My daily mountain driving, I met a fox at the beginning and got married

The fat man felt a little embarrassed.

"You are so old, how can you take the lead? It is too dangerous, let me do it."

"It's okay, just step back, I'm doing this to protect the safety of Master San."

Indeed, Uncle Liu is ultimately a member of the Wu family. His desire to protect Hao Xie does not conflict with his desire to play as a forward.

Uncle Liu walked in front, Hao Xie walked in the middle, and Fatty Wang walked at the end. They had to pay attention to the movements around them along the way, which was actually not much easier than being in the front.

Sure enough, they also encountered that pool of water.

"It stinks here!" The fat man pinched his nose exaggeratedly and looked around sharply.

Fatty Wang had a habit of looking up at the sky first after entering a place, while Hao Xie liked to use a flashlight to carefully study the footprints on the ground.

If Zhang Hao really came here, he must have left clues, and all I have to do is follow the clues.

Suddenly, Hao Xie saw footprints by the lake. He quickly moved over and observed them carefully with a flashlight.

These footprints are still very clear, and there are water stains. There is no other entrance here, is the only entrance under the water?

"What is this?" the fat man asked with a puzzled look.

"These should be the footprints left by Lao Zhang. There is no other entrance or exit here. Lao Zhang should have swam to somewhere else in the water. We have to dive too."

Fatty Wang scratched his head and muttered unconsciously: "How can you be sure that guy is not drowned?"

Upon hearing this, Hao Xie glared at Fatty Wang fiercely, and the fat man immediately begged for mercy.

"I was wrong, I was wrong, bah bah bah, I really deserve to be slapped for saying such unlucky words."

After saying that, Fatty Wang tied the straps of his backpack tightly around himself and finally turned around to look at Uncle Liu.

"Can you get in the water?"

"Yes, but I'm not very good at swimming. I can't keep my eyes open for too long underwater. I have to rely on you to lead the way."

"I'm good at this." Hao Xie was full of confidence in this regard. Fatty Wang no longer insisted on letting her stand in the middle. The few of them had a clear division of labor and only one goal - to find Zhang Hao.

After entering the water, the three of them held hands, kept their distance, felt the direction of the water flow, and swam forward along the current.

Hao Xie seemed to have a special talent underwater. He found the path that took her half an hour to find in just a few minutes, and then swam them out.

After walking out of the waterfall, we faced another problem.

There are too many doors here, which one is the right one? Which one leads to Zhang Hao?

Fatty Wang looked around and found that there was a stone at the entrance of each cave.

Although there are many stones, the stones at the entrance of the cave are all standing upright in the middle. Some of the stones are not easy to stand upright at all, but they are still standing upright.

"Is this a signal from Lao Zhang?"

"The stone stands in the middle of the cave. Is it trying to tell us that this road is blocked?"

At this time, Hao Xie found a cave entrance without stones, pointed inside and said in surprise: "This one has no stones standing upright, is this the correct path?"

But Fatty Wang also found one on the other side. The two stood in the middle of the cave, one in front of the other, neither giving in, and both firmly believed that their choice was right.

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I walked deeper into the cave for who knows how many hours, and suddenly the view in front of me opened up.

It's not as dark here as before, and there's light coming through the cave.

This place is like a small land and ocean.

Large plates stood in the middle of the cave. In the place that originally belonged to the ocean, there was a mixture of light white and light green gases floating in the air, and there was the sound of water below.

There is a suspension bridge not far ahead. It has been in disrepair for many years and is missing many pieces, but it is the only way to the opposite plate.

Zhang Hao walked onto the suspension bridge carefully and looked down. There was indeed a river below. The water was a hint of light green. He didn't know if it was stained by the fog or it was originally this color. The fog also came from the river.

There is a stream on one side and a small cliff on the other side, about ten meters deep, with a pool of water inside.

Zhang Hao would stop for a long time after each step he took on the suspension bridge to judge whether the next step was safe. If not, he would be ready to retreat at any time.

It took Zhang Hao more than half an hour to walk across this small suspension bridge made of only twenty or thirty wooden blocks.

He didn't dare to use spiritual power at will, because since entering here, the shock brought by that power has become stronger and stronger.

Instead of feeling fear, he subconsciously respected the power of the mountain.

Is it the mountain god?

Or something else?

After crossing the suspension bridge and turning a corner, Zhang Hao saw a glowing place. There was actually a lamp burning there!

In this place where no one has set foot for many years, there are still lights burning!

Looking closer, you can see warm white flames inside the transparent glass cover.

Zhang Hao covered the lampshade with his hand, but could not feel any spiritual power flowing inside. However, it was impossible for this lamp to burn for thousands of years.

How does it keep burning?
There are too many mysteries here, but Zhang Hao doesn’t know how much time he has left. He has no time to solve them one by one, so he can only keep moving forward.

After passing the current plate, there is no way forward.

There was a place on the plate inside that looked like a palace gate, tightly closed. There might be a mechanism on it, but he couldn't get through it at the moment.

Just as Zhang Hao was thinking about whether to use a magical weapon to fly over, he accidentally stepped on a stone and fell down!

Oh no, this stone is a mechanism!

Anyone who has been to a tomb knows how serious the consequences would be if they stepped on an unknown mechanism in the tomb.

He was alone at the moment, and although he had the ability to protect himself, he had no idea what was hidden in the cave.

Is this the end of my trip to the Polar Tower?

At this moment, a rumbling sound was heard. Looking up, I saw a stone bridge extending from under the originally empty palace plate!
There is such a sophisticated mechanical technique in this place!

Zhang Hao looked down again and found that the stone was indeed inconspicuous. It was the kind that no one would care about even if they saw it. If he hadn't stepped on it on purpose, he would probably never have discovered this mechanism!
I was just figuring out how to get through, and I accidentally stepped on the mechanism. Otherwise, I would have to spend a lot of effort to figure out how to get to the other side.

Stepping onto the bridge, Zhang Hao quickly walked along the edge to the other side.

But as soon as his feet touched the land on the opposite side, a strange creature crawled up from under the cliff!
This thing looked like an enlarged version of a cockroach, and also like a beetle. Its carapace was very hard. Zhang Hao subconsciously kicked it with his foot, but it didn't break.

It looked a bit like a corpse turtle, but it was different from the corpse turtles he had seen before.

Zhang Hao took out his weapon and smashed the turtle corpse with force. Yellow-green blood then flowed out of the turtle corpse's body and spread to the ground, actually corroding the stones!
Zhang Hao exclaimed and quickly stepped back.

It turns out that this corpse turtle is poisonous. Is it related to the things in the river? They are all green and poisonous?
Fortunately, only two of them crawled out. After Zhang Hao defeated them, he went around them and walked to the gate of the palace.

There were also two lamps burning at the entrance of the palace, exactly the same as the ones I had seen on the road just now, but they looked more gorgeous.

Zhang Hao was really curious about how this thing kept burning, so he leaned over to take a closer look.

There is no sense of magical fluctuation above, and there is no burning medium inside. Could it be another extremely sophisticated mechanical technique?
Thinking of this, Zhang Hao narrowed his eyes and looked carefully just below the flame.

Sure enough, there was a hole the size of a needle tip, and the flame seemed to be coming from here.

"The art of mechanisms? I really want to see what the people who created these mechanisms look like..."

Zhang Hao admired this thing very much. When he looked at it, he felt as if he could see through the surface of the thing and see the essence of the person.

Arrogant, unruly, and a little cruel.

The mechanism was set up so that it was not easy to be discovered, as if the intention was to make it difficult for those who would study it later to figure out the secret.

Perhaps it is also to make people who come here always feel confused and wonder what this thing is until they die.

Zhang Hao smiled, put the matter aside and continued walking forward.

The palace gate was tightly closed. There were intricate and ancient patterns on it, but no obvious mechanism could be seen.

Zhang Hao fumbled for a while and didn't find the switch, so he gathered his spiritual power into his hands, closed his eyes, and carefully felt whether there were any fluctuations of spiritual power inside.

——There really are!

The fluctuation of spiritual power is very small and slight, but it is not negligible. At least Zhang Hao feels that the fluctuation of this power is like the water flowing under the broken bridge. When it flows slowly, it gives people a feeling of peace and tranquility. But if you think about it carefully, you will know how dangerous this thing is.

Zhang Hao took a step back and took out another talisman.

When I was looking for the way just now, many of the talismans were gone. If I use this one now, I will have to find the way myself for a long time.

After thinking for a few seconds, he put the talisman back and took out the Bagua plate from his backpack.

The symbols on the door are somewhat similar to those on the Bagua plate. He wants to look at the Bagua plate, maybe he can find other clues.

He placed the Bagua plate in the middle of the door, looked at it for a while, suddenly frowned, and then moved the Bagua plate up about twenty to thirty centimeters.

The magical thing is that the mark on the Bagua plate completely overlaps with the mark on the door!
When the marks overlapped, Zhang Hao carefully observed the patterns on the door and found that they led to eight directions.

Looking down along these eight directions, he found that there was a small square at the end of each line. The color was slightly different from other places, but there was no response when pressed with the hand.

When Zhang Hao pressed the two small squares at the same time, they responded a little, but he still couldn't press them down.

At this moment, Zhang Hao suddenly realized that perhaps he needed to press eight at the same time!
Zhang Hao only has two hands, and these eight key positions are far apart.

Even if he tried his best, he couldn't press so many places with his hands at the same time.

In desperation, Zhang Hao had to take out many small magical weapons from his own space.

There are daggers, beads, hairpins, and some small angular weapons.

He controlled these magical weapons, making them float and land precisely on the eight key points.

"open!"

With a low shout, he pressed it at the same time. Sure enough, it was an effective switch!
The huge stone door made a rumbling sound, and then a crack slowly appeared in the middle.

From the dirt falling from the gap, it can be seen that this door has not been opened for nearly a hundred years, otherwise so much dust would not have accumulated in the gap.

The dust that fell from the surface was slightly green, but there was no such color inside the iron gate, which meant that there was not originally so much green gas here.

Could it be that the environment has changed?

With such questions in mind, Zhang Hao stepped into the world behind the door.

Before my eyes was a wide but bottomless passage.

The passage extended downwards by layers of stairs, and there was a light every few steps on the wall. These lights were no different from those he had seen outside, except that their color seemed to be redder.

When Zhang Hao walked down more than a hundred steps, he looked back and saw that the door seemed to be slowly closing and was much narrower than when he first came in.

Zhang Hao thought for a moment, turned around and left the Bagua plate at the door.

Hao Xie is quite knowledgeable about this kind of thing. If he came, he would definitely understand my intention.

The further down you go, the colder the temperature becomes.

The breath he exhaled turned into white mist, and the walls were covered with frost. He reached out to touch it, and the frost melted instantly.

The perceived temperature is around minus three degrees Celsius, and ordinary people will quickly suffer from hypothermia.

Zhang Hao couldn't help but worry about Hao Xie and the others. After he came out of the water, he used his magic power to evaporate the moisture on his body. If it were an ordinary person, it would probably take several hours to dry it with body temperature.

If they had followed me at a normal speed, the water on their bodies would not have dried up by the time they arrived here.

Combined with such low temperatures, it could be dangerous.

Thinking of this, Zhang Hao stopped and wrote a few spells on the wall with his own blood.

These spells gradually spread out from the bloodstains, and within two or three meters there was no more frost. When one touched the wall with one's hand, one could even feel a slight warmth.

This way, they can warm up quickly by simply leaning their bodies against the wall.

However, releasing these spells requires a price, they will continue to extract spiritual power from Zhang Hao's body. Although it is not much for Zhang Hao now, if he encounters danger later, this little spiritual power may become a fatal risk.

But Zhang Hao didn't care. If he cared about these things, he wouldn't have left so many marks.

The shapes of the standing stones in the water pool cave were carefully selected by him. These shapes could not have been formed naturally, and must have been placed in the center of the cave entrance by someone on purpose.

The same goes for that door. The Bagua plate is left as the key. As long as Hao Xie arrives, he will be able to solve the mystery.

But at the same time, leaving these marks also means that Zhang Hao is at risk. If the people who follow him have bad intentions, Zhang Hao may die here.

Despite taking so many risks, Zhang Hao never regretted it.

As we walked, the steps gradually became wider, with strange traces remaining on them.

There are small round pits of varying depths, and there are traces of stone cracks around them.

This reminded Zhang Hao of the ancient times when tombs were being built. When manpower was unable to carry heavy objects, scaffolding was built to carry the objects down layer by layer, which saved labor and reduced losses.

Zhang Hao couldn't help but think of Qin Ling.

Countless craftsmen were buried in that place, one reason was to keep it secret, and the other was that the more people were buried alive, the more the owner's noble status would be highlighted.

Zhang Hao felt that countless lives must be buried here.

These lives are wailing in places that they cannot see or hear. (End of this chapter)