Lin Yu was startled for a moment, then turned around and looked at Bairentu, who was frowning and staring at a piece of gravel on the ground that had been overturned due to external force, with doubts in his eyes.
"What's the matter, Brother Niu?"
Lin Yu asked somewhat unclearly.
Bairentu didn't say anything, then walked to the piece of gravel and squatted down, stretched out his hand to touch the piece of gravel, and said in a deep voice, "This piece of gravel was originally laid on the ground, but half of the bottom layer of the stone was covered with water vapor.
It's blackened and covered with such lush moss. It's obvious that there is moist air circulating underground. In other words, there is most likely a secret passage under the stone slab!"
"Is there a secret passage?!"
Lin Yu was startled for a moment, obviously a little surprised, and then stepped hard on the ground with his feet. However, because the stone on the ground was very hard, he didn't hear anything strange at all when he stepped on it.
"When I lived in the mountains with my master, I also made this kind of secret tunnel, so I could tell at a glance what was strange about this stone!"
Bairentu said in a deep voice.
In fact, including now, many temples and Taoist temples on the mountains have secret compartments or secret passages, large or small. Some are for storing things, and some are for escape in emergencies. I have followed the master since I was a child.
Bairentu, who grew up on the mountain, is naturally very familiar with this.
After saying that, Bai Rentu raised his legs and walked out. Not long after, he came back with a tree branch as thick as his forearm, handed it to Lin Yu, and said, "Sir, just hit the ground with it as hard as you can!"
As he spoke, he suddenly leaned over and lay on the ground.
Lin Yu immediately understood his intention, and without saying a word, he pounded the stone floor hard with the wooden stick in his hand.
Bairentu listened and waved to Lin Yu, and Lin Yu followed Bairentu's instructions and moved the position of the wooden stick from time to time.
"etc!"
Bai Rentu suddenly raised his hand, signaling Lin Yu to continue tapping at the same spot a few times.
Lin Yu increased his strength and knocked hard on the stone slab with a wooden stick again. Bairentu heard a muffled "dong dong" sound coming from below, and then he got up and said to Lin Yu, "This is it."
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Immediately afterwards, Bai Rentu reached out and dug into the mud between the two floors. Then he spread his legs, tightened his stance, and violently used all his strength to lift up the stone slab.
Even for a master like Bairentu, he clenched his teeth when he opened the stone slab, his face turned red, and the veins on his forehead popped out, showing great difficulty, which showed how heavy the stone slab was.
Seeing that Bairentu couldn't lift the heavy stone with his own strength, Lin Yu's expression suddenly changed, and he was shocked. He hurriedly rushed up and helped Bairentu work together to flip the heavy stone to the ground.
"boom!"
There was a loud noise, and the stone hit the ground heavily. Lin Yu and Bai Rentu looked at each other, obviously very surprised. I don't know whether it was the weight of the stone itself or some other force, but they wanted to lift the thick stone slab like this.
difficulty!
No wonder there is no need to build any mechanism under this stone, because looking at the world, there are probably only a few ordinary people who can lift this huge stone with one person's power!
After the boulder was lifted up, a black secret passage was revealed underneath. The diameter was very small, which meant that only one person could pass through it. Moreover, cool wind blew from the secret passage, bringing moisture with it. The stone walls on both sides of the secret passage were also very tight.
Wet and slippery, with heavy moisture.
"Let's go down and have a look!"
Lin Yu was immediately curious when he saw this, and without worrying about whether there was any danger, he directly suggested to go down and take a look. Maybe it was because he had a master like Bairentu with him, so he was extra courageous.
Bairentu did not refuse, and said to Lin Yu, "I'll go down first, and you can come back later!"
Because he was afraid of any danger below, he suggested that he go down first. As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped down first.
Because this secret passage is very deep and dark, judging from the dull sound of the massacre of hundreds of people falling to the ground, this secret passage must be extremely deep.
"Sir, you can come down now. This secret passage is very deep, so be careful!"
Bairentu shouted from below.
Lin Yu responded, then retracted his arms and jumped down nimbly.
Sure enough, as Bairentu said, this secret passage is very deep, several stories high. If ordinary people who don't know about it jump down like this, they will definitely fall to their death.
"Boom!"
After Lin Yu jumped under the secret grid, he felt a slight tremor on his feet and saw the darkness all around. He was about to reach out to touch the wall when he found that Bairentu had already reached out and pushed open a stone door in front of him.
Suddenly a bright light shone in. Lin Yu hurriedly looked up and saw that the stone gate turned out to be a cave about several meters high!
Because the cave is not too deep, Lin Yu and Bai Rentu can clearly see the scene outside the cave at this time. Outside the cave is a dense bamboo forest. Through the bamboo forest, they can see more than a dozen clusters in the forest.
Bamboo house, far away from the bamboo house there is a vegetable field surrounded by a bamboo fence. However, due to the season, there are no vegetables in the vegetable field at this time, and there is a gurgling stream flowing through the bamboo forest. It is very peaceful and quite like a paradise.
Feel.
Lin Yu and Bairentu were both a little surprised. Apparently they didn't expect that there would be such a place hidden on the back mountain.
"Sir, it seems you are right, this is where they live!"
Bairentu said in a deep voice.
"Walk!"
Lin Yu looked excited and rushed towards the bamboo house impatiently, expecting to find something.
But after they rushed into the bamboo house, they found that there were indeed signs that someone had lived in the bamboo house, but the inside seemed to have been searched and it looked very dirty.
"Sir, someone has been here!"
After Bairentu searched several bamboo houses, they only found some magical tools used by Taoist priests, but nothing much was gained.
"Either outsiders have been here, or they have come back on their own!"
Lin Yu said in a deep voice, guessing in his heart that it was definitely the latter. After the big devil Taoist Lihuo and a few disciples escaped, in order to avoid being discovered here, they would definitely come back again and take away all the useful things.
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"This house is the largest, it should be where Taoist Lihuo lives!"
Bairentu pointed to the largest bamboo houses in the middle and walked in with Lin Yu.
I saw a half-man-high alchemy furnace in the hall of the bamboo house. The lid of the furnace had been lifted, revealing some black and red filth inside. I couldn't tell what it was, but there was a pungent smell.
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Lin Yu and Bairentu both covered their mouths with their sleeves.
"Brother Bu, be careful!"
Lin Yu whispered to Bairentu, feeling that the place where Taoist Lihuo lived was really evil.
The two of them walked around in these bamboo houses and found that these bamboo houses had been rummaged from the hall to the bedrooms, and there was almost nothing of value. But just when they turned to leave,
Lin Yu was suddenly attracted by a broken wooden board by the window.
Lin Yu walked over quickly, carefully picked up the wooden boards piece by piece, put them on the table and put them together neatly. He saw a very strange-shaped nine-headed spike plant carved on the wooden board.
Lin Yu squinted his eyes, sneered, and said, "So Taoist Lihuo is still dreaming of such sweet dreams!"
Bairentu was slightly surprised when he heard Lin Yu's words. He walked over and looked at the wooden board in Lin Yu's hand, and said with some confusion, "Sir, is this?"
"Brother Niu, have you heard of Jiu Suihe?"
Lin Yu smiled and said.
"Jiu Sui He?"
Bairentu shook his head and said truthfully, "I've never heard of this."
"This Jiu Sui He has been mentioned in some strange novels in the past!"
Lin Yu looked at the pattern on the wooden board and said in a deep voice, "Legend has it that a red sparrow once picked up the nine-tasseled grass and dropped it to the ground. Emperor Yan picked it up and planted it in the fields. Anyone who eats the nine-tasseled grass will...
They can all live forever!"
"So there really is this Jiu Sui He in this world?"
Bairentu frowned and said in confusion.
"It's just this old man's wishful thinking!"
Lin Yu snorted coldly, "Who has ever had such immortality in the past and present! Besides, if an evil person like him is immortal, what's the point? It's just that he is despised by the world!"
Bairentu nodded and said in a deep voice: "I wonder if he killed people to achieve his goal of immortality?"
"Most likely!"
Lin Yu nodded, deeply satisfied. Although they did not get anything substantial from this trip, it was a gain to be able to figure out the purpose of this old Taoist. Lin Yu even figured out a way to lure this old Taoist into taking the bait.
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"who?!"
At this moment, Bai Rentu suddenly screamed, jumped out of the window, and quickly ran towards the bamboo forest.