Yan Yu is in a bad mood now, but Wu Lin is not in a good mood now.

When Yan Yu looked at me with his eyes that were a little resentful, and was about to continue talking, I silently raised my hand and motioned for him to pay attention to Wu Lin's expression.

Yan Yu squinted his eyes at Wu Lin, and saw the face as cold as an iceberg, in the iceberg-like cold, there was also a fierce murderous aura like a steel knife.

Later, Yan Yu pondered for a while, he probably felt that it seemed to be a very uneconomical thing to lose his life because of the opening of the cannon, so he didn't ramble anymore and obediently helped us find the location of the secret door.

The secret door is located in the northwest corner of the deserted temple, and its structure is also very simple, that is, a half-foot-thick stone slab is inlaid on the ground, and a mechanism is set up to open the secret passage under the stone slab.

It's just that the mechanism is not made of gears or levers or the like, but is made of two layers of glue that are more than five meters thick, and the geology of the glue has been deliberately modulated by the Yan family, and when I hit the stone slab with a bell hammer, the echo of the bell gall is not abnormal, as if under the stone slab, there is a solid layer of soil.

Yanyu jumped down from the back of the doll, lowered his body again, and blew on the glue layer under the stone slab, and saw the two foot layers shrink quickly to the sides like shrinking roller blinds, and a dark tunnel appeared in front of him in an instant.

The vertical part of the tunnel is six or seven meters deep, so you need to fall vertically for such a long distance, and then go deep into the ground along the tunnel with a large slope and slope.

I took a general look at the situation in the tunnel, turned around and asked Yanyu, "How do you go down?" ”

Exactly, I wanted to ask him how to go down, the height of two floors was nothing to me and Wu Lin.

Unexpectedly, Yan Yu showed up again: "I have a puppet to protect me, it's easy to go down, but you two, look at it, there is no place in this place where you can hang the steel cable, I'm afraid you ...... if you want to go down."

Since he can go down himself, there is no problem.

Wu Lin and I didn't bother to listen to him continue to ramble, and we had already jumped into the tunnel with our front and back feet.

I took a step first, and as soon as my feet landed, I immediately took two steps forward, and within two or three seconds, the sound of Wu Lin landing was also heard behind me.

Wu Lin turned on the flashlight and shot into the downhill tunnel.

The arched walls are made of quadrangular bricks, and the ground is covered with large stone slabs carved in relief.

Due to the age, the bricks on the wall have been eroded to a round and shiny, and the relief on the ground has long since been reduced to a little outline.

I guess the things carved into the ground must have been dragons or snakes coiled together, as most of the details were unrecognizable, and now they looked like roots clinging to the ground.

"Wait for him?" Wu Lin asked me.

I shook my head: "Leave him alone, he can keep up, but he can't keep up." ”

Wu Lin nodded happily.

The rain didn't come down for a long time, and Wu Lin and I held flashlights and slowly moved forward.

I didn't use the flashlight for myself, it was completely for Wu Lin to light up, there are many mysteries in the mechanism of the old Yan family that I can't see through, Wu Lin's eyesight is sharper than mine, I believe that there are some things, I can't find it, and he may not be able to find it.

The two of us walked along the tunnel for nearly 400 meters, and Yan Yu jumped into the tunnel with his puppet, it seems that it is not easy to make the puppet land smoothly, otherwise Yan Yu would not have taken so much time.

He ran up to us like a gust of wind and threatened us to keep up with the road.

On the way, I noticed that as I went deeper, the corrosion marks on the walls became more and more obvious, and many of the quadrangular bricks were even melted into stone waterfalls that appeared to be stalactites, and I suspected that this place might have been filled with acid, otherwise the corrosion of the stone bricks would not be so high.

Occasionally, I saw two bricks crack a wide opening in the middle, and under the light, some jerky reflection was reflected in the crack, as if it was filled with glue.

Sometimes the rain would stop and make the puppet spread its arms and touch the wall with its steel fingers, for unknown reasons.

After walking about two kilometers, the rain suddenly stopped, and he poked his head to look closely at the wall on the left, and then played the bamboo leaf flute.

The puppet under his seat seemed to have been electrocuted, and its body suddenly trembled, and then he quickly raised his left hand and poked five fingers hard at an old brick.

After the brick was poked, it didn't seem to be anything unusual, but I saw a small amount of dust floating near the puppet's fingers, which was ash raised from the brick surface.

Like this kind of ancient brick that has long been corroded and smooth, no matter how hard you poke it, it will not raise dust, even if it is smashed hard, it will be broken brick slag when it flies, and it cannot be such fine dust.

If you guess correctly, this brick should be pressed together with some kind of dry powder that does not absorb water, and this stone powder should have its own oil.

Under these three knocks, the mechanism in the wall was touched, and in a small noise, the wall slowly vibrated and a large piece of bricks was shaken off, forming a two-meter-high doorway.

Every stone brick that falls to the ground has a glue wire attached to it, which looks particularly disgusting.

If I had to describe it, the glue looked like the chewing gum had been chewed hot.

I found that the people of the old Yanjia especially like to use this glue as the core of the mechanism, which is definitely an aesthetic problem.

Yanyu came to me with a smile and said, "You didn't notice the mechanism on the wall." Then he played a cheerful tune and walked towards the doorway in the wall.

I said, "The brick you just knocked on was pressed with cinnabar soaked in demon fat, right?" ”

Glaive Rain interrupted suddenly, but he didn't respond to me, and then quickly picked up the tune and steered the puppet deeper into the city.

As soon as the song stopped, I knew I had guessed correctly.

On the other side of the doorway is a narrow plank road made of wood mixed with stones, with a stone wall on the left side of the plank road and a river vein under the gentle water on the right.

It was only then that I discovered that under the tunnel we had just walked, there was a long canal that I didn't know where it leads, and the underground river had changed course because of the existence of the canal, and the second half of the river, which was supposed to be going through the water, had now dried up completely. The previous tunnel itself was also suspended, and the stone strips hanging from the top of the head were like curved ribs, holding it in mid-air, and the tunnel walls, the ceiling, and the ground were all based on this row of stone ribs to remain stable, otherwise they would have fallen into the canal.

Where this suspended tunnel leads on all sides, and where the canal leads to the water in the channel, are mysteries that I cannot solve.

I originally wanted to say something from Yan Yu's mouth, but when I was about to speak, I found that Yan Yu's brows were furrowed at this time, and his face became extremely solemn.

As soon as I saw his expression, I immediately secretly screamed that it was not good, this kid can't be lost!

"Brother Yanjia, what's next?" I couldn't help but ask.

This time, Yan Yu was a little impatient: "Don't ask more, just follow me." ”

I glanced at Wu Lin, Wu Lin's eyes were also slightly worried, he seemed to be the same as me, afraid that Yanyu would lead the wrong way.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Yan Yu's expression to become relaxed again.

At this time, I could also see with my ghost eyes that in the river 300 meters ahead, there was a boxy stone platform, and there was a statue of Guan Gong in the center of the platform.

I don't have to hear it, I also know that this statue must have been erected after the Ming Dynasty, because the weapon in Guan Erye's hand was not a Ge or a halberd, but a one-and-a-half-person high Qinglong Yanyue knife, which was obviously influenced by "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

You must know that when Guan Erye took Yan Liang's head among the ten thousand troops, he used a spear or halberd, plus an iron sword for cutting his head, and at that time, there was no process to build a glaive knife.

Why do the descendants of the Yan family set up such a statue at a place of 100 meters into the ground, and there is an incense burner and a felt cushion for meditation in front of the statue of Guan Gong, which is really incredible.

It just so happened that Yan Yu was in a good mood, so I asked him: "When the Muren Valley was established, Second Master Guan had not yet been born, how did you provide for Second Master Guan?" ”

I heard Yan Yu say: "It is said that when my grandfather followed the camel rider to the northwest, he encountered a group of powerful horse bandits, and the whole team died, so he and an old camel survived. Later, my great-grandfather returned home, and he erected such a statue, what to say, it was Guan Erye's manifestation at that time, and he and the old boss picked up a life, and said that for the second master, the second master can ensure the safety and prosperity of our family in the future. ”

I nodded, but I didn't say anything, but Yan Yu added to himself: "Since my grandfather's generation, this statue of Emperor Guan has no one to offer, that is, occasionally someone comes to take care of it, you look at that felt mat, what it has rotted into." It's not that the family doesn't have time, it's just that the second master doesn't work, if he can ensure the safety and prosperity of our Yan family, our old Yan family can't be like this. ”

Wu Lin responded: "Only when you ask God can you believe in God, and you can't be blessed by God." ”

I couldn't help but laugh and said, "What you said is quite a bit of a charlatan. ”

Wu Lin was not angry: "I also heard this from the mouth of a god, although most of the things that person preached were wrong, but I think only this sentence has a little truth." ”

Speaking of this, Wu Lin suddenly changed his words: "The statue of Emperor Guan in the river, how can the face be so similar to you." ”

I waved my hand: "Don't make trouble, people are gods, much more handsome than me." If you really say that I am like him, it is because my eyelids are usually drooping. ”

As I spoke, I also glanced at the statue twice, and Wu Lin also hit the face of the statue of Emperor Guan.

I don't know if it's my delusion, but now I'm getting more and more familiar with the facial features of Emperor Guan's statue, and that feeling is similar to getting up every morning and looking in the mirror.

(End of chapter)