All the bronze teeth add up to more than 400 pieces, and just after removing six or seven pieces, the sweat on my forehead began to flow down the bridge of my nose, and sometimes the beads of sweat entered my eyes, and I didn't dare to pierce my eyes, so I could only desperately stabilize my breathing to prevent the movements in my hands from trembling.

Once I had just finished removing a copper tooth and changing hands to rest, Lao Zuo advised me on the side: "Let's rest and get it again." ”

I shook my wrists and fingers: "What time is it?" ”

Lao Zuo lit up the waterproof electronic watch on his wrist and glanced at it: "Half past three in the morning." ”

Just now, I was only concerned about dismantling the tricks, and I didn't pay attention to what the others were doing, and it wasn't until this moment that I noticed that Li Huaishan and the others hadn't slept, and they were all standing on the periphery of the camp, looking at me.

I said, "I need to dismantle it as soon as possible, it's the height of summer, and I can't get dehydrated if I don't do this thing during the day." Seize all the time you have to rest, and leave me alone...... Someone has to keep vigil at night, and my energy will be spent on the work at hand, and I don't have any extra energy to take care of other things. ”

While I was talking, Li Huaishan handed me a pot of water, and I asked him to put the kettle next to me, and when I was too thirsty, I would drink it myself.

After that, I didn't bother with anyone else, and concentrated on cracking the mechanism in the yin and yang line.

I said that I didn't want to spend it until noon, but there were some things that I really couldn't control, and until noon the next day, a lifeless sun had risen to the dome, and the mechanism in the yin and yang line had just been dismantled by two-thirds.

Don't look at the sun in the sky as if it was covered by gray fog, it is not bright, but the gray sun is beyond imagination and spicy, I have been keeping my head down, the skin on the back of my neck has been sunburned off a layer of skin, and it hurts like a pinprick.

Later, Lao Zuo took off his large jacket and used his hands to prop up his clothes into an awning to help me block the sun.

After that, I went through another six hours of fighting, and Lao Zuo stood behind me, motionless and holding on to the jacket for six hours.

Until the sunset, the last anchor hook was pulled away by the gourd hammer, I stopped the movement in my hand, I didn't dare to breathe, staring at the gear array in the tooth cavity in a daze.

A second, ten seconds, a minute, the gears inside did not move, and then I felt that my mental strength was suddenly deflated, and even my hands were faintly shaking.

But it didn't take long for a very soft sound of running water to be heard under the dirt bag, and then the gears in the tooth cavity finally turned.

They didn't rotate for long, and it lasted less than half a minute, when they stopped suddenly, there was a crisp "click" sound under the slate, like the sound of a latch coming off the ring, and then a sound similar to a spring was heard, and at this point, the slate pressed on the dirt bag shook quickly twice, and it was obviously opened.

I took out the bell hammer again, struck it on the slate several times, listened to the bell, and made sure that the board would not retract on its own, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Lao Zuo squatted down and asked me, "It's done?" ”

I was too tired to talk now, but when I saw Li Huaishan and the others coming over here, I could only use my last bit of strength to say, "I'll sleep for two hours, and no one can move this board until I wake up." ”

Lao Zuo nodded at me: "You sleep, I'll help you watch." ”

Originally, I was going to say, "You can rest and rest." But the great exhaustion had already come up at this time, and I didn't have time to say a word, and fell asleep.

In order to break the mechanism within the yin and yang line, my mental strength has been completely overdrawn.

I really wanted to take a good rest, but that annoying dream appeared again, and it tortured my nerves even in sleep, and the result was that I dragged my sleep into four hours, which was originally only two hours of sleep.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I found myself lying in the tent, and when I opened the curtain, I saw Lao Zuo sitting outside adding firewood to the bonfire.

"What time is it?" I asked him.

Lao Zuo smiled: "At ten o'clock in the evening, you slept so soundly." Hungry, right? ”

So saying, he picked up a large rice bowl from the side of the campfire, and the food in it was boiled by the campfire, and he handed me a bottle of water.

I poured a few mouthfuls of water, and then while taking the rice tank, I asked Lao Zuo: "Didn't you rest?" ”

"I've slept for two hours," Lao Zuo's voice was accompanied by the crackling sound of the campfire burning, "It's my turn to keep vigil at this time, and several of them are asleep." ”

Lao Zuo looked very energetic, and he said that he slept for two hours before, and he shouldn't be lying to me.

I snorted and ate the contents of the rice bowl, there was no water source in this place, there was no way to wash the dishes, I could only put my face into the rice bowl and try to lick the food residue as much as possible, in case the food left in it would spoil in a short time due to the hot weather, and emit a foul smell.

Then I put the rice jar on the ground, lowered my steps and came to the dirt bag, and Lao Zuo also came over.

Lao Zuo asked me, why don't you let others touch the secret door on the dirt bag, he deliberately sensed the Qi field on the other side of the door panel, although it is a little evil, but it is not strong, and the spirit on the door panel is also relatively neutral, not like it is left by evil things.

I grabbed the edge of the round door panel with my fingers, and said to Lao Zuo: "I'm mainly afraid that there is an anti-theft mechanism behind the secret door, and it may be dangerous to open it rashly." ”

As I spoke, I gently lifted the door panel through a crack.

Through the ghost's eyes, you can see that there are no other deadly mechanisms under the secret door, behind the door is an unusually large dark space, directly below the earthen bag, is a high tower of mud structure, in the middle of the tile at the top of the tower there is a round stack of dry mud, it is like a door, but also like a skylight, embedded in the battlement mouth is embedded in two two-way wooden boards, the center of the two boards is connected by a copper lock.

Far away from the tower, I could faintly see an incomplete wall, but it had reached the limit of the ghost's eye's visual distance, and I couldn't see anything other than a small section of the wall.

Presumably, this tower should be the mud tile tower in the mouth of the Nojan witch.

At this time, Lao Zuo was still talking to me on the side: "How can there be such a complicated mechanism in this kind of place, even you have to spend a whole day to open it." ”

I sighed: "The wisdom of the ancients is not something we can figure out, maybe in that era, there were many powerful Karakuri masters. ”

As I spoke, I put more force on my hand and lifted the slate.

The slate was lifted out entirely, and the boss saw a circle of spring-like things buried in the edge of the hole under the slate, and couldn't help but ask me, "What is this?" ”

I said: "Mortise and tenon lock, before this thing is firmly embedded in the board, you look carefully, there is a gold gear on the root of the lock, this thing can only rely on the rotation of the gear to open or close, if you force it to open, it will be completely locked, can no longer be opened, this special structure lock is generally made of chromium copper, Yue Wang Goujian sword you know, that sword is because of the addition of chromium, it is so sharp. ”

Lao Zuo couldn't help laughing: "There are so many doorways in it?" ”

I returned a smile, turned around when I was done, and called out to Li Huaishan and them to get up.

Everyone got out of the tent, packed their luggage, and Lao Zuo and I took the lead, and everyone got into the secret door on the dirt bag back and forth.

Behind the secret door there was a passage that stretched obliquely, and after passing through the passage, there was a hole that went straight down, and it was necessary to jump into the hole to reach the top of the mud tower.

The tower is also a product of around 180 AD, and more than 1,800 years later, the tiles on the top of the tower are still as strong as ever, and even the dry mortar used to bind the tiles is very strong.

The dry mud stack I had seen earlier was near the spire, and the planks and copper locks in the battlements showed no signs of corrosion.

At my suggestion, Lao Zuo cut the copper lock with a green steel sword, and as the lock body was cut off, the two wooden planks immediately opened naturally under the action of gravity.

The old left hand light was shining into the battlement, and the place illuminated by the light showed a spiral extending downward, and the dusty floor, the floor of the tower was made of thick long logs, because of the gap between the planks, I could clearly see the internal structure of the entire mud tile tower by relying on a ghost eye.

Like many nine-story towers in later generations, this tower also has a girder that can only be surrounded by ten people in the middle, and a spiral wooden ladder spirals down the wooden beam, extending from the top floor to the bottom of the tower.

On the walls of each floor, there are a large number of square tiles, on which without exception are carved a full-length portrait, and some words are written at the foot of the portrait.

Lao Zuo swept the light twice, probably thinking that there was nothing abnormal, so he shrank back and wanted to jump into the battlement.

I hurriedly stretched out my hand and grabbed him: "You wait a while, I'll go down first." At your weight, if the wooden beams in the tower are not strong enough, you will have to collapse the whole tower. ”

Lao Zuo smiled: "Am I that heavy?" ”

I pouted, and jumped into the battlement.

The tower seemed to be unshaken by the years, and after so many years, the wooden structure inside was as strong as ever, and I checked it several times to make sure there were no problems, and then beckoned Lao Zuo and them in.

When the old left came down, I stood under the battlement to meet the others, and I leaned over to the wall and looked carefully at the tiles on it.

The inscriptions on some of the tiles are not deep, just far away, I can't see clearly what is engraved on them through the ghost's eyes, but now when I look inside, I find that all the tiles are carved with strange images of deer-headed human figures, and what is engraved at their feet is also some kind of abstract figure that I can't understand, which may be another kind of hieroglyphic in addition to the independent ancient Chinese script.

At this time, I suddenly remembered that the Great Witch of Noja had said that there were some special tiles hidden in the mud tile pagoda, and each tile was engraved with the portraits of the heads of the old Yi village and Bi Mo, as well as their names.

(End of chapter)