Chapter 18: Transfiguration Circle

The battle was over, and the ground was in shambles, littered with red-haired corpses and emitting a foul smell.

Half an hour later, the big mouth finally burst out with a sentence, "Lao Cui, you made a mistake on the route this time, you should review it carefully, brother is still the same sentence, steady and steady is the way of the king"

I just smiled, I didn't agree with 10,000 mouths before the action, and now I grabbed my tail, in fact, this kind of thing is similar to betting, experience is very important, and luck is more important. Guan Yu was also defeated and took Maicheng, not to mention that we are just two roosters and dog thieves.

Now the whole body hurts, from the ankle to the palm, and then to the soul, just used glutinous rice to pull out the corpse poison at the ankle, and the wound that can be seen deep in the bone is still bubbling with black blood. It can only be said that I didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out, which was a hard work, and I almost lost my life if I didn't catch a copper plate.

No one wants such a thing to happen, and the key now is to discuss what to do next.

The big mouth is still unrelenting, saying that I have no organization, no discipline, etc., and I say a lot of nonsense, anyway, I pretend not to listen to it, what do you like.

In the end, Big Mouth finally said the truth from the bottom of his heart: "Yu Ye's baby ring, seeing that the cooked duck is flying ...... his grandmother's"

The big mouth couldn't stop breathing, and the deep voice was like an aftersound, endless. It's just that I suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a seat-shaped altar in the black water of the copper coffin, and I was forced by the red hair to run around at that time, and I didn't have time to look at it carefully, but now I look back and play it back in my mind, and I feel that the altar must have a secret that no one knows, that should be the heart of the entire black water pool, which continuously feeds the red hair with energy.

I decided to go down and take a look, and I always felt that there were many mysterious things in the Hades Palace, far more than what we see now, such as the altar under the black water, the skeleton sitting on the coffin, the countless bones in the corridor, the black fog on the wooden bridge of the Black River, the strange illusions, and the living people who can't get through.

"Lao Cui, what nerves do you have? You won't be poisoned by corpses and become zombies, will you? ”

In the surprised gaze of the big mouth, I climbed up the rope again, and stood on the top of the bronze coffin for the third time, and my mood was very different, so to speak, for the rest of my life.

Four large iron chains hung in the air, and the coffin board was broken into several pieces and scattered in the black water. I replayed the position of the altar in my mind, put the gas mask on my face again, took a deep breath, and stabbed it down.

Through the dim flashlight beam, all kinds of small floating objects flashed quickly in front of him, and there was a dead silence around the body, except for the pitiful little light moving downward, the others remained motionless for thousands of years, mysterious and gloomy.

The altar is not deep from the water, that is, five or six meters, almost no such diving, with the light of the flashlight, you can already see the outline of the altar, like an enlarged copper coin, the outer circle and the inner square, more than six meters in diameter.

There are several ways of sacrificing at the altar, some with living people and some with objects, both of which represent a kind of piety and loyalty to the heavens and the earth. In ancient times, people's cognition of heaven and earth was still at the stage of the heaven and the earth, so most of the altars were round on the outside and square on the inside, representing the sky and the earth. In the Liangzhu civilization between 4200 and 5300 years ago, the shape of the round sky can be seen in the excavated altar and a large number of jade tools. For example, the pier of ** is round on behalf of the sky, and the pier of the noon gate is on behalf of the square on the ground, and the round place has been evolved from generation to generation as a culture.

Approaching the altar, I could clearly see that there was a square groove in the center of the circular altar, and in the groove was a piece of emerald green jade, and there were five small grooves scattered irregularly around the groove, three of which contained things, except for Jin Ling, I knew of it, and I had never seen the other two, a palm-sized piece of dry rotten wood and a transparent heart.

If my guess is correct, this altar may also be a magic circle, with five small grooves to place the five things of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, the metallic nature of Jinling, the rotten wood and wood attributes, and the transparent heart water attributes, but the fire attributes and earth attributes. Then the square jade in the central groove is the key to open the circle.

When I was almost exhausted, I had a rough understanding of the altar, and then I put up what I could hold, and then kicked my feet, so that my head was not likely to show the water.

I looked at the big mouth and kept looking up, probably waiting for my good news.

At this time, I shouted to the big mouth, "There's a new discovery down there, find a way to get me a rope up"

That square jade is half a meter square, and I estimate that the weight must not be light, at least a hundred or ten catties, so I can only use a rope to pull it up, and I definitely can't hold it.

"Lao Cui, did you find any treasure? If you need me to go up and help, just talk, Yu Ye will go out again today."

I guess the big mouth was ready from the moment I got into the water, and now that I have found something, my face is very red, and I am about to start vowing again.

I shouted to the big mouth, "Well, sort of, it's great that you can come up and help, but I'm afraid I won't move you, the great god."

But as soon as my words fell, Big Mouth really began to climb up along the rope, it seems that Big Mouth is in a hurry today, and I have to touch a few treasures to go back.

After the big mouth came up, I briefly explained the following situation.

As soon as I heard that there was a half-meter-sized jade under the black water, Dazui's face turned even redder, and he was about to jump into the water, but fortunately, I stopped it in time. I told Dazui that you will help me guard when I do it for a while, after all, this is the Hades Palace, and unexpected things can happen at any time, plus the square jade should be the key to the magic circle or something, so be more cautious.

When Big Mouth had no objection, the two of them dived down at the same time, and when they arrived at the altar, Big Mouth looked around vigilantly with a sapper shovel in his hand, and my cat lowered his waist and reached out to touch around the jade, and found no mechanism or anything like that, so he was relieved.

When it was time to get started, I glanced at the big mouth, and the big mouth nodded knowingly.

Then I carefully inserted my hands into the gap between the jade and the groove, with the force of my hand, the square jade was lifted up a little bit, and I didn't look closely, I directly signaled the big mouth to tie it with a rope, and the big mouth took out the rope very quickly, and came to a big tie, and then felt with my hand whether the bundle was very strong, and then gave me a thumbs up.

At this time, I still wondered, is I too careful, a false alarm, holding my breath can no longer hold on, just when I and Big Mouth and I are about to retreat, suddenly the surrounding black water began to shake, first slightly moved, and then quickly surged around, accompanied by the click of metal cracking, deafening, I and Big Mouth covered our ears and lay motionless on the altar, I was still holding the square jade in my arms, looking around in panic.

When Big Mouth and I came back to our senses, we were shocked to find that the original black water was gone, and the huge copper coffin turned into a piece of quickly broken copper, piled up on the ground like a hill, and the coffin room returned to its eerie silence.

The big mouth asked me tremblingly, "Old Cui, what happened?" Is it related to this piece of jade? ”

I said to Big Mouth, "It should have something to do with it, otherwise it wouldn't be a coincidence."

I am also blindfolded now, but I remember that there is an altar hidden in the copper coffin, and in less than three minutes before I and Dazui lifted the square jade out of the groove of the altar, the whole copper coffin shattered into a pile of copper pieces, and the black water disappeared for a moment, and everything that happened just now was confusing and unscrupulous.

"Lao Cui, it seems that we have bad luck when we come out this time, except for what we didn't catch, we almost gave away our lives, it seems that I will pay a farewell to Guan Er Ye before the next operation, and if we continue to toss like this, we have to die young."

I said to Big Mouth: "Not necessarily, at least I have this thing in my hand, and such a big piece of jade can't be used to kill people."

Dazui slapped the door of his head a few times, and suddenly woke up and said: "Yes, how did I forget that we still have such a big treasure in our hands, haha" Dazui took the square jade from my arms, looked at it over and over, and his eyes were about to burst into flames.

At this time, Dazui suddenly said to me: "Lao Cui, this piece of jade seems to be hollow, it should be spliced together by two pieces of jade."

I tapped the surface of the jade with my hand, and I could hear the sound of emptiness, and there was a very secret slit in the middle of the jade, which I couldn't really find if I didn't look closely.

I opened my mouth and said, "There should be something important hidden in this piece of jade, I guess it should be something like the key to open this altar, find a way to open it and see, maybe there will be something to gain."

Big Mouth took out a small knife with great interest, and inserted it according to the slit, the slit became wider and wider, and finally split into two from the middle, and the hollow place of the two pieces of jade really hid a book.