Without thinking about anything, I raised my sword and pushed it back, but another big hand pressed tightly on my right wrist, "Shh! It's me." I sighed secretly. This time, it was General Ji.
"Are you okay?" he asked me quietly, feeling like he was checking my body secretly. "You're okay, I almost got plotted just now."
"We are trapped here," General Ji whispered
"Where are they?" I am referring to General Meng and Cui Yingying. "They are inside... This is a dead end, there is no door."
There is no door, so how did I jump in just now? General Ji seems to know what I mean, "This door is only an indoor door, there is no exit door."
We listened carefully to the movement outside the stone gate. Except for the faint sound of the underground river flowing intermittently, there was no other sound. After a while, there was the sound of gentle footsteps behind us. It was General Meng and Yingying coming over. General Meng whispered softly.
He said, "I've knocked it all over and it's solid."
We looked at each other. Although we couldn't see clearly, Cui Yingying wouldn't be embarrassed by my nakedness. I guessed that the three of them had knocked all over the rock wall here just now. It was obvious that this was just a suite in the big cave outside.
"What should we do? Someone will shoot cold arrows when we go out," General Meng said.
"Don't worry, let me think about it." It seems that we have gone deep into someone's back room. They are unhappy and think of us as thieves.
Most people deal with thieves with open fire and beat them to a pulp. But what I mean today is that either we have a large number of people, or the other party is not strong enough. "Yes, I said," they came together.
"Like now, our terrain is unclear. We can't even find a door. We are always in the light and the other side is in the dark. Whenever we want to shoot an arrow, we can shoot it. We can't be so cowardly."
"you mean?"
"Light a fire! Make some noise loudly. General Ji, your arrows are not vegetarian. You can hold them here." I took the fire fold from General Meng's hand, "pop, pop, pop", which was a bit counter-tidal.
General Ji stared at the door. He handed over another one and threw the other one. After taking this one, I fired it and used the firelight to see clearly what was going on inside.
The square house is not big. There is a row of wooden frames against the stone wall. It is also three floors. There are not gold bricks on the top, but some miscellaneous daily items. There is a small door on the opposite side. When you walk in, there is only a wooden bed. Because inside the cave
It was cool and provided with bedding. There was a bamboo table next to it, and an exquisite wooden box under the table with a copper lock hanging on it.
What makes us even more happy is that there is a copper lamp on the bamboo table. It has a unique shape. It is a crane standing on one foot in the water. It has its head held high and the tip of its mouth pointed upward, spitting out a wick of oil. The crane's feet are standing in the water.
, a circle of ripples around the feet is the lamp holder
I lit the oil lamp, and the surroundings suddenly became brighter. I pulled out the wooden box from under the bamboo table, cut off the copper lock on it with a sword, and opened it to find a roll of white silk with the words... uh... uh uh...
...I still didn’t read it. I didn’t understand that General Meng, a big boss, said it looked like an account book.
What's pressed against the white silk is a seal. It's not gold at first glance. It's copper and half an inch square. There's a dog or a wolf lying on the top. Turn it over and you'll see that there's still red seal left in the grooves of the inscription.
There were four words engraved on it, "Uh-huh," I handed the seal to Yingying, "Sister, keep it until we go out to study it." However, I found that she was looking at me in a daze. I asked her, "It looks like this."
, you have never been to this place before.”
She shook her head and said, "Been here before."
"Huh?" I looked at her, "Aren't I here now?" She said quietly.
I didn't have time to pay attention to her. I pulled the quilt off the wooden bed and pulled it apart. I looked around and saw that there was a pot of lamp oil behind the bamboo table. I poured the oil on it and lit it on the oil lamp. The flames roared.
The ground burned
General Meng and I kicked the wooden bed down with two feet, then used gold bricks to crack the foot and frame of the bed. We dismantled the bed board into wooden strips and transported them together to the big hole. We first threw the balled sheets in,
It was immediately illuminated by the fire, and we put the unrecognizable wooden bed - no, it was firewood - on it to guide us. Now, we could see all the scenery in the cave clearly.
In fact, this so-called big hole is not big. It's just that when we first came in, we didn't have an accurate impression because it was pitch black all around. The unwarranted darkness expanded our judgment.
The cave is only fifty steps long and thirty steps wide, and is very irregular. The place where we entered through the collapsed roof of the cave was blocked at the corner, and the entrance was originally very narrow and blocked by piles of earth and rocks.
The light from outside the cave cannot come in because of the peat soil, but it only makes the cave a little brighter.
A clear underground shallow river flows quietly from left to right. Now we can see clearly. On the right side of the cave wall, there is a row of wooden frames filled with golden nuggets! Not only General Meng,
I also ran over and picked up a piece. The gold nugget was not very finely cast and was full of pits, but it was still a good thing.
General Ji looked along the cave wall and said to us, "There is still no door!" This attracted our attention. We put down the gold and looked around. Sure enough, there was no door.
General Meng said, "I know where the door is!" He picked up the gold nuggets on the row of wooden shelves and moved them to the ground. I understood what he meant. He thought that the door was behind the wooden shelves.
At first I thought this was impossible. The wooden shelf was filled with gold bricks and it was very heavy. It was impossible.
However, we all know that someone was hiding in the dark just now to plot against us. So, where did this person come in?
Now, there are only four of us in this cave, which means that the person who attacked us has quietly retreated. In this situation, he can no longer take advantage and escape.
I returned to the stone door leading to the inner room. There were still traces of my slip on the ground. I stood there and looked at the stone door frame. The empty arrow was still stuck there.
General Ji discovered my intention. He asked me to stand still, while he leaned against the door frame of the stone gate and looked behind me with one eye hanging on the wire.
The arrow traveled in a straight line. The arrow penetrated the stone wall by more than an inch. The arrow shaft was slightly inclined. It seemed that it was shot from a low place. He said, "Is that where it is?"
I ran to the door and looked in the direction indicated by the arrow tail. There was the exit of the underground river.
I suddenly realized, why did I forget this? The only connection to the outside world in such a sealed cave is probably here. And the people who plotted against us can quietly appear and retreat quietly without leaving a trace, only from here.
"What should I do? Should we pursue it?" They all looked at me.
"We don't have enough strength to take risks," I said, and walked to the outlet of the underground river. The river was very shallow, and the water flow was quiet and slow. However, at the outlet under the stone wall, there was a large pool of water, and the water surface only swirled.
Two or three shallow whirlpools floated
I inserted the sword into the water to test the depth of the water. The sword was three feet three long. The entire sword was submerged in the water, and only the three-inch long handle was exposed.
But at the bottom of the water, something heavy hit the tip of the sword.