8. The mysterious disappearance that no one saw. "Xiao Lai, I want to go to Fengcut Temple. Are you willing to go with me?" Since nothing can be found in the bathroom, it's better to go directly to the scene to see what Guan Baoling does this time.
What happened?
Xiao Lai exclaimed "Oh" and showed an extremely excited expression: "Of course! Of course I want to go with you! Mr. Feng, ever since I saw your heroic feat in the Egyptian desert in Newsweek, I have been looking forward to following you.
Such a boss is making a fortune in the world. I don’t care about your dollars. If I can stay with you from now on, I would be willing to pay you every day..."
The excessive excitement made him a little incoherent - I don't know that under Tiena's instruction, the Egyptian cultural department has made the process of obtaining the "Eye of the Moon" into a fancy story, making it seem like I was being saved.
Just like the superheroes of the world.
I walked out and tucked my hair back so as not to make Wang Jiangnan laugh.
Xiao Lai acted very quickly. Within five minutes, he explained the tasks that his brothers should do, and drove out in a used green Mitsubishi jeep.
I paused on the steps for half a minute to collect my thoughts. All the monks in Fenggeo Temple are skilled in martial arts. I can fight ten of them one by one, but hundreds of people will swarm up and fighting will waste my time. It is best to fight with them.
Bring a portable firearm - I just thought of this, Xiao Lai has already raised a silver-white pistol in the car window: "Mr. Feng, this is the weapon prepared for you, a Japanese-style improved version of the Desert Eagle."
He is really considerate, which makes me like him even more.
When I got into the car, I found that he had prepared surprisingly complete items, including infrared night vision devices, diving goggles, diving suits, special oxygen bottles for diving, underwater shooting crossbows, and powerful flashlights... I held my chin and sank.
Face asked: "Xiao Lai, you had a plan in advance, right?"
In a hurry, who could prepare all the tools so completely? Unless someone had already thought that I was going to Fengqiu Temple. Besides, with so many diving tools, did Xiao Lai understand that I have always been obsessed with the "Well of Psychics"?
Doubtful? Can he guess my thoughts?
Xiao Lai stepped on the accelerator hard, and the jeep engine roared and flew out of the gate of the manor.
"Mr. Feng, these were all purchased after Mr. Hawke made a detailed shopping list after arriving. Almost every car carries four sets. They are not specially prepared for any one person. Only this pistol is
I bought it specifically based on what you wrote in your memoir, and it is almost exactly the same as the one you used when entering the interior of the desert pyramid, including weight, ballistics and bullet specifications, firing recoil... You can weigh it, it will definitely be handy..."
Xiao Lai stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the car sped forward at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
"I still have a memoir? Oh my god! Tie Na is really capable of everything..."
As long as she has money, Tiena will have no problem with any version of her heroic memoirs. Even if she describes me as an invincible "Lambo" or a "Schwarzenegger" with a heavy machine gun in one hand, it will be a piece of cake.
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I unloaded the magazine in silence, checked every bullet meticulously, raised the empty gun, and aimed at the road monument in the distance. With a gun in hand, it is easy to kill, but you have to find a reason for yourself to kill.
, but it is the most difficult.
Xiao Lai turned on the record player, and it was a light blues jazz song. A black female singer sang it softly in sweet English. It was really out of tune with our anxious mood at the moment as we rushed to Fengqiao Temple.
I turned the switch and switched to shortwave FM radio. What I heard happened to be the latest news from the Associated Press Radio Channel - "An earthquake without warning occurred in the Egyptian desert, with the epicenter at another new site south of the Pyramid of Khufu."
The developed tourist attraction is named 'Tulukhan Underground Temple'. The strong earthquake leveled the Tulukhan Pyramid directly to the ground, and the original site was buried by quicksand. Fortunately, there were no major casualties at the scene. Please wait for further related reports.
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I breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Tie Na was fine. I was finally relieved. My delaying tactics finally worked. To be honest, I hope to become friends who fight side by side with Tie Na. Whether she loves me or not is her business. Whether she can accept it or not is her business.
Accept that the power is mine, that's all.
By the time we passed the dark Kamito Town, the sun had already set, and the sea breeze carried the shrill chirping of seagulls, making people feel that the winter in Hokkaido is really cold to the core of one's heart.
The road was empty and deserted. Xiao Lai raised the speed of the car to the limit, and the speedometer pointer reached the top of the red line area.
I gradually began to trust the capable young man in front of me, and pointed my gaze in the direction of the Tower of the Dead with confidence.
In fact, every explorer in the world knows that "the Tomb of the Undersea God is under the Tower of the Dead", but how to enter and where to start has always become an unsolvable mystery. So much so that some extreme explorers actually discussed it
We need to apply to the Japanese government to buy all of Muwanzhoushan and carry out destructive development.
When I think of this great plan like Foolish Old Man moving mountains, I can't help but laugh in my heart.
The so-called "Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains", at best, means that he has no ambition, is not afraid of difficulties, is down-to-earth, and makes steady progress; at worst, this "feat" is simply synonymous with "stupid".
Take the sky-high price of "1.5 billion U.S. dollars" offered by the Japanese government for the wooden bowl Zhoushan. This is not a problem for those powerful cultural relic collectors in Europe and North America who have long coveted the "undersea tomb of gods". However,
After each team conducted on-site investigation and inspection, they reluctantly announced that they were letting go.
I have read the final report submitted by survey experts to several major consortiums. It is easy to move the entire Muwan Zhoushan. Four tons of TNT explosives and seven months are enough. Blow up the mountain and dump it directly to the northwest coastline. Save
It saves time and effort. However, the Muwan Zhoushan area is surrounded by the sea. From Fengke Temple to the foot of the mountain, the vertical height is 320 meters. After entering below the ground level, waterproofing engineering is the biggest problem.
The difference in unit waterproofing cost between an excavation depth of twenty meters and an excavation depth of two hundred meters is close to a hundred times. Moreover, no one can guarantee that the tomb of the undersea god is within two hundred meters below the ground level. To exaggerate, five hundred meters or even
Within a thousand meters, you may not be able to find the shadow of the underwater god's tomb.
Therefore, purchasing the overall development rights of Muwan Zhoushan is a hard-working project that costs billions of dollars and no one dares to try it rashly.
The car drove onto the winding mountain road, showing Xiao Lai's superb driving skills. The speed of each corner was no less than 60 kilometers per hour. If I were not the same driving expert, I would have been frightened by him and screamed countless times.
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Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that Xiaolai deliberately wants to show off in front of me. Anyone who gets a chance to stand out will spare no effort to show off their expertise, but I am not sure that I will bring a good future to Xiaolai, because I
It's really not as powerful as Tina boasted in the newspapers.
From a distance, I could already see the deserted main entrance of Fenggeul Temple. Four cars belonging to the Gunslingers Association were parked in front of the steps outside the door.
"Where will Guan Baoling go? Could it be like the last time he disappeared in the bathroom?" The car stopped, I opened the door and jumped out, pinching my chin hard, thinking about this nagging question.
I really don’t like the deserted temple gate in front of me. It gives people a feeling of loneliness and vicissitudes of life, especially after the dusk gradually gathers around, groups of white crows croaking and croaking around the ancient temple outside the wall of Fengcheng Temple.
The trees are circling, which makes people feel even more depressed.
There was no one in the other four cars. Everyone must have gone into the temple together to look for Guan Baoling.
"Mr. Feng, would you like to have a cigarette?" Xiao Lai took out the cigarette case and handed it over respectfully.
I shook my head, and with the astonished look in my eyes since childhood, I couldn't help but think: "Tie Na won't write me in her autobiography as a gangster who is proficient in smoking, drinking, guns, gambling, and prostitution, right?"
Just under the wheel closest to the steps, I found a brass cartridge case, six centimeters long, which should be a modified flare gun bullet.
Xiao Lai was always watching my every move, and rushed to say: "This is the special flare in the meeting. It seems that Brother Thirteen's warning signal was sent out from here. I was on the rooftop at the time on guard, and there was no way I could see it wrong -
- However, according to the chronological order, the time when Brother Thirteen sent the signal should be five hours after he left Xunfu Garden in the morning. Mr. Feng, a lot of things can happen in five hours, how could Brother Thirteen delay it until that time?
Just send a signal?"
Being able to discover this problem is enough to prove that Xiao Lai is a person who has a brain and is willing to use his brain.
I can imagine Wang Jiangnan's thought process. After discovering that Guan Baoling was missing, his first reaction was to ask the monks for help and prepare to search from house to house. A headstrong person like him would never believe that "out of thin air"
Missing", so I wasted no time for at least two hours before helplessly calling for help.
In fact, after Guan Baoling disappeared in the villa last time, I worked in vain for most of the night before I had to accept this strange result.
Wang Jiangnan and Huo Ke couldn't find Guan Baoling, and if they added the two of us, it would be in vain.
I was sitting in front of the car, facing the sea in the southwest. Suddenly I found myself sitting in the shooting straight line of "One Arrow Pierces the Heart". I immediately jumped down and took five steps to the side. The changes in the pattern of yin and yang are by no means based on the naked eye.
, can be sensed by the physical body, everything is happening quietly and imperceptibly, making it impossible to guard against.
Xiao Lai uneasily kicked the fallen leaves under his feet and looked up at the Tower of the Dead from time to time.
The twilight in the mountains seems to be particularly dense and heavy, making people's hearts feel heavy, and breathing no longer seems easy.
"Xiao Lai, if it were you and your companion was missing, what would you do?" I hope to hear different opinions.
"I will -" Xiao Lai held his hands and looked inside the quiet temple door. No one came in or out, and there was no sound. It was as if the entire temple was asleep in the mountain breeze and sea breeze.
"I will follow the route my companions took to enter the temple, walking it more than a dozen times, and try my best to imagine possible situations. Using this as the main line, I will radiate out in all directions to look for clues. What others say, whether intentionally or unintentionally, will have consequences.
It is misleading, so it is best not to listen to anyone’s account of the experience before searching on the spot..."
His ideas coincided with mine in some aspects. I was also trying to figure out Guan Baoling's thoughts and prepared to repeat her steps. However, she left me too little information. Maybe... maybe Wang
Can Jiangnan know more about her relationship with Fengqie Temple?
Wang Jiangnan, who likes to put on a show, once again lost face in front of the brothers of the Gunslingers Club, which made me feel depressed and occasionally chuckled in my heart.
I took Xiao Lai through the temple gate and entered the courtyard where the "Well of Psychics" is located. It was quiet here, without a single person, only the water in the pool was rippling, shimmering in the twilight, and
It constantly exudes a chill that soaks people's muscles and bones. Somehow, I suddenly remembered the fragment in my mind that when I was in the villa, I always liked to sit in a dry water pavilion - "She must be a girl who likes to be close to water, so when she comes to
After visiting Fengqiao Temple, will you have a soft spot for this 'Well of Psychics'?"
I walked forward for more than ten steps and stopped at the edge of the pool, staring at the unfathomable well water. The cold air rushed to my face, and the clothes I was wearing couldn't resist the coldness. Xiaolai was following me, and immediately
Go around to the side and stand by the moon cave door.
The water surface is turbulent, like a soul that never wants peace and tranquility.
No matter how touching the legend about the "Psychic Well" is, I still don't believe it can illuminate a person's future. For example, does it know what I'm thinking about now?
I snapped my fingers, and Xiao Lai threw a nearly forty centimeter-long flashlight over with understanding, but then reminded him with regret: "Mr. Feng, it's useless. Even if you use a super powerful searchlight to look into the well,
It's impossible to find anything abnormal. It's just water, extremely clear and bottomless, and nothing else can be found."
What is very strange is that Xiao Lai can almost guess what I am going to do and accurately track the direction of my thoughts.
I turned on the flashlight, got close to the water, and let this snow-white light beam shine straight down. Indeed, in my sight, there was only bottomless water, and my eyes could follow the light beam downward without any hindrance, until I saw the infinity.
Until the eerie dark green in the distance.
There are very few aquatic plants and not even a single small fish, which is exactly what the ancient Chinese said: "If the water is clear, there will be no fish."
There is sparse moss on the stone walls in the water, but it only appears occasionally between the adjacent gaps between stones. I think this is doubtful. After all, the water in this well has existed for hundreds of years. According to botany,
According to the law, water wells anywhere on the earth will be covered with moss without exception, which will seriously affect the quality of drinking water. But in the "Psychic Well", the surface of the stone wall is actually bare, as if it is covered with something.
It was like the force had scraped away all the moss.
"The water is so deep, does it really lead to the legendary eye of the sea?" I said to myself and turned off the flashlight.
Ever since I was preparing to leave for Hokkaido, I had the most puzzling question about the "Psychic Well": "Modern diving technology is so advanced, has no one conducted a thorough deep-diving exploration of it to see where it leads below?"
where?"
If it leads to the eye of the sea, at least the well water is connected to the sea water. It should be salty and astringent, and it is absolutely impossible not to have any fish. The sea water is rich in microorganisms, which will definitely produce more algae and mosses.
Plants and water have long been muddy...
"Mr. Feng, let's go inside? Wouldn't it be better to meet up with Brother Thirteen and the others as soon as possible?" Xiao Lai became increasingly uneasy and kept looking around at the Moon Cave Doors, looking uneasy.
There is an eerie chill everywhere in this courtyard. There is no moonlight tonight, and the dark roof, walls, and dead trees are half-hidden and half-revealed in the night, like monsters with teeth and claws.
As a future tomb robbing expert, I have long been accustomed to this kind of gloomy environment, and my thoughts are not moved at all. Besides, I also carry a terrifying desert eagle in my trouser pocket.
"Xiao Lai, don't you think Miss Guan will stop here for a while after entering the temple?" I gently tapped the stone slab of the well platform, making a soft "pop" sound. The monks in the temple did not know what they were doing.
, there has been no movement for so long, could it be that everyone gathered at the "Marrow Cleansing Hall" to collectively understand the secret of rescuing Tengjia?
The "Psychic Well" is the only way for those who enter the temple. Guan Baoling once said that she had been enlightened by the well water, so she must have prayed here again this time she came in. Unfortunately, she did not have professional tools, otherwise she could easily get it
By extracting all the footprints left by the well and belonging to Guan Baoling, we can quickly know her whereabouts.
Xiao Lai nodded: "Yes, it will definitely happen. She came to Fengqiao Temple for the 'Psychic Well', and she stubbornly believed that the well water could guide her in the direction of progress——"
I walked towards Xiao Lai, put my hand into my trouser pocket, and quietly held the handle of the gun: "Xiao Lai, you know the situation of Feng Ke Temple and Miss Guan in detail. Have you done any research on this before?"