It's getting late, and we don't have the tools, so if we continue to spend so much, I'm afraid we won't be able to go home tonight. So we discussed it and decided to go back for the time being, and come back tomorrow with our tools.

So the next day we rushed to the riverside very early, because of the original construction of the bridge, there is no one around, but not far from the mountainside, there is a rebuilt Yellow Crane Tower. The area near the river is almost not crowded.

With the tools, digging is much faster, and the first day we've mostly cleared the rubble, and the further down we go, it's mostly dirt. Soon we dug about two meters below the ground, and the soil had begun to seep out of the river, and I thought that if we continued to dig further, we might dig directly into the Yangtze River, and then a fierce man swept us in, and we really had to feed the big fish.

After all, Qin Bukong is also old, and this kind of physical work is naturally a matter for me and Songzi. While I was muttering that the old fellow was like an overseer on the side, there was a crisp sound coming from my shovel, and I thought I had misheard, so I stabbed the shovel a few more times at the bottom of the pit, and found that in the place that had just been flooded by the water, there was a hard object different from the surrounding dirt. Could it be that we have already dug up the stones on the stone beams? So Matsuko and I continued to dig towards the place, and about the same time we had already held and we pulled out a large rectangular stone.

Judging by the shape and the amplitude of the corners, this thing is a man-made thing, and it is by no means a natural formation. There are still some carved patterns on the surface of the stone, but they have long been blurred. I suddenly had a sense of excitement about digging up the treasure, which also showed that Qin Bukong's previous calculations and Songzi's speculation on this place were indeed accurate.

It was very heavy, and we were under the pit, so it took a lot of effort to lift the rectangular part of the stone out. Songzi went to the river and fetched a bucket of water, and we began to scrub the surface of this thing, and soon we found that this seemed to be a solid rectangular stone, with different patterns carved on all six sides, and the pattern was very similar to those old door-to-door stones in the countryside, but the surface of the stone was already a little soft, and the edges and corners of the carving were carved and broken with a little force.

Qin Bukong said that this is estimated to be the result of being soaked in river water all year round, and the person who buried this thing deep in the ground at the beginning, I don't know if it is the same person as the person who set up the array, if so, then this person is simply amazing, he can so accurately bury this thing under the water, but it will not be found for thousands of years, he is indeed a master.

Qin Bukong sighed on the side, and Songzi and I studied this square stone. I used a small chisel to scratch through the cracks in the stone, and escaped from the silt, and soon I found that this seemingly solid stone square should actually be a hollow thing, because when I was digging the mud, I actually pulled out a complete circle of gaps along the four sides of the stone, as if a boxy box had a lid on it.

Matsuko asked me why I said it was a box, maybe it just happened to be a line carved here. I said if you look closely at the gap I just dug out, although the mud has been pulled out, but from time to time some water seeps out of the gap, which means that this thing is a hollow part inside, because it has been soaked in water all year round, so it has already been soaked with water, which is why it was so heavy when we lifted it up just now.

The pine nut reached out and shook the big stone a few times, and really found that the water stains in the gap would stretch out rhythmically with the shaking, but the flow was not large, which showed that if the gap was the lid of the stone box, it was very well sealed. Matsuko reached out and touched the water sticking out, then twisted his fingers a few times, and found that in addition to the water, there was something like oil. Matsuko put her finger to her nose and sniffed it, and then showed a sad face, as if the smell was terrible.

I followed his example and wiped a little on my fingers, leaned into my nose and smelled it, it was a very strange smell, the general taste, it was a smell, some like the smell of the corpse of an animal after it died, but this smell is not strong, it is actually difficult to detect if you don't smell it carefully, it is more of a kind of water that has been stored in a closed environment for a long time, and the smell of water after becoming stagnant water, this smell accounts for most of it, but there is still a trace of greasy feeling in it, as if after the hands are covered with oil, Even though I rinsed it many times, I still have the same smell on my hands.

The only way to find out the truth is to pry it open and see it. Qin Bukong also squatted beside us, so he held the lower part of the stone with his hand, and with force downward, Songzi and I began to use the chisel back and forth, slowly priing open the lid of the stone with a very tight joint.

As soon as the lid was lifted, a violent stench rushed to our noses, and all three of us couldn't help but cover our noses and walk away two steps. The smell was actually the same one I had just smelled, but it was much stronger. Sure enough, as I guessed, this is actually a stone box, and the inner wall of the box is about an inch or so, which ensures its sturdiness, and this thickness will not be damaged even if it is soaked in water, as long as it is not hit by a violent external force. The box was full of water, and the color of the water was a little black, but it was faintly red.

After the lid of the stone box was flipped to the side, we saw that in the center of the lid, a cube protrusion, and the entire inside of the lid was covered with something that was red and blackened like oil. I think the oil stain that oozes just now probably came from this. And because the density of oil is lower than that of water, it is always on the surface of the water, and over time, it is all stained on the lid.

Turning our heads and looking inside the box, there was indeed a layer of oil floating on the water, and because of the dark color of the water, we couldn't tell if there was anything underwater. So I took the chisel and reached into the water to tinker for a while, and found that at the bottom of the box there was indeed something that moved, which could change direction as I stirred, indicating that it was not fixed to the bottom.

Obviously, this stone box was already closed when it was buried here, which means that anything we find in the box at this moment was put in by the person who set up the Seven Evil Gates. He probably didn't expect that thousands of years later, a group of younger generations would dig up what they had buried back then.

When I scooped the chisel out of the water, I found that there were something floating in the water that looked like powder that had fallen from a cracked wall, but it was hard and felt like glass. Thousands of years ago, there was obviously no such thing as glass, and we don't know what it was.

Turning around to look at the lid of the box, the bulging cube part, it must have had its usefulness, I tapped it lightly with a chisel, and found that under the mud, when it collided with the chisel, it made a clanging sound.

The sound is different from that of a normal stone, very similar to the sound of wine glasses colliding. So the three of us began to take turns to clean the inner wall of the lid with water, and the more we washed the back, the more we could not hide our surprise. It turned out that after we cleaned off the oil stain on the surface, we found that the inner wall of the lid was about a few millimeters thick, which was crystalline of that crystal, slightly transparent and very smooth. The same is true of the raised part, which becomes transparent throughout, and we can see that the cube contains a round object, a bit like an iron bead that the old people hold in their hands and turn around. About the size of a walnut, at this time Qin Bukong said, this is it, this round thing should be the thing that we put in the semi-circular small groove in the stone brick of "Wei"!

As soon as he said this, I looked at it with more certainty, for the size of the beads, though through a transparent cover, was indeed the same size as we saw on the inside of the stone bricks. I couldn't help but be a little amazed, the ones we had broken the Eight Gate Strange Array before, we already felt that it was very difficult and thrilling, but what I never expected was that after such a difficulty, there was a big secret of the Seven Evil Passes. So I sighed at the wisdom of the ancients, the awe of nature and heaven and earth, and the experience and understanding of metaphysical culture.

Qin Bukong sighed, amazing, amazing, if everyone hides things like this, I'm afraid there are ten more Qin Bukong, and it will be difficult to break the formation, no wonder until now, what Cao Cao's tomb Qin Huang's tomb, all of them can't find the real tomb, looking for it, it's all some doubtful graves, my metaphysics in Great China is really the art of the emperor.

We decided to crack the little protruding square and remove the ball inside, after all, it would be too much effort to bring the stone box back. After striking hard with a chisel a few times, I found that the transparent crystals on the surface were extremely hard, and it took more than a dozen consecutive blows before the crack was cracked. By the time I smashed a hole big enough to take out the ball, my arm was already sore.

Qin Bukong stretched out his hand to take out the round ball and found that the surface was sealed with a thick layer of wax. This is probably used to isolate moisture, and the reason why this was done in the first place must be because the contents of this must not be soaked in water, so the wax is specially sealed. Qin Bukong pinched it with his fingernails, but he was able to pinch out traces slightly, so we didn't dare to smash it open casually, so Qin Bukong put it in his bag and said to take it back and study it.

Then the three of us worked together to lift one side of the stone box up, trying to pour out all the water inside. With a clanging sound, the water in the box was poured to the ground along with the contents of the box.