Chapter 24 Chapter 24 The Forgotten Exit

Nick was cold all over, I'm afraid it won't last long, we didn't make a sound, let him speak quietly, he said intermittently: "Are you wondering why Baoer and I are so familiar with the Tianshan Temple, why do we speak Chinese? so well?" The three of us nodded, but no one said a word. Everyone wanted to know Nick's secret, but no one thought that this secret would be revealed when Nick was dying. "You Chinese royal families have actually kept a secret history in secret. This secret history was handed down from Qin Shihuang. In the later dynasties of China, few people know why this book is kept. They only know to keep it well. , but did not know that the myths and stories in the brochures were true. In the Qing Dynasty, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, and they plundered Chinese treasures. Finally, one day they ransacked the world-famous Old Summer Palace. At that time, an American soldier only A small amount of treasure was robbed, and one of them was the old book. At the beginning, the American soldier didn't know what was recorded in the book. Later, he met a Chinese scholar and forced the scholar to interpret it. It turned out that this booklet recorded several rare treasures in several places in China, and the booklet also recorded in detail the exact locations of those places and the local authorities. The American soldier really wanted to have those treasures, but he couldn’t go there alone, and he didn’t know much about Chinese culture. So he sent all his descendants to the Chinese area to let them familiarize themselves with Chinese culture, hoping that one day they could Find these treasures, and honor the lintel."

"So that's the case, no wonder you know this temple so well. Then why did you tell us?" Xinhong interjected. "It may be because I have been exposed to Chinese culture for too long. I feel more and more that those things belong to China. We should not snatch them, but return them back. And once, I encountered an accident and almost died. Later, a The Chinese woman saved me. Therefore, I have always opposed the family to search for these treasures, but they have never listened. I have no choice but to destroy the Eastern Emperor Bell, otherwise they will come here again.” Speaking of this, Nick’s The pupils began to dilate gradually, and I knew this was a sign of his impending death.

"Listen to me, Bauer's sister already knows that you and Bauer have come in, and when you go out, Bauer doesn't go out, she will think that you killed him. My sister loves Bauer very much, her You have a strong sense of revenge, be careful of her when you go out..." Nick wanted to finish speaking, but at this moment he spit out a lot of blood, and finally his pupils were completely dilated, and a fresh life ended. We were silent for a long time, and finally decided to bury Nick quietly in this cave, and hope he can rest in peace.Nick is such a good man, if those people were like him, there wouldn't be so many tragedies.After we finished everything and saluted, we continued to move forward.

Not far away, a small pool appeared, only about one meter wide.We were all so thirsty at this time, and regardless of whether the water was clean or not, we bent down and lowered our heads to drink water suddenly.There was actually a fish swimming in the water, and this fish still had some wounds on its body, as if it had been bitten by something.After we drank enough water, we continued to move forward. As long as we reached the end of the hole, there would be an exit there, and we would be saved. However, after only a few steps, there was a fork in the road ahead, and Nick didn't tell us that there was another fork in the road.However, the fork in the road was dug later than this hole, because the color on it was fresher, and the fork in the road also had a strong stench, which should be caused by those apes who often come here.This fork in the road must lead to the ape-man's cave. The ape-man must have come along this road and caught fish for us to eat. The injured fish may have been scratched by the ape-man.

We continue on the right path, determined not to go astray, and indeed there is no exit from the fork.It was still dark ahead, and we had four light sticks on us, all given to us by Nick.However, as we were walking, Xinhong and Chen Jing who were walking in front suddenly stopped. I didn't react and bumped into their backs. "What's the matter, why did you stop?" I asked them curiously, but they didn't say a word.I drilled to the front, but found that there was no way ahead. The hole was dug halfway, and there were a few old shovels on the ground. I knocked on the wall, but it was solid, and there was no space behind it. !

"How is this possible? Those pairs of footprints show that someone has indeed entered and exited here. Nick also said that there is an exit here. Why is there no way to get here?" Chen Jing slapped the wall and said. I wiped the wet blood on my clothes and thought about what happened carefully.But my hands still feel very wet and uncomfortable.Thinking of the word "wet", I suddenly thought of one thing. This thing completely connects what was written in the ancient scroll of the Qin Dynasty and what Nick said! "I know where the exit is!" I said excitedly. "Where is the exit? It's solid behind this wall." Chen Jing asked me with a puzzled look while her hand was still on the wall.

"Do you remember what Nick was like when we first met him?" I asked. Chen Jing thought for a while and said, "What could it be, Nick hasn't changed much?" "Jinwei was talking about what Nick's clothes looked like when we first met him." Xinhong was very clever, and he guessed what I was thinking right away. "I remember that his clothes were wet, as if he had just come out of the water," Chen Jing was also a little excited when she said this, "You mean the pool you passed by just now?" "Well, I think that small pool must be the exit, it should be right." Xinhong echoed.

"Think about it, as soon as Nick entered the temple, his clothes were wet, and even those pairs of footprints were wet. There was no water in the temple except for the small pool, and Nick looked exactly like he just came out of the water. In addition, Xu Fu said on the bamboo slips that he found a natural exit by accident, and only he knew about it. I think this hole was indeed dug by many people to escape. At that time, they dug halfway, and they encountered After going to the small pool, Xu Fu knew that the small pool could lead to the outside, but he already knew that Qin Shihuang would kill him immediately after remodeling the temple. Even if he found the passage, he could not escape. Thinking that he must die, he didn't tell others that he found a passage, a natural passage. He wanted these people to be buried with him. He was unwilling to die alone in the temple. He must have reported these burrows It’s no wonder that the hole has been dug to this point and there is no way out, no one thought that the exit is not at the end of the hole, but in the middle of the hole.”

"That's right, if I were me, I would also think that the exit is at the end of the cave, who would have thought that the exit is halfway." Chen Jing said bitterly. The three of us turned around and walked back, thinking that we would soon be able to taste my least favorite beef, and our mood immediately became extremely excited.As soon as everyone thought that the exit was not far away, they talked and laughed along the way, but everyone was just comforting themselves. After entering the temple, I have experienced so many things, at least for me, the feeling in my heart is always very heavy Yes, there is no way to relax.

I have always loved my uncle, but I have not been able to figure out how he died. Did he really come here for the Eastern Emperor Bell?Why did he have to find the Eastern Emperor Bell?Xinhong must feel more uncomfortable than me. After all, Uncle Zou is his biological father, and the cause of his father's death is unknown, and no one can accept it.Maybe we should calm down after we go back and study it carefully, maybe we will find some clues. I always feel that Uncle Zou's death was not accidental. Just as we were thinking about it, the small pool appeared in front of our eyes. We all watched the pool quietly, hoping that the other end of it really led to the outside of the temple, and there would be no more accidents.

"Chen Jinwei, are you sure from Nick's clothes and those few pairs of footprints that this is the exit?" Chen Jing was still not at ease. "You don't know this, it's all because of the cold-water scaleless fish swimming in the water!" I pointed to the pool and said. "This fish?" Chen Jing looked at the pool incomprehensibly, and asked, "That fish was only injured a little bit. Did you know from its body that this is the exit? Isn't that too exaggerated?" "Before entering the temple, we used to have a wind by the Tianchi. At that time, we didn't know Bauer's purpose. He took the three big dogs to play by the Tianchi. One dog caught a fish, and later the dog caught a fish. The dog accidentally let the fish run away again, and the fish was injured." I tried my best to speak slowly so that Chen Jing could understand. "So what, what can a wounded fish mean?" Chen Jing still said disdainfully. "This shows that this pool is connected to the Tianchi outside! Otherwise, how could the same fish swim to two different places, unless there is a passage between the two places! Could it be that you thought the fish ran ashore by itself, Did you come here?" I said excitedly. "How do you know it's the same fish?" Chen Jing was still worried. "It has a tooth mark on its body. I think this coincidence should confirm that it is the same fish." "Okay, okay! I know. I just pretended to tease you just now, do I need to be so excited?" Chen Jing said with a smile, I found that she was very beautiful every time she smiled, very much like my mother .But I can't tell her this sentence. If I say that she is like my mother, then this arrogant woman will not kill me.I actually miss my parents very much, but I don't know where they are now. "Then shall we just go straight down like this? It doesn't seem appropriate." I stared at the pool and said. This pool looks quite deep. Since it can lead to the Tianchi outside, this pool should not be underestimated.You must know that the deepest part of Tianchi Lake is 102 meters, just northeast of Tianchi Lake. If this pool leads to the deepest place, it will be very dangerous for us to go there rashly.Now there are no diving tools, and the average depth of Tianchi Lake is 40 meters, no matter where it leads to, the situation is not optimistic.The important thing is that I am not very good at water. If I am not careful, I may drown in it, and then I will become a water ghost who can't be more wronged. "Nick didn't see any diving suit on him when he came here just now, I think it's fine to hold back in the water for a while, there should be no problem." Xinhong said very easily. "What should be no problem, I have a problem! We have never gone down, you know if there will be any weird things in the water, it's not like you haven't seen the power of this temple. Besides, what if the pool If the passage is very long, we are halfway there, neither going forward nor backward, we will be drowned in it, I don’t want to die like this without eating enough delicacies in the world.” I said disappointedly, but my heart was very Glad to finally find the exit. "This passage should not be very deep," Chen Jing put her hand into the water, then pulled her hand back. She said, "The water is still quite cold. Didn't you say that Xu Fu knew that this pool led to the outside? Then he must have I went down to the water when no one was around, and it proved that this is indeed the exit. Think about it, what kind of diving equipment did the ancients have at that time, since Xu Fu could swim from the pool to the Tianchi outside, so can we !" "Chen Jing is right, it's exactly what I thought." Xinhong agreed with Chen Jing, and at some point they had a tacit understanding. "Chen Jing, since we have found the exit, we are going out. I have always wanted to ask you a question, but I wonder if you can answer me?" Xinhong asked with some doubts. "Ask, what's the matter?" Chen Jing answered very simply. It would be great if she could answer so simply later. "Why did the people of the Hongya tribe suddenly go to Africa?" "This..." Chen Jing paused for a while, and she said, "We have experienced so much together, so I will tell you. The vanished nation I mentioned before is actually the secret branch of Chi You, but Chi You There are two secret branches, and they both have one thing in common, that is, they all regard a kind of red thing as a sacred object, and our Hongya tribe is actually another branch. The reason why I don’t want to mention that nation is because they are our The shame of the Hongya clan. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, people from that clan took advantage of the chaos and came to Tianshan Mountain, trying to take the Eastern Emperor Bell out of the temple and take it for themselves. After the people of the Hongya clan knew about it, they also sent When the people came to Tianshan, they had a fight. As a result, the people of the Hongya tribe won a big victory, but unexpectedly they drove us out of Guizhou in a very vicious way. We were forced to move to Africa, taking advantage of the chaos. The reason why they are shameful is because they want to give the Eastern Emperor Bell to an American, how can Chinese things go to foreign countries!" "So that's the case. Nick said that his ancestors once forced a Chinese to tell the secret history of the Old Summer Palace. Is that person a member of that nation? Otherwise, how could he explain the secret history?" Xin Hong pondered Said, "No wonder you don't want to mention this matter." I originally wanted to ask what vicious method that nation used to force their Hongya people to leave their hometowns, but I think that at this time, I should stop asking people such things, so I had to do it.If there is a destiny in the future, Chen Jing will tell us herself.But has that nation really disappeared?From Chen Jing's words, I always vaguely felt that there was something she couldn't say directly. Could there be some ulterior secret in it?