"Xiang Daimo, have you checked everything around the corpse and inside the secret passage?" Zhao Zimeng said.

"It's been checked, but there is no time to check under the bricks."

So, the three of them removed the green bricks that Wang Biao had placed in the corner of the wall one by one, and carefully inspected the bricks underneath.

This inspection was fruitful, and Ling Hu Yunfei found another Buddha bead under a blue brick.

Zhao Zimeng took the Buddha beads from Ling Hu Yunfei's hand and looked at them, this Buddha bead is exactly the same size and color as the first Buddha bead, it should be from the same string of Buddha beads.

Zhao Zimeng judged: The Buddha beads should have been left at the scene by the murderer.

When entering the entrance of the cave, the murderer was half-crouching, and the rope connecting the beads may have been broken at that time.

In a hurry, the murderer did not pick up the Buddha beads scattered in the dark passage, and missed two of them.

Of course, the rope that connects the beads may also have been torn off by Liu Abao during his entanglement with the killer – or even during a struggle.

Zhao Zimeng put the Buddha beads into a plastic bag, and after that, the three of them began to move into the depths of the dark passage.

The dark passage turned right to the north at about six meters, then turned left and went west, and walked forward two or three meters, and an arched door about one meter high and about eighty centimeters wide appeared in front of him.

In the arched door lay a slab of stone slightly larger than the arched door, which was reclining on the ground, and there should be something underneath.

Ling Hu Yunfei and Xiang Daimo stepped over the stone gate, half-squatted down, and at the same time illuminated the pillar of light of the lamp under the stone slab, under which there were two triangular stones.

Based on the experience accumulated in the last Ion Mountain Ancient Tomb, they judged that these two triangular stones should be the Arrival Stones.

Soon, Ling Hu Yunfei found a stone pin with a square cross-section on the outside of the arched door, that is, at the east corner of the wall.

The side of the cross-section is about five centimeters long, and the length of the stone pin is about twenty centimeters.

When Linghu Yunfei took the stone pin in his hand and looked at it, Xiang Daimo found an identical stone pin on the other side.

Zhao Zimeng took the two stone pins in his hands and looked at them, compared them for a while, and came to a conclusion: these two stone pins are very likely to be important parts that lock the stone slab in the groove.

Thanks to the experience and knowledge imparted by the two archaeological experts in the previous Ion Mountain Ancient Tomb, this time, Zhao Zimeng and the others entered this underground palace in the well and were much calmer.

Ling Hu Yunfei used a lamp to shine on the walls on both sides of the stone gate.

On the stone wall to the right of the stone gate, he found that there were more than a dozen stone pins spliced together to form a petal pattern, and there was a square hole in the middle of the petals.

Ling Hu Yunfei looked back at Zhao Zimeng, and Zhao Zimeng nodded in understanding.

Linghu Yunfei inserted the stone pin in his hand into the hole, which was neither big nor small, and it was tightly sealed.

It turns out that the mechanism that opened the stone door was hidden in the petals.

Linghu Yunfei looked at the stone wall on the left side of the stone gate based on experience, and there was an identical petal-shaped pattern.

There is a stone gate in the dark passage.

The stone door is locked by two stone pins, and there are two door-to-door stones behind the stone door, which is not an ingenious design.

Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao not only discovered the secret door on the well wall, but also cracked the mechanism on the stone door, which shows that these two people are not ordinary characters.

Zhao Zimeng used a lamp to shine on the left and right sides of the arched door, and there were grooves as thick as the stone slabs on both sides and on the top of the door, and it was obvious that the grooves were used to inlay the stone door.

The steel drill that Xiang Daimo found next to the corpse should have been used to open the stone door.

The stone door has a mechanism, and if you can't find it, the door can't be opened.

Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao often work overtime, and they should be thinking about the mechanism to open the stone door.

The cousins may have discovered the hole in the wall of the well very early.

The engineering team has been working in the Cold Moon Temple for nearly half a year, and such a long time is enough for two people to study the mystery of this stone gate mechanism.

But Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao faced more than one stone gate.

Before entering the underground palace, Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei and Xiang Daimo passed through three gates and saw three stone gates.

The size and shape of the three stone gates are completely different.

The first stone gate is arched, the second is square, and the third is octagonal.

Each stone door has grooves in the frame.

Moreover, each stone gate has a triangular door-to-door stone, as well as a stone pin used to fix the stone door.

Not only is the shape of the stone gate different, but even the shape of the stone pin and the pattern on the stone wall are also different.

The stone pin of the second stone gate is triangular, and the stone pin of the last stone gate is hexagonal.

Zhao Zimeng and the others found that only triangular and hexagonal stone pins could be spliced into a pattern, leaving no gaps.

The entrance and exit to enter the underground palace are hidden on the wall of the well, and three stone doors are set up in the secret tunnel, and three kinds of unused mechanisms are used, the purpose is probably to ensure the safety of the golden Buddha in the underground palace, and the people who designed it are extremely careful and dexterous.

Even if someone is lucky enough to find the secret door on the wall of the well, there are three stone doors blocking it, and outsiders who enter the secret path cannot enter the underground palace and take away the Golden Buddha.

If Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao hadn't dug the well, they wouldn't have had enough time, and they wouldn't have been able to open these three stone gates to enter the underground palace.

The stone gates are different, and the mechanisms also have their own mysteries.

Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao must have spent a lot of time opening the three stone gates.

The engineering team rushed to meet the deadline and worked until eleven or twelve o'clock every night, which created very favorable conditions for the two people to crack the mechanism of the stone gate.

The design of the dark passage is also very weird, and the dark passage is constantly changing directions.

The stone gates are all set up at the bend, and the last section of the dark passage points directly to the underground palace.

Although the three of them were walking in the dark passage that was constantly changing directions, Zhao Zimeng could keenly feel that no matter how the direction of the dark passage changed, they were always moving in the direction of the Daxiong Treasure Palace.

He thinks that the underground palace is just below the Mahavira Palace!

To be precise, the underground palace is most likely under the sitting bed of Shakyamuni Buddha.

After entering the third hexagonal stone gate, walk forward about 20 meters, and there are two completely open stone gates.

The stone gate is carved with exquisite retro patterns, and its contents are roughly related to Buddhism.

Three people stood at the door of the stone gate, and two lights shot inside at the same time.

The underground palace has been sleeping underground for more than a thousand years, and it is impossible to say what is dirty in it.

Before, the big guy had just been frightened by the python hidden in the belly of Shakyamuni Buddha, so it was better to be cautious.

When the light of the two lamps focused on the top of the dungeon at the same time, the three of them took two steps back in unison.

The three of them saw at the same time that on the top of the vault-shaped dungeon, there were indeed two entangled pythons hanging upside down.

In addition to the two snakes, there are several long snake moults.

At the top of the dungeon there are several holes the size of plates, two pythons, the front half of one is nested in one hole, and the front half of the other is a slightly thinner snake in the other hole.

Probably not adapted to the strong light of the lamp, the two big pythons quickly separated and quickly disappeared into the hole.

Above this underground palace may be the Buddha Shakyamuni - or Guanyin Buddha in the Mahavira Hall.

It turned out that this dungeon was the lair of snakes, including the python that was sent to the mountains and forests.

"Team Zhao, look there—" Xiang Daimo whispered.

"Where?"

"There—look at the pillar of my lamp." Xiang Daimo quickly shook the lamp a few times, and the pillar of light also shook a few times.

Zhao Zimeng finally saw that there were several big pythons wrapped around a round stone pillar, and on the ground next to the stone pillar, there were some snakes lying horizontally and vertically.

The three of them froze in place, not daring to act rashly.

Ling Hu Yunfei moved the pillar of light of the lamp to his feet, and when he subconsciously retreated, his foot stepped on something.

Under the light, a wine bottle lies in the corner.

Linghu Yunfei stepped on the mouth of the bottle.

He broke out in a cold sweat, thinking he had stepped on the snake.

Jiang Zihai and Cao Zhuzhu's doubts finally found an answer here.

Master Zhou used wine and realgar to deal with the python in the belly of Shakyamuni Buddha.

And the bottle of wine in Ge Zhenggen's trouser pocket should be used to deal with these snakes in the dungeon.

There are so many snakes gathered in the dungeon, if you want to get rid of the golden Buddha in the dungeon, you must deal with those snakes first.

Zhao Zimeng and the three of them did not enter—and did not intend to enter the underground palace.

The underground palace in front of you is a secret room of about fifteen square meters.

The side of the secret room is about four meters long, about six meters high, and the top is the dome roof, which is carved and spliced with more than a dozen stone slabs.

The walls on all four sides are made of one-metre-square stone slabs carved with religious frescoes.

The carvings on the stone wall are faintly visible, and the humidity inside the underground palace is high, and the water flowing out of the stone cracks has left water stains of different widths on the stone slabs.

In the middle of the secret room, there is a stone carved platform - that is, everyone saw a stone pillar with several large pythons entwined, and under the illumination of the light, several snakes quickly disappeared to the other side of the stone pillar.

The high platform is about 90 centimeters high, cylindrical shaped, and some exquisite patterns are carved around the high platform, and there is an unfolded stone carved lotus seat on the high platform.

The maximum diameter of the stone carved lotus seat is about one meter.

There is also a thicker python swimming on the lotus seat.

But it only swam in a coil on the lotus seat, and had no intention of leaving.

"Team Zhao, this lotus seat is exactly the same as the lotus seat under the Guanyin Bodhisattva in the Daxiong Treasure Hall." Xiang Daimo whispered - he was afraid of alarming those snakes.

The speed at which sound travels through the dungeon is very fast.

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei also thought so: "Yes, it is indeed exactly the same." ”

The three of them had seen such a lotus seat in the Mahavira Temple.

There is a standing Guanyin Buddha in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and there is a lotus seat below the Buddha statue.

The shape of the two lotus seats is exactly the same, the only difference is the size.

Ling Hu Yunfei opened the lens cover of the camera and took more than 20 photos in one go.

In addition to the stone carved platform and lotus seat, the murals on the stone wall and the top of the secret room were also photographed by Ling Hu Yunfei.

Only the left and right sides of the mural can be photographed, and it is a relatively recent part.

The three of them did not dare to enter the underground palace rashly.