"Back then, the emperor's family was a gangster. We all in Jingzhou knew that and gave the emperor a nickname, Li... Oh, Brother Xiao, why are you kicking me?" Ouyang Yunyi had no taboos and dared to say anything. , but before he finished speaking, Xiao Chen flew up with a kick and hit him in the butt.
"Kick you? I'm going to hit you again!" Xiao Chen said angrily, "Let you talk nonsense, I will tell Yun Xiu later to see if she doesn't tear your mouth apart!"
"If I don't tell you, everyone knows it!" Ouyang Yunyi covered his buttocks and muttered, "They all know it too, if you don't believe me, ask them!"
Several people were shocked when they heard this. They all lowered their heads and dug in the soil desperately. No one dared to raise their head and say a word.
Because they all knew that the emperor's nickname back then was "Li Tong'er". Should I say it or not, it actually sounded quite friendly...
There is Xiao Ye who is a master of tricks, Ouyang Yunyi who is extremely powerful, and Sun Changshan who is a professional digger, no matter how hard the frozen soil is.
While they were talking, in just one stick of incense, a large hole with a radius of one foot and a depth of more than three feet had been dug.
Pulling the soil apart, it turned out to be a piece of copper plate about nine feet square, five inches thick, and bright yellow...
Sun Changshan wanted to use a shovel pole to pry, but Xiao Ye and Ouyang Yunyi came over and pushed him away. The two brothers shouted a slogan, directly lifted the copper plate, and threw it aside. Several hundred kilograms of stuff , as light as a goose feather in their hands.
Below the copper plate are steps paved with layers of bluestone strips. In the middle of the steps is a smooth slope several feet wide. The slope is extremely gentle, making it suitable for walking horses and pushing carts.
"Go in and take a look!" Ouyang Yunyi couldn't wait to go down.
"Hey, hey, wait a minute. This place has been closed for decades. The air inside is poisonous. People can't stand it if they go in. Wait for the wind to blow for a while before going in!" Sun Changshan grabbed Yun Yi. , "Besides, it's so dark inside that you can't see anything. We need to get some torches first."
"Is this directly connected to Baisha City?" Zhang Mingyuan asked, "Can such a long tunnel work without vents?"
"If there is a vent, is it still a secret passage?" Gongsun Chenwen asked, "This place is very spacious, and it is a straight passage. There are no turns, so the airflow is smooth, so just open one end and wait for a while. If you can leave, even if hundreds or thousands of people go down together, it won’t be a big deal.”
"My dear, these are all walls made of bluestone. You guys put in a lot of effort back then." Zhang Mingyuan said.
"Haha, Gao Changgong didn't just leave this secret passage to leave an escape route. He also thought that he could lead his troops out from here to launch a surprise counterattack against the troops besieging the city. Otherwise, he wouldn't have built it so wide. "Well, you don't need too much firewood, just dig a tree stump." Gongsun Shenyan said.
"Big tree pillar? Do you want to carry it in?" Sun Changshan asked curiously.
"Just do whatever I ask you to do. This guy just wants to make noises with me!" Gongsun said seriously.
Brothers Xiao Ye and Yun Yi quickly dug out a big tree stump, carried it to the entrance of the pit and looked at him. Should he light it now or go down?
"Carry it and follow me." Gongsun Shenyan said and took out a hexagonal prism from his arms. However, this mirror was not a bronze mirror. The whole body was green and seemed to be carved from a piece of jade.
He stretched out his hand and lightly rubbed it on the mirror surface, and a glistening green light emitted. Although the light was weak, it could illuminate several feet.
This should be a luminous stone.
Gongsun Shenwen held the stone mirror in his hand and slowly climbed down the steps, followed by several people.
"Xiao Ye, Wuji, Yun Yi, you three stay up there!" Xiao Chen said.
These three brothers have the highest martial arts skills. Only when they guard Xiao Chen can he feel at ease.
"It's enough to have Xiao Ye and Wuji. I can go down too." Ouyang Yunyi said hurriedly, "No one has entered this tunnel for decades. There may be gods, ghosts, monsters and so on. I am a disciple of the Ouyang family, and I am born with the ability to ward off evil spirits."
"You are the evil god yourself!" Xiao Chen said.
Several people went down the stairs and into the secret passage. Gongsun Shenwen asked Sun Changshan to place the tree stump on a stand next to the wall, took out a fire stick, blew lightly, and lit the still damp tree stump.
The fire here suddenly became brighter, and the passage in front suddenly became brighter. From a distance, it seemed that there were countless torches being lit together!
"Yeah? What kind of magic is this?" Ouyang Yunyi looked at it with surprise.
"Mr. Gongsun probably installed many bronze mirrors in the passage, right?" Sun Changshan said.
"Humph, you are the only one who is smart, do you want to show off?" Gongsun Shenwen said and walked to the first torch, stretched out his sleeve and wiped it. The flame became much brighter in an instant, but it turned out that it was indeed a bronze mirror!
This mechanism is based on the principle of light refraction. As long as a fire is lit behind the bronze mirror at the end, the light will be reflected on other mirrors and illuminate the entire passage.
It seems strange, but it is also really magical, because as long as the position and angle of these mirrors are slightly deviated, all the mirrors in the channel will not light up.
The fourth most skillful craftsman in the world truly deserves his reputation!
A few people walked inside and wiped the bronze mirrors on both sides. As the tree stump burned more and more fiercely, the passage became brighter and brighter. However, the firelight was shining and the figures were erratic, but it still felt a bit eerie.
"It seems like hell." Lin Qi muttered softly, expressing what everyone was thinking.
After walking about a mile, I saw a large dark pit in the middle of the road ahead. I walked to the pit and looked down.
I saw that the pit was about one foot deep, with hundreds of sharp iron thorns more than three feet long standing vertically underneath. There were curved hooks on the tips of the iron thorns. Once they were pierced, it was difficult to pull them out.
There were more than a dozen scattered white bones scattered nearby. It seemed that this was the trap set by Gongsun Shenwen back then. Gao Changgong and others fled in a hurry and fell into it.
Gao Changgong, a great hero from a generation, died here, and no one knew about it for decades. It was really sad. "Which one is Gao Changgong?" Li Qiu said, "After all, he is also a prince. He sent someone back to collect the bones and bury them properly."
"It's not here, it's in front." Gongsun Shenyan took the lead and walked through a narrow passage against the wall. After passing by, he did not forget to tell everyone, "Be careful where you step. If you fall in, you will die."
Several people followed it carefully, only to see that there was indeed a big pit in front of them. There were only four or five skeletons in this pit.
In the firelight, one of the corpses still had yellow robes left on it, and a golden feather crown hung on the neck bone. This was Langya King Gao Changgong.
But he saw that he was still holding a scimitar tightly in the bones of his hand, and the two black holes on the white skull seemed to be staring at everyone. It seemed that he also died with his eyes open.
"Yeah, it's so strange." Ouyang Yunyi said, "They came from that way. They should have fallen into this trap first. Then why are there so many people who haven't fallen into it? And the people in that pit Since people know there are traps, they should be more careful, wouldn’t it be foolish to fall into them again?”
