When I heard the words of Lantern Festival, I suddenly felt very funny, "How is it possible? How could it come out of the soil by itself?" But then I thought about it, and I hesitated again, "This should...that shouldn't be?"

Lantern Festival used a flashlight to illuminate it. Now, except for the stone man's ankle, the rest of the other parts were exposed on the ground. We clearly remember that when we discovered this stone man, only the waist was exposed outside the ground.

Lantern Festival pointed at the stone man, "But how to explain this situation now?"

"This," for a moment, I was speechless. The current situation really makes us feel incredible.

Yuanxiao reached out and touched the stone man's arm, "It seems to be a stone, nothing special."

I thought about it and said, "If it was a stone, it would be fine. The stone can't harm others by itself!"

Yuanxiao squatted down and looked at the part where the stone man was still buried in the soil, "Hey, Zhuoran, do you think we should dig out this thing and take a look?"

I quickly reached out and pulled him, "Don't move around. It's better to have less trouble than to do more. If you dig out something terrifying, we will all suffer! And," I looked at the soil flipping around the stone man's feet, "Do you think there is still such a possibility? Is this stone man pushed from below by something?"

Yuanxiao was stunned by me, "Don't say that there is such a possibility. If we dig it out as soon as we dig it out!" As he said that, Yuanxiao quickly took two steps back, "Forget it, I'll stop digging! But," Yuanxiao frowned, "Are you just watching it slowly drill out by itself, regardless of it?"

I sighed, "At this point, the best way is to wait and see. No matter what is behind this matter, I just hope it will not interfere with our well water."

Yuanxiao nodded, so we turned around and returned to the camp. Yuanxiao and I sat next to the fire, but our attention was all on the stone man not far away, as if we were afraid that it would suddenly come alive.

Perhaps because of the sun, the sea breeze at night seemed particularly cold. I stood up and yearned for adding some firewood to the fire, hoping to burn the fire more vigorously and drive away the cold air.

I had just walked a few steps when I suddenly tripped under my feet, grabbed it forward, and almost fell down. When I looked back, I saw a gray bulge on the ground, which looked like a round stone. I cursed in my heart: "Master! Why is there a stone?"

While cursing, I threw some firewood into the fire. Then I walked back and tried to kick the stone aside so that the others would not trip, but I kicked it a few times and it didn't move at all. This surprised me. This small stone was so heavy.

I felt a little strange, so I carefully shone it with a flashlight and found that there were eyes on the round stone! I was shocked and hurriedly called Lantern Festival to come and see it.

Lantern Festival ran over and shone with my flashlight, and saw a pair of stone carving eyes on one side of the stone. They were looking straight at the two of us. This was actually a stone carving.

Yuanxiao turned around and asked me: "When you were having a meal just now, did you notice that there was a stone here?"

I shook my head, "There are a lot of sand and gravel around it, so I didn't pay attention, but if there was such a raised stone here at that time, I would have been impressed."

Yuanxiao's expression was a little solemn, "Although you didn't pay attention, I paid attention. I lit the fire at that time. I was very sure that the fire was flat at that time, and there were definitely no such raised stones."

When I heard these words from Yuanxiao, I couldn't help but take a breath, "If you say this, this stone carving just came out of the ground?"

Yuanxiao nodded, "It should be like this. It seems that there should be more than one such stone statue here."

We both hurriedly searched around the camp. Sure enough, we should have at least eight stone statues around us, some of which had half of our bodies exposed, and some had only their heads exposed. What made us feel even more uneasy was that we didn't know how many stone people there were underground that didn't emerge.

Yuanxiao and I looked at each other, and now we realized the seriousness of the matter. We both decided to call everyone up first and discuss the current situation.

We walked into the tent, shouted softly, and everyone sat up. These people were indeed not ordinary people, and none of them were dragging on the slumber. Even the second uncle changed his usual habit of sleepiness. He did not lose his chain at the critical moment and asked decisively: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Yuanxiao said: "Everyone still remembers the stone man we saw before we went to bed."

"Remember," Zhou Cheng asked, "What's wrong?"

Lantern Festival pointed outside, "He went out a little further."

"What?" Everyone was stunned.

"And not only that," I continued, "Around our tent, there are at least eight such stone statues that have grown out of the soil, and they should be moving slowly towards the ground at this time."

After hearing the description of Yuanxiao and I, everyone hurried out of the tent and searched around vigilantly. Sure enough, they found the eight stone statues, and they looked one more upward than before. The stone statue we found at the beginning has now completely exposed the ground. I think their rising speed is getting faster!

What puzzles us even more is that from the traces on the ground, the stone statue, which is completely exposed on the ground, actually has traces of dragging on the ground. Will it move forward?

This situation is so strange. Are all the stone people here living? I can't figure it out.

Just then, Master An at the end suddenly shouted: "No! Danger, everyone, stay away from this thing!"

We originally wanted to get closer and study carefully, but when we heard Mr. An, we immediately retreated, "Uncle An, do you know this thing?" Yuanxiao asked while looking at the stone man vigilantly.

Master An nodded and walked over, "If you guessed this thing correctly, it should be the Five-Oblooked Stone Man!" After that, Master An turned to look at his second uncle and Wen Mo, and asked, "Do you two think I'm right?"

The second uncle shook his head, "Although I have heard of the name of the Five Orifices Stone Man, I have never seen it, so I dare not speak nonsense."

Wen Mo next to him nodded gently.

Yuanxiao asked, "Uncle An, what is the Five-Official Stone Man? What is this thing?"

Uncle An signaled us to retreat, and then glanced at the stone men around him, and then said anxiously: "Everyone packs up, let's leave this area as soon as possible."

Although we didn't understand it very well, we didn't dare to neglect it. We quickly put away our tents and packed our equipment.

When we started to clean up, Yuanxiao said to Master An: "Uncle An, while we clean up, tell us what is the Five-Official Stone Man?"

Master An nodded and said, "Whether humans or animals are divided into nine orifices and eight orifices. This is also used to distinguish between high-level animals and low-level animals. As higher animals, humans have nine orifices, namely the seven orifices on their heads, plus valley orifices and water orifices, which are a total of nine orifices. Animals with nine orifices like this include cats, dogs, tigers, etc., while lower animals, such as chickens, ducks and birds, their valley orifices and water orifices are together, so-called eight orifices."

Zhou Cheng thought about it and asked, "What are the valley orifices and water orifices?"

Yuanxiao took a photo of Zhou Cheng, "Brother Cheng, I will translate it into vernacular, which is the place where you shit and pee!"

Zhou Cheng nodded after hearing this.

Mr. An continued: "And this so-called orifice is the way to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, or exchange it with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Therefore, objects that are born with orifices have spirituality, obtain the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and have life, just like humans and other animals. But there are some exceptions, and some things that are lifeless are also born with orifices, and various kinds of stones are one of them. For example, the stone that gave birth to Sun Wukong had nine orifices and eight holes, which were born with spirit stones.

A spirit monkey like Sun Wukong. Of course this is a novel, but there are related records in history. One thing I know is that when the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was built, a seven-orbital spirit stone was blown up and the seven-orbital spirit stone fell down the mountain and broke. People actually found a snow-white stone core inside the stone. The stone core had become human-shaped, and it could even see the appearance of a beautiful little girl. This is because this seven-orbital spirit stone absorbed the sun, moon, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."

Of course, we specifically refer to me, Yuanxiao, Zhou Cheng and Qi Feng. After listening to Master An’s explanation, we were stunned. "Master An, according to your opinion, these stone people also have tricks and can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. In other words, they can move on their own, because they have become spirits?" Yuanxiao pointed to the stone people and said, "But I can't see how dangerous they are?"

Master An frowned, "This kind of stone man is not completely born, but is artificially involved, so this kind of thing is not a spiritual object that can absorb the sun and the moon, or rather a human-made monster!"

The word "monster" was expressed, which made me feel that the stone men around me who were already more prominent seemed indescribable and weird and terrifying. Although they were extremely slow in their actions, I really wanted to leave as soon as possible and never wanted to stay for a moment.

At this time, we had packed our equipment and prepared to leave here. At this moment, Yuanxiao looked at the stone man who appeared first in a daze.

I stepped forward and took a photo of him, "What are you doing? Are you interested in it?"

Yuanxiao tilted her head, "I always feel that these things are really not a threat. With their speed, my legs can be beaten to pieces. How can they hurt people?"

I heard that Lantern Festival meant that I didn’t believe that these things could harm people, so I asked, “What do you want to do?”

Yuanxiao lowered her voice and said, "You said I'll hit you with a stone, can it fight back?"

I was stunned and felt something was wrong in my heart, "Don't mess around again!"

"It's okay!" Yuanxiao turned his head and looked at the others who had already set off, picked up a stone the size of a bowl, and muttered, "Five-mouthed Stone Man? I'll let the stone smash the stone man, you will kill each other!" As he said that, he threw the stone in his hand out with force.

Wen Mo happened to look back and see this scene, and shouted: "Stop!" But it was too late, the stone had already been removed, and Lantern Festival was very strong, and the stone was like an arrow that flew towards the stone man like a string.
Chapter completed!