Soon we reached the bottom of the stone steps, which were not very visible in front of us due to the dim light, and at the end of the stone steps was a puddle of water, about a meter above the height of the stone steps, where we had just climbed up.

There are stone walls on both sides, and we put Heqing on the ground, holding the cold smoke and fire to check the left and right sides, and found that the stone walls on both sides extend into the water, and it is difficult to judge the specific structure here because the light is too small.

But fortunately, on the stone wall, we found two lampholders.

The lamp base is made of stone, which is connected with the entire stone wall, and the shape is a female chrysalis, kneeling with a wick in her hand. I took out a lighter from Heqing's pocket, lit the wick, and suddenly, a soybean-sized flame slowly lit up, but because the light was too weak, it didn't have much effect on us.

But something is better than nothing, so I immediately lit another wick, the reason why I was so bold was because it was a secret passage, and I suspect that it should be the green passage left by the Zhang family at the beginning of construction.

Of course, there is another situation, this passage was originally to the ultimate location, and on this basis, the Zhang family arranged a mechanism to cover this passage.

But I didn't think it was very likely, so I had the audacity to set both lampholders on fire.

After igniting, the light brightened a little, I sniffed the air carefully, there was no special smell, and it did not attract some insects, this lamp oil should be fine.

Immediately after that, I started to look at the water around me.

The things that fell with us before, listening to the sound, are not small in size, they should be the size of one person, and even I wonder if there is someone who has been following us.

However, in this tunnel, there is no one else except us, and the only person is probably the dead Heming. But what jumped down with us was obviously something tangible, and Ha Ming had already turned into pieces, even if the ghost followed us all the time, it was impossible to make any sound.

The surface of the water was dark and very calm, if it was a pool of stagnant water, there was nothing else, and similarly, there was no clue to the fat man and the others.

At this time, Jinjing suddenly said, "What is that?" She pointed to the other side.

I looked in the direction she was pointing, and saw in the distance a very large thing, floating on the water, pitch black, and no shape could be seen, and if it had not been for the intensification of the light, it would have almost merged with the darkness.

At the moment, our biggest problem is that there is not enough light source, if we have a powerful searchlight, we can see the situation here, even if there are other passages here, we can quickly detect it.

And now, we have to take the cold smoke and slowly search, maybe we can find other passages.

This place is very quiet, the fat man and the others are obviously not here anymore, and their experience at that time should be similar to me and Jinjing, except that the fat man has a searchlight on his body, and even if he falls into the water, he can quickly figure out the terrain.

That Zhang Tangrui didn't know what evil he had fallen into, he was okay with this run, but he made me bittersweet.

I only felt a pang in my heart when I looked at the shadow in the dark, and suddenly a foreboding arose in my heart, but it was not a way to stay like this, so I said, "You wait here, I'll go into the water to see if there is a passage around." "At this time, I can't let a little girl go into the water, so I can only go into battle myself.

I took off my equipment bag, jumped into the water with a cold fire, and began to swim like the huge shadow on the opposite side, it was far away, about 20 meters away, so it can be seen that the area of this waterhole we are in should be very large.

And the water is very cold, I guess it should be a link to the deep groundwater.

The further I went, the clearer the outline of the thing became, and soon I could see that it was a compass-like thing, tilted on the water, and behind the compass, next to a mountain wall, there was a large open hole in the mountain wall, and there seemed to be two figures at the entrance of the cave, which should be a stone statue or something.

I was happy in my heart, it seems that the fat man and the others should have entered here, just climb on this compass-like thing and walk along.

But to be on the safe side, I didn't rush to climb up, but swam slowly around the compass, next to the stone wall, and spent half an hour making sure that there were no other exits around before I beckoned to Jinjing and motioned for her to come with Heqing.

After a while, the two of us carried the river to the bottom of this compass-like thing, its bottom was black iron, I don't know what material it was, it had been soaked in water for so many years, and there was no sign of rust at all.

The compass is embedded in this iron pillar, and the shape is somewhat similar to the mechanism I once saw in the Wangzanghai shipwreck tomb, but the difference is still very large. The material of the compass itself should also be something like gold and iron, and after the three of us climbed up, we found that this was actually a real compass.

At first, I just thought it was like a compass, but when I climbed up, I found that it was actually the heavenly and terrestrial branches, the north and south of the stars, and the five elements of the eight trigram patterns, which were very complex and densely occupied the entire compass.

The diameter of the compass is about five meters, which is very huge, but the words on it are like a fly's head, drawing a circle of vertical and horizontal lines, the range contained is really vast, the closer to the center of things, the easier it is to understand, the above is mostly the five elements of good luck and evil and other things, but the closer to the periphery, the larger the range, and obscure, completely incomprehensible.

I asked Jinjing if she had any opinions, I thought she was a member of the Zhang family, how much should she know, but Jinjing shook his head and said: "I don't know, I counted it, its vertical and horizontal lines, a total of sixty-four circles, but the compass we usually use, most of them are eight circles, and those that can be regarded as feng shui have sixteen, this is the limit, there are sixty-four circles in this place, I really can't understand it." ”

There must be a point in placing such a thing here, I thought about studying it, but as soon as I thought of delaying any longer, the fat man and the others might run away, so I set up Heqing, and prepared to walk towards the hole behind the compass.

And at this moment, suddenly there was another sound of falling water.

Jinjing and I were stunned for a moment.

Judging from the volume of the voice, there is at least one person who is big, is it possible that another person has fallen into the water? Or is it the same as the extra voice just now?

We immediately raised our vigilance and stayed put, listening carefully.

After listening to the sound of falling water, there was no movement around, and Jinjing and I looked at each other and felt that something was wrong. Jin Jing said: "I'm afraid it's not a person, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's leave first." ”

That's what I plan, if this place is brightly lit, I'm not afraid, the key is dark, and we have a limited light source, if you really encounter something like zongzi or sea monkeys, it is really only standing and being beaten, so we set up the river clear, ready to go forward, but at this moment, from behind us, there were countless sounds of falling water, and some sounds, and extremely close to us, this time I saw clearly, it was actually a pangolin!

These pangolins have lived for many years, and some of them are like children, falling from our heads, and disappearing one by one as soon as they enter the water, just like jumping into a river.

What's going on?

How can so many pangolins pop up?

We both looked overhead at the same time, but the light source was limited, and all we could see was darkness.

At this moment, Jinjing suddenly sighed and said, "I understand!" ”

I said, "Got what?" Understand why these pangolins commit suicide? ”

Jin Jing said: "It's not this, we have met a great good thing." ”

I said, "Pangolins are quite expensive, but even if we want to sell them for money, we have to wait until your patriarch's matter is resolved." Jin Jing's eyes glared, knocked on my head, and said, "Old man, you know the flamboyant tongue, I remember what this is!" As he spoke, he pointed to the compass at our feet, completely ignoring the suicidal pangolins, and the expression on his face was very excited.

I was curious, and I couldn't help but say, "What is the origin of this thing?" ”

"Yes." Jin Jing rubbed her hands, as if to organize the language, and after a while, she said, "I ask you, what is the compass used for?" ”

I said, "Most of them are used by feng shui gentlemen, to find air pockets, and to distinguish the direction of the five elements. ”

"What else?" Kam King Road.

I thought about it, but I really can't think of any other function, the compass is rarely used in normal people's homes, and it is usually a Taoist priest or a feng shui gentleman who will flock to it, so I shook my head. Jin Jing sighed: "I will use it when I tell fortunes." Yin and Yang Mingli, Feng Shui Kanyu, and the Five Elements Gossip are all based on "Yi" as its general outline, and "Yi" is divided into three parts: "Lianshan", "Guizang", and "Zhou Yi". Among them, even the mountains and Guizang have been lost, and the modern compass is to accommodate Zhou Yi's theory, so the maximum is only sixteen, but in the numerology hexagram, it is eight eight sixty-four hexagrams for a reincarnation, the hexagram is born, and countless life phases have evolved, so as to break the life, but it is very vague, such as counting a person's good fortune and evil, most of them can only be calculated: Wu Xie, there is a bloody disaster to the east. ”

I said, "Wait, don't make an analogy with me, it's unlucky." ”

Jin Jing said: "You are unlucky enough, you are still afraid of this, don't interrupt me." Immediately afterwards, she said: "There is a bloody disaster to the east, the scope is too large, so many people do not believe in numerology, but in fact, it is not that this thing is not credible, but its theory, which is originally incomplete, it is said that even the mountains and Guizang, plus Zhou Yi, together, can just form the sixty-four hexagrams, can be very accurate budget of a person's numerology, historically, even if it is the likes of Dongfang Shuo, they have not been able to meet the sixty-four hexagrams, so I said, we have met a good thing." ”

I suddenly understood, and said, "You mean, use this thing for fortune telling?" ”

Jin Jing nodded and said, "The one who can study all the three easys thoroughly and deduce such a compass must be a great man, maybe it was our Zhang family's ancestor who did it." ”

I said, "Then your ancestor is really busy, building mechanisms and telling fortunes at the same time." I also know that this "Lianshan" and "Returning to Tibet" are said to be created by Fuxi, written into a book and Xia Dynasty, and later Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism, "Lianshan" and "Returning to Tibet" all encountered, only "Zhou Yi", because it was listed as a book of medical divination by Prime Minister Li Si, so it was spared. Since there are sixty-four all-performing horoscopes in this place, it is at least a matter of the Qin Dynasty, your Zhang family ancestor should still be herding cattle in Tibet at that time, right? ”