Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

Di Chun and others held up torches and went forward to look after them. The rock wall was uneven and rough, about as high as the eye, and some images were painted with cinnabar or the like, stretching to both ends of the rock ditch, like a long book. , is not the origin of rock paintings. Looking at the single color of the paintings, the painters do not know the decoration skills, and only use line drawings to outline, but the humans and animals are also both in shape and spirit. It seems to be telling a story. It seems to be the ancient ancestors. left behind. Everyone was attracted by the picture, and followed Di Renjie all the way to the depths of the rock ditch. Looking at the rock paintings on the wall, at first it depicted a naked woman riding a big bird, holding a big axe, and A giant snake fights each other; in another painting, the giant snake transforms into nine snake heads, which either wrap around the ends of a woman's hair or attach to the handle of an axe. Even the big bird seems to be invincible and is about to fall. Everyone was secretly shocked. Looking at the next painting, the woman suddenly grew taller, and the big ax in her hand split the entire mountain, while the snake seemed to shrink in size; And beside her, there was another woman of smaller stature who was kneeling on the ground, but the giant snake was gone.Seeing this, Ayu exclaimed: "Isn't the story described in this picture the story of the Goddess 'Hao' fighting the dragon?" Li Yuanfang nodded and said: "My lord, it seems that the legends of ancient gods and monsters are also true. Not all of them were fabricated by later generations.”

Di Renjie said: "That's right, it's just that the ancestors often regarded things that cannot be achieved by manpower as gods and monsters, and after generations of evolution, their original appearance became mysterious and mysterious. This cave is most likely the place where the ancestors sacrificed to the goddess." It turns out that in the subsequent pictures, most of them are women riding on big birds, spreading clouds and rain. The ancient people regarded the rain and dew from the sky, and all things were blessed by gods, so they painted many pictures: All the people knelt in front of a cave, offering all kinds of treasures, and several people carried the offerings on their backs, entered the cave, and offered them on the stone platform in the cave.

Since then, the petroglyphs have been repeated, probably used to describe the scene of each sacrifice. Di Renjie checked the situation in the rock ditch, and saw that he had traveled a long way from the place where he came down just now. The terrain was getting lower and the ditch was getting wider. When the man in black took Linyue with him, he followed closely behind. Seeing that Di Renjie was arresting Linyue unintentionally in the cave, he didn't feel too embarrassed about Linyue, so he only half pulled and half helped him to come. The people went back for a while, and the channel seemed to have changed from a long corridor to a hall. Li Yuanfang and Di Chun spread out along the rock walls on both sides, and then they saw a high platform directly in front of them, with a pointed side protruding out from the side facing the people. Afterwards, like a swallow’s wings spread obliquely, there are two stone pillars hanging down from the top of the cave, which stand on both sides of the stone platform. There are steps leading to the high platform on both sides. When you go up the steps, you find that the stone platform is very spacious. Looking around, it turns out that the height of the stone platform has surpassed the wall of the ditch. The flames were not far away, and in the darkness, everyone felt extremely oppressed and silent. Except for another protruding stone, the stone platform was very flat and empty, and even the hanging stones on the ceiling of the cave were not hanging down.Li Yuanfang approached the rocks in Taichung, and saw a huge bronze ax lying on it, about fifteen or six feet long, with a heavy and cold hand. Looking carefully, he saw that the ax body was black all over, with a square bar, a waist, and an upper end on the outside. There is a circle of raised thick string patterns near the mouth of the gate. Li Yuanfang waved his hand, and before hearing the wind, he had already gently chopped off a corner of the stone support. Seeing that the ax was extremely sharp, Li Yuanfang did not want to let it go. Holding it in his hand, everyone gathered around to look at it. Ayu had already pulled Di Renjie away, and exclaimed excitedly, "My lord, is this a 'good' ancient magic weapon?"

Di Renjie chuckled, and said: "If this place is indeed a sacrificial cave, then this ax should be a 'good' weapon in the legend. I can't imagine that it has not diminished its power after a long time." He pondered for a while, and said: " When Qi Wang Yuanji entered the cave by mistake, he should have entered from the other side along the ditch and saw the treasures piled up on the altar. It is recorded in the statue of Tara that the entrance of the cave was closed by Yuan Tiangang. After the cave was transformed, Another mechanism must have been set up, and the original sacrificial objects on the stage must have been moved elsewhere."

Everyone had arrived at the cave where the treasure was hidden. After hearing what Di Renjie said, they realized that the treasure was still in an illusory place. Wang Qian and the others were even more disappointed. The "Longchuan Treasure Treasure" recorded by the king shows that we have not gone wrong all the way, so we should look for the portal leading to the treasure cave from here?" "Well," Di Renjie was also very curious at this time, not knowing how Yuan Tiangang set up the treasure, took out the Linghua copper box, thought about it for a while, and asked Di Chun, Ayu and others to check if there was anything suitable for the shape of the copper box .

At present, everyone was looking around, only to hear Ayu screaming at the front of the stone platform. When everyone caught up to look, Ayu pointed at a stone pillar, waved his hands, and yelled again. Everyone was puzzled and looked along the stone pillar, but Seeing a concave hole on the pillar, the hole is densely packed with ants wriggling, and I don’t know how many of them are densely packed, layer upon layer, it makes people feel sick at first sight, girls are afraid of these things, no wonder Ah Yu is anxious and afraid , speechless. Di Renjie frowned and stared at the ant hole, seeing the ants coming and going, very busy, and the outer stone skin of the stone pillar seemed to be hollow, so he handed the Linghua copper box to Di Chun, and ordered: "Go to the slope just now, Take the water secreted from the stamen of the strange flower, and apply it on the copper box, remember: be careful not to touch the flower."

Di Chun went back by the same way, Di Renjie thought that although everyone walked all the way for a while because of their greed for looking at the rock paintings on the wall, they finally left the flower place some distance away, so they still went to the depths of the stone platform to check, and stood at the other end of the stone platform , Looking down, you can see that it is the same as the front, and it is in the shape of sharp protrusions. The whole stone platform is like a ridge, high up in the rock ditch, and the back is dark, and I don't know if there is a way. Li Yuanfang and Ayu followed behind, Li Yuanfang was puzzled and said: "My lord, what's the use of the water secreted by that strange flower?"

Di Renjie said: "Taoism advocates governance by doing nothing. Laozi said, 'Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature'." Interfering indiscriminately and not using action to affect the changes of all things, so in the Taoist view, dealing with people and cultivating the mind should be based on nature and inaction, and try to avoid doing anything wrong. Yuan Tiangang is just a Taoist wonder, I also thought of the scene where the flowers and ants feed on each other and restrain each other, and then I suddenly thought of it."

Li Yuanfang shook his head, still puzzled.Ayu was even more confused, Di Renjie chuckled and stopped talking. When Di Chun came back, he held up the copper box with one hand and presented it to Di Renjie. When everyone looked at it, they saw that one side of the copper box was covered with water. Yuanyuan protruded one layer, under the firelight, the whole copper box looked crystal clear, Di Renjie didn't speak, walked to the ant hole, compared the copper box carefully, pushed forward into the ant hole, only heard a "click" With a soft sound, the pattern on the copper box seems to fit into the tenon, and it actually matches the shape of the ant hole on the stone pillar!

Yang Ju exclaimed in surprise: "Master Di, is this the keyhole to open the treasure cave?" Di Renjie shook his head lightly, and said, "I don't know, let's try it." When Di Chun and the others heard the words, they all held their breath and stared at the copper box carefully. Even Wang Qian and the man in black stood aside quietly, not daring to make a sound, only listening to the commotion in the ant hole and the rustling sound inside the stone pillar , I heard the hairs all over my body standing on end, and after a long while, there was another sound of "Kaka". It turned out that the ants wanted to remove the whole copper box, but the copper box seemed to be tightly stuck on the stone pillar. As the axis, it turned slowly. Everyone was amazed at how powerful the little ants were, but they heard a soft sound above their heads. Li Yuanfang raised his head to shine on the top of the cave, and countless ants were rushing to help him along the stone pillars. , his heart was shaken, he looked at Di Renjie, and saw that Di Renjie was also frowning intently, and ordered everyone to retreat to the middle of the stone platform in a low voice.

Suddenly there was a crisp sound, the stone pillar was hollowed out by the ants, and it broke from the middle, and the lower half of the stone pillar fell down. Almost at the same time, the stone platform under everyone's feet vibrated, and the rumbling sound resounded from the two walls of the ditch. Everyone's ears were exploding, in a hurry, Li Yuanfang covered Di Renjie and leaned down, firmly grasping the only protruding stone on the stone platform, so as not to fall, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull Ayu and Di Chun, everyone fell or fell Sitting in a mess, sand and stones fell from the wall of the ditch. Fortunately, the shock did not take long before it gradually calmed down. There was still a reverberation in everyone's ears, but they were not injured. Ayu pulled Li Yuanfang to the edge of the stone platform to check. Under the photo, she couldn't help being shocked: "Brother Li, the water is coming in!" Li Yuanfang looked down, and saw that the water was rising very fast, and in a blink of an eye, it had passed several stone steps, and there was still water pouring in from the road, and the sound of the water was rushing and turbulent. , was covered by the sound of shaking rocks just now, but at this moment it sounded very frightening. Li Yuanfang pulled Ayu and ran back to the center of the stone platform. Looking at Yang Ju and others, their faces were all pale, needless to say, I have already understood the current situation: everyone is on an isolated island, with no way of life in all directions, and the water is so fast that they cannot swim.Di Renjie bowed his head thoughtfully, and Di Chunhu was beside him, but his face was full of determination.