Chapter 9: The Underground Labyrinth

At this moment, the window below was suddenly pushed open, and someone looked into the backyard and said, "The old man is suspicious, maybe a gust of wind is blowing." The person who spoke was Wan Yanchang, and he closed the window. Zhu Yushi gasped, Jiang Feiyan once said that the movement of the "Lingxiao Qingyun Step" was very small, and it was like a breeze blowing when it was performed, and it was difficult to detect, but it still made Wan Yanchang vigilant, which shows how profound this person's skills are.

After listening to Yan Wushu, he smiled and said, "Uncle is too cautious. Wan Yanchang said: "It's always right to be careful, the martial arts of those people in the house are unfathomable, and the old man can't see through them, but at least it has been determined that they are not pretending to be thieves in Guanzhong." Wan Yan Wushu said: "How can my uncle be so sure?" Wan Yan Chang said: "There is not the slightest trace of disappearance on their faces. Among the thieves in Guanzhong, Luo Tianchu's internal strength is the highest, and only he can step on that footprint, the old man guessed that Lin Xiuwen was Luo Tianchu, and no matter how clever the disguise technique was, it couldn't cover up his internal strength, so the old man tried his internal strength. Luo Tianchu practiced the "Yijin Sutra", but Lin Xiuwen's internal force contained a domineering spirit, which was definitely not the internal strength of Buddhism. So the old man thinks that he is not Luo Tianchu, and that group of people is not a thief in Guanzhong, but he can't believe that a medicine king Zhuang is hiding a dragon and a crouching tiger. ”

When Zhu Yu heard this, he was amused, thinking that Xiao Luo Nipan was reborn, and his internal force was already unique, how could he see through the truth and falsehood with a simple temptation. After listening to Yan Wushu, he said: "It makes sense, does my uncle think those people can be used for Dajin?" They are Song people, and they would rather live in seclusion than contribute to the Southern Song Dynasty, so how can they help us in the Jin Kingdom. Wanyan Wushu said: "If they oppose us in the future, my Dajin Kingdom will have a few more strong enemies." Wan Yanchang nodded and said: "Except for the mediocre martial arts of the man named Guo Zijun, the skills of the other four people are not bad, but that Lin Xiuwen's life is not long, so he can ignore it." Wan Yan Wushu said: "He is in the prime of life, how can he die soon?" Wan Yan Chang said: "Although his internal strength is strong, but he can't cultivate it, the five internal organs and the eight veins of the Qi Jing are being injured by his own internal force, and he will have an attack after ten years of accumulation at most, and Da Luo Jin Xian will not be able to save him at that time." Zhu Yushi's heart was shocked, and he almost screamed, and said in horror: "Xiao Luo will die in ten years? He was distracted and didn't hear what he said.

When he came to his senses, he only listened to Yan Wushu and said: "Yelu Ying really knows the whereabouts of the treasure?" Wan Yan Chang said: "I don't dare to say my whereabouts, at least I know some clues." Wanyan Wushu said: "Uncle has insight, and he can't hide anything from you." Wan Yanchang said with a smile: "The old man doesn't dare to take credit, it's all the credit of Yeluzhi's observation in the past ten years, Xiaozhi, you can explain." "It turned out that Jerod was also in the house. I only heard him say respectfully: "The villain has been observing Yeluying's habits for more than ten years, and finds that he always likes to take a deep breath when he is insincere, and when the old general asks him for clues to the treasure, the villain finds that he also takes a deep breath, although his expression is calm, but the villain concludes that he is lying." Wanyan Wushu said: "Then what should I do? If the old guy doesn't open his mouth, will he still be tortured to extract a confession?" Ye Luzhi said: "That old man has a stubborn personality, and it is useless to forcibly coerce, but he can start with his daughter." ”

Wanyan Wushu said: "Yeluqi also knows the clues of the treasure?" Yeluzhi said: "I shouldn't know, the more I know, the more dangerous it is, Yeluying won't not understand." He feels most sorry for that precious daughter, is His Royal Highness afraid that Yelu will not accept after marrying as a wife and concubine?" Wanyan Wushu said impatiently: "This king urgently needs this batch of treasures to regain the trust of his father, how can he have leisure to consume with them." The old guy doesn't spit out the clues of the treasure for a day, and his precious daughter doesn't have any good fruit to eat for a day. Yeluzhi said: "If Yeluqi can ask us about the treasure, Yeluying will definitely tell the truth, but if she wants to obey her orders, it depends on His Highness's methods." Wanyan Wushu sneered: "This king will make her a sheep." Zhu Yushi was anxious about Luo Tianchu's injury, and didn't want to listen to it anymore, so he quietly slipped out of the room.

As soon as Luo Tianchu and the others returned to the wing room and sat down, they heard footsteps in the corridor, and a woman said outside the door: "Is Lin Xiuwen a young man?" Luo Tianchu opened the door and saw a Liao maid standing outside the door, but he hadn't seen it, and said: "It's Lin Xiuwen below, what's the matter with the girl?" The maid said in Chinese for half her life: "Slave Gu language, my young lady has invited the son to go to the meeting." Luo Tianchuqi said: "Is it His Royal Highness the County Lord?" Gu Yu nodded and said, "Yes, Miss said that there is something important to invite you." Luo Tianchu nodded and said, "Okay, please ask the girl to lead the way." At that moment, he followed Gu Yu down the small building.

Gu Yu took him straight to the martial arts arena opposite the small building, took out the key to open the door lock, pushed open the door and said, "Childe, please come in." Luo Tianchu didn't take a step, and said, "Didn't you say that you were going to see His Royal Highness the County Lord, what are you doing here? Gu Yu smiled and said: "Don't doubt it, the slave maid has been Miss's personal maid since she was a child, unlike other maids who always show up, Childe can rest assured." Luo Tianchu nodded and stepped into the martial arts arena. Gu Yu closed the door and said, "This way, please." She walked through the spacious field, stopped in front of the stone door of the east storage room, and pulled out another key to unlock it. Luo Tian first knew that there were weapons stored in it, and it was a forbidden place in the house. Gu Yu pushed the heavy granite door hard, only to hear the sound of "rattling", the stone door slowly opened, Luo Tianchu thought that her strength was not small.

The storage room was dry and spacious, and dozens of bundles of long and short weapons were wrapped in wide tarpaulins and placed in wooden boxes. Wooden boxes lay in rows on the ground, like coffins. Gu Yu said: "Gongzi should know that this is the forbidden land in the mansion, right?" Luo Tianchu nodded and said, "I know, His Royal Highness the County Lord told me." Gu Yu said: "Does that son know why this is a forbidden place?" Luo Tianchu said: "There are weapons stored here, I am afraid that my subordinates will use them to rebel." Gu Yu said: "That's just an excuse, after my house is all loyal to Da Liao, how can anyone rebel." Luo Tianchu said: "Then I don't understand." Gu Yu smiled: "Because of this." Saying that, she stretched out her hand and groped a few times on the inside of the stone door, only to hear a "click", there was a sound in the middle of the stone door, and the side seemed to be tightly closed The stone wall was loosened, and she opened it like a door, and the inside was hollow, just enough for a person to enter sideways. Luo Tianchu closed his mouth in surprise, it was not that they had not searched this door, but they didn't expect the mechanism to be so secretive, could it be that this is the entrance to the treasure?

Gu Yu said: "Miss is already engaged and will not go out, the secret passage here leads directly to Miss's residence, and Miss asks Childe to meet her from here." When Childe goes in, he can open the two baffles at the other end, and he can see the entrance inside. Luo Tianchu looked at the inner stone wall with his hand, and said: "This is clearly a complete stone, where did the baffle come from, huh?" He suddenly found a tiny crack on the stone wall, which was inconspicuous, and said strangely: "Could it be that this is the baffle? If Childe feels scared, forget it, just swear not to reveal the secrets here. Luo Tianchu didn't speak, he would never let a little maid look down on him, and stood directly sideways into the stone door, the space was just enough for him, but he couldn't turn around or squat. Gu Yu smiled: "I have wronged my son." ”

With that, she closed the secret door on the side of the door, and after a click, the whole world fell into darkness. Luo Tianchu's face was pressed against the rough and cold granite, and the enclosed and narrow space made him feel terrified, only then did he realize that the darkness and loneliness were so tormenting, and he had an urge to cry out madly, and he would rather die a hundred times in the army than die here. I felt that the stone door was moving in mid-air, presumably Gu Yu was restoring the door, and then I heard the sound of "dingdong" locking.

I only heard Gu Yu say: "Is Childe okay?" Luo Tianchu smiled bitterly: "It's no better, what should I do next?" As he spoke, his lips accidentally touched the rough rock, grinding blood. Gu Yu smiled outside: "I know it's definitely uncomfortable inside, don't worry, don't worry, the slave will teach you to open the entrance." Please move to the other end of the door first, there is a round handle on it, twist it to the left five times and then pull it outward. Luo Tianchu moved his steps with difficulty, his face rubbed against the rocks with every step, and his skin hurt. After reaching the other end, I fumbled and found the round iron handle, twisted it to the left according to the words, the handle was rusty due to long-term use, and it was turned with internal strength, making a screeching sound of "zizi". When it reached the fifth circle, it was pulled outward, only to hear the sound of "rumbling", and the stone face on the inner side shook, and the whole stone wall was divided into two and erected outward, revealing a narrow staircase leading to the ground. Luo Tianchu said: "Gu Yu girl, I see the staircase, do you want to go down?" Gu Yu said: "Yes, there is a stone room below, if you can't see it, you can use the ever-bright lamp below to illuminate it." There are nine wooden boxes in the stone chamber, and there is a secret door under the middle of the third row of the door, which can be pried open to enter the underground passage. ”

Luo Tianchu was surprised: "There is still a passage, there is no need to be so troublesome to meet." Gu Yu smiled and said: "The county lord said that if the prince is troublesome, he doesn't have to be reluctant, and he can go back the same way." Luo Tianchu smiled bitterly: "It's all here and can go back, the girl continued, how to go through the underpass?" Gu Yu said: "Turn left at every intersection until you see the light above, but go up the stairs, remember to turn left, if something happens everywhere, we are not responsible." Luo Tianchu said: "I just want to go out early, how can I have that leisure." Gu Yu said: "That's good, the slave and maid are waiting for the son at the exit." Luo Tianchu nodded and said, "Okay, thank you girl." Gu Yu smiled: "I let you diamond the door and climb the tunnel, what is there to thank you." Luo Tianchu said: "I thank the girl for not having the heart to harm me, otherwise I would have my life to get out alive" Gu Yu chuckled: "I don't dare to hurt you if I have the guts, it's strange if the county lord doesn't fight with me." With that, he smiled and ran away.

Luo Tianchu walked in sideways, and returned the stone wall that popped out to its place, only to hear the sound of "croaking", and it was impossible to go back, so he could only walk down the stone steps. The stone steps were not long, and soon they came to the stone chamber. He used his internal strength to take in the things in the house, which was about the size of an armory, and two pairs of celadon vats stood against the wall, and when he got closer, he smelled a strong smell of vinegar. After a closer look, I found that these vats were Changming lamps, using a typical double-layer structure, with lamp oil inside, the wick was soaked in vinegar, and the outer layer was filled with water to cool the lamp oil, so that the oil used after ignition was only the "fake oil" emitted by the heat. The wick in the vinegar can keep the temperature cool and not burn too quickly, so that a large jar of lamp oil can burn for a hundred years if the air is sufficient.

Luo Tianchu's eyes had adapted to the darkness, and he didn't need to light the lantern, he saw that there were nine wooden boxes in the center of the empty stone room, and three columns and three rows formed a square. And they were not locked, thinking that Gu Yu didn't say that he was not allowed to open the box, and it would be okay to take a look, so he opened one of the boxes, which was filled with silver with white flowers, all of which were silver treasures of one hundred taels and one ingot. He was secretly shocked in his heart, and opened a few more boxes, which contained silver and jade jewelry, could it be that this was the legendary Qianliao treasure? These treasures are presumably used to confuse the unwitting greedy so that they can ignore the passage below, and the person who laid it out must be extremely clever.

Luo Tianchu closed the treasure chest and moved the treasure chest in the middle of the third row according to Gu Yu's instructions. The stone slab below was unusual, and there was no hollow sound after a few taps. After looking closely, I found that there was a small gap at the junction of the slate, and I took out the dagger I carried with me and inserted it into the gap, and pried it up hard, and the slate was really alive, raising a line. When the stone slabs were removed, the steps below were made of dirt, steep and narrow. He put away his dagger and walked down, returning the slate to its place. The ground was damp and stuffy, filled with a strong smell of earth, and suddenly a black shadow jumped past his feet, and when he looked at it fixedly, it turned out to be a mouse, motionless lying on his stomach to look at the uninvited guest, and then burrowed into the mouse hole. Luo Tianchu thought that he was only afraid that he would not be as good as a mouse here, the more he went down, the lower the soil layer on his head, it was best to bow forward, and the steps were also replaced by the dirt slope, and he gradually felt stuffy, and his mouth was full of the smell of earth, but fortunately, it was cool below, but he didn't feel hot.

After a while, he came to the flat ground underground, and was finally able to walk upright, and there were three different directions in front of him, and he obediently chose the one on the left. He leaned against the wall all the way, for fear of making a mistake. It's an underground labyrinth, with forks in the road every few steps, and they're so similar that you can't even remember them, and even if you turn left every time you turn around, you feel like you're turning back, and you quickly get lost, and the only clue is "turn left". Those with a slightly worse mind will doubt their own judgment, run around like headless flies, and eventually get completely lost in this underground labyrinth. And Luo Tianchu firmly moved forward according to his words, turning left on every road, unswervingly. No matter how long the road is, there is an end, and I don't know how long I walked, but when I turned left again, I saw the light above. (To be continued.) )