Chapter 22: Yongdao Stone Gate
Seeing the stone wall that suddenly appeared in front of me, my whole heart felt as if I had fallen into a pool of ice all at once, and it was cold inside and out.
However, I immediately realized that the wall was not as smooth and flat as the previous stone wall, but was carved with various figures.
I quickly scanned the stone wall with a flashlight and found that these figures were: horses, cows, dragons, chickens, pigs, pheasants, dogs, and sheep.
Each animal is carved into a separate stone brick and distributed on the stone wall in the form of a Bagua pattern, and in the middle of these animals is a blooming eight-petal mandala flower.
And just when I was carefully observing the wall in front of me with a flashlight, Xiong Ming next to me suddenly pushed me and shouted, "Hu Tian, why are you kid in a daze?" The bugs are catching up? Now that there is no way, what are we going to do? What the fuck are you waiting to die here? Or are we going to go back without doing anything? Grandma's, you can't wait here to die! ”
I didn't pay attention to Xiong Ming, but continued to shine a flashlight on the stone wall in front of me.
Xiong Ming saw that I didn't speak, thinking that I was scared stupid, he raised his hand to give me a slap, and kept saying: "Hu Tian, you kid is saying something!" Are you scared silly? ”
When I saw Xiong Ming speak, he raised the slap like a fan, and hurriedly said, "When will you be able to learn a little more civilized?" Why do you always slap when you speak? ”
When Xiong Ming saw me talking, his raised slap slowly fell, and he said loudly: "You kid looked at this stone wall and suddenly didn't move, I thought you were stupid!" Who knew you could speak human language! ”
I didn't pay attention to Xiong Ming's complaints, but said seriously: "This is not a stone wall, but a stone gate." ”
Xiong Ming was surprised: "What? Is this a stone gate? ”
I nodded and said, "That's right! I think I should be able to open it. If you were to deal with those bugs on your own, how long would you be able to withstand them? ”
Xiong Ming thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "I think it's only a minute or two at most!" ”
I hesitated, then said, "Enough!" ”
When Xiong Ming heard me say this, he gritted his teeth and responded, "Gotcha!" ”
Then he picked up the aluminum flashlight in his hand and began to kill the green snails and spotted centipedes that rushed up first.
After Xiong Ming rushed out, I no longer cared about how tragic the battlefield was behind me, even if there were occasional viscous liquid stumps splashing on my face, I didn't care at all, I just sank my heart and let the queen focus all my attention on the stone gate in front of me.
I observed for a while and found that the stones carved with animal figures on the stone door were not flat, and there was a slight gap between each stone and the surrounding stones, which seemed to be able to be pulled out or pushed.
Thinking of this, I stretched out my hand and gently pulled the nearest stone with a dragon's head carved outward, and sure enough, I didn't have much effort to pull out a section of the stone with the shape of a dragon's head.
And as the stone carved with the shape of a dragon head was pulled out by me, a "click" sound of metal rubbing was also heard.
When I heard this voice, I couldn't help but be shocked, and then shouted: "Xiong Ming be careful! There is a trap! Get down! ”
Before I could finish my sentence, countless black shadows shot out from the stone walls on both sides of the corridor with strong winds.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of iron arrows came straight to me and Xiong Ming, scared the two of us and couldn't take care of those disgusting green snails, the whole person lay on the ground as soon as the neck shrank, and a few crossbow arrows with the length of a small arm even flew past my scalp, so scared that I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and kept muttering in my heart: "Amitabha, God bless!" ”
Xiong Ming also scolded on the other side: "Hu Tian, what did you touch?" Didn't you say okay to open the door? How did it become a thousand arrows piercing the heart? Are you trying to kill Lao Tzu? ”
I also scolded, "Shut the fuck! I just touched it lightly, and who knew there was such a damn thing in this place? ”
As soon as I finished speaking, a heart-rending scream came from Xiong Ming's side.
"Are you okay kid?" Hearing Xiong Ming's screams, I hurriedly shone a flashlight to see what happened to this guy.
But after the flashlight swept over, it turned out that he was shot on the outside of the thigh by an effort, and the blood suddenly shot out, attracting the salivation of countless green snails and centipedes.
However, fortunately, the rain of arrows did not last long, and after a burst of "clanging, clanging" sounds, the entire corridor returned to its previous silence.
Seeing that there were no crossbow arrows flying out from both sides of the stone wall, I quickly got up from the ground, and trampled on seven or eight big green snails in the middle that were trying to crawl towards me, and disgusting dark red slime splashed everywhere, but at this time I didn't have the heart to care about these anymore, just focused on studying the mechanism on the stone door.
After a while, I found that the stones carved with animal shapes on the stone door were not placed randomly and haphazardly, but were arranged in a staggered manner according to a certain hexagram order.
And after thinking of the word "hexagram", my whole eyes couldn't help but light up, and I sighed in my heart: "That's right! It's a hexagram! I remember when I was very young, my grandfather once mentioned to me that in the gossip, if you count according to the direction, then Qian is a horse, Kun is a cow, Zhen is a dragon, Xun is a chicken, Kan is a pig, Li is a pheasant, Gen is a dog, and Dui is a sheep. Among these eight animals, except for dragons and pheasants, the other six animals have a common attribute, that is, they all belong to domestic animals and are called 'six animals'. And the hexagram of the master of the 'six animals' is the thunder water hexagram, so if you replace them with numbers, their order is ...... Two...... Seven...... Four...... Seven...... Seven...... Six ......"
The moment that string of numbers appeared in my mind, I couldn't help but be shocked, and I cried out in my heart, "What? How is this number again? Isn't he just a confidential file number? ”
But this thought only appeared in my mind for less than a second, and then it was interrupted by Xiong Ming's painful wail.
I shook my head vigorously, trying to get the useless thoughts out of my head. After a while, I took a long breath, then reached out and slowly pushed the stone brick carved with the pheasant carved into it.
Listening to the "click", the stone brick carved with a pheasant seemed to be embedded in a card slot, and suddenly became a tight fit with the original stone door.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but be overjoyed. Then he reached for a second stone with a horse and then a dog......
Step by step, I pushed and pulled the rocks in front of me into where they were supposed to be.
This time, I didn't touch the mechanism in the corridor, and as I pushed the last stone carved with the shape of a pig into it, the stone wall in front of me suddenly clicked.
Immediately after, the heavy stone gate slowly lifted upward.
Seeing the stone door raised, I shouted with great joy: "Xiong Ming, the door is open, quickly retreat to the door." ”
Xiong Ming naturally noticed the situation on my side, and he was not in love at the moment, after struggling to kill more than two dozen giant green snails, he turned around and limped towards the back of the stone gate, and did not forget to pick up two short arrows from the ground.
I was surprised and asked, "What are you doing with this?" ”
Xiong Ming scolded: "Of course, it's for self-defense, what else can you do?" Could it be that you can't use it for skewers? After fighting those bugs for a long time, I didn't even have a single thing to do with the guys, do you know how much I suffered? ”
I scolded, "Your uncle! You kid is really a thief! ”
Xiong Ming will also scold: "This is not learned from you!" ”
Although the two of us kept scolding, but the soles of our feet did not relax at all, and I helped Xiong Ming to trot all the way through the stone gate.
It's also strange to say, those green snails seem to be very jealous of the world inside the stone gate, they are extremely crazy and arrogant when they are in the corridor, but at this time, they dare not cross the thunder pool half a step, and can only hover outside the stone gate to make bursts of squeaky insect chirps.
However, although those green snails and spotted centipedes did not dare to enter the stone gate, because there were too many of them, they came towards us one after another, resulting in the stone gate at this time as if it was a stack of arhats, densely covered with that dark red green snail layer by layer.
Looking at the situation in front of me, I couldn't help but shudder, and I couldn't help but secretly congratulate myself that I didn't die in the mouths of these guys, otherwise I wouldn't be able to live even if I was a ghost.
I looked at the green snails at the door that kept rolling backwards and wanted to escape, and then looked at Xiong Ming, who was bitten and was almost inhuman, and asked, "Are you okay kid?" ”
Xiong Ming urged me and scolded: "Are you embarrassed to say? If it weren't for your ink, would I have been asked to be like this? ”
I smiled wryly, "I'm asking if you're okay?" ”
Xiong Ming also smiled, shook his head and said, "It's okay!" It's all skin trauma, and you can't die! ”
I smiled and said, "I know that your kid is hard!" ”
Xiong Ming looked at me, then at the stone room in front of him, and then suddenly frowned and said, "Hu Tian, don't you think something is wrong with this place?" ”
In fact, I don't need Xiong Ming to say, I also noticed that compared to the dark and narrow corridor before, this place is much brighter, and even if you don't use flashlights, you can see everything here clearly.
What's more, this place is actually a stone chamber built at the bottom of the river.
The roof of the stone chamber is a dome structure, and it is made of a very special kind of glaze, transparent and a pale green, and on the outside of this glazed dome is the sparkling river, in addition, the outside of the dome is covered with green snails that emit pale green fluorescence, and the main light in the stone chamber is provided by them.
Not only that, but what surprised me the most about this place was that it looked like a thousand-year-old tomb.