Chapter 3: 199947

As evening approached, the four of us came to a fork in the road, with snow on the right and a low-lying valley on the left.

Zhang Yu stopped, pointed to the left and said, "Your uncle and I are separated here."

I glanced at the monkeys, the big two, and saw that there was nothing unusual on their faces, and seeing that it was getting late, I proposed to go to the valley and rest for the night, so as to look for any clues.

We slowly descended the rugged mountain road, and saw some footprints on the dirt ground in front of us, and strangely enough, there was more than one person at all, because the footprints of the person who had walked in front were covered by the footprints of the person who followed behind, and they looked chaotic.

It is milder than the rest of the place because of the sulphur pool, but it is too remote and far away from people's dwellings for few people to visit. We sat on each side, picked up some branches next to us, and set up a fire, but the temperature difference between day and night was still quite large.

Gradually at night, the monkey and the big man fell asleep first, and I bowed down, looking at the water in the pool in a daze, thinking about the blood words on the wall: Qin Wen, Wei Fei, you must not die! What a hatred this has to be.

A footstep next to me woke me up, I thought it was the black shadow that had been following us, and hurriedly took out the pistol, but when I turned around, I saw Zhang Yu crawling under a rock.

I looked at it and noticed that in the moonlight, there was a silver light shining through the cracks in the rocks. Could it be the clue left by the uncle? Thinking so, I hurried over, and when I got closer, I saw a dagger in the crack of the stone. Yes, this dagger is indeed the one that my uncle has always carried with him. "Is my uncle doing this just so we can find out he's been here? No, Zhang Yu knows that his uncle must have other purposes when he comes here."

I hurriedly turned back, took a flashlight to shine on the stone crack, the emperor lived up to his wishes, I suddenly found a depreciated waste paper ball, signaled Zhang Yu to take it for me, and I took out the paper ball.

After a lot of effort, I finally took out the paper ball, Zhang Yu hurriedly took it over, unfolded it, and his whole face changed, he was stunned in place, and his two brows were furrowed. As soon as I saw Zhang Yu's expression, I knew that something bad was wrong, and when I took the paper ball and looked at it, I saw that there were only four words written on the huge paper: the stone is fake. The handwriting was particularly rough and messy, presumably under the circumstances of the time, and time was of the essence.

I lay on the ground beside me, my head spinning rapidly, "What does this old man mean by fake?" Is it only a superficial indication of the meaning". Zhang Yu and I each glanced at each other, both facing to the side, carefully observing the surrounding rocks. An hour later, I didn't notice anything strange about it.

Zhang Yu and I sat on one side, our minds were very active at the moment, and we couldn't sleep at all. When it was late at night, sleepiness hit, I was just about to go to bed, Zhang Yu waved his hand at me, I ran over, only to see Zhang Yu next to a boulder, pointing to the image on the ground, and said: "Presumably the boulder that your uncle pointed to is fake, but on this boulder statue."

The moonlight shone on the boulder, but the boulder in front of us was like a square, and Zhang Yu and I walked to the mud ground illuminated by the square, and found that the topsoil on the ground seemed to have been touched not long ago. I hurriedly swept the soil on the ground with my hands, and gradually, a square stone slab appeared, because the weight was too large, I couldn't lift it at all, and motioned for Zhang Yu to come over to help.

Together, the two of us lifted the slab, revealing a deep hole that led straight down, with stone steps along the way, apparently artificially made.

Zhang Yu walked in front, and I followed behind with a flashlight, not even daring to breathe.

The design of the cave is simple, and there is a storage room along the way. Seeing that we were about to reach the end of the cave, Zhang Yu and I both smelled a pungent smell of blood, Zhang Yu motioned for me to slow down, and took out the bamboo pipe I had used earlier, and I nodded lightly. When we came to the end, there was no human figure, there was a pool of undried blood on the ground, and by the light of a flashlight, there were candles on the four walls of the cave. Seeing this, Zhang Yu hurriedly took out the fire fold and lit it, and the cave suddenly lit up.

Is that?

I was shocked, and I just looked at the bloodstains, but I didn't notice that there was a set of numbers next to 199947. This must have been written by my uncle, because of the number 7, my uncle has a habit that he can't change, and he will always leave a tick at the end. I froze in place, wondering why my uncle left this string of numbers, and if the date of this number was April 7, 1999, when I was still in high school, what did it mean? Or what kind of cipher code is this string of numbers, which needs to be arranged and combined to derive other meanings.

Dozens of possibilities flashed through my mind, and I took out my phone and shot it at it. Seeing Zhang Yu on the side, with his back to him, his eyes staring at the wall in front of him, he just looked at this, and he didn't look around carefully. It's a studio, and it's clear that the craftsman is skilled in carpentry and lockpicking, as evidenced by the abundance of tools here.

When I looked closer, I saw a mural painted on the wall, which turned out to be a double painting, and on the surface was an ordinary disc with grooves, and the inner side of the disc contained many mechanisms, and the structure was very strange. I can't help but secretly admire the wisdom of this ancient man.

At this time, there was a sound at the entrance of the cave, and a bright light shot towards this side, Zhang Yu and I were immediately startled, and hurriedly hid behind the wall.

According to what they said, they heard a flute sound in their ears, and when they woke up, they found a hole next to it, and saw that Zhang Yu and I were gone, thinking that the flute just now was a signal to them.

Zhang Yu and I listened, and our faces suddenly changed, this flute sound was not played by either me or Zhang Yu at all, and the monkeys were very likely to have fallen into the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain. All of our supplies are out there, and if they are destroyed, all the work done will be lost.

When we ran out of the cave, we saw that the backpacks of the four of us were very messy, and the contents were emptied, and it was obvious that someone had touched our backpacks to find something, but fortunately our supplies were not destroyed.

At dawn, the four of us discussed and decided to follow my uncle's path to reach the Chaos Iceberg, and according to Zhang Yu, the road he had taken was a dead end.

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