Chapter Seventy-Two: The Cave Deep
readx;? When I heard the shouts of a senior brother coming from below the hill, I immediately cautiously came to the edge of the hill, and then poked my head down and shouted, "Senior brother, are you okay?"
Just as I was looking for the senior brother at the bottom of the hill, my senior brother had already seen me and immediately waved his arms and shouted to me, "Chongyang, I'm here." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 By the way, Chongyang, what did you and Master do just now? Why did such a hill suddenly appear under the ground in the backyard? Fortunately, the position where I was standing at that time was a few centimeters away from this hill. "If I were to be pushed into the air by this hill that suddenly emerged from under the ground, and then I would have fallen to my death." ”
"We're okay too. Senior brother, are you the only one down there?" I asked.
"Hmm. At that time, I was standing alone on the edge of this backyard, and the other brothers and sisters were all lifted up by this hill, and now they should all be on the top of the mountain. ”
By this time, my master had also risen from the middle of the pile of rocks on the top of the mountain. After listening to the conversation between me and my senior brother, he didn't care about the pain in his body, and hurriedly took care of the disciple at the bottom of the hill: "Disciple, you must not enter the cave alone, and wait until the master comes down." "The reason why my master is in a hurry to take care of the senior brother below the hill and not enter the cave is that he must not want the senior brother below the hill to see the immortal in the cave before him.
"Yes, Master. My senior brother hurriedly agreed. To be honest, even without my master's care, this senior brother of mine would not dare to enter the cave alone.
After making sure that his disciples had not entered the cave, my master signaled to the disciples who had already risen from the top of the hill and told them to help him down the mountain quickly. I hurriedly followed behind Master and my brothers and sisters, and carefully climbed down from the top of this small hill.
As all the people on the top of the hill returned to the backyard ground, everyone immediately opened their eyes wide and kept looking at the hill in front of them that suddenly emerged from under the backyard ground. I don't know what kind of magic is hidden in that stone piano, but when it was turned over and put back in the stone pit, it actually made this hill buried under the ground in the backyard break through the ground like a spring. Judging by the shape of the hill in front of it, it should have been made from a single boulder that had been carefully carved. Except for the rocky surface at the top of the hill, which was covered with green moss, the surface of the stone walls that were buried under the ground was bare, and only some soft dirt was visible covering its surface. Actually, this is not surprising, after all, the rest of the hill except for its top was previously buried under the ground, and plants could not grow on the surface of the stone walls that were buried under the ground.
When everyone's eyes fell on a stone wall facing south of this hill, everyone finally saw the cave that the senior brother had just said. The entrance of this cave is not large, it will be able to accommodate an adult, the whole shape looks very regular, and the surface is very smooth, which can also be seen from these two points that this cave should have been chiseled at a later stage, and it was not naturally formed. Looking through the hole in the top of the stone wall, it was so dark that I couldn't see what was inside the cave? On the stone wall above the entrance of the cave, there were three words engraved impressively: "Immortal Cave", which was exactly the same as the three words carved on the stone wall of the small hill painted in the painting.
Seeing the three words carved on the stone wall above the entrance of the cave, my master could no longer hide the excitement in his heart, and said in his slightly trembling voice, "Quick, go and prepare some torches." ”
In a short time, my brothers and sisters had already found a few torches from the tools they had with them. After they lit the torches in their hands, my master hurriedly took two torches from them, and handed one of them to me, and the other to the brother who had just carried the stone qin with me. Then, he pointed to me and my senior brother and said to all the disciples present, "Let Chongyang and the two of them go to this cave with their teachers to investigate first, while the other disciples wait outside the cave for the time being." After saying that, my master immediately motioned for me to go to the front, and the other senior brother walked at the back, escorting him towards the entrance of the cave.
Although the senior brothers who were asked to stay outside the cave and wait were very dissatisfied in their hearts, they didn't dare to say a word, so they had to watch the three of us enter the immortal cave, their eyes full of envy.
Under the envious gaze of the senior brothers, the three of us soon came to the entrance of the Immortal Cave. Walking in the front, I hurriedly held the torch in my hand directly in front of me, and then cautiously walked into the cave.
At first, the space inside the cave was small enough for one person to pass through, but after walking about five or six steps, I felt that the space inside the cave suddenly became larger. I hurriedly took a few more steps forward, then raised the torch in my hand and began to survey the entire structure of the cave. At this time, my master and brother had already passed through the small space in the cave and entered this relatively spacious space in the cave. Immediately afterward, the two of them, like me, looked at the entire cave with curiosity.
After some careful examination, I finally figured out the structure of this cave, and the internal structure of this fairy cave is very similar to the kind of bronze bell we commonly see in temples, which is also in the shape of a semi-circular arc at the top and an empty cylinder around the bottom. On top of this cylindrical stone wall, I vaguely noticed that there seemed to be something carved on it, and hurriedly raised the torch in my hand and leaned towards the stone walls around the cave. After I walked a full circle in front of this cylindrical stone wall, I finally saw clearly that there were five vivid pictures carved on this cylindrical stone wall.
"Five pictures?" Hearing this, Yu Fei'er couldn't help but interrupt the memories of the Dragon Cave Mountain disciple again, and asked curiously, "What exactly are the five pictures drawn?" Brother Dao, tell me about it. ”
"I'm not afraid of jokes when I say it, I was looking at the five pictures on the stone wall, I didn't understand what kind of story was drawn in these five pictures, I only knew that the content of these five paintings should be related to the king of Dayu's control of the water. ”
"So, isn't there anything else in this immortal cave besides these five pictures on the stone wall?" Yu Fei'er continued to ask.
"Don't worry, listen to me slowly. After speaking, this disciple of Longdong Mountain began to recall again:
While I was inspecting the entire structure of the Immortal Cave, my master was actually carefully observing. After figuring out the situation inside this cave, my master immediately said to the disciples outside the cave like a deflated ball: "Disciples, there are no immortals in this cave at all, if you don't believe it, you can come to this cave and have a look." ”
Those senior brothers outside the cave were naturally unwilling to give up such an opportunity, so they followed one after the other, and they all squeezed into this immortal cave. Fortunately, the space inside the cave is quite spacious, and when all the brothers and sisters outside the cave enter the cave, they don't feel that it is too crowded. When these brothers and sisters outside the cave entered the cave and looked around, the suspicions in their hearts were immediately dispelled. It seems that this time, the master really didn't deceive himself, in this immortal cave, except for seeing five pictures carved on the stone wall, he didn't see any immortals at all.
At first, my brothers and sisters were not discouraged by the fact that there were no immortals in the cave. When they first entered the cave, they were immediately attracted by the five paintings on the stone wall, and they kept talking with each other, trying to figure out what kind of story the five pictures on the stone wall depicted. Gradually, they began to lose patience with the five drawings on the stone wall. At this time, one of the senior brothers complained: "After working on it for a long time, the painting that Master found was originally deliberately left by this person who carved these five pictures on the stone wall, in order to attract us to come here and see these broken paintings he carved on the stone wall." This painter has put all his heart into it, otherwise we wouldn't have fallen for him and wasted a day here. Let's go, let's go, I think we'd better go out, pack up our things and go back to Longdong Mountain to rest. With that, this senior brother of mine turned around and withdrew. The other brothers immediately retreated after him.
Soon, there were only two people left in the cave, me and my master. Seeing that the disciples in the cave were left alone, my master reluctantly took out the painting from his bosom and looked at it again, and said indignantly: "I can't imagine that this painter has put so much effort into leading us to this cave to see these five paintings he carved on the stone wall." This painter is so hateful! Chongyang, let's go out together. ”
I immediately responded to Master, and then raised the torch in front of me, ready to exit through the narrow passage where I had entered. Just as my body was about to enter the narrow passage in the cave, the figure of the scorpion suddenly flashed out of the corner of my eye. I hurriedly turned my head and fixed my eyes fixed on the scorpion crawling on the ground.
The master who was following me saw that I suddenly stopped, and then turned around and kept looking for something on the ground, and immediately asked me curiously, "Chongyang, what are you looking for?"
At this point, my attention was all drawn to the scorpion on the ground, and I didn't pay any attention to my master's questioning. I saw that the scorpion on the ground slowly crawled to the edge of the innermost stone wall in the cave, and then it stopped there and did not move. I hurriedly bypassed the master behind me and walked lightly to the scorpion. As I held my breath and crouched down to catch it, the scorpion perched on top of the stone wall disappeared from my sight again. And on the stone wall where the scorpion disappeared, another mark appeared, a familiar mark: a guqin pattern!
I couldn't help but shout, "Master, Master, come and see." ”
My master walked quickly behind me. When he squatted down and saw the guqin pattern on the stone wall, he was so frightened that he took two steps back, stared at his eyes wide, first looked at me, then at the guqin pattern on the stone wall, and then opened his mouth wide, but he couldn't say a word. Seeing this expression on Master's face, I couldn't guess whether he was surprised or happy in his heart.
While my master was still stunned, I stretched out my right hand and touched the guqin pattern on the stone wall. Just as my right hand touched the guqin pattern on the stone wall, my master hurriedly waved his hands at me and stopped me in his trembling voice: "No, don't! Chongyang, don't!"
I don't know why my master stopped me at the time, but in retrospect, it's very likely that my master at that time remembered the voice he heard earlier, and was a little scared and wanted to give up. But at that time, I could still hold my hand, and the fingers of my right hand involuntarily pressed the guqin pattern on the stone wall. Like the previous two patterns, this guqin pattern on the stone wall can also be moved. As I pressed the guqin pattern on the stone wall to the inside of the stone wall, I immediately heard a loud "boom" in my ears, and then the whole cave began to shake violently. In the midst of this violent tremor, I felt my body sink violently, as if my body was falling from a high altitude, and I hurriedly threw the torch in my hand and hugged my master tightly.
This violent shaking in the cave lasted only a short time, and soon the cave returned to its previous calm. When the cave returned to calm, my master's complaining voice immediately sounded in the cave: "Chongyang, how can you press the guqin pattern on the stone wall without the consent of your teacher? I see that you are getting bolder now, and you can even ignore the words of your teacher." If you find something out of the ordinary, don't touch it again. At this, my master looked around the cave with a look of horror. After making sure that nothing unusual was going on around him, he continued: "The painter has set up so many mechanisms to trick us. I think we'd better get out quickly, if this cave suddenly collapses, then the two of us won't be able to get out again. ”
To be honest, I was scared by the sudden violent shaking in the cave. After listening to Master's complaints, I quickly picked up the torch that I threw on the ground from the ground, and at the same time replied, "Disciple will never dare to touch anything here anymore, let's leave here." With that, I took my torch and walked out along the narrow passage in the cave.
After I had walked five or six steps through this narrow passage in the cave, I couldn't help but wonder in my heart. It stands to reason that after walking five or six steps through this passage in the cave, I should have been able to see light coming in, if not out of the hole. But now, I can't see a glimmer of light outside. Even if this hill in the backyard is located at the back of the main hall of Yuwang Temple, it is difficult for the sunlight to shine here, but it is not that there is no sunlight at all. With such doubts in mind, I slowly walked out of the hole.
When I walked out of the cave, I was instantly stunned by the scene outside the cave, and at this time, the master who followed me out of the cave was also like me, and was instantly stunned by the scene outside the cave. By the light of the torches, my master and I found that we were not in the backyard of the Yuwang Temple at all, but came to a huge underground cavern. In this way, there was nothing wrong with the feeling that my body seemed to have fallen from a high altitude, and I actually returned to the ground in the backyard with this hill. It really made people not expect that there was such a huge cave under the ground in the backyard of Yuwang Temple.
I raised my torch in my hand to try to see what the underground cavern looked like, but all I saw was a long stone staircase leading into the darkness. As to where the staircase leads, and how high I am from the bottom of the cavern, I have no way of judging because the faint light from the torches does not reach the end of the staircase.
I froze in place, not knowing whether I should move forward or retreat into the cave, when I heard a faint voice from the depths of the darkness: "Help me, come and get me out." "This cry for help seems to have a special magic, whether you want to hear it or not, it always surrounds my ears, secretly killing my will.
Under the erosion of this voice, my body gradually began to lose my control, and my feet involuntarily stepped up the stone steps, and walked towards the depths of darkness. At this time, the master behind me was no better, and he followed me in a trance, and walked towards the depths of the cave together.