Chapter 400 Chapter 403
The three giants of the Demon Sect are in a delicate state of balance. On the surface, Zhao Deyan seems to be the weakest, and his ranking is also lower than Zhu Yuyan and Shi Zhixuan. Li, Dazhi and a large number of Turkic masters helped out, and immediately the most powerful Yingui faction of the Demon Sect did not dare to underestimate them.And the most important point, under the current situation, even the most powerful overlord Li Yuan dare not offend Turkic Khan, let alone Zhu Yuyan and Shi Zhixuan.

All of this was within Shen Mu's calculations, and of course Houhou's reaction was within expectations.

Shen Mu sighed: "Tomorrow morning Li Yuan will lead civil and military officials to the foot of Zhongnan Mountain to hold the annual spring hunt, and Li Jiancheng will be in charge of Chang'an City. Controlled territory. So in my opinion, there is no need to make extra troubles, and we will make deals with Lao Zhao in foreign hotels; I dare say that even if he has three heads and six arms, he will be played by us."

Hou Hou said helplessly: "Okay! If you want to play with fire, we will accompany you for the time being. But you don't have to play tricks, otherwise we will retaliate by any means, and anyone who is related to you will become the target of our harsh treatment. "

The sun was finally below the western mountain. Since the afternoon, the clouds in the sky have become thick, and the clear weather is only a flash in the pan.

Xu Ziling and Shen Mu sat in a corner of the restaurant, ordered steamed buns and side dishes, and had a feat of feeding their stomachs before entering the well to explore and hunt for treasure.Today is the second day of the new year, and there are not many shops open for business. This is one of them, so it is crowded with diners.

Diagonally opposite is the back wall of Dugu's Xiji Garden.

Although shops and big restaurants are concentrated in the east and west cities, such restaurants are scattered in the Lifang of the whole city in response to demand.

The inns are mostly set up on thoroughfare avenues like Suzaku Street.

Shen Mu looked at the long sword wrapped aside and the cloth bag full of exploration tools, and said with a smile, "I left my leaving book and put it under the pillow, and leaving happily and easily like this will be beneficial to both the Sha family and me. There are two other letters, one for Li Yuan and one for Li Jiancheng, so that I don’t have to explain it all, writing three letters at a time takes up my entire time, it’s really hard work.”

Bite a steamed bun, and said: "Of course Zhu Yuyan, Shi Zhixuan, and Zhao Deyan are not good men and women, and they behave very similarly on the surface. They always like to use tricks, and they are ruthless in dealing with things. But I always feel that there is still a big difference between them. Young Master Ling thinks how?"

Xu Ziling said: "I'm not familiar with Zhao Deyan, but I just saw that he suddenly used the trick of kidnapping and extorting people, and even used the 'seven needles to control the gods' to deal with Brother Lei, but the method was straightforward. The smell of winning tickets shows that this person has both courage and the spirit of adventure and fighting. When we fight against him, we must pay attention to his style and character."

Shen Mu said: "How is Zhu Yuyan compared to him?"

Xu Ziling pondered: "Zhu Yuyan doesn't seem to be as ruthless as she puts on. In fact, she is a person with rich emotions. At least she has become irrational towards Yue Shan and Shi Zhixuan. Just sitting in her position, I have to take the real He hides his feelings and pretends to be ruthless. If he is really ruthless, he has to count Shi Zhixuan. But even Shi Zhixuan still can't pass the test of his daughter's father-daughter relationship."

Shen Mu nodded and said: "I completely agree with what you said. Just look at Zhu Yuyan's careful cultivation of a young man, and Shi Zhixuan defended the two apprentices left and right, and even made the two apprentices fight to the death for the "Immortal Scroll". A person who only cares about himself. As for Zhao Deyan, he is another kind of person. He is more sinister and cunning than Zhu Shi and the other two. He will never lose his self-control due to impulsiveness or anger. Jie was abusive and helped Jieli invade the Central Plains."

Xu Ziling poured him tea and said with a smile, "Why are you suddenly so interested in discussing their differences in personality?"

Shen Mu's eyes sparkled, and he lowered his voice and said, "I'm looking for weaknesses in their characters, to see if there is anything I can take advantage of. I'm the most vague about Shi Zhixuan. You have fought against him three times, so you should be clearer than me."

Xu Ziling said: "He doesn't talk much, my intuition is that he thinks very highly of himself, is aloof, and looks down on anyone. In fact, there are not many who are qualified to be his opponent."

Shen Mu pondered and said, "Even if you know the difference in their personalities, they still won't play any role in the carefully planned actions. Do you understand what I mean?"

Xu Ziling nodded to express his understanding, because when a person calculates rationally, he will try not to be restrained by emotions and his own personality, and at the same time, he must have time to accommodate other opinions, which will reduce personal subjectivity to a low level.

Shen Mu said confidently: "But when they find that all the plans they originally made are useless, the situation will be different. That's why I deliberately created this situation, so that when the enemies of all sides change suddenly If we don’t have time to think about it and put it into action, then we have an opportunity.”

Xu Ziling smiled and said, "Stop talking nonsense, go down and see what's going on first, and then decide what to do."

The two climbed over the courtyard wall one after another and hid in a pile of grass and bushes. The target Beijing was about two feet away.

Shen Mu whispered: "I'm really worried that there is no entrance below, what should I do then?"

Xu Ziling understood that he was worried about gains and losses, and comforted him: "The possibility of this is very slim, but you must test your unscrupulous apprentice's work on mechanism skills, go!"

The two skimmed a distance of two feet and plunged into the well.

The well water is freezing cold.

They held their breath and sank down to the bottom of the well. The bottom of the well suddenly opened up. As expected, the bottom of the well was connected to an underground river.

If it was someone sent by Li Jiancheng, they would not know which side of the underground river to explore at this time, but they were sure that the treasure house should be under the Wulou Temple, and the direction was clear, so they dived there.

After diving and groping in the narrow and rugged river for nearly ten feet, Xu Ziling tugged at Shen Mu lightly, indicating that something was wrong.

Shen Mu understood immediately, because not everyone has the ability to hold their breath in water for a long time like them and only rely on internal breathing, so if the entrance is too far from the bottom of the well, it doesn't make sense.

And the underground river keeps going deeper and down, isn't it getting farther and farther away from the ground?

After a while, the two emerged from the bottom of the well.

Shen Mu said: "It's definitely not in the underground river, because the underground river will change due to changes in the soil, so some wells will suddenly dry up, and the entrance should be somewhere on the bottom wall of the well."

Xu Ziling calmed his breath and said, "From now on, I won't rely on your stupid mechanism to learn, because what I kicked with my left foot must be the entrance mechanism."

Shen Mu rejoiced and said: "Don't move!" He turned back to the bottom of the well, followed Xu Ziling's foot to touch the problematic stone, and it protruded an inch from the well wall. If he hadn't focused all his attention on the underground river just now , should not miss it carelessly.

Shen Mu called out to God to bless him, and pressed hard on the half-foot-square stone.

Under the anticipation of the two, the sound of "cracking" touched the ears in the narrow and long space at the bottom of the well.

On top of Xu Ziling's head floating on the surface of the well, the wall of the well sank slowly, revealing an entrance that only allowed one person to pass through.

Shen Mu floated up and said happily, "Haha, it's finally a success!"

Xu Ziling sighed, "I don't have confidence."

Shen Mu was stunned and said, "Why do you need confidence? The entrance is right in front of you, as long as you don't have no hands or feet, you can climb in."

Xu Ziling said, "It's not that I don't have confidence in the treasure house, but that I don't have confidence in your mechanism."

Shen Mu was in a good mood, he had no time to care about his teasing, and said with a smile: "Auspicious people have their own looks, I just didn't have the chance to show it just now, Young Master Ling, let the younger brother take the lead."

He took the lead and climbed up the wall, and got into the dark small square hole.

The passage first extended upwards slantingly up to five feet, and then changed to downwards sloping, and it was quite steep.

Surprisingly, the four walls of the secret passage were not covered with moss, the most humid and dark plants, and the air was suffocatingly stuffy. Fortunately, the two had the special skill of "fetal breath" of turning external breathing into internal breathing, and it was as if they were underwater Walk like holding your breath.After walking down more than ten feet like this, Shen Mu suddenly stopped and said triumphantly: "One more push of the button, brother! I didn't lose my prestige this time, did I?"

Xu Ziling knew that he had learned well, and did not dare to miss any unusual situations. He nodded behind and said, "You are an expert, and everything is up to you. You don't need to consult me, a layman."

Shen Mu took the time to discuss and said: "It's just that this secret passage made of granite is already ingenious. I don't know how much manpower and material resources were used back then. The most rare thing is that so many people were involved and used. How could it be hidden from Yang Jian? It can be seen that Yang Su must have had power over the world at that time."

While speaking, he pressed down the button protruding from the left wall in the same way as he did.

The sound of "rolling" sounded again.

A section of the passage where the two were in suddenly moved, leading them to slide down.

This change was beyond the two's expectations. When they cried out inappropriately, there was an unpleasant squeaking sound of pulleys rubbing against the granite from under the wall, and because the narrow passage only had room for him, his ability to adapt to changes was greatly restricted, and he had no way to retreat. , In horror, this section suddenly became a movable passage, leading the two people who couldn't help themselves to slide down, and couldn't stop speeding up.

The two of them told me that my life was over, and with a "boom", the moving passageway, after diving nearly twenty feet, collided somewhere, and stopped suddenly.

But they didn't have the good luck to stop the passage, and they were brought to another space in the vast darkness by the strong impact, and their bodies fell into the air, with two puffs, and they fell into a fishnet-like thing respectively.

Bounced up and fell down again, the two young masters were so shocked that their bodies were numb, their heads were dizzy, and they didn't know where in the world they were.

Their nightmare is not over yet, the net suddenly fell, and after falling nearly ten feet, the net closed down with the falling trend, and at the moment of the fall, the net just happened to bind the two of them firmly, unable to move, your head is tight Stick my feet.

Since his debut, he has never tried such a field.

The sound of the flowing underground river resounded under this absolutely dark space, murmured.

The net wobbled, turned left and right, as if it would never stop.

Shen Mu sighed: "I only now understand what is written in Master Lu's book 'The study of mechanism, the heart war is the main, the cunning is secondary, and the others are equal'. The first button is safe, so how can people think of the second?" This button is such a mother's trap." There were echoes, showing the depth of the crypt.

Xu Ziling said in a deep voice: "Don't breathe, this place is full of methane gas, even if you take half a breath, there will be problems."

The net has turned its momentum, and turned back in the opposite direction, from slow to fast.

Hanging in the underground cave where you can't see your five fingers, even a peerless martial arts master will lose the sense of position and direction.

Shen Mu said, "Have you ever breathed? Otherwise, how would you know?"

Xu Ziling smiled wryly and said, "I want to see if there is a vent in this space. Alas! If I'm not wrong, I was thrown in like dumping waste just now. If not, the tunnel should be full of methane gas."

Although the air in the tunnel earlier was stuffy, there was no poisonous methane gas.

Shen Mu said: "The only way to be lucky is that this net is not woven with silkworm silk like the net of the beauty's military division, but is refined with thick beef tendon. However, after so many years, it has become rotten. As long as I If you use all your strength, you will be guaranteed to shatter every inch, but in this situation, how dare you act rashly, what does Young Master Ling say?"

Xu Ziling said: "Our only hope now is to find the way we came from just now. Didn't you read Mr. Lu's posthumous scroll more than ten times? Use your little head to think about it."

Shen Mu said: "What can a small head think of? But small eyes can see a lot of things. I carry more than a dozen torches with me, all of which are wrapped in tarpaulins. Don't be afraid. Sigh! Do you want to take this risk? Our breath-holding magical skills will not last long."

Xu Ziling understood what he meant, shook his head and said: "In a cave with methane gas, it is most taboo to light a fire. You can save your fire to use when we commit suicide! This time it seems that it is a prophecy. The difference is that even if we have a gong There are drums to beat, but the sky should not be heard, and the earth should not be heard."

Shen Mu cast a aimless glance at the darkness, and said with a smile, "If we can return to the ground and tell people walking around on Suzaku Avenue that there is another world below, I guarantee that no one will believe it. Come on! Let's first leave here."

The net finally stopped.

"Chichi" repeated.

Shen Mu sent out dozens of lines of fingering wind in one breath, slammed into all directions, and hit the stone wall, causing sand and stone to shatter.Suddenly came the sound of "dang"!
Shen Mu said happily: "Success!"

Xu Ziling also heard that the sound of one of the finger winds was different, most likely it was touching the steel plate sealing the hole, otherwise there would be no sound like gold and iron.

The senses of the two were so keen that they could instantly grasp the position of the steel plate.

The net moved again.

Xu Ziling's vase imprinted energy quickly, and the force of the rebound caused the net to swing towards the steel plate.

The two exercised energy at the same time, and as Shen Mu expected, the net shattered inch by inch.

Lifting their breath in the air, Shen Mu and Xu Ziling dexterously pounced towards the steel plate like a bird out of the cage by using the momentum, and successfully adsorbed to the cave wall of the concave and convex rocks on both sides of the steel plate.

Xu Ziling reached out to knock on the steel plate and said, "How do I open the door?"

Shen Mudao: "Master Lu said clearly in the opening book of Mechanical Engineering that civil engineering is a shady study. It is to accumulate virtue and must give people a lifeline at a desperate point. According to his style, there must be a way to open the gate in this place. , the question is whether we can find out!"

Xu Ziling pondered and said: "To find a button in such a vast and unfathomable crypt, we would have been unable to hold our breath before we found it. Therefore, if Mr. Lu really left a way out, the location of this button should be deduced. .Eh? Miserable!"

Shen Mu shook his body, looked towards the dark sky, nodded and said: "Yes! It must be the place where the rope is suspended on the top of the wall. Alas! It would be great if the cable net wasn't shattered just now."

Xu Ziling freed his right hand and fired his fingers, and it took a long while before he hit the top wall with a sound of "Du".

The two were stunned, hearing the echo, the distance from here to the top of the cave was at least ten feet away.

But not much later, Shen Mu said: "I found it! The feeling of hitting the finger wind is completely different, come on!"

The two of them exerted strength at the same time, pumped out their palms, bounced away from the cave wall, and slammed into the sky behind them.

Suddenly they came to the center of the crypt, Shen Mu took a breath in the air, soared up, swung the two-foot-long rope straight in his hand, and shot towards the target, stabbing straight at the target.

If someone is watching from the sidelines, they will be amazed that they can still find the target exactly after a series of movements and displacements in such darkness.

Xu Ziling just felt it was a matter of course, so he took a breath of true energy and rushed towards the cave wall next to the steel plate.

With the help of Sola, Shen Mu successfully jumped to the original place.

"Rolling" sounded again.

The iron plate finally reopened.

Both of them felt exhausted, and they crawled back into the cave one after another. It is not known whether their weight touched the mechanism at the bottom of the wall, but the steel plate fell down again, sealing the entrance of the cave.

Xu Ziling suggested: "I can't hold my breath! Why don't you crawl back to the bottom of the well, catch your breath, and then come back and look for the entrance!"

"Okay." Shen Mu nodded, and the two hurriedly crawled back to the original path.

Climbing down and then sliding down, and finally returning to the entrance at the bottom of the well, I was terrified at once, because the exit at the bottom of the well had been sealed.

Xu Ziling didn't say a word, turned around and crawled inside again, if they couldn't find the entrance again, they would never be able to leave this place.

Without even thinking about it, Xu Ziling pressed the button.

Time is running out, and their internal breathing will not last long, so they are not allowed to choose to think about it.

This button is only ten steps away from the button they got caught in the net just now, if it is still a trap, they can only blame themselves for their own fate.

As the two men's scalps were tingling in anticipation, the sound of a machine bracket sounded, and a wall in front was recessed, revealing a square hole.

Shen Mu squeezed past Xu Ziling, and said firmly, "Let me take the lead."

Xu Ziling had nothing to do with him, and said, "Be careful."

Sneaking in right behind Shen Mu, the space expanded and turned into a corridor that could allow people to walk upright, extending straight up and ending in a misty blue light.

Shen Mu stared at the light source in disbelief, stood up slowly, and said, "Is it because I have been in the dark for too long that I have an illusion."

Xu Ziling also stood up, shook his head and said, "You are not mistaken, it is indeed light, but it is definitely not a light."

Shen Mu said: "This time we must find the right way."

(End of this chapter)

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