I said as I walked: "Enron, things are like this now, let's not compete with your wife for now, and wait until this matter is over to explain to her slowly." ”

"Hmm. So far, An Ran can only nod.

I had reached the end of the stairs as I spoke. Behind the staircase is a locked door, through which seven keyholes arranged according to the Big Dipper pass through the gap.

I stretched out my hand and pushed the door made of iron twice, and when I saw that the door did not move, I turned to Tao Siyu and asked, "Are you sure to open it?"

Tao Siyu looked at the keyhole with a flashlight for a long time before saying: "This is a seven-star lock, and it needs seven keys to cooperate at the same time to unlock the lock." I can try. ”

Tao Siyu pulled out a steel wire from her body as she spoke, and gently poked into one of the keyholes, and when she pulled the wire out again, the steel wire had already brought up a series of curved arcs. Tao Siyu took out another iron bar, and used a steel file to file a few times on the iron bar compared to the arc of the steel wire, and made the iron bar into a key.

Tao Siyu stood up after making seven keys in a row: "Help me twist the key." Listen to my command, be sure to twist seven keys at the same time, we only have one chance. ”

Ye Xun said in a deep voice: "What do you mean?"

Tao Siyu said: "Seven-star lock, also known as seven-star desperate lock. The spring in the lock cylinder is extremely tight, and it is difficult to open the lock with the force of the wrist alone, but if the whole body exerts force, it is easy for people to stick to the door. If we use a real key, it doesn't matter, if we don't open the door in the first place, we will touch the mechanism behind the door. Because we do it by sticking it to the door, the consequence of the activation of the mechanism is ......"

As Tao Siyu spoke, he gently made a head-killing gesture with his hand under his neck.

Ye Xun and An Ran were about to step forward between their eyes, but I reached out and stopped the two of them: "Tao Siyu, are you sure there are only seven keyholes on the door?"

Tao Siyu said unhappily: "What do you want to say?"

I pointed to the gate and said, "According to the ancient books, there are not seven but eight Big Dipper stars, and there is an auxiliary star near Kaiyang Star. Are you sure there's no eighth keyhole?"

Tao Siyu was about to check the keyhole, Ye Xun suddenly said: "The Big Dipper is nine. "Huang Laojing" records that the Beidou has a total of nine stars, seven are present and two hidden, in addition to the Tianfu star, there is also a Tianren star. You look for it again. ”

After Tao Siyu searched the gate again, he found another keyhole near Kaiyang: "It's eight keyholes, it doesn't seem that there is the ninth star that Ye Xun said." We're ready to do it. ”

Tao Siyu said: "Come, each person holds two keys, listen to my order, I say start, you turn the key in a clockwise direction, don't let go if you don't hear the sound of the machine spring collapsing, and you can't pull out the key casually, understand?"

Tao Siyu saw a few of us nodding, and then said loudly: "One...... Two...... Three...... Let's go!"

I had just twisted the key half a turn when I felt an opposite force coming from the keyhole, and I stuck the key and turned it in the opposite direction.

"Steady, don't let the key turn around. Tao Siyu exclaimed, grabbed the end of the iron bar with both hands at the same time, and stopped the key in its place.

The cultivation of people in the empty path is all on the fingers, and Tao Siyu can control the key with the strength of his fingers alone. A few of us can't, especially after sweating on our hands, and we can't even feel like we can't use our strength to pinch the rotating iron bar.

I first pressed my knees against the iron gate, half of my body tried to control the direction of the iron bar, and when I realized that I could not do anything, the whole person pressed against the iron door, and pushed out with my hand holding the iron bar.

When I turned my head to look at An Ran, his fingertips were already white, the cold sweat on his head was coming out layer by layer, but the key in his hand was still reversing in the opposite direction.

"Enron, hold on......" I had just shouted when I heard a crunch on the door—a cloud-shaped pattern not far from me suddenly fell to the ground, revealing the ninth keyhole hidden behind.

Oops!

There are indeed two hidden stars hidden on the seven-star desperate lock, and the keyhole in the ninth place is a mechanism itself, and only by twisting the first eight lock cylinders will it show its true face.

By the time the unknown thieves discovered the secret, it was too late, and the Seven Star Lock was activated at the same time, and no one had the ninth key, which meant that the mechanism inside the door would be activated immediately.

Without thinking about it, I let go of my hands, grabbed An Ran and Tao Siyu left and right, and threw them both behind me at the same time.

The moment the two of them were thrown away by me, my body couldn't help but lie on the door.

"Wang Huan-" Between Ye Xun and the three of them exclaiming in unison, there was also the sound of the mechanism exiting the gate in my ears. In an instant, I felt a dozen cold blades pop out around me, and one blade flew past me almost flat.

From the moment the blade of the knife was attached to my face, I knew that the next moment I would be nailed alive by dozens of sharp knives through my body. But I didn't have time to retreat, so I could only close my eyes and wait for the moment of death.

After a split second, I felt the tip of the knife pierce through my clothes and stab into my skin. What I didn't expect was that the tip of the knife retracted into the door with just one touch on me, and the door that I had held down opened inward.

When I stumbled and almost fell to the ground, I was dragged back from behind by Ye Xun. It wasn't until I saw the humanoid silhouette left on the nearly foot-thick gate that I felt a wave of fear in my heart.

The entire gate was completely covered by blades except for the place where I had blocked it, and if it weren't for the failure of the mechanism, I would have been a corpse full of holes by now.

Tao Siyu walked quickly to the door and knocked twice on the blade with a dagger: "I understand, the real key to this gate is people, only when someone lies on the door with a mortal heart, the door will open automatically, otherwise, even if we get the key, we won't be able to open this gate!"

"What did you say?" I will be skeptical of Tao Siyu's words. Is there still such a lock in the world?

When I shone my flashlight inside the door, I couldn't help but gasp. The space behind the gate is only more than ten square meters, except for the two bookshelves standing in the innermost, which is a stone stele.

The round-headed stele in the door reads: On the X day of the XX year, four people arrived here, and one person opened the door.

"Zhuge Liang?" When I looked at Ye Xun in shock, the other party nodded slightly: "It's Zhuge Liang's handwriting." ”

An Ran stammered: "This and this...... This is also too mysterious. Zhuge Liang even knows when we're coming?"

"Zhuge Liang has no last resort. "I said in a deep voice," "In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is recorded that Deng Ai led two thousand military horses to smuggle through Yinping, and when he was preparing to set out through the Sky Ridge, he saw a stone pillar next to the road, which was engraved with the words 'Prime Minister Zhuge Wuhou': The second fire is just rising, and someone is crossing this. The two men competed and soon died'. ”

"At the beginning of the second fire, some people say that it is the first year of Shu Yanxing, and some people say that it is the meaning of Sima Yan's rise, but no matter how you explain it, it makes sense. The two soldiers fought for merit, referring to the two generals Zhong Hui and Deng Ai who attacked Shu Han, and the two of them did die in Shu because of the merit. ”

I said in a deep voice, "In the past, I would not have believed these legends, but now, I am convinced. Zhuge Liang can not only calculate everything in the future, but even lay out the eternal. Didn't we just follow his arrangement step by step?"

As I was sighing, a few fine lines suddenly cracked on the stele, and the layers of stone skin attached to the stele fell to the ground, and a book similar to the vernacular appeared in my sight.

"If the public can sacrifice his life for righteousness, he will be a righteous person, so please ask for your help to eradicate the evil spirits. If you are willing to help, please take the left bag, if you don't want to, please take the right bag and leave according to the map mark. ”

"Although the trip to slay demons has a bright plan, it is still extremely dangerous, and it is not possible for those who put life and death aside. Please consider carefully. ”

I took a flashlight and shone it on the bookshelves on both sides of the stele, and sure enough, there was a bag there. Isn't this Zhuge Liang's usual "trick"?

This is another test left by Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang tried again and again, which shows that he is extremely cautious about slaying demons and eliminating demons, even if he has arranged it again and again, he still can't put his mind at ease, and the nearby organ city has left another test, and has repeatedly reminded us to consider carefully.

What he is afraid of is not that we will not enter the city, but that we will retreat at a critical moment, leaving endless disasters in the world.

An Ran pulled the corner of my clothes: "Brother Huan, we really want to ......"

"If you don't enter, you can't do it, even if it's not for the sake of your friends who are trapped inside, you have to find a way to bring in the torture hall. Lao Tzu has to get it back if he suffers a loss, and if he doesn't break the three teeth of the torture hall, Lao Tzu will not be surnamed Wang. Without hesitation, I stepped forward and picked up the bag on the left shelf, and as soon as the bag left its place, a secret compartment opened behind the bookshelf, and a wooden box came out.

Tao Siyu came over and tried it a few times, and only then did he take out the wooden box, and I also opened the bag, took out a secret letter from it, and read it at a glance.

An Ran was curious: "Brother Huan, what is written on it?"

I explained, "The general meaning is that there are three veins in the art of the world's organs. The Mohist organs are good at guarding, the public losing organs are good at attacking, and the Yanshi organs can seize the merit of heaven and earth, simulating all things with the art of the organs, and confusing the real with the false. ”

An Ran exclaimed, "Is the legend of Yanshi true?"

Before I could speak, Tao Siyu took the first step and said, "I have heard the legend of Yanshi. It is said that Mozi and Gongyizi were silent at the same time after hearing the legend of Yanshi, and they no longer fought for the false name of the world's first organ technique. ”

Ye Xun couldn't help but say: "Zhuge Liang mentioned Yanshi in the book, is it possible that the organ city is still related to Yanshi?"