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Before they left the hall, Hu Xiuwu discovered that the candles that Wang Kaixuan had placed had disappeared.
A new tomb passage then appeared.
Big Gold Teeth asked fearfully, "Gentlemen, was there this passage just now?"
No one answered his question because Big Gold Tooth himself knew the answer to this question.
There was nothing here just now!
Chapter 31 Yu
Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan held up flashlights and cautiously explored the newly appeared tomb entrance.
Hu Xiuwu followed behind them, and Da Jin Ya hid beside him, trying to hide his body behind Hu Xiuwu as much as possible.
Although Hu Xiuwu had never performed his Taoist magic in front of him, he was not a fool. After spending so many days together, Da Jin Ya had already figured out who was the most powerful among them.
The entrance to the tomb is no different from other buildings in the mausoleum, with a unified Zhou style.
But when Hu Bayi shone the flashlight into the tomb passage behind the tomb door, the light could not reach more than one meter away, and the light of the flashlight was absorbed.
All I could see was a winding staircase extending downwards, and all around the staircase was darkness so deep that not even light could penetrate.
"careful,"
Wang Kaixuan stretched out his hands to both sides, trying to touch the wall, but he didn't touch anything. Instead, he almost slipped and fell. Fortunately, Hu Bayi helped him up. Only the flashlight in Wang Kaixuan's hand fell.
Not long after the flashlight fell, it was swallowed by the darkness and disappeared.
"It's dangerous. There are cliffs on both sides! Lao Hu, is there such a place in the mountains?"
Of course not. If the interior of the mountain was full of cliffs, Longling would have collapsed long ago.
How come there is a staircase hanging in the darkness?
Hu Xiuwu suspected that this was the reason why King Zhou put down the jade pendant.
He used the jade pendant as the center of the formation and set up a strange formation here.
Before he could figure it out, a ray of light like a meteor passed by the place where Wang Kaixuan almost fell.
It happened to be seen by Da Jin Ya who was hiding behind Hu Xiu Wu. Da Jin Ya said timidly:
"Gentlemen, did you see it? What is that?"
Just now everyone's attention was attracted by the stone steps, and no one could see clearly what the light was.
Hu Bayi raised the flashlight and shone it towards the place where the light had just passed.
Not long after, the light appeared again. Hu Xiuwu was quick-witted and used the talisman to retrieve the thing.
When Hu Xiuwu got it in his hand, he found that
The light turned out to be the wolf-eye flashlight that Wang Kaixuan had just used when he fell off the cliff.
This Wolf Eye flashlight is for going into the desert. It is one of the equipment Shirley Yang prepared for the archaeological team. It is a high-end product customized from abroad.
Later, before Shirley Yang returned to the United States, she gave all these things to Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan.
This time when they came to Gulan County, they thought they might go back to their old business.
So he brought it with him again. There were several marks on it from when Wang Kaixuan's flashlight fell to the ground when he was in the Jingjue Ancient City.
Wang Kaixuan said: "I, I clearly saw it fall down, how come it fell down again from above?"
Da Jin Ya said tremblingly, "Master Hu, are we entering the underworld?"
"Don't scare yourself. This is just a mechanism to guard the tomb. Xiuwu, do you see anything?"
Hu Bayi was also a little scared, but he knew that if he showed fear, the team's morale would be broken.
Hu Xiuwu guessed, "This is probably some kind of strange formation. My master told me that Zhuge Liang, a great man of his time, once laid out an eight-array formation that could reverse direction and trapped Cao Wei's army."
Hu Bayi said, "Did you hear that? We haven't gone to the underworld yet. It's just a formation. Let's follow this road and go down to take a look. We can't just sit here and wait to die."
"This road is strange. Let's not separate. Tie the rope around your waist and don't get separated."
Hu Bayi took out a rope and tied it around everyone's waist one by one to prevent anyone from suddenly disappearing.
Several people lined up in a straight line and walked down the stairs slowly. There were endless abysses on both sides, and everyone tried to walk in the middle.
As they were walking, Wang Kaixuan suddenly said, "Old Hu, why do I feel like this place is a bit like a ghost cave?"
In fact, Hu Bayi also had this feeling. He also felt that there was no bottom, as if it was an abyss leading to the underworld.
Could it be that this place also leads to a ghost cave?
Several people walked down in speculation. After walking for nearly ten minutes, they finally saw a tomb door. Everyone could not help but speed up their pace and headed towards the tomb door.
But when they passed through the tomb door, they found that they were back in the underworld palace.
Nothing has changed, even the garbage that Big Gold Tooth just threw away is still there.
Wang Kaixuan said, "What the hell, why are you back again?"
Da Jin Ya was already weak, and this ordeal, coupled with extreme nervousness, made his asthma flare up. He untied the rope around his waist, sat on the ground, took out his own medicine and sprayed it twice.
Repeated cycle?
Hu Xiuwu suddenly thought of the "Dun" volume in his home's "Sixteen Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Techniques", which recorded the mechanical formations of various dynasties.
This seems to be the Zhou Dynasty's formation, the Hanging Soul Ladder.
When I told Hu Bayi about this idea, he slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, this is the Hanging Soul Ladder."
Big Gold Teeth sat on the ground and said intermittently:
"I've also heard about this Hanging Soul Ladder. It was very popular during the Zhou Dynasty. The big tombs of the Zhou Dynasty liked to use this Hanging Soul Ladder to guard the tombs. However, it is said that the method to break it is very simple, so it was abandoned after the Zhou Dynasty."
Wang Kaixuan said anxiously, "You guys are talking a lot of nonsense, is there any way to get out?"
Hu Xiuwu thought about it for a while and said:
"I just checked silently. That staircase has 383 steps in total. If you count this Hades Palace, it would be 384 steps."
Hu Bayi immediately understood what Hu Xiuwu meant: "It means that it also corresponds to the sixty-four hexagrams."
So you have to find the correct step among the 383 steps to get out.
According to Da Jin Ya, the Hanging Soul Ladder has been abandoned since the Zhou Dynasty because the method to crack it is too simple.
So it shouldn’t be a difficult solution.
Moreover, they did not find Jin Suanpan's body in the Underworld Palace, which means that he had escaped from there.
After pondering for a while,
Hu Bayi and Hu Xiuwu discussed together for a while, and they both came up with a solution to the Hanging Soul Ladder.
As for whether it works or not, you have to try it to know.
Hu Bayi called out to Wang Kaixuan and Da Jin Ya to enter the suspension ladder again.
Before entering the hanging ladder again, Hu Xiuwu accidentally discovered that someone had carved a word on the stone frame of the tomb door:
It is the character "Yu" in regular script.
The place above, below, and in all directions that has substance but no place is called Yu.
This was definitely not carved by the original craftsman. Regular script only became popular in the Tang Dynasty, so this character was carved at least after the Tang Dynasty.
"Xiugo, why don't you leave?"
"fine,"
Hearing Hu Bayi's call, Hu Xiuwu came to his senses.
The most important thing now is to get out first. There is no time to study this word.
Hu Bayi led the four of them to the steps of Kun Gua Jiuwu and explained to Da Jin Ya and Wang Kaixuan why he chose it.
The Kun hexagram, with Dui on top and Kan on the bottom, alludes to their situation, and the ninth and fifth Yang line of the Kun hexagram is changed to a Yin line.
It becomes the Jie hexagram with Zhen on top and Kan on bottom, which means to get out of trouble.
Wang Kaixuan swallowed his saliva and glanced down.
Hu Bayi joked: "I have long known that you, a fat comrade, do not have a strong revolutionary will, dare not be a vanguard, and cannot take on important responsibilities."
"So, it seems that the arduous task of being the pioneer will have to be handed over to our comrade Big White Goose."
Hu Bayi looked at the big goose on Wang Kaixuan's back and said.
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This is because the goose can't talk, otherwise it would definitely curse.
Good things don’t come to me, but bad things all come to me.
Goose: MMP, did you hear that? MMP!
Chapter 32: Ghost Tomb
The reason why Wang Kaixuan still carries this big goose with him is that he thinks that if he can't get out for a while, he can use it as emergency food.
He really didn't expect that the big goose could be used in some way. Hu Bayi took the big goose and tied the rope to the wooden basket containing the goose.
"Come on, Mr. Goose. If this works, I'll treat you to the best feed."
After Hu Bayi finished speaking, he flicked his hand and threw Grandpa Goose down.
One could sense that Mr. Goose had lost all desire to live. He didn't even cry out when Hu Bayi threw him down.
Hu Bayi lowered the rope, and the figure of Goose Master gradually disappeared.
Although the goose's silhouette could no longer be seen, it did not appear from above the ladder like the smoke flashlight.
Hu Bayi held the rope and pulled it downwards. At one point he found that the rope was no longer straining and seemed to have touched solid ground:
"Right, it looks like this is it."
After tying the rope to the steps, Hu Xiuwu and the others climbed down along the rope.
Hu Xiuwu grabbed the rope and slid down. After sliding a few meters, he seemed to have slid across an invisible boundary.