Chapter 24: The Search
This gap in the mountains was the place where Nie Lin and Gu Menghan passed when they fell, but after they released a large amount of stagnant water in the mountains through a passage to the red gold vein, a large amount of stagnant water had accumulated here, and it was still very deep, so they could only use a raft to move forward.
Looking at the large number of corpses here, Liu frowned and said, "Such a large number of corpses and bones are simply unprecedented, unless this is the site of an ancient battlefield or a large tomb!"
Yang Zonglin stroked his beard and said: "It's too early to say this, the gap between the mountains is getting narrower and narrower the further you go, and the water is deeper, but there is no fork on both sides, if there is no way up in front, ordinary people fall, only if they are trapped here, there will be a large number of bones here, and it is possible that they will fall unintentionally, but the old man guesses that there should be ancient ruins in front, and the number of bones of so many people will accumulate so much in at least thousands of years, right?"
Liu was stunned, but he was thinking in his heart that if Nie Lin's child fell, even if the water was a little deep, they would not be trapped here, maybe they would be trapped inside and needed us to rescue them.
Thinking like this, he said to Liu Chengfeng, who was strutting the pole: "Hurry up, it's been a long time, and I don't know what happened to that child!"
When Liu Chengfeng heard this, he and Liu Chengang quickly supported the raft and rowed forward.
It's just that when they came to the depths of the gap, the raft could no longer pass, Liu Chengfeng was about to take off his shoes and go into the water, Liu Yichen was meticulous, pointing to the traces on the mountain wall and said: "Look at the traces in front, they should look like they were newly carved, indicating that someone has climbed through these grooves here!"
After Yang Zonglin looked over, he didn't look at the trace, but looked at the stone, and couldn't help but exclaim, "How can there be so many Chidian stones?"
After that, he suddenly glanced at Liu Jingtao, and the two of them said in unison: "There is a red gold vein!"
"Cheng Ang, you follow the traces and go up and have a look first!"
Liu Chengang nodded, because he was a sword hero and his strength was strong, so he took advantage of the groove to go up to the platform of the incision, looked left and right, and said downward: "Fourth Uncle and Uncle Yang Shi, come up, this is an abandoned ore vein passage!"
"Abandoned ore veins!" Yang Zonglin sighed helplessly, a little disappointed, so he asked a few juniors to go up first, and after fixing the raft, he and Liu were shocked.
Because the passage was disconnected from the middle, the east and west, and the group also entered the passage at the west end first, and after some exploration, they came to the end of the passage that was sealed, and also found the bones of those wearing silver silk soft armor and several carts of red gold ore.
However, looking at the red gold ore, Yang Zonglin and Liu Jingtao glanced at each other, and after the two sides cast a knowing look, they asked the juniors to pick up a few rotten and broken swords and a few pieces of silver silk soft armor, as well as the destroyed miner's lamp, etc., and put them away, waiting to go back to study.
Then they came to the passage on the east side, and after discovering some red gold ore that had not yet been mined, Liu said in surprise: "Although the amount of these red gold ores is relatively small, but all of them are mined, at least hundreds of thousands of taels of red gold can be refined, Lao Yang, even if we can't explore the actual things this time, it's just the relics left by the Weiyang Empire, and these red gold ores, even if we can't get the treasures on the snow mountain this time, we haven't come in vain!"
Yang Zonglin nodded, and then said to the people behind him: "The matter here must be kept secret, and you must not disclose it to anyone after you go back, the value of these red gold ores is enough to equal the total income of our Yangliu family for decades!"
At this time, Liu Chengfeng shouted on the side: "Father, Uncle Yang Shi, is there still a passage here?"
Everyone came to the bottom of the wall door again, and without thinking too much, they climbed to the upper passage, and after some exploration, except for those bones, they did not find Nie Lin's figure here, but at the end of the road, there was a place where the hall was completely sealed, Liu exclaimed: "There are mechanisms in this cave hall, but they have been destroyed, and these boulders have completely sealed this cave hall, and if you want to open it, I am afraid that it will not be possible in three years!"
Liu Yichen followed behind Liu Jingtao, looked around carefully, picked up a broken sword from the ground, and said, "This sword is new, there are no traces of corrosion and damage, could it be left by Nie Lin?"
After Liu Jingtao took it, his expression suddenly changed, and he said: "This is exactly the Xuanhuo Sword that the old man rewarded Hu'er half a year ago, and then Hu'er gave it to Nie Lin, but this sword was broken by a very powerful sword qi piercing through the sword body, they must have touched some mechanism!"
"This place is blocked, there is no other way out, all the passages are not open, where will this child go, will it be ......" Yang Zonglin said.
"Impossible!" Yang Yuxiao, who had been silent, suddenly shook his head and said: "Since Nie Lin can find the stone wall that leads here, then with his wisdom, he will definitely find other mechanism passages, even if there is an accident, we only find the last clue left by him here, then it means that there must be other roads behind this sealed cave hall!"
Liu said in shock: "Then it depends on whether Cheng Ang and Shi'an have found anything in the passage on the other side, let's go to the staircase and meet them!"
The cave hall was blocked, and several people had to return again, and they waited at the stairs for a while, and saw Yang Shi'an and Liu Chengang returning a little embarrassed.
Yang Zonglin saw that Yang Shi'an was still a little injured, and said suspiciously: "Shi'an, what happened in the passage over there, why are you injured!"
Yang Shi'an smiled bitterly and said: "The surroundings at this end are also like a labyrinth, but they are all mineral vein passages, we encountered a mechanism in the innermost cave hall, the mechanism is like a sword array, the sword light that blooms vertically and horizontally is very strong, we don't notice, we suffered a little injury, it may be because of the age, the machine sword array lasted for a while, and it lost its effectiveness, we investigated it again, and found nothing!"
Yang Zonglin said again: "Is there any unmined red gold ore there?"
"A little, but ......not much"
Bang!
Just when Yang Shi'an had not yet spoken, there was a sudden roar in the mountain at this time, and there was a shaking around, Liu Jingtao felt that something was wrong, so he immediately ordered: "Go down quickly, return the same way, don't delay for a moment!"
In the midst of that roaring sound, Yang Zonglin and Liu Jingtao first asked the juniors to quickly return to the passage below, and when they went down, they suddenly saw that the door under the stairs was closing, and they didn't dare to delay, so they jumped directly and jumped down to the passage below.
It was only after they had jumped down that there was a loud bang and a sound of crashing waves in the passage, and when the wall door at the staircase of the lower passage was halfway closed, a stream of water poured down from it like a flood.
However, although the water was turbulent, it did not prevent the wall door from closing, and in less than a moment, the wall door slowly closed, and the small column of water that was spewing out like a pinhole also quickly stopped.
Liu Jingtao and Yang Zonglin were wet all over, the two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and they didn't dare to stay in the bottom passage, so they quickly returned to the incision, went down to the raft, and returned the same way.
After that, the people of the Liu Yang family continued to stay in the Sword Beast Village as if nothing had happened, and took their children to test in the forest every day, focusing on the surrounding area at the foot of the mountain.
It's just that people don't know that on the way back to the north, several fast horses are like galloping arrows, and they rush away with secret letters.
And the tomb of Grandpa Hu'er was also circled by the Liuyang family according to the highest specifications of the traditional tomb, planning to build a cemetery here for Nie Lin's grandfather, even if someone finds it here, but when they see the notice of the Liuyang two enclosure cemetery, they will naturally leave with interest.
They don't know that behind this cemetery, there is a thousand-year-old mineral deposit.
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