These rocks cannot be broken open by brute force alone. The only way is to use the ancient method of breaking down city gates, applying pressure to only one point. This stone array is not as strong as a city gate, and even the city wall can be punctured, so what are these rocks worth?
But in ancient times, a battering ram was needed to break down the city gates. Where can I find one here?
People always come up with solutions, and sometimes things that seem to be of no use now are actually the most useful. The only thing left now is the wooden ox and horse, which seems to be the most needed now.
Yingchun and I went up and pushed it down slowly together. Fortunately, this special cart has a magical braking function. It can stop fully when going down the stone steps and then move slowly down. It is also on a single wheel, so going down the stone steps is not too difficult. Yingchun controlled the pushing and braking from the back, while I tried my best to block it from the front to ensure that the car would not slide down the stone steps due to loss of control.
In a few seconds, it was successfully delivered to the vicinity of the cave.
I sawed up a relatively thick tree trunk and cut the front into a cone. I also collected some vines and tied them to the wooden ox and horse to form a small siege vehicle. I then used my shoulder to support the rear end of the trunk, with the tip of the cone pointing at the pile of stones, and used running to push the wooden ox and horse, using my strong body as the support point.
With a loud bang!
The cone head of the siege vehicle rushed into the pile of stones, shaking the entire cave for a moment. The pile of stones began to scatter and fall. A faint scream was heard from inside the cave!
The force is mutual. After that collision, my entire shoulder was paralyzed for a long time.
"Sister! Is that you?" Yingchun shouted.
"Yingchun? Is that you? Were you talking outside just now?" A voice came from inside. The woman must have moved closer to the outside and spoke, so the voice was much clearer.
"Is it really you, sister! I didn't expect your ghost could still exist in there. Well, even if we are separated by the Yin and Yang, we sisters can still be together. Sister... I miss you so much." Yingchun said and started crying again.
"Silly girl, your sister is not dead. The Gu Eagle didn't eat me. I hid in the cave and it couldn't get in. I saved my life, but I didn't dare to go out, so I stayed inside." Song Bailu shouted in the cave.
When she shouted like this, the girls all cried for joy, and I also breathed a sigh of relief, glad for this result. I was even more glad that if Song Bailu was alive, then there must be a prescription and method to help Yunwen get rid of the rabies virus, so Yunwen would have more protection.
"Song Bailu, move aside first. I'll knock the stone away. We'll have a good chat after you come out." I shouted inside.
"Okay!" Song Bailu responded loudly.
The use of this method just now has affected the density of the stones. When I sprinted and hit them again, more stones fell and scattered, and the small hole that had been hit was getting bigger and bigger. Until the fifth time I hit it, this wall of stone piles collapsed completely.
Only the lower half remained, shining in the sunlight into the cave. We finally saw Song Bailu again after a few days. Her clothes were tattered, she had lost a lot of weight, her face was covered with dirt, and her eyes were squinted. It seemed that she had not seen the sunlight for several days.
She rushed out, hugged Yingchun tightly, then hugged Yunwen, then walked towards me, looked at me, and hugged me affectionately. I patted her back and said, "I'm glad you're okay."
Saving people is the most important thing, so I told Bai Lu about Yunwen's situation before the girls started chatting. After listening, she immediately understood the importance of the situation, and ordered us to enter the cave first, spread three layers of animal skins on the ground so that Yunwen could lie here. She asked me to take out the bronze horn cup, stir the fire in the cup for a while, and then use the principle of cupping to draw out the blood from Yunwen's wound.
Afterwards, she ran into the cave, took out a silver needle soon, lit a bonfire, roasted it with the fire, and immediately gave Yunwen acupuncture.
Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that the task was accomplished.
"This method is from the "Golden Mirror of Medicine", right? I seem to have seen that book before, and there seems to be such a passage." Yunwen said.
"That's right, it's Wu Qian's 'Golden Mirror of Medicine' from the Qing Dynasty. But before him, the medical saint Sun Simiao also mentioned something similar in his 'Thousand Golden Prescriptions'. This was a relatively effective way to deal with rabies virus in ancient times." Song Bailu said with a smile.
"In fact, the rabies virus is afraid of high temperatures. The high temperature of acupuncture has an inhibitory effect on it, right?" Yunwen said.
"You know a lot, but whether it is effective or not depends on whether you can survive these 37 days. If you can survive and wait until the 100th day, you will be completely fine. So during this period, I may have to give you acupuncture every day." Song Bailu said.
"Thank you." Yunwen said weakly.
"Sister, where did you get this silver needle?" Song Yingchun asked.
"If you look carefully inside this cave, you will know how we got here." Song Bailu said.
I was also curious. This silver needle was so rare, how could it appear by such a coincidence? It was like a dream, so I picked up the torch and looked around.
But I found that there was really a different world inside. The only place where we were standing was a piece of mud, and going up there was a luxurious staircase. Going up there, we entered a large bedroom. The floor inside was paved with that kind of material, which was extremely comfortable to walk on.
I remember that this should be paved with bricks fired in a kiln. I have seen similar ones. There was a kind of brick that was as expensive as gold in the Ming Dynasty. It was called gold brick. It was the brick used by the imperial palace. However, the craftsmanship here is far inferior, and the material is not as good either. In fact, compared with it, it is a bit shoddy. But the fact that it can appear in such a barren land has already shocked me.
There are a large number of bronze artifacts placed here, with a bronze tripod in the middle, and a number of bronze food and wine vessels on the wooden tables around it. On one side there are also extremely long chimes, which make me seem to be in that period of prosperity and peace, with the singing of the singing girls faintly ringing in my ears and the charming dancers in front of me.
I was confused about time and space for a moment, and I didn't know how much time had passed here. I could still smell the scent of certain spices, which made me even more addicted to it and unable to extricate myself.
But another sentence immediately popped up in my mind: This is a deserted island!
I woke up immediately, and suddenly thought of a contradictory period. I asked myself: "Why are there so many bronze artifacts from the Western Zhou Dynasty, but also craftsmanship that only appeared in the Ming Dynasty? Which period is this from?"
I'll ask Bai Lu these questions, after all, she is more knowledgeable than me. In addition, I have also found the answers to her questions. Why are there silver needles? The reason is that there is the breath of Ming Dynasty craftsmen here, which means that there must be objects that only existed in the Ming Dynasty. As for why they came, I can't explain it clearly now.
Yingchun also admired it for a long time. After we finished the tour, we went to the entrance of the cave to find Bailu and Yunwen.
"Have you found the answer?" Bai Lu smiled.
"There's a Ming Dynasty vibe here, is it related to this?" I asked.
She nodded and said, "Yes, according to what I have learned in the past few days, before we came to this island, before that group of overseas treasure hunters came here, there were earlier treasure hunters. They were probably the Ming Dynasty team that was secretly sent here to search for treasures. They also came for the treasures provided by the jade pendant, probably more than 500 years earlier."
"No wonder the aura of both the Ming and Western Zhou dynasties appears here at the same time. It seems that they have found all of them, but why don't they take them away? Is it because they are too heavy?" I asked.
"I don't know either. Let's slowly figure it out." Bai Lu said.
"By the way, Sister Bailu, what I'm more curious about is, how did you find this place and how did you hide from the Gu Eagle? And how did you manage to survive in the cave? After all, there was no food and the air was thin." Yunwen said.
I was also very curious, so I pricked up my ears to listen.