Chapter Twenty-Six: Someone Outside

In order to confirm our idea, Ah Xia asked me to borrow the heaven and earth gossip plate of Feng Shui Zhou, and compared it with her notebook, what was written quickly, and I saw that her eyes were shining and full of energy, and I knew that the thoughtful Xia beauty had entered the state. Naturally, he didn't bother her, stopped his cranky ears, sat quietly around her, and watched her deduce the situation.

After a while, Ah Xia came to her conclusion, "Although I don't know how to use the Heaven and Earth Plate, Master Zhou won't take this thing to the ground for no reason." As she spoke, Ah Xia opened a new page and sketched while explaining to us: "This tomb, the five caves on the ground floor, whether it is a Gu Cultivation Cave, a Corpse Cultivation Ground, a Bat Cave or a sarcophagus trap, especially the central Pan Gu Seal, are all very dangerous. It stands to reason that it should be buried to be safe. As a result, there are many passages in the cave, which extend in all directions, and if it is only used for tombs, it is too wasteful. Ah Xia paused, flicked the layers of nested gossip plates, and continued: "Therefore, I was thinking that according to Master Zhou's theory, heaven, earth, and man are closely connected and mutually restricted, so it is very likely that these channels should play the role of transmitting 'qi' - if 'qi' is real." ”

"You mean, these caves are arranged according to the flow of 'qi'?" Somehow, I had roughly guessed what Ah Xia was thinking, and I couldn't help but interject and ask.

"Well, you see, according to the layout of heaven and earth, there are three layers: heaven, man, and earth, and we have already explored the tomb at the bottom. In addition to the main chamber as a hub, we have found three caves on this floor: the Rakshasa Cave in the south, the cave in the west, and the Guanyin Cave in the north. Ah Xia said, her spirit was flying, and she couldn't hide the excitement in her heart.

"Look at this pattern again", we followed Ah Xia's hand to move on the map of the tomb she had drawn, and our mood also became excited, only to hear her say excitedly, "According to our records and the marks of heaven and earth, the Guanyin Cave belonging to 'water' on the north side of this layer is just connected to the bat cave belonging to 'fire' on the south side of the bottom layer; the main chamber belonging to 'earth' in the center of this layer actually leads to the Gu Cultivation Cave belonging to 'water' on the north side of the lower layer; and the Rakshasa cave belonging to 'fire' on the south side of this layer is just connected to the sarcophagus trap belonging to 'wind' on the west side of the ground floor...... According to this law, there should be a road to the ground where the corpses belong to the 'wood' on the east side of the bottom layer. ”

"I understand, water overcomes fire, earth overcomes water, fire overcomes gold, and gold overcomes wood!" I immediately understood, "It's amazing, the 'qi' of the cave on this floor is completely the design of the lower cave!" ”

"Uh-huh", Ah Xia nodded approvingly, and was about to continue, but was interrupted by her ear: "Wait! What do you say about the hole that leads from the central main room to the main room on the ground floor? Turk soil? Doesn't make sense? ”

As soon as I heard it, I was about to ask Ah Xia, but when she pointed to the smooth edge around the hole, I suddenly realized: "This is a thief hole!" It's the same as the waist in the middle of the Rakshasa Cave plank road! Could it be that Boss Mi and Feng Shui Zhou opened it? So, they should have been here! Damn, Feng Shui Zhou said that he couldn't remember the way, he was completely lying to us! ”

Ah Xia nodded, and then patted me lightly to calm my anger, after all, the people of Feng Shui Zhou are already dead, and there is no need to be honest with him. I naturally understood, and after adjusting my breath a few times, I gradually returned to normal, and couldn't help but ask her: "Then, the remaining cave on this floor should be the main chamber belonging to 'wood' on the east side and leading to the 'earth' in the center of the ground floor - this is the 'qi' that directly restrains and suppresses the seal of the pang, is there something in it that we can borrow to contain the pang?" ”

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, there should be the legendary 'five-colored stone' hidden in the cave room in the east!" Ah Xia said, and turned her head to look at the looming doorway at the end of the tunnel.

"Five-colored stones?" My ears still didn't understand, so I couldn't help but whisper to me, "Is it the thing in the story that can turn the dog's pan back into a human?" I nodded and said, "Well, so, maybe I can kill that monster." As I spoke, I looked over the pit and thought about how to climb over the collapsed pit to the other side of the plank road and enter the mysterious cavern.

After observing for a long time, we couldn't think of any idea when we looked at the pit more than ten meters wide. There is no way, the supplies are too scarce, most of the off-road equipment is still left in the camp outside the waterfall, and Ah Xia's climbing rope is also left at the bottom, it seems that it is not realistic to cross the pothole with bare hands.

I was distressed, but Ah Xia seemed much calmer, she saw that I was still puzzled, smiled and pointed to the outer circle of heaven and earth. I followed the instructions of her hand and suddenly woke up: I had been focusing on the places we had been to just now, and I forgot for a while that if the tomb was really designed according to the pattern of heaven, earth and man, then there should be another layer on top of us!

To be honest, there are too many secrets in this tomb, and the pattern is surprisingly complicated. According to the inference, each cave on this level we are in should normally have at least a passage to the main room, to the upper floor, and to the lower floor - of course, it is not excluded that some passages are blocked or covered by Feng Shui Zhou or Boss Mi by means - in this way, to get to the stone chamber on the opposite side, in fact, there are at least two ways to reach it at present: one is through the corpse breeding ground at the bottom level, but there are many monsters on this road, and it is necessary to return to the bottom floor again, which is really not a good idea for us who are hungry, thirsty and sleepy; The second is to search the Guanyin Cave, you should be able to find the passage to the upper floor, if possible, you can pass through a certain cave on the upper floor, you can lead to the mysterious five-colored stone cave on the opposite side of the cliff!

So the three of us went to the Guanyin Cave under my leadership, and the Buddha statue was still lying on the ground, pressing a crushed poisonous bat on one side, and stuck on the other side that I had smashed to death with an iron abacus. This time, with the help of two people, I seemed much more calm, and I searched carefully for this cave that seemed very peaceful in comparison by the light of the torches.

After a short time, the careful Ah Xia noticed that the fish-scale indentation on the wall where the Buddha statue had been placed before looked very strange - the light reflected from the torch here was very different. In other places, it is because of the unevenness that makes the light bands appear mottled, which presents a fish-scale visual effect; And here, on closer inspection, the light and shadow obviously seem out of place with the surroundings. The ears were anxious, so he stepped forward and touched it, and shouted: "I'll rub, Ah Xia, Xiao Lizi, you see, this TM is simply a rag with a pattern printed on it!" As he spoke, he ripped it off, revealing a passage with moss on the top of a black hole and moss on the edge.

Ah Xia and I were overjoyed, and we went in with our ears, and after a short time we reached the end, but the thatch grew thick, and we couldn't see the outside for a while. I was wondering if I could prove our previous conjecture, but my ears actually stopped, blew out the torch, and whispered to us:

"Be careful! There's someone out there! I squeezed next to my ears, poked my head into the hole, and looked out, and sure enough, there were several vague figures, but the light was too dim to see whether it was a skinless corpse, and I was observing, and suddenly I heard one of the figures let out a sudden cry:

"—It's terrible! I'm going out, I don't want to die! "It was a hysterical cry, and it scared me away.

"Don't! Don't scream! Bring that monster over, we won't be able to run," followed by the voice of a trembling middle-aged man.

"Quiet! Don't panic! Think of a way again" - as soon as I heard this low, powerful, and full of breath familiar voice, I immediately recognized that the leading man was not Uncle Okawa, who else could it be?

The ears also heard that it was Uncle Okawa, so he immediately pulled off the thatch and jumped out. Ah Xia and I also followed, and when we saw Uncle Dachuan, we were naturally surprised and delighted. After I nodded to him, I glanced at Feng Jinhua who fell into the well, and I couldn't help but be angry, and I was about to rush over to give that guy a few kicks, but Feng Jinhua was so frightened that he hid behind Gao Maocai, and said in a cold sweat: "At the moment of the monster, everyone is still working together and helping each other." As he spoke, he quickly looked at Ah Xia, who was interlocking his fingers with me, and pleaded, "Xiao, Xiaoxia, you, you can persuade quickly, your boyfriend ......", Gao Mao saw that I was angry, and he was also in a hurry to help. Ah Xia had already learned about Feng Jinhua's viciousness from me, so she naturally didn't bother to deal with them, turned her head in disgust, turned to Uncle Dachuan and asked:

"Uncle, didn't you go out first? How did it end up here? ”

"Alas, it's a long story, we entered the Rakshasa Cave, and we were about to enter the Thief Cave, but the cave trembled, and the falling rocks buried the thief hole instantly, and I also suffered a few blows on my body, but fortunately I didn't hurt my bones." Uncle Okawa said, pointing to his head, and I noticed that he wrapped his forehead around his coat, and quickly took out bandages and medicines from the medicine box and helped him bandage them briefly. During this period, Uncle Okawa briefly introduced to us what happened to them:

After turning back from the thief hole, the way back to the main room also collapsed, and they had no choice, so they had to enter the Rakshasa cave head-on, who knew that they happened to see the panicked Boss Mi digging a dirt wall and running into the back passage. He only felt that Boss Mi seemed to be very familiar with the tomb, so he followed without thinking about it, and followed all the way to the upper ear room. He had to take Gao Maocai and Feng Jinhua to search for the ear chamber, and found a totem in the center of the stone platform that was similar to the half of the totem of Feng Shui Zhou, but it was relatively complete and unbroken. Seeing this, Gao Maocai, who was greedy for merit, didn't care about the rice boss, and didn't listen to Uncle Dachuan's greeting, so he ran out, ready to find more totems and bring them back to report his merits together.

Uncle Okawa had to follow them to the main room on the upper floor. He had just located the ear chamber to the east through the off-road watch, and the two had already run into the north ear chamber next door, when he heard a terrible scream. By the time he rushed over, Gao and Feng were already frightened, and Uncle Dachuan looked at it and was stunned - he saw that Boss Nami's whole body was convulsed, and he was wailing that he was being eaten by a black dog-like monster with his legs and feet, and after a while, he was swallowed by the whole body of the earthdog-sized monster with a basin-sized dog's mouth, and the monster's body immediately grew several times, probably more than one person was tall, and it was very terrifying. Seeing this, Uncle Dachuan hurriedly took advantage of the monster's shaking neck and tail and hiccups, pulled Gao and Feng who were standing in a daze, escaped, turned around to see that the monster did not chase out, and quickly lit the thatch at the door of the cave with a torch, trapped the monster inside, and piled up some grass and trees in the passage to help burn, and then took Gao and Feng to the narrow west ear room at the entrance of the cave to rest—this is the one we drilled out. As a result, we jumped out as soon as we took a nap.

After listening to the situation on his side, I remembered that Boss Mi had saved my life in Miao Village, and I was a little sad to learn of his misfortune, so I asked Ah Xia to give a general overview of the situation on our side, and I looked down at the leg injury and adjusted my emotions. After hearing this, Uncle Dachuan couldn't help frowning, and muttered, "According to Xiaoxia's speculation, shouldn't the Bodhisattva Cave lead to the central main room?" How is it different from the lower class? Ah Xia's cheeks were also crimson when she heard this—she had just noticed something wrong when she listened to Uncle Okawa's story, and there were still loopholes in reflecting on where her assumptions were—after all, it was related to our search for the five-colored gem that would determine the outcome of the game. It's just that the situation changed suddenly, and the only person who could know about Boss Mi died again, where can she still sort out her head, she is so anxious that her eyebrows are upside down, her beautiful eyes are distracted, and she is at a loss, and she stays in place.

Uncle Okawa saw that I was distressed, so he didn't say more, and called his ears to the side, collecting some coarse-hard rattan for emergencies. I saw that Ah Xia was anxious, so I naturally couldn't bear her to bear the fate of everyone alone, so I hurriedly gently held her cold little hand, helped her warm, and said to her softly: "Don't put pressure on yourself, think about your thoughts again, it's hard to say that you can see through the puzzle." Perhaps, this upper layer to the middle level, and the middle level to the bottom layer, is not a set of rules? ”

Ah Xia heard that I comforted her, her eyes showed gratitude and relief, as soon as she raised her head, she met my blazing gaze, she couldn't help but blush, lowered her head shyly, and inadvertently glanced at the gossip plate in my medicine box, and suddenly a flash of inspiration, her eyes were like torches, she held my hand tightly, and said excitedly: "Plum!" I've got it! ”

When I saw that she had an idea, I naturally couldn't hide my joy, and hurriedly beckoned Ear and Uncle Dachuan to come over. Ah Xia was naturally confident, holding my hand tightly, without using a notebook to trace the diagram, and directly pointed out the key to the puzzle:

"The upper cavern is not used to suppress the middle cavern, so it is not the law of restraint. On the contrary, the upper layer is used to provide 'qi' to the middle cavern to suppress the lower cavern. Therefore, the middle layer corresponds to the bottom layer, and it is necessary to take the route of mutual restraint; And the upper layer corresponds to the middle level, it should be-" She said, smiling and taking the heaven and earth gossip plate I handed her, pointing to the eight directions and five elements in the outermost circle, and said loudly:

"Symbiosis Route!"

"Well, that makes sense!" Uncle Okawa thought about it for a while, and immediately figured out the whole puzzle. That's right, according to Ah Xia's inference, the ear chamber belonging to "wind" in the west of the upper layer where we are currently located naturally leads to the Guanyin Cave belonging to "water" in the north of the middle layer according to the law of "wind and water"! Moreover, this assertion was also verified by Uncle Okawa and his colleagues from the Rakshasa Cave in the south of the middle layer to the east of the upper layer in the east of the "wood" (wood makes fire). In this way, we are going to the five-colored stone cave located in the east of the middle layer and belongs to the "wood", according to the aquatic wood, it should lead to-

"I'm dizzy, isn't that plate of gourd monsters locked up in the ear chamber of 'water' in the north!?" The ear was the first to cry. Other people naturally found out that something was wrong, this situation is really, which pot is not opened!