As I waited, there was no movement from the people in the cave. As a result, the atmosphere suddenly became a little strange. I watched motionlessly, waiting for the right opportunity. But I never expected that this wait would last all day.
Seven or eight hours. There are only two possibilities. First, something happened to the man inside and he is now unconscious. Second, this man's patience is beyond imagination.
I was thinking nervously between these two possibilities, but I was really not sure what the situation was, so I had no choice but to continue waiting. It was morning when I climbed down from the dry well, and I had been waiting for more than ten hours, and it was already dark.
When I got down, it was pitch dark inside the dry well. I began to wonder, could it be that the man had really hung up inside due to some accident? I had been waiting for more than ten hours in vain?
I carefully thought about the various situations after entering the dry well, and then carefully considered it. Finally, I felt that this person might really be unconscious, because I was a complete stranger to him, and suddenly I was in a place like this.
If an outsider appears, the other party will probably not be able to hide their emotions and actions so well.
With this idea in mind, I hesitated again and again, and finally approached the hole a little bit, shined a flashlight into it, and got in. The space in the hole was very small, not even enough for a person to stand up straight, so I held the dagger and bent down.
, gently approached the person lying on his side, and then squatted down.
Suddenly, the person who was lying on his side turned over and sat up, and hit me in the face with his backhand. Although I was always vigilant and on full alert, this change was so sudden. I didn't expect that this person would lie down like a stone.
It took about ten hours for someone to suddenly get violent. In a hurry, I quickly stretched out my hand to block the attack. The opponent was very strong. This time, I could not completely block his attack. Immediately afterwards, I felt something hard on my forehead.
He hit it hard, and stars suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
I was knocked backwards to the corner. The man didn’t hesitate. After knocking me over, he jumped towards the hole like an arrow. My forehead was smashed, and blood flowed down the wound, blinding my eyes. This hit
It was quite heavy and made my head feel dizzy, but at the moment when the other person turned around and ran away, I still saw him through the light.
This is a middle-aged man in his forties, with messy hair that almost covers half of his face. His face is very pale, as if it were the kind of white that a person who has not seen the sun for many years hides in a secret room, without any blood.
.After he jumped out of the cave, I immediately heard the sound of him climbing up the ladder.
Although I was dizzy from the sudden blow, my mind was still very clear. I realized that this person had endured it for so long before attacking me, but he seemed to be very careful because he didn't continue after knocking me down.
Instead of attacking, he ran away. This showed that he also had scruples about me. Thinking of this, I also climbed up, got out of the hole, and climbed up on the ladder without hesitation.
The wooden ladder creaked under the steps. When I climbed up the ladder, the opponent was already close to the wellhead. His movements were very agile, and he suddenly flipped along the low edge of the well to the ground. My movements also accelerated rapidly.
In a matter of seconds, he climbed to a position close to the wellhead, but before he could catch his breath, the man who had crawled to the ground suddenly leaned half out of the well, took out an extra brick in his hand, and patted it over from a high position.
I clearly knew the consequences if this brick hit me on the head, but I was on a wooden ladder with no way out, so it was difficult to escape. When the brick hit me with the roar of the wind, I gritted my teeth and turned aside.
I avoided the fatal blow to my head, and the brick hit my shoulder, which was painful. However, I took advantage of this short opportunity to rush out of the well, stepping on the last step of the ladder, and kicked the opponent.
foot.
In that situation, I almost tried my best and kicked him aside. The wound on my forehead was still bleeding, and it kept flowing into my eyes. The moment I stretched out my hand to wipe away the blood, the other person
I quickly got up, turned around and ran. I chased after him and reached out to grab his collar. I felt that my strength was not small, but the other party was also very strong. I struggled to break away, and while pushing him, he
The collar of his clothes was completely torn off, and I suddenly felt that my hands were empty, as the man had already ran a few steps away.
At the same time, I heard something fall to the ground, and the man must have noticed it. He looked back, and his steps suddenly slowed down, but he didn't dare to turn around to pick it up. At that moment, his pale face
There was a hard-to-make hesitation on his face, and he seemed to want to turn around and go back to pick up the things that fell on the ground, but after two fights, he must have known that I resisted hitting and was difficult to deal with.
After hesitating for a second, he continued to run away. The moonlight above my head was very bright. I looked down and saw an old piece of bronze on the ground. The bronze was about as big as my palm, and there were vague patterns on it. I didn't want to give up the pursuit.
The opponent has a chance, but he can't leave this piece of bronze behind and not pick it up.
I bent down and picked up this piece of bronze. It was very heavy when I picked it up. The heaviness seemed to come not only from the weight of the bronze itself, but also from other things. The moment I picked it up, I had a strong feeling in my heart.
Carrying time, there is another secret.
The pattern on the bronze felt familiar to me. It suddenly seemed that it was very similar to the pattern I had seen before, but as long as I paid attention to distinguish it, I could detect small differences between them. In other words, this is
Two different patterns, but similar in appearance.
In the short period of time when I picked up the bronze and distinguished it, the opponent had already run far away. He had quite a lot of physical strength and was running unusually fast. It would be difficult to catch up at this time. I casually
He stuffed the bronze into his arms and chased after him while holding his breath.
Just as I imagined, the opponent always maintained an extremely fast speed. I chased with great difficulty. I barely chased him for more than ten minutes. The distance became farther and farther, and I could only watch helplessly as his back disappeared into the darkness in the distance.
Seeing that I couldn't catch up with him, I decided to go back and retrieve my bag. Based on what happened before, I felt that the man should be hiding alone in the ruins. If he had accomplices, then I would never take him out so easily.
He was scared away. So I searched around other places, but nothing else was found.
This piece of bronze is probably my only gain. When I calmed down, I recalled what Su Xiaomeng had said to me in a hurry when the call ended.
I did, but now that I think about it, she seemed to want to tell me that the bronze unearthed from the ancient tomb was probably not the only one left.
I left the ruins and continued to wander around the dead village. I wanted to meet the escaped unknown man again, but also wanted to unexpectedly find the ancient tomb that had been filled in by the villagers. But within such a large radius
, it was almost impossible to deliberately search for unmarked locations, so after a few days of wasted effort, I gave up the plan.
I left with the piece of bronze. There was only this piece of bronze and the incomprehensible pattern on it. I had no idea what it contained. But somewhere, I had a hunch that Su Xiaomeng looked careless.
Girl, she knows more about this pattern than I thought. In other words, she may not have told me the complete situation during the previous phone call.
Because of this premonition, I accidentally plugged back the phone card that I had pulled out of the phone. But I didn't take the initiative to call, because doing so would be a bit passive. I don't understand Su Xiaomeng, and I can't let her call her in such a short time.
It caught my weakness, so all she could do was wait. I felt that if her appearance was not an accident, she would definitely contact me again.
My guess was absolutely correct. Three or four days after I came back, Su Xiaomeng actually called me. Because I still had to ask her about some things, my attitude was a little better than the previous time. She was not as cool as she was on the phone.
Heartless, on the contrary, I think she is very smart.
"Hey, let me ask you a question." Su Xiaomeng said: "I called you several times in the past few days, but my phone was always turned off. Have you gone to find that village?"
"What do you think?" I still don't completely trust her, but my impression of her is much better, because at least part of the situation she told is true.
"I think so. You should be a very curious person, similar to me." Su Xiaomeng chuckled: "Curiosity killed the cat."
After a few random words, I turned to the topic and said, "What else do you know about bronze and the patterns on bronze?"
"This...it's nothing." Su Xiaomeng paused and said, "I told you last time. Most of what I know is what I heard, and I don't know the details."
"Really?" I then asked, "What on earth is bronze?"
"Did you discover anything?"
"Tell me first, what bronze is."
Su Xiaomeng did not answer immediately. He thought for a long time and then said to me: "To be honest, I really don't know what bronze is, but I can tell you that it is very mysterious."
"Bronze is not just one piece, right?"
"Yes, I wanted to tell you that last time, but you hung up so quickly." Su Xiaomeng said: "So far, no one may know the specific amount of bronze."
"So, the last question." I changed the subject and said, "Who did you get the information about bronze from?"
"What good does it do me to tell you this?"
"I have a piece of bronze here that I can give to you, but you have to tell the truth."
Although no one told me anything, I can be sure that the function of bronze is unknown, but it is obviously a very important thing. Su Xiaomeng pushed everything away, but she obviously knew the weight of bronze.
"You have a piece of bronze?" Su Xiaomeng's tone was suddenly surprised: "What does it look like? Did you find it in the Dead Village?"
"These questions do not need to be discussed. If you want this piece of bronze, just answer my questions."
Su Xiaomeng stopped talking again. She probably didn't expect that I could get a piece of bronze. Bronze seemed to be very tempting to her. She hesitated for a long time before she said to me: "These situations were indeed told to me by others. We have a
Small circle, everyone in the circle is looking for this kind of bronze, do you need me to introduce you to it?"