Chapter 3 Dragon Totem
The weather was really hot, and the cicadas on the trees kept making irritating sounds. We climbed over the top rock and crawled in and out of various nooks and crannies of Jiuli Mountain. We finally got there.
The glasses brother yelled at the mountaineering bag to cover his back with prickly heat. I was covered in dust and dirt, and my legs were weak.
The weird man was sweating all over his body. He didn't care about avoiding me, and finally he was willing to push aside the bangs on his left eye. In a place with sufficient light, his eyes were actually very bright.
I was scared and curious, so I got closer to him little by little, trying to make sure that the moment just now was not an illusion.
"Go away." The weirdo shook me off and turned his face away as if he was sulking.
What is the relationship between him and Xiang Yu? I am going crazy with curiosity. Xiang Yu was cut into five pieces, and Yu Ji also died. History books record that he had no descendants. If this person also has double pupils, is it genetic? Or is it a coincidence?
?Or reincarnation?
I didn't dare to say much, so I recalled the path we took ten years ago, and motioned for them to continue walking deeper into the mountains until the familiar ginkgo tree that I had marked as a marker appeared in front of me.
I thought to myself that after so many years, the tree is still as crooked as before, and I haven't grown much taller. Am I a vegetable? This is not scientific at all!
I walked into the bushes filled with emotion. I pushed aside the wildly overgrown weeds and pointed out the exposed entrance of a cave and said, "It's right here, but the water has dried up and the mountain spring is gone."
In the ancient battlefield in front of Jiuli Mountain, the overlord is surrounded by an ambush from all sides.
This is a very popular nursery rhyme in our Xuzhou city.
In fact, in addition to the Chu-Han conflict, in history, from the Xia Dynasty to the Anti-Japanese War, there were more than two million battles involving more than 10,000 people in this mountain. Calculating this, at least hundreds of thousands of soldiers died here.
Already.
There are countless natural caves like this in the mountains. They were supposed to be good tourism resources, but the fortune teller said that the yin energy here was too strong and no sponsors dared to develop it.
This mountain is deserted all year round, and at night you can still hear the sounds of soldiers wailing and fighting. Ever since Wang Laoguai, the neighbor next door, said that he had seen zombies in ancient costumes crawling out of the cave, my father would never let me go up the mountain to play again.
Already.
I described it in this way, but Uncle Xiaosha waved his hand with disdain on his face. They laughed at me for a few words, and then got into the cave with difficulty.
Nothing has changed in the past few years. There are only scattered fragments of gravel left in the cave, and not a drop of water is left.
"It's right here!" I pointed to the circle at the top of the cave based on my memory. "I have sneaked here a few times since the flood, but I can't see anything. I even pulled the stones on the ground and found nothing.
Believe it or not, I only know so much!"
Glasses squinted one eye and gestured with his hand, measured the distance, and asked me to stand where I was before and not move around. He took out a pen and wrote and drew on the paper, tinkering with it for most of the day.
I was wondering, didn't they say this was the entrance to the treasure? As a result, a group of people stood nearby, and a nerd made a sketch using me as a model?
Within a few minutes, he stood up and walked to the diagonal position, drew a circle on the ground with his feet, and said with an authoritative look: "The roof of the cave is crooked, and the angle at which light penetrates must also be crooked. The water surface is
A mirror that reflects light. If there is something in the water, you can't find it just below it. It should be at the incident point here."
After that, he showed us the content on the paper. The picture looked very familiar. It was similar to the schematic diagram of the principle of light reflection in the school physics class.
When several people heard this, they all gathered around and started cleaning up the gravel on the ground.
I thought to myself, what do these crazy people mean? Didn't they agree to find a dragon?
In the small space, they were huddled together like digging a nest, sweating profusely and digging through the gravel. The area scratched by the fingers of their glasses was gradually exposed. After a long time of hard work, a small round hole finally appeared on the ground.
"Is this the dragon?" The thin man sounded disappointed.
A small coiled dragon is carved on a piece of white stone about the size of half a palm. It is embedded in the exposed hole and cannot be moved at all.
The handsome uncle reached out and touched it and said, "It's delicate and translucent. The texture is like white jade."
"It's too different..." I compared this little cutie on the ground with the manifest dragon in my memory, and I couldn't accept it at all!
The glasses guy tore off the packaging of a bottle of mineral water, laid it horizontally on top of Xiao Long, and then used a flashlight to shine a beam of light on the bottle.
Something unexpected happened. A shining dragon appeared once again at the top of the cave!
"The jade is embedded in the spring, which is usually blocked by gravel. It will only appear once the groundwater level rises and a large flow of water is enough to push away the gravel and expose the spring." The glasses pushed up the glasses and shook them.
After grabbing the mineral water bottle twice, the dragon above his head immediately began to swim. "The water transmits light and has an amplifying effect. The light passes through the spring water and is projected onto the jade, and it will reflect this little miracle just like it does now."
I suddenly wanted to worship this nerd. Our physics teachers may not be as good as him!
The handsome uncle patted me on the shoulder and said, "How's it going? Isn't this trip in vain?"
I nodded repeatedly. Although the dragon in front of me was smaller, smaller and blurry, if the mineral water bottle was big enough, it would definitely be more majestic!
Glasses continued with an academic look: "We are on a mountain. If we want to fully demonstrate this design, the ordinary light rain and trickle are far from enough. I think the climate in Xuzhou is dry enough, and a heavy rainstorm is necessary."
, just fill up the underground water!”
"So we are waiting for a great flood that has never happened in a hundred years?" The weirdo asked, holding his chin and squatting next to him as if listening to a story.
"The water level is high enough and the gushing water flows continuously, so that the jade dragon can be pushed to swing, and then it can fly around the top of the cave as this kid said!"
My heart was filled with excitement. The mystery that had troubled me for nearly ten years was gradually solved through his wonderful analysis. I had a strong urge to applaud him.
"Okay, okay, we have found the little kid that Mr. Zhang mentioned, and we have also found the white jade dragon. It's time for us to get down to business, let's get going!"
As soon as the handsome uncle said this, everyone was cheered up. The thin man immediately rubbed his hands, picked up the flashlight and rope, and said righteously: "Old rules, I will go first, and I will give you the signal later!"
"There might be zombies in the cave!"
I opened my mouth to remind him, but he didn't even turn around, just leaned forward and disappeared into the darkness.
I suddenly remembered that the purpose of their trip was the Overlord Treasure. Since they determined that the entrance was here, was the secret that Xuzhou City had buried for two thousand years now at my feet?
The handsome uncle calmly took out two hundred yuan from his wallet, handed it to me and said, "You performed very well. The task has been successfully completed. You can go home."
"Is this the end?" I took the money and it felt like a pie in the sky. I really met the God of Wealth. I was a little frightened and took a few steps along the mountain road. It not only solved the troubles I had when I was a child, but also solved my problem. Next month’s rent includes water, electricity, firewood, rice, oil and salt. It’s a great value!
"Let's go and study hard."
"What about you? Is there really a treasure here?"
"You talk a little too much again!" The handsome uncle bowed to me impatiently and asked me to get out of his sight.
Originally, I was quite afraid of this group of people, but at this moment... I had an inexplicable impulse in my heart. I even hoped that they could use me as a hostage and threaten me, as long as I let them Let me take a look at the deepest secret of Xuzhou City...
At this time, the light of the flashlight suddenly flashed several times in the darkness. The handsome uncle glanced at it and quickly said to go in and have a look. It was not a normal signal.
The weirdo put down the water bottle and got in. When I saw that no one was paying attention to me, I had to put away the money in slow motion and walked back out of the cave three times.
In fact, I also want to go treasure hunting!
I was very conflicted. I was hoping that someone would chase me out, but at the same time I was forcing myself to take a step forward. As the saying goes, curiosity killed the cat. This mountain is so weird and these people are so dangerous. I still put safety first and hide as far away as possible. Bar!
"Wait a minute, who is that in front?"
Unexpectedly, someone actually chased me out. I couldn’t suppress my excitement and quickly turned around——
The weirdo hurriedly ran out, took out his plastic bag wallet without saying a word, counted small change, and simply stuffed the bag with me.
A boy who is giving away money? You chase him out and give him a tip?
He handed me a knife and said helplessly: "The mouse is stuck. The space is too small and I can't squeeze in. Go and help him."
"Who is the mouse?"
"The one who entered the hole first."
It turns out that the thin man is called Mouse, and he has a sinister look, and he lives up to his name.
I collected the money, took the knife, and readily agreed. Not to mention making a small profit, I also wanted to see what was in the hole, and when I heard the news, I felt very gloating. The rat was all the way. They are all working against me, either cursing or rolling their eyes and ostracizing me. Now the retribution has come, and they have to ask me for help!
Under the endless instructions from the handsome uncle, the weird man's action demonstration and the worried eyes of the glasses brother, I groped my way into the depths of the cave to rescue the stuck mouse.
I hung a flashlight on my waist, supported the stone walls on both sides with both hands, and walked in with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The mouse was lying on a stone like a toad, holding a flashlight in response to me.
"Hey, what are you doing?" My joy was beyond words.
"Hey..." Mouse's face turned ugly, "I didn't pay attention, I wanted to put a rope on it so that I could walk in without getting lost, but I didn't know there was a rock crevice hidden here. I stepped on it and fell down. Damn, he’s so fucking embarrassed!”
I tried my best to suppress the urge to laugh at him, and followed the action shown to me by the weirdo, stepped over the mouse's back, and squeezed into the narrow angle between the stone and the stone wall.
"Did you see there is a crack on the ground? When I fell, the rope was brought down and wrapped around my feet, otherwise I would not be unable to move..." The mouse tried not to look at the sarcastic expression on my face.
I took out the knife and reached out to touch the crack between the stones. The rope was wrapped around his ankle. One side was connected to the stone and the other side formed a knot. No wonder he couldn't pull it out. I slowly cut the rope along the sole of the mouse's shoe.
Chapter completed!