I was stunned. But then I recognized that this was the "cinnabar water" again.

When I shone it with a burning stick, I saw blood-red water flowing out of the cracks in the ceiling, covering the entire wall like wallpaper. There was a canal made of stone bricks on the ground of this wall, and the water carrying cinnabar flowed down it.

A lot of cinnabar accumulated in the stone cracks on the wall, turning into blood-colored streaks that intersected horizontally and vertically. If you don't look carefully, you thought it was a big "well" written on the wall.

Natural cinnabar has almost no taste. I can't figure out what the cinnabar water here is for, the only guess is that it is used as a "preservative".

In fact, at that time, Brother Glasses was only right: cinnabar can indeed be used in medicine, but at the same time, it also has an antiseptic effect.

Now I finally understand why these books hidden in the ground can not rot for a hundred years, because this cinnabar water evaporates and spreads in the air for many years, so as to maintain the original appearance of the books without mildew. But at the same time, I also thought of another problem - cinnabar, slightly poisonous. If the air here contains evaporated cinnabar, then staying here for a long time is likely to lead to chronic poisoning, and even if it does not die, it will cause great damage to the liver and kidneys of the person.

I reminded Xiao Rong that this place is very weird, and we need to leave quickly. Xiao Rong nodded. So he lingered no longer, turned around and walked up the stone staircase beside him.

The stone staircase is narrow and has a locked wooden door at the top. Xiao Rong's right hand was forced, and the wooden door was easily opened. A ray of sunlight came straight through, and I squinted my eyes for a long time before I could recover my strength.

I can finally see the light, and my heart is a lot more relaxed.

I saw that on the side of the wooden door of the basement, there was a brick wall extending out. The wall just covers the door, which is particularly cleverly designed. The two walked around the brick wall and walked out together, and there was an antique-style study in front of them.

The study is divided into two rooms, inside and outside. There are four screens of mountains and rivers hanging on the four walls of the outer room, there are four cases, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, two lamps hanging back chairs, and a screen; In the inner room, there are bookshelves, top cabinets, large and small museum shelves, and many treasures. There are two yarn lamps overhead, and four wicker windows on the diagonal wall are half-open. Everything is laid out in a very orderly manner.

I don't know why, but looking at this scene, I couldn't help but be confused - there was always a strange feeling that it all seemed familiar......

And Xiao Rong seemed to be interested in the things on the shelf, and he walked over to take a look, and after a while he called out loudly for me to come over. I thought he had found some treasure, but who knew if I looked over and saw Xiao Rong pointing to the dust on the shelf and frowning at me.

"Something is wrong......," Xiao Rong said, "this thing has been touched, and there are finger marks on the dust!" ”

When I looked closely, I saw that there was originally a thin layer of ash on the shelf, but now, from a different angle, there were several round human fingerprints on the thin ash.

"Has anyone been here?" I exclaimed.

"Well, and it looks like it's been a while, and there's new dust on this fingerprint." Xiao Rong said, looking at these fingerprints from a different angle.

"It must be them!" As I spoke, I couldn't help but clench my fists. It's been so long inside this door, and this is the first time I've found such conclusive evidence that they've actually been here. When I think about this, I get excited.

"Can you see what they're doing?" I asked.

"How is this possible? Just a few finger prints, you can't see anything at all. Xiao Rong shook his head. I'm right, I'm a little confused.

In the basement just now, they didn't look carefully for any clues, they had been to this study, and they probably had entered that basement as well. But when I thought about it, I felt that it was wrong, the wooden door in the basement was locked just now, and the lock cylinder was intact, if they had been in and out, it should not be in this state......

Gradually, I found myself getting more and more anxious, and if I continued like this, I might drive myself crazy before I could find them. I took a few deep breaths and told myself not to.

"Let's go out first," I said to Xiao Rong, "and if they have come, maybe they will find any clues in the courtyard outside." ”

Xiao Rong nodded at me. Walking out of the door, I looked back at the door plaque of the study, and saw three gilded characters written on the pitch-black plaque - "One Stone Bun".

I laughed at it.

This door plaque is praised for the literary brilliance of the owner of the study. The so-called Tianxia Wencai, the Three Kingdoms Wei Caozhi monopolized eight buckets, and the rest of the literati divided the remaining two buckets. And in front of him, this Jing Lianhong is ashamed to say that he has a talent of "one stone", which really makes the world's cultural people ashamed. But there is no way, this is his Jing Lianhong's exclusive territory, even if he blows the cowhide here, no one can stop him.

Outside the study was a garden with lychees planted on one side, and rust-red fruits hung from the branches. On the other side, there is a very strange rockery, which is overgrown with weeds and branches, and the bottom of the hill is full of high and low shrubs.

There is a cave door on the side of the rockery, and you can see the stone path outside the door. I pointed in the direction of the cave door and motioned for Xiao Rong to walk this way. But the two of them hadn't taken two steps yet, and I suddenly felt that something was wrong - strange, I don't know if I was dazzled or what, why did I always feel that the rockery seemed to be different from the position just now, and even the appearance of the weeds on the mountain had changed a little...... Is it my delusion?

I was stunned for a moment, and stopped to stare at the rockery carefully. Xiao Rong, who was standing on the side, also seemed to immediately sense that something was wrong, and hurriedly grabbed my shoulder and took two steps back. Before we could make a judgment, we saw that the weeds and branches on the mountain began to tremble slightly, and the weeds and shrubs trembled together, like some kind of shivering animal.

I went crazy just looking at it! I grass! Is this mountain alive?

At this time, I suddenly heard that strange voice coming out again - "Come on, come on......"

As soon as I heard it, I immediately felt that something was wrong, pulled out the black bear and copied it in my hand, pressed my body and wanted to run away, and suddenly, I saw a black striped thing flash in front of my eyes, and before I could see it clearly, I hit it the stomach. I was almost about to throw up, but when I looked down in pain, it was a plant root as thick as an arm. It's exactly the same thing that strangled my neck in a bush nest!

Almost instantly, the thing flew me out of thin air. I fell to the ground, and before I could react, the vine quickly wrapped around my waist like a snake and dragged me back.

I struggled, clutching at the rocks that had been lifted from the ground, and I would not let go. But the vine was so strong that my back was almost torn off by it.

I said in my heart that you will have to do it again? So I grabbed the black bear, turned around and poked hard at the vine, and the root vine was cut in half by me, and the black and green liquid immediately flowed out, and it twisted and shrank back. I stood up and saw that Xiao Rong had also dissolved the roots that were wrapped around me and was running towards me.

As the earth trembled slightly, I really saw that it was not a rockery at all, but an extremely ugly crooked-necked tree.

The tree was covered with nodules, large and small, piled up on top of each other, like rocks growing on the tree. The largest of them is a tree nodule, about the size of an adult.

I saw that although the coating of the tree tumor looked as rough as a stone, when it trembled, it was found that it was like a pink skin, and it was very tough. And with the trembling, the soft coating will also make a strange sound, as if someone is saying, "Come on, come on......

Seeing this situation, I suddenly remembered the tree spirits that Dadong said about the periphery of the Tangquan Palace in the ancient city of Xuanyuan...... Is it all like this? Thinking that I was deceived by such a monster, the fire in my heart suddenly stopped fighting.

And we poked it twice, and the crooked neck tree seemed to be annoyed. In an instant, I saw dozens of vines coming out of the ground, swinging their bodies in the air with teeth and claws towards the writhing giant snakes.

As soon as I saw this, I hurriedly said to Xiao Rong that we have to run, I'm afraid this thing is not easy to mess with, but the cave door can't be walked, what should I do? Xiao Rong didn't hesitate much, and only said "over the wall". The two of us tacitly agreed that we would run in the opposite direction when we raised our feet. I had run a few steps, but before I could reach the base of the wall, the vine suddenly threw something and smashed it on the back of my head.

When I touched my head and looked back, I saw that what had fallen on the ground was a bloody human hand bone.

The bones were white, and there was some flesh and tendons attached to them. I know very well in my heart that this is by no means the bones of Dadong's group......