Hearing the shouts of the hundred mile crocodile, everyone hurriedly gathered around the boat. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"What did you find?"

The Baili cat squatted on the edge of the boat and asked the Baili crocodile who was soaking in the water.

After a rough gasp twice, the crocodile replied, "I think I should have found the location of that underground tunnel!"

"Really, where is it, take us there!" said the cat, and the cats jumped into the water.

Baili crocodile stretched out his hand and grabbed him, and said, "Don't worry, I'll tell you first." ”

At this time, the other eight people had already gathered around, and seeing that everyone had arrived, Baili Crocodile explained:

"The situation down there is a bit peculiar, although I found the location of the tunnel, we still can't get in, maybe we have to go back this time. ”

Everyone was stunned, and then Baili Crocodile beckoned: "I'll take you to see, you can understand what I mean." ”

When everyone heard this, they jumped into the water one after another, and Zishang saw that Feng Ziye was going to go down, so he hurriedly grabbed him and persuaded: "Old Feng, don't go, the water is cold this day, I'm afraid it will freeze your body." ”

Feng Ziye stared at him, and said unhappily: "What's the matter!, I've just reached the age of ear shun, and I have the physical fitness at the peak of body refining, how can this cold water recruit me?"

After saying that, he shook off the hand that the merchant was holding him, jumped into the water with them, and dived to the bottom.

Seeing that Feng Ziye was so unconvinced, Zishang was a little speechless for a while.

Yes, Feng Ziye has been in the half-step Qi Refining Realm for many years, although his physical condition is said to be the peak of body refining, but with the washing of decades, how can his physical fitness be compared to that year?

Although the life expectancy of civilians in the Dahao Dynasty was longer than that in the last years of the Shang Dynasty, the average life expectancy was only more than 60, less than 70 years old.

Although Qi Refining Realm martial artists can live many years longer than ordinary people, they can't reach the threshold of one hundred and fifty years old, and even the vast majority of those who can maintain health will only die at the age of one hundred and twenty or thirty.

Therefore, after the age of sixty, a martial artist like Feng Ziye, who has been unable to truly step into the Qi Refining Realm for a long time, has gradually aged in his physique.

It's like little fresh meat and old bacon, although Feng Ziye's old bacon can withstand the general bumps and bites without being injured, but their muscles and skin have gradually stiffened.

Unlike small fresh meat like Zishang, their skin and muscles contain a lot of active elements, and they are really strong.

Zishang couldn't help but sigh, maybe he would be like a bad old man in a few decades, although he had a strong True Qi or True Yuan, but he was no longer in the state of his youth.

He was more and more eager to become stronger, those powerhouses in the God Refining Realm could live to be three or four hundred years old, if he stepped into the God Refining Realm, then even if he was already one hundred and fifty years old, he would still be considered young.

It seems that Zishang is only twelve years old and has a half-step Qi refining realm, which can be said to be a genius that he has not met in a hundred years, but he knows very well in his heart that his real qualifications are only middle and upper, and everything now is just luck and coincidence.

He estimated that the problem of breaking through the Divine Refining Realm around the age of sixty should be similar, and after two hundred years of meditation and accumulation, there might be a trace of the possibility of touching and entering the Holy Realm.

Enter the holy realm! Immortal-like existence! The great god who turns his hands into clouds and covers his hands into rain! It is even said that he has a lifespan of thousands of years!

"Alas!"

Zishang smiled bitterly and shook his head, shaking off the nonsense in his mind, now he hasn't even really reached the Qi Refining Realm.

Without further thought, he jumped into the water and followed in the footsteps of the crowd.

In less than half a cup of tea, they came to the bottom of the water five zhang deep, and in the mud at the bottom of the water, there was a place where crabs continued to emerge.

The crabs that came out of it slowly climbed up the slope of Ju Crab Nagisa, and then they didn't move.

Zishang took out the Zhanchen Sword, came to the small piece where the crab had been drilled, and slowly shoveled away the silt.

The silt in that area seemed to be deeper and softer than in the rest, and likewise it was more likely to disperse in the water.

Soon, the water within a radius of one kilometer was polluted. But with the unremitting efforts of the merchants, they dug a two-foot-deep pit and brought out more than 30 crabs at the same time.

After some tossing, several people surfaced one after another and climbed onto the boat, Feng Ziye's body was still trembling slightly, and his face was a little blue.

A group of ten people sat in a circle, Baili Mao wiped the water on his face, frowned, and said: "Although we found the exit of the tunnel, we can't go down, how can this be good?"

Baili Hu said worriedly: "It's not like this is just an underground passage, so it's convenient for crabs to come here to gather crabs to feed and move." ”

Baili Lishi said: "No, Zishang also said before, there are tens of thousands of crabs entering the hole in the reeds on the shore, but this crab is only a thousand crabs, and the other crabs must still be somewhere underground." ”

"Hmph!" Baili Hu retorted with a sneer: "It's also possible that there are other forks in the tunnel, so why don't you go somewhere else?"

Baili Lion thought for a while, although it didn't feel like it, but he couldn't say a reason for objecting, and he was a little speechless for a while.

Zishang pondered for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be!" You think, it's still so cold, crabs usually don't come out in such a large number of activities, and you have also seen those blue-shell big crabs different from ordinary crabs before, I think it must be some crab king-level demon beast ordering them." ”

"In other words, they must be doing something unknown underground!"

After listening to Zishang's analysis, everyone felt very reasonable, but Baili Cat still sighed: "But we can't go down, all this can only stay at the guessing stage." ”

Zishang shook his head and said, "It's not necessarily that you can't go down." ”

"Oh?"

The spirits of the crowd lifted, and their eyes converged on him, waiting for his next step.

"You think, although crabs can make holes, it won't be easy to drill in the silt, after all, the silt will also cause great hindrance to their breathing, so since they are drilled out of the bottom of the river, the silt there must not be thick!"

The others showed joy one after another, but Baili Lion frowned again and asked: "But if the silt is not thick and there is a cavity underneath, then under the pressure of the water, it should collapse?"

Zishang nodded at him, and then explained, "That's right, so when I was digging a pit in the water just now, I deliberately stuck the Zhanchen Sword at the end, and it hit the rock. ”

Baili Lion frowned and said: "In this way, if you forcibly break the rock, then the lake water will be filled into it like crazy, and everything will be destroyed at that time." Then there's no point in us going in. ”

"Of course we can't go down from that place, first of all, if it is there, it will not be easily broken. However, there are certainly not rocks in all parts of the tunnel, and I guess there are only in the vicinity of Ju Crab Nagisa. Zishang said his plan.

"We can open a tunnel not far away that is not obstructed by rocks and then quickly enter the area. I think the rockless part should be deeper, and there is some solid layer of mud under the silt at the bottom of the river, and if you blow it up again, let the dirt block the passage so that the water doesn't pour into the tunnel. ”

Everyone was silent for a while, thinking about the feasibility of the sub-merchant's plan, Baili Mao frowned and said, "However, the situation below is not very clear, and there is still a lot of uncertainty in this plan." ”

Baili Hu interjected: "Oh! Try it and you'll know, Zishang is so smart that he will definitely be able to adapt to the situation, we just need to hurry up." Isn't it, Zishang?"

"Uh...... When the time comes, you can't rely on me, you can also help a little. Zishang smiled awkwardly.

"Alright, that's it, let's do it!"

They then discussed the specifics and changed the original plan to blow up the passage and plug the gap with small sandbags instead.

So they hurriedly prepared some sandbags that were not too big, brought shovels and dived under the water again.

This time, Zishang persuaded Feng Ziye to stay, on the one hand, the situation below was more complicated, and on the other hand, he prepared several large sandbags, and asked Feng Ziye to throw them after ten breaths after they dug the tunnel, to help plug the gap.

So Zishang and the eight people of Baili came to the place twenty steps before the location where the pit was dug before.

After one glance at each other, they started digging.

The silt layer is relatively thick and difficult to dig, and it took nine people a cup of tea to dig a pit three feet in diameter and two and a half feet deep.

In order to work better underwater, they changed their air once before continuing to dig, and the more they dug underneath, the more difficult it became, and they changed their gas twice before digging five feet of silt, revealing a relatively solid layer of soil underneath.

Since this work is different from digging a well, the pit mouth must be large to ensure that there are enough holes to enter when the pit is finally opened. So he was able to widen the diameter of the pit to seven feet.

This greatly increases the workload.

After that, it was another tiring work, and finally the pit was dug behind a pillar of incense.

In fact, the last foot of soil collapsed on its own because it could not withstand the water pressure.

They went in the order they had agreed, but fortunately the tunnel was wide enough for people to go in.

The situation is much more complicated than originally thought. First of all, the speed at which the lake water poured in made them a little unstable, and besides, there were many crabs in the tunnel, and when they saw outsiders, they rushed over and waved their big pincers and clamped them towards them.

Although they are extremely physical, ordinary crabs can't catch them, but a small number of larger blue-shell crabs can make them hurt.

But now the main thing is to plug the gap, and they don't care about dealing with these crabs.

It only took about four or five breaths for them to react quickly, and Baili Cat and Baili Lion Cat took the small sandbags of the other people at their waists, struggling to plug the gap in the irrigation.

The others kept shoveling the soil to help them reinforce, and at the same time, Feng Ziye on the water surface also threw a few large sandbags at the right time, and a few of them were busy with tea before they basically completed the plugging work, and only a small amount of water seeped in.

Due to the fact that a lot of water was poured in at first, the area of the tunnel was a foot deep, but how did this affect them, and now the biggest headache for them is the crabs......

After such a while, several people were bruised and purple by crabs.

What's even more terrifying is that a red giant crab the size of a basin directly made a hole in the leg of the baili crocodile, fortunately it did not hurt the large blood vessels.

Then the crab that caused the accident was chopped up with a knife.

Of course, in this narrow and dark tunnel, they couldn't use their hands and feet, although they hacked the giant crab to death, but they hit the wall again and again, making them embarrassed, and they could only endure it.

Fortunately, after walking thirty steps, they entered their destination.

What appeared in front of them was a large empty space......