With the blessing of Pure Yang Qi, Huang Yuzhong finally woke up slowly, but it would take a while for his soul to return to normal, and at this time, he could only look at me with his eyelids open, and he couldn't speak and act normally for the time being.

When I dragged the last person up, Zuo Youdao said to me while injecting Yang Qi into Brother Niu's Heavenly Spirit Gai, "There may be a darkroom behind the stone steps. ”

"Darkroom?"

Zuo Youdao nodded at me: "There is a very weak evil aura behind the gorge wall, and I suspect that it may be a dark room." ”

Here Zuo Youdao was talking, and Huang Yuzhong's violent coughing voice came from behind him: "Cough-cough-cough-"

The reason why Huang Yuzhong coughed was because when his soul suddenly came out of a weak state, it would stimulate some organs in his body.

However, such a cough also means that he has completely woken up.

I put down the person in my hand gently, and then walked quickly to Huang Yuzhong and tried his forehead, fortunately we came in time, this guy's Yang Yuan was not damaged, otherwise he would have a high fever at this time.

Huang Yuzhong looked at me, then at Zuo Youdao, and only after a while did he spit out a sentence: "Be careful, there are a lot of dead children in this place who have plucked their skins." ”

I said, "The blood babies were all cleaned up by me and Lao Zuo, how did you get caught?" ”

Huang Yuzhong took a moment to ponder, and then told me that the few of them had planned to swim to the other side of the lake, but when they arrived at the lake, they saw a big shadow swimming quickly under the water's edge, and the thing was golden all over, like a big fish made of real gold.

Huang Yuzhong can't remember some things that happened later, but after the shadow in the water appeared, several of them felt that their minds were in a trance, and before they could react, they were put down by the blood baby who came out of the reeds.

As for how the blood baby put them down, Huang Yuzhong didn't remember, he only remembered that he was dragged here by the blood baby, and then his body was hung upside down again, before falling into a coma, the last picture Huang Yuzhong saw was a large group of blood babies climbing up the gorge wall and drilling into the holes on the wall.

After saying this, Huang Yuzhong asked me again: "What kind of place is this?" ”

I said, "Our current location should be due north of the lake, which is an underground rift. ”

Huang Yuzhong rubbed his eyes: "Those holes in the gorge wall were dug out by hand, right?" ”

I nodded: "Back then, Wang Zhi built a dark room here, that is, an underground prison. ”

At this time, Zuo Youdao came to his side with a green steel sword and asked me if I wanted to check if there was a dark room behind the stone steps.

I asked Huang Yuzhong to drink some water and have a good rest, and then followed Zuo Youdao down to the bottom of the stone steps.

When I rushed up the stone steps before, Zuo Youdao had stayed here for a while, and I didn't think too much about it when I was in a hurry to save people, but now that I think about it, Zuo Youdao should have sensed the evil aura on the other side of the gorge wall, so he deliberately stayed and watched the situation.

Zuo Youdao stood in the last two levels of the world, and pointed at the stone wall beside him with the blade of the green steel sword, meaning that the evil qi was emanating from there.

I leaned over and raised my hand to fumble around the stone wall to make sure there were no mechanisms on it, and then I took out my teeth and knocked twice on the wall.

The sound of the tooth handle hitting the stone was stiff, and only a slight hollow sound could be heard.

Zuo Youdao is right, there is indeed a cavity behind this gorge wall, but at present I am not sure how big this cavity is, and judging from the sound of the teeth hitting the stone wall, this stone wall should be very thick, and it is more difficult to break it by the bone destroying hand alone.

I thought about it for a while, and felt that it might not be a good choice to tear down the wall directly, so I said to Zuo You: "Look around, there may be other ways to get behind the gorge." ”

In this regard, Zuo Youdao has no objection.

After that, the two of us walked around the neighborhood, but we didn't find a secret passage, but we found a torture chamber built in the Chenghua period.

To put it bluntly, the torture chamber is a large stone cave dug in the gorge wall, it is located on the left side of the natural stone bridge, the torture chamber is divided into three major rooms, each with an area of two or three hundred square meters, the outermost one has a lot of household goods for daily use, it should be where the jailers live, the deepest one is a warehouse, and some complete torture instruments can still be found in it, and the one that is sandwiched between the living room and the warehouse is the torture room.

In the center of the chamber there was a stone fire pool, in which there were still unburned charcoals, four iron plough beds in the corners, each with an iron cuff for handcuffing the wrists and ankles in the corners of the bed, and under the south wall stood three hanging stakes, which were very dry, and the stakes made of wood did not rot, but because they were often soaked in blood, all three stakes turned dark red.

It is equivalent to the person who was caught by Wang Zhi in this place, and the end may be worse than entering the West Factory, at least after entering the West Factory, the family can still make up for the gold and silver, beat the cell head jailer, and even rescue the person is not completely impossible. But no one knows where you are, and you can only end up trapped in this dark torture room, suffering inhuman torture day and night.

Just standing in such a torture chamber, you can feel a surge of resentment.

If mountain spirits and wild monsters accidentally enter this place, the resentment and bad luck here alone can distort their minds and give them birth to evil creatures that harm the party.

Zuo Youdao and I searched carefully in the torture chamber several times, but we couldn't find a secret passage to the back of the gorge wall, and there was no secret passage in the torture room, let alone those stone caves used to hold prisoners.

Later, we checked the nearby boardwalk, and we didn't find anything.

In desperation, Zuo Youdao and I could only return to the bottom of the stone steps and tear down the wall.

Because the stone wall is too thick, the efficiency of the bone-destroying hand to demolish the wall is too low, before starting to demolish, Zuo Youdao and I first used mountaineering nails to dig dozens of deep enough holes in the stone wall, so that the toughness of the wall was destroyed.

Then I used my bone-destroying hand to smash the outer wall with a few shocks.

But even so, we only made an irregular groove in the gorge wall about one and a half meters wide, about two meters high, and about one foot deep, but we still failed to break through the wall.

I knocked on the inner wall of the groove with my teeth, and felt that the thickness of the wall was only about 20 centimeters, so I called on the left Youdao, and the two of them took the trekking hammer and the climbing peg, and made a circle of chiseling holes along the edge of the groove, and finally I urged a second stage of strength, and finally made a hole in the gorge wall that could accommodate a single person.

Originally, Zuo Youdao and I both thought that as soon as the stone wall was penetrated, there would be an evil spirit killed immediately, but what we didn't expect was that only a small stream of evil qi floated out of the breach, but we didn't see the shadow of the evil spirit.

Zuo Youdao was carrying the green steel sword to the side, while I leaned my head towards the breach, observing the situation inside with my ghost eyes.

On the other side of the gorge wall, there is a large karst cave, the bottom of which is filled with water, and in the center of the water is an artificial stone platform with a golden eagle carved into a four-legged fish.

This fish looks particularly strange, with a bunch of webbed hands and feet in the place where it should have fins and tails, and the shape of the fish's eyes looks very similar to the human eye.

In front of the golden eagle, there is also an incense burner and a plaque, on which there are four words written in block letters, "Shizu Cave God", which are the most common "Taige style" in the Ming Dynasty.

There are hidden stone piles under the water layer on the east side of the stone platform, and you can reach the stone platform by stepping on the hidden piles, but I and Zuo Youdao are located on the west side of the stone platform, and the water surface in this direction is empty, at least I can't see that there are other things buried under the water.

Shizu Cave God, the four-legged fish carved and painted by gold, could it be that the corpse demon pressed at the bottom of the lake?

I leaned my head to Zuo Youdao's side, briefly described the situation inside the hole, and said what I thought.

Zuo Youdao shook his head after listening to my words: "Impossible, the corpse demon will definitely not be like that." That four-legged fish should be the fish demon who has been cultivating its human form...... However, it is possible that the people of Ghost Yin Mountain mistook it for their ancestor. ”

Just as I was talking to Zuo Youdao, a huge bubble floated from the bottom of the water, and it rushed to the surface of the water and exploded, making a muffled sound of "pause".

Zuo Youdao and I immediately stopped talking, Zuo Youdao shone light into the breach, I also leaned my head in front of the breach, and the two of us looked at the water at the same time.

Except for the ripples that were blown up by the blisters just now, the water surface was extremely quiet, but Zuo Youdao's brows became tighter and tighter, and he kept shaking the flashlight, and the beam moved fast and slow on the water surface, as if he was chasing something.

"There's something underwater?" I asked Zuo Youdao.

Zuo Youdao nodded and said: "The source of the evil qi is underwater, and now it is moving, judging from the trajectory of its movement, it may be a fish." ”

"How deep does that thing go into the water?"

"Ten meters. The evil spirit is not very strong, and it should not be a particularly powerful evil thing. ”

Hearing him say this, I directly unloaded the backpack and plunged towards the water, Zuo Youdao did not stop me at all, when I unloaded the backpack, he also took a handle and helped me tear off the backpack strap on my left shoulder.

With a pop of noise, and the sound of crashing waves falling into the water, my whole body plunged into the water.

Zuo Youdao took the flashlight and let the beam move in the water to help me point out the location of the evil object, I roughly scanned the area of the beam of vision, and then swam over with my hands and feet open.

The vision of the ghost eye will be affected in the water, especially in the dark water environment, I can only see about ten meters around me, I thought about swimming nearly seven meters diagonally, only to see a big fish at the bottom of the water is constantly writhing and scurrying.

(End of chapter)