When Li Huiyan raised her head again, she happened to see me frowning, staring at the eight huge stone pillars in the underground palace.

"What's the matter, what's wrong with these stone pillars?" Li Huiyan walked up to me and asked softly.

"I don't know, I just think that these eight big stone pillars look a little strange standing in the underground palace, and judging by my intuition, it should have something to do with the eight exits hidden on the stone wall." Hearing Li Huiyan's question, I thought about it and told her what I was thinking.

"Hey, I didn't think of that." As soon as my words fell, the expression on Li Huiyan's face instantly became extremely pleasantly surprised, and she said.

With that, she began to walk around the eight stone pillars on her own, and I had to follow behind.

Unlike the stone walls of the underground palace, these eight stone pillars do not depict any murals related to the owner of the tomb, but are engraved with many ancient small seal characters like reliefs. This is also mixed with some obscure words like birds and insects, and even if I have learned many ancient characters, I can't understand it.

"As expected, the method of opening these eight passages is hidden in these words on the stone pillars, but I haven't guessed too specific methods yet, and I don't understand how the people who built this underground palace use these words." After a few glances at the words on the stone pillar, I said to Li Huiyan.

Li Huiyan didn't speak, she looked at the words on the stone pillar, her brows were furrowed, and she seemed to be thinking about something.

After a while, Li Huiyan's expression suddenly lit up, and then she walked to another stone pillar, and when she looked at the eight stone pillars carefully again, the expression on her face became more and more excited.

"What's wrong? Did you find a way to open those eight exits? Seeing her excited, I couldn't help but ask.

"Well, I saw some clues, but I don't know if it's the same as I thought." Li Huiyan nodded, but then said a little uncertainly: "Have you noticed that the text on each of the eight stone pillars is missing, and none of the words on the stone pillar are complete, I think the method of opening the exit should have something to do with this." ”

"I've noticed these things before, but this dungeon has been going on for a long time, and it's inevitable that some of the words on the stone pillars will be damaged and fall off." I said.

"How do you know if you don't give it a try." After listening to my words, Li Huiyan didn't seem to give up her determination to confirm her guess, and said: "You put Xiao Yue down first, I'll help her, you try it according to the method I said, and see if it works." ”

"Okay." Seeing that Li Huiyan looked a little confident, I nodded and said.

I squatted down lightly and put Xiao Yue on the ground, and Li Huiyan quickly ran over to help her when she saw this.

"Start with the stone pillar on the far left, and touch it with your hand to see if the ninth word in the last row is a little loose." After holding Xiao Yue up, Li Huiyan immediately said.

Hearing this, I immediately stepped forward and reached out and gently pressed it on the ninth relief font in the last row.

Sure enough, as Li Huiyan expected, as soon as I pressed on this word, I felt a slight shaking, which was not at all like the kind of text carved directly on the stone pillar, but like it was pasted on it.

With a slight pressure on my hand, the word was effortlessly removed from the stone pillar.

Holding the word in my hand, I realized that there was a small square stone pillar three inches long and protruding from the back of the word, which was directly inserted into the big stone pillar at the back.

"What's next?" After removing this word from the stone pillar, I no longer had any doubts about Li Huiyan's words.

In terms of knowledge and intelligence, this beautiful school girl is indeed far beyond ordinary people, and even I have to look at her with admiration.

"What's that word in your hand?" As if to confirm something, Li Huiyan asked me again.

"It's a karma word." I glanced down at the words in my hand, confirmed that it was correct, and replied to her.

"The word karma ......" Li Huiyan lowered her head and hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Put this word in the fourth position of the first row." By the way, remember to put it upside down, and then twist it in a clockwise direction after you put it away. ”

Put the words upside down? I secretly felt guilty in my heart, isn't this an extra move, just put it right.

Although I thought so in my heart, since Li Huiyan opened her mouth like this, I had to do what she said.

According to Li Huiyan, after putting the removed words upside down, I gently turned them clockwise.

The next moment, something unexpected happened.

Click, less than a second after I had turned the word to the front in a clockwise direction, there was a very slight sound from within the stone pillar, as if some kind of mechanism was ringing.

Due to the extremely quiet environment in the dungeon, although the sound of this machine was almost inaudible, it still came to my ears clearly.

"It's done, and there was a reaction." I was overjoyed in my heart and said to Li Huiyan.

Hearing this, Li Huiyan also seemed to be greatly relieved, obviously she was not sure about her guess before this.

Then we didn't linger for the second word, the third word, and when the fourth word on the first pillar was loaded and turned by me, there was a violent vibration from the stone pillar in front of me, accompanied by the click of the machine.

I was startled at this, thinking that something was wrong, but when I hurriedly took a few steps back, the stone pillar still shook, and it was only after half a minute that I completely regained its calm.

Failed?

I was a little discouraged, and I glanced back at Li Huiyan and saw that she was still full of expectation.

Boom, I just turned my head to look at Li Huiyan, and suddenly there was a low friction sound on the left side of the dungeon, and the whole ground could feel a slight shaking, followed by the sound of the stone door opening.

"Look over there." Li Huiyan's voice sounded in her ears full of excitement, and as soon as the flashlight in her hand turned around, it shone in the direction of the left side of the underground palace where the sound came before.

I turned my head again and looked at the place where Li Huiyan's light was shining, only to see that on the originally smooth and flat stone wall, there was a black lacquer hole about one meter five or six high. Through the dark hole, you can still faintly see a stone staircase sloping upward.

I took the flashlight from Li Huiyan's hand, ran to the entrance of the cave as fast as I could, and shone into the cave by the light of the flashlight, only to see the stone staircase extending all the way up until it was completely swallowed up by the darkness in the distance.

"Zhang Sansan, do you dare to bet with me?"

At some point, Li Huiyan had already walked to my side, she stared at the hole and the stone staircase in front of her motionlessly, hesitated for a moment, and then asked me in a strange tone.

"Bet on what?" I didn't understand what she meant, and asked a little inexplicably.

"There are a total of eight escape routes in the dungeon, but I guess only one of them is correct, and the others are all dead ends. If we want to open all the other intersections, I'm afraid we will waste a lot of time, but the corpse poison on Xiao Yue's body is getting heavier and heavier, and he can't afford to waste more time on us. ”

Li Huiyan bit her lip, paused slightly, and then continued:

"I'm thinking, even if we open all the holes by then, we can only choose one of the paths by chance, rather than wasting time like this, and then we have to worry about which passage to choose, we might as well just choose the passage in front of us. Do you dare to bet with me, just bet that this hole in front of us is the right escape route, if we fail, we will die in it, if we succeed......"

Li Huiyan didn't go on, but I already understood what she meant, and if she succeeded, all of us would be saved.

This is a big gamble about life and death, but after carefully reviewing Li Huiyan's words, I found that everything she said made sense.

Even if we try our best to open all the escape holes, it will be impossible for the three of us to walk in two teams at that time, not to mention that there is only one flashlight in our hands, and the danger in this dungeon is not something that any one of us can face alone.

Xiao Yue's breathing had become weaker and weaker, almost imperceptible.

"Okay, I'll gamble with you, the big deal is death. If I had such a beautiful school flower by my side when I died, I don't know how many people in the school would be envious, jealous and hateful, and rush to die for me. "Thinking about everything in it, I immediately said to Li Huiyan.

"It's not serious, you still have the heart to joke at this time." Li Huiyan snorted lightly and said.

However, it can be seen that after what I just said, Li Huiyan's mood seems to be much more relaxed, and she no longer frowns as tightly as before.

"Let's go, since we have decided to take this road, then without further ado, maybe we can go out early and find Xu Hao and the three of them as soon as possible, and when the time comes, everyone will work together to find a way, but it is not impossible to leave this place." I gathered my thoughts and said seriously.

"Well, I'll lead the way in front, you walk behind Xiao Yue on your back, the stairs are a little slippery, you be careful." Li Huiyan responded, and then took the lead into the cave.

I carefully carried Xiao Yue on my back again, and followed Li Huiyan into the hole.

Boom, Li Huiyan and I had just stepped into the cave and walked less than ten steps of stairs when there was a sound of the stone door closing behind us.

"Ouch......" I had just taken a few steps when there was a thud above my head, and I grinned in pain.

Since the height of the cave was much shorter than my height, I had to walk with my head bent down when I entered the hole, and several times I let my guard down, and my head hit the hard roof of the cave several times.

With Xiao Yue on his back, he stepped on the ladder that had been carved for an unknown number of years. Because of the dampness underground, there was a lot of slippery moss growing on the stone stairs, and I had to cheer up every step I took.

I followed Li Huiyan and went up the stone stairs, and I don't know how long I walked.

Since entering the entrance of the cave, I have secretly counted, and at this time, Li Huiyan and I are afraid that there are two hundred stairs we have walked, but it is still dark in front of us, and I don't know how far it is.

Got on the wrong path?

Seeing that I had walked all the way up for so long and not yet reached the end, I couldn't help but think a little cranky in my heart.

The stone gate in the rear has been sealed, and if we choose the wrong path, we will be trapped here.