At this point, there is a bottleneck, and we have no way to confirm it until we can find other evidence. But Sheng Shiyao said that one thing is for sure, this mountain col must have a road to the outside world.

I asked him why he was so sure, and he smiled and explained the reason to me. A team of nearly 1,000 people, if we come from the side of the maze forest, then it is bound to cross the green lake, nearly 1,000 people rowed over from the lake, this project can be described as huge, how many rafts do you need to build? At that time, there was no afforestation on the side of Green Lake, so where did they go to get so much timber to make rafts? This is the greatest irrationality.

And thousands of people crossing the lake, the momentum is so big, where there is still a little bit of concealment, it will definitely be seen by outsiders, and it will be impossible to live and work in peace and contentment here. So there must be a secret passage to the outside world.

I suddenly thought of something, and asked hesitantly: "You said that they went out to the other side of the green lake to plant forests, how many people passed by each time?" Sheng Shiyao's expression changed, an epiphany shook on his face, and he muttered: "I see." ”

I don't know why, what did he think of from my question?

Seeing that I looked sleepy, he smiled and said, "Do you remember the landscape paintings we saw in the ancient building?" This military advisor is really a strange man, and every picture he paints hides its own meaning. Those landscape paintings, on the surface, look like the scenery along the road from the edge of the green lake to the village here, but in fact it is a road. To build such a large forest, it is impossible to rely on ferries to pass dozens of people, at least hundreds of people can walk, so how can these people not cross the lake on a large scale? ”

"Mountain! It is the mountains, and the mountains that stretch are their passages. ”

Sheng Shiyao smiled, with approval in his eyes. It is almost certain that even if there were no caves in these mountains, they had carved out a passage to the outside of the Green Lake. And the way they came in must be there.

After figuring it out, the two of them are a lot easier, as long as there is a way, they will definitely be found, but I am afraid that this place is a dead end, and it will be in vain. There was nothing else to be found in the house, so I decided to go outside and take a closer look at the bottom of the mountain to see where there was a cave. Sheng Shiyao walked in front, and then I glanced back when I walked out of the inner room, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and called him urgently: "Wait! ”

He walked back to me, and before he could ask, I pointed to the four weapons above, "Look, how did their positions change?" He looked up, his face changed, the four weapons on the four walls were much lower than the original position, originally at the height of two people, now it is estimated that one person and one arm can be reached. How so? If the iron tool has slipped, we should have heard the sound, but did we just focus too much on the scroll and ignore the sound around us?

Picture?! Sheng Shiyao and I glanced at each other, and we both saw the clues in each other's eyes. Yes, from the time we came in until now, the only thing that has been touched is the picture scroll. Sheng Shiyao took the lead and walked in, reaching out to open the scroll, I hurriedly shouted: "Don't, be careful!" But he didn't listen to me, he raised his hand and opened a scroll, and I instinctively closed my eyes, waiting for the lethal weapon of the feathered arrows that might appear when the mechanism was touched to shoot out, but after a while, I found that there was no movement.

Carefully open your eyes and see, there is silence all around, nothing has changed. And Sheng Shiyao on the side of the wall has already taken down all the paintings on the front wall, revealing the back wall. At first glance, it was pure white, but after a closer look, I found that there seemed to be small traces on a certain horizontal line, I walked up to Sheng Shiyao and asked in surprise: "What are those?" Could it be the button that triggers the deadly mechanism? ”

He glanced at me, "You're thinking too much. The mechanism in this room is not lethal. ”

"Why is that?"

"The identity of the owner of the house. A conceited king, he would not have planted a mechanism in his residence that could be fatal at any time, and in the eyes of his dynasty, these paintings and broken weapons on the walls were worthless, and there was no need to spend too much energy to protect them. So you don't need to be too nervous. ”

I'm a little embarrassed, I have the impression that as long as I touch the mechanism, hundreds of arrows will be shot from all directions on the wall, shooting people into honeycombs, which is played like this on TV, and it seems that it is too poisoned by the dog's blood TV series.

After making sure that there was no danger, I helped Sheng Shiyao remove those paintings one by one, he threw them aside, and I also sorted them all out and stacked them, how to say that it was also the work of the ancients, and this thought was estimated to be enough for the clever military master to think about it. After taking down all the paintings, Sheng Shiyao stuck them on the wall, touching the small marks with his hands little by little, I looked curious, and couldn't help asking, "What are these?" ”

"Don't you see it yet? These tiny dots are the positions of the heads of the seven main figures in each of the paintings that I have plastered. You look closely, is the iron sword moving down a little? ”

When I looked closely, it was true, and when I got closer, I could see that the dots were a little sunken in, but not obvious. It should be that when Sheng Shiyao wiped those points with his hand just now, he pressed them in, which means that these small points are all retractable. Looking up at the iron sword again, I was amazed at the end, no wonder we didn't hear any sound, but a few of our weapons were removed. It turns out that every time the point is pressed, the iron sword will shift down by one point, because the density of the points is equivalent to dividing the downward movement, and it is completed little by little.

It can be seen that behind this wall, an extremely elaborate mechanism is set up. Puzzled, what is the use of such a subtle setup? Is it just to slowly lower the weapon so that the owner of the house can get it? It's not logical, if it's just for that reason, you can just climb up with a ladder to get it. This doubt didn't last long, because after Sheng Shiyao pressed the dots one by one, a stone slab in the middle of the room sank down about ten centimeters.

The two of them glanced at each other, and immediately divided the work together, he was in charge of the two walls, and I was in charge of the two walls, and after the second time, the stone slab in the middle sank down thirty centimeters, and it was already faintly visible that there was a dark room and stone steps underneath.

After several tests, the dark chamber was passable by the time the weapon descended to the ground. At this point, there is no reason not to go in and take a look, a dark room is set up so secretly, it is really meticulous and meticulous. I thought it would be pitch black underneath, and we all had flashlights in our hands to illuminate, but when we went inside, we found that the flashlights were actually useless, because there was an oil lamp on the wall of the dark room, if I guessed correctly, this oil lamp should be the same material as the lantern in the ancient building.

There was a stone chamber at the bottom, and at a glance, we could see that the stone chamber was divided into two layers, the inner and the outside, and the floor where we walked down had many boxes placed on the ground. Antique? Cultural relic? Baby? Several possibilities flashed in his mind, all of which were related to value, but after Sheng Shiyao opened one casually, he couldn't help but be disappointed, it was full of books. The rest of the boxes consisted of books, papers, and letters. The first mystery is solved, and everything related to words that cannot be found in the house turns out to be here.

I don't know the words on the books, it should still be Khitan, Sheng Shiyao didn't read it again after reading a few books, he said that they are all some literary and historical classics about the Liao State. We went to look at the letters again, and I was in charge of opening them, and he was in charge of reading the translations, and once again confirmed that our previous guesses were correct. The inhabitants of this village were really an army, because these letters were letters from other places during the war, and we learned from the letters that the identity of the owner of the house we were in was really unusual, because the title of "king" was mentioned in every letter.

I wonder why this "king" hid all these things related to words in a dark room. After going through the contents of the box and finding nothing, we decided to go inside. But this time Sheng Shiyao was more cautious, he asked me to stand still and not move, and he cautiously tried to move forward step by step, until he walked to the stone gate, and did not rush to push the door, but looked around the stone gate, and touched it lightly with his hand.

It was like this for about half an hour, and it was so quiet that I didn't even dare to catch my breath. I found that my current mood has been completely affected by Sheng Shiyao, I will relax if he is not nervous, if he is nervous, I will be so anxious that my heart beats violently.

Finally, he stopped groping, and chose to push the stone door, the door seemed to be very heavy, I wanted to step forward to help, but he shouted: "Don't come!" I was stunned for a while, and I was stunned in place. He pushed for nearly five minutes before the stone gate was pushed open, and then he turned around and motioned me over, and explained: "During the pushing process of the stone gate just now, it is likely that the mechanism will be activated, if I am the only one, I can still escape from the situation, understand?" ”

I nodded to show that I understood, and a strange feeling rose in my heart, which I couldn't say specifically, but I felt that I seemed to be a little happy, because although Sheng Shiyao scolded me so fiercely, it seemed to be for my good.

Compared to his calmness and composure, I seemed frizzy and reckless.

In fact, the stone door was not completely pushed open, only the space that allowed people to squeeze through, and Sheng Shiyao was still the head, and I followed behind. But when I squeezed in leaning in, I hit his head on the back of the shoulder, and he suddenly stopped. I rubbed my sore head and asked, "Why don't you leave?" ”

He didn't say anything, his eyes fixed on the front, and he looked at him with a cold look.