Huang Ting

Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan held up their flashlights and cautiously looked toward the newly emerged entrance to the tomb.

Hu Xiuwu followed them, and Da Jinya hid beside him, hiding his body as much as possible behind Hu Xiuwu.

Although Hu Xiuwu had never used Taoist magic in front of him, he was not a fool. After spending many days together, Da Jinya had already understood who had the thickest thighs among them.

There is no difference between this tomb entrance and other buildings in the tomb, with a unified Zhou style.

But when Hu Bayi shined the flashlight into the tomb passage behind the tomb door, the light could not shine beyond one meter, and the light of the flashlight was absorbed.

Only a winding staircase could be seen extending downward, and around the staircase was darkness that even light could not penetrate.

"careful,"

Wang Kaixuan stretched out his hands to both sides, trying to touch the wall, but unexpectedly he didn't touch anything. Instead, he almost lost his footing and fell. Fortunately, Hu Bayi helped him. Only the flashlight in Wang Kaixuan's hand fell.

Go down.

Not long after the flashlight fell, it was swallowed up by darkness and disappeared.

"It's so dangerous. There are cliffs on both sides! Old Hu, is there such a place in the mountains?"

Of course not. If there were cliffs inside the mountain, Longling would have collapsed long ago.

Why is there a staircase hanging in the darkness here?

Hu Xiuwu suspected that this was the reason why King Zhou put down the jade pendant.

He used the jade pendant as the formation eye and set up a strange gate formation here.

Before he could figure it out, a light streaked across the place where Wang Kaixuan almost fell just now, like a shooting star.

Just in time to be seen by Da Jinya who was hiding behind Hu Xiuwu, Da Jinya timidly said:

"Gentlemen, have you seen it? What is that?"

Just now, everyone's attention was attracted by the stone steps, and no one could see clearly what the light was.

Hu Bayi held up his flashlight and shined it at the place where the light had just passed.

Not long after, the light appeared again. With quick eyesight and quick hands, Hu Xiuwu fished the thing back with the talisman.

Hu Xiuwu didn’t realize until he got it in his hand,

That light turned out to be the wolf-eye flashlight Wang Kaixuan used when he fell off the cliff just now.

This wolf-eye flashlight is one of the equipment Shirley Yang prepared for the archaeological team in order to go to the desert. It is a high-end product customized from abroad.

Later, before Shirley Yang returned to the United States, she threw all these things to Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan.

When they came to Gulan County this time, the two of them thought that they might want to return to their old profession.

So I took it with me again, and there were several traces on it from when Wang Kaixuan was in Jingjue Ancient City, when his flashlight fell on the ground and was thrown out.

Wang Kaixuan said: "I, I clearly saw it fall, why did it fall from above again?"

Big Jinya trembled and said, "Master Hu, haven't we entered the underworld?"

"Don't scare yourself, this is just a mausoleum guarding mechanism. Xiuwu, do you see anything?"

Hu Bayi was also a little scared, but he knew that if he showed fear too, the team would lose heart.

Hu Xiuwu guessed: "This is probably some kind of strange formation. I heard from my master that Zhuge Liang, a strange man of his generation, once laid out eight formations, which could reverse the direction and trap Cao Wei's army."

Hu Bayi said: "Did you hear that? We haven't gone down to the underworld yet. It's just a formation. Let's go down this road and have a look. We can't sit here and wait for death."

"This road is strange. Let's not separate. Tie the rope around your waist and don't get separated."

Hu Bayi took out a rope and tied it around his waist one by one to prevent anyone from disappearing suddenly.

Several people lined up in a straight line and walked slowly down the steps. There were endless abyss on both sides, and everyone tried to walk in the middle.

While walking, Wang Kaixuan suddenly said: "Old Hu, why do I feel that this place looks a bit like a ghost cave?"

In fact, Hu Bayi also had the same feeling. He also couldn't see the bottom, as if he was leading to the abyss of the underworld.

Could it be said that this also leads to a ghost cave?

Several people walked downwards while guessing. After walking for nearly ten minutes, they finally saw a tomb door. Everyone couldn't help but speed up and headed towards the tomb door.

But when they passed through the tomb door, they found that they were back in the Hades Palace.

Nothing has changed, even the garbage that Big Gold Tooth just threw away is still there.

Wang Kaixuan said: "I saw a ghost, why are you back?"

Da Jinya was already weak in body, so all this torture and extreme nervousness made him suffer from asthma. He untied the rope around his waist, sat on the ground, took out his own medicine and sprayed it twice.

Repeatedly?

Hu Xiuwu suddenly thought of the escape scroll in the "Sixteen Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secrets" at home, which recorded the mechanism formations of various dynasties.

This seems to be the formation of the Zhou Dynasty, the Hanging Soul Ladder.

When I told Hu Ba Yi about this idea, Hu Ba Yi slapped his thigh: "Yes, this is the Soul Suspended Ladder."

Da Jinya sat on the ground and said intermittently:

"I have also heard that this hanging soul ladder was very popular in the Zhou Dynasty. The large tombs of the Zhou Dynasty liked to use this hanging soul ladder to guard the tombs. However, it is said that the method to crack it is extremely simple, so it was abandoned after the Zhou Dynasty.

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Wang Kaixuan said anxiously: "You guys have talked a lot of nonsense, is there any way to get out?"

Hu Xiuwu thought about it and said:

"I just checked it silently. There are 383 steps in that staircase. If you include the Hades Palace, there are 384 steps."

Hu Ba understood what Hu Xiuwu meant in an instant: "That means it also corresponds to the sixty-four hexagrams."

So you have to find the right one among the 383 steps before you can get out.

And according to what Big Gold Tooth meant, this hanging soul ladder was abandoned after Zhou Dynasty because the cracking method was simple.

So it shouldn't be too difficult to solve.

Moreover, they did not find Jin Abacus's body in the Hades Palace, indicating that he still escaped from here.

After thinking hard for a while,

Hu Bayi and Hu Xiuwu discussed together for a while, and they came up with a solution to the hanging soul ladder.

As for whether it works or not, you have to try it before you know.

Hu Bayi greeted, Wang Kaixuan and Da Jinya entered the hanging ladder again.

Before entering the hanging ladder again, Hu Xiuwu accidentally discovered that someone had carved a word on the stone frame of the tomb door:

It is the character Yu in regular script.

In all directions, up and down, there is reality but no place, it is called Yu.

This was definitely not carved by the original craftsmen. Regular script only became popular in the Tang Dynasty, and the time when this character was carved was at least after the Tang Dynasty.

"Xiuwu, why don't you leave?"

"fine,"

Hearing Hu Bayi's cry, Hu Xiuwu came back to his senses.

The most important thing now is to get out first, there is no time to study this word.

Hu Bayi led the four people to the steps of the ninth and fifth steps of the trapped hexagram, and explained the reason for choosing it to Da Jinya and Wang Kaixuan.

The Keng Gua, up and down, alludes to their situation, and the ninety-five Yang lines in the Keng Gua are changed into Yin lines.

It became the Jie hexagram that shakes up and down, which means solving the dilemma.

Wang Kaixuan swallowed and glanced down.

Hu Bayi joked: "I have known for a long time that you, a fat comrade, do not have a strong revolutionary will, dare not be a vanguard, and cannot shoulder important responsibilities."

"So it seems that such an arduous task as pioneering the path must be left to our comrade Big White Goose."

Hu Bayi looked at the big goose Wang Kaixuan was carrying and said.

???

This means that the big goose can't speak, otherwise he will definitely scold his mother,

Good things don't come to me, and bad things come to me.

Big Goose: mmp, did you hear that? mmp!