||->-> Chapter 411 of the main text encounters the agency

"Is this bloodstone? Why is it so popular? Wu Zhanzhan turned on his headlamp and asked as he looked up and down. （）

Gu Qinglan also stopped, knocked on the stone wall with a sapper shovel for a long time, and said:

"That's right, this section of the rock layer is a bloodstone jade mine. We are now in Baoshan, but I don't know if we will return empty-handed. ”

Ding Ermiao and Wu Zhanzhan were silent.

Returning empty-handed is certainly disappointing, but if you find Master's bones, is it considered "full loaded"? Same grief!

The three of them continued to move forward, walking in the strange light and shadow.

As soon as the road under his feet turned, Ding Ermiao's headlamp swept to another person.

A dead man.

The three of them stopped together and looked at each other.

The novel wanshuba.com dead man lies face down on the steps, close to the side of the stone wall. The clothes on his body are still there, but they are the styles and colors of decades ago. Judging by the hair, clothes, and figure, the deceased was also a woman.

Ding Ermiao stepped forward, squatted down, carefully turned over the female corpse, and couldn't help but sigh in his mouth.

The female corpse did not hatch and decay, but it was completely dried in the passage, and turned into a dried corpse, with a sallow face and skin and bones.

The forehead had been cracked, and the skin was torn apart, revealing Bai Sensen's skull.

"Looking at the posture of the female corpse sleeping, it should come up from below." Gu Qinglan frowned and analyzed: "It is estimated that she walked here, fainted because of a bump, and finally died in a coma." ”

"So...... are there people living under the passage? Or, there is another way down there, otherwise, where did this man come from? Wu Zhanzhan asked.

Ding Ermiao moved the female corpse aside, waved his hand, and beckoned Gu Qinglan and Wu Zhanzhan to continue walking.

Now any inferences are not reliable. Maybe after a little further walking, the truth will emerge.

But the further down you go, the more female corpses you encounter. It barely took a dozen steps before he could meet one or two female corpses. The corpses of the women, like the previous ones, had been air-dried, and they were lying on their backs or lying on their stomachs, and they had fallen on the steps.

At first, Gu Qinglan still remembered the count, but later, she felt a little countless.

"Why are so many women dying here?" Gu Qinglan's expression was sad, slightly frightened and unbearable.

Wu Zhanzhan pointed to the steps in front of him and said, "Look at the posture, they all ran up from below, and then died here." To find out, you have to go to the bottom and see! ”

After walking down for another five or six minutes, at the bend, Ding Ermiao, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped again and said, "I'm going, I've been hit by the trap!" ”

"What mechanism?!" Gu Qinglan and Wu Zhanzhan were both taken aback, and looked behind Ding Ermiao.

At a glance, Gu Qinglan and Wu Zhanzhan both blurted out and shouted, "Thousand Turns Hanging Soul Ladder?!" ”

Ding Ermiao pointed to the female corpse in front of him and said, "I'm not mistaken, the first one we met just now was this female corpse, right?" ”

Gu Qinglan and Wu Zhanzhan turned on their headlamps together and stepped forward to take a closer look.

Sure enough, it was the first female corpse. The hair, the clothes, the figure, and the white bones that emerged from the cracked skin on the forehead were all identical.

Moreover, when he was leaving just now, Ding Ermiao moved the female corpse aside and slept on his back. Now her posture didn't move at all, and she still did the same as before.

In other words, the three people went all the way down, and they actually walked back to the top and encountered the first female corpse again.

"Could it be that we have entered the graveyard?" Gu Qinglan's expression changed greatly, her voice trembled a little, and she said:

"The Soul Ladder is a mechanism in the tombway, I have only heard of it, but I have never encountered it. There is a ladder of hanging souls here, is it possible that the tomb is underneath? I heard that none of the people who entered the Soul Ladder made it out alive. ”

Ding Ermiao turned his head to look around and said:

"It's really weird, how did these steps go all the way down, how can they go up again? Moreover, according to my master, the Soul Ladder is generally very short. But we walked for about ten minutes before we returned to the original point, and there was such a large-scale soul ladder? ”

Qiu Sanqi said that the general soul ladder is about three minutes away. Because this kind of mechanism requires very elaborate and natural. The longer the ladder, the more difficult it is to arrange.

But Ding Ermiao estimated that it took more than ten minutes from leaving the female corpse to meeting again.

Wu Zhanzhan frowned and pondered for a long time, took out a copper coin from his pocket, put it on the chest of the female corpse, turned around and said: "Let's go down further, if we encounter this female corpse again in a few minutes, then we can conclude that this is the Soul Hanging Ladder." ”

"I don't think there's any need to ......, so many women died here because they were trapped in the soul ladder and couldn't find a way out, and finally died of hunger, thirst and exhaustion." Gu Qinglan smiled bitterly and said, "Turn around and come here, it's a waste of time." ”

There was a little bit of despair in his tone.

"Even if it's a waste of time, we're going to have to go around again. If you don't look for an exit, won't you be trapped in the soul ladder for the rest of your life? Wu Zhanzhan said: "Even if it's a soul ladder, it's not so terrifying, can it really trap us?" ”

"Senior sister is reasonable!" Ding Ermiao greeted Gu Qinglan and said, "Let's go, Sister Lan, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain!" ”

When Gu Qinglan heard this, her spirits perked up. Wu Zhanzhan and Ding Ermiao are both Maoshan disciples, since they said so, there must be a way to crack the Soul Ladder and get out of the predicament.

The three of them lifted their spirits and continued to walk down, observing as they went.

Along the road, the female corpses I met just now appeared in front of me one by one. Before they reached the starting point, Ding Ermiao and the others already understood that this was indeed a soul ladder.

However, the Soul Ladder is also divided into two-way and one-way differences, which are different. At the moment, it is impossible to tell whether this is a two-way or one-way layout.

Regardless of whether it is two-way or one-way, such a large-scale soul ladder, this method of arranging people is indeed terrifying.

Before setting off this time, Gu Qinglan looked at the time.

Ten minutes later, the three of them returned to the original point and stood beside the first dried corpse. Wu Zhanzhan bent down to pick up the copper coin he had put down earlier, shook his head and smiled: "It's really a superfluous move." ”

"Thirteen minutes," Gu Qinglan looked at the time again and said, "We walked down for thirteen minutes, and now we are back to square one." ”

Wu Zhanzhan also nodded and said, "From the start, there are a total of three hundred and eighty-four steps in this circle, and I have counted them." ”

"Thirteen minutes, a little unlucky......." Ding Ermiao thought for a while, turned around and pointed to the steps up, and asked, "Do you want to go back in a circle?" ”

"Why go up? The Soul Ladder is a cycle, and it's the same everywhere you go. Gu Qinglan was a little puzzled and asked.

Wu Zhanzhan was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "The Soul Hanging Ladder also has a two-way and one-way difference, don't you know?" ”

"And this exquisiteness? I do not know. Gu Qinglan shook her head blankly.