Except for me, the rest of the people felt strange when they heard the fat man's words, what happened to this person, how did this jade eyeball become yours? What do you think?

I muttered to myself, "If these archaeologists know that we are in the business of touching the blonde mound, it will not be a good thing." Hurriedly stretched out his hand to give the fat man a neck slip: "What the hell is so much nonsense, no one will treat you as a dumb person if you don't say a word." ”

The fat man knew that he was speechless, so he closed his mouth and stopped talking, but fortunately, he was wearing a double-filter gas mask on his face, and it was dark in the temple, so no one could see anyone's expression, and it also avoided some unnecessary embarrassment.

Professor Chen and his three students are all nerds, and what I am most worried about is being recognized by Shirley Yang, who has a better brain than me and reacts quickly, and she can't hide it from her if she shows a little bit of her feet, maybe she has already seen that I and the fat man are inverted craftsmen, but she didn't say it. At this point, I didn't need to burden myself, so I didn't think about it anymore and helped the fat man put the jade pendant on the jade eyeball.

The pupils of the jade eyeballs are facing upwards, facing the ceiling, and the groove directly above seems to coincide with the fat man's piece of jade, changing the direction of the jade several times, and finally aligning, with a "click" sound, the jade eyeballs flickered, rolled away from the previously fixed position, and the ground was bare, and I don't know what kind of force just fixed the jade eye there.

I picked up the jade eyeball, handed it to Professor Chen, and asked him to look at it.

Shirley Yang folded a fluorescent tube to illuminate Professor Chen, Professor Chen took out a magnifying glass, turned it over and pondered it for two or three minutes, and kept shaking his head: "This ...... I can't see what it does, but this jade eye is so big that it is so natural, and there is no trace of artificiality at all, and it can even be said that two thousand years ago, artificial technology could not have made it. ”

The ghost cave civilization of the Elite Country is too mysterious, and Professor Chen and others have worked hard for decades, but they have not mastered much information, but they only have a preliminary understanding of some ghost cave characters and history. It is speculated that this is a nation that uses the eye as a totem for spiritual worship, or a judgment made after arriving at the Black Tower, at this moment, it is naturally impossible to explain what this mysterious jade eye is.

At present, it can be determined that this large hall with sixteen huge stone pillars is a temple, and since the Peerless Kingdom regards the eye as the highest source of energy, it is only natural that an eyeball is enshrined in the temple.

But why is there a groove on this jade eye that is completely consistent with the fat man's jade pendant, and as soon as it is installed, the jade eye that was originally fixed on the floor will naturally fall off? These things are incomprehensible.

Professor Chen asked the fat man to tell the origin of his jade pendant as it was, without the slightest concealment or exaggeration, and to be truthful.

Before coming to Xinjiang, he also once told the professor and others that this piece of jade was obtained when he went to Xinjiang to fight bandits, and everyone laughed at it at the time, no one took it seriously, but just saw that there was a mysterious ghost cave inscription on this jade, so he agreed to let him join the archaeological team and come to Xinjiang together.

Now that he was being asked, the fat man saw that everyone was serious, so he didn't dare to brag about it, and his knowledge of the origin of this piece of jade was also very limited, so he said it 1510.

It turned out that the fat man's father participated in the revolution as early as the age of fifteen, during the jute riot, and had a comrade-in-arms, in the later stage of the Liberation War, two comrades-in-arms who were originally in the same class, had been on different sides of the world, one in one field, one in three fields, and both achieved the level of senior commanders at the level of column commanders. This comrade-in-arms of the fat man's father, when the People's Liberation Army (PLA) entered Xinjiang, led his troops through Niya on the southwestern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, and encountered a group of bandits of more than 100 people on the way.

At that time, the situation in Xinjiang was very complicated, and there were many stragglers of various armed forces and a large number of bandits, horse thieves, etc., so it was normal for the People's Liberation Army and bandits to have encounters.

There is no way to know the origin and use of this jade pendant, except that the color and texture are unusual, and there are some strange symbols engraved on it, and there is nothing special about it, so I don't take it seriously.

Later, when the chief heard that his old comrade-in-arms had a big fat boy, he asked someone to give this piece of jade that he had inadvertently obtained as a gift.

After the countercurrent in February, the fat man's parents were impacted, died one after another, and the chief in Xinjiang also died of illness, when the fat man was only fifteen or sixteen years old, it was the age when he didn't understand four or six, and finally the relics of the family were only left with this ancient jade, which was kept as a baby. That's all he knows about the origin of this piece of jade.

After hearing this, Professor Chen sighed and said, "It's a pity that these people are gone, this piece of exquisite jade has changed hands several times, and the source is no longer verifiable......

Shirley Young took Jade Eye from the professor's hand and looked at it with great concentration. I saw that she hadn't spoken much since she entered the Exquisite Ancient City, and I thought that she might be worried because she had never found any trace of her father since she saw this ancient city. Her father's explorers have been missing for more than a year, and it is extremely difficult to say whether they arrived here, and this is located in a mountain pass, and there are many winds and sandstorms, and the whole city has been buried in the desert by the wind and sand many times a year, and when it is buried, it is exposed by the next wind, and we can find it this time, which can be said to be extremely lucky. In this vast desert, it is not easy to find a small expedition team, like looking for a needle in the sea. She always had a glimmer of hope, she would never feel at ease until she saw the corpse, and the more she explored the Exquisite Ancient City, the stronger the sense of loss in her heart might become.

In the valley, I was saved by her, and I hope to have the opportunity to do something for her. At this time, seeing that she was interested in this jade eyeball, I thought to myself that it was a pity that the ancient jade was a fat man's thing, and if it was mine, I might as well give it to her.

At this time, before Shirley Yang finished reading, the fat man was a little reluctant, and reached out to ask for it, Shirley Yang held the hand with the jade eye and shrank back, and said to the fat man: "What are you anxious about, I will naturally return you after reading it." ”

The fat man said: "Don't talk nonsense, this jade belongs to our family, what's the matter with making you look like a foreigner?" I'm afraid you won't be able to pull it out of your eyes. As he spoke, he grabbed his hand on the jade eye and snatched it back.

Seeing this, I hurriedly dissuaded: "Don't rob the two of you, don't rob, give me a little face as a captain, I'm in charge, let Miss Yang ...... Watch for five minutes. ”

I was afraid that the fat man and Shirley Yang would argue and break the jade eyeball, so I reached out to press the jade eyeball in the hands of the two of them as I spoke.

I only stretched out one hand, still holding it from above, the jade eyes were round and big, slippery, one couldn't hold it, the jade eyeball fell heavily to the ground, snapped, and fell into eight petals.

Everyone stared at me, and Professor Chen pointed at me with a shudder: "You...... You, you, you......" You were stunned for a long time, and you were so angry that you didn't say a word.

I couldn't argue, and shook my hand again and again: "I'm not...... I am...... Isn't this also a good intention, I didn't expect it...... Why the hell is so unsturdy? As he spoke, he reached out to pick up the jade fragments on the ground, and secretly prayed in his heart that it was best to stick it up and restore it, otherwise they would ask me to compensate, which is a priceless treasure, even if I sell it in pieces, I can't afford to pay for it.

At that time, I was really a little confused, and my brain was clouded, and I forgot whether I was praying to God or to the Buddha, probably because there was no fixed faith, and the effect of the prayer was not very significant, the jade eyes were not light, and the stone bricks on the ground were hard, and some of them were broken into slag, and I scratched on the ground for a long time, and I didn't find all the pieces.

The fat man said: "Okay old Hu, if you fall, you will fucking fall, don't pick it up." As he spoke, he grabbed me by the arm, trying to pull me to my feet.

I squatted a little longer, and I was in a hurry, and the equipment in the geological bag behind me was heavy, and I was pulled by the fat man, and my footing was unstable, and I sat on the ground with my ass. I struggled to get up, and when I looked up, I saw a basin-sized eye on the roof of the temple staring at us in the dim light, shining with a strange light.

When we came in, we had a cursory look at the surroundings, and we didn't look closely at the dark above, and no one noticed when such a large moving eyeball came out.

I hurriedly shone my flashlight upwards, although the temple was high, the range on the top should also be within the range of my flashlight, but as soon as the flashlight hit it, the pillar of light seemed to be swallowed up by darkness, except for the huge eyeball covered with red silk, the rest of the roof was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything.

The other six people also saw the huge strange eye above their heads, and everyone felt bad, afraid that the strange eye would fall and hurt themselves, so they all stepped back.

I saw that the giant eye turned in mid-air, and then fell to the ground, this time we can all see clearly, although this thing looks like an eyeball, it is actually a translucent ball of flesh, the outside is all blue and white substance, and the middle is wrapped in a large black thing, and it is strange not to look at it coldly, not to see it as an eyeball.

When the fat man saw this strange and abnormal meat ball, he panicked, so he put the assault rifle on his back in his hand, ready to shoot, I hurriedly held down his arm: "Don't act rashly......"

Before we could figure out what it was, the giant eye-like ball of flesh suddenly cracked open, and hundreds of entangled black strange snakes flowed out of it, these strange snakes were the same as the ones we saw in Zagrama Mountain, all of them were black scales, no more than a few dozen centimeters long, and a black sarcoma grew on the top of their heads.

Piles of strange snakes wriggled together, their bodies were covered with sticky transparent liquid, as if they had just hatched from the eggs, indescribably disgusting, and everyone saw that their scalps were numb, and they couldn't help but take a few steps back.

The statue of the guardian saint with the head of the snake body we saw in the black tower also has such a black ball on the top of the head, Professor Chen speculated that the black ball was an eye, no wonder in the valley Shirley Yang saved my life with a flash light at the critical moment, it seems that the sarcoma on the head of the snake, even if it is not an eye, is extremely sensitive to light sources.

At this time, how dare you delay, the fat man and I stood in front of everyone, and shot while these black snakes were still entangled and did not disperse, their vitality was extremely strong, and only one head was left to hurt people, I greeted Chu Jian while shooting, poured solid fuel on it, and ignited a fire to completely burn them.

The firelight illuminated the temple, which was full of large stone pillars, and hundreds of black snakes were burned to charcoal before they could show off their fangs. I let out a sigh of relief, fortunately, the first strike was strong, the appearance of these black strange snakes, could it be related to me breaking the jade eyeballs? Or is that jade eye a sacrificial vessel, and by putting that piece of ancient jade on the jade eye, some kind of ritual is completed, and these strange snakes are guided out of the so-called imaginary space? No matter what it is, if you see this jade eyeball in the future, you must not take it lightly.

I asked everyone to look around for fear of slipping through the net, and I looked carefully at the roof, which was full of smooth stone bricks, and I couldn't figure out where the big eyeball-like snake eggs came from.

This careful inspection did not matter, and sure enough, some unusual places were found, sixteen giant stone pillars in the temple, each stone pillar had a pattern of six eyes on the pillar, and the base of the stone pillar was a regular hexagon, of which five sides, each side was carved with a small symbol, each of which was different, namely the hungry ghost, the sheep's head, the Hu man, the giant pupil man, the guardian beast, and one side was empty.

These stone pillars attracted our attention, Professor Chen recorded the types of these symbols one by one with a pen, let us turn the hexagonal stone seat under the stone pillar, and after a try, it turned out that there was a stone groove below, which was separated from the column body, and as long as we used force, we could rotate.

The professor said that it seemed that it was a building of large stone pillars, a temple used for ceremonies, and a multi-purpose place of worship, and the hexagonal symbol at the bottom of the pillar indicated its function.

These stone pillars are in a group of four, and the current arrangement is that the symbols of the guardian saint are crossed against each other, and the jade eyeball just now is a sacrificial artifact, and the fat man's ancient jade is the magic weapon of the launching ceremony, and the possibility of other magic weapons is not ruled out. As for how this artifact ended up outside, I'm afraid there will never be an answer, maybe there were tomb robbers and expeditions who entered the temple of this exquisite ancient country, or maybe two thousand years ago, those slaves who rebelled against the rule of the Absolute Queen stole it, and there is no way to know.

It can be inferred that once the artifact is connected, it is possible to summon a strange snake that is regarded as a guardian spirit to come out and enjoy the sacrifice. Moreover, it is said that this is a multi-purpose temple because there are not only high-status guardian gods on this stone pillar, but also slaves, livestock, and evil spirits at the lowest level, and the temple may also be used for some rituals such as suppressing evil spirits and punishing slaves. The arrangement of the symbols under the guò stone pillars changes to identify different ritual objects.

Shirley Yang asked, "Professor, this temple should be as important as the royal palace, will there be a secret passage here that connects to the underground palace?" Let's look around, shall we? Now Xiaoye is not in good health, and he must try his best to find the water veins in the underground palace. ”

Professor Chen said: "The old decay can guarantee the ticket, there must be such a secret passage, but since it is a secret passage, and the scale of this temple is so large, where can we find it for a while?" ”

The fat man interjected: "The two shopkeepers, as the saying goes, take people's money and eliminate disasters with people, you probably don't know how capable Lao Hu and I are, don't we have so many yellow explosives from the Soviet Union, you go out to rest, I'll blow up a passage out, so that you can also see our means." ”

Professor Chen hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't come nonsense, these are the relics of ancient civilizations, and it is a crime to destroy a brick." ”

I thought to myself that I broke the jade eyeball just now, now is my chance to atone for my sins, the world's mountains and rivers, geography, five elements, feng shui, all in the chest, how difficult it is to find a secret way, so I said to them: "I see that the arrangement of the sixteen stone pillars of this temple is the same as the arrangement of the sixteen dragons through the earth, and this layout is secretly combined with the number of giant gates, and the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty have used this kind of mechanism to arrange." Before, I watched the shape around this ancient city on the black tower, and it really took advantage of the location, so it can be seen that the exquisite queen is also a master who knows metaphysics, so I might as well try it, and use the technique of dividing gold and setting points to find the passage in the temple. Maybe I can find the secret way, but I'm also a beginner in this method, and if I can't find it then, let's think of another way. ”

When they heard this, they all agreed, and waited to watch. I walked to the center of the temple and looked at the stone pillars around me, in fact, this arrangement of the sixteen dragon pillars through the ground is not too difficult, and it is nothing more than a change according to the five elements and twenty-four directions, but the location and occasion are different, and there are only slight changes, and I have walked back and forth between the stone pillars a few times, secretly calculating in my heart.

This sixteen dragons are actually snakes, and there are clouds in "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique": the snake is fluttering, and suddenly the north and south. Of these sixteen, only one of them passes through the leylines is the real dragon. It was easy to say, but it took a lot of thought to actually use it, and finally the target was on the four floor tiles in the depths of the temple.

Knocked with a small geological hammer, three of them are solid, only one of them emits an empty echo, this two-meter-square large stone brick, there is no wear and tear caused by frequent opening on the edge, it seems that few people have used this passage, unless explosives are used, if you want to pry it must not be pry open, the nearest stone pillar is the mechanism, I don't know if this mechanism is still working.

I beckoned the fat man to come and help. I put my hand on the hexagonal stone trough under the stone pillar, in case I turned in the wrong direction and triggered some mechanism, but the general situation was over, so I asked the other Professor Chen and others to retreat to the outside of the temple, wiped the sweat beads on their heads and told the fat man, first put the empty side, aimed at the stone brick that might be a secret passage, and then prepared to turn five squares clockwise, one square in reverse, then eleven squares clockwise, and then two squares in the opposite direction, not more at once, not less at once, otherwise it is difficult to say what will happen.

The fat man said: "Lao Hu, you don't know how to count, my grades were much better than you when I was in school." Stop talking nonsense, let's go. ”

I silently recited the mantra in my heart: "Thousands of miles to find the dragon, seek it left and right, follow the yang five steps, and the yin from one of them, open and turn." ”

The two of them exerted their strength, turned the hexagonal stone trough, turned a grid and counted them together, and after turning the last square, they only heard a click, and the stone bricks on the ground collapsed, revealing a bottomless tunnel.