"Don't worry, I know it." I took out two cigarettes from the cigarette case, handed one to Du Kang, and put the other in my mouth, took out the lighter, lit it, and said, "Where is the hidden door?" ”

Du Kang was looking down at the cigarette in his hand, and only then did he raise his head when I asked, and raised his chin towards the low wall behind Song Tiefu: "The bricks under the coal pool are open, and there is a secret passage, and the hidden door is in it." ”

As he spoke, he handed me back the cigarette in his hand.

"Don't you smoke?" I asked him.

He just waved his hand, and then said, "I can't transport Song Tiefu and Bi Kun away at the same time, besides, someone needs to drive on the road." ”

The meaning of these words is very clear, he needs Li Huaishan to send him away.

Li Huaishan walked over and took away most of the half of the box of cigarettes in my hand at one time, while nodding at Du Kang: "Okay, tomorrow morning, I'll go with you." ”

Du Kang smiled a little embarrassedly: "I can't wait until tomorrow, I'll leave now." ”

"I'm in such a hurry." Li Huaishan muttered, turned his head, and gave me an inquiring look.

I nodded: "Hurry up or not late, you guys will leave tonight." ”

Li Huaishan sighed helplessly, but didn't say much.

Li Huaishan left the car on the side of Tiankan before, and there was a long way to go from the old house to the field, not to mention that he and Du Kang also took two prisoners.

I had planned to send them over, but Du Kang politely rejected my kindness, saying that while the light was dark at night, I could just wait in the courtyard for a while, and maybe there would be an unexpected gain.

I didn't understand what he meant, and he didn't explain much, but just told me not to tear down the longan, and then took Li Huaishan and went to Tiankan.

As soon as the two of them left, the old mansion, which was already too quiet, became much more empty, and I sat alone on the stone pier not far from the coal pond, looking at the night sky, and recalling Du Kang's words just now.

Taking advantage of the dim light, just stay and wait, what does he want me to wait for, and what is the unexpected gain in his mouth?

The silence of the old house remained unbroken all night, and I did not know that it was almost dawn until the rooster in the village made its first pre-dawn crow.

That night, nothing happened.

When the sun rose, I lit the fire, took out the canned beef from my backpack, put it next to the fire and boiled it, and when the heat came out of the open can, I took a few pieces of dry bread and planned to fill my stomach.

At present, this old mansion seems to have long been forgotten by the villagers, I stood at the door of the house with some hot meat jars, looking towards the village, and occasionally people passed by the hillside outside the door, but I never looked at the house.

The people of this village, in my opinion, are very strange, they have an indescribable taste, like indifference, and like numbness, but sometimes, I can also see the villagers say hello to each other, facing their own villagers, but their faces, but also with an extremely real smile.

After hastily eating something, I retreated back into the yard, took out a sapper shovel from the side pocket of my backpack, and pried open the stone slab at the bottom of the coal pool.

Du Kang was right, there was indeed a very short secret passage under the coal pool, and the entrance was connected with a sloping staircase, and after I went down the staircase, I saw a stone door open on both sides.

This door looks a little weird, its height is about two meters three to two meters five, but the width is only about one meter, and the average width of the two door panels is only fifty centimeters.

I don't know why, but when I saw this door, I suddenly had a strange feeling, just that it felt like a huge sweat standing in the dark, and someone had his hands, feet, and head amputated.

I tried to stretch out my hands and push on the door panel, and the door shaft immediately turned with a slight grinding sound, and even the door itself, with my force, slid a little distance, but soon, there was a crunch sound on the other side of the door, and when I tried to push the door again, I felt a stiff resistance.

The opposite side should be locked.

It's not too difficult to open this door, the key problem is that its position in feng shui is too special, and if you force a breakthrough, no one can guarantee that there will be no problems.

After that, I removed my hand from the door panel, turned on the flashlight, and took a closer look at the door through my real vision, after all, there are some things that cannot be seen in the field of vision of the quicksand of the Qi Sea.

I could see clearly that some intricate patterns were drawn on the stone door, like murals, and like some kind of cumbersome mantra seals, and because of the age, the paint used to paint these things had been oxidized, and the color had become very dull, and in some places there were large pieces of peeling, and it was indeed difficult to make out the whole picture.

However, when I leaned forward and looked closely at the corners of the picture, I found something very familiar, it was a series of twisted and twisted lines, each one was only about the thickness of wool, and the length was only about two or three centimeters, which looked like a bunch of small intertwined snakes.

When I was in the chrysalis village on the southwestern border, I also saw such lines, which were also etched on the door panels, but the size of the snake patterns was much larger than the ones in front of me.

Due to the decay of the door painting, I could not find any other useful information on it, so I had no choice but to turn off the flashlight and turn around and leave the secret passage.

The moment I walked down the stairs out of the secret passage, I suddenly realized that the winter wind was actually warm, and it was not until a minute later, when the temperature on the surface of my body rose, that I gradually felt a little chill in the wind.

It's strange, when I entered the secret passage just now, I didn't feel anything unusual, why did my body temperature drop suddenly?

With such a question, I shook off the yang line on my wrist, so that the Bagua Qian hung straight near the entrance of the secret passage, it first slowly drooped at an even speed, and when it was about to approach the entrance of the secret passage, it suddenly shook, and then as if it was held up by some invisible force, it moved to the left for a distance, and the yang line connected to the body of the money also slanted.

As I guessed, the yin qi in the secret passage is very heavy, and when I went in just now, I didn't condense my mental power, and the yin qi soaked in the body, which caused the temperature on the surface of the body to drop rapidly, and if it was someone else, I should feel cold after entering, but I had eaten the Ice Silkworm Gu again, and my ability to perceive the temperature became very poor, so I didn't notice the change in temperature.

But what puzzled me the most was why I didn't sense the existence of yin qi when I entered the secret passage just now.

While thinking so, I poked half of my body into the entrance of the secret passage, and the other half of my body remained outside, so that I finally felt the temperature difference, but I still couldn't sense the yin qi in the secret passage.

This strange Qi field seems to come from another world, and in our world, it is impossible to find it.

By the way, Du Kang said before that there are some doorways on the hidden door that he can't see through, I think, the "doorway" in his mouth refers to the yin qi that can't be sensed.

If you want to open the stone door, this yin qi should be the key.

I retreated to the house, thinking about ways to get rid of yin qi, and I also made some attempts, and put up a few yin dispel formations recorded in the Ten Oceans, but nothing worked.

In fact, when I made these attempts, I realized that this might be an extra move, and the last time Du Kang came here, he must have used various means to get rid of yin qi, and even he failed, let alone me.

The last attempt failed, and I left the secret passage with some frustration and returned to the courtyard.

At ten o'clock, the sun had become particularly dazzling, and the sun was pouring down from the sky, casting a thick shadow in front of the old houses in the courtyard, and on the outside of the dark shadows, there was a brick floor paved with sunlight.

I squinted, looked at the white sun, turned around again, looked at the secret passage behind me, and finally shook my head.

Everyone knows that sunlight has a strong lethal power on yin qi, and I was thinking just now that maybe I could expand the entrance of the secret passage and let the sunlight shine on the stone door, but I can think of this kind of thing, and of course Du Kang can also think of it, and the reason why he didn't do it must be because this method doesn't work.

It was as if things were in a dead end.

I sighed helplessly, went back to the stone pier and sat down, all I could do now was to wait, and when Du Kang came back, I could discuss countermeasures with him.

Before I could sit down, there was a sound of frolic outside the house, and I was also curious, so I got up and walked to the door and looked outside.

Two children, six or seven years old, were running down the hillside towards the old house, both holding a yellow copper basin in their hands, and from time to time they tapped it with their little hands, accompanied by the clanging crunch, and their silver bell-like laughter.

I leaned against the door frame and watched them play with interest, and I couldn't help but think of the days in Chongqing, when I was a teenager and Xiaowei was eight or nine years old.

At that time, we were the same as the children in front of us, we didn't have a few decent clothes on our bodies, but we never worried about the trivial things in life, but now we can no longer find that carefree innocence.

As I looked at the two little figures on the hillside, they had already run up to me and stopped on the other side of the threshold, and I came back to my senses, bowed my head, and smiled at them.

But what they did next made me a little confused.

One of the older children bent down and placed the two basins side by side, and then stretched out a dirty little hand to me, and the other child did the same, and stretched out his hand to me.

I didn't understand what they were going to do for a long time, but I knew that the older kid had said one word to me: "Sugar." ”

I still didn't understand what they were doing, but at least I knew what they were going to do, so I turned around and walked over to my backpack, took out a pack of energy bars, handed it to the younger boy, and said to him, "Don't eat too much, it's not good for your teeth." ”

The boy snatched my things from my hand, grabbed his companion, and ran away with joy, while the two copper basins were still neatly laid out in front of the door.

(End of chapter)