"Maybe." Wu Xie said, "Do you still remember those ancient mummies with sharpened teeth that we saw in the Yunding Heavenly Palace in the attic where the big-headed corpse was hidden? The teeth of this skull were also deliberately ground like this.
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The fat man touched it with his fingers. It was indeed too sharp. "That's right."
There is no way of knowing what connection there is. Wu Xie knelt down and looked at the stone tablet carefully, "But I always feel that it is a bit strange that this stone tablet is standing here."
Nie Xiaoba also said on the side: "Little Third Master, I remember that the place where the monkeys robbed the tombs we went to is at least one kilometer away from here."
The texture of the stele is very rough. Not much of the pattern on it has been preserved due to years of corrosion, and there are many cracks. Except for the scorpion totem in the center and the door-like frame, there is nothing else on the entire stele.
And Wu Xie always felt that the small words below were a bit too deliberate.
The three words "Longevity Country" seemed to be tailor-made for their arrival.
"I always feel that this stone tablet will not be buried here for too long." Wu Xie said, looking at the old grave behind him and guessing, "It is very likely that this thing was buried here at the same time as this lonely grave."
The fat man was surprised, "You mean, someone knew we would come here, so they made these two things here just for us to see?"
"But if you look at it this way, the time doesn't match up." Fatty analyzed. "Look, we only know about scorpions based on the snow bead left by the wooden fish. The wooden fish is only twenty-one, so just turn forward.
If you read it twice, the era is far different."
Wu Xie looked at him and said: "The scorpions in the snow beads are not necessarily carved by the wooden fish themselves."
The fat man was stunned for a moment, and the two flame marks he had seen outside the sealed door of the ancient Zhang family building suddenly flashed through his mind. He hesitated and said, "You mean, these things, including Xue Bazhu, were left behind by Muyu's father."
A message for him?”
Before Wu Xie said anything, the fat man counted on his fingers and roughly estimated the year of Zhang Menyu's birth. "It's a bit older. If our Uncle Yu is in his thirties or forty, and Aunt Yu is in his thirties,
If the wooden fish is raw, then Uncle Yu was still a child before liberation, so the time is still not right."
"Could it be that..." Fatty and Wu Xie looked at each other and took a sharp breath, "Muyu asked us to come here to find his grandfather!"
The two of them exclaimed at the same time, and the fat man added: "Of course it could be Grandma Fish."
Nie Xiaoba and others were confused about what Wu Xie and Wu Xie were talking about, so they had no choice but to listen quietly. Xiao Jiuye said that no matter what happens in Xia Dou this time, there is absolutely nothing wrong with listening to Xiaosanye.
Wu Xie calmed down the shock in his heart, paused for a moment, and then said: "Actually, before I saw this stone tablet, I had always had a question in my mind."
"What's the question?" the fat man asked.
"Tell me, who did you learn that mandrill's sign language from?" Wu Xie said solemnly, "In my opinion, that mandrill's thinking mode has surpassed that of ordinary monkeys many times. It is not so much a monkey.
It’s better to say it’s more like a person.”
"Isn't its sign language taught by Granny Monkey?" Luo Wenbing interjected.
Wu Xie looked towards him, "Then who do you think taught Granny Monkey her sign language?"
Luo Wenbing shrank his neck, "I know it."
Nie Xiaoba threw his gloves away angrily, "If you don't know, don't interrupt. Don't interrupt the young master's train of thought."
There must be a human being behind the mandrill, and that human may be the one who buried this stone monument and old tomb here.
It’s not that I haven’t thought about the relationship between sign language and the previous batch of wild lamas, but this is unlikely. The education level of wild lamas is generally not very high, and people who are not hearing and hearing-savvy cannot do this job. Mute languages almost do not exist.
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The fat man took several photos of the stone tablet to facilitate later research, and then suggested, "It's getting dark. There is an old saying that there must be an ancient temple next to a deserted tomb. Let's go look for it and rest there tonight."
Wu Xie patted the dirt on his trouser legs and said, "We have to find the ancient temple, but we still have to come back and sleep next to this old tomb tonight."
The fat man stretched out his hand and tried it on his forehead. "You don't have a fever either. Your eyes are not loose. You are normal. Why are you talking nonsense?"
Wu Xie slapped his hand away, "What are you doing? You made me look muddy."
The fat man wondered: "Why don't we sleep in an ancient temple instead of sleeping in an open-air grave? The black clouds above are almost reaching our heads. What if it rains at night?"
"As the old saying goes, it's better to sleep in a deserted tomb than in an ancient temple. There's something special about that," Wu Xie said.
Nie Xiaoba silently raised his hand, "I know where the ancient temple is. It's just two to three hundred meters away from the tomb where the monkey robbed the tomb last time."
Wu Xie looked at the sky and immediately said, "Let's go and find the monkey tomb."
Nie Xiaoba took the lead, and everyone walked toward the northeast for nearly twenty minutes. At a glance, they saw a deep pit sunken between the grass and wild flowers. The vegetation on the edge sloped downwards. There was an old tree due to geological collapse.
He fell sideways into the pit.
Wu Xie knew at a glance that this old tree would not survive more than two years. Even though it looked full of vitality now, it was already covered with dodders that robbed the host of vitality by absorbing nutrients.
Cuscuta absorbs the nutrients of the big tree, continues to multiply and grow, climbs and spreads on the thick trunk, blocking the sunlight needed for photosynthesis of the big tree, and eventually causes the host to die.
The coffin in the photo is placed at the bottom of the pit. There is no earth protection. It has been exposed to wind, rain, and sun these days, and the coffin has become soft and rotten.
There is a hole under the rotting coffin that leads directly to the wooden tower below. Nie Xiaoba said that this had already existed when he came back.
The corrugations on the surface of the tower were all covered with soil and fallen leaves. Wu Xie turned on his flashlight and shined it down through the hole. A lot of rainwater had accumulated on the lower wooden boards, and sphagnum moss had begun to grow in places where the sun could not reach it.
, the hanging dodder threads lingered on the wooden board.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At a glance, you can see a stone figurine with a thunderous mouth placed in the pavilion on this floor. It is more than two meters high, standing there end-to-end, with its eyes looking straight ahead.
With a ferocious expression, he put his hands together on both sides, making a gesture of bowing into the water.
There should have been something stuck in the palm of this stone figurine, but it's gone now. It was probably taken away by those wild lamas.
The fat man asked what was inside, and Wu Xie said that he could only see one stone figurine and that he would have to go further to see the details.
Nie Xiaoba fixed the rappel rope at the edge of the pit. Wu Xie and Fatty went down one after another and looked around with the light on.
The fat man's sharp eyes found two halves of a set of ropes lying on the ground. "Are there any holes in the heads of those people? How come they have cut off their own retreat?"
Wu Xie picked up the rope and looked at the broken end, "It wasn't caused by humans. Looking at the rough break, it was probably bitten by a monkey."
When the fat man heard this, he suddenly became nervous, "They have been attacked by monkeys here?"
When Nie Xiaoba and the others heard this, they immediately looked around with weapons in their hands. At this moment, a muffled thunder exploded in the dark clouds above their heads, and everyone was shocked.
At this time, the sky was already dark, and the original dense forest not far away was so dark that it was completely invisible.
But Nie Xiaoba always felt fuzzy in his heart, as if something was staring at them in the dark.
A dazzling bolt of lightning pierced the darkness, and another rumble of thunder struck down, followed closely by large raindrops, hitting his head and face.
Nie Xiaoba stood there blankly, staring in one direction, his face turned pale.
Dafu didn't know why, so he gave him half of the coat that covered his head. He squinted his eyes and looked in that direction. It was raining heavily, but he didn't see anything.
"Bago, what were you looking at just now? The mistress asked us to go down to take shelter from the rain."
Nie Xiaoba's whole body trembled, and his soul returned to his body. He didn't know whether it was moisture or cold sweat on his forehead.
When lightning struck suddenly, a huge black figure suddenly appeared in the shadow of the trees. He could clearly see that the huge shadow had two red lantern-like eyes, which was eerie and terrifying.
Rainwater was already flowing down the pit. When a few people went down, they moved one side of the coffin board to cover it. Although it couldn't completely block the rain, it was better than nothing.
Two wind lanterns were lit, and the attic became brighter. Wu Xie noticed that Nie Xiaoba had something wrong with his expression, and asked him what was wrong, "Did you notice something wrong?"
Nie Xiaoba hesitated for a moment. Since what he just saw was too terrifying, in order to avoid causing everyone to panic, he still whispered to Wu Xie, "The lightning passed too fast. I'm not sure if I was blinded."
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Wu Xie was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then said: "Your feeling is right. Those monkeys did not stay away from us, but followed us all the time. Is the huge shadow you just saw the same as the one we saw before?"
Does it look like a mandrill?"
Nie Xiaoba nodded with lingering fear.
"That's actually the projection of lightning light that travels in a straight line in the air and is blocked by physical objects, just like this." Wu Xie said, putting his other hand close to the mouth of the flashlight, and then asked Nie Xiaoba to pay attention to the ground.
shadow.
The closer his palm is to the light source, the larger the shadow on the ground will be, and the edge outline will become blurred, otherwise it will be clearly reduced.
Nie Xiaoba suddenly realized that this was where the huge shadow came from. He almost frightened him to death, thinking that there was a monster bigger than a mandrill hidden in the mountain.
"But if you read it correctly, the mandrill is indeed hiding in that location." Wu Xie said.
Nie Xiaoba hurriedly said: "Little Third Master, what should we do now?"
"Cold salad." Wu Xie smiled and called to the fat man who had already set up a pot to cook, "Don't work on the food now. We still have to walk to the lower floors. Those monkeys have been following us."
"Grandma's fault!" the fat man cursed, "those bastard scoundrels are really lingering. Innocent, you first find an opening and lead the people down. I'll put some detonators here and blow them up."
Damn."
Wu Xie nodded in agreement and patted the fat man on the shoulder, "Pay attention to safety."
Having experienced many traps, Wu Xie was basically familiar with the hidden traps that would be set up in ordinary tombs. Black Blind Man had also specially trained him in this aspect, so it was easy to find the traps instructed by the stone figurine of Lei Gongzui.
"This is a guide figurine, but this kind of thing usually only appears in the corridors of tombs with burials. Its function is to guide the owner of the tomb on the way to immortality." Wu Xie said, "But the direction indicated by this figurine is very strange.
Why does it refer to the lower level of the tower and not the top of it."
Nie Xiaoba guessed, "Didn't the monument say Eternal Life Kingdom before? Maybe the Gu King thinks he is a god? Or maybe he wants to be a god."
Wu Xie shook his head, "No, look at the expression of this stone figurine. The ferocious mouth is just the original shape of Thunder God's mouth, but its eyes are looking up instead of looking down. In other words, it is looking up at something coming down from above.
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The fat man neatly installed the waterproof bomb, connected the trigger line, and said: "Come down from above, isn't it us? What are these hozens looking up to us for? Maybe they want to recognize Fatty as their grandfather."
As he spoke, he squatted on the ground and made a playful pose imitating the stone figurines, and whispered at the top of his voice: "Welcome, grandpa, please give me a red envelope."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was another burst of thunder. The sound penetrated the ground and amplified infinitely in the empty attic. The echo and thunder continued to overlap until it gradually subsided after more than ten minutes.
The fat man was unprepared and was shocked, his eyes turned into corners.
Wu Xie put down the hand covering his ears, shook his still buzzing head, cursed secretly, and slapped the fat man awake, "Hurry up, let's get down from here quickly. This tower is an inverted cone, the closer it gets to the ground,
The louder the thunder in the place, the next few times, our ears will be temporarily deafened."
There was a wooden door in the direction indicated by the Lei Gongzui stone figurine. It was somewhat squeezed and deformed due to moisture. Wu Xie kicked it open, and a short staircase appeared behind it.
The fat man took one look inside and shouted, "This place doesn't look like a place for people to leave."
"It's for the monkeys. Stop talking nonsense and hurry up." After Wu Xie said that, he put on his headlamp and headed in.
The fat man took a deep breath, tightened his belt, turned around and patted Nie Xiaoba on the shoulder, saying sincerely, "I'll leave my bag to you, fat man."
Before the next thunder, everyone got into the small door and crawled down the short passage. The passage was so long that it could be clearly felt that they were circling around the tower itself.
During this period, he passed several wooden doors, but Wu Xie just used a knife to pry them open and took a look inside. He found that inside were the same stone figurines with thunderous mouths as on the top floor, with the same posture as if they were copied and pasted.
But the only difference is that there is a long coiled snake on the hand of the stone figurine in the third attic.
The fat man said quietly: "Innocent, doesn't it look familiar?"
Wu Xie also said quietly: "Isn't it? It's all cooked and dry."
"The ghosts of these sausages are still here." The fat man smacked his tongue, "Oh no, your meat is so fragrant. They have come all the way here to chase you."
"You are more delicious." Wu Xie had already pried open the door panel and got in.
Thanks for the tip from Mr. [Old Wine and Light Drinking], I would like to express my gratitude.
