I guessed that there was still a hidden place in the Holy Palace that we hadn't found, but I didn't expect Qing Taizu to hide the open mechanism so cleverly, we walked to the middle of the Holy Palace, and saw a staircase leading deeper into the mountain.

We lit torches and went down the steps, and it didn't take long to hear the sound of rushing water, presumably we had reached the bottom of the mountain, which was dug up to the depth of an underground river when Qing Taizu built the Holy Palace.

As the front grew wider, the sound of the water hitting the rocks became clearer, and when we reached the end of the passage, we found that it was a cliff, and the underground river gushed out from the bottom of the cliff, and poured down from the stone wall, first like a curtain, and then like a waterfall.

There was no other way around, so I stood cautiously on the edge of the cliff, where the rock walls were carved out like a ghostly axe, the cliffs were steep and smooth, and the cascading waterfall was terrifying to watch.

"Qing Taizu took a lot of trouble to set up an organ under the Holy Palace, I thought he was going to leave something, and he did it for a long time just to let people come to see the cliff." Tian Ji said dejectedly.

"There is a cave on the cliff wall below, and there is no other passage around here, so you have to go down depending on the situation." Ye Jiuqing squatted on the edge of the cliff and looked at it for a long time and said.

"It's not a toss for people, you can't be straightforward, it's both a mechanism and a cliff." Tian Ji sighed helplessly and said while tying a rope to his body. "I'll go down first to see how things go, and if it's safe you can come down again."

Before I could speak, I saw Ye Jiuqing next to me snatch the rope over: "I don't know how deep it is down here, if there is anything wrong, if you fall down, there will be no bones left, you pull on it, or I will go down to explore the way." ”

I glanced down and snatched the rope from Ye Jiuqing's hand: "This is not a joke, you are all this age, and your physical strength is not at all, usually I will rely on you when you rush to take the lead, this time I will come, among a few of us, I am the lightest, and you can pull it on it." ”

"No, if something goes wrong, it will be a disaster, you also know my age, if anything happens, I won't lose." Ye Jiuqing shook his head.

"You think this is Kong Rong's pear, you have to let you first every time, don't rely on the old and sell the old." I glared at Ye Jiuqing. "You're older than anyone here, and you're not in the ranks."

I didn't wait for Ye Jiuqing to refute, I tied the rope on my body, pulled it to make sure it was firm, and handed the other side of the rope to Tian Ji.

Ye Jiuqing smiled bitterly, I know him, but he also understands me, once the decision is made, it will never change, Ye Jiuqing no longer speaks, and tells him to be careful, and then he found a rock, put the rope around, and then tied the other end to himself, stepped on the rock with his feet and said loudly.

"Go down in peace, you'll be fine unless I fall."

I took a deep breath and slowly hung down along the cliff wall, fortunately, the cave was only two or three meters away from the cliff, and there was no danger swinging into the cave, and after checking a circle, I made sure it was safe to call the others down, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, I asked Ye Jiuqing and Bai Jin and Tuer to stay on it first.

After all, they are all old, the situation is unknown, and they are in a cave on the cliff wall, and if something happens, I am afraid that they will not be able to cope with it.

When everyone else had arrived safely, I raised my torch and went deeper into the cave, which was bigger than I had expected, and there was an echo in the cavern, and the water that flowed over my calves in the cave flowed down the mountain.

The cave was cone-shaped, and the further we went, the narrower and darker it became, and finally the light of the torches and flashlights in our hands was blocked by a stone wall, which was the deepest place to reach, and I had my hand to tap on the stone wall and found that it was not hollow, but I could not find a way out in other places, but since there was water gushing out, it meant that there must be a passage.

Gong Jue stood in front of the blocked stone wall, stretched out his hand and touched it for a long time, and finally picked up a stone and rubbed it on the rock wall, and the moss and rock ash that had been peeled off fell off one after another.

"Come and have a look." The palace lord's voice was full of joy.

We gathered around, and where she had just rubbed, we saw a thin slit, neatly and regularly extending downward.

"Such a regular gap cannot be a natural formation." Xue Xinrou also laughed and said. "There are obvious traces of artificial polishing on it, and the back of this stone wall should be a channel connecting to the water."

"Yes, you see, there is a river seeping out of the cracks." The field chicken dipped some water in the gap and put it in his mouth and tasted it.

I looked up at the stone wall again, it was not much different from the surrounding rocks, it was tightly connected, we tried to push the stone wall hard and found that it was in vain, the stone wall did not move at all.

In this cave, there is nothing but the stone wall, and on the rock wall are countless small holes formed by natural weathering, the size of which can reach into a hand, and from these small holes there is also a river flowing out.

"This stone wall should be to block the passage, since it can be closed, it must be opened, and there should definitely be an opening mechanism in this cave." Gong Jue looked around and said calmly.

We split up to look in the cave, although the cave is not small, but we can see it as far as the eye can see, there is nothing particularly eye-catching, all natural rocks, my eyes fell on the rock wall of those dense and countless rock holes.

Tian Ji also noticed these rock holes, put his hand into it, and suddenly turned his head happily and shouted: "Mechanism, there is an open mechanism here, I felt a handle." ”

I hurriedly walked over, the field chicken retracted his hand, I reached in and touched, sure enough, it was a movable handle, I pulled the handle down hard, boom, the heavy rock wall opened.

I had always thought that behind the rock wall was a passage to the river, and perhaps I was too eager to open it, so I only remembered that there was a passage, and forgot to ignore the river, and when the stone wall was opened, the river rushed out of it like a wild horse.

There was nothing in the cave but smooth rock, and there was no place to fix my body, and when the river gushed out from behind the rock wall, I was not swept out by the river except for me, because I was holding on to the mechanism in the rock hole.

The other four people standing in the cave were all washed to the ground, flowing down the river, and below were thousands of cliffs, and if they fell, they were crushed to pieces.

Although Tian Ji fell to the ground, his instinctive adaptability was fast, he grabbed the rope hanging down from the top of the mountain, grabbed her hand at the moment when Xue Xinrou's whole person was rushed out of the cave, and the two people were rushed out almost at the same time, rippling back and forth in the air on the mountainside, Xue Xinrou screamed in panic, the more he struggled, the more difficult it was for the Tian Chicken above, I saw him grabbing Xue Xinrou's hand and slipping down little by little.

Gong Jue didn't have to worry about me, she just stood on the side of the stone wall when it was opened, and when the river came out, the heavy stone wall just blocked the huge impact for her, and I suddenly found that I didn't see Ye Zhiqiu.

Ye Zhiqiu was standing at the outermost part of the cave when she pulled the mechanism, my heart suddenly lifted, the position where she was standing was affected by the sudden impact, and there was only one, and she didn't even have a place to hide.

The water gushing out of the stone wall gradually began to decrease, but the attack endured by the field chicken still did not decrease much, and the whole person pulled Xue Xinrou, who was rippling back and forth, suspended in the air halfway up the mountain, and the overwhelming river water made him unable to even open his eyes.

I wanted to go over to help him, but the raging river made it difficult for me to move an inch, and several times I tried to let go of the hand in the rock hole, but I saw Tian Ji shaking his head at me with difficulty, I understood what he meant, even if I couldn't help him and Xue Xinrou in the past, but would put myself in danger.

Gong Jue and I watched Tian Ji at a loss, and Xue Xinrou he was holding was slowly slipping down, and in the end, Tian Ji was completely fingertips hooking her heavy body.

"Let me go, or we'll both be fine." Xue Xinrou shouted loudly below.

"Don't move, I can catch you." The field chicken shouted hard.

My heart has been sinking, before coming down, I checked the rope fixed at the top of the mountain, this rope should be no problem to bear the weight of one person, but it becomes two people, and it ripples back and forth like this, I know very well that if one of Tian Ji and Xue Xinrou does not let go, both of them will eventually fall down together because the rope breaks.

It is impossible for Tian Ji to choose to let go, he did not give up two words in his dictionary at any time, but Xue Xinrou was more rational than him, I saw Tian Ji's suddenly frightened expression, and I guessed that Xue Xinrou had made a choice.

Under the impact of the swarming river, we couldn't see Xue Xinrou's expression clearly, but Gong Jue and I could clearly see that she slowly let go of Tian Ji's hand, and at that moment I even found a helpless pleading in Tian Ji's expression.

In the end, Xue Xinrou's fingers slipped from his hand and disappeared into the pouring river, Tian Ji stared at his empty hand blankly, looking at the bottom of the cliff with blank eyes, and it seemed that he still didn't believe that Xue Xinrou would fall from his hand.

The river gushing out from behind the stone wall slowly became slow, I quickly let go of my hand and let the palace lord stay where I was, I cautiously walked to the mouth of the cave and pulled the hanging field chicken back, he sat down in the river water of the cave in a daze, I poked my head out and looked down, the river water rushed out from the mouth of the cave, and splashed around on the rocks below with a huge sound, and I didn't see Xue Xinrou and Ye Zhiqiu until now.

Just as she was about to retract her head, she suddenly saw a hand tightly grasping the rock, and when she looked down, she found that Gong Jue was hanging on the side of the rock, and her other hand actually caught Xue Xinrou who had just fallen.

"Don't be in a daze, hurry up and save people." I grabbed Ye Zhiqiu's hand and shouted loudly to the field chicken next to me.

Tian Ji immediately came to his senses, handed the suspended rope to Ye Zhiqiu, the river flowing out of the rock wall had gradually calmed down, and there was no huge impact, and the palace lord also came to help, and the three of us worked together to pull her and Xue Xinrou up from below.

Ye Zhiqiu leaned on me and gasped, there was a kind of paralysis for the rest of his life, Tian Ji was stunned for a moment, didn't say a word, and suddenly hugged Xue Xinrou in his arms.

He was originally a person who was not good at expressing emotions, maybe it was the moment of life and death, at that moment all the words seemed too pale, Xue Xinrou buried her head in his arms and smiled weakly and happily.