Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Vine Tunnel

Liang Ruoyi and I stood in front of the huge round stone, looking at each other, with a bitter look on our faces: what happened to Yashan Haigong this time was a little helpless!

Liang Ruoyi looked around the stone: "How did this stone come out?!" ”

Obviously, the diameter of this large round stone is much larger than the width of the four roads, and it is impossible for it to slip from any of the roads, but it is possible that it has leaked from the small square above.

I reached out and patted the stone, the tentacles were cold and my voice was muffled, proving that the stone should be very heavy.

"I suddenly felt ......," Liang Ruoyi said on the side, "this stone seems to have come up from under the ground." ”

"Impossible......" I turned to look at Liang Ruoyi, only to see that she had touched a handful from under the stone, her hands were covered with dust, and there were some small gravel.

"Such a big rock, there must be a lot of movement coming up from below!" I wondered, "Why didn't we hear that?" ”

"If I'm right, the fork in the road we stood at was supposed to be a mechanism." Liang Ruoyi muttered, "After we leave, no matter which path we enter, we will touch this mechanism, which will open a door, raise this stone, and block our way. ”

It's reasonable to explain it this way, but now that we don't care about it, how can we get out!

"Well, let's think about how to get out first." I looked at the ice beauty with a wry smile.

"Hmm......" Liang Ruoyi's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and then smiled: "I don't know." ”

Burst!

I almost suffocated to death: "Beauty, at this moment, you don't want to follow me in this dungeon full of bones, a moment of spring supper, right?!" ”

"Get out!" Liang Ruoyi naturally wouldn't make this kind of joke, reached out and patted the boulder, took a flashlight and took a careful photo, scratching his head with a solemn face: "But I really don't have any good ideas, this position, we can't push it at all, up is the huge bluestone, down is estimated to be the ground, now it's all blocked, how to get out?" ”

I sighed and glanced at the time, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. It's not an option to wait like this.

"Why are these people locked up here?" I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said to myself, "Could they be the builders of this Yashan Sea Palace?" Then they must have left a way out for themselves here! ”

"If there is a way back, why didn't you escape?" Liang Ruoyi seemed to be powerless, standing against the wall, looking at me with his arms crossed.

I didn't answer, anyway, there is no other way but to be a dead horse and a live horse doctor. Standing up, he turned around with a flashlight and walked to the nearest cell, covered his nose and kicked the wooden door open.

The door was chained, but after hundreds of years, the wood had long since decayed, and it didn't take much effort to kick it open.

The cell was not large, only five or six square meters in size, and there was nothing in it except piles of dead grass. The gray-white bones were scattered on the weeds, and people couldn't help but frown when they looked at them.

The cells were surrounded on all sides by uneven earthen walls, and in some places there were grass sprouts growing on them.

After reading it carefully, I was completely disappointed: there was really nothing in it that could help us, as Liang Ruoyi said, if there were, why didn't they go out themselves.

"Ugh—" I sighed and turned to go out, and this turn happened to kick a skull on the head, which grunted out and stopped on the path.

Subconsciously, the flashlight in my hand shone on: "Huh? This skull! ”

Liang Ruoyi stepped over: "Isn't there any gain?" What happened to this skull? ”

"Look at its cheekbones!" I pointed to the skull lying quietly on the path and said, "There is a very clear mark on it, like a strangulation mark, look at it!" ”

Liang Ruoyi walked around to me, took a flashlight to shine it, and sure enough, he found that there was an obvious strangulation mark on the cheekbone on the side of the skull, he was stunned for a moment, and his face changed: "Do you think that these people died before they were imprisoned here?" ”

"That's right." I nodded: "However, this is not the point of what you said, the point is that this strangulation mark is not used to kill them!" ”

I paused when I said this, then turned back to the cell, and found a few more skulls with strangulation marks on the same cheek, and placed them on the ground: "Don't you think, this strangulation is very familiar?" ”

Liang Ruoyi frowned, leaned over and took a closer look: the strangulation marks on these skulls were about three inches long, two fingers thick, and one end of them had an obvious round small mouth, the size of a fingernail.

"You mean, it's a dead man's vine?!" Liang Ruoyi looked at it for a while, then suddenly turned his head and asked me.

I nodded, "If I'm not mistaken, I think these people are just going to feed those dead vines." In the tomb of Yongning Tower, we have seen a large vine of the dead, but the one I saw with the pig-head in the city gate before is much larger than the one in the tomb of Yongning Tower, and it is not a grade at all. And, if my assumption is correct, there won't be just one Dead Man's Vine King, but two or more. In the underground river channel under the city gate, we also saw the traces left by the huge dead vine, according to the time, that one is not in the city gate, so there are at least two huge dead vines hidden in the Yashan Sea Palace, in addition, there should be countless small dead vines. ”

"That's what these people are entering this dungeon...... No, according to you, it's not a death row at all. Liang Ruoyi smiled bitterly: "It's a huge cage with food." ”

"So, there must be a hole left by the Dead Man's Vine in this!" With that, I walked back to my cell, shining my flashlight around, and it was empty, except for the pile of dead grass in the corner.

Just in case, I also found a piece of blood stone and stuffed it into my mouth, and then slowly reached out and moved the dead grass away little by little.

When I tossed all the dead grass aside, a circular hole less than two feet in diameter appeared in the ground, and from the outline, it did look like the dead vine had left behind to eat.

"Let's go!" I know there may be a lot of dead vines down there, but it's better than staying here and holding your breath!

I pulled a rope out of my backpack and struck it twice on the edge of the hole with the black iron buckle at the top, and it was easy to widen the hole enough for us to go down.

Just as he was about to take a step, Liang Ruoyi stretched out his hand and grabbed me: "I'm in front, you will be in danger in front." ”

I was stunned, smiled at the ice beauty, got up and got out of the way, and let her go down in front.

"Hey!" Liang Ruoyi leaned in, and immediately turned his head and said, "Hey, down here, it seems to be a tunnel, very narrow!" ”

I was stunned, and before I could say anything, I saw Liang Ruoyi fold his body a little weirdly, and then got in! I hurriedly leaned down to look, and sure enough, there was a horizontal tunnel under the ground, less than half a foot high and less than four feet wide.

In other words, there is a complete and huge tunnel system under the entire Yashan Sea Palace, which was developed by the Dead Man Vine King.

Liang Ruoyi had already crawled out on the ground for a few meters, and I hurriedly followed, and the two of them crawled forward from the dark tunnel with two flashlights......