Chapter 69. Strange holes
I then asked Songzidao, we have all been in this sewer, there are all kinds of sewers in it, how did you find the exact location and dig the hole? Songzi smiled and said, that's not simple, I know Feng Shui, although the environment underneath is complicated, but I also have a compass and a dragon ruler, the two are used together, and you can basically lock a large range. With a little time to rule out some of the most unlikely places, you can finally lock down that position. After saying that, he smiled and said, "Wasn't this how I found the heart of the Witch King's soul in the first place?"
When he heard this, Qin Bukong seemed to be a little impatient, he said, yes, yes, I know that you are amazing, you quickly tell us what you encountered when you were digging the hole, why we looked like a grandson when we found you, do you know, if we come a day and a half late, you will probably rot into a pile of white bones there. You still draw a true map of the five mountains on the side, and you painted it with blood, and when the pipeline workers see it in the future, do you want to scare people to death?
I couldn't help but burst out laughing, and then looked at the pine nuts, and indeed I was curious about what was going on. Matsuko calmed down a little, and then exhaled a long breath, as if even if he was in the hospital now, he still had palpitations when he recalled the original scene.
He told us that at that time, he used his compass to lock the bearing, and began to use the dragon hunt to find a suitable place to start. However, the underground pipeline was built after the founding of New China, and the reinforced concrete used in the material, this kind of place with steel bars, has a great impact on the dragon ruler. So he had to go back and forth several more times, and when two or three coincided and consistent directions appeared in a row, he finally decided to make a hole in that direction. However, the inner wall of the sewer is very hard, and with the little tools you bring, you don't have the conditions to make a hole at all, and it may even cause the sewer to back-flow, then you will become a sinner of the people.
I said yes, we found a lot of footprints back and forth on the ground at that time, so I guess you were hesitating left and right. Matsuko nodded yes, and then continued, and then he searched in the established direction, and finally found a small dirt slope, although it was not the best location, but it was the easiest place to dig up. And when I dug more than two feet deep, I didn't use the dragon ruler in the hole to hit again, and found that the dragon head pointed in the direction of the bottom of the hole, which showed that I was in the right place.
Songzi said, since that predecessor is going to bury something, then this thing naturally has to withstand the years. Just like the stone box we dug up earlier on the site of the Shadowless Tower, it must have a sturdy exterior to withstand the passage of time. So I thought that what was buried in the ground should be a stone box, but I dug more than two meters into it, and it was still just dirt, and I began to be a little suspicious again.
has already dug so deeply, if you don't dig at this time, it will be tantamount to giving up all your previous efforts. So he continued digging until the shovel had turned hard and without much moisture, and turned to stone, and he knew that he might have dug up the box of stones that held the secret.
Matsuko told us that she was excited and motivated. I started digging along the stone, and gradually I found that the stone was indeed boxy, so it was more like the kind of stone box we found earlier, but when I dug and dug and felt the urgency of urinating, I got out of the hole and soaked in urine and planned to go into the hole again and continue digging, something strange happened.
The place that had already exposed the surface of the stone, in just a short time, was actually covered with a layer of mud.
Qin Bukong and I glanced at each other, and felt that this thing was really strange enough. I've heard that plants and fungi grow like crazy for a short period of time, but I've never seen mud like this. So I asked Matsuko, could you be wrong, or maybe you were tired and dizzy. Matsuko said that with his personality, he would definitely not be so confused, but he also felt that it was not impossible at the time, because there was no other possibility to find otherwise. Secretly keeping an eye on it, he had to dig further, and once again dug the surface of the stone to the bare surface, so the pine nuts paused to see if it was caused by the loosening of the soil. It's been a long wait, but nothing has changed.
Matsuko said that he was a human and not a machine, and that it was already a little late, so he planned to rest for a night and dig again, but he was worried that he would be covered with mud again, so he embedded a shovel in the gap between the stone and the mud before he got out of the hole, thinking that this would not cause any more hallucinations. So that day I went back to the mouth of the manhole cover where I had come down at the beginning, and the place was relatively dry, so I simply spread it with my coat and slept there for the night.
I took out the dress I had picked up from my rucksack and asked, "Is this it?" Matsuko nodded and said yes with a smile, and then said that you two are so good, you can find me like this. I was a little ashamed in my heart, so I said, in fact, it was not I who found it, but Qin Bukong. It was he who guessed that you might be here, so we came to try our luck, and it can be regarded as a blind cat running into a dead mouse.
Songzi propped himself up with a little difficulty, sat on the bed and bowed to Qin Bukong, saying that he was grateful to Qin's seniors for looking for righteousness, and the juniors were grateful. The tone is quite pedantic, like an old man. Qin Bukong said that you hurry up and put down your cat's paws, there is nothing to thank for, we were originally looking for something, who knew that you were there, by the way, I saved you. Songzi smiled slightly and didn't speak, he knew in his heart that Qin Bukong was just hard-mouthed, this person who was full of thorns in his body had gradually become a little human after we had been together for so long.
Matsuko went on to say that after a night's sleep, she secretly went to the ground to find something to eat the next morning, before returning to the sewer to dig again. At his own pace, it will be only one day at most, and the stone box will be able to be taken out, so that he can come back to us directly with the results and show that he is also a useful person.
But when he returned to the entrance of the cave again, he found that the shovel he had planted there the night before had now been covered with dirt to the position of the wooden handle, and when he left the first night, he had only inserted the shovel head of the shovel less than two inches deep, and most of the iron parts were still exposed.
At that moment, he did not rush to pull out the shovel, but lay down in the hole to observe the soil around the shovel. The dirt was evenly distributed, just like the dirt around it, not at all suddenly covered with new soil, but more like digging a hole and digging a shovel yourself. The strangest thing is that if you pick at the newly grown soil, if you pick it out with your hands, you can occasionally find some roots, just like when you first dug them up earlier.
Songzi thought that there might be a moth at this time, but the matter had come to this point, and it was impossible to withdraw from it. He thought to himself that since the dirt would be covered as soon as he paused, he should not stop at all, and it would be a big deal to get tired and get this thing out in one go. I started digging right now, but this time I dug more than a meter inward, and the stone box that was there yesterday was gone. It's as if he knew that the pine nut was going to dig it, so he moved his position.
Songzi's words made me feel incredible, and I turned my head to look at Qin Bukong, although the beard covered half of his face, I could still read a kind of surprise in his eyes. Songzi is a person who likes to face difficulties, and when he saw this, he suddenly became stubborn, so he kept digging towards the inner wall, and finally dug the stone box again at a depth of more than two meters.
This time he didn't dare to pause again, but continued to dig deeper, and after clearing the dirt around the stone box, he also saw the appearance of the box, which was actually not much different from the one we found earlier, that is, the carved part was a little different, even the opening and closing form was the same, and there was a relatively closed lid. Matsuko used a shovel to loosen the part of the stone box that had sunk into the dirt, and was about to slowly pull it out of the hole, but as he dragged it outward, he suddenly felt a cold sensation on the back of his hand.
Matsuko said that he had spent a long time at that time, and his whole body was covered with hot sweat, but at that time, it was as if he was eating popsicles in summer, and the feeling of melting ice water dripping onto the back of his hand, and after feeling this coldness, he immediately turned his head to look at the back of his hand, but found that there was some red liquid, very much like blood, and this blood was slowly seeping out of the cracks in the lid of the stone box.
Originally, he could have escaped at that time, because it was obviously wrong, but seeing that he was not far from the entrance of the cave, he gritted his teeth and continued to drag it out, and when his body had just drilled out of the hole, and was about to stand firm and pull out the stone box, he suddenly had a pain in his neck, and he only saw a very vague figure flashing by, and he didn't even see the height of the person, he was wet with a stream of blood.
He told us that he felt three very clear wounds on his neck, three of which were basically parallel, and the middle one was the longest, as if he had been caught by a wild animal. And when he was covering his wound to stop the bleeding and looking for the figure who hurt him, he didn't see anything, but in his ears he heard the very mournful moans coming from all directions.
I asked Matsuko, what that moaning sound looks like, can you describe it. Matsuko began to hold his throat and let out the sound of "Ahh