I don't know how long later, I opened my eyes in a daze, and the world was hazy, as if looking out of a rain-soaked car window. I saw a black figure gradually disappearing, I tried to struggle to get up and see the appearance of the man, just raised my head, only to feel a whirlwind of the sky, black in front of my eyes, and fainted.

When I opened my eyes again, I was already lying in a hospital bed. I sat up and saw Hu Zhouzhou and Niu Jianguo lying on the hospital bed next to me, and Yujing and the tomb robbers were gone.

I subconsciously looked through my boots, and to find them empty, there was nothing left.

It's just other things, that dagger is a relic of the second uncle. Could it be that everything has been washed away by the current? I rummaged around anxiously, and a person came in through the door, and when he saw me moving around, he rushed over and said, "Chief Zhong Dao, the doctor told you to lie down and not move freely." ”

This person is Niu Weizhong, who went to the planting base with Niu Jianguo to find me before. I hurriedly asked, "What about the things I hid in my boots before?" Niu Weizhong said, "I'm afraid that I will lose it, so I will put away all the items on your body." ”

I feel a little at ease. Niu Weizhong opened the cabinet on the side, took out a bag of things, and said Zhong Daochang, look at it, which things are yours?

There are some wallets, keys, etc., that have been soaked in water. My dagger and the silk book were among them. The only thing missing was the strange piece of jade that Qi Laoqi wanted to get.

Later, after returning to the Taoist hall, I checked it on the Internet and learned that the jade was a thing called the Jade Pig Dragon.

In the Neolithic Hongshan culture, there is a type of jade with a peculiar shape, which is called the jade pig dragon. It has a fat head and large ears, a flat snout, and a pronounced wrinkle on the bridge of the nose. These features make its head look particularly pig-like, and its curled and legged body resembles a dragon rather than a worm. This pig-headed dragon (insect)-shaped monster is difficult to find its prototype in nature, so it is very mysterious.

Generally speaking, most of the totems of primitive people come from some kind of animals and plants that objectively exist in nature, and primitive art is mostly an imitation of natural objects. Since the head of the jade pigsaurus clearly has the characteristics of a pig, most people believe that the prototype of the jade pigsaurus may have been a pig. And because its curled body is particularly insect-like, some people believe that the prototype of the jade pig dragon came from the larva grub of the beetle. According to research, the prototype of the jade pig dragon of the Hongshan culture is likely to be an early embryo of a pig.

And the shape of the jade pig dragon in the tomb of Xiaoyang is not very different from the pictures I saw on the Internet.

The dagger and the fluttering silk book can be preserved, how could the jade pig dragon disappear? Who is the footsteps that sounded in the cave of the gods? How could a cave suddenly explode? Who did I see when I first woke up? Could it be that he or she took it? What is that jade pig dragon for?

The doubts in my heart are like spring buds that continue to bloom one after another.

Hu Zhouzhou grabbed the jade mirror on the side and asked, "Where did you go when we were lying in the hospital?" Yujing said that he floated away unconsciously after staying in the hospital for half an hour, and he searched for a long time before returning to Tiandao Hall. Hu Zhouzhou looked skeptical and said, "It's this set again?" You don't fool me. We've been trapped in the cave for hours, why didn't you float away? ”

Yujing scratched her head and said that I also thought it was strange. Could it be that the cave is too big? Hu Zhouzhou said: "Less fart, how can there be such a statement!" Master, you come to judge, has this idiot been fooling us? Yujing couldn't help shouting injustice. The two quarreled.

I said impatiently, "Don't argue, I still have a lot of problems to figure out here!" ”

At this moment, two familiar figures walked in. It is Niu Jianguo and Niu Weizhong.

The two of them put on a smirk, asked me how I was recovering, and then went in unison to crusade against the tomb robbers. I was annoyed, so I simply waved my hand to make them stop, and said straight to the point: "What are you looking for me?" ”

The two glanced at each other, and Niu Weizhong stammered, "That's the case, Zhong Daochang." The matter of the Laoxian Lake Monster ......"

Suddenly, I remembered that we went to the Wushen Cave in order to solve the mystery of the Laoxian Lake water monster, and almost explained all of it there, but in the end we forgot all the original intention of going there.

I said, "You said a few weeks ago, there was a strange rumbling sound from Laoxian Lake?" ”

Niu Weizhong said: "Yes. ”

I looked at Niu Jianguo and said, "Have you heard that voice?" Is it similar to the sound we heard when the Shura pomfret emerges from the water in the Cave of the Gods? ”

Niu Jianguo patted his head: "Does Zhong Daochang mean that it is Shura pomfret that eats people in Laoxian Lake?" ”

I said, "Quite possibly." "It was only after the first flooding of the underground river in the cave that strange noises began to appear in the lake, and I guess that the river water washed some of the Shura pomfret eggs or fish fry into Laoxian Lake. These things still have ghost owls in the cave to restrain them, and they don't make a fuss when they go outside?

Niu Jianguo looked happy and said, "If it is really Shura, it will be easy to do." Zhong Daochang single-handedly killed a Shura pomfret in the cave. What are the little fish in Laoxian Lake in front of Zhong Daochang? ”

I said, "It's useless for you to put a top hat on me, I don't eat this set." The last time I killed the Shura pomfret was pure luck. Laoxian Lake is so big, I don't even know how to lure out the Shura Pomfret out, how to kill it? You can't use people as bait, right? ”

The two were anxious and said, "What then?" Chief Chung, do you leave us alone? ”

I said, "I'll go back tomorrow." I'm going to look for information tonight and see if I can find a solution. At this point, the two had no choice but to leave.

I re-flipped through the "Atlas of the Heavenly Dao" from beginning to end, and there was indeed only a small paragraph about the Shura pomfret in the book. Hu Zhouzhou suddenly said: "If we get the ghost flute, we can use the ghost owl to destroy all the Shura pomfrets in Laoxian Lake without any effort." ”

I said, "Yes! How could the ghost flute not be in the coffin of the Ghost Owl Yang King? Has someone already taken the lead? ”

Yujing said that this possibility is not very likely, and the coffin of King Yang is well sealed, and there is no trace of being opened at all. If someone had stolen the ghost flute before he entered the coffin, then why hadn't there been a character in the land of China who could control the ghost owl like King Yang for hundreds of years?

I said, "That's right, where did the ghost flute go?" ”

I spread the silk book on the table and said, "The style of the king of the ghost owl is very special, he puts all the treasures of the burial in the cave. Only a piece of jade pig dragon and this silk book were left in the coffin. It can be seen that the content recorded in the silk book must be very important. Jade Mirror, can you understand what kind of text this is? ”

Yujing studied it for a long time and said that this seemed to be the Eight Si Pa Wen.

“……”

“What？”

"What?"

Hu Zhouzhou and I blinked our eyes and looked dazed: "What 848?" ”

The jade mirror glanced at us and said, "Can you not go out of your way to prove that you are uneducated?

The Phags-pa script is a new Mongolian character created by the national teacher Phags-pa during the Kublai Khan period of the Yuan Dynasty, and is known as the "Bas-pa Mongolian New Character".

The Phags-pa script has a sound and no meaning, similar to a phonetic alphabet, and was used in the Yuan Dynasty to indicate Mongolian, Uighur, and Chinese. The state trains specialized personnel to study this article. This made the Phags-pa a noble language. The emperor sent Han officials who knew only the Phags-pa language but not the Mongolian language to convey information to the military camp. This is similar to the code, the Han officials do not know the Mongolian language, and do not understand the true meaning of the holy decree they brought, while the Mongolian generals can receive information safely and accurately.

Originally called "Mongolian New Characters", the Phags-Pa script was soon renamed "Mongolian Characters". In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1269), Kublai Khan issued an edict to implement it, and the government adopted a series of administrative measures to expand the scope of its use. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the Phags-pa was gradually abandoned.

At present, there are two kinds of names commonly used in academic circles at home and abroad, one is named according to the creator, which is called "Pasipa (character)"; The first is named according to the shape characteristics of the letters, which are called "square characters".

Hu Zhouzhou said with great admiration: "Old men with years are just different." What exactly is written on this? ”

Yujing glanced at him again, and said as a matter of course, how could I know? Are you stupid?

The corners of Hu Zhouzhou's mouth twitched, his limbs trembled, and he yelled: "Idiot old way! One day I'm going to strangle you! ”

I patted him on the shoulder in resignation and said sadly......

Although I didn't find any useful information, I decided to go to Laoxian Lake the next day. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village, Niu Jianguo came out with hundreds of people.

I was shocked, what is this situation? If I can't get rid of the lake monster, I can't leave? But why is it that each of them has a beaming face?

Niu Jianguo ran over and grabbed my hand, snorted and said with tears in his eyes: "Chief Zhong Dao, thank you so much!" ”

Thank me? Well, I was shocked.

Niu Weizhong also came over and said, "Chief Zhong, why didn't you inform us and quietly cleaned up all the water monsters in the lake?" You can't deprive us of our right to thank you! Come on, come on, no matter what, you have to appreciate your face, let's please eat! We have had two pigs killed, this pig is raised by our own village, and we have never eaten a single feed, which is truly natural and pollution-free, and we can't buy it in the city. ”

Wow! Immediately in front of my eyes, two roasted golden pigs......

No, no! Where's that? I hurriedly retracted my thoughts and said, "The water monster in the lake has been cleaned up?" ”

Niu Jianguo said: "That's right! Chung Dao Chief, you don't need to hide it anymore. We all know you helped us. Who else but you have such a great ability? "They led me and Hu Zhouzhou to the Laoxian Lake, and sure enough, we saw the corpses of four one-meter-long Shura pomfret side by side on the shore!

What's going on?

I felt a shock in my heart inexplicably, and subconsciously looked around, and suddenly found a dark figure standing at the mouth of a small alley not far away. He or she seemed to notice that I had seen him or her, and hurriedly turned around and left. I felt even more suspicious and immediately rushed through the crowd and chased after me.

By the time I got there, the man had already disappeared without a trace.