"Xiaocang, Chen Moxiangyu, while they are fighting now and have no time to take care of us, let's escape quickly. I didn't know until just now that these astrolabes are not something we can pry into. Go back, Xiaocang,
After you get out of Shentang Bay, throw the red astrolabe in your hand into Shentang Bay. Carrying these things with you will have no other use except to cause harm." Zhou Lan said to us.
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"It's too late, we can't go out the way we came." Xiangyu said in a daze as he looked at the two teams fighting fiercely.
"Xiang Yu, what else do you know? Tell us clearly at once." Chen Mo looked at Xiang Yu and said.
"In the end, we may all stay in this cave and become people like them. This is the curse of Shentang Bay, and it is also the reason why no one or even any animal can reach the bottom of the valley for thousands of years." Xiang
As Jade spoke, tears began to fall down.
"What do you mean? You knew it from the beginning, right? You already knew there was a curse at the bottom of Shentang Bay, so everyone who enters the valley will never return, right?" Zhou Lan grabbed Xiang.
Jade's wrist said viciously.
"No, I'm just following the order. If I knew it in advance, why would I enter Shentang Bay with you?" Xiangyu broke away from Zhou Lan's hand and shouted loudly.
"Xiangyu, you can lead several factions involved in this matter to Shentang Bay and catch them all. For such a complicated matter, no matter how wise you are, you can't come up with such a comprehensive plan. Tell me.
, who is the person behind you?" Chen Mo looked at Xiang Yu, his tone full of coldness.
"Anyway, except Zhou Cang, no one in this valley can get out today." After Xiangyu cried to the extreme, he looked even calmer.
"The confrontation between the two armies just now was simply a lie you made up. You wanted to deceive Zhou Cang about the astrolabe in his hand, and then use the stone figurines to activate the mechanism in the valley. If I guess right?
If you are wrong, in order to protect the blue astrolabe that belongs to your tribe, the ancestors of the Yufu tribe set up eight, eighty-sixty-four mechanisms in this valley, and these mechanisms, the eight astrolabees can all be opened or...
Closed, right?" Chen Mo said.
"So what, it's been so long. Those people outside the cave should have all been buried in Shentang Bay." Xiangyu wiped the tears on his face vigorously, and then said.
"You deliberately released the news about Shentang Bay to lure those who spy on the astrolabe to come to Shentang Bay. How many people will enter the valley this time?" Zhou Lan asked.
Xiangyu looked at us but said nothing.
"Yu'er, we've already reached this point, why not talk to them?"
An old voice came from the darkness deep in the cave.
"Grandpa," Xiangyu's eyes widened and a strange look appeared on his face.
"grandfather?"
The three of us repeated these two words in unison.
Before we could recover, Xiangyu ran into the darkness and helped out an old man in loose black cloth.
The old man's face gradually appeared within the scope of the hernia light.
The three of us were stunned on the spot.
It's him, I should have thought of it.
I don’t know why, but the old man who emerged from the darkness walked straight towards me.
"I never thought that I would be able to see the high priest of the astrolabe in my lifetime," the old man said.
Zhou Lan, Chen Mo and Xiang Yu all looked at me at the same time, and then the three of them exchanged glances.
"Old sir, what are you doing? It's been less than half a month since we said goodbye in the Poyang Lake Laoye Temple. Why do you say you didn't expect to see me again in your lifetime? What kind of high priest am I?"
Woolen cloth?"
Where is this?
Holding back my doubts, I helped Lao Miao Zhu stand up.
"Zhou Cang, grandpa, he is not a temple blessing. They are twin brothers, just like you and Zhou Lan."
Xiangyu also stepped forward and helped me lift the old man up, and then said.
Another set of twins!
"Do the eight major astrolabe families all have such characteristics?" I asked Grandpa Xiangyu.
"Yes, among the eight astrolabe families, the patriarch's branch will have a pair of twins every forty years. Among these twins, one child was born to his mother after thirteen months of pregnancy.
And this child born at thirteen months is the heir of the patriarch. He will officially become the patriarch when he is twenty years old, and then rule the family for forty years. In other words, the patriarch will last for sixty years.
It’s a replacement.”
Xiangyu's grandfather said slowly, completely ignoring the fighting and killing around him.
"There is another characteristic here. Among the eight major families, only the Xu family has female twins every time, while the other families all have male twins. I don't know if it is because of this that the Xu family has
The family has always been the leader of the eight major families, and they have mastered more secrets of the astrolabe." Grandpa Xiangyu continued.
"But grandpa, my surname is Zhou, not Xu. Why have I inherited this characteristic of the Xu family?"
I think we can get more truth out of Grandpa Xiangyu’s mouth.
"This is also very strange to me, but in the Xu family, not every generation of twins is a girl. Every six generations, a pair of male twins will appear in the Xu family, and the male twins
Appearing here means that during his tenure as the clan leader, he will lead the clan leaders of the Eight Star Plates to a mysterious place to conduct a grand ceremony." Grandpa Xiangyu said.
"Big sacrifice, what's the big sacrifice?" Zhou Lan asked with a frown.
"I don't know about this," Grandpa Xiangyu said, thinking for a moment, as if he wanted to say something more, but in the end he swallowed his words.
"Then why did you go to all the trouble to lure everyone involved in this matter to Shentang Bay? Is it okay to kill so many people just to protect the astrolabe?" I said in a somewhat reproachful tone.
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"Yes, all those who spy on astrolabes cannot survive in this world, because if these astrolabes see the light of day again, the disaster that will occur will be unpredictable?" Grandpa Xiangyu's expression began to become fierce.
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"But Grandpa, Xiangyu just said that you didn't plan to leave me in Shentang Bay. Why? Is it just because I was born in the twelfth month of the year? With this physiological peculiarity, everyone may have it.
Yes, I just happened to meet him." I said.
"Then you are wrong. However, when Xiangyu told me that you were a boy, I was actually stunned for a moment, because the time seemed to be faster." Grandpa Xiangyu's last words,
It seemed like he was talking to himself.
"Why is the time faster? Grandpa, I don't understand this." I asked.
"You don't need to know this. I introduced some people into Shentang Bay to clear the obstacles for you, so that your future search for the astrolabe will be much easier." Grandpa Xiangyu looked at me.
said.
"Grandpa, Chen Mo and Zhou Lan have been assisting Zhou Cang, so..." Xiang Yu hesitated.
The words she wanted to plead for Chen Mo and Zhou Lan were swallowed hard under the sharp eyes of the old man.
"Okay, without further ado, Zhou Cang, just walk along this path. If you can find the Yufu Clan's astrolabe and walk out safely, I can consider sending your brothers
Let them all go."
The old man said in a sinister tone, making his words seem untrustworthy.
"Xiao Cang, don't listen to him, he just wants to use your hand to take out the blue astrolabe." Zhou Lan said anxiously.
"Brother, don't worry, I am sensible." I said, then turned to the old man and said, "I have to add one more condition."
"Say." The old man looked at me, still looking like he was smiling.
"I want to take Xiangyu away with me." I said firmly.
"No problem." The old man said, turned to Xiang Yu and said, "Yu'er, you have good taste."
I ignored Xiang Yu's slightly changed expression, nodded slightly towards Zhou Lan, Chen Mo and Xiang Yu, and then walked into the darkness deep in the cave.