Chapter 19 Chapter Eighteen

Master Feng vomited for a while, and finally subsided, Ying Ge washed his mouth and nose with water from the bottle, and fed him some water, and then gradually recovered his consciousness. Long Shao said that this should be a strange Gu technique in the southwest. Gu insects use this mask as a carrier to wait for the opportunity to attack humans. Although Master Feng's trick is strange, it seems inevitable in this kind of place. Seeing us, Master Feng was not surprised, but just smiled wryly.We don't have time to ask what happened to him at this time. If we don't find an exit, it will be very troublesome to be trapped in this pile of corpses.

Master Feng's physical strength recovered very quickly, and he was able to walk on his own after a while, and my legs also recovered almost, but the fall was too hard, and my knees felt needle-like pain when I moved more. Long Shao's two performances really made me speechless. I'm afraid he can't control his skills as a businessman. Now this person gives me the feeling that it is unfathomable.But this is often the case. You know there are articles in some things, but you can’t get to the bottom of them. Knowing the bottom line and being honest with each other is obviously just a courteous way, not suitable for a business where intrigues and deceptions exist.

Several people started on the road again, and continued to explore the depths of the sacrificial cave. According to the standard pattern, there should be bronze chariots, horses and figurines for the sacrificial burial. Not sure, because that is the model of most Qin and Han imperial tombs, and they are generally located in plain areas. It is not an easy task to dig sacrificial pits and build complex underground palaces in the vertical and horizontal mountains.Nanling obviously does not have the majesty of the Tang Empire, and the mausoleum was opened from a mountain, so the construction of the mausoleum will be restricted to a large extent, and the layout can be flexibly changed according to the direction of the mountain.

In fact, to put it bluntly, we will encounter more troubles later, and it is very possible to climb on the cliffs with climbing hooks and move forward with difficulty. Sure enough, as I expected, we walked for about ten minutes, and the sacrificial cave began to narrow, and the further we went, the narrower it became, and finally it became a narrow road only two meters wide. The two sides of the road are still natural stone walls, nothing special, but there are two iron chains on each side, which are fixed on the mountain by thick iron wedges, extending to the front. The road seems to be very long, and it is hard to see what is at the end.

I was shocked and said, "Why is it an iron chain again? Could there be a big guy in front?" The psychological shadow caused by the centipede corpse before was too heavy, and the appearance of iron chains here is easy to make people Thinking of whether something will be locked again. Master Feng reached out his hand to touch the iron chain, grasped it with his hand, then shook his head and said: "No, there is no need to lock things with an iron chain and fix it to the wall, there should be other intentions!" He said as he said Turning his face away, he looked at Long Shao and made a gesture of asking for instructions: "Go ahead and have a look?"

Young Master Long nodded in agreement, and the group of people moved forward for more than ten meters, and then Sanpao, who was walking in the front, screamed in surprise: "My god! This... how could this happen!" Sanpao screamed and pushed us back, I was speechless when I heard him, thinking what's wrong, what scared him so much?I hurriedly poked my head out to take a look, and immediately took a breath. Just one meter away, the road suddenly disappeared, as if it had been split by a giant axe.Instead, there is a huge rift cliff, bottomless, and when you look up, you can see the sky as narrow as a thin line on the top, which is a veritable "line of sky".On the cliffs on both sides, there are two iron chains fixed, extending forward to an invisible end. The iron chains are as thick as the mouth of a teacup, but from a distance they look the same as the sky above, only extremely thin. of a line.The cliff is densely covered with many horizontal beams with thick bowl mouths, some long and some short, extending to the depths of the ground.One meter directly below the iron chain is a plank road composed of dense cross-bars, which extend forward along with the iron chain. Although it has been in disrepair for a long time, the cross-bars here are still standing there without breaking, which cannot but be said to be a miracle.

Master Feng said: "Now I know, these iron chains are for such a purpose. When people walk on such a plank road, they can just support them with their hands. You can see that the iron wedges that fix the iron chains are arranged very regularly, basically One more than three meters above, this is precisely to ensure the stability of the chain." I said: "Then what are these plank roads used for? Fighting wars?" After asking, I felt that this question was a bit idiotic. Even if you fight a war, you have to find a flat place. Who can fight in such a place, spiders person? Master Feng was questioned, it seems that he didn't know the function of these things, he only guessed: "If it was a war, these plank roads should not be preserved so completely, it's just..." He frowned and looked at those Hengmu said suspiciously: "From the arrangement of these things, it seems that they go all the way to the bottom. These things may serve this purpose!"

Sanpao opened his eyes wide and said, "What are you doing down here? Is there any treasure down there?" I thought about it, the most attractive thing at the bottom of such a deep rift is the mineral deposits. Could it be that the people of Nanling discovered some mineral deposits at the bottom, and such a complicated project is for the mining of mineral deposits?It seems that only this kind of argument can work, because Nanling is not a big country, and there needs to be a good reason for spending such a high price on these things. I said my thoughts, and a few people basically agreed, but these are not the key points. The key point is that we have no other way at the moment. If we want to continue to explore, we can only follow these plank roads.At this moment, we can't help but worry. It's been a few years. If any piece of wood can't stand our foot, the consequences will be unimaginable!

"Is there any other better way to go? No matter what, we have to find a place that looks like a road!" Sanpao looked at the plank roads and the sky above his head, and said, "Why don't we go back , take a detour and walk from the top, although it takes a little time, at least the road is easy to walk, and you can earn back anyway, and you should feel at ease!" I know that the third gun is the most bloated among several people. Even we are worried whether the crossbar can withstand our weight, let alone him.But going back is unrealistic. Not to mention the difficult path in Mang Mountain, the places we are looking for are all inside the mountain and underground, and we will not be able to find the entrance at that time, and it is likely that we will have to come back after a lot of trouble.

Young Master Long obviously wouldn't agree to this suggestion, he rolled up his sleeves and was eager to try, when Eagle Ge at the side stopped him and said, "I'll come first, I'll walk forward a dozen steps, you can follow after it's all right!" Young Master Long didn't dissuade him, he was obviously used to Ying Ge's thunder-throwing behavior, he just said "be careful", and Ying Ge dropped all the weight on his body, and carefully climbed up the plank road along the iron chain . The crossbar was very rotten, and when the big guy Yingge stepped on it, it made a "creaking" sound, which made people hairy.Ying Ge kept his body as close to the cliff as possible, held the iron chain tightly with both hands, and walked sideways for more than ten meters. After confirming that there was nothing abnormal, he turned his face and shouted to us, let us follow up.

I hardly remember how I climbed up the plank road. There is no way to keep myself from fear except to keep telling myself not to look down.Every time he took a step, the crossbar made a groaning sound that made people shudder, and the broken stone and sawdust "swish" and fell into the bottomless abyss.I was always prepared for the crossbar to break suddenly, and the hands holding the iron chain were strangled tightly, and the hands were covered with rust. The worst thing was Sanpao. He already had a fear of heights, and climbing this place would almost kill him.Originally, he was unwilling to climb up, but we grabbed him up by bluffing and deceiving him. Now he regretted it after climbing a few steps, and kept yelling.We know the severity of acrophobia, fearing that he might become dizzy for a while, so we tied him and Yingge together with a rope. After walking about thirty to forty meters with difficulty like this, I was already sweating profusely from exhaustion, and gradually felt exhausted.The terrible thing is that this place can't even rest. The only resting posture is to hold the iron chain tightly with both hands and stand there, and you can't even sit. What's more terrible is that after walking this section, we found that the wind here is actually much stronger, and there will be gusts of drafts from time to time, blowing you staggeringly.I didn't expect that this long rift structure can easily produce the effect of gathering wind. If you continue to go down, the wind will probably be even stronger. Sanpao panted: "I said Jiuzhijin, your surname is Feng, right? Your buddy is happy to see you here. I have no objection to blowing two gusts of wind to entertain you, but can you just entertain you? I am not from your Feng family!" Master Feng was thin and thin, and he had been injured before, so he seemed to be struggling under the current wind, and he couldn't spare any extra energy to argue with the three cannons, so he just let out a "pooh" and leaned against the cliff. Ying Ge said in front: "Now I understand why these iron chains are still fixed on the plank road. Most likely it is to prevent the wind here from being strong, and people walking on it are not stable." I have no objection. Even if there is no wind here, there is nothing to grab and climb here, and I don't think anyone would dare to walk high on it.In modern times, there are still people playing tightrope walking in the open air. Thinking about the situation now, I feel that it is a great stimulation to our nerves. At this time, Young Master Long also held the iron chain tightly with both hands, leaning against the mountain wall and said: "It seems that the radiation area of ​​these plank roads is very large. We have only walked a short distance now, and we don't know how far we have to go." The meaning of less is very clear. If you go further down, you may enter an embarrassing situation of a dilemma, and you will have to sleep on it in the end. However, turning back now, not to mention the previous sins, we have to find a way to go this way, because this is the only way we have found so far. We were all extremely embarrassed, but except for Sanpao's occasional complaints, no one backed down.I said to Long Shao: "I don't think the problem is that serious. After those people built these things, they are for their own use after all. They must go out from here. To put it bluntly at this time, we are just competing with the ancients. It's a test of physical strength. And if it involves mining ore deposits, they will not walk empty-handed, they should move forward with a load, compared to ours now it is easy!" Long Shao smiled and said: "I didn't mean that, I just think that the plank road here should not serve mining, but has another special purpose!"