The old pedant happened a few days ago, I still remember it vividly, and the old oil man buried him with his own hands, except for the life continuation diagram of the seven gates, I really don't know what else can bring people back to life. The old pedant's face was clearly visible on the back window, dull, wearing glasses, without much expression, looking straight at me.

My heart tightened, but I couldn't speak out loud and wake up the others. I didn't know what the old pedant meant, so I just stood outside straight, looking at it motionless. I rolled over and got out of bed, and took two steps to the back window, where the old pedant must have come alone, and there was no other figure around. I was puzzled and felt incredible, but since he came, he couldn't hide now, no matter what the other party's intentions were, he always had to face it. I clenched my fists, adjusted my body to a touch-and-shoot state, and pushed the back window open.

"Sure enough, it's so bold and courageous." The old pedant stood outside, as if he had not shown much hostility, and when he saw me open the window, a smile appeared on his dull face.

The moment he spoke, I already realized that he was still alive, definitely a living person, not only his speech and movements were normal, but even the gaze behind his glasses was vivid.

"What do you want to do?"

"Come out and talk about it." The old scholar put away the smile on his face, turned around and left, I thought nervously, if he really had any malicious intentions, then he might have already done it when he quietly lurked here, and there was no need to wait until now. I turned around and shoved the old man awake and asked him to follow me, and the two of them climbed through the window one after the other.

The old pedant may have been afraid that I would not be at ease, so he stopped after walking for a while. I could see that the bruise on his forehead, which had been badly injured by me before, had cleared and he was probably drugged. This person is suddenly full of mystery and incomprehensible.

"Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who I am, the key is that I know who you are." The old pedant said: "As soon as I see the bronze mirror you are carrying, I will know where you come from. ”

"So what?" I asked rhetorically, the Zhenhe mirror of the seven gates, as well as the snake seal knife of the Hu family in the yellow sand field, were all famous treasures to ward off evil spirits in the past, although with the passage of time, their efficacy is constantly decreasing, but the reputation is outside, many people know that the bronze mirror is the thing of the seven gates, which is not surprisingly secret.

"Knowing who you are, knowing what you're going to do." The old scholar glanced at the river not far away, the sand mining boat was still working, and the river was brightly lit, he shook his head slightly, and said, "You don't have to do this." ”

"What do you mean?" I was shocked, could it be that my conversation with the old oilman that day was really heard by the old pedant? The meaning of his words clearly knew that we were going to the river to do something.

"Some things are fixed, and no one can change them." The old scholar pointed to the direction of the river and said: "This section of the river, in fact, there is nothing to do, you have to listen to the instigation of others, to intervene, just one more move." ”

"Can you explain that clearly?" I have completely lost my judgment on the old pedant in front of me, who could he be? He obviously knew some things about the Great River, and even knew about the Seven Gates of the River, as well as the Holy Domain, Jiuli.

"I'm just advising you not to cause trouble, the current situation, you know, I also know very well, this section of the river has been balanced, and it will be superfluous for you to do anything." As he spoke, the old pedant observed my expression, and seeing that I looked puzzled and unwilling, he thought for a moment and said, "Do you really want to see what is behind that stone gate?" ”

"Do you recognize the bronze mirror? Know Shimen? Then you should know that I have to see this. ”

"It's good to see, it's okay." The old pedant nodded and said, "Go and have a look, don't mess with anything in it, this section of the river is definitely not easy to get into the water now, and at this time in two days, someone will come to help you by the river, remember, just look, don't move." ”

After the old pedant finished speaking, he didn't care if I still had anything to say, turned around and walked slowly, I followed two steps closely, and blurted out: "Behind the stone gate, what is it?" ”

"That thing, we gave it to him at the time, I didn't expect him to use it like this, it's the bane" The old pedant didn't look back, he didn't know whether to talk to me again, or mumble to himself, in short, the words were vague, I couldn't understand, and then I wanted to ask, he had gone far, and his figure disappeared into the night.

This matter disturbed my mind a little, this old pedant seemed to know a lot of things, he must not be an ordinary person, nor would he be an unknown person, but in the more than a year that I have been running around the river beach, I have not even heard of this person.

I don't know who he is, but when he said that, I became even more curious about the stone gate under the river. After thinking about it, I didn't tell Lao Youzi about it, and still walked around the river like the previous two days. On the third day, when we went to the edge of the river, the old oilman observed the situation there, and he was a little excited, and he said that the people in the sand factory might have to call it a day.

Sure enough, in the afternoon of the same day, the sand factory, which had been working for several days, stopped working, several boats left one after another, and the noisy river finally returned to tranquility. This is an opportunity, and the old oilman said that it is better to do it immediately, so as not to have any accidents. The three of them went back to prepare, ate their fill, squinted their eyes and recuperated, and when it was dark, they quietly ran to the bank of the river.

"Brother, have you ever been in the water?" The old oil man rubbed his hands, looked at the river, and said, "If it doesn't work, I'll go down with the mirror myself." ”

"Wait." I also looked at the river, where the people of the sand factory had been working for several days, and the river seemed to be stirred up more turbid, and in that case there was no more practical equipment and tools, so I was very cautious in entering the water. I stopped the old oilman and refused to do it now, but I was actually waiting, and the old pedant said that someone would come and help.

When we arrived here, it was nine o'clock or ten o'clock in the night, and the wait was two or three hours, and the old oilman didn't know what I was waiting for, and he didn't dare to ask more. It was just after twelve o'clock when the three of us heard the sound of a bell from a short distance in front of the riverbank. I was very sensitive to this kind of sound, because I had suffered from the gatekeeper fox at that time, but the bell sound at this moment was normal, and after hearing the sound, a figure gradually appeared from that side.

It was a very old man, hunched over, and a donkey as old as him walked along the riverbank. The donkey's skinny fur is almost gone, and a string of bells hangs around its neck, which jingles when it walks. I'm not sure if this old man is the one the old pedant said he had come to help, but after waiting and waiting, the other party came straight to us.

"This old man" The old man looked at the old man, and then at me, with a suspicious expression.

I wanted to say something to the old man, but he seemed to be too old to hear any sound, and the donkey on the other side of the bridge, who was shaking three times, ignored us, walked past us, and kept close to the place where the river was launched, and looked ahead with his eyes open, coughed and coughed, and said in a hoarse voice: "Black egg, go." ”

The scrawny donkey shook when he walked, but when he reached the river, he saw the rushing water, and suddenly he seemed to come to his senses, and he limped away, and jumped off the river with a pop.

"You." The old man squatted by the river, saw the donkey getting into the water, turned his head to look at me, and said, "Go too, and grab the tail of the black egg." ”

At this point, there was no doubt that the old man might be the one who came to help, as the old pedant had said. But the old man was silent, and said a few words, and refused to speak any more, and I could not ask what was the matter, so I turned and walked towards the place where the river bank was launched. The skinny, dry-tenacious donkey was thrashing happily in the water. I don't know if I was wrong, or if it was true, I always felt that within a radius of about two or three meters around this donkey, the mud and sand in the water seemed to have been forced away, and the water became clearer.

I felt more confident, so I brought the earthen ventilation equipment with the old oilman, and grabbed the donkey's tail after jumping into the water. The donkey was like a big fish in the water, turning over and plunging down, dragging us into the water, it dived all the way, and the surrounding mud and sand were forced to tumble and roll, and the situation that was not conducive to entering the water was immediately reversed. I dived to the bottom of the river in one go.

At the same time as diving into the water, the old oil man took a large and very special flashlight, the light is very strong, through the outer eyelids covered by the membrane, I saw a cloud of mud and sand after the rolling water, showing a stone door, and the old oil son told no difference, the stone door on the pattern is complicated, in the middle, there is a very clear indentation, the indentation of the pattern and the Zhenhe mirror is exactly the same.

The donkey dragged us all the way to the stone gate, I let go of its tail, and the time to stay underwater was limited, I immediately took out the Zhenhe mirror around my neck and pressed it to the middle of the stone gate's mark with my backhand. The bronze mirror is absolutely matched with this indentation, the mirror seems to be flat inlaid inside, and when the mirror is pressed in, the indescribably thick stone door opens and closes from it, revealing a gap that can be passed through.

The plan was discussed before going into the water, and when there was a gap in the stone gate, the old oil man immediately climbed the side of the door and squeezed in hard, and I followed into the stone gate. Not even a drop of water had entered this mysterious stone door, and as soon as my head was plunged into it, I felt a faint thump coming from a corner of the room.

The sound was similar to what the old oil man said, as if a big drum was beating, although the sound was not loud, but it made the space behind the stone door tremble slightly.