Chapter 248: Nine-Story Demon Tower
After the thumb said this, he looked at Ying Zheng, and then realized that Ying Zheng did not have a head covering.
"Aren't you afraid of the heat here?" Thumb asked, surprised.
"Oh, it's okay, it's about the same temperature here as we have in the Fire Eye there, and the widow doesn't feel too hot." Ying Zheng explained.
"You'd better bring it with you, or it won't be fun if a drop of lava flies in from nowhere and crashes into your face." Wu Chan said with squinted eyes.
"Okay." Ying Zheng knew that he couldn't twist Wu Chan, so he obediently put on the hood.
Thumb didn't seem to want Ying Zheng to see what the ghost hands were doing here, and said directly, "Let's continue to walk forward and take a look at the Fire Eye."
Ying Zheng nodded, followed his thumb into a corridor on the side.
In this corridor, there are two stone pipes that extend forward, and below the pipes are brackets made of steel, which look extremely sturdy.
The further you go, the warmer it gets, the hotter it gets, and the more red the light becomes.
After passing through the corridor and turning a corner, everyone entered a claustrophobic space, strangely speaking, the temperature here was a few points lower than in the corridor, and it didn't feel very hot.
Probably because there were some ice Gu insertions, or ice Gu silks.
In the middle of the ground, there was a circular hole, and a hot red light reflected from below.
This pit is undoubtedly the eye of fire.
Next to the eye of fire, there is a bracket more than a zhang high, several ghost hands are working hard to rotate the wheel axle next to it, and in the eye of fire, there is a stone bucket being lifted away from the mouth of the eye of fire, and then, one of the ghost hands turned the wrench in his hand, and saw that the stone bucket tilted and poured the magma inside into the entrance of the rock pipe.
Needless to say, the bucket of magma that had just been pumped up must have flowed into that pool.
"Stop and rest for a while, and let them replace you." Thumb said.
"Yes." Several of the ghost hands next to the fire eye stopped, adjusted the position of their hoods, and walked down.
"Let's go back and get something to eat." Thumb said.
The ghost hands nodded in unison, and then went back down the corridor.
As soon as he mentioned eating, Ying Zheng suddenly remembered that after walking so far, Wuchan and Zhehuai had not eaten yet.
"You can rest and eat something, too." Ying Zheng looked at Wu Chan and said with concern.
"Don't worry, I'll talk about it after I'll finish watching it with you." Uzen replied.
"Isn't that all there to read?" Ying Zheng said with a smile.
"Done?" Wu Chan wondered, "Didn't you just come in?"
"Well, I'll take a look then." After that, Ying Zheng turned around the fire eye and carefully looked at the equipment used to salvage the magma.
However, there was really nothing unusual about these instruments, the only difference was that their surfaces were coated with the juice spit out by the Ice Gu.
Standing back beside Wu Chan, Ying Zheng said, "I've finished reading it this time."
Wuzen: "......"
I walked for most of the day, and I watched it for less than half an hour.
But yes, the space around this fire eye was not large, except for the whole group of instruments and tools that made the dense stone, and then there were people.
As for the fire eye, Ying Zheng has not only seen it many times, but also gone in to take a bath.
"Then let's go outside and rest for a while." Thumb said.
"Okay."
The three of them followed their thumbs back down the corridor and came to a relatively separate room with a door.
"This is where the ghost hands rest, so you can eat something and drink some water." Thumb said as he brought over two bags, both of which were filled with food.
Wu Chan seemed to be hungry, and the time had already passed noon, not to mention that he had walked such a long way, so he ate it in large gulps.
The food here is based on beef
Dried and dried mutton are the mainstays, and Yingzheng also eats them.
"That's right, Wuzen, since it's exquisite
The city is already solid, so why do you continue to build so many dense stones?" Ying Zheng asked the doubts in his heart.
Wu Chan swallowed the dried mutton in his mouth and then said, "To say that this secret stone has been refined for thousands of years, it has almost never been interrupted. Because we have to continue to cultivate ghost hands to inherit the mantle, practicing here in the Fire Eye is the best way to teach it."
"Oh, yes." Ying Zheng nodded, "Where are the dense stones used?"
"Hehe, it's nothing to tell you." Wu Chan said with some pride, "Under the Elite City, there is actually an almost identical castle, where the treasures accumulated over the years are stored, and then there is the treasury, and in addition to food and ordnance, the rest of the treasury is these secret stones."
"If there is a war, those dense stones will be enough to strengthen the defenses of the Absolute City exponentially."
Indeed, in the current situation, it seems that it is not safe to build the treasury anywhere, unless it is built under the castle.
"Then why don't you use these dense stones elsewhere?" Ying Zheng then asked, "For example, just like me, if you build a royal tomb or something, it's not bad to use it to build a pass."
"There is an ancestral tomb made of dense stone." Wu Chan said, "However, it is certainly not as majestic as the royal tombs of Huaxia. By the way, what is your royal tomb in Huaxia? According to legend, it is called the "Nine-Story Demon Tower"?"
"Nine-story Demon Tower?" The corners of Ying Zheng's mouth twitched twice, "Who got the name?"
Wu Chan's jade hand lightly covered his lips, and said with a smile: "Who else, of course, is the exquisite people who participated in the construction of the royal tomb before, after they came back from Huaxia, they left this statement, but over the past few hundred years, it has become more and more divine, and the more exaggerated it is."
Ying Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "That royal tomb, there are indeed nine layers, and I have only entered the fourth layer at present, and if you want to enter there, you must go back with the secret stone."
"Is there really nine floors?" Wu Chan's eyes widened, and he said with undiminished interest, "Isn't there a lot of deadly mechanisms in there, and there are also labyrinths that you can't get out of once you enter?"
"Yes, yes." Ying Zhengdao.
"Isn't that the Demon Tower?!" Wu Chan pouted and said, "If you go in, you won't die, it's the Demon Tower!"
Ying Zheng: "......"
Zhehuai also helped on the side: "Patriarch, it seems that those ancient legends are true, Huaxia really has a nine-story demon tower, and we are now helping King Qin build a nine-story demon tower."
"yes." Wu Chan straightened his face and said, "Let's help King Qin build the Nine-Story Demon Tower, isn't that adding to our own sins. No, no, no, this secret stone can't be sent, and no one can send it."
Ying Zheng snorted, but was laughed angrily: "Since ancient times, if there are tombs that are built better, or where more burial goods are placed, which one has not installed a large number of organs, if you don't do this, won't it encourage the arrogance of tomb robbers, and the momentum of tomb robbing will only become more and more rampant."
"Besides, even if you enter the Ninth Floor Royal Tomb, you don't necessarily have to get out, and you don't necessarily have to die inside. I've been in there many times, and you see, I'm not in good hands."
"Moreover, in order to enter the royal tomb, you need to have a special key, and with this key, you can naturally enter and enter freely. But without this key, you can't even get through the door, and it's hard to die inside."
Wu Chan blinked his eyes with a slight blue brilliance, pondered some truth in what Ying Zheng said, and said, "That's right, that royal tomb is made of dense stones, and it must be extremely strong, even if the tomb robber is very capable, it is very difficult to get in, so why die tragically inside?"
"King Qin is right." Thumb said beside him, "If this royal tomb only guards against thieves and not against its own people, then it can't be called a demon
Tower, or, just in the eyes of thieves, see it as a demon tower. Just like putting a wicked person in prison, he will only think that it is a cage, and he will not think that it is a protection for other people."
The thumb is worthy of being the leader of the ghost hand, and the problem is still more thorough.
Wu Chan smiled and said
"Even if you don't call it a demon tower, it must be extremely mysterious and weird inside."
Ying Zheng nodded and said, "That's right, the widow has gone in so many times, and he hasn't figured out a lot of the roads, and the seniors don't seem to plan to reveal too much, so most of the things about building the royal tomb are taken care of by him."
"He doesn't teach you? Why?" Uzen asked.
"Because I am the last successor of Huaxia, and this royal tomb is also the last nine-story royal tomb built in Huaxia." Ying Zheng did not mention the word "Tiancheng".
"Oh? Really?" The three elite people present asked almost in unison.
"Nature is true." Ying Zheng said, "Since it is the last one, isn't it the same result for me to learn or not?"
"If that's the case, after the refinement, you don't need to send someone to Huaxia." Thumb muttered to himself.
"If this is the case, one of the great achievements of China will be lost." Zhehuai muttered in a low voice.
"If that's the case, that's a pity." Wu Chan also sighed.
The three people have different positions, so they naturally have different views.
"What is a pity?" Ying Zheng didn't seem to hear the words of the two men, only Wu Chan's words got into Ying Zheng's ears.
"It's a pity......" Wu Chan paused before saying, "It's a pity that I still want to ask Brother Ying for advice, and I also learned from Brother Ying to build a nine-story royal tomb and move all the ancestors and ancestors into this royal tomb."
"Alas! Since Brother Ying can't learn it, he can only forget it."
Wu Chan's face suddenly showed a lost expression.
"Who says you can't learn?" Ying Zheng immediately said, "If the widow wants to learn, the seniors will definitely teach me, even if I can't learn, my craftsmen will definitely ah, when the time comes, the widow will call them to help you, and the problem will be solved."
"Really?" Wu Chan's brow moved.
"Naturally, it's true, we are the monarchs of the two countries, how can we joke." Ying Zheng said very seriously.
"Hehe, if it's really as Brother Ying said, then Wuchan will thank you first." Wu Chan said with a smile.
"But ......," Ying Zheng hesitated.
"But what?" Uzen asked.
"But this time, the widow must first bring some ghost hands and ice Gu back before they can build the royal tomb." Ying Zheng said, "If you can't build your own royal tomb, how can I teach you to build a tomb?"
"That's easy." Thumb patted his chest, and said admittedly, "Since my king wants to build a superb royal tomb, it is naturally a great matter of refinement, and as a courtier, he will definitely give his full support, and this trip to Daqin, Thumb will go in person."
"Hahaha!" Ying Zheng laughed and said, "This is great, presumably in the process of building the mausoleum, Uncle Thumb will be able to learn almost everything."
"Yes, with Uncle Thumb out of the horse, this will be done." Wu Chan said, "However, Brother Ying, you just said that you need a special key to enter the royal tomb, so it's not difficult to get the key, right?"
"It shouldn't be difficult." Ying Zheng said, "The key is called the Xuantie Snail, it is made of Xuantie, I brought it on this trip, and when you return to the camp, you can take a look first."
"That's great." Wu Chanyue said with a slight smile on her eyebrows.
"Oh, by the way, when I entered the city, I bought an object from a Khotanese stall, which looked very much like the black iron snail of the widow, but it was old and mixed with the rocks."
"Oh? It's kind of interesting." Wu Chan put down the beef jerky in his hand, got up and said, "I'm full, let's go, let's go back and have a look."