(Volume 1) Chapter 6 The Strange Building
It was Tang Mingyin, but at this moment, he has changed into a college clothes. "Hahaha" The hearty smile is still a familiar feeling, "I didn't expect to see you here with Qinghan for half a day, there is fate." ”
"Who's destined for you?" At this time, Mu Qinghan was tired, and he didn't care about any etiquette, he just wanted to howl out his dissatisfaction. He sat down slowly, leaning against the white rock head, one hand supporting the ground, panting, not knowing whether he was tired or trying to calm down. But then he calmed down again, and asked with a whole breath: "Brother Tang, why are you here?" ”
Tang Mingyin didn't answer directly, and asked him why he was here. Later, he added: "You will never tell me that you are an innkeeper visiting the lake and watching the tower here." ”
Mu Qinghan glanced up and said, "Before waiting for Brother Tang's Golden Building, I'm afraid I don't have this ability." ”
Tang Mingyin saw that he could still sneer at each other, and said, "It seems that he still has strength." However, he then emphasized: "The Golden Building is for Xiaogu, not for you." ”
Mu Qinghan waved his hand, indicating that he didn't want to fight this meaningless verbal battle with him. He picked up a twig and drew characters on the dry dirt on the shore that he didn't even know. There was a brief moment of relief on his face, and he changed back again.
Tang Mingyin looked at him, and after a while, he heard a sentence: "I'm here to save Xiaowei." Then Mu Qinghan told Tang Mingyin about the events from the afternoon to this time. He also said: "I brought so many brothers, and the bandits were all served, and people knew where they were, and they couldn't get in and couldn't be saved." This sentence muttered in a tone, and I didn't know if I was talking to Tang Mingyin or myself.
"You mean, this Wangyun Tower is the hiding place of the Chun Yu clan to rob the people's daughters." Tang Mingyin touched his beard and said to himself: "What do you want so many girls to do in Chun Yu Xianzhong, Hengpu Pass has been lost, and the unknown army in the north may go south at any time, at this time, Chun Yu Xianzhong is not strong, but he is searching for girls everywhere What is his intention?" ”
At the same time, he also said to Mu Qinghan: "I have never heard of Chun Yu Xianzhong being lustful, he wants a beauty, and he patrols thousands of miles in the south, hundreds of thousands of households, and there are always some." And I heard that he has been in power for ten years, and the position of the princess of the Southern Tour is vacant, and there are not many harems. Moreover, the bandits said that the women they captured only needed to be virgins, but they did not ask for appearance. It doesn't seem to be used as a harem, so it seems that Xiaowei may still be safe. ”
Saying this made Mu Qinghan's tired eyes have a little more excitement.
"Come on, eat this." Tang Mingyin handed Mu Qinghan a round thing, about the size of half an egg.
Mu Qinghan took it, looked at this gray thing, and couldn't help but ask what it was.
"Chengqi pills, you will know after eating them."
Mu Qinghan looked at this pill and thought that Tang Mingyin should not harm him, so he gnawed on it in two bites. Tang Mingyin said, "Sit down, breathe and breathe a few times." ”
Mu Qinghan leaned against the corner of the white stone wall, took a few deep breaths, and felt a warm current in his abdomen flow through his body, and his limbs recovered little by little. However, after two teas, I didn't feel tired. He sighed without hesitation: "What kind of panacea is this, I don't feel tired slowly." ”
"We walk the rivers and lakes and always have some elixirs to return to the source and nourish qi, it is not surprising, you don't know martial arts, you don't know how to gather qi and transform power, otherwise the recovery should be faster." Tang Mingyin looked at this martial arts novice, and couldn't help but think of the deep-talking uncle in the Luoyang military camp, "In your eyes, I was the same at the beginning." He muttered to himself, "I don't know how the errand in Luzhou is doing."
Then he turned his head and said to Mu Qinghan: "Since it has recovered, let's find a way to enter the building." ”
"However, I have only searched for a few laps before I am close to picking the turf."
Tang Mingyin touched his beard and said, "I can rely on light skills to go up, but it is indeed a little difficult to take you." Seeing Mu Qinghan at a loss, he ran over and patted him on the back, and pointed casually, "See if you see that stone tablet." ”
The stele he refers to is the boundary monument of Lixiu Lake, Lixiu Lake is not naturally formed, but three thousand years ago, Yue Muhou mobilized 50,000 people, and led the water of the Canghe River to gather in Xiyue.
Tang Mingyin said: ""The Biography of the Ancient Kingdoms" once said: 'In the sixth year of Yue Muhou, Hou went to Jiangzuo to meet the alliance, and won Wu Nu, with a gorgeous posture and a beautiful appearance. Hou Shiyuezhi, this woman was born in fishing and hunting, loves boating, once rescued Mu Hou in the river, Hou to the people of 50,000, gathered water into a lake, to travel boats, to Wu Nu name. It is said that he also invited a famous craftsman to ask for design, and the underwater is even more hidden. ”
When Mu Qinghan heard this, he asked, "Could it be that there is another entrance under this water?" ”
"I don't know, but I heard what the bandit leader of Little Cat Mountain said, the carriage and people were not seen near Wangyun Tower, they were on Pinglan Street at that time, from Pinglan Street, Wangyun Tower should be able to see clearly in the east, west and south directions, if there is anything, it must be on the north side."
Saying that, he walked to the stele, "See, this stele is newly repaired, and it is not longer than Wangyun Tower." After speaking, he turned around and said, "Qinghan, do you know water?" ”
Mu Qinghan said: "The people of the Southern Patrol have all grown up near the water since childhood, and of course they know water. ”
"That's good, you and I'll dive down and find out."
The two then swam into the water and slowly dived from the place where the stone monument was. Seeing each other's light shining at the bottom of the lake, the two of them swam towards the light.
After about two feet of diving, I found that there were two doors at the bottom of the lake, and there was a large inlaid night pearl on the door, from which the light just came out. There are three numbers on the door on the left, three, five, seven. Engraved on three inset wheels, there should be other numbers on the wheels, which should be able to be tossed to change the numbers.
But Mu Qinghan dialed it, but he couldn't move it. In addition to this, there is a mechanism on the door that resembles a brake handle. The door on the right also has such a trap, but there is no roulette.
Tang Mingyin looked at it, and then motioned with his hand to Mu Qinghan to pull the left door mechanism and pull the right door mechanism himself. As soon as he pulled it down, he felt a burst of water vapor slam out of the door in front of the two of them. But he saw four steel plates sticking out of each of the frames of the two doors, and surrounded the two men in the water, and another steel plate stretched out from the end of the steel plates, framing each of them in a small room that could accommodate three people.
Where had Mu Qinghan seen this battle, he was very panicked, and he was under water, and he was surrounded by him, which made him feel very frightened. But what happened in a second made him breathe a sigh of relief.
Because he felt that there was a strong wave of air blowing in the door, like this small room with steel plates, and the water level inside was actually dropping, to be precise, the water was slowly draining out.
Mu Qinghan, who breathed the air, breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that this mechanism is too scary, thanks to its good wateriness. And just then, the door opened.
He walked through the door, and it was pitch black, with only a glimmer of light ahead. When he got closer, he found that this place was the Night Pearl again, and there was a gate mechanism under the Night Pearl. At this moment, there is no way back, so I simply pull things out.
But he heard a boom, followed by the sound of chains and gears colliding, Mu Qinghan felt a weight under his feet, and he should be rising. Mu Qinghan leaned against the wall, feeling more and more unbelievable.
After a while, the wall in front of him suddenly opened, and the inside was very bright, and the sudden bright light made Mu Qinghan subconsciously cover his eyes, but when he adapted to the light, the scene in front of him made him even more incredible.
Inside is a small room, elegantly furnished, tables, chairs, benches, beds and bedding. As soon as he walked in, the door behind him closed automatically. When he tried to turn around and pull the door, he found that it had no handle at all, only a strange-looking keyhole.
Mu Qinghan looked at the room furnishings, and said in his heart that this room was not bad, at least better than their inn. It's just a little strange that the furniture here is either made of copper and iron or stone, and there is not a single piece of wooden furniture left and right. But to his surprise, such a seemingly ordinary room, such a bright light source, actually came from the night pearl on the roof, but it was a pity that this place was really luxurious.
Of course, he didn't think about it that much, after all, the clothes on his body were all water at the moment, and this sticky and wet feeling was very unpleasant. He just wanted to find a place to make a fire, or get out of here to find his little sister.
However, he soon discovered that there was no exit to the room other than the door through which he had entered. There was only one wall that was three feet long and a palm's width open, and it was impossible for an adult to get out of it.
It's good now, Mu Qinghan doesn't have a key, so he can't get out of that door at all, and that door leads to the bottom of the water, even if he returns the same way, it will be in vain. Just then, he heard the sound of chains and gears again.
He hurried to the door, only to see it open, and a wet man slowly walked inside. As soon as the person came out, the door was shut. Mu Qinghan was startled at first, but after a closer look, it was Tang Mingyin who walked through the gate on the right.
"Sure enough." Tang Mingyin glanced at Mu Qinghan and said.
Mu Qinghan, who heard this, was confused, so he asked, "Big brother, what is it?" ”
Tang Mingyin didn't answer directly, but asked him how he came up. Mu Qinghan answered truthfully, and Tang Mingyin said, "That's right." I saw the number three, five, seven, in front of the door, and I came across a mechanism when I entered through the door, but unlike you, my machine had a number wheel. ”
"The roulette wheel for the left door is in the doorway, you mean, the roulette wheel for the right door is in the door?"
"Yes, and the numbers can be dialed, I dialed three-five-seven, pulled the mechanism and sent me here."
Mu Qinghan said: "But there is no roulette wheel on the mechanism I came up, only the door at the bottom of the lake, and it can't be moved." ”
Tang Mingyin glanced at the room, "Presumably there is something related to this, but from the feeling that we come up, we are at least hundreds of zhang away from the bottom of the lake, so it seems that we must be in the Wangyun Tower, because there are no other tall buildings around here." ”
He wrung the water from his cuffs, "But for now we have to think about getting out of this wall." He pointed to the opening.
"But apart from the door behind you, you haven't found any other exit?"
Tang Mingyin listened and looked back at the keyhole on the door.
"Nine Curved Cross Locks" He recognized this keyhole, "Chun Yu Xianzhong is really down this time, I didn't expect the construction of this Wangyun Tower to have the help of the Lu family in Yangzhou." ”
"What's that?" Obviously, Mu Qinghan didn't know anything about these new terms.
Tang Mingyin explained: "There are three major families in the world to build craftsmen, and the Yangzhou Lu family is one of them. The construction of various pavilions and pavilions is famous all over the world, and the tricks are even more strange. Legend has it that Sima Quan, the ancestor of the Yun Dynasty, led the army to break through Yecheng, and ordered Lu Songjing, a disciple of Wanji Pavilion, to preside over the construction of the capital and the underground palace of Yecheng, and then he has been a family of craftsmen in the Yun Dynasty. After Emperor Yunwu unified the four kingdoms, he migrated to Yangzhou, and for a thousand years, there were more than masterpieces in the world, but the asking price was also extremely high. This nine-curved cross lock is a secret of the Lu family, and it cannot be opened without a special key. If someone forcibly destroys the door, the lock will be locked. Only artillery will be able to fire at that time. ”
Mu Qinghan pushed the door hard, struck it twice with his fist, and said: "Even if this lock is not destroyed, with the thickness of this stone door, it is not something that ordinary manpower can break." ”
Tang Mingyin found a stone stool and sat down, shook his hand and said, "If a Golden Pill Warrior with twenty years of skill concentrates all his strength on his fingertips, a powerful impact may be able to destroy this lock before the Nine Curve Cross Lock Mechanism, and the door will open." ”
"Kanamaru warriors? What is that. ”
Hearing Mu Qinghan ask like this, Tang Mingyin somehow became a little interested, so he raised a finger and pointed at Mu Qinghan's nose and wanted to say something, but before the word "just" could be spoken, he closed his finger, accompanied by a "tsk" sound, and then said: "You still don't know about this matter, anyway, it has nothing to do with our current situation." ”
But halfway through the words, how can it make people happy. But in the face of Mu Qinghan's questioning, Tang Mingyin said that it didn't matter, the most important thing at the moment was how to go out and enter the interior of Wangyun Tower to find out Xiaowei's news.
Speaking of Xiaowei, Mu Qinghan thought that this matter was important, and he had just heard Tang Mingyin say something he had seen, but he asked him to put Xiaowei's matter aside. For this, he silently scolded himself several times in his heart.
"Yo, this quail jade pot is quite chic, and I don't know which workshop it is. Go back and match Lao Chen with one, he just likes small things. Compared with Mu Qinghan's anxiety about Xiaowei, Tang Mingyin seemed more calm, sitting firmly at the stone table, playing with the jade pot on the table, and saying some unreliable words in his mouth.
Mu Qinghan looked helpless, but he couldn't say anything. After all, without this Brother Tang, he wouldn't have been able to get in at all. Although his body was sticky and wet, he couldn't take care of much. Rummaging left and right to no avail, I had to pace left and right. Tang Mingyin saw that he was anxious, so he said, "I was tired when I came up just now, so I will sit and rest." ”
Mu Qinghan couldn't listen to it, but what he said made him move his eyes to the other stone benches. Immediately grabbed a stone bench with both hands and was about to smash the wall, but the stone bench was very heavy for some reason, and he could pull away dozens of catties of big bows, but he had some difficulty grasping it.
"You don't want to smash the wall, do you?" Tang Mingyin put down the jade pot in his hand. Mu Qinghan was still trying to bring it up, and struggled to answer yes.
"You put it down for me, even if you pick it up, you won't be able to smash this wall."
Mu Qinghan was obviously anxious: "Then you have to try!" ”
Tang Mingyin sighed: "You put it down and try it with your fists." ”
"Fist?" Mu Qinghan asked suspiciously, "You said that the stone can't be broken, what's the use of the fist, this punch is not only useless, I'm afraid it's not going to be injured." ”
only heard Tang Mingyin sneer, and he didn't know whether he was ridiculed or helpless. "Even if you hit with your fists, I will keep you from being injured and bleeding."
Mu Qinghan felt even more strange at this time, and he moved his steps. Looking at the golden wall, I lost my mind for a while. He looked at Tang Mingyin and then at his fist. Taking a deep breath, he threw a punch at the wall.
Of course, nothing has changed.
It is not easy for most people to punch through walls with their fists, let alone him, who only has strength but does not know martial arts.
However, with so much effort, his hand was not injured, not only that, Mu Qinghan also felt that the wall hit by his fist was not like the texture of a stone, but a little soft. I feel that the fierce power of the fist has been unloaded by this soft force.
Tang Mingyin walked over: "Do you feel anything unusual?" ”
"I don't feel like this wall is like a stone, no matter how hard I try, I want to hit the cotton, and the force is all removed."
"Yes." Tang Mingyin said: "This wall is made of gold silk and black steel cotton, gold silk is the material for lining soft armor, and the cloth made of it cannot be broken by most of the sharp weapons in the world." The black steel cotton in Saibei has excellent toughness, and the blunt weapon of martial arts can unload the strength for you, and the road of overcoming rigidity with softness is taken. And with a boulder to press the black steel cotton in the north of the Saibei for three days, it can be used as the material of the plate, and then the gold silk cloth is embedded layer by layer when pressing, and this wall is invulnerable, even if it is a master of any order, it can not penetrate this wall. ”
These words undoubtedly poured a basin of cold water on Mu Qinghan, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong, so he asked: "If this golden silk and cotton are so powerful, how is it made into other things, especially this golden silk cloth, if you can't cut the cloth, how to make clothes?" ”
"Fire, these two materials are not afraid of anything else, but only fire."
When Mu Qinghan heard this, he suddenly came to hope, and hurriedly touched the unused fire fold in his arms. While touching it, he said, "Why didn't you say it earlier." ”
Tang Mingyin laughed helplessly again, and said: "It's really young." ”
Mu Qinghan quickly grasped the meaning of his words, as he found that his fire fold had already been soaked at the bottom of the lake.
Tang Mingyin sighed and said, "I think this is the reason why Wangyun Tower was built by the lake. ”
Looking at Mu Qinghan's still puzzled gaze, Tang Mingyin said, "If my guess is correct, this is one of the rooms used by Wangyun Tower to lock people up." It is highly likely that Xiaowei is also locked up in such a room. ”
He continued: "Judging from the furnishings here, all the furniture is copper, iron or stone, and even the bedding is a rag of fire that cannot be burned, so to speak, there is nothing that can cause fire, just for this wall." ”
Mu Qinghan seemed to understand a little: "You mean that they set the entrances to these rooms at the bottom of the lake, just to make the ignition brought by the entrants invalid. ”
Tang Mingyin pointed to the night pearls on the roof and said, "Yes, so I will not hesitate to use these night pearls for lighting." ”
"So, if you come in from the first floor, you won't be able to enter the rooms."
"Well, if you enter through the main entrance, you can only communicate with the room through the opening on the wall, and you can't get in and out at all, so in my opinion, it's a food delivery port. The entrances to each room are the two doors at the bottom of the lake, and the number on the door is the number of the room. ”
Mu Qinghan's face was full of sorrow: "Then what should I do, the design here is so thorough." How do we get out? ”
Tang Mingyin smiled and pointed to the stool for him to sit down, "Don't be impatient, all we can do now is wait." ”
"Wait? That's going to have to wait until when. ”