Chapter 46 Chapter Seventeen

Ao Xinhong took the flashlight and shook it around, then seemed to wake up suddenly, and said, "So that's the case, so that's what the teacher said about Qibaoshan!" When I heard what Xinhong said, I asked curiously, "What's the matter, do you know why it's called Qibao Mountain?" "Take a flashlight and see for yourself." Teacher Ye told me while beckoning Xinhong to hand me the flashlight. I took the flashlight in doubt, and imitated Xinhong's way, trying to shine a light on the front.Because this flashlight is not a special flashlight for exploration after all, the intensity of the light is still not enough for us to see clearly in the dark, but I still vaguely see that there are six other mountains in front of us besides the mountain we are on!Simply put, there are seven peaks on a mountain, but these seven peaks are not like the peaks on the ground. The peaks of these seven peaks are connected by a stone bridge like a stone slab.These seven peaks go all the way to the depths of the darkness. From the faint light, it can be seen that the last peak is at least one kilometer away from us, and it seems that each peak is deeper than the other. Competing and scrambling to sink underground.

"Teacher, I think we should find a chance to run out after we avoid the sprites behind us. It's very dangerous here." I thought we had just come in and encountered two ferocious animals. If we stay here, Maybe there will be something more powerful. "If you want to go out, go out by yourself, I must get that five-colored stone!" Teacher Ye said stubbornly. Although I respect Teacher Ye very much, but he is so stubborn in wanting the multicolored stone that I don’t know if it really exists, so I couldn’t help but curse in my heart: Old stubborn!The voice below the rocky mountain became clearer and clearer. The monsters are indeed the spirits of mountains and rivers, and their speed up the mountain is really not ordinary fast!I panicked and kicked two stones down. The sprites at the bottom of the mountain saw a few stones rolling down, and they were able to jump very high and far away, avoiding the rolling stones.The sprites stared at the three of us angrily, and they sped up frantically, and I could clearly hear the sound of their gnashing of teeth.

Although this mountain is only about 100 meters high, it took us a lot of effort to get up.I wanted to look up from the platform, and the stone bridges on the seven peaks seemed to be formed naturally, and there were no traces of artificial carvings, but these stone bridges stayed in the underground cave for a long time, and it was humid and hot here. I don't know if we can still let the three of us step on it? The sprites behind us are still chasing after us, as if they can't wait to eat us up right away.However, while I was running away, I wondered, sprites generally do not take the initiative to attack people. Although I had never seen sprites with my own eyes before coming here to Shanxi, it is recorded in ancient books that sprites would only attack with the voice of a baby. To confuse human beings and harm pedestrians?There is nothing in the ancient books that sprites will attack humans crazily and proactively.

"Teacher, what's going on here? Why do sprites refuse to let us go? Where did we annoy them?" I asked panting. "How do I know, I haven't been here for three years!" Teacher Ye's answer surprised me a lot. "You haven't been here for three years?" Xinhong stopped immediately when he heard Teacher Ye's words and asked in a daze. My heart was also shocked by Teacher Ye's words.People usually tell the truth in a sudden question and answer, so if Teacher Ye really came here before, and the time was three years ago, how could it match the time of Uncle Zou's accident?Is it possible... I don't dare to think about it anymore, and I don't want to think about it anymore. I won't believe such a fact!However, this Xishui Village was under the protection of Yunyang, and few people came to this place, and the underground cave was so hidden, who else could push Uncle Zou down the mountain here except Teacher Ye?It is almost impossible for other people to come in here. Could it be that Teacher Ye wants to occupy the legendary colorful stone alone?

"Why did you stop, go up to the top of the peak, and run from the stone bridge to another peak, otherwise how can we handle so many sprites?" Teacher Ye turned his head to urge us, but he didn't see me He Xinhong's doubts. "Three years ago, have you been here three years ago?" Xinhong ignored Mr. Ye's urging, and still asked Mr. Ye. "I came here three years ago, but when I reached this peak, I was forced to run out again. What's going on with you?" Teacher Ye finally saw our suspicion. I carefully observed Teacher Ye's expression, he didn't show any panic, his eyes were just mixed with confusion and fatigue, and he didn't have the excited and nervous eyes that he had when he returned to the scene of the crime and sang.This reassured me a lot, but I still worriedly added a sentence: "Are you here alone, or..."

"What time is it? Why are you all talking about things all of a sudden? If you don't go up, I'll have to answer you in the underworld!" Teacher Ye said helplessly. The sprites behind us were able to chase them vigorously, and they covered a long distance in one jump, as expected of animals that often walk in the mountains and fields.I signaled to Xinhong not to ask questions about this and that, but to avoid the sprites first and then worry about it.I just don’t know why, today the sprites are chasing us like crazy. I remember that night when I saw sprites biting the body of a real clay sculpture in the woods, he didn’t attack us very much, and even frightened us when he saw us. Gotta run away.

When we were about to approach the peak, we finally saw the stone statue mentioned in the ancient books of the Western Han Dynasty.In the quiet darkness, the stone statue stood on the top of the peak. With the weak light of the flashlight, we finally saw the part that the author of the ancient book of the Western Han Dynasty did not see. As expected, it is indeed a statue of Nuwa. The stone statue of Chang'e, but Mr. Ye said it was the stone statue of Chang'e.This stone statue of Nuwa solemnly holds a huge stone box, and its eyes seem to see through the ends of the earth. "Teacher, there is...cough...cough..." I gasped for breath, but was choked by the strange smell in the cave.The smell is still the same as when I first came out of the water, the cold water mixed with warm air and some nitric acid.

"It's the stone statue of Chang'e!" Teacher Ye exclaimed in surprise, and he also quickened his pace excitedly. "It's Nuwa, teacher." Xinhong asked puzzled, "Why do you always say that Nuwa is Chang'e?" "I'll tell you later when I'm free. This story has to start from the Sanxingdui in Sichuan's Sanxingbanyue! In short, there is actually a big secret behind the story of 'Chang'e Flying to the Moon' that people often say!" Ye The teacher said with a mysterious smile. Xinhong and I saw that there were groups of sprites chasing after us, so we didn't ask any more questions, but we were worried about what happened to Mr. Ye when he came here three years ago. He really just arrived at the first seat. Feng turned back, did he really come alone?When we got closer to the top of the peak, I realized that there was a fat black shadow moving slowly under the Nuwa stone statue, and that black shadow seemed to be struggling and painful.

"Teacher, there is something moving on it!" I hurriedly told Mr. Ye what I found. Teacher Ye was startled at first, then gritted his teeth and said, "Whatever he is, it's better than being chased by a bunch of sprites!" I thought Teacher Ye was right, so I feared the summit without hesitation.I still have strength, but my speed is not as good as Xinhong and Teacher Ye, so I can only be left behind unwillingly.I was only focused on climbing to the top of the peak quickly, wanting to get a glimpse of the mysterious charm of the Nuwa stone statue, but I didn't notice that a sprite with sharp teeth rushed behind me.When I realized it, a sprite had already jumped up on my back, and its four claws hooked my back forcefully.I was so frightened that I shook my body vigorously in a hurry, trying to get the sprite off my body.The sprite was so desperately thrown onto the stone by me, but its four claws ruthlessly drew several deep blood marks on my back, the pain was so painful that I almost bit my tongue off.

Xinhong heard me screaming in pain from behind, and turned around to help me drive the sprite away.I cursed secretly in my heart, I really don't know why I go crazy when I see sprites, and I didn't provoke them.I endured the pain and continued to climb, but I heard Teacher Ye shouting in front of me: "Who are you?" Xinhong and I heard Teacher Ye's exclamation from below, and we both looked up hastily.Near the top of the peak, there was a thin and small man standing there in panic. He was very nervous and didn't know how to answer Teacher Ye, he just faltered, but I shouted excitedly: "It's you! Are you still here?" Do you know us, we bought your ancient book!"

That person is a peddler, actually the hawker we know!When he saw me and Xinhong, the awkward expression on his face disappeared immediately.The peddler looked surprised and asked, "Why are you?" "You guys know each other?" Teacher Ye seemed more surprised than the peddler when he heard our conversation. "We have known each other since we were still at home, and we even spent 8,000 yuan to buy one of his books!" I said with a wry smile. "Come up quickly!" The peddler shouted to us hurriedly when he saw the crowds of sprites rushing up desperately. The three of us ran to the peddler without daring to look back, but the peddler ran down the mountain unexpectedly.This move startled me. Is the peddler trying to "die heroically"?But it shouldn't be wrong, and it shouldn't be this time to "sacrifice".When the sprites ran up to the hawker, another miraculous scene appeared—the sprites who were so ferocious just now suddenly stayed where they were when they saw the hawker.This scene reminded me that the black wild boar in the forest was once as strange as sprites, but those who were about to attack suddenly stopped. The peddler tried his best to appease the sprites, but the sprites were very reluctant to leave. Could it be that they really wanted to eat the three of us so much?But why is this monster so friendly to the peddler?I clearly heard the sound of gasping for breath coming from the top of the peak, so I asked Xinhong and Mr. Ye to look up together. The panting sounded like it was in great pain. Xinhong carefully took a flashlight to shine on it, and I suddenly realized after seeing it, no wonder this group of sprites chased us like crazy, it turned out that they were all for the guy who was panting in pain on the peak!