the last priest

After that, he woke up again and was already in this room, so he didn’t know anything else. After Chaozi finished speaking, Zhuo Xiong continued: “When you pull the rope, I will lift it up. It was very heavy at first. You couldn't pull it alone, and it was Brother Wenbin who came to help. The two of them worked together to barely keep you from sinking. Suddenly, when you let go, the water started to flow out, and then you came up. Brother Wenbin, you said it was super Did you meet Jinglong King in the well?"

Chao Zi glared at Zhuo Xiong: "Where is the Jinglong King, I think it is a ball of algae. │| │"

"Brother Wenbin, Chaozi, don't you believe it. When I was a child, I always sneaked into the river to swim in the summer. My father would beat me when I caught him. He said that there is a river dragon king in this river, and a well dragon king in the well. I offended you." They will be dragged down and drowned, and people often disappear in our river, and the old people say that they were dragged away by water ghosts to play chess with Lord Dragon!" After speaking, he glanced at Zha Wenbin, hoping His own statement was recognized by the Taoist priest.

Chao Zi glanced at Zhuo Xiong contemptuously, and shouted: "Stop talking nonsense, it's because your father is afraid of you..." "Okay, don't talk about it! Chao Zi, you have a good rest, Brother Zhuo Xiong and I take turns to stand guard , wait until dawn, let's go and have a look, that's it" After finishing speaking, Cha Wenbin picked up a few pieces of dry firewood, walked towards the eaves outside the door, lit a small fire and sat down

The two of them looked at me and I looked at you, wondering what was wrong with the Taoist priest. In order not to make fun of themselves, they each went down and closed their eyes to rest, leaving only Cha Wenbin outside the door with flames, quietly. Contemplating, Zhuo Xiong said drowned, who did he think of?Was it the poor daughter who fell into the water and drowned when she was young?I'm afraid no one knows, because since he left home, he has never mentioned anything about his family. Cha Wenbin looked at the two people who had fallen asleep inside, turned his head, looked at the ancient well in the distance, and kept looking at it like this It was dawn. . .

When Cha Wenbin woke up from the melodious chirping of birds, he was surprised to find that not only had the rain stopped outside, but the thick fog had also dissipated, and more importantly, there were birds in the village , chirping non-stop, he looked up, the blue sky, cloudless, and the surrounding mountains are also extraordinarily green, as if this place came alive overnight, Cha Wenbin wiped his eyes, Finding that everything was true, they rushed in and woke up the two of them. Gu Shang didn’t want to eat anything, and the three of them ran towards the ancient well last night. It may be because it has not been inhabited for a long time, or it may be that the rain last night was really heavy. A lot of creeks gathered in the river, which seemed to be left from the surrounding mountains, but at this moment they had no time to appreciate the beautiful scenery after the rain.

Chaozi turned on the tactical spotlight and looked into the ancient well: except for the darkness, it was still pitch black, and the moss left in the well coincidentally stuck to the wall of the well, telling everyone how intense the water flow was last night. There is an obvious water level line. The water level line of this well is only five meters deep. At this moment, there is no well water on the water level line, but the position where the light hits is really unclear, and I don’t know how deep this ancient well is. Last night Chaozi had already tried to go down the well without success, so he dared not try this method lightly today. When everyone was around the ancient well at a loss, Zhuo Xiong saw a small stone at his feet and picked it up

: "There is a way, let's throw a stone down, and we should know how deep the well is by listening to the echo!" After finishing speaking, he wanted to throw it, but was stopped by Cha Wenbin: "What if the two of them happened to be in the well? Wasn't he crushed to death by your stone?"

Zhuo Xiong looked at the ball-sized stone in his hand, weighed it, stuck out his tongue, and put it down again. Cha Wenbin looked at Zhuo Xiong's stone and asked He Yichao, "Chaozi, how long is your rope?" ?”

Of course, Chaozi didn't know what kind of medicine he sold in his gourd. Brother Wen Bin always talked in three and a half sentences without thinking too much. He untied the nylon military mountaineering god who was trapped on his body: "There are 100 meters here, don't look at this The rope is thin enough to bear a weight of five or six hundred catties."

Cha Wenbin seemed to have a solution, "Chaozi, you connect the other end of the rope, tie the spotlight to it, then tie a stone, and slowly put it into the well..."

"Brother Wenbin, you are so smart! Come here!"

The straight climbing rope, tied with stones and spotlights, was slowly lowered into the ancient well with the hope of everyone in Chaozi's hands. Water plants, nothing else. After 20 meters, the sound of entering the water has not yet been heard. This depth is already a distance that is gradually difficult for human eyes to distinguish. What, shouted: "Chaozi, don't move, don't move, you slowly turn the rope, as if you were at the position yesterday, the wall is a little different from the one above."

After Chaozi heard it, he slowly turned the rope in his hand, and pulled the spotlight to illuminate the edge of the ancient well in a circle. At such a long distance, Chaozi's scout eyes didn't see anything, but Cha Wenbin saw it. Sure enough, there are relief carvings carved on the wall of the circle of the well. Those lines have been immersed in the water for too long, and with the erosion of aquatic plants, they are already somewhat blurred, but Cha Wenbin always feels that these lines are very familiar, as if I've seen it before, but I can't tell what it is. After seeing it clearly, I asked Chaozi to continue to release it. A few meters below, Zha Wenbin saw different lines again, until his sight also began to disappear. When there is only a knot stuck in the hand, the ancient well seems to have not yet reached the bottom. Could it be that the well dug here by the ancients has exceeded 100 meters?Chaozi muttered there: "Is it so deep to dig a well to fetch water in a basin, Zhuo Xiong, your ancestors are really extraordinary!" Zhuo Xiong heard Chaozi complaining about his ancestors again, his neck stiffened and he thought He raised the bar: "I...my family..." At this moment, he found that he was at a loss for words, yes, who is the descendant of who he is, why this place is full of strange things, no wonder Chaozi said , Even I was doubting myself, so I had to give up a few times, lower my head and let Chaozi ridicule me.

Since there was no end, I had to lift the rope and check it. The mouth of the rope turned out to be dry! "Dry it! Brother Wen Bin, look, the other end is dry. There is no water in the well?! The water was so deep last night, but it dried up today? This is also..."

Chaozi looked at the dry spotlight at the other end, and slumped on the ground. Cha Wenbin picked up the rope on the ground and looked at it. Indeed, it was dry. There was no water in the well. Could it be that all the well water sprayed out last night? Out?Why?Chaozi’s climbing rope is the kind of nylon rope that is tied together with four drums of nylon rope. When he came out, he and Zhuo Xiong bought one each. Cha Wenbin looked at the knot on the other end, his heart turned, and he had it: " Chaozi, you split these two ropes into two strands and connect them together, let’s try again.” After speaking, we did it, and after a while, a 400-meter-long rope was dismantled and tied up again. Lamps and stones were lowered towards the ancient well, 50 meters, 100 meters, 150 meters, the scale on the rope, it was already 150 meters and it still didn't bottom out!He glanced at the two people next to him, and could only keep going, 200 meters!Looking at the length of 200 meters, I can only pray that this damn ancient well will bottom out soon, 250 meters, it is not over yet!Suddenly the rope in Chaozi's hand was loosened, and he no longer felt sinking, it was over!

Excitedly shouted at the two: "It's over, it's over, it's over!" Wen Bin and Zhuo Xiong quickly surrounded him: "How many meters?" The height of the stone from the ground, I glanced at the scale: "No more, no less, exactly 270 meters! Damn, I finally bottomed out! 270 meters, how deep must it be?"

Cha Wenbin took the rope, looked at the scale, and said with a sigh of relief: "If I'm not wrong, this well is specially built to this depth."

Zhuo Xiong leaned on the butt of his gun and asked, "Brother Wen Bin, you mean someone dug a well to exactly 270 meters on purpose?"

Cha Wenbin looked at the blue sky, then glanced at the house next to him and said, "270 meters equals 81 feet. The ancients used the unit of length as feet. When nine is exhausted in Feng Shui, it will naturally turn into one. When two The appearance of nine, that is, 81, means a kind of cycle. When the ancients built things, nine was the largest number, and "nine" is the largest and ultimate, meaning "the most". "Ninety-nine return to one, and finally achieve a positive result", we still need "one four seven, three six nine" to move forward step by step. Nine nine return to one means coming from the original place, going out, and returning to the original state. This kind of recovery is actually not a simple return, but a kind of sublimation, a kind of reconstruction, a kind of nirvana, and it is a new starting point! Finally, I have some understanding of those Yizhuang, maybe we have stepped into the place set by the predecessors It’s a huge trap, I don’t know what the meaning of doing this is, but what we can’t escape is that we are very likely to have become its pawns now!”

"Chess pieces? You mean we've all been tricked?"

"It's not being calculated by people, I'm afraid it was calculated by the sky. There are five of us in total. If we want to become a true fruit, it is not enough to rely on one nine. We also need a five, nine to five to become the supreme!"