The inner city is much more modest than I expected, and apart from some stone and clay sculptures, most of the buildings are made of wood. "Stay away from the buildings, I just saw several collapsed houses, which are in disrepair and dangerous."

Shirley Yang looked into the abandoned house as he walked: "It doesn't look like it's been inhabited, have you noticed, all the buildings have doors and no windows, and the doors are wide open, and there are no door panels to take care of. ”

"If you don't go in and take a look, you won't pay taxes anyway." The fat man wanted to enter the house with great interest to find out, but I stopped him: "Let's come to find Jinding, forget about irrelevant places." ”

"You didn't look for it, how do you know it's irrelevant, what if Jin Ding is hiding in the house?" The fat man was not convinced, so he had to investigate. Professor Li advised: "I am very interested in these houses, so let's go in and have a look together." You will go around the four corners and gather in front of the door later. After saying that, the two of them didn't wait for my reply, and went straight into a black wooden homestay.

I complained to Shirley Young: "It's not a sightseeing tour, and this old and young are too casual." Besides, now I don't even know the location of the enemy, and I'm worried to death. ”

Shirley Young said that it doesn't hurt to look around, just familiarize yourself with the environment. She walked and walked, unhurriedly pulling out a blue-faced diary. I said, "When did you get into this habit too?" She glanced at me: "It's not a diary, it's a sketch." I just took a rough look at the top of the city wall and drew a sketch. Come and see, is there a problem with the position I marked? ”

I didn't expect her to be so attentive, and when I got closer, it was really a sketch. She reached over and marked with a pencil, "This is where we are." The city is square in shape, and there is only one main gate as we know it, and that is where we have just set up camp. Descend the stairs on the left and go all the way to where we are. But there are three other roads next to it, and I don't know where they lead. ”

I took my pencil and typed an arrow: "Then come in order, one by one, and see where the end of the road is." I always had the feeling that this place had nothing to do with the Niangniang's grave. I don't know why such a weird dungeon was built. ”

"I don't think it's a simple dungeon. First of all, it is difficult to say from this area, although it looks large, it is at best a village, but the interior architecture is quite grand, obviously imitating the city. I think it's more like a miniature. ”

Shirley Yang is not unreasonable, but in ancient times, the productive forces were backward, and this is a remote Xiangxi region, who would spend so much manpower and financial resources to build an uninhabitable miniature city? The two of us came up with a lot of ideas, but we didn't have a clue. Wang Qingzheng's journey was much quieter than usual, and when I thought of a headache, he squatted silently to the side. Shirley Yang and I glanced at each other, not knowing what kind of temper the eldest young master was having.

I stepped forward and asked, "How long have you been walking, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I've been to this place before."

I looked at him, speechless.

"What kind of eyes are you? I'm not crazy. ”

"Wang Dashao, I know you've been having trouble lately. Don't be discouraged......-

Before I could finish speaking, the kid got angry and jumped up and pushed me, and I was already half-squatting on the ground, almost falling on the spot. Shirley Young thought we were going to do something and hurriedly stepped forward to ask what was going on. She pulled me up, turned around and asked, "Wang Qingzheng, what are you doing here?" ”

I said, "It's okay, the kid has a temper tantrum." Wang Dashao said that he had been to this place. Shirley Yang was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to confirm: "What did you say, you have been here?" ”

Wang Qingzheng snorted in pain, shook his head first, and then nodded again. We were so confused by him that we wanted to pry his head open and see what we saw.

I saw that he refused to speak, so I had to suppress my anger and comfort: "If you have anything to say, we have known each other for so long, we are half friends, and I am also partly responsible for your grandfather's accident." ”

Wang Qingzheng stammered a little, as if he didn't know how to describe it. "I don't remember seeing it anywhere, but the more I look at it, the more familiar it becomes. You don't know, just when I went down the tower, I even thought that staircase had been walked many times......-

He talked back and forth for a long time, without a single point, just something on the sensory level. Shirley Young asked me how I felt, and I said, "He's suffered quite a few setbacks along the way, and it's the first time he's gone deep into such a large burial chamber, so it's understandable that he had these delusions." This kid's mental condition is worrying, and if he continues to follow us like this, it may cause some accidents that no one wants to see. ”

"You mean to leave him behind?"

"Here's the problem, we can't leave him alone, we have to find someone to take care of him." At this time, I miss that white brother Owen so much, and if he had been there, we wouldn't have had to go underground with a drag bottle.

"That's not easy to say, the people found by the Wang family don't have other skills, and they are all first-class masters when they cause chaos. But there is one thing I have never been able to reassure about, the number of people they left outside the city is seven or eight, and it is impossible for them all to die in the flood so easily. But since we rescued people and went to the bunker, we haven't seen even half a figure. It is strange that no living person was found, and no vanguard came back to look for anyone. ”

I remembered that Wang Puyuan said before that he had fought against the little devil's archaeological team, and the opponent's strength was not bad, which caused him to almost suffer a big loss. If it's like what he says, then this group of people will definitely not die so easily. I asked Shirley Young when the group had entered the city. "About forty minutes ahead of us," she recalled. ”

"This time is inevitably too long, the vanguard said that they are only going to explore the way, and they should come back to inform them no matter what the situation is. What's more, the flood movement is so big, even if they are in the inner city, they can't feel it at all, and they haven't moved for so long. In my opinion, there is a good chance that something has happened. ”

Personally, I don't care if the Waseda guys are safe or not, and to be honest, it's best if they die to save us a lot of trouble along the way. However, I am also soberly aware that a great flood cannot make a team of twenty people disappear, and there must be something strange in the ancient city that will contain them, so that the head and tail cannot take care of each other, and finally lose contact. Shirley Young's reasoning alerted me to the fact that this place was not as quiet and peaceful as it seemed, and that the fat man and Professor Li had to be retrieved as soon as possible.

I slapped Wang Dashao and told him that we were going to find someone, so that he would stop thinking about what he didn't have and concentrate on keeping up with the team. He sighed and said helplessly: "It's useless to tell you." Let's go, let's go, find someone. ”

Originally, Professor Li and the fat man entered a wooden building in front of me, but in the blink of an eye, I couldn't tell which one they had entered from the many houses. Shirley Yang blinked, looked around and said, "It's strange, it was in front of me just now, and I remember that there was a broken stone statue in front of the door." ”

Wang Dashao scratched his head and said depressedly: "Each building looks similar, it is tattered, there are no windows, they go in to check the fart!" ”

"You're embarrassed to say that if it weren't for the sake of persuading you, we wouldn't have gone so far unknowingly."

Shirley Young took out the blueprint, and the three of us surrounded it. "You see, this is the www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion, let's go down in a straight line, we shouldn't go far, we won't go beyond this area. I remember it was a three-storey double-open building, so let's keep an eye on it, and we should be able to find it soon. ”

"Miss Shirley is still reliable," Wang Qingzheng was a hundred times more energetic, "Didn't you say that there was a stone statue in front of the door?" Then it's better to find, it's up to me. ”

With our search in mind, we quickly found the ancient building on our way back. "Can't be wrong, you look at the stone statues on the ground, I remember Professor Li didn't shout something 'cultural relics to be protected' before he entered the door? Definitely in the head. Wang Qingzheng was smug, shouting the fat man's name while striding into the ancient house. Shirley Yang and I were relieved to see that he was in a better mood and ran into the house.

The inside of the building was much simpler than I had imagined, and it was like a giant coffin surrounded by walls. Now I am even more sure that my previous judgment was correct, that this miniature city was not built for residential life, but for some other purpose, and generally has nothing to do with religion.

"It's so empty everywhere, like a haunted house." Wang Qingzheng patted the beams and pillars of the room casually, causing the surrounding dust to scatter, and the three of us choked on the ashes. Shirley Yang shook his head and said, "This place hasn't been visited for a long time, and there is ash everywhere." According to Professor Li's temperament, he will definitely touch the inside of the house. Let's look again, it may not be here. ”

"No, there are not many three-story buildings on this street, and the only one that meets the requirements is the one in front of you."

I looked deeper into the house and saw that it was a large mansion with three entrances and three exits. "Let's look for it again, there is still a road in it, and it looks like a lot of place." I shouted a few more times, but unfortunately there was not a single echo in the empty room, let alone the fat men.

Shirley Yang walked in front with a flashlight, and I pushed Wang Dashao to the middle, and I took the initiative to stand at the back of the line. If you think about it, it seems like a bad habit that I have developed recently, and I don't know when I automatically and consciously became the one in charge of the bottom. After entering the first gate, the line of sight suddenly widened, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be a courtyard. There is a wall and a well in the small courtyard, and there is a small door leading to the back room. Wang Qingzheng said - strange - , walked around for a while, and said with a smile: "This is strange, it is obviously a grave for the dead, what are you going to do with so many tricks?" ”

My eyes were drawn to a strange device in the courtyard, and I couldn't help but lean in. It was a round stone plate, leaning next to the dry well, and when I got closer, I found that there were many inscriptions engraved on the stone plate. I called Shirley Young over and asked her to tell what the hell this was about. She said with a solemn face: "Although it has been damaged, judging from the shape, there is no doubt that this is a Gui watch." ”

The watch is the sundial, an ancient timekeeping tool. But as we all know, the sundial relies on the change of the position of the sun to keep time, here is hundreds of meters from the ground, not to mention that the sunlight can't enter, even if it does, it is impossible to shine through the stone-roofed building and into this impermeable small courtyard.

The last thing to show up was in the place it shouldn't, and the three of us gasped almost at the same time. Wang Qingzheng questioned: "Could it be that you admit your mistake, this may be a grinding plate." ”

"Lettering on your millstone? The needle on the stone plate has been broken, this thing is not a short time, it is estimated that it has been there since the construction of this dungeon. I just don't know why I buried this thing in a dead man's grave. "The deceased is like Sifu, and of course the world after death will no longer have the concept of zài time. In the past, we were familiar with the funeral items that were nothing more than two things: either they were particularly loved by the tomb owner during his lifetime and carried them all year round; Either it is priceless and has some commemorative value. This is not an ancient era, pick some pots and pans and bury them. There is no logic in this table, and everyone will inevitably be surprised.