Chapter 40: Van Meng's Choice
After Fan Meng finished speaking, he sat down, fed He Yuejia water, and said in a low voice: "Wait, you will be saved soon." ”
The torture technique looked at the others: "It's already here, how to go down the road below, you choose for yourself, I will go to the Jade Cave, my purpose is to find clues, but Fan Meng needs a person who understands medical skills, otherwise, even if he enters the medicine cave, he doesn't know how to make medicine, Eighth Master, you go, isn't your purpose also a medicine cave?" ”
Yuan Zhenba nodded: "I'll go with Fan Meng." ”
After speaking, Yuan Zhenba looked at Xu You: "How do you go?" ”
Xu You said lightly: "My task is complete, I can go however I want, however, they don't seem to welcome me, so I'll follow Fan Meng too." ”
At this time, Samuchuan spoke: "I also have to follow Fan Meng, I have to save Safeng!" You! You have to come with us! You're the only one here who knows something about 'peerless'. ”
After Samuchuan finished speaking, he pointed at Kent, Kent was stunned, and the torture saw Fan Meng frowning slightly, and wanted to say something but swallowed it back, after all, he knew that the primary purpose of Samuchuan now was to save Safeng.
"Okay, that's it." Fan Meng looked at the people around him, "I, Yuejia, Chenxue, Samuchuan, Safeng, Kent, Yuan Zhenba and Xu You each took two small boats to the medicine cave, and the four of you went to the jade cave......"
Speaking of this, Fan Meng paused, sighed, looked at the torture technique, and said: "Torture, but I still hope that you will consider my words, get the clues, or save your life, as for how to do it, I hope you will discuss it with me in the end." Because according to the record of Xing Renju, the three caves have independent exits, we go in separately, and we can only leave separately, if it goes well, we will eventually be in Changsha, or in Harbin, no matter what you want to do next with clues, I hope you will discuss with me first, and then make a decision. ”
Xingshu nodded: "Don't worry, I will, you guys pay attention to safety." ”
After the torture was finished, he helped Tan Tong who was on Fan Meng's boat, and then motioned to Yan Gang and Bai Zhongzheng to paddle towards the water hole on the far left, while Fan Meng was standing there, frowning, and after watching them enter, he looked at the right side and said, "Let's go too, we have to hurry." ”
Fan Meng sat down and subconsciously glanced at He Yuejia, who was next to He Chenxue, He Yuejia showed a smile, a smile of relief, while Fan Meng just shook his head, picked up the oars and said, "Eighth master, let's go." ”
Yuan Zhenba nodded, and glanced at the four people on the boat next to him, Samuchuan, Safeng, Kent and Xu You, of course Samuchuan was very reluctant to be with them, especially Xu You, a godly chattering guy, but in order to save Safeng, this was also a helpless move.
After the two boats entered the underground river tunnel one after the other, the speed of the boat began to slow down after only ten meters of distance, basically standing still, because the top of the tunnel was too low, only one meter three from the water surface, even the people sitting on the boat could not completely straighten up, plus it was originally against the current, so it was quite difficult for Fan Meng, Yuan Zhenba, Samuchuan, Xu You, and Kent to row the boat, and it was very good to keep the boat from being washed back by the current.
After a "bang", Fan Meng looked back at Yuan Zhenba with difficulty, and found that Yuan Zhenba took out a mountaineering pickaxe and picked it at the top of the tunnel, and said at the same time: "You continue to row, I grabbed the mountaineering pickaxe and pulled it forward, and I could only move it up one meter at a time!" ”
After Yuan Zhenba finished speaking, he also turned back to the boat behind him and shouted, "Crazy Xu! With a pickaxe! You're in the back, in case my side can't hold on! Your boat can still withstand us! ”
Although Xu You took out a mountaineering pickaxe and fastened it up, this posture was also very uncomfortable.
However, at this time, Xu You's eyes kept falling on Fan Meng in front of him, thinking about something, and then Xu You suddenly seemed to understand something, sneered at Fan Meng's back, and then struggled to clasp the top of the tunnel and pull the boat forward.
In the tunnel on the far left, the situation faced by the four torturers was similar, but fortunately, the tunnel became narrower and narrower, so narrow that the people on the boat could touch both sides of the cave wall as soon as they stretched their hands, Yan Gang and Tan Tong both took out mountaineering pickaxes and buckled them on both sides of the cave wall, which was much less labor-saving than raising their hands to kill the top of the tunnel.
The torture technique put the strong light on the bow of the boat, and watched the tunnel in front of him getting shorter and shorter, so he had to hold down the top and grab it, and turned around and said: "The front has become shorter, we must lie on our stomach or lie down, otherwise we won't be able to pass!" ”
Bai Zhongzheng frowned and looked ahead: "How come these things designed by this cast iron immortal are all the same way?" Isn't this similar to the mechanism in the strange building below the peerless building? ”
The torture technique changed his posture with difficulty, and then lay in front, Yan Gang was lying on one side, Bai Zhongzheng was lying down, and finally Tan Tong felt uncomfortable after changing his posture for a long time, so he simply said: "Xiaobai, can I lie on you?" ”
Bai Zhongzheng didn't turn his head, but responded coldly: "You dare!" ”
"So what do I do? The boat is so much space! Tan Tong was dissatisfied, and squeezed his body hard as he spoke, "Why don't we change positions?" I'll go to you and lie down, and you'll come to me and hang on the side of the boat? ”
Yan Gang said in front of him: "Among the four of us, you are the fattest!" You're alone, we're a half-human, self-inflicted. ”
Tan Tong continued to shake his body there, subconsciously tucked his abdomen, and put his big belly inside: "I thought I was willing to be blessed?" When people reach middle age, they are like this, and when you reach my age, you will be like this! ”
Bai Zhongzheng squinted at the side and said, "You are mutated." ”
"What do you mean?" Tan Tong was dissatisfied, and squeezed his body towards Bai Zhongzheng.
Bai Zhongzheng said: "There is an American named Peter Parker, should you know him?" ”
Tan Tong recalled: "It sounds familiar, who? What does it have to do with me? ”
The torture technique already knew what Bai Zhongzheng was going to say in advance, so he couldn't help laughing, but he struggled to hold the edge of the death with a mountaineering pickaxe, and pulled the boat forward with Tan Tong.
Bai Zhongzheng said: "This person named Peter Parker, he was bitten by a spider and mutated, and he became Spider-Man, and then I look at you like this, I guess it's about the same, and he was bitten by something, Hades, you say, what is the appearance of the Cannon King?" ”
Yan Gang said in front: "I was bitten by a pig!" ”
Bai Zhongzheng held back a smile and looked at Tan Tong: "This is what he said, not what I said." ”
Tan Tong kicked Yan Gang's buttocks: "What do you mean, kid?" Who was bitten by a pig? ”
Yan Gang turned around and smiled: "This is Xiaobai's head, what does it have to do with me!" ”
When Tan Tong was about to speak again, the torture technique suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Don't speak, listen carefully!" ”
The four of them immediately quieted down, listening carefully to the movements around them, and at this moment, Tan Tong's stomach "gurgled" out of place, and then Bai Zhongzheng looked at him in horror, because his head was next to Tan Tong's ass.
Bai Zhongzheng glared at Tan Tong and told him with his eyes: If you dare to release Lao Tzu! I'm sure I'll kill you!
Tan Tong looked at him with a sad face and shook his head slowly, indicating that he shouldn't be able to hold on for long.
Bai Zhongzheng immediately covered his nose, and Tan Tong then let out a long fart, and then the fart echoed in the tunnel.
Both Xingshu and Yan Gang turned their heads to look at Tan Tong behind them, Tan Tong showed an embarrassed expression, and then Xingshu and Yan Gang nodded in sympathy to Bai Zhongzheng, who was covering his mouth and nose and was about to suffocate.
At this moment, the torture technique that turned back and Yan Gang did not notice that something slowly floated on the surface of the water in front of the bow......
Xingshu frowned and looked at Tan Tong: "Cannon King, listen to your voice, are you pulling on your pants?" ”
Tan Tong smiled embarrassedly, smiled and smiled, his smile froze, his eyes widened, and he raised his hand to point to the position of the bow of the boat.
Looking at Tan Tong's torture skills and Tan Tong realized something, he turned his head sharply and saw a skull propped up with a black iron rod floating on the surface of the water at the bow of the ship!
Xingshu and Yan Gang just stared at the skull, and they didn't dare to move, they just grabbed the pickaxe with their hands to prevent the boat from being washed back under the action of the current, but at this time, they almost had the same thought, that is, to simply let go and let the boat be washed back, away from the ghost thing in front of them who didn't know what it was.
Bai Zhongzheng looked up slightly, and Tan Tong whispered behind him: "What is that?" Organs? Isn't it that when we move, that thing shoots something? ”
Bai Zhongzheng said: "It should be." ”
Tan Tong swallowed his saliva: "What will it shoot?" Can we get out of it? ”
Bai Zhongzheng said: "Except for not being able to shoot out a fart, anything is possible." ”
Tan Tong glanced at Bai Zhongzheng: "When is it, you are still teasing me, I am not ......"
As soon as Tan Tong said this, he heard the sound of something coming out of the water behind the stern, and immediately turned his head to look, this look didn't matter, just saw another skull slowly floating up from the bubbling water, and then stood there steadily.
Tan Tong swallowed his saliva, calmed down, and lightly kicked the torture technique in front of him with his foot: "Hey, torture, there is also a skull coming out of the back of the stern, which looks exactly like the one in front!" ”
The torture technique glanced back, and immediately turned his head back: "Don't act rashly, we don't know what these two things are, we only know that we are trapped, and the reason why the tunnel will get narrower and narrower is to trap us here." ”
Yan Gang nodded, Bai Zhongzheng looked around and said, "It seems that the boat placed there is a trap, if you don't use the boat and dive over, maybe it won't be so troublesome." But strangely, why is this not mentioned in Xing Renju's records? When he and that Miao man came, didn't they take a boat? Won't you be trapped if you don't take a boat? ”
Torture shook his head: "Don't worry, don't panic, let's take a look around slowly, normally speaking, this kind of mechanism is not the kind of immediate death, if it is immediately fatal, the moment this ghost thing comes out, we are finished." ”
Bai Zhongzheng said: "That's right, take your time to look around, don't let go of any detail." ”
With that, the four of them began to split up and look for each other on the wall of the cave near them.
At the same time, in the tunnel on the far right, the boat where Fan Meng was and the boat where Samuchuan and the others were were also separated by a fence that fell from the top of the tunnel - just a few minutes ago, at the same time that Xingshu and the others saw the skull coming out, the people on the two boats who were originally struggling to move forward heard the sound of the mechanism coming out of the top of the tunnel turning, and then, Yuan Zhenba, who was sitting in the stern of the boat, saw the shaking fence above with a flashlight, and immediately subconsciously grabbed the pickaxe and pulled it forward. Moved the boat he was sitting on half a meter to the front.
Subsequently, the fence fell from the top of the tunnel, directly hitting the previous stern position, and directly separated the boat of Fan Meng and the four people on the boat of Samuchuan, Xu You and others.
After the fence fell, Fan Meng, He Chenxue, and He Yuejia subconsciously looked back, and Yuan Zhenba let go and let the boat lean directly on the fence along the current, because no matter how fast the current was, there was a fence relationship, and the boat could not rush back, and he could also take the opportunity to rest.
Samuchuan, who was on another boat outside the fence, grabbed the fence with both hands and shook it desperately, asking, "What's the matter?" How did this thing come about? Come! Do yourself a favor and lift this thing up! ”
At the stern of the boat, Moto-sin Hachi motioned for the others not to move, because as soon as the others approached, the boat would lose its balance, and he and Samukawa worked together to try to lift the fence one mile and one away.
After trying several times, Yuan Zhenba let go, panted and shook his head: "Can't lift it!" ”
Samuchuan shook the fence desperately there, turned his head to Xu You and Kent and said, "Come here and help!" ”
When Kent was about to get up, he was held down by Xu You, and Xu You said: "If he passes, the two of you will be heavier than me, and the bow of the boat will be warped, and if you exert yourself harder, the boat will definitely capsize." ”
Then, Samuchuan quickly took off his clothes and jumped directly into the water, and it took a long time to float, continuing to hold on to the railing and shaking, scolding loudly.
Xu You leaned on the side of the boat and said: "It's useless, people make a fence, they must be able to think that someone will dive down, and they will definitely not be able to swim underneath." ”
After Xu You finished speaking, Yuan Zhenba remembered something and asked Fan Meng: "Fan Meng, have you written these in the records of Xing Renju?" ”
Fan Meng shook his head: "No, it was recorded that the dock was broken, and the details were not written, it should be deliberate." ”
Yuan Zhenba frowned and said: "It seems that Xing Renju really deliberately made reservations in the record, which can be regarded as the second setup. ”
Xu You asked outside the fence: "Eighth Master, your ancestor also came here back then, why didn't he pass down the road map to you, or oral transmission from generation to generation?" ”
Yuan Zhenba shook his head: "Master Zu just passed down the word that this place is a forbidden area, that's all." ”
"Hahaha! Retribution! Well, this is retribution! Xu Youzai smiled strangely, "If you don't listen to your ancestors, you will suffer in front of you!" ”
Samuchuan climbed into the boat, sat there and frowned at Safon, without saying a word, and Kent was even more anxious than them, looked back at the cave and said, "Why don't we leave from the other caves?" ”
Just when Yuan Zhenba was about to say something, Fan Meng preemptively spoke: "Judging from the current situation, this is a good way, that, Samuchuan." ”
Samuchuan raised his eyes and looked at Fan Meng through the fence.
Fan Meng said again: "Don't worry, I went to the medicine cave and asked the eighth master to find a medicine that can heal your brother, and I will definitely bring it out to you." ”
Samuchuan didn't say anything, he was in turmoil now.
Kent looked at this and that, and no one was willing to pay attention to him, and when he finally looked at Xu You, he found that Xu looked at Fan Meng with a strange look.
"So be it." Fan Meng sighed and said, "Let's keep walking, you wait for us, if we find the switch of the mechanism, turn it on, you come in, if you don't find it, about an hour, if the fence is still not open after an hour, you will leave by other roads, but it is better to go to the cave on the far left, and they will be the safest, do you have any opinions?" ”
Yuan Zhenba looked at Samuchuan: "Now it seems that this is the only way, what do you think?" ”
Samuchuan closed his eyes for a long time and nodded, but Xu Youze just sneered.
Fan Meng took a deep breath: "Eighth Master, let's go, hurry up." ”
Yuan Zhenba nodded to Samuchuan, and after saying "pay attention to safety", he turned around and used a pickaxe to slash at the sides, and continued to pull the boat forward.
Samuchuan, who was bare* at the bow of the ship outside the fence, could only watch the boat of Fan Meng and the others gradually move away through the fence, and finally could only see a point of light swaying slightly in the darkness in the distance.
At this time, Xu Youcai stretched his waist behind and said, "Let's go, go to the cave on the far left, or go to the middle one." ”
"He said, wait an hour." Samuchuan turned sideways and said coldly, "Don't play tricks!" ”
Xu You smiled and said, "Tricks? Who? I? Am I playing tricks? Hey, don't you really believe that the bastard of Van Mena will come back, do you? Or is it that even if he sees the switch, will he really open the fence and let you in? ”
Kent looked back and forth at the two of them, not understanding what Xu You's words meant.
Of course, Samuchuan didn't understand: "What do you mean by this?" ”
"Nothing!" Xu You smiled, "I mean let you use your brain, so let's do it, it's not bad for this hour anyway, then let's wait an hour, and in an hour, I'm revealing the mystery for you!" Now, I'll sleep for a while! ”
After Xu finished speaking, he lay down on the boat in the back, hummed an unknown tune, and closed his eyes.
In the cave on the left, the torture and others finally found the dark pattern on the top of the tunnel, the original torture technique looked for the first time, but did not find it, and then when he used a flashlight to find the skull, the strong light directly entered the skull's eye sockets, and the light reflected by the mirror-like thing in its eye sockets found the top of the tunnel, and through the special refraction of the light, the patterns at the top of the tunnel were revealed.
After seeing the contents of the patterns above, everyone's faces sank, after all, this mechanism can be summed up in two words, that is-choice.
Either the people in the bow of the ship live, or the people in the stern live, this is the choice of this organ.
"The above means that if one of the skulls in the bow and stern shoots a poisoned arrow, the other won't shoot, right?" Tan Tong looked at it intently, "Moreover, there must be someone who stands up and hits the arrow at the front, if no one blocks it, the poisoned arrow of one of the skulls does not hit anything, but hits the other skull on the opposite side, and the two skulls will spray venom at the same time, and then a boatload of people will die." ”
Xingshu nodded: "That's what the picture means, but it's not too clear." ”
Tan Tong thought for a while and said: "That's simple, two ways, the first way, is that the four of us get out of the way, sit on both sides of the boat, and make way in the middle, and then the two people closest to the skull prepare their backpacks, once the poisoned arrows are shot, after shooting from one end into the skull at the other end, the people at the bow and stern of the boat will immediately use their backpacks to cover the skull, so that the venom will not be sprayed." ”
Yan Gang nodded after listening: "What else?" ”
"The second way is to ......," Tan Tong said, carrying his backpack on his chest, "Stuff all your pickaxes into it, and then load other things, and choose someone like me to stand in front, the strength of the poisoned arrow can't penetrate the backpack and all the hard objects inside, right?" In this way, isn't it solved once and for all? ”
Bai Zhongzheng said: "The method is a good way, and it is the easiest way, but how do you know that the strength of the poisoned arrow will not penetrate the backpack and the hard objects inside?" What if? Isn't the man with the backpack dead? ”
Tan Tong immediately said: "Then choose the first method I said earlier!" ”
The torture technique said: "It's not that simple, according to the consistent practice of the Cast Iron Immortal, this is still a psychological trap. ”