Chapter 16: The Bronze Gate (7)

(I suddenly found out that I made a mistake last time, and it was supposed to be updated tomorrow.) But since I've said it, let's write a chapter. Continued tomorrow. ）

"This," I looked up at the frog in front of me, "isn't this the damn tomb owner hated mosquitoes when he was alive and used to deter mosquitoes after he died?" If that's the case, it's better to draw a mosquito coil on it, and it should be better if you think about it like this. ”

"You know the." The fat man walked up to me and raised his hand to shine on the big frog. "This is the totem of the Zhuang people, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand."

"Totem." I repeated. "It's a frog? I'm also a Zhuang, how come I don't know? ”

The fat man turned off the flashlight, shook his head disdainfully, and then patted me on the shoulder again. "Most of the current ethnic minorities are sinicized, and it's normal to not know. Hey, but I warn you, this isn't a frog. The totem of the Zhuang people is the frog, and there are many kinds of frogs. ”

I nodded. The fat man sat down again, took out the contents of his bag, and began to tidy up.

I saw the fat man take out some of the larger objects and throw them aside, and hurriedly went over to pick them up and put them in my bag.

"What are you doing? You can't use these things once you get in. After the fat man finished speaking, he found me looking at him, and explained, "These things are used on the way here, and I have collected all the things that I really need to use in the upside-down bucket." With that, he patted the bag next to him, which was nearly half deflated.

I ignored him and kept picking it up. The fat man came over and snatched something from my hand that I didn't know what it was called, and said impatiently, "Don't pick it up, this is the way I left behind." When we come out, these things will still be usable. Even if you don't need it, it's good to leave it to future generations. ”

Seeing that I was still a little hesitant, the fat man took the things in my hand and put them on the ground. "If you really want these things, I'll buy you a set when I get out. Well, let's not make trouble. ”

The fat man put away the things he didn't want just now and piled them up in a pile, and then made a mark.

"There's such a lot of stuff here, you can see it as long as you have eyes, and make a fart mark."

"This is the rule of our upside down." The fat man clapped his hands and said, "Leave a mark and tell the people who come after you that these things can still be used." After saying that, the fat man put on his backpack and walked towards the gate.

When I saw that the fat man was starting to move, I hurriedly picked up my bag and followed.

The fat man walked to the spot where I was looking at the frog and stopped, then looked up at the roof and asked me, "Hey, can you climb a tree?" ”

"Climbing trees?" I didn't react at once.

"We'll have to climb up to the roof and get in from above."

"Isn't there a door?" I asked.

The fat man choked on me, pointed to the door in front of him with a flashlight, and just wanted to explain, but after thinking about it, he sighed. said: "You should always know about the security door, right?" If you do get in through this door, I'm sure you'll die four or five times with the mechanism in front of you. ”

The fat man didn't care if I listened to it or not, he said something to follow me and don't mess around. Then he walked up to the doorpost with his hands around and began to climb up.

I stood below and watched the fat man climb up, and I felt like I was watching a sloth in a zoo. But fortunately, when I was a child, I was also quite naughty, and I could get it done in minutes by digging out a bird's nest or something. For the pillar in front of you, it is not very difficult to climb up.

I put the flashlight in my mouth, and after a few climbs, I went up to the roof.

Standing on the roof of the house and sweeping around with a flashlight, I was surprised to find that behind the gate was a bottomless cliff. There is also a building more than 100 meters on the other side of the cliff. However, because of the distance, I couldn't see clearly.

"Hey." The fat man called me.

I came back to my senses and found the fat man pointing a flashlight at a small clearing not far away. My flashlight swept over, and there was a suspension bridge connected by a wire on the edge of the clearing. The other end of the drawbridge extends outwards into the darkness ahead. Don't even think about it, the other end of the pit must be connected to the opposite mountain.

The fat man pouted at me Nunu, meaning to pass over this drawbridge.

"How many years ago was this suspension bridge built, are you sure you can still walk now?"

The fat man hunched over the roof and moved step by step towards the position of the suspension bridge, and said as he moved, "How do you know if you don't try it?" Let's slow down and withdraw if something is wrong. ”

U-turn and withdraw? I glanced again at the drawbridge that stretched out into the darkness. "If we find something wrong halfway through, let's fly over?"

"It's quite unlucky to run into the stone platform, so you won't say something auspicious?" The fat man looked back at me.

"Is a smooth journey auspicious?"

"I'm too lazy to talk to you." The fat man turned around and walked on. But after taking a few steps, the fat man turned around and said, "Be careful, this glazed tile is very slippery." I don't bother to care about you if you fall. ”

I nodded, and the cat walked after the fat man.

He walked cautiously along the roof for almost half an hour, during which the fat man also stepped on a few glazed tiles because of his weight, which made him feel distressed. Later, I was as careful as a landmine, so I didn't step on it. In the words of the fat man, that is, there are rules for inverted buckets. It's good to take the things and leave, and don't break the things in other people's houses.

In fact, the small open space that the fat man had just shown me was connected to the gate behind me. In other words, the fat man and I could go down to the ground and walk over there, without having to touch the eaves step by step. It's just that the fat man insisted that there would be an anti-theft mechanism below, so it would be safer to walk above.

"Hey, did you hear anything?" I asked the fat man.

"What sound?" The fat man didn't look back at me, he was too tired to look back. "All I hear is the wind in the valley."

I listened carefully again, and there was some humming.

"I say, aren't you scared of the corpse? Don't be so startled that it makes me nervous. ”

I shook my head, and said to myself that the sound was similar to the wind in the valley ahead, and I hope I was nervous.

After climbing for a while, the fat man motioned for me to go down.

I could ignore the height from the ground when I was walking on the eaves before. When the fat man said he could go down, I was stunned. Two stories high, this is not like the one who came up just now and has pillars to climb. How to go down?

The fat man looked at me fumbling around and asked me what I was doing. I said find a place to tie the rope and slide down.

The fat man waved his hand and said no, then pulled out a bulging thing from his bag and opened it.

I watched the fat man busy with his work, and I just wanted to ask him, but I saw the fat man tearing it down and saying, "This trick is what the fat man has tried myself." After speaking, he smiled proudly at me, "Fat man, I am a leaf in the thousands of flowers, and I am known as a pear tree pressed begonia."

I waved my hand and asked him to get to the point.

The fat man snorted, "This is an artifact." When I came to check on the room, I jumped from the second floor wrapped in it, and I was never caught. As he spoke, the fat man unfolded the things in his hand and wrapped them around his body.

I thought to myself, this fucking thing isn't a parachute, right? No wonder the fat man said that when he walked the suspension bridge, he could retreat when he found that something was wrong, and he had no fear.