Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Demon Tower
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Bai Ya communicated with Dao Ying with his divine sense for a moment, then shook his hand quietly, and the peach puppet fell out of his sleeve, as if a small toy had been inadvertently dropped.
The peach puppet fell to the ground motionless, it really looked like an inconsequential piece of wood, but when Bai Ya and the paper figure walked away, a cool breeze blew, and the ground was empty, and the Taoist peach puppet disappeared in place silently.
"Hey, how long will it take?" Bai Ya followed the paper figure for a while, and finally asked.
He was a little impatient to run around in such a sneaky place all night.
"It's here!" he had barely spoken, when the paper figure stopped in front of him.
Bai Ya looked up and saw a very strange tower in front of him.
The tower did not stand upright, but was embedded in the ground of the dungeon, as if a building had fallen to the ground, and then was pressed into the ground by some great force, and became an ornament embedded in the ground.
From his point of view, the arched gate of the tower resembles a strange wellhead, and the two wooden doors open upwards in as strange shapes as they receive.
"You don't want to let someone into this, do you?" said White Cliff with a strange expression, gesturing to the tower embedded in the ground.
"This is the Demon Town Tower of the Honzhuang, there are seven floors, as long as the officials can climb the fifth floor of the tower, Xiangliuzhuang will immediately send you out of the village!" the paper man sang waving his sleeves.
"Hmph, isn't it a foolish climb to the tower here, isn't it up to you to delay time?" Bai Ya's eyes flashed, and he said dissatisfiedly.
"Don't worry, official, as long as you can climb to the fifth floor of the tower, how long have you been delayed in Xiangliuzhuang, then how long will Xiangliuzhuang also block the other party's pursuers for you?" the paper man sang confidently.
"You're very confident, could it be that there are senior masters guarding the tower?"
Bai Ya couldn't help but be surprised, if the other party really wanted to keep this promise, it would be equivalent to a displeasure at both ends, unless he had absolute confidence that he would not be able to succeed.
"No, there are no creatures in the tower, and there are not even too many places where force is used, just some interesting puzzles!" the paper man sang, "This place is a place of trial in Xiangliuzhuang, and it will never leave the officials without a chance to crack it." At that time, as long as the officials admit defeat, we will give a reasonable solution. ”
When Bai Ya heard this, he couldn't help but sneer.
The so-called trials are often a comprehensive test of intelligence, force, courage, and character. He believes that he can definitely solve part of the game prepared by the other party, but it is extremely difficult to completely solve the game, especially some intellectual puzzles.
This game is definitely unfair, it's like a brain teaser in a previous life, on the premise of knowing the answer, it will feel extremely simple, but when you don't know the answer, then no matter how long you think about it, it's in vain.
What's more, Xiang Liuzhuang is learning feng shui mysticism, and his ideas are very different from those of martial artists, and the way of dealing with things is also different, so this brain teaser is even more difficult.
"Maybe you're participating in this game with your friends?" asked White Cliff flatly.
The paper man shook his head silently, smiling silently.
"In that case, let's get started!" White Cliff took a deep breath and jumped into the well-like tower gate.
People are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, and the other party is still unwilling to let them work together, and it is useless to continue arguing at this time, so they can only take one step at a time. If the task brocade box was in his hands, he could still walk away, and the other party might not dare to hurt Chen Ming and the others.
But the problem now is that the brocade box is in Chen Ming's mustard seed bag, and it is useless for him to walk away alone, so it is better to admit it directly.
After jumping into the tower embedded in the ground, the scene in front of Bai Ya flickered, and now he was standing upright at the bottom of the tower, in other words, his body was now parallel to the ground outside, and the direction of gravity had changed.
The first floor of the tower is a symmetrical octagonal site with an area of several hundred square meters. In the center of the venue is a huge gossip map, and in the center is a one-meter-high porcelain vase, with blue flowers on a white background, a small mouth and a large belly, and no handles.
The entire first floor of the tower was empty except for this gossip and a vase of flowers. What made Bai Ya most helpless was that there was not even a staircase to the second floor.
He looked up at the ceiling, and now the entire ceiling was seamless, not to mention the entrance of the stairs, not even a rat could get through.
"What about the outside of the tower?!"
White Cliff rolled his eyes and walked to the windows on the first floor, only to realize that these windows were only carved into the wall, and could not be opened in fact, and at this time, even the tower portal he jumped into had become a wall.
In other words, it's a secret room!
"Bang!" Bai Ya jumped up, tentatively slapped his palm on the ceiling, and sure enough, he felt a strong anti-shock force, which could not be destroyed by brute force, at least not with his strength.
After all the temptations, his attention finally fell on the vase.
When he approached the porcelain vase and looked inside from the mouth of the bottle, he was taken aback slightly.
This porcelain vase turned out to be the same as the optical toy he had played with in his previous life, the kaleidoscope, except that the mirror image presented inside happened to be the first floor of the tower, and he even saw another small self lying on the mouth of the porcelain vase.
It's as if it's a surveillance device, and all the mirrors of the first layer are ingested instantly.
"What the hell is this, is it useful to put it here?" Bai Ya was puzzled for a moment.
He scratched his head, grabbed the mouth of the bottle and shook it, and the porcelain vase did not move, as if it had grown on the floor of the tower.
"You can't move it, there's nothing in there...... Wait, you can see the mirror image of the first layer inside, but it doesn't have to be nothing!" Bai Ya thought about it, his eyebrows raised, and he remembered the kaleidoscope toy again.
The mirror image in the kaleidoscope is actually the result of several mirrors reflecting each other, which greatly expands the physical horizon and creates an illusory mirror image.
"Between the virtual and the real, the yin and yang are harmonized!" Bai Ya's heart moved, hesitated for a moment, and then stretched his right arm into the mouth ......of the porcelain vase.
"Hey, it's still like this!"
He just put his hand in, and immediately his entire arm shrunk, and the palm that originally looked like a toothpick that could only be stuffed into the mouth of the bottle from the outside.
"Wouldn't it?!" Bai Ya suddenly had a strange thought in his mind, hesitated for a while, then raised his leg and reached into the mouth of the bottle, carefully climbing the whole person in.
When he let go of his hands holding the mouth of the bottle, the whole person fell into the bottle, and now there was indeed another tower inside, but the area was reduced by a part, and it should be the second floor of the tower.
"Interesting!"
Bai Ya felt a little excited, it was the first time he had encountered such an interesting tower building, this feng shui mystic technique was really very peculiar.
However, he knew that the test from the first layer to the second layer should be the head sent by the other party, after all, most people will notice the only remaining flower porcelain vase on the first layer when the search is fruitless.
As long as you try carefully, you will probably be able to see the cat contained in the porcelain vase, and sooner or later you will climb into the second floor of the tower.
In contrast, the second floor of the tower is much more abundant.
At the entrance of this layer, there is a stone offering platform.
The altar is as high as the chest of the white cliff, and a pair of long red wax incense candles are lit on it, and a portrait hanging on the wall is enshrined, in which is a white-eyebrowed, white-bearded Taoist in a green robe.
The Taoist held a whisk in his right hand and a bronze mirror in his left hand, and the mirror image of this layer happened to be reflected in the bronze mirror.
There is also no corridor to the upper floor of the second floor of the tower, and according to the previous rules, I am afraid that Bai Ya will have to find the passage by himself.
"The porcelain vase in front reflects the mirror image of the tower, and then you can climb in, so is this the bronze mirror in the hands of the climber?"
However, he was careful not to immediately approach the stone altar and the portrait of the Taoist priest, and his eyes fell on the two stone statues in front of the altar.
This is a pair of calf-sized stone statues of the dogs on the left and right, which are the stone lions that are usually placed in front of the doors of large households.
White Cliff observed the pair of stone lions for a while, guessing that this pair of things was a trap lion, or simply a living thing.
This is already the second floor of the tower, and there is no reason why it is as easy as the first floor. The Taoist and bronze mirrors on the portrait look fine, then there must be a problem with this pair of stone griffons.
"After I climbed in from the vase, there was no reaction to these things, so it means that they have a certain warning range. Maybe they will wake up when they get a little closer!" Bai Ya touched his chin and thought carefully.
"It's not a good idea to rush closer, maybe the difficulty of the second layer is not too great, I can defeat this pair of stone lions, but if you fight so early, it will be detrimental to the back if the consumption is too great. ”
Bai Ya slowly stretched out his hand and cautiously grabbed it back, making a "catch" to catch the dragon and control the crane.
He tried his best to be careful, but his strength was too small, and he did not take the portrait down. Even so, Bai Ya's eyes lit up, because the portrait did indeed lift a corner slightly, indicating that it could be removed, unlike the first layer of the porcelain vase that was fixed.
found a way, Bai Ya stood in place again, began to strengthen the strength of "grabbing", and finally slowly lifted most of the picture scroll.
Seeing that the picture scroll was crumbling, he was about to remove it from the wall, but Bai Ya heard a "pop", and the one on the left of the two stone lions suddenly cracked its head and face, and a piece of broken stone fell, revealing a touch of gold in the crack.
"Sure enough, it's a sealed creature!"
Bai Ya's heart sank, but he didn't stop the movement in his hand, but the increase in strength was slightly smoother.
"Ka Ka Ka ~ " Despite this, the two stone lions still reacted for 6 consecutive years, and the cracks on the surface of the stone became more and more numerous and larger.
"There is no turning back when you open the bow!" Bai Ya's eyes flashed, and finally with a clasp of his right hand, he fiercely ripped the portrait off the wall and floated towards him.
"Wow~" This moment seemed to touch the bottom line, and the two stone statues shattered at the same time, revealing two golden retrievers with hideous faces.
"Hmph, it's late!" Bai Ya smiled proudly, jumped up, shot himself out like an arrow, and threw himself straight into the bronze mirror in the left hand of the portrait Taoist, only to hear two earth-shattering roars behind him.