"What's the problem?" I heard Zhou Lan and Chen Mo say this, and I squatted down, picked up a stone, and followed their example and used a hernia lamp to look at it.
However, after looking at it for a while, I didn't seem to find anything. It was just an ordinary stone, but the texture on it was a little darker than ordinary stones, and there seemed to be some color on the texture.
"These textures on the stone should not be natural, but artificially painted," Zhou Lan said.
Chen Mo didn't say anything, but picked up several stones around him, placed them on his knees and thighs, and illuminated them with a hernia lamp.
"It's just that if these textures are painted manually, it seems a bit difficult to operate. Xiao Cang, you see, the colors of these textures are already deep enough." Zhou Lan continued.
Chen Mo still didn't speak, but kept rummaging through the gravel in the river, wondering what was going on in his head.
"The textures are all artificially painted, you don't need to study them any more," Chen Mo suddenly interrupted our conversation, "You first pick out the stones with this kind of texture."
What are you doing?
I muttered silently in my heart, but also started searching.
Sure enough, after a while, I found another stone with a similar texture not far ahead.
Zhou Lan was already walking ahead of me at this moment, and he also fell over.
"Hey, I also have a piece here." Zhou Lan shouted loudly.
"We found all the stones with the same texture in the river, and then took them with us first. When we got out of the inland river, we tried to piece them together. I suspect that these stones are in the same picture.
Although I don’t know if the picture knocked out above has anything to do with our astrolabe, my intuition tells me that this picture may be very important." Chen Mo walked up to me and said to me and Zhou Lan.
"But these stones are not light, and the stones in the river are so slippery. Besides, we have a time limit. Wouldn't it be inappropriate to carry such heavy stones on the road?" Zhou Lan said.
"Let's take one step at a time, and then we'll give up when there's really nothing we can do." Chen Mo said and looked at me, probably trying to win my support.
I pondered for a while and felt that if it was really a mural, it must be able to convey some information, so I said: "How about taking it with you first? It's not that heavy for the time being. If the river is not long, there is no need."
It takes too much effort.”
"Since you all want to take it with you, that's fine. If we can really put together a mural, it should be a relatively big message."
I don’t know if it’s because of the twins, but after getting along with each other during this time, I found that Zhou Lan’s ideas often coincided with mine.
So, we bent over and picked up stones while walking forward. If we overturned stones with similar textures, we stuffed them into the backpack behind us.
After walking for nearly an hour, the backpacks of the three of us were already bulging and the weight continued to increase.
Suddenly, Zhou Lan, who had been walking at the front of the team, stopped suddenly. The xenon lamp in his hand turned around and illuminated the dark river in front of him.
His sudden abnormal behavior proved that something must have happened.
My heart suddenly jumped into my throat.
"Xiao Cang, Chen Mo, do you feel a little familiar here?" Zhou Lan lowered his voice and asked, but did not turn around.
"Familiar," I repeated his last two words, beads of sweat already flowing down my cheeks.
"We are back where we started." Chen Mo squatted down, turned over the stones under his feet, and then said with a heavy face.
"Back to the same place? Chen Mo, do you mean that we took a break and then returned to the place where we just started? But there are no bamboo rafts here, and there are no old ladies." I said, my voice couldn't be suppressed.
Trembling.
"I don't know where the old lady and the bamboo raft went, but I am certain that this is the place where we just discussed the texture of the stones in the river." Chen Mo stood up, patted the mud on his hands, and frowned.
said.
"Chen Mo, it seems that this river is not simple." Zhou Lan also stepped back, and Chen Mo and I stood in a triangle shape.
"You said that this river can lead directly to the ghost town, so are there unclean things here?" I asked cowardly.
"Don't think about it. There are no ghosts in this world. To take a step back, if there are ghosts, they are not in the same space as us, and their world must have a set of things that can restrain them, so don't scare yourself.
." Zhou Lan said immediately after listening to my words.
"But if there are no ghosts, then what's going on with the ghosts we encounter now?" I asked.
"Back then, Zhuge Liang was able to trap 80,000 enemy troops with just a few brick walls. This amazing art of evading armor was indescribably mysterious," Zhou Lan said.
"Are you saying the Bagua array is used here?" Chen Mo looked at Zhou Lan and asked.
"I can't say for sure, but there is a serious lack of light in the river. In addition, the inland river is in the mountain. Every place seems to be the same, so even if it is slightly off-direction, or there are
It is actually difficult for us to find any hidden side roads," Zhou Lan said.
"Brother, what do you mean, should we walk again?" I asked.
"It must be necessary. You all know that there are no bamboo rafts and old ladies now. The water of this inland river is affected by the moon tide. We have wasted too much time when we just walked the first time. This
If the tide suddenly rises and the river water comes back, we will have to stay in the river to keep Hebo company." Zhou Lan said as he walked forward.
This time, we walked very slowly, carefully exploring every corner to see if there were any other forks.
Of course, there is no more stone.
As we walked and searched, water drops continued to drip from the roof of the cave. Coupled with the profuse sweating all over our bodies, the clothes of the three of us were soaked from the inside out.
"Chen Mo, Xiao Cang, we are back to the starting point."
I was wringing out the water from my clothes while lowering my head when I heard Zhou Lan's almost desperate voice.
"What?" I raised my head and saw Chen Mo and Zhou Lan standing in front with their backs to me. The hernia lamps in their hands shone on the ground at the same time as their hands hanging by their sides.
"Moreover, it seems that the tide is starting to rise," Zhou Lan said.
I looked at the river, and sure enough, the water had already reached the soles of my feet.
"Brother, Chen Mo, what should we do now? If we don't get out as soon as possible, we will really drown in this cave." I suddenly became anxious.
"Let's pour out the stones we just picked up and see if we can spell out any patterns. Maybe this picture can give us some hints."
As Chen Mo spoke, he had already poured out all the stones in his backpack.
Zhou Lan and I saw this and followed suit.
Because at this moment, there is no other way to choose.
Zhou Lan hurriedly turned over the textured side of all the stones.
The three of us gathered together with our heads down to study how to piece it together. The light from three hernia lamps was concentrated in the same place, making it a bit dazzling.
I don’t know if it’s because we haven’t picked up all the stones with this pattern in the river, so the three of us squatted there and fiddled with it for a long time, but we couldn’t piece together a picture that was more in line with the logic of people on earth.
"Did we all think wrong? These stones are just special ordinary rocks?" Chen Mo said to himself.
By this time, the water in the river had reached our ankles.
Zhou Lan sighed heavily, then stood up and looked forward with the hernia lamp in his hand.
Chen Mo and I also stood up.
Suddenly, out of the corner of our eyes, the stones we turned face up gathered together and were soaked in the river water. They seemed to be able to emit a faint light without the illumination of the xenon lamp.
This scene instantly reminded me of the old lady who dived into the water to push the bamboo raft for us when we entered the river. Could it be that she relied on the dim light emitted by these stones to guide the way?
"Chen Mo, brother, I know." Thinking of this, I suddenly shouted excitedly.
Chen Mo and Zhou Lan looked at me with puzzled faces.
I walked over and turned off all the hernia lamps in their hands, then pointed at the stones on the ground that emitted a faint dark yellow light and said, "Look, those stones actually glow."
However, Chen Mo and Zhou Lan said in unison: "What's the glow?"
As soon as they said this, I was stunned. "Didn't you see that the pile of stones on the ground that we just picked up in the river, with special textures that we thought could be pieced together to form a picture, are now spreading?"
Is it glowing with a dark yellow light?"
"No, Xiao Cang, did you faint in the river and have hallucinations?"
"Chen Mo, didn't you see it too?" I grabbed Chen Mo's hand and asked anxiously.
"No," Chen Mo seemed to hesitate for a moment, then said softly.
How is this possible? Am I the only one who can see it?