The labyrinth designed by Lao Jin is very interesting, when you stand in an area, the walls near this area are not moving, but every small area in the maze is surrounded by earth walls, and there will always be blind spots visually, and in the corresponding position of the dead ends, there is always echoing the noise of the wall moving.

In other words, the maze will always change where you can't see it, and you will never know exactly how it changes.

But it doesn't matter where I came from, I just need to go straight to the west wall, tearing down the wall as I go.

After tearing down more than 20 earthen walls in a row, we came to the west wall without surprise, and there was a staircase leading to the next floor as far as the eye could see.

The old white dog turned around and swept the light towards the earthen wall behind him, and smacked his mouth a few times in annoyance, not knowing what was going on in his heart.

According to my earlier inference, the Jin family should have arranged a golden array on the second floor of the stilted building, but when I got to the second floor, I found that this place was a canteen, and the whole floor was full of neatly placed round tables and stools, and there was a cabinet in the corner near the entrance of the building, which was full of all kinds of tableware.

This is strange, is it possible, the old Jin family's Five Elements Great Array is not fully arranged?

The white old dog turned on the flashlight, carefully observing the surrounding situation, with the two dangerous experiences of the Thousand Spider Array and the Fire Oil Array, the others are also very careful now. I was the only one with my hands folded, looking at the tables and chairs.

The furniture here is clearly made of wood, and many of the furniture shows signs of decay.

Let's not mention that no matter how stupid the Jin family is, it is impossible to set up a mechanism in the place where they eat, and besides, this place is too woody, if the Jin family is laid out according to the five elements, even if there is an organ in this place, it cannot be a golden array.

The old white dog looked around for a long time, probably not seeing anything, so he leaned over and asked me, "What kind of formation is this?" ”

"The old Jin family didn't set up a mechanism here."

As I spoke, I took a step towards the east wall.

Even if I can generally determine that Lao Jin's house should not have a mechanism, I don't dare to be careless, and when I walk in the direction of the east wall, I have to look around from time to time to probe for light.

Until I got to the staircase under the east wall, there was no abnormality, and I was thinking at that time, this floor would not be guarded by the Jin family personally, if this is the case, it can also correspond to the structure of the Five Elements Great Array, after all, their surname is "Jin".

But down the stairs to the end, the first floor of the stilted building was still empty, nothing was arranged, but here, we found four more skeletons.

Like the two skeletons seen before, these people were also hacked to death with knives, and when two people died, the bodies were stacked on top of each other, and one of them had a dagger embedded in his skull, and the dagger pierced his forehead and pierced directly into his brain, and he still held a knife in his hand, and now the rusty edge of the knife was still stuck in the waist of the other man.

These two men must have had a fierce fight before they died, and they both died together.

Granny Gu carefully inspected the bones here, the person with the sharp knife had already undergone corpse transformation before death, and only the bone marrow had undergone mutations, but the outer skeleton was no different from ordinary people. The other three showed no signs of corpse transformation, and judging by the knife marks on their bones, they were all killed by the same person.

I couldn't help frowning: "In other words, more than sixty years ago, there was a group of outsiders who attacked the Jin family?" ”

Saying this, I don't think it's right, the old Jin family's organs are so powerful, it is said that it is difficult for outsiders to come in.

Granny Gu said: "Maybe the Jin family is killing each other. ”

It's not impossible.

Thinking that the family of the same family is also full of all kinds of camps, I asked He Wenqin: "Is there a conflict of interest within the old Jin family?" ”

"I don't know about that," He Wenqin said, "but when I was a child, I often heard the elders in the family say that the old Jin family is very united. ”

I pursed my lips and probed the floor again, finding no other useful clues, before walking through the passage on the west wall towards the stilted building to the west.

There is a circular gate at each end of the passage, the east gate is open, but the door connecting to the front building is blocked from the other end, I tried to push twice, the first push, the gate opened a two-inch wide opening, and when I pushed the second time, I clearly felt the resistance.

I was worried that there might be a mechanism on the other side of the door, so I told everyone to retreat first, and then took out a relatively thin trekking peg from my backpack and threw it through the crack in the door.

When the pegs hit the ground, the sound was dull, as if they had landed on a damp wooden plank.

I didn't hear the sound of the climbing nails rolling on the ground, nor did I hear anything else, so I couldn't tell what was behind the door.

After hesitating for a moment, I sank my breath, pretending to be bold and added two more force to my hand, the barrier behind the gate was not too heavy, and as soon as the second force was pressed, it swung twice and slowly opened, during which I also heard a sound of bones breaking from behind the door panel, but it was not really heard.

The moment the door opened, I quickly took two steps back, until I was sure that there was no danger, and then I came to the door and took a flashlight to observe the situation.

As soon as I saw the situation outside the door, my heart suddenly twitched.

There were corpses everywhere, all kinds of deaths, some of the bones had their entire spines coiled up like snakes, and some were cut off directly, even after so many years, there was still a faint smell of blood in the house.

There were still a lot of building materials scattered around the house, and the climbing pegs had just landed on a large wooden board in the center of the house, which had softened due to years of decay, so it was no wonder that I had heard that sound just now.

I waved to the people behind me, then walked around the gate with my flashlight and looked at the back of the door.

The one that was against the door just now was also a pair of bones, it had rusted into one with the metal gate, and when I pushed the door just now, I had a lot of force, breaking the thigh bone that it was pressing against the door, but the bones were already very brittle, and the sound of broken bones sounded very empty.

When I used a flashlight to shine light on the bones, I saw a faint golden glow in the middle of its sternum, so I pressed my body over to take a closer look, only to find that it was a pendant made of gold. The pendant is a slender and long piece of gold cake, very thin, with a little curvature, it looks like the wat board that the ancient courtiers took when they went to court, and there are some very small embroidery on it, which looks like two lines of text, but they are so small that I just squint my eyes hard, and I can't see what it is.

He Wenqin and Bai Laogou also came up one after the other at this time, and asked me if there was any mechanism arranged by the old Jin family here.

Before I could speak, He Wenqin stared at the pendant on the corpse and said, "Isn't this a token of the old Jin family?" ”

I couldn't help but ask, "Do you recognize this?" ”

He Wenqin squatted down and looked at the pendant carefully: "I recognize, this thing is called Jin Wat, and it is engraved with the family motto of the old Jin family, which is a token of the Jin family." Yo, this corpse, if you can't get it, it's Jin Yunfeng himself. ”

He is the king of thieves of the Jin family in Xiangxi, Jin Yunfeng?

"Old He, are you sure this person is Jin Yunfeng?"

"Can't be wrong, it must be him!"

I took a step back and looked at Jin Yunfeng's bones again, he was holding the ground with his legs before he died, his whole back resting on the door, as if he didn't want anyone to open the door.

Looking at the miserable deaths around me, I muttered in my heart, what happened to the old Jin family at the beginning, why would Jin Yunfeng rather watch his children and grandchildren die tragically than let them out?

The old white dog straightened up, took a look at the building materials scattered in the house, and said to himself: "The Jin family seems to be building something in this place." ”

He kept sweeping the room with a flashlight, and I saw that there were some rusty metal devices mixed in with the building materials, most of them were canisters or valves of different thicknesses, and occasionally I could see some small gears.

The Jin family originally wanted to set up a mechanism here, but before they could start building, something happened.

Granny Gu inspected several corpses, including Jin Yunfeng, each of which had strange traces of corpse transformation.

I felt more and more that what happened to the old Jin family back then was unusual, and I had to be more cautious to make sure that there was indeed no mechanism on this floor, so we continued to walk upstairs, stopping to see the situation almost every few steps, for fear that unexpected variables would suddenly appear.

From the first floor to the eighth floor, the bones of the Jin family can be seen everywhere, and we roughly calculated that the number of bones can basically correspond to the number of living rooms. The destruction of the old Jin family is very likely to be destroyed by a fratricidal slaughter.

can be reminiscent of the strange death of the Jin family, and it can't help but make people suspicious.

As we walked up the stairs, we gradually realized that the current building was probably built temporarily by the Jin family before the extinction of the door, and from the fourth floor upwards, most of the stairs had not had time to install handrails, and the seventh and eighth floors had not even had time to pave the floor completely, and a large area of exposed stone beams could be seen on the ground at a glance.

But on the ninth floor, the bricks on the ground are neatly paved, and there are faint traces of people living on this floor, all kinds of furniture are available, and the bedding on the bed is very old, but it is not completely rotten.

The dampness here is as heavy as anywhere else, and something like this cotton has long since rotted into a puddle, and the only plausible explanation now is that someone has lived here in the sixty years since the Jin family was destroyed, and that person probably hasn't left yet.

Recalling the figure he had seen in the Thousand Spider Array and the Fire Oil Array before, the answer had faintly surfaced.

I suspect that person should be the survivor of the tragedy of the old Jin family.

Bai Laogou and I thought about it, so I heard him say: "It seems that the Jin family is not dead." ”

I nodded sullenly, and with my flashlight in hand, swept the light towards the western wall.

(End of chapter)