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When Lady Wu went down to the pit, the sky was already overcast, and the clouds came to see her off, and the wind came to greet her. The further down you go, the cool breeze becomes a cold wind, and the cold from the outside to the inside can be imagined.

Wucheng, who was the first to go down to the sinkhole before, although there was fear, the dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and he looked down on it when he was desperate, he was the guts to eat thunder, and went down to the bottom of the rock crevice, the bronze frame fell to the ground, and there was a sound, and it hit the many burdens that had been put down before, and several birds flew up.

Wucheng untied the safety rope, only took a few steps, walked out of the crack, and suddenly opened up in front of him, and the outside was on the half-rock of the sinkhole.

Habitually turning his long neck twice, Wu Cheng looked around, and sure enough, as the strong man who gently robbed the property expected, he reached the top of a stone step.

The steps were more than a foot and a half wide, fairly flat, with small grass shivering in the wind, and a few small shrubs whose names were unknown, presumably seeds from birds. Beyond the stairs is the second level of cliffs, and it is impossible to see how high it is below.

Wucheng looked up at the road, only to see a crack about five or six zhang wide extending upward, the left and right sides of the rock crevice were straight, and occasionally some wild grasses, vines and small shrubs grew in the rock crevices.

On the way down, Wucheng has seen clearly, although the bottom (inside) surface of this crack is not completely smooth, sometimes concave and convex, the overall is relatively flat, and it is not a straight nose, but has a certain slope, and the bronze frame is sliding down along this stone wall, not starting to hang down as I thought. However, with the exception of reptiles and birds such as geckos that can walk freely on smooth walls, it is impossible for any animal to climb without external force.

Wu Cheng thought to himself, "I hope that the reason why the locals are afraid to come down to the present position is entirely because of the fear brought about by the legend, and even, maybe there have been bold people who have visited this place, but only for this reason." ”

Wu Cheng looked up at the way he came, and shouted a few times to it: "Mother!" No one answered, only a buzzing echo.

Wu Cheng turned around, looked at the four directions of the sinkhole, left, right, front, and down, confused, couldn't see the end clearly, and said secretly: "Could it be that you are starving to death here?" ”

He was still awake to the danger, and the first thing he needed was to find the sword from the bag he had put down earlier.

Wucheng lifted the sword, and then came to the edge of the cliff to check, first to the right, out of a short distance, it became narrower and narrower, until the man and beast could not walk; turned around and walked to the left more than 20 steps, found that there is a section of steps that are two or three times wider than the front and back sections, about three or four zhang wide, about seven or eight zhang long, about half a person high from the step surface, there are two holes, five or six steps apart, the size of the hole is about the same, all about one and a half feet high.

Wu Cheng did not think about continuing from the cave at first, so he went further and found a vague picture on the stone wall, and did not look closely, and then he saw that the steps were narrower and narrower, as on the right, until they disappeared into the cliff.

There is no way forward, Wucheng returns to the widest part of the steps, stands a few steps away from the second cave entrance and looks into the cave, only to see the visible light, the hole obliquely extends downward, there are sparse and sparse stalagmites in it, but there is no trace of flowing water, and the cave can still walk.

Suddenly, three beast heads emerged from the cave, looking out, Wu Cheng had never seen such a wild thing, "shhh

Wu Cheng was startled and said, "What monster?"

Wu Cheng returned to his original position, holding a sword in his right hand, listening to all directions, to prevent being attacked by a sneak attack, looking up and waiting for the news of the second mother, who did not come down for a long time, I don't know why, I expected that the property was useful, and I had to put it down slowly, and went to see the entrance of the cave again, and saw that there were also stalagmites in the first cave, and I could also walk, but the direction was upward. Wu Cheng thought that if he wanted to get out of the sinkhole, he must go up, and he was about to go inside to check it carefully, when he heard his mother's cry, he knew that he was coming, and he rushed to get it and helped her out of the bronze frame.

Lady Wu was frightened all the way, but at this time she was overjoyed: her son was still a living creature. A heart was finally put back in half of its place for the time being.

The lady sat on the ground panting, and the son comforted him with words that he was not good at.

Madame's anger was a little even, and Wu Cheng said: "I checked carefully, and when I got here, there was no way out except for the two life-saving holes, but I didn't know whether it was possible or not." ”

Madame snorted, "You let me rest for a while." Wait until your father comes down. ”

After a long time, Wu Zhen's face turned pale, and she didn't care about her own frightening, so she comforted her wife first. Fortunately, none of the three of them have a fear of heights, otherwise they would have fallen into a coma.

I heard that there was a hole, so Wu Zhen came to check it out, and first checked the first irregular hole.

Wu Zhen said: "This is a natural stone cave. He didn't know that later generations called karst caves, and this area belongs to karst landforms, and there are many such caves.

Wu Cheng said: "This still needs to be said!"

Wu Zhen said: "I heard that more than a dozen people have been put down in the past dynasties, but there is not a single bone here, which shows that the cave is passable." Now that you have come here, life or death is up to fate. ”

Wu Cheng said: "If it is a monster that eats and does not spit out bones, it is unknown." ”

Wu Zhen hated her son and said, "Your mother's soul has only returned to half of the place, and what are you doing with these afraid people!"

Wu Cheng pointed to the second cave and said, "It's not that I deliberately want to be scary, it's that there was a monster in the hole over there just now." ”

Wu Zhen said: "What monster?"

"I've never seen that thing with a body, three green skulls. ”

Wu Zhen looked at the inside of the cave, thought for a while, and said, "Is it Shuangshuang?"

Madame said, "What do you mean by Shuangshuang?"

Wu Zhen said: "That beast is named Shuangshuang. ”

Madame said, "Cannibalism?"

Wu Zhen shook her head and said, "I don't know. But I remember that it is recorded in the "Book of Mountains". But it's an ancient thing, how can it be here?

Wu Cheng was unconvinced: "You haven't been scared stupid yet!"

Wu Zhen wondered: "Could it be that the sinkhole is not synchronized with the outside, and it is still an ancient era? It's a pity that the volume of the "Book of Mountains" borrowed from someone else was roughly read, so it was borrowed by Dr. Zhuang Zhi first, otherwise there may be a reference. ”

Wu Cheng said: "At this time, you are still talking about this!"

Let's look at the second hole. Wu Cheng's eyes were sharp this time, and he said, "It seems that there are words." ”

Wu Zhen looked closely, sure enough, there were words engraved on the stone wall above the entrance of the cave, due to a long time and weathering, it was not very real, Wu Zhen looked at the handwriting, carefully pondered, guessed that it was the three words "Cave in the Center of the Earth". I wondered in my heart: "How can there be a script invented here?"

Since there are words in this hole, maybe the first hole should also have words.

Before returning to the first hole, Wu Zhen stood on her son's shoulder, gently wiped the dust above the hole, and sure enough, three handwritings appeared, but they still couldn't see it really, guessing that it was "Tianzu Cave", and I was even more puzzled.

Wu Cheng said: "What is written on it?"

"This one is the Tianzu Cave, and the other one is the Earth's Heart Cave. ”

Wucheng said: "The sky is yang, the earth is yin, the upper is yang, the lower is yin, life is yang, and death is yin." I look at Yingyang Cave Tianzu Cave, or I can get out of the sinkhole. ”

Wu Zhen shook her head slightly, and then carefully observed it before she said: "The sinkhole is originally a cathode place, there is no way to go to the sky, and there may be a door to enter the ground." I think it's a yin hole. ”

Wu Cheng knew that his father didn't know whether he was right or not, and said, "There is another picture in front. ”

The three of them went not far from the second cave, and found on the smooth stone wall a sketch of a blurred pointed instrument, composed of three parts: the lower part was shaped like a canoe, the middle part was shaped like a wooden ladder, and the upper part was in the shape of a sun. There are two people tall and short in the three sections.

Wu Zhen said: "This is the moment of despair of predecessors. ”

Madame said: "When you enter the Ba realm, you see similar patterns in many places, what do you mean?"

Wu Zhen said: "The bottom is engraved with a coffin, the middle is engraved with a ladder, and the top one represents the day." This means that after death, a person first crosses the treacherous waters in a canoe, and then ascends the ladder to heaven. This must have been carved by the Ba people who had entered the sinkhole before, hoping to ascend to heaven along this ladder. ”

Wu Cheng said "hey" and said: "This ladder is not as long as my feet, and the pit can't come out yet, so what kind of heaven can I go to! I heard my father once say that there is a ladder on Dengbao Mountain, why is there a ladder here?"

Wu Zhen said: "Dengbao Mountain is a ladder for witches to travel between heaven and earth, perhaps, the ladder here is also carved by a wizard. ”

Wu Cheng said: "It doesn't matter if he's a wizard or a swordsman, I think he's a fool!"

Madame said: "It is useless to say such resentful words. Today I was scared half to death, seeing that the sky was dark again, I first rested in the cave for one night, whether I wanted to die or live, and waited for tomorrow. ”

Father and son said "yes".

Wu Cheng went to carry all the luggage, opened the bag, and found that Guo Wuyuan had prepared a lot of things, including three bronze knives, several cypress skins soaked in animal oil, dry food, ropes, and so on.

The family ate the dry food prepared for them by Guo Wuyuan, drank the water in the water bladder, and saw that the wind was light at this time, so they sat down at the entrance of the Tianzu Cave. The father and son took turns on duty.

That night, the wind was fierce, the thunder and lightning were shining, and the rain was pouring down, and the three of them had to go into the hole in the center of the earth. The heavy rain stopped in three shifts, and the rainwater poured into the hole, but fortunately there was a high ridge inside that could be footholded. The family spent the first night of the sinkhole in trembling and trembling.

Early the next morning, there was a fog, and there was no object in a few steps, and the three of them did not dare to come out of the hole.

An hour later, the sky suddenly cleared, and the three of them went out of the cave, and as far as they could see, there was still a thick fog underneath.

Wu Zhen said: "There is no way out, and eat a full meal, cheer up, and then go into the cave in the center of the earth to see if there are any monsters." ”

While eating dry food, while drying firewood and clothes, it was gratifying that the sky was shining brightly, and before noon, the things that were wet last night were already dry.

Wucheng took the fire, lit the torch, and the three of them put on their suits, Wucheng held the torch in front, the lady was in the middle, and Wuzhen was behind and entered the door of the cave stone in the center of the earth.

The three of them entered the hole, carefully groped forward, and found that it was a natural hole, twisting and turning, there were stalagmites from time to time, and stone stalactites could also be seen, the scenery was still very good, but it could be seen that there was no running water or dripping water in it, and the hole was in an inactive period, indicating that the cave was very ancient.

The cave extends all the way to the ground, and from time to time you can see animal bones, as well as a small number of human bones, and I don't know whether it leads to heaven or hell.

Halfway through, there was a branch hole that was oblique upward, Wu Zhen thought that he should still insist on walking downward, he didn't know that this branch cave was actually connected with Tianzu Cave.

As time passed, the cypress veneer became less and less, and the exit was still unknown, and even whether there was an exit, it was a big problem, and the three of them became more and more worried. The more worried, the less talked.

After walking for more than an hour, the three of them were soaked with sweat, and all the cypress bark was finally burned.

At this moment, hope was extinguished again and at the same time! It was pitch black all around, and I couldn't see my fingers, and the deepest fear struck.

Wu Cheng scolded first: "Guo Lao'er doesn't have much bark to prepare!"

The lady sighed: "Now, walking is death, stopping is also death, and walking is tired, it is better to rest first." ”

Wu Zhen said: "When the torch is burned, you have to rest if you don't stop." ”

The three of them sat against the wall of the cave, still in the order of entering the cave.

In the dark, Wu Zhen repented: "Maybe you should go to the Yang Cave." ”

Madame said: "When your father and son were arguing, I was thinking: The two holes should be impassable, otherwise what is the point of no return? Now this way of death, there is a whole corpse. ”

Take a break. Mrs. said: "Waiting for death here is not a way, slowly groping forward, maybe there is a way to live." ”

Wu Zhen said: "Rest for a while, let me think about it." The sound of breathing gradually calmed down, then weakened, and the three of them were physically and mentally exhausted, half awake and half asleep.

After a long time, Madame opened her eyes, felt a faint fire in front of her, and said, "There is fire." ”

Wu Zhen woke up, looked at it for a while, and said, "That's spiritual fire, also known as ghost fire." ”

The lady said: "Ghost fire is also fire, follow along." ”

Calling Wu Cheng, he walked a long way in the direction of the ghost fire that appeared from time to time, and even the ghost fire was gone.

Wu Zhen said: "Touch it a little more to see if you can see the spiritual fire again." ”

The three of them were one foot deep and one shallow, exhausted, and they felt the stone wall for a short time, and there was complete darkness in front of them, and fear hit them, suffocating, and they had to stop again.

After a short time, Wucheng felt that there were faint white spots in the dark cave, and slowly, the dim white expanded. Slowly moving along the white, Wu Cheng saw a glimmer of light. shouted loudly: "There is light!" This voice was like a shout when entering the ghost gate and escaping, it was very out of tune, and the couple suddenly trembled with shock.

Following the light, I walked slowly, and the light became brighter and brighter, and it was a hole.

Finally out of the hole, the lady cried with joy, and the father and son thanked the heavens.

Wu Zhen sighed: "If it weren't for the spiritual fire emitted by the bones of the predecessors or wild creatures to guide us, we would have starved to death in the cave." ”

The three of them faced the entrance of the cave and performed a simple thank-you ceremony.

After worshipping, they looked back at the inside of the sinkhole, and the three of them were all surprised: in the distance, the clouds and mist were shrouded, in the middle and far away, layer by layer of emerald green, and in the near distance, strange rocks and plants, birds and flowers. What a beautiful scenery!

The three of them thought that the sinkhole was so terrible, it must be a vicious mountain and a bad water, and the skeletons were piled up, and the scene in front of them was too great, and the psychological contrast was too great.

Wu Cheng looked up to the sky and laughed: "The Ba people are so stupid! The sinkhole is so beautiful, why be afraid!"

The lady stopped, "This is the place, don't be arrogant! I think that the calmer the place, the less safe it is." ”

Suddenly, there were several crisp eagle calls in the sky, and when I looked up, an eagle soared high in the sky.

Wu Cheng said: "This eagle may have flown from outside the pit. It's just so high, but the voice is so crisp. "I wish I had a pair of wings myself.

No matter how good the scenery is, it can't be linked to safety. The three of them were excited, but they once again didn't know what the future would hold, so they had to leave the hole and go down a thatched road.

Looking at the front and back of the left and right, there are pleasant landscapes, but the most bizarre are the stones here, or small stone forests, or stone teeth are independent, those stones are like honeycombs, or like animals, plants, and some, imagine what it looks like like anything, different types, dizzying - the three people don't know, this landform, has a history of 5 billion to 300 million years, called karst terrain. The mysterious geological scene in this area, together with the sword-shaped, columnar and tower-shaped karst of Yunnan Stone Forest and the forest karst of Libo in Guizhou, form the core area of the South China Karst World Natural Heritage Site.

Towards a steep downward grass road, about two or three miles, is a large area of gently sloping land.

As I continued to walk, I saw a large square stone in front of me, and a tall tree grew in the center of the stone.

There are birds flying on the big tree, and it is estimated that there are nests of birds in the tree. The lady said, "How can that tree grow on a stone?"

Wu Cheng said: "It's not real from a distance, go down and take a look." ”

After turning a few corners, taking some turns, and going down a few hundred steps, I couldn't tell which direction the north and south were in.

There is a cypress forest in front, past the woods, and then a small flower meadow, and then more than 200 steps, to the big rock.

The boulder is on all sides, this side is the lowest, and there are two or three people high, Wucheng didn't say a word, helped a trot, and "poofed" to the ground.

The lady looked up and said, "You can go up like a monkey and ignore me?"

Wucheng was really like a monkey, jumped down again, hugged a few stones to form a ladder, first went up, and then stretched out his hand to lift his parents up.

On the big stone, I saw that it was not a whole stone, but four big stones, and countless medium stones and small stones around it were mostly covered by flowers and plants. Around the boulder, it is relatively flat and has a slight gentle slope.

Wu Zhen walked around the first boulder and said, "This is a boulder rolled down from the cliff, broken in half here. ”

The four stones are about the same size, the stone surface is flat, and in the middle of the four large stones, there is a large gap, and the big tree grows out of the gap.

Wu Zhen sighed: "This is really called seeing the pin." I am also well-informed, this tree is like a pine but not a pine, it is not famous, it is not like the three trees, the three mulberry trees, the immortal tree, the fusang tree, and it is not like the tree, is it not like the tree, is it a strange tree?"

Wu Cheng pointed with his hand and said, "On the big stone surface on the left outside, there are big characters engraved on it. ”

Wu Zhen said: "I saw it a long time ago. The three big characters are 'Sifang Monument', and the two lines of small lettering below are 'Three Talents and Five Lines, extending in all directions'.

Wu Zhen didn't know what to mean, and jumped on the big stone with words. Looking carefully at those eight words, I wanted to see if there was any hint in them, but I couldn't understand it for a while, and I couldn't imagine who carved it, so I said in my heart: "Who else can do it except ghosts?"