Mantra

Chapter 271 Five Forked Roads
After Wang Hou finished speaking, he led the passage to another part of the cave.

As I was advancing, I discovered that the huge stone table that looked like a meal only occupied a small part of the cave.And the further we go in, the larger the space of the cave, the more primitive the landform, the traces of artificial leveling gradually disappear, replaced by huge stalactites and strangely shaped boulders, when we reach the five forked roads that Wang Hou said When the mouth was opened, there was no trace of artificial carving.

Among the rocky walls, the five grotesque openings were exposed in front of us. The upside-down stalactites were like interlaced fangs. Under the light of the flashlight, each one exuded a penetrating cold light. .

The five holes, like five strange mouths devouring people's lives, exposed their fangs that plunged into the sky, and demonstrated at us.

Wang Hou raised his flashlight, wandered towards the five caves, told me and Xian Hongye said: "I have checked, there is no other way except the way we came here and these five caves. But we can only choose other ways." one."

Wang Hou's meaning is also important, that is, we cannot act separately, and it is not allowed from the perspective of time and safety.But it is very difficult to choose one of the five ways in such a short period of time.

I know that if you go the wrong way, in addition to wasting time, you may also encounter fatal traps, which will lead to more unknowable problems.

Instead of walking around and incurring unnecessary suffering, it is really better to choose the right path from the beginning and carefully consider it.

But how to decide, I am a little at a loss.

Following Wang Hou's flashlight, I carefully observed the "five tunnels" lined with stalactites. First, I found that the iron chains used as guides were no longer found. Although the five tunnels looked very different in shape, they were essentially the same. .

In addition, I also saw the remains of many small animals between the tunnel entrance and the cliff. Judging from the remaining bones, there are dogs, rats, snakes and the most bats.

Especially the bone fragments of those bats are so many that it is shocking.

Looking around, I can only see that the bones are layered on top of each other from the old to the new, some are only white bones, some are still dried muscle tissue, and many have been wrapped by growing stalactites, leaving only one Looming outlines.

Looking at these similar bones and dense stalactites, I couldn't figure out how to find the so-called correct pathway.

We fell into a puzzle again. After thinking for a while, I raised my head and said to Wang Hou and Xian Hongye: "Besides us, there are also Xian Yundu, Qiao Enxun and Zhao Gong who came in. You said that they met In such a situation, how would you choose?"

This is a hypothetical question. I hope to find the final answer through this question, so as to find the truth of one of the five choices.

Seeing my question, Xian Hongye replied: "My grandfather is missing inside, Qiao Enxun is crazy, only Zhao Gong and his wife from the Wu Zang Temple managed to escape, and if you enter the bottom of this pit from the entrance of the blood well , and will inevitably pass through these five tunnels.”

After being reminded by Xian Hongye, I immediately patted my head and said, "I remembered! The Medicine King's Handbook!~"

While speaking, I took out the letter of the medicine king Zhao Gong from my underwear.

The Yaowang Handbook in my hand clearly stated that Zhao Gong's Gu mother-in-law wife Rui Mingliu once boasted in front of her husband that she had a way to enter the underground palace of Heilanbo City and escape unscathed.

She did, and brought a "kitchen knife" with her.

Thinking about it, at the end of the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, in such a dark underground palace, her lighting and communication equipment must be far inferior to ours. I think she should have some more "magic" method to allow herself to choose the right one. access.

Xian Hongye looked at the record of the medicine king, and sighed slightly: "It would be great if we can copy or learn her method."

What Xian Hongye said suddenly gave me an idea.

"You're right!" I clapped my hands and said, "Think about it, what kind of special means does a Gu woman have to find the way?"

"Gu?" Wang Hou asked.

"Gu!~" I nodded, pointed to the medicine king's handwriting and said, "The three major dark karmas in Miaojiang, the Gu Po, the Snake Girl, and the Exorcist! Here, in terms of the understanding of gods and ghosts, no one can surpass them." its right."

And according to the records, Rui Mingliu is very special, because it is very clear in the notes of Zhao Gong, the medicine king, that she is a Gu woman, but she knows how to control snakes, and she also collects medicines as a profession, just like a snake girl A combination of Gu Po.

I raised my head and asked Xian Hongye, "What method would such a person use to find his way in the dark underground cave?"

Xian Hongye and Wang Hou answered me in unison: "Snake?"

I nodded, and said confidently to everyone: "Look around the entrance of the cave. If there are snake bones, we should be able to find useful clues."

While talking, everyone searched around the entrances of the caves. After some searching, they found the skeletons of snakes near the entrances of the four caves.

Snakes are very different from other creatures, so the remains of the bones are easy to identify, and the death of the four snakes is also very strange. They are all "plated" on the stalactites. One body, like a coiled dragon on a Chinese watch, judging from the twisted appearance of the snakes, they seemed to be in great pain before they died.

After seeing where the four skeletons were, Xian Hongye and I said in unison: "So that's it, just take the road without snakes!"

While speaking, I also understood the method of Gu Po Rui Mingliu's deep penetration into Heilanbo City.

Two or three hundred years ago, when Zhao Huo and Rui Mingliu went deep into Heilanbo City to search for the so-called "artifact", the technical conditions were far inferior to ours. They had no flashlight, infrared detection equipment, or explosives.

Under such circumstances, Zhao Gong and Rui Mingliu were very clever and chose snakes as their "eyeliner", and then explored the five caves one by one.

Rui Mingliu's Gu snake should be the same as other snakes, and the snake itself has a thermal infrared sensor system and can drill holes. With a little training, it is a good helper for pathfinding.Rui Mingliu is also proficient in this method, and has used this Gu to deal with her husband Zhao Gong, so she will not miss this point.

If it is inferred in this way, the four snakes that died on the stalactites are probably the victims sent by Rui Mingliu to explore the way.

Xiaohongye further analyzed to us: "In such a primitive and humid cave, it is difficult to preserve any man-made copper and iron mechanisms. If the Helambers really want outsiders to die inside, they can only use ' Blind well' way to make the most primitive deadly trap."

"Blind well?" Wang Hou and I were puzzled at the same time, "What is a blind well?"

(End of this chapter)