Hua Muling's words were like awakening the dreamer. Xiong Ming and I hurriedly knelt down and looked at our feet.
There was thick dust on the ground under our feet. Xiong Ming and I carefully pushed it away with our hands. Sure enough, there was a stone door exactly below us that was exactly the same as the roof of the shed.
The only difference is that there is an extra stone ring in the center of the stone door.
I squatted down, reached out and held the stone ring, and then I used all my strength to lift it up, and the stone ring in my hand was lifted completely.
With a "click" sound, the stone door beneath us opened. As the stone ring was lifted up little by little, a dark passage appeared in front of the three of us.
Xiong Ming looked at the dark passage in front of him, couldn't help but grinned and patted Hua Muling on the shoulder, and said: "You are still careful, fourth girl, and your brain is smart enough. If it were the two of us, you would probably be the best in this life." Can’t get out.”
Hua Muling reached out and hit Xiong Ming on the arm. Xiong Ming immediately retracted his hand in pain.
Hua Muling patted herself on the shoulder and said: "You... you spent thirty cents to buy a broken pot, but you have a good mouth! Let's talk about these flattery words after we really get out of this hellish place!"
Xiong Ming grinned and said: "Hahaha! I can definitely go out! This is a must!"
I didn't pay attention to the quarrel between the two of them, but squatted on the edge of the stone door and looked into the dark passage. I don't know why, at this moment, I always felt a sense of déjà vu when I looked at the dark passage in front of me. .
When Xiong Ming saw that I was silent, he came over and asked, "Hu Tian, what are you looking at?"
I thought for a while and said, "Nothing! I just think this place looks familiar!"
Xiong Ming asked in confusion: "Looks familiar? Why has your kid been here before?"
I shook my head and said: "No! I have never been here before, but I just feel that this place is very familiar..."
"Maybe you are too tired..." Hua Muling came over and patted me on the shoulder, and then continued: "That's why the front lobe of the brain feels like this!"
I nodded and said, "You're right! Maybe I'm really too tired!"
"Since you're too tired, I'll go down first this time!" It was Xiong Ming who spoke, and this boy moved quite quickly. In a short time, he got a wooden stick from nowhere, and then from He tore off a few pieces of cloth from his clothes and wrapped them around a wooden stick. Then he put the wooden stick into a copper basin on the wall and dipped it in lamp oil to make a simple torch.
Xiong Ming held up a torch and looked into the dark passage. The passage was vertically downward and smooth on all sides. There was no place to stay.
After Xiong Ming cursed, he turned around and ran back to the place where we came down before, retrieved the climbing rope, fixed one end on a rock, and prepared to climb down along the climbing rope.
I looked at the bottomless passage, then looked at Xiong Ming and said, "Be careful!"
Xiong Ming grinned and said: "What's your expression like this? It's as if you are about to part ways. Don't worry! If I find a road below, I will pull the rope three times, and you can just follow it down. I I’ll pick you up below…!”
I nodded and said: "ok!"
After saying that, Xiong Ming slid down little by little along the climbing rope.
As the light from the torch in Xiong Ming's hand gradually weakened, Hua Muling and I also raised our throats.
Neither of us spoke, our eyes fixed on the passage, for fear that something might happen to Xiong Ming.
Time passed by, and after about four or five minutes, the rope in my hand suddenly shook three times.
I know this is the signal Xiong Ming sent us, which means "there is a road below."
Hua Mulin and I were overjoyed. I turned to Hua Muling and said, "Fourth girl, you go first, and I'll take the last one!"
Hua Muling didn't say anything, nodded slightly, and then a kite turned over and jumped into the passage.
Although Hua Muling is the new generation in charge of Xia Bamen, her skills are much higher than those of the older generation. She swayed, head down and feet up, and her whole body was like a wisp of leaves. Generally, it falls lightly downwards.
This trick is called "Falling Leaves Know Autumn", and it is an extremely difficult method of lightening one's body in the flower handkerchief discipline.
In the early years, flower handkerchiefs were a profession that was performed on the streets and performed tricks. In those days, if a troupe didn't have one or two special skills, it would be impossible to make a living in the world.
It is said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, four unique skills were born in the flower handkerchiefs, namely falling leaves to know the autumn, flowers flying all over the sky, flowing clouds flying sleeves, and water flooding the golden mountains, which are referred to as "falling flowers and flowing water". "Falling leaves know autumn" is said to be the most difficult to practice among them.
Although I don't know the secret method practiced in "The Falling Leaves Know the Autumn", I have heard about it. In order to practice the "The Falling Leaves Know the Autumn", the practitioner must be thrown on the high wall for at least four hours every day until After one year, you can proceed to the next step of practice.
Looking at Hua Muling's light movements, I couldn't help but give a thumbs up secretly. We are both descendants of the Xiabamenli, so I looked a bit inferior in the Thieving Sect.
It stands to reason that there is also a special skill in the Theft Gate called "Scorpion Climbing the City Upside Down", which can be compared with the "Falling Flowers and Flowing Water" in the Flower Handkerchief Gate.
According to legend, people who learn how to climb a city upside down with a scorpion can easily climb a smooth wall more than ten meters high without the help of any auxiliary equipment.
That's what they say, but as a young master of the house of thieves, I have never seen him in more than thirty years.
Looking at the vigorous and vigorous Hua Muling, I couldn't help but sigh, and said to myself: "Hey... people are more likely to die than others! I have to study that scorpion climbing the city backwards tomorrow, otherwise I will lose my status at the critical moment. It’s time!”
Although I kept calculating in my mind, the movements of my hands did not stop. I grabbed the rope with one hand, then pushed hard on the stone wall with both feet, and slid down the passage.
It was very dark inside the passage, but with Hua Muling and Xiong Ming exploring the way below, I wasn't worried about encountering any traps, so I descended very quickly, and soon reached the passage.
The bottom of the passage is not wide, only a few square meters, barely enough for three people to stand side by side.
I looked around by the light of the torch in Xiong Ming's hand and found that except for a small hole in the right corner, there was no other way to go.
I looked at Xiong Ming and said, "Is this the way out you said?"
Xiong Ming nodded, but he did not answer my words. Instead, he looked at me and asked seriously: "Hu Tian, have you really never been here?"
After Xiong Ming asked this question, Hua Muling also looked at me with a bitter and resentful expression and asked, "Yes! Hu Tian, have you really never been here?"
I looked at the two of them doubtfully and asked, "What do you mean by that? If you've been here, you've been here. If you haven't been here, you haven't been here. Why did I lie to you?"
Xiong Ming asked with a serious face: "Don't talk nonsense! Give me an accurate answer, have you ever been here?"
"Hey! Dali Bear, what do you mean?" I said a little unhappy: "I said I haven't been here before, but I just haven't been here!"
Hua Muling said from the side: "Hu Tian, don't get excited yet! Look at this!"
With that said, Hua Muling took me to the entrance of the cave, and then pointed to the cave wall.
I followed the position of Hua Muling's finger and found a sentence engraved there, "Only by giving up all hope can we reach the Sanlagordo Desert..."
Although this sentence seems a bit strange, there is not much problem. However, when I saw the signature of this sentence, I couldn't help but take a breath.
Because right at the end of this sentence, there is a name - "Hu Tian"!
