The fat man stared at the waterhole for a while, and suddenly asked me in a low voice, "Boss, let's ...... Do you have to dive in? "This guy is a landlubber, and I've taken him to the swimming pool to practice over the years, but he has never learned to swim, so he can't help but be a little frightened to learn that the entrance to the secret passage is underwater.

I patted him on the back and comforted, "It's okay, just dive, as long as you bring enough oxygen, diving is much easier than swimming, and I'll cover you when the time comes." ”

Long Jiu, who heard our conversation, turned his head, glanced at Niu Fatzi, and asked, "What?" Isn't this brother still a good swimmer? ”

The fat man nodded immediately.

Long Jiu looked Niu Fat up and down, didn't say anything, but turned his head to Wen Qingshan and asked, "Third Brother Wen, is this brother ......?"

Wen Qingshan hurriedly said: "This is Wen's apprentice, called Niu Jun!" ”

When Long Jiu heard this, a look of surprise appeared on his face: "He is the apprentice of your third brother Wen, he can't swim!?" ”

Wen Qingshan hurriedly explained: "Let the ninth master make you laugh!" My apprentice is a little slower, but his eyesight is outstanding, and he has an unusual talent for antiques, this Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is the Mausoleum of the Emperor of the Ages, I want to take him in to see and see, and the Ninth Master should not object. ”

"You have the final say on who enters the imperial mausoleum, the three brothers! Naturally, I would not object. Speaking of this, Long Jiu suddenly changed his words: "However, he can't swim, and it's probably not easy to get in." ”

Wen Qingshan nodded: "That's true, I didn't expect that the entrance to this secret passage was actually located underwater." ”

Long Jiu pondered for a moment and said, "But it's not in the way, not being able to swim doesn't affect diving, Jian Sheng is a good diver, just let him take care of it at that time." ”

I subconsciously glanced at Long Jiansheng standing behind Long Jiu, he still had an expressionless appearance, coupled with his outfit, he looked like a cold-blooded killer, and I couldn't rest assured that I would hand over the fat man to such a ruthless guy no matter what. But then again, when I get underwater, I can take care of the fat cow, and I don't need this guy at all.

A few of us stared at the waterhole for a while, Wen Qingshan found a few sets of diving suits and oxygen cylinders placed next to the waterhole, turned his head and asked Long Jiu: "Ninth Master, are you planning to visit the Emperor's Mausoleum today?" ”

Long Jiu waved his hand and said, "No, I just want to invite the third brother Wen to go into the water and take a look today, because the entrance to this secret passage has been sealed by some strange vine trees." ”

"Oh!? And this kind of thing! Then I'm going to see it! Wen Qingshan said, and was about to put on a diving suit, but was stopped by Long Jiu, Long Jiu said: "Brother Wen is not in a hurry, we have to wait for one more person." ”

"Anyone else coming? Who is it? Wen Qingshan was a little surprised.

Long Jiu said: "This person is a captain who touches gold, and he can be regarded as a legend, but he has been washing his hands for more than 20 years, if it weren't for the fact that he has an old friend with me, he may not be willing to make a move this time." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, I caught a glimpse of a dark shadow out of the corner of my eye, and I quickly turned my head and shone a flashlight, but I found nothing unusual except for a cluster of bushes swaying in the wind.

I thought I was dazzled, and as soon as I took back the flashlight, Long Jiu smiled at the bush and said, "Since you're already here, why dodge, show up." ”

I couldn't help but be stunned: "What's the situation!?" Is there really someone!? ”

Everyone else was taken aback, and everyone immediately turned their heads to stare at the bush, and after a few moments, a diminutive figure stepped out from behind the bush.

It turned out to be a child, so no wonder I couldn't see it at all when I was hiding behind a bush that was barely a meter high.

I was wondering how there could be a child hiding here at such a late hour, and he opened his mouth to speak, and I couldn't help but be taken aback when I heard the voice, it was completely the voice of an adult man.

I stared at his face again and took a closer look, and then it suddenly dawned on me, what kind of child it was, it was clearly a dwarf!

Long Jiu smiled and said to the dwarf, "You're late. ”

"Hmph, I arrived early, I just didn't show up, who are they!?" The gnome looked at a few of us, his eyes full of wariness.

Long Jiu introduced the dwarf, he pointed at Wen Qingshan and said, "This is the third brother Wen. ”

Wen Qingshan hurriedly hugged his fists at the dwarf and said, "In the following Qingshan, I don't know what Your Excellency calls it." ”

The dwarf didn't pay attention to Wen Qingshan, but stared at Long Jiu and said, "Are they credible?" ”

Long Jiu said, "Don't worry, they have nothing to do with the nine-headed worm. ”

Long Jiu's answer surprised us all, and Wen Qingshan hurriedly asked, "Could it be that this brother has any gap with the nine-headed insect?" ”

The dwarf snorted lightly and said angrily, "My old ghost and the nine-headed insect are incompatible!" ”

When Wen Qingshan heard this, he exclaimed: "It turns out that Your Excellency is the old ghost predecessor called 'three-inch nail' by the people of the rivers and lakes!?" ”

When I heard Wen Qingshan call the dwarf "senior", I couldn't help but feel a little surprised, you know, Wen Qingshan is already a person who is close to the sixtieth year, and the dwarf in front of him does not look very old, at most he looks forty or fifty years old. Although Wen Qingshan may just be a kind word when he calls him a "senior", no matter how polite he is, he will not call a person younger than himself a senior.

The dwarf sneered: "I didn't expect that it has been more than twenty years since I quit the rivers and lakes, and there are still people who remember my name." ”

Wen Qingshan smiled and said: "Hehe, there are Tai Sui hands in the south, and three-inch nails in the north, how can Wen not know." ”

I really didn't expect this dwarf called the old ghost to have a lot of background, but judging from his figure, it is really difficult to associate him with a legendary figure, and the name of "three-inch nail" is worthy of his name. I don't know what is so good about him.

Wen Qingshan asked the old ghost again: "By the way, the old ghost's predecessor just said that he is inseparable from the nine-headed insect, I don't know what is going on?" ”

Without waiting for the old ghost to answer, Long Jiu replied for him on the side: "Back then, the old ghost brother got a magnificent treasure in an ancient tomb in the Tang Dynasty, and in order to take this treasure from his hand, the nine-headed insect not only designed to kill his apprentice, but also placed a golden silkworm Gu in his body. If it weren't for the Divine Doctor Mu Huaichun who opened a hole in his abdomen and forced out the Golden Silkworm Gu in his body with his own liquor, I'm afraid he wouldn't be standing here today. Speaking of this, Long Jiu's words changed: "Let's stop talking nonsense, now that everyone is here, let's start working." ”

Wen Qingshan glanced at the diving suit and oxygen cylinder placed next to the pool, and asked, "Ninth Master, there are only four sets of diving equipment here, but there are eight of us here, which ones does the Ninth Master plan to let into the water?" ”

Long Jiu smiled and said, "In my opinion, it will be born by the three brothers Wen, the old ghost brothers, and the sword, and as for the remaining one, let the three brothers Wen decide." ”

Wen Qingshan turned his head to look at me and said, "Shi Yu, then you can go down with us." ”

I couldn't help it, and I nodded immediately.

Wen Qingshan and Long Jiansheng and I changed into diving suits one after another, and the old ghost was too short to be about ten years old, and the wide diving suit couldn't be put on at all, so he just carried an oxygen tank.

Wen Qingshan took out another rope and fixed one end of the rope to the trunk of a pine tree with a crooked neck next to the waterhole, and several of us grabbed the rope and dived into the water one after another.

Because it has entered the winter, the water in the pool is very cold, at the moment when I just went down into the water, I only felt a biting cold, and I couldn't help but shiver, fortunately, my body was not bad, and I quickly adapted to the cold and biting water temperature, otherwise, I was afraid that I would have to cramp in my legs.

The water is relatively muddy, and the visibility is only five or six meters away at most, with the help of the waterproof miner's lamp worn on my head, I looked down and found that I couldn't see the bottom of the pool at all, and I didn't know how deep the pool was.

Long Jiansheng, who was swimming in the front, led everyone to dive down against the stone wall on the side of the waterfall, and after diving for about two or three meters, the entire stone wall was sunken inward.

We swam into the bottom of the depression, Long Jiansheng pointed his hand to the innermost part of the depression, and by the light, I saw that it was full of aquatic plants that were almost more than a foot long, and through the dense aquatic plants, a stone cave about two meters directly could be seen. However, the entrance to this cave is obscured by some dense vine-like objects, and if you want to swim in, you must first clean these tendons.

Long Jiansheng made a gesture to everyone, as if to tell us that this stone cave is the entrance to the secret passage into the Imperial Tomb.

We swam to the cave, and I stared at the vines up close, and saw that they were about the thickness of my thumb, blood-red, densely packed like a net, covering the entire cave entrance tightly.

I looked around again, and I couldn't help but wonder a little, because I found that there were no other places on the stone wall except for the cave in front of me, and it felt as if they had grown out of the cave.

Out of curiosity, I stretched out my hand to touch these rattan objects and feel them, but who knew that the moment my hand touched the rattan object, my palm was immediately entangled by the rattan object, I couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly pulled my hand back hard, but I didn't expect that not only could not pull out the hand, but those rattan things seemed to be stimulated by something, and quickly spread along my arm, but in a blink of an eye, my whole arm was entangled.

I was stunned for a moment, and suddenly I thought of a terrifying evil creature that I had encountered at the entrance of the Evil Stone Tomb before—the Blood Vine!

The blood vine looks like a plant, but it has certain animal characteristics, somewhat similar to the legendary man-eating vine, which will attack a creature that is close to it and feed on the essence blood of the creature.