After arriving here, Lin Wu first checked the vicinity.

Sure enough, as Bai Jing said, there was no trace of anyone else around the riverbank, not even a single footprint, and there was no sign of the grass being trampled by others, only the marks left by her when she walked back and forth.

Lin Wu walked back, followed the direction Bai Jing said, and went to find the swamp that the other party had mentioned.

On the way, she even found traces of people cutting down dead branches and leaves, and rummaging, and it didn't take long to see the swamp, and there was an inconspicuous depression on the side, which proved that it had indeed been dug up and a lot of wet mud was smeared on her body.

These are enough to prove that what Bai Jing said is true, and the archaeological team that night really disappeared out of thin air that night.

Lin Wu frowned slightly, turned around and returned to the river bank.

The river is not very deep, the water is clean, and you can see that the bottom of the river is mostly silt and rocks, which have been deposited for a long time, and have not been dug up or removed.

Then it is unlikely that there is another channel at the bottom of the river.

Having said that, Lin Wu still found a branch nearby, took off his shoes and went into the water.

In late autumn, the cold water of the river makes the forest fog agitated.

The bottom of the river was unexpectedly slippery, and the water was turbulent, and Lin Wu almost didn't stand firm.

She found a place to stay, bent down and tested the river with her hands, and then held a flashlight in one hand and a branch in the other, and poked the bottom of the river with a branch in the light to see if there was anything abnormal, and went in the direction of the waterfall lake that Bai Jing said.

Fortunately, the river is not wide, and Lin Wu is so carpet searching, not too slow.

Lin Wu also looked up in the direction of the downstream, the river meandered in the depths of the night, as far away as no end, I don't know how long I have to look for it.

But what she didn't expect was that God favored her very much.

Lin Wu was about to start looking, and he didn't go far, when suddenly there was a muffled "bang", and the branches penetrated the mud and poked a hard unknown object.

Lin Wu immediately stopped, stuffed the flashlight into his mouth and bit the light, and took out a dagger to pick up the stones with the branches to clean up the mud.

In a moment, part of the bottom of the river was revealed.

I saw that it was something similar to a dark stone, with some fine and dense grooves on the surface, showing strange and strange lines, similar to some part of a complete pattern.

Lin Wu continued to dig down, carefully cleaning the gravel and silt on and around its surface.

Soon, it completely came into Lin Wu's sight, it was a circular lock plate with a diameter of about thirty centimeters, with three separate parts on it, and a round black bead fell in the middle, around which there were many complex and obscure unknown patterns, but the combination was a very strange pattern, and there was an inexplicable sense of magnificence.

Lin Wu couldn't recognize what it was for a while, but his sharp eyes found that there were protruding words on the inner walls of the three layers of lock rings. She bent her waist lower, and after looking at it for a while, she could barely make out that they were the Heavenly Stems and the Six Pillars.

Then Lin Wu continued to clean up the perimeter of the lock plate, but found that there was only such a lock plate here, there was no door or anything like that underneath, and the bottom of the lock plate seemed to be buried deep in the mud, she dug for a long time and did not see the bottom of the lock plate, only a cold cylinder, and the surface was surrounded by the same complex lines.

This made Lin Wu give up decisively and go to study the lock disk.

The three turns on the lock plate are rotatable, and Lin Wu guessed that it was probably necessary to turn to a specific position before the entire lock disk would react.

Lin Wu hadn't heard Bai Jing mention it before, which meant that Bai Jing and the others hadn't found out.

But it was obvious that something was wrong with this lock plate appearing here, and Lin Wu suspected that it should be the mystery of the archaeological team's disappearance out of thin air.

"But what's the mystery of it......"

Lin Wu rubbed his chin and thought, trying to find some information related to it to crack it, such as converting this place into the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches at this time, extrapolating it with the Six Pillars, and turning the lock disk to the corresponding position according to the result, but the lock disk did not respond at all.

She also estimated the approximate time when the archaeological team disappeared in front of her, and put this result on the lock disk, but there was no response.

"Is it the timing of this thing? Or come up with a set of answers set up by its owner himself? ”

Lin Wu twisted his eyebrows.

If so, without hints and patterns, where will she get the answer? Even here I studied the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Month, and it was all in vain.

Wrong.

She didn't know, and the archaeological team couldn't have known. Because the archaeological team did not find this.

But they still disappeared, indicating that this thing does not need to be touched by others, and it can be triggered by itself under certain conditions. The premise is that it really has something to do with the disappearance of those people.

Lin Wu thought about it and looked up at the night.

Could it be related to a specific celestial phenomenon?

The clouds are thick, and there is not half a star or moon in sight.

There's a fart relationship.

Could it be terrain feng shui?

Lin Wu turned his head to look around, recalled the terrain within a radius of dozens of miles from this place, and frowned again.

There is nothing special about feng shui in this place, just very ordinary.

What else could that be?

Lin Wu thought about it, and suddenly remembered Bai Jing and Bai Ning, they didn't have an accident here, but they had the same amnesia as the survivors of the archaeological team, indicating that they had experienced the same thing.

It's going to be the same elsewhere, isn't it...... There is the same lock disk somewhere else, and the two have some kind of connection, and one of them needs to react before the other party reacts?

If this is the case, Bai Jing and Bai Ning may not be able to find the answer to open the lock disk, and the lock disk in another place will also be actively triggered.

So if you find the reason over there, you can open this place, right?

Lin Wu turned around to go ashore.

Either side of the place led to the place where the accident had happened, and she found the waterfall and lake, and from there she could go in without having to come back. If there's no unusual reaction over there, she'll come back. It's a big deal.

However, at the moment when Lin Wu was about to leave, one of her hands didn't know where to scratch, and suddenly there was a stinging pain.

Lin Wu hissed, stopped and looked down, it turned out that her hand inadvertently touched the corner of the sharp lines engraved on the edge of the lock plate, and a slightly deep blood mark was immediately drawn on the fingertips, and the blood beads flowed out and fell on the lock plate.

It wasn't a big injury, Lin Wu didn't care too much, and directly shook his hand into the river water, the blood was scattered in the river, and he was washed to the edge of the lock plate, and then stopped and walked to leave.

At this moment, a red light swept by!

Lin Wu stopped, turned his head to look, and saw a magical scene.

Her blood fell on the lock plate, and it was not washed away by the water, but hidden in the lines of the lock plate, and flowed quickly along the groove like a living thing, and in just a few seconds, it flowed through the entire line on the lock plate! At the same time, the place where the blood flowed lit up with a blood-colored red light, gradually flourishing, and finally concentrated on the black bead in the middle, which emitted a blinding red light.

Without waiting for Lin Wu to react, the three circles of lock bodies on the lock disc suddenly began to rotate by themselves, and the muffled sound of "click" was particularly clear in the silent night, and quickly turned to a specific position and stopped.

The next moment, the red light was sheng, and in an instant, it shrouded the lock plate within a radius of several meters, and also shrouded the forest fog!

An inexplicable suction force appeared, pulling the unprepared Lin Wu to stumble a few steps and fall into the water.

Lin Wu choked on a few mouthfuls of water, coughed violently, and quickly came back to his senses, and forcefully inserted the dagger and branch in his hand into the mud to stabilize his body.

However, that suction force was menacing, almost earth-shattering, and Lin Wu was not allowed to refuse at all.

Before she could hold on to anything, she was dragged to the edge of the lock plate by the suction, slamming into the hard, cold pillar, and grunting with a dull pain in her back.

Between the lightning and flint, the body suddenly emptied!

Lin Wu's eyes also turned black, and the unspeakable nothingness instantly submerged her, and she didn't give her a chance to do anything at all, she fell straight down.

The feeling of weightlessness made Lin Wu's face change, and he also understood that the lock disk was actually the key to triggering a certain occult technique. No wonder those people in the archaeological team suddenly disappeared for no apparent reason!

But there are too many mystics that require blood, and Lin Wu can't think of which one for a while, what he can be sure of is that this mystic art should be a space class, and he doesn't know where it leads.

The worst thing is that she is falling now, and if she falls from a high altitude after passing through the mystery, then she will be cold!

Thinking of this, Lin Wu hurriedly thought of a remedy.

What she never expected was that Lin Wu had this idea, and the next moment she fell to the ground!

All this happened very quickly, but in just a few seconds, Lin Wu was stunned.