Zuo Liancheng obediently stopped, and then used his hands to buckle seven or eight palm-sized stones from the stone wall of the cave, and threw them one by one to different places in the hall. The first few stones smashed on the ground, except for the "knock" sound when they landed, nothing unusual happened, but when the seventh stone fell on the stone bench in front of the stone table, the change was steep, and only a click sound was heard, and the rock wall behind the stone table suddenly cracked a small opening, and a sharp flying knife with a sharp wind sound flew towards the place where the two people were.

"Hurry up!" Zuo Liancheng raised his hand, smashed the last stone in his hand at the flying knife, and at the same time pulled up his wife and retreated to the corner behind him. The flying knife was smashed by a stone, deflected to the side, and was suddenly nailed into the stone wall next to the two of them, and went deep into it.

"What a lot of strength!" Zuo Liancheng couldn't help but be afraid for a while, if it wasn't for his wife holding him just now, if he hadn't dodged in time just now, and let this flying knife hit him, I'm afraid he would have been seriously injured if he didn't die.

As soon as the bodies of the two stood still around the corner, there were three soft sounds of "whoosh", "whoosh", and "whoosh" from the cave, and three short arrows, with the sound of the wind, shot at the stone in front of them, splashing a series of sparks.

The two of them were very nervous, and quickly drew their swords in their hands, pricked up their ears, and their whole bodies tensed, ready to shoot down the hidden weapon shot from the cave. But the two waited for a long time, but there was no movement. The hall was silent, as if nothing had happened.

The two listened carefully for a few more moments, until they were convinced that there was no more movement inside. He glanced at each other and asked, "Do you want to see it again?"

Zuo Liancheng lowered his head and pondered for a while, then handed the torch in his hand to his wife, picked up a large pile of stones from the ground, put them in the cloth bag on his body, and then said: "You take the torch, I will 'throw stones and ask for directions'." ”

"Be careful. Josia did not object to her husband's arrangement, but only whispered. The husband's skills are better than his own, and it is naturally much safer to let him explore the way in front than to explore the road in front himself.

The two came to the entrance of the hall just now, Zuo Liancheng learned from the experience just now, and stood at the entrance and looked inside without recklessness. Instead, he leaned his upper body against the stone wall in the corner while carrying the package full of stones, and then looked inside with the help of the firelight, reached out and took a stone from the package, and threw it in the place he had just chosen. This is the safest way to dodge, even if any abnormal changes occur, you can avoid them in time.

"Knock knock knock", there was a sound of rocks rolling on the ground in the hall, and then there was silence again - there was no imagined hidden weapon flying out of it.

Zuo Liancheng once again poked his head out to look inside, and then selected a few places, took out three or four stones from the package, and threw them in turn. But as before, there was no movement in it except for the thud of the stone rolling as it landed.

In this way, until Zuo Liancheng threw all the stones in the package, nothing happened inside.

"It should be fine, shall we go in?" Zuo Liancheng patted the dirt in his hand and looked at his wife with inquiring eyes.

"Let's go, it shouldn't be fine. ”

The two of them came to the hall one after the other with torches, and sure enough, there were no more accidents.

Soon the two of them came to a stop at the stone table in the middle of the hall—a long stone table about four feet long and three feet wide, and on each side of the table was placed an orange made of stone, perhaps because it had not been used for a long time. The dust accumulated on it was almost an inch thick.

Looking around, there are all stone walls covered with cobwebs and dust, only the stone wall behind the stone table is slightly different, with four small holes cracked on it, which is obviously the place where the hidden weapon was shot just now.

"There's a door over there. Josia suddenly pointed to the stone wall on the left and spoke.

Zuo Liancheng looked in the direction of his wife's finger, and sure enough, he saw a stone gate about five or six feet high in the corner below the stone wall on the left. The stone door was closed, and it was also covered with cobwebs and dust, which was not easy to spot without careful inspection.

Zuo Liancheng came to the front of the stone gate, gently swept away the pig net and dust on it with the scabbard in his hand, and then carefully observed it. I saw that the stone door and the wall were very tightly fitted, and there were no handles or hidden buckles on it. Zuo Liancheng stretched out his hand and pushed on the door, but found that the stone door did not move at all, and reached out and groped up and down for a while, but did not find any mechanism.

"This stone gate must be controlled by some mechanism, but this mechanism may not be on the door. Zuo Liancheng looked at the stone gate and looked carefully for a while before speaking.

"Dad, come and see, there seems to be a pattern on the table. When Zuo Liancheng was carefully observing the stone gate, his wife's voice came from behind him.

"Really? I'll take a look. Zuo Liancheng left the stone gate and turned back to the stone table. At this time, the dust on the stone table had been cleaned by Josia, and it was covered with criss-crossing lines. The criss-crossing lines form a square and neat grid, and at the intersection of many lines and lines, there seem to be black and white round stones inlaid in a chaotic manner.

"It's not a graphic, it's some kind of chess game. You see, there are two boxes next to this, and the stones in them are supposed to be chess pieces. Zuo Liancheng stared at the pattern carved on the table for a long time, and then said suspiciously, "But what kind of chess is this? I have never seen anyone play this kind of chess." ”

In fact, if Xiao Jian was here at this time, his jaw would definitely drop. Because the pattern carved on the stone is not a particularly strange pattern, but one of the most common quintessences of the Chinese country - Go! Although Xiao Jian is not a Go master, and it can even be said that he has basically never played Go a few times, but for every Chinese person, even if he has no culture, he can recognize this thing at a glance. Because the game of Go has been circulating in the land of China for thousands of years, it is said that it was invented by Emperor Yao back then. Among the Chinese literati in ancient times, everyone knew how to play Go. Piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting, which are the four basic skills they must master, but it is a pity that the young people in later generations have occupied most of their free time because of the heavier and heavier homework burden, and these good things left by the ancient ancestors are less and less learned. It's a pity that Zuo Liancheng is not from Huaxia, let alone from the earth, and it is not surprising that they can't understand the patterns carved on the stone table in front of them.

Zuo Liancheng and his wife studied the pattern on the table upside down for a long time, but although they wanted to break their heads, they couldn't figure it out, and wanted to take away the box containing chess pieces on the table, but they were surprised to find that even if they used their strength to eat, they couldn't move the seemingly small stone box on the table. Looking at the chess pieces in the stone box, it is clear that they are polished from extremely ordinary stones, except that they are a little smoother and divided into black and white.

"Let's take a few back, maybe someone in the group knows each other?" Josia asked when she saw that her husband couldn't see the doorway, so she grabbed a few chess pieces from the stone box, put them in the palm of her hand, and threw them up and down.

"Okay, let's take a few with us, maybe the old people in the tribe will know each other. Zuo Liancheng saw that he couldn't see anything famous, so he grabbed a few chess pieces from the stone river next to him and stuffed them into his trouser pockets. "We're looking around to see if there's anything else. ”

So the two of them divided up and searched the whole hall, but there was nothing on the ground other than the pile of stones they had just thrown in. Looking at the stone walls on all sides, I only found a throwing knife and three arrows that had just shot out of the hole in the wall behind the stone table.

"It seems that the secret is still on the stone table, let's look carefully and see if we can find anything. Zuo Liancheng returned to the stone table again, and reluctantly observed again.

"See what this is, is it a text?" After the two of them had carefully cleaned up and down the dust on the stone table, Josia made a new discovery in a corner of the stone table.

Zuo Liancheng was attracted by his wife's voice, and sure enough, he saw more than a dozen words the size of small fingernails on the corner of the stone box placed at the other end.

"This is indeed a text, do you remember? The big square tripod that our tribe used to worship our ancestors seems to have such words engraved on it. Once I asked the chief what it was, but the chief said he couldn't read it himself. He also said that the big tripod is a sacred object that has been passed down from generation to generation to worship ancestors, and I don't know how many generations have used it, but no one has been able to understand the meaning of the words. ”

"I also heard my master talk about this back then, and she said that there is a shocking secret hidden in this big ding, as long as you can understand that secret, you can not only figure out the origin of our Shenlong clan, but also lead our people out of this mountain to the outside world. Our people have been trapped in this great god, I don't know how many years, before, there were many people who tried to get out of this mountain, to see outside, but those people were about to reach the outside of the mountain, they would suddenly become ill, and soon died, even if they occasionally turned back halfway, after coming back, they all lost their minds, became crazy, and finally died inexplicably. After that, no one ever tried to get out of the mountains again. People say that our Shenlong clan has been cursed by others, and we will never be able to get out of the mountains again. In the last hundred years, if anyone has ever gone out, it's you. ”

"yes, I'm the only one who's ever been out. But I didn't completely get out of the mountains, I just arrived at a village far away from us, and I didn't live comfortably in that village, I would feel dizzy and dizzy every day after three poles a day, thanks to my master to help me relieve it with pills, that kind of pills, the master did not have much, because the required medicinal materials were not what we could find here. Later, the elixir that the master had practiced was almost taken by me, and his old man also had to go out to travel, so I had to return to the tribe. Later, when I tried to go out again, I couldn't find my way out. Zuo Liancheng recalled the days when he was with his master, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart. During those few years, the master taught himself what he had learned, not only teaching himself kung fu, but also teaching himself how to refine pills. Although he said that he had inadvertently saved his master's life, the reward he could get from his master had long since far exceeded his original efforts. Now more than ten years have passed, and I don't know what happened to the master and his old man.