Chapter 20: The Secret Passage at the Bottom of the Well

As soon as I heard it, I knew it was the fat brother's voice, and I hurriedly said: "Don't make trouble, dead fat man, if you have something to say, go back to the house and say, it will be drenched outside for a while." ”

At this time, the light of a mobile phone turned on, and Lu Shan said to me according to her face: "I can't go back to the room, they have drugged the tea, and if I fall asleep tonight, my life will be in danger." ”

I said, "Is it going down in the middle of the night?" The temple doors were closed, and they found out that we were going to run, and it was time to come hard. ”

The fat brother said firmly: "Go down the well." ”

When I heard it, I thought it was ridiculous, "Didn't you become a turtle in an urn?" Where are you going? ”

Sister Hua hurriedly said: "Don't grind, you'll know when you go down." ”

So the four of us, around and around came to the well, the well was obliquely inserted two, the fat brother they just put here the big bamboo pole, the three of us went down the well first, the fat brother cushioned behind.

When I went down to the bottom of the well, I found that under our feet was a well bottom similar to a large grinding plate, with a circular depression in the middle and a hole in the middle. Around the stone plate at the bottom of the well, there are still a lot of small holes with the thickness of a thumb, and I don't know what to do with it.

The wall of the well is bulging outward, that is to say, the wellhead and the bottom of the well are small, the more to the center of the wall of the well, the larger the radius, without these two bamboo poles want to climb the wall of the well, it is almost impossible.

Sister Hua asked us to stand against the wall of the well, then put away the two bamboo poles and put them on the side of the wall of the well, and said, "It's coming." ”

Then the fat guy fell like a big rock.

I only heard a bang, and I felt a vibration under my feet, and the bottom of the well under our feet actually sank by 30 centimeters. Some water oozed from the holes around the bottom of the well, and in the middle hole, a 30-centimeter thick iron needle was pierced.

At the moment when the bottom of the well sank, a small door slid open to the side of the wall of the well, which seemed to be sealed without sealing.

There is a secret passage, I didn't say a word, so I took the lead in getting in, followed by Lu Shan, Sister Hua, and finally the fat brother who came in.

The cross-section of the passage is a rectangle two people wide and half a person high, and at the foot is a slope that is flanked by two trough-like structures that extend into the well, which have been damaged.

We put the bamboo pole and lay it down in the secret passage diagonally, and then marched inward, this height can still be fast in half-squatting, but the fat brother is a little harder. The higher you go up the top of the cave, the shorter it becomes, and in the end, Sister Hua can only take off her backpack and crawl forward with us, about ten meters away, we get out of the hole, and the three of us have a lot of effort to pull the fat brother out.

Sitting on the ground, Lu Shan took a picture of the surroundings with her mobile phone, and we came to another large space, which seemed to be a tunnel with a small inclination and could almost be ignored, but there were many of them here, and it was no problem for the fat brother's car to drive in and go straight.

The clothes of the four people were completely unreadable, and they were drenched in the rain and wiped the floor, and at this time they were already wolves.

I pointed in the direction of the uphill slope and said, "You should be able to get out if you go up, and you will definitely go deeper and deeper if you go down." ”

The three of them agreed with me and nodded together. They helped each other to their feet, and walked uphill, and after not going far, they vaguely saw a light in front of them, and after walking a few steps, they found that there was a groove in the wall at the top that protruded outward, and I saw that the light was coming in through the carved holes.

Take a closer look, this groove, isn't it the two mahogany boxes in the host room, it turns out that the mahogany box of the host has no back plate, and the back is this tunnel, it seems that the old monk Deshun is indeed tired, he can get into this tunnel by opening the cabinet.

We had to turn back and leave, and we couldn't get out of here. I regretted it for a while, I listened to the fat brother's descent from the mountain, how good it would be to come again tomorrow, curiosity kills the cat, this sentence is really true.

Went forward and walked about fifty meters away, it was the end, there was a dead end in front, there was a sealed stone room on the right turn, the stone room was not big, it was three times three square, there was a stone mill plate supported by a stone pillar in the middle, it could not be rotated, nothing special.

Seeing that there was no road ahead, everyone was discouraged, and I said: "It's better to wait for tomorrow daylight, let's find an opportunity to get out of the old monk's box, and there are many people in the front hall, and they can't do anything to us, it's a big deal to call the police." ”

Lu Shan held the mobile phone with weak lights and almost out of battery and said: "There is no police here, there is no signal at all, you have to go out." ”

I found a place to sit against the wall, and the fat brother and Lu Shan also sat left and right, and Sister Hua reluctantly kicked the stone plate, and also came over and sat next to the fat brother.

I said: "This should be an ancient building of the Qing Dynasty, in the past, in order to prevent the theft of underground tunnels or tombs, mercury or iron slurry would be poured into the outer layer of the blue bricks, which also had the effect of reinforcement and moisture-proofing, and of course, it could also block the signal." ”

Lu Shan turned off the mobile phone light, and the stone room was instantly submerged in darkness. Wet, cold and dark, everyone shrunk into a ball and clinged closely, and Lu Shan was obviously tighter than the fat brother. But it's too dark in here, and I'm going to see what she thinks, so I'll leave it up to her.

I first asked the three of them, "What happened during the time I entered the host room?" ”

The fat brother said: "Your sister Hua told me, you let the two of us check this well, how can we check it if we don't come down?" I took advantage of the darkness to find two bamboo poles from the monk's backyard, and the first time I came down, I found that there was a mechanism under my feet, and the iron rod had cut my leg. ”

I asked again, "What's the deal with the medicine in the tea?" ”

Lu Shan patted me and said, "You forgot what I studied, a top student in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of a regular medical university." When I was about to pour water into the teapot, I opened the lid of the teapot and saw that there were not only tea leaves in the teapot, but also powder. ”

Then, I told the other three about the conversation in the host room, and then handed the red cloth bag to Sister Hua and put it in my backpack.

After summarizing the clues of all of us, the conclusion is this: The monks in the temple, maybe only the monk Deshun, most of them want to get something from this secret room, or they are guarding a secret here, and they are definitely not accompanying any stone beast to take care of the treasure, otherwise they will not give it to me lightly. Whether it is the monk of the whole temple or only one person who presides, they must not have gotten what they want, otherwise they would have abandoned the temple long ago.

This well must have been built by the ancients, and the structure of the mechanism under the well is obviously a lost ancient method, and the design craftsman is certainly not an ordinary person. The stone disc that can be sunk at the bottom of the well is a hollow disc with small holes below, the holes on the top are slightly larger and intricately arranged, and the bottom of the stone plate is water, and there is an iron needle in the middle. When a huge weight squeezes the disc at the bottom of the well, the water squeezes out of the hole, and then the disc sinks, revealing the thick iron needle, and the mechanism opens. The iron needle is getting thicker and thicker, and the stone disk is stuck at a certain depth, so that the gravity generated by the water entering the hollow stone disk is less than the buoyancy of the stone disk, and the stone disk can still float after the pressure leaves, of course, in the case of water in the well, this mechanism can only be used once, and now because the well water is close to drying up, it can be used repeatedly.

On a rainy night fifteen years ago, someone must have activated this mechanism with a heavy object, and the iron needle attracted a thunderbolt, which shattered the stone beast's ghost eye through the stone beast, and also damaged the water tank leading to the bottom of the well in the secret passage, causing the well water to dry up.

The wisdom of the ancients simply amazed me, the reasonable use of hydraulic switch technology, not only thought of the thunder anti-theft, but also the angle of the stone beast's ghost eye, calculated so accurately, the passing thunder and lightning can just hit that point, to outsiders caused the illusion of the beast being robbed by the thunder.

But why did the ancients build such a large underground tunnel, is it just to hide the bottom of the pot? And what exactly do the monks in the temple want from here? Why did Boss Zhou hide it, were his three friends killed by the monk, or did they also enter here? It's all unknown.

I can still vaguely hear the sound of rain outside, don't think about it, and then find a way to ask all the words of Lao Zhou and the host after going out, at least we have to clean them up, otherwise our sins will be in vain today.

The four of them gradually became sleepy, and there were fewer words, and when I was drowsy, I only heard Sister Hua's voice, which startled me.

The three of us hurriedly asked Sister Hua what was wrong?

Sister Hua said in a terrified tremolo: "Hand, that's a hand." ”