"There's no sunlight here, so there won't be any ghosts entrenched here!" Lin Yue hugged Song Che tightly and hid behind his arms, revealing his two eyes looking around, scared and excited.

Song Che smiled bitterly: "Lin Nuxia, you don't blink your eyes when you kill people, why are you still afraid of ghosts and gods?" Lin Yue said: "What kills the living and what you fear is the dead, what is the relationship between the two?" ”

"Smack." Song Che used a lighter to relight the candle, lit a river lantern, put it back into the water, and then slowly followed it by stretching the wall.

Lin Yue pulled out his sword and used the scabbard to help resist the water, staring at the infinite darkness. After the river lantern drifted for about four or five feet, it went out again, but this time the kayak was close enough to see the reason clearly—there was a slope at the end of the culvert, and the river lantern was not extinguished, but slid down.

There is a sudden drop in the channel, which triggers convection and forms a series of yin winds. Song Che picked up the map, compared it to the firelight for a moment, and said happily: "The composition says that the terrain of Dongcheng is low, and the culvert will sink somewhat, and if you go down the slope for more than ten zhang, you can reach the central pool of Dongcheng, and we should be there soon." ”

"So it's not a ghost blowing the lamp?"

"Motimoti, otherwise I really called Ah Piao." Lin Yue hurriedly covered her mouth.

"Although this slope is not steep, the trend is long, and the flush must be smooth over the years, so we have to build a rope to go down, so it is convenient to come back." Song Che took out the rope and looked at it and thought about how to start-

"Boom!" Lin Yue thrust the sword into the wall, and the sword body entered the wall for three points.

"What do you think of my sword as a stake?"

"Wonderful." Song Che wrapped the rope around the hilt of the sword, held the other end in his hand, the bow of the boat became the stern, and Lin Yue held the oar in his left hand and the hilt of the sword in his right hand.

The kayak slowly slides down the slope. Slipped about twenty feet,

The sound ......of water resounded through the channel, the slope gradually eased, and the channel suddenly opened up. Song Che fastened the rope to the stern of the boat and lit three river lanterns in a row.

The river lantern swayed and slowly drifted into the distance, reflecting the space in front of him in half open - seven or eight culvert drains were pouring into the pool, and the drop was a few feet high.

The central pool is about five zhang square, in the shape of a semi-circular honeycomb, there are four drainage outlets on the left and right sides, and the back is the mouth of the ditch where Song Che slid down, there is a high wall in front, and there is also a ditch mouth under the wall.

Song Che picked up Sinan and proofread the map for a moment, nodded, and pointed to the mouth of the canal ahead: "Go out from here, but it will only flow into the Luohe River in two or three miles, so it can be inferred that the top of our heads should be Luoyang Wharf." ”

"Where is the culvert where the ladies are held? The only thing here is the bricks. Lin Yue wondered. Song Che shook his head,

"No other culverts are depicted on the map, but it is known from the mouths of the Naja family workers that the place where the women were held was converted from a culvert that had been abandoned due to miscalculation of the water level; Even if the culvert is abandoned, its direction will always be wrong, so I dare to conclude that it must be in front of us, and besides, a culvert that has miscalculated the water level must not be low-lying," Speaking of which, he took out two torches from under the kayak, lit them and handed them to Lin Yue, and said with a smile: "Can you help me find a way to plug it into the wall?" ”

"You also brought torches, why didn't you take them out earlier, so that we thought that there was really a ghost blowing the lamp."

"The reason why I only took out the torch now is because the space in the culvert is small, and the burning of the torch consumes air, and now that the space is wide, there is no need to worry."

"Song Che, you are so fine." Lin Yue grabbed the torch, his posture was like a dragonfly dotting water, he stepped over the pool in three or two steps, and then took advantage of the eaves to walk the wall and thrust the torch into the wall!

The light instantly dispelled the darkness, and the appearance of the entire pool was completely revealed-the pool was seven or eight zhang high, and the three walls on the left and right sides and behind were all built of green bricks, and the style was some years old, but the wall in front was made of red bricks, which was obviously new to the other three walls.

Looking at the left side of the pool, there is a staircase embedded in the wall, which is connected to the pool below and the gate at the top. Ladders are built for people to climb, and sluice gates are often used to discharge floodwater.

What is the operation of the ladder to connect to the gate?

"How? Do you see the clues? Lin Yue asked with a torch hanging with one hand and leaning against the wall. Song Che rowed the kayak over and shouted, "You don't have to do acrobatics, come down quickly, I already have a rough idea in my heart." Lin Yue said hello, but just as she was about to leave, she suddenly heard a message from behind the gate

"Click"!

"Woohoo!" A few barking dogs could be faintly heard. Song Che suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly greeted Lin Yue: "Quickly put out the torch!" Jump off! Lin Yue didn't dare to hesitate, pulled out the torch and threw it into the pool, and jumped on the kayak at the same time, Song Che extinguished all the lights, and rowed the kayak down the stairs.

"Bang dang!" The thick floodgates slowly opened.

"Woohoo!" The dog barked nonstop. Two men with torches, leading two big wolf dogs, appeared at the gate tremblingly and listened to their conversation: "Did you hear it wrong? There is a black hole here, where will there be people? ”

"I ...... I heard someone talking, otherwise the dog wouldn't bark so fiercely! ”

"My mother said that animals can see things that people can't see, and in the past, when someone died in every family, the dog would bark in the middle of the night......"

"Don't scare people!"

"Then you go down and have a look!"

"I won't get down! You go first! "Two men, you push me, no one dares to go down the stairs. Song Che and Lin Yue hid in the shadow of the stairs, and the two dead dogs were dragging hard to rush down, if they took the man out of the gate, the two would be exposed.

At a critical juncture, Song Che had a plan, he quietly approached Lin Yue's ear, and gently spit out two words: "Ghost scream." "Lin Yue is a geisha in the Red Mansion, and she is proficient in singing and dancing football, and she is afraid that it will be difficult for her to learn ghost calls.

"Ah......h The empty pool, the gloomy atmosphere, and the sudden call, people with a bad heart are afraid that they will be scared to death directly.

"Oh my mother!"

"I heard that there are often female corpses floating in the culverts, and most of them wander here as ghosts!" The two men dragged the wolf dog and slammed the floodgates!

"Hahaha......" Lin Yue covered his mouth and laughed,

"These two gangsters must have done too much at a loss, and they scared them out of their hands when they called out twice." In this way, everything makes sense, the gate is the one used to drain the culvert before, and the two men can enter and exit freely, which is enough to show that there must be space behind it—the dungeon is behind the gate.

"If you can't guarantee it, they will come back, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go back quickly." ……