"Looking at it like this, I'm afraid there was originally a ladder installed here, but it has been removed now. Could it be that the entrance to the dark cave is actually on this big tree?" Mr. Ye felt a little incredible.
"You'll know if you go up and take a look," Kun Yuanzi said, suddenly flying up, stepping on the trunk of the tree and quickly running up, once again surprising the special forces members and dumbfounding them.
In the blink of an eye, Kun Yuanzi had reached a height of about ten meters above the ground on the tree trunk. He stopped at a place where the trunk bifurcated.
"Taoist Master, what did you find?" Yu Fei shouted while standing under the tree.
"There is indeed a tree hole here. It is so deep that it probably goes straight to the ground," Kun Yuanzi replied, squatting on a forked tree trunk.
"Damn it, these ghosts are really cunning. They can just dig a hole and come up with all these tricks," Ding Laosan said.
At this time, Bo Xinwen said to Li Qiang: "Captain Li, let's go up and take a look first."
They asked Kun Yuanzi to lower a rope from above, and then climbed up along the rope. When they reached the bifurcation of the tree trunk, they saw a large circular hole extending downward. The diameter of the hole was only about half a meter. A little further, it was pitch black inside. Li Qiang took out his flashlight and looked inside. Due to the twists and turns in the tree hole, it was difficult to see how deep it was.
Bo Xinwen analyzed: "This location is about ten meters high from the ground. Sanye measured that the dark hole is more than one meter underground, so the depth of this tree hole should be about eleven meters. Let's go back and prepare first, and we will start from there later. Come in here,"
The two of them came down from the tree and returned to the ground. Bo Xinwen told everyone about the situation in the tree hole. In view of the narrow passage in the tree hole, everyone was asked to pack as lightly as possible and leave a few special operations team members behind. Waiting outside, everyone else got in through the tree hole.
However, Ding Laosan looked up at the big tree and felt a little uneasy. He felt that the tree hole was too deep, and the passage inside the tree hole was too winding and narrow. If he encountered any emergency inside, , it may not be easy to withdraw quickly.
After thinking about it, he asked Lao Guitou to stay on the ground to provide support. If they encountered any unexpected incident inside and needed to evacuate urgently, they would have Lao Guitou directly use directional blasting to launch fire on the ground. Make a hole and it will be convenient to come out when the time comes.
So, except for Lao Guitou and the four special forces members who stayed outside, the others climbed up the big tree one by one along the ropes.
When Kun Yuanzi saw everyone coming up, he bowed his body and got into the tree hole first.
After a while, Kun Yuanzi shouted from under the tree hole: "There is indeed a secret passage down here. Everyone, please come down."
A group of people climbed down the tree hole one by one. Ding Laosan was right. The tree hole was indeed very narrow and could not pass even with a backpack. They had to throw the backpack down first and then slowly climb down.
However, as soon as we reached the bottom, the surrounding area suddenly became brighter. Looking through the bright flashlight, we saw a spacious passage made of blue bricks. The passage was about four or five meters wide, but it seemed to be a little sloping and uneven. , and upon closer inspection, it turned out that the entire passage was actually a staircase extending downward in a spiral shape. After everyone came down, the group of people carefully walked deeper along the staircase.
Everyone walked all the way down for about ten minutes, but there was no secret door in the hall. This passage seemed to have no end, and no one knew where it led.
"Damn, it's so deep. These evil guys live down here. It would be exhausting to go up there," Ding Laosan joked.
Bo Xinwen also frowned and said, "Everyone, be careful, something doesn't feel right here."
Everyone cautiously walked forward for a while, and suddenly there was a sound of a mechanism opening coming from the walls on both sides.
Hearing this voice, Yu Fei broke into a cold sweat on his back. Before he could realize what was going on, he heard Ding Laosan shouting: "Be careful with hidden weapons."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "whoosh" sound, and dozens of hidden arrows were shot from the walls on both sides.
Ding Laosan quickly waved the black iron sword in his hand and blocked several hidden arrows that were shot at him. Others also waved their swords, guns and other weapons to ward them off. At this time, Kun Yuanzi suddenly flew away He stood up, jumped directly to the front, took off his coat and waved it in the air, blocking a dozen hidden arrows at once.
Fortunately, Kun Yuanzi stood in front of everyone and blocked everyone, and everyone was wearing bulletproof vests. After the burst of hidden arrows, except for some minor scratches, everyone was fine, but they all felt shocked. Cold sweat.
"Damn, these guys even have concealed weapons installed in their own homes, aren't they afraid of accidentally shooting themselves," Ding Laosan said still with lingering fear.
"I don't think this place is for me to live in. It feels a bit strange." Bo Xinwen felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't explain it for the moment.
"Then we can't go down yet," Yu Fei asked.
"If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't catch the tiger's cubs. Now that we are here, we have to see what happens," Bo Xinwen immediately regained his calm demeanor.
Mr. Ye also nodded and said: "Yes, no matter what, the signal of the national jade seal is sent from below. If they haven't discovered that it is a fake, then they should put it there An important place, maybe there is one of their secret warehouses down here,"
"Hehe, if it is really a secret warehouse, the Xuanming Divine Stone might be down here," Ding Laosan said with a smile.
"I'm afraid the Xuanming Divine Stone is not here. Pindao has not felt its aura, but..." Kun Yuanzi hesitated.
"Taoist Master Kun has something to say, but it's okay to say it," Bo Xinwen thought that Kun Yuanzi might have discovered something, so he hurriedly asked.
"However, Pindao just took out the nine-turn yin-yang ruler and detected a mysterious aura. This aura is both yin and yang, one ebbing and the other rising. It's so strange," Kun Yuanzi said in confusion.
"Isn't it said that this place is the place where yin and yang meet? Could it be that what the nine-turn yin and yang ruler measures is the yin and yang earth energy here," Yu Fei analyzed.
Ding Laosan laughed and said: "Brother Yu has been with the Taoist priest for a long time, and he has learned a lot,"
Kun Yuanzi shook his head: "No, this aura should not come from the yin and yang earth energy. It is always moving. Pindao feels that it is more like the aura emitted by some strange beast. Moreover, it seems They are waiting for our arrival,"
"Could the strange beast be Tao Zhu?" Bo Xinwen suddenly asked,