"Let's talk about it first, if you still want to find your father, I advise you to dispel this idea as soon as possible, and I won't let you get your wish. ”

Liu Ruyan listened to Peony's words, but was noncommittal, but looked at the half-opened stone door in front of her and pondered.

Lu Tao didn't want to wait here any longer, he glanced at the three people behind him: "Then let's go in, I'm in front, watch your step." ”

Seeing that Peony Liu Ruyan and Xiao Tao both nodded, Lu Tao also nodded and took the lead in walking.

After the stone gate, it was no longer the same passage as before, Lu Tao looked left and right, but found that according to the light in his hand, he couldn't see anything nearby at all, and this place was much bigger than Lu Tao imagined.

Peony stepped forward and side by side with Lu Tao, also looked around, and said to Lu Tao: "Look for it, there should be torches in such a big place." ”

Lu Tao nodded, walked towards the walls on both sides of the stone gate, and quickly found what he was looking for.

Throwing the fire fold in his hand into a deep groove lying across the wall above, with a "boom", a ball of fire burst out from the deep groove, and then, a line of fire began to burn along the wall, and in the middle, it was divided into two, like two fire dragons half wrapped around and burning all the way.

When the firelight filled the entire originally black hollow, Lu Tao finally saw the layout of this place clearly.

Peony sighed in disappointment: "This place was really taken first." ”

This is a hall, the area is not small, but it looks quite messy, the paintings hanging on the wall, torn and falling to the ground, covered with a layer of dust, become unable to see the color below, those wooden shelves, all destroyed, even the bottles and cans on the ground that I don't know what to do, are also smashed to the ground, those fragments fall to the ground, like bread crumbs on fried chicken fillets.

Lu Tao swallowed his saliva and continued to observe this large space, in comparison, the height of this hall is not high, think about it, this place is not far underground, even if the long corridor just now made the position of a few people drop a little, but it did not drop much.

Lu Tao was observing the surrounding environment, Peony and Liu Ruyan were not idle, they had already gone in different directions, as if they wanted to find something useful from this large area of ruins.

Pouting, Lu Tao really didn't believe that he could find anything useful here, there wasn't even a tattered one here.

Lu Tao walked straight forward, put the dog aside, and picked up a painting that could no longer be seen clearly.

The paintings were not painted on paper but on a thick canvas, so that even though I don't know how much time had passed, the paintings were only covered in a thick layer of dust and not reduced to a pile of debris. The edges of those cracked parts are smooth and neat, and you don't need to look at Lu Tao to know that these incisions are all drawn with sharp weapons.

The painting should be a portrait, and Lu Tao shook the dust on it.

"Ahem......"

Covering his mouth and coughing a few times, Lu Tao waited until the diffuse dust cleared before Lu Tao could see clearly what was painted on it, but he frowned with some surprise.

He originally thought that these paintings should be painted with people from the royal family, such as the emperors of the Great Qin Dynasty and the like, after all, this place is underground, and the people who built the secret passage here, as well as the people who built the secret passage before, can't escape the royal family no matter what, but now that it looks like this, it doesn't seem to be the case at all.

The painting is a Taoist priest, and Lu Tao doesn't know if there are Taoist priests in this world, but he really saw a Taoist priest in the painting.

The young Taoist was dressed in green clothes, with his hair in a bun on the top of his head, one hand behind his back, and the other hand holding a shining long sword pointing at the painting, and there seemed to be a hint of coldness in his eyes.

Lu Tao looked at it for a while, and admired the painter who painted this painting, who was able to draw people to the point where he could almost jump out of the picture, and it was also admirable.

Picking up a few paintings on the ground again, Lu Tao found that these paintings were all painted by the young Taoist, but the posture was different, and the eyes and expressions were also different, Lu Tao couldn't help but shudder, this can't be the underground palace built by an emperor for his "beloved", right?!

"Lu Tao, did you find anything?" Peony circled half of the side and returned to Lu Tao's side.

Lu Tao shook his head: "I didn't find anything, what about you?"

Peony looked up at Liu Ruyan and Xiao Tao, who were still rummaging on the ground: "There is nothing here, it's all rags, someone took the lead and took all the valuable things." ”

Lu Tao shook his head: "It seems that I didn't find what I wanted this time." ”

Throwing the last painting in his hand aside, Lu Tao didn't plan to explore the identity of the Taoist who appeared on the painting, but Peony picked up the painting that Lu Tao threw on the ground with some curiosity: "This person is so strangely dressed?"

Lu Tao was stunned: "You haven't seen anyone dressed like this?"

"No, especially the piece on his head, is it any use?" asked Peony curiously.

Lu Tao shook his head and did not answer Peony's question, but beckoned to Liu Ruyan and Xiao Tao, who also ran back with nothing: "Can you help me take a look, have you ever seen someone dressed like this?"

Liu Ruyan took the painting handed over by Lu Tao and looked at it twice: "Hmm...... I have the impression that, if I'm not mistaken, some of the original barbarians in the northern kingdom like to dress up like this. ”

"Cut!" Peony cut off: "Don't brag if you don't know, okay? Those barbarians have already died, how do you know? And you don't want to think about it, with the appearance and size of the barbarians, they can have such momentum? At that time, they were all wearing animal skins! Just like wild beasts!"

After speaking, Peony also pursed her lips to express her disdain.

Liu Ruyan didn't say anything, but Xiao Tao behind her didn't want to: "Who said that! I've seen barbarians dressed like this! And there are quite a few! They didn't die! They just hid in the mountains! You don't know, do you? That's your loneliness!"

Peony snorted, as if he didn't want to say anything more to Xiao Tao, but Lu Tao fell into deep thought, how can you look at this and make sense?

He had heard Liu Ruyan say that those barbarians lived on the highlands and snowfields, and the cruel environment all year round made each of them tall and big, and even the people of Daqin and Dayue in the Central Plains were not the opponents of these barbarians one-on-one. Look at the people in the painting again, a Pianpian Taoist always can't run, but Xiao Tao's appearance seems to have really seen a barbarian, which makes Lu Tao a little smacked, he really didn't understand what went wrong.

Seeing that Lu Tao was deep in thought, Liu Ruyan didn't explain anymore, but Peony couldn't wait: "Okay, let's go back, there's nothing here, and it's a waste of time to stay here any longer." ”

Lu Tao came back to his senses and nodded, it was indeed a waste of time here.

The four of them walked out, whether it was Lu Tao, Peony, Liu Ruyan and Xiao Tao, they didn't speak, it was really a few people who were originally full of hope to find something, and they also wanted to see if they could be embellished with the emperor of the Great Qin Empire, but unfortunately they didn't find anything, only found a big empty house.

Lu Tao looked back and looked again, and suddenly frowned: "I always feel that something is wrong there." ”

Hearing Lu Tao's words, several people stopped their pace, and Peony asked, "What's wrong?"

Lu Tao shook his head, walked back to the previous paintings, and then pointed to a pillar protruding from the wall and the sculpture on the pillar: "Can anyone tell me what these pillars do? Also, there is obviously one less here, and it is too conspicuous, right?"

Peony glanced at it: "Maybe it was the people who destroyed this place in the first place...... No, why do I look so familiar with this thing?"

Lu Tao nodded: "It's familiar." ”

As he spoke, he took something out of his bosom and compared it with the sculptures, and found that they were almost the same size.

The wooden lion cub is carved vividly, except that the material is different from those stone sculptures, there is basically no difference, Lu Tao didn't think about it, put the wooden lion cub in the blank space, and then took a step back: "This is just right, don't you say?"

As soon as Lu Tao's words fell, a dull roar sounded from the surroundings, and then, no less than another "earthquake" encountered by Lu Tao today, a vibration of the same size came from all directions, and from the top of his head, dust and broken gravel began to fall, smashing on the ground and making a "ding dong dong" sound, and soon they were connected.

Under the stone pillar where the little lion was placed, a downward hole slowly opened, Lu Tao didn't care about where this hole leads, turned around and shouted: "Hurry up! Go down first!"

Liu Ruyan and Peony didn't care about what they said, they jumped down one after another, and when the three of them jumped into the hole below, Lu Tao grabbed the wooden lion cub and prepared to jump down after him.

"Hey, I don't want to be buried alive, help!!"

Hearing this voice, Lu Tao suddenly remembered that he had forgotten that there was a dog outside, as soon as he reached out and grabbed it in his hand, Lu Tao jumped directly down, and the next moment he just jumped into the hole, a heavy stone slab fell from the sky, "bang" The entrance was sealed with a thud, and then the tremors grew stronger and stronger, and the stone slab was like the last straw, and the stone slabs and stones kept falling overhead, and soon the whole hall was buried cleanly, leaving no gaps, and even so, the rumbling sound was still loud, and I don't know where it continued to collapse.