Chapter 337: Mystery Crack

Chapter 337
I don't know if it was the moonlight or the angle problem. A strange pattern appeared on the ground.
The pointed end of the soldier's statue hat and the pointed end of his spear, the shadows left by the two entities on the ground slowly crossed.
This is almost impossible.
Junior high school students know that two parallel lines can never intersect. Even if the moon is shining, their shadows cannot intersect.
But at this moment, this counterintuitive thing happened.
After the two long and thin shadows intersect, they slowly extend, approaching from the ground to the small fountain waterfall ahead.
Zhou Yang looked up at the moon like a disc in the sky, marveling at it.
"What's going on?" Hu Meixuan was also confused.
Zhou Yang smiled slightly: "It's probably the handwriting left by the builder..."
"Be optimistic about the time and pay attention to the location of the intersection at twelve o'clock." Zhou Yang said.
As time passed, the intersection of the two shadows was still pushing forward, and when the watch was pointing at twelve o'clock, the intersection finally stopped.
Then, the intersection slowly retracted.
Zhou Yang and Hu Meixuan couldn't wait. They rushed directly into the pool under the fountain waterfall and ran towards the intersection just now.
The construction of Qianquan Palace utilizes the pressure difference of water itself, without any artificial pressurization structure.
There are more than 20 fountains squeezed together to form a waterfall. They are arranged side by side about three meters or five from the water surface of the pool. Because of the high pressure of the fountain, there is a water-free area about one meter wide behind the waterfall.
Zhou Yang and Hu Meixuan got into the back of the waterfall, looked up at the water pouring down from the top of their heads, and when they looked at each other, they both found it magical.
If there is no hint of the intersection, they really would not have thought that there is still room behind the waterfall.
In front of Zhou Yang was a hollow, inside was an iron door covered with moss, and a large lock hung on the door.
"This should be the entrance to clean the waterway." Zhou Yang said.
A large artificial water network must have a reserved passage for maintenance personnel to enter.
Although Qianquan Palace was built hundreds of years ago, it still retains this habit.
However, judging from the condition of the moss on the iron door, this passage should have been unused for a long time, and the lock nose of the iron door is somewhat rusty.
"No key." Hu Meixuan pulled the iron lock hard, but the latter didn't move.
"I'll try it!" Zhou Yang took a step forward and reached out to grab the iron lock.
"　You want to pull away?" Hu Meixuan's eyes widened, it is almost impossible.
Zhou Yang shook his head and said, "Of course not, I don't have that much strength."
"Then what are you going to do?" Hu Meixuan wiped the drops of water on her forehead.
Zhou Yang didn't say a word, he lowered his head and fiddled with it a few more times, then firmly grasped the iron lock with both hands and twisted it suddenly.
"Boom!"
The rusty lock nose was instantly cracked with a gap.
"Crack!"
After a sore sound, the iron door opened.
A dark and humid smell rushed over his face, and the black holes inside seemed to lead to a frightening place.
Zhou Yang turned on the light of the mobile phone and took the lead in drilling into the tunnel.
Hu Meixuan pinched her nose and walked in, then turned her head and closed the door.
The 1.9-meter Zhou Yang bends all the way in the tunnel, walking extremely awkward.
Where the light reaches, there is a densely arranged masonry structure, plus a layer of fine and dense water drops.
There was a rumbling sound above his head, which was the momentum brought by the flow of water.
The two people walked for about ten meters, and the space was suddenly bright. They came to a fork in the road with a top height of more than 2.5 meters.
"Where should we go?" Hu Meixuan looked at the three branch holes in front of her with distress on her face.
Not to mention that they don't have a water network structure diagram of the Qianquan Palace. Even if they do, they are useless. After all, they don't know what the so-called "treasure" is, and they can't judge where they are.
"I guess... it's the right side!" Zhou Yang smiled slightly.
"How do you know?" Hu Meixuan asked.
Zhou Yang put the phone close to the wall, illuminating the pattern on it.
Hu Meixuan leaned over to take a closer look, frowned and said, "This is... ape?"
There are three branch caves, and on the right side of each cave is a sculpture of ape, but the three apes are in different shapes.
There are sitting, standing, and lying positions.
But the apes look the same-with a flat nose, a protruding forehead, and an iron chain tied around their neck.
Behind the apes are huge waves.
"What does the ape represent?" Hu Meixuan asked involuntarily looking at Zhou Yang's well-established appearance.
Zhou Yang smiled and said, "I don't expect the relief of supportlessness to appear in Daoli, which I didn't expect!"
"No support?" Hu Meixuan was still confused.
Zhou Yang nodded and said, "Yes, it was the water monster from the ancient Xia Kingdom, and later it was the water of Huai Shui!"
"Some people say that Wuzhiqi is the prototype of Sun Monkey. Look at the iron chain on its neck. It was put on Wuzhiqi in order to control Wuzhiqi and prevent it from causing chaos when Emperor Yu was controlling the water. There is too little cultural research in China, so I may not understand it. But in my opinion, this is already very obvious. Apes are 100% unsupported!"
"Let's talk about the three postures again." Zhou Yang pointed to the ape relief beside the cave entrance, "The middle one is the prone posture, and the left one is the standing posture. In fact, there is nothing special. Only the right posture, you look carefully..."
Hu Meixuan leaned closer and found that the placement of the two hands of the ape-relief on the right was a bit interesting.
The palm of the right hand is facing outwards and the fingers are pointing up.
The palm of the left hand is also facing outward, but the fingers are pointing down.
"I seriously suspect that we Xia people are among the craftsmen who built Qianquan Palace, otherwise it would be impossible to leave such meaningful Buddhist handprints." Zhou Yang said, "One hand is facing the sky, the other hand is facing the ground, and the palms are facing outwards at the same time... The Tathagata gives the fearless seal and the seal of wish!"
"What does that mean?" At this point, Hu Meixuan could only listen, and couldn't even put her mouth in it.
Although he has Xia Guo's ancestry and he has some researches on artworks, Xia Guo's cultural heritage is still a little bit worse after all, and now his eyes are completely blackened.
Zhou Yang sighed and said: "If you go back to our country of Xia, walk into a temple and see the gesture of the Tathagata like this, then you should kneel down and beg the Buddha for blessings, apply the fearless inca with your right hand and the left hand and wish seal. On behalf of the Buddha, the wishes of all beings can be realized."
"The monkey is a water monster in the Huai River, making waves, but it is engraved on the wall with the handprint of the Buddha in his hand..."
"We are here for the treasure. Now that we have seen these two handprints, there is no doubt." Zhou Yang touched the embossment with emotion, "Senior, thank you for your guidance."
This relief sculpture has a history of hundreds of years. It is a clue left by the craftsmen for future generations, but I don't know when someone will find it.
Zhou Yang took Hu Meixuan, who was still thinking, into the hole on the right.