Chapter Fifty-Six: The Mysterious Stone Crate
The light at the bottom of the river was dim, and the water was turbulent, so Shen Luo couldn't see what was in his hand, and could only barely judge that it was a long strip.
He only looked at what he was doing, but he didn't steady his feet, and a torrent swept in, and he staggered, almost being swept away by the torrent.
"Got it!"
He let out a secret sigh, hurriedly stuffed the things in his hand into his arms, and immediately swam towards the surface of the water.
But before Shen Luo went upstream, a black shadow appeared in front of him, but it was a boulder at the bottom of the water.
With a "bang", he couldn't dodge, and his body was swept by the torrent and hit it hard.
Shen Luo snorted, half of his body was in severe pain, especially unfortunately, his head was still knocked on the stone, his eyes were dark, and he temporarily lost the power to think.
He spat out a long string of bubbles from his mouth, and his body was completely swept away by the current.
At this moment, the rope on Shen Luo's waist suddenly straightened, but the length reached the limit, and he grabbed his body in time.
However, the current was too fast, and his waist was strangled violently, and his ribs ached sharply, but his sluggish consciousness was restored, and he hurriedly swam towards the river with his hands and feet.
Shen Luo swallowed several mouthfuls of river water one after another, and finally surfaced before he was completely exhausted, gasping for breath, and he was terrified in his heart.
If Fang had been sober up a step too late, he would have drowned in the river by now.
Shen Luo took a few deep breaths, barely managed to gather a little strength, pulled the rope around his waist, and swam back to the boat.
He climbed onto the boat with his hands and feet, and the last bit of strength in his body was finally squeezed clean, and he lay on his back under the black canopy, breathing heavily.
After a long while, the strength in Shen Luo's body regained some of it, and he immediately sat up, stretched his hand into his arms, and his tight cheeks relaxed.
The thing is still there, not lost.
Shen Luo took it out, but it was a three-foot-long, palm-wide white stone box, and there was still a lot of mud on it.
The stone box looks not small, but it is light to start.
Shen Luo held it in his hand, put it in his ear and shook it, and vaguely heard some movement inside.
At this time, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the swelling water still made the boat sway, but fortunately the bold boat was quite strong, and he had strengthened the rope beforehand, so that it would not be washed away.
It's just that for a while, he can't go back.
Shen Luo wiped a handful of water stains on his face, wiped the remaining mud on the stone box, placed it on a low square table in front of him, and looked at it carefully.
The color and texture of the stone box are similar to that of jade, but the texture on it is different from the jade species seen in the past, and there is no mechanism such as a lock on the box, and there is no obvious engraved pattern.
Shen Luo hesitated slightly, stuck the line with his fingernails, and broke it with his hand.
There was a soft "click" sound, and his nails scratched over the lid of the box, and the sharp pain made him gasp.
He shook his hand to relieve the pain as he turned the stone box over, trying to see if he could open it from the other side, but it turned out to be the same, he couldn't open it at all.
The pattern on the stone box seems to be really just a pattern, not the interface of the box cover.
So, Shen Luo turned over and over again, carefully examined all the sides of the stone box, and stroked every corner of the stone box with his fingertips, wanting to see if there was any hidden mechanism.
But no matter how much he searched, he couldn't find anything out of the ordinary.
"This is a bit difficult......" Shen Luo stared at the stone box, at a loss.
After hesitating for a moment, his gaze suddenly froze slightly, as if he had made up his mind.
He rummaged around in the cabin, and with a "swish", he pulled out a short-handled iron axe a foot long from a pile of fishing nets, and held it in his hand.
The short axe was used to chop wood on a day-to-day basis, and because of the humidity in the cabin, there were many rust marks on the axe, but it was only a shallow layer, and it was wiped off with a rag.
He grasped the handle of the axe in one hand, and brought the blade close to the mark on the stone box, not daring to exert too much force, but only lightly squeezed it a few times, and saw that the stone box showed no signs of opening or being damaged, so he gradually increased his strength.
"...... Sonor"
As Shen Luo's axe slashed down, a sound of gold and stone clashing suddenly sounded from the stone box.
The low table in the cabin shook, the stone box rebounded, jumped suddenly, and almost flew out, Shen Luo hurriedly threw away the axe, grabbed the stone box, and looked at it carefully.
As a result, there was not even a single mark left on the stone box, but it was a dent in the middle of the low table.
"Sure enough, it's a baby, and the jade pillow has a fight. Shen Luo was not surprised to see that he couldn't split the stone box, but he felt a little deserved.
He gently stroked the stone box back and forth with the palm of his hand for a while, and a thought suddenly flashed in his heart, since this immortal thing can't be opened by ordinary methods, why not use a talisman to try it, and a "small thunder talisman" can split it?
It's just that as soon as Shen Luo's idea came to mind, he hesitated a little.
The power of the little thunder talisman is not bad, what if one of them accidentally splits the contents together?
But there was no other way for a while, and with the sturdiness of this stone box, there was a good chance that it would be fine.
Shen Luo thought so, took out the last small thunder talisman from his arms, put it on the stone box, and put the yuan stone on the small thunder talisman, ready to draw out a little bit of thunder and lightning power from the small thunder talisman, try it carefully first. ,
As a result, before he could activate the Yang Gang Qi and ignite, the small cluster of white gas in the Yuan Stone tumbled violently on its own, and then bloomed into a bright white light.
Shen Luo's eyes widened, and he was surprised to see that under the white light, slender light marks appeared out of thin air on the originally smooth and traceless stone box, crisscrossing and crisscrossing like a rattan mat.
It's just that in the middle of the "rattan mat", there is an area that seems to be sunken, only the size of a finger, and the light inside is dim, far less bright than the surrounding area.