Chapter 44: Immortals
"Don't worry, I won't let you die." I smiled and whispered in Xizi's ear.
"Ah~ you bastard!" Xizi screamed angrily, cried directly, and cursed weakly: "Qian Long, you shameless bastard, you shameless hooligan, I want to kill you, I want..." I was too lazy to listen to her mumbling, and stopped her to retreat. Xizi was already scared, and was very obedient at this moment, but she was still crying and cursing.
"Everyone back!" The elder, known as the Fourth Uncle, hurriedly yelled at everyone.
Finally, I stopped Xizi and Dazhuang and the others to meet. The pain in the whole body caused by the injury of Erhuzi was relieved a little at this moment. At least the feeling of swelling and splitting on the head was no longer there.
Everyone retreated to the stone gate, and I hurriedly stopped Xizi and walked over: "Miss Xizi, I have to trouble you, please help me open the stone gate."
"No!" Xizi tilted his head.
I frowned and told the truth. I really don’t want to hurt her. If there is something, it’s hard to do. I sighed heavily and whispered: “Xizi, I really don’t want to hurt you. I like you to consider my situation and don’t force me! I believe that many people want to see the body under your clothes.”
"You--" Xizi was so angry that she trembled all over, pointing at me and losing her strength to scold me.
"If you want to scold, when you open the stone door, I will listen to your scolding. How about it? Now open the stone door!" I pushed Xizi to the mechanism made of wooden sticks.
Although Xizi was extremely reluctant, she gritted her teeth and pressed the switch on the stone door. With a roar, the stone door finally slowly opened: "Can you let me go now?"
"Sorry, we don't want to be buried in the mechanism inside. We have to ask you to take us out. I will naturally let you go." As I said, I pushed Xizi into the stone gate first. As soon as everyone entered the stone gate, a roar came from behind, and the stone gate actually closed automatically!
"I haven't been in, so I don't know what's inside?" Xizi said anxiously with a slightly frowned.
I smiled and said, "Don't talk nonsense, let's go, you're of some use!"
It seems that there is a natural cave inside the stone gate. The tunnel is very narrow and there are some scattered stalactites hanging on the top. I really didn’t expect that in the Qinling Mountains in the northwest, you can see some features of the Kashgar terrain. The roads in the cave are rugged, but you can see that they have been repaired by man, and there is a flat stepping stone every less than half a meter. Da Zhuang walked at the end, and his ban was almost gone at this moment. He muttered as he walked: "Old Qian, ask her what she does here?"
After entering the cave, I didn't worry that Xizi would run away, but I was afraid that she would suddenly activate some mechanism to harm us. So I didn't dare to let go of everything, just grabbed her arm with one hand. However, when I just let her go, I didn't believe that she was punched. Although it was not very heavy, I still felt a little depressed.
"What's this place for?" I asked.
"I don't know!" Xizi was reluctant to pay attention to me, but then she was afraid of angering me, so she said, "I have never come in myself. I only heard that a long time ago, several very powerful ancestors of our Qin family came here before their death, but never came out again. There was no news since then."
The few people didn't say anything more. After walking along the cave for less than two hundred meters, a small space appeared in front of them, which was about forty or fifty square meters. The whole space was very primitive and had no repairs. There were only two huge rocks, each with a pit carved on it, which was enough to allow an adult to lie in it, and it opened in appearance, a bit like a bathtub for home furnishings.
Shui Yueqing murmured: "What is this for?"
"It looks like a bathtub, but it's used for bathing?" Zuo Yan said, touching the stone.
Dazhuang smiled and said, "Don't make fun of them, their ancestors are so nervous. They are all running here to take a shower? But it's really like a bathtub!"
"Your ancestors are so crazy!" Xizi was not the one who suffered a loss. She immediately scolded Dazhuang without fear.
"This should be the bathtub." Zhang Yuelu suddenly said: "If I guess correctly, there should be an altar in front of it that is the same as in Pan Geng's tomb."
Long Xiaoxu looked at Zhang Yuelu, and his eyebrows were frowned slightly, and then said, "Let's go ahead and take a look."
After passing this small space, a stone gate soon appeared in front of it. There was also a mechanism beside the stone gate. I smiled at Xizi and said, "How is it, I'm right, it will definitely be beneficial to bring you here. Open it!"
"I have never seen this mechanism before." Xizi stared at the wooden stakes above and shook her head slightly.
"Xiao Chuan, have you seen me?" I pulled Xiao Chuan over and asked. For some reason, since I came to this valley, this little girl spoke a lot less. She kept chattering on her lips, but during this period, she just followed Shui Yueqing quietly.
Xiaochuan hurried over and floated to the near machine for a while, and his cerebral shaking like a rattle: "Uncle, I haven't seen it before."
Looking at the small wooden sticks on it, I couldn't help but feel anxious: "Damn it, I've been worshiping for ninety-nine times, and I'm just trembling! What should I do now?" I looked at the mechanism again. The small wooden sticks on it were inserted in total nine rows and nine rows. Even if I knew that I was going to fill in the nine grid, it would be impossible to fill it out for so many for a while. What's more, this mechanism is likely to be not the same rule. When I saw Xizi open the stone door outside, it was not according to the rule of the nine grid.
Dazhuang walked up and touched his chin for a while. After looking at it for a while, he suddenly said, "We must not be able to handle so many, so we should think of other ways!"
Xiao Chuan Piao turned around in front of the door and said, "Uncle, I can go in."
"Really? Well, Xiaochuan, go in and see what's inside, be sure to be safe." I immediately said happily.
Long Xiaoxu and Shui Yueqing hurriedly walked up and said with some concern: "Can Xiaochuan be alone? What should I do when I encounter danger?"
Looking at Xiaochuan's back as he left, I couldn't help but feel a little worried, but there was no way. If I couldn't get in, I could only go back. All the efforts I had made before were in vain: "Xiaochuan just went in and took a look. There should be no problem, so don't worry about you two."
Xiaochuan floated at the door for a while, and then slowly disappeared, leaving only all the adults waiting anxiously outside. Fortunately, not long after, Xiaochuan floated out of it: "Uncle, there is a big round table inside, and there is a big word written on the wall. I have seen it before, but I don't know what it is called. It's written like this." Xiaochuan said, while floating in front of me and wrote a word in the palm of his hand. He hadn't recognized it at first, but when she wrote it for the second time, I suddenly realized that it turned out to be the word "xian"!
"Uncle, I saw the exit, but it's still scary!" Xiaochuan continued.
"Scary!? Why is it scary?" Xiaochuan's words confused me. The exit is connected to the outside world. Since it is the outside world, why is it still scary? Is this exit wrong?
Xiaochuan shook her head, grinned her mouth, took a breath, and stared at her big eyes and said, "I don't know, I'm just scared."
I hurriedly told everyone what Xiaochuan saw. Xizi thought about it and suddenly said, "I think I know how to open it, but the opportunity may only be once. Once it fails, we may be in danger of life." Xizi said the danger, which I have experienced before, and when I think about it, I feel scared. But this place should not be that dangerous, at least it is still a natural cave, and no one can see that anyone has touched it.
"Wait a minute, I'll take a look." I put one hand on the stone door and opened the sky eye immediately. I don't know why this time it was white, like a heavy fog, and I didn't see anything: "It's strange, why can't I see anything this time?"
Zuo Yan was stunned and asked hurriedly: "Do we have any life threatening?"
Zhang Yuelu said in a deep voice with a serious expression: "Open it, there is no other way, there should be no mechanism here."
I glanced at Xizi, nodded and said, "Don't worry."
"Oh!" Xizi's big eyes rolled, then turned around and walked towards the small wooden sticks, stretched out his fingers and gestured on it, and then carefully pressed it dozens of times. I suddenly realized that what Xizi pressed out was actually the word "xian"! As the last wooden stick was pressed down, the stone gate "boomed" and then rose upwards.
"Open it!" "That's great, great!" "We're finally out!" "God helps me!"
Everyone couldn't help but feel overjoyed and then entered the stone gate. As Xiaochuan and Zhang Yuelu said, there was another altar behind closed inside!
"What's going on?" Shui Yueqing said in confusion: "Isn't it just an altar? Why do you need such strict protection?"
"There must be something wrong with this altar!" Da Zhuang climbed onto the altar and looked around, but couldn't find anything to do.
I looked up at the rock wall in front, and there was indeed a big word "媚" written on it. There were many star maps in the rock walls in other places! In addition to the absence of handwriting left by ancient sages, this is simply a copy of the secret room in Pan Geng’s ancient tomb! I carefully looked at the starry sky map and saw the Big Dipper and Orion constellation!
"You should know what's going on, right?" I turned to look at Zhang Yuelu.
Zhang Yuelu glanced at me, but didn't say anything. She turned around and continued to stare at the star maps, looking very seriously, as if reading an encoding. Shui Yueqing still took all the star maps on the wall, looked at me, Zhang Yuelu, and then looked at me, "Wait until you go back, compare the two star maps, and you may find some clues."
I nodded and then climbed onto the stone platform. There was also a hole in the center of the stone platform: "What exactly does this small hole do?"
Chapter completed!