Chapter 241: Underground Secrets
Thinking in his heart, Sima Hongyan tried his best to control his consciousness and reminded himself not to sleep. Fortunately, although he felt all kinds of discomfort, he still didn't faint after all, and it seemed that Zhong Liying's medicine worked. Sima Hongyan was secretly overjoyed, and took the opportunity to lie down to the side, pretending to be unconscious.
After lying down, Sima Hongyan squinted at the roof with a gap in her eyes, she wanted to know how the person who fascinated her was going to take Nan Xunyan away. After waiting for a while, there was no movement on the roof. Sima Hongyan was feeling strange, and suddenly heard a strange sound, creaking like the sound of gears staggering.
What surprised Sima Hongyan even more was that this voice didn't sound like it came from the roof, but was in this black prison.
This dark underground cell is invisible to those who live in it, and food and water are provided with ropes and bamboo baskets from the roof only once a day, after which there is no sound. Therefore, people who are in it will naturally think that the outlet is above their heads, and the food is brought in through the exit.
Nan Xunyan because she has practiced the ability of owl eyes, she can see more clearly in the dark than ordinary people, but she can't see the situation above the roof, she once said that the ground and the top of this black prison are more than ten zhang apart, in fact, it is still the sound made when delivering food to speculate.
Every time Nan Xunyan was taken out, he would be stunned by the other party with incense, and Nan Xunyan thought that the purpose of doing this was to prevent him from escaping during the escort. This is why Nan Xunyan has been here for so long, and has always thought that the exit is overhead.
Today, the two of them were not fainted by Mixiang, only to find out that there was another mystery in this black prison.
However, although that strange sound appeared in the cell, Sima Hongyan's eyes turned around but he didn't notice anything unusual around him, and he couldn't help but wonder why this movement appeared.
Sima Hongyan, who was lying on the ground, couldn't figure it out, but the sound lasted for a while, and Sima Hongyan, who couldn't guess what it was, was a little annoyed by this voice.
The unknown makes people fearful, and waiting for the fear of the unknown to come is even more painful. Sima Hongyan didn't dare to move, but the irritability in her heart was uncontrollable, and her eyes kept searching around, but she couldn't find the source of the sound.
Sima Hongyan was facing Nan Xunyan after lying down, which means that Sima Hongyan's current posture could not see Nan Xunyan behind him, and Sima Hongyan didn't know Nan Xunyan's condition in a state of confusion, so he took the risk of tilting his head and went to see if Nan Xunyan behind him was still there.
Nan Xunyan was still there, so he lay quietly behind him, and Sima Hongyan felt a little relieved. Suddenly, something crossed my mind, as if something wasn't quite right.
Sima Hongyan didn't know what was going on, but for a moment, he had such a strange feeling inexplicably. Sima Hongyan still believes in his subconscious reaction, because every time he has this kind of consciousness, there is usually a special situation.
"What is it?" Sima Hongyan asked herself in a hurry, but the more anxious she was, the more she couldn't think of it.
Maybe he can only escape this one chance, so Sima Hongyan rarely has a situation where he can't calm down. In fact, Sima Hongyan understood that deep down in her heart she was afraid of that abnormal Lan Aoxin, and to be more precise, she was a little afraid of that neurosis.
If you want to defeat the enemy, you must first defeat yourself, your own fear is a weapon to crush your confidence, Sima Hongyan understands this truth very well, so she closes her eyes and completely puts aside all worries, so that she slowly calms down.
Sima Hongyan was rarely nervous, and after crossing over, although she encountered a bunch of troubles, the troubles that could make her nervous could be counted on one hand. Therefore, Sima Hongyan, who gradually calmed down, secretly scolded himself for not being angry, blaming himself for not having a strong psychological quality, and the sense of urgency just now even made his lower abdomen feel a little uncomfortable for a while.
Suddenly, that thought flashed through her mind again, and the thing that she hadn't thought of for a long time shook in her mind for a second time.
This feeling is so strange, I know that something is wrong but I can't think of anything wrong, this feeling is so depressing.
However, Sima Hongyan, who had calmed down, also recovered a lot of brain reactions, and after a little thought, he finally found the problem, that is, when he secretly went to check on Nan Xunyan just now, in the process of retracting his gaze, he inadvertently felt as if something was missing around him. Following this line of thought, after some meditation, I suddenly remembered that it was the Gong bucket that was originally placed in the corner of the wall that was missing!
Sima Hongyan has also been in this black prison for a few days, because there are almost no living facilities here, so there is always an empty sense of space, and the only foreign thing here is the Gong bucket in the corner. However, due to the emptiness of the space, this gong bucket is easy to be overlooked in the impression. And now, Sima Hongyan knew with great certainty that the Gong bucket had definitely disappeared out of thin air.
Strange things happened continuously, and Sima Hongyan couldn't go over to find the reason, and with doubts, she vigilantly tensed every nerve, ready to deal with the changes that would happen later.
Eventually, the strange sound stopped, and silence returned to the surroundings, and nothing seemed to change except for the vanished Gong Bucket.
Sima Hongyan adjusted his posture at an extremely slow speed, so that his eyes could directly see the corner of the wall where the gong bucket was originally placed, because Sima Hongyan knew that what was going to happen next must be in that position.
There was a burst of Suosuo's movement, and Sima Hongyan heard it very clearly, and then a shadow magically emerged from the ground in that corner.
The moment he saw the shadow, Sima Hongyan finally figured out what was going on with the weirdness that happened just now, it turned out that the exit of this cell was not on the roof at all, but underground, that is, under the dungeon! It's no wonder that when you take the people in the prison out, you have to stun them in advance, just so that the people inside don't know that the exit of the dungeon is right under their noses.
Sima Hongyan has always drawn inferences from one another, and understood that the exit was underground, and he knew that the Gong bucket in the corner did not disappear out of thin air, but because the ground sank there and lowered the Gong bucket with him.
I couldn't guess that it was because Sima Hongyan was lying on the ground, causing his line of sight to be completely level with the ground, so Sima Hongyan couldn't notice that the ground was sinking.
On the whole, this dungeon actually has a fixed corner of the ground that can be moved and lifted, and the exit of the dungeon is hidden underneath. When the trap is triggered, the ground descends, and the exit of the dungeon is revealed, and only those from outside can enter the dungeon.
It's a clever design, and it's originally a dungeon, so it's hard for people inside to guess where the entrance and exit will be. And the bucket was deliberately placed in the movable corner, just to keep the people in the dungeon away from that area, and to prevent the people who were locked up here from discovering the mechanism.
Everyone thinks that the Gong bucket is dirty and smelly, and no one wants to approach it when it is not in use, let alone swing it at will, so the secret of the dungeon exit will be kept away by the people locked inside, which reduces the possibility of them escaping.
To say that this organ is not only secretly arranged, but also cleverly uses people's psychology, it is not bad! It seems that the people who built this dungeon in the first place really didn't use their brains.
Thinking of this, Sima Hongyan admired the sixth princess Lan Aoxin a little more, although this person is chattering, he is really meticulous in doing things, and the calculations in all aspects are extremely rigorous, and ordinary people are really not necessarily her opponents.
Sima Hongyan was thinking about things in his heart, his eyes were staring at the figure that climbed up from the ground, planning how to take the opportunity to sneak out for a while, because the exit was not on the top but underground, Sima Hongyan also adjusted the escape strategy accordingly. What's more, now that the exit has been opened, this is a rare opportunity. It's just that I don't know what the situation is outside, how many people are guarding, if you just go out with Nan Xunyan like this, how dangerous it can be, and whether it's worth the risk.