Returning to the torture technique of the Red Gate, he continued to look for the mechanism opened by the Red Gate with Bai Zhongzheng, but he never found a clue, but Bai Zhongzheng was much calmer than he imagined, and when He Chenxue was already so scared that he began to lean against the wall and keep taking deep breaths, Bai Zhongzheng was still calmly looking for the mechanism, as if nothing had happened.

"How many times have you been there?" Torture asked on the side.

Bai Zhongzheng didn't answer, just looked around and said, "It's strange, there is no sign of any organ, but there is no reason, how did the previous group of people get in?" Could it be that this path is wrong? ”

"Maybe." "Maybe the path we took before was the shallow labyrinth. ”

Bai Zhongzheng looked at the torture technique and said: "I also think it should be, there is more than one way down, but this kind of shallow maze cannot be cracked, sometimes both paths are correct, sometimes it is not, except for the people who built here, the rest of the people don't know the right way and the way to open the door." ”

As the two of them spoke, one of the smallest flashlights had gone out, because the light of the flashlight was adjusted to the strongest relationship, which consumed a lot of electricity, and they had been down for nearly two hours. Normally, the small flashlight they bring can last about four hours for normal lighting, and the large strong light can last for seven to eight hours, but if you adjust to the strongest light, the time will be shortened by two-thirds.

That is to say, they don't have much time left in the torture technique, there is still an hour to survive, on weekdays, everyone will think that an hour is a long time, but at this moment, they feel that this hour is too short, every time they raise their hands to look at their watches, they will feel why time flies so quickly!

Bai Zhongzheng did not give up, repeatedly looking for the place he had found, and the torture technique was also making the last effort, deliberately joking: "Even if we find it, after entering, the next thing is to find the exit, because we don't have a flashlight, continue to move forward, the danger will increase greatly, no matter what, I still want to find out what's going on here, and I really don't understand, how the three treasure hunting experts came here from another way." ”

Bai Zhongzheng stopped, looked at the torture technique and said, "I thought about it, and I felt that if those three people didn't slide down from that ice cave like us, then there was only one way to get in, and that was to fly in." ”

Torture laughed: "What a joke! ”

"I'm not kidding." Bai Zhongzheng said, "Many years ago, after the first birdman wearing a gliding suit appeared in Zhangjiajie, similar competitions began to be held there. Two and a half years ago, in a competition, there was an accident, an Italian player disappeared for no reason in the course of the game, at that time was supposed to send someone to rescue, but the Italian player's support group was told to refuse on the grounds of receiving the other party's radio, five days later, this person reappeared, unscathed, the incident came to an end, but everyone didn't know, a month later, the Italian team reappeared, disappeared in Zhangjiajie, reappeared a week later, and then left for the United Kingdom, Half a year later, Britain's most famous auction house sold two pieces of porcelain from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty in China......"

"A longevity bottle, a Ganoderma lucidum bowl?" Torture immediately said, because he had an impression of these two pieces of porcelain.

"You know that, too?" Bai Zhongzheng said with a smile, "The hammer prices are 8.76 million yuan and 5.5 million yuan respectively, and I have accurate sources who say that they found it in Zhangjiajie, in a so-called no-man's land in Zhangjiajie, where it is difficult to walk inside, and the most time-saving way is to fly directly into the sky and parachute." ”

"In other words, when they participated in the competition, they sent someone to reconnoitre, and after determining the location, they went down as a team?" There are treasures in the legends of Zhangjiajie, and there is only the rumored Li Zicheng treasure, right? That's just a rumor. ”

Bai Zhongzheng said: "No matter who hid there, the things are real, they were all filmed, the team was not greedy, and only brought two pieces out, because of the two things, the risk of smuggling them out is not too great, and the cost is enough, and there are only three people in that team." ”

"Wait!" "You mean those three people and the three people who are here now......"

"Nope." Bai Zhongzheng shook his head, "It's not a batch, I just want to tell you that now foreign treasure hunting experts are all in groups of three, basically like this, experienced, most of them have military experience, and we are different, not at all at the same level, we can only say that we are locals, we know our own culture better than them, but in other aspects, it is not comparable, if we turn the danger into a disaster, in addition to dealing with the killer, there are three of the most tricky guys, I judge, the killer and those three people are in a group." ”

Xingshu nodded: "I think so too, and you're right, that killer may still have some scruples, but those three treasure hunting experts have no scruples, you think, three foreigners, come to China to hunt for treasures, to put it bluntly, they are stealing things, once they are discovered, they will definitely be locked in, so they will definitely jump over the wall in a hurry and take our lives." ”

Bai Zhongzheng nodded: "This is the main reason why Kui Ye asked me to come." ”

Xingshu smiled: "The main reason is because I have the clues of Qimen, right?" ”

"Whatever you think, it's better to have me than not to have me, right?" Bai Zhongzheng sat down and looked up at the red door, "I can't find a way to open the door, there must be no mechanism." ”

At this time, there was only a strong light left in the flashlight, but the light was already weak, and the light of the lantern began to retract back to the four corners of the red door, that is, after less than five minutes, the bridge would slowly descend and fall into the water.

Just as Xingshu stood up and was about to comfort He Chenxue, he heard He Chenxue shouting, "Something has moved from the stairs, come quickly!" ”

Xingshu and Bai Zhongzheng got up and ran towards He Chenxue quickly, walked to him, picked up the only flashlight and took a photo, and found that it was not something coming, but the walls on both sides of the staircase passage began to squeeze towards the middle, and if they didn't leave the passage again, they would be squeezed into meat sauce.

"Go to the bridge!" The torture technique grabbed He Chenxue, Bai Zhongzheng picked up her things and ran to the bridge, and the three of them stood on the bridge and looked at the previous passage that was completely close - even if there was no crystal wall, they couldn't go back.

Before the three of them could calm down, the bridge began to tremble, followed by a buzzing sound, and at the same time slowly began to descend, very slowly, about a millimeter per second.

He Chenxue held the hand of the torture technique tightly and did not speak, obviously she was completely desperate.

Bai Zhongzheng looked around, looked around with a flashlight, and still did not give up the last hope, even if he found a place to hang the rope, but in the process of shaking the flashlight, the flashlight finally ran out of power, and they were immediately swallowed by the darkness, and the only thing that still had a little light was the red door.

The red door had a slight green glow, like a fluorescence, but it was evident that it was also weakening.

The three of them stood side by side, no one spoke, and their bodies were trembling, but no one knew if it was because their bodies were shaking with the falling bridge, or because they were shaking because of fear.

No one is not afraid of death, there are only two kinds of people who are not afraid of death, one is complete despair, and the other is pretending.

And now, they are faced with the situation that they have not given up the hope of living, but the reality is to brutally smash the hopes conceived in their minds, turn each hope into despair, and then let despair spread like a bacterium throughout their bodies, gradually devouring them.

"Jump...... Jump! He Chenxue pinched the hand of the torture technique.

"Don't give up hope!" The torture technique still looked around, "Don't, even if this bridge falls, it will fall into the water, even if it falls into the water, we won't drown, calm down!" ”

Bai Zhongzheng also comforted on the side: "Boss Criminal is right, calm down, now our only weapon is to calm down." ”

However, how can such a bad situation calm people!? The light is completely gone, the passage that was thought to be safe for temporary shelter is also sealed, and the bridge is gradually descending, what if the water below is poisonous? What if there were man-eating monsters in the water? If......

There are countless possibilities in He Chenxue's mind, and each possibility has one thing in common, that is, it will die!

Finally, the most tragic situation happened, the three of them felt that the bridge began to tilt, and at this time, the bridge was less than half a meter lower than the previous height, that is, if they did not grasp the balance, did not grasp the bridge, and waited for the moment when the bridge body overturned, standing at the bottom of the bridge body to the bottom, the result was to fall directly!

"Calm down, I want to be calm!" He Chenxue said that she let go of the hand of the torture technique, and was about to jump, but was grabbed by the torture technique.

Torture said: "Listen, we won't die, I've experienced this situation countless times, and so is Bai Zhongzheng, both of us are blessed and fatal, and we won't die!" ”

As he spoke, he took off the rope from his backpack and tied it to He Chenxue's waist, and then tied it to himself, and as soon as he tied it, Bai Zhongzheng also directly took the other end and tied it to his waist, and then nodded to the torture technique, saying that they would live and die together no matter what.

Xingshu smiled: "Bai Zhongzheng, I have made up your friend!" ”

"I don't have any friends." Bai Zhongzheng said coldly, "It's going to be very unlucky to be a friend, and I don't want to make friends." ”

The torture technique made He Chenxue squat down, grabbed the side of the bridge, and grasped it himself: "Slowly climb towards the bottom with the frequency of the bridge flipping, and when the bridge is completely overturned, we can almost climb to the bottom." ”

Bai Zhongzheng also maintained that posture, crawling along the overturned bridge to the other side.

Finally, the three of them climbed to the bottom of the wooden bridge that had flipped 180 degrees without danger, He Chenxue breathed a sigh of relief, and a little smile appeared on his face, but this smile was fleeting on his face, and the reason was very simple, because the bridge body still continued to rotate!

"Why are you still turning!? Looks like you're going to turn back? He Chenxue couldn't help but exclaim, already a little broken, "Do we have to keep crawling back and forth like this?" ”

"Listen!" The torture technique approached He Chenxue and said, "It's better to climb than to die, right?" Don't give up hope, don't! ”

"Shhhhh There's some movement, coming from the lantern door, give me a burning stick! ”

"There aren't many burning sticks, use glow sticks!" Torture quickly took out one and handed it to Bai Zhongzheng, Bai Zhongzheng broke the light stick, waited for it to light up, put it on the crossbow, and shot it upwards - the light stick flew into the air, and when it quickly passed the red door, Xingshu and Bai Zhongzheng clearly saw that the red door was open, and the door was slowly opening upwards.

"Sure enough, it's not closed, it's lifting." Torture Dao.

Bai Zhongzheng didn't care about saying so much, hung up the crossbow, ran over directly, jumped over, and climbed directly to the door of the red door that had been opened, and the torture technique also led He Chenxue to walk over there, at this time, the degree of tilt of the bridge body was almost untenable, the torture technique slid to the side, grabbed the side of the bridge with his left hand, fixed his body, and pressed against He Chenxue's ass with his right hand and said: "Jump up, hurry up!" Bai Zhongzheng, grab her hand! ”

Bai Zhongzheng, who had already climbed to the inside of the red door, retreated inside, made a one-word horse movement, inserted his feet on both sides of the inside of the red door, and then grabbed the rope and said: "I'll just pull the rope, if I pull it by hand, there is no fixed point, I will also fall!" ”

While Bai Zhongzheng grabbed the rope and pulled it up, the bridge body had already flipped over again, and at the same time, the speed of descent began to increase, and the torture technique saw that it was getting farther and farther away from the top, moved to the right, stood on the bridge body after the flip, and pressed his shoulders against He Chenxue's feet and said, "Climb up!" Climb hard, just climb up, remember my words, you just need to climb up now, don't think about anything, you can do it! ”

He Chenxue stepped on the shoulders of the torture technique with both feet, gritted his teeth and climbed up, at the same time Bai Zhongzheng also dragged it upward, and the torture technique below was getting farther and farther away from the top, and finally his shoulders left the soles of He Chenxue's feet, he looked up and pulled out the dagger on his waist, he knew that maybe Bai Zhongzheng could not support the weight of two people on it, it was really not good, and at the last moment, he could only cut the rope!

it! Didn't expect to die here? Xingshu looked up at the lantern, but the most peculiar object he had seen so far in his life was probably this lantern, and it was in vain.

The torture technique put the dagger on the rope, watching the bent rope slowly straighten, and his palms were full of sweat, in fact, who wants to die?

At this time, He Chenxue gritted her teeth, and finally climbed to the edge of the red door, just climbed up, and when she caught Bai Zhongzheng's hand, because the punishment technique below had gradually suspended in the air, the weight directly dragged her and sank downward, Bai Zhongzheng grabbed her at the same time, opened his mouth and bit the rope that had been pulled up in his mouth, and motioned her to climb up quickly with his eyes, and he couldn't hold on for long.

The torture technique below hung there, and the moment he saw He Chenxue sinking, the dagger had already begun to cut the rope.

Finally, Bai Zhongzheng dragged He Chenxue up, he let go of the rope in his mouth, dragged it directly towards it, and shouted at the same time: "Torture, hurry up and climb, don't hang there, your wife has already come up!" ”

The torture technique that was hanging there by the rope instantly felt light, sighed, looked at the rope that was cut with a small opening, and immediately put the dagger and climbed towards it, if it wasn't for the good quality of the rope, I am afraid that I would have cut it long ago and become a ghost who died unjustly.

After the three of them climbed up, they sat by the door and gasped, and then saw the red door that rose up slowly descended and began to retreat.

Retreating to a safe distance, the torturer took out a glow stick again, threw it on the ground, and lay there and said, "If you hadn't yelled that voice, I'm afraid I would have cut the rope and jumped down." ”

As soon as these words came out, He Chenxue turned his head to look at him and asked, "What did you say?" ”

The torture technique just smirked, and Bai Zhongzheng drank water on the side and said: "He is ready to sacrifice himself to fulfill you and let you live." ”

He Chenxue's face was full of anger, but she quickly sank again, and said for a long time: "Thank you." ”

Torture waved his hand: "No, you are my employer, I should protect my employer, and I can't break the rules, but I finally know this organ now, damn, the person who does this organ is completely pressing step by step, and wants to force the person who comes to hunt for treasure to seek death by himself." ”

Bai Zhongzheng nodded and said: "Yes, I will start to give you hope, when you see the bridge, you will go to the door and try to open the door, and if you find that you can't open the door, you will definitely think about whether to go back, but you will find that the road is blocked, so you can only come back and continue to find the way." ”

"In the past, where did the ancients have such a thing as a flashlight, under the premise that the lantern could not absorb the light source, it could only be opened at a fixed time, so it would not give you so much time, but this door must be opened after the lantern is turned on and completely extinguished, and the bridge descends and rotates for a while...... The passage closes together to make you desperate once, the wooden bridge descends to make you desperate again, and then the descent makes you desperate again, and then you despair, and then continues to roll, by this time, normal people have completely collapsed, they will definitely jump down, once they jump down, they will die, and they can't imagine that the door above has been opened at this time. Torture Shu swallowed and said, "The person who does this organ is too calculating, and he understands the psychology of normal people very well. ”

He Chenxue stood up, looked at the dark surroundings and said, "We came in, but ...... Why is it still so dark in here? ”

"Use a Molotov." The torture technique took out the incendiary stick, pulled it and held it high, and after the incendiary stick lit up, the three of them could see clearly what the inside of the lantern looked like - in the middle was a huge cylinder, and the surface of the cylinder was carved with the samurai they saw on war horses, and there were many small lantern carvings around the samurai, in other words, whether they saw the floating war horse samurai, or the lantern suspended and rotating in mid-air, it was a marquee, in fact, there was no physical projection at all.

He Chenxue approached the cylinder and looked at it carefully: "It's ebony, my God, how much ebony does it take to make this?" And the carving craft above is completely in one go, no second process has been done, this kind of craft can only be completed by one person, because everyone's style is slightly different, if someone helps, on the contrary, it can not be carved. ”

"Only ebony is immortal." The torture technique also stepped forward to look, and at the same time found that in addition to the red door they came in, there was also a red door, and immediately understood, "I know, I know why the tunnel was not sealed when the group of people came in before, it was actually sealed, but the road they took was sealed, there are two roads down, both roads can lead here, after the first road is sealed, the second road is opened, if the second road is also opened, then the passage will be completely blocked." ”

"Boss Criminal, you squat down and take a look inside the cylinder, sure enough, it's the same as you said, it's a mechanical mechanism, but it's all wooden, it should be ebony." Bai Zhongzheng squatted under the cylinder and said, in fact, the bottom of the cylinder was at least a meter and a half away from the ground, which was deliberately raised.

The torture technique approached the cylinder and listened, and found that there was a sound of water inside, and then said: "The power is really water, I think, this place is probably connected to the mechanism of the next world board above, I have a speculation, I don't know if it's correct, really want to activate all the mechanisms, and really open the ground door above, first you need to find all the locations of the eight gates, like us, open all the wrong doors, and then the real ground door will open, otherwise, if we find the right entrance from the beginning, we can't open the door, But the moment it is opened, the mechanism here is activated, and before that, it is only the marquee mechanism inside the lantern that is activated, so that three insurances can be achieved. ”

"Makes sense." Bai Zhongzheng nodded, "In this way, the person who accidentally found the marquee on the ground, even if he knew that there was something underneath, he might not necessarily know the way to really get down, and secondly, if there were people who knew Qimen Dunjia, they would also find the wrong position, couldn't find the right door, and were trapped in that step, and even if the first step was to find the right door, they would not be able to open the right door because they didn't open all the wrong doors, and finally, just like us, they would finally come down and die outside the lanterns, which is simply multiple insurance, The person who designed this mechanism is a genius! ”

"I wonder if there must be other entrances and exits like that, otherwise, where did the first people go?" He Chenxue, who had walked around the cylinder, returned to the front of the two.

The torturer was still observing the cylinder, and he was now eager to figure out how it worked, what materials it was made of, what principles it used, how water was used to circulate at this height, and how the timing mechanism was made.

Bai Zhongzheng on one side is observing the surface of the outer layer of the lantern, although the outside of the surface is the kind of alchemy stone, but on the inside is another kind of wood-like, very soft thing, and there are countless small holes on it, when you get closer, it is dense, but when you retreat to a place three meters away, you can't see that layer of wood at all, you can only see the outer layer of alchemy stone.

"Found it!" The torture technique that got into the cylinder shouted, He Chenxue and Bai Zhongzheng immediately drilled in, but they saw the torture technique trying to point to the lampshade-like thing in the center of it and said, "The inside is the center point of the light source, but I can't open it, I just see light coming out from the gap, and I can't feel the temperature when I touch it, so the central light source of the marquee shouldn't be an ever-bright lamp." ”

Bai Zhongzheng was puzzled: "Since it's not an everlasting light, what could it be?" And, why would anyone want to build such a thing? ”

"It's not a permanent lamp, there is only one possibility." He Chenxue pointed inside, "Night Pearl." ”