Chapter 60: The Red Gate Inn (60) Octagonal Well

The field of vision gradually widened, a cool cold wind came to his face, Mo Chen followed Zheng Yi and jumped out of the passage, and an underground river appeared in front of him.

??“ How do you know there's a water source here?" Mo Chen approached the water's edge and shone it with a torch, the river was shallow but clear. Mo Chen picked up a stone and threw it far into the water, the stone hit the water and splashed a bunch of waves, two bubbles, the stone fell to the bottom of the water, and after confirming the safety, Mo Chen took some water to wash his face.

Zheng Yixiao opened his mouth in embarrassment, and said with a smile, "Where am I so godly!" If you want to pinch your fingers to know that there is a water source here, I will go out to set up a stall to tell fortunes! ”

Mo Chen shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "It's rare!" Now I know how to be humble! ”

"Not really!" Zheng Yi said with a smug face, "Brother Yi relied on the wind to find here, originally to find a vent to go out, but I didn't expect to touch the water source." ”

Mo Chen looked at the narrow and continuous underground river, and couldn't help but smile on his face, "Isn't this better, the water has its own source." ”

Wind and water are pervasive, along the underground river Mo Chen and the two walked quickly upstream, seeing that the line of sight in front of them was getting wider and wider, and the light was getting brighter and brighter, Mo Chen and the others were all happy in their hearts, it seemed that they were finally going to end this "underground" life.

"I'm C!ahhhhh

The reason why Zheng Yi is so out of shape is because he and Mo Chen finally found an exit, but the exit is too laughable.

Walking along the underground river all the way upstream, Mo Chen and the others saw that the underground river water flowed out of the source cave at a height of one zhang. And the light did come from the outdoors, but it came from an octagonal hole above their heads.

Mo Chen looked at the octagonal cave and muttered, "Could that be a well!" ”

Judging from the shape and height of the cave overhead, it seems that from the outside, this is really a well, and the bamboo tube hanging at the entrance of the cave confirms this conjecture.

"You say, if this place is really built by the ancestors of the Qian family for refuge, then it must have a way out, right?" Zheng Yi thought about it, staring at the wellhead above his head, it was really incredible, could it be that the Qian family deliberately made the exit like this? To trap the enemy here, how are they going to get out themselves?

"Maybe that's the exit!" Mo Chen looked up at the hole above his head, and from the lower direction, it was Mo Chen who began to appear on four hanging walls at the position of their heads, which continued to connect to the top of the well. If the original purpose of the owner of this place was to make this place an escape port, then there must be a mechanism in this place. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain how to fly to the mouth of the well above.

Zheng Yi approached the flowing water from above, his hand penetrating the flowing water, and the icy river water was piercing cold. Zheng Yi tinkered in the water, and his fingertips touched a different stone, which seemed to be connected to the riverside, but it was a little loose. Zheng Yi twisted hard, and there was a loud bang, followed by the clicking sound of the mechanism twisting, and several stone steps protruding abruptly from the rock wall.

Zheng Yi and Mo Chen looked at each other and smiled, Zheng Yi took the lead in jumping up the lowest stone steps, Mo Chen followed, and the stone steps stretched out were connected to the octagonal well wall hanging above.

The wall of the well is in a dark and damp place all the year round, and the wall is covered with moss, so it is not possible to climb to the mouth of the well with bare hands.

"Did you say this pattern was deliberately painted here?" Brushing aside the moss on the wall of the well, Mo Chen pointed to the three horizontal lines exposed below and asked.

Zheng Yi took a closer look at it, "If it is deliberately painted here, then it ......" Zheng Yi looked up at the wellhead above, "Then this well is built with a gossip array." ”

It turned out that Zheng Yi's guess was not wrong, and soon he and Mo Chen found other patterns on the wall of the well, and they were even more surprised to find some traditional Chinese characters in the higher places, and those words plus the wellhead were like a gossip map.

The three horizontal lines that Mo Chen referred to correspond to the word "Qian" in the gossip, what made Zheng Yi frown was that the two did not correspond, and the word Qianzi and these three horizontal lines were not on the same wall at all, let alone a height.

"Could it be that the word and the pattern are matched in one place to trigger the mechanism?" Mo Chen studied it for a long time and said.

"How do you correspond?" Although Zheng Yi asked, he took the lead in the incident, trying to pull the dry character off the wall of the well, and the character was obviously fixed there, not the trigger point of the mechanism.

Zheng Yi shrugged his shoulders at Mo Chen, with a look of regret on his face, Mo Chen stared at Zheng Yi expectantly, "Hey! You're an expert, so you won't just admit it! ”

After getting along for a long time, Mo Chen had already discovered Zheng Yi's weakness, he liked to listen to flattery, and he was even more powerless against "flattering orders". When Mo Chen said this, Zheng Yi rubbed his forehead, hoping that he couldn't gather all his brain cells and solve the problem in front of him immediately.

Zheng Yi turned around the octagonal wall, chanting words in his mouth, as if he was reciting some mantra. Mo Chen put his hand in his pocket and watched Zheng Yi busy in front like a leader.

"Ahhh......h I have a C~~ What the hell is it! Zheng Yi pulled his hair, his face was dead, he was still more willing to fight with real knives and guns than to calculate.

"Huh~~~" Mo Chen made a slogan to stop the horse, and Zheng Yi responded to his taking advantage of him with a dark face.

Mo Chen ignored him, but instead stared at the words and symbols on the wall of the well, and asked, "What did you just say, is the order of these words?" ”

Zheng Yi nodded, and Mo Chen continued to ask, "Then do you know the symbol corresponding to each word?" ”

Zheng Yi pouted, looking don't underestimate him, "If you have something to say!" ”

Mo Chen touched the dry character, and there didn't seem to be any mechanism around the word, since it wasn't here, it was the side of the pattern symbol. It's a pity that the three horizontal lines corresponding to the dry character have not changed as Mo Chen expected.

"Or ...... Let's try to touch it together! Mo Chen hesitantly put forward the idea that suddenly popped into his mind.

Zheng Yi jumped away, tightened the clothes on his body, wrapped his arms around his chest, and stared at Mo Chen defensively, "Yamei Butterfly~~~"

"C! What do you want!" Mo Chen spat in disgust, and couldn't help but shudder.

Mo Chen pointed to the three horizontal lines and said to Zheng Yi, "I'll touch this, you touch the dry words!" You're retarded! ”

"What's the use of that,!" Zheng Yi groped the dry characters indiscriminately, twisted his neck and shouted at Mo Chen.

Originally, Mo Chen also had the mentality of trying it out, "If it doesn't work, it's better to change the next method than to do nothing." ”

"And!" Zheng Yi shook his legs disdainfully, the stone steps that had stretched out were very smooth, and with the damp moss, his feet slipped and he almost fell. In the confusion of his hand, he pressed it against the dry character, and Mo Chen felt that at the same time, the graphic wall that his hand was touching vibrated slightly, and he had an idea, and he pressed it quickly and hard.

With a boom, accompanied by the sound of the trigger of the mechanism, a stone staircase slowly stretched out from the wall of the well under the dry character.