I immediately told Situ what I had discovered, with excitement in my tone. But Situ said, this is it. Since there is such a symbol, it means that the person who hid the thing must be one of the White Lotus Sect. I asked Situ
, how do you know that there are such symbols around here? Situ said, in fact, he also guessed, because the White Lotus Sect has been relatively secretive for many years, and it rarely calls itself the White Lotus Sect to the outside world. Most of them call themselves the White Sect. Jianghu.
Conveying messages has always been a method. For the White Lotus Sect, they have always had a habit of leaving some marks that are easily recognized by the sect when something is done in an obscure way. Not all of them are
It refers to a particularly specific symbol, maybe a paragraph, maybe a poem. As long as it serves the purpose of reminding the other party, it is considered to have achieved its purpose.
Situ explained to me that the red circle on the left is indeed what you said, representing the sun. The golden crescent represents the moon. People in ancient times had a very limited understanding of modern science. In their view,
Come on, the sun is fire, so it is red. When the moon fills in at night, it is golden or even white. When the sun and the moon alternate, it happens to be when the sun sets, and the color of the sunset happens to be red. If we say
If this symbol appears in other places, there may be other explanations, but if it appears where you are now, it definitely refers to Mingjiao.
Situ also said, as for where the thing you said you are looking for is, since I can't be there in person, I can't help you find it. But I did a little analysis and found that if the distance between the location of the Buddhist niche and the Bone Pagoda coincides with
If the middle point is the river, then you can start to search for the center of the river. If the direction of this symbol is consistent with the direction of the Buddha statue in the Buddhist niche, then you should look in the direction of the Buddha statue, but the thing must be in a position where you can see the Buddha statue and
Within the local scope of this symbol.
I told Situ that there was no Buddha statue inside, but looking from the direction of the opening, it happened to be facing the river, which is the direction of the Bone Pagoda, and the same was true for the symbol. Situ said, that’s basically correct. You are now
So I went to the middle of the river to look for it. I said, how should I look for it? There is no river now, it is all gravel and weeds. Things from so many years ago are hidden in the piles of rocks. How can they not be discovered? Situ Heng
Situ said after a while, who told you that it must be hidden in the pile of rocks? I said where else could it be hidden? The surroundings are empty. Situ thought for a while and said, did you bring a compass with you? I said of course I did.
I will never leave this thing. Situ said that's fine, the compass can find things with different magnetic fields around it. You try to look for it. Unless it is a stone tablet or a book that the man hid, you should be able to find it.
After thanking Situ, I hung up the phone. Although I covered my head with clothes, I was still a little breathless. I waited for the light on the phone screen to go out and then got out. I told Hu Zongren what Situ said,
I know that Hu Zongren has always admired Situ. I originally hoped to use my relationship to let Hu Zongren call Situ Mr. Yi, toast him a cup of tea, and maybe learn some crafts from Situ. But
Hu Zongren refused. He believed that once he got too close to Situ, his original respect would gradually fade away. Rather than this, he would rather be an admirer of Situ. Besides, although his own craftsmanship was not
It was first-class, but it was considered adequate in the industry. Among the younger generation, he was considered a rising star. So when Hu Zongren heard about it, he praised Situ for being so awesome.
So I stood next to the Buddhist niche, looking in the direction of the broken bone tower, then turned around and started to retreat. As expected, as Situ expected, when my footsteps happened to reach the middle of the river, if I continued walking forward
, I would not be able to see the mysterious symbol. So I stood still, found the correct position, and started to move left and right along the river. I found that there was a distance of about ten meters where I could see the opening of the Buddhist niche and the symbol.
The other distance will be blocked. According to Situ, the range will immediately shrink a lot, to just over ten meters.
But the distance of more than ten meters was full of gravel, rubble, and weeds. Only a fool would hide something here. So I started to guess whether it was buried underneath. If that was the case, the thing must be there.
In order to resist the corrosion of rain for many years, I also had to ensure that no one would find me. So I took out the compass and started to stick to the ground, searching inch by inch along the distance of more than ten meters. After walking to about 5
When I was about 10 meters away, the compass began to beat irregularly. And I looked at the ground. There was nothing but weeds and gravel. Buried underneath, it could have a magnetic field effect on the compass.
There must be something metal underneath.
The compass needle itself is magnetic, just like a compass, and it is very sensitive to begin with. In addition, when I first started training, my master gave me this compass and granted me an opening spell. The sensitivity of my compass may be
Compared with many other ordinary compasses, it is very sensitive. Not only that, over the years, I can even calculate the compass according to the speed of rotation of the compass pointer, the amplitude of the pointer's bounce, and the angle between the original bearing and the pointer.
Gradually, I can accurately do many spiritual things with the compass. Fotuguan is a historical site. Even if there are some modern buildings in such a place, at least there are none in the place where I am now. It is desolate.
It must have been closed for many years, so if this place is not haunted, there should be no magnetic field response. Now that the compass has begun to rotate, it means that the thing buried underneath must be metal.
The metal itself has a magnetic field, so the compass can easily sense it. I told Hu Zongren that something was buried under this place, but since we didn't bring any digging tools with us, Hu Zongren could only go to other parts of the river to find it.
For some slightly sharper stones, Hu Zongren and I began to lie on the ground and dig with great difficulty.
This process lasted for about half an hour. During this process, I was very worried that the four White Lotus guys would break into us. But gradually I became relieved, because I guessed that the air-raid shelter was quite big, and those few people
Finding things will probably take a long time just like us. But we are luckier than them, we can find them, while they are destined to return in vain today.
With a crisp clang sound, the stone in Hu Zongren's hand hit a metal object, making a slightly echoing sound. This shows that the metal thing underneath is actually hollow inside. Maybe it is an iron box.
And so on. If iron tools are buried underground all year round, they will rust due to running water and other reasons in the soil. In addition, Situ's analysis shows that this thing was buried before at least 1958. It has been more than 50 years. I don't know.
The things inside were still there. So Hu Zongren and I started digging along the edge of the metal thing until we dug out something like a box, and shook it back and forth to loosen it in the soil, and then it was lifted by the two of us together.
came out.
The box is about 24 inches in size, rectangular, and about ten centimeters high. Logically speaking, such a metal box should be heavier in the hand because it is made of metal. But Hu Zongren and I lifted it up
When we took it, we found that it was not as heavy as we imagined, but light and airy. However, we could clearly feel something swinging around inside, making a slight sway.
After putting the box down, I took a closer look. It was a copper box. No wonder it was buried underneath. On the four walls of the box, there were many small holes the size of nail holes. The direction of the openings was from the outside to the inside, just like
It looked like someone had used nails to drill countless small holes around the box. Is it for ventilation? The soil here is inevitably moist due to rain. With these small holes, wouldn’t the rainwater seep in? I started looking for the box.
When I opened and closed the box, I found that there used to be a padlock there, but the lock was probably not made of copper, so it corroded and fell off. I just tapped it lightly with a stone and opened the box.
Originally, this thing didn't belong to us, and we had no reason to open the box. But curiosity is hard to explain, especially when Hu Zongren and I knew that the things inside were related to our metaphysics. In ancient times, one by one
A sanctimonious gentleman, when he encounters a peerless martial arts book, will inevitably want to find out what it is. I think Hu Zongren and I probably had this mentality at the time. However, we convinced each other because it was not good to carry the box.
Go, so you need to take out the contents before opening the box.
But when I opened the box, I couldn't see anything dark inside, so I started shining it with a flashlight. This photo didn't matter, it scared me so much that I sat on the ground. In the middle of the longer direction of the box,
There is a slightly raised inner box. The inner box is probably welded to the box. There is a lid on it that doesn't require a lock, just like a candy box. It only takes a little force to open. It occupies a very small area, but
In other places, there were countless earthworms crawling densely. They were squirming repeatedly in front of me. That scene instantly reminded me of those disgusting American alien movies I watched when I was a child. I almost vomited without holding back.
come out.
After Hu Zongren saw it, he also took two steps back. Only then did I realize that the small holes on the four walls of the box were used for earthworms to get in. So I immediately went to look at the one we dug out.
I found that although the surface of the earth was very dry, it was relatively moist underneath. I thought that even if the underground river stopped flowing, the underground water would not stop.
Just when I was about to persuade Hu Zongren to reach out and take out the little thing from the pile of earthworms, there was a clang behind my ears, just like the sound of a pan hitting a hard object. I quickly turned around and saw four people standing in the night.
A dark shadow, but Hu Zongren lay on the ground, covering his head and groaning in pain.