At the moment when Sikong Yan fell, the torture technique rushed over, and he was about to pounce on it, but he was restrained by Wan Qingquan, and at the same time that the torture technique tried to open Wan Qingquan, Sikong Yan had already fallen down with his own scream.

Just when the torturer thought that Sikong Yan was dead, he saw Sikong Yan's entire body hanging in the deep well under the iron plate - he still had a rope tied around his waist.

At this time, the torture technique understood why Sikong Yan had to do that action of touching his waist before.

"Don't get excited, how could I kill such an important person?" Wan Qingquan let go of the torture technique, "If he dies, our follow-up plan will not be able to continue." ”

Sikong Yan hung in the deep well, swaying from side to side, screaming like a woman, and even covering his face with his hands, not daring to open his eyes to see.

Xingshu looked at the deep well covered by the iron plate before, and asked Wan Qingquan, "What kind of place is this?" ”

"Wealth, the wealth left by the Cast Iron Immortal." Wan Qingquan walked to the bonfire next to him, grabbed a burning wooden stick from it, threw it into the dark deep well, and said, "This mine is hundreds of years old, and in addition to iron ore, there is also a high-grade Dansha mine below. ”

Torture watched as the torch fell into the deep well, faintly illuminating the circular staircase next to the wall of the well, and when it fell to the bottom of the fire, the torch ignited the bonfire at the bottom, and the moment the bonfire burned, the entire deep well erupted flames upwards like the dragon's bloody mouth.

The flames sprayed all the way to a position more than three meters below Sikong Yan's feet, which frightened Sikong Yan to scream again.

"Carbon monoxide?" Xingshu frowned, "Is there only iron ore and dansha ore down there?" ”

Only in the process of iron ore refining, after the co-solvent reduces its melting point, a small amount of sulfur contained in iron will be burned in oxygen to produce sulfur dioxide, and sulfur dioxide will become sulfur trioxide after oxidation in the air.

Sulfur trioxide will explode when it encounters water under the premise of sealing, and the deep well below is equivalent to a sealed space, and the hilly area has always been wet, if it is not released at any time, it is like a huge bomb buried underground.

However, the torture does not understand, why can it be burned?

Xingshu looked at Wan Qingquan: "You guys are actually smelting iron below?" Are you crazy? ”

"Combustion is the best way to release toxic substances, otherwise, the descendants of the cast iron immortals hundreds of years ago would not have deliberately built such a strong deep well, and its purpose was not only to facilitate transportation up and down." Wan Qingquan stepped forward and pulled the rope to untie Sikong Yan, "It's humid here, and fog will be produced at night all year round, plus the low air pressure in the hilly area during this time, if it is not volatilized by combustion, not to mention people and animals in the entire valley, even plants will all die." ”

After Sikong Yan was untied, he immediately hid behind the torture technique, staring at Wan Qingquan with frightened eyes, and grabbed the corner of the clothes behind the torture technique with one hand, as if he had something to say.

Wan Qingquan turned around and got off the open stone slab next to him, quickly returned, took out three gas masks, and threw two of them to Xingshu and Sikong Yan: "Don't you want to know what is going on down there?" I can show you around, but I have to be clear, once you go down the stairs, you are in the same boat as us, and if you don't work with us, you will never be able to return to the surface. ”

The torture technique was silent, but put on a gas mask, and said in a sullen voice: "Lead the way!" ”

Sikong Yan hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that he had to put on the torture technique, he had to put it on, but he still followed the torture technique closely, and he almost swore in his heart that he would not leave the torture technique for half a step for the rest of his life......

At the same time that Wan Qingquan led the torture technique down the circular staircase in the deep well, Chen Taidong, who was at the other end of this strange town, also stepped into a strange Taoist temple, of course he didn't know that the appearance of this Taoist temple was exactly the same as the one where the torture technique was located, and he didn't know that the torture technique had now entered the deep well in the middle of the Taoist temple's courtyard.

Because at this time, he was also standing on the edge of the deep well where he was in the Taoist temple, looking at the dark well, recalling everything Tang Sirong had said to him decades ago.

The difference between the deep well in front of Chen Taidong and the one facing the torture technique is that in addition to the fact that there is no huge iron plate at the upper end, there is also a strong smell of Chinese medicine coming from the deep well, which is very pungent.

Chen Taidong took a flashlight and shone it into the deep well, but he couldn't see the bottom, and when he went to the edge of the well wall, he saw a human-shaped cave dug there, and the cave was also full of blood-red Buddha statues, each of which was of different heights and sizes, but some had been completed, and some seemed to be still being shaped.

"Golden body?" Chen Taidong looked at it carefully, shook his head and said to himself, "No, where is the golden body is blood-red......" As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Taidong remembered something, lay down, and shone a flashlight on the one in the nearest cave, "Is it the flesh Buddha!?" ”

"It's an iron statue of Dansha!" A woman's voice came from the Taoist temple, Chen Taidong was startled, and subconsciously raised a flashlight to shine in the direction of the sound source, and then saw a woman wearing a black cloak walking out of the Taoist temple hall and walking straight towards him.

When Chen Taidong saw the woman's face clearly, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Sirong!?" How could you ......"

Tang Sirong, who walked up to Chen Taidong, uncovered her cloak and looked at Chen Taidong coldly: "You are finally here." ”

Chen Taidong looked at Tang Sirong's appearance, and couldn't help but raise his hand and point at her face: "How could you ......?"

Tang Sirong said coldly: "How can I not be old at all, right?" ”

Chen Taidong nodded: "This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible to happen, it must be an illusion that my poison has not yet been resolved." ”

"You can touch my face." Tang Sirong's tone was still cold, "Is it the same as touching my skin back then?" Like a girl. ”

After speaking, Tang Sirong maintained that stiff and cold expression, and a series of dry laughs erupted from her nose, making Chen Taidong feel uncomfortable.

Chen Taidong still couldn't accept the facts he saw in front of him: "Sirong, how is this possible? ”

"Decades ago, you said, you can do anything for me, right?" Tang Sirong looked into Chen Taidong's eyes, "You didn't have the opportunity to fulfill your promise back then, but now the opportunity has come, are you willing?" Are you willing to do anything for me? ”

Chen Taidong didn't listen to Tang Sirong's words at all, he still thought that everything he saw in front of him was an illusion, he was a little unstable, but Tang Sirong grabbed him, and the moment he grabbed him, Chen Taidong also grabbed Tang Sirong's arm.

At the moment when Chen Taidong grabbed his arm, his eyes were on his hand, and then moved from his hand to Tang Sirong's shoulder, and then to Tang Sirong's face, he raised his hand to touch Tang Sirong's cheek, although it was cold, but he could clearly feel that there was a real person standing in front of him, not a formless, empty form.

At the moment when Chen Taidong took his hand away, Tang Sirong grabbed his wrist: "Answer me, is what you said back then still count?" Back then, I hinted at you to follow me to create the future, but you refused, because you like to live freely, and you don't like constraints. ”

Chen Taidong shook off Tang Sirong's hand, took a few steps back, shook his head and said, "No, you are not Tang Sirong, it is impossible for such a thing to happen if you are not old." ”

Tang Sirong smiled dryly: "The facts are in front of you, why don't you want to believe it?" ”

Chen Taidong felt that his head was even more dizzy at this time, and he grabbed Tang Sirong's wrist again: "You give me ......"

Tang Sirong said coldly: "Yes, I poisoned you again, this is the only way to calm you down completely, Taidong, get some sleep, you are old, even if you have less sleep, you shouldn't stay up late." ”

After Tang Sirong finished speaking, she broke the fingers that Chen Taidong was holding her wrist and watched Chen Taidong fall to the ground softly.

……

In the deep well of the Taoist temple at the other end, following the torture technique of Wan Qingquan down, I also saw the humanoid caves around the well wall and the Buddha statues in the caves, because the surface of the Buddha statues in the cave is blood-red, and the moment the flames rose before, they merged with the fiery red flame light, resulting in the torture art standing at the mouth of the deep well did not perceive the existence of these.

Golden body? No, the golden body is not this kind of practice, and there can be no such thing in Taoist temples. Torture looked at the things cautiously as he walked down.

Sikong Yan looked extremely frightened, followed the torture technique closely, and stepped on the shoes of the torture technique several times.

When they came to the bottom of the well, Wan Qingquan motioned for them to move forward, because there was still a bonfire burning in the center of the bottom of the well that was used to volatilize gases, and in the bonfire, the torture technique found some bone joints that were not completely burned to ashes, judging from the size and shape of the bone joints, they should be human, not animal.

Xingshu turned to look at the humanoid cave, then looked at the bonfire, and asked, "What is placed here is not a golden body, nor a physical body Buddha, but an iron statue of Dansha!" ”

"You're very knowledgeable." Wan Qingquan was slightly surprised, "I even know the Dansha Iron Statue." ”

"At the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, China has entered the Iron Age, and the cast iron technology far exceeds that of other countries in the world for at least a thousand years, so now some people call the cast iron technology the fifth great invention of our China, but so far, no one has systematically sorted out the cast iron civil and military affairs, but I know Professor Wang of an industrial university, who once wrote a paper on China's large-scale cast iron civil and military affairs, and wrote about the ancient large iron Buddha statues and iron statues at the beginning, but he didn't know that there was such a thing as Dansha iron statues, After all, he's not an insider. ”

Wan Qingquan said with a smile: "Even if you are an insider, there are only a few people who know about the Dansha Iron Statue, because only the Southwest Tietang has this kind of refining and shaping technology." ”

Sikong Yan doesn't understand what a Dansha iron statue is, and he doesn't understand the value of this thing. Because of China's advanced iron casting technology, ancient China has become the world's largest country in the manufacture of large and extra-large iron, at least there are many large iron tools that have been completely preserved, such as the Yellow River in the Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan Iron Ox, the Northern Song Dynasty Jiayou period of the Yuquan Temple Iron Tower, located in Cangzhou in the Later Zhou Dynasty cast iron lions, etc., these are still intact to this day, and leave a relatively complete historical data of large ironware.

After all, at that time, it was not easy to cast a relatively complete iron statue, so it was impossible to coat a layer of dansha on the surface and keep it not falling off, so it was impossible to do it at all, so it was found later that some very rare small iron tools in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the appearance of the dansha had already fallen off, and only a little impurities left by the dansha could be detected from the residual iron tire mud.

In the Tang Dynasty, because of the prevalence of Buddhism, many monasteries began to entrust craftsmen to cast iron Buddha, because the Han Dynasty was the first peak of the development of iron in Chinese history, during this period, the smelting and casting technology of iron tools has been basically mature, and the daily life of the people in China has been all over the iron tools, and the Tang Dynasty represents the second peak of iron development, its social economy, productivity level, etc. have reached the top of the ancient feudal society, so the iron Buddha in the Tang Dynasty is the most representative, and the Dansha iron statue has also been developed at this stage, However, it is a pity that the Dansha iron statue was characterized as an alien for a period of time, and was even called an evil Buddha, which was banned by the imperial court at that time.

As for why it is defined as an evil Buddha? It is entirely because during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, there was a cult that claimed to be authentic Buddhism in the Central Plains, and these people have raised the Buddha with living blood.

In the beginning, this cult only used the blood of animals, but then it gradually developed to use human blood, and then ordinary human blood could not satisfy them, and they even began to use the blood of newborn babies, and in the Central Plains alone, more than 100 newborn babies disappeared within half a year.

Although it took less than three days for the entire cult to be wiped out, countless animal and human bones were found under the seat of the evil Buddha they worshipped.

At this point, the iron statue of Dansha was also explicitly banned, and even some skilled craftsmen were implicated and could clearly say that those who had nothing to do with the cult were ordered to change careers, and those who were not clear were either directly imprisoned or immediately dragged out and beheaded, and the common people were also excited by the cult's indiscriminate killing of innocent people, and for a period of time, even if they saw a craftsman who cast iron, they would immediately report to the official.

"Although it was explicitly forbidden at that time, secretly, some of the surviving craftsmen continued to find ways to shape this special iron tool, because for them, how to keep the dansha outside the iron statue from falling off for a hundred years is the biggest problem, because it can't be done at all!" Wan Qingquan said this, a smug look appeared on his face, "But we did it." ”

The torturer asked, "Is it using modern technology?" ”

"Nope." Wan Qingquan denied, "We used the method left by the Cast Iron Immortal. ”

"Sure enough." Xingshu looked at Wan Qingquan, "The Cast Iron Immortal should be the Khitan prince, right?" To be exact, it should be that he replaced the Khitan prince, the real Khitan prince, who had already died in the Heaven and Earth Mansion, which was originally a bureau laid down by the cast iron fairy himself, and its purpose was to replace him and use the identity of the prince to complete his series of dreams. ”

Wan Qingquan grinned and said: "You finally figured this out, let me put it this way, the cult that worshiped the evil Buddha that appeared in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty was also founded by the Cast Iron Immortal, and its purpose was to study iron tools." ”

Xingshu was stunned for a moment, looked at the Buddha statues around him, and suddenly the video screen he saw in the villa flashed in his mind, and he couldn't help but say: "These Dansha iron statues should be called Dansha Iron Buddha, you sealed people inside, right!?" You're just a bunch of brutes! ”

Wan Qingquan turned a deaf ear to the scolding of the torture technique, just walked up the stairs, came to the human-shaped cave, and gently stroked the iron statue with his hand: "In fact, how to make the dansha fall on the iron for a hundred years without falling off, it is not too difficult, the difficulty is that now this kind of iron is cast, and it can't be sold for any price, after all, if you want to make old on the iron now, it is basically impossible, once someone detects the fetal mud, it will immediately detect the accurate age of the iron or iron statue." ”

Sikong Yan heard that the iron statues inside were all real people, so he shrank his neck in fright, stared around, and subconsciously hid behind the torture technique.

Xingshu frowned: "Then why did you put a living person in it to make a dansha iron statue?" ”

"First of all, people need to work here, but working in this kind of environment, the life span is not too long, and even if they can live for a long time, it is impossible to let them leave, so we can only do this and let them play their greatest value." Wan Qingquan gently stroked the iron statue, "Didn't you find that this kind of Buddha statue is actually not quite the same as ours in China?" Not only are they different, but they are also strange and varied, because these are all custom-made products from collaborators from all over the world, and of course, the company that places the most orders is a company in Thailand. ”

Sikong Yan was dumbfounded when he heard this, and blurted out: "Gu Man Tong? ”

Wan Qingquan shook his head: "No, it is made of babies, we use adults, this kind of thing is now very popular among the rich in Southeast Asia, and even in South America and North America, there are people who secretly worship it, known as the Iron Buddha!" ”

"The Iron Buddha?" The torture technique looked up, "It turns out that this kind of thing is called the Iron Clothed Buddha?" ”

Wan Qingquan was very proud: "In the past three years, we have been the largest supplier of the iron-clothed Buddha in Asia, do you know how much money this iron-clothed Buddha can make in addition to the cost and transportation expenses?" At least one million, this transaction is very cost-effective, one statue is one million, and some people can't make a million in a lifetime! ”

Xingshu looked at Wan Qingquan's greedy expression: "Some so-called companies on the Thai side buy these things, and most of them are used to smuggle drugs, you should know this. ”

"That's right." Wan Qingquan said with a smile, "Therefore, in the process of shaping, we will deliberately leave some mechanisms to facilitate our customers to store valuables!" ”

Torture gritted his teeth and said: "You guys are simply crazy, you are completely crazy, the Cusco company is already rich and rivals, why do you still do these things?" ”

Wan Qingquan's expression sank: "Do you want to know the answer?" ”

Xingshu nodded silently, and Wan Qingquan pointed to the passage on the right side of the bottom of the deep well: "Come with me, I'll take you to see the answer!" ”