Last time, Shen Yifan pretended to be the eye of heaven among the seven sons of the Ghost Valley, and cooperated with several other seven sons of the Ghost Valley, preparing to go to the tomb together the next day to find out. After some conversation, I learned that there was actually a crisis in the Eight Gates of Guigu, and the Dong brothers, the main and deputy heads, had disappeared for three years in order to find the so-called mystery of eternal life. At the same time, the cliff and Xia Ying of the Heavenly Dao Alliance; Xia Xue is also preparing to deal with it, Zheng Daocheng, the leader of the Heavenly Dao Alliance.

Early the next morning, Shen Yifan and others came to the Zhang family's mansion, on the way Shen Yifan told the ghost doctor that he studied the two paintings in the Zhang's mansion at night, and had an understanding of the water plate, the preliminary fingering method is the pattern of three fingers and nine palaces, which can open the five elements of the water plate and the yin and yang triumph, but the sixty-four water lines; Thirty-two ravines, sixteen days and heavenly stems; The earthly branch has not yet been studied, but it is based on yin and yang alone; Wu Xing; There should be no problem with the gossip triple check of the leyline view dragon's lair.

Qiao Dahai was in charge of opening the robbery cave before, and deliberately hit the robbery hole far away from the main tomb, and he used the time to open the thief hole and hit a second secret robbery hole directly to the main tomb, because he was not clear about the environment in the tomb, so he did not go down in advance. Originally, Hong Wen and Hongwu were allowed to enter the main tomb from the hidden robbery hole, but now that there are more ghost doctors and Shen Yifan, the success rate is naturally much higher, so Shen Yifan and the ghost doctor have already entered the main tomb before Lu Meng and the others came to the Zhang family compound.

Xia Ying always thought that Lu Meng and the others were just a group of unruly tomb robber gangs, so she didn't take them seriously at all. In order not to make Xia Ying and the others suspicious, Lu Meng and the others deliberately made things unprofessional, and they also changed their respective relationships. They are a family as a tomb robber gang.

Qiao Dahai made a robbery hole in the backyard of the Zhang family's compound in order to hide people's eyes and ears to build a well on it, Lu Meng, Qiao Dahai and Zhou Taitong took the lead in entering the robbery hole, crawling along the narrow thief hole, half a cigarette effort, I saw a vertical hole, threw the glow stick into it to see, it was already to the tomb.

After Shen Yifan and the ghost doctor, Hong Wen and Hongwu entered the main tomb, they found that the tomb had been patronized, and there was nothing in the coffin except for a sentence, and there were candles left in the southeast corner of the tomb.

Hong Wen said: "It's the master's technique. ”

Shen Yifan looked around, then looked at the compass and said: "Since Zhang Wenchuan is the national teacher of Xichuan, his tomb cannot be so simple, and the senior brother is a master of stealing holes, it is impossible not to find other thieves when he is fighting caves." So this is not Zhang Wenchuan's real tomb at all. ”

When the ghost doctor heard this, he said, "You mean this is a suspicious grave. So how to explain the candle in the southeast corner. ”

"The master is a master, and they may have entered through the tomb gate," Shen Yifan said.

Shen Yifan looked at the murals around him and said, "This mural is just an ordinary description of deeds, and I can't see any clues about the boat." As he spoke, he looked around the tomb and found that there were four bronze horses at the four corners, which did not fit in with the pattern of the tomb.

Shen Yifan came to a bronze horse to take a closer look and said, "There is something strange about these four bronze horses. ”

Hong Wen walked over and said, "These four bronze horses are objects in the late Ming Dynasty, and they should be the same time as the owner of the tomb." ”

Shen Yifan took a closer look at the copper horse and found that the copper horse was sealed except for two holes in the nostrils. The beam of the flashlight hit and looked inside, and there was indeed a mystery in the horse's belly.

There are copper pipes in the horse's belly, and these copper pipes are connected to steel wires like hanging wind chimes, hanging in the horse's belly.

Hong Wu also glanced through the horse's nostrils and said, "Are these wind chimes trapped?" As he spoke, he was about to blow into the horse's nostrils, but the ghost doctor stopped him and said, "Don't move." This is the balancing act. Once the balance mechanism in the horse's belly is broken, certain mechanisms will be triggered. ”

The ghost doctor explained that in the early years, there was an ancient tomb in the oil press col of Qinling, Shaanxi, and a sealed vat was unearthed in the ancient tomb, and there was such a mechanism in the tank. This kind of mechanism uses the balance technique to keep the object balanced in advance, and then the closure is set, and if someone accidentally breaks the balance inside, it will touch some kind of mechanism. When the jar was first unearthed, the archaeological team members did not know much about this kind of mechanism, and when they moved the vat with their bare hands, the balance mechanism was destroyed, resulting in the destruction of some historically unverifiable documents in the jar.

The ghost doctor said: "The steel pipe inside is built in it with balancing, like using brute force to open a horse's belly, I don't think we will see the sun tomorrow." ”

Shen Yifan said: "In other words, this is the mechanism to open this tomb instead of finding another tomb." ”

Hong Wen looked at the murals around him and said, "Not necessarily! Look at these murals. It seems that the owner of the tomb was particularly fond of horses. When he brought his cronies to the king of Xichuan, it seemed that he was expecting a good horse here. ”

Shen Yifan pondered for a moment and said, "Good horse? In ancient times, there was a kind of BMW here for Yubei Red. It's a thousand miles a day. ”

The ghost doctor said, "Could it be on the horse's leg?" ”

Hong Wen immediately denied the ghost doctor's statement, and said, "Look at this one. What is the owner of the tomb doing? ”

The four of them looked at the mural in the tomb and said in unison: "Pat the sycophants." ”

Shen Yifan immediately suddenly realized and said: "This is a game within a game. If the Tomb Robber thinks that he is disrupting the balance in the horse's belly to open the real tomb, he may trigger a deadly mechanism. In fact, the way to open the real tomb is to pat the sycophants. ”

Shen Yifan thought of this, and suddenly thought that the expert might shush at the bones in the coffin when he heard this, and couldn't help but smile on his face, and then said: "We each have a corner, listen to my command to pat the horse's buttocks." ”

The four of them stood in their respective positions, and after hearing Shen Yifan pat the horse's buttocks at the same time, they heard the neighing of the four copper horses, and then the coffin in the middle automatically moved to the right, and then saw a staircase slowly appearing.

At this time, I heard the messy footsteps outside the tomb, it was estimated that Qiao Dahai and the others were about to arrive, and the four of them hurriedly walked towards the stairs, and when all four of them stepped on the stairs, the coffin above their heads automatically returned to its original position again, and Qiao Dahai was heard scolding in the dark.

"Damn. It's still too late. It's all upside down. ”

Shen Yifan made a silent gesture and slowly asked everyone to go down, and the four of them gently walked down the stairs. The four pillars of light lit up in the darkness, and the four of them walked towards the bottom of the stairs, but soon the four of them noticed that something was wrong, they had been walking for more than an hour, and there was still no camera in front of them to go down the stairs, and the four of them sped up their pace and walked for nearly half an hour, still on the stairs.

Hong Wu said: "You won't encounter ghosts hitting the wall, right?" ”

Shen Yifan said: "Don't worry! We're walking down. ”

Saying that, the four of them walked for nearly an hour, and then Shen Yifan felt the seriousness of this matter, looking at the endless stairs and darkness in front of him, and began to sweat behind him.

The ghost doctor said on the side: "Take the rope one by one, and everyone walk forward ten meters to see what effect will be after forty meters." ”

Shen Yifan nodded, and then each took out the rope prepared in advance, and the ghost doctor came first, and the ghost doctor pulled the end of the rope and slowly walked forward, and stopped at a position of ten meters, and pulled down the rope hard, and then Hong Wen walked down to the back of the ghost doctor, and then Hong Wu also walked down, and the ghost doctor continued to go down, and when Hong Wu arrived behind Hong Wen, Hong Wen continued to walk down, Shen Yifan waited for Hong Wu to stop, and then he walked down, and walked down for more than an hour, and there were still endless stairs in front of him.

Shen Yifan was wondering if he would go to the Netherworld if he went any further? And Hong Wen Hongwu felt that there would be a door, and as soon as the door opened, he saw that it was Broadway Street in the United States. Indeed, according to this scenario, it is really possible for them to go from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere.

Shen Yifan said: "Use candles." Point one for every ten steps, and click five to see what is the name of these fifty steps? ”

Just do it, Shen Yifan took out five candles and lit one first, then helped himself light a cigarette, and then walked to the front, the ghost doctor watched Shen Yifan's cigarette butt shine slowly in the dark, and the candlelight on the ground was also small and scary, and when it came to the third one, he couldn't see the light of the fourth candle, let alone the light of the cigarette on Shen Yifan's mouth.

The ghost doctor was looking at the front intently, and when he was pushed by Hong Wen, he saw Hong Wen pointing at the back of the ghost doctor with a white face, and the ghost doctor was also startled when he saw it, and saw a red dot like a monster's eyes slowly approaching them, and was about to pull out the golden ruler on his waist, when he heard a sentence: "Don't shoot, boss!" It's your own people. When I looked at it again, it turned out to be Shen Yifan.

The three of them suddenly wondered, why did Shen Yifan appear behind them when they saw Shen Yifan walking forward with a candle and a cigarette?

Shen Yifan said: "Don't think about it. We are trapped in a kind of labyrinth of antiquity. This labyrinth is known as the 'Ladder of Hanging Souls'. ”

"Soul Ladder?" Hong Wen and Hong Wu were stunned on the spot, as if they had never heard of it.

Shen Yifan sat on the stairs and was still smoking a cigarette and said, "I heard about a peer experience before. It is said that Yanjing has three predecessors who touched the gold, and in the 80s, they went to a Western Zhou ancient tomb and encountered this kind of mechanism, and they were almost trapped in it. Later, it was possible to break this mechanism in a very simple way. There were only three of them, and there were four of us, so there must be a way to get out. ”

This story was told by Shen Yifan when he was in Liangxi when he listened to a fat man surnamed Wang Kan Dashan in Nanyuan, it is said that the three of them strayed into a land temple at that time, where they found an ancient tomb in the Western Zhou Dynasty and went down to the tomb to fight upside down, and then they encountered the Soul Ladder, and then it seemed that they left the Soul Ladder from a door next to it. The fat man said that he had a nose and eyes, and he didn't sound like he was bragging.

Shen Yifan said: "Follow the candle to see if there is a small door next to it." ”

Hong Wen Hongwu immediately looked for the candle, and sure enough, there was a small door that could only allow one person to pass sideways on the stairs at the position of the third candle, and the four of them went through the small door to find a staircase that was a little narrower than the original, and the whole staircase was still endless downward, and everyone seemed to feel that they had walked from one Soul Ladder to another.

The ghost doctor asked: "I have also heard of this Soul Hanging Ladder, which was a means of preventing tomb robbery in the Western Zhou Dynasty, but this method is easy to crack, and it will be abandoned after a long time." Zhang Wenchuan was a master of tomb robbery in the Ming Dynasty, and his tomb was not very good at using such a simple anti-theft mechanism. ”

Hong Wen said on the side: "If it's not the Soul Hanging Ladder, then what is it?" ”

Shen Yifan thought carefully and said: "This structure should be the structure of the Soul Ladder, which may be an upgraded version of the Soul Ladder in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The structure of the Soul Ladder is even more complex than the original. ”

Hong Wu nodded and agreed with what Shen Yifan said, he said: "The structure of the Soul Ladder is very ingenious, so from ancient times to the present, there are people who are obsessed with this kind of skill, I think Zhang Wenchuan should also be very obsessed with this kind of skill, so he will also place a mechanism like the Soul Ladder in his tomb." Because the old-fashioned spiral ladder was easy to crack and was not conducive to preventing a large number of tomb robbers from entering the tomb, it was improved. ”

Shen Yifan said: "The Hanging Soul Ladder mainly depends on the scale when it was built, and the largest Hanging Soul Ladder known at this stage is the one in the basement of the Delis Castle in France, called the 'Penros Ladder'. There are a total of eight soul ladders. As he spoke, he took out a pen and paper and said while drawing: "Generally, there are two kinds of soul ladders in the Western Zhou Dynasty, one is the simplest, which is what we say" The number of steps of the general soul ladder is thirty-two steps, the point drop is thirty-six centimeters, and the total length is about 1,800 meters. ”

Shen Yifan said: "We can now rule out the possibility of a soul ladder. We're now on this staircase looking for relevant information. ”

In fact, the principle used in the Hanging Soul Ladder is not complicated, that is, the length of the ladder built on a certain length is different, and every thirty-two steps uses a mark to confuse the people on the ladder, making people mistakenly think that they are trapped on the ladder. As long as the length is long enough, in fact, a repetitive ladder can make people feel like they are going down, and the surrounding light is not high, which makes it difficult to find a way to crack it, but the disadvantage of the Soul Ladder is that there are not too many people, if dozens of people can quickly discover the mystery on the ladder, and then there is an upgraded version of the Soul Ladder, that is, two Soul Ladder Ladders.

In fact, the shape of the Soul Ladder is like the Arabic numeral '8', and the concept of a Soul Ladder is '88', which increases the number of Soul Ladders that may appear when people are looking for an exit on the ladder, and two Soul Ladders are intertwined with each other.

When Shen Yifan and the others entered the second Soul Suspension Ladder, they felt that they should return to explore again, so they immediately returned the same way. After returning to the secret door of the first Hanging Soul Ladder, he immediately marked the secret door, and then headed down.

After walking all the way down, I didn't take a few steps before I found a symbol on a step, and this symbol is very simple and is a circle, but for Shen Yifan, this circle may represent the meaning of a boat.

From this symbol to continue to go down, while walking silently in my heart to the eighteenth floor of the steps, I found that the steps were round symbols again, and when I went down to the eighteenth floor, it was a circle, Shen Yifan immediately used the dagger in his hand to make a mark on the circular symbol, and then continued to go down, after walking the steps marked by the circular symbol, he saw the steps marked by Shen Yifan, and they were going to find the small door next to this batch of steps.

Shen Yifan thinks that the scale of Zhang Wenchuan's tomb will not be very large, and it is impossible to build the largest soul ladder, but it may be a five sets of '88888' shaped soul ladders, if this is the case, the entrance cannot be from right to left, or from left to right, it must start from the middle, so it is impossible to leave the soul ladder immediately whether it is facing left or right, but one thing Shen Yifan can be sure of is that there is only one exit.

Now they have no other way but to try one Soul Ladder and one Soul Ladder to try. If so, they may also face another difficulty, which side of the exit is the exit from the Soul Ladder?

Shen Yifan and the others used the most stupid and effective method, that is, the two of them used one end of the rope to hold, and both of them stood on both sides of the ladder, walking down step by step, observing the situation on the side with each step.

The ghost doctor and Shen Yifan walked up, Hong Wen and Hongwu walked down, and once they found other entrances, they first marked them with glow sticks, and then tried them one by one.

Shen Yifan and the ghost doctor, Hong Wen and Hongwu have found the true tomb of the Xichuan Kingdom Tomb, but they are now trapped on the Soul Ladder, and they are using the last stupid and most effective method to find a way to get out of the Soul Ladder, so can they leave the Soul Ladder, what will happen to Lu Meng and the others and the people of the Heavenly Dao Alliance?