Chapter 44 The Man in the Stone
.The moment I just discovered it, I thought it was my own shadow that moved, but the shadow did not follow me.
The three of us were like falling into an ice cave and watching the figure in the jade vein unable to stand.
"What's that?" I whispered.
"That's the genius." The fat man replied in the same tone and paused, "It seems... it seems to be a person?"
"How could it be a human? If it were a human, how did he get into this rock wall?" I said.
The fat man looked at me and asked tremblingly, "Have you ever heard of the legend of fish in stone?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a series of goose bumps appeared on me.
Fish in stone is a story that often appears in monster novels. It says that a complete rock is opened and it is hollow inside. Not only does it have a live fish in the water.
No one knows how the fish got into the stone, and no one knows how the fish survived. There is no food in the stone.
This phenomenon is often considered to be a miracle stone. Since there are fish that are not entered from outside, they are produced by the stone itself. Legend has it that eating this kind of stone fish can last forever, but some people say that they will die immediately after eating it.
The legend of fish in stone is very wide. There are also fat people who don’t seem to be fabricated. Now I suddenly mention it. Of course, I know what he means, but I really can’t believe that that statement can be used here.
"Impossible." I said.
"Since there can be fish in the stone, why can't there be people?"
I took a breath and looked at the figure in the stone and shook my head. "It's impossible that this must be just a shadow that looks like a human."
"You will know if you continue to splash. There is more than one thing written on the ground." said the fat man.
We immediately used the same trick again and quickly poured all four walls over water.
As all the rocks were soaked, I saw that the nearby rocks were so terrified that there were really human-shaped shadows in them, with various movements.
The inside of the cave wall seemed to be full of people.
It counted exactly the same as recorded on the ground.
"I've seen a ghost!" The fat man sat down again. "No wonder what the hell is going on with Secretary Lei?"
"Is it Kunlun fetus?" I remembered the saying that heaven and earth produce essence before. Could it be that this is a treasure cave jade transformed under some mysterious power?
The fat man shook his head: "Kunlun fetus is just a legend and it is said that they are all very large mountains. These shadows are weird in shape. I don't think they are good things and..." He looked at the shelf lying on the side with iron figurines "I might have made a mistake just now. Do you think the movements of these shadows are very similar to those iron figurines?"
I was so surprised that I couldn't speak. The fat man then turned pale and said, "I know this is very scary, but I suddenly thought of this possibility when I saw that the tools here are all cast iron tools."
I looked at the figures, "Are you saying that these iron figurines are not transport tools but are used to seal the shadows they dug out?"
"I'm afraid it's more than that." The fat man corrected. "These iron figurines are probably what they have processed. They may first drill holes on the rock wall and then pour iron paste into it to freeze the people inside and then smash it out."
I thought of the countless iron figurines I saw in the basement of the ancient building with goosebumps all over my body. If that is the case, how many such things would have to be dug out here? He smiled and said, "This is just our speculation."
The fat man's face was still pale, obviously he felt that his thoughts were scary and said, "In fact, there is a way to smash the stone now to see what the shadow inside is." He pointed to the mason hammer on the side.
I touched the rock wall in front of me, which was very thick and it was not so easy to crack. Suddenly I remembered the legend of the demon-suppressing legend in ancient times. Didn’t it always say that the gods like to keep monsters at the foot of the mountain?
**! Are these shadows monsters?
Wouldn't it be a death to release them like this?
I felt intense curiosity accompanied by that horror and shook my head: "In the past, the craftsmen used such a hard way to deal with these figures' true bodies, obviously, are very terrifying and ominous, and even very dangerous, but it's better not to move."
The fat man turned his head to the oil bottle when he heard me say this, as if he wanted to ask for his opinion.
The oil bottle stared at the shadows without answering him, but said to us: "We are the same as them... in fact."
Chapter completed!