Chapter 14: The Underground Courtyard

It's the same green-haired parrot, only this time, the head is turned to the other side.

What's going on? Am I mistaken? That's what this head is supposed to be? No, even if I'm mistaken, so many pairs of eyes staring, it can't be as confused as I am.

Is there any mechanism on this stone gate? I suddenly thought of a feature in the mapping software called "mirroring" - with the click of a button, the image will be reversed.

But after all, it's a digital photo, how can it be realized in reality?

If that's not the case, then there's a simpler explanation, which is that the revolving door turned inwards when it closed automatically, but we didn't notice. And there is also an identical mural on the stone slab inside, except that the parrot's head is facing in the opposite direction......

Will that be the case?

My head was pondering the problem, and at this moment, Xiao Rong, who was standing next to me, suddenly ran towards the door. As soon as I looked up, I saw him propping his hands on the door, and with a strong push, the huge stone door turned again, making a painful grinding sound.

"Help!" I yelled and immediately ran up. But before the group could contribute, the door was pushed open by Xiao Rong alone.

I didn't know what Xiao Rong was going to do, but when I stood in front of the door, I saw him shining in the corridor with a flashlight.

"Brother Yang......"

Xiao Rong pointed at the Yongdao with his finger, his face was tense, I thought to myself, didn't I see it just now, why did he have such a surprised expression now? So puzzled, he looked into the corridor again.

I was dumbfounded!

I saw that in the corridor of this black hole, the originally orderly intertwined silk threads actually broke a big hole in the middle.

Transparent threads hung down on both sides of the wall like a woman's long hair, and the skull bells scattered to the ground, a broken scene.

"What I just saw is obviously not like this!" I was surprised.

Someone forced their way in?

Could it be them......

I thought to myself, when did this happen? Ten minutes ago, it wasn't like this, why did the door open and close, and the scene inside changed?

However, if this is what just happened, then at least there should be a sound, how could it be that our group didn't hear anything? And what exactly was caused by the destruction of this thread is also unknown.

A very bold assumption suddenly flashed through my head—could it be that what we saw in this corridor ten minutes ago was just an afterimage of historical time? And this is the reality now?

No, no, how is this possible?! I said in my heart that I didn't watch a DVD, his grandmother's, and I could play it back!

But if none of these assumptions are true, there is only one explanation - the mechanism!

"Is it the legendary 'epiglottis'?"

I was still thinking about it when I heard my glasses muttering.

"What is the epiglottis gate?" The girl asked.

"It's an ancient mechanism." Seeing that someone was willing to listen, the glasses immediately became energetic, "Do you know that the human esophagus and trachea are parallel to each other?" When you eat, food enters the esophagus, but when you breathe, the gas enters the trachea. The reason why you can't be mistakenly is that it is coordinated by a soft tissue called 'epiglottis'. And this 'epiglottis gate' is similar to the human epiglottis, and the name comes from this. ”

"The epiglottis door looks like a door, but there are usually two rooms behind the door. The two rooms are photographed of each other, often identical. Best of all, every time you open the door, you can only enter one of them! Although the structure of this kind of mechanism is complicated, some ancients just liked it, and often some people deliberately built their living room like this, using the convenience to meet two groups of people at one time, balance the forces, and meet the source left and right, which is very ingenious. ”

"In other words, behind the 'Protrottac Epiglottic Gate' in front of us, there are actually two passages, and the 16 people who entered are likely to be the current one?" I asked, pointing to the way ahead.

"Well...... glasses scratched their heads, and they didn't dare to answer exactly.

When I heard this, I became even more troubled, and I thought to myself, where do these two paths lead? Do those 16 people know the trick of this too? They just broke in like this, aren't they afraid of stabbing Lou Zi?

Or is it that Lou Zi has already been stabbed......

For a moment, my head was a mess, and I pressed my temples to try to keep myself awake. At this moment, the light suddenly shone on the corridor, and when I accidentally glanced at it, I always felt that there seemed to be something on the side of the wall of the corridor. When I looked at it, I was startled, and I saw a corpse lying on the side of the dark wall!

With a gasp, I felt myself tense all at once.

"Why don't I go in and have a look?" I asked Dadong with a side face. But I saw that he was still looking at the Yongdao in front of him steadily, ignoring me. I couldn't bear it anymore, I couldn't care so much, so I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and walked into the corridor with my feet up.

I walked very carefully, and did not dare to touch the silk threads and bells that were still hanging, and even the bells scattered under my feet, I tried to avoid them, and I did not dare to touch them.

Fortunately, the hole between the threads was very large, and after a few steps I came to the corpse, crouched down, and reached out with trepidation, and found that it was only a piece of clothing. The clothes bulged up, and from a distance it looked like a person curled up.

I breathed a sigh of relief, not knowing whether I was happy or sad. But there must have been someone here, there's no doubt about it.

It was an old windbreaker, with some tears on the shoulders and something on the sleeve. When I touched it with my hand, there was a fishy smell, and it turned out to be dried blood.

At this time, Dadong and they also cautiously touched in.

I stood up with the clothes and made eye contact with Dadong, and the two of them looked into the depths of the road. I saw that the criss-crossed silk threads were rotten all the way to the end.

In a trance, at the other end of the corridor, an antique screen looms in the light.

At the moment, we don't have any extra roads to choose, if we don't move forward, this clue will definitely be broken, so we have to follow the road opened by our predecessors and chase all the way.

Although this corridor is already a mess, Dadong asked us to be more careful and not to touch the remaining bells.

We walked very cautiously, thinking about it three or four times in our minds with almost every step we took, and the speed of our march was even slower than that of a turtle crawling. Fortunately, except for me, everyone else is a master and has not done anything to hold back. So it didn't take long for the group to walk smoothly to the end of the road.

By this time, we had completely passed through the threads and bells, and we were finally able to walk neatly. I rubbed my lower back, I couldn't help but stretch my muscles, and I immediately felt an indescribable soreness all over my body.

I looked up and saw an antique interstitial in front of me. Beneath the interstitial screen is a carved wooden pedestal, topped by a side of gray-veined marble.

At that moment, the revolving stone door sounded again, and when I looked back, the door had closed automatically. In a trance, there seemed to be the sound of water......

"How can there be a sound?" The girl pricked up her ears and pressed them in front of the screen, "Where did the sound of water come from?" As soon as the words fell, I saw her flickering and crawling behind the screen.

I was startled, afraid that she would get into trouble, so I immediately chased after her. Bypassing the screen, my eyes suddenly opened up, and when I looked up, I saw a huge space appear in front of me.

The girl stood not far away, looking around with a flashlight. Looking at the light, I was once again impressed by Jing Lianhong's whimsy!

I saw a deep hole with a circular dome in front of me, pavilions and pavilions in the cave, small bridges and flowing water, there was no cave, and it was a complete scene of a small courtyard and secluded courtyard.

On the left side of the cave we were in was a verandah, and on the opposite side of the verandah, a lotus pond jumped into view.

It is very different from the lotus flowers near the "leaky pavilion", although the lotus flowers here do not see the sun, they grow very well, and the petals are all open. The plump lotus leaves are held up left and right like a fan, and there is a night view of the lotus pond.

At the foot, a flat bridge made of stone slabs clings to the water, leading to the lush greenery in the distance.

Looking back, I found that there was a fake Ruyi door on the rock wall at the entrance of the cave, and a dripping eaves was very gorgeous. There is a plaque on the door with the words "Learn the tongue", which echoes the parrot on the revolving door.

Although the scenery is gorgeous, it is covered in darkness, and all that remains is mystery and weirdness. Dadong and the others walked in, and when they saw this scene, they were also dumbfounded.

I asked Dadong what he should do next, he frowned, seemed to be confused, and after thinking for a long time, he pointed to the other side of the bridge, "Let's go over and have a look first." ”

I looked in the direction of his finger and saw a gazebo hidden in the shadows, looking very mysterious.

I nodded yes, and crossed the verandah and went up the flat bridge with Daito.

I thought to myself, this millet garden is so weird! There is a garden in the garden, and it is specially built underground, what does Jing Lianhong want to do?

Pinching the bridge of my nose, I tried to imagine what the ancients used to build buildings underground, but after thinking about it, I only got one result - a tomb.

But isn't Jing Lianhong's tomb in my grandfather's hometown of Fengcheng? I remember when I was a child, the old man and I used to go back together to worship our ancestors, and we also passed by there.

The mound of sealed soil the size of a mountain bag is surrounded by pines and cypresses, which is not magnificent. At that time, the people in the village called this mound "Baoshan", because no matter what was planted around it, it would grow well.

And some people also found rare ores on the mound, and made a small windfall.

Later, the tomb was stolen, and as soon as the treasure was vented, "Baoshan" was no longer "treasure".

I was reminiscing as I walked forward with my head down, and I hadn't gone far when suddenly something was wrong - strange, why did the footsteps seem to be so much less sound coming up? Thinking of this, I hurriedly looked back, only to see that those Xuanyuan people were gone, and there were only five of us left on the bridge.

I was busy asking what about the Dadong people? Dadong said that they didn't follow up and separated from us for the time being.

I asked why? Dadong said that they found the kind of herb they were looking for and searched for it.

I ask again when you left? Dadong began to get impatient and replied: Just now.

I wanted to ask what the herbs they were looking for, but seeing Dadong's disgusted expression, I felt that I was indeed very verbose, so I had to say "oh" dryly and didn't say anything more.

I thought to myself, this group of people is really not righteous! It's good to be born and die, and I don't say hello before I break up...... I was muttering quietly, when a hand suddenly pressed heavily on my shoulder.

When I looked back, it was Xiao Rong.

"Brother Yang, something is wrong!"

Xiao Rong frowned, stood behind me with a stern expression, and looked at the other side of the bridge in amazement, as if he had seen some kind of flood beast.

Every time I see him like this, I am terrified.

"What's wrong?" I asked worriedly.

"Didn't you notice?"

"Found what?" Hearing him say this, I panicked even more, "You have something to say." ”

Xiao Rong didn't answer me, but walked a few more steps forward alone, then stopped, looked back at us, and his face became even more ugly.

"What the hell is going on?" Seeing him like this, Dadong was also anxious and couldn't help but scream.

"We seem to have been in the middle of the bridge since we first started, and we haven't moved forward......"