After a brief fuss, the three of them continued climbing.
I climbed for about five minutes.
In the end, Wu Xie couldn't stand it any longer. He was breathing loudly, as if his lungs were about to explode at any time. He sat down on a branch and expressed with difficulty that he needed to rest.
"Stop, stop, stop for a moment, I really can't walk!"
When Lao Itch heard this, he stopped and sat down on a branch. "Old Wu, you are really—Zhenxu. What have you been doing all these years?"
Wu Xie: "..."
He raised his head and gave Lao Itchi a hard look. Wu Xie didn't say a word. He only looked back, panting, took out the mineral water from his backpack, and drank like a cow drinking water.
Gulu gulu.
In the blink of an eye, a bottle of mineral water was wiped out.
Wu Xie calmed down a little, and then he put away the mineral water bottle and shouted back at Lao Itch, "Lao Itch, you damn have no right to laugh at me!! Don't even look at those legs of yours.
It's shaking like a sieve!"
Lao Chu smiled and said, "My legs are just--no matter how much they shake, they are--better than yours. Look at you, you're sweating, you're all in time to wash---
I took a shower."
Wu Xie: "(??へ??╬)!"
Wu Xie was angry, and the word "anger" clearly appeared on his red face.
With this anger, Wu Xie responded again.
Lao Itch was in high spirits and refused to give in. He smiled and counterattacked, taunting ruthlessly.
The two of them went back and forth, showing off their skills in talking.
'It seems that this guy Lao Itch is in a good mood now that he is about to achieve his goal.'
Ding Ze, who was sitting below the two of them, was watching the show leisurely and thought.
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"Okay, I won't---I won't call you vain, okay." The verbal struggle between each other lasted for a short while, and Lao Chi took the initiative to end the struggle with a smile on his face. Then, it was very natural.
, changing the topic.
"I suddenly thought of something just now," Lao Itch said to Wu Xie, "Old Wu, you said we discovered this bronze tree. If you come back to inform the government,
, can----could you name this tree after me, our name?"
Wu Xie: "(#￣～￣#)????"
Looking at Lao Chu with speechless eyes, Wu Xie said angrily, "What are you thinking about in your head? Have you forgotten what you do? Are you looking for the government after you go out? I think you want to go back to the government?
Go and spend a few years in prison!"
Lao Itch was speechless, "Uh... couldn't--couldn't I say that I came to the Qinling Mountains for a trip and happened to--discover this tree? I'm not stupid, how could--
-How could you tell the government the truth?"
Wu Xie: "……."
The speechlessness in his eyes suddenly increased a lot.
"Okay, then after you go out, you can try it. However, don't tell me and Brother Ding. Just say that you discovered it alone. See if the government will be deceived by you. Use your name.
Name this bronze tree!”
Wu Xie said with an obvious sarcastic tone.
"Hehe," Lao Itch smiled happily, completely ignoring Wu Xie's sarcasm and smiling happily to himself, "You can take the test - think about it. If it succeeds, just based on the size of this thing, I will
I guess I will definitely - become famous all over the world."
Wu Xie: "╮(╯▽╰)╭! So, in the future, a bunch of people will go to the museum and point to this bronze tree and call it Lao Itch?"
Lao Itch: "(⊙o⊙)....... Listening to what you said, it seems a bit strange. Otherwise, I will ask the government for the naming rights."
"Three years ago, as soon as I saw this thing, a word came to my mind. What do you think of calling it 'I love a piece of firewood'?"
Wu Xie: "ヽ(ー_ー)ノ!!! I love you uncle!! You guy, you have watched too many colorful movies, right! This thing is not a youth toy. With such a name, you are not afraid to go out.
Got struck by lightning?"
Lao Itch didn't care, but still smiled, "Old Wu, I feel that you have watched too many of that kind of movies. Otherwise, how could you be so vain?"
Wu Xie: "!!!"
Hearing this, Wu Xie almost ran away.
Fortunately, I still had my sense and didn't really jump up and attack Lao Itchi.
"Get lost! I don't care about you!"
Wu Xie resisted the urge to take action, gritted his teeth and said this sentence, turned his head, and stopped looking at Lao Itchi.
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The show is over.
'Hey, I just watched it for a while and then it disappeared.'
'Forget it, let's get down to business.'
Ding Ze couldn't help but think a little disappointed, and looked down at the ground, next to the exit of the secret passage they came out of before.
The two torches next to the exit are still burning and have not been extinguished.
In the area illuminated by the fire, there was no movement for the time being.
Faced with this situation, Ding Ze was not in a hurry and just waited patiently without saying a word.
Wait, wait.
Suddenly, a rather large figure ran past near the torch, causing the flames of the torch to sway violently.
Ding Ze noticed it, and immediately became excited and said to himself, 'Finally, here we are, the monkey wearing a mask!'
The words rang in his mind, and Ding Ze immediately moved his eyes quickly, using his night eyes to look at the place shrouded in darkness near the torch.
Look at this.
Although, the height of more than twenty meters above the ground significantly weakens the ability of night eyes.
But he still vaguely saw figures emerging from the rock walls around the pit and rushing towards the pit as if they were performing magic tricks.
'It seems that there are indeed many holes on the rock walls around the pit.'
He had actually made a general observation when he was in the deep pit before. However, Wu Xie and Lao Chu were both around at that time, so he couldn't search too carefully, so he didn't find it.
'In this way, in the original work, when Wu Xie climbed to a certain height, he discovered the holes in the surrounding rock walls. This was because at that time, as the surrounding rock walls shrank as a whole, the relationship between the rock walls and the bronze trees
The distance between them has shortened.'
'The fact is that the surrounding rock walls, from top to bottom, are actually filled with various cave entrances of different sizes.'
Looking at more and more monkeys in the deep pit, Ding Ze's thoughts began to race.
So, within two seconds, an idea that suddenly surprised him appeared in his head, almost as a matter of course.
'The space where the bronze tree is located is small at the top and large at the bottom. The whole space is like an inverted funnel...'
'Then, there are many holes on the rock walls in all directions inside the funnel...'
‘What the hell! This place is almost the same as the place where King Zhou Mu placed himself!!’
'No wonder King Mu of Zhou placed the dragon-patterned stone box here!'
Ding Ze thought, his thoughts spread out involuntarily.
He thought of a possibility...or in other words, he had a reasonable guess.
‘The reason why this place has become what it is now, I’m afraid it has something to do with King Zhou Mu!’
'King Zhou Mu is very likely to have participated in the transformation here...'
‘Even the casting of this bronze tree is related to King Mu of Zhou!’
‘Then….Has this place been hit by a meteorite? What is the chance that the bottom of the bronze tree could be a meteorite?’
Ding Ze thought a lot for a while, and his mind felt as if he had eaten something and couldn't stop.
until…..
Wu Xie suddenly realized that the torch next to the exit of the secret passage below was extinguished, and he made a confused sound.