Chapter 54: The number is “0”.

Not ever into the water and soil of the ancient bronze, passed down on earth so far, are purple and the bottom of the birth of cinnabar spots, and even these patches have become raised, such as the finest cinnabar, placed in a cauldron with boiling water to cook, the longer the cooking time, the more obvious the mark, if it is a fake, so try, the mark can be boiled away, so it is very easy to differentiate.

I see this copper box through the bone crystal, with an engineer flashlight, thin light flow seems to be almost transparent, they guessed that this is most likely a buried in the earth, or salvaged from the water of the ancient things, is it that this is under the Wong Tai Sin Temple of the copper box, just what I heard, about the legend of this thing has been a lot of, but it seems that none of them can be said clearly.

Think of this can not help but out of a moment of God, the fat man felt curious, raised his hand to open the box to see, I actually want to see what in fact, but know that this is not a child’s play, God knows what mischief hidden inside, so quickly held down the copper box and said: “Let’s look for medicines important, this four old ragged what to look at, don’t forget that this institute so many people have died for no apparent reason, the It’s better not to touch anything.” But I subconsciously pressed my hand to the copper box, but I felt that the copper box is very light, a press actually pushed a shake, which means that the inside is empty, and the things released from it, perhaps still remain in this building.

I pressed the mouth of the green jade masonry bone of the copper box a shake, that copper early in the soil and water in the steam panned out, leaving the copper bone only once a fraction of the hand is very light, feel empty inside, nothing at all, this is not unexpected, the Japanese people looking for mud will be the Hu bandits digging that antique out of the natural is not sealed and stored up, surely a hand to be turned on.

Institute of a large number of people died horizontally, judging from the Russian’s suicide note, a major accident occurred here, coincidentally in the mud will be the copper box from the mountains not long after the time, although not sure that the cause of these people’s deaths related to it, but more than half of them can not get out of the way, although the building all silent, want to harm our lives of the yellow skins have been cleaned up, but after all, we still have to stay for a period of time, we must not be careless, may be a good idea, but we must not be afraid, and we must not be afraid, and we must not be afraid. Can’t be careless, maybe this empty box will be left what clues, check and understand, or let us in the future no matter what, can have a mental preparation.

Thought of this I did not stop the fat man, let him open the lid of the box, held up the engineer lighting tube to shine two, indeed empty, in the bottom of the box only left some black wood shavings, we looked at each other, look at each other speechless, guessing that there is not what is inside the name of the classroom? Fatty kicked the copper box to one side, we still want to continue to find in this storehouse there is no medicine, so let Ding Si sweet sitting on the door of the wooden box on the temporary rest, the old sheepskin also stayed there to watch her.

The old sheepskin is really very real, I just let him sing to Ding Si sweet refreshment, he is still humming and singing a do not listen to, in his that: “riding a white horse, run the beach, I have no mother-in-law you do not have a Han, we two bundled as a dole garlic, hoo and hey yo, soil born in the earth to rot …… “in the hoarse white horse tune, fat man and I lifted the lamp search, opened one after another wooden box, but the things inside all let us surprised.

The strangest thing, is that I found a box containing a black wooden box, box in a glazed bottle, the bottle body glistening like new, but it looks like a piece of antiquity, that the bottle stored a green large skull, the mouth of the bottle is only seven or eight centimeters, while the diameter of the skull is close to thirty centimeters, I do not know where to load in, but also can not know what this bottle is used to do.

There is also a black ancient tile jar, jar body carved with a variety of ancient Chinese incantations, looks ordinary, but the preservation of the package is extremely appropriate and rigorous, seems to be extremely valuable, this tile jar reminds me of something I heard before, before the liberation of a businessman in Beijing to buy antiques, once in the countryside to buy antiques, inadvertently from a farmer’s home to receive a black jar, above the carving of the many ancient seal scripts, it seems to be like a rune record Mantra, then did not spend too much money, just in the collection of other curiosities when the ride to collect, but this ancient jar shape simple, color is very black, although it does not see the age of the source, but the antique businessman very much like, and do not take it to the sale, but their own collection, placed in the home storage full of water to raise flowers.

Once the cold, the day cold dripping into ice, the antique dealer busy business, forgot to pour the water in the net, and thought of it afterwards, thought that the black cans will be frozen cracked, and could not think of the turn of the day to go and look at the time, the yard wherever there is water all frozen, only with the black cans all right, antique dealers think it is very strange, and then poured into the water to test it again, it is still not freezing for the whole day in the slightest, even in the Even in the ice and snow in the fingers probe cans, you can feel the inside of the water are not cool.

This ancient tile irrigation if injected into the hot soup hot tea, within a day are like just boiling on the stove, from that beginning, the businessman only know that this is a treasure, treasured beyond measure, and then once drunk, unintentionally that ancient tile cans from the table touched off on the ground, broken into pieces, found that there is no difference between the tiles and ordinary pottery, but there is a mezzanine, that is, the two layers of the wall of the can, in the mezzanine engraved with ghosts urging the fire map, the ghosts work Green face and fangs, holding a fan to lead the fire, carving is extremely fine and detailed, that craft seems to be not manpower can be carved out, can only be described as a ghost, but at that time, no one can say that this ancient tile jar in the end is the product of what age.

I heard that later there is a kind of saying, said this outside the chiseled spell within the carving of Yin ghosts of the artifacts, are the secret of Xiangxi Chenzhou, the process has long been lost, and now can see, almost no complete molding, there are fragments and so on are all unearthed from ancient tombs, when I took this completely as a story to listen to, thought that this is similar to the nature of the story of the treasure gourd, but here to see this tile pot, actually with that hearsay Folk anecdote is very similar to that hearsay, the proof of the past and present, one by one, it seems that many of the craft and wisdom of the ancients have been lost, only to make the modern people admire the part of the.

But at that time, although I feel fresh, but did not think that these antiques have any value, anyway, all belong to the category of the four old, casually look at it put back to the original place, this time the fat man also looked through a lot of things, shaking his head at me, signaling that there is nothing to be found.

The fat man scratched his head strangely, said to me: “This place is hiding what strange and weird things, not top food not top drink, no one useful.”

I said, “Look at these items seem to be dug out by grave robbers, most likely those mud children will do a good job, or maybe some are from the folk scavenging, anyway, they are all antiques, and I found that all these broken and ancient things have a characteristic, they must want to scrape the ground as if trying to find out an important thing, most likely it is the invocation of souls in the mural of the Hundred Eyes Cave Copper Chest, you see? Most of these artifacts are contained within the copper box wooden box, and there are even a few copper coffins, which were probably also mistakenly dug up as the one related to this place, there won’t be anything we need in here.”

Seeing that this storehouse in no harvest, we have to look for medicine elsewhere, four people are injured, coupled with exhaustion, walking fast not up, although anxious, but also can only follow the corridor step by step slowly dawdling forward, this building are pulling cables, but the electrical has been lost, we do not know is what these buildings rely on the power generation, and to find the antidote and medicine is more important to find, can not spare the time to look for the electrical equipment, good thing there are two of them. Electrical equipment, good thing there are two sometimes good and sometimes bad lighting tube, not to be completely dark.

Dinsi sweet lying on the back of the fat man asked me in a daze whether there are ghosts in this building. I advised her not to think nonsense, the previous haunted movement, may be all those two old yellow skins out, but I also muttered in my mind, this building is built just below the cave, from the outside, you can see that the cross-section of the hillside in the soil, buried in a few huge stone beasts, it is exactly the same with the legend of that ghost Yamen, said that there are ghosts at the entrance to the entrance to the gateway, associating that black ancient tile jar, think that some of the legends are not Not empty cave, the name of the name, there must be a reason, since the name of the Ghost Yamen, is there really a ghost inside the cave?

I secretly told myself, or don’t mention these things again, mention more, always say there is no ghost, that even if there is no ghost also have to draw a ghost, this building although there is no light, but think it is now early in the morning, daytime is even more unlikely to have a ghost, I give myself some reasons to let himself keep his mind smooth, while checking from room to room rummage.

This institute’s underground facilities are divided into two layers, the bottom layer is much larger than the first layer, the walkway are with red paint table with serial numbers, this layer of the area may belong to the confidential facilities, if not for these numbers, walking in the inside is very easy to get lost, but since we have already penetrated into the core of the institute’s area, whether we can save Tinsi sweet’s life is all about this, so we can only start the carpet type search.

I also have a doubt that the Japanese army to build such a large-scale secret research facilities, I am afraid that not only the development of gas and bacteria so simple, there may be more amazing secrets and research projects, but these things are too complex, and what we have seen and heard is just the tip of the iceberg, there is not much of a clue, the more I think the more I feel a headache, as if there are a lot of small insects crawling back and forth and biting the brains, just like this! Thinking nonsense forward, unknowingly followed the remaining three people, walked to the end of a wide channel, here there is a round gate, there is a striking red logo “0”.

The iron door is half hidden and half unlocked, this door is completely different from the portals we have seen in the neighborhood, these basements are big and small, with different purposes, all the way to check over, there seems to be no rule to speak of, I use the lighting tube in the doorway to sweep in, the black gulung east seems to be very deep, the space is also much larger than expected, so I decided to go in to see, but the situation inside is unknown, I do not know if there are any dangers, so let the fat man stay at the door to take over. Fatty stayed at the door to receive, I went in single-handedly to explore the way.

Fatty’s wound hurt again, he covered his neck and said to me: “You only have one arm left to move and still want to engage in individual heroism? You should understand that collective strength is invincible, why don’t I go in with you and let the poor peasants stay behind to take care of SiShuang, what are we worried about.”

We are from the outside in, although there are many corpses in this building, but did not see any danger, this “zero” door in case of some what, with my current condition really can not cope, if you let the fat man alone to go in, he is even more dangerous to risk, only I and his partner to take care of the more stable, so I thought about it and then agreed to So I thought about it and agreed.

We left the KangXi sword to the old sheepskin, let him take care of DingShiTian, no matter what happens inside don’t go in, we will not go out too far, to explore the situation will immediately return, then I took the knife sheath, the fat man holding the remaining two rounds of bullets in the box of WangBaZhou, the two pull open the iron door, one in front of the other and went in.

Just landed on my feet, I feel soft underfoot, with the engineer lighting tube shine, see the ground really is not concrete, but covered with red soil, with the sheath of the knife to the soil poked a few times, the soil layer is so thick to poke not in the end, full of soil furrows uneven, even a little like a vegetable garden.

The air in here is damp and cold, and there seems to be a lot of impurities in the air, although it does not feel anything when you breathe it, but it has interfered with the range of the engineer’s illumination tube, and the distance of the illumination has been shortened by nearly double, and the light is almost swallowed up by the darkness, so we did not dare to go deeper casually, and followed the iron gate marked with a “0” sign. Groping to the wall, surprisingly, the walls here are all earth bricks, and with the top wall connected to the arc, resulting in a spacious basement high in the center, the bottom of the two sides, the earth bricks upward and inward, layer by layer, staggered and stacked, look at the shape of the kiln more like a cave or a cellar.

Fatty and I thought this is the ghost’s vegetable cellar, but how to see how to feel wrong, there are many pimples on the earth tiles of the bulge, connected to each other, like the wall with the clay paste something, see here I estimate that it is impossible to find any medicine here, this is not like a good place, ghosts know what is doing bizarre hooks, or to withdraw back to think of a way to look for elsewhere for the best.

We are about to exit, suddenly felt a burst of noise on the top of the head, a cold wind came, we hurriedly lowered his head to dodge, lighting tube short line of light, only to see a white whirring silhouette, from the ceiling of the big head hanging down, can not see that the person’s feet hanging in what place, only two hands and head hanging upside down in front of our eyes, suddenly seems to be reaching out to grab people.

Fatty and I hurriedly held the knife sheath at the same time, poked in the other side of the head against the wall, the chest of the engineer’s lighting tube just to shine on the face of that person, that is not the face of the living person, surprisingly white, and dry to start spoiling the sunken, the nails of the two hands have grown to be curled, curved and slightly trembling.