Chapter 13 Instructions on the Stele
Seeing that the monk was distracted, I coughed and woke him up and asked, "Do you know the text on this?" What does it say? ”
He nodded and said, "This is ancient Sanskrit, and there are no more than ten people who can understand it now." This stele is a warning stele. ”
I asked, confused, "Warning monument?" ”
He nodded and said, "That's right, this stone tablet says that the underground lake below is the territory of Mohuraka, and any human who enters the lake will be punished by Mohuraka and eventually die in the belly of the snake." ”
I didn't particularly care about it after hearing it, this kind of warning monument is mostly scary, and it is not reliable at all. He nodded and said, "Is that all there is to it?" As he spoke, he leaned forward.
The monk stopped me and said, "It's not too early, let's bury this stone tablet and hurry on the road." Maybe the one has already reached the island in the middle of the lake. After saying that, he began to slowly shovel the soil and sprinkle it on the stone tablet.
I suddenly wondered in my heart, this warning monument should have been erected here by the ancients to warn future generations, but I don't know why it was buried here, and then it happened to be found by us. Why did the monk have to go to the trouble of burying it now? It's good to just put it here, I'm sure it's not because this monk is an advocate of environmentally friendly travel.
The purpose of burying it is not to let people see it, is there any secret of this stone tablet that the monk does not want others to know? But the monk has already said that there are very few people in the world who can read this ancient Sanskrit text, and almost no one can understand it, so why is he in a hurry to bury this stone tablet? Could it be that this stele has details that I haven't seen? And the secret is not in the inscription?
I pretended to go over to help, and deliberately walked between him and the stele, and while I didn't have anything to say, I went to peek at the stele that was not completely covered by the dirt. Since the searchlight was in Nangong's hand at this time, and she was standing some distance away from us, I couldn't fully see the details on the stele, so I could only take advantage of the gap between shoveling soil to secretly see what was on the stele.
Just when I was almost completely covering up the stele, I suddenly saw a text in the corner of the stele, which was a passage in Chinese. This text is not engraved, but scratched on it with stones, although the white marble is softer, but the text is only a shallow white mark.
As soon as I saw this stele, I was attracted by the ancient Sanskrit inscription, so I didn't see it. There are only four words in that passage of Chinese: Kill the monk!
Could it be that this sentence was written by a pangolin? But that shouldn't be possible, this guy is in front of us, but it's not more than an hour, how can he have time to put this stone tablet down? Besides, he wasn't sure we'd find the stele by chance.
Could it be another group of grave robbers? That's even more unlikely, they don't even know that there is such a person as a monk. And as a second-class dealer, I vaguely feel that I have seen that note, is it someone I know? But how could they be in this place?
And I have always had a very accurate eye for handwriting, but I only have a familiar sense of this handwriting, but I can't see whose handwriting it is. Could it be that someone I know has deliberately changed his writing habits, so that I can only see a trace but I can't guess the owner of the text? At this moment, I only felt that a huge web of intrigue was slowly spreading towards me.
Suddenly, I had another question: maybe this text was not written for me, but for someone else. Nangong doesn't need to be suspicious, she is a policeman, so naturally she won't kill a monk. Could it be that the pangolin wrote it to the lean man? Or was it written by another grave robber to the big white girl? Although she didn't talk much along the way, after all, I didn't know her well and couldn't fully trust her. While I was suspicious, the monk had already buried the stele, packed up the sapper shovel, and told us to continue to follow her.
I came back to my senses at this time, and slowly followed, and found that the lean man had been following the monk alone all along, and there was no change. Because the big white girl was injured, Nangong walked with her, and she couldn't see any flaws for a while. It seems that I should find an opportunity to remind Nangong and tell her to be careful of this big white girl.
We hadn't gone far when suddenly there was a faint sound on the mountain wall, and it was a very special sound, like a cat's paw scratching glass. I have already become a frightened bird now, so I ran to Nangong's side without thinking about it, and then pulled her and the big white girl to hide behind the monk. When the lean man heard this, he immediately ran over, after all, at this time, only being together is the safest.
The sound was getting closer, and some small stones began to roll down the mountain wall above me, and my eyes were fixed on the void on the mountain wall. At this time, Nangong took out the searchlight and turned it on with a snap, and instantly a scene appeared in front of me that made me stunned.
The rock wall above us was crawling with monkey-like beasts, more than thirty of them! They are somewhat smaller than the common monkeys and have plain brown coat. The head is very long, and their eyes only have white eyeballs but no black eyeballs, and under such a strong searchlight they don't know how to dodge as if they don't feel it, it seems that their eyes should be degenerate, and they can't see at all. Their nostrils were huge, with two white protrusions between their eyes and nostrils, like two white caterpillars lying there.
When the monk saw those guys, he couldn't help but sigh. I hurriedly asked, "Monk, what are these guys?" Do they eat people or not? ”
The monk looked at the rock wall above his head and replied, "These are the legendary Xiao, and it is said that they usually feed on mountain fruits, but occasionally they also eat meat. ”
I swallowed, thinking to myself, are you telling me if they're in the occasional situation or in the occasional situation? Nangong and I took two steps back, only to see the leader of the larger Xiao tilted its head and sniffed, opened its big mouth and screamed like a monkey, and suddenly all the Xiao behind it opened its mouth and screamed, and then suddenly all rushed towards us.
Seeing those guys rushing straight over, I hurriedly took out the sapper shovel from my backpack and pointed it at the current one, and the guy was directly slapped back by me, which made me breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that these guys are not difficult to deal with. Just as I was relaxing, several more rays rushed at me, and I had to repeat the same trick and shoot the guy away, but the other two who ran up at the same time saw the opportunity to grab my thigh and bite me directly on the thigh. I screamed in pain, threw away the sapper shovel, grabbed the necks of the two rays with both hands, and broke them with a single force.
At this time, five or six more Xiao ran towards me, and the hero did not suffer the immediate loss, so I picked up the sapper shovel and ran backwards, leaving the front to the monk. Just as I was back, all the attention of those Xiao was focused on the monk. I suddenly felt a little unrighteous, and this monk had saved me. However, righteousness requires strength to achieve, and with my ability, I can live longer without righteousness.
Those Xiao slowly gathered in front of the monk, surrounding the monk in a semi-circular formation. After the monster that was still the biggest one screamed, the monsters jumped towards the monk at the same time. The monk jumped back half a step the moment the Xiao jumped up, just enough for them to pounce. The sapper shovel seemed to be alive in his hand, only to hear a snapping sound, and all the Xiao who pounced were slapped back. This monk turned out to be a martial arts master! With his skills, even if a few pangolins go together, it is estimated that they will not get benefits.
The swatted Xiao all slowly got up after falling to the ground, but when they got up, they began to wander around as if they were blind, and immediately jumped away in fright when they met their companions. Looking at their appearance, I instantly understood that these guys rely on their sense of smell to determine the location of their prey, and when the monk slapped those ori with a sapper shovel just now, he hit them all in the nose.
He could still keep his hand at this time? This monk is really pedantic, do you think that if you let them now, they won't eat you for a while?
I was about to take advantage of the opportunity for these Xiao to not dare to act rashly for a while, and ran away with Nangong and Da Bai Niu first, when suddenly a crisp birdsong sounded in the air. The searchlights were on, but I couldn't see what was in the sky. When the birds heard the birdsong, they became restless, and instead of paying attention to us, they quickly climbed the rock wall and ran back.
Just as I was wondering, suddenly a black shadow shot at the location of the two rays I had just strangled, and when the shadow stopped, I saw that it was a vulture, which completely ignored us and began to feast directly on the two rays. I finally understood how the neck wounds on the two corpses I encountered came from, but doesn't the animal world say that vultures don't attack humans? It seems that those so-called popular science programs are not completely reliable.
In addition to this leaky child, other vultures also began to hunt, only to see that Xiao, who was still alive just now, has now become a lost dog, completely lost its resistance in front of those vultures, only to see Xiao fall from the high rock wall, and then be eaten by several vultures.
When the monk saw the vultures, he slowly retreated back to us, winked at us, and slowly retreated down with us. However, a few vultures that had not caught the fish had already noticed us and were spinning in the air ready to attack us.
I hadn't taken a few steps back when I felt a dark shadow rush towards me, knocking me down. I only felt my neck being choked, and in the confusion I stretched out my hands as if I had grabbed something, grabbed them and threw them out. I rolled over and coughed a few times before I gasped for air. wiped his neck, and thought to himself, fortunately, the collar of this jacket is thick enough, otherwise he would have followed in the footsteps of those two guys. Just as I was about to struggle to stand up, the shadow flew back again, and I subconsciously picked up my backpack to block it, and the vulture pounced on me again.
Just as I was struggling under the vulture, a gunshot rang out, and the power on the backpack disappeared in an instant.