We put the dead pig down, and then rinsed the whole iron plate with water, and soon the sound of the machine was heard, and the chain drive kept ringing in the cave wall, and slowly, all the reliefs that came out of the hole shrank back. At the same time, the iron disc paused a few times, and then began to slowly rotate again.

Xiaohua and I repacked the cold fireworks, short-handled shotguns, and soju for self-defense, and together lifted the iron plate and supported it with the iron rod, revealing the hole.

Xiaohua's injury before still made me feel palpitations, there must be something tricky down here, and now it is very dangerous, he didn't venture in, but first cut off a pig's foot, tied it with a rope, and threw it down from the hole first.

As if fishing, we put it little by little, and put it deep into a place, but there was no reaction.

He put a piece of iron on his chest and back, and with a movement, he first got through the opening, and his speed was very fast, and he saw that the light of his flashlight went down rapidly, and as soon as he reached the bottom, it dimmed.

I didn't dare to speak, my back was covered with cold sweat, and I waited for five or six minutes before the flashlight below lit up again and flashed twice, which was a safety signal for me.

I took a deep breath and shook the bag off top, then cautiously poked my head into the hole before trying to burrow my body into it.

I was "fatter" than the flowers, and I climbed the chains and finally went down to the bottom. I found the space below very cramped, and I couldn't even stand up, and I had to touch my head while sitting.

The structure of the "organ message space" at the bottom of the entire iron plate is very complicated, to the point that I can't describe it, but after I get down, I can know the operation mechanism of the entire organ message at a glance.

The bearings of the iron disc have many iron teeth, which can be opened by the rotation of the iron disc, and there are countless iron rings around it. Iron rings are connected by intricate iron chains, leading to one side of these stone chambers somewhere.

It is foreseeable that the number of rings to turn the iron disc is different. The chains hooked by the open teeth are also different, so the chains pulled are also different. The message of the activated organ is also different.

And in the lower part of the stone chamber, there is a water wheel-like thing, inserted in a wellhead at the bottom, the water flow in the wellhead is turbulent, is a water vein in the rock, and the rotating water wheel is driven to the bearing through gears and chains, so that the iron disc can rotate by itself over the years. There was nothing around that had scratched the flowers, but there were countless cotton wool-like things hanging from the chains. It seems to be a grease from a long time ago.

The entire message room resembles a well, but it's slightly larger at the bottom. There was a strong smell of blood in the chamber, but there was not a trace of blood in sight, and I didn't know where the blood had gone. At the same time, we didn't see the tricky things that Xiaohua said.

Not seeing it doesn't mean not not, we cautiously crouched down and searched around, and found that there was indeed no living thing around.

Maybe it's because of something? I said in my heart, Xiaohua and I both looked away, and Xiaohua also showed a puzzled look. Both men breathed a sigh of relief, though.

I asked Xiaohua with my eyes what was next. He pointed to the side with a flashlight, and it turned out that on the wall of this well, there were three five or six meters high. The crack was only one person wide, and it looked like a very, very narrow corridor, and all the chains were divided into three groups, and they all pierced into the three cracks.

When the flashlight shines into it, it is found that it is very deep inside, and people can barely squeeze into it, and when they shine up, they find that the top of the crack is three or four meters high. All are hung with iron chains one by one of the stones, and the bottom of the stones. All of them are the kind of clay pots we saw in the Western Mother Country.

This is the "head-up" of the organ, if we get something wrong. The stone on it will definitely fall and smash the clay pot, and the crappy king in the jar will definitely make us suffer.

The first few stones had fallen, shattering a lot of the clay pots in the front part, revealing the hair inside, which must have been the last time someone came here, and the information agency was activated by mistake.

I saw that in the darkness of the back part all the way to the end of the crack, there were countless stones hanging eeriely, neatly included in the depths of the crack, I don't know how many, and the clay pots that had accumulated like mountains below, layer upon layer, made people's throats tingle.

The other two fissures were identical, and the chains interspersed between the three fissures looked like the three tentacles of a monster.

"This structure shows that there are three ways in this organ, even if we unlock the first one, it will be useless, if we honestly work hard from the prompt, it will be a protracted project, we judge from the height of the chain, the lowest group should be the first organ news." I said, "This fucking thing looks a bit like a door lock." ”

The organ room of the first organ message should be at the end of the crack through which the lowest set of chains passes, and we must go through.

This design is very ingenious, I can see that on the stone walls on both sides of the cracks, there are countless copper nails, that is, iron bumps embedded in the stone wall, all rusted into green flowers, it seems to be for people to walk, but looking at the strange shape of the nails, I know that there must be a cat in it. There must also be a message agency under these card nails, and once you step on the wrong one, there will be more luck and less luck.

And the position of all the stuck nails is in a very suitable place to settle, and it is difficult to avoid these if you want to climb over. Even if Xiaohua is at her peak, in such a narrow space, she can't perform any tricks.

I asked Xiaohua, "Wukong, what should I do?" ”

Xiaohua pondered up and down, left and right, to see where there was a place to avoid, but obviously all the details here have been paid attention to, up to the upper edge of the cave wall, all of them are old copper nails, and I can't think of a good way for a while.

I pointed to the stones hanging above, each weighing a ton, and the chains that hung them were so strong that I wondered if I could pass over them.

Xiaohua shone it with a flashlight, "tsk", and said, "It seems feasible, but, you see so many copper nails here, they can take this into account, can't they consider those stones?" In my opinion, the things in this ditch cannot be touched, there must be cats, and the people who built this place are completely different from ordinary craftsmen, they are proficient in ordinary inverted tact, and will not give us such obvious vacancies. ”

"Don't go from above. Either you have to climb the copper nails on the wall, or you can step on these clay pots, and there is no other way. I said. There are only a few directions in total, is it possible that we can still pass through the wall?

The floret leans sideways into the gap. Cautiously reaching forward, he lightly touched the brass nails with his hand, crouched down again, picked up a piece from the pottery shards, and withdrew.

There were still many black stains sticking to the inside of the pottery shard, which should be the marks left by the decay of the human head, and he put the pottery shard on the ground and let me step on it. I stepped on it. The pottery shards were immediately broken, and the process of making this clay pot was very simple, and it was so thin that it was impossible to step on it.

Xiaohua said: "This is fucking amazing, I don't plan to let people go at all." ”

"How did they set it up? Isn't there a secret passage for craftsmen or something, what if you want to repair it? ”

"This thing shouldn't have after-sales service. In ancient times, the news of organs was generally driven by stones and iron chains, and they were all very stocky, and generally speaking, they were not very damaging if they were not earthquakes or anything. If there is a set channel, it must be among these pins, but we now have to find out which ones are safe from so many pins. The risk is too great. "The designer here is not an ordinary person, and he will not have the ideas of ordinary people. ”

This feeling. I've never experienced it before, looking at the mechanism in front of me, it doesn't feel complicated and mysterious, but it really makes people have no choice, compared to the tricks of Wang Zanghai's tricks, the mechanism here is practical, effective and flawless. This is something that is truly designed by a master, and people can't help but feel a sense of frustration.

It's good that the stuffy oil bottle is here, and I have this thought again. Suddenly, I found that so many times I had turned danger into a disaster. It turned out that it wasn't my fate, the two people around me solved so many problems. I've taken it for granted.

After hesitating for a moment, I saw Xiaohua sigh solemnly and said to me: "There is no way, I can only fight hard, and see if the ancestor blesses or not." ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a bundle of rope from his equipment bag, handed it to me, let me grab it, put the other end around his neck, took out a whistle-sized purple sand bottle from the small bag he carried, pulled out the stopper, and applied the contents to his hands, it was a black powder, even through the gas mask, I immediately smelled a smell of Chinese medicine.

"What are you going to do?" I have a sense of foreboding.

"This is a traditional Chinese medicine and charcoal ash used to absorb sweat, and it can also refresh the mind." He said, "I'm going to crawl over there." ”

"You're crazy!" I said, "The jar here is so brittle, it will shatter when you touch it, don't bother me if you want to die." ”

"Standing on something that will break something, lying down will not necessarily break, as long as there are a lot of pressure points to spread the weight, even the light bulb I can pass, this has to be hard work." He said.

As he spoke, he took off his shoes, turned his back, and lay down on the ground.

I thought he would lie on his stomach, but I didn't expect him to lie face up like this, and my surprise was even greater, and I saw that his back and buttocks were very skillfully forced, and the whole person had already retracted into the crack against the ground.

It's a flexible, hands-assisted way of moving forward with the back muscles, like a very relaxing yoga, but Xiaohua moves so fast that I feel like he's like a snake, crawling against the ground, and I can tell that it's definitely a huge physical exertion, and I know how his lean but powerful muscles are trained. However, I have to admit that the action was very ugly.

"Are you sure?" I said, after all, there are no eyes on my back, and this method depends on luck.

He looked at me and said, "Not sure you're coming?" ”

I shook my head and smiled bitterly, and he gave me a blank look, then relaxed my whole body, took a few deep breaths, said a few words that I don't know what to say, and began to move forward into the depths of the crack.

At the moment when Xiaohua leaned against those clay pots, he and I paused, I clearly heard the sound of the clay pots being pressurized, rubbing against the clay pots below, and it seemed to be accompanied by the crisp sound of those thin pottery shards about to be crushed, I held my breath and watched him slowly move up, and the sound became more and more. But Xiaohua didn't hesitate, and little by little her whole body moved to the clay pot.

At that moment, my back was a little numb, and I was a little glad that after all I went through it, I started to skip the fear and went straight into a state of high tension, and I held my breath and watched his every movement.

Soon, he was very far away from me, and he could be seen moving in the darkness of the flashlight. It's a very weird feeling, as if we're jailbreaking through some old cable duct. He was climbing with a rope that I had to go in.

Five or six minutes later. He had gone about thirty meters deep, and I couldn't see the flashlight clearly. His flashlight shone ahead, and along the way, although the tiles made many frightening sounds, they were all false alarms. I slowly began to feel at ease, listening to his panting echo, I shouted into the gap: "Take your time, we are not in a hurry, and no one will fight with you." When you're tired, take a break. ”

A moment later, his voice came from inside, gasping and scolding: "You rest in this kind of place." "With a flick of the flashlight, I saw him illuminate the rocks above, which, if they fell, would have smashed him straight into minced flesh.

"You maintain your form and strength, and the more you rush, the easier it is to make mistakes." I said, "Those things don't fall that easily." ”

"It's not a technical job, as long as I'm lying down, if there are no accidents, I don't need to concentrate too much, and if I pay too much attention to my back, it will have problems." He said. "I'm afraid that something will go wrong, I'm afraid that some of the clay pots themselves have been broken, but they haven't cracked. I crushed it to crack, or maybe there's some mechanism in these clay pots. These things depend on luck, I'm a little faster and a little slower, the ending is the same, I would rather save the process of waiting. ”

His voice was very calm, I seemed to have had many similar thoughts before, I don't know if it was a excuse or a state of mind unique to people like us, I immediately felt that Xiaohua's heart was indeed similar to me.

"Then I can't help you with anything. You don't want me to be here to help you recite the scriptures. ”

"I'll read it when something happens, now you can sing a little song to relieve my nerves." He said slowly.

This kind of joke is not funny at all. On the contrary, I could feel that he was still worried in his heart, and I was a little scared when I heard it. This is a normal person, not a god or a monster, he has the same emotions and weaknesses as me, and he can be nervous at such times, which may be the norm in this industry.

"Don't worry, I can't run away if you die, you can sing enough on the Huangquan Road." I yelled at him.

Xiaohua didn't answer me again, maybe she felt that I didn't have a backache when I spoke, gasped, and continued to crawl forward, I also knew that in this case, talking was very physically exhausting and distracting, so I kept silent.

The flashlight continued to fade away, and after a while, I could only see the light, and all that was left of the sound was the gasp, with an ethereal echo, and it sounded a bit of a requiem, and I gradually lost a little of my concentration.

After a while, he spoke again: "That's not, I think you'll still go to heaven." Master, I'm probably going in the opposite direction, so if something happens, you can turn around and go, and I won't blame you. ”

I listened to it becoming more and more unlucky, so I wanted him to stop talking nonsense, and when Lord Yama heard it, he felt that it was difficult to be gracious, but it would be terrible. Before he could say it, he said, "Huh? ”

"What's wrong?" My thoughts came back to me.

"It's not a stone hanging from here." He said, the flashlight shone upward, and I couldn't see his position anymore. I couldn't see where he was shining either.

"What is it?" I got nervous.

He swept it a few times: "It's hanging very high, I can't see it clearly, it seems to be the skin of some animal, it's definitely not a good thing." As he spoke, he seemed to be spinning the aura of the flashlight, and the light gradually gathered and became stronger, and the action caused a series of clay pots under him to make a series of crashing sounds, and I immediately said to him, "Be careful! Calm down, you see that you are panting like this, or settle down first, not afraid of ten thousand, just in case. ”

Hearing his voice echoing, he seemed stunned for a moment, and wondered while shining on it: "Wheezing? I'm not panting, aren't you gasping? ”

I said, "It's not so exaggerated that I want to breathe, and besides, I haven't moved, why am I gasping?" ”

He was silent for a moment, and then shone his flashlight at me, far away, only flashing. I said, "Don't be kidding, fucking shitty here." ”

"I'm not kidding." His voice had cooled down.

I watched his flashlight start to sweep through the cracks and realized something wasn't quite right. Both of them fell silent, and I began to break out in a cold sweat as I listened to the direction of the panting.

It must have come from within this gap, because there was an echo so I thought it was Xiaohua gasping, but if it wasn't him, then what kind of sound was it? (To be continued)