Chapter Eighty-Eight: Nangong Tunnel (Part II)
What appeared in front of Xiao Tian and Su Jia was just a blue-gray boulder.
Looking at such a small space, with only a blue-gray boulder in front of him, Su Jia couldn't help but wonder: "That's it?"
"It shouldn'......t be possible," Xiao Tian slowly approached the blue-gray boulder, stared at it and said, "The tunnel that I finally entered, but it turned out to be only such a small space, if there is no mechanism road behind this stone, it would be too unreasonable......" Xiao Tian knocked on the stone again.
Su Jia slowly leaned towards the boulder, and also knocked on the boulder with her hand, patting it, wanting to see what was in it. However, although Su Jia's martial arts are powerful, when it comes to things like secret passages, she is a complete layman. When I studied this, I really had to rely on Xiao Tian.
However, Xiao Tian was also at a loss at this time, and it seemed that he hadn't found any mechanism that could be activated this time.
"How's it going, Ah Tian?" asked Su Jia from the side.
Xiao Tian knocked on the boulder a lot, and his finger bones were red, but he didn't seem to find anything. Xiao Tian turned his head and said with some disappointment: "This stone seems to be quite thick inside, and the structural sound inside is also very even, it doesn't look like there is a secret door...... Unless, the whole stone is a gate. However, no matter how big a person is, I'm afraid they can't remove such a big stone. ”
"I also knocked on it just now, and this stone does seem to be too thick...... Su Jia also said silently.
"Then can you smash this stone?" Xiao Tian thought of Su Jia's martial arts, so he asked, "If it's Jia'er's Soul Breaking Sword Technique, or if it is combined with my Divine Dragon Nine Transformation Sword Technique, is there a way to break this big stone?"
Su Jia looked at the boulder in front of him, shook his head and said: "It's useless, our martial arts are all sword martial arts, and they have no effect on this kind of heavy boulder at all, only a strong palm force or internal force can shake this big stone." But I'm not good at palm technique at all, and the cold spirit magic skill in my body is a feminine power, so it can't work at all. If you use a powerful palm technique like the 'Eighteen Palms of the Descending Dragon' or the 'Splitting Empty Palm' in the rivers and lakes, you may be able to smash the stone, but this stone is so big and the space here is so small, even if it is broken, the people present will be in danger. ”
After listening to Su Jia's words, Xiao Tian not only did not get down, but smiled lightly.
"Ah Tian, what are you laughing at?" Seeing Xiao Tian smile inexplicably, Su Jia asked puzzled.
After Xiao Tian finished laughing, his eyes went straight to the boulder opposite and said, "Listening to Jia'er's analysis, no one can use brute force to smash this boulder unscathed, that is to say...... There must be a mechanism on this boulder!"
"But, where is the mechanism?" Su Jia listened to Xiao Tian's words, and there was indeed some truth, but thinking of the secret mechanism, he asked again, "Ah Tian, didn't you knock on a lot of places just now, but you didn't find it?"
Xiao Tian approached the boulder again, touched the rock wall above and said, "Since the internal structure is uniform and seamless, there must be some clues on the surface of this boulder......" As he spoke, Xiao Tian leaned his face to the level, looked at it with his eyes, and even sniffed it with his nose.
Looking at Xiao Tian's antics and movements, Su Jia couldn't help but ask, "Ah Tian, what are you doing?"
Xiao Tian said slowly: "Master Demon said in the "Organ Technique" that as long as it is a superficial mechanism, you will definitely be able to find the key point through your eyes, nose, ears and mouth. ”
Although Xiao Tian was reasonable, his actions were too funny, and Su Jia couldn't help but chuckle: "This ...... The Demon Master also taught you...... This?"
Xiao Tian didn't look back, just said lightly: "Don't underestimate the Demon Ghost Master, since his old man is a disciple of the famous martial arts predecessor Master Xuanqing, he must have something special about him." Besides, the book "Organ Technique" is the painstaking work of his life, and how to look at it and how to do it naturally has its reason. As he spoke, Xiao Tian continued to sniff it with his nose, and he even looked a bit like a puppy lying on the rock wall.
Looking at Xiao Tian's comical appearance, Su Jia couldn't even help laughing out loud. But she also understands that Master Xuanqing's predecessors once said that "those who use techniques to convince people are not the demon masters of the ghost valley organs", since the demon master has such a "funny" research conclusion, Su Jia really wants to see how effective this trick is......
Xiao Tian continued to touch the rock wall, his nose sniffing...... Suddenly, Xiao Tian stopped in the center of the rock wall.
"Did you find anything, Ah Tian?" Seeing Xiao Tian suddenly stop, Su Jia couldn't help but ask, in her heart, the current Xiao Tian is really like an "authentic expert", and it seems that no tunnel can defeat him.
Xiao Tian sniffed again, then stood up straight and said, "There seems to be a burning smell here, and there are also ...... in several other consecutive places."
"The smell of burning?" Su Jia was even more puzzled, "What does this have to do with the tunnel organs?"
Xiao Tian said calmly: "Master's "Mechanism Technique" says that some mechanisms use flames to change the temperature within the structure, so as to touch the mechanism. If there is something similar on this boulder, maybe......" Xiao Tian slowly retreated again, until the back reached the dust wall behind him, and stood farther away, hoping to take a look at the entire boulder and explore what was on it.
"Ah Tian, do you want to see the location of the mechanism on the stone face?" asked Su Jia as if she understood something.
"That's right—sometimes the mechanism doesn't have to be a hole, a mechanism like the temperature of a flame can also be a groove, and if you can get close to these grooves with fire, you can touch the mechanism on it, and the same ......is true on the other side of the back of the stone," Xiao Tian continued, "but the light here is too dim to see if there is a groove or anything like that on the rock wall. ”
Su Jia saw that there was no torch or anything like that, and suddenly found that there were bundles of hay under her feet, and then smiled slightly: "Isn't it just light, what's so difficult about this?"
After speaking, Su Jia placed a bundle of hay in an open place, then pulled out the ghost knife on his waist and slashed hard at the rock wall near the hay. I only heard the sound of a knife in the small space, and the knife stream cut layers of sparks on the wall, and the sparks fell on the hay slightly, and the hay was able to ignite, and the surroundings instantly became bright.
"Hmph, it's really convenient......" Seeing Su Jia's neat movements, Xiao Tian smiled lightly.
Su Jia finished lighting the fire and felt the breeze around her, so she said with a smile: "I see, there are a lot of vents here, so the people of the Nangong family dare to light a fire in the tunnel, and they will not be choked to death......
"Compared to this, it's better to find the mechanism on the boulder first......" Xiao Tian said, taking advantage of the light of the fire, he put his eyes on the blue-gray boulder just now, and suddenly, Xiao Tian was surprised, "This ...... It's ......"
Hearing Xiao Tian's surprise, Su Jia also looked back, however, she was also surprised......
There is a long black groove on the stone, which can be distinguished from the blue-gray rock wall by the light of the fire. The smell of burnt that Xiao Tian smelled just now should be the smell of black things on the grooves, because the light in the secret room just now was not strong, so Xiao Tian and Su Jia couldn't see it clearly.
However, now it is very clear, Xiao Tian and Su Jia are very clear about the scene in front of them - there is such a long black stripe on the stone, this secret passage is definitely not simple.
"That's what it is...... Entrance mechanism?" asked Su Jia with some confusion.
Xiao Tian approached the boulder again, then sniffed it in the black groove, and then said, "The burning smell I smelled just now is this......"
Su Jia seemed to understand something, so she preemptively said: "This should be a trace of burning with fire, maybe this mechanism ......"
"It's the ......mechanism that leads to the back of the boulder," Xiao Tian added, "but it's really exhausting to burn such a long groove with a torch." Looking at the long black grooves, thinking that it would take a lot of time to heat such a long distance with fire, Xiao Tian said helplessly.
"There's no need to be so troublesome......" Su Jia said briefly, and then smiled lightly at the corner of her mouth.
Xiao Tian looked at Su Jia's sudden "smile", seemed to understand something, and quickly moved away from the boulder and stood beside Su Jia. Su Jia fixed his eyes...... Suddenly, Su Jia raised the knife and slashed in the direction of the groove with full strength. I heard a ghostly roar in the small space, and a stream of knives slashed along the incision of the groove. A miraculous scene happened, the groove was rubbed by the knife flow, and instantly sparks were drawn out layer by layer, covering the entire black groove, so that even a kid ignited every part of the groove......
"Boom-boom"...... At some point, the boulder shook and even shook the entire small chamber. "How...... What's wrong?" Xiao Tian said a little nervously. Su Jia looked ahead, and there was a trace of nervousness in her heart......
It didn't take long to see the whole boulder sink backwards, and then it seemed to be stuck in some notch, and then the whole boulder moved sideways - it seemed that Xiao Tian really guessed correctly, this whole boulder is a gate. After the entire boulder was completely moved horizontally, what appeared in front of Xiao Tian and Su Jia was a straight dark passage corridor illuminated by torches on both sides.
"This ...... It's amazing......" Su Jia, who has always been calm, couldn't help but be surprised when she saw a scene she had never seen before.
Xiao Tian looked at the corridor in front of him, although he was surprised, he was also a little puzzled: "What is this secret passage...... Straight?"
"Is there any problem?" asked Su Jia again.
"If it's a normal dark passage, the road inside should be tortuous. And at this time, this secret passage turned out to be a straight passage, that is to say, ......" Xiao Tian thought for a moment, and then said happily, "This passage is likely to be a very important passage, the simpler the path, the more important this secret passage is." Perhaps, this road may lead directly to where we are going......" Xiao Tian smiled as he spoke.
Su Jia looked at the endless straight road ahead, and also said to Xiao Tian: "If that's the case, then let's hurry over......"
"Well, the most important thing inside the secret passage is that there will be no dangerous mechanisms, because the owner of the secret passage will often come here alone......" Xiao Tian thought of the reason, so he said, "We can go with confidence, maybe we can enter from here and catch up with those martial arts seniors...... Let's go, Jia'er!" After shouting, Xiao Tian and Su Jia touched the darkness and followed the straight path guided by the torch towards the depths of the Nangong Secret Passage......
Outside the Thousand Autumn Tower......
Tang Zhan and the Nangong brothers were already looking at each other nervously at this time, and Lu Jing and Nangong Jiao, who were on the side, also looked at each other without showing weakness......
A few gusts of wind blew, and no one had done anything yet......
Suddenly, Nangong Zheng, who couldn't help it first, slashed his sword and went straight towards Tang Zhan's neck. Seeing that Tang Zhan had made up his mind, he seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and turned sideways to let Nangong Zheng lean forward. Subsequently, Tang Zhan reflexively shot a shot, and the gun hit Nangong Zheng directly in the chest. Nangong Zheng couldn't change his moves for the time being, with both hands on his head, and the back of the long sword was blocked in front of his chest. Hearing only the sound of "bell-" on the ground, Nangong Zheng's whole person was temporarily bounced back by Tang Zhan's gun and was blocked back to the same place.
The fifth brother Nangong saw that his fourth brother was blocked back in one round, and he was very unconvinced. Seeing that Tang Zhan hadn't had time to accept the recruitment, he raised his sword and made a move "Cloud Mist Sword Shadow", stabbing at Tang Zhan who was sideways like an ethereal move. However, Tang Zhan didn't seem to have the intention of recruiting at all, only to see Nangong Xun attacking without warning, Tang Zhan turned sideways and turned directly, and then reflexively came to the "Meteor Moon" of the Tang family's overlord gun, which collided with Nangong Xun's long sword.
If you want to talk about internal force, Tang Zhan's internal force is naturally above Nangong Xun, and when he saw the pear flower spear and the long sword touching like this, Nangong Xun still took a few steps back a little uncontrollably. However, Tang Zhan didn't want to give Nangong Xun a chance to breathe, and after turning around, he made a move of "Soul Seeking Gun" and went straight to Nangong to find someone's head.
Nangong Xun couldn't dodge, and when he saw the golden light of the "Soul Seeking Gun" appearing, he was pressing towards him, but there was no way to do it...... Suddenly, Nangong Xun roared sideways, and his fourth brother Nangong Zheng counterattacked with a move "Tiger Roar". Although the internal force is still not as good as Tang Zhan, it almost completely blocks the internal force of Tang Zhan's "Soul Seeking Gun".
"Let's go up together!" Nangong was waking up Nangong beside him.
"Okay!" Nangong Xun simply agreed, and then raised his sword in his right hand, accompanied by his fourth brother, one person and one sword on the left and right, and attacked together.
The rainbow light on the left and right came out, and the one person on the left and right made a move "Sword Qi Changhong", accompanied by the sound of a sword that pierced the sky, and it came out violently. Seeing this, Tang Zhan changed his gun, and the "Wheel Marksmanship" slowly weakened the internal force of the "Sword Qi Changhong". However, the combined efforts of the two were naturally more powerful than twice as powerful, and Tang Zhan was still forced to retreat step by step.
"Plus me!" Just as Tang Zhan was concentrating on resisting the sword moves of Nangong Zheng and Nangong Xun's brothers, Nangong Zhun, the third son who had his hands free, suddenly killed from behind. I saw him cross the heads of his two younger brothers, and then his left and right hands made a move of "Hongyun Palm" at the same time, and both palms went towards Tang Zhan.
As soon as Tang Zhan saw it, it was many people who performed unique skills against him at the same time, so he turned sideways, reversed and jumped, and took several steps back. When he was competing in the Lu Mansion, Tang Zhan had already suffered this loss, although he was stupid on weekdays, but he was very sober in the duel, and he was careful not to be fooled again. So, Tang Zhan retreated a long way back until the internal force of the three Nangong brothers could not pose a threat to him at all.
Seeing that Tang Zhan was defeated by himself and his own brothers, the three Nangong brothers became a little proud...... However, at this time, Tang Zhan's eyes froze, as if he had thought of something. I saw Tang Zhan pushed in mid-air, but the gun in his hand was always on his chest, and he didn't want to put it down...... Suddenly, Tang Zhan unexpectedly, when he did not land in mid-air, and the three Nangong brothers got carried away, he raised his gun and slashed from the sky.
I only heard a terrible whistle, and the "Eternal Silence Marksmanship" came out of the air. This move is the strongest in the Tang family's overlord gun, even if Tang Zhan retreats dozens of steps, the power of the forward rush is enough to deter the three Nangong brothers on the opposite side.
The "Ancient Silent Marksmanship" came out, and the powerful impact and the invisible air flow with quite deterrent power grazed the ground and roared away. Nangong Zhun on the opposite side was the first to sense that something was wrong, and immediately shouted, "Hurry up and disperse!"
Nangong Zheng and Nangong listened to it, didn't think much about it, and immediately jumped to both sides with his third brother Nangong Zhun......
The air flow of the "Eternal Silence Marksmanship" swept across the position where the three Nangong brothers were standing just now, leaving a deep groove on the ground. If they hadn't escaped in time, the three of them might have been in danger of being directly dismembered.
The three Nangong brothers looked at Tang Zhan, who was dozens of steps away from the opposite side, with surprised eyes, and they all gasped, while Tang Zhan still stood very calmly opposite, staring directly at the three Nangong brothers - the victory or defeat was already obvious, no matter how bright or dark the Nangong brothers were, there was no way to beat the current Tang Zhan.
Nangong Jiao saw the overwhelming scene opposite, and said secretly in her heart: "Hmph, is this stinky boy of the Tang family really so powerful......
Lu Jing saw it, and the hanging stone in her heart was also put down. Now no matter what the people of the Nangong family want to do to themselves and Tang Zhan, there is no need to be afraid anymore - the Nangong family itself should know very well that they no longer have the capital to provoke the Lu Mansion and its related people......
When he was anxious, suddenly not far behind Nangong Jiao, a person slowly walked in.
Nangong Jiao noticed it, looked back, and suddenly said in surprise: "It's the third uncle!"
Lu Jing looked at it from a distance, and also recognized that person was Nangong Yong, the third-in-command of the Nangong family, her eyes were condensed, so she said: "Fool, enough, let's go......"
"Weishenme is leaving, I haven't taught them a thorough lesson......" Tang Zhan asked puzzled.
"There aren't so many weishenme, let's get out of the gate of this Nangong compound first!" Lu Jing's tone directly ordered.
Tang Zhan heard the seriousness of Lu Jing's words, so he nodded "oh", then withdrew the pear flower gun in his hand, and then followed Lu Jing out of the gate of the Nangong compound......
"Hmph, it's really fast...... Nangong Jiao looked at Lu Jing and Tang Zhan who were fleeing, and said secretly in her heart, "But then again, if it weren't for when the third uncle would come out of the town, the third brother wouldn't know how miserable they would be by that kid surnamed Tang......"
Presumably, Nangong Jiao walked over to take care of her three brothers who were slightly injured, and then went over to say hello to her third uncle Nangong Yong......
Hurriedly ran out of the gate of the compound, Tang Zhan asked puzzledly, "Jing'er, are we going to go?"
Lu Jing replied contemplatively: "No matter what, today, the disciples of the Shaolin Sect went to observe the Nangong tunnels, and the leaders of the Nangong family must have all been entertained...... We can't be too ostentatious today, otherwise we will offend some high-level officials for a while, and we won't be able to get out......"
"Then what should we do now?" Tang Zhan asked again, "Miss Su and Brother Xiao are still there. ”
"Oh, I was really angry that I couldn't enter the tunnel of Nangong's house today to find out......" Lu Jing complained for a while, and then said, "I can only hope for Sister Su and Brother Xiao to see if the two of them can find out what is going on in the Nangong tunnel......"
"But it's just the two of them, really...... Is it okay?" Tang Zhan asked with some concern.
"To be honest, I'm also a little worried......" Lu Jing's eyes frowned, and she said silently, "But now, we can only trust the two of them, and we can only wait for them to come out at this door......"
Saying that, Lu Jing looked up at the towering Qianqiu Pagoda in the Nangong compound, but her heart was still calm......