At first, Ji Han thought he had touched some mechanism, but he soon discovered that it was the remains soaked in the water.
After I straightened my flashlight, I saw clearly that there was more than one corpse at the bottom of the water. The bones were basically covering the bottom of the tunnel.
It seems that the road to the bottom of the sea is not smooth sailing. So many people have died here.
Among the gaps between the bones, a living black-ringed sea snake can be vaguely seen passing through.
Sure enough, not all sea snakes were stunned by Chen Ke.
Seeing these living sea snakes, Ji Han felt like he shivered under the water. It was no problem for him to fight monsters in the game, but snakes were really scary to see, and they were made so realistic.
At this moment, Ji Han could only try to comfort himself. With the help of the blue nutrient solution, he would never be easily defeated by these sea snakes.
I surfaced, took a breath, and continued swimming a few meters further.
Sure enough, I found a stone door on the wall at the end of the corridor. Above the stone door was a stone pillar inserted diagonally, standing there like a hydraulic rod.
Ji Han tried to push it, but the stone door did not move at all. Looking through the stone pillars sloping down from above, it seemed that it was connected to some mechanism. Only after it was activated did the stone pillars above push the stone door open.
Looking closer, I saw a protruding circular stone plate on the stone door.
The dirt on the stone plate is obviously separated from the wall behind it, and the stubble is still new, so it must be the mechanism that was just triggered, so it is naturally the stone gate just now.
Ji Han pressed towards the stone plate without thinking, and the stone plate was pushed in easily.
The "click" sound can be felt even in the water.
Just when Ji Han thought he was done, a sea snake suddenly jumped out from behind the stone and bit Ji Han's wrist directly.
It was probably the snake hiding behind the stone plate that was startled when Ji Han pushed the stone plate.
By the time I reacted to the pain in my wrist, it was already too late. I don't know whether it was the injection of venom or the contact with the sea water. The place where my wrist was bitten suddenly felt a sharp pain.
The game interface in front of Ji Han suddenly flashed red.
Then I saw the number on the health bar turning into a countdown that was decreasing based on time.
1600 drops of blood suddenly became 1600 seconds.
Looking at the numbers that started to drop, Ji Han was still stunned for a moment to do the math.
Damn, I can live for more than twenty minutes, I have to go out and take medicine quickly.
After playing for so long, Ji Han finally noticed that 1,600 health points really made people feel unsafe. He had to think of ways to increase the health bar when he returned.
Since he had been bitten, he had no choice but to consider himself unlucky and quickly surfaced first.
I saw light coming from the direction of the stone gate of the temple, and I could hear everyone shouting:
"Brother Han, the door is open, come out quickly."
"Brother Han, are you okay?"
[Side mission completed]
[Money rewards for subsequent tasks are doubled (prerequisite: not poisoned by snake venom.)]
Damn, your damn game is pretty rigorous.
After Ji Han came out of the water, he immediately replied:
"I know, come out right now."
Ji Han climbed onto the stone platform from the place closest to the water pool. Song Qian came over to help him. Several other people were already near the stone gate to prevent it from falling again.
It wasn't until all six people walked out of the temple that Ji Han finally breathed a sigh of relief and took off the clothes on his wrists, revealing two purple wounds bitten by the black-ringed sea snake.
When Song Qian saw Ji Han's wrist, she immediately pulled Ji Han's arm, wrapped it around her arm, and started to take drugs with her mouth.
Even the poisonous blood sucked out from the wound was purple-black.
As Song Qian helped her suck out the poison, the blood countdown speed also slowed down a bit.
Ji Han took out the blue nutrient solution he had prepared in advance and poured half a bottle into the wound. Only then did he feel that the burning pain had weakened a lot, and his blood volume stopped falling and began to slowly increase.
Even Eggplant was a little worried at this time:
"Is it really okay? One drop of venom from that kind of sea snake can kill 20 adults."
Ji Han smiled bitterly and replied:
"I said there was a problem. Now I want to go back to the beach, bask in the sun, and eat seafood. Will you let me go back?"
When everyone saw that Ji Han was still quarreling, they knew that the problem was not serious, but he didn't seem to care about any injuries, as if he would never die.
However, Ji Han himself still felt a little weak. After Chen Ke gave Ji Han antivenom, everyone took a rest at the entrance of the temple. Ji Han also waited for his blood volume to fully recover.
Taking advantage of this moment, Cui Feng asked:
"Then what's next? Does this temple have anything to do with the underwater space you mentioned?"
Chen Ke replied:
"According to Brother Ji's interpretation of the mural just now, there must be a relationship, but this temple is definitely not used for worship."
Wang Cai also gradually caught up with everyone’s thinking:
"This temple is a clue, but we are looking in the wrong direction."
Ji Han rubbed the bitten wrist and replied:
"I was underwater just now and saw a stone door at the end of the tunnel, but I couldn't open it with my strength. Connected to the stone door was a stone pillar that led directly to the top of the temple. I felt it was necessary to go up and have a look."
As he spoke, he pointed to the top of the temple, where a simple stone tower was built.
Over time, the color of the stone tower has almost blended in with the surrounding trees.
This time Eggplant volunteered:
"I'll go up and take a look, you guys wait below."
After speaking, he quickly climbed up along the wall next to the temple, using vines and trees.
Everyone saw Eggplant turning around a few times along the stone tower on the temple, and then heard his curse.
"Damn it, you're so awesome. I'm really not sure about this. I guess I'll have to ask you guys to come up and take a look. There is indeed something fishy, but I don't quite understand."
Everyone was also confused by Eggplant's words. They didn't know what he saw above?
Driven by curiosity, everyone climbed to the top of the temple.
At this time, Ji Han's blood volume had completely recovered, and a small pop-up window appeared on the game interface:
[Acquired snake venom immunity]
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! [After being bitten, you will only lose a fixed amount of blood, and will no longer continue to lose blood due to poisoning. 】
In other words, you will no longer be afraid of ordinary small venomous snakes, but pythons or other highly harmful ones will still be killed instantly.
As you can see below, there is only an ancient stone tower above, and Eggplant and others are standing around the stone tower pointing.
"Eggplant, what exactly did you discover?"
Everyone moved out of the way, and Ji Han saw the circular stone plates with Bagua patterns carved around the stone tower.
It seems that each of the eight hexagrams Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Lei, Kun, and Dui are present.
No one understands, where does the gossip on this island temple come from?
Let’s not talk about whether Fuxi’s gossip did not spread here in that era, even if it did spread, what kind of gossip is there in a place that is hundreds of thousands of miles away from the land of China?
Ji Han didn't care about the rationality of the Bagua appearing here, but first thought of the Shenzhu Bagua Jade Tablet.
Eggplant also reminded:
"The Bagua pattern on this disk should refer to the pattern on the divine pillar, but we have never seen it, so how do we know what the pattern is on the jade plaque of the divine pillar on the seabed?"
Ji Han didn't speak at first, but walked around the stone tower on the temple, just as Eggplant said.
The solid disks around the stone tower were the same as the ones he saw in the water, and they must be a mechanism connecting something.
Ji Han recalled the first two pieces of divine pillar Bagua jade, raised his head and said:
"If you put it that way, the place where we found the divine pillar may have something to do with the hexagrams of the divine pillar."
Chen Ke also had some research on this aspect and immediately continued:
"The first jade tablet of Shenzhu was found in the blood of King Zhao's tomb in Ghost Face Mountain. It is the Dui hexagram. Among the eight trigrams, the basic hexagram Dui represents Ze."
Ji Han nodded and said:
"That's right, the last sacred pillar was found in the Black Stone Mountain of Crescent Moon Spring in the desert. It is the Gen hexagram. In the Bagua, the base hexagram of Gen represents the mountain."
Song Qian continued:
"Then the divine pillar we need to look for this time is on the bottom of the sea. It must be a basic hexagram representing the sea."
Ji Han and Chen Ke said in unison:
"It's Kan Gua."
Kan is water and Li is fire. If the divine pillar on the seabed is represented by a certain hexagram, then the most representative one should be Kan.
Everyone found the stone plate in front of which the Kan hexagram was engraved with two empty ends and a solid middle.
Eggplant hesitated and said:
"Is it reliable? After all, it's all your speculation. Now choose one out of eight, don't fucking choose the wrong one."
Ji Han spread his hands and said:
"There's nothing I can do. It's really difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. The amount of information is too little, so I can only guess. Don't worry, when I took multiple-choice questions in college, the accuracy of the multiple-choice questions was quite high."
Fortunately, Ji Han was still in the mood to joke at this time.
At this time, Wang Cai stood in the front and said:
"I'll press it, you all go down from the temple. After all, I'm not sure if it's Kan Gua. If it's the same as the mechanism under the temple just now, then everyone won't be tricked this time."
Seeing Wang Cai's determination, in order to prevent the whole army from being wiped out like the situation just now, everyone came down to the entrance of the temple after discussion.
Use your flying claws to grab Wang Cai, and pull him down if anything happens.
After everyone evacuated to the basic safety area, Wangcai pressed down the stone plate with the Kan hexagram engraved on it.
As the stone plate was pushed into the stone pillars at the top of the temple, everyone immediately heard a muffled sound, and it felt like something was violently pushing against the interior of the temple.
Then everyone passed through the main entrance of the temple and saw the black water in the temple pool beginning to surge.
Song Qian walked to the door, looked at it and said:
"The stone door in the corridor that Brother Han just said was opened, and all the water in the pool flowed in."
Everyone stared at the tumbling and decreasing water in the temple and listened to the loud sound of water. Although the small temple pool was not small, it contained a lot of water.
Ji Han was also a little confused. Could it be that he had to go down from the tunnel in the temple to the bottom of the sea?
Eggplant waved to Wang Cai, who was still stunned on the top of the temple, and said:
"Come down, brother, you may have found the entrance to the bottom of the sea."
After being called by Eggplant, Wangcai, who was standing on the top of the temple, calmed down, but he did not come down. Instead, he raised his finger and pointed at the sea area facing the temple and shouted:
"Look at the sea!"
Everyone looked back and saw that the water in the central sea area of the semi-circular island had begun to rotate, and a huge whirlpool appeared in the middle.
Although the vortex was not very deep, its size was enough to make everyone present stunned.