Three days had passed.
Ghost Li who was waiting in Ghost King's stone chamber, his expression had already turned from the initial calm indifference to uneasiness and then to anxiety, and now his face was filled with irritation and impatience. To him, even though he had thought that this astrolabe was after all not an ordinary treasure, to comprehend its mystery required a long period of mental preparation but he had never thought that it would take as long as three days, and most importantly, although these three days had passed, Mr Ghost still did not seem to have any progress.
According to his original thoughts, when Mr Ghost first came into contact with the astrolabe, it triggered a change in the astrolabe, he should have some understanding of this treasure, after a few days of study, it would not be difficult to understand the mystery. Who knew that in these three days, he stayed beside Mr Ghost, only saw Mr Ghost turning this ancient celestial weapon over and over, not to mention memorising it, Ghost Li even felt that Mr Ghost should have memorised all the ancient characters on the small jade pieces that kept sliding in the middle of the astrolabe.
However, Mr Ghost was clearly in some kind of predicament, or it could be said, in comprehending this treasure, Mr Ghost had met with an extremely difficult problem, after a few days, there was no progress at all.
Ghost King's stone chamber, compared to the other stone chambers in the Majestic Fox Mountain cave, was naturally much more spacious and was divided into two parts, the larger one on the outside was where Ghost Li and Mr Ghost studied the astrolabe, the smaller one on the inside was naturally Ghost King's bedroom. Although Ghost King was not around but in these three days, Ghost Li and Mr Ghost did not step into the room, with their skills, not to mention three days and three nights, even if they did not sleep for ten days and ten nights, they could still hold on.
Just that the most unbearable part, was still the word 'waiting'.
For these three days, Ghost Li did not leave this stone chamber, Xiao Hui also stayed here but the monkey was restless, not moving for three days, Xiao Hui was suffocated. Right now Ghost Li and Mr Ghost were still staring at that astrolabe treasure, in these three days, they could not be bothered with Xiao Hui.
Xiao Hui scurried to and fro in this stone chamber, after these three days, it had long familiarised itself with every corner, right now it jumped onto Ghost King's big table, if it was any other day, no one in Ghost King sect would dare to do so but right now, the sky was high and the Emperor was far away, no one bothered about it.
Xiao Hui was bored to death, lying down on the large study table for a while and then getting up again, dancing with joy for a while and then lying down on all fours. In the end, it was too bored to be alone and could only awkwardly sit up again, scratching its head, making low [Zi Zi] sounds, looking around, trying to find some fun.
Although this stone chamber was spacious but it was not exaggeratedly big, so naturally, its eyes saw the inner room. Xiao Hui scratched its head, turned and looked at Ghost Li, Ghost Li's face was dark, some viciousness surfaced on his face, evidently he was in a bad mood and Mr Ghost was concentrating on that astrolabe in his hand which was emitting faint white gentle light, occasionally looked up, glanced at Ghost Li and then looked away again.
Both of them were clearly focused on the astrolabe, even if they had a little extra vigilance, they would at most look at each other, no one paid any attention to the monkey. Xiao Hui shrugged its shoulders, curled its lips, [Tsk tsk] grumbled twice, its tail wagged twice, turned its body, looked at the inner room for a while and then jumped down from the table, slowly walked over.
The furnishings in Ghost King's residence were not luxurious, instead it was very simple, showing that the owner of this place did not care about worldly luxuries. The outer room was like that, the inner room was also like that: A wooden bed, a round table, three round stools, four paintings hung on the surrounding stone walls, one was a freehand brushwork of mountains and rivers, pale ink with white margins, had an otherworldly feeling; the second was flowers and birds welcoming spring, birds flying on the flowers, full of spring; the third painting, was a crouching tiger among the trees, the artistic conception was different from the previous two, the tiger's aura was awe-inspiring, its power was biting cold, impressively had the intention of looking down on the world.
Xiao Hui naturally did not understand the artistic conception of paintings, what landscape, flowers and birds, in the monkey's eyes, it was no different from a white cloth, but the third crouching tiger painting, the tiger's aura was awe-inspiring, it was rather realistic, Xiao Hui was stunned for a moment but then reacted, bared its teeth and made a face at the tiger on the wall, a sound of spitting.
These three paintings were hung side by side on the inner room's stone wall, reflecting each other, although the artistic conception of the paintings was very different but looking at it, there was an indistinct harmony, forming its own pattern. And opposite to these three paintings, on the other side of the stone wall, there was only one painting.
The painting was not of mountains and rivers, not of flowers and birds but of a beautiful lady, this painting was a meticulous brushwork, extremely detailed, that beautiful lady from the rings and earrings, were all extremely realistic, not to mention the dignified and beautiful countenance, made people who looked at her involuntarily fall in love, it could be said to be a rare painting treasure in the world.
Just that in the human's eyes, the treasures in the painting, in the monkey's three eyes, naturally it would be greatly discounted. Xiao Hui looked at it without any expression of astonishment, after a few glances, it turned back to look at that tiger portrait. He didn't know what a good painting looked like in the eyes of a monkey. Perhaps it should be a painting of a few monkeys?
What exactly the monkey liked to draw, people naturally had no way of knowing but right now Xiao Hui was obviously most concerned about that painting of the crouching tiger in the jungle, its three eyes blinked and jumped to the bottom of the painting, lifting its head to look at the painting, that tiger in the painting was awe-inspiring, its skills were also not to be underestimated, the strokes were vigorous, there seemed to be a ferocious tiger breaking out of the painting, raising its head to the sky and letting out a long roar that could intimidate thousands of beasts.
Xiao Hui watched for a long time, suddenly turned and looked outside, Ghost Li and Mr Ghost's figures were already blocked by the stone wall, and after such a long time, there was still no movement outside, evidently no one had noticed Xiao Hui's movements.
The monkey turned back, scratched its head, the next moment, as if it had suddenly made up its mind, leapt up abruptly, leapt high up from the ground. These three paintings were originally hung on the stone walls, other than the walls, there were no tables or chairs that could be climbed, normally ordinary monkeys and beasts would not be able to reach them, just that Xiao Hui was not an ordinary monkey, with this leap, it actually reached the top of the painting, its claws lifted up and easily took down the painting.
Just that the painting was rather long, following Xiao Hui's fall, it could not stop itself and also made a sound, dropped onto the ground.
Although the sound was not loud but what kind of people were the two people outside, immediately it alarmed them, after a moment of silence, Ghost Li's voice was heard, with a puzzled tone he called out, "Xiao Hui?"
[Suo suo, suo suo …] following a strange sound of dragging the ground, under Ghost Li and Mr Ghost's gazes, the monkey ran out from Ghost King's stone chamber, at the same time its hand was holding a painting, the other half of the paper was scattered, dragged on the ground, dragged to Ghost Li.
Ghost Li and Mr Ghost were stunned for a moment.
Xiao Hui clutched the painting tightly in its hand, ran to Ghost Li, [Zi zi zi zi] incessantly called out, Ghost Li frowned, stretched out his hand to take the painting over, unfolded it to take a look, it was an exquisitely drawn picture of a crouching tiger in the jungle. He assessed it from top to bottom, looked at Xiao Hui, said, "What are you doing with this painting?"
Xiao Hui jumped up, danced with joy, its face full of excitement, both hands waved, either pointing at the tiger in the painting, or drawing a strange picture in the air, and then pointing to the north, extremely busy, Mr Ghost who was beside was dazzled, although he was extremely knowledgeable but towards this three-eyed monkey's monkey language, he did not understand anything, filled with questions, he could only turn and look at Ghost Li.
Who knew that Ghost Li's expression was also stunned, watching Xiao Hui's movements and the incessant cries, Ghost Li glanced at the painting again, hesitated for a moment, said, "You … don't tell me you feel that the thing in this painting is very similar to Da Huang and so want to bring this painting away and give it to Da Huang in the future?"
Xiao Hui immediately nodded repeatedly.
Although Ghost Li was not in a good mood but he still could not help but laugh, the tiger in the painting was indeed lifelike but its might was imposing, even if it was lying in the bushes, it was still awe-inspiring, how could it be compared to that big Bamboo Valley although its fur was bright but extremely lazy, gluttonous and sleepy big dog? Furthermore, no matter how Ghost Li looked, he really could not tell which part of this tiger was similar to Da Huang.
Seemed like the monkey's vision was really different from humans!
But after the laughter, Ghost Li also thought of Da Huang a thousand miles away, and that mountain peak that brought warmth in his memories, after a moment of silence, a faint smile appeared on his lips, his expression also turned much gentler, quietly said, "This painting belongs to Ghost King sect leader, it is not good to take it away now but don't worry, I will ask him for it for you later." Speaking, he gently rolled up the painting and placed it aside.
Mr Ghost could not help but ask, "Who is Da Huang?"
Ghost Li paused and then faintly glanced at Mr Ghost, said, "A dog."
Mr Ghost paused, could not speak for a moment and then coughed once, did not speak and turned his eyes back to the astrolabe. Ghost Li stroked Xiao Hui's head, quietly instructed it, it was nothing other than telling Xiao Hui not to run around and then turned his attention back to the astrolabe, after all in his heart, understanding the astrolabe was the most important thing right now.
Xiao Hui sat beside the two of them for a while and very quickly became bored again. Actually it was not the monkey's fault, anyone who stayed beside the two of them for three days and three nights only to see them doing the same thing would also be annoyed, not to mention the monkey who was naturally active.
At this moment, Mr Ghost seemed to have discovered something, suddenly pointed to those small moving pieces of jade in the middle of the plate and said, "I think the crux of this treasure, is on these continuously sliding pieces of jade."
Ghost Li slowly nodded, clearly agreed with this view but then his brows slightly frowned, said, "But we have watched for three days and still could not figure out why these pieces of jade can move on their own, not sure what is mister's opinion?"
Mr Ghost pondered for a moment, said, "Do you feel, the trajectory of these pieces of jade, is similar to the movement of the stars in the firmament?"
Ghost Li's body shook and then stared intently at the astrolabe, after a long while clapped his hands and said, "It indeed makes some sense."
Mr Ghost said, "Actually I also do not have much confidence but it feels so, just that even though these pieces of jade are moving like the stars in the firmament but there are still many undeciphered mysteries, I think, if we want to understand this treasure, the crux is on the ancient characters on these pieces of jade."
Ghost Li slowly nodded. Both of them continued to converse, asking and answering each other, very soon they were again immersed in this astrolabe treasure, Xiao Hui sat for a long while and then turned to leave.
In the stone chamber, Ghost Li and Mr Ghost's soft whispers were heard, Xiao Hui looked around for a moment, in its boredom, quietly walked into the inner chamber again.
There were some marks on the stone wall where the painting had just been pulled off. There was a slight difference in color from the surrounding stone walls. It seemed that this painting had been hanging there for some time. Just that in this inner chamber, other than the four paintings, there was only the wooden bed, table and chairs, there was nothing else interesting. Xiao Hui touched here and there, not long after, it became bored again.
Just when it was really bored to the extreme, suddenly the monkey's three eyes suddenly lit up, as if it had discovered something, and then with a leap, its entire body suddenly jumped onto Ghost King's wooden bed, not caring if it dirtied the bedding, it actually started to roll and toss about on it. Although the furnishings in the stone chamber were simple but it was very clean, most likely Ghost King was also a person who liked cleanliness, if he came back and saw this scene, would he be seething with anger.
But right now Xiao Hui did not care so much, anyway there was no one to care about it, it was minding its own business on the bed, jumping and jumping, suddenly it seemed to have bumped into something at a corner of the bed, the entire bed suddenly vibrated.
Following which, on the stone wall that the bed was leaning against, a large crack quietly split open and then slowly and soundlessly retreated to both sides, revealing a large hole that allowed one person to enter and exit.
Xiao Hui had already felt something the moment the bed shook and jumped down, crouched on the ground and watched in bewilderment, until it saw a secret door quietly revealed on the stone wall. The monkey slowly stood up, glanced into the secret door but it was pitch black inside, nothing could be seen but there were no ferocious monsters running out. And that mysterious black hole, right now it seemed to have some enticement to the bored monkey, seemed to be gently waving to it.
Xiao Hui scratched its head, turned and glanced behind, in the stone chamber outside, Ghost Li and Mr Ghost were again in silence, seemed like it was going to be another long period of meditation. The monkey turned around, suddenly grinned, made a funny face and then lightly leapt up, into that black hole, in a short while, its figure disappeared into the darkness.
A faint gust of wind, gently blew out from that mysterious black hole on the stone wall.
It carried with it a faint smell of blood!
Once it entered the secret door, Xiao Hui's third eye in the middle of its forehead flashed with a faint golden light, emitting a strange light, under this faint golden light, the dark cave could be vaguely seen clearly.
The tunnel that could only accommodate a person's height, it was not very smooth for a person to walk on but to a monkey, it was more than enough. Xiao Hui with a sense of adventure and excitement, walked for a while in this tunnel and then felt the ground under its feet suddenly sank, this tunnel turned downwards.
The stone walls on both sides of the tunnel, as it went deeper, it gradually became damp, at some places, there were even water droplets gently dripping down in the darkness. In the extremely quiet passageway, only the monkey's figure was slowly moving forward. In the darkness ahead, there would occasionally be a light breeze that carried a strange and faint smell of blood.
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