Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 45 Bronze Eyeball
I was scolded bloody by Gu Meidi, so I quickly defended myself: "I didn't ask you to watch me pee, I've already finished peeing!"

Gu Meidi asked: "Then what do you want us to come and see?"

I said, "I've made some new discoveries behind the stele..."

This time, before I finished speaking, Gu Meidi and Professor Ye appeared beside me at the same time, and they looked at me earnestly: "What did you find?"

I pointed to the crack at the bottom of the stele and said, "Look here, there is a crack here!"

Gu Meidi covered his nose, frowned and said: "Uh, the smell of urine is so strong, Tuoba Gu, you must be on fire recently!"

I said: "Eating dry food and grilled fish on the boat all day, of course I will get angry!"

Gu Meidi looked at the crack and said, "Isn't it just a crack? It's normal!"

"No! No!" Professor Ye noticed the clue, and said, "The edge of this crack is very smooth, it should be chiseled out by humans!"

I nodded: "Your opinion is the same as mine. I am very surprised. After the ancient craftsmen built the stele, why did they chisel and leave a crack behind the stele? Could there be some mystery hidden in this crack?"

"Try it and you'll know!" Professor Ye took out the dagger from his pocket, and carefully inserted the dagger into the crack.After fiddling inside for a while, Professor Ye suddenly raised his head and said, "There seems to be something hidden in the stele! I think it's a bit hard, it might be a bronze vessel!"

Professor Ye was talking, when he heard a crisp clicking sound from inside the stele, Professor Ye's face suddenly changed: "Not good! There are organs inside!"

Gu Meidi and I were also shocked when we heard the words, and quickly fell to the ground.

However, the deadly mechanism did not appear, only a hollow square brick slowly slipped out from under the crack.

Our breathing stopped at once, and all of them stretched their necks and cast their eyes on the hollow square brick.What is hidden inside the hollow square brick?Since this thing is hidden so secretly, could it be a world-renowned treasure?Could the answers to all the mysteries be hidden inside the bricks?
We gathered together one after another, and Professor Ye reached out and took out something from the hollow square brick.

Yeah!

I saw that thing was cast in bronze, oval in appearance, about the size of a fist, with ancient patterns engraved on it.

We looked at this thing in amazement, this is... what is this thing?

"Eyeball! This is an eyeball!" Gu Meidi cried out.

That's right!The exterior styling of this thing is truly an eye-catcher!
Questions are like countless white doves, whizzing past our minds, leaving feathers flying all over the sky.

eyeball? !
Why eyeballs again? !

There are eyeball patterns appearing from the beginning to the end of this adventure trip. What do these eyeballs represent?
Why was this bronze cast eyeball buried at the bottom of the ancient tower?

What exactly are the bronze eyeballs used for?

How many secrets does it hide?

Too many questions entangle us, we seem to have fallen into a vast fog, and we can't find a way out.

Professor Ye was holding the bronze eyeball, with an excited look on his face, he could only hear him muttering to himself: "Finally found you! Finally found you!"

I looked at Professor Ye suspiciously, and I always felt that Professor Ye's words were a bit weird, but I couldn't say exactly what was weird.After thinking about it, it seems that there is nothing wrong with Professor Ye's words. Is it because I worry too much?This kind of thought was like a white horse passing through the gap, and it quickly flashed through my mind, and I didn't continue to think deeply.

At this time, Professor Ye had already put the bronze eyeballs into the backpack, and said to us happily: "Tuobagu, your performance is very good! In this way, we have another important clue! Well, we can now We're back the way we came!"

We packed our backpacks, walked on the plank road again, and walked all the way to the interlayer waterway of the ancient pagoda.

We changed the diving suit on the stone ladder. My shoulder was injured, and it was very inconvenient to change the diving suit. I had to ask Gu Meidi for help.Looking at my strong body, Gu Meidi couldn't help but blushed.Don't look at her usual fearless appearance, once it comes to matters between men and women, she is as shy as a little girl.

Seeing Gu Meidi's cute and shy appearance, I couldn't help but want to tease her. When her finger touched my skin, I pretended to be in pain and shouted: "Oh! It hurts! It hurts!"

Gu Meidi quickly stopped: "Are you okay? Did I hurt you?"

I nodded: "Easy! Lighten! Ouch!"

I originally wanted to use this method to arouse Gu Meidi's tenderness and pity, but I didn't expect that the little girl Gu Meidi was so irritable that she raised her hand to press my wound and said impatiently: "Dignified man, man, blind What are you yelling about? I'll let you feel the pain once, and you won't feel the pain again!"

"Ah—" I opened my mouth wide, unable to make a sound from the pain, I cursed in my heart: "Xiao Nizi, you are cruel!"

We put on oxygen masks and slowly sank into the water.

After a while, we came to the gate of the ancient pagoda, and we were a little apprehensive when we thought of the monster in the abyss.I don't know if that monster has left. If it is still wandering outside the ancient pagoda, wouldn't it be like a sheep getting caught by a tiger if we go out?After hesitating for a while, we found that there was not much oxygen in the oxygen tank. If we didn’t hurry up and surface, we were afraid that we would be suffocated in the water.Instead of being suffocated in the water, it is better to risk your life and fight, maybe there is still a glimmer of life.Thinking of this, we opened the gate of the ancient pagoda, got out quickly, and then swam towards the water without looking back.

Fortunately, that monster did not appear, and we naturally did not become a delicious meal for the monster.We managed to surface when the tanks were almost out of oxygen.We took off our oxygen masks and breathed in the moist air with great gulps.

The three of us, the master and the apprentice, looked at each other, with a smile of the rest of our lives naturally showing on our faces.

Professor Ye gasped and said, "Hurry up and get on the boat, you never know when that monster will emerge from the abyss again!"

We nodded, looked around on the water, and our hearts suddenly sank: "It's broken! Where's the boat? Where did our iron boat go?"

The surface of the water was empty and dark, and there was nothing but the heads of the three of us.

I suddenly felt an unprecedented panic, how can we leave here without a ship?Of course, what is more frightening than this is that there is no boat, which means that grandpa probably also had an accident. Could it be that grandpa and the iron boat were involved in the underwater abyss just like the tragedy that happened before?
My heart trembled crazily, and I felt deeply sad. Maybe when we entered the ancient tower and were lucky not to be swallowed by monsters, the grandfather on the water might have died, but we didn't know it.Thinking of this, I couldn't help but burst into tears.

Suddenly, a white light cut through the darkness, and a white halo enveloped us. An old and powerful voice floated from a distance: "Tuobagu, are you back?"

Hearing this old voice, the stone hanging in my heart fell instantly, and I happily responded loudly: "Grandpa! We are here! We are here!"

After a while, we heard the chug-chug sound of the engine, and the shadow of the iron boat gradually appeared in our sight.

Professor Ye and Gu Meidi climbed onto the deck first, and then they turned around and dragged me up.The three of us were like dried fish, lying on the deck panting, not wanting to move.Our nerves and physical state have been highly tense before, but now that we have returned safely, the tense nerves have relaxed, and we feel deeply sleepy and tired.

Grandpa came out from the cockpit: "Tuobagu, why are you so worthless, why were you crying just now?"

"I...I..." I scratched my head embarrassingly: "I thought Grandpa you...you..."

"You think I'm dead?" Grandpa laughed loudly and said, "Don't worry, your grandpa, I can't die! Didn't I say that my body is strong, how could I die so easily? But it was really dangerous just now , almost died!"

I was startled suddenly: "Almost died? Grandpa, what happened just now? Did you encounter that monster?"

Grandpa nodded, looked at the calm water and said thoughtfully: "That's not a monster, I think it looks like a legendary dragon!"

"Flood dragon?!" We opened our mouths in surprise, "That monster is... actually a dragon? No way, is there really such a creature as a dragon?"

The dragon is the most mysterious creature in Chinese myths and legends. It wears scales, has beards and horns on its head, and has five claws.The legendary Jiaolong is actually not a dragon, but a combination of Jiao and dragon, but the appearance and shape of Jiaolong are very similar to dragons.Jiaolong usually hides in rivers and deep lakes, and is regarded as a symbol of evil and bad luck.

I suddenly remembered the monster that I saw at the bottom of the water. Now that I think about it, its appearance is indeed very similar to the legendary dragon. Not only does it have horns, but it also has five claws. It is covered in scales and has a body like a snake.Thinking of this, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, my dear, the one chasing us just now turned out to be a flood dragon!
Grandpa said: "At first I didn't know what kind of monster it was. Maybe it was because of my bad luck. The monster didn't take the initiative to attack me, but circled around the iron boat. I could clearly see it through the circle of light from the searchlight. The outline of the black shadow was found to be very similar to the legendary dragon. At that time, I was holding a submachine gun in my hand, and cold sweat kept falling. I am very glad that I did not shoot rashly, and the dragon did not surface. , After turning around a few times, it slowly sank into the water. For the sake of safety, I dare not continue to park the boat in the middle of the pool, so I drove the iron boat to the shore of the Fishbone Temple, waiting for you to come back!"

Gu Meidi hugged his shoulders and said: "Grandpa, let's get out of here quickly, hearing what you said, I feel panicky in my heart!"

The iron boat chugs out of the cave, and I look back at the water surface shrouded in cold smoke, my heart can't calm down for a long time.

(End of this chapter)