The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 216 Organs
After walking for more than half an hour, we came to the entrance of the valley, which was a bamboo forest. Lvxiu pointed to the entrance of the bamboo forest and said, "Go straight ahead until you reach the end of the bamboo forest. There is a big stone tablet. There is a trap, open the trap, and the way out will be revealed. There are our people in the green radish barrier to help, don't you have any wrong thoughts, do you know?"

Naturally, I nodded my head like a pounding garlic, and when I entered the bamboo forest, I immediately ran away, looking back from time to time, but I didn't see anyone following me.Fortunately, they gave me the flashlight back.

The terrain of this bamboo forest is slope-like, the ground is covered with soft bamboo leaves, which are easy to fall, and the bamboo branches are intertwined.When people walk in it, they will be whipped from time to time, especially those who wear ancient Hanfu with toga and big sleeves, it is even more inconvenient to move, and they are always tripped.

I simply took off my outer robe and tied it around my waist, which made it much easier.

It took about 10 minutes to run out of the bamboo forest, and it was already dark.

At the end of the bamboo forest is a cliff, and there is a very conspicuous stone gate on the cliff. I tried to push it, but it didn't move.

It seems that I have to find the big stone tablet that Lvxiu mentioned.

At the end of the bamboo forest in the dark, there is only the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the bamboo forest. To what stele.

But... the big stone saw one.

The stone was about half a person's height, and there was no trace of artificial polishing. Its shape and stone tablet were completely different, but I couldn't find any other similar things at the moment, so I walked over and took a second look.Looking at it, it turns out that on the back of the stone block, there is an animal with a human face and a bird body impressively carved, and the lower body of this animal is tightly attached to a naked woman.

The image of this bird reminds me of a divine bird called Jumang in myths and legends. According to legend, Jumang is the god of spring in ancient times, in charge of the growth of vegetation. The tree will take out new branches, and a hundred flowers will bloom.

The intercourse pattern on it happens to be similar to the legend of Yumen's birth. Could it be that this pattern lock records the story of Yumen's ancestors?

In this world, there is really a Jumangchun god with a human face and a bird body?
I don't think it's very reliable. We Chinese claim to be the descendants of the dragon, but we are not born of the dragon, are we?

I saw the deep carvings of Jumang and the woman, the intertwining shape is very strange, one arch and one arch, the body is very flexible, at first glance, it looks like a Tai Chi Yin-Yang fish, and at the joint part in the middle, there is a circle Something in the shape of a plate, engraved with heaven, earth and azimuths.

When he came, Luxiuzhi casually said that there is a mechanism, and it is a very simple mechanism, because this is a door opened from the inside, and it is aimed at the people in Yumen, so it is not complicated.I thought it was about pressing a button or something, but I didn't expect that the mechanism in this place is quite advanced.

There are a total of two layers inside and outside. I touched it and found that it can be rotated. It looks like something like a combined password.The outer layer is A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren, and Kwai ten heavenly stems, and the inner circle is the eight directions of north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, and northwest. The square and circle pattern seems to have the meaning of a round sky and a round place.

I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't figure out how to open this so-called extremely simple mechanism.Subconsciously, I looked at the sealed stone door, and suddenly an idea came to my mind.

Could it be... that the positions are arranged according to the heavenly stems?
The location of the stone gate is exactly in the east, so, as long as I find the heavenly stem corresponding to the east, maybe I can open the mechanism?

Zhou Xuanye wanted to teach me some skills, so I have memorized these basic things before.In the sky stem, A and B are east, and A is positive, and B is biased. If my guess is correct, then you only need to combine A and the due east of the inner circle to open the mechanism.

It's not difficult, but within a few seconds, with the slight sound of rubbing, the stone door on the cliff slowly sank into the ground at the moment of alignment, revealing the dark mountain behind tunnel.

I immediately breathed a sigh of relief, that Lvxiu did not lie to me. For those who know how to do it, the difficulty of this mechanism is negligible. It's just time.

This should be equivalent to a very primitive password lock. Fortunately, I have memorized those things before, otherwise I have to go back and run again.

Immediately, with a flashlight on, I walked to the opened mountain, and the light shone in. What was exposed inside was an artificially polished mountain tunnel. It was about two meters high and three meters wide. There were also wall lamps, just not lit.

I took a look, and there was nothing unusual, so I stepped in and walked in. I just went in and walked a few steps forward, when I heard a clear friction sound behind me. Slowly pushed up, as if some force from the ground was pushing it.

In less than ten seconds, the entire stone door was completely closed. In such an environment, people couldn't help feeling as if they were trapped.This feeling makes people feel very uncomfortable, probably because human beings are social animals.

Thinking of meeting Tan Ren and others soon, I suppressed the strange feeling in my heart, and immediately walked forward along the tunnel without daring to think too much.Inside the dark mountainside, only the sound of my footsteps echoed, which seemed extremely monotonous.

This tunnel is quite long, and I can't feel a trace of wind when walking in it, and the temperature in the mountain is also very low, which finally made me feel a little bit of winter.Because I want to merge quickly, my speed is actually very fast, but after walking for more than ten minutes, the tunnel has not yet ended, which makes people feel a little surprised. After all, tunnels were mined manually in ancient times. , How much manpower would it take to dig such a long tunnel in the mountain?

Besides, isn't Yumen always sparsely populated?

Thinking about it this way reminded me of the artificial lake before. Everything here shows that a large group of manpower once gathered here.Could it be that Yumen was once very prosperous?So now, why is it declining?

With some messy thoughts, I finally walked to the exit.

There are a lot of messy vines growing outside the exit, which cover the hole tightly and are very concealed. Once I got out, there was a downward slope outside. I almost fell down, but fortunately I caught the surrounding area in time. The vines didn't fall off.

With the dim light of the flashlight, one can see that the land below the slope is covered with dense vines, and the few big trees around are also tightly wrapped by vines. Wherever the light goes, it is a thrilling feeling. Green, even a little dazzling green.

Apart from the light source in my hand, there was no other movement around, it was pitch black, and I don't know where Zhou Xuanye and the others are.I could only walk down the slope, towards the direction opposite to Yumen, calling the names of Tan Ren and the others while walking.

There was no human voice answering me, only the unknown strange bird chirping in the night sky, which sounded very permeating, and there was a layer of mist floating around. In the lush green scenery, even the mist seemed to have turned green.

"boss!"

"Brother Zhou!"

"Linlin!"

I don’t know how long I’ve been searching in this green barrier. This place is huge and too dark. The surrounding scenery is very monotonous, making it difficult to find reference objects, and giving people the illusion that they have never moved. Because looking around, the four directions are similar.

Just when my heart was a little hairy, a voice suddenly came from behind: "Su Tiangu." The voice suddenly sounded in the darkness, which startled me, but the next second I realized that it was Tan Blade's voice, don't mention how excited he was for a while, he turned around immediately.

Sure enough, Tan Ren was standing under a tree not far behind me.

I was stunned for a moment, because I just walked over from that place, and I didn't see any figure at all. Now, why did Tan Ren suddenly appear again?When he saw me, he seemed relieved, and said, "It really is you."

I quickly trotted over, looked around him, saw no one else, and couldn't help saying: "Boss, where did you come from, why are you alone, where are Brother Zhou and Linlin?"

He didn't answer, instead he looked at me and said, "Why are you dressed like this? Have you seen the people from Yumen?"

I nodded and said, "It's a long story."

Tan Ren said: "Then make a long story short, come with me first." Then, he grabbed my hand, pulled out the flashlight from his waist, turned it on and dragged me to the southwest, while walking, he asked me about feathers. The situation of the door, so I briefly talked about my experience in the past two days, and reminded: "There must be people from Yumen around here watching us. I pretended to join them, and they let me out."

While we were talking, we came under a big tree, and a tattered tent was pitched under the tree. Tan Ren opened the tent, and I looked inside, only to see that Zhou Xuanye and Tang Linlin were actually sleeping.

How is this going?

Tan Ren said with a serious face: "Since yesterday, they have fallen asleep, and..."

"Give it to me, give it to me... it's mine..." Zhou Xuanye suddenly started talking in his sleep.

Tan Ren said: "I kept talking in my sleep, and I couldn't wake up no matter how I screamed, so I suspected that there was a poisonous miasma in this place. I wanted to take them out first, but found that the way I came here disappeared."

My heart sank, the people of Yumen, now clearly don't want us to leave, how could they keep a way out?However, what is the means for a road to disappear for no reason?
I tried to call Zhou Xuanye and Tang Linlin, and sure enough, as Tan Ren said, they didn't respond, as if they were trapped in a dream and couldn't extricate themselves.

(End of this chapter)