but dare not enter, then how can we mix on the road when it is passed out!" ”

The monkey said everything about this, naturally he was going to enter the hole, not to mention Lao Zhao, and I didn't seem to have the right to speak at all, even if I didn't go in, I would be pulled in by the two of them, so I simply didn't say anything. Then we decided that we would have a good night's rest tonight, and then go down to the cave tomorrow.

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