Before going into the water, the three of them were reluctant to take a few more glances at the coral, which was indeed a treasure in the world, even if they folded off a section and brought it back to polish, it was worth a lot of money. However, for He Chenxue, she always believes that if jewelry does not have superior craftsmanship, it is better to maintain nature, after all, in today's world, it is too difficult to find craftsmen with miraculous skills. Although these things are good for criminal art, they are far from the standard of strange goods, and they will cause trouble for themselves if they swagger through the market.

Before re-entering the water, False Tree explained her reasoning that perhaps they would have to be hit by the current many times to reach several different caves in order to find the right passage.

"Of course, this is just my speculation, I'm just an assistant, what is your opinion?" Fake asked.

Xingshu nodded: "Agreed, it can only be like this, and we can't separate, that is to say, there is no way for people to be pioneers and spearheads, because once they are washed away, they can't return the same way, because this place can only go in and out, and we will definitely not be able to return to the first place." ”

The four of them were then hit by the current four times, but two of those four times were back to the first cave, two times back to the coral hole, and it wasn't until the fifth time they swam up to another small cave that they hadn't been to before.

However, when the four of them climbed ashore, they found that there was a pool of water on the opposite side of the shore, and the area of land that could be stepped on under their feet was less than five square meters, so they could barely stand down five people.

Xingshu looked at the fake branch, and then looked at Bai Zhongzheng, both of them shook their heads, everyone sighed, walked forward, and continued to jump into the waterhole in front, this time into the water, did not encounter the current, swam forward, and floated up again, and found that they were in a hole very similar to the previous cave, the only difference was that after turning over the place where you could stop and rest, what came into view was no longer a waterhole, but two.

"It's fun." Torture squatted down and saw, "How to choose?" ”

Fake Nazhi and Bai Zhongzheng both looked down at the ground, trying to judge which waterhole they entered from the water trails left by Liu Zhigang and the three treasure hunting experts, but fortunately, it was wet enough here, and the water trails did not disappear completely, and the direction they pointed to was the waterhole on the left.

"Left side." The false branch pointed to the left to enter the water, but was pulled by the torture technique, and then pointed to the shore between the left and right pools.

It took a step forward to see that there were also traces of water on the shore between the left and right sides, and immediately said, "You mean, in fact, the right path is on the right?" ”

Xingshu nodded: "Didn't you say that Liu Zhigang didn't believe you?" He tricked you into staying and guarding things, but he also knew that you were not a fool and would follow, and he also speculated that you would find this place, so he deliberately planted a maze here. ”

Bai Zhongzheng looked around: "This was originally a maze array, right?" ”

"Well, it's a maze array inside the ecstasy, they climb up from the water they came from, they will leave water traces, and they also know that we will judge the right path from this, so they simply jump into the water on the left first, and then slowly climb from the waterhole to the waterhole on the right." After the torture was finished, he thought about it carefully and said, "It should be like this." ”

Fake Nazhi smiled: "Okay, then listen to you, it's still the old way, I'll take the lead." ”

So saying, the false branch jumped in, and everyone followed, and then dived and swam and floated again, and when they reached the third cave, as expected by the torture technique, three pools appeared in the third cave.

Bai Zhongzheng couldn't help but curse when he saw this scene, and then said: "This time it's three, how to choose?" ”

Fake Nazhi looked at the ground full of water traces: "This time the ground is full of water traces, and it is impossible to tell which one they choose to go in, the four of us, it's really not good, gamble?" Going separately? ”

"Nope." Xingshu shook his head, "In this kind of place, separation is death, even if one of them finds the right path, the other people who find the wrong way will be more than lucky, and unless the remaining person is superhuman, the probability of survival is also very low without knowing what mechanism is in front of him." ”

Fake Nazhi nodded slightly, leaned directly on the cave wall next to him, pointed to the front and said, "Boss Xing, it's up to you." ”

In order to deceive them, Liu Zhigang and the others deliberately splashed out the water in the three pools, wetting the ground, so that they could not follow the water trails to find the right cave.

"I always felt that something was wrong." The torture technique looked around, wanting to step forward to take a closer look at the waterhole, but there was no place in front of him to put his feet, and even the shore edge between the three waterholes was too slippery to find anything to fix his body, and if he stepped on it, he would slide into the water.

Bai Zhongzheng asked, "Something is wrong with the water?" ”

"Yes." Torture took a step forward and squatted at the edge of the water to watch, "When we came here before, the water was not so green, the color of the water in these three pools was relatively green, as if there was moss, but the growth of moss and the premise of a glimmer of light can reflect such a strong green light in the water, which is not reasonable, unless there is sunlight shining into the ......"

As he spoke, Xingshu lay down and slid towards the shore in the middle of the three waterholes, Bai Zhongzheng grabbed his calf behind and pushed him forward, just at the moment when the upper body of Xingshu just slid past, a green shadow suddenly popped out of the water, and pounced directly towards Xingshu's face, Xingshu subconsciously raised his arm to block it, and Bai Zhongzheng immediately dragged his calf and dragged him back.

The torture technique waved its arms rapidly, but it couldn't shake off the thing that came out of the water, and then looked closely, only to find that it was actually a fish covered with green hair, and the most terrifying thing was that the fish had a mouthful of fangs, and it was biting the arm of the torture technique and not letting go.

He Chenxue was startled, stepped forward and hurriedly said, "Shake it off!" ”

"It's okay, I didn't bite through the wetsuit, I also wore a thickened thermal underwear inside the wetsuit, although the teeth of this thing are sharp, but there is a sandwich in the middle of the dry wetsuit, if it bites directly on my exposed skin, it is estimated that a piece of meat will be torn off by this thing." While the torture technique spoke, Bai Zhongzheng picked the fish off with a dagger, and then stabbed it on the body of the fish and raised it for others to see.

Just when Xingshu and He Chenxue were still wondering what kind of fish this was, Bai Zhongzheng and Fake Nazhi said almost in unison: "Medicine fish." ”

After speaking, the two of them glanced at each other, and the fake branch smiled, and Bai Zhongzheng continued: "If I bring this thing back, Guo Shizheng will definitely be crazy with joy." ”

"Why? Is it precious? He Chenxue stared at the fish carefully, and now the fish was still struggling on the dagger.

Bai Zhongzheng said: "I remember Guo Shizheng said, this fish is a drug variant, very rare, very rare, survival rate is quite low, is a kind of scavenging fish, the earliest legend is a kind of fish that lives at the bottom of the Yangtze River, the water flow is relatively stable, only some folk idle books have recorded, said that the first discovery was in the Song Dynasty, along the Yangtze River water flowed out, at that time only one was found, but in the end is not this kind of fish, because there is no atlas and detailed records, it is another story." He also said that this kind of fish is something that the Taoist priest made in the past, and in order to make alchemy and medicine, the Taoist priest will raise some animals, monkeys, rabbits, chickens, ducks, fish, etc., which is equivalent to the experimental animals used in scientific research now, and I don't know how to make this kind of fish, and it can reproduce, but the number of survivors is small, and it must be in a specific environment. ”

He Chenxue said: "How can you be sure that it is a medicine fish?" You also said that it is not accurately recorded. ”

The fake branch next to him said at this time: "That's because he thinks that this place has something to do with a certain Taoist priest, maybe the person who created this place is a Taoist priest, and the medicinal fish is only related to Taoist priests in the records." ”

Realizing the kind of alchemy stone around the lantern earlier, the torture technique immediately said, "That's right, Taoist, why didn't I think of it?" ”

He Chenxue turned to the three waterholes at this time: "So, one of them is a real passage, and the other two waterholes have this kind of fish that eats people?" ”

Xingshu looked at the waterhole: "No, you can't go down the three waterholes, this is another psychological hint, the real passage, if I guess correctly, it should be on it." ”

Fake Nazhi smiled at this time, leaned to the side and waited for the torture to continue.

He Chenxue asked, "Why is it on it?" ”

"Let's talk about the waterhole first, at first, we entered the cave with only one waterhole, we got into it, and then the second cave came up with two waterholes, and after we chose one of them, we came to the current cave and found three waterholes. Anyone who sees this scene will think that the real passage is still the waterway, and they still have to dive down the waterway, even if they find that there is that kind of medicine fish, they will think that there are two medicine fish like you, and one of them does not. As he spoke, he used a dagger to cut the fish into three pieces and threw them into three pools, and as soon as the fish body fell into the three pools, it was directly eaten by other medicinal fish hidden in the moss, and He Chenxue was stunned.

He Chenxue gasped: "So that's the case." ”

"And then, don't stop, go on, I wonder why you found out it's up there?" The fake branch said with a smile next to him.

"The color of the moss is too green, in this kind of cave, you can see this kind of moss that is incredibly green, unless there is a strong light, but there is only a glimmer of light here, when I slid over before, I just wanted to see what the top of the cave looked like, although I was attacked by a medicine fish, and I only looked at it when I dragged it back, but I still saw a hole in it, a hole without light." Torture pointed to the inside and said, "Other rays of light are irradiated from the small holes on the side, scattered on the cave wall, so it will form a glimmer of light, in fact, the person who made all this, in the final analysis, is to give some obvious hints to the people who come to hunt for treasures, the hint here is light, in the cave, to find the entrance, the first is to find the outlet, the second is to find the direction of the water flow, the third is to find the light, this is common sense, but in this cave, even if you find the light source, because the light is irradiated by the oblique plane, And because the scattering spreads, you won't be able to see the dark hole above for a while. ”

The fake branch nodded: "Then how can you see the entrance of the cave?" ”

Torture squatted down and pointed ahead: "I went over on my stomach, the scattered light source remained above, if I passed, maintained an average height, after the eyes adjusted to the light, they would not be able to see anything in the darker places, even if the place was not really that dark, just like in a night full of stars and a full moon, you are in a room with windows on all sides, and suddenly all the lights are turned off, and in those few seconds, your eyes will not be able to adjust for a while, and all you see is darkness." ”

Fake Nazhi nodded: "Yes, very smart." ”

Torture frowned and said, "You've been here, haven't you?" You know where the entrance is! ”

The fake branch just smiled, and then pointed to Bai Zhongzheng's crossbow and said, "Is your quasi-head good?" ”

Bai Zhongzheng took off the crossbow bow, put on a crossbow arrow and said: "It's okay, within ten meters, if I say that I want to shoot your right ear, it will definitely not hit your face." ”

After taking out the incendiary rod and lighting it, "I'll throw it up, and you will use a crossbow arrow to nail the incendiary rod into the cracks in the stones in the cave wall, no problem, right?" As soon as the words fell, the false branch was thrown up directly, and Bai Zhongzheng immediately turned around, pulled the motive, and the crossbow arrow immediately flew out, directly hitting the incendiary rod, nailing it to the crack in the stone.

The fake branch whistled and said with a smile: "Good skill! Rest yourselves. ”

As he spoke, he took out the ice axe, turned around and took a few steps, then stopped and rushed towards the waterhole, then jumped up and swung towards the opposite cave wall, raised the ice axe and chiseled it into the crack in the stone, fixed his body, and crawled towards it.

After more than twenty minutes, the fake branch put down a rope from above, and shouted on it at the same time: "Come up one by one, the copper buckle that holds the rope on it is very loose, I have to pull the rope, I can't bear the weight of more than one person, Miss He, you'd better be the first to get on, you tie your waist with a rope, I'll drag you up, but you have to be careful of the medicine fish in the pool." ”

He Chenxue tied it according to the request of the fake branch, and then climbed up without danger, and the fish that jumped out to attack was also pushed away with crossbow arrows by the combination of torture and Bai Zhongzheng.

At the same time that He Chenxue was dragged up, the torture technique pulled Bai Zhongzheng to the side, and said in a very low voice: "This person is not easy to deal with, if we are restrained by her, we can only completely obey her in the future." ”

After hearing this, the corners of Bai Zhongzheng's mouth raised, and he also replied in a low voice: "Boss Xing, you are very smart, you want to drag me into the bureau, but in fact, this fake branch can't restrain me, and I don't have the handle and weakness in her hands." ”

Xingshu nodded: "I know, I'm making a deal with you, no, it's a deal with the three of you, you, Guo Shiji and Kui Ye, I know that your purpose is also Qimen, in this case, I would rather believe you than believe them, that fake branch is a monster, and you are just a tiger and leopard jackal, in the face of this kind of multiple-choice question with only two options, I will definitely choose a tiger and leopard jackal." ”

Bai Zhongzheng looked at the torture technique, and the punishment technique also looked at him, and then smiled: "You think about it, the clue is here, and I am also the most ideal partner, it is better than cooperating with that fake branch, okay?" You don't even know who this person is, no, if he's a man or a woman. ”

While the two were talking, the rope was lowered again, Bai Zhongzheng turned his head to look at the rope hanging there, didn't say anything, just nodded, turned around and grabbed the rope and climbed up.

After Bai Zhongzheng climbed up, the torture technique stood there with his eyes closed, and began to think about the things before and after, in short, there is no clue to find out the identity of the fake Nazhi now, as long as this person does not harm them, the next thing can only go all out to solve Liu Zhigang's matter......

Waiting for the torture technique to climb up along the rope, he was just dragged up by Bai Zhongzheng, and when he didn't stand firmly, he was stunned again, because what appeared in front of him this time was a Taoist temple, to be precise, a simple Taoist temple built in a cave and not gorgeous.

However, there is only one main gate in that Taoist temple, in which the main hall and the entrance corridor are combined, and they are not separated like ordinary Taoist temples, it should be that the cave is not big, and there is no way to open a certain distance according to the rules.

He Chenxue had been standing at the door for a long time, and Bai Zhongzheng was there slowly collecting the rope, looking at the fake branch as usual, leaning to the side and watching the torture.

The torture technique stepped forward and read the three words on the plaque above the Taoist temple: "Iron Immortal Temple." ”

As he spoke, the torturer stepped forward, touched the buildings, and then retracted his hand like an electric shock, and said, "Iron? Are you kidding? ”

He Chenxue also stepped forward to touch and watch, and walked back and forth a few times at the door of the building and said, "It's not all made of cast iron, but basically all the places where iron can be used are used." ”

"Although the frequency of iron use in the Tang Dynasty was much stronger than before, it was not to this extent, right? Someone would be crazy enough to use iron on buildings, and so much. "The torture technique continued to touch up and down," but the architectural style can't be seen to be from the Tang Dynasty. ”

Bai Zhongzheng, who had put away the rope, stepped forward and said, "Why? ”

"The overall layout of the architectural style of the Taoist temple is similar to that of the palace, but the area is different, this Taoist temple has no clear signs at all, there is no obvious carved pattern or anything like that, if it is not in this place, take it out, you let me judge with the naked eye, I can't tell what era it is." Xingshu said, walked to the gate, squatted down and looked at the dust shaken off under the door, and affirmed, "Liu Zhigang and they have entered, it seems that we are on the right path." ”

In the distance, the fake branch spoke, "Open the door and see what's inside." ”

Torture nodded, pushed the door open, and dodged to one side, and the others also hid on both sides, but the door did not touch any mechanism, and it was quiet, nothing.

The torture technique slowly probed in, and saw that there were no statues or anything like that in the so-called Taoist temple, but corpses and bones all over the ground, covered with cobwebs everywhere, and there was a mess around, scattered with various objects, many of which could not be named, like some large tools.

Torture raised his hand to signal the others not to move, and he slowly stepped over the threshold and walked in, who knew that as soon as he took a step, he realized that the floor tile under his feet was moving.

"Oops!" The torture technique was shocked, looked down, and when he looked up and wanted to withdraw, he heard a strange roar from the Taoist temple!