Chapter 11: Totem Poles
Batu was drenched at the moment, apparently floating up from the water, and when he saw us, not to mention how excited he was, it was estimated that a person suddenly fell into this place, and was frightened enough. I also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Batuu, how did you get out of the water?" After speaking, I remembered that he couldn't speak Chinese, and he probably couldn't understand what I said.
Batu was still holding a wet flashlight in the water, emitting a faint light, fortunately we were carrying waterproof equipment, otherwise he fell down before, and there was no light source, I'm afraid he would really be scared to death here.
After I finished speaking, I suddenly felt that Batu's expression was wrong, and after his surprise, his expression became panicked, and he was talking in Mongolian that we didn't understand, and his expression became a little flustered, gesturing in his hand, as if there was something urgent.
Batu, who knew some simple Chinese, saw that we were puzzled, so he stammered: "Next...... Water, below. He pointed to the water, and the three of us couldn't help but look at each other.
Is there something underwater?
Zhong Gong immediately took the initiative to go down and take a look, and then a fierce man plunged into the water, and I also wanted to figure it out, so I also took a deep breath and dived underwater.
Under the light, the deep sediment gathered at the bottom of the water, even if there was something underneath, it was mostly covered by the sediment, and nothing could be seen at all, only occasionally some protrusions were exposed, Zhong Gong and I pulled out two at random to look at them, and found that they were some gravel chips, which had no value. At this moment, the light turned and I suddenly realized that something was wrong, because it was a square room, but when I hit the southeast corner, I saw a stone pillar standing in the corner.
The stone pillar and the surrounding stone wall are obviously not the same material, the stone is slightly blackened, and the skin has not peeled off after soaking in the water for so long, so after Zhong Gong and I got closer, the surface shape of the stone pillar can be seen clearly. I immediately concluded that this was supposed to be a totem pole, and that it was the kind of thing that every household had. Because this pillar is not too thick, the shape is clumsy, and the surface is carved with some birds and animals. If you look closely, the shapes of these birds are strange, and none of them are normal.
Among these birds, there is one animal that stands out, and that thing is carved into the top of the totem pole, which is impressively shaped like a whirring man. I knew in my heart that we were looking for something right, and that the rest was just a matter of time and energy.
As soon as this thought came to my head, I suddenly found that the totem pole on the Woo Duo, the eyeballs suddenly turned, emitting a green demon light, in this underwater world, and at this moment, I was staring at the Woo Duo intently, suddenly like this, in this underwater world, I was so shocked that I almost choked on the water.
However, I was shocked, and when I opened my eyes again, the eyeballs were motionless again, as if the qiē just now was my hallucination. I have experienced too many strange things, I don't dare to be careless, and I made a careful gesture to Zhong Gong under the water. He seemed to see what had just happened, and his expression became very nervous, and he and I slowly approached the totem pole, one left and one right, and the searchlight shone directly on the fox-like pointed face of Woo Duo.
As the distance narrowed, I suddenly realized that the eyes of Hu Duo were actually hollowed out, and two cyan orbs were placed in them as eyeballs.
The water here was originally stable, we went into the water, and the water around us was secretly pushing, making the things in the eyeballs move, and the cyan ball turned, reflecting the flashlight slightly, and when we looked at it, we thought something was wrong.
My heart was relieved, the secret road was unlucky, I was startled as soon as I got into the water, could it be that Batu was so panicked just now, and he was also frightened by this pair of fake eyeballs? Although I haven't studied shamanic culture in depth, I do know that Husha Duo is just one of many totem worships. It is carved at the highest point of the pillar, the largest in size, and a pair of false eyeballs are installed, it seems that the status is not low, the ancestors of this site, should be very awe-inspiring and humbling.
In addition to this totem pole, there is a passage underwater, but it is completely blocked by mud and sand, and it is impossible to clear it with our manpower, so it is impossible to go there
Immediately after, Zhong Gong and I surfaced on the surface and told Zhen Rui about the underwater situation, he frowned, his face looked very strange under the light, and finally I saw that Batu seemed to have been in the water for too long, and he couldn't support it, and he was a little excited, so he said, "Let's go out first." "When the four of them returned the same way, it was almost dawn, we ran all day yesterday, and at night we had been cutting tree trunks and robbing holes to save people, almost a day and a night without closing our eyes, and when we came out at this time, we felt that everything was secondary, and we would sleep first, and then we would not take off our wet clothes, and we would not be able to open our eyelids when we were paralyzed on the ground.
But no one asked me to stop, so Tofu immediately shook my shoulder and said, "Don't sleep yet, what's going on next?" ”
I said, "Go ask Zhong Gong, I'm tired." ”
Tofu stretched out his two hands, forcibly opened my eyelids, glared at me, and said, "He's dead from sleep." ”
I said, "Ask Qiangrui." ”
Tofu said: "It's not that you don't know that the yin and yang face likes to go against me, one or two, forget it, I also sleep." However, this sleep was not peaceful, and faintly, I heard the voices of Ouyang Xuan and Tofu talking, and occasionally there was the voice of Zhen Rui.
I couldn't understand why these people didn't sleep, and finally had to force themselves to open their eyes. At this time, I saw Tofu, Ouyang Xuan, Zhen Rui and Batu sitting around the fire, and the rest of them also slept to death like me.
In the firelight, the faces of the four men were also full of exhaustion, but I noticed that this exhaustion seemed to be ignored by them, and in its place, it was a strange appearance.
I said to myself, Is there something wrong? Thinking so, he patted his face, made himself more energetic, and walked among them. Ouyang Xuan glanced at me, with a frightened look in her big eyes, and said, "...... Why is there such a thing, does it just hide nearby? ”
I couldn't hear it clearly, so I whispered to the tofu next to me, "What's going on?" ”
Tofu gestured to Batu with his eyes and said, "Batu said that when he went into the water, he saw a stone pillar. ”
I said, "I saw it too, what does it matter?" ”
Tofu swallowed and said, "He said that there was a little child hiding behind the stone pillar, with a big mouth and fangs, and he smiled at him and disappeared." I was taken aback and said, "Is this true?" ”
Tofu said angrily: "Lying to you is a puppy." ”
Then I realized that Batu had come out of the water, and that the reason why he looked frightened was not because he was frightened by the whirring priest, but because he was frightened by something else. It was only when the four of us were underwater and did not understand the language that we misinterpreted Batu's meaning. Therefore, Batu came ashore, and he didn't care about being tired, so he immediately pulled Ouyang Xuan to translate and signaled us to strengthen our vigilance.
After Tofu finished speaking, he swallowed his saliva and said, "Isn't it haunted down there?" ”
I looked at the sky, the sky has revealed the morning glow, the sun has revealed a little orange arc, the heaven and the earth are in a state of unclear, but according to the folk saying, even if there are ghosts, this little master does not dare to come out to make trouble.
A child with a big mouth and fangs, hiding behind a pillar? Still laughed at Batu?
What could that be? Why didn't Zhong Gong and I see it when we went into the water?
Could it be that it is really a soft rice dumpling?
Subconsciously, I looked at the corpse fairy next to me, and said that if it is a zongzi, I don't have to be afraid, just use it as a tonic for the corpse fairy. Tofu also touched his chin and said: "There is wood, in fact, we don't have to worry about any soft zongzi and hard zongzi, it is a zongzi sucker, come and eat one by one." But what if it's not a rice dumpling? For example, the legendary Whistor who eats people and can replant them? Does it count as a zongzi? ”
Zhen Rui estimated that he had a grasp of the crow's mouth of tofu, and his always lukewarm expression also froze, and his eyes stared coldly at tofu.
Tofu forced his face and said, "Look at what, I'm just more handsome than you, and it's useless to be jealous." ”
Zhen Rui said: "Believe it or not, if I fix you, no one can protect you, and he can't." He gestured to me with a look.
Tofu said provocatively: "I don't believe you dare to touch me." ”
Zhen Rui smiled, his body shook, and he saw a hand pinching Tofu's neck, and before I could react, Tofu had already shouted: "The hero spares his life......"
Ouyang Xuan pouted, her beautiful eyes were angry, and she pointed to the tofu and said, "You are not serious at all, you are not allowed to make our boss angry, otherwise I will beat you!" Tofu was hit hard, and said, "Xuanxuan, don't I joke with him, don't be angry." ”
There is a way that one thing descends one thing, as soon as this kid met Ouyang Xuan, he was obedient like his grandson, I was angry and funny, and I said in my heart, why haven't I seen you so obedient. Instead, he snorted, took the topic over, and said, "Forget it, don't care what it is, it's a dead end down there, and we don't need to go down anyway." It's going to be dawn in a while, and it will be safer when it dawns. ”
Tofu said, "Xuanxuan, you go to sleep first, we'll guard here." ”
Ouyang Xuan cautiously approached the place where Zhen Rui was sitting, and said, "Forget it, you can sleep by yourself, and I will guard with the master." ”
I looked at Tofu's lost look, and I was shocked, thinking to myself, could this kid be real? Tofu I understand, he usually doesn't care about everything, but he is very affectionate, he has been in twenty-seven objects before, most of them show that they are confused by his occupation and appearance, after a long time of contact, after knowing his nature, he kicked him, in his twenty-fifth original words: "It's not like finding a boyfriend, I want to find a son who worries about everything......"
This Ouyang Xuan is desperate for Zhen Rui at first glance, what if the tofu is deeply affectionate in the end?
I couldn't help frowning, and a feeling of worry about my son's early love with a bad woman rose in my heart.