The iron door slowly opened in front of us, and a few of us, you look at me, I look at you, and we didn't dare to go down for a while.

Since it was the excavation sent by Chunting, it would be a bit unreasonable not to tell him. I asked Xue Nan to go and inform Chunting of the discovery here, and after waiting for a while, Chunting came, and what puzzled me was that he didn't have the slightest joy at such a major discovery, as if all this was taken for granted.

"Do you want to go down now or wait?"

I asked Chunting, after all, this is his territory, and the excavator was also found by him, so it can be said that without him, we would not have been able to discover the secrets under the dragon's head.

"If you want to go down, go down, if you don't want to go down, go back, don't ask me, only you are a fateful person, follow your own heart."

Chunting looked at me and said casually.

After thinking about it, since the matter has come to this, no matter what is under the iron gate, in the end, it will be necessary to face it after all, Chunting looked into my eyes and understood my thoughts, he asked the excavator to guard the entrance outside, and I took a deep breath and was the first to enter the world under the iron gate.

After a few steps, she was pulled behind by Xue Nan, she said that if it was a tomb, there would be a mechanism, she was agile and quicker than me if there was an accident, although I was unwilling to let a woman stand in front of me, but my skills were not as good as others and I had nothing to say, so I had to retreat behind her and continue to move forward.

The stakes were so high that the excavators stayed outside and guarded the place, and did not come with them, and only five people entered the place. Xue Nan was at the front of the line, Sun Zhen and I followed, Chunting was in the center, and Shen Lang was at the back of the line. It's also embarrassing for Shen Lang, and he still accompanies me everywhere with this courage.

He had a jumpy temperament, he didn't like to be quiet, he looked east and west, and he didn't know what he had touched, but he heard a "bang" above, and the iron door was actually closed again.

"What did you do!"

I hurriedly pulled Shen Lang away and questioned him loudly.

"I, I don't know, I just accidentally touched the wall and the door closed......"

Shen Lang said aggrievedly, his face full of regret.

Fortunately, the people were fine, I turned around and went back to the iron gate at the entrance with everyone to check, the iron gate was tightly sealed, and the strength of all of us was not moving.

At this point, it is useless to blame Shen Lang, so I have to repeatedly emphasize that there must be a mechanism set up by the owner of the tomb in order to prevent future generations from robbing the tomb, and we must be cautious when moving forward, otherwise we may die here at any time.

Since we were able to open the iron gate because we cracked the mechanism on the iron gate, it seems that if we want to get out, we can't open it by brute force, so we can only move on, don't touch everything here, and explore the secrets of this place while looking for where the mechanism is.

Hold Shen Lang and don't let him get too far away from me to avoid touching the mechanism in the tomb again, now that Shen Lang is in my heart, his danger level may have already surpassed this ancient tomb.

Since I can't get out, I have to work hard to explore the depths of the ancient tomb, the world under the iron gate is not the same as I imagined, although the entrance has closed itself, but the tomb does not feel dull, take the flashlight and look around, and see a row of grooves on the edge of the steps, and there is some grease in the grooves.

The grease reminded me of a legend I had heard, and I asked Shen Lang to take out his lighter and light the grease on the trench, which was exactly what I imagined, a lantern used to illuminate the tomb.

It has been recorded in the "Historical Records": "The first emperor succeeded to the throne at the beginning, passed through the Lishan Mountain, and merged the world...... With mermaid paste as a candle, the one who will not be extinguished will last for a long time. ”

Later generations said that the use of merman grease as fuel came from this.

The mermaid is evil and can sing charmingly. The ointment of the mermaid in the sea is not only very low, but also can burn for several months without extinguishing as long as a drop, and the ancient nobles used their grease as a 10,000-year-old lamp in the tombs of nobles.

After igniting, we saw that the grooves on both sides spread like fire dragons, and in front of us was a downward staircase, at the end of which seemed to be a statue, because the distance was too far to see clearly, they all reached this step, and there was no other way but to go forward, everyone took a deep breath and continued to walk.

It seems that we are not far from the statue disease, and we should be able to arrive soon, but as the old saying goes, Wangshan runs a dead horse, we have been advancing for a long time but we feel that there is no progress, Xue Nan and Chunting are fine, and the rest of the people are a little tired, squatting in place to rest.

At this moment, Shen Lang suddenly pulled me with one hand, pointed forward with the other, and shouted tremblingly.

"Look, look!"

At a glance, it was actually a cigarette butt.

Since it is an ancient tomb, there will definitely be no cigarettes, could it be that there are already tomb robbers who have found this place before us?

"No, I left this cigarette butt."

Shen Lang's scared preface didn't match the afterword, so I asked him to calm down and carefully explain what was going on.

Shen Lang told us that he accidentally touched the mechanism just now, and his heart was full of grievances, so he smoked a cigarette in the same place, and then casually threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it and we moved forward, just now everyone was tired, he squatted on the ground, and suddenly saw the cigarette butt that was thrown away at the entrance in front of his eyes, and he shouted excitedly.

"Brother Chuan, did we meet a ghost hitting the wall?"

Shen Lang trembled with fright, and asked me hesitantly.

The so-called ghost hitting the wall is that when walking at night or in the suburbs, you can't tell the direction and don't know where to go, so you always go in circles. When you tell others about this experience, it is difficult for others to understand, so it is called a ghost hitting the wall.

"There are no ghosts here."

Chunting said quietly.

In the tomb, the theory of ghosts and gods is even more terrifying than usual, hearing Chunting say this, Shen Lang seems to have found confidence, and came to Chunting's side to ask him how he knew.

"There are absolutely no ghosts here!"

Chunting looked around and did not explain, but repeated his words again and again.

After listening to Chunting's words, I couldn't help but be stunned, the ghosts and gods said that if you believe it, if you don't believe it, you don't believe it, and idealism and materialism have been disputed for a long time, how can Chunting confirm whether there are ghosts here?

Shen Lang had already arrived at Chunting's side, but after hearing this, he quietly stayed away, hid behind me, and muttered to himself.

"This guy is scarier than a ghost."

Chun Ting ignored Shen Lang's self-talk, carefully checked the grooves on both sides and the steps under his feet, and suddenly smiled, I saw him laughing, and hurriedly asked him what he found.

"Han Chuan, although you haven't traveled thousands of miles, you are also a person who has read thousands of books, and you can be regarded as well-informed, haven't you been able to see the mystery here?"

Chunting looked at me, his words were serious and not like ridicule, but I really couldn't figure out why we had gone back to the same place after walking for so long.

"Look at how many floors there are."

Chunting was next to him, and it seemed to be deliberately pointing.

The steps go down, and there is a platform every time you pass it, and I thought it was for people to rest, but it suddenly occurred to me that since this is a mausoleum, why build a platform for people to rest, does the owner of the tomb want others to come here to rest?

One, two, three...... Twenty-two, twenty-three.

After a careful inspection, as far as the eye could see, there would be a platform every twenty-three floors of the stairs, and although the steps in the distance could not be seen clearly, it should be the same.

"You have seen the dog's belly in all the books you read, and you still can't imagine it when you find the twenty-third floor of the steps."

Chun Ting said coldly on the side, although the content of his words was indecent, I couldn't hear the ridicule from his tone, it was more like an elder looking at his own child's uncontentious tone.

"Come and see here."

Chunting pulled me and made me look like the edge of the steps, the steps are all carved in bluestone, the difference between the two layers of steps is very small, at the edge of the steps, where Chunting fingers, I saw a crescent-shaped mark, looking at the other steps, all the steps have a small crescent mark on the edge.

Twenty-three floors, crescent ......

It dawned on me that this was actually a soul ladder!

Chunting showed a teachable expression, and when Shen Lang heard that I knew what was going on, he hurriedly came over and grabbed me and asked me what the Soul Ladder was.

On the ladder of hanging souls, don't ask about the return date.

The Soul Ladder is actually a powerful trick that is rumored to have been used in some secret rooms, and this trick requires the cooperation of walls, steps, light, and phantoms to achieve it, but it has been lost for a long time.

The purpose of using the Soul Ladder is to confuse people, so that people can't find the right direction, can't find the exit, and think that they are going in the right direction, but in fact they have long deviated from the direction.

The Soul Ladder is usually twenty-three floors, and each step is marked with a crescent-shaped mark, which is meant to lead in the wrong direction, and the mark is actually gradually deviating on the step. In addition, the steps and stone walls are coated with a light-absorbing paint made with ancient secret recipes, making it difficult to make out the direction.

In order to achieve the desired effect, the height and length of each step are carefully calculated. The height of the stairs is very small, and the purpose is to give people the illusion that when passing through the stairs, it feels like they are walking in a straight line, but in fact they are walking in a curve, and they lose their sense of direction as they walk.

"Han Chuan, since you know that this is the Soul Hanging Ladder, then you must know how to get out."

Xue Nan looked at me, his words were inevitably excited, too, no matter how strong he was, after all, she was a girl, who would want to stay in such a place for more.

"I don't know."

I have only seen records about the Soul Ladder in ancient books, but after all, this is mostly done by the emperor's mausoleum, and how can it be written in detail in the book and how to crack it.

Everyone went from excitement to loss, and they couldn't go out to know what the principle was for.

Chunting's reaction was different from the others, he leaned against the wall on the two floors of the stairs, hugged his shoulders, and said to me casually.

"I told you that there are no ghosts here, and the Soul Ladder is just a simple optical illusion, does this make you lose confidence?"

"Brother Ting, do you know how to crack the Soul Ladder?"

Seeing his calm reaction, I asked tentatively.

Hearing my words, Chunting seemed to have heard something terrible, he looked at me with a strange expression, and after a long time, he finally couldn't help laughing.

"Brother Ting, Brother Ting, you will actually call me brother one day, hahahaha, I will take you over for this brother!"