Chapter 30: The Bottom of the Pool
After saying this, the stuffy oil bottle ignored my question, and ran down quickly, I saw that there seemed to be a glimmer of truth, so I naturally refused to let it go, and hurriedly chased down.
The fog under the pool was rising, and I had only walked ten steps before I entered the dense fog, and the visibility dropped sharply, and at first I could still see the fat man's back, and after a few steps, all I could see was a flashlight in front of me. In addition, the fat man was bold, running in three steps and one step, and as a result, he threw me far away at once, and it turned out that I had only gone down for a lap, and I couldn't even see the light of the fat man's flashlight.
Now I am a little panicked, I am now in a cloud of mist, I can only see less than half a meter to the right and backwards, this feeling of being able to see and not being clear is more uncomfortable than being in absolute darkness.
The vertical distance between the surface of the pool and the bottom of the pool was not long, and after walking a cigarette, the fat man shouted below: "I have the end here!" β
I heard the sound of his feet stepping on the water, and I ran down a few steps, when suddenly my feet were cold and I stepped into the water. It turned out that the water at the bottom of the pool was not completely pumped out, and there was still water about calf deep, so it was no wonder that when I looked down from above, I couldn't see clearly.
I looked at the place, and found that it was almost the center of the fog, and the visibility was even lower, and I felt the wall of the pool and walked a few steps, and I heard the fat man call on the left: "Pay attention to the bottom of the water, there are holes in the water, be sure to step into it." β
I poked my foot in, and sure enough, there were pits the size of bowls in the front and back, and it seemed that you should be extremely careful when walking here. At this time, the fat man shook his flashlight and came out of the fog and asked me to follow him.
I nodded, followed him into the water, walked a few steps, suddenly saw a few black outlines in front of me, I don't know what it is, the fat man has obviously seen it, not afraid at all, beckoning me not to rub, I walked over with him to see, it turned out to be four and a half people tall stone monkeys, squatting on the stone seat, facing the four directions, I don't know what to pray, I know this is called Dinghai stone monkey, generally sinking under the pond, used to ward off evil spirits, it is normal to appear here.
I put my mind at ease and walked a few steps inside, only to see that there was a large Qinggang stone tablet more than two meters high in the middle of the four stone monkeys.
I walked over and asked him, "How is it, do you remember anything when you see this?" β
He pointed to the cornerstone in front of the stele, I looked at it, there were a few lines engraved on it, the fat man couldn't understand and asked me what I wrote on it, I said: "These words are to tell us that the owner of the tomb built a heavenly palace, and the door to the heavenly palace is in the inside of this stone stele, if it is related to you, this door will be opened, and you can go to heaven when you walk through this door." β
The fat man looked at the stele and said, "There's a fart door." β
I said to him: "This sentence is a bit like Zen sayings, this kind of words everyone has a different understanding, his original meaning, not that there is really a door in this stone tablet, it may mean that the content on the tablet may be hidden something." β
The fat man said to me, "Damn, I can't see a word of the 'contents' on this tablet!" β
When I looked up, I saw that the front of the stele was bare, polished and unusually bright, almost like a piece of jade, but there was not a word on it. I also wondered, and said: "It is written here that it will only be opened if there is fate, and you have no fate with the Heavenly Palace, of course not." β
The fat man snorted, sighed and leaned down to touch it in the water, muttering while touching: "It doesn't matter if I have no fate with Tiangong, I just have a fate with Mingqi." β
I turned my head to look at the stuffy oil bottle, his face was very bad, I asked him a few words and he ignored me, just stared at the stele carefully, as if looking for something, I thought it was strange, just a light board, I don't know what he was looking at. At this time, the fat man clapped his hands, and I turned my head to see him scoop up a diving goggle from the water, and said, "It seems that there have been quite a few people here." β
I walked over to him and said, "When my third uncle went out, he didn't have any diving equipment on him, and these things may have been his." You see if there are oxygen cylinders. β
As soon as he finished speaking, the fat man had already found an oxygen cylinder that had been flattened from the water, he tried to use it, but it didn't seem to work, he threw it back into the water, and said: "It's all in tatters down here, it's hard for me to run down so high, it's really empty joy, I think we should hurry up, it's hard to guarantee when the water will be full again, and it's too late to fly." β
I looked at the water level and felt that the fat man had a point, so I walked back to find the stuffy bottle. When I saw that he was no longer there, I called a few times, but no one answered, and my heart suddenly chuckled.
This kid is like a ghost, he often appears and disappears suddenly, so don't disappear again.
I thought of this, and hurriedly beckoned the fat man to look around, although the fog was very thick, but this place was not big, we went around twice, and finally found him sitting in the corner of the pool wall, looking ahead, I felt that something was wrong when I looked at his eyes, and there was no calmness in his eyes, which was replaced by a look that was almost as desperate as ashes, and the whole person looked like a dead man.
I hurriedly asked what was going on, and he looked up at me and said in a barely audible voice, "Twenty years ago, I rememberβ"
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