Chapter 10 Open the stone valve

The next day, everyone gathered at the pavilion early, ready to set off for the second place of the crime - Shungeng Mountain by the Huai River.

Although I passed by Shungeng Mountain yesterday, I didn't see any robbery cave tombs. Today, the guide took everyone to wind up until they reached the palm-shaped peak, only to see that there was a hole between one finger peak and another finger peak.

Palm Fox and Zhao Luo looked inside the cave for a while, but they couldn't see the depth. Someone picked up a stone and threw it in, but there was no echo, and several more pieces were thrown in succession, and after a while the sound of stones being slammed was heard. It seems that this hole is really not shallow.

Palm and two of his subordinates went down to explore the cave. The two tied long ropes around their waists, changed into soft-soled boots, carried tool bags, and went down the hole along the hole. The crowd waited nervously above. After about two pillars of incense, the rope was tightened and loosened and tightened, and this was repeated twice, indicating that the two had gone down to the bottom. The palm of the hand looked at the palm hat, waiting for the order, whether to let everyone go down. Palm hats nodded. This time, the palm of the hand went down with four people. After a while, the rope tightened and loosened again.

Zhangli asked Wang Shao and Zhao Qi to stay at the entrance of the cave, and he took four more people down the cave. Wang Shao refused, and he must go down with him. The palm hat glanced at him expressionlessly, and Wang Shao was a little timid and didn't insist anymore.

The hole was indeed very deep, and the group grabbed the rope and slid down a little bit, and when they reached the bottom, the light of the torches was already on, and then they were dragged by someone, and everyone landed safely. The scene under the cave amazed everyone, and it was a very spacious cave. The belly of this Shun ploughing mountain turned out to be empty.

By the light of the torches, everyone looked around the cave, cold and damp, and there were three openings that stretched out into the endless darkness. Which one to choose? Zhangli regretted a little that he didn't let Wang Shaozhao get up. Palm Fox seemed to see his thoughts, and whispered, "Young Master, shall I pick them up?" Palm Hat hesitated, not only wanting them to give advice next to him, but also not wanting them to take risks together. Seeing that he didn't answer, the palm turned around and swooped up the rope, and jumped up more than a foot high in a few steps. Palm's mouth opened, but he decided to let him go. After a while, the three of them came down. As if on purpose, Wang Shao brushed past the palm hat and gently bumped him. He and Zhao Qi carefully inspected the three holes, exchanged a few words, selected a hole, and beckoned everyone: "Go this way." According to the rules, the two of them were still left behind, and the rest of the people followed the two of them to the depths of the cave. This time, he didn't ask why he chose this path.

After walking for a short time, they faintly heard the sound of the water, as if there was a dark river, and sure enough, a very thin stream appeared in front of them, and everyone continued to move along the stream, but the flowing water disappeared in front of a stone gate. This is a gate-shaped girder gate.

"Dead end?" Palm held a torch and shone on the stone gate, looking at Zhao Qi in surprise. Obviously, Zhao Qi and Wang Shao didn't expect to choose a dead end. Everyone had to go back the same way, but the other two roads were even dead, and the end was completely a stone wall. The third time I went back to the starting point, someone started whispering. Wang Shao proposed to let him and Zhao Qi go through the first road again. Palmist nodded and agreed, but asked Palmie to follow with three of his own soldiers. Since the five disappeared at the end of the road, the eyes of the palm have never left the dark intersection.

Time passed little by little, and still no one showed up at the intersection, and there was no sound. Song Cheng came over and asked, "Ya General, do we want to go over and have a look?" Although Zhang Li was also a little disturbed, he still showed his usual calmness on the surface: "Wait and see." His hand clung to the long-sided sword.

Just when everyone was staring intently at the intersection, suddenly they only heard a whistling sound of water, and before they could react, a huge wave rushed out from the depths of the road, and everyone shouted to dodge, and several people had been swept over by the waves. Fortunately, there was only one big wave, and after that the water was much calmer, and after a while everyone was standing knee-high in the water. At this time, a few people stumbled out of the depths of the road, and they saw that Wang Shao was palming them. Song Cheng led someone to greet him, and his palm was relieved.

"What's going on?" Song Cheng asked for everyone. Several people had already turned into soup chickens, wiping the water on their faces while palming them, and said, "The floodgates are open, everyone can go in." "It turned out that after several years of research by several people, I finally found the mechanism to open the stone gate, but as soon as I touched the mechanism, the gate was raised, but I didn't expect that there was water storage, and the water came suddenly, and several people were overturned in the water, but fortunately, they were all still water. However, when they were washed by the waves, they rubbed against the stone wall, and everyone was somewhat bruised.

Song Cheng hurriedly opened the wooden box and took out the medicine powder to help a few people treat their wounds. Zhangli walked over to check, basically all of them were not seriously injured, the most serious was Wang Shao, his arms and knees were already red. Zhangli hurriedly asked people to help Wang Shao, because the cave was full of stagnant water, and the water was slowly rising, and there was no place to sit and rest. Wang Shao said: "Let's move forward as soon as possible, otherwise the water will be deep in a while." So everyone helped each other to go inside.

After passing the gate, because of the drop, the water in it has been much less, and it is still flowing into the hole. Wang Shao's judgment was correct. A steep stone step was displayed in front of him, and seeing Wang Shao limping when he walked, Zhao Qi said: "Be a Cheng, I'll carry you." Wang Shao shook his hand to refuse, and said, "I still have great strength, and I will carry you." He said, "You are all wounded, so just take care of yourself." Saying that, he grabbed Wang Shao's waist with one hand, raised his luck, and flew up the stone steps in a few steps, before everyone could react, the two of them had jumped up the stone steps, and only whispered without looking back: "Keep up." "Everyone hurried up to climb up.

The light skill of the palm hat was also calculated, and in the blink of an eye, he reached the top of the stone steps, and the group behind him was not yet halfway there. He gently put down Wang Shao and whispered in his ear, "Offended." The palm hat helped him find a flat place to sit down, checked the bandaged wound again, and the blood oozed out, and asked, "How do you feel?" Wang Shao shook his head, indicating that it was okay. At this point, he really didn't know what to say, and it was better to pretend to be dumb.