As Torture looked at the skull, he saw a crimson centipede emerging from its eye socket. The centipede still had a strange layer of red hair on its back, and after it came out, it crawled on top of the skeleton's head and looked into the eyes of torture.

At this time, He Chenxue and Bai Zhongzheng struggled to get up, and said in a deep voice: "You two hurry up, hurry up!" There's a centipede in front of me! It's a thousand-foot crimson! ”

As soon as Bai Zhongzheng heard the words "Thousand Feet Crimson", he immediately pulled He Chenxue aside, and at the same time took out a pack of realgar in his waist bag, pinched it with two fingers, and then slowly sprinkled it towards the position of a few centimeters in front of the torture technique.

The moment the realgar powder slowly fell, the crimson centipede immediately turned around and disappeared into the skull, and the torture technique was able to get out, got up and took several steps back in a row, looked at Bai Zhongzheng and gasped: "Thank you." ”

Bai Zhongzheng nodded, and at this time, the two found He Chenxue standing there, and the torture technique immediately asked, "What's wrong?" ”

He Chenxue said in a low voice: "You take a closer look around. ”

As soon as He Chenxue said this, Bai Zhongzheng and the torture technique came back to their senses, looked around carefully, and found that they were in a circular room, the room was about 80 square meters, and the walls around the room were full of white bones, and one or two thousand feet could be seen red from time to time in the white bones.

"This place is too dangerous." After smashing the door open, he found that there were a lot of messy things piled up at the door, including broken tools, large stones, rotten wood, etc., and it seemed that he had just piled it up.

"It looks like the first people blocked it." Bai Zhongzheng stepped forward and said, and He Chenxue followed closely because he was afraid of centipedes.

Torture nodded: "Yes, they should know that we will come down anyway, and they are also cautious to speculate that maybe we can open those mechanisms to come down, so plugging here, although it can't really block us, can delay the time." ”

"You get it first, I'll rest, my hand is strained, I need to apply some medicine." Bai Zhongzheng said, sat down at the side of the door, sprinkled some realgar powder around to prevent centipedes from attacking, and then began to take out the medicinal wine and wipe it.

It took more than half an hour for the two of them to clear the door, and then they also sat down to rest, He Chenxue leaned to the side, without saying a word, and his mind was in chaos.

Seeing her appearance, Xingshu smiled and said, "Isn't it different from what you imagined?" ”

Only then did He Chenxue come back to her senses and nodded: "I thought it was just a hole in the ground, and there were some treasures piled up in the hole, so it wouldn't be so dangerous." ”

He Chenxue's words made Bai Zhongzheng couldn't help laughing: "It's not those landlords who buried ingots before, where would it be so easy, you have to know the history of China for thousands of years, who knows how many things are buried underground?" Where is it so easy, do you know how many people die every year in treasure hunts around the world, according to incomplete statistics? ”

He Chenxue shook his head, and Bai Zhongzheng approached He Chenxue mysteriously and said, "I don't know ...... either."

The torture technique laughed out loud, Bai Zhongzheng was also laughing, and He Chenxue realized that Bai Zhongzheng was teasing her, and laughed too. The atmosphere in the room was suddenly much more relaxed.

Xingshu looked at the white bones around the room and said: "There are so many white bones, it seems that they should be the workers who built this place in the past, and finally they were locked up here and destroyed, and there are almost no clothes around, that is to say, these people are working almost naked, and they are not wrapped in any strips of cloth before they die." ”

Bai Zhongzheng turned his head to look at his right side, but found that there were iron buckles on those walls, and iron chains hung under the iron buckles, and the other end of the iron chain was shackles, and the shackles were locked to the wrists of those white bones, and the strangest thing was that the positions of those shackles were all carrying a square thing.

Bai Zhongzheng felt curious, stepped forward to look at it, and then said, "It's a trap lock." ”

The torturer also stepped forward to look at it, and found that the square metal was covered with movable blocks of wood like building blocks, some of which were rotten, and some of which were still in good condition.

"This kind of thing is rare, if you take out one, you can sell it at a good price on the market, of course, on the premise of keeping it well." Xingshu looked at the trap lock and flicked the wooden block on it with his hand, "This design looks like a trap box, you need to piece together the patterns on it, it looks as simple as a puzzle, and the pattern is also very simple, but the terrible thing is that there is only a fixed rule, if you don't dial the wooden blocks in order, this kind of trap lock will never be opened." It seems that the people who built this place use these to lock up these slaves on weekdays, and it is estimated that after the completion of the project, they also tell these slaves that if they can unlock these locks, then they can leave, but these slaves probably don't even know a word, how can they open it? ”

Bai Zhongzheng found a relatively intact mechanism lock, squatted there and watched, then looked at the pattern under the mechanism lock, turned it over and looked at it several times, and then quickly tossed on it, and not long after, the mechanism lock opened with a "click" sound, and the wrist bone that was locked in it also fell off.

Xingshu looked at Bai Zhongzheng with some surprise, and He Chenxue also looked closer.

Bai Zhongzheng threw the lock to the torture technique and said, "You can take it back, it's the first deal I made with you." ”

The torturer looked at the lock in his hand and said, "Amazing." ”

"It's great for you, it's commonplace for me." Bai Zhongzheng had a disgusted expression, "I started from a very young age, and I fiddled with this kind of thing every day......" Speaking of this, Bai Zhongzheng seemed to realize something, and changed his words, "I squinted for a while, I was too tired." ”

Xingshu glanced at He Chenxue, knowing that Bai Zhongzheng didn't want them to know too much about himself, so he didn't ask anything, and after telling He Chenxue to rest too, he walked out of the door and looked at the messy open space around him, like a construction site, as well as the horizontal ditch outside the clearing and the broken bones around the horizontal ditch.

He Chenxue walked out, pointed to the hole in the distance and said, "It should be from there to go down, right?" ”

Xingshu nodded: "It should be, look at the surroundings here, it's like a well, the people who built it here first dug this huge well according to the feng shui acupoints, and then took this well as the center, built the huge lantern at the center point, and then built a mechanism passage at the wall of the well above, and at the same time poured the spaced board, and then made the upper mechanism, and finally buried it completely." ”

He Chenxue sighed: "How many years will this take? ”

"I don't know, ten years? Twenty years? Maybe longer. The torture technique walked towards the horizontal ditch, looking at the well water in the horizontal ditch, as well as the white bone roads around it, "It seems that there were many people who came here to hunt for treasures before, but they all died in the link of opening the red door." ”

He Chenxue nodded: "Just like me at that time, if I jumped down, I would definitely fall to my death." ”

Pointing to the other side of the house, he said, "The bridge should be on the back of the house, and the bridge will rise and roll with the rotation of this bead, and only the outside of this room will have the ground floating on the water, and the back of the house must be full of water, so when we throw stones down on the other side, we will only hear the sound of water, and we will not know that there is ground here, and besides, there is no place on it where ropes can be fixed, and nails cannot be driven into it, if there is any, Slipping straight down the rope is the best way to do it. ”

"We don't have any flashlights, and we don't have many burning sticks and glow sticks left, what should we do?" He Chenxue looked at the dark cave and asked.

Torture pointed around, "There are a lot of wooden blocks here, some rags or something, and I still have some wine there, so I can only make torches." ”

"By the way, that centipede, why do you call it a thousand feet red?" He Chenxue asked.

"A name, that kind of centipede is rare, and it can be regarded as a valuable medicinal material, but in the Northeast, it is almost impossible to see, these things should have been deliberately raised by the people who built them at the beginning, but I didn't expect to survive so many years later, which shows that in addition to the thousand-foot crimson here, there are other animals here, otherwise, only under the premise of centipedes, these things would have died long ago." Torture looked back at the room, "A thousand feet are red and highly poisonous, and a liquid secreted by itself will seep through the human skin, which is a neurotoxin, which will paralyze people's hands and feet, stiffen muscles, and then suffocate death. ”

He Chenxue nodded: "You know so much, it turns out that it is so difficult to be a cargo chaser." ”

"Experience." Xingshu looked at He Chenxue and said, "The master is not an all-rounder, but at least most things must be understood, I have been wandering north and south of the river since the day of apprenticeship, but my master has never taken me out because of physical reasons, I am alone, every time I go out, the master asks me to write a suicide note, he said, do this line, maybe take one step, and then take the second step and die." ”

He Chenxue looked at the cave and asked, "Then why are you doing this business?" ”

"What about you?" Torture asked, "Why did you enter the Jade Casting Society?" ”

"I don't have a choice." He Chenxue said, "Just like those parents who work as workers in the factory, their children are also very likely to be workers in the future, and the path of life is set as early as when they are born." ”

Torture nodded: "I don't have a choice, I don't know who my parents are, my mother is a madman, I don't know who my father is, she gave birth to me in a mental hospital, and then I died, and then I was adopted, and then I grew up in a mental hospital, there was no normal person around, not a single one, including my adoptive father, he is a person who studies all kinds of cases and cases all day long, what about my master?" Every day I talk about this object, that thing. Do you know what my dream is to grow up to do from the day I became sensible? ”

"What?" He Chenxue looked at the torture technique.

"My dream is to sell tickets to amusement parks when I grow up." ”

"Huh?" He Chenxue was puzzled, "Why? ”

"Because when my adoptive father first took me to the playground, I had a great time, and then I thought that if I were the one who sold the tickets, I would definitely be able to play in it every day," he explained. Later, when I grew up, once a business partner asked me to meet at the playground, and while I was waiting for him, I kept looking at the ticket sales place, and at that time, I realized that in fact, my dream has not changed at all, I still want to be a ticket seller, and it is very good to be ordinary. ”

He Chenxue was silent, and the torture technique paused and said: "I don't want to be a cargo chaser at all, I don't have a choice, if I have a son in the future, I will definitely not let him get involved in this business, if he is interested, I will beat him to death!" ”

He Chenxue smiled, Xingshu looked at her, He Chenxue realized that he had been staring at him, his face flushed, and he asked, "What?" ”

"You laugh like you're someone else." Xingshu shook his head, "It's not like that cold He Chenxue, by the way, why are you looking for double pupils?" It can't be because of Qimen, right? ”

He Chenxue was silent for a while and said, "In the future, if there is a chance, I will tell you, of course, on the premise that you can help me find my eyes." ”

"I'll think about it." Torture looked at the cave, "I don't know if I'll get out alive." ”

He Chenxue just smiled bitterly and turned around to go back to the house.

An hour later, Bai Zhongzheng, who had rested enough, got up, everyone drank water, ate some dry food, made some spare torches, and walked towards the black hole. When he walked to the entrance of the cave, Bai Zhongzheng stopped, turned his head and said: "I'm in the front, you follow behind, Miss He walks in the middle, after the criminal boss breaks off, don't make your own decisions if you find any movement, unless it's an emergency, you must notify others." ”

"Understood." Torture nodded, lit the torch, "Let's go." ”

Bai Zhongzheng walked in front with a torch, because there were not many torches, only one was lit, after all, I don't know how deep the hole is, how far I have to go, and whether I can still find something to make a torch in front.

After walking into the cave for more than ten meters, they still couldn't see the light in front of them, but compared to the passage they walked on earlier, the psychological pressure was much less, at least they knew that the back road would not be blocked, it really didn't work, they could withdraw to the room under the lantern first and then find a way.

Although He Chenxue walked very slowly along the way, and wanted to reach out to grasp the torture technique from time to time, she was much bolder than before, and the previous timidity was because she didn't know much about the torture technique and Bai Zhongzheng, after the experience of the Red Gate Broken Bridge, she knew very well that these two people in the same company were trustworthy, at least for now.

"How many meters have you walked?" Bai Zhongzheng in front asked, because he had to pay full attention to the front, so these things were calculated by the torture technique.

"About thirty-six meters." "The ground is getting damp, and there's a strange smell. ”

"There are footprints along the way, and that black hand must have taken this path." Bai Zhongzheng smelled as he spoke, "It smells like something rotten, I don't know if it's poisonous." ”

Bai Zhongzheng said, took off his mask and handed it to He Chenxue, let him put it on, and then continued to walk towards the front. After walking for a long time, Bai Zhongzheng suddenly stopped, and then took two steps back, because he realized that he had stepped on something.

"What's wrong?" He Chenxue asked, and the torture technique also raised his eyes to look over.

Bai Zhongzheng slowly raised his feet, looked at the thing that was trampled into a ball of white pulp under his feet, raised the soles of his shoes and looked at them, and then said: "Bug, I don't know what kind of bug it is, I accidentally stepped on one, it was soft, and it smelled like it came from this kind of bug." ”

Torture squatted down and looked at the white pulp, because it was so sparsely stepped on, it was impossible to tell what kind of insect it was stepping on.

He Chenxue looked at the front and said, "Then keep walking." ”

"Nope." Bai Zhongzheng's face sank, "Don't, this is an early warning, Kui Ye said that anything can happen underground, once you find something wrong, you have to stop acting, many years ago, there was a team looking for a precious medicinal herb in the Hunan Mountain, just because it was too aggressive, and as a result, half of the team survived." ”

"Half a man?" He Chenxue asked puzzled.

Bai Zhongzheng slowly squatted down, stretched out the torch in his hand to the front, and slowly shook it from side to side: "It can also be said that person has half a life left, they met a yin bee, do you know what a yin bee is?" A kind of wild bee that casts its nest in the decaying animal carcass, and often migrates the nest, is very rare, and when the second team went to look for it according to what the man said, they only saw five carrion corpses covered in wormholes at the scene, and those yin bees were all gone, and I said this to remind you that there are many things that you thought would not exist, maybe they all exist, and the natural world is very magical. ”

When Bai Zhongzheng said this, he suddenly stopped his mouth, and then whispered: "Yes, Boss Xing, you come up and take a look, walk slowly, and slowly walk to me step by step." ”

The torture technique slowly stepped forward as required, and then squatted down, Bai Zhongzheng's hand was fully stretched forward, slowly moving from left to right, and at the same time, he said: "Pay attention to the front of the firelight, as well as the surroundings, and the top of our heads!" ”

The torturer looked ahead carefully, and soon found a translucent, worm-like thing wriggling towards the position of the torch, and the cave in front of them, up and down, left and right, along with the top of their heads, was also covered with that kind of translucent worm, if it was not from a special angle to look through the light of the torch, it was not easy to find.

He Chenxue covered her mouth to prevent herself from calling out, and then calmed down before asking, "What is this?" ”

Xingshu and Bai Zhongzheng shook their heads at the same time, Bai Zhongzheng said: "I have never seen it, I have never heard of it, anyway, in this kind of place, it will not be harmless to the human body, I have to use this torch to explore the way, Boss Xing, after I throw out the torch, let's not move, and we don't order the second torch, these insects are very sensitive to light." ”

Torture nodded, and Bai Zhongzheng then threw the torch into the deepest part of the cave, then crouched down and looked ahead.

The torch fell on a position of more than ten meters in front of it, and the moment it fell, it illuminated the surroundings, and also made the three of them gasp, because in the cave in front of them, they were covered with that kind of dense worms, and after the torch landed, all the worms squirmed their bodies and surged there, and for a while, they seemed to see the white transparent waves that slowly slapped past, but the insects that made up the waves made up the three of them.

"We can't get through!" He Chenxue shook her head and said, but quickly reacted, "No, didn't Mr. Bai say that the footprints of the first batch of people are still there?" There are no bodies here, and there are no signs of struggle, which means that they passed safely, they can pass, and so can we. ”

"yes, that's not reasonable." After hearing He Chenxue's words, the torture technique remembered something.

Bai Zhongzheng immediately asked: "What is unreasonable?" ”

"The black hand passed through here safely with four of his men, and went to the front, which means that they know how to get through it safely." The torture looked around.

Bai Zhongzheng shook his head: "They have an advantage over us, we speculated before that even if the black hand was not the mastermind behind the scenes, it was directly related to it, so it must know the way, which is not surprising." ”

"No, you didn't understand what I meant." The torture began to look around carefully, "Decades ago, the mastermind behind the scenes brought people, he may know the legend of the treasure of the Khanate, but he may not know how to survive the mechanism below, you think about it, the kind of person who is willing to sacrifice more than a hundred people to cover up the traces of the treasure, will definitely bring other people here, use other people as pawns, step by step, and use human lives to crack the mechanism, the bones we saw under the lantern before can illustrate this problem." ”

Bai Zhongzheng understood: "You mean, when they walked through here, they must have sacrificed their lives?" So there should be traces, no, are the bones left? ”

Torture nodded: "Yes, people die here, there is no need to cover it up at all, there is no need to take away the corpse, even if the corpse is gnawed by insects, there should be something left, right?" ”

The three of them began to look around in the cave, because the light source would attract that kind of worm, they could only use the faint light in the distance to get close to the ground and the cave wall to search carefully, and after searching for more than half an hour, Bai Zhongzheng found some fragmented bones from the soft soil next to him, and at the same time, He Chenxue found some small circle traces on the ground next to him.

"Come here." Bai Zhongzheng grabbed a finger bone and said, "Sure enough, there is, but it's all broken." ”

When the torture technique picked up the phalanges, he found that the phalanges were a little weird, and there were some traces of depression on them, but because it was too dark, he couldn't see clearly, so he had to pick up the lighter, and at the same time motioned Bai Zhongzheng to stare ahead, in case the lighter was ignited, it would attract the worm, and then handed the phalanges to He Chenxue, who had a single pupil, and asked her to carefully observe the traces on the phalanges.

He Chenxue took it in his hand, looked at it for a while, and said with certainty: "The dents in the bones are not gnawed out, judging from the marks on them and those tiny holes on the surface of the bones, they should be caused by some kind of strong acid." ”

"You mean, it's the acid that melts the surface of the bones?" ”

He Chenxue nodded: "Almost, in the mid-90s of the 20th century, Koreans had a popular way to make a kind of bone jade, which is actually a fossil ornament, which is used to carve and make ornaments, but because it is too brittle, if you want to shape, you can only use acid, which requires superb craftsmanship. ”

Bai Zhongzheng, who was in front, turned around and said, "Turn off the fire, the insects are coming." ”

The torture technique immediately turned off the lighter, and heard Bai Zhongzheng say again: "So, that kind of insect will either secrete acid, or it can only use strong acid to deal with it, but where do we get strong acid now?" ”

Torture slowly got up: "There's no way, only I'm going to try." ”

Just as the torture technique was about to advance, Bai Zhongzheng suddenly grabbed him, subconsciously looked at his feet and said, "Wait......"