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Chapter 17 (3)

When the disaster is coming, it is a matter of helplessness and fearlessness; no one will be determined to stay where they are waiting to die. Chu Menglin also listened to the young man's command. The three of them stood in a row in front of the mark, holding their arms. Every time they took a step, they all reported the number of steps: "one", "two", "three". After five steps, the three stood still, and the young man gave up to the side and said, "I'll count below."

‘Six’, you take your left foot first, and you don’t have to follow up with your right foot. Six!” I measured the distance they took in one step, estimated the length of half a step, found the right position, turned to the right, and pushed the torch forward. Sure enough, I saw a dark hole in front of me, which was located between the cracks in the wall at the dead corner of my eyes. If it weren’t for the accurate prediction in advance, I would have difficulty finding it. No wonder I always pass by when I pass here.

The young man walked out of the small cave and looked around. He saw the carved dragon stone pillars on both sides, and there were still bloodstains on one of the dragon heads. He knew that it was the entrance when he came, so he happily said, "It's done!" He walked into the corridor again and directed the two of them to stand in the direction he was heading to turn back to his original perspective.

Duoduo was discussing the mystery of the corridor with Chu Menglin: "I heard that in the ancient tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there is a mechanism called the 'Soul-hanging Ladder'. Every 23rd stage is a cycle of reincarnation. It cannot go up or down, and it is constantly spinning in place. It should have something in common with this principle. But it is a staircase, so what is this? The Soul-hanging Path?"

Chu Menglin pondered: "I have heard of the Soul-Suspension Ladder. It is not a supernatural phenomenon, but a clever mechanism arranged by using the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams. It only requires very simple props to make people dizzy. I remember when I went to the Shadowless Villa to get the Soul-Broken Tears, a few old guys used this formation to deal with me, and the courtyard was filled with big stones..."

The young man said happily: "Yes, yes, the Shadowless Villa was destroyed by the Shadow Demon Sect and razed to the ground. This matter was widely circulated in the world. Since you could set fire to the village, you must know how to break this formation! Alas, little girl, you are hiding it."

Chu Menglin felt a sense of silence. The young man praised her. Although it was rare, he did not dare to take the opportunity to boast. It was not that her face was too thin and could not speak. However, when recalling the situation at that time, Jiang Liechen said later: "At first, if it weren't for my reminder, you were still trapped in the stone formation, and you were still crying when you screamed in the sky and didn't respond. I was afraid that you would stomp your feet and cry." But she was indeed trapped in the formation so hard that she jumped her feet and slashed her with a hurry, until Jiang Liechen secretly popped up a small stone and paved it beside her.

The trajectory marked the route intact, so that the formation was broken was broken, and she was able to break the formation. She said "reminder" and was already raising her. The formation that could be cracked in the past suddenly would not be broken now. It would be a shame to brag about it. In order to cover up this sentence, she had to say: "What are you anxious? I still haven't had the chance to understand it. Old guys are afraid of trouble..." Thinking that no one is afraid of trouble than death, he changed his words: "Old guys are clumsy, we all attacked the main hall, and only saw them piled up stones in the garden."

The young man felt funny secretly: "When you go to the main hall, you should pass by the garden first. Do you deliberately avoid them when you see them moving stones so that you can give them some convenience?"

Duoduo was well-informed. He heard her mention the old story of Miying Villa. After a little thought, he figured it out. He had been on the battlefield with Jiang Liechen. He had long admired his skills and wisdom, but he was unwilling to say words of praise from his mouth. For those who were far inferior to him who were obvious to all, he felt that it was not as good as himself. Therefore, he did not expose her lies that were not organized. On the contrary, Chu Menglin was a subordinate of the Jiying Sect and did not reveal it to the young man in advance. After he learned about it, he was not surprised, which made people feel more suspicious.

For a moment, the three of them thought hard and lived a long time. The young man said, "Have you ever heard of it? Let a person blindfold his eyes and walk forward? What he thought was to go straight, but there would be a deviation when he actually left." Chu Menglin said, "I have heard of it, but I haven't tried it, so what? What are you doing when you mention those irrelevant things?"

The young man said, "I haven't tried it, so let's try it. But things are different, and the rules need to be changed slightly." He took out a rope from the cuff and said, "You don't need to blindfold the rope, stick the rope tightly, hold the rope head, and walk forward. I observe behind me and act accordingly, wanting to find the correct turning position."

Chu Menglin said angrily: "Are you lying? How can you see this? Why don't you leave yourself?" The young man said angrily: "I told you that I want to find the correct position in the rear. If I walk with a rope, will you find a position? You won't. Otherwise, there is no need to say just now, 'How can you see this?'. The so-called "If you don't take the rope head, who will take the rope head? Hehe, it's just that if you don't go to hell, who will go to hell?"

Duoduo got along with the young man and slowly saw some tricks. He knew that although he liked to talk back, he was just a slippery person by nature, but in fact he was a smart and capable person, not like Chu Menglin's unreasonable search. He said, "You just follow him."

Chu Menglin's eyes flashed for a moment, and finally nodded, "Okay." She glared at the young man and said angrily: "If you find it, tell me immediately. If you fail, see if I don't settle the score with you!" He picked up the rope and walked away quickly. The young man shouted from behind, "Hey, slow down, remember that the rope must always be close to the wall!" He said to Duoduo again: "Sir, one person is not as good as two people. Please also pay attention to me and see where the rope is suddenly... it is not straight enough."

Duoduo nodded, and the young man consciously explained: "This is the same as the principle of 'the authorities'. Only by substituting another tangible and qualitative object into it and being a bystander can you see the mystery." Duoduo seemed to understand and said: "Is that rope long enough?" The young man said: "Enough, absolutely enough, you haven't seen it yet? In fact, we were just trapped in a very small area, and we didn't have any signs before, and we didn't feel anything. Later, we calculated the steps. This matter is for me, so you just keep one hundred hearts."

At this time, Chu Menglin's figure had disappeared, and the rope within the range of the fire was still stretched straight. The young man said, "Go and follow." He first pressed the top of the rope with his right hand, and walked forward slowly. Then his hands continued to alternate, keeping the rope as it was.

After walking about eight or nine steps, the two of them saw that the rope in front was slightly sunken inward. Since it was tense and forward, the wall itself must be concave inward. The young man said happily: "It's here!" He said that his whole body was close to the wall and his eyes looked straight. As soon as he saw that from that place, every few steps, the rope was deeper, forming a flat arc that was moving to the right. The angle change was extremely small. When he walked forward, he could see a straight line. So he said: "Sir, please take the first three steps or so and draw a vertical line on the wall."

Duoduo took three steps as he said, pressed the stone piece against the wall, and said, "Is it here?"

The young man squinted his eyes and looked carefully, "No, it's too far! Take a step back... and get closer, go a little further... a little bit more... alas!" He loosened the rope and ran forward, explaining, "The wall should have been straight forward, but now it is concave in an arc, which is to confuse our eyes and lead us to the right without realizing it. The drawing tells us to walk through the straight path and turn to the left, but it goes the opposite way. Because the drawing will never be wrong, it says it goes to the left, it must be to the left,

The corridor just revealed the seedlings that led to the right, which was a lie. Therefore, where the signs to the right were originally shown, the correct position in the drawing should have been to the left." He knocked on the wall and said, "It was indeed hollow!" He clenched his fist and tapped from the left side of the vertical line to distinguish the boundaries of virtual and real. He made several marks with the stone slabs up and down, took out a Luoyang shovel, dug it up at the base of the wall, and asked casually: "I have found the right position, don't you have to try to notify Miss Chu?"

Duoduo said: "Since this mechanism is a vicious cycle, when she takes a few steps and walks around, she will turn back here. There is no need to worry about it."

The young man smiled and said, "What the lord said is, I have been curious, I wonder what your relationship with Miss Chu? To be honest, she treats you very, very special, extremely good. She is separated from the equality of lovers, but is different from the maid's respect for her master. It is clearly out of love between men and women. If she says she loves you so much that she is so despicable, it is reasonable. Your attitude here will be completely confused. It seems that she doesn't care about her at all, and does not want her to die, but she still doesn't care much, as long as she still has a breath. Strangely, both attitudes are from the heart, not out of shyness. I guess, may you have a big event or something important, which is closely related to Miss Chu, and you can't do it without her? I am ashamed, ashamed, I am really confused, and I will not be able to guess for a long time."

After hearing this, Duoduo felt a stern heart and thought to himself: "This person's thinking is really meticulous!" Although the young man was humble and "not able to get the point", he actually put every sentence on the point, and he almost said what the big thing was. He had always hated that his thoughts were seen through by others and said sternly: "Don't you think you are too busy with your control? Do you know what true feelings and false feelings are?"

The young man buried his head in his work and did not answer. Duoduo also felt that his tone was too stern. He just wanted to say a few good words to ease the atmosphere, but he did not want to surrender the atmosphere. He was dressed in a low manner to a tomb robber. Chu Menglin happened to walk around and walked back from the other side. She was about to settle the score with the young man and cursed to vent his anger, but saw him holding a Luoyang shovel in his hand, sweating profusely, and a small pile of soil had accumulated at his feet. He walked up to look and looked again, and said half-believingly: "You... have you found this?"

The young man didn't raise his head and said, "Nonsense, otherwise I would be idle and shoveling the soil? Is it fun to dig the wall? Do you want to play?" Chu Menglin threw the rope and said angrily, "I told you a long time ago. If you find it, tell me, why do you feel like you have died suddenly?"

The young man heard her "order" and felt a little angry and sneered: "I didn't tell you, aren't you back yet? Is it going to take more time? Besides, how can I know you? I'm calling you your name here? I don't know if I'm crazy or a soul or pulling a rope? This place will lie, who knows what is at the other end of the rope? If a headless female corpse is pulled back and I'm asking her to return the face on the wall, it will be scary, right?"

Duoduo heard him laughing and took the blame for him, and he felt much more relieved. Since he dared to say it, he was not afraid that Chu Menglin would find out, but he didn't want to make her angry before she found out about her life experience.

Chu Menglin said angrily, "I'm trying to scare people again! You... Why do you always scare me? Is it fun to scare people?" The young man smiled and said, "Yes, it's very interesting. I used to live in the countryside and like to take risks with a group of sworn brothers. I spent all day crawling around the village and practiced very courageous. Although there are many ghost stories circulating in the mountains, I won't be afraid if I listen to them for a long time. In order to have fun, we make up some lies. Unfortunately, I scare others, and they are all wooden faces. Only when I mention them to you, I get the biggest reaction and the most interesting ones." While saying that, I poked the shovel a few times in my hand.
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