Chapter 21: Returning to the Treasure Cave

  Fu Chuan was indeed not mistaken, after the stone wall was blasted open, there really was a waterfall in front of him. Just as Fu Chuan wanted to jump down the waterfall, at this moment, a strange thing suddenly appeared behind Fu Chuan. What Fu Chuan found strange was not that the thing rushed towards him, but it didn't harm him.

  Fu Chuan was pressed down by that thing, which looked like a black gorilla but had the size of a human. Its eyes presented a red color, reminding Fu Chuan of the pair of eyes he saw earlier in the secret room. Its entire body was covered with red fur, and Fu Chuan's first reaction was "wild man".

  However, Fu Chuan was not sure if it would work, so after pinning Fu Chuan down, it kept staring at him and touching his body all over. Fu Chuan felt extremely embarrassed, so he punched it to the ground. He thought it would get angry, but it didn't. Instead, it jumped up from the ground and tried to pounce on Fu Chuan again. Feeling that he couldn't stay any longer, Fu Chuan shot at it, but the bullet missed its target and hit its shoulder instead. It was then that Fu Chuan jumped off the cliff into the waterfall.

  When Fu Chuan returned to the inn, it was already the second morning. Fu Chuan didn't know how long he had walked in the forest, but he clearly remembered that he had been walking in the direction of the inn all along. From the moment he woke up, Fu Chuan asked Xing Chengtian how he got back.

  Xing Chengtian said: "How did I get back myself, I don't even remember?"

  Fuhe nodded, but he had forgotten. At that time, in order to avoid being discovered, he walked in the dark part of the forest and dared not make any noise: "Is there any movement in the village?"

  Xing Chengtian shook his head and said, "Very calm, as if nothing had happened."

  This made Fu Chuan feel very strange, Xing Chengtian wouldn't deceive him, the Master knew he had deliberately slipped into the sacrificial altar, it was impossible not to investigate further, could it be that the Master was so confident that Fu Chuan would be in such a cave.

  Xing Chengtian said: "There's nothing going on in the village, but there is one thing that's very strange."

  Fujiang looked at Xing Chengtian, and Xing Chengtian paused for a moment before saying, "You'll know if you go down there and take a look."

  Fu Xiang was also seriously injured, and after being blown up in the cave, he suffered some internal injuries. When he returned, he spat out a mouthful of blood. Apart from his hands and feet being fractured, there were no other serious injuries.

  Fu Chuan went downstairs to take a look, and it turned out that Xing Chengtian wanted him to see the return of the dead. They had clearly seen the two people being disembowelled on the sacrificial platform in the village, but now they were sitting in the hall on the first floor, chatting and laughing with Xingchen and several other girls. However, when the two men saw Fu Chuan and Xing Chengtian walking over, their eyes revealed a fierce glow.

  Fu Xiang believed everything he saw and was convinced that these two people were already dead, and now the ones sitting in front of everyone were absolutely not human!

  Xing Chengtian and Fu Chuan walked over and sat down on a nearby sofa. Xing Chen was still a bit awkward when he saw Fu Chuan, but everyone tacitly understood the situation, so there was nothing to say. However, Xing Chen still thanked Fu Chuan for helping them find their classmate.

  Fu Chuan said casually, but the corner of his eye glanced at those two guys with lifeless eyes. As soon as Fu Chuan smelled that corpse smell, he knew what they were - just two revived corpses.

  Just as Fu Chuan stood up, the two of them also stood up. They looked at Fu Chuan, and naturally, he wouldn't be afraid. However, now he didn't want to take action because he wanted to know what these two corpses had come back for.

  After Fuhe and Xing Chengtian went upstairs, he gave some hair he got from the cave to Xing Chengtian. He must know whether the thing that pressed him in the cave was a wild man or not. It's curiosity that drives him to figure it out. Since childhood, his elders have talked about the Snow Mountain Wild Man and the Shen Nongjia Wild Man, so Fuhe has always wanted to see what a wild man looks like with his own eyes.

  Just as Xing Chengtian was studying the hair, Fu Chuan asked him for a pen and paper. He drew down the strange patterns he saw in the cave as much as possible. He knew that these patterns would be very helpful to them in their quest for truth.

  Xing Chengtian, although not equipped with precise instruments, is Asia's top archaeologist and zoologist, and has also dabbled in botany. He can guess what animal these hairs belong to just by looking at them with the naked eye. The hairs brought back by Fu Chuan are something Xing Chengtian has never seen before, and may even belong to an unknown species.

  When Fu Chuan brought the well-drawn patterns to Xing Chengtian, Xing's expression was as if he had discovered a new continent. He hastily asked Fu: "Where did you see these patterns?"

  "What's wrong?" Fu Chuan asked.

  Xing Chengtian told Fu Chuan that these patterns were actually words, a very ancient language. Fu Chuan asked which civilization or dynasty they belonged to, Xing Chengtian smiled and shook his head, saying: "They don't belong to any civilization."

  "What does it mean?" Fuchuan thought hard, was this a gift from the heavenly guests?

  Xing Chengtian looked at Fu Chuan and said, "Your family has been slaying demons and exorcising evil for a thousand years, you've seen all kinds of monsters and ghosts, but why is it that when it comes to you, you don't believe in the ancient legends and myths?"

  Fujiang didn't know what these words had to do with the ancient mythological legends. "Okay, if these words have something to do with the ancient myths, I can temporarily believe that those things in the mythological legends actually existed. Can you tell me now?"

  Xing Chengtian knew that if he couldn't convince Fu Chuan to believe him, he wouldn't believe himself in things he had never seen before. He said: "This text does not belong to any civilization, whether Western or Eastern, nor does it belong to humanity. Humanity is unable to create this kind of text. It's older and more precise than the Mayan script, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and China's oracle bones. It's a divine text."

  "The US government once found a stone monument carved with black diamonds in Tanzania, and the text was on it, but later this matter was banned by the US government."

  "Divine script?" Fuyuki thought hard, wondering if it was the strange creatures mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas that had written these characters. "Are you telling me to believe that these characters were written by those birds and beasts that only exist in murals?"

  "I'm not asking you to believe me, I just want you to know that just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it never existed."

  Xing Chengtian pointed at the patterns on the paper, "Take a look, these patterns are telling us a message, they will come back."

  "Back?" Fu Chuan didn't understand what Xing Chengtian meant by this, "What back? Who will be back?"

  "They, who once suddenly disappeared from the earth, will all come back." Xing Chengtian was not actually proficient in these characters, but on this piece of paper drawn by Fu Chuan, he could read out only this much.

  Xing Chengtian knew that things were not simple when he came here. "Why can't the old man's ghost be found all the time?"

  "Don't you think there's something wrong?"

  Fu Xiang also felt that there must be some problem, but now he just couldn't understand where the problem was. He said: "I simply can't figure out where the source is, I know that the most important thing now is to find the old man's ghost first, but where should I go to find it?"

  Xing Chengtian also felt at a loss, and even thought of giving up halfway. He said: "Isn't there his photo? You can summon his soul." Xing Chengtian had seen Fu Chuan summon souls before, that method should be quite effective.

  Fu Xiangbai looked at Xing Chengtian with a glance, and asked Xing Chengtian that day if he had not heard the ancestor of the Fu family say that there was no record of the ghost's report in the underworld, which means that the old man's ghost still does not know where it is wandering in the world. "I think that ghost should be controlled by something."

  "Everything here is eerie, you've also seen it, the people in the village are neither human nor ghost, and what we're experiencing now is resistance that doesn't want us to continue investigating."

  Fu Chuan's words calmed down Xing Chengtian's expression, having gone out to do things with Fu Chuan so many times before, never once was it as complicated as this time, not once like this time where one didn't know where to start investigating.

  Fuhe said: "I must first figure out what kind of power made the village become like this, and you must think of a way to find out where the scepter is now. I always feel that this matter has an enormous relationship with that scepter, as if everything was caused by that scepter."

  Xing Chengtian himself also agreed with Fu Chuan's words, but he was unclear what would happen next.

  After Fuhe recovered for two days, he felt that they should go back to the cave with Xing Chengtian to take a look at those characters again. Maybe Xing Chengtian could translate more information out of them, and maybe it would be helpful for their future investigation.

  Fuhe River let San Yang gather good mountain climbing tools and rope, ready to set off. Along the way, the three of them had lost their initial ease and comfort when they first came here, but were filled with worries.

  Fu Xiang's heart is filled with frustration because for so many days, this matter has not made any progress, and everywhere they turn, they hit a dead end, nothing goes smoothly. Xing Chengtian's bad mood is due to those unknown things being too elusive. San Yang doesn't speak up because neither Fu Xiang nor Xing Chengtian speaks, so he dares not speak either.

  Fu Chuan, relying on the memories of that night, brought Xing Chengtian and San Yang to the front of the waterfall. They spent half a day walking here, and Fu Chuan did not expect that the sacrificial platform would lead all the way to this distant place, crossing over a mountain. This waterfall is also magnificent, located in the primeval forest, covered by dense woods, and surrounded by towering mountains on all sides. It's a natural and hard-to-find location, making it an ideal place for hiding treasures. Moreover, the treasure cave was built inside the waterfall, making it almost impossible for anyone to think of climbing into the waterfall to find those treasures.

  After securing the rope, Fu Chuan told Xing Cheng about some situations in the Treasure Cave. Xing Cheng said: "If there are many German weapons inside as you said, it is very likely that the remnants of the GMD troops who fought here before left them or built this treasure cave."

  "Previously, GMD used German-made weapons."

  Fu Chuan asked Xing Chengtian why, in the war-torn China of that era, no one would possibly come to this place for adventure. Xing Chengtian thought for a moment before telling Fu Chuan, "Actually, regardless of the era, curiosity and a sense of adventure will always drive people to do extreme things. My mentor told me that during that period, there were also many adventurers in China; the title of adventurer doesn't only belong to foreigners."