After waiting for a while, the air circulation in the stone chamber and the exit passage was almost complete. Ma Xiaoguang and Wu Qiuyi groped their way out slowly from the passage.
Everything went smoothly this time, and there were no more mazes like the Soul Hanging Ladder.
After walking for a short time, I suddenly felt like I could breathe easier. I lit a match and found a natural cave.
The cave is ten feet square and over one foot high. There is a stone altar measuring one foot square in the center. There is a stone pillar on the altar, but there is a flag hanging on the stone pillar, which is the ugly and weird symbol of "Yiguandao".
Ma Xiaoguang walked up to the altar, stretched out his hand to pull down the flag, wrapped up some of the magical artifacts on the altar, and said: "These evil cults are really haunting. Let's take these things back..." He did not put the flag and the The magic weapon was burned - this is physical evidence, it might be useful if you keep it.
While Ma Xiaoguang was packing up the things on the altar, Wu Qiuyi was looking around - the top priority was to find the exit, but Wu Qiuyi did not forget the most important thing.
Not long after, two stone gates were discovered. There were passages behind the gates, but they seemed to be naturally formed. It was just that the stone gates were added later.
You have to choose one from the left or the right, men on the left and women on the right. Ladies have priority. The two of them first chose the right passage and groped their way in.
However, since there are many things on the altar, there is actually an oil lamp, so you don't have to touch it with your hands. It's not good to touch it all the time.
The cave seems to be well ventilated. As you keep walking inside, the light from the oil lamp shows no sign of going out. It seems to be an unusual cave indeed.
After walking for a short time, there was a whole stone wall in front of me. The stone wall was as smooth as jade, and you could tell at a glance that it was not an ordinary thing.
After searching around for a long time, I finally found a rectangular groove hidden on the left side of the stone wall.
"This should be a mechanism that requires a special token or key to open. Let's go back and come back another day when we find the key to open it." Wu Qiuyi said.
"You can't help it?" Ma Xiaoguang couldn't help but ask.
"Not all locks in the world can be opened without a key, at least not this stone door..." Wu Qiuyi was not at all annoyed by Ma Xiaoguang's nonsense and explained softly.
Ma Xiaoguang was not determined to give up. He used the light to open the flag-wrapped baggage and took out the magical artifacts inside to compare them one by one... Unfortunately, none of them were suitable.
There was no choice but to turn around and return to the cave where the altar was located.
After taking a short rest, he opened another stone door and walked into the passage on the left.
This passage is about half the height of a person, but it is formed naturally. Both of them are not short in height, so they can only bend their waists in it, which is very uncomfortable.
This passage was much longer than the one just now. I don't know how long I walked, but I saw another stone slab. Looking at the stone slab, Ma Xiaoguang couldn't help but cursed in his heart: "God, you won't play with me like this, will you?"
However, Wu Qiuyi was not like Ma Xiaoguang. She did not lose her calm, but carefully searched around the stone gate, only to find a strange-shaped hole.
"There seems to be something in the bag that is somewhat similar to the shape of this hole." Wu Qiuyi thought for a moment and said.
I opened the bag with some suspicion and fumbled one by one. After a while, I really found something that looked like a candlestick. It was more than one circle smaller than the candlestick and had a dark yellow luster on it.
Wu Qiuyi inserted the yellow object into the small hole, turned it gently, and after hearing a burst of mechanical sound, the stone door opened with a bang!
A cool breeze blew in from outside, and Ma Xiaoguang instinctively blocked Wu Qiuyi behind him, holding an oil lamp in front of him.
The expected danger did not occur. After a cool breeze, there was a warm breeze. The fresh air was refreshing, but a glimmer of light appeared in front of his eyes.
When I stepped through the stone gate, I heard a loud bang and the stone gate had been closed. It was as if there had never been a passage behind me and it was a natural stone wall.
I didn't have time to think too much. After walking in the direction of the dim light for a short time, my eyes suddenly opened up. It was a starry sky, but it was already night.
Having walked out of the secret passage, the two of them felt relieved and sat on the ground, looking at the stars in the sky.
"It's so beautiful!" MISS Liu exclaimed as she looked at the stars in the sky.
"Sister, you are so generous. You should take a rest and find a way to go back." Ma Xiaoguang sighed. He was exhausted and hungry. He really couldn't imagine being trapped in the secret passage and hungry. What to eat? Thinking of eating the strange meat in the clay pot if he was trapped inside, Ma Xiaoguang felt bad.
MISS Liu gave Commander Ma a blank look, and seemed to resent him for not understanding the style and romance. However, this was indeed not the time for flowers and moonlight, so she had no choice but to gather her mood and use the starlight to identify the direction with Commander Ma, along the way. Follow the mountain road toward the villa.
After walking for about an hour, when they arrived on the road, they saw lights flashing and a convoy coming up from the mountain. They waved to stop the oncoming cars, but they saw the fat man jumping out of the car.
"Boss Ma, MISS Liu, you scared me, aren't you mobilizing our engineering brothers for support..." Fatty said with surprise and lingering fear.
"It's a long story. Let's go back to the villa first and get some food..." After Ma Xiaoguang helped Wu Qiuyi into the car, he also threw himself into the car like a sandbag. Only now did he really feel hungry, tired, and all kinds of emotions. Like attack.
Soon, the group of people returned to the villa. Since the two of them were out of danger, they naturally did not need the help of engineers. After thanking them, the platoon leader took the people back without mentioning them.
Ma Xiaoguang was sitting in the dining room, devouring his meal. Not to mention that the fat man was a professional chef, Chief Ma could probably eat even half a catty of uncooked rice.
Wu Qiuyi only tasted it briefly. As a beauty, she naturally takes into account her image and other things. In special circumstances, she only ate a small bowl of rice more than usual. That was just because of the fat man's extraordinary skills and delicious dishes.
Chief Ma didn't have so many scruples. Feng Juan Can Yun even drank the soup.
"Fat man, your craftsmanship is getting better and better. Why don't you open a restaurant in the future..." Chief Ma said in admiration as he smoked an after-dinner cigarette.
"You have never done this before, so you don't understand. It's very hard..." the fat man sighed.
At this time, Cao Mu came in and hurriedly apologized to the commander and Miss Liu.
"Sir, as soon as you fell, Fatty and I became anxious. We originally wanted to come down together. It was MISS Liu - Miss Wu, who ordered us to find the mechanism above and wait for help, so..."
"That's for sure. We can't all get stuck in it. This was an accident and it was my own carelessness. You are right to do this." Ma Xiaoguang comforted Cao Mu.
"It's just that the coordination of the national army is too troublesome. I went around and around to find the engineering camp, but they said I can't go up the mountain until tomorrow. This is a matter of life and death..." The fat man complained while clearing the tableware on the table.
"Sir, MISS Liu has nothing to say to you. He saw you fall and after giving us instructions, he jumped as soon as he opened the mechanism. Most people can't do it..." The fat man added, and quietly did it to MISS Liu. Made a face.
MISS Liu, who was drinking tea and digesting food in the dining room, heard what the fat man said, but she was not as quiet and generous as usual. She looked a little shy like a country girl. She hurriedly put down the tea cup and went to the yard on the pretext of getting some fresh air.
"Actually, when we were waiting for the engineers later, Fatty and I opened the mechanism and hung a rope down to investigate, but we only saw the dark shaft, with nothing underneath except a net. We inferred that you and Miss Wu should I had found a secret way out, but I was afraid that touching other organs would cause harm, so I had to wait for help... I didn't expect that the efficiency of the national army was so bad. I waited around and saw no one, and the fat man became anxious, and then Go down the mountain to find someone in person..." Cao Mu explained.
"Well, if you survive this disaster, you will be lucky in the future, but everyone should take this as a warning in the future and be careful when investigating. Curiosity killed the cat!" Chief Ma also did not forget to care for his brothers.
Everyone was exhausted after working hard all day, so they stayed at the villa that night. However, Chief Ma had a bad sleep, mainly because he had hallucinations as soon as he touched the bed, and the bed would turn over like a chair in a quiet room. The plank, which makes people fall, makes people toss and turn and never sleep soundly. They are just half asleep and half awake, and it is already the next morning before they know it.
After breakfast, everyone did not go to the quiet room - Chief Ma had psychological shadow, so he had someone put a seal on it first.
Everyone summarized the situation in the main hall of the villa.
Opening the objects wrapped in the "Yiguandao" flag, he took them out one by one and looked at them. Most of them contained candlesticks, wooden fish, command flags, bells, etc. that were similar to the stone door keys.
However, something similar to a seal caught Ma Xiaoguang's attention. It was a gold seal - to be precise, it was a gold-plated silver seal.
This seal is one size smaller than common seals. It doesn't have many patterns on it. It's a very simple style, but there is no text, but a flying butterfly is engraved on it.
Of course Chief Ma didn't recognize this thing and handed it to Wu Qiuyi.
After taking a look at the butterfly pattern, Wu Qiuyi frowned and said: "This seal is the seal of Japan. As for the background of this pattern, it is not trivial. This is the family emblem of the Taira family, the Japanese emperor's noble family - the flying feather butterfly pattern. It looks like it The Qinglong Gang and Yiguandao are really not simple..."
"Xiao Wu, please put this seal away first. It seems that the water is deep here. We don't have many tasks right now. Let's start by interrogating them." Ma Xiaoguang said.
He had an idea in mind and ordered Fatty and Cao Mu to continue searching the villa. He drove himself and Wu Qiuyi to Jinling City to call Lao Li and prepare to interrogate the Qinglong Gang.
We quickly drove to the Police Department Detention Center, where the leaders of the Qinglong Gang were imprisoned - Laohuqiao Prison. They were not qualified to enter, and they had not been sentenced yet, and they had not yet entered the prison process.
However, after arriving at the detention center, they interrogated the second and third eldest sons of the Qinglong Gang, all the way up to Qi Jiu, but nothing was found. These scum of the world confessed directly before being tortured, including plotting rebellion, robbery and previous crimes. He confessed to all kinds of crimes he committed, including stealing chickens and dogs when he was a child, and peeping at widows taking a bath, but they all agreed that they knew nothing about "Yi Guandao" and the Japanese.
When he came out of the detention center and saw that it was already getting late, Ma Xiaoguang said to Wu Qiuyi and Lao Li: "That's it for today. We are all going to rest. Tomorrow we will go meet Shen Shinan. I think he should know something."
