The three people quickly gathered around.
The Taoist priest squatted in the corner, shining the light of the flashlight on the ground. At first glance, the ground was no different from other places. It was all paved with yellow-brown floors, but...
"Look here." The Taoist priest pointed to a strange bump on the ground.
"It's a bit like a pull tab," Xiaolan also squatted down, "It feels... like a mechanism leading to the basement."
The tab is very small, only as big as a fingernail, and the whole thing is painted yellowish brown, almost forming a protective color.
Miaozhen stretched out his hand and pulled on the ring a few times. Suddenly, he pinched the ring and began to exert force.
Xiao Lan suddenly felt the ground beneath her feet shaking, and hurriedly stopped her, "Wait a minute, what if there's something bad down there?"
"Can you smell anything?" The Taoist priest turned to ask Baomu.
Baomu shook his head, "I can't smell it down there, so I guess I have to open it."
"Let's do this," Miaozhen said, "go aside and wait for a while. If there is danger here, you can save me in time."
us? save you?
Miaozhen, you...are you too optimistic?
Even though the three of them complained in their hearts, their actions were honest. The three of them obediently retreated to the wall and stood there.
In order to pull the tab open, even Miaozhen used a lot of strength. The three of them watched Miaozhen pull hard for a few seconds. Finally, a harsh friction sound was heard, and the floor in front of Miaozhen began to tremble. .
The three of them got closer again.
It is indeed a small door.
That door cut off several pieces of floorboards. Miraculously, before the door appeared, there were no cracks at all on those pieces of floorboards.
When the three of them came over, Miaozhen had already opened the door and shined the light of the flashlight in.
Below, is a deep well.
The outline of the well is the same as a small square door. It is only about half a meter wide vertically and horizontally. It can only support one person to pass through. The depth of the well is unknown. Wherever the light of the flashlight can reach, nothing can be seen except the dark walls of the well. Less than.
"What's down there?" Miaozhen muttered.
"It smells..." Baomu sniffed hard, "It's a bit... a bit strange..."
"What kind of strange method?" the Taoist priest asked.
"I don't know either..." Baomu frowned in confusion, "It just feels... a little warm and a little smelly..."
"Smells?" Xiaolan asked, "Is it the smell of corpses? Are there corpses down there?"
"I can't tell whether it's the smell from the well or the smell from the surrounding area," Baomu said. "It's too light. Even if there is something down there, it is far away from us."
The four of them thought about it for a while.
"How about I go down and take a look." Xiaolan broke the silence.
"How can this be done?" Baomu asked anxiously, "What if there is danger down there?"
"But I feel like there will be clues down there," Xiaolan said matter-of-factly, "Why don't we go down and take a look? It's such a small hole for you and the Taoist Master to drill through... Hey, why not..."
Xiaolan's eyes turned to Miaozhen.
Miaozhen held her chin in thought, and was stunned for a moment when she was suddenly stared at like this.
"how?"
"Xiao Miaozhen," Xiaolan's eyes were shining in the dark night, "How about you go down."
"ah?"
"Xiaolan, isn't this bad..."
"This is the best plan," Xiaolan said immediately, "You and Taoist Master are too big, and I'm too weak. If something happens, I won't be able to run away. Miaozhen is small and strong. It's just... Made for going down wells.”
In this way, the majestic genius Jiaotian Miaozhen became an expert in going down the well. He was tied to the rope in a daze, stood by the well, and began to prepare to go down the well.
"Don't be afraid, Miaozhen," Baomu comforted, "If you are in danger, just shout and we will definitely pull you up immediately."
Xiaolan agreed, "Yes, we are very powerful."
"We also have to agree on a descending height," the Taoist priest said with a smile as he watched the three children's mischief. "If the well is too deep, we won't be able to go directly to the bottom."
"The Taoist priest is right," Baomu also said, "and if it is too deep, the oxygen will be thin."
The Taoist Master nodded and said, "The length of my talisman rope is thirty meters, but there is already some thin air in the thirty-meter well. Let's go down twenty meters. If we don't find anything, we will go back and try again." prepare for."
The others had no objections, and just like that, the three of them clung to the rope wrapped around Miaozhen's waist, as if they had put down the bait, and carefully put Miaozhen into the well.
"Put...let..."
Miaozhen calmly directed the people on the shore until the rope in the hands of the three people had basically reached the end.
The Taoist priest glanced at the rope and raised his voice slightly, "Miaozhen, the rope has come to an end. Did you find anything?"
Quiet.
Miaozhen said nothing. If it weren't for the faint sound coming from the rope, they would have started to worry.
After a few minutes, Miaozhen's voice finally came through.
"There's a sound down there!"
"sound?!"
The three of them looked at each other in panic.
"Can you hear it?" the Taoist priest asked Baomu.
Baomu pricked up his ears, "I...I can't hear clearly. It seems like there isn't..."
"Maybe it's the sound from underground," Xiaolan said. "The sound means there are creatures. If there are creatures, there may be danger. We need to pull Miaozhen up quickly."
But Miaozhen shouted, "Put me down a little lower."
"Can't lower it, the rope is not long enough," Xiaolan shouted as she pulled up the rope with all her strength, "We have to pull you up!"
"If it's any lower..."
"Safety is important!" the Taoist priest also shouted.
"Oh well……"
Miaozhen weighed very little, and the three of them worked hard. After a while, Miaozhen appeared at the mouth of the well.
"You're not hurt, are you?"
"You're not poisoned, are you?"
"Are you not scared?"
Miaozhen was confused by this sudden concern and didn't know how to answer. He finally returned to the ground and took off the rope around him before he said, "I'm fine. I didn't see anything. I just know that there is still a lot of space below." It’s so big that even if it drops to a height of twenty meters, you can’t see the bottom at all.”
"What's going on with the sound?" the Taoist priest asked.
"That's it... I seemed to hear a very small sound coming from underground," Miaozhen said. "It's very, very faint. It should be very far away from me."
"Can you tell what the sound is?" Baomu's eyes widened, "Is it a human? An animal? Or something else..."
"The sound was too small and too far away, so I dare not make any inferences," Miaozhen said. "I can only say... it sounded like a woman's scream."
A woman screams!
Baomu immediately kicked the door shut, as if he was afraid that the things inside would come out.
Miaozhen smiled and said, "If the rope is long enough, we can go deeper. Maybe we can determine the source of the sound."
"There are only four of us here today. If we really encounter something difficult, it will be difficult to deal with it," the Taoist priest said. "Now that we know there is a secret underground, we can wait until the others arrive and then we can study it in depth." .”
"I think so too," Miaozhen said.
The Taoist priest nodded happily, thinking that Miaozhen was indeed much easier to manage than Fool and Qin Yin.
"The night is still long, let's continue to investigate." Miaozhen looked at the dark night outside the door.
"good."
Apart from the well, there was nothing else found in this small room. The four of them walked out of the door without stopping and walked along the path to another house.
After bypassing the atrium corridor, the four of them stood at the door of the second house. The Taoist priest and Bao Mu carefully removed the seal on the door panel. When they pushed the door open, the door leaf and the door frame rubbed against each other, making a creaking sound. It was like the old house was groaning and shouting.
This room is completely different from the one just now.
Looking from the outside, one would never expect that there is such a large space inside this room.
Of course, it could also be that the layout of the room makes it look spacious.
Because this room is empty.
"It's empty," Xiaolan stood at the door and peered in, "There's not even any furniture."
That's right, there is no furniture or decoration. This room is square and empty. It is an empty room in the true sense.
Miraculously, they hesitated when they saw that there was nothing in the room.
"Not only is there no furniture," Baomu said, "The room also seems to have no smell."
"You mean, there's no corpse smell in here?" the Taoist asked.
"Almost not," Baomu said. "The moment I opened the door, I only smelled the smell of dust, and I don't know why, but I always felt that the smell of dust in this room... was a little warm."
"Then there are no dead people in this room." Xiaolan said.
"Not only is there no dead person," the Taoist priest refused to go in, folding his arms and thinking, "it may also mean that this room was closed when the tragedy happened."
If the door had been left open at that time, the body odor would have diffused in anyway.
"What's going on?" Baomu asked.
Miaozhen looked at it for a while, then suddenly squatted down and picked up a dead branch as long as a forearm from the ground. After reaching out and drawing something on the dead branch, Miaozhen raised his hand and threw the dead branch in. .
The dead branch rolled several times on the floor, and then stood upright in the middle of the room.
"Wow..." Xiaolan and Baomu were confused.
"It's nothing," Miaozhen felt embarrassed, "This is my secret skill of controlling objects in the fifth watch of the night. I use the Heavenly Order to control objects to make flags, also called Heavenly Flags..."
"I've heard of this trick before," Xiaolan said hurriedly, "It seems like...who is it from?..."
"Perhaps it's Ye Bai," Miaozhen nodded, "After all, you don't know me very well."
"Really? I always feel...ah, I remembered it. It was Jasmine. Jasmine introduced it to me," Xiaolan recalled for a long time, "But I remember Jasmine said that this trick is not that simple. She seemed to say that you need to prepare multiple roots. Banzi is coming..."
"Twelve flags, can you form an array to send out immortal soldiers?" Miaozhen asked with a smile, "Indeed, the basic technique of Tianzuo Banner is exactly like that."
"That……"
"It means that only entry-level people need so many props," Baomu translated, "and Xiao Miaozhen doesn't need them for a long time."
"Wow..." Xiaolan's eyes lit up again.
Miaozhen just smiled and said no more. He turned around and began to concentrate on controlling the dead branch.
They saw the dead branch standing on the spot, trembling a few times, then suddenly jumping into the air, and falling sideways in the air, like a pointer, suspended in the air, slowly spinning.
I don’t know what this is doing, but it looks awesome...
Xiaolan stared at the dead branch with envy on her face until the dead branch spun around for the last time and fell to the ground with a snap.
"There should be no problem," Miaozhen turned around and said, "Generally speaking, it's basically safe."
This is using that dead branch as a scanner!
After saying that, Miaozhen walked in first, and the three of them followed suit without hesitating any longer.
Miaozhen picked up the dead branch, thought about it, and put it back.
The four of them stood in the room, looking around blankly and then at each other.
There is nothing here, I don’t even know where to turn.
"There seems to be nothing wrong with the ground," Xiaolan said, "Is this just an empty house?"
"It's a big empty house." Baomu added.
"This is the second main room from Qiqiao Mansion. According to common sense, it should be the living room," the Taoist priest said. "At least it won't be a useless empty room."
Xiaolan walked to the window and pushed it. Even the window opened smoothly, and there was nothing suspicious at all.
"Maybe it was vacant because the lighting was poor? The windows in this house are so small, but the roof is so high..." Xiaolan said, looking up at the roof, "Hey, there are still beams here."
"In this regard, Qiqiao has similar tastes to Wu Geng Tian and Ba Liang Shui," Miaozhen said. "We both appreciate traditional architecture."
"I appreciate it too," Xiaolan quickly declared her taste, "but we have never seen such old beams in Brother Jiutian's house. Isn't it very inconvenient to still use this kind of roof now?"
"The roof of the previous room is a normal ceiling." The Taoist priest said.
"Hey - it seems like this room is really special," Xiaolan pinched her neck, "How about we go to the next room and see if there are any other rooms?"
"Okay, there's nothing else to find here."
The four of them went out, walked around the side door of the corridor, crossed a stone wall, and saw a zigzag courtyard in front of them.
There are three buildings on three sides of the courtyard, all of which are sealed. The strange thing is that the corridor ends here, and there is no external road leading to the depths of the mansion. Moreover, in front of the three almost identical buildings, Three plants are planted separately.
In front of the low house on the north side, there is a flower tree. In late autumn, the flowers have withered away, and only the sparse green leaves are swaying slightly in the night wind.
In front of the low house on the east side is a vine. The vine is planted in a brown flower pot the size of a football. Next to it are three yellow bamboo joints. The vine is wrapped around the three bamboo joints and growing vigorously.
In front of the low house on the west side, there is only a snow-white ceramic plate, and in the plate, there is a delicate grass blade.
The four of them walked towards the blade of grass at the same time in a tacit understanding.
For a long time they stared at the blades of grass.
"It's strange," Miaozhen said, "the blades of grass grow very strong, but where are its roots?"
