I listened patiently to the analysis, and the burning smell in my nose could be vaguely smelled, "Old man Shi, do you smell anything?" ”

"Huh?" Old man Shi seemed to be quite puzzled when he heard this, but when he saw my face, he still sniffed, and after a while, he said, "It seems to smell burning, what's the matter?" Did any of you make a fire? ”

The three of us shook our heads.

Seeing this, Old Man Shi thought for a while, suddenly looked up at the sun in the sky, as if thinking of something, and hurriedly got up and ran to the front of the trunk of the tree that Kuroko threw on the ground, bending down carefully as if he was looking for something. In the middle of the night, he waved at us violently, "Come on, come on!" ”

Seeing that he had made a discovery, the three of us trotted over, and strangely, at this moment I didn't seem to feel the pain in my body, and my whole body was full of energy.

Old man Shi picked up a branch, and in our puzzled eyes, he slowly stretched out to the top of the trunk, and after a long time, he seemed to have picked up something, and said excitedly, "You see, this is the ghost thing that gnawed those tomb robbers clean, and it may have been brought up by the trunk because of too much food just now." But apparently they could not face the sun, and as soon as they came ashore, they lost their lives. ”

Xiu'er and I looked at each other, because there was nothing on the branches, this old man Shi, isn't he a psychopath?

Only Kuroko didn't know what to do at first, but after a moment, he blinked and realized, "You know what this thing is?" ”

"Huh? Kuroko, did you see that? Xiu'er and I asked at about the same time.

"Well, if you look closely, it's a transparent film!" Kuroko explained.

After such a reminder, I finally found out. But what is it?

Old Man Shi pressed his head with his free left hand, and hesitantly replied, "I can only give a rough idea, this is the first time I have seen this creature with my own eyes. But I've read about it in ancient books before, and if I'm guessing correctly, it's called a water rat, and it's an ancient species, a long-extinct carnivorous creature with a strong ability to gnaw. When an adult encounters such a water rat, it will take a maximum of ten minutes to leave only a pile of white bones. Its ferocity is not inferior to that of the legendary corpse-eating demon ant. ”

"Isn't it!" Xiu'er exclaimed, "And it's still this color, so if we just go into the water, won't we be looking for death!" ”

Unfortunately, that's just the way it is. Water rats are born to live only in water, generally in deep water areas. Now they are living in such a shallow lake. It is clear that the prime minister surnamed Hu deliberately used it to protect the ancient tomb. So unless you have a way to drain the water, I don't think it's better to give up sooner! Old Man Shi's tone seemed to be quite regretful.

Kuroko stared at the so-called water rat. It is impossible to drain the water, not to mention that we have no tools at all, and even if we have the tools, it will not be possible to drain such a large area of the lake in ten days and half a month.

Everyone fell silent, and suddenly Kuroko asked, "Old man Shi, can you tell me about the situation of this underwater tomb?" It's all water. Or how? ”

"Huh?" Old Man Shi seemed to be quite surprised by this question, and his puzzled eyes turned around on the faces of the three of us, "Naturally, there can't be water in the ancient tomb." Who would want to end up in a miserable situation of drowning in water after death. It's just like a normal catacomb, dry. The lake above must have been sealed by someone close to Prime Minister Hu after burying him, and then diverted water to put in water rats, which had a foolproof effect. ”

Kuroko seemed pleased with the answer. Then he continued to ask, "In this case, if someone has opened the ancient tomb, will the water on it not stop falling?" ”

"Of course!" Old man Shi replied, suddenly realizing a question: "Boss, you don't want to risk opening the entrance. Bring in all the water! You must know that if you do that, the ancient tomb will be full of water rats, and it is simply a practice of changing the soup without changing the medicine. ”

Kuroko smiled, "If I say that someone once went into this ancient tomb and stayed in it for a long time, but it didn't cause a flood, can you guess what the reason is?" ”

Old man Shi thought about it when he heard this, I already understood who the sunspot was talking about. Since Pang Qinghe's father left clues for Pang Qinghe to take the items he hid in the future, it is naturally impossible to know that this place is extremely dangerous, but he still insists on putting his own daughter in danger, there must be something strange in it.

"If there is really such a person as the boss said, I can only think that he has spent time and effort to make a long underground passage from the shore of the lake, but I think the prime minister surnamed Hu has already expected this, so he has also placed the surrounding area of the ancient tomb under the water, this section of the land is easy to fight, and there will be no problems, but as long as it hits the underwater part, even if the craftsmanship is superb, it will cause a collapse, and it is impossible to succeed."

"Is there any other possibility?" Kuroko continued to ask.

Old man Shi hesitated, and only after a while did he say, "Yes, there is, but this is almost completely infeasible." Unless the entrance of the ancient tomb has special building materials, which can shield the invasion of water rats and keep them at a certain distance, anyone who wants to enter the ancient tomb can fly over the distance of more than 100 meters and reach the water surface at the entrance unharmed, quickly open the entrance and enter it, and close it again. This way, even if there is a certain amount of water flowing down, it will not be too much, and there is no need to worry about the threat from water rats. ”

Kuroko nodded: "A lot of impossible things are often the real reason. Saying that, he looked at me and Xiu'er, "Do you want to try it?" ”

"Of course!" I replied without hesitation.

"Hey! I said, three bosses, you are all dazed! This lake is full of water rats, and even if the entrance is really unfortunate enough to hit this 1 in 10,000 chance, it can really isolate the water rats. But from the shore to the distance of more than 100 meters, it is difficult to really fly over! Old man Shi panicked.

Kuroko smiled slyly, "The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took advantage of the shade." Now that the previous wave of tomb robbers has already explored the way, how can we not accept it obediently? What's more, don't you know that there is a more practical way to cross the water besides swimming and flying over? ”

"Huh?" Old man Shi looked like he didn't know anything, and the three of us laughed together.

"Bosses don't make fun of me, what's the best way to do it?"

Kuroko stopped laughing and said loudly, "Rowing! (To be continued......)