Chapter 67 Windfall
I touched my pocket, fortunately the flashlight was still there, but at this time, the flashlight was not enough, so I turned on the flashlight and shine it down, "Lanxiao! Lanxiao! Where are you?" No one agreed even when I screamed a few times.
I didn't know how deep the steep slope was, which made me a little anxious. I tore off a piece of cloth from my clothes and briefly bandaged my injured left hand. Then I followed the rattan and went down the steep slope to find traces of Lantern Festival.
Fortunately, the lower the steep slope, the denser the vegetation covered, which added a lot of convenience to me. I climbed the vines or branches and quickly reached the bottom of the steep slope.
At this time, the sky was getting brighter and brighter and more visibility was getting better and better. Now I can see things around me without using flashlights.
At the bottom of the steep slope is a slightly gentle flat ground. Looking forward, I immediately became scared and sweated. After a very narrow section of flat ground, there was a cliff. It was not dawn yet, and the clouds and mist were shrouded in the bottom of the cliff. I couldn't see how deep the cliff was. However, according to my visual observation, the part I could see was more than fifty meters, and I don't know how deep it was. If I hadn't stopped my falling body in time just now, I would have been crushed to pieces if I fell down!
Seeing this scene, my heart immediately became tight. Lantern Festival! Where is he? This kid won’t really fall down!
I hurriedly descended from the branches of the vine and searched at the bottom of the steep slope. Fortunately, not long after, I saw the figure of Yuanxiao. This kid was really lucky. His fat body was entangled by the dense vine and branches below, and was hung there like a rice dumpling.
I climbed up carefully and found that Yuanxiao was already dizzy. A large piece of it raised on my forehead and there were bloodstains. Several of the clothes on my body were scratched. It seemed that Yuanxiao suffered a lot along the way.
I walked up and found that he was breathing smoothly, so there should be no big problem. I pinched his people and Yuanxiao woke up quickly, "Ah? What's wrong? Are we still alive?"
I shook my head, "No, you are dead, I'll pay homage to you!"
Yuanxiao was stunned for a moment, then came back to her senses, "Your uncle, don't do this! Hurry up, help me!"
It took me a lot of effort to free Yuanxiao from the vine branches. Yuanxiao sat on the ground and gasped, "Damn! I fell to death all the way!"
I patted him, "Okay, no matter what, we should have escaped from the ghost and hit the wall!"
Yuanxiao and I sat on the ground for a while and calmed down the mood that had just escaped from danger. In fact, in this case, emotions and a stable mood are very important. People are prone to make wrong judgments when they are impatient and impulsive, and in many cases, especially in the process of back-and-forth struggle, mistakes sometimes mean irreversible.
After so many back-and-forth experiences, I was also flustered and reckless when I encountered danger, and now I can basically control my emotions.
In fact, from the overall perspective, the current location of Yuanxiao and I should be halfway up the mountain. Although this place is a bit cool, the scenery is still very good. Looking at the rolling mountains becoming clear from hazy, and we are sitting in the middle of a cliff, this is really a wonderful feeling. Is this a small reward given to us by the mountain after we experienced a disaster?
After it got dawn, Yuanxiao and I patted our butts and stood up and continued to move forward. I really didn't expect such a thing to happen here. I thought it was a very simple thing, but it almost cost us our lives. It is precisely because of this that we have to get a result to be worthy of the sins we suffered.
At this time, we can already tell the direction. What’s more coincidental is that the narrow road in the middle of the cliff we are currently on is the direction that the old man at the pass pointed out for us.
So, Yuanxiao and I continued to move along the road below, looking at the towering steep slopes above and the steep cliff below, gusts of mountain wind blew, which made me a little dizzy. I hurriedly closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and forced myself not to look down.
As I walked, I couldn't help but wonder about the path under my feet. How did this path appear? If it was formed naturally, then this would be too magical. But if it was built by man, then what is the purpose of building such a path?
Unconsciously, I began to pay attention to the situation around the path. Soon, under the cover of a weed, I discovered traces of artificial construction. This at least shows that even if this road was not completely built by man, it was artificially repaired on the original basis.
The Lantern Festival in front found that I didn’t follow me, but squatted behind me, so she walked back and asked, “Why don’t you leave?”
I pointed out the discovery just now to him, "Looking at the traces left by these artificial labors, this road should have been built for at least a few hundred years, maybe thousands of years, but in short, it's not too short!"
Yuanxiao looked at the traces I mentioned, and then asked, "What does this mean?"
I said to him: "A road that has existed for so long is still built in such a place. It cannot be for people to walk on, because it is easier to walk on the ridge. So there are generally only two possibilities. The first is the plank road used for war transportation. But the road we are walking on is too narrow compared to the plank road, and food and supplies cannot be transported from this road. So there is only another possibility left."
Yuanxiao asked, "What is it?"
Because in addition to some traces of construction, we also found some square holes that were knocked on the cliff, so I continued: "If it is not for military purposes, it is done by the people. There is such a place that the ancients once carried out a project here," and I pointed to the round holes on the cliff. "This is the holes that were chiseled when the ancients built to install the winch."
Yuanxiao was attentive and I asked him, "In such a remote mountain, what major project can people be willing to spend so much effort to use the winch or even make a special way." After saying this, Yuanxiao was stunned, widened his eyes and looked at me, and jumped up, "Zhuo Ran, to put it this way, there is only one possibility left!! That's that!! I have already thought of it, did you think of it?" Yuanxiao was so excited that he danced with his hands and feet.
I looked at him with some contempt, "Nonsense, I have thought of it for a long time. The reason why I don't want to say it is because of your unpromising look! Can you calm down and not get involved in such a thing, just like getting chicken blood!"
Yuanxiao smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I have an innate fanaticism about this kind of thing in my heart, there is no way!" As he said that, Yuanxiao asked, "Hey, am I right? Is there an ancient tomb here?"
I nodded, "Yes, judging from the situation here, a road that appeared here and the traces left by the winch beside it. Moreover, it is under the ridge. Although it is not a real dragon vein, from the perspective of Feng Shui, it also has a certain dragon shape that can be barely included in the category of treasure caves, so I guess there must be an ancient tomb nearby. This road and the winch originally installed here are for transportation of construction materials."
After hearing what I said, Yuanxiao's eyes lit up immediately, "Then let's go quickly, I didn't expect there would be unexpected gains this time."
Seeing Lantern Festival's mood rising, I really couldn't bear to pour cold water on him, but I still said, "Don't have too much hope for this matter. After all, my second uncle discovered this place first. Think about it, with his personality and ability level, if there is really an ancient tomb here, he would never let it go."
When Yuanxiao heard my words, she was stunned, "Damn it! It's true, I didn't expect that your second uncle would intercept him this time."
I snorted coldly, "You are not guilty of your words. If it weren't for my second uncle, it would never be possible for us to find this place!"
Yuanxiao couldn't help but sigh, "That's true, but since we're here, we still have to go over and take a look."
I nodded in agreement, and then said to Yuanxiao: "Look at it, but our main purpose this time is to find that land temple, so as not to delay the main business because of a second-hand tomb."
Yuanxiao waved her hand and walked forward, "Okay, OK, I know!"
Yuanxiao and I walked forward a while and found that the path below the steep slope had reached its end. We opened the branches and vines in front of us, and a hole appeared in front of us. The hole was blocked by a large stone. However, seeing the gap between the stones and the hole wall, it was obviously opened here.
Yuanxiao squatted in front of the cave entrance and looked at it, "It seems that someone has really been here."
I looked at Lanxiao and ignored him, thinking that I was not nonsense.
I stepped forward and pushed. Because it had been opened, the stone became a little moved as soon as I tried my best. I turned around and asked Yuanxiao for help. The two of us pushed the sealing stone into some, revealing a dark gap.
The entrance of the cave is not big, it is only about half a person tall. If you go in, you can only bend down and squat forward.
We squatted at the entrance of the cave and looked inside. After walking a while, the passage inside turned around, so we couldn't see too deep.
Lantern Festival pushed me, "Oh, can you enter?"
"Come in," I took out the flashlight, "Since I've arrived at the door, I'll always go and have a look."
So Lanxiao and I fired a flashlight and bent over and got in.
After walking in and walking forward for a while, I found that this place seemed different from what I imagined. If this was an ancient tomb, it would be impossible to have such a simple sealing measure as a cave entrance. It should have a tomb wall. Even if it was built by digging a mountain, it should at least have a stone or diamond soil.
But since we came in, the passage has been moving forward, unobstructed all the way without any obstacles. Not only me, but Lantern Festival also saw this problem, "Zhuoran, is it a bit too easy for you to come in this ancient tomb?"
I nodded, "The easier it is, we should not take it lightly and beware of any changes."
Chapter completed!