Chapter 117 Chapter 27 Mountains and Rivers (Part 2)

Originally, the underground flood was fascinated by watching the "mountain and flowing water". I didn't wake up until I knew that water droplets were falling on my head one after another.The old curator Zha was still on top, and he never jumped off, which made me jump up anxiously.Originally, the underground flood would not submerge the other pillar, but as we saw just now, it can only submerge halfway.However, there are many passages in this cave, and perhaps the water from any passage poured into this pillar.Just thinking of this, a lot of water droplets fell on our heads, we are really unlucky, we can do whatever we want.It seems that the underground flood is about to pour here. Why is Grandpa Zha still not jumping? Could it be that we can't be buried with him?It's wrong to think this way, but I really don't want to die like this. I still have a lot of questions that I haven't figured out.Now the water falling on the pillar is like heavy rain. It seems that if you don't leave here quickly and find a place to hide, it will really be too late.

Before we jumped down, we didn’t have time to look around. Everyone was encouraging Mr. Zha to jump down. He also said that he was going to jump down, but he didn’t jump down after talking for a long time, and kept holding on to the stone above.suddenly.Blood red floated before my eyes, this... this is... a red beast!It turns out it's really here!As soon as this kind beast appeared, the old curator Zha should be saved, and I felt a lot relieved when I thought of this.The red beast stood obediently under the pillar. He arched his back, motioning for the old curator Zha to jump on its soft back.Fortunately, the old curator Zha was still awake, and he didn't hold on to the pillar all the time, and he would not let go even if he died. When he saw something below him following him, the distance shortened again, so he quickly jumped off.

The old curator Zha had just landed on the back of the red beast, as if someone poured water on the pillar, we were all drenched all of a sudden.Although we didn't calculate the distance when we climbed down, when we looked down from the top, we felt that it was at least a few hundred meters away. A stone dropped from such a high place could smash a person's head through. Now there is so much groundwater Smash it down.Not to smash us all into meatloaf.Just wanted to run aside together to avoid the frontal impact of the flood.I never thought that a round meat ball would roll in front of us and startle us.

It's no big deal to get startled, at most we'll lose a few brain cells, but this jump can kill our escape time!The underground flood is pouring down crazily. Although there is still room to hide around, we don't need to directly impact the underground flood directly, but the vertical landing speed is too fast, and we have no chance even if we want to run over.Anyway, I couldn't run away, so I just closed my eyes and waited for the flood to come.This time, we made another mistake.I didn't expect God to take care of us so much. After waiting for a long time, the flood just didn't come down.Opening his eyes, he saw that the meat ball in front of him had actually cracked a big gap, and everyone who fell from the pillar was directly poured into its body.

"What is this?" I wondered in my heart.The underground flood can fill the tiankeng in an instant, which shows the huge amount of water. However, the unscientific thing that the ground meat ball can continuously absorb the underground flood into the body is too exaggerated. I can hardly believe that the water volume of a reservoir can If it disappears like this, won't the water on our earth disappear immediately?Looking carefully, it turns out that the tail of the ball has been inserted into the stone slab.And at this time, the tail has expanded to be as big as its body. It is really hard to find that it also has a tail if you don't look carefully.The meat ball swallowed water and poured it into the stone slab from the tail, and there should be a water vein under the slate.

There was no danger for the time being, and only then did I notice the surrounding environment.The place we are in is a circular platform with a diameter of more than 20 meters.Everything else is water, it's an underground lake.Our location can be said to be an island in the middle of a lake.This underground lake is very vast. Although our searchlight was shot far away, it has already been extinguished.It's impossible to see exactly how big it is.However, the two flashlights in our hands can vaguely let us see that the lake is very wide, at least not yet able to see the edge.It turned out that there was such a cave under the pillar, and what caught my attention the most was that there was a gust of wind blowing.This shows that the underground lake must be connected to an exit, and there is a way to go out here.

Underground lake?I was a little surprised thinking of this, how could this happen, is it really such a coincidence?There was light shining on the round platform. I felt strange when I was on it just now, but now I saw that the light came from a circular channel around the round platform.There are many luminous liquids in the channels of the circle, and I couldn't see what was made of them for a while, but they were all luminous, and they illuminated the entire circular platform.The flood is still pouring in. I can't help but worry about whether the meat ball can hold it, but its meat is really elastic. If a piece of pork is placed at the bottom, it will be washed away by the flood water.

Xinhong patted me behind me, and when I looked back, I found Lin Yue, Aunt Yu, and a little girl.Next to him was a foreign man whose whole body had rotted. This man came in with Lin Yue. His current state of death was the same as what we saw above. He had just died and his whole body had rotted.Lin Yue didn't know why she was unconscious on the ground, and Aunt Yu was fighting with a wild beast for the little girl. That little girl should be his daughter Xiaoyan. The underground flood was only intermittent, and after a while it was sucked back into the ground. As soon as the water stopped, I found that there were four beasts on the round platform, and there were three other than the red beast.One is the meat ball, which has no eyes, no nose, no facial features, and no emotions or anger; the other is the beast that robs Xiaoyan from Aunt Yu. It is shaped like a tiger, but it is many times bigger than a tiger. The most unique The place was his face—it was a human face, but its teeth were like a pig's, and its claws were like a tiger's; The strange thing is that his eyes are in the armpits.

Aunt Yu saw that we were like a savior, she hurriedly shouted: "Come and help me hold Xiaoyan, please!" I thought to myself, saving people is the most important thing, if you ask for it or not, it's too much to say.I asked Xinhong and the others to stay, and just go there by myself.Before I ran over, I remembered what Chen Jing said, if you want to explain what the red beast is, you have to wait for those things to be complete before you can explain.Now here are four beasts, and they are so strange in appearance that if caught, they would surely sell for a lot of money, and we could be in the newspapers and shock the world.Four beasts, only four... I suddenly remembered.In ancient times, there was a theory of the four evils, but the descriptions of the four evils are very similar to these few.

The ancient four evils are: Taotie, Chaos, Qiongqi and Wuwu.The first thing we see clearly is the red beast, he should be Qiongqi, I remember "Historical Records?There is a sentence in "Five Emperors Benji": "The Shaohao family is not talented, destroys trust and loyalty, and embellishes evil words. The world calls it poor." "Shaohao's family has untalented sons, who destroy their trust and abandon their loyalty. Adoring bad words, calming down and returning, obeying slander and searching for virtue, and slandering virtue, the people of the world call it poor." Sima Qian's historical records should be taken from " Zuo Zhuan's statement.The "Shan Hai Jing" earlier than "Zuo Zhuan"?There is also a sentence in Xishan Jing: "There is a beast on (Mt. Bi), which is shaped like a cow and has stomach hair. It is called Qiongqi." Qiongqi is an evil god in Chinese legend who suppresses good and promotes evil, and his whole body is red.It is the same as what we have seen, but the saying of suppressing good and promoting evil is a bit untrue. After all, Qiongqi has been helping us and has not hurt us.That meat ball should be called Chaos.The Shenyi Scripture says: "There is a beast in the west of Kunlun, which looks like a dog. It has long hair, four legs, looks like a dog but has no claws. It has eyes but can't see, can't walk, has two ears but can't hear, there are people with intelligence, but there is no belly. Wuzang, there is straightness in the intestines and does not rotate, and the path of food passes. People have virtues and go against them, and people with evil virtues tend to rely on them. It is called chaos." The description here is similar to the meat ball we saw, but it is The beast is exaggerated.The one who has been standing still in the corner, with eyes under his armpit, is Taotie. Taotie: Legend has it that Xuanyuan fought Chiyou, Chiyou was beheaded, and his head fell to the ground and turned into Taotie. "Shan Hai Jing?There is a cloud in the Beishan Jing: "There are many jades on the mountain of Gouwu, and there are many coppers under it. There is a beast, which looks like a sheep body and a human face, its eyes are in the armpit, tiger teeth and human claws, its sound is like a baby, the name It is called roe owl, which cannibalize people.” However, I remember that according to the annotations of Guo Pu, the founder of modern Yi studies, the roe owl here refers to gluttony. "Divine Sutra?There is also a saying in the Western Wilderness Classic: "Gaotie, the name of the beast, has a body like a cow, a human face, eyes in the armpits, and cannibalism." Legend has it that Taotie is one of the nine sons of the dragon. No wonder he is so proud and has been watching from the sidelines. with us.It was Wuwu who fought with Aunt Yu for Xiaoyan. I remember "Historical Records?The Book of the Five Emperors once said: "Zhuanxu has untalented sons, so he must not teach them, and he does not know what to say, and the world calls them 梼杌." The people of the world are called 梼杌." The 梼杌 is very distorted in these classics, and the real appearance is somewhat blurred. However, Zhang Zhang of the Tang Dynasty The chastity-keeping "Historical Records of Justice" quoted "Shen Yi Jing" as a note: "In the western desert, there is a beast, which is as strong as a tiger and as big as a tiger. In the desert, the name is 梼杌, one is very proud, and the other is difficult to train." The description here is the same as what we have seen.

Most of the four murderers are described as cannibals, so why haven't we been eaten? Maybe it's nonsense in ancient books.Just as I was thinking of this, I suddenly saw many bones on the round platform. After looking carefully, they were all no different from human bones. Could it be that they really cannibalized people!Seeing me in a daze, Aunt Yu yelled again, and I hurried over.Wuwu held Xiaoyan in his mouth and refused to let him go. I wanted to give him a knife, but the knife had already been lost.However, even with the knife in hand, I don't think I dare to stab the wu, because I have seen many human bones on the original platform, if it is in a hurry, and there is no place to hide on the round platform, then we will going into their stomachs.Wuwu had no intention of eating Xiaoyan, it just kept tugging at Aunt Yu, as if it wanted to throw Xiaoyan into the channel surrounding the round platform.I don’t know what the glowing liquid in the channel is. It might be poisonous. It would be bad if Xiaoyan fell. I saw that the 梼杌 was not as vicious as described in the book, so I bravely fought with it for Xiaoyan. Xiaoyan The dexterity of life, but she is now in a coma, probably caused by excessive panic. The two sides came to a stalemate, seeing that Wuwu didn't want to eat me, so they wanted to call Shang Xinhong and the others to hold Xiaoyan together, but unexpectedly, Qiongqi came over first, and he rubbed me with his body.Then hit the 梼杌.Zhu Wu looked very helpless, and then let go of Xiaoyan from her mouth.I didn't expect this scene, I really didn't expect Qiongqi to come back to help us, suddenly, my nose was sore.Aunt Yu saw that Wuwu let go of Xiaoyan, she immediately took Xiaoyan to the distance of the round platform, fearing that Wuwu would snatch her away again.I am very surprised by the actions of the four evil spirits. There are obviously many human bones on the ground. I see that those bones are very fresh, and they are all leftovers recently. Why don't the four evil spirits eat us? After Wuwu let go of Xiaoyan, he stepped aside boredly, staring blankly at everything on the round platform.Qiongqi approached me again, he looked at us proudly with me like a pet at home, then spit on the male corpse in front of him.The male corpse was already rotten and smelly, but after Taotie's saliva fell, the corpse rotted even worse.This frightened me enough, it turned out that the corpses above were decomposing so quickly because of the spittle of Taotie!We've touched dead bodies before, and I can't help shaking my hands at the thought.Lin Yue was still in a coma. She didn't know what happened just now, but it might be the work of the four murderers.The rest of the four evil spirits are arranged around, and Qiongqi follows me obediently, wherever I go.When I saw that things had calmed down, I wanted to go and have a look at the guzheng made of "mountain and water". Many "mountains and flowing waters" come from the western regions of China.I remember that at the southern foot of the majestic Kunlun Mountains, there is an ancient and beautiful city - Hotan.Hotan, called Tian in ancient times, was found in documents as early as the second century BC, and is the most famous jade city.During the Han and Tang Dynasties, this place became an important country on the Silk Road to the South of the Western Regions.There is a river in the east and west of Hotan City, called the Yulong Kashi River and the Karakash River respectively.They meander down from the Kunlun Mountains, converge into the Hotan River in the north of Hotan, and flow into the Taklamakan Desert.These two rivers are famous for producing high-quality Hetian jade, and the history of its mining was first seen in the Han and Tang Dynasties. "Historical Records?There is such a record in "Dawan Biography": "The source of the Han Dynasty is poor, and it comes out of Tian, ​​and its mountains are full of jade." "Mountain and flowing water" is because the glaciers there erode the jade belt year after year, carrying the jade materials to the valley, and then the lumpy jade materials are formed due to the transportation of the glaciers, which are not as sharp-edged as the mountain materials. , I don’t want to be as smooth and smooth as the seed material, but somewhere in between.Every summer when the glaciers melt, people come there to look for "mountain water" near the ice tongue and under the ice cap.It can be seen from this that "mountains and rivers" are not easy to see. You can only find them if you have the right opportunity.If you don't take a second look at this moment, you will be really sorry for yourself.It's just that I don't know how the former owner of this cave got the distant "mountain and water"? When I was about to get close to Guzheng, strange things happened again.There was only one guzheng in front of me, but the erratic sound of the piano appeared again, but there was still no one in front of the guzheng.I looked around hesitantly, and stopped in my tracks at the same time.