genius divination

Chapter 464 The Mystery of the Cave
Fan Jiannan and Zhang Qiulie began to search in the library, but the bookshelves here seemed to be very clean.It seems that because the service staff often wipe and tidy up, some books do take up a lot of dust, but the bookshelves are very clean.The two searched around, but were a little helpless.

Fan Jiannan thought for a while, then suddenly squatted down, and drew a simple circle on the ground with his fingers.After drawing a few more lines on this circle, he thought for a while and said, "Southeast, behind us and to the right, about twelve paces away."

Zhang Qiulie quickly walked over according to the direction he had calculated, and found that there was indeed a bookshelf there.But this bookshelf was placed against the wall, Fan Jiannan walked to that bookshelf, pushed it with his hand, and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Qiulie looked at him and said, "This bookshelf also looks very ordinary."

Fan Jiannan shook his head and said, "This bookshelf is not ordinary. Because it is different from other bookshelves, there are no pulleys installed underneath. In other words, it is fixed here."

"So what?" Zhang Qiulie rummaged through the bookshelves casually, and frowned, "They are all ordinary books, and they are a bit unpopular. I think few people will read these books, right?"

Fan Jiannan also carefully looked at the books on the bookshelf, feeling a little disappointed. "Is it just a coincidence? Because this bookshelf is fixed, there is such a gap in the magic circle that trapped me that day?"

"It should be like this?" Zhang Qiulie put the book back in his hand.

Fan Jiannan shook his head and said, "I always feel that something is wrong. Judging from the style and workmanship, the bookshelves here should all be made or purchased together. Why are there no pulleys installed under the other bookshelves? The purpose is to make the bookshelf move, and the lack of pulleys may be someone does not want the bookshelf to be moved."

"I don't understand, even if someone doesn't want the bookshelf to be moved, it has nothing to do with our search for the Yin items?" Zhang Qiulie frowned.

Fan Jiannan thought for a while and didn't speak, but turned to the side of the bookshelf, beckoned to Zhang Qiulie and said, "Come on, let's do a favor and try to move this bookshelf away."

Zhang Qiulie nodded, walked to his side, and the two of them pushed the heavy bookshelf hard together.The bookshelf is made of good wood, it looks very heavy, and with a bookcase full of books, the weight is indeed not light.But even so, the strength of two adults is enough to push this bookshelf.

The bottom of the bookshelf made an unpleasant rubbing sound, and was slowly moved away a little.

"Don't move!" Fan Jiannan suddenly whispered.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Qiulie stopped what he was doing and looked back at Fan Jiannan.

Fan Jiannan squatted down and looked at him, then waved to him and said, "Look, the underside of the bookshelf has been tampered with. Here, there are traces here. This bookshelf was artificially fixed on the floor. The person who made this Carefully, he first managed to remove the rollers under the bookcase, and then applied some kind of high-strength glue to the floor, so that the bookcase was fixed to the ground."

After looking at it, Zhang Qiulie nodded and said, "Sure enough, this glue seems to have been aged for a long time, so it has aged. Otherwise, we may have difficulty pushing it."

"No matter who did it, he did it for one purpose, to make the bookshelf not easy to move." Fan Jiannan said with a twinkle in his eyes, "There must be some mystery behind the bookshelf. Come on, let's work harder and move this bookshelf away. See what's behind you."

Fan Jiannan and Zhang Qiulie struggled to move the bookshelf away, only to find that there was a big hole behind the immovable bookshelf.

The hole looked only half the height of a person, and it was dark inside, and nothing could be seen clearly.

Fan Jiannan and Zhang Qiulie looked at each other in disbelief.

Fan Jiannan took out the lighter casually, lit it and took a look inside, then turned his head to look at Zhang Qiulie and said, "Which one of us will go in first?"

"You have a lighter, you go first." Zhang Qiulie said.

Fan Jiannan nodded, and bent down into the hole, which was very low and smelled stale and musty.It looked like someone had dug a tunnel just enough to accommodate his body.This small tunnel is about seven or eight feet long, and inside is a small hole, at most only seven or eight meters square.But in this hole, people can straighten their backs, and there are a few tattered quilts scattered on the ground, there are two buckets, and digging tools are piled up in a mess on the ground.

Fan Jiannan went in first, and Zhang Qiulie followed him. He looked in the cave and said, "The direction of the cave entrance should be the location of the rock wall. It seems that this was dug by a prisoner here, and he seems to be planning to escape."

Fan Jiannan looked around and smiled wryly, "It's a pity that he couldn't escape. Because he couldn't dig the rock wall at all, and the groundwater is also a problem. The hole was almost submerged for a small part, and it was impossible to dig any more. ...looks like it's been here for at least five or sixty years. Look at the tools, they're pretty much moth-eaten."

Zhang Qiulie sighed, "Yeah, it looks like the person who dug this hole couldn't leave until he died. I don't know if we will be like him."

Fan Jiannan carefully inspected the cave, and said with a frown, "This man is still very careful. Drinking water is prepared here, and this quilt seems to be prepared on purpose by him. I think he must have had fantasies at the beginning, and wanted to be in the cave. to hide for a while. Wait until the council thinks he's escaped before digging. That's why there are quilts and buckets here."

Zhang Qiulie smiled wryly, "But he still couldn't go out. He seemed to be too hungry to dig any more, so he was forced to come back. Didn't you see, there is no food here."

Fan Jiannan turned around, shook his head and said, "No, he didn't go out." He squatted down, brushed away the rotten lint on the ground with his feet, and sighed, "He died here."

A section of white skeleton was exposed in the torn cotton wool on the ground. It was obvious that the prisoner died here in the end.Maybe even if he died, he didn't want to die in a room on the seventh floor of the basement.Human yearning and persistence for freedom can only be fully reflected in prison.

Zhang Qiulie was silent for a while and said, "Let's go, this place makes me very uncomfortable."

Fan Jiannan sighed, "However, he is a senior in the art world, and he must not be allowed to die here. Do you want to inform the council to clean up his corpse?"

Zhang Qiulie said with some seriousness, "No need, if I were him, I'd rather die here than in that comfortable-looking room. It might be a relief for him to die here."

Fan Jiannan nodded silently.

The lighter in Fan Jiannan's hand was not an oil lamp after all, and it became hot after burning for a while.Anyway, the hole was not far from the outside, so Fan Jiannan extinguished the lighter.

But just as he extinguished the lighter, there was a flash of light in the torn quilt.

Fan Jiannan was slightly taken aback, then suddenly turned on the lighter again, frowned and said, "Something's not quite right."

"What?" Zhang Qiulie who was about to go out turned his head and asked.

"When I turned off the lighter just now, there seemed to be fluorescence in the quilt." Fan Jiannan said in a deep voice.

Zhang Qiulie frowned, "Fluorescence? Maybe it's the phosphorous fire emanating from his corpse, what's so strange about it."

"No, the phosphorous fire is floating, but the one just now was not. It seems to be something luminous." Fan Jiannan lowered his head and carefully examined the pile of torn quilts wrapped in the corpse. "Come and see, it's not phosphorus fire, it's this thing."

Zhang Qiulie leaned over, and under the faint light of the lighter, he saw clearly what Fan Jiannan said.It turned out to be mushrooms.A lot of mushrooms grew on the torn quilt that wrapped the corpse.Because this is a cave, but there is water in it, so many small mushrooms grew on the broken quilt.

Strangely, these white mushrooms can emit faint fluorescence.

Zhang Qiulie thought for a while and said, "This is a constant temperature environment, and there is plenty of water. After the corpse rots, there is enough organic matter. Besides, some fungi are suitable for growing in this environment, so it's not surprising. Torn quilts are also a factor, mushroom fungi get their nutrients by breaking down lignocellulose. Did you know that some edible fungi are grown on cottonseed husks?"

Fan Jiannan nodded and said, "I know. But think about what we are looking for this time? The most yin substance. And these mushrooms grow underground, have never seen sunlight, and grow on dead bodies .”

Zhang Qiulie was startled suddenly, and only then did he realize that he stared at some mushrooms excitedly and said, "That's right, no matter how you look at it, mushrooms are cold in nature. Even some mushrooms are only It grows after rain, but will wither at a very fast speed in the sun. It is said that some fungi will grow near dead bodies, such as coffin fungus, also known as blood ganoderma and counterpart fungus. It is a kind of fungus with medicinal properties, that is It grows in ancient tombs. And it is extremely cold by nature, it can be said to be the most yin thing."

Fan Jiannan said calmly, "This means that the cold substance we are looking for can be replaced by these mushrooms."

Zhang Qiulie murmured, "It's absolutely possible. And these things should be very effective. In terms of physical properties of metaphysics, they should be similar to the mercury and other things you want. Unexpectedly, this person was trapped on the seventh floor and died without being able to escape. Decades later, we have been left with such an opportunity. Could it be that there is really a number of days in the dark?"

Fan Jiannan sighed and said, "Anyway, we finally found the most yin thing in the seven underground floors by mistake." He squatted down, because he was afraid that these mushrooms would be poisonous, so he didn't dare to do it directly pick.Instead, he took off the clothes on his body, wrapped his hands around and wiped off a dozen of them.Guessing that the number should be about the same, he wrapped the mushrooms in clothes and left the cave.

After the two came out, they pushed the bookshelf back.Zhang Qiulie turned his head and said silently, "I have no intention of disturbing Your Excellency's long sleep, but if I can get out of trouble this time, I, Zhang Qiulie, will set up a monument for Your Excellency for the rest of my life, and incense will continue throughout the year."

Fan Jiannan glanced at him and said, "We'd better wait until we really go out before saying this." The two left the library together carrying the clothes wrapped in mushrooms.

(End of this chapter)