Chapter 45: Choosing the Stone Gate
"There are only four doors here, can we just try them one by one?" The Ninth Drifting Spirit pursed his lips. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The problem is that we're probably only going to have one of those doors right now." Gu Qiubai sighed.
"Why?" The Ninth Drifting Spirit tilted his head, not knowing why.
"Don't you notice that it's hard to even move now?" Gu Qiubai spoke.
He found that although he could now use his spiritual power, his body was so heavy that it was difficult to even make ordinary jumps.
In this case, in fact, it is not much different from the spiritual power being sealed, at most it can pinch out a few ordinary magic tricks.
"That's fine, it's hard for us to move, but it's still okay to walk to the door."
Gu Qiubai shook his head, it seemed that this Ninth Drifting Spirit was patronizing the contents of the ancient scroll and ignoring the details.
He didn't sell Guan Zi either, and said directly: "The problem is, there is really not much time left for us, you look at the Xuanyin Kwai Water under the stone pier." ”
The Ninth Piaoling looked down with some doubts, and after a while, he finally came to his senses and whispered, "Are you saying that it won't be long before this Xuanyin Kui Water will overflow?" ”
Gu Qiubai nodded and said, "I calculated carefully just now, there are nine stone piers in this underground palace, and there will be Xuanyin Aoi water flowing out every five minutes, and each time it spreads upwards about three inches, and the height of the stone pier is thirty inches, that is to say, in about fifty minutes, Xuanyin Kui Water can overflow the stone pier and contact us." ”
After a pause, Gu Qiubai then spoke: "The distance we lead to any door is about thirty zhang, and there is a stone pier every three feet, with our current movement speed, I am afraid it will take about 30 minutes to walk to the door, if we choose the wrong one, there is no chance to choose other doors at all." ”
If they choose the wrong one, don't say choose again, on the way back, the Xuanyin Kwai Water has already overflowed, and as soon as he and the Ninth Piao Ling come into contact with the Xuanyin Kwai Water, their bones will immediately be gone.
Gu Qiubai finally understood why there were four doors in this underground palace, which was clearly for them to choose one door to go out.
One in four chances, choose the right life and die!
Of course, it is not excluded that these four doors are all dead doors, and there is no way to get out if you choose any of them.
However, it would be too boring to use such a precious Xuanyin Kwai Water and design such an ingenious mechanism, and to specially exert gravity in this dungeon, just to play tricks on the intruder.
After all, if you can design such an ingenious trap, if you really want to kill them, I'm afraid there are hundreds of more convenient ways!
"Huh? These are all things you just analyzed? The Ninth Piaoling looked at Gu Qiubai with a slight heterogeneity.
Gu Qiubai shrugged and said, "Although I haven't read countless papers, this kind of simple on-the-spot analysis will still be so much." ”
He was secretly refreshed in his heart, pretending to be forced in front of the girl who was beautiful and fragrant, which felt good.
Listening to Gu Qiubai's slightly ridiculous voice, Ninth Piaoling's cheeks turned red, doesn't this mean that this girl can't even make a simple analysis?
also specially aggravated what he just said about the countless papers, this bastard is really hateful.
But then a trace of doubt appeared on her face, and she spoke: "What is the minute you just said, why haven't I heard it?"
Gu Qiubai was stunned, he had forgotten that this was a place similar to ancient times, and there were no minutes in the timekeeping unit.
However, he quickly regained his composure and said, "Well, this is a timekeeping method that I personally invented, 50 minutes is about the time of 3 teas." ”
Ninth Piaoling snorted lightly, and didn't pursue too much, but said, "Since you said so confidently, you should know which door to choose, right?" ”
Although her tone was very casual, her eyes still looked at Gu Qiubai expectantly, no one wanted to die in such a place inexplicably.
"Well, I haven't thought of it yet." Gu Qiubai said a little helplessly.
The ninth Piaoling was suddenly like a deflated ball, with a bitter face, and his eyes were slightly red: "Then what should I do, is it difficult to choose a random door?" ”
Gu Qiubai didn't answer, of course this is impossible, there must be details in this underground palace that the two of them ignore, this is the key to getting out.
His eyes looked at the four stone doors, but the distance was too far, and coupled with the dim environment in the underground palace, he could only see that the stone doors seemed to be carved with some kind of totem.
There seemed to be a faint layer of fog shrouded in front of these totems, and it was obvious that some kind of prohibition or spell had been imposed, deliberately not wanting people to find out.
Gu Qiubai's eyes flashed, these prohibitions were arranged a bit to cover his ears and steal the bell, as if he was deliberately reminding him that there was a problem here.
"It seems that the totems on these four doors are the key to choosing the stone gate." Gu Qiubai pondered.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and his spiritual power frantically surged towards his eyes, and the three hook jade turned in his eyes in an instant, which was the writing wheel eye.
The insight eye of the writing wheel eye has the effect of seeing through the obstacle, and it should also be used to see through the prohibition.
His eyes looked towards any of the doors, and the magatama in his eyes turned faster and faster, and the faint totem seemed to become more and more obvious.
Just when Gu Qiubai was about to see the entire totem through the prohibition, the prohibition in front of him was actually rolling, and a bright light shot straight out, shooting towards Gu Qiubai's eyes suddenly!
Gu Qiubai was startled, immediately closed his eyes, and lifted the writing wheel, but he was still hurt in the slightest.
"Ahh
He snorted and covered his right eye, a trail of blood running out of his socket.
The Ninth Piaoling was still looking around which door to choose, and suddenly heard Gu Qiubai's voice, and couldn't help but look back.
I saw Gu Qiubai half-squatting on the ground, covering his eyes with one hand, a faint stream of blood flowing down, and his expression was painful.
She couldn't help but be startled, squatted down and asked, "Why are your eyes bleeding suddenly, are you okay?" ”
"It's fine." Gu Qiubai waved his hand.
He scolded his mother in his heart, the person who designed this underground palace was really insidious and shameless, and there was a means to fight back in the ban.
If he hadn't reacted quickly just now and retracted the writing wheel eye in time, then his eye wouldn't have bled a little.
"Let's wipe it." The Ninth Piaoling handed over a white handkerchief.
Gu Qiubai took it, rubbed his eyes, and wiped the blood stains clean, which was a little better.
He stood up and looked at the stone gate just now, a hint of thought flashed in his eyes.
Dragon?
At the last moment just now, he finally saw the totem carved on the stone door, which was the appearance of a dragon.
What do you mean?
Gu Qiubai didn't know why, and there was still a fog in his heart.
"What did you just do, why are your eyes bleeding?" The Ninth Drifting Spirit asked.
"Looking at the pattern on the stone door, it seems that something has been touched, and it has been counterattacked." Gu Qiubai said.
"The pattern on the stone door?" The ninth fluttering spirit's eyes also involuntarily looked towards the stone gate.
At this moment, there was another shock in the dungeon, just like before, a trace of silver water flowed out of the nine stone piers, and the water level rose again.
Gu Qiubai looked at the rising water below, and was still a little anxious in his heart, and the time given to him was only about 40 minutes.
"I just saw the pattern on the door, it looks like a tiger." At this moment, the voice of the Ninth Drifting Spirit came.
"Huh?" Gu Qiubai looked at the Ninth Piao Ling, "Are you sure?" ”
"yes." The ninth fluttering spirit nodded, "I couldn't see it clearly just now, but after the earthquake in the underground palace, the light reflected by the Xuanyin Kwai Water just shone on the door, and I saw the pattern on it, but the time was very short, and in the blink of an eye, I only saw a rough idea." ”
Gu Qiubai nodded, he understood the mechanism of this pit father, it is estimated that whenever the Xuanyin Kui Water is released, the ban will be automatically lifted, and then the Xuanyin Kui Water will illuminate the pattern on the stone door.
Dragons, tigers?
He tilted his head and thought for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he probably guessed what the pattern on the door was!
However, just in case, it was still necessary to verify it, he pointed to the remaining two doors and said, "When the underground palace shakes later, you look at this door, and I will look at the other one." ”
The ninth Piao Ling knew what Gu Qiubai had seen, and nodded as if a chicken pecked rice.
Soon five minutes passed, and the dungeon shook again, and a bright light shone on the stone door, and disappeared in a flash.
Gu Qiubai looked at the pattern on the stone door, and the corners of his mouth curled, it was really so!
"See, it's a bird!" The voice of the Ninth Drifting Spirit also came.
Dragons, tigers, birds, and what he saw was a turtle with a snake on its back!
There is no doubt that the totems engraved on these four doors are the four elephants, the four divine beasts!
Green Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu!
But what exactly does that mean?
Even if he knew these patterns, it didn't seem to be able to help him choose the right stone gate.
His eyes looked at the dungeon, wanting to see what else was missing.
"How, what did you find?" The Ninth Piao Ling was a little anxious, "It's really too late for us not to choose again." ”
Ten minutes had passed, and if they didn't hurry, they wouldn't have had time to reach the door even if they found the right stone gate.
Gu Qiubai didn't say anything, continued to look at the surrounding scenes, and even opened the writing wheel eye.
On the surrounding walls, there is nothing but the Night Pearl, and there are no more hints.
"There's definitely something I haven't discovered." Gu Qiubai thought secretly.
Wait a minute!
Gu Qiubai's body shook like an electric shock, and he looked at the night pearl on the wall, his eyes lit up suddenly!
He turned his body and swept all the night pearls in the dungeon, and after a moment, he slowly exhaled.
"I think I know which door to choose." Gu Qiubai smiled and looked at the Ninth Piaoling.