Chapter 68: Entering the Cave and Fetching Things

Xiahou Ti's slender body was tightly pressed against the wall of the corridor, and he put his ears on the stone wall, listening to the noisy sound above gradually disappearing, before he turned around and returned to the stone chamber that had been blasted away along the dark corridor. The darkness is safer for him than the light.

He looked around at his masterpiece, and the wall with the seal of birds and insects was basically unrecognizable. How did you get into the cave? He carefully recalled how he entered this stone room that day, and walked through his mind like a backward one: Han Yue led the fireflies and took them to a stone door, and then Huan Yi asked Zhang Xiao to use a canine tooth to open the mechanism on the stone door, and then they came in. Yes, I should be not mistaken.

Then the stone gate is one of the four walls here. One wall was blown up, and one wall was originally embedded with stones, so the stone gate was one of the two remaining walls. Xiahou Ti began to grope for a mechanism on the wall. A wall touched it, and there was none. The other wall was touched as well, but it still didn't. If it is a place for stone smelting, then there must be people walking back and forth, even if the exit is a one-way door, but the inner door cannot also be one-way. I must have missed something.

Xiahou Ti once again drew his gaze back to the stone room. There was no light in the stone chamber, and Xiahou Ti didn't need light at all. He gathered, squinted, and searched every corner of the stone chamber. Where the eyes swept, there seemed to be a glimmer of light. He glanced again, and sure enough, there was light, a very weak blue light.

Xiahou Ti walked over, the light was very weak, and if he was not careful, he would be ignored. It seemed to come out of the pile of clay bottles, which were staggered from side to side, thick with dust, and broken. He pulled out the copper pipe, and used the head of the pot to pull the glowing thing, which turned out to be half of what resembled a bone.

He pinched the bone with the corner of his coat and looked at it carefully in front of him. Bones can indeed glow with phosphorescence, but phosphorescence is usually green, while this bone emits blue light. And the bones are translucent throughout, more like a glowing jade. Of course, it's definitely not jade, it's definitely bones, this Xiahou Ti is still very sure, he has seen so many raw flesh and bones, he won't even be confused about jade and bones, and the weight is not painful. And from the cross-section, it can be clearly seen that the translucent bone gelatin of this bone is still there. Xiahou Ti couldn't guess what the bones of this thing were, it was so weird. He carefully placed the bones in the small pouch he had brought with him. For this caving, he prepared a lot of small bags.

He crouched down again and pulled the pile of clay bottles again with the smoke pot. There are also a lot of tiny blue powder around the clay bottle, presumably bone powder. He carefully picked up the blue dust and put it in another bag. A clay vase should also be brought back, at least to find out what age it is. He picked up one that he found to be too broken, and picked up another one, which was still a broken semi-finished product, and when his hand reached for a seemingly relatively complete clay vase, he didn't even take it. He took it again, but the vase still didn't move. Xiahou Ti's heart moved, he gently twisted the pottery bottle with his hand, to the right, it couldn't be twisted, to the right, it still couldn't be twisted, and he couldn't take it up, could it be, he pressed the bottle down with his hand. Sure enough, the bottle was pressed down. But there was no movement in the stone room. He pressed down harder, but there was no movement. Luckily again, he pressed the bottle down completely, feeling a click in his palm, which seemed to be locked on some mechanism. With a twist of his palm, the bottle actually turned an angle, and then, there was a rumbling sound of stones rubbing behind him, and a wall behind him slowly cut open, and a fresh breath came in.

The same moonlit night, the same trees, the same sporadic flying fireflies, but there is only one person. Xiahou Ti looked at the lush, deep dark green jungle and sighed with emotion. But this emotion is fleeting. He reminded himself that he could not make too many unnecessary stops and that he had to speed up the process.

What is so strange about this hole full of plants? Xia Houti walked slowly through the jungle, observing these plants around, the trees would definitely not be able to take away, he picked a few small flowers and grasses that he had never seen before, uprooted them with the soil, and then spread out a piece of silk handkerchief, gently wrapped it and put it in another bag.

At this time, several fireflies flew in front of him, surrounding him, as if to greet him. The corners of Xiahou Ti's mouth moved, and he remembered Han Yue's appearance of catching fireflies. He backhanded, and a few fireflies landed in his palm. Xiahou Ti carefully put a bag into a hollow bag to prevent the fireflies from being suffocated.

On that day, they climbed up from the lava cave along the rhizome of the tree, and for this they gave their left hand. He subconsciously looked at his left hand, fortunately there was no scar, otherwise he would be scolded by some people again when he went back.

Underneath the rhizome is the boiling molten slurry. Xia Houti reminded himself that he had to be careful, he found a thick rhizome, tugged hard, and made sure that it was solid and reliable, and then climbed the rhizome and slid down carefully. Approaching the bottom, he found a place to stay and jumped down, avoiding the molten lava. You can only suffer the same injury once.

It's too hot here, get out as soon as possible. There was nothing in the cavern except for the hot red stone and the bubbling magma, and it seemed that there was nothing worth taking. However, where did the heat source come from for such a high temperature? And is there geothermal heat in this mountain? If there is geothermal heat, how did that cold ice cave come about? Thinking of this, Xiahouti decided to take some lava and go back to study. But these stones are too hot, how can I take them? And put it together with other things, the flowers and plants will soon wither, and the fireflies will be killed by the heat. Xiahou Ti decided not to take it for now, and then talk about it when he finally returned it.

The next hole was opened by Zhang Xiao, but it was still open, and the hole was black. It seems that this sun is a preparatory mechanism, not a real entrance, so once it is opened, it cannot be returned. Including when he dragged down the stem of the tree that day, it is estimated that he also hit it by mistake, otherwise those people who were here before would have dragged the roots of the tree every day, and the tree would have been dragged to death.

Unable to care about it so much, Xiahou Ti dodged into the sand cave. A sand cave without the sun is as gloomy as a desert at night. Compared to the lava cave, it is much cooler, and it even feels cold. Without the sun, the temperature will drop quickly, and there is an ice cave underneath it, so even people like Xiahou Ti, who live in a cold place all year round, feel a burst of cold air rising from under their feet. The puddle of the sea was gone, maybe it had evaporated, maybe it had sunk under the sand again. Without Haizi, how can you enter the ice cave?

Xiahou Ti estimated the time, and estimated that the time had already passed, and he couldn't afford to delay digging sand, so he decided to give up the ice cave. He crouched down and twisted the fine sand with his hands, which was cold enough to hold hot lava. Xiahou Ti took out a large bag, filled it with half a bag of yellow sand, and returned to the lava cave with the bag. Pick a few rocks of various sizes until the bag is full. Tightening the mouth of the bag, he touched the outside of the bag, which was warm and not hot.

With a few things, Xiahou Ti returned to the stone chamber and turned the pottery bottle in the opposite direction, the stone door slowly closed again, and the pottery bottle jumped out. He got up and was about to leave, but he looked back and thought about it, lifted the cigarette pouch and pot, and smashed the clay bottle with all his might, and then floated out of the release pond.