184. Old things
But it's really difficult to find a rope, it's still very hot in September, and everyone is wearing short sleeves. Finally the owner took out his belt and tied it firmly around his wrist, and I tied the other end to my wrist.
Looking up at the owner's face, he still couldn't hold back: "Can I ask you something?" ”
Maybe because I said that I could take him out and gain his trust, so I was completely defenseless: "What's the matter?" I reached for what I had been carrying in my pocket, paused, and asked, "Have you ever seen this pipe?" ”
The owner was stunned, he must have thought that what I was going to ask must be related to the situation in front of him, but he didn't expect that my question would suddenly jump to something else. He looked down at the gray pipe in my hand, looked at it for a while, still looking blank, and said, "I haven't seen it, this is ......"
I looked at him silently and suddenly smiled.
The owner asked me suspiciously, "What are you laughing at?" I smiled and shook my head: "Owner, now there are only the two of us left, I don't know if I can get out, in fact, you don't need to pretend." ”
There are some things that are clear, and there is no need to hide them. After a few seconds, the air condensed slightly, but soon I saw that the dazed look on the owner's face disappeared, and the catalogue looked straight at me.
This is who he is! And not the submissive person just now.
After staring at me for a few seconds, he asked, "Why do you think I'm pretending?" ”
Since I have no intention of concealing it: "When a person can endure for 20 to 30 years just to achieve a goal, this person is first of all tenacious, and will not be so easily defeated by reality." Then, since you can see all the scenes in this mountain from the round platform, you must have seen the pipe I picked up in the place where there is an echo stone, so even if you pretend to ask it just now, it will be better than denying it completely. ”
The owner of the village smiled when he heard this, "The little girl's eyes and this mind are good, I don't hide it from you, I have indeed seen the owner of the pipe in your hand, but I can't remember when, it should be more than ten years." ”
More than ten years? My eyes lit up, and it coincided with the timing of my father's departure from home.
"Do you remember why he came here and where he went?" Try not to let your tone be urgent, although I had already made the shrewd old man in front of me know it when I asked about it. It is a pair of eyes that have gone through the vicissitudes of life and seen through the world, and many things, whether they are floating on the surface or sinking in the dark, are difficult to escape his eyes.
I saw his eyes flash: "The people who come here are nothing more than for two purposes: one is for money, and the other is for fame." I didn't hesitate to spend a lot of money to recruit talented people, so that they could help me crack the Qimen Dunjia Formation on the round platform. But there were a lot of people who came back and forth, but no one could break it, and I even despaired for a while. ”
Speaking of this, his face showed desolation and sadness, but I didn't have the heart to feel about those, and if there was a doubt that he had been afraid to ask, he had to ask: "You said before that these people were left under the round platform, what is going on?" ”
He looked ahead and narrowed his eyes slightly, and said slowly: "In order to ensure that the bronze gate is not easily leaked, the cave master not only set up the Qimen Dunjia formation, but also set up a trap. Once the formation fails, the formation eye will sink a hole downward, and there is even a suction, and the people on the platform will inevitably slide down if they don't guard against this change. ”
I know that when I first entered that space, I saw the owner sitting on the stone of the round platform, and it was the eye of the formation that was blocked by the stone. Is he saying that there would actually be a hole in that location that would cause people to be sucked inside?
When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask in a deep voice, "What is underneath the round platform?" ”
The owner's face sank, and he spit out three words in a low voice: "Shura Field." ”
I was shocked when I heard it, I had expected that falling would mean death, but I didn't expect him to use such a serious word to describe it. I only heard him say: "After the person is sucked into the hole, the hole will slowly close, and during this time the terrible screams will come up smaller and smaller, and finally it will be silent like death." After a few times, I knew that there was a bunch of ferocious creatures in there that could kill people in seconds. ”
I was deeply shocked, if I, Gu Xi, and Qin Zhou failed to break the formation at that time, would they also be sucked into the formation eye? As long as I thought that Qin Zhou and I collided with each other in the middle because I didn't pay attention, I almost fell short.
In addition, the old man in front of me also made me feel creepy. He knew that he would die if he broke the formation, and he invited people to come in batches, and he would definitely not say the consequences of failure in advance. He really did anything to achieve his goal, and he also disregarded the lives of others!
These thoughts walked in my heart, but there was still a choked stalk about to come out, and I held my breath word by word: "You just have to tell me, is there anything in this... He? ”
The owner smiled and looked at me with blazing eyes, "Tell me first, what is the relationship between the owner of this pipe and you?" ”
After hesitating, he replied, "Old man." ”
The owner shook his head with a smile, and did not come to inquire about the matter, and said: "Actually, I had no impression of this person, because he was not one of the people I invited, but came with the other two. So after he entered here, he disappeared and I didn't pay attention, those two people claimed to be superb in Taoism, and they would definitely be able to break my Yuantai Qimen Dunjia formation, but in the end, they still fell off the platform. ”
"And what about him?"
The owner shrugged, "I don't know. Didn't you just say that you didn't pay attention to this man? ”
I stared at him and vetoed his words: "You can't possibly not know!" ”
"Why?"
"Once this place is so important to you, you have put your whole life into it, even if you will be negligent to others, you will inevitably remember it in hindsight; Second, your words and deeds have already expressed that you have an impression of this pipe, and you must have remembered what happened at the beginning that impressed you before you remembered the events of more than ten years ago. ”
The owner looked me up and down again, and praised: "I underestimated your girl's observation. I didn't care about his false praise, I just stared at him and wanted to hear the real answer, but I didn't expect him to say the next sentence: "Chang Qing is your father." ”
I was shocked and stared at him in shock.
At this time, it was difficult to suppress the surging in his heart, and he took a step closer and asked: "Do you really know him?" ”
The owner of the village sighed and said, "I don't know, he saved this life." ”
Then I heard a bizarre story from the owner, and the protagonist was none other than my father, who was beyond my knowledge.
He said that there were three people who came here more than ten years ago, and his father was one of them. Because the father was relatively silent and behaved mediocre, he did not attract the attention of the owner at first. And the two people who walked with him were quite interested in the number of Qimen techniques, and the stone pillar formation on the mountain was cracked by them, so the owner of the village was very hopeful for them at that time, and he also focused all his attention on the two of them, so that later the introduction of the secret passage walked a long way, only to find that the father who had been calm and silent was gone. Since Dad only watched from the wall when he broke the formation before, the owner thought that it was just an insignificant person, but it can be seen that the two masters were very anxious and asked to find Dad first.
He had no choice but to send his men to look for it, but the mountain was full of wonderful formations, and even if he spent more than ten years of energy here, he couldn't figure it out, so it was naturally impossible for his subordinates to go anywhere. Later, he thought of the scene from the round platform that could see various places in the mountain, so he proposed to the two of them to take a step forward. However, when the group came to the round platform, the father was nowhere to be seen throughout the layout.
And the two of them were also attracted by the wonder of the round platform, and temporarily put aside the idea of looking for their father and wanted to start breaking the formation. This move was exactly what the owner intended, and he immediately opened the formation and gave up his position.
These two people are indeed not boasting, they have some real skills. The owner of the village stood on the steps outside the round platform and clearly felt that the space air flow was running, and the center of the formation on the round platform was constantly moving, at first it seemed that the two of them were at ease, but later it seemed that they were a little powerless, and found that there was always a formation eye that would be missed, and then there was gradually a hole in the center of the formation.
The owner of the village himself saw the cold sweat and anxiety in his heart, and he was completely unaware that one of them suddenly swept over and threw him by the collar and threw him onto the round platform, and the man said: If you want to break this formation, you must have three people, and I will borrow one of you to fill the black mouth.
This was really not what he expected, and when his subordinates reacted and were about to rush up, they heard someone shouting: "Whoever dares to come up will become this formation-filler!" While everyone hesitated, the owner of the village had been carried to the black hole by the man, pressed him heavily to the mouth of the hole, and then turned around and joined forces with another person to continue to crack the formation.
The reason why he didn't worry about him running was because there was a huge suction force in the hole that sucked him in firmly, and no matter how hard he tried to climb out, it would be useless. For this reason, he ordered his men to come to his rescue, but those people had seen the power of the hole, and none of them dared to come forward.
All he felt was that his leg was sucked in first, then his hip was stuck, but it continued to sink as the hole grew larger. As long as it was big enough to fit his hips, he would have slipped into it like he had done before, and even at that moment he could feel the chill in his legs that sank underneath.
He felt that he had lured the wolf into the house, these two people did not come here for money at all, their purpose was only to open this Qimen Dunjia Formation, and they did not care about the life of his master at all.