Chapter Seventy-Eight: Treasure Hunting
Seeing that the old cat and rhubarb actually saw through the mechanism in the bookshelf, Xiao Feng and I put aside the matter of the letter for the time being, and hurriedly walked over.
The contents of the wooden box must be some kind of treasure, the old cat carefully looked at it, and after making sure that there was no mechanism in the wooden box, he carefully opened the wooden box.
After opening it, I was a little disappointed. In addition to the intricate decoration and exquisite carving, this wooden box is exquisitely carved. It was empty.
Rhubarb hung his head dejectedly: "End, it looks like the people who came in before have taken this treasure away." ”
I hurriedly asked Xiao Feng, "Xiao Feng, have you ever seen this wooden box?" ”
Xiao Feng frowned and looked at it, and actually nodded and said, "I seem to have really seen ......"
"Oh?" The old cat came to his senses, and while looking at the wooden box, he asked, "When you saw this wooden box, was there anything unusual about this wooden box?" ”
Xiao Feng said: "It's definitely nothing unusual, it's just an ordinary wooden box after all." I remember that my grandfather often held this wooden box and looked at it, as if there was some secret in this wooden box. ”
Rhubarb still shook his head: "What can be the secret, the contents have been taken away, and there is an empty box left." ”
The old cat smiled lightly: "Rhubarb, have you ever heard of buying pearls?" ”
"What? Returning the beads? I've only heard of Huanzhu Gege. Rhubarb touched his head and smiled.
"Alas...... You guy. I have time to read more books, and I think that people who have no eyesight in the past go to buy things, and when they see a box containing pearls, they only think that the box is good-looking, but they don't think the pearls are good, so they buy the box with poor value and return the pearls with high value...... "The old cat said slowly.
"Why did you suddenly remember to teach me idioms?" Rhubarb asked with a frown.
The old cat smiled and said: "However, the situation in front of us is just the opposite of this idiom, normal people are often disappointed when they see the empty box, feeling that the box is empty, and the good things have been taken away, but they ignore a point." That is, in fact, the good thing is the box itself. ”
"Damn, old cat, your theory is a bit cool." Rhubarb said with a glare.
The old cat smiled and showed us the box, and then said: "All the mysteries of this wooden box are in the patterns on it, these patterns seem to be just decorations, but in fact they are very complicated, these patterns are the veins of the human body." ”
"That's true, when I was a child, I often saw my grandfather combing his acupuncture points against this wooden box!" Xiao Feng nodded and said.
I was dumbfounded by what Xiao Feng and the old cat said, but I didn't expect the old cat to really see through the mystery from this wooden box. Over the years, there have been many people who have entered this study, and there are even more smart people, and this wooden box may not be the first one we discovered. However, the old cat may be the first person who can find the mystery of the wooden box.
Rhubarb heard that this wooden box actually had a mystery to carving. He leaned over his eyes to look at it carefully, and after reading it, he asked, "I say, what is this carving?" Martial arts cheats? "Brother Shuai Craftsman.
Rhubarb originally said it unintentionally, but he didn't expect the old cat to nod solemnly and said: "This time you are right, this is indeed a martial arts cheat, and it is also a very important cheat." ”
Speaking of this, the old cat looked at us and continued slowly: "This is the essence of the way of heaven, the dragon tooth monks have studied the way of heaven for so long. It's just a rarity among them, Xiao Feng's grandfather is worthy of being a master of the Heavenly Dao Human Sect, I just took a look at it here, and I know that the mystery is far stronger than the ones we cultivated before. ”
"Really?" I looked at the old cat in amazement: "After studying this, are you going to become a generation master?" ”
The old cat didn't admit it in a hurry, but looked at Xiao Feng and asked solemnly: "Xiao Feng, after all, this is your grandfather's thing, I can't get your grandfather's consent to move this thing, I don't know if you agree?" ”
Xiao Feng nodded hurriedly: "Of course I agree." ”
The old cat smiled and nodded: "Thank you very much." ”
After dealing with the wooden box, we turned our attention to the letter, and the old cat read it quietly, and the expression on his face was very shocked.
"Old cat, what the hell is this sign ......?"
"I don't know, it's the first time I've seen it, but it looks familiar," the old cat muttered......, "I always felt like it represented something......"
"What's that?"
"Netherworld, Netherworld, Netherworld." The old cat whispered, "That's pretty much it, because that's what comes to mind when I see this sign......"
The term "old cat" makes us all a little bit confused. But this is just the old cat's intuition, and he himself can't tell.
We didn't seem to be able to find anything useful other than the letter, but as we continued to rummage, the little girl's voice suddenly resurfaced.
"We're all little frogs...... It's all little frogs......"
A cold voice sounded from outside, and several of us were stunned, not that we were afraid, but we felt very weird.
The old cat whispered, "That's what you heard in the house before?" ”
I nodded, "Exactly the same." ”
The old cat frowned: "This is evil, this kind of thing has never happened, me and Rhubarb sounded outside, and the voice was clearly coming from inside this room." ”
However, just when we were all in high spirits, Rhubarb looked out the door and shouted, "Ah! ”
We were shocked by what we saw!
Through the cracks in the bookshelves, we saw a face, a pale, hideous-looking, woman's face.
I don't know when the iron door has been opened, and the face peeks through the crack in the door, staring at us silently, motionless, and unblinking.
The woman looked to be in her fifties, her hair was long, fluffy, yellow, and fried. And her eyes are extremely small, her face is huge, and there are a lot of pockmarks on her face.
What a weird woman.
I was shocked and thought about her identity.
She must be the woman in the duty room, the aunt who cares for the door.
"Who are you!?" Rhubarb's reaction wasn't that fast, and before I could tell him, the guy was already asking out loud.
However, the aunt was not afraid, and in the face of Rhubarb's questioning, the aunt responded sharply: "Who are you?" Who are you?! ”
The old cat looked embarrassed and whispered, "We happened to be passing by......"
"Fart!" The aunt flashed in, only to see her wearing a green autumn coat and pants, wrapped in a down jacket, and holding a flashlight: "Say, are you four thieves!" ”
In the face of my aunt's questioning, I was a little scared, after all, we did come here just to find something, and this kind of illegal infiltration is to be detained...... I don't want to make such a big deal out of it.
However, before I could think of a countermeasure, the old cat suddenly sneered, took out a cigarette and slowly lit it, as if everything had a countermeasure.
"You...... What are you doing? The aunt was also surprised to see the old cat's fearless appearance.
The old cat smiled and said, "You just said the four of us?" ”
The aunt was stunned, then broke out in a cold sweat, took a step back, and said, "What...... How? ”
However, when the old cat said this, I also suddenly realized.
The four of us?
Xiao Feng and I are now ghosts in a state of nothingness, this aunt is obviously a living person, mortal in the flesh, how can she see me and Xiao Feng? There's no way she's going to get up all night and bring her own tears, right? You're saying that she can't be yin and yang, right?
The old cat grabbed her handle, so he was no longer afraid, and said while slowly smoking a cigarette: "Since we are all fellow believers, our rules should be changed, and you should not pretend to be tweezers with us." ”
The old cat smiled and pointed at Xiao Feng and me: "You must be able to see the ability of these two, if you can't see it, I can also tell you that all the powerful ghosts in the underworld of Shanghai have been found out, and those who can beat the two of them may not exceed the number of a slap, not that I brag, we are all gentlemen, it is best to only move our mouths and not our hands." ”
When the aunt heard the old cat say this, she had to restrain her initial appearance and put on a gloomy face, she was really not a simple character: "Hehe, it seems that the old lady met the Jiang Raptors today?" ”