"Broken-off door" is a slang term in the world, describing some dead ends with no way in or out. This secret passage has water hidden at the entrance and the door is sealed at the end. Doesn't it mean that you can't get out after entering?
The Taoist priest with a grimace turned to the front of the well edge. There was a gap more than ten feet wide, which should be the path for traffic. He stood in the gap and took a closer look. He saw that the iron gate was tightly sealed, and the gap between the railings did not allow people to pass at all. , so it was concluded that Li Tianwen and Xu Yibai did not take the secret passage, and probably climbed in through the city wall.
In this way, the connection between the two pools of blood and Li Tianwen became more likely.
Everyone has figured out most of the layout of the city at this time. The Grimace Taoist roughly divided it into three areas: tall buildings deep in the north; an open space with a secret passage along the well in the middle; and a group of stone houses hiding zombies in the south. Among them, the stone house group occupies the largest area, accounting for almost two-thirds of the city.
He Siniang had some doubts at this time and said: "Such a big city, but almost all of it is used to build stone houses to hide rice dumplings, and the entrance to the city is still a broken door. Could it be that this is just a group mausoleum?"
"Isn't that still a grave circle?" Luo Laoqi interjected.
The Taoist priest with a grimace shook his head: "I think it's not a tomb, but something else that I guessed before."
"what?"
"Prison."
Seeing the confusion in everyone's eyes, the grim-faced Taoist priest explained: "Although we found some traces of life in the stone house, it is extremely simple. There is only a bed and a bowl. Is this a normal life? Even if you are poor, You can’t afford this kind of money, right?”
"It's hard to say... I've lost my butt, how can I not be poor?"
"It's just the clothes that have rotted away, what's wrong with your butt!" The Taoist Priest with a grimace continued: "Think again about the city wall when you came in. The beveled side is on the outside, and the reverse bevel is on the inside. Isn't its purpose just to prevent people in the city from running out? ?”
Xia Houyun nodded thoughtfully, and then added: "What the Taoist said, combined with the broken door in front of us, the city is really a siege that cannot be climbed out or drilled down."
"Building a city to imprison Zongzi, what kind of corrupt method is this?" Luo Laoqi wondered.
"Perhaps these people have unusual identities."
"Siniang is right. Ninety-nine percent of the people who have lived at the bottom of the valley worship Xuntan, and judging from the statues on the stone bridge, the Xuntun they worship seems to have three eyes. So will it be because of this that Three-Eyed Zongzi’s status within the ethnic group becomes different?”
"That's right! The Sa family also forgot that those bird statues also have three eyes."
"The Taoist priest's analysis is well-founded, and I admire it." Xia Houyun showed admiration, and said: "If you have been exposed to this business for a long time, you will find that the farther away the ancients are from us, the more they will become fanatical worshipers because of their ignorance. , as a result, they will do some incredible things. If we speculate about them with today's thinking, it will be like wearing a basin and looking at the sky, unable to see clearly. However, the Taoist priest's perspective on the problem has jumped out of this limitation. It can be said that you are looking for branches and knots, looking at the big things through small things, which makes people admire how terrible the future generations are!"
The grim-faced Taoist priest was praised as being like a two-foot-tall monk, and instinctively thought of a weasel knocking on the door outside the chicken coop.
He secretly thought: How come this person has been praising Pindao inexplicably since he started fighting? And the more he boasts, the more explicit he becomes. What is he going to do? Could it be that he was worried that he would give up the choice halfway and deliberately please himself?
The Taoist priest with a grimace suppressed the doubts in his heart and hurriedly replied: "The road ahead for us is unknown, so we can only continue to make assumptions and confirm them. What Pindao said just now is just a conjecture, and we can't be sure of it yet. What is the origin here? You have to go and take a look before you can make a conclusion."
"That's right. Since there are no other clues here, let's move on, right?"
"Well, let's go."
Everyone crossed the well and walked along the secret passage and started heading towards the building to the north.
The visibility in the city began to get lower and lower at this time. It seemed that the smoke and dust brought out by the previous volcanic eruption had spread over a large area. The grim-faced Taoist priest asked everyone to quickly wear face coverings to prevent the diffuse sulfur gas from choking their throats. At the same time, Put out all the extra torches, leaving only the one in your hand to lead the way.
There was no words for a moment, and the city began to fall silent because of everyone's silence.
Not long after walking, the grim-faced Taoist priest at the front suddenly stopped. When he shined his torch on the ground, he found a small pile of black shavings at his feet. If he looked carefully, he saw that there was something like a piece of yellow paper mixed in among the black shavings. .
"True Lord Yin Yang!" Xia Houyun whispered from the side: "This should be Zhang Ranjin's yellow talisman."
The Taoist priest with a grimace nodded: "It seems that Xu Yibai is not dead, and it is unlikely that he will use the talisman to deal with Li Tianwen. So the real owner of the blood stains is someone else?"
"Anyway, we have to be careful." He Siniang pointed to the paper embers on the ground: "The talisman technique is Xu Yibai's special skill. If you can use it here, you must have encountered some trouble."
"Come on, the gate is right in front, let's take a look!"
The largest building in the city finally came into view, but from a close look, the building was not hemispherical, but like a half-cut cylinder lying vertically on the ground. It looked like a semicircle when viewed from the front. That’s all.
The entire building is made of huge stones, with a height of five or six feet, and the widest point is nearly ten feet, and the length is even more exaggerated. It extends into the thick fog and you can't see the end at a glance. You can only feel that it is heading north. It seems to be integrated with the northern city wall.
In the middle of the building, there is a double stone door, which is three feet high and more than two feet wide. It is so majestic that people standing in front of it look like ants.
In addition, there is a stone carving on the door, which accounts for almost one-third of the stone door. The stone carving lines should be coated with black paint, so it looks very eye-catching on the gray-white stone door. Everyone knows the pattern, so it is It's an upturned eye.
The Taoist Priest with a grimace looked at He Siniang, and their thoughts were simultaneously drawn to the golden palace of King Hui's Mausoleum. At that time, there was an eye pattern painted on the plaque at the door and on the wall behind the dragon chair. Its shape now seems to be similar to The ones on the stone gate are exactly the same. Is this just a coincidence?
The grimace Taoist priest and He Siniang were surprised by the eye pattern, but others were shocked by the scale of the entire building.
They have seen so many incredible stone buildings since they went down to the valley. It can be said that starting from the stone gate of Lanzhu Beast, each one is more amazing than the other, especially the semi-cylindrical stone temple in front of them. How much manpower is required? Can it be built with material resources? How many people have walked through such a deep underground valley that never sees sunlight all year round?
