"There is no sunshine here all day long. There must be no ghosts and monsters living here!" Lin Yue hugged Song Che tightly and hid behind his arms, looking around with both eyes, scared and excited.
Song Che smiled bitterly and said: "Nvxia Lin, you didn't even blink when you killed people, so why are you still afraid of ghosts and gods?" Lin Yue said: "You are killing living people, but you are afraid of dead people. What is the connection between the two? ?”
"Pop." Song Che used the lighter to relight the candle, then lit a river lantern, put it back into the water, and then stretched out the wall to follow slowly.
Lin Yue pulled out the sword, used the scabbard to help resist the water flow, and stared at the infinitely reclaimed darkness. After the river lantern floated for about four or five feet, it went out again. However, this time the kayak was close enough to see the reason clearly - it turned out that there was a slope at the end of the culvert, and the river lantern did not go out, but slipped down. .
A sudden drop occurs in the channel, which triggers convection and forms dark winds. Song Che picked up the map, looked at the firelight for a moment, and said happily: "The composition says that the terrain of the East City is relatively low, and the culvert will sink somewhat. If you go down the slope for more than ten feet, you can reach the central pool of the East City. We should be almost there.”
"So it's not a ghost blowing the lamp?"
"Moti Moti, otherwise we will really call Ah Piao." Lin Yue quickly covered her mouth.
"Although this slope is not steep, it has a long trend. It must be smooth after being washed by water for many years. We need to set up a rope to go down. It will be convenient to come back." Song Che took out the rope and looked at it and thought about how to start -
"Qiang!" Lin Yue inserted the sword into the wall, and the sword body penetrated the wall for three points.
"What do you think of using my sword as a stake?"
"Excellent." Song Che wrapped the rope around the hilt of the sword and held the other end in his hand. The bow of the boat became the stern. Lin Yue held the oar in her left hand and the hilt of the sword in her right hand. She opened the bow left and right to slow down the boat.
The kayak slowly slid down the slope. It fell about twenty feet,
"Clatter..." The sound of water resounded through the channel, the slope gradually eased, and the channel suddenly opened up. Song Che fixed the rope to the stern of the boat and lit three river lanterns in succession.
The river lantern swayed and floated slowly into the distance, reflecting half of the space in front of the eyes - seven or eight underground ditch drainage outlets were pouring into the pool, with a height of about ten feet.
The central pool is about five feet in diameter and is in the shape of a semicircular honeycomb. There are four drainage outlets on the left and right sides. Behind it is the outlet where Song Che slides down. There is a high wall in front and there is also an outlet under the wall.
Song Che picked up Si Nan and checked the map for a moment, nodded, and pointed to the mouth of the canal ahead: "From here, it will only be two or three miles before it flows into the Luo River. Based on this, we should be at the Luoyang Pier above us."
"Where is the culvert where the women are imprisoned? There is nothing but water and bricks here." Lin Yue asked doubtfully. Song Che shook his head,
"There are no other culverts drawn on the map, but we learned from the previous workers of the Jia family that the place where the women were imprisoned was transformed from an culvert that was abandoned due to a miscalculation of the water level; even if the culvert was abandoned, its The direction is always correct, so I am sure it must be right in front of us. Furthermore, a culvert with miscalculated water level cannot be a low-lying area." At this point, he took out two torches from under the kayak. , handed it over to Lin Yue, and said with a smile: "Can you help me find a way to plug it into the wall?"
"You also brought a torch. Why didn't you take it out earlier? That made me think that there was really a ghost blowing out the lamp."
"The reason why I took out the torch now is because the space in the culvert was small just now, and burning the torch would consume air. Now that the space is wide, there is no need to worry."
"Song Che, you are so smart." Lin Yue grabbed the torch, and with a posture like a dragonfly touching water, he crossed the pool in a few steps, and then used his strength to climb over the eaves and stick the torch into the wall!
The light instantly dispelled the darkness, and the appearance of the entire pool was completely revealed - the pool is seven or eight feet high, and the three walls on the left, right and back are all made of blue bricks. The style looks old, but the wall in front is made of red bricks. It is obviously newer than the other three walls.
Looking to the left side of the pool, there is a staircase embedded in the wall, connecting the pool below and the gate above. Ladders are built for people to climb, and gates are often used to release floods.
What is the operation of connecting the ladder to the gate?
"How's it going? Can you see the clues?" Lin Yue asked, holding a torch with one hand and leaning against the wall. Song Che rowed the kayak over and shouted: "Don't do any acrobatics, come down quickly, I already know it in my mind." Lin Yue said hello, but just as she was about to set off, she suddenly heard came from behind the gate
"Click" sound!
"Woof woof woof!" A few dog barks could still be heard faintly. Song Che suddenly realized that something was not good, and hurriedly called to Lin Yue: "Quickly put out the torch! Jump down!" Lin Yue did not dare to hesitate at all, pulled out the torch and threw it into the pool. At the same time, he jumped into the kayak. Song Che extinguished all the lights and paddled. He took the kayak to the bottom of the stairs.
"Clang!" The thick gate slowly opened.
"Woof woof woof!" The dog kept barking. Two men holding torches and leading two big wolfdogs appeared tremblingly at the gate, listening to their conversation: "Did you hear wrong? It's dark here. Where can there be anyone?"
"I...heard someone talking, otherwise the dog wouldn't bark so fiercely!"
"My mother said that animals can see things that people can't. In the past, when someone died in every house, dogs would bark in the middle of the night..."
"Don't fucking scare people!"
"Then go down and take a look!"
"I won't get off! You get off first!" The two men pushed each other, but no one dared to get off the stairs. Song Che and Lin Yue were hiding in the shadow of the stairs, and the two dead dogs were pulling hard to rush down. If they took the man out of the gate, the two of them would be exposed.
At the critical moment, Song Che came up with a plan. He quietly approached Lin Yue's ear and whispered two words: "Ghost screams." Lin Yue was a geisha in the Red Mansion. She was proficient in singing and dancing, so it would be difficult for her to learn how to scream ghosts. Can't stop her.
"Ah..." She groaned, and even Song Che beside her could not help but feel his hair stand on end. The empty pool, the gloomy atmosphere, and a sudden cry would probably scare someone with a weak heart to death.
"My mother!"
"I heard that there are often female corpses floating in the culverts. They may have turned into ghosts and wandered here!" The two men dragged the wolfdog and closed the gate tightly!
"Hahaha..." Lin Yue covered her mouth and laughed,
"These two gangsters must have done a lot of bad things. Just calling them twice scared them to death." From this point of view, everything makes sense. The gate was previously used for drainage of the culvert. The two men Being able to come in and out freely means that there must be space behind it - the dungeon is right behind the gate.
"If we don't protect everything, they will come back. It's not suitable to stay here for a long time. Let's go back quickly."...
