The location of Whale Swallowing Island is very secret, not only is it difficult for outsiders to find, even if it is the Fu Ao on the "Golden Swallow" on the sea outside the island and the guards of the City Lord's Mansion, it is unlikely that they can pass through the three moats to come here. However, Liang Wude acted very cautiously and cautiously, and even in such a situation, he was still prepared just in case.

After the arrangement was completed, Liang Wude said to Sima Rulan: "Miss Sima, let's take us into the cave to get the treasure!"

Sima Rulan didn't say much, and the lotus step moved lightly, and then walked towards the cave. The father and son of the Xiong family followed closely with Hua Bushi, and Liang Wude followed Zuihou with four pirate minions, and a group of nine people walked along the stone steps and entered the dark secret cave.

The stone steps descend straight down, neither rugged nor steep, but surprisingly long.

Hua Bushi walked down, and secretly counted the number of stone steps under his feet, until he counted to 1,800 steps, and still did not reach the end. At this moment, the entrance to the cave above was long gone, and it was pitch black all around, and the path under his feet could only be illuminated by the fire of torches.

According to the height of the steps, after walking 1,800 steps, it has descended about seventy or eighty zhang, and it should have come to the belly of the "big whale" of Whale Swallowing Island, which is not too far from the sea level.

The cave was only five or six feet high, and it was not wide, and there were hard stone walls on both sides and overhead. Hua Bushi, Sima Rulan, Ma Wude and other people of ordinary stature can still straighten their bodies and go down, and Xiong Bailing and Xiong Tiannan, who are strong, must bend down and bow their heads so as not to be bumped into their heads by the top of the cave.

Walking like this is of course very laborious. After walking for a while, Xiong Tiannan couldn't help but ask out loud: "Sister Lan'er, haven't you arrived yet, how far is it ahead?"

Sima Rulan glanced at the eldest prince of Xiong and said, "If you are afraid of being tired, go back now!"

Xiong Tiannan was bored, and said abruptly: "I'm just asking casually, Sister Lan'er is not tired, and of course my son is not tired." ”

Everyone continued to descend, and when Hua Bushi silently counted to two thousand two hundred steps, the space in front of them opened up. After a few more steps, the group entered a large cave.

If they had been drilling in the cave before, the Xiong family father and son would have to bend over and hunchback, and now even if they grow ten times taller, they don't need to bend over, just because the top of this cave is at least ten zhang high, and the entire cave is more than one hundred and ten zhang square.

The belly of the "big whale" is really empty, and it is hard to imagine that there is such a vast space in the belly of the mountain when it is on the top of the rocky mountain. And such a huge cave is obviously not dug by manpower, and must be naturally formed.

The light of the torches was much fainter in such a space. Under the reflection of the firelight, I saw that the four walls and the top of the cave were full of colorful colors, and they even reflected a metal-like luster, which was dazzling, as if entering a fantasy world.

When Xiong Tiannan saw this scene, his face was shocked, and he said, "Why don't we go to the underworld, how can even the stones have such a strange color and glow?"

Hua Bushi smiled slightly, and said: "The eldest prince Xiong is really shallow, the stones in this cave have colorful colors, but it shows that this is a metal vein, and there is nothing surprising about it." ”

When he spoke, there was disdain and sarcasm on his face. Xiong Tiannan was already extremely resentful of Hua Bushi, and at this time he was even more unconvinced, and shouted: "Which one of you say is shallow?

Hua Bushi smiled and didn't answer, the disdain on his face did not diminish slightly, Xiong Tiannan saw it in his eyes, and his heart was even more resentful, he raised his palm, and wanted to teach this hateful guy a lesson, but he heard Liang Wude say: "Xiong Gongzi can't do much!"

Liang Wude didn't kill Sima Rulan and Hua Bushi, originally in order to ask Sima Rulan to take him to get the detailed drawings of shipbuilding and the secret book of Shaolin stunts, although he has entered the secret cave, but the things have not yet arrived, he should not let Xiong Tiannan have branches.

He stopped Xiong Tiannan, turned to Sima Rulan again, and asked, "Miss Sima, where is the thing?"

Sima Rulan pointed into the distance and said, "It's in the stone room behind the altar over there, I'll take you to get it." ”

In the center of this huge cave, there is a stone platform that is about five zhang high, in the shape of five angles, about five or six zhang wide, and there is a stone fence on the side of the platform. Sima Rulan stepped on the stone steps and walked up the stone platform, and everyone followed closely behind him to the platform.

The stone platform is paved with blue-black stones, and there are many strange patterns carved on it, which looks a bit like flowers, birds, insects and fish, but it is difficult to distinguish clearly. In the center of the stone platform is a stone sculpture of a large snake, which is quite similar to the snake carved on the stone slab at the entrance to the secret cave.

In front of this stone sculpture of the great serpent there is a tribute table and an incense burner, which are also made of stone. It can be seen that this is indeed an altar used by pirates to worship the snake god in ancient times.

On the table top of the tribute table in front of the stone statue, there are eight large characters engraved in seal: "The five elements converge, and the gods are all present"

The cave was very flat on all sides, and this altar was the highest place in the cave, and when everyone walked up to the stone platform, the light of the torches in the hands of the pirate minions immediately reflected the whole cave. But I saw that behind the stone platform, there was also a stone step of Xiangxia, which led to a stone gate twenty zhang away.

The stone gate is located on the rock wall, which is enough to be a foot high, and it looks very conspicuous. By the light of the fire, a five-sided star is faintly visible on the door, and two large characters are engraved on each corner, which are respectively "Gengjin, Yimu, Kwai Shui, Lihuo, and Shutu", which is the name of the number of the five elements.

Liang Wude looked at the stone gate and asked, "Is the thing in that stone gate?"

Sima Rulan said: "Not bad. There are twenty-five stone chambers behind this stone gate, which is where the former king of the East China Sea, Tuoba Qingtian, stored his treasures, but now that those treasures have been moved, Daddy has stored the secret books of his own martial arts and the entire set of shipbuilding details in them. ”

Liang Wude nodded, turned around and ordered: "Hall Master Xiong, you and I will follow Miss Sima to get the treasure, and the others will stay on this altar! ”

Liang Wude said that he would release people, but there was a fierce light in his eyes, and when he really got what he wanted, where would he release people, obviously to kill people. Xiong Tiannan was not too stupid after all, he looked at Liang Wude's eyes, immediately understood, and replied loudly: "Go ahead, I will take good care of this kid surnamed Hua, and I won't let him run away." ”

Hua Bushi stood aside, but he had a calm look, as if he hadn't heard the true meaning of Liang Wude's words. At this time, Sima Rulan also glanced back at the eldest young master, her eyes flowed, and she swept over a bluestone ground in front of the stone-carved snake in the center of the altar intentionally or unintentionally.

Since being restrained on the road, Sima Rulan and Hua Bushi were under the surveillance of a group of pirates, and entered the secret cave, and along the way down the stone steps, Liang Wude, the old fox, also followed closely behind the two of them throughout the whole process. Sima Rulan didn't say that she wanted to talk to Hua Bushi, even if the two of them met their eyes, they would be discovered by Liang Wude immediately.

It was only at this time, taking advantage of the opportunity of Liang Wude turning his face and ordering Xiong Tiannan, that Sima Rulan had a meeting of eyes with Hua Bushi for the first time.

A moment later, Liang Wude and Xiong Bailing escorted Sima Rulan down the stone steps and headed towards the rock wall where the stone gate was located, while Hua Bushi, Xiong Tiannan and the four pirate minions stayed on the altar.

In fact, guarding Hua Bushi doesn't need these many people at all, this eldest young master doesn't know martial arts, even if he only leaves a pirate minion to guard, he can't escape. And Hua Bushi had no intention of escaping, he half-closed his eyes, bowed his head and pondered the meaning of the glance that Sima Rulan hurriedly threw just now.

Xiong Tiannan stood next to Hua Bushi, staring at him with squinted eyes, and suddenly said, "You kid is pretending, aren't you thinking of some tricks?"

Hua Bushi said indifferently: "What tricks can I have? Anyway, Fifth Master Liang has already agreed, and after getting the things, he will let us go, so why do you need to do this again?"

Xiong Tiannan grinned and said, "Yes, you really don't have to worry about it at all." Anyway, Fifth Master Liang will let you go soon, hehe, this son will give you a ride at that time!"

Hua Bushi didn't seem to understand Xiong Tiannan's words, still with a smile on his face, he sat down cross-legged on the floor, closed his eyes and recuperated.

At this time, Liang Wude, Xiong Bailing, and Sima Rulan had already come to the rock wall in the distance, walked in from the stone gate, and disappeared from the sight of everyone on the altar.

Xiong Tiannan thought that as long as Liang Wude came back, this kid surnamed Hua would know that what he could get was not freedom at all, but to be killed, and the expression on his face would definitely be wonderful at that time, and most of them would kneel on the ground to ask for mercy, Xiong Tiannan could say in a sarcastic tone: "I promised to give you a ride, this Xiong eldest prince will never break his word!" and then slapped his head flat.

As soon as this thought appeared in Xiong Tiannan's heart, he was very excited. From being slapped by Sima Rulan in the barking sky tower a few months ago, to being chased upstairs by RT-Mart and fleeing, and being humiliated by Hua Bushi's plot with incense in Mingxiangzhai, Xiong Tiannan is simply going to suffer a loss when he sees this "evil dog boy", and now he can finally recover all the previous debts at once, which is really happy!

However, time passed little by little, the time of a pillar of incense had passed, Liang Wude and the three of them had not come out after entering the stone gate, Hua Bushi closed his eyes and recuperated, completely silent, Xiong Tiannan was already a little unable to sit still, and began to pace back and forth on the altar.

The four pirate minions were also anxious, and one by one they frequently looked at the stone gate in the distance.

Xiong Tiannan finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said to Hua Bushi: "You said that Miss Lan'er, they have been in the stone gate for so long, and Weishenme hasn't come out yet?"