Chapter 42: Exploring the Treasure Tower at Night
The guards of the building are very strict, and breaking in from the outside must be directly inside to save trouble, so Huo Jiulin did not propose to leave, and Lou Yuzhi did not urge him at all.
In the afternoon, Su Lubai came to visit, Huo Jiulin asked him to go out to help prepare some tools and night clothes to be used, and in the dead of night in the middle of the night, he changed into night clothes to avoid the guards and went to the treasure house.
The vicinity of the treasure building was still empty, unguarded, and it seemed to be lit with candles inside, and it was very bright. He followed the route he had taken during the day and crossed the stone road to the entrance of the treasure building, although Lou Yuzhi said that there was no mechanism for entering the gate, but Dieling Lingcao was on the sixth floor, and there would definitely be a lot of mechanisms on this to the fifth floor.
Huo Jiulin walked around the treasure building, there was a string of bells hanging on the eaves of each floor of this building, and there was a bamboo forest on the back side, it was estimated that it was not easy to be found, he took out the prepared rope with hook and claw, shook it a few times in his hand and threw it up, successfully avoiding the bell hanging on the eaves of the third floor, and waited for a while without touching the mechanism, and then borrowed the power of the rope to use light power to jump up.
And so on, and soon reached the sixth floor, but Huo Jiulin found that there were no windows on the sixth floor at all, so there was no way to go in, so he had to go up one floor, push open the window by the window on the seventh floor, throw a stone into it, and see that there was no mechanism before the window turned in.
After entering, I found that the reason why it was so bright was not because of the candles, but because there were night pearls placed in each corner, and the seventh floor was empty, only a few night pearls for lighting.
Sneered, it is estimated that in Lou Wancheng's eyes, this night pearl is not a treasure, at best it is just a candle, he carefully observed the surroundings and the roof, and did not see where to place the mechanism.
Using the method of throwing stones to explore the way, he slowly moved to the staircase, and just wanted to go down, he heard a very slight sound, Huo Jiulin turned around to avoid it, and at the same time rushed to a gust of wind.
He waited for a while but found nothing, and walked over cautiously, always feeling that something seemed wrong, something was clearly passing by just now, but he couldn't see it?
Recalling the position he was standing just now, he squatted nearby and carefully checked the ground, only to find that there seemed to be dozens of silver needles pierced on the floor, thinner than embroidery needles, so he couldn't find it if he didn't look carefully.
"I don't know how I died, it's really ruthless."
He couldn't help but exhale, avoiding those silver needles and walking down the stairs, as Lou Yuzhi said, as soon as he reached the sixth floor, the smell of medicine came to his nose.
Like the seventh floor, there is also a night pearl lighting here, the columns inside can be seen clearly, surrounded by lattice-like wooden shelves, each grid has a brocade box inside, not to mention one or two hundred, if you look for it one by one, it is estimated that you have to find the dawn.
There is a wooden table in the middle, on which are placed three brocade boxes, and in the middle of the air there is also a brocade box hanging, since there are only three butterfly grass in the world, so it must be very precious, will it be placed alone?
Huo Jiulin walked towards the wooden table in the middle, and when he was about to get closer, some darts suddenly shot out from the wooden shelves on the left and right, he stepped on the wooden table and turned over to avoid it, and grabbed the box in the middle by the way.
As soon as his feet landed, the plank under his feet opened, and he fell down in a hurry, and in a panic, he ran with the nine-claw hook in his hand, and buckled it to the wooden table leg before barely hanging it.
I feel like I'm hanging in mid-air, it stands to reason that it should be between the sixth and fifth floors, but the problem is that it's pitch black, isn't there a night pearl on the fifth floor?
"Shhhh Hiss ......"
Suddenly there were hissing sounds below, Huo Jiulin felt that his scalp was a little numb, if he guessed correctly, it was estimated that there were all snakes below, but now it was deep winter, what method did they use to keep snakes from hibernating?
He followed the rope back to the ground on the sixth floor, fortunately with the hook rope, otherwise it would have been a poisonous snake's belly by now.
He weighed the brocade box in his hand, and then remembered that he didn't know what the butterfly grass looked like, since it was called butterfly grass, it should be a grass, right?
When he opened the brocade box, there was nothing in it, and he looked at it carefully with some surprise, it was actually empty? Looking at the other boxes, are they all empty?
There are so many mechanisms, there is no reason to be empty, he walked over and picked up the other two, opened them and looked at them, and found that they were all empty, and couldn't help frowning, could it be that he really wanted to open all the one or two hundred boxes around him?
I felt a little warm on my shoulder, and I raised my hand to feel the blood in my hand, probably because I had just fallen down and subconsciously pulled the rope with both hands, and the wound was cracked open due to excessive force.
He sniffed the box, and it seemed to have some herb smell, could it be that he had taken it temporarily? The only one who can suspect that he will come to steal is Lou Yuzhi, but he doesn't look like someone who would do such a thing.
If he really wants to deal with himself, he won't say anything during the day, and it is estimated that he will not even be able to enter this building, and even if he does, he will start looking for it from the first floor.
"Is there something strange about this box?"
Fortunately, all three boxes were small, and he put them all in his arms, and then looked up at the box hanging in mid-air above his head, not knowing what would be inside.
He took out a copper coin from his bosom and threw it at the rope on top of the brocade box, the rope was cut, but there were six, and the box only moved slightly.
I wanted to continue to use copper coins, because the direction was different, so I was ready to change a direction, but as soon as I moved to the left, I felt that the floor I stepped on moved, and he subconsciously thought that he was going to fall again, so he quickly jumped away only to find that the floor was just shaking.
Before he could catch his breath, he heard the bell ring throughout the building, and he was startled, because the bell hanging outside had been touched from the inside.
Feeling that there seemed to be footsteps around, it was estimated that the guards in the mansion rushed over when they heard the sound, Huo Jiulin twisted his eyebrows and looked at the box hanging on it, it was estimated that he didn't have time to take it.
Turning around and preparing to leave through the window, as soon as he touched the window, a powder sprayed out, he leaned back, there was wind behind him, and he didn't have time to look back and lay on the ground, and a few short arrows flew from above, and he was on the wooden frame in front of him.
The wooden frame began to move instantly, and for a while the brocade box on the wooden frame was gone, and then there were ten thousand arrows, too many to avoid them all, an arrow on the calf, and a stumbling almost fell back into the snake hole.
The already weak body began to be a little unable to support it, the arrow on the calf must be poisonous, and now the whole leg has no strength, there was a sound of footsteps at the stairs, and seeing that the guards were about to arrive in front of him, Huo Jiulin could only hide behind the cabinet in the corner.
"Let me shut down the mechanism first."
It was actually Lou Wancheng's voice, Huo Jiulin looked out from the crack in the cabinet, and saw that Lou Wancheng was followed by a lot of guards, and there should still be a lot of standing down the stairs.
"Master, the three brocade boxes on the middle table are missing."
"Those three are empty, and if they're gone, they're gone, but it looks like someone did break in, there are no windows, people must still be here, search for me!"
Huo Jiulin was stunned, looked at the window not far away, and then remembered that there were no windows on the sixth floor when he was outside just now, so these windows were all fake? It's just a hook-and-take trap?
The room is not very big in total, so many people will be found after not searching for a long time, Huo Jiulin was thinking about how to rush out, Lou Wancheng suddenly summoned two guards and pointed in the direction where Huo Jiulin was hiding.
"Take a look behind the cabinet over there, I don't believe he can disappear out of thin air!"
Huo Jiulin watched the two guards slowly approach, he took out two copper coins from his arms, and he could only restrain these two first, and then kill them.
It's just that now this body, I don't know how long it can last, it seems that I may have to fold here tonight, I didn't get the butterfly grass, and I don't know what will happen to Wuye's side.
didn't have time to think about it, Huo Jiulin used force in his hand, but before the copper coin was thrown, he heard a sound next to him, and everyone's attention was attracted to it, and they looked over there vigilantly one by one.
"Don't hide, come out, do you think my treasure building is paper-paste? You have some skills if you can come in, but don't think about going out when you come in! ”
Everyone stared closely at the cabinet over there, and the first thing they saw was white shoes, and they slowly looked up, and after seeing the faces of the people who came out, everyone froze.
"Young Master?"
"Given? How did you end up here? ”
Lou Wancheng didn't expect to see his son here, he thought it was some kind of thief who came in, Lou Yuyi walked in front of Lou Wancheng calmly.
"Daddy."
"You don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing here? Did you touch the ringtone just now? ”
"Yes."
"Why don't you tell me if you want to come to the treasure house to get something? It won't happen if I'm with you, do you know that the mechanism here is dangerous. ”
"Dad, didn't you let me go up to the sixth floor?"
"Then you're sneaking in?"
"I want to come and get some medicinal herbs back to the medical hall, there is a patient who is very difficult to treat recently, and he lacks a few more precious medicinal herbs."
"Then you can just tell me."
"I see that my father is usually very nervous on the sixth floor, I'm afraid you won't be happy."
"You are my son, you just came to get some medicinal herbs, how could I disagree, I will find you what herbs you want."
Lou Yuzhi nodded yes, and then said the names of the two medicines, Lou Wancheng took two boxes and handed them to him after restoring the lattice wooden frame to its original state.
"By the way, the three boxes in the middle are empty, I put them on purpose, you can put them back."
"I'm sorry, Dad, those three boxes just fell into the snake hole."
"That's it, it's okay, I'll get three more when I go back, go back, I'm not hurt, right?"
"Nope."
"Remember to tell me what you want next time, don't come here alone, the mechanism here is very dangerous, Dad is for your good."
"Okay."
It didn't take long for them to leave, and Huo Jiulin behind the cabinet breathed a sigh of relief, but after thinking about it, although he escaped, he didn't find Butterfly Lingcao, how would he go to see Wuye later?
What's more important is that he didn't get the butterfly lingcao, does it mean that Shen Yiqing still has to use his own method? I always feel that I have to get it tonight anyway!