Chapter Thirty-Six: Shocking Hexagrams! Blue Dragon Seven Nights!
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Descending about twenty or thirty meters down the soft ladder, Xiaojun and I stepped on the ground - the square tower was repaired very smoothly within a radius of one zhang, sprinkled with fine sand, but outside this range was full of stones and wood left over from the construction, according to common sense, these things had long since been changed and rotted after thousands of years, but I reached out and touched it, and found that although the wood was cold, it was dry and solid, and there was no sign of decay.
Cold! That's a good word!
While I thought of this word, I had already boldly conjectured my own idea of the purpose of this tower being built on the belly of the mountain:
This place is certainly not simple, so this tower was built, either to suppress feng shui foreign objects, or to avoid evil veins, or... Now the dragon unloads!
The thought of this thing immediately sent chills down my back!
To tell you the truth, since I know this term, it has become a lingering nightmare in my heart, many times I will unconsciously associate things with this, even if it is an inconsequential little thing, I often wonder, this is a prelude or follow-up to the current dragon unloading the armor like last time, anytime and anywhere makes me nervous, and even makes me a little nervous!
I let out a long sigh and silently prayed that this matter would not have anything to do with the current dragon's armor removal, no matter what, never again......
To the east of the tower, less than two meters from the tower, there was a pit that had been pried open, boxy and tabletop, but there was a lot of wood and stone pressed on it - I don't remember it clearly, and I don't know if Kansai blocked the pit when he said he didn't say to leave, either he said I forgot, or he didn't say it, or he didn't know it at all.
Otherwise, how could this entrance be blocked?
There are a lot of stones and wood at the entrance of the cave, and it is very tightly blocked, and it doesn't look like it will be able to be lifted in a while, so I discussed with Xiaojun that we should check the tower first, and then ask them to come down to help remove the stones.
The structure of the quadrangular tower is very simple, the bottom floor is surrounded by doors on all sides, I walked around Xiaojun in a circle, found no abnormality, and then prepared to enter - the feeling of looking at this quadrangular tower from a different angle is completely different, when looking down or looking at level, it is fine, but once it is replaced by looking up from the bottom of the tower, I immediately feel the strangeness of this tower, when staring at it, you seem to be able to feel a big mountain falling from above your head, is slowly and heavily!
This tower is repaired very simply, there is no other superfluous place, it is directly the tower body that rises from the ground, omitting the part of the tower base, the tower perimeter and the tower waist, and each floor has only the tower body without extension, that is to say, all the structures exist in the tower body, there is no outer corridor and railing, the stairs circle along the edge, layer by layer to the top of the tower.
The square door opening at the bottom of the tower is steep open to all sides, and the bronze human face pattern on this floor is integrated with this doorway, forming a hideous human face with a big mouth, and the feeling of entering the tower is similar to entering the mouth of something.
Xiaojun stood outside and watched for a long time, saying to himself while watching: "Hey, I really don't want to go in..."
I was about to say that I felt the same way, but before I could leave, she had already slipped into it, and seemed to be in a hurry to search for it quickly and come out, and I hurriedly followed.
The inner walls of the tower on the first floor are densely carved with strange characters, similar to the outside characters, a bit like Mayan characters, except that many letters have strange origins, endless, and look more like barbecued ham sausages sprinkled with sesame seeds and peanuts.
There are many slots on the floor in this layer of the tower, all of which have been pried off the upper stone slabs, revealing the large or small stone troughs below, and the contents have been taken away, there is no doubt that the Kunlun box that the fuel guzzler sold me was taken out of one of the slots - I stood by and stared at the slot, originally I wanted to guess that the dragon bone blade Kunlun box was taken out of that slot, or because I was too concentrated, suddenly I felt dizzy in my head, and there seemed to be a cloud and mist floating in front of me, and all the slots formed a behemoth, Lunged at me!
I took a step back, and then looked again, the illusion in front of me disappeared completely, and a large number of grooves reappeared in front of me, but after the scene just now, I suddenly felt that these things in front of me formed a strange pattern, slender, meandering, twisting, wriggling... Like a living snake!
After Xiaojun inspected this floor, took pictures of all the pictures, and was about to pull out his feet and head towards the upper floor, I suddenly stopped her: "Xiaojun, do you look like these things... Well, like a snake? ”
"Huh?" She paused out of politeness, glanced slightly, shrugged her shoulders and shook her head, "I'm sorry, I don't see any signs of a snake... Enron, are you thinking too much? ”
"No, I'm sure it's not that I'm thinking too much, but that these patterns really hide some kind of meaning," this serendipitous discovery made me a little excited, and rushed up the stairs quickly, urging Xiaojun to speed up his pace, while saying: "I can bet, there must be some kind of pattern on it, I think this is the secret of the whole tower, this is a clue!" You'll be able to see soon, you know, you can... Can you..."
My voice stopped abruptly because we were on the second floor, on the ground... There are no grooves at all!
"How so?" I screamed suddenly, and rushed over, tapping the second floor of the slate with a crowbar, trying to find out what they had missed, and I was convinced that the strange feeling was not dazzling, but my intuition, which made me believe in it, though it did not make sense:
This is the essence of the whole tower, the biggest secret of this tower!
The result was very disappointed to me, the ground was not only not grooved, but also very flat, and there was no sound of air when knocking, indicating that the whole thing was solid - my disappointment obviously did not escape Xiaojun's eyes, she smiled faintly, and comforted: "Or we are too tired these days, you are a little sensitive, right?" ”
"No, it can't be!" As I spoke, my hand was lifted upwards to let the light of the emergency lights spread all over the ground, trying to find out the differences, and the stone slabs on the ground were the same color, and there was no pattern that showed a similar pattern below.
Although my heart is still full of confusion, but time waits for no one, this time our exploration in the tower is just a little check, the focus is still on the treasure of the secret room below, after taking pictures of the text on the inner wall of this layer, Xiaojun quickly went up to the third floor, I only with a stomach full of puzzlement, frowning, and followed in hard thought.
The same goes for the third floor, take a picture, inspect it, and head towards it.
Soon, we came to the top, here and the situation below is exactly the same, but the height of the floor here has been reduced a lot, at most two meters, a little stretch of hand can touch the top of the road, there is a stone slab on the top with a handle, it seems that it can be removed and lead to the top of the tower, I reached out and tried it, and was about to take it off and climb to the top to see the bronze Danding, suddenly the corner of the eye fell on a string of air holes next to it.
This square tower is a real tower, which means that it is not like other towers with doors open on both sides, and can go out to the cloister outside the tower, and the whole is sealed, and the only thing that can enter the tower is the four doors on the ground floor, so there are some air holes on each floor.
When I was first below, I didn't look too closely because of the height of the floor, but now when I got closer, I suddenly noticed that these pores opened very irregularly, as if they were deliberately carved into some kind of sequence!
My heart suddenly moved, and I rushed down the stairs suddenly, Xiaojun was startled by me, and hurriedly called: "What's wrong?" "Hurry down, I've found something!" I yelled and rushed back to the sixth floor and checked the stomata on this floor again - sure enough, I guessed correctly, these stomata held the secret I was looking for!
I quickly rushed back to the outside of the tower, scanned left and right, and soon found a hidden fire platform carved into the stone wall opposite the cliff we had descended, about three meters above the ground, and the same fire platform was found on the other walls.
Facing down the fire platform, there are holes in the mountain wall for stepping on, which seem to have been left by the people who built the tower back then.
The fire platform is an ancient name, which roughly means to dig a pit in the mountain wall, fill it with sesame oil, place the wick, and then it can be lit like an oil lamp, which is used longer than torches and candlesticks, and consumes less oxygen, which is the best choice for construction work in this kind of mountainside.
I thought about it, took her emergency lamp from Xiaojun's hand, and put it on the fire stands on both sides with mine, and cut two pieces of rope casually, put them on the other two fire platforms, lit them, and almost recovered a little bit, and followed me back to the tower.
The first floor also had air holes, and the light from all sides of the tower penetrated through the air holes, and sprinkled on those grooves, forming a sinuous and writhing pattern, as I said earlier, it was a long thing!
The same is true for the second floor, which is also a long thing, but it looks different from the first floor;
However, it is different from the third floor, it looks like a four-legged beast, it feels agile and fast, small but fierce and invincible;
The fourth floor is also a beast, with towering ears and bright eyes, standing tall and unspeakably alert;
The fifth floor is still a beast, with a huge tail dragging behind it, seemingly ghostly but full of cleverness, with unpredictable weirdness;
The seven or two layers are not beasts, but fierce beasts, fierce and fierce, overflowing with murderous atmosphere, like a killing god coming, and like a heaven-shaking divine beast, making people feel indescribably depressed and uncomfortable!
As soon as these seven things came out, a thought flashed in Xiaojun's hearts, and suddenly they opened their mouths in unison, and both exclaimed in surprise: "Qinglong Qisu, this is Qinglong Qisu!" ”
That's right, this is the Qinglong Seven Nights, that is, the Qinglong, one of the legendary Four Holy Beasts, and each layer of these seven-story towers represents one of the Seven Nights!
The first layer: horned wood jiao;
The second layer: Kang Jinlong;
The third layer: Raccoon dog;
Fourth floor: Fang Ri Rabbit;
Fifth layer: Heart Moon Fox;
Sixth layer: Tailed Fire Tiger;
Seventh Floor: Mizumi Leopard!
In this way, I have finally solved the secret of this square bone tower!
Qinglong Qisu, Zhen Hexagram! (To be continued.) )