I followed the rotation order of the eight trigrams, and determined the Shengmen, Kaimen, and Jingmen in the cage of the plum blossom array. The distance between each cage is very close, so even if there is a distance between the Shengmen and the Jingmen, I can jump directly through it.

There is a raised iron plate under each cage, and as long as you step on the iron plate, it is considered a certain mechanism.

The only difficulty in the whole process is that Miss Du is awake now, and when I carry her out, I have to knock her unconscious and carefully avoid touching anything in the cage.

Touching anything inside the cage has the potential to trigger the trap.

I looked up at the sky, and the snow was falling again. After counting the time, there was still more than half an hour left before noon. But I can't wait until noon, I'll have to give it a try anyway.

So I stood up and breathed a sigh of relief.

Mu Qingchen comforted me on the side, "Don't worry, Miss Yao and I will watch carefully, if something happens, we will try our best to save you and Miss Du out." No matter how tight the mechanism is, there is still a flaw in speed. For us, we should be able to catch up with the speed of the trap's launch. ”

I nodded, "It's hard work." “

Then, when the cage had turned twice more and was back to its normal rotation, I jumped into the cage and stepped on the iron plate on the ground.

The iron plate was stepped on, and there was a crisp "click" sound. The hidden weapon that was originally exposed in the cage of the birth gate was automatically closed.

I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded at Yao and Mu Qingchen, "It seems that our analysis is correct." ”

Yao Xiaomei and Mu Qingchen's faces also looked a lot more relaxed.

According to my guess, when you go in, you should enter when the plum blossom array rotates in the right order, and when you come out, rotate out in reverse order.

This is in line with the essence of gossip.

I saw an opportunity, and after a spin in the cage, I took advantage of the short pause to jump into the cage that opened the door, and at the same time stepped on the iron plate inside the cage.

There was another crisp "click", and the hidden device inside the door was closed.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and the next step was the hardest part. In the middle of the Jingmen cage, there is a sharp blade, if you want to enter the Jingmen, you must squat and jump in, and at the same time, the hidden weapon in the Jingmen cage is more prominent.

After jumping in very accurately, the distance between the body and the hidden weapon is only one finger's distance, which is not a small difficulty for me.

If you're not careful, you'll trigger the hidden weapon.

I took a few deep breaths, waited for the cage to spin back and forth twice, held my breath, and crouched down and jumped over quickly just as it was time to turn to Jingmen.

Because my body was squatting, I was nervous in my heart, and after jumping in, I almost fell, and finally I held the iron plate with my hand to make myself stand firm.

With the crisp "click", the hidden weapon of Jingmen was also closed, and the sharp blade above my head was also retracted.

I nodded at Yao and taunted them, stood up and walked into the middle of the plum blossom array.

There was no mechanism in the middle, only a round iron pillar, and Miss Du was tied to the iron pillar.

She looked haggard and looked powerless, thinking she had cried many times.

I told her, "Miss Du, I'm going to knock you out temporarily, or I'm afraid you'll be too nervous and accidentally touch the mechanism." If you can understand what I'm saying, nod your head. ”

As a result, Miss Du shook her head instead.

I wondered, frowned, and removed the ball of cloth from her mouth.

Miss Du coughed twice in a row. said: "Nine princes, let's go...... You can't save me...... They've fed me poison, it's a trap. ”

I frowned, "What? ”

Hurriedly grabbed Miss Du's wrist, her pulse was extremely disordered and very weak. I changed another hand to help Miss Du take her pulse, and found that Miss Du's heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys were all very seriously damaged.

"Fierce son, throw your knife in." I yelled at the bull.

Niu Meng hurriedly ran over, pulled out the pig-killing knife, and asked me, "How do you throw it?" ”

Yao taunted and snatched his knife, "I'll come." ”

Then, he said to me, "Catch it." ”

With that, he threw the knife straight over, just through all the gaps, without touching anything inside the cage.

I caught the knife and said to Miss Du, "Miss Du, hold back." ”

She kept shaking her head, "Ninth Prince, you can't save me...... I just want the Ninth Prince to protect my family. ”

"If you can't save it, you have to save it." I frowned and slashed Miss Du in the arm.

The blood that came out of her wound was already purple-black, and when I sniffed it closely, it seemed to smell of corpse poison.

To make sure, I dipped some blood and tasted it in my mouth, my brow furrowed even tighter.

It is indeed corpse poison.

The new knowledge that Uncle Shi taught me this time included the knowledge of corpse poison.

There are many kinds of corpse poisons, and the effects on people are also different. One of the deadliest corpse poisons is not to make people die directly, but to turn humans into zombies.

Miss Du happened to be this kind of corpse poison, and Uncle Shi said that this kind of corpse poison has no cure, and it can only kill people who are poisoned by corpses.

Since Miss Du is just an ordinary person, my bloodline has the ability to heal wounds to ordinary people. But to use my bloodline to help Miss Du get rid of this corpse poison, the bloodline and the corpse poison in her body will have a violent reaction, which is likely to cause the blood in Miss Du's body to boil, which will also kill Miss Du.

Why?

I don't understand.

What exactly is the purpose of this group? Isn't it a competition to be smart? Isn't it possible to rescue Miss Du if you break the plum blossom array?

Why did you poison Miss Du?

I really can't figure it out.

After thinking about it for a while, I untied Miss Du from the iron pillar and told her, "Miss Du, no matter what, I'll take you out of the plum blossom array first." ”

Miss Du shook her head, "It's useless, they all told me, I will become a zombie, and if I become a zombie, I will keep killing, just like that person." ”

"Which one? Do you see what this group of people looks like? I asked hurriedly.

Miss Du nodded and told me about her experience of being tied here.

She said that when she woke up, she was already here and saw more than a dozen people.

Among them was an old woman who made a special impression on her, with a black face and gray hair, who looked to be at least ninety years old, but her body was very strong, and she held a green cane in her hand, and the head of the cane was a snake's head.

There is also a bald man, but unlike a monk, there is no ring scar on his head, he looks fierce and vicious, he wears a string of Buddha beads around his neck, the rest of the Buddha beads are normal, the middle is a skull, not big, Miss Du said it looks like a child's skull.

What frightened her was a zombie, yes, a zombie. The whole body is withered, almost skin and bones, the eyes are deep-set, only the whites of the eyes, there are no pupils, all the teeth have become pointed, and the nails of both hands are long, which look like sharp blades.

The zombie was tied up with iron ropes and rolled on the ground, looking extremely painful.

These are all things that the old woman told Miss Du.

Then the old woman forcibly fed Miss Du a pill, and she told Miss Du that if no one came to save her before noon.

She'll have a poisonous hair and become exactly like the zombie. After becoming a zombie, he will continue to kill and eat people, and he will never stop.

She also told Miss Du that once she turned into a zombie, no one in the entire Jinling City would be able to deal with her.

I asked Ms. Du if she had any impressions of other people, or if she thought there was anything special.

Ms. Du said that it was still dark at that time, and she couldn't see clearly, but she remembered that there was a strong man with tattoos on his face. There was also a one-armed man, most of them used knives, and one of them used a very strange weapon, and Miss Du said that she had never seen it, and she did not know what kind of weapon it was.

Looks like a hat.

Then Miss Du grabbed my arm and begged me, "Ninth Prince, I beg you to kill me, I really don't want to be like that, and I don't want my family to see me become like that." ”

"Miss Du, don't worry, it's still a while before noon, and I will find a way to save you. If you can't save it, I promise you that I'll kill you. After I finished speaking, without waiting for Miss Du to respond, I slapped her the back of the neck, knocking her unconscious.

In fact, I know very well in my heart that Miss Du is no longer saved. She doesn't want to be bully, and bull is not an ordinary person. That's why Uncle Shi was able to save Niu Meng, who was poisoned by the tomb vine.

Ordinary people are poisoned by the tomb vine, and they are either killed, turned into zombies, or killed.

I tied Miss Du behind my back, carried her, and threw Niu Meng's pig-killing knife back to Yao Xiaomei.

Then, according to the order of the reversal of the plum blossom array, he easily carried her out of the plum blossom array.

Just when I came out with Miss Du on my back, the cage behind me began to "click" non-stop.

I realized something was wrong and shouted, "Run!" ”

After shouting, he quickly rushed forward.

As soon as he rushed out of a distance of less than five zhang, there was a "boom" behind him and it exploded.

The sound was deafening, and the whole ground trembled. Most of the people were shocked to the ground by the loud bang of this life.

I saw a lot of people lying on the ground and covering their ears, and I felt my ears buzzing myself, and my mind was not clear.

I looked back, and the entire plum blossom array was blown up, and all the broken pieces of iron in the air fell to the ground with a clang.

Some monks and guards who were standing far away were hit by hidden weapons.

These hidden weapons were not fired by the Plum Blossom Array mechanism, but were blown up.

Where the plum blossom array was originally placed, a huge pit appeared, and the air was filled with the smell of saltpeter.

Why did this group of people have such a large amount of gunpowder?

In the Ming Dynasty, gunpowder was controlled by the imperial court, and the control was extremely strict. Such a large amount of gunpowder, if it was made privately, would be directly punished by the Nine Clans.

Could it be that there is still the participation of the imperial court among this group of people?

I shook my head and became much more sober. Miss Tang and the others came around and asked me, "Are you okay?" ”

I shook my head, relieved Miss Du, and instructed Chasing Wind to evacuate all those who didn't want to do it from Bao'en Temple. The people of Du Mansion stayed, and let the guards surround and protect everyone in Du Mansion.

I don't know if I saved Miss Du or not, but the blood word said that if I didn't rescue Miss Du at noon, I would kill Du Fuman.

I now wish they could come out in the open, instead of hiding behind their backs as turtles.