The direction in which the sound came, the epicenter of the ground tremors, not far above our heads, was the big hand of the stone carving.

At this moment, the big hand is slowly rotating downward from the original palm-up lifting position.

Seeing this, the fat brother shouted: "Hurry up, hide away, the Buddha is alive, don't buckle you monkeys." ”

We stumbled more than twenty meters away, standing there staring at the big hands of the stone sculptures, watching what was going to happen.

The rotation speed of the big hand is very slow, and the water flowing from the hole above the hand is slowly getting smaller as the big hand turns. When the big hand is in a downward chopping position, the flow of water almost completely stops, and the flow of water is no longer flowing out.

But the palm of the stone carving has not stopped turning, it is still slowly turning downward. The whole process lasted five or six minutes, and the big hands were finally completely clasped up, with the back of the hand on top and the palm on the bottom. When the big hand stopped moving completely, the shaking of the ground disappeared.

We cautiously walked back and stood on the edge of the waterhole to look at the palm, which was just adjusted, and nothing else happened except that the water was no longer flowing out.

The fat brother snorted and said with a disdainful expression: "This stone hand is also tired?" Is this about a change of position? ”

I said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple, it's obviously that there is an organ to control it, is it that when we caught shrimp, we touched some mechanism?" Or has someone moved the mechanism somewhere else? ”

Everyone carefully recalled, except for the mud and sand and stones in the river when catching shrimp, everyone did not touch anything like a switch, which means that the switch of this thing is not near us.

It is estimated that it is Dai Qin on the top of the snowy mountain, the mechanism he pulls, and he must know what it is for. This was not a good sign, and judging by the angry expression he had when he knew someone had broken in, he must have done no good to the intruder by pulling the mechanism.

Jiang Li said, "Isn't it my sister?" She must know something about this place, and know some of the secrets here, otherwise she wouldn't have gotten here before us, maybe she opened the mechanism. Let's look around and see if there's a road around. ”

After listening to Jiang Li's words, although I didn't agree, in order to satisfy her psychology of looking for a sister, I took the lead in searching along the mountain wall, and after looking for a long time, there was still no new discovery.

Since nothing special happened, we weren't so alarmed, it didn't matter who pulled the mechanism, there was no hidden weapon to shoot at us, no beasts rushed at us, there was nothing to be afraid of.

We returned to the waterhole, and the fat brother was so hungry that he was ready to make himself some soup to drink while the campfire was still hot.

At this moment, the late agency actually came, and the ground shook violently, much more violently than before, and it could achieve the effect of a six-magnitude earthquake, of course, I hadn't experienced a six-magnitude earthquake, but it felt like that.

After shaking for more than ten seconds, suddenly there was a loud noise in the pool, which scared us back again and again, and then, many huge bubbles began to roll out of the pool, and then the water level dropped rapidly.

It only took a few minutes for the water in the pool to disappear completely, leaving behind a huge black pit at the bottom of the pool, and you can vaguely see that there seems to be a stepped structure in the pit.

Everyone shouted almost in unison: "There is a secret passage." ”

So here comes the new question, to enter or not to enter?

If we don't enter, we will walk around this valley, and I guess we won't be able to find an exit in the end.

This is artificially built, it is not an entrance or an exit, first of all, whether the secret passage is opened because we have no intention of triggering it, or someone else, this secret passage must have a certain function, and it is necessary to store it. If we do go in, and it just so happens that this is not an exit, at least we can figure out what is hidden inside and find clues for us to get out.

There is also a possibility that this is a trap, like a mural that lures us in, then we will be unlucky to go in, even if there is no lethal mechanism inside, as long as someone outside closes the entrance, we will be trapped inside.

I couldn't make up my mind, so I went to other people for answers.

Jiang Li advocated going in, she said: "Since we are here, if we find a secret passage, we should go in and have a look, maybe this is the guidance that God gives us." ”

Yan Qiu's opinion was: "Let's wait and see if this secret passage will be closed again, if it is closed again after a while, it is better if we still don't enter, who knows if it is a way to live or a way to die?" ”

I was about to ask the fat brother again to see what he thought, but when I turned around, I found that the fat brother was busy catching shrimp in the dry river.

Because all the water in the pool just now leaked down, and the water outlet above no longer came out of the water, and the water in the small river that flowed out slowly dried up. The small fry and shrimp that were swimming in the water suddenly ran out of water and were jumping around in the dry river.

Now the fat brother is happy, he is like a monkey entering the peach orchard, he is too busy to start work with both hands.

If you can't go down, don't be in a hurry to discuss, first solve the food reserves, and fill everyone's stomachs is the right thing. As soon as we saw the fat brother catching shrimp, everyone rushed up and got busy.

We emptied Su Rina's backpack, put all the clothes into Yan Qiu's bag, and caught a backpack full of shrimp.

Jiang Li took out the seasoning, poured out all the soup and water in everyone's lunch box, stacked them in a row on the fire, put the shrimp in the lunch box, sprinkled the seasoning and roasted it. Sure enough, the grilled shrimp was still grilled and delicious, and the grilled shrimp with the flavor of seasoning was much stronger than the earthy river shrimp sashimi we had eaten before.

Although Yanqiu and I were not very hungry, when we smelled the fragrance, we couldn't help but start working with both hands and eating happily.

A gust of wind swept away, and the shrimp in the half-backpack had been turned into shrimp shells all over the ground by us, and the remaining half was also roasted by Jiang Li, packed in a large plastic bag, and stuffed back into Su Rina's backpack for backup, saving some food, at least enough to solve our three or four meals.

The fat brother, who was full of food and drink, had a very happy expression, wiped his mouth, jumped directly into the waterhole that had been dried, first looked into the passage below, and then turned his head to us above and said, "Let's go, go in and have a look." ”

I hurriedly stopped the fat brother and said, "Don't be impulsive first, let's listen to Yan Qiu, wait and see, if you are locked inside, it will be troublesome." ”

The fat brother smiled and said, "No, don't worry, let's go, if it's a dead end, let's come up again." ”

I didn't know why the fat brother came to this conclusion, so I asked, "How do you know that it won't?" Just now, the hand turned down for a long time, and the secret passage was opened, in case this mechanism fell into disrepair and was slow to react, and it closed again after we went in, wouldn't that be fatal? ”

The fat brother frowned and said, "Observe, do you understand observation?" Can you be more careful? Look at that stone hand, it's covered with moss, it must have been untouched for years, and when it turns over again, it's the year of the monkey, it's okay. ”

The fat brother is really more careful than me, maybe this palm is in the unit of time, and it only turns once every long time, when its palm is up, there is a pool below, and the melting snow in the ice cave will flow down the river we walked in the mountain.

When it flipped its palm down, the passage below opened, and all the water in the pool flowed down, and the river above no longer flowed out, but was diverted to another place. Only by mastering the law of the flipping time of this big hand can you correctly enter the secret passage below. We're lucky enough to be in time for it to flip and it shouldn't be re-closed anytime soon.

In this case, let's go down and take a look, but if there is a little unreliability in it, it will not be too late for us to come up collectively.

I nodded, and everyone jumped into the pool one after another.

Before leaving, Yan Qiu also picked a torch to hold as a light source, so as not to overuse Su Rina's flashlight, the battery is dead, and it will be a problem to ignite in the future.

Below the passage is a two-meter-wide stone staircase, on which a lot of gravel and sediment have been deposited, which must have been precipitated in the original pool, and when the passage mouth is opened, it is washed down with the current. There are a few small fish and shrimp that are alive and kicking, but there are not many, and most of them should go down with the current.

The passage was pitch black, the fire in Yan Qiu's hand was shaking, it looked very gloomy, and we concentrated on going down the stairs step by step, so as not to slip and fall in the mud and sand.

After about ten meters of descent, the stairs in front of me were no longer visible, because there was a layer of turbid water inside.

The fat brother started and continued to go down the stairs to test how deep the water was, there were actually only two stairs left under the water, and then it was flat, and the water level was probably not up to the fat brother's knees.

So we lined up and waded through the water to see what was going on inside, maybe it was just a passageway, leading to somewhere. R1058