Li Xiaomao and the others disappeared as if they were snatched away by something. Even my ghost eye secret technique could not find any trace.
I suddenly raised my head in a hurry and said: "Ye Xun, give me your golden wolf mask."
My golden wolf mask is on Li Sesu's body. Although she may not be able to understand my thoughts like Ye Xun, it is not difficult for me to find the location of the golden wolf mask. I put on the mask and let go of my consciousness. Sure enough, I felt some kind of induction coming from the mask. I took a few steps forward to where I was feeling, but my way was blocked by a wall.
I quickly touched the wall a few times: "The wall is wet, and there is new soil behind it..."
Before I finished speaking, Ye Xun took out the engineering shovel from his backpack and dug hard into the wall. In just a few strokes, a hole was dug out of the wall, and the unsolidified mud flowed along the hole. When they came out, a body was also washed out by the mud.
"Li Sese!" Shocked, Ye Xun grabbed the corpse's shoulders and dragged him towards the cave entrance, but he didn't expect that he only pulled out a small part of the corpse. Although the corpse's shoulders were still there, except for its two arms from the shoulders down, it was empty. The two exposed arms were also pale from blood loss.
I reached out and took off Li Sese's mask. The scarred face of the corpse made it almost impossible to distinguish Li Sese's features. I couldn't help but frown and grabbed the palm of the corpse: "This is not Li Sesu."
Ye Xun suddenly raised his head and said, "How do you know?"
I pointed to the hands of the corpse and said, "Their hands are different. There are snake wounds on Li Sese's hands."
This characteristic does not belong only to Li Sesu, but every member of the Li family has snake wounds on their arms. The technique of catching snakes seems simple, but in fact it is not a skill that can be acquired overnight. Long-term practice will inevitably leave scars of snake bites, which is the unique mark of the Li family.
Ye Xun then breathed a sigh of relief: "Li Sese is not dead, where is she?"
"Let me think about it, let me think about it..." My mind was spinning rapidly: "Ye Xun, are you okay with Feng Shui? If you think of the entire Shark Reef as a turtle mountain, the dragon's heart should be there Where?"
I have been exposed to Feng Shui a lot in the antique shop. Many antiques are actually related to Feng Shui. People who sell antiques also know a lot about Feng Shui. I have also heard many legends about Feng Shui, and Guishan Bureau is one of them.
Strictly speaking, Guishan Bureau is one of them. Guishan Bureau is actually a general term. Many Feng Shui Bureaus that resemble divine turtles can be called Guishan Bureau. However, turtle bureaus also come in different sizes and types. Even the same divine turtle shape may have different feng shui bureaus depending on the nearby feng shui. According to legend, the smallest Shougui Bureau can only protect the longevity of descendants; the pinnacle Dragon Turtle Bureau allows future generations to become kings and guard a country; the legendary Xuanwu Bureau, which has the shape of a turtle and a snake, can even allow future generations to meet immortal fate. Of course, as far as I know, the Xuanwu Plan only exists in legends and has never been used by anyone.
I suspect that Shark Reef is actually a turtle mountain. At the beginning, I didn't have the chance to get a bird's-eye view of the Shark Reef from above. Now that I'm in the cemetery, it's difficult to determine the core of the Guishan Bureau, so I can only place my hope on Ye Xun.
Ye Xun closed his eyes and thought for a while: "The coffin above is not on the dragon's heart. The dragon's heart should be here."
I followed Ye Xun forward quickly for a short distance before he stopped in front of the rock wall, stretched out his hand and knocked on the wall a few times: "This is the soil sealing layer of the tomb, shall we..."
What Ye Xun meant was that no one had touched the sealing layer, so it was impossible for Li Xiaomao and the others to disappear here. Before he finished speaking, I stretched my knife towards a protruding rock under the rock wall. The tip of my knife just touched the surface of the stone lightly, and the stone skin exploded with the tip of the knife, revealing the deep buried rock. of dry bones. It can be vaguely seen from the corpse's clothing that the man was a Taoist priest in life.
"Didn't Hu Ning say that the old pirate who sneaked into Shark Reef became a Taoist priest..." I gently moved the stone skin with the tip of my knife, and the whole body was exposed from the stone. What I didn't expect was that, The corpse held a seven-character wooden box in its left hand, and held a hairpin tightly in its right hand.
Judging from the position of the Taoist priest's hands, he should have wanted to use a hairpin to open the secret box before he died, but he died here before he could insert the key into the keyhole, and was sealed into the soil by something.
I carefully took the Seven Words Secret Box from the corpse and placed it side by side with my own. I also took out the hairpin from the corpse. The golden hairpin was indeed a key with a scale. . The entire hairpin is divided into three sections, so it should be possible to open the secret box three times. But, how come there are two secret boxes
Is one of them a fake, or is the secret hidden in this little hairpin
Ye Xun took advantage of me to look at the hairpin and handed a jade seal he found from the corpse into my hand: "Look at this?"
"Mao Haifeng?" I could see that the seal was a personal seal. In ancient times, the private seal represented the person. At some point, the private seal could even be used as a token to order subordinates. No one will lose their private seal easily. Is this corpse Mao Haifeng, Wang Zhi's adopted son, who was arrogant for a while after Wang Zhi's death, but later disappeared and searched for traces
In the data, there is no record of Wang Zhi's son. Theoretically speaking, the person he finally handed over the gold hairpin to was definitely not Mao Haifeng. When Wang Zhi was captured, Mao Haifeng had a chance to escape after being surrounded by the Ming army and forced his way out. He did not dare and could not go to see Wang Zhi off, otherwise there would be an extra pirate on the guillotine.
The golden hairpin that Wang Zhi passed down to his son fell into the hands of Mao Haifeng, indicating that Mao Haifeng was also looking for Wang Zhi's secret treasure, but he died in the secret treasure.
I looked at the gold hairpin carefully for a long time, and then I tried to tap it twice with a dagger. Although there was no hollow sound on the gold hairpin, I knocked off a layer of gold paint.
I was stunned for a moment, opened my ghost eyes and looked at the golden hairpin carefully, only to find that there were large writings engraved on the hairpin.
Micro carving
The Chinese miniature carving art can be traced back to the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The miniature carving technology in the Tang Dynasty has reached a level of proficiency. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some people could already paint on a grain of rice. Wang Zhi used miniature carvings to leave secret messages on his hairpins, which was very secretive but very risky. But it is also in line with the adventurous character of pirates.
If Wang Zhi had revealed the secret of the Seven-Word Secret Box to Mao Haifeng early on, he would have only regarded the hairpin as the key, but would not have thought that it was the carrier of Wang Zhi's suicide note. Not only would Mao Haifeng not touch the hairpin easily, he would also carefully maintain the prototype of the hairpin, otherwise, he would not be able to open the Seven-Word Secret Box.
If my speculation is true, then Wang Zhi's arrangement seems a bit puzzling.
If we say, Wang Zhi's purpose is to plot against Mao Haifeng. So why would he use his biological son as bait.
If it were said that Wang Zhi wanted to leave the real secret to his biological son. Then, he shouldn't have accepted an adopted son and trained him to be the number two among the pirates. This is obviously creating trouble for the brothers.
But at that time, I didn't have time to deliberate on Wang Zhi's plan. All doubts flashed away in my mind, and I quickly focused on the golden hairpin.
Although the handwriting on the gold hairpin was a little blurry, I could roughly tell what Wang Zhi had written back then. I whispered: "Wang Zhi's message said: Whoever believes in Sun En's posthumous chapter can sew up his body." , whoever is sent to Sun En’s secret treasure will be the next Pirate King. He also marked the detailed locations of several secret burials. However, Narcissus Temple was not included. What’s going on?”
Ye Xun said anxiously: "Don't worry about that for now. Let's see how we can enter the secret burial?"
"Wang Zhi mentioned how to open the secret burial. He said that the Seven-Word Secret Box is both a treasure box and a key..." I stopped mid-sentence because the writing at the end became extremely blurry, even if it was mine The secret technique of ghost eyes is also difficult to identify. Unless the golden hairpin is held under a microscope, no one can see clearly what is written behind it
"Is the treasure box the key?" I tried to change the positions of the two treasure boxes and merge them together, but I didn't expect that the two treasure boxes seemed to be sensing each other and made a sound of machine operation at the same time. Seven jade nuggets popped out of the grooves in the box.
"Key? We have the key, but where is the keyhole?" A layer of cold sweat broke out on my forehead.
The cave we are in can accommodate hundreds of people. Trying to find a few keyholes less than an inch square is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Although Ye Xun and I turned the cave over inch by inch, it wouldn't be a problem, but I still have time. Are you going to save those two girls
Ye Xun took a deep breath and said, "Let's bet that the keyhole is in this wall and blow it up."
At this point, I have no other choice but to dig out clay explosives with Ye Xun, and detonate the explosives against the wall. The rocks raised by the explosives flew all over the sky, and the wall was also exposed. A stone door with countless openings. Before I could react, Ye Xun grabbed seven jade blocks and pressed them into the wall. The stone door, which was several inches thick, burst open under some huge force. But I saw a dragon-raising pond full of mud. Li Mao Mao covered his shoulders with his hands, barely supporting his body, half-kneeling on the side of the dragon-raising pond, his eyes fixed on the mud in the pond without moving.
Li Sesu was lying unconscious on the stone platform in the center of the dragon pond. Most of the clothes on her body were gone, and the remaining few strands of cloth were barely enough for the opponent's cover.
I glanced at Li Sese and turned away, but Li Maosha shouted: "Don't turn your head, keep an eye on Li Sese, the things in the mud are coming towards her."
When I looked at Li Sese again, the mud in the dragon pond had begun to rotate around the platform. Under the undulating mud, it was like a giant python waiting for an opportunity was hidden. It might jump out of the water at any time and kill Li Sese. Swallow it into your belly.