The spiral plank road is connected to the ground by a straight ladder, and each of the three people descended from a straight ladder to the ground.
The bottom of the Tiankeng Village doesn't look that big from above, but it's only when you get to the bottom that you find that the bottom of the pit is so huge.
There is a circle of stone houses along the wall of the pit, but in the middle of the bottom of the pit is a huge stone house building.
The three of them stood at the bottom of the pit, and then looked up at the bamboo buildings above, feeling that those bamboo buildings were hanging in mid-air.
Wei Buchi said: "Brother Tantai, it's so vast down here, is there anything written about it in that letter?"
"The records at the bottom of the Tiankeng Village, my uncle was also vague in that letter. He mentioned the surrounding stone houses in the letter, saying that these stone houses are the passages for the Bo people in the Tiankeng Village to work on the land"
"So, there are passages leading to the outside world in these stone houses? Then the woman we chased just now might have left here" Wei Buchi said.
"According to the legend, those passages are just leading to some naturally formed crevice caves in the mountain. The terrain inside is very complicated. If you are not familiar with the way, you will probably get lost and trapped inside after entering. But when you go out of these crevice caves Outside is the fields reclaimed by the Bo people of Tiankeng Village. These fields are actually in the deep valleys under some cliffs. Except for entering through Tiankeng Village, they cannot enter from other places. You can't get out even if you can fly." Tantai Wutian replied.
"If that's the case, it's very likely that she's in the valley where those farmlands are located." The little monk Rongxin interjected.
He has been very excited since he went down to the bottom of the pit, and he kept looking around.
"It's possible. However, my uncle's letter did not specify the topographical routes of the caves behind the stone houses. We went in blindly, fearing that it would not be easy to get out. In addition, many Bo people escaped through the caves behind the stone houses. , Those martial arts people did not chase them, and my uncle's records are only from what the martial arts people who chased and killed them said, and he himself did not go in."
"Brother Tantai, in your opinion, where should we start the investigation?"
"I think, why don't we just start from the stone house in the middle?" He knew that Shangguan would disappear in the stone house in the middle tomorrow, and he, even Ah Qingqing's mother, was the leader of the Dragon Slayer Gang back then, so he was more inclined If the woman is Ah Qingqing, it is most likely that she has found the secret path of the stone house in the middle or some other secret.
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go there quickly." The little monk Rong Xin shouted.
"Brother Tantai, did that letter say anything about the stone house in the middle?"
"There is almost nothing mentioned, but it is said that Shangguan disappeared after entering this stone house tomorrow."
"Oh?" Wei Buchi and the little monk Rongxin became very interested at this time.
"That's right, it's just that many martial arts practitioners searched the big stone house back then, but they didn't find any clues of his escape"
Hearing what Tantai Wutian said, Wei Buchi and little monk Rongxin didn't feel discouraged, on the contrary, they aroused their interest even more. They felt that the reason why those martial arts experts couldn't find it must be because they missed something. This time they are here, and they will definitely discover the secret.
While speaking, the three of them had come to the stone house.
Standing in front of the stone house, the three of them could truly feel the size of the stone house.
The shape of this stone house is very strange. The roof is not the typical Xieshan structure of Central Plains buildings. It has no ridges, eaves or roof tiles, but it seems to be covered with a hemispherical dome carved from the whole stone.
The walls of the entire stone house are also made of huge stone blocks. Except for a stone door deeply embedded in the wall, there is no window, and there is no other thing related to the exit.
The whole stone house is built with local materials from the stones on the mountain. It presents a blue-black color mixed with some flocculent white quartz particles, shining under the reflection of the skylight penetrating in from the top of the tiankeng. white light.
This huge stone house made the three people standing in front of it feel a strong sense of oppression, but this sense of oppression is not the majestic feeling that ordinary magnificent buildings give people, but a kind of breathless feeling. The dead feeling.
Wei Buchi seemed to want to get rid of this oppressive feeling, took a deep breath and let it out, and said, "Brother Tantai, what do you think this stone house looks like?"
Before Tantai Wutian could answer, the little monk Rongxin said first: "Why do I feel like this is a tomb?"
Tantai Wutian also nodded at this time and said: "That's right, I feel the same way."
Wei Buchi sighed again, "It's like a tomb."
The three were silent for a while.
Tantai Wutian said: "Let's go in." Then he stepped forward to push the stone door embedded in the stone wall.
Under Tantai Wutian's push, the stone door didn't move at all.
Seeing this, Wei Buchi and the young monk Rongxin also stepped forward to help him push him up.
But the stone gate seemed to be extremely heavy, and the six hands of the three people did not shake it in the slightest.
The three had no choice but to withdraw their hands. Tantai Wutian said: "Even if this door weighs a thousand catties, with the strength of the three of us we can always push it a little bit, but now we can't move it at all, I'm afraid there is some mechanism on this door."
Wei Buchi and the little monk Rongxin nodded in agreement.
But the three of them checked the stone gate. The door panel of the stone gate was chiseled out of a whole piece of large bluestone. It doesn't look like there is any institution.
There was nothing on the door, and the three of them checked the door shaft and the door bricks of the upper and lower bearing shafts, but the door shaft and door bricks were all hidden in the stone wall and could not be seen at all.
The three of them were helpless at this time.
The little monk Rong Xin couldn't help feeling a little discouraged, and sat down on the ground.
Suddenly, he lay down on the ground and looked under the stone door.
"Hey, Uncle Wutian, Master Wei, come and see."
"What?"
Tantai Wutian and Wei Buchi got down and looked under the stone gate like him.
A few stones in the stone wall under the stone gate may have been crushed by the load-bearing door shaft for a long time, and a few stones collapsed and fell to one side, exposing the stone shaft inside and the stone nest under the stone shaft.
What the little monk Rongxin was looking at was the stone shaft and stone nest.
"Here you can see the stone shaft of the stone gate. We broke the stone shaft. Wouldn't the door open?"
Wei Buchi and Tantai Wutian didn't speak, but stared at the stone nest, because it was in the shadows, the details couldn't be seen clearly, the two kept changing angles trying to see clearly, as if to confirm What. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com