Under my torture of using Xiao Shi's coercion and temptation, the white-bearded old man's psychological defense line was finally broken, and I saw him sigh in frustration, in addition to not daring to reveal the name of the owner, but also answered our questions without words.

First of all, it's about opening the door and avoiding the strange wind and fog. At this time, the slender face who was in charge of designing the jade plate knocker interjected and gave the answer in place of Elder Whitebeard. It turned out that the hidden doorway in the mechanism was like this: after the jade plate rotated in the direction, the brass knocker was buckled, and the sound was transmitted through the door to the rockery stone cave behind the door, and then it stirred in the fine stone hole. If you just buckle the knocker on either side, it will cause the sound at both ends of the hole to be unequal, and then amplify the uneven energy through the stone cave, blowing out strange wind and ghost fog from the hole on the other side. Therefore, in order not to trigger the trap, it takes two people with the same heart to use the same force to slap the knocker at the same time - the whole process must not be lost in the slightest - so that the volume in the stone hole is balanced, and then the two sides cancel out in the intricate interior of the rockery, so as not to turn into a strange wind carrying the water of the Styx howling out.

I see. Unexpectedly, the principle is unexpectedly simple; The conditions are still a bit harsh. It sounds like even Ah Xia and I, who have been blended with soul and flesh, are not completely sure.

Okay, let's look at the next question: Eh, the area corresponding to the cipher code on the jade plate - this topic, I personally think, maybe it would be better for the bearded man to answer? Sure enough, the big man was not an unsympathetic person, and seeing that he didn't need to confess the owner's private information, he also generously answered this question for the long-bearded old man.

As expected, under this dark and vast world, there are still four directions opposite to the world, and the information told by the bearded guest also confirms my previous judgment.

00-horizontal, corresponding to the east, belongs to wood, so the area mapped to is a sword forest that symbolizes germination

01-Horizontal and vertical, corresponding to the south, belongs to fire, so the area mapped to is a study that symbolizes passion

10-Vertical, corresponding to the west, belongs to gold, so the area mapped to is a symbol of sorrow

11-Vertical, which corresponds to the north, belongs to water, so the area mapped to is a courtyard that symbolizes peace

Therefore, when the jade plate corresponds to the corresponding code, the person who knocks on one side of the knocker will be teleported to the maze of the corresponding area by the strange wind, and the destined person who pulls the knocker on both sides together will be greeted in front of the four houses such as the sword forest, the study, the back garden or the courtyard.

In this way, the six people who were sucked in by the strange wind before, Linda and Ah Shui, should now be in the back garden; The bear and the blind man were probably lost somewhere in the study; Jin Siniang and Alu, if nothing else, are estimated to have been delayed in the intricate side rooms.

Well, now that you know where everyone is, it's time to make a rescue plan. Before we do, though, there's one more thing we need to know:

The most important question is: how can we leave this hellish place and return to the human world after meeting with everyone?

This question, the bearded guest and the slender face looked at each other, and they both shook their heads to say that they didn't know, only the crane-haired and child-faced long-bearded old man stroked his waist-high white beard and explained in person: If you want to return to the distant world from this place where yin and yang meet, the only way to enter the sacrificial platform located in the center of the mansion is to urge the gossip ascension plate that only the owner knows how to operate, and pass through the sky, you can return to the world-as for why does the long-bearded old man know? It's just because this long-bearded elder was once invited by the owner of the village to accompany him to the world.

Hmm, that's right. It sounds tricky, after all, the premise of leaving is that you need to find out the owner of the dragon first! Forget it, let's go find Linda and Jin Siniang first, and force the owner of the mansion to send us back, let's leave it to the two of them to be more reliable, probably.

After making up our minds, Ah Xia and I also followed the mantra that the three false masters had to spit out, and came to the exquisitely carved jade plate together, recalling the code that Linda had made up at that time - after all, she was the first to fall into the maze, let's go to her first - so we adjusted the two jade plates that were previously adjusted to the horizontal form of Taiji fish hugging each other horizontally, and adjusted them to the vertical and horizontal form when Linda and Ah Shui entered, and then they looked at each other and nodded together, ready to pull up the bronze knocker at the same time-

Hey! What a situation! Although it was the first time I touched this jade plate and the door knocker, I thought back to the actions of several people before, and it should be effortless to lift the door knocker! Somehow, when I came here, the copper ring that looked like it was weighing a pound, but it was like a thousand catties, and under my best efforts, it didn't move at all. Looking at Ah Xia's side again, the situation is similar, no matter how hard she exerts, she can't mention it anyway.

"Don't bother!" The slender face saw that we were deflated, and he also laughed gloatingly: "Don't blame the master, I didn't remind you two: the owner of the village once specially explained to the old man, and the lady is happy and quiet, and the ring in the same area cannot be pulled up a second time in a period of time." ”

I was shocked when I heard this, and I also beckoned Ah Xia to rotate the jade plate in her hand into two states, horizontal and vertical, and tried it, and sure enough, as the thin face said, the door knocker really couldn't be pulled. It seems that the temperament of this master couple is really weird, and they actually play this kind of regional cooling mechanism that restricts access.

"And when will it be activated again, the passage to the same area?" Ah Xia is different from me, who is easy to get frustrated when encountering obstacles, she likes to pay more attention to everything, and after hearing that the established plan has failed, she still insists on asking an extra question on her slender face in case of emergency.

"Well, just wait for the blue light on the copper ring to be completely yellowed." The slender face didn't think it was important, but he replied surprisingly cheerfully. And after I heard this, I also hurriedly looked at the unsightly bronze door knocker - sure enough, I opened my eyes and looked at it, and under the yellow appearance of the copper ring, there was indeed a fading blue light, which still occupied three-quarters of the circumference of the copper ring, and it seemed that it would probably take some time before I could go there again.

There's no way, we can only start with the sword forest represented by the 00 (the two picees on both plates are surrounded horizontally), which is a bit interesting.

So, Ah Xia and I had to turn the jade pan Taiji back to the form of black and white Pisces hugging each other horizontally, and then looked at each other, adjusted each other's breathing, and under the blessing of Wangqi, we clearly saw our respective qi, relying on the resonance brought by the heart-to-heart communication, and after a while, our breathing, heartbeat, and the pace and frequency of the flow of qi were adjusted to a synchronized and consistent state.

With a heart-to-heart together, Ah Xia and I finally sensed each other's movements clearly, and pulled up the yellow and clear copper ring in front of us together like a spirit - I didn't expect it to feel unexpectedly light - the next moment, the two of us also cooperated with each other's strength, lifted the copper ring to a moderate height, and then took pictures together.

"Bell!"

Impartially, not sooner or later, no more, no less, with the two copper rings just right buckled to the door, there was a crisp and pleasant sound, and the tall heavy wooden door also squeaked and opened by itself. And the rockery nourished by the water of the Santu River in the dense fog behind the door, under the stirring of the neat and neat clear sound, really did not release the intestine-breaking wind that blocked the qi, and the extinguishing fog that condensed the spiritual power.

"Ho-that! Since the old man completed the jade plate knocker mechanism, he and his two brothers have lived in the garden gate for thousands of years, and you two are the first pair of mortals who knocked on the door for the first time and successfully entered the door. "The slender face saw that I and Axiama were successful, and they also looked at us differently, and they couldn't help but applaud, it is estimated that he, who has been a single otaku all his life, should not believe that there is such a thing as "a little bit of a heart" in the world, probably.

Thinking of this, and looking at the funny appearance of his tense face desperately squeezing out a smile, I also sneered, sneering at his heartfelt compliments, who made him never praise others sincerely in his life, let us be suddenly praised by him, but felt so awkward.

"Well, thanks to the guidance of the three seniors, we were able to open the passage so smoothly." Fortunately, Ah Xia's cultivation is much better than mine, and seeing that the road ahead has gradually become clear, she also ignored her past suspicions, and gently thanked the three masters for their suggestions, and at the same time, a clear and pretty face also showed a warm smile like a warm spring breeze.

"Oh, you're still a well-behaved girl! That's it, that's it. Bearded guest, long beard and long road, otherwise, the old man will take a step first, enter the reincarnation, in the next life, it is better to touch less tricks and do more research on things like 'women'! As soon as I encountered Ah Xia's smiling face, I immediately felt the warmth like a spring breeze, and the ice heart of a stone also had the urge to melt in an instant, and I couldn't help but turn around and discuss with the other two, intending to take the first step and step on the mortal dust.

"Empty brother and slow! You and I, since the bet with the long beard and the chief, the picture is to ask the owner to judge the level of our respective design concepts, before the results come out, can you bear to leave this unresolved heart and enter the world? Seeing that the slender face originally named "Emptiness" really moved the mortal heart, the bearded man was also in a hurry, and hurriedly grabbed him in front of him with an arrow, grabbed him tightly, and insisted that he think twice.

As soon as I listened to the conversation between these two people, I was also happy, and then again, these three people were also strange - when the souls of the small real psychic craftsmen, I couldn't help but roughly count, the number of skilled workers involved in the project was at least more than three hundred, and in addition to these three stubborn masters, the rest of the people went to reincarnation one after another after the completion of the manor, so I was even worried that Xiao Shi could not be reincarnated by the remnant soul, fortunately, in the end, there were these three old stubborns left to save the scene.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but ask, "Speaking of which, I'm really curious, you three, why do you want to stay in this kind of place and spend yourself alive and unconscious?" Since you are obsessed with ingenuity engineering, reincarnate, and then continue the earth, isn't it good? ”

"Well, it's a long story......

Hearing my words, the long-bearded old man, who had been thinking about the emotion of his long thin face since he had just begun, was also stroking his white beard over his knees, and fell into his distant memories.

(End of chapter)