After He Siniang leaned firmly on the rock wall, she turned around and said to everyone: "I throw this rope over, you guys pull it to the statue and tie it tightly. After I climb up some distance, you can then tie the main rope to the statue." Hand it over."
Everyone agreed one after another, then took the end of the rope and began to pull it to the base of the statue to fix it.
He Siniang continued to climb up. She was cautious in her heart and did not dare to climb to the top of the rock wall rashly. She only stopped when she was about two feet away from the top.
After stopping, He Siniang fixed another rope into the rock crevice, and then threw the end of the rope to everyone as usual.
Everyone took the rope, and the Taoist priest with a grimace took the lead in proofing it, and began to move towards the rock wall one after another.
The grim-faced Taoist priest grabbed the main rope with both hands, stepped on the horizontal rope under his feet to use the force, and jumped to the opposite side with a little skill of flying on clouds and snow. The reason why he could do so easily was because He Siniang came over first and pulled him later. This horizontal rope would inevitably hit the water at such a bad angle, even if it had extraordinary Qinggong skills.
Thanks to this horizontal rope, the following people also passed smoothly. When Luo Laoqi, who was at the end, also climbed onto the rock wall, everyone began to climb to the top carefully.
The way up was much smoother than expected. Firstly, this rock wall was indeed easy to climb, and secondly, Li Tianwen did not cause trouble on it. This man and Xu Yibai seemed to have disappeared since they broke into the stone gate, except They left a piece of Qiu Laohua's head at the stone gate for everyone to remember, and there was no trace of the others. Maybe they never thought that the Taoist priest with a grimace and his party could enter the stone gate, or maybe they were busy looking for something, this It was no longer time to take care of the grimace Taoist priest and others.
Arriving at the top of the cliff, the grimace Taoist lit the torch again, and then began to look around at the surrounding environment.
There was first a large open space around it, and the ground was so bare that not even an inch of grass grew. It stands to reason that there is no sun all year round under the ground, so it is normal that flowers, plants and trees cannot survive. However, there is not even a moss to be seen around. This means that the top of Stone Mountain is very dry. Not only is it difficult for plants and trees to survive, but even people who like darkness cannot survive. No spore plant can reproduce here.
Eight or nine steps away from the open space, there was a vague appearance of a high wall. When he got closer, the grim-faced Taoist priest discovered that this was the outer wall of the city that he had seen before on the platform.
The word "city wall" has been emphasized since ancient times. From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Northern and Southern Dynasties when the Northern Wei, Liu and Song Dynasties were divided, except for Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty, all the capitals of the other dynasties and dynasties had a city wall system.
The word "city" is a compound word, in which "city" refers to the wall of the inner city, and "guo" refers to the wall of the outer city. "Build a city to protect the king, and build a wall to protect the people." This sentence can appropriately explain the relationship between the city and the wall. role.
The city in front of us has an outer wall, so we can infer that this place is still a product of the Chinese cultural circle, and the outer wall is used to "defend the people." Then the cave country mentioned by Li Tianwen gradually came into being in the mind of the grim-faced Taoist priest. , he had always suspected that those two words were used to describe a certain mausoleum, but now it seems that he has overthought it. This so-called "cave country" may really mean "the country in the cave".
The Grimace Taoist had the ability to judge the big from the small, and would often deduce the context of the whole thing based on a few clues. At this time, he had a plan in his mind, and he basically had a direction for how to act next, so he quickly greeted everyone He took out the Eagle Lock and began to prepare to climb over the wall and enter the city.
The construction of this stone city wall is rather strange. Judging from the material, it should be made of granite stones, but there is no city gate. There is only a three-foot-high city wall with no ends visible on both sides, standing alone on the stone mountain. It feels like A siege is built to isolate the inside and outside, neither letting outsiders in nor letting those inside out.
Luo Laoqi saw that there was no way here and he had to climb the wall. Naturally, he couldn't help but cursed a few times, saying that no breathing thing could build such a pigsty-like city wall.
Xia Houyun had other opinions on this. He said: "Perhaps there is indeed no gate on the city wall. The entrance and exit of the entire city should be the secret passage under the water."
"In this case, wouldn't the city wall be built in vain?" He Siniang asked doubtfully: "If the secret passage leads directly into the city, what is the purpose of the city wall? Isn't it a natural danger to guard the cliff directly?"
"This...this old man doesn't know..."
"Who knows what this ghost city wall is for defense." The Taoist priest with a ghost face interjected: "This place is located in a cave. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a bird's nest. What dangers can there be around to build a city wall? Yipindao It seems that the city wall is probably to prevent people inside from escaping. If there is no city wall and only a section of cliff is separated, wouldn’t that person jump down and run away?”
"So this place looks like a prison..."
"Oh no matter what it is, let's go in and take a look and we'll find out. We'll find this guy when we get to the top of the city, so as not to cause the thief Li to be in a hurry if we encounter him again."
Everyone did as they were told, and each took out the Eagle Lock and quickly climbed up to the top of the city. As soon as they reached the top, before they could stand firm, Xia Houxiang heard an ouch and fell to the ground.
Taoist Ghostface and Xia Houyun were closest to him and hurriedly helped him up. At this time, Taoist Ghostface suddenly felt that his palms were a little sticky. He lit a torch and shined a light. Unexpectedly, everything he saw was blood red, and his palms were actually covered with blood. thick blood.
When Xia Houyun saw this, he thought it was Xia Houxiang who had fallen and bled somewhere, and immediately asked, but Xia Houxiang shook his head, pointed to the soles of his feet and said: "It's not my grandson's, there is a pool of blood on the ground, and my grandson also stepped on it and slipped." Pour."
The grim-faced Taoist priest rubbed the blood on his fingers, sniffed it with his nose, then frowned and said, "It's human blood, and it's still a little warm. Could it be that Thief Li and the others also walked here?"
"You can smell this?!" Xia Houxiang was surprised when he heard this.
"Human blood is sweet, pig, cow, and sheep blood is fragrant, and chicken and duck blood is tasteless. Ordinary people can tell by tasting it, but poor people have a keen sense of smell and only need to smell it."
"sharp…"
"The Taoist suspects that this was left by Li Tianwen and the others?" He Siniang asked: "But how could they be injured? And judging from the blood volume, I'm afraid the injuries are not serious."
"It's probably internal strife again." Luo Laoqi interjected: "Isn't it common for those stupid things to kill their own people? They must have seen the place and were afraid that the baby would get an extra share."
"We've just arrived in the outer city, it's too early to take action..."
"It's better to take advantage of the opportunity. Can the murder wait?"
"What Lao Qi said is really possible. It's not like we didn't see how Qiu Laohua died. But if this is really a liquidation (Huo Bing), why do we only see blood but no body?"
