I looked at the handle in my hand, and then at what was pressed on the box, it was a pile of tattered old clothes, there was not much weight, it was impossible to press the lid so tightly, and the box was not locked, how could it be......

Li Huaishan quickly approached the box and hugged all the things covered on it aside.

When he removed the mess, I noticed that there was something like a rivet on the lid, which was directly attached to the lid, and where it was attached, there was a metal pallet.

I immediately reacted that it was a small tie rod.

Li Huaishan also saw the problem, his mobility was obviously stronger than mine, and when I was thinking about whether to try to pull this thing, Li Huaishan had already hooked it with his index finger and pulled it hard.

Then I heard a clatter and a clatter from inside the box, and it seemed that there was a complex mechanism hidden inside the box.

But after the noise ended, there was no movement, and I tried to lift the lid of the box, but it still couldn't be opened.

Li Huaishan also frowned and gave me a puzzled look.

I pursed my lips and didn't speak.

After about ten seconds, there was a slight noise outside the house, and it sounded like two relatively smooth stones grinding against each other.

I immediately rushed out of the hut and quickly looked around the courtyard, but there was nothing unusual in the yard, and the pool and the loess on the ground were unspeakably quiet.

I frowned, carefully identifying the direction of the voice, which was coming from my left front, but when I looked away, I could only see a brick wall.

Fortunately, I quickly realized that on the other side of the wall, there was the empty room.

I greeted Li Huaishan and quickly opened the window into the living room, at this time the door of the West House was still open, and I saw at a glance that the floor in the room was slowly flipping.

No wonder I didn't find the entrance to the secret passage in the Westinghouse before, it turned out that the entire floor was a secret door.

It took a long time for the floor in the Westroom to be fully opened, and by this time it was parallel to the wall and perpendicular to the roof, and below the ground was a long stone staircase.

Li Huaishan and I came in a hurry, neither of us had flashlights, Li Huaishan lit a cigarette and threw it down the stone steps.

The red flame on the cigarette butt slowly rolled down the stairs until it was far away.

We can't say for sure if the cigarette butt reached the bottom of the stone steps, but we can be sure that the stone steps are very long.

Li Huaishan smacked his lips and said, "This is a big project, just relying on Widow Wang and Chen Dabang, it shouldn't be possible to build such a long secret passage." ”

The cave of Chen Laohan's house, as well as the archway and the good hall in the cave, which is not a big project, but after all, the family is a family school, and there is no shortage of money, and there is enough ability to make such a big project.

Unless Widow Wang or Chen Dabang are also old families in the industry like Chen Laohan, otherwise, it is impossible to make such a secret way.

What's more, the mechanism that opens this secret passage is probably extremely complicated, and ordinary people can't figure out that kind of thing at all.

I shrugged my nose in front of the dark passage, and I smelled a very faint fragrance, this secret passage was indeed not dug by the widow Wang, because the stone steps at the moment are obviously the product of the Guangxu period.

Snort -

At that moment, there was another slight grinding sound in my ears, and when I looked up, I saw that the vertical floor was slowly coming towards me again.

This secret door can even close automatically.

Time waits for no one, I immediately said to Li Huaishan: "There is a flashlight in the bedside table in the bedroom, bring it, quickly!" ”

Li Huaishan didn't say a word, and immediately went to the bedroom.

The secret door closed much faster than it opened, and I was worried that Li Huaishan's footsteps were too slow, so I urged: "Hurry up!" ”

Fortunately, Li Huaishan's speed was quite fast, and when the tilt angle of the floor was about to be less than forty-five degrees, he came back with a flashlight.

I immediately went into the secret passage, and as soon as Li Huaishan entered the door, he shrunk and jumped in.

Because of the disrepair, the stone bricks used to build the ladder have been damaged to varying degrees, Li Huaishan did not step on it when he landed, and almost fell, I grabbed his arm and held him steady.

After stabilizing the center of gravity, Li Huaishan's first reaction was to look at the road first, he turned on the flashlight, and shot the light into the depths of the stone steps, and then said to me: "It's thanks to you that you came down first, otherwise I would have lost my foot just now." ”

I was not surprised when he said this, but what surprised me was what he did just now, first explore the way, and then speak.

This guy is indeed a natural guide.

I smiled and patted Li Huaishan on the back: "Lead the way ahead." ”

Li Huaishan was a little unhappy: "How can you let me lead the way?" What if there's an evil in front of you! ”

I slapped him again: "You were born to do this, lead the way!" ”

The flashlight in Widow Wang's house is not like the kind of military flashlight that Li Huaishan and I usually use, the brightness is very limited, and the secret door above the head is almost closed, and the dark passage is pitch black, only the front is illuminated by the light, and Li Huaishan and I can't see each other's expressions.

At this time, Li Huaishan suddenly asked without a clue: "Are you staring again?" ”

I said, "No, what am I staring at?" ”

Li Huaishan: "Then why do I keep playing drums in my heart, you must be staring." ”

I was speechless for a while, and pushed him: "Stop talking nonsense, let's go quickly." ”

I never tell lies, I really didn't stare just now, Li Huaishan was beating a drum in his heart, which only showed that he was starting to get nervous again, this guy was easy to get nervous as soon as he arrived in this kind of black and oppressive place.

Li Huaishan was pushed by me, staggered down the stone steps for three or four steps, and then did not stop, and continued to walk forward sullenly.

As he walked, he shook his flashlight and shone it around.

Following Li Huaishan for a while, I became more and more sure that this dark passage was definitely not the masterpiece of Widow Wang, it was too huge, the width of the left and right sides alone was five or six meters, and as we went deeper and deeper, the top of the secret passage was getting farther and farther away from us.

If I'm not mistaken, this secret passage should be able to connect to the fort on the eastern slope, and it would take at least several decades for one or two people to dig such a large tunnel, during which time the widow would not only have to dig day and night, but also transport the excavated earth gods to the outside of the village, which is an impossible task for an ordinary person.

Ten minutes later, Li Huaishan and I came to the bottom of the stone steps, Li Huaishan raised the flashlight and shone it overhead, at this time the beam of the flashlight could no longer penetrate the darkness above.

Li Huaishan shot the light on both sides again, and calculated from the distance between the light spots and the earthen walls on the left and right sides, the width of the tunnel has also reached more than ten meters.

I found that there were many large pits on the earthen walls, and in some places there were even plants growing diagonally, but these vegetation were dead and dry, and the only ones hanging on the earthen walls were their remains.

The place does not appear to be an artificially excavated tunnel, but a canyon underneath that has been artificially covered.

Li Huaishan flicked the flashlight a few more times, and the light swirled around in the darkness around him a few times, and then he also said to me: "This tunnel should be naturally formed." ”

I nodded and said, "Keep walking, keep an eye on your surroundings." ”

Unexpectedly, the words I said casually made Li Huaishan even more nervous: "What to pay attention to, is the Qi field in this place abnormal, will there be evil in front of it?" ”

Li Huaishan's performance today is indeed very strange, if in normal times, even if he is nervous, he will be able to make a very calm appearance, but today he seems to have given up on himself, and he casually showed his original form.

I sighed in my heart, and said to Li Huaishan: "Li Ergou, we will have more chances to encounter evil spirits in the future, let alone encounter evil spirits, and now we haven't met you and you are nervous like this, so what should we do in the future?" Do you want me to have someone else as an auxiliary? ”

After saying this, I began to remain silent, waiting for Li Huaishan's response.

But Li Huaishan didn't respond for a long time, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

I waited a little impatiently, and added: "If you don't want to toss with me, just say it, give me the flashlight, and you can go back to Bohai Bay." ”

As I spoke, I reached out and grabbed the flashlight from his hand.

In fact, that's what I mean, now that the secret door has been closed, even if Li Huaishan has the heart to leave, he can't get out.

Li Huaishan shouldn't have been able to see my movements clearly, but he could hear my footsteps rushing forward, and immediately took two steps back.

The atmosphere froze suddenly, I knew that what I had done might have gone a little too far, but I had to do this, I had to provoke Li Huaishan, otherwise he would be so muddy again, and if he ran into danger when he turned around, I couldn't guarantee that I would be able to protect him.

The silence lasted for a long time, and finally Li Huaishan himself spoke first: "If you are not, I said, I am not a burden to you. ”

I plan to provoke him again: "Just talk about it, don't practice the fake trick, prove it to me!" ”

Li Huaishan didn't reply, just picked up the flashlight and took big strides and walked forward quickly.

In such a place, you should actually be careful when walking, but Li Huaishan finally got a little bloody, and I couldn't hit him again, so I could only speed up my pace and follow him closely.

When the blood buried in Li Huaishan's heart overshadowed the tension caused by the darkness, he quickly entered the state, and gradually, his pace slowed down, and the beam of the flashlight was no longer firmly fixed in front of him. Li Huaishan began to sweep the surrounding scenery with a beam of light again, occasionally pausing to carefully identify those that looked more suspicious on the side of the road.

When I was grounded in the Guard's House, the training of blindfolded and holding a plate gave us the ability to calculate the distance traveled in the dark, and I rotated my gaze with the amplitude of the beam to observe the situation on the road with Li Huaishan, while calculating the distance we had walked since entering the dark passage.

After traveling about a thousand meters in the dark, Li Huaishan stopped again, and this time, he hit the beam on a stone stake on the side of the road.

(End of chapter)