Chapter 119: Vicissitudes of Life
The people of Wumeng have treasures in front of them, and their feet are exceptionally brisk, and within half a day, they have crossed dozens of miles of mountain roads and come to the northeastern suburbs of Longyou County, on a barren mountain called "Danhuang". Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Everyone followed the map, and finally determined that the entrance was a stone wall at the top of the mountain. It's just that the stone wall is covered with vines and thorns, and it looks like an ordinary mountain wall at all, not at all like the entrance to an amazing treasure.
According to the method of opening the hole indicated on the treasure map, everyone knocked down nine specific positions on the mountain wall in turn, and then retreated to the side and waited. After a long time, the mountain wall did not move, and just as everyone began to feel uneasy, doubting the authenticity of this treasure, a series of tooth-aching grinding sounds were suddenly heard, and then the mountain wall in front of them slowly shrank to both sides, revealing a dark hole that went straight down.
Through the light of the sky through the entrance of the cave, you can see a staircase hewn out of mountain stones, which extends to a depth of more than ten zhang below. Some anxious people just wanted to light torches and enter it, but they heard a "whirring" sound in the cave, and dozens of lights lit on their own. The man was frightened and shouted into the hole, "Who's in there?"
Chen Shiliang patted the man's shoulder with a smile and said, "Brother Zheng, don't panic, there is no one below." Do you think, how can anyone in this world light dozens of oil lamps in an instant?"
The head surnamed Zheng was shocked: "It's not a person, is it a ghost?"
Chen Shiliang shook his head and smiled: "It's not a human, it's not a ghost. This is a means of lighting in the underground palace, those oil lamps have something mixed in their wicks, and when they encounter the wind (air), they will ignite on their own, and we just opened the door of the cave, and the wind poured in, so the oil lamps were lit. However, this method costs a lot, just those special wicks and perennial lamp oil, each oil lamp costs no less than dozens of taels of silver. ”
Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this: The oil lamp alone is already expensive, and the contents of the treasure are not even more worth looking forward to! At that moment, the Salt Gang and the Twelve Lianwu Docks each left a disciple to guard the entrance, and the rest of the people hugged Yu Da and Chang Tianshu, scrambling to enter the cave.
Ding Yu, who was far behind, saw this scene, and his heart was alarmed—not that he saw any flaws, but that the closer he got to the entrance of the treasure dungeon, the stronger the sense of danger in his heart became. This indescribable feeling is the sixth sense that he has developed over the years of self-cultivation and life-and-death fighting, and it has helped him escape death many times.
Originally, he planned to secretly check behind the people of the Potential Martial Alliance, but after this warning for a lifetime, he immediately changed his mind, no longer entered the hole in the ground, but found a big tree, dodged and jumped under the tree, exerted force on his toes, and raised his body against the trunk, and then reached out on the thick branch above his head, and the whole person had silently sunk into the dense canopy, as light as a homing squirrel.
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The people of the Martial Alliance looked around while descending the stone steps. I saw that this grotto is about 123 zhang deep, the length and width are also 10 zhang up and down, and the top of the cave is inclined inward from the entrance of the cave, and it is in the form of a semi-vault. In the middle of the cave, there is a huge stone pillar of two or three people hugging together, supporting the whole vault, the stone pillar is carved with a lot of birds, beasts and fish shapes, the lines are concise and simple, and it is very charming. However, in the entire cave, except for dozens of oil lamps on the stone walls, there was nothing empty.
The seventh dock master of the Twelve Docks is skilled in the art of mechanism, and the complete map is now in his hand. He stared at the mechanism diagram for a moment, counting the steps under his feet, six on the left, five on the right, four on the front and three on the right...... Finally came to the bottom of the stone pillar. At this time, he took out a wooden mallet, and successively knocked on the head of the fish-shaped relief and the tail of the dragon-shaped relief, and after a while, there was a jerky sound of machine springs in the cave, and the seventh dock master breathed a sigh of relief, and then knocked the wooden mallet on the head of a rat-shaped pattern, and one stone wall on the southeast side of the cave retracted into the ground, revealing another passage.
The Lord of the Seven Docks said to the people standing on the stone steps: "The mechanism of the cave has been lifted, and the passage to the next cave has been opened, so you can continue to move forward." ”
Under the guidance of the treasure map, everyone passed through seventeen grottoes of different sizes, although there were no large treasures, but the furnishings and carvings in each grotto were extraordinary, obviously not a folk handiwork, so that everyone looked forward to the final treasure more and more.
In the seventeenth grotto, the Seven Dock Lords and a Salt Gang elder open the door to the next grotto, and according to the treasure map, the eighteenth grotto is where all the treasures are stored.
Suddenly, someone exclaimed, "This is ...... Boxing?"
Everyone followed his direction and saw dozens of human figures carved on that stone wall, each of which was punched or kicked, and it really looked like a fist when connected. Some people couldn't help but dance with the figures on the stone walls on the spot, and those who were nimble ran to the other stone walls to take a closer look, and sure enough, there were also patterns of various blades.
Among the more than 30 sects that have joined the alliance, most of them are small and medium-sized sects, and they not only lack money and food disciples on weekdays, but also lack of high-level exercises.
Although the two elders in charge of opening the mechanism came from a large faction, who was not moved by the martial arts practitioners when they saw the brilliant martial arts? Finally, they still remembered their task and concentrated on opening the cave door according to the steps on the treasure map, and in the end, the Seven Dock Lord reached out and grabbed a protruding dragon tail on the stone pillar, and pulled it downward, and the last stone door leading to the treasure cave slowly parted to both sides.
But at the same time, a series of muffled thunderous sounds suddenly sounded in the grotto, and then the entire grotto began to shake. From the open crack, it could be seen that there was no gold or silver treasure in the eighteenth grotto, only a cracked dome and a thick water dragon pouring from the crack in the dome!
The Seven Dock Lord and another Salt Gang Elder were shocked, and desperately lifted the tail of the stone dragon up, trying to close the open opening again, but no matter how hard they tried, the water poured into it only became more and more turbulent in the blink of an eye, and then they finally realized that this so-called treasure dungeon was simply a huge death trap.
It's a pity that they found out too late, and everyone risked their lives to run the way they came, but the terrain in the underground palace is complicated, and the passage is narrow, and before they can run out of the sixteenth grotto, the roof of the eighteenth grotto has completely collapsed, and the water of the entire underground river pours down, and the water flow is unstoppable and swept the entire dungeon. At this time, no matter how high the martial arts are, in the face of the great power of heaven and earth, they are like praying mantis under the wheels, and they can't escape the end of being crushed.
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Ding Yu outside the cave was looking at the entrance of the cave from a distance under the cover of the canopy, calculating the time, and it had been more than an hour. Suddenly, he heard a rumbling sound, and then the tree trunks and mountains under his feet trembled, and after a while, he saw a thick column of water spew out from the entrance of the cave, and the water splashed the two disciples guarding the entrance of the cave.
The tremor of the mountain lasted only a few moments, and the water column lasted only a few moments before it subsided without a trace, but when everything was calm again, the entrance to the cave became a murky pool of muddy water with a splash of water and a bottomless bottom...... (To be continued.) )