Everyone was stunned when they saw the six words "Luoyang City, by the Yellow River".
"Is this a hint given to us by the person behind it, or a hint given to us by No. 12?" Wu Xiaojun said: "I think that today No. 12 gave his life to get this information back!"
"Change it back?!" Qian Lin suddenly laughed and said: "Why do I feel that we are completely controlled by the person behind us now? Even how we die, he has clearly set it up for us!"
"Maybe this was not his intention. The death of No. 12 was an accident!" Xiao Jingwen smiled bitterly: "But now, this is our only clue. Let's go to the Yellow River tomorrow!"
Wu Xiaojun nodded: "The Yellow River in Luoyang City is a bit far away from the city, and that place can also be said to be deserted. We have to bring something with us!" After saying that, he pulled Ge Shichao and Qian Lin and ran out!
Xiao Jingwen, Li Ting, and Guo Hui looked at each other, wondering what these people were doing.
Wu Xiaojun and the other three came back soon, each carrying a bag of things, sweating profusely from exhaustion: "Look, look! Fortunately our place is close to the night market, otherwise the three of us would have been exhausted!"
Xiao Jingwen opened the bag and saw some daggers, flashlights, ropes and other things inside. She looked up at Wu Xiaojun, who was sweating and said: "You are so thoughtful! In this way, we have really become tomb robbers!"
"This is called survival!" Wu Xiaojun said seriously: "Don't kid yourself, aren't we going to rob tombs this time! What would we do if we didn't have these things?"
"You stinky mouth! What are you talking about!" Li Ting punched him again: "If you want to die, you will die inside, you fat man!"
The two of them made everyone laugh. Wu Xiaojun laughed and divided the things into six parts: "Look, what we bought is so suitable! You can put it in your own Piaotian Literature Network tomorrow and you may be able to use it!"
Everyone took their share, chatted for a while, and then went to rest.
At six o'clock the next day, Wu Xiaojun called everyone up one by one, had dinner in the restaurant, rented a car, and walked to the edge of the Yellow River outside the city.
The current urban area of ??Luoyang City is not large. After leaving the city and walking north, in about 20 minutes, you will see the winding Yellow River.
Everyone got out of the car and looked into the distance. The Yellow River is more than a hundred meters in front of us. The ground here is almost all loess. There are some unnamed plants growing sparsely on the ground. They are neither high nor low, and it is very desolate. Looking from a distance, the water of the Yellow River is still clear, but the calmness on the surface makes people think of the terror under the water.
¡°Is there a village here?¡± Wu Xiaojun glanced into the distance, turned around and asked the driver who was about to leave.
The driver was a man in his early forties: "Here, there are not many villages nearby, but people come here from time to time, but they are all here for fun, barbecue and so on! Look at this place, it is almost endless as far as the eye can see. Look, where are there people?" Remember my phone number and call me whenever you want to go back to the city and I will come to pick you up!"
Wu Xiaojun nodded, took down the driver¡¯s phone number, and let him go.
"Where are we going!" Xiao Jingwen looked at everyone and asked with a sigh of relief.
Wu Xiaojun took a look at the terrain: "This place looks quite flat, but I really don't know where there will be sand or anything. You must pay attention! I grew up by the river when I was a child. If you can trust me, just You heard me right!"
Everyone looked at each other in confusion. It seemed that no one else understood, so they nodded and followed Wu Xiaojun as they walked towards the river little by little.
"This riverside is such a good place!" Qian Lin said: "Although I don't know anything about Feng Shui, I feel that this place is very suitable for tombs. I don't know if there are any underground!"
"There must be!" Wu Xiaojun laughed and said: "If not, what did that person ask us to do!"
Everyone stopped talking and followed Wu Xiaojun as he walked toward the river little by little. The ground under his feet became softer and softer, making people cautious.
Suddenly, Wu Xiaojun stopped: "That's not right, how can the terrain here be like this!"
Everyone also stopped, raised their eyes and looked around. Sure enough, the terrain here was a bit strange: from a distance, it felt like the ground was flat, but when they came here, they found that it was like hills, with hills on both sides. It starts to go down, then merges in the middle, and the altitude rises again, like sinking whirlpools one by one.
If you hadn¡¯t come here, you really wouldn¡¯t have seen this scene.
"How to get there?" Guo Hui asked.
Everyone looked forward and saw that it was a downhill slope. After going down and going up again, it should be the edge of the Yellow River.; Looking to both sides, there is a path going down on each side. This path is a circular path. After a few hundred meters, it goes around behind everyone. Although it seems that they should meet right in front, no one knows whether they can get out.
"If you ask me, just take a small road!" Wu Xiaojun said: "We have just seen the scene by the river. It is nothing special. We might as well pick a small road and walk. Maybe we will find something!"
Qian Lin nodded, turned around and looked at the other people. Seeing that there were no objections, he responded: "Okay, let's go!"
Wu Xiaojun pointed towards the path on the left: "This one?"
Everyone laughed: "Follow you!"
Wu Xiaojun smiled, turned around and entered the path on the left.
This path is said to be a path, but it is just a place without dense vegetation, and it is downhill, so it looks like a path. Everyone walked side by side, chatting and laughing, but there was no sense of pressure.
After walking for more than ten minutes, Wu Xiaojun stopped and looked back: "We really can't see where we were standing from behind. It seems that our current direction is not towards the river."
Qian Lin looked at the compass on his wrist: "Yes, looking at it now, we are heading southwest."
Wu Xiaojun glanced at the distance: "How is it? Should we go back or keep going forward?"
"Keep walking!" Qian Lin said: "Going back is a waste of time, so let's keep walking forward!"
Everyone also agreed, and Wu Xiaojun turned around and continued walking forward.
The road ahead is getting wider and wider. Originally, it was only wide enough for two people to walk side by side. After walking for more than half an hour, it was actually wide enough for six people to walk together. And it looks more and more like a road, with vegetation growing on both sides and an empty space in the middle. It seems like someone is walking here.
But the direction became increasingly confusing. Sometimes it was heading west, sometimes southwest, sometimes northwest, and sometimes southeast After walking for more than an hour, it was already ten o'clock in the morning. After a few minutes, Li Ting couldn't hold on any longer: "Damn you, fat man, you are so fat, how can you walk so well! Look at the sun in the sky, it has reached the center. If you continue walking, I will punish you here!" "
Wu Xiaojun wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile: "Didn't I tell you? I grew up in a rural area. Apart from anything else, I didn't say anything about hardship and strength!"
Li Ting sat down on the ground: "Pull you down!" She took out a bottle of mineral water from her bag and drank it: "You all should have a rest, I know you can't do it either!"
Xiao Jingwen also sat next to Li Ting, took out some water and drank a few sips: "The terrain is now flat, and we don't know if we are in a basin. If we go further, we don't know where it is!"
Wu Xiaojun also sat on the ground with some difficulty: "Since we have come here, let's keep going forward! I am very happy. From graduation to now, I have never had time to play like this! We who write novels, just Are you looking for some inspiration?"
"Well, that's right!" Qian Lin took out a large piece of chocolate, broke it and distributed it to everyone: "I hope there will be a good result!"
After everyone rested for a while, they thought they had lunch, looked at the sun in the sky, got up and continued walking forward.
The road ahead became narrower and narrower again, and there were more and more vegetation around it. At one o'clock in the afternoon, we almost entered a forest.
Wu Xiaojun stopped again, turned around and looked at the people behind him: "I guess we are getting further and further away from the Yellow River. I don't know where we are ahead. Maybe if we go further, it will be difficult to identify the direction! I still have to Let me ask you, should we leave or go back the same way?!"
Qian Lin looked at everyone: "I think it's better to keep going forward. After all, it's early now. If we keep going forward, we might gain something!"
"I agree too!" Li Ting felt energetic now, raising her hands and cheering: "It's cool in the woods anyway, so just keep walking!"
Xiao Jingwen looked at the other two people and smiled: "Okay, I agree, then let's keep going!"
Several people stopped to replenish some water and continued walking forward.
After walking for about half an hour this time, a stone monument suddenly appeared in front of everyone!
The stone tablet is cyan and looks to be very old. There are two ancient Chinese characters written on it. Although the color has almost faded, you can still roughly read it clearly.
"What kind of character is this!" Xiao Jingwen also became interested: "Why does it look like a traditional Chinese character, but I can't recognize it!"
Qian Lin answered: "It should be just the characteristics of a person's calligraphy, so I can't identify him. Do you know Xiaojun?"
Wu Xiaojun looked at it carefully: "You really asked the right person! I studied history and culture in college. This is a very unpopular calligraphy. It evolved from the ancient seal script and achieved a period of development in the Han Dynasty. , but because this font was difficult to read and even harder to learn, it was lost by the end of the Jin Dynasty!"
"No way!" Li Ting exclaimed in a low voice: "According to what you said, this stone tablet has a history of more than a thousand years! We have discovered an antique!"
Qian Lin ignored Li Ting: "What are the two words above?"
Wu Xiaojun looked at it carefully again: "If it's good, it should be 'Cao Cun'!"It's just a characteristic of the method, so it can't be identified. Do you know Xiaojun? "
Wu Xiaojun looked at it carefully: "You really asked the right person! I studied history and culture in college. This is a very unpopular calligraphy. It evolved from the ancient seal script and achieved a period of development in the Han Dynasty. , but because this font was difficult to read and even harder to learn, it was lost by the end of the Jin Dynasty!"
"No way!" Li Ting exclaimed in a low voice: "According to what you said, this stone tablet has a history of more than a thousand years! We have discovered an antique!"
Qian Lin ignored Li Ting: "What are the two words above?"
Wu Xiaojun looked at it carefully again: "If it's good, it should be 'Cao Cun'!"