I collect cultural relics in the human world

Chapter 172 Snake ()
Indeed, the two of them had been looking at the deer-related antiquities in front of them, trying to find the correct ship, but they had never looked back - the island in the middle of the lake they had just left was in the shape of a flat equilateral triangle, with the shape of a snake's head. Coincidentally, there are exactly two towering metasequoias on the easternmost side of the island and at the vertex of the triangle. From their angle, they look like letters spit out by snakes. As for the wooden plank road leading to the island in the middle of the lake, the wood grain is simple and rare, reflecting a faint golden color in the thin sunlight, much like the patterns on a python.

This is obviously a huge winding snake, cunningly dormant on the mist-shrouded lake, waiting quietly for the enemy to leave his body and step onto a swaying boat. Then he can immediately turn around and set off turbulent waves. Open a huge mouth to devour the struggling enemy.

Thinking that she was standing on a giant python, He Si's body froze, and she couldn't even find her voice.

At this time, the originally gentle wind became stronger and happened to pass through the cracks between the wooden boards, bringing a sharp whistling sound, like the hiss of a python spitting a letter, resounding under the soles of the feet. He Si took a step forward as if filled with lead. The heavy right leg moved a step.

"Creak".

The slight trembling sound of the board sounded like thunder to He Si, and the water surface was also dizzy with ripples. The successive changes triggered her Charles Bonner Syndrome, and she felt that the board under her feet began to swim away.

"Help!" He Si suppressed her fear and shouted softly in her heart. Reason told her that this fear was unreasonable, but she could not suppress her sudden hallucinations and ensuing phobia of giant objects. She wanted to close her senses and relieve the anxiety occupying her body by shielding herself from the outside world, but she couldn't bear to let go of the voice echoing in her mind - Ah Si, take a deep breath, Ah Si.

Following this gentle call, He Si felt her feet leave the cold ground. Her body was lifted horizontally into a warm embrace, and the reassuring sandalwood filled her nose.

"I hate snakes, especially huge pythons." He Si's voice was full of disgust.

"I can see it," Qin Jian's voice was very happy, "but first the snake head on the crane, and then the snake horns on the deer. That little girl really likes snakes."

What a pervert, He Si sneered, and simply buried her head in that embrace, like a feline that had temporarily put away its claws, and said in a nasal voice, "I want to eat gum."

"I see, Xiaojiu, come and help." Qin Jian became even more cheerful, and with a touch of soft doting, he motioned for Xiaojiu to take something out of his pocket.

He Si felt a sense of coolness spread in the sandalwood. She raised her head, looked at Xiao Jiu, and then at Qin Jian, her eyes filled with disbelief: "You actually brought chewing gum?"

"Yeah, it's still mint flavored."

He Si didn't know what to say, she just felt a tightness in her heart. She put the chewing gum into her mouth, and the familiar sweetness spread from the tip of her tongue to her fingertips, making her squint her eyes in intoxication. When she opened her eyes again, she found Qin Jian looking down at her and smiling.

"Thank you." He Si suddenly felt her face heat up slightly. This guilty conscience overcame the fear in her heart. She jumped off Qin Jian and stammered, "It does...it does look like a snake, but...but... There seems to be no change, could it be a coincidence?”

"I have thought about it this way, because this girl likes snakes very much, and the creatures that eventually attacked in the two rooms are related to snakes, so it is possible to unconsciously design the wooden boardwalk to look like snakes. But, Ah Si, think about it again , did we overlook something?”

"The things that have been ignored..." He Si thought seriously. Her thoughts extended back along the plank road, back to the Luyuan, back to the Crane House, back to when the silk left her fingertips. She suddenly remembered the time when she first entered the Luyuan and Qin Conversation with Jian——How is this place different from what you remember?

What is the difference? What have we overlooked?
It's a mural! In the two rooms she just passed through, she was only focused on subduing the creatures, but she forgot about the two murals on the ceiling that lead souls to heaven. According to Qin Jian's explanation, those two paintings were the real mechanisms that took them to see Yan Yan. . However, He Si looked around at the vast smoke and saw nothing, and couldn't help but frowned. Where would the mural be? Could it be... She looked at everything in her sight again. Her eyes came to the wooden board under her feet, and her eyes changed from doubtful to serious.

"Is the mural here?"

Qin Jian naturally noticed He Si's eyes, and nodded immediately before she finished speaking: "It's just that it hasn't been stimulated yet, water, wine, light, some kind of medium, or it may be on the back of the board."

"This is also..." He Si didn't know what to say. It was unbelievable, but it was reasonable.

Qin Jian thought that He Si was still doubtful and suggested: "If you still have doubts, maybe you can ask Xiaojiu to go and check it out."

"No need." He Si said and waved her hand. She believed in Qin Jian's judgment, not to mention that in the vast wilderness, this was the most reasonable explanation. But, how to make the mural visible? He Si's eyes returned to the ship, "There are only these six ships, and we are missing a link to trigger the mechanism. Could it be that the answer still lies in these deer-related cultural relics?"

No, He Si shook her head and denied this guess. She could no longer let her thoughts get lost in the cranes and deers. The last round of opening the door was too fast, which obviously exceeded Yan Yan's expectations and also allowed her to see Qin Jian's research on antiquities. She throws out the exact same setting again, not for the sake of symmetry in the structure of the novel, but to mislead. He Si thought to herself, if I were Yanyan, I would definitely seize this opportunity and use the enemy's mindset to severely damage the enemy.

If not artifacts, perhaps the ship itself? He Si's eyes lit up, and she moved closer to the ships, trying to find the overlooked answer from the hulls, but Xiao Jiu's low voice sounded in her ears.

"Is there nothing abnormal?" Unexpectedly, Xiaojiu had already checked it out. He Si fell into deep thought while listening to Xiaojiu's information - what else did I overlook?
"What if we didn't ignore it but worried too much?" Just when He Si was puzzled, Qin Jian said, "I still think ships are a deception. No matter which one of these six ships we take, , in the end they will only get lost in the endless fog, and the only way to break through the fog is Teng She."

"Only the soaring snake can ride on the mist," He Si said this sentence twice, her face changed, and she pointed to the wooden plank road under her feet and said, "You want it to turn into a snake!"

"It was originally a snake."

He Si swallowed her saliva and made sure Qin Jian was not joking, then asked: "It's neither an ancient object nor a ship. How do you want it to turn into a snake?"

After He Si asked, she began to look forward to Qin Jian's answer as usual. Unexpectedly, the man's face showed a bitter smile for the first time. After hesitating for a while, he shook his head and said: "That little girl's mind is too difficult to figure out. , I don’t have a foolproof plan.”

He Si was not disappointed, she just asked tentatively: "How about... I come to fight?"

The way the man in front of him was breaking jars was quite like Fan Yu's. Qin Jian couldn't help but laugh: "Aren't you afraid of snakes again?"

"Hey, this..." The thought just now diverted He Si's attention and allowed her to relax briefly. But now that he mentioned it, He Si felt numbness in the soles of her feet again. She couldn't help but take a few steps back and stood there. Behind Qin Jian.

"Leave it to me."