(October 14) countdown to the 77th day

The two of them walked quickly to the stone gate, which was like a modern telescopic door, opening wider and wider along the grooves on the left and right, enough for one person to pass through before it came to a stop.

As soon as the two of them stepped in, there was another click, and the stone door slowly closed.

Walking forward about 200 meters, there is a stone gate again, the difference is that there is an extra painting on the stone door, the painting is carved and chiseled, it is the portrait of the character in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "Mona Lisa".

This door should be the second level that Old Man Tang Ji said. Yao Xiaoyi approached and looked at the eyes of the person in the painting, just like she was standing in the main hall of the wooden building looking at the oil painting, her expression was a little trance, and she always felt that these eyes were full of too many stories, which made people palpitate.

She reached out her finger and touched one of the eyes, but there was no response, knowing that both eyes had to touch at the same time to trigger the mechanism.

She turned her head to look at the old man Liu Hui who was standing behind, and said, "Old man, be careful", using her left and right hands together, placing two fingers on the eyes of the person in the painting, and pressing them gently.

Without accident, with a sound, the stone door slowly opened. The two stepped in, and the stone door slowly closed again.

After about 200 meters, the passage turned straight to the left.

The two of them went one after the other, another 200 meters, and then turned left.

Yao Xiaoyi carefully felt the change in direction, if she kept going forward according to this passage, she should be able to lead directly to the edge of the cliff.

But this time, after only 50 meters, the passage came to an end. On the right side of the passage, another stone door blocked the way. Different from the previous stone gate, there is a big character written on both sides of this stone gate, the left "life", the right "death", written with a red pen, it is the handwriting of the old man Tang Ji.

The door of life and death? The third level is a life-or-death choice? If you choose the right one, you will live, and if you choose the wrong one, you will die?

Yao Xiaoyi turned his head to look at the old man Liu Hui, and the old man also shook his head.

Yao Xiaoyi is sure that the old man Tang Ji has tried his best to guide himself here, and he must not be harming himself, no matter how he chooses, he will not have to worry about his life.

But there has to be an answer. The door of life and death, life and death, death and life, life and death, life and life, life is death, death is life. If you want to live, you have to die, and you have to live in order to put it to death.

"Old man, I'll choose this one." Yao Xiaoyi pointed to the door on the left with the word dead written on it.

"I believe in the girl, whatever you choose, I will follow."

Without saying much, Yao Xiaoyi stretched out his hand and pushed, and the door with the word "death" written on the left slowly retracted into the stone trough on the left wall.

Through the stone gate, there is a downward passage now.

Descending the neatly carved steps to the end, there is a wooden door with the word "push" written on it.

Yao Xiaoyi did not hesitate and raised her hand to push.

Crunch!

The wooden door opened.

Suddenly!

Before the two of them could step in, they heard a sudden sound, and the lights on the left and right sides were suddenly lit.

Flicker......

Immediately afterwards, the sound spreads from near and far to the distance, and the lights on both sides are also lit in turn from near to far, extending to the far end, becoming a small dot.

Again, the lamps are oil lamps, placed on stone pillars at equal intervals, illuminating the passage brightly.

As for how the lights were lit, the two of them didn't see what was out of the ordinary for a long time.

It's finally time to turn off your phone. The two of them followed one oil lamp after another. Towards the end, the view ahead suddenly opens up, and a Chinese home-style hall is presented in front of you.

When I came to the entrance of the hall, there was a flickering sound, and the oil lamps around the hall were lit one after another.

The hall is about 10 meters long and 8 meters wide, and a huge sarcophagus is placed in the center of the hall, and the sarcophagus is covered with a stone coffin lid. When touched by hand, the sarcophagus is made of exactly the same material as the rock. If you look closely, the sarcophagus is actually carved out of a single piece of rock, and the rock on the ground is a complete whole.

The two walked around the sarcophagus to a large square table at the back, surrounded by four high stools, which, like the sarcophagus, were carved out of the whole rock. Behind the square table is a tall table with an incense burner and several fruit bowls, which are still carved out of rock, of course.

On the wall next to the desk hangs a picture frame, in which the figures are a man and a woman.

"Madam, young master! The old body is guilty, this will kowtow to you! ”

Yao Xiaoyi was guessing the identities of these two people, but when she saw the old man Liu Hui plop down and kneel down against the picture frame, he immediately hit his head on the ground, touched it three times in a row, and then burst into tears, and he couldn't kneel for a long time.

Yao Xiaoyi understood that the people in the frame were Mr. Tang's wife and children, and their bones did not disappear out of thin air, but were taken to the secret room halfway up the mountain, presumably placed in the sarcophagus.

After a long time, Yao Xiaoyi slowly helped the old man up, thinking that this kneeling, the stone that the old man had accumulated in his heart for more than forty years should be lighter.

Looking around again, a row of bookshelves on the left and right of the hall attracted Yao Xiaoyi's attention. This row of bookshelves is exactly the same as that of the wooden building study, the difference is that in the middle of the bookshelf, there is a painting hanging oil, or "Mona Lisa".

Yao Xiaoyi thought about it and quickly came to the bookshelf. Not surprisingly, the bookshelves, bookshelves, and oil paintings are all carved out of rock as a whole.

Approaching the painting, without much thought, she used both hands together, touched the eyes of the person in the painting, pressed it lightly, and heard a crisp sound, and one of the grids in the bookshelf changed in response, and retreated into the wall little by little. Then there was a click, the retreating lattice stopped, and in the middle of the vacated position, a reassuring stone pillar slowly rose.

Yao Xiaoyi took a closer look, and on the stone pillar, he saw a wooden block the size of a palm, and as I saw before, the wooden block was cleverly embedded in the stone pillar, and the 26 English letters on it were clearly displayed.

Click!

There was another sound, and the pillar stopped rising.

Yao Xiaoyi used both hands again, four fingers touched the four letters V, L, E, and C at the same time, and with a light press, a crack slowly appeared at the upper end of the stone pillar. But the crack is getting bigger and bigger, and a copper box appears.

Perhaps because the air is dry and the stone pillar is well sealed, the box is as clean as new. There is a copper lock hanging on the box, and its format and size are exactly the same as the copper box that Yao Xiaoyi saw in the secret room of the wooden building.

Yao Xiaoyi took out the box, took out the key from the backpack that opened the box in the secret room of the wooden building, inserted it into the lock hole, and as expected, the copper lock opened.

There are only two things in the box.

A letter, with three words written on the envelope, "To the benefactor", the handwriting is easy to judge, it is from the hand of the old man Tang Ji.

A simple map, the map is very scribbled, and it is impossible to see what it means.

Yao Xiaoyi put down the map and pulled out the letterhead from the envelope......