At this moment, Zhang Haixing had already realized that those who had arrived here first were a group of very strong opponents.
Zhang Haixing began to feel anxious in her heart. She did not know the origins and details of this group of people, nor did she know their purpose. The only clue currently held by the Wang family was this pictographic fire pattern whose specific meaning was unknown.
But from what Feng said, he seemed to have a certain understanding of this kind of fire pattern.
Zhang Haixing calmed down and asked him calmly, "You just said this thing was a reminder. Why did you say that? Do you know who left this symbol?"
"I don't know who left the symbol, but it's not the first time I've seen such a symbol."
Feng took out a waterproof ziplock bag that was a quarter of the size of his hand from the secret pocket hidden inside his jacket. He motioned to Zhang Haixing to hold a rhinoceros horn candle to the side to illuminate it. Then he opened the ziplock bag and took out several one-inch-sized items inside.
He poured the piece of paper into his hand and motioned for her to look at it.
"These are all the pictographic fire patterns we have seen and collected so far." Feng said. "Experts from our headquarters who specialize in graphic decoration speculate that this should be a very ancient warning text.
And it has a certain sacrificial meaning, and the places where it appears are very dangerous and strange. Either appalling things have happened there, or something terrible is about to happen."
Zhang Haixing was shocked. Listening to Feng's words, the meaning expressed by this symbol seemed to be the same as the result obtained by the mysterious deduction of the core department of the Wang family.
Feng shrugged and concluded, "In short, as long as there is a place with such a symbol, it will not be good for people to enter."
Zhang Haixing carefully looked through the one-inch pieces of paper. In fact, these were photos of individual fire patterns. They were all patterns drawn with line-like flames. There were four pictures in total, and none of the patterns on them were repeated.
The year when the photo was taken is marked in the corner. The earliest one is a black and white rubbing made at the beginning of the last century. It is made by covering a piece of tissue paper on the pattern and gently tapping it with a spat dipped in toner, because it is carved into it.
marks, so the drawn pattern lines are white.
"1930..." Zhang Haixing muttered to himself, and the remaining three pictures were pushed back in time. The intervals in the middle are very different in years. However, this time is only the time of shooting at that time, and does not indicate the time when the mark was left.
"Where did your headquarters collect these symbols?" Zhang Haixing asked.
"The headquarters cast a net all over the world to find what our boss wanted. The teams sent out arrived at several places where some supernatural and catastrophic events that could not be explained by science had occurred. The team was almost wiped out, and in the end they narrowly escaped death.
The people who came down suddenly disappeared from the world one day shortly after taking the clues out."
Feng sighed and put away the photo, "Once a large-scale disaster like this plague occurs, it is often accompanied by the loss of countless lives. No one knows what exactly killed them."
Zhang Haixing pursed her lips and said, "Since this is a reminder, then I just need to follow this symbol."
"No, I still need one more thing." Feng looked at her deeply, "The clan pattern on your body."
Zhang Haixing felt something unexpected in her heart. She always felt that Feng seemed to have something to say. She paused and considered: "Clan pattern? Are you talking about the Qiongqi on our maternal family members?"
Feng didn't speak, just stared at Zhang Haixing. His eyes gave Zhang Haixing the illusion that he had been seen through.
"The tattoos on my body are not Qiongqi." Zhang Haixing said this without any guilt. After all, it is true. "In fact, if it is not necessary, our overseas Zhang family will rarely have Qiongqi tattoos on their bodies."
of."
"You know exactly what I'm talking about, Miss Zhang, oh no, maybe I should call you by another title." Feng's tone was a little mocking, "right, Miss Wang?"
The expression on Zhang Haixing's face instantly cleared up. She stared at Feng coldly and said in a certain tone, "You have known for a long time that I am not from the Zhang family."
Feng smiled, not caring about the hostility she released, "Your family has been cooperating with Mr. Hendry since the time of him. We just continued to use the previous channels after taking over this project.
That’s all, cooperation is the way to win-win.”
Zhang Haixing was silent for a few seconds. No wonder this guy always looked confident, and his desire to get rid of Feng became more and more intense.
After a pause, she asked, "What do you want my clan crest for?"
"Your family has a deep connection with the Kangbalo tribe. As far as I know, the origin of your clan pattern is extracted from Kangbalo's totem. Bai Ci also said before that every new clan leader succeeds
After taking the throne, I will always go into the bronze door to take a look."
That's it for Feng's words.
Zhang Haixing subconsciously touched her left shoulder. She did have a tattoo on her left back, but it was not a phoenix. She appeared to replace the real "Zhang Haixing". As early as the beginning of the replacement plan, she could not have tattoos on her body.
Any mark of your own.
After making up his mind, Zhang Haixing took out the paper from his backpack and silently drew out the clan crest that should have belonged to him.
Feng looked at the patterns on the paper that were gradually about to fly. He was pleasantly surprised and murmured: "There are birds in Danshan. They are colorful and colorful. Nine buds respond to the spirit. They sing Qi and Luo water. Hundreds of birds greet each other. The stars are in the ten directions."
"It is indeed Phoenix." The smile on Feng's face became more sincere, "With this map, the next journey will be much smoother."
Zhang Haixing twitched the corner of his mouth and was noncommittal.
"Let's go, follow closely."
Feng took out another small lamp filled with rhinoceros horn wax from his arms, lit it, took one last look at the phoenix pattern, put it away, and took the lead in walking forward, with Zhang Haixing following closely behind.
The darkness surged like a tide with the shadows of lights, and there was silence. The only sound was the rustling of the soles of their shoes against the ground after the two deliberately stepped lightly.
I don't know how much time passed, but just when Zhang Haixing was about to take a look at her watch, the green flame in her hand suddenly flickered twice. She paused and looked towards the darkness on the right.
There seemed to be something hidden in the boundless darkness. It just passed by in a flash, and he hid before Zhang Haixing noticed it, but he was still staring at her and Feng.
Zhang Haixing stopped Feng in front of him, "Have you noticed anything unusual?"
Feng didn't doubt her vigilance. He turned around and looked around. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, so he asked, "What did you find?"
"There seems to be something in the darkness here. It's moving very fast, and you can't see clearly what it is." Zhang Haixing looked around with vigilance and said in a deep voice, "They seem to have been following us, or in other words, they are following our hands.
The light inside goes away.”
"Them?" Feng frowned, "Are there many of them?"
Due to the transformation of his body's blood, Zhang Haixing's perception is much sharper than Feng's.
Zhang Haixing sounded very bad and blamed: "You don't know that monsters may appear here?"
Feng's expression changed and he defended, "This is also the first time for me to enter this kind of door. There are no previous people to explore the way, so no one knows what will appear inside."
"Damn it." Zhang Haixing cursed in a low voice, took off the rifle on his back and loaded it, "We have been surrounded!"
The most troublesome thing is that the two of them have no idea what is besieging them. Zhang Haixing can only feel that the air around the two of them is getting thicker and thicker, and more and more unknown creatures are gathering here chasing the candlelight.
come over.
"Turn out the lights!" Zhang Haixing immediately blew out the rhinoceros horn candle in his hand.
There were countless winds whistling in his ears, and the monsters were attacking. Feng hurriedly dodged to avoid it. Amidst a series of gunshots, he threw the bowl in his hand towards the distance, and the bowl made a crisp clang sound.
It seemed like it hit something like a rock wall and fell to the ground.
The green firelight spread out like fireflies, and was quickly shrouded by the black gauze curtain.
The sound of wind in his ears suddenly stopped for a second, and Feng immediately lowered his voice and said to Zhang Haixing: "Run!"
At the critical moment, they only focused on running for their lives. They were afraid that the monsters would catch up and they did not dare to light the lamp again. They ran like headless flies for a long time. Suddenly, they lost their footing and had no time to react. The two of them were dragged down the slope one after another.
Caught off guard, he fell and rolled. Feng Yi's forehead hit the stone. There was a buzz in his head, and a dull pain swept over him. His eyes were dazzled, and he had no time to think. His limbs instinctively groped around to try to support himself.
Suddenly there was a heavy blow on the back, and Feng grunted. His whole body was knocked down hard, and his arms and legs did not dare to relax. They were rubbing against the rough cave wall like rags, and he was clawing at both sides.
Stop your tendency to fall.
Feng only felt pain everywhere in his body. The full weight of Zhang Haixing, who fell in from behind, was on him, causing him to almost vomit blood.
With great difficulty, he stabilized his body, supported the cave wall with his hands and feet, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did he have time to explore the surroundings.
The bowl and cup in Zhang Haixing's hand had long been lost by the fall. It was so dark here that the little thing flew to who knows where. It was impossible to find it.
"How are you, are you okay?" Zhang Haixing asked in a low voice.
"I'm not dead yet." Feng gritted his teeth and took out the last rhinoceros horn candle from his arms with shaking hands.
The lake-blue light lit up, driving away the darkness that enveloped them.
The two of them seemed to have fallen into a narrow cave. There was a stone path going up and down. They were lying on their stomachs and leaning on the cave wall in a bastard-like stretching posture.
The palms of Feng's two hands were bruised by the rough cave walls. The pain made him grit his teeth and scream in his heart to hold back.
Zhang Haixing, who was on top with Feng as a buffer below, was intact. She raised her eyebrows and said thank you in a nonchalant manner.
Feng groaned twice, admitting that he was unlucky.
Zhang Haixing adjusted his posture so that his hands and knees were supporting the same side to facilitate the next move, and then asked, "The forward plan has been disrupted. I just ran around and didn't know where I hit. How should we go next? Climb up.
Let’s keep going.”
Feng did not draw a conclusion first, but asked her, "How far is our current position from the place where we fell?"
Zhang Haixing took the rhinoceros horn candle in his hand and shined it above his head. Unfortunately, the candle's illumination range was limited, and it was pitch black above, so he couldn't see anything.
"I don't know." She answered honestly, "It feels like it's not too far away, but I don't suggest that we go back up there. Don't forget the shadows hidden in the darkness."
They have no extra rhinoceros horn lamps to waste.
Zhang Haixing thought of something, "Don't you still have a primer in your hand that can sense that kind of energy? Can you use that tower wrapped in red cloth to help us find the right path?"
Feng nodded, "Okay, let's go down. I always have a hunch that there might be what we are looking for down here."
The cave wall was too rough, and there was a risk of skin and flesh on his back being ripped open if he slid down directly. Feng also changed into the same posture as Zhang Haixing, supporting his body with his hands and knees, and moved down bit by bit.
The passage was like a bottomless pit with no end. After crawling in this stone passage that went straight up and down for a long time, both of them were exhausted and had to stop and rest.
"What time is it now?" Feng asked.
"Probably more than three hours have passed." Zhang Haixing made an estimate in his mind, took a few breaths, and then released his supporting hand to look at his watch.
When she saw this, she was suddenly startled and her breath froze involuntarily.
"How is this possible?" She couldn't believe it. "Why hasn't the time changed?"
"The time has not changed?" Feng was equally shocked, "Could it be that your watch is broken? We have been in the door for so long, how can the time not change?"
Zhang Haixing took out the spare watch from her backpack and found that the time on it was consistent with the watch. They were both still at the moment they stepped into the bronze door. She even tried to adjust a time bomb. The moment she pressed the trigger switch, the dial
Time also stands still.
She suddenly thought of what Feng had said at the beginning, "The world inside the door is a world that exists independently of time and space."
In other words, the time on the watch only belongs to the outside world, and the time in the world inside the door cannot be treated with the same concept as the time in the outside world.
"Time" is a material concept first proposed by humans. Before this concept was proposed, "time" no longer existed.
Some physicists once proposed that time has symmetry, which means that time can not only move forward, but also go backwards. The current position of Zhang Haixing and the others may be at a certain point between moving forward and going backward, so time stands still.
In other words, the "still time" of the world inside the door is not completely static, but its flow is difficult to detect, because the remaining amount of the rhinoceros horn candle in Feng's hand is gradually dwindling.
Zhang Haixing explained his understanding to Feng, and Feng calmed down and said: "Whether the time here is as you said or not, in short, since we have entered, we must not give up."
The two ate some food to replenish energy, and then continued to crawl down.
They silently counted the seconds common to outside time in their hearts, and finally when they counted the 6453rd second, their feet reached the ground.