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Upon discovering the abnormality, Wu Zhongyuan immediately got angry and stuck to the stone wall to check. The hole was not big, but not small either. It was about the thickness of a bowl. There were some stone chips scattered around the hole.

The rest of the stone tower was covered with moss, except for the area around the cave entrance, which showed that this hole only appeared recently.

If you look closely, you will see that new moss has begun to grow where the moss is missing, but it is very thin and not as dense as the surrounding moss.

"Sir, what happened?" Gao Zhan shouted from below.

"There is a hole in the tower." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Gao Zhan's expression changed drastically when he heard this, he ran a few steps quickly and jumped up. The stone tower was very high, so it was difficult for him to reach it in one leap. And since he only had the cultivation level of Shengxuan, his spiritual energy could not be released, and he could not penetrate the slippery moss like Wu Zhongyuan. Adsorbed to the stone wall, it only jumped out less than three feet before scratching and sliding down.

Wu Zhongyuan measured the size of the hole, which was less than twenty centimeters. Then he checked the inner wall of the hole and found that it was very smooth. It did not look like it was caused by an animal digging. You must know that there are only a few animals that are good at digging. They seem to have no body shape. So small.

In addition, this hole is located in the upper area of ​​the stone tower. The slope is very steep, and animals that are good at digging holes cannot climb up.

Gao Zhan slipped down even after rushing several times, and shouted anxiously from below, "Sir, are we late?"

Wu Zhongyuan did not answer, but just raised his hand to signal to calm down, and then concentrated on inspecting the situation near the entrance of the cave. There were a lot of stone chips scattered on the moss around the entrance of the cave, but many of these stone chips had already grown on The moss is inside, which also proves that this hole did not appear recently. Based on the recent growth of moss, it is estimated that it appeared at least a year ago.

Wu Zhongyuan couldn't think of any small animals that were good at digging holes. Even if there were, it would be wrong because there wasn't much moss missing around the entrance of the hole. There must be a place to stay when digging a hole, and it was impossible not to trample the surrounding areas. of moss.

Was it dug straight up and down? If you think about it carefully, no, no matter how good an animal is at digging holes, it is impossible to dig straight up and down in a small space of fifteen centimeters, because the soil cannot be discharged, and living creatures are no better than drills. All living creatures need to breathe and ventilate, straight up and down. The excavation stone chips will fall down and it will not be able to breathe.

Thinking of the drill bit, Wu Zhongyuan wondered whether the hole might have been caused by someone using a sharp instrument to penetrate it. However, this assumption seemed unreasonable, because if the hole was dug from top to bottom, stone chips would fall into the tomb. inside without falling apart on the outside.

"It would be nice if we didn't delay on the way." Gao Zhan regretted very much.

“This hole was not dug recently;

It's been at least a year. "Wu Zhongyuan said.

"No one knows how to get in except me. Could it be that the Demon King has been targeting me for a long time?" Gao Zhan guessed.

Wu Zhongyuan did not answer, but carefully recalled the details of last night in his mind. When Jiang Yuhan turned to look at him for the first time, Gao Zhan had not yet appeared, and at that time he had already noticed that Jiang Yuhan's eyes looked familiar, which meant that the Demon King had previously He didn't follow Gao Zhan, but went after him.

He was ready to leave the wine shop before Gao Zhan showed up. It was only when he saw Gao Zhan coming that he was not in a hurry to leave. The moment he saw Gao Zhan, his expression should have changed, and the Demon King noticed that he was looking at Gao Zhan wrong, and guessed that he might be looking for Gao Zhan, so he suddenly made a sudden move and rushed to Gao Zhan. Gao Zhan starts.

Thinking of this, he shook his head and said, "No, it was just an accident that it met you, not premeditated."

"If it hadn't targeted me before, how did it know who I was? And why did it want to kill me to silence me?" Gao Zhan wondered.

"As a demon king, there will always be some special abilities. It may not have known you before, or may not have even seen you. After meeting you, it discovered that you are a descendant of the wolf king, and it saw that I looked at you differently. Because I guess I may be looking for you." Wu Zhongyuan said casually.

"But how does it know what you want to do with me?" Gao Zhan was still confused.

Wu Zhongyuan was very pleased that Gao Zhan could ask such a question. Although this person's brain was slow to respond, he was very logical and could find unconventional details and raise questions. This was a good habit.

"As long as it can see that you are a descendant of the Wolf King, it can probably guess the purpose of me looking for you," Wu Zhongyuan said, "To say the least, even if it doesn't know what I'm looking for you for, as long as it's what I want to do, It’s definitely all bad for it, at least from its point of view.”

Although Wu Zhongyuan speaks the language of this time, he still sometimes has some modern language habits. This habit of adding suffixes is rarely used by people at this time. Gao Zhan's brain is not quick to respond, so it is easy to understand It will take longer.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't wait for it to answer. After speaking, he looked away and continued to observe the hole.

"If it's not the Demon King, then who can it be?" Gao Zhan looked up, "The hole doesn't seem to be big, and I don't know if the things inside are missing."

Gao Zhan's question was also Wu Zhongyuan's question. He concentrated on sensing and found that Dasha was already three hundred miles away. He would arrive in a short time. What was going on inside the tomb could only be seen after Dasha arrived and opened the tomb. Separate.

"Sir, how deep is the hole? Can you see what's inside?" Gao Zhan asked again.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head.

"I'll find a stick for you to use to inquire." Gao Zhan turned around and walked west.

"A stick will definitely not work. Is there a rope?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"No, I'll pull some vines." Gao Zhan said.

In fact, Wu Zhongyuan did not hear what Gao Zhan said because he was distracted. The reason why he was distracted was because Gao Zhan's previous words reminded him invisibly that there were no traces of excavation on the inner wall of the hole, and the stone The crumbs were scattered outside again. He had been wondering what went in before, but now it seemed that something probably came out. Based on the shape of the hole, a cylindrical stick was the most likely.

The Wolf King was one of the eighteen warriors who assisted the Golden Dragon, and was also the master of a certain psychic weapon. The nine yang psychic weapons were the Ox Dragon Mace, Leopard Dragon Axe, Cylindrical Staff, and Snake Dragon Hammer. , Lion-Dragon Rake, Turtle-Dragon Shield, Tiger-Dragon Pickaxe, Qiu-Dragon Halberd, Fish-Dragon Fork, other psychic weapons cannot leave such round holes when they break through rocks, only the Dragon Stick can.

The more I think about it, the more likely it is that the dragon stick rushes up from the ground with a strong impact, and the hole left behind is definitely larger than the dragon stick itself. The moss that grew on the damaged areas only lasted a year or two, and the time was right. He first returned two years ago, and it was after he returned that psychic weapons appeared everywhere. Traces, no one had seen them before.

The most likely possibility is that after his return, the eighteen psychic weapons were sensed and emerged from the ground one after another, reappearing in the world.

"Do you know what weapons your ancestors used?" Wu Zhongyuan asked loudly.

Gao Zhan was running towards Xishan when he heard Wu Zhongyuan shouting and turned around, "I don't know."

"What kind of weapons does your father use?" Wu Zhongyuan asked again. Although he didn't know why Gao Zhan's father lived here far away from the ethnic group, one thing is certain, that is, this man has long been an adult, and his understanding of his ancestors must be much better than he was at that time. There are more high levels of development in early childhood.

"My dad uses a stick." Gao Zhan shouted.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded.

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan stopped asking questions, Gao Zhan strode towards the west mountain, looking for vines in the mountain.

Spiritual energy is penetrating. Wu Zhongyuan was already a lilac cultivator at this time, and he could extend his spiritual energy to sense the situation under the stone. The thickness of the stone was about two feet, and there was nothing underneath.

After using his spiritual energy to wave away the surrounding moss, Wu Zhongyuan judged from the size of the stone that the holey bluestone weighed about three or four thousand kilograms, and Dasha could easily drag it if he had some strength.

After confirming that dragging out the bluestone would not cause the stone to collapse, Wu Zhongyuan left the stone tower and swept toward the Western Mountain. To drag several kilograms of bluestone, he needed a lot of tough rattan and bark.

While in mid-air, he suddenly remembered something. He turned around and landed due west of the stone pagoda. The cave where Gao Zhan lived should be where the mausoleum guardians lived. The stone road leading to the stone pagoda showed that the wolf tribe held sacrificial activities here in the early years. There may be an entrance to the stone tower on the west side.

Following the same method, he used spiritual energy to remove the large area of ​​moss attached to the lower area on the west side of the stone tower, but no stone gate was found. He then cleared away large areas of moss on the left and right, but still no stone gate was found.

If there is a stone gate, it must be at this location. If it is not here, it means there is not. After all, sacrifices do not have to go inside the mausoleum. In fact, normal sacrifices are performed outside the mausoleum. No descendant of any family will go to the ancestors. Burn paper on the grave.

If you can't find the stone door, you can only drag out the bluestone. The trees at this time are very tall, and you can easily get a lot of bark. The bark contains wood fibers and can bear loads.

Gao Zhan didn't know what Wu Zhongyuan was doing peeling off so much tree bark, and he asked confusedly. Wu Zhongyuan didn't bother to explain, and just said it was useful.

Not long after, Dasha arrived, but there were formations around the valley to protect it. Although Wu Zhongyuan pointed out the location to Dasha, it could not fall from the sky. Wu Zhongyuan had no choice but to use his spiritual consciousness to direct it to go down and up the creek.

Gao Zhan saw Dasha for the first time. Although he was very surprised, he was not very surprised because Wu Zhongyuan took Dasha to pick up the old blind man from Goat Valley that day. Gao Zhan heard about it from others afterwards. I know that Wu Zhongyuan has a very large dung beetle.

If you want to pull the bluestone, you must tie a rope with a tree trunk of a certain thickness and push it through the hole in the stone tower. After the tree trunk passes through the hole and pulls the rope, the tree trunk will come across and get stuck on the other side of the bluestone, but although the holes in the stone tower It's not small, but it's not very big either. You can't stuff it directly with bark, you have to rub the rope, which is a tricky thing.

In fact, Wu Zhongyuan could do it, but he was not in a good mood and refused to move. Although he had deduced that the hole was left when the dragon stick was born, the existence of the hole was very bad news for him. You must know that there is a lot of humidity here. The moist air will invade the inside of the stone tower along the holes, and moisture is the natural enemy of the murals. Not to mention whether there are murals inside is still in doubt. Even if there are, it should be in a mess by now. .

After working hard for half an hour, I was finally ready. When I tried it, the trunk of the tree that was stressed horizontally broke.

I changed to a tougher tree trunk and tried again, but the rope broke again and I had to rub it again.

If the person buried in the stone tower was not the Wolf King, Wu Zhongyuan would have ordered Dasha to knock the stone tower away. However, out of respect for the martyrs, Wu Zhongyuan patiently tried again, and this time he finally dragged the bluestone away from its original position.

With a gap for people to come in and out, Wu Zhongyuan ordered Dasha to stop, and instead climbed on the stone wall with his head down and his feet, using his two hind legs to support the displaced bluestone. The bluestone could not be pulled out completely. Otherwise it will be difficult to reset.

Wu Zhongyuan did not enter the stone tower alone, but returned to the ground and waved to Gaozhan, "Let's go in and take a look together..."

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