Time was pressing, Cha Wenbin and I brought some gravel over again and poured it into the ditch, this is our stepping stone, the higher the cushion, the safer. The fish were crowded in the water less than a finger deep, and Cha Wenbin had a small bottle in his pocket, and as soon as I opened it, I smelled a rushing smell.

"Brimstone?"

"If you fall down, maybe it will work." So saying, he poured all the sulfur powder from the bottle around the stepping stones we had piled up, and sure enough, the fish couldn't stand it anymore and began to squeeze upstream.

Taking advantage of this, I jumped down first and clasped the copper plate with my hand, but I felt that it was too heavy at the first mention of it, and it was not at all that I could move alone.

The fat man threw down the rope on his body and said, "Take the rope and put it on, and we'll pull it together." ”

I threaded the rope through the hole in the copper plate, and re-ashore, and the three of us worked together to finally remove the lid of the copper plate. Under the copper plate is a round hole one person wide, I don't know where it leads, where can I still take care of it at that time, the dam we built upstream is at risk of collapsing at any time, this is a real race against life and time!

If we go down and the dam collapses, we will probably drown; If we don't go down and get trapped here, we'll either freeze to death or starve to death; If we had come over before we had entered the cave, probably three of us would have died in the belly of the fish at once.

Horizontal comparison, I personally think it's better to drown, the latter two are a bit too cruel, I put my arm on their shoulders and said: "Brothers, I'll go down first, let's go back to Guangdong honestly when we go out, Wen Bin, you don't care about anyone, this matter has nothing to do with us." ”

I've talked about it, Cha Wenbin naturally doesn't want to say anything, the fat man and I are purely accompanying him in for a walk, maybe he didn't expect it to be such a desperate situation, nodded at me and said: "Don't think I don't know how to do business, just take me." ”

"I'm leaving!" After saying that, I was the first to jump down, the copper plate was slippery, there was mud everywhere, and as soon as I put my hands down, it was like riding a slide all the way crazy, and I slid out for more than 50 meters before stopping. I looked around, and there was a big canal, and behind me was a hole from which the canal had just come out, and in front of me there was a pool of water that had just drained into that pool.

Behind me was Cha Wenbin who slid down, and the fat man was the last, and when he came down, the water had already begun to come out of the canal, which proved that eighty percent of the dam we built had begun to collapse.

As soon as the fat man came out, he shouted: "It's a big life, I guess you won't see me in a few seconds!" ”

"Why are you so inky?"

"I've got to plug that copper plate, or I'll have it when those things come out? What's going on here, are we out yet? ”

The fat man asked me, I asked who to go? All I know is that at the moment we are in a small space of not ten square meters, and everything around us is still stone except for stones.

Cha Wenbin pointed to the water channel: "If the one we passed just now is a tomb road, then this should be Yongdao, there will be a door in Yongdao that connects to the outside world, as long as we find the door, we can go out." ”

"Cha Ye, we don't have a magic pen and we don't have Ma Liang, where do you see the door in such a place?" The fat man is right, I can't find a place to pee here, a big place, not to mention the door, even a place to sit is too crowded.

"There." Cha Wenbin's is currently stuck in the small waterhole in front of me, and when I look at it, it is a little bigger than an iron pot on a rural earthen stove, but it is quite round.

Cha Wenbin continued: "Since the tomb is placed in the water, the tomb door should also be natural, and the waterhole is no longer suitable if it is used as the tomb door." In terms of anti-theft, as long as the water upstream is continuous, no one can climb into this tomb upside down, and the strength of the water flow combined with this slope is enough to resist any tomb robbers. ”

The fat man thought that what Cha Wenbin said made sense: "If you go up, you will die, even if you have a scuba tree, as long as the tomb robber opens the copper plate, he will be torn to pieces by the fish on it." ”

In that case, the only way for us to survive is this waterhole in front of us.

"Into the water?"

The fat guy was already undressing, glanced at me and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"There are two possibilities." I said, "One, we were still drowned, and two, we were also eaten by fish...... I pointed to the water channel behind: "The eyes of that copper plate are the thickness of fingers, can you guarantee that over the years, the fish here have not leaked out of the fry or anything?" Fat people may be waiting for you to jump down! ”

Looking at the puddle of water, the fat man's clothes stopped halfway through: "Xiao Xiaye, what you said we have no way to live at all, no, no, I would rather starve to death than be eaten, so I would leave a whole corpse." ”

Before facing absolute death, I am unwilling to maximize the risk, even if Cha Wenbin's inference is correct, the chance of us being able to survive by jumping will not exceed 30%.

"You're willing to gamble?" I asked Cha Wenbin.

He shook his head, and then fell into deep thought, there is only one life for everyone, it is better to die than to live, I don't think he plans to give his life here.

Time passed minute by minute, I looked at my watch, it was already afternoon, the fat man was washing the floor and sleeping hulala, I quietly looked at the water in a daze, and Cha Wenbin kept throwing stones in place.

"Xiaoyi, I just calculated a hexagram." He said, "The hexagram is auspicious, I don't know if you believe it or not, I feel like we'll be fine." ”

I didn't know if he was comforting me, and I didn't want anything to happen, so I asked rhetorically, "If you were the owner of the tomb, or the designer of this tomb, would you have any intention of letting people out alive?" ”

Cha Wenbin was stunned for a moment, and then I saw him shake his head at me and said, "No......"

"Although I don't know as much as you and the fat man, I know that a tomb is so exquisitely designed, it will definitely not let go of any possibility. So, we're going to die, but it's just a matter of time, right? ”

He looked at me, just stared at me, looked at me and then he smiled, and he asked me, "Are you afraid of death?" ”

My answer was also very direct: "Afraid, of course afraid, who is not afraid of death." ”

"Then I'll tell you, I just lied to you." Cha Wenbin showed me the shape of a few stones on the ground, and then said to me: "I want to comfort you, but you are still a rational person after all, your inference is correct, and those who come here have only a dead end." I did make a divination just now, and I got a hexagram, which is very interesting, and it is almost completely consistent with our current situation. ”

"Explain, Master Cha."

Cha Wenbin drew a diagram on the ground with a stone, the top two horizontals are disconnected, the middle one is connected, and then the third row below is the two disconnected horizontals, he said: "This hexagram is called Kan hexagram, which is the twenty-ninth hexagram in the sixty-four hexagrams, and the hexagram is called: A bright moon shines in the water, only to see the shadow disappearing; The fool should go down to take the wealth, and touch it to the bottom. ”

Cha Wenbin continued: "Kan is water in the gossip, and water is Xuanse, which is also called Xuangua. This hexagram can be interpreted from the hexagram as: There is a road in front that seems to be a road, but it is actually a trap, once you fall into the bottom of the pit, the result is bound to be dangerous. The upper line of this hexagram is water, and the lower line is still water, which is exactly the same situation as we are encountering now. There is water above our heads, and there is water under our feet, but this water is full of dangers, and those who try to go down in vain will die without a whole body. ”

"Can I understand it this way, just now we were on the top, that is, your house here is actually extremely dangerous, the gold and silver treasures in the canal are like the bright moon shining in the water, if we go down like that, we will be eaten clean by a group of fish, and in the end it will naturally be empty."

"Yes, that's what you said."

I reminded, "But Wen Bin, we escaped just now, because we weren't greedy for money, did we?" ”

"We Taoists also have a saying called: The Great Dao is fifty, the Tianyan is forty-nine, and people are one of them. There were originally fifty avenues of heaven and earth, but only forty-nine of them were derived from heaven and earth, so this avenue of heaven was not complete, and everything had a glimmer of life, and we just passed that line. ”

"Then I can pass another line, my grandfather said when I was a child that as long as I grow up and don't go down the wrong path, I will definitely achieve something."

When I said this, Cha Wenbin remembered something, he rummaged in his bag for a while and then said excitedly: "I remember, you still have a baby with me." He carefully opened a layer of cloth, and it turned out to be the compass that my grandfather had left back then.

"If you don't say I've forgotten it, I haven't used it in years." Cha Wenbin stood up and adjusted his breathing, and then put the compass flat on his hand, I glanced at it, the pointer on the compass kept rotating, not fast, but there was no intention of stopping.

Cha Wenbin said to me: "If I have the opportunity to go out, I will definitely study this compass carefully, it has shocked me too much." ”

"It's a rag, and I was almost not used as a cornerstone by my father back then."

"It doesn't have a north and south, and it doesn't rely on a magnetic field, it's completely different from our compass, but it can ask about life and death, you see!"

After speaking, Cha Wenbin stretched out his middle finger into his mouth, and then bit hard, and then he gently squeezed a drop of blood towards the center of the compass, and a magical scene happened, I actually saw that the blood slowly seeped in, and then there was a faint red line on the green compass......