Chapter 172: The Secret Passage

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The next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Tao Ze opened his reddened eyes faintly, thinking that the increasingly frequent labor pains in his body had tormented him all night. ——— . But fortunately, the aura at the bottom of the cliff in the early morning is abundant and overflowing, although his true qi cannot be operated, he also feels refreshed, and the pain in the dantian has been reduced a lot.

Carefully calculated, Tao Ze has been trapped for more than a month, sighing with emotion, but faintly worried, but the arrow has to be sent, and considering that he has no way out, so he secretly strengthened his determination and is ready to fight against the water.

Without further ado, Tao Ze was ready to fill his stomach first, and then act immediately, he took out the last food, that is, the crocodile heart that was roasted yesterday, because the last dry firewood was also used up yesterday, so he could only make do to fill his stomach, fortunately, the crocodile is not an ordinary creature, it is the only animal in the world that does not have cancer, and its heart is a great supplement by nature, therefore, after eating the big heart of the sea bowl, Tao Ze only felt that his body was full of strength, and there was a faint feeling of warmth in the dantian, Even the pain has been reduced a lot.

"God help me that this crocodile's heart has such an effect!"

Feeling the changes in his body, Tao Ze couldn't help but talk to himself happily.

Since he was in good physical condition, Tao Ze did not delay any longer, he pressed one end of the casing with a stone as a fuse, tied a dead knot at the other end, and then picked up the stomach pouch of the giant crocodile filled with gunpowder, which was the real "bomb".

For this last chance, Tao Ze didn't dare to be careless, he slowly slid into the cold pool with his stomach pouch, the biting water made him shiver, he quickly captured his mind, and tried to keep his body stable. After about five minutes, Tao Ze finally sank to the bottom of the pool.

He gently dragged the casing behind the stomach pouch, and after a visual inspection, the casings of the two beasts were connected together, the length was just right, and he couldn't help but rejoice in his heart. If this casing had been destroyed or there was only one beast at the bottom of the pool, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

After a short sigh, Tao Ze walked to the side of the boulder, dug it with his bare hands from the softer corner below, and waited until he pulled out a cave that could hold the "stomach pouch bomb", then he deliberately stuffed the "bomb" into it, and then stuffed the cave tightly with gravel, and finally carefully inspected it, and then returned to the water.

You're all set. Tao Ze walked to the "fuse" pressed under the stone with the flint in his hand, he held back the feeling of melancholy in his heart, looked up to the sky and breathed a long sigh of relief, only to see that his face showed a decisive look, and hit the flint in his hand hard, which instantly ignited the gunpowder in the casing.

"Hiss......"

The gunpowder burned rapidly, hissing and then quickly underwater. Everything was calm again, as if nothing had happened.

One minute. Two minutes......

Time was so hard, every second was so long, his heart couldn't help but start to worry.

However, after all, he has been through too much, and the ordeal has created his character of not admitting defeat, and after a short period of tension, he is calm. He clenched his fists and stared stubbornly at the water, convinced that this time he would succeed.

Waiting is a painful ordeal, or a helpless choice, but it is not a poignant beginning......

"Boom ......"

Finally. After a long wait of five minutes, a dull loud roar came from underwater, and Tao Ze smiled, it turned out that the sound of the explosion could be so beautiful and pleasant.

As the explosion spread, Tao Ze felt that the entire mountain began to shake, and his eardrums were also buzzing, and he quickly took a few steps back, clinging to the mountain wall, and his hands were tightly grasping the protruding stones on the mountain wall to prevent falling.

Tao Ze just stood firm in the face of the stone wall, the pool water behind him was "boiling", followed by a rumbling sound, because the pool water is too deep, the huge shock wave is a little late, but this does not affect its powerful destructive power at all, the huge water column mixed with the stones at the bottom of the pool instantly shattered the "open space" where Tao Ze settled before, the "open space" was originally a rock protruding from the mountain wall, but now it has turned into a puff of gravel.

The gravel cut through Tao Ze's shirt and pierced his back, and a piercing pain made him stumble and almost fall off the cliff.

"Bah......"

Faced with the huge impact of the water column, Tao Ze gritted his teeth and did not dare to have the slightest carelessness, he endured the pain, grabbed the cliff with both hands, and survived.

After a minute, the hustle and bustle finally returned to tranquility, and the raised water column returned to the embrace of the mountain; Tao Ze looked around, except for the pool water becoming a little muddy, everything was as usual.

Tao Ze couldn't think about it, he was eager to find out and see if he was successful or not?

So, without the slightest hesitation, he jumped into the cold and biting water, used his hands and feet together, and impatiently dived to the bottom of the water again.

Five minutes later, Tao Ze finally reached the bottom of the pool, and the huge explosion made the place unrecognizable, even far beyond Tao Ze's imagination.

"Can an earth-made bomb be so powerful?"

Tao Ze couldn't help but put a question mark, with the help of the faint light of the "phosphorescent stone", after some careful investigation, Tao Ze accidentally found an iron shrapnel, touched it carefully, and even felt the rows of uneven words on the shrapnel, but the words were all in Dongying script, and Tao Ze didn't know it.

However, this discovery proves at least one thing, that the huge explosion was not the work of his home-made bomb.

And this is indeed the case, at the beginning of the design of this secret passage, in order to prevent theft, many mechanisms were set up outside the main entrance, and a lot of explosives were buried, if someone forcibly broke the door or opened the door in an improper way, it would detonate the explosives.

In this way, Tao Ze should be lucky, hit the right one, and pass the test easily, otherwise, even if he has the "key" in his hand, he will inevitably operate unfamiliarly and inadvertently detonate the explosive.

Tao Zeqiang held back the sigh in his heart, and slowly came to the dark entrance of the cave, where is there still a trace of the boulder that originally blocked the way, and it has already turned into powder, and the original heavy iron gate behind the boulder is still standing there tenaciously. But it also changed its shape obviously, and it was tilted to the side, and it could no longer block Tao Ze's way.

It's just a pity that this glittering key didn't come in handy!

Following the gap that flashed out of the iron door, Tao Ze easily squeezed into the hole, with the help of the faint light of the "phosphorescent stone". Tao Ze ignored the pain all over his body, and walked forward tentatively, according to the information displayed on the map in his memory, this secret passage was U-shaped, and the heavy iron gate was located at the bottom of the U-shape; In fact, as he continued to go deeper, Tao Ze only felt that the slope of the secret passage in front of him gradually increased, until it finally reached an almost vertical slope.

Moreover, the four walls of the secret passage in front of you are regular and round. It is completely different from the rough mountain outside, this is obviously a trace of human excavation, but it is not easy to dig such a secret passage embedded in the mountain!

Although the secret passage was smooth and steep, with the buoyancy of the pool, Tao Ze did not have much difficulty to advance, and after about ten minutes, another iron gate blocked Tao Ze's way.

With the previous experience, Tao Ze did not dare to be careless. It would be a pity if you hit some mechanism or bomb and die. However, after careful investigation, it turned out that Tao Ze was too worried, and this was just an ordinary iron door.

However, the iron door was thick and tight, and the secret passage was sealed, and the air was constantly consumed. The water surface here was higher than the outside, thus forming a huge negative pressure, and Tao Ze used the Qinglong Blade to cut a gap with a lot of effort, and finally balanced the air pressure inside and outside.

"Squeak......

With a tooth-aching grinding sound, the last iron door was finally pushed open. Tao Ze struggled to leap out of the secret passage.

With the yellow-green light of the "phosphorescent stone", Tao Ze found that the space here was much more open, but it was still pitch black, and it was still a closed space when he wanted to come here.

Tao Ze dragged his tired body, did not dare to have the slightest delay and began to patrol around, there are many large closed rooms around the cave, the door of the room is not locked and there is no mechanism, one by one to investigate all the gold and silver treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, I think it is the Dongying Kingdom in China to loot the people's fat and people's ointment! Tao Ze didn't look closely, because he had to find the exit of the cave first, after all, it was important to escape.

As he passed through an inconspicuous room, a glowing jade pendant caught his attention, the jade pendant was rough and nothing special to the touch, but it instantly gave him a sense of déjà vu, but he didn't think much of it, just picked it up from a pile of dusty antiques and put it around his neck, which was used for lighting.

The structure of the cave is very simple, Tao Ze only found the location of the main entrance after a little search, but to his disappointment, the main gate was locked upside down, and from the inside, there was not even a lock hole for the key.

"Ah......h

Coincidentally, at this time, the true qi in Tao Ze's body began to stir again, and the strong pain made him can't help but scream.

This time the attack of True Qi was extremely violent, even stronger than any previous time, Rao is Tao Ze was determined, and he was on the verge of collapse. The severe pain continued to impact Tao Ze's nerves, he rolled back and forth on the ground in pain, the wound on his back was rubbed back and forth by the stones on the ground, and he didn't realize it, letting the gurgling blood continue to spray.

The painful torment lasted for nearly an hour before finally slowly receding like a tidal wave.

Tao Ze lay on the ground weakly, his eyes were empty, and his pale face was as if he was dead under the dim yellow-green light.

"What if you escape? In the end, it was hard to escape! Tao Ze is a little decadent and compassionate.

He was unwilling to accept such an ending, more than a month of persistence, overdrawing all his beliefs, originally thought that as long as he could open the iron door, everything would turn around, but unfortunately he made people, and in the end he couldn't escape, and what was even more unexpected was that the speed of his internal injuries worsened far beyond his previous expectations, according to the current situation, Tao Ze didn't know how long he could last, a day? Two days? Or is it just in the next second? (To be continued.) )