I immediately told Situ what I had discovered, and I couldn't hide my excitement in my tone. Situ said, this is it, since there is such a symbol, it means that the person who hid the things in the first place must be the person of the White Lotus Sect. I asked Situ, how did you know that there were such symbols around here? Situ said that in fact, he also guessed, because the whereabouts of the White Lotus Sect have been relatively mysterious for many years, and they rarely refer to themselves as the White Lotus Sect to the outside world, and most of them call themselves the White Sect. For the White Lotus Sect, they have always had such a habit, that is, when some things are done more obscurely, then they will leave some marks that are easy to be recognized by the people of this sect, but not all refer to special specific symbols, maybe a paragraph, maybe a poem, as long as it plays a role in reminding the other party, then it is considered to have achieved the goal.

Situ explained to me that the red circle on the left is indeed what you said, representing the sun. The golden crescent represents the moon. In their opinion, the sun is fire, so it is red, and the moon is filled in at night, which is golden or even white, and when the sun and the moon alternate, it coincides with the time when the sun sets, and the color of the sunset is exactly red.

Situ also said, as for where you said you were looking for something, since I couldn't be there in person, I couldn't help you find it. But I've analyzed it a little bit, and if the distance between the position of the shrine and the white bone pagoda coincides with the middle point of the river, then you can start searching the center of the river. If the direction of the symbol is the same as the direction of the Buddha statue in the shrine, then you should follow the direction of the Buddha statue, but the object must be within the range of the place where the Buddha statue and the symbol can be seen.

I told Situ that there was no Buddha statue in it, but if you look at it from the direction of the opening, it happens to be in the direction of the river, that is, the direction of the White Bone Pagoda, and the same is true of that symbol. Situ said, then it will be basically not wrong, you should go to the middle of the river now. I said how to find it, now there is no river, it is full of rubble and weeds, so many years ago, hidden in the pile of stones, how can it not be discovered? Situ snorted and said, Who told you that you must be hiding in the stone pile? I said where else could I hide, it was all empty. Situ thought for a while and said, do you have a compass with you? I said, of course, I never leave this thing. Situ said that's okay, the compass can find things with different magnetic fields around you, you try to find them, unless the stone tablet or scroll that the person hid at the beginning, you should be able to find it.

After thanking Situ, I hung up the phone, although I covered my head with my clothes, I was still a little breathless. I waited for the phone's screen light to go out, and then I got out of it. I told Hu Zongren what Situ said, Hu Zongren has always admired Situ I know, originally I had hoped to use my relationship to let Hu Zongren call Situ Mr. Sheng, toast a cup of tea, maybe I can learn some crafts from Situ. But Hu Zongren refused, he thought that if he got too close to Situ, the original respect would gradually fade, and he would prefer to be an admirer of Situ. Moreover, although his craftsmanship is not first-class, it is enough in the industry, and among the younger generation, he can be regarded as a rising star. So when Hu Zongren heard it, he praised Situ for being too good.

So I stood on the edge of the shrine, looked in the direction of the broken white bone pagoda, then turned around and began to retreat, and sure enough, as Situ expected, when my footsteps just reached the middle of the river, if I continued to walk forward, I would not be able to see the mysterious symbol. So I stood still, found the right position, and began to move left and right along the river, and found that there was a distance of about 10 meters where my colleagues could see the mouth of the Buddhist shrine and the symbol, and the other distance would be blocked. According to Situ, in this way, the range immediately shrank a lot, and it became a short period of more than ten meters.

But the distance of more than ten meters is full of rubble and rubble, and weeds, unless you are a fool, you will hide things here. So I began to wonder if it was buried underneath, and if it did, it had to resist years of rain corrosion, and it had to be undetected. So I took out my compass and began to stick to the ground, looking for it inch by inch along the distance of more than ten meters. When I reached a position of about 5 meters, there began to be an irregular beating on the compass. And when I looked at the ground, there was nothing but weeds and gravel, buried underneath, and it was able to exert a magnetic effect on the compass, presumably there was a metal thing underneath.

The compass pointer itself is magnetic, just like a compass, and it is originally very sharp, and when I first came out of the school, the master gave me this compass, and granted me an opening spell, my compass sensitivity, may be more sensitive than many other ordinary compasses, not only that, but I can even according to the speed of the compass pointer rotation speed, the size of the pointer bounce, and the angle between the original direction and the pointer, Gradually, I can accurately use the compass to do many things in terms of spiritual measurement. Fotuguan is a monument, even if there are some modern buildings in such a place, but at least I am not in this location at the moment, this place is desolate, presumably it has been closed for many years, so if this place is not haunted, there should be no magnetic field reaction, and now the compass has begun to turn, indicating that what is buried under this must be metal.

The metal itself has a magnetic field, so the compass can easily feel it. I told Hu Zongren that there was something buried under this place, but since we didn't have any tools with us to dig into, Hu Zongren had to go to other parts of the river to find some slightly sharper stones, and Hu Zongren and I began to lie on the ground, digging very hard.

This process lasted about half an hour, and I was very worried that those four White Lotus Sect guys would break our story at one point. But gradually I was relieved, because I guessed that the bomb shelter was also very large, and most of those people would take a long time to find things like us. But we were luckier than they were, we were able to find them, and they are doomed to be in vain today.

With a crisp clang, the stone in Hu Zongren's hand hit a metal object, making a slightly echoing sound. This shows that the metal thing underneath is actually hollow inside. Maybe it's an iron box or something. If the iron is buried in the ground for many years, it will rust due to flowing water and other causes in the soil, and Situ's analysis that this thing was buried at least before 1958, and more than 50 years have passed, and I don't know if the things inside are still there. So Hu Zongren and I started digging along the edge of the metal thing, until we dug into a box-like thing, and shook it back and forth to loosen it in the soil, and then we both worked together to lift it out.

The box is about 24 inches in size, it is rectangular, and the height is about 10 centimeters. But when Hu Zongren and I lifted it up, we found that it was not as heavy as we imagined, but light and fluttering, but there was a clear feeling that something was dangling and swaying slightly.

After putting the box down, I took a closer look, this is a copper box, no wonder dare to bury it underneath, the four walls of the box, there are many small holes the size of nail eyes, the direction of the hole is from the outside to the inside, as if someone used a nail to make countless small holes around the box. Is it for breathability? The soil here is inevitably moist due to rain, and these small holes don't let the rainwater seep in? I began to look for the opening and closing of the box, and found that there was a padlock there, but the lock was probably not made of copper, so a pound of corrosion fell, and I only tapped it with a stone, and opened the box.

Originally, this thing didn't belong to us, and we had no reason to open the box. But curiosity is hard to say, especially when Hu Zongren and I know very well that what is here is related to our metaphysics. In ancient times, a gentleman who was no matter how sanctimonious he was, when he encountered a peerless martial arts, he inevitably wanted to find out, and I think Hu Zongren and I were probably in this state of mind at that time. However, we persuaded each other that it was difficult to carry the box, so we needed to take out the contents before opening the box.

But when I opened the box, it was pitch black and I couldn't see anything, so I started shining a flashlight, and it didn't matter, and I sat on the ground in fright. In the middle of the longer direction of the box, there is a slightly raised inner box, which is roughly welded to the point of the box, and on the top there is a lid that looks like a candy box that does not need to be locked, but only needs a little force to open. It occupies a small area, but in other places, it is densely crawled with countless earthworms. Squirming repeatedly in front of me, that scene instantly reminded me of those disgusting American alien movies I watched when I was a child, and I almost threw up without holding back.

After Hu Zongren saw it, he also took two steps back, and then I realized that the small holes on the four walls of the box were used to allow earthworms to get in. So I immediately went to look at the pit we had dug, and found that although the surface was very dry, the bottom was relatively wet, and I thought that even if the river was cut off, the groundwater would not stop.

Just as I was about to persuade Hu Zongren to reach out and take out the little thing in the earthworm pile, there was a clanging sound behind my ears, like the sound of a frying pan hitting a hard object, I quickly turned around, and there were four black shadows standing in the night, but Hu Zongren was lying on the ground, covering his head and moaning in pain.