I held on to Yue Qianling’s hand, but I followed her all the way to life and death.
The falling process was long and shocking until I hit the sea, and I was still awake. I didn’t go into the sea, but my body was in pain, but it was not as severe as I thought.
When I swam out of the sea, I saw Xiao Lianshan and Gu Anqi all sick, turned around and saw that the more Qian Ling was also thrilling. Finally, I saw Wen Zhuo not far away. Everyone was in shock, but he looked up at the huge and high waterfall and wiped his face. The sea water smiled and shouted at me.
"If you can go back alive and wait for a while, you can dance with me again."
"…" I was speechless at the moment. I estimated that people would never want to come again after this time, except Wen Zhuo, because I now realize that he and others always have different ideas. The most troublesome thing is that I actually promised him three things.
Perhaps it is because of this frightening waterfall that we seem to be indifferent, and we all swim from holding the wreckage of the wooden boat forward to the light ahead.
The water temperature here is a little strange, not as constant as before, sometimes it is very hot, but soon it becomes cold, like there are two extremes of cold and hot water alternating. The water mist in front is so heavy that we can hardly see what is ahead, and we can vaguely see that the light is getting brighter and brighter.
The more you drift forward, the more you can perceive the change of heat when it is cold, not only the sea water, but also the temperature around us, half of which is biting cold and the other half is burning hard.
The mist produced by the waterfall hitting the sea in front gradually faded away. When the last mist disappeared, several of us were once again gaping and gaping, and even those who had always played around looked at the distance with a shocked face.
We finally saw the light clearly, but it wasn’t light, but hot magma. On one side of the wide seaway not far from us stood a volcano that was constantly spraying magma. The mountain stretched out its hand to cover the seaway, and the magma gushed out. It dripped down the mountain and fell to the sea like a splash of molten iron, like a roller blind.
Everything will burn to ashes from here.
"Go from the other side!" I shouted to wake everyone up and go to the left. Don’t see this surging volcanic magma.
When we rowed to the left, everyone’s expression was even more shocked. Wen Zhuo smiled. I heard a sad wry smile inside.
I never thought that there would be an iceberg next to the burning sea. Even the iceberg on the left side of the mountain is exactly the same as the volcano next to it, and it is like reaching out and covering the left sea channel. No wonder the water flow and temperature here are abnormal. It is because of these two mountains.
Volcanic magma falls into ice water, is instantly cooled and then washed away by seawater, while magma is cooled by hot air, and then condenses into ice after being cooled. These condensed ice mountains form sharp ice cones, and the volcanic hot air is constantly falling like an ice sword flying all over the sky and falling to the sea surface to cool the magma.
This is a perfect cycle without ending, and at the same time, this sea channel forms a natural and illegal graben, and no matter which side it passes, it will be doomed, and it will either be burned to death or stabbed to death by an ice cone.
Sea of fire iceberg rolled sky curtain.
It suddenly occurred to me that the first of the four sentences that Grandpa Zhang told me said that it was this place, and I realized that maybe the smell was not fabricated. If the smell was true, of course, what those people saw would not be the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea. That submarine palace should be the disappearing Jieshi Golden Palace.
"Wen Zhuo, we and two people’s protective covers protect them from here." I said to him as I got closer and closer to the iceberg of the fire.
Wen Zhuo put up two fingers and smiled at me
"No, I just tried this place. It’s strange. It seems to be sealed. There is no Taoist here."
I was shocked. I definitely recited the mantra with my fingers clenched. Sure enough, there was no response. Without the protective cover of Taoism, our roots could not have crossed, and our sea lanes were smooth on both sides, and there was no place to fix us. We are now far from the sea of fire and icebergs, and we can’t come back.
"Elder brother Zhang Siye said four sentences in total: The sea of fire, the iceberg, the sky curtain and the dumpling crossing the river to cross the natural moat." Xiao Lianshan suddenly turned his head and said to me, "Crossing the natural moat by dumpling should be the way to cross the river here. Think about what it means?"
"The dragon crosses the river … the dragon thrives when it meets the water and dives into the sea, which means riding a dragon to dive into the sea." I thought thoughtfully and said to Xiao Lianshan, "Lianshan dives into the water to see if there is anything!"
Xiao Lianshan took a deep breath and dived out of the water quickly, excitedly saying
"There is also a cave in the face from which you can dive, just to avoid this iceberg of fire, but I don’t know if I can swim to the end in one breath for a long time."
"Grandpa Zhang said four sentences to cross the river by dumpling and cross the natural barrier, and then there are two sentences that must have been experienced by people from here." Yue Qianling said calmly, "It’s better than waiting for death here anyway."
Xiao Lianshan led the way in front of us, and each of us held our breath and followed him to swim through the cave, but the water was extremely uncomfortable, and the body was half cold and half hot, and the water temperature was the same. I swam at the back, so I was really worried that the people in front could not stand swimming out.
Well, this cave is not long. When we swim out from the other end, we find that the water temperature becomes normal and there is light above us. My first reaction should be sunshine or moonlight. Whatever it is, we are desperately swimming towards the light above our heads. Since we can see the light, we can say that we are alive.
When we float to the surface of the sea and hold our breath, we all gasp and wait until it calms down before looking around. I don’t know what other people are feeling. I know that my mouth is slowly opening and my face is full of shock.
He reacted exactly like me. I saw Wen Zhuo wiping his face in the sea. This time he was completely serious.
☆ Chapter 55 Giant bronze statue
We emerged from the surface of the sea, and the current here is relatively slow, but the surface of the sea is thick with fog. I guess it should be the same as the evaporation of the iceberg in the sea of fire just now, and the fog has been spreading and not gathering in this surface.
We have never seen such a strange sight. Looking back, we can clearly understand the terrain and environment here. Here, the sea water flows from the seaway where we came from, and the spectacular and thrilling sea of fire iceberg is really like a curtain crossing the sky to separate Qianhai Road from here.
Thick fog enveloped the sea, and we couldn’t see the specific situation around us clearly. The farther away from the iceberg of the fire, the quieter the sea became. We swam ahead with our eyes wandering. We thought we had been washed into the sea before, but when we swam out of the sea, we found that we didn’t see the sun or the moon light overhead.
But it is strange that it is especially bright here. Compared with the former dark sea channel, it is like a fairyland, while the iceberg of fire is like preventing mortals from entering the fairyland gate.
We looked at the top of our heads and were dazzled. We had rubbed our eyes for several times, but we were still not sure. Finally, we swam to my side and asked in surprise.
"What, we have fish overhead?"
This is the incredible place that makes everyone stunned. There are many colorful fish above our heads, and we have never seen sea fish swimming. It feels a bit like watching in a fish tank, but the bottom of our fish tank
We are on the surface of the sea and there are underwater creatures above us …
It’s hard to explain and understand what’s going on. We just looked back at these wandering marine creatures until Gu Anqi said that incredible thing.
"I … we the bottom of the sea? ！”
If we are really at the bottom of the East China Sea, what is our head? Everything is very real, not like our illusion. What makes us wonder most is that there will be light here, and it’s like day, but it’s a pity that the sea is blocked by fog, otherwise we can see clearly where it is.
"Look, there seems to be a fire over there!" Xiao Lianshan pointed to the distance and shouted.
We looked into the dense fog and saw the flickering light. We swam slowly over there, because we were afraid of encountering the sudden danger of fire and icebergs, and we moved very slowly.
The closer we get to the light, the shallower the sea seems to be. When we get up from the sea, I bend down to pick up a handful of sea sand and rub it carefully. It is very real that this beach is also shrouded in fog, so I can’t see clearly what is in front of us.
However, after a few steps, we actually found that the road piled with hard slate with bluish gray color was more and more studied for a long time, and picked up a broken slate to make it regular, rich and simple.
The more you look at it, the more surprised you are. How many times did the slate strike? Did you look at the fracture surface neatly and look up? It was a surprise to say
"There is a broken hole in the knock. This … this is a famous Qin brick in history."
I took the slate from her hand and looked at it carefully, and then I squatted down. These slates paved the road and extended into the fog. It looked very long, and the slate road was composed of this strip brick in my hand.
I asked Xiao Lianshan to bring water to the shore to wash the slate sand to reveal the typical dragon pattern of the Qin Dynasty, and the most middle brick was engraved with Qin Zhuan. Although it is very old, it can still clearly recognize the words.
Long live the ends of the earth
Yue Qianling didn’t read it wrong. It is indeed a Qin brick, and looking at the inscription, there are still emperors who can enjoy the Qin brick. Ordinary people can’t walk. This is the royal road of Qin. Thousands of years ago, there were kings who could step on it. Who would build an imperial road in this bizarre place?
"This passage was built much earlier than the former Fourteenth Mausoleum." Gu Anqi thought about it and said to us, "Since someone is building roads here, do you think … will there be anyone here?"
"How is it possible that this is all a thousand years ago? Who can live …" Yue Qianling denied Gu Anqi’s irrelevant thoughts according to her habitual thinking, but she quickly stopped and didn’t say anything. I guess she may be aware that it seems that she has seen many people who have lived for thousands of years.
We are not afraid to go in the wrong direction when we have a road to guide us along the imperial road, but the fog is too heavy to see clearly what is ahead. We are careful every step, Xiao Lianshan goes to the front and keeps an eye on the surrounding area. The more quiet it is, the less confident we are.
"There is something ahead" Xiao Lianshan suddenly alerted us to stop.
We saw a symmetrical corner approaching on both sides of the Imperial Road to see clearly that an object made of bronze could not be seen clearly because of the fog. Generally speaking, it looks like a bronze column, which is extremely safe and brand-new, with layers of decorative patterns and typical Qin Dynasty style lines, but we don’t know what this bronze column is for.
But soon we found that the bronze column was much larger than we expected. We only saw the middle corner. We walked around the bronze column and waited for ten minutes to return to the original position. It was not big, but it should be huge. I kept in mind the steps and finally estimated that this thing was even bigger than the more than 300 bungalows of Yue Lei.
Moreover, after walking around, I am no longer sure what this bronze ware is, because it is different from different directions. Similarly, we can see what the shape of the bottom is like on the surface covered by fog.
The thousand ling looked at half a day thoughtfully and said
"Look at this decoration, it should be the tiger and wolf pattern in Qin Dynasty, but how can it be engraved here when there are more tiger and wolf patterns than armor?"
Xiao Lianshan’s hand struck a few times, and Wen Zhuo didn’t finish. A man walked around the bronze column again and finally stopped. He frowned in front of me and smiled meaningfully. Then he knelt down and looked at the bronze column and adjusted himself.
We all don’t know what he is doing. Wen Zhuo suddenly pointed to his knees and legs and asked with a smile.
"What does this look like to you?"
"…" I frowned slightly.
Wen Zhuo picked up a small stone from the side and put him on his knees. He said unhurriedly
"You can’t see it this way. You think this pebble is us now and I am this bronze. What do you see?"
Wen Zhuo knelt down on one knee. If we were the size of a small stone, we would have to look up in front of him to see it. But soon my eyes lit up and I heard that Zhuo’s leg was similar to the bronze column we saw.
I’ll take a look at Wen Zhuo’s sample and say with some surprise
"You … you mean this is a bronze man kneeling on one knee?"
"How is it possible?" Xiao Lianshan picked up the stone in front of Wen Zhuo and said with a smile. "If this were a bronze man, how big it would be …"
Xiao Lianshan was just halfway through when we suddenly felt calm behind us, and the sea suddenly rolled back with a strong airflow blowing towards us, blowing away around us in the fog and wind, and everything around us became clear.
We finally got a clear look at the bronze column in front of us, but just like Wen Zhuo’s metaphor, we are really like a small stone in front of him, which is bigger than our mouth and Zhang Yue.