Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen
A gust of damp wind blew from the opposite side of the secret passage, Pan Jun frowned and thought about it, and suddenly stopped in his tracks.Shi Miaomiao and Yanying who followed behind him also stopped immediately.
"Brother Pan, why don't you leave?" Yanying asked curiously.
"Listen!" When Pan Jun finished speaking, both Miaomiao and Yanying listened to the movement in the secret passage with their ears sideways, and vaguely heard the endless "hissing" sound coming from the secret passage.
"It's the wind?" Yan Ying said overjoyed, "Is it almost to the exit?"
Pan Jun was not as optimistic as he was at all, he was sweating profusely from his forehead, and his body seemed a little weak.But he still barely held on, holding the torch in his hand and continuing to walk along the tunnel.When she was not far away, Miaomiao suddenly screamed, and several mice ran across the secret passage.The mice were used to living underground and had never seen anyone before, so they were startled and rushed forward when they heard Shi Miaomiao's scream.Yan Ying originally thought that Shi Miaomiao was not afraid of anything, but now seeing that she was so afraid of mice, she couldn't help laughing out loud.
"What are you laughing at?" Shi Miaomiao said angrily.
"I didn't expect you to be afraid of mice!" Yan Ying said with a smile.
"Okay, don't talk anymore, the most important thing is for us to maintain our physical strength to get out of here." Pan Jun seemed to feel his physical strength was losing little by little, and his mouth was dry at this moment.The shoulder was sore, and the wound accidentally injured by Yanying might have begun to inflame.
The secret passage became narrower and narrower as it went forward. In the beginning, a few people could walk in the tunnel half-hunched, but in the end they could only crawl forward slowly with their bodies close to the ground.When they turned a corner, their eyes suddenly lit up, and the light came from the hole in front.Pan Jun thought to himself that it was time to go to the next level. Thinking of this, he extinguished the torch and accelerated to move forward. Shi Miaomiao and Yan Ying followed closely behind Pan Jun.When they climbed to the entrance of the cave, they found that the secret passage suddenly became larger. The secret room in front of them was only two or three feet away, but it was more than ten feet long.The secret room is empty, surrounded by kerosene lamps that have been used for many years, under the kerosene lamps there are several large vats, and there are still more than half of the vats with little lamp oil in them.
The secret room was illuminated like daylight by the oil lamps on the walls.The ground of the secret room is soft yellow sand. It is five or six feet high from the entrance to the ground. The walls of the secret room are extremely smooth, with countless small holes on it, but there is no place to stay. hole.
Yan Ying tentatively went to the entrance of the secret passage and looked down: "This is really too high, but fortunately there is sand below, it shouldn't be a problem to jump down from here!" Then she took all the roots of the fire lotus in her arms. He took it out and put it on the ground, "I'll go down first, and you will follow me down later!"
After finishing speaking, she was about to jump down, but Pan Jun grabbed her, and Yan Ying looked at Pan Jun in bewilderment.Pan Jun frowned and shook his head at Yanying and said: "The Bagua secret room was built with the wisdom of three hundred years of gold-type insect repellent masters. The two stages we just experienced are full of traps and dangers. I don't think this secret room will be too simple!" Just as Pan Jun finished speaking, Shi Miaomiao screamed again and took two steps back, only to see two huge black mice chasing and playing in the tunnel, running The mouse in front accidentally fell from the secret passage.
As soon as the mouse landed on the yellow sand, there was a rustling sound in his ears. Pan Jun hurriedly called out: "No!" Then he immediately pulled Yan Ying who was standing closest to the edge of the secret passage to Xiang Backing away, almost at the same time, countless polished steel rods suddenly grew from the left and right walls of the secret room towards the middle, one of the steel rods almost brushed against Yanying's shoulder, and Yanying only felt a burst of pain on his back. Aversion to cold, cold sweat suddenly.
At this time, the secret room is like a sealed box, with countless sharp steel needles inserted from both sides, and the distance between each steel rod can only accommodate one arm.Yan Ying gasped violently, and he looked at Pan Jun gratefully.If Pan Jun hadn't stopped him from jumping in time just now, I'm afraid his body would have been pierced with countless holes by this vicious mechanism.After the steel rods stayed for a while, they suddenly retracted together.The peace in front of them once again returned to when they first entered.
"What a powerful mechanism!" Shi Miaomiao gasped and said.
"It's amazing, but we can't get out like this!" Yanying said helplessly, "Even a mouse's falling mechanism will activate on this ground. If we walk on it, won't it become a hornet's nest?"
"I think since people from the Jin family have designed such a mechanism, there must be some way to get there!" Shi Miaomiao looked at Pan Jun while talking, hoping that Pan Jun could figure out a way.
"Hehe, I see enough. Most of the Jin family have brain problems." Yan Ying said resentfully, "Who would a normal person create such weird and life-threatening mechanisms?"
"Can you stop saying such frustrating words?" Shi Miaomiao was quite dissatisfied with Yanying's words.
"Frustrated words? Hehe, a joke. Come, come, look, look!" Yan Ying pointed to the secret room in front of her and said, "Look at the secret room in front of you, the sand below, let alone a human being is a bird The weight of the mouse can activate the mechanism. You can see that the surrounding walls are bare, as if they have been polished by someone, even if you want to climb over the wall, it is impossible!"
Although Shi Miaomiao was dissatisfied with Yanying's tone, what he said was not unreasonable.Shi Miaomiao also secretly cursed in her heart that the people from the Jin family had designed the secret room so strangely.At this time, Pan Jun was also extremely confused. According to what Ouyang Leiyun said, there were four yang secret rooms, and they had already passed two of them just now, so there are two more secret rooms in front of them, namely, the "Zhen" hexagram secret room, and the "Gen" secret room. Gua secret room.In the gossip, the "Zhen" hexagram represents thunder, while the "Gen" hexagram represents mountains and rivers.The previous two secret rooms allow people to know what secret room they are at a glance, and it is also easy to find a way to crack them.However, the secret room in front of him is very special, neither the "Zhen" hexagram nor the "Gen" hexagram is completely incompatible.
For a while, several people were silent, and the road was clearly ahead, but the secret room in front of them almost became an insurmountable gap.Yan Ying was a little impatient, walking up and down the entrance impetuously.Shi Miaomiao said angrily: "Yanying, can you be quiet for a while, let Pan Jun think carefully first!"
"I..." Yanying looked at Shi Miaomiao angrily, and punched heavily on the wall of the secret passage.Suddenly his eyes lit up, he turned his head and said excitedly: "Pan...Brother Pan, there is a symbol here!" Pan Jun immediately looked closer, and saw an upside-down "Zhen" hexagram symbol engraved on the wall of the secret room.Pan Jun looked at the symbol and bowed his head in deep thought. If this room is really the secret room of the "Zhen" hexagram, according to Pan Jun's guess, it should at least be thunderous, and there is not only no thunder, but it is as quiet as a tomb. It is very different from the "Zhen" hexagram.Pan Jun stroked the symbol and thought about it, and suddenly felt sticky on his fingers.And Yan Ying and Shi Miaomiao stared at Pan Jun, hoping that he could quickly figure out a way to get out of here.But after a long time, Pan Jun shook his head helplessly.
"Brother Pan, how is it?" Yan Ying asked impatiently.
Pan Jun sighed helplessly as a response.
"Pan Jun, can't even you think of a way?" Shi Miaomiao asked softly.
"What you don't know is that although this symbol represents the hexagram 'Zhen', the layout here seems to have nothing to do with the hexagram 'Zhen'. The hexagram 'Zhen' in Fuxi's gossip represents thunder from the sky, and you look at the secret room in front of you. It's empty, like a huge tomb, without any signs of thunder!" Pan Jun said, looking at the secret room in front of him.
"Oh, it seems that we are really going to be trapped here to death!" Yan Ying slammed the wall heavily, he was wandering in the secret room anxiously, he picked up the root of the fire lotus that had just been thrown on the ground and took a bite, suddenly He froze.After a while, he said excitedly: "Brother Pan, look at these grooves on the wall!"
Pan Jun and Shi Miaomiao looked in the direction Yanying was pointing at. Those so-called grooves were the holes left by the steel needles. They were uneven in thickness. Some grooves were as thick as a thumb, while others were as thick as an arm. "Look carefully at the grooves of uneven thickness. If we use the roots of this fire lotus to insert them, we can probably step on them and climb to the opposite hole!"
Yan Ying's words reminded Pan Jun that he counted them carefully. Although the distances between the thicker grooves were different, the furthest one was only one step away.If the root system of these fire lotus can bear the weight of a person, then Yanying's method can really be tried.
"I'm afraid that these fire lotus roots are too fragile to hold back people!" Pan Jun said with some worry.
"Brother Pan, you don't have to worry about this!" Yan Ying said confidently, "These fire lotus roots here are of course not good, but I found some fire lotus roots in the secret path just now. Once it’s done, it’s as hard as iron, and I think it shouldn’t be a problem to carry the weight of a person!”
"Okay, then let's go back and find some roots to try!" Although Pan Jun said this, he was still a little worried. After passing through the first two secret rooms, Pan Jun was already in awe of the secret rooms carefully made by the ancestors of the gold family. .If the first two tests were not for someone who is well versed in Fuxi's gossip, even a hundred lives would have died in them, but is the "Zhen" hexagram secret room in front of us really that simple?
"No, I can go by myself!" Yanying said excitedly and returned along the original road.At this moment, only Pan Jun and Shi Miaomiao were left. Pan Jun suddenly felt powerless, and sat on the ground with a wobble. The cloth is soaked.Seeing this, Shi Miaomiao walked to Pan Jun's side and carefully removed the soaked cloth bit by bit, only to see that the flesh on both sides of the wound on Pan Jun's shoulders was turned outwards. The moisture in the Tao accelerated the festering of Pan Jun's wound.Pan Jun gritted his teeth tightly, and cold sweat dripped down his forehead slowly. Pan Jun's body was hot and he had already started to have a fever.Shi Miaomiao looked at Pan Jun's wound, her eyes were moist.Pan Jun has always been the spiritual leader of everyone here, no matter what happens, as long as Pan Jun is there, everything can be solved.
"Pan Jun..." Shi Miaomiao threw herself on Pan Jun's body as she spoke, her body trembling slightly, tears welling up in her eyes that had been brewing for a long time.She, a girl with a cold appearance, couldn't remember the last time she cried and for whom.At this time, she was crying, crying hysterically, and she even wanted to bear the pain instead of Pan Jun.Pan Jun stroked her head lightly and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it will get better! Miaomiao, help me light the torch!"
Shi Miaomiao sobbed for a while, lit the torch and looked at Pan Jun suspiciously. Pan Jun took a fire lotus root from the ground and said, "Press this torch on my wound later!" After speaking, Pan Jun Bit the root of the fire lotus in his mouth.Shi Miaomiao looked at Pan Jun with complicated eyes, and Pan Jun nodded slightly.Only then did Shi Miaomiao pluck up the courage, and as soon as she pressed the burning torch firmly on Pan Jun's shoulder, she only felt Pan Jun's body tremble violently twice, and then quickly took down the extinguished torch.At this moment, Pan Jun's face was pale, and he opened his mouth weakly. The fire lotus roots in his mouth could not fall out of his mouth. He smiled slightly and his eyes darkened and passed out.Shi Miaomiao stepped forward and hugged Pan Jun, shouting: "Pan Jun, Pan Jun..."
After a while, Pan Jun opened his eyes with difficulty, and smiled slightly at the corners of his mouth.When Shi Miaomiao saw Pan Jun wake up and held him tightly in his arms, the two of them had experienced too much hatred, suspicion, and suffering, all of which became so trivial in an instant, so unworthy of mentioning.Shi Miaomiao even hoped to stay in this moment forever.
After a while, Shi Miaomiao wiped away her tears and smiled and said, "Just wake up!" Shi Miaomiao was a little flustered.
"Miaomiao, don't worry! I'm fine!" Pan Jun said with difficulty. In fact, Pan Jun knew that these words were mostly comforting Shi Miaomiao. He was a doctor who knew his body best. The secret room is abnormally cold, and it has already begun to inflame. I am afraid that if you stay here for a long time, your life will be in danger.
Shi Miaomiao smiled slightly, then hugged Pan Jun and whispered in his ear: "When you fainted just now, my mind suddenly went blank, as if the sky had collapsed. Pan Jun, you must Alright, let's go out together!"
"Yeah!" Pan Jun nodded his head with difficulty, sweat still pouring out from his forehead and body.Shi Miaomiao pondered for a while and said, "We must get out of here as soon as possible!"
At this moment, Yan Ying was holding five or six dried fire lotus roots, and came back sweating profusely. Seeing that Pan Jun was as pale as paper, he dropped the roots in his arms, walked up to Pan Jun and said, "Brother Pan, How are you doing?"
Pan Jun shook his head, leaning on the ground with both hands and struggling to get up from the ground, at this time Yan Ying and Shi Miaomiao hurriedly helped Pan Jun up.Shi Miaomiao looked at the dry roots on the ground and said, "Is that all?"
"Yeah!" Yan Ying pulled out the short knife from his bosom, and the short knife was already curled up, "Look, I'm afraid I won't be able to use this knife to cut them down! I think it's enough to support a person's weight Already!"
"Okay!" Shi Miaomiao said bluntly, then picked up two roots and walked towards the secret passageway, she couldn't wait to get out of here.Although Pan Jun kept saying it was fine just now, with Shi Miaomiao's cleverness, he has already seen some clues.Pan Jun couldn't hold on for too long, and if it was too late, he might die here.
Shi Miaomiao touched the entrance of the secret passage and found the groove closest to her. She turned her head and looked at Pan Jun and let out a sigh of relief, then concentrated on poking a root system towards that groove.At this moment, Pan Jun suddenly thought of something and shouted loudly: "Wait..."
But at this time, Shi Miaomiao couldn't stop anymore, and the root system in his hand poured into the groove with inertia.Almost instantly, the root system inserted into the groove was forcefully ejected, and at the same time, countless steel bars were inserted from both sides, and Shi Miaomiao's mind went blank for an instant.Fortunately, Pan Jun responded in time and pulled her back into the secret passage, so Shi Miaomiao survived.
Those steel rods stopped for a while before retracting all the same as the first time, Shi Miaomiao was relieved at this time.But Yanying was even more annoyed, originally thought that she could use those grooves to climb along the wall, but who knew that not only the yellow sand on the ground could not be touched, but even the wall would trigger the mechanism after being touched. "Is the gold-type insect repellent going to put us to death?"
But Shi Miaomiao was even more anxious at this time. She turned her head and looked at Pan Jun affectionately. She was probably the one who wanted to leave here the most.She stretched out her hand to touch Pan Jun's forehead, only to feel that Pan Jun's body was hot. Pan Jun still held on but couldn't laugh anymore. His mind was a little confused now.He knew that the secret room of the "Zhen" hexagram would never be so easy to pass through, but at this moment, he couldn't think of any good way.
"Brother Pan, what should we do now?" Yan Ying asked anxiously.
"Can you be quiet for a while, don't you see that Pan Jun has been hurt like this by you?" Shi Miaomiao said bitterly.
"Damn me like this?" Yan Ying said angrily, "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't break up with my sister, and I wouldn't fall into this damn trap?"
"You..." Shi Miaomiao's cuffs trembled slightly, and the three thousand feet was tightly held in his hands, he stood up and said coldly, "If you dare to say a word, I will make you never go out !"
Although Yanying was dissatisfied, she was extremely afraid of the three thousand feet in Shi Miaomiao's hands.Moreover, he knows that the woman in front of him has a changeable temperament, and he may turn a blind eye to you in one second, and kill you in the next.
When Yan Ying and Shi Miaomiao were arguing, Pan Jun lay motionless on the ground, staring at the roof of the secret room, and after a while Pan Jun suddenly laughed.His smile made Shi Miaomiao and Yanying stop their quarrel and both looked at him.Shi Miaomiao quickly reached out and touched Pan Jun's forehead, which was still hot.
"Pan Jun, what's wrong with you?" Shi Miaomiao asked with concern.
"I finally understand!" Pan Jun said with a self-deprecating smile, "Why didn't I think of such a simple thing at the beginning?"
Yan Ying and Shi Miaomiao looked at each other, wondering what Pan Jun meant. Pan Jun smiled and said, "The symbol we found at the entrance of the cave just now is indeed the hexagram 'Zhen'. But it is different from what we saw before. "The hexagram symbols are engraved upside down! At first I thought it was a wrong marking, but every mechanism of the gold-type insect repellent masters has been designed with extreme precision for hundreds of years, and it is impossible for such a mistake to occur. But at the time, I couldn't understand this What is the meaning of the inverted symbol!"
Hearing what Pan Jun said, Yan Ying looked at the upside-down "Zhen" hexagram on the wall, and then at Pan Jun.Pan Jun went on to say: "Until I suddenly discovered just now, since we came in, we have been thinking about how to get out from below or on the wall, these places that can be passed according to common sense, but we have ignored an important direction."
"Important orientation?" Shi Miaomiao thought for a while, then suddenly looked up at the top of the secret room knowingly and said, "You mean the top?"
"What? Up there?" Yan Ying stared at Pan Jun and Shi Miaomiao in shock.
Pan Jun nodded slightly: "When I first entered the secret room of the hexagram 'Zhen', I deduced according to common sense that the secret room of the hexagram 'Zhen' should be roughly the same as the previous secret room, just like the hexagram 'Kan' represents water. And in the hexagram 'Kan' There are indeed fountains that change positions intermittently in the secret chamber of hexagrams, and the hexagram 'Kun' represents the sky. After we were hit by Mengdie, it is indeed like being in the palace of heaven. According to this common sense, the hexagram 'Zhen' represents thunder, and this must be thunder from heaven. The rolling or the trembling of the secret room is unstoppable, but the reality is completely different from the imagination!"
"In fact, not only did the secret room of the 'Zhen' hexagram not vibrate at all, but even with a slight vibration, those killing mechanisms would be activated with lightning speed!" Shi Miaomiao seemed to understand something and continued Pan Jun's words.
"Yes, this is simply too abnormal, so when I first entered, I couldn't even believe that this is the hexagram 'Zhen'. It seems to want to tell us in this way that everything here should be reversed, And that upside-down symbol proves it even more!" Pan Jun said with a smile.
"Well, it makes sense!" Shi Miaomiao responded approvingly, but Yanying listened to Pan Jun's words and looked towards the top of the secret room. The top of the secret room has a huge slope, and the entrance of the secret passage is three or four feet high from the top. , while the opposite secret passageway is close to the secret passageway, with uneven surfaces and jagged rocks, and the gap between the stones is enough for one person to climb over.
"Hehe, that makes sense!" Yan Ying said coldly, "But even if the roof won't touch the mechanism, how can we go up to the top of the secret room without touching the walls on both sides? Unless we can grow wings and fly up !"
Shi Miaomiao was also aware of this problem, but it was difficult to point it out for a while.But Pan Jun smiled and said: "Although we can't grow wings immediately, we really want to fly up!"
"Fly? How could we fly there?" Yanying stared at Pan Jun in a daze, somewhat suspecting that Pan Jun had a high fever and was confused.
"Hehe, Miaomiao, have you noticed that the secret passage we walked through just now is different from the previous one?" Pan Jun seemed to have made everything clear at this time, and his whole person seemed Much easier.
"Different?" Shi Miaomiao's brows slightly frowning and concentrating on thinking made people's heart flutter.Pan Jun looked at Shi Miaomiao and his heart fluttered for a while, and after a while.Shi Miaomiao shook her head and said, "It seems...there is no difference from the previous secret passage!" Suddenly, she seemed to think of something and suddenly tightened her heart, "You mean there are mice in this secret passage?"
"Well!" Pan Jun nodded and said, "You can see that the walls of the secret passage are almost all dug out of stone except for the section where the fire lotus grows. It is extremely difficult for mice to enter, but there are mice here. And I think The appearance of those fire lotus roots is no accident, since we can eat them, then those mice can also eat them."
"But what does this have to do with us leaving?" Yan Ying scratched her head in distress and said.
"Think carefully about why gold-type insect repellents keep mice in this cave?" Pan Jun asked with a secretive smile.
"You mean these mice were left in the cave intentionally by the gold-type insect repellent?" Shi Miaomiao frowned, and she said as if she had suddenly realized something, "Could it be... Could it be that these mice are just food?"
"Ah? What do you mean?" Yan Ying asked with her mouth wide open in confusion, "Whose food is the mouse?"
Pan Jun smiled and pointed to the top of the secret passage, only to see that the top was so dark that he couldn't see clearly at all.Yan Ying lit a torch and held it up high. In an instant, he felt goosebumps on his body, and saw a huge spider web on top of their heads, and there were four fist-sized spiders lying on the spider web.
He took two steps back in shock, and the torch in his hand fell to the ground.He pointed to the spider at the top of the tunnel and said, "Those rats are not used to feed these spiders, are they?"
"Well, I think it's for them!" Pan Jun nodded and said.
"But Brother Pan, when did you start paying attention to those spiders above?" Yan Ying asked puzzled.
"Actually, when you mentioned the upside-down 'Zhen' hexagram symbol just now, I touched the symbol, and suddenly felt a sticky feeling on my hand, and it felt a bit weird at that time. When I completely understood the 'Zhen' hexagram After the original intention of the design, we immediately connected!" Pan Jun's cleverness made Yanying admire him from the bottom of his heart.
"These spiders should be Shennong, an earth-type insect repellent master!" Pan Jun said, looking at Shi Miaomiao and said, "Miaomiao, do you still remember the thing that Matsui Shangyuan planned to put me under house arrest in the mansion in Beiping city?" ?"
"Well, of course I remember!" Shi Miaomiao recalled, "But then you escaped from the mansion without anyone noticing. This incident surprised both Matsui Shangyuan and me!"
"That's right, to save me, Ziwu used the earth-type Shennong to dig a tunnel underground, and then used Shennong's silk to climb to the window to rescue me!" Pan Jun said eloquently, "So at that time Shennong gave me Very impressed!"
"But none of the three of us can drive Shen Nong!" Yan Ying said in shock, he didn't have the slightest liking for the huge spider except disgusting.
"Hehe!" Pan Jun said with a smile, "You don't know. When I first met Master Feng Wanchun, he was afraid that he would never be able to get out again, so that the special skills of the earth-type insect repellent master would fall by the wayside. So when I left, I dictated the secrets of the earth-type insect repellent to me. I didn’t care about it at the time, but I didn’t expect it to come in handy today!" (see "Insect Totem 1" for details)
"Haha, Brother Pan said so, we have a way to go out!" Yanying said excitedly.
"Well, but I have never used the soil-type insect repellent technique, so I wonder if it can drive this Shennong!" Pan Jun said with some doubts.
"Anyway, that's the only way to go now, let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor!" Wandering between hope and disappointment one after another, Yan Ying no longer has too many expectations.
As he spoke, Pan Jun picked up the torch on the ground, motioned for Yanying and Shi Miaomiao to retreat, and then suddenly threw the torch in his hand at the spider web above his head.The spider web is extremely flammable, and it ignited immediately after touching the sparks. In an instant, most of the spider web was burned. Shennong, who was crawling on the spider web and waiting for an opportunity, became nervous at this moment, and crawled to the hole on the rock wall in a panic. , crowding each other at the mouth of the cave.One Shennong accidentally fell to the ground, and the others took advantage of this opportunity to rush into the cave.
The Shennong just fell on the ground in front of them, only then did Pan Jun and his party see Shennong's appearance clearly.Its appearance is the same as that of a spider, except that its body is several times larger than ordinary spiders, and its eight feet are covered with tiny black hairs.The pattern on the back is like a huge skull, and there are three blood-red fine lines on its abdomen, one of which goes straight to the tail.Shennong, who fell on the ground, was extremely restless. As soon as he touched the ground, he turned over and crawled towards the rock wall beside him.Pan Jun quickly touched a fire lotus root from behind and tapped the ground lightly and rhythmically.Feng Wanchun once said that Shennong is an extremely precious species of spiders. Not only are the teeth highly poisonous, but the spider silk it ejects is extremely tough enough to carry hundreds of catties.People who don't understand Shennong dare not approach it easily. Although Shennong is extremely ferocious, it is also the most humane kind of spider. If you want to tame Shennong, you must drive it into a desperate situation so that it has nowhere to go.Just like taming a fierce horse, exhaust its original spirit, then it will obey your command.
Moreover, Shennong was extremely afraid of fire and sound, so when Pan Jun burned the spider web with fire, those Shennong panicked.And when Pan Jun knocked on the ground next to Shennong, Shennong became uneasy again, sometimes shrank in place and remained motionless, and sometimes rose up suddenly and sprayed a thick spider thread in the direction of the sound.While recalling the method Feng Wanchun once taught him, Pan Jun circled around Shennong counterclockwise, and at the same time tapped the ground rhythmically with his hands. When Shennong moved, the sound of Pan Jun's tapping suddenly accelerated. , and when Shennong quieted down, Pan Jun's knocking sound eased.
After knocking repeatedly like this for less than half an hour, it wasn't until the Shennong curled up on the ground for a long time that Pan Jun stopped his movements.He stopped beside that Shennong for a moment and saw that Shennong had not moved at all, so he was relieved, put the root of the fire lotus in his hand aside and slowly approached Shennong.
"Pan Jun..." Shi Miaomiao said worriedly, "Be careful..."
Pan Jun nodded slightly. In fact, he was also a little worried. After all, his understanding of Shennong was limited to Feng Wanchun's introduction.He cautiously approached the curled up Shennong, stretched out a finger and lightly touched Shennong's back, and Shennong felt Pan Jun's finger pressure and his body trembled.Pan Jun took the courage to grab Shennong with one hand, and Shennong seemed to be extremely obedient without the slightest resistance.Seeing that Pan Jun was safe and sound, Shi Miaomiao finally let go of his heart hanging in the air.Pan Jun held Shennong with one hand, and with the other hand took the wooden stick just now and tapped lightly on the ground. With each tap, he lightly pressed on Shennong's body, and a strand of white silk was drawn by Pan Jun. Jun pressed it out.So many times, when Pan Jun let go of Shennong and hit the ground again, Shennong would unconsciously spit out silk.
"Brother Pan, how is it?" Yan Ying couldn't help asking when he saw Pan Jun holding Shennong in his hands.
Pan Jun nodded slightly and said: "I think it should be ok!" He held the Shennong in his hand and walked slowly to the entrance of the secret passage, pointed at the top of the secret room and pressed Shennong's back lightly. Like a conditioned reflex, a strand of spider silk spewed out. The strength of the spider silk was extremely strong. I saw that white spider silk just landed on the top of the secret room, fearing that the spider silk was not strong enough, Pan Jun then pressed it two or three times. Then, the Shennong spewed out two or three spider threads one after another.At this moment, Pan Jun put Shennong aside, gathered several strands of spider silk together and stretched them vigorously a few times.The spider silk was extremely strong, he tried a few times and then took off his clothes and took out a dagger from his pocket to tear the clothes one by one.
"Brother Pan, what are you going to do?" Yan Ying asked puzzled.
"I think the spider silk is not only strong but also very sticky. Pan Jun wants to wrap these cloths around the spider silk so that we can climb up." When Shi Miaomiao finished speaking, Pan Jun smiled slightly, and he had already torn his clothes into pieces. several.At this time, he wrapped the cloth strip around the front end of the spider silk, and then picked up a fire lotus root and tied it to the other end of the spider silk.
"Success or failure depends on one move, I'll try it first!" Pan Jun turned his head and said to Yanying and Shi Miaomiao after finishing all this.
"Wait!" Shi Miaomiao suddenly stopped Pan Jun and said, "Let me go!"
Pan Jun looked at Shi Miaomiao, patted her on the shoulder lightly and said, "It's too dangerous, let me go there!"
"Hehe, your body is too weak now, and if this method doesn't work, you can still think of other methods. If you are in danger, I'm afraid we will be trapped here to death!" Shi Miaomiao looked at him firmly. With Pan Jun.Pan Jun understands Shi Miaomiao's character, once she decides something, even ten cows can't pull her back.Shi Miaomiao smiled slightly and took the rope made of spider webs from Pan Jun's hand, pulled the rope back a few steps, ran up and accelerated, and when she reached the entrance of the cave, she jumped lightly, and her whole body followed the rope. swing out.
The rope made of spider webs is not only strong, but also has the advantage of being extremely elastic compared to ordinary ropes. When Shi Miaomiao jumped out, he felt the sound of "huhu" wind in his ears, and his body was like a swift Generally flying in the air.The rope drew a perfect arc in the air, and then Shi Miaomiao stared keenly at a recessed stone crevice on the roof, and when her body was just approaching the crevice, she suddenly moved forward and firmly grasped the crevice with both hands. .Only then did she see clearly that there were not only some cracks in the stones at the top of the chamber, but also some iron rods of uniform thickness had been inlaid in the cracks in an orderly manner. Obscured, not at all visible from below.
Shi Miaomiao said excitedly: "Pan Jun, this road is correct, there are some iron rods in the cracks of the stone, and the iron rods lead directly to the secret passage on the opposite side!"
Pan Jun and Yan Ying looked at each other with joy on their faces.
"You hook it up, and now I'll throw the rope to you!" Miaomiao clung to the crack of the stone with one hand, and threw the rope with the other.With the inertia of the root system, the rope flew towards the hole here, and Yanying hurried forward to grab the rope.As soon as he touched the rope, the fire lotus root system under the rope suddenly fell from the rope.
As soon as it fell to the ground, it bounced off the stone and flew towards the secret room. In an instant, Yanying's mind went blank.Everyone knew that once the root system fell into the secret room, the killing mechanism hidden in the wall would be activated with lightning speed, and Shi Miaomiao would be stabbed to death by those steel bars.I saw that the root system of the fire lotus had already flown to the sky above the secret room and was about to fall. At this critical moment, a thin thread shot out from Shennong's body and stuck the wooden stick tightly.Pan Jun pulled back hard, and Pan Jun pulled the wooden stick back into the secret path.
And Yanying seemed to be fainting at this time, the thrilling scene just now was always lingering in her mind.He sat limply on the ground, panting heavily.And Pan Jun also sat slumped on the ground, he couldn't imagine what would happen if the root system really fell into the secret room.
Shi Miaomiao breathed a sigh of relief, and moved her body carefully one by one along the steel rods in the crack, not daring to be careless.Now she is still not sure whether the stones on the roof are firm, lest a little vibration will knock the stones off, so she moves very cautiously every step forward.After such a short period of time, the hands were sweating a lot, and the steel rod was wet and slippery, and Miaomiao almost slipped off the steel rod a few times.Pan Jun and Yan Ying stood at the entrance of the secret passage, their hearts were already in their throats, and they were sweating for Shi Miaomiao.
About a quarter of an hour later, Miaomiao's wrist was a little numb, and she was only four steel rods away from the secret passageway opposite.She was a little excited but still held her breath, grabbed the steel rod above her head with one hand, and stretched out her hand to grab the steel rod in front of her.At this moment, her hand slipped, and she immediately lost her center of gravity. Fortunately, Shi Miaomiao took out the three thousand feet in her cuff and shook them lightly, and the three thousand feet were firmly wrapped around the steel rod in front.She supported her body vigorously, took another breath and tightly grasped the steel rod in front to regain her balance.She was more cautious about the next few steel rods, until she reached the opposite secret passageway, she hung her hands on the steel rods, shook her body back and forth twice, and then jumped into the opposite secret passageway.
"Success!" Yan Ying excitedly said to Pan Jun holding the rope.
"Well, it seems that this is really the only way out of here!" Pan Jun said weakly, "Yanying, you go there!"
"Okay!" Yan Ying said, picking up a dry fire lotus root from the ground and tied it firmly behind the rope. After trying again to make sure it would not fall, she turned her head and said to Pan Jun who was leaning against the wall. , "Brother Pan, I'll go there first!"
Pan Jun was too exhausted to speak at this time, he forced himself to nod slightly.
Yan Ying took a few steps back as she spoke, then sped up her run-up, and then her whole body swayed like Shi Miaomiao.一条漂亮的弧线，燕鹰虽然没有时淼淼身形那般灵便，然而单从体力来说要比时淼淼充沛得多，再加上前面他一直观察着时淼淼的一举一动，因此他的动作也比时淼淼熟稔得多。当他抓到密室顶部的钢棒之后便一用力将手中的绳索向潘俊的方向掷过来，潘俊吃力地向前走了两步将绳索抓在手中靠在墙壁上，他只觉得此时自己像是被丢进了老君的八卦炉中一样，五内俱焚，眼皮越来越沉。
燕鹰此时已经攀到了密室的中央，对于他来说这根本算不得什么。他在每根钢棒上面几乎毫不停留，刚离开这根钢棒便立刻抓住另外一根钢棒，犹如树林间矫捷穿梭的猿猴一般，速度极快。对面的时淼淼见燕鹰速度如此之快不禁有些担忧，生怕他一个不留神会忽然从上面掉落下来。而让时淼淼更为担心的则是留在对面的潘俊，她刚刚之所以迫不及待地过来，也是希望这条路可以顺利离开这间密室，否则潘俊的身体恐怕难以支撑太久。想到这里她抬起头向对面密道的入口望去，这一下她惊出一身冷汗。只见对面的密道口不知何时竟然出现了两只老鼠，时淼淼暗道不好，刚刚大家为了能顺利从上面通过，将那些火莲根系全部留在了对面，而那些老鼠恐怕是被火莲根系的甜味吸引过去的。
那两只老鼠对旁边放着的很多火莲根系视而不见，却在争夺靠近密室口的一块根系，你来我往斗得不亦乐乎，那块火莲根系在他们争斗的时候一点点地向密道口处滚去。如果此刻不赶紧制止的话恐怕那块根系连带着两只老鼠都会从密道口坠入密道之中，那时后果将不堪设想。她连忙在密道入口环视了一圈，心头不禁猛然一紧，潘俊不见了。刚刚她明明见到潘俊一直靠在密道口的墙壁上，手中握着绳索，而此时绳索凭空悬在半空中，潘俊已经没了踪影。眼看那两只老鼠拨弄着那块火莲根系距离密道口越来越近，时淼淼大声对还悬在密室顶部的燕鹰说道：“燕鹰，你快点过来！”
燕鹰见时淼淼神情紧张地指着自己的身后不禁扭过头，这一回头他也惊出一身冷汗。此时那两只老鼠已经紧贴着密道口，它们相互争夺着那块火莲，对即将到来的危险却浑然不觉。燕鹰见此情形大声喊道：“潘哥哥，你在吗？”
他的声音没有得到潘俊的回应，却惊得两只老鼠安静了下来。它们沉吟一会儿又接着为那块火莲根系争斗了起来。“时姑娘，潘哥哥怎么没有回音？”
“你先别管这些，快点过来！”时淼淼见那两只老鼠距离密道口越来越近，不禁大声说道。
燕鹰连忙加快手上的动作，正所谓忙中生乱，本来一直平静的他心中焦急手上出了许多汗，这更增加了他向前的难度。他一边向前走，一边不时扭过头看身后那两只该死的老鼠。就在他距离对面的密道口四根钢棒之遥的时候，最靠近边缘的那只老鼠忽然一个倒栽葱从密道口边跌了进去。燕鹰只觉得头皮发炸，匆忙向前摸到前面的那根铁棒。时淼淼的心也瞬间提到了嗓子眼。就在这时一根细丝从密道入口处喷射过来，将那只老鼠牢牢地粘住了，接着时淼淼见刚刚被潘俊驯服的那只神农缓缓从密道口爬出，前面的两只脚在有条不紊地收着蛛丝，倒像是一个垂钓的老者在缓慢收网。时淼淼一颗提着的心总算是落在了地上，而燕鹰浑身紧绷、肌肉紧缩双手挂着头顶上的钢棒等待的那个时刻却没有到来。
“燕鹰别愣着快点过来！”时淼淼提醒道，此时燕鹰才意识到那恐怖的一幕并没有发生。他连忙提一口气向前面倒数第二根钢棒而来，恐怕因为他刚刚过于紧张，此时身上的肌肉已经全然没有初始时候那般灵活。这一下差点抓空，他额头上沾满了汗水，双手挂在铁棒上不停地喘着粗气，然而此时时淼淼却意识到了另一个问题，那只神农的丝正好挂在那块已经被两只老鼠拨弄到边缘的火莲根系，而且此时正随着神农缓慢的收网一点点地向密道口推进。
“燕鹰，来不及了，快，快！”时淼淼焦急地说道。燕鹰此时从时淼淼的语气中听出了什么，也不回头提起一口气向最后那个铁棒伸出手臂，当他一只手才刚刚在那根铁棒上抓稳。对面洞口处的那块火莲根系也同时落了下去。
“燕鹰，跳！”时淼淼歇斯底里地喊道。燕鹰此刻十分听话双手用力，手背上青筋迸出，在钢棒上来回晃悠了两下便向眼前的洞口跳去，当他的手刚刚离开铁棒的时候燕鹰耳边忽然传来了“啪”的一声，那块根系已经落在了地面的沙土上，几乎是一瞬间那无数根钢条从左右两边弹了出来，燕鹰甚至能感觉到那钢条尖端直刺而来所带来的一股股冰冷的劲风。
当他的脚刚刚落到密道口的边缘，两旁的钢条还未到达，燕鹰庆幸地从嘴角挤出一丝微笑。而这时他脚下的那块石头忽然动了一下，燕鹰只觉得身体失去了平衡，整个人向身后的密室内倒翻过去。正在这时时淼淼一把抓住燕鹰的手，将其拉了回来，就在这个瞬间两边的钢条森森地刺了过来，最靠近边缘的钢条几乎是擦着燕鹰的后背穿过去的，燕鹰的衣服被钢条撕裂成一条一条的。
燕鹰被刚刚那惊险的一幕吓得双手冰凉，双眼痴呆地望着时淼淼。过了片刻才忽然长出一口气表情木讷地说道：“谢谢，谢谢！”
而时淼淼现在更关心的却是对面潘俊的情况，她向前走了两步等待着这些钢条如之前一般退去。可过了良久那些钢条却始终密密地交织在一起，将密室的空间完全占据根本看不到对面的情形。
时淼淼焦急地在密道口踱着步子，然后向密室对面喊道：“潘俊，潘俊……”
燕鹰此时也跟在时淼淼的后面向对面大喊着潘俊的名字，可是喊了良久对面却依旧没有一点回音。
“这些钢条为什么不退回去？”时淼淼终于沉不住气了。她知道潘俊的身体几乎到了崩溃的边缘，如果能快点离开这里还有希望。可是现在这密室被钢条全部封锁住了，就算是想回去也没有可能了。时淼淼双手抓着钢条向两边用力地推着，可是根本无济于事。她再也忍不住了，一直在眼眶内打转的眼泪夺眶而出，瘫软地跪在密室口抱着头哭了起来。燕鹰咬着嘴唇接着向对面喊话，渐渐地他也觉得喊叫似乎无济于事，弓下身轻声说道：“时姑娘，潘哥哥福大命大，应该不会有事的？”
这些话此时显得极其无力，因为燕鹰心里清楚潘俊的状况，即便潘俊不受伤被困在那里也是凶多吉少。大概过了半个时辰，那钢条却始终没有缩回去。燕鹰站起身来说道：“时姑娘，我们在这里等着恐怕也不是办法，我们还是继续向前走吧！”
时淼淼抬起头冷冷地瞥了燕鹰一眼低声说道：“你走吧，我在这里等着机关退回去！”
“那好吧，我先去前面探探路！”燕鹰说着从身后抽出一根火把点燃之后，沿着幽深的密道向里边走去，而时淼淼始终双手抱着膝盖，目光痴痴地望着眼前被钢条封死的密道。她此刻已经下定决心，一定要等到这些机关撤去为止。如果潘俊还活着她要和他一起离开这个坟墓般的密道，倘若潘俊死了时淼淼也打定主意留在这里。
燕鹰手中拿着火把向前摸索着，眼前黑洞洞的，火把像是被一层黑雾包围着并不能照太远的距离。走了片刻燕鹰像是忽然踩到了什么，一下子被绊倒在地，他连忙爬起来拿起火把向身后的物事望去，一望之下燕鹰的脸顿时变了颜色，在他眼前竟然背对着自己躺着一个人。他小心翼翼地将手伸到那个人的脖子下面，那个人的脉搏还在跳动。他一惊之下向后退了两步，然后对外面的时淼淼喊道：“时姑娘，你快来看，这里竟然有个活人！”
时淼淼一愣，活人？这密室中怎么可能会有活人呢？时淼淼想到这里站起身来匆忙向燕鹰的方向走去……