Chapter Twenty-Five: The Iron Gate Mechanism

Mu Yedong said first: "In order to build this underground fortress, the chief manager sent a person from your Taoist family, and the design drawings were built in full accordance with the direction of the Nine Palaces Bagua. The secret passage mechanism inside was designed by him, and I just took people to guard the surroundings, so I didn't know much about the inside. Who knew that he quietly changed the drawings, when the fortress was roughly completed, I brought people in, not even supplies, after coming in, he activated the mechanism, so many of us were trapped here, because of the hastiness of coming, I didn't bring the drawings We walked through all the secret passages but didn't find the exit, and in desperation, the whole army was trapped here. He also secretly laid a few spells, so that we could not ascend to heaven, so many soldiers have been here with me for hundreds of years, today the Taoist must help us break his spells, so that the souls of the soldiers return to heaven. ”

I said, "Does the general know where his spell is?" ”

Mu Yedong said first: "One is that there is a stone tablet in the direction where you came, and if the stone tablet is broken, this spell will be broken, and there is an iron gate in front, and the rune engraved on the door is the rune seal that prohibits our souls." My sword is called Qiushui Sword, it is one of the top ten famous swords, it is made of meteoric iron, when I conquered Luoyang, I got it in a large family, you can use this sword to open the prohibition on the iron door. ”

After speaking, Mu Yedong handed over the Qiushui Sword first, and I took the heavy Qiushui Sword, which was twice as heavy as our ordinary sword, far away, and I could still feel the slightest coolness from the blade.

Over there, Wang Jinhuai looked at me talking to himself and asked me, "Who are you talking to?"

I said, "I'm talking to this general, you can't see it, do you want to see it?" I want to see me open your eyes. ”

Wang Jinhuai said: "I'll forget it, Dao Chief, it's better for you to see it yourself." ”

I said to Mu Yedong first: "General, then we will go and break the spell for you, and when the time comes, I will go to the front to find the stone gate now." "After speaking, I took Wang Jinhuai, took the Qiushui Sword, and went to the secret passage. Mu Yedong also followed behind, followed by a group of Jin soldiers from a distance, and the formation was neat and solemn.

After walking a mile forward, I saw an iron gate blocking the center of the secret passage, Xiaoyi was in front of the iron gate, his head was held high, but he didn't dare to go forward, as if there was something on the iron gate that made it afraid, seeing that we were coming, he retracted back to a foot long and climbed to my shoulder.

I saw that although this iron gate has a history of hundreds of years, it has not been rusted like those weapons, there is no rust at all, and it is as if it is new. The strange thing is that there is no iron ring and handle on the iron door, and it is not locked, there is a painting on the door, which depicts a Taoist wearing ancient clothes, holding a whisk of dust in his right hand, holding three fingers in his left hand, and holding his little thumb and thumb outstretched, as if he is pinching something, his eyes are looking ahead, his face is kind and kind, and he paints a picture of gossip yin and yang in the middle of the robe, maybe the light is a little blurred, and the portrait has a feeling like being in the clouds.

I put the torch close to the portrait, and Wang Jinhuai also came over to look at it, and the portrait did not look like it was painted or cast, but a bit like a natural formation.

I looked at the eyes of the portrait, and I felt that the eyes were also staring at me, I reached out to the gossip map of the portrait and touched it, and there was a force that sucked me towards the iron gate, I realized that it was not good, and quickly broke free, but the suction of the iron door was very strong, and I felt that the whole person was going to be pulled into the iron gate.

Wang Jinhuai shouted on the side: "Dao Chief, look at the words here." ”

Wang Jinhuai shouted, I woke up all of a sudden, and saw that my hand did not touch the portrait, the eyes of the portrait were still looking ahead, I knew that this was an illusion, a portrait hundreds of years ago could make me fall into the Tao, it seems that the person who set up the mechanism, the Tao is much higher than me, if it weren't for Wang Jinhuai's shout, I would have walked into the hallucination.

I look at the direction of Wang Jinhuai, in the lower corner of the portrait, there is a line of vague small characters, if you don't look carefully, you really can't find it, it is written in small seals, no wonder Mu Yedong first they can't come out, Jin people can't even recognize Chinese characters, how can they know small seals, only to see that it is written: drunken Taoist trapped Jin soldiers, with snow land to lose love, if he meets someone in the future, open the door must be in the gossip.

After reading this line, I also understood that this person also set up this situation to avenge the hatred of the loss of his homeland, and trapped Jin Bing, but he was too ruthless, and even his soul was not allowed to be reborn.

Since he said how to open the door, I'll try it.

Looking at the gossip diagram in the middle of his robe, this time I didn't look at his eyes, I pressed my hand up, or a suction, with my hand pressed on the map, when I touched the gossip map, I also forced, only to see the gossip map sink in, I turned to the left according to the two times he wrote on the stone tablet, turned left, just turned to the door, only heard the sound of clicking, the iron door actually went to the top, there was no opening in or out.

After the iron door was opened, the secret passage was still the same as the original, and at this time, Mu Yedong, who was following behind, came over first and said, "Thank you Dao Chief, please Dao Chang go forward with me, there is still a place to put a map in front." ”

Pulling Wang Jinhuai, I followed Mu Yedong to the front first, and then passed through two iron doors, and came to a small room, which was fully furnished, as well as a weapon shelf, a bed, as for the bedding on the bed was rotten, Mu Yedong came to the cabinet first, opened the cabinet, only to see that there were a lot of drawings inside, when he took it out, I was dumbfounded, because the maps are all drawn in ink, after so many years in such a humid environment, I can no longer see what is drawn.

Mu Yedong looked at me guiltily and said, "Dao Chief, I didn't expect that this map can't be seen." I said, "It's not the general's problem, let's find our way slowly." Take your soldiers with you and go where you are going. ”

Mu Yedong looked at me first and said, "Otherwise, I'll take you out, anyway, it's not bad to stay here for hundreds of years." ”

I thought about it, if the two of us left, we don't know when we would go out, mainly because the torches were almost finished. After all, they know each other here and want to be here. I said, "Then it's going to be a trouble for the general." ”