Before we even got close to the door, wet vapor hit our faces.
Outside the door is a huge cave filled with stalactites. On the other side of the cave, facing the gate of the palace, there is a waterfall that slopes down from the stone wall, forming a whirlpool in the pool on the ground.
The cave is close to the palace. The roof of the cave is covered with shiny stalactites that grow downwards in strange shapes. The other side is so high that it is so dark that you can feel it reaching the top of the mountain.
"It should be raining heavily in the mountains. The surface water seeped in along the rock formations, forming a waterfall and pouring into the small pool. There should be an underground river here. The pool feels like the source of the underground river. If my guess is correct.
, then we should be able to reach the ground by walking along this water flow. Because all the offset water flows will eventually flow directly into the surface river." Xiangyu's powerful knowledge structure allows her to understand almost everything.
"However, the basin area of the underground river can sometimes reach more than a thousand square kilometers. The geological structure here is so complex. If we follow the flow of the underground river, will it be risky?" Zhang Jisheng said doubtfully.
"Let's study this further. Look, there seems to be an ancient pagoda behind the water curtain." I opened my eyes wide and said uncertainly, because usually there should be a stone wall behind the waterfall, but here it looks like
It's an ancient pagoda built, which is totally unnatural.
This cave is full of strange-shaped stalactites, and maybe that stalactite looks a bit like an ancient pagoda.
Zhang Jisheng frowned for a while, then turned around and said to Xiangyu: "Xiangyu, does your phone still have power? Take a photo of this waterfall, and then slow down and look at it. It should be clearer. If this water curtain
The ancient pagoda at the back was naturally formed by the erosion of stalactites by water. It is simply a work of nature's highest attainments."
"The phone still has power, I'll take the photo." Xiangyu took out his phone, walked into the pool, and pressed the shooting button.
However, within ten seconds of taking the photo, Xiangyu stopped and rubbed his eyes with his hands.
"It's really strange. The water splashing from the waterfall is almost as if it contains chili powder. My eyes were stung by the spray. Take a little shot and see if it works." Xiangyu stepped back while rubbing his eyes.
Zhang Jisheng and I slowed down the video she captured three times, and finally saw the full view of the ancient pagoda behind the water curtain.
This ancient pagoda carved with stalactites as the main body is almost the same as the ancient temple I saw in the ancient book that my grandfather hid in his study. That feeling, from the front view photographed
, similar to the Guanyin Pavilion standing in the Yangtze River, it is a pavilion-style three-story building.
However, before we had time to do our own research, we discovered that something was wrong with Xiangyu.
Her eyes seemed uncomfortable, she kept rubbing them, and shook her head from time to time.
"Xiangyu, what's wrong with you? Are your eyes still hurting?" I took my eyes off the mobile phone in Zhang Jisheng's hand and asked Xiangyu.
"I seem to feel that my eyes are covered with white mist, and the things around me feel blurry and I can't see clearly." Xiangyu said.
"Zhou Cang, there seems to be something wrong with my eyes. Just like Xiang Yu, they are a bit blurry." Zhang Jisheng said, taking off his glasses, wiping them with a handkerchief, putting them back on, and taking them off again.
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At this time, I had already noticed that there might be something wrong with this cave, and said urgently: "There is something in the water mist that will hurt our eyes. Hurry back to the hall."
Xiangyu Zhang Jisheng heard my shouting and ran back in a hurry. When I turned around, I bumped into the old man standing at the door. Only then did we realize that it seemed that the old man had never followed us out of the hall.
Zhang Jisheng may have been protected by glasses, so after entering the palace, his eyes didn't seem to be so uncomfortable. Xiangyu, on the other hand, kept blinking and tears streaming down his face.
We did not prepare any eye medicine when we came out this time, so Zhang Jisheng could only soak the paper towels with drinking water, and then help Xiang Yu wipe his eyes.
I looked into Xiangyu's eyes and suddenly felt very familiar, as if I had seen them somewhere.
"Xiangyu, have your pupils always been so pale?" Zhang Jisheng suddenly asked.
"No, my eyes have been very dark since I was a child. What's wrong? Have my pupils become lighter?" Xiangyu asked nervously.
Suddenly, my whole body felt cold, and I couldn't help but tremble.
I remembered where I had seen such pupils. It was in the painting hanging on the wall in the right wing of the dining room where I fell. The women in the paintings wearing black cloaks and green faces with fangs all had eyes like this -
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The color of the pupils is very light, and the pupils shrink into a line, like a cat.
Xiangyu should feel better, so Zhang Jisheng helped her sit against the wall and sit on the ground with her eyes closed to rest.
Suddenly, the old man's black sunglasses flashed in front of my eyes. Suddenly, as if I thought of something, I ran over and unexpectedly pulled off the old man's black sunglasses.
My mother, those eyes behind the black sunglasses are almost peeled off from the painting.
"What are you doing?" The old man took the sunglasses back angrily and put them on again.
Xiangyu and Zhang Jisheng on the side didn't know what I meant, so they both looked at me with confusion. I didn't bother to explain to them. I grabbed the old man's wrist and asked viciously: "Sir, have you been here before?"
Isn’t that the place?”
The old man glanced at me, took his hand away, and said nothing.
"Your eyes are the best proof. You brought us here on purpose," I stared at the old man reluctantly.
When Xiangyu and Zhang Jisheng heard what I said, they both stood up and walked towards us.
"Sir, do you know that there is something wrong with this water mist? Then why do you still let us go out? I am not even thirty years old this year, and I am studying archeology. If there is something wrong with these eyes, then I will be in trouble for the rest of my life.
It's also ruined." Xiangyu was particularly excited, almost roaring and shouted to the old man.
"Zhou Cang said you brought us here on purpose. Why?" Zhang Jisheng asked.
"On purpose, I just want to help you." The old man looked calm and calm, his tone was as if he was talking about today's weather, and there was no trace of any emotional ups and downs.
"Chengquan, stop making excuses for your dirty behavior." Xiangyu was still very excited.
"When it comes to being dirty, except for this little brother, the three of us can only be said to be equally matched." The old man looked at me and said, and then laughed "hehehe" at the two of them.
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This laugh, somewhere between pride and helplessness, made people shiver involuntarily.
"Isn't our purpose all for the black jade? As for why we brought you here, it's because the black jade is hidden in the ancient temple behind the water curtain. It's just that we don't have the ability to take it out." The old man said.
, gave me a meaningful look. "Brother, don't you find it strange? Why are all your teammates injured by the water mist, but you are unscathed?"
I suddenly understood and finally understood why it was me. But why?
The old man seemed to be able to see the doubts in my heart, and then said: "Because you and them may be the same creature." He pointed at the incorruptible body on the wall of the hall and gave me a strange smile.
"Don't listen to his nonsense," suddenly, an angry shout came from outside the hall——