Chapter 93 Captive Room
The basin in front of me is about the same size as the basin we usually use to wash our faces. It is rough in workmanship, gray in color, and looks very hard. Xiang Feng used his hand to bounce the edge of the basin and made a "crank" sound. The bottom of the basin and the walls of the basin are engraved with patterns, densely packed. The patterns are composed of lines, some are like mountains, some are like rivers, crisscrossing, and some things similar to words, which should be the prototype of ancient hieroglyphs. The old fox knelt devoutly in front of the basin, with a very solemn expression. He reached into the basin, stroked the lines, and carefully identified them. After a few glances, he felt dizzy, so he stood up and shook his head.
Judging from these pottery pots, pans, and stone tools, this should be the place where ancient people lived in the past. Looking at the entire stone chamber with the light of fire, the more I looked at it, the more I felt confused. How could this stone chamber be so similar to the stone chamber we found in Taihang Mountains?... Master and Xiang Feng had never seen the stone chamber. Although they were also wondering why there was a stone chamber under the ground, they didn't think deeply. At this moment, their attention was attracted by this clay basin...
Suddenly, I thought of the secret door that Yu Xin and I discovered in that stone chamber. I thought to myself, I don’t know if there is a secret door in the stone chamber in front of me. In order to save fuel and prevent the foxes, my master only lit a torch, and the fire could not shine in the darkness in the corner of the stone chamber. After my flashlight was "sent away" Gao Fusheng, it was broken when it slid down the wall of the earthen ditch. I identified the direction and groped toward the stone chamber we were in Taihang Mountain.
Walking in the direction of the secret door. There are many foxes in the stone chamber in front of me, which are smelly and sticky when they step on them, and it feels very uncomfortable. As I was walking, I heard the voice of the master coming from behind me. Don’t rush to study whether there is a way to deal with the river god in this basin. Let’s take it with me and leave here quickly. Otherwise, if the foxes come back, it will not be easy to deal with here... Then a few people stood up and the rustling sound of their clothes made.
"Hmm? Where is Leng'er?" said the master.
"Where are there." Yu Xin said.
"Leng'er, let's go."
"Uh-huh…"
I agreed, but I had already arrived at the corner of the stone chamber and touched the wall. Sure enough, there was a door! I couldn't help but say "ah".
"What's wrong?"
The master asked anxiously with concern, and then jumped over with a 'huh'.
"The door, there is a door here!"
At this time, everyone surrounded him. As the fire swayed, there was a slightly raised secret door under the wall, which was about the same size as the secret door of the stone room we discovered. I have no doubt that the stone house in front of me must be the same group of people as the stone room in Taihang Mountain... I think of the person who was originally imprisoned in the belly of Taihang Mountain, and the ghost thing that came out of the altar of the underground temple also had an evil aura. Could it be that the two of them were the same thing?
I told the master the doubts in my heart. The master thought about it carefully, squatted down, grabbed the edge of the secret door and pulled it out, and didn't pull it even after pulling it for several times. So he stopped, kicked it with his feet, kicked it four or five times. The secret door finally loosened, and it fell into the stone wall little by little, and then kicked it four or five times. In a moment, the door flew out, and under the fire, I saw a dark unknown space opposite.
"I'll go over and take a look first."
Xiang Feng said, and he was about to burrow in as soon as he bowed his body, but was stopped by his master.
"What's wrong with Master?" Xiang Feng asked.
The master stood up, looked back and forth, and said in a deep voice, "You all leave here first, I will go in by myself, otherwise if the foxes come back, everyone will be blocked here."
What the master said is reasonable. After we go out, we will guard the entrance of the cave. Even if the fox comes, we will not come in. If everyone stays here, the fox will be blocked here once it comes back. But I am afraid that there will be unknown dangers in the "dark space" in front of me, and I am worried about the safety of my master, so I said, Master, let me stay with you.
The master thought about it and said, "Okay."
After watching Xiang Feng, Yu Xin and the old fox leave, Master first took the torch and drilled over, and I followed closely behind. He stood up and looked around with the light of the torch in his hand. There was a dirt chamber next to the stone chamber, which looked similar to the underground temple dirt chamber we discovered before, but the area was much smaller, and the walls were full of marks of ramming. He knocked it with his hands and was very strong. In the middle of the dirt chamber was a rectangular pit, about the size of two bathtubs. There were many black things in the pit, one piece at a time. I leaned down and knocked it with my hands. It was harder than the stone. I wanted to pick one piece, but these blocks seemed to be welded together and couldn't pick it down at all.
Not far from this pit is a pot made of clay. Compared with the basin engraved with the "Hetu", the size, shape and color are almost the same. It should have been burned from a kiln. The difference is that the basin in front of me is not engraved with a pattern, but contains two bones. I don’t know what animal it is, but it breaks into powder with a light touch with my hand...
Anyway, everything in the earthen room makes me feel extremely novel.
"This room should have been built by the ancients to raise livestock," said the master.
"House livestock?" I couldn't help but be stunned.
"Well." The master pointed to the two holes in the wall not far from the basin. "If I had a good material, these two holes should have been left behind by nailing the rope chains that tied the livestock."
I looked at the pot, "If this is the case, then is this pot for livestock?"
“It should be.”
"That... the basin with the River Map was originally used to feed it?"
The master nodded silently.
The thoughts in my mind flashed one after another. To put it this way, the thing that came out of the altar of the underground temple was originally a "livestock" that was kept here? Who would be the one who kept it? Dayu? It was incredible...
I looked at the pit again and suddenly understood what the black and fossil-like things in the pit were shits from the "livestock"... From the two holes in the wall and two identical clay basins, there were two things that were originally kept here. I was full of thoughts... The one who lived here was a pair of fairy-like couples. The male owner was named Dayu and the female owner... The female owner was named Anonymous. They raised two "pets". For some reason, Dayu brought one of the pets in the altar of the underground temple, and took it over, engraved the river map and the way to deal with the river god... On the day when the pet was taken away, the female owner was reluctant to leave and cried...
I was thinking about it, and my master pushed me, Leng'er and left.
"Just leave like that?" I looked around.
"Yes." The master nodded.
Climbing back to the stone chamber from the secret door, we followed the hole when we came, and soon came outside. We got up and looked around. I couldn't help but take a breath of air. If Master hadn't asked Xiang Feng and the others to come out first, we wouldn't have thought of it. At present, we were surrounded by foxes. On both sides of the ditches and the walls of the ditches, there were foxes everywhere, flashing with green eyes. Thinking of the thrilling scene last night, I felt a chill on the back of my head. These foxes were much more difficult to deal with than the villagers in Gaojia Village. Xiang Feng and Yu Xin held a torch together, and the old fox was "wou woo," and I didn't know what they were saying to the foxes. Seeing us coming out, the old fox stopped shouting.
"How is it?" the master asked in a deep voice.
The old fox pointed to the basin in his hand, "What they mean, if we don't leave this basin, we don't want to leave here..."
I looked around and didn't see the thing I hit with my Yin Talisman last night.
"dream!"
I snorted, took the torch from Xiang Feng's hand, and waved at the foxes on the periphery. At present, the foxes wanted to retreat, but were squeezed by the foxes behind and could not retreat at all. Judging from this situation, we could only leave here unless we could fly or kill all these foxes.
"Why do these ghosts value this basin so much?" I muttered, "What should I do with Master? Or just go out."
"No." said the master.
"What should I do?"
The master thought about it, glanced around the foxes like lightning, and whispered, "This basin is useless to us, so leave it for them."
"But…"
Before I could speak, the master said, all we need is the patterns and words engraved on the basin, and find a way to copy them.
After hearing what the master said, I couldn't help but pat my thighs, thinking to myself, Master is calmer than us, we are all worried about how to deal with the fox, and no one expected this. No matter how high the fox's IQ is, he would not understand human "printing techniques". The master took the basin from the old fox and put it on the ground. I took out a large piece of yellow paper from the bag and handed it to him. The old fox, Xiang Feng and Yu Xin each held a torch to protect us.
The master unfolded the yellow paper, spread it into the basin, and pressed it with his hands to make the yellow paper close to the wall of the basin. The yellow paper is quite large, and after all the walls are covered, there is still excess on all sides. I took out the small box containing cinnabar, opened it and handed it to the master. The master dug a large piece of cinnabar in his palm, spread it flat, and wiped it on the yellow paper. Where the cinnabar has been smeared, a very clear "image" appeared on the yellow paper. After applying it over, the master lifted up the yellow paper. When I picked up the basin and was about to throw it at the fox flock, the master suddenly said, "Wait, check it to see if there are any patterns."
I looked at the outer edge of the basin, which was bare and had no pattern, so I turned over to the sky. After turning it over, I saw that there was still a pattern under the basin!…
The pattern at the bottom of the basin looks very different from the ones inside the basin. Before, in the stone chamber, everyone was attracted by the pattern inside the basin and didn't have time to check it carefully. No one expected that there would be patterns under the basin...
There was no time to look carefully at this moment. After using the same method to print the pattern at the bottom of the basin on another piece of yellow paper, the master picked up the basin, took a deep breath, and threw it into the distance of the ditch. The foxes roared together, all bypassed us, and rushed towards the place where the basin fell.
I "Go!" The master shouted in sternly, and everyone used all their strength to run along the channel.
Those foxes did not chase after them. If the old fox had not communicated with the fox, they would have known that we had no malicious intentions, and it would have been difficult for them to get out tonight...
"Master, I didn't find the thing that came out of the altar. How can I save those two women?" I asked after returning to the car.
“Let’s talk about it then.”
The master turned on the two yellow papers in front of the roof of the car. The few of us didn't even dare to show off. Except for Yu Xin driving, all three of us stared at the Master's face.
"How is it?" I couldn't help asking, "Is there any way to deal with the river god?"
Chapter completed!