"There is such a strange thing!" everyone was incredible.

"Even more incredible things are yet to come!"

"What else?"

"I've left and kicked and moved and jumped out of this reed prison, but it never worked. ”

"And how did you get out?" asked the crying young man, with a crying voice.

Zhou Kang said: "I go up, and the reed grows upward, and when I lean down, the reed becomes lower, and no matter whether it gets high or low, I can't jump out." I thought to myself, this is the end, I have to die here, if I die, how can I be worthy of General Han and Captain Huai, how can I be worthy of your ardent expectations for me?"

"And then?"

"Later, I tried all kinds of methods, cutting with a knife, tearing with my hands, biting with my teeth, but to no avail. Finally, I squatted down and dug up the roots of the reeds with my hands. ”

"Can you dig it?"

"The ground was very hard, and I had a great deal of effort to dig a very small hole, and I saw the intertwined roots of the reed, and I cut off one section of the root of the reed with a knife, and this time it worked, and the broken reed withered immediately, and quickly became smaller and thinner, and became a dead grass. ”

"Then you're going to do the same with the other reeds. ”

"No, I know how to shrink bones, just checking the cracks in the reeds is enough for me to come out, I used the bone shrinking technique to get out of the reed prison, and my mood brightened. ”

Everyone praised one after another: "Brother Zhou's skills are really clever. ”

Zhou Kang said, "After I came out, I turned around, I don't know the south, east, west, north, west, and which direction is the road when I came. Don't say it's chasing the two-tailed rhino, or come back to find you, I can't talk about it, I can only go anywhere. I just walked aimlessly. I've been walking for about two hours, and guess what happened to me?"

Huaizhong said: "Zhou Kang, don't sell Guanzi, say it quickly, say it quickly, maybe your experience will help all of us." ”

"I came across a grave. ”

"Hi. The disappointment of the crowd was palpable, "What is there to say about this?" ”

Zhou Kang said, "This tomb is not big, the grass on the grave is several inches high, and it is obvious that the time has not been short. There is a tombstone in front of the grave with the name of the deceased engraved on it. ”

"It's not surprising. Han Jiangliu groaned and said, I don't know why Zhou Kang was so interested in this tomb.

In fact, everyone doesn't know that the words engraved on the tombstone in front of the grave are "The Tomb of the Beloved Daughter Huaiyu".

The name of the owner of the tomb and the name of Zhou Kang's fiancée are the same word, which undoubtedly aroused Zhou Kang's longing, Zhou Kang couldn't help but take a closer look at the tomb, and after a closer look, he found that on the pedestal under the tombstone, there was another line of small words engraved: "Illusion in the mirror, worship to the tomb, kneel three times and knock nine times, only to see sincerity." ”

Zhou Kang didn't think about it at the time, so he fell down, of course, he didn't worship any "beloved daughter Huaiyu", but his fiancée Xiaoyu, and his forever lost love.

Three kneeling and nine kowtowing heads, only to hear the sound of "boom", the tombstone is broken into two halves, the left and right two tombstones fell down violently, a rectangular box is exposed in the middle, the box is divided into two parts, the left part is pitch black, hard to touch, may be made of thick iron, and listen to its sound as if it is a wooden structure, and the right part is a cage made of gold wire, the cage is locked in a golden feather and silver robe, colorful birds.

Who kept the bird in this tombstone, I don't know how long, but the bird was still jumping and active, and it was not dead.

Although it was not dead, it was not free, and Zhou Kang felt compassion, and reached out to touch the door of the golden wire cage, which was hung with chains, but it was not locked. Zhou Kang opened the golden wire cage and let the bird out.

The little bird showed an unusually cheerful state, and after it came out, it swirled left and right in front of Zhou Kang.

Zhou Kang said: "Okay, from now on, you can follow me." ”

As if he could understand Zhou Kang's words, the little bird fluttered its wings and nodded, replying.

Zhou Kang said: "Then, let's go, but I really don't know where to go, you know?"

The little bird flew to the long box and stood in the pitch-black part on the right, never going away, and pecking at the box with its beak.

Zhou Kang said, "This box, what else can't be done." ”

The bird still pecked hard.

Zhou Kang said, "Okay, I'll take a look." Zhou Kang lifted the box and started with a heavy hand, at least fifty catties.

Zhou Kang held it in his hand and observed it carefully, this box was a piece, except for the part of the gold wire cage next to it that could be opened, this part seemed to be just a solid piece of pig iron.

And shaking this iron box vigorously, there is a rustle inside, which proves that it is not solid, and it contains something, but I don't know what it is.

Zhou Kang put down the iron box, waved his hand to the gold and silver bird and said, "Brother, I can't help it, I can't open it." ”

The golden and silver bird ignored Zhou Kang, but flew towards the river in the distance.

Zhou Kang said, "Hey, what are you doing?"

The good little bird flies to the river and pecks its beak into the river, as if it were drinking water.

After a few pecks, the bird came back with something in his mouth.

When it flew closer, Zhou Kang saw that it had a small grass in its mouth, with thin leaves and blue flowers, full of loveliness.

"What is this?"

The Silver Bird placed the grass on the tin box, where it had been placed, but it immediately melted into a thin notch.

Through the gap, Zhou Kang squinted his eyes and took a closer look, and found that there was indeed something in the iron box, which was a small scroll, maybe calligraphy and painting, thinking that the owner of this tomb, Huaiyu, liked birds and calligraphy and painting before his death, so her father or mother gave her these two things to bury, which is not surprising.

However, curiosity was driven by Zhou Kang, and Zhou Kang decided to open the iron box. Zhou Kang said, "It turns out that Xiaocao can melt the iron box, which is amazing, I will try it too." ”

So Zhou Kang, under the leadership of the golden and silver birds, also came to the river to look for this fine-leaved blue-flowered grass in the shallow part of the river.

There are many of them, but not many of them. When Zhou Kang picked up the unflowered ones, the little bird waved his wings and motioned for him to throw away the grass.

Zhou Kang understood what he meant, threw away the grass, and finally, with the little bird, found a dozen or so flowering grasses, and brought them all to the iron box in front of the tombstone.

Zhou Kang placed these fine-leaved blue-leaved grasses on top of the iron box in order, and for each one plant, the iron box melted one, and when all the ten grasses were placed, the top of the iron box was melted into a fist-wide opening.

Reaching in from this opening, Zhou Kang took out the scroll.

Untied the silk thread on the scroll and unfolded the scroll, Zhou Kang was shocked, what was drawn on this scroll was a map.

"Is it a map?"

The Bird nodded.

"What kind of map is this?" Zhou Kang muttered to himself, taking a closer look at what was drawn on the map.

The map is drawn in four directions, and in the middle of the four large mirrors, there is another copper mirror, the pattern on the copper mirror is mottled, it seems to be a rose, and the leaves of the rose are curved, which is very strange.

Zhou Kang thought about it for a while, and was bold, the leaves of these roses were actually the roads that he and General Han and others had taken.

The route is drawn in the shape of a rose leaf, and it is really difficult to spot if you don't look closely.

On one of the leaves, there was an obvious black dot, and Zhou Kang understood that the black dot referred to the tombstone of this "beloved daughter Huaiyu".

In this way, the direction you are in is clear, and this is easy to do, now just start from this direction, go in the direction of the rose head, and ensure that there is no problem.

Thinking of this, Zhou Kang was very happy, and said to the golden and silver bird: "Let's go, there is hope this time." ”

Zhou Kang stepped forward, took a few steps, and felt that it was inappropriate: this was too disrespectful to the owner of the tomb.

Zhou Kang then turned around, put the empty iron box back in its original position, and closed the open golden wire cage door. Then he forcefully returned the tombstone, which had been divided in two, back into place, and put everything in order, as if no one had ever touched it.

Zhou Kang saluted the grave again and said, "The girl in the tomb, I don't know what you look like, I don't know who you are, I moved your things, I really have no choice, I hope you can forgive." If I have the opportunity in the future, I will return this scroll map to you, and if the gold and silver bird is willing to stay, I will also return it to you. Thinking of this, and thinking that my hope of returning here in the future is actually very slim, I feel a little funny and a little apologetic at the moment.

No longer nostalgic, take the gold and silver birds, and set off according to the direction pointed out on the map.

Zhou Kang actually didn't know that the soul of this gold and silver bird was the soul of the owner of the tomb, and the tomb owner Huaiyu was immortal, and his soul was attached to the body of the gold and silver bird that was buried with him, but with the help of Zhou Kang, he was able to be reborn with the help of the bird's body.

Zhou Kang came to the side of the same woods, here, at the bottom of the rose head.

Zhou Kang said: "General Han, you all see. He took out the map from his bosom and unfolded it for everyone to see.

Huaizhong said, "Zhou Kang, what about the gold and silver birds you just mentioned? Why didn't we see it?" ”

On the branches of a tree, chirping, everyone looked up, and really saw a little bird with golden feathers and silver clothes singing there.

Han Jiangliu said: "Let's leave it alone for now, and look at this map." "The crowd gathered around and looked at the map, and most of them had already seen that what this map marked was the scene of the illusion in the realm, and the location of the people was very easy to understand.

Han Jiangliu said: "Then, according to what I just said, our way out should be here." Han Jiangliu pointed to the part of the rose stamen.

Zhou Kang said: "Yes, but that is the very center of this dense forest. ”