Zhao Xuan sat at the water's edge, panting heavily, the dozens of seconds of fighting were much more tiring than the previous two hours.

"It's not hurt, is it?" Zhang Yuan took off his clothes and pants, wrung out the water, and shook it vigorously one by one before putting it on his body, while Zhao Xuan said: "This baby fish actually didn't bite you, this is going to take a bite, and definitely tear off a piece of meat." ”

"Thankfully, if the water was a little deeper, I really don't know what to do." Zhao Xuan came back to his breath and said to Zhang Yuan while gasping for breath.

"Alright, let's rest for a while." Zhang Yuan didn't ask Zhao Xuan to help, and sorted out his backpack by himself. took out the electronic equipment in a plastic bag, and found that there was no water, so he said to Zhao Xuan: "It's good that it has two layers." ”

Zhao Xuan rested for a while, and finally came to his senses. also wrung out his clothes like Zhang Yuan, and then helped Zhang Yuan put things back in his bag.

The two of them then picked up their bags and walked back along the guidance of the fishing line.

Nothing happened along the way, and the two returned to the position where the fishing line was tied.

"Put it here, I'll have to use it next time." Zhang Yuan asked Zhao Xuan to directly throw the fishing line in his hand on the ground, took out the nylon rope from his bag, tied one end as before, handed the other end to Zhao Xuan, and said, "You have to tie it the same as before, otherwise it will be affected." ”

Seeing Zhao Xuan tie the rope, Zhang Yuan nodded, took out his mobile phone again, turned on the music, and opened the road in front of him with his bag.

Zhao Xuan also followed and walked back, and after a while, he saw the light coming from the entrance of the cave. After a short walk forward, you can already see the entrance to the cave.

Zhao Xuan raised his head and glanced at the entrance of the cave, which made Zhao Xuan stunned on the spot again.

A dark figure stands at the entrance of the cave.

"Zhang Yuan, do you see it?" Zhao Xuan trembled and pointed to the entrance of the cave and asked Zhang Yuan: "There is a person at the entrance of the cave." ”

"People? Who? Zhang Yuan also stopped, looked up at the entrance of the cave, and then turned his head and asked Zhao Xuan, "What do you see again?" I didn't see it! ”

Just when Zhang Yuan asked Zhao Xuan in a babbling voice, Zhao Xuan heard the voice again: "Zhao Xuan." ”

Zhao Xuan's hair rose and trembled.

"Zhao Xuan!"

I don't know how long it took before Zhao Xuan heard a shout in his ear. When he came back to his senses, he found Zhang Yuan standing in front of him, holding his arm with both hands, and constantly calling his name.

Seeing that Zhao Xuan came back to his senses, Zhang Yuan asked anxiously, "Are you okay?" ”

Zhao Xuan raised his head and found that the figure had disappeared again. Taking a deep breath, he grinned at Zhang Yuan and said, "It's okay." Didn't you really see that just now? It's right at the mouth of the cave. ”

"Nope." Zhang Yuan shook his head and said, "After you just finished speaking, you didn't agree to anything. ”

"How long will it last?"

"I didn't see it, I probably called you a dozen times."

Zhao Xuan rubbed his face vigorously and said, "Let's talk about it when we go out." ”

Zhang Yuan didn't say anything more, just nodded, patted Zhao Xuan's shoulder, turned around and walked back.

The two walked back to the waterhole without saying a word.

Zhao Xuan walked to the edge of the pool, bent down, picked up the water and washed his face, and the cold spring water finally made Zhao Xuan come back to his senses a little.

Zhang Yuan sat on the side, and when he saw Zhao Xuan coming over a little later, he asked again, "Is it better?" ”

"It's better." Zhao Xuan nodded, sat next to Zhang Yuan, and confirmed with Zhang Yuan again: "You really didn't see it?" ”

"Not really." Zhang Yuan shook his head, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said, "It's still what I told you before, it's something in your head." Have you ever wondered? ”

Zhang Yuan raised his index finger and tapped his head, and continued: "Why is it that every time you see this figure calling your name, it is when your senses are affected? ”

"If you say that, someone ...... such a memory" Zhao Xuan considered the words and said: "'Implanted' into my mind? ”

"I can't rule out this possibility, when I go back to the institute, find a psychotherapist to hypnosis and try it, I can't figure it out." Zhang Yuan stood up and said to Zhao Xuan: "Don't talk about this, go back and rest for a while, and go down again tomorrow." If it doesn't work, then there is no way, you can only wait for professional equipment. ”

When Zhao Xuan also stood up, Zhang Yuan patted Zhao Xuan's shoulder and said, "You don't have to think much about this, if this black shadow is really Director Zhao, then there must be a reason for him to do this." ”

"That's right." Zhao Xuan nodded, and asked again: "But why, every time I feel so scared?" There's no reason for that. ”

Zhang Yuan bent down to pick up his backpack and spoke to Zhao Xuan: "I'm also very strange about this, anyway, you and Director Zhao have nothing to do with each other, when the two of them disappeared, they didn't have you, right?" Could it be after the disappearance? ”

"I don't know. I really don't know Director Zhao. Forget it, go back and ask your uncle if he knows something. ”

Zhao Xuan couldn't figure it out, but no matter how much he thought about it, it was useless, so he could only put it aside and not dwell on it.

The two went all the way back to Sanqingguan and found that the Taoist priests were all by the well in the backyard, and the believers were standing not far away and pointing.

Bypassing a group of believers, Zhao Xuan found that the ground in the entire backyard was full of water.

Some of the Taoist priests are sweeping the water with brooms, while others are maintaining order and keeping the believers from approaching.

"Dao Chief." "Senior brother." Seeing the abbot standing by the well to command, the two stepped forward to say hello.

The abbot's name is Chen Kunsong, and the inheritance of the Zhengyi faction is relatively chaotic, unlike Quanzhen, and it is still sorted by generation. Zhang Yuan can only be called a senior brother.

Chen Kunsong is in his forties, if you just look at his face, he is an ordinary person, and he can't tell that he is a Taoist priest.

"Layman, junior brother." Chen Kunsong saluted the two and said, "This is too busy, the two of you can do it yourself." ”

"What's wrong?" Zhang Yuan didn't see it, handed the backpack to Zhao Xuan, went to the wall and grabbed a bamboo broom, and asked while helping to sweep the water.

"The well is gushing." When Chen Kunsong saw it, he didn't stop it, and said with a smile on the side: "There will be a few times a year, and it's not unusual, but there are more pilgrims this year, so don't they all gather here to see the strange." ”

"When? I went out in the morning and didn't see it, it's a pity. Zhang Yuan said casually.

"Two hours, huh?" Chen Kunsong said: "It lasted for more than ten minutes, and nothing happened." ”

No more asked, Zhang Yuan was there chatting with Chen Kunsong while working.

Zhao Xuan saw that there was nothing wrong, so he returned to the guest room with his bag on his back and packed up the things in the bag by the way.

I tossed in the cave before, and the things in the bag were already soaked, so I should wipe it and dry it.

Before the things were finished, Zhang Yuan came back.

"Come on, that's going to save you a lot of trouble." As soon as Zhang Yuan entered the door, he said to Zhao Xuan.

"What's the trouble?"

"This well water is abnormal." Zhang Yuan casually threw his coat on the back of the chair, sat down with him, and said: "Calculate the time, this well water is the same time as the spring water in the cave, and it is connected underground, so we can complete it in one investigation." ”

"You're saying the anomaly is caused by the vault?" Zhao Xuan asked while packing his things.

"Nine times out of ten. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the sudden abnormality of a well. Zhang Yuan saw that Zhao Xuan had also finished cleaning up, and said, "Let's go, let's eat." ”

The two of them tossed back and forth for three or four hours, and it was almost eleven o'clock, and the clothes and shoes were already dry.

When he came back from eating, Zhao Xuan changed his clothes.

When he was about to take the clothes on his body to wash, Zhao Xuan found that his clothes and pants had been scratched with a lot of small cuts, all of which were three or five centimeters long, which should have been scratched by a baby fish.

If it weren't for Zhang Yuan's extra words, this would be on his body.

This time it saves trouble, you don't need to wash it at all, you just throw it away.

Nothing happened in the afternoon and evening, and the two of them helped out in the Taoist temple, and that's it.

If it weren't for Zhang Yuan handing over a zongzi at dinner at night, Zhao Xuan would have forgotten that today was the Dragon Boat Festival.

The next morning, the two of them got up early to go to the morning class as they had done the day before, and then went back to the room to rearrange the contents of the backpack, removing some unnecessary things and adding some others. Back to the small waterhole.

The water level of the small waterhole has also dropped, but it is not much, and it is obviously not the same groundwater as the spring underground.

He walked back to the cave, and instead of rushing back into the cave, he went to check on the other cave.

As Zhang Yuan had speculated, the cave on the other side was facing upwards, and the top of the cave had been covered with dense plants, with only sporadic light streaming through. Facing downwards is a waterhole.

The slope of the cave is very steep, there is no road up or down, only a small platform at the entrance of the cave, and the two people are a little crowded when they stand.

Zhao Xuan didn't see any traces of artificiality, so he turned his head and asked Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan pointed to the top of the cave and said, "This kind of cave, if it is naturally formed, it is straight up and straight down, do you see this like?" The highest part is artificially opened.

Song Shaozhen and they should arrive tomorrow afternoon, and they will know by then. ”

Zhao Xuan didn't care about this problem.

The two of them went into the cave one after the other, and walked back to the place where they had put the fishing line.

Zhao Xuan did a night of psychological construction last night, planning to encounter a black shadow again, whether it is in his heart or real, he must ask carefully, but he did not encounter it today.

"I came in today and was unaffected." Zhang Yuan took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, turned his back again, and said to Zhao Xuan: "Hang the fishing line on the backpack." ”

Zhao Xuan straightened out the fishing line, hung it on a quick-release buckle in his backpack, tried to turn it, and walked forward.

The only difference from yesterday is that the ground is slippery and more difficult to walk in the area where the spring has been flooded.

The two of them walked back to the rock hall, only to find that the spring was gone, and only a dark hole remained.

Zhang Yuan put the backpack next to him, put his head to the entrance of the cave and looked down, and sighed, "It's really in a waterhole." What are you doing hiding so deeply? ”

Zhao Xuan also came over, the entrance of the cave was about the same size as the previous spring, almost vertically oblique downward, on the stone wall on the edge of the cave, artificially dug out a hole the size of half a foot, all the way to the bottom, it should be used to climb.

"Well, no diving, no climbing." Zhang Yuan took out the rope from his bag, found a thick stone pillar nearby, tied it at one end, and pulled it back by pushing the stone pillar hard, and tried it without any problem.

Then tie a knot every meter or so, tie the whole length of rope until the knot, hold the rope again, go to the entrance of the hole, and follow the rope into the hole from the beginning.

"I'll go down and explore the way, you pay attention, ready to pull me up at any time."

Zhang Yuan prepared the walkie-talkie, and told Zhao Xuan how hard to pull the rope, then turned over, pulled the rope, and walked slowly down the pit carved out of the stone cave.