Chapter 21: The Wicked Join In
I don't know if it's because of the sleet outside, but it's very humid inside. I turned on my flashlight and found that my arm was rubbing against the wall to the side.
"Circular Corridor!" The seventh master used a flashlight to shine on the front and said: "Everyone has a hundred blood stones in their mouths, and in the rest of the actions, we can't let the matter of Mazi repeat itself." ”
The seventh master knew that I had a good relationship with Mazi, and when he said this, he reached out and patted me on the shoulder. I once again remembered the matter of the Ten Secret Realms that Mazi mentioned to me, and I thought that after I went out this time, I must talk to the Seventh Master about this matter.
The old clam turned around and wanted to cover up the entrance of the cave, and just about to reach out, a hand "snapped" on the entrance of the cave, which startled the old clam: "Who?!" ”
"Haha! I'll just say, I can't be wrong with you! ”
With the sound, a figure jumped down and stood in front of us. I hurriedly shone a flashlight, but saw that this man was about forty years old, five short figures, dark skin, as if he had some kind of disease, the facial features on his face looked a little swollen, and his eyes were round. ”
I nodded and turned to the Seventh Master.
"Toads? Why are you here?! The seventh master's face was shocked when he saw this person: "You won't be?" ”
"No, no, no!" The toad waved his hand again and again: "I saw everything, but the bodyguard next to that guy is not an ordinary person, and he almost caught me." You know me, I have nothing to do with him! Ha ha! ”
"His name is Li Jinyang, and his nickname is Toad." The seventh master introduced me, and his eyes were full of disdain: "This person is only for money all his life, and he doesn't care about anything else, he is proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and he does all kinds of evil." ”
"Hey, hey! Ha ha! The toad laughed, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth, looking disgusting: "It's still the seventh master, you understand me, and you also lift me up!" I can't do any evil! ”
"What are you doing with us?" The Seventh Master looked at the toad coldly: "None of us is willing to cooperate with you. ”
“NO、NO、NO!” The toad waved his hand and walked in front of Liang Ruoyi: "Seventh Master, you all know that I have only come for money all my life, and I have come for money." I don't want any Hanjia or anything like that, it's too dangerous! I only ask for what I find in the tomb, I want for myself, how? ”
"Why did we let you in?" Liang Ruoyi naturally doesn't look down on such a man.
"Hehe...... toad laughed wickedly: "I'm a person, I don't have any skills, but I will make friends, if I can't join the gang, I promise, within two days, everyone will know that you are looking for Hanjia!" I know that the Seventh Master withdrew from the rivers and lakes as early as three years ago for this operation and began to prepare, and this puppet master is a grandmaster who rarely appears in the rivers and lakes, and you are never together outside of action, so I believe that if I spread this news, it will be harmful to you and no benefit. ”
What a villain! Liang Ruoyi brought a few of us together before, and after two operational contacts, although the seventh master said that they were doing unsightly things, and Mazi Wu Hao was a thief, but his conduct was upright, and this toad was really a little despised.
"That's it, but you have to remember." The Seventh Master said coldly: "Just like you said, only what you see and get is yours, and the things that are useful to us, as well as Hanjia, none of them can be given to you!" ”
"Understood!" The toad laughed and clasped his fists with both hands: "There are so many masters here, I naturally don't dare to make a mistake!" ”
Saying that, the toad snorted softly, jumped up, put his palms out, and slapped several palms at the hole above his head, and the dust flew in an instant, and when I looked at it again, the hole was actually pasted to death by him with the mud on the edge!
"Let's guess about the structure of this tomb first." The Seventh Master glanced at the toad coldly, reached out and grabbed a stone and painted it on the wall: "If you just talk about the Yongning Pagoda tomb underground, according to the principle of mechanics, it should be a rectangular box built underground now, which is equivalent to laying a foundation, and second, it can protect the structural integrity and solidity of the tower tomb." ”
The Seventh Master said and drew a standing rectangle from the wall: "Then inside this solid box, build a complete Yongning Pagoda tomb, and the Yongning Temple Pagoda on the ground is like a vertical mirror image." It is nine stories high, and the tomb of Yongning Tower underground should also be nine floors. According to historical records, Yongning Temple is a wooden structure, and the Yongning Pagoda Tomb should also be a wooden structure. And not far from here is the Luo River, there is a high probability that there is an underground river, this must be noted. ”
While speaking, the seventh master drew it on the wall, but it was very vivid and intuitive: "The Yongdao where we are now should go straight to the first layer of the Yongning Pagoda tomb without accident, and now we are on both sides of the road, and it is a circular Yongdao, we have to divide into two teams and go to one end, everyone should make a mark, if you encounter a problem, immediately return here to gather." ”
The Seventh Master said and made an irregular circular mark on the wall with a stone: "I, old clam, toad, we are in a team of three people, Xiao Gu, Miss Liang and Master Budai, you are three in a team, if it goes well, gather on the first floor of the tomb of Yongning Tower." ”
I nodded, counted the contents of my backpack, and after confirming that it was correct, I walked into the circular corridor with Liang Ruoyi and Monk Budai.
The depths of the corridor are pitch black, and the four walls are made of black masonry, which makes it even more dim. Unlike before, there are many Buddhist portraits carved on the stone walls of this road, each of which is about six square feet in size, but because of the passage of time, many of the portraits have been blurred.
In the darkness, there was only the footsteps of the three of us, plus the sound of the Budai monk chanting softly all the time. I thought it was funny for a while, Empress Dowager Hu was a believer in Buddhism, and the Budai monk came to pry her tomb, I don't know what kind of mood it was.
"Look." Liang Ruoyi, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped, pointed to a vine in the corner and said, "Do you still know each other?" ”
"Dead Man's Vine?!" I looked down and saw a finger-thick dark green dead man's vine coiled around a gray-white skull, motionless.
"What the Seventh Master said is right, this vicinity must not be far from the underground river of the Luo River." Liang Ruoyi glanced at the silent cloth bag monk and said.
I nodded, touched the dagger at my waist, and continued walking.
After turning the first corner, the entire road becomes a circle with a slowly decreasing diameter, and there is no straight road under your feet. The deeper you go, the more white bones there are under your feet, and it seems that as the seventh master said, the people who built this Yongning Pagoda tomb were finally buried here alive.
After walking for about twenty minutes, I went around a small detour, and a wall suddenly appeared in front of me, and there was no way!