In the end, Master Chen and a few craftsmen moved the nine stones to the edge of the tunnel, and these stones were the stones against the back of the large stone slabs—the stones were so large and heavy that they could only be moved by two people.

Chen Jie took the emergency light and walked towards the depths of the dark passage, and the others followed.

The height of the dark passage is only about one and a half meters, so everyone must bow their heads and bend down, and their whole body has to shrink a little.

The direction of the dark passage is from north to south, and the height of the dark passage increases to about 1.8 meters, and everyone can walk upright.

The width of the tunnel has not changed, it is the same as the entrance.

The bottom of the tunnel is completely made of stones, the top is a whole long stone, and the ground and the walls on both sides are made of stones about 45 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide.

Judging from the height of the secret passage and the building materials alone, you can know that the scale of the dungeon - or secret room - is not small.

Every five or six steps, you can see a rectangular stone cave on the left and right walls, and there is a candlestick in the stone cave, the candlestick has no candles, but there are some candle solids around the base of the candlestick, and the body of the candlestick is also dripping with candle oil.

Ouyang Ping felt that there was a foreign object under his feet, so he took a flashlight to shine it, and there was some black soil on the ground, which was the same color as the black soil that the comrades dug at the entrance of the first dark passage last night.

"Stop for a moment." Liu Dayu said loudly.

Ouyang Ping had already stopped advancing, he squatted down and looked carefully on the ground.

"Ouyang, there is a complete shoe print here." Liu Dayu pointed the light pillar of the flashlight at a shoe print.

The location of the shoe print is about ten centimeters near the east wall, and there is a layer of soil below and around the shoe print, and there are some scattered overlapping shoe prints next to this shoe print, about 20 centimeters to the west, but this shoe print is relatively complete.

There was no pattern on the shoe print, and it was the same size as the shoe print that the comrades found when they entered the meditation room last night, and the size was also about forty-one yards. Only the shoes of monks and nuns leave such shoe prints on the soil.

Obviously, the earth used to seal the secret passage came from the secret room, and similarly, the stones used to block the secret passage also came from the secret room.

Ouyang Ping, Liu Dayu and Chen Jie took a closer look at the scattered overlapping shoe prints, and the direction of the toe toe was both southward and northward. As it turned out, someone had been busy in this secret passage for a while the night before yesterday - probably not alone.

After walking about five meters forward, a curve appeared, and the dark path turned eastward, and after four meters, it turned south.

After turning the corner, two passages appear not far away, one to the south and the other to the east.

Everyone stopped at the three-way intersection.

Chen Jie used a flashlight to shine in the south and then to the east.

"Big Feather, this dark passage faces south, and this passage goes east." Ouyang Ping said.

"Captain, this passage seems to be eastward, and this passage seems to be westward." Han Lingling said, Han Lingling's sense of direction is relatively poor.

Master Yan's words proved our judgment of Han Lingling's sense of direction: "Comrade Captain is right, this one goes south, and this one goes east. ”

Liu Dayu also has a strong sense of direction: "This dark passage seems to lead to the West Zen Temple," Liu Dayu pointed to the dark passage to the south, and then pointed to the secret passage to the east, "This secret passage seems to lead to the quiet courtyard." ”