No matter how high the pagoda is, it's only a few dozen feet high. If you walk down with all your strength, you'll be back on the first floor in a blink of an eye.
There was a man standing at the gate of the tower, it was Deng Dinghou.
"Did you see it?" Deng Dinghou opened his mouth and asked.
"What did we see? Did you hear it?" Su Yang asked immediately.
Deng Dinghou nodded and said: "I was lying in ambush in secret, and suddenly I heard Miss Wang let out a scream. Then I looked along the sound and saw a black shadow wrapping her up and getting into the tower." He continued.
Surprised: "Didn't you find that person?"
Someone entered the tower!?
Su Yang and Ding Xi shook their heads at the same time, and then subconsciously looked back. However, the space on the first floor was not too big and empty. With the moonlight coming in from the door and the window, all the first floor could be seen.
, but no one was seen.
They looked at each other, raised their heads at the same time, and looked towards the way they came and above their heads.
I saw absolutely no one on the way down.
But not seeing anyone does not mean there is no one.
Except for the seventh floor, the remaining six floors of the pagoda were completely dark. Su Yang and Ding Xi descended the tower very quickly. If there was a person squatting silently in a dark corner of a certain floor, they would have missed it.
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Ding Xi suddenly made a few gestures, and then tiptoed along the way back to the top of the pagoda. His movements were like a cheetah in the dark, silent and aggressive, and he was on the second floor almost in an instant.
Su Yang and Deng Dinghou walked out of the tower and stood guard at the door. Taking this opportunity, they told Deng Dinghou everything they had just seen on the seventh floor, and then handed him the package of antidote.
Deng Dinghou was visibly shaken when he heard about the deaths of Gui Dongjing and Ximen Sheng.
He sighed deeply, and his whole body suddenly became gloomy. He suddenly changed from a middle-aged man whose energy was at its peak to a waning old man.
The joint escort bureau was established with great momentum. It was almost the leader among the escort bureaus in the world and reached the pinnacle of the escort bureau industry in the world for thousands of years. However, in just a few months, the escort bureau has not yet been on the right track, but instead it has become troubled due to various interest disputes.
Due to internal fighting, two of the top five bodyguards have died. Jiang Xin is seriously ill, and Baili Changqing's identity is unknown. This is an almost fatal blow to Deng Dinghou, who is determined to achieve a great career.
Su Yang even had a feeling that his dreams and pursuits, the things that filled his body, seemed to suddenly leave him at this moment.
The current Deng Dinghou is no longer the high-spirited and ambitious little Zhuge of the Divine Fist.
"Relax, there are still many things waiting for you to do, now is not the time to fall."
Su Yang found that he was really not very good at persuading others, and even he felt that these words were meaningless.
But how can a person who has suffered a fatal setback be persuaded by others with just a few words?
Deng Dinghou waved his hand, interrupted Su Yang's words, and lowered his head. His spine slowly leaned against the wall of the pagoda. His spine, which was originally straight and straight, could not be bent with a knife or bent with an iron rod.
It appears slightly curved.
He raised two fingers, rubbed the center of his eyebrows vigorously, closed his eyes, and his breathing was turbid and heavy.
A muddy tear flowed from the corner of his eye.
"The Joint Escort Bureau has only been established for a few months, and two of the five escorts have already died, and Jiang Xin is a sick man."
He shook his head slowly, closed his eyes and murmured to himself: "And evergreen, eh..."
Some people choose to escape, retreat, and feel sorry for themselves in the face of setbacks, while some people can pick themselves up after experiencing great pain and regard past setbacks as the most precious wealth and the cornerstone of next success.
Su Yang didn't know what kind of person Deng Dinghou was, but he was already a middle-aged man after all. Can he come out of this shadow again?
After a long time, Deng Dinghou opened his eyes again.
Although there was still pain in his eyes, there was light again.
"Gui Dongjing and Ximen Sheng are at fault, but their wives, sons and daughters are not at fault, and the more than 300 escorts in the joint escort agency are not at fault either. They still have to live and eat. You are right,
I can’t fall down yet.”
At this moment, Ding Xi had come back from upstairs. He looked at Deng Dinghou and then shook his head.
"No one?" Deng Dinghou said unexpectedly: "I saw with my own eyes that man carrying Miss Wang into the tower."
"Can Miss Wang still move at that time?" Su Yang asked.
"It was too far to see clearly." Deng Dinghou said: "But she only screamed once and then stopped moving, so even if she is not dead, she must have been restrained."
"That means that person must still be in the tower?"
"Definitely. Although I failed to catch up with him, I chased him all the way. I can be sure of this." Deng Dinghou said.
Su Yang and Ding Xi came down from upstairs and saw no one. Ding Xi searched again but found no results, but Deng Dinghou saw it with his own eyes.
"Could it be that what you saw was a ghost? It disappeared after entering the pagoda."
Ding Xi looked at the big pagoda behind him. The dark pagoda was full of strange colors. There seemed to be a mysterious ghost, somewhere in the dark shadow, silently watching the three people outside the pagoda.
"I heard from people in the town that the Big Pagoda is indeed haunted. When the pagoda was built, all the workers who built the pagoda were killed. Over the years, ghosts have been haunting the Big Pagoda, so few people in the town come here.
Come on, even if there is something important, I would rather take a detour than pass through here."
Deng Dinghou smiled bitterly and continued: "If it is really a ghost, then he must be afraid of flames. It's a pity that Miss Wang is not a ghost. If we set a fire, even if we can burn this ghost to death, Miss Wang will not be able to kill the ghost."
Then he was burned to death."
"What did you say?" Su Yang suddenly asked: "All the workers were killed?"
"Yes, I don't know why." Deng Dinghou nodded: "It is said that more than a hundred people died overnight. Some people say that the location of this tower is a dangerous place for resentful souls.
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"Do you believe there are ghosts in the world?" Su Yang asked Ding Xi.
Ding Xi shook his head, then nodded, and said with a smile: "I understand. This is not a place of resentful souls at all. Those workers probably knew something they shouldn't know, so they were all secretly killed."
Since ancient times, emperors, generals and ministers have built tombs and mausoleums for themselves during their lifetime. In order to conceal the location of the tomb and the secret passages in it, and to prevent the tomb from being robbed after death, the craftsmen involved in building the tomb often.
They will be massacred uniformly when the tomb is built.
Su Yang only said one word: "Find!" Then they started to look for the secret of the big pagoda.
The walls of each floor and the floors between each floor were searched through all possible places to hide a person. Sure enough, on the ground in the southeast corner of the first floor, a bluestone slab larger than the surrounding ones was found.
A circle of stone slabs.
There are carvings on the stone slab, and one of the carvings is hollow. It can fit two fingers into it.
Ding Xi hooked the hollow part of the carving and pulled it upwards, and the stone slab was lifted up in one go.
Under the stone slab, there is a dark hole, and a black stone step leads down.
Su Yang and the other three looked at each other and dived into the hole.
In the big pagoda, silence was restored again. Only on the seventh floor, the candlelight was still swaying. Two people who had been dead for a long time were still sitting on the chairs looking at each other. There was a strange and sinister smile on the corners of their mouths.
……….
In the darkness, there was not only the smell of earth, but also a faint but rather pungent medicinal smell.
Along the way, Ding Xi didn't say a word, because they were very familiar with the smell of this medicine. It was exactly the medicine Baili Changqing took. There was a dose of raw materials with a unique smell in the pill, which would take a long time to dissipate.
I don’t know how long I walked, but finally a glimmer of light came out from the top of the cave ahead.
Deng Dinghou said in a deep voice: "We have walked a straight road that slopes upward. I have counted that we have walked a total of 14,565 steps along the way. We are now about 20 steps away from the town.
inside."
Within twenty miles of the town, there is only one place that may have such a building, and that is Hungry Tiger Hill.
The focus of the matter is back to the origin of everything, Hungry Tiger Hill.
The other exit of the crypt is a wide hall. It is quiet and there is no one in the hall, but dozens of candles are lit on both sides of the hall, as if to welcome the people in the cave.
In the innermost part of the hall is a huge wall with a tiger and a dragon carved on it.
Looking out from the doors and windows of the hall, you can see that the cornices of the entire house are light red, which looks very much like the small building in Wang Wanwu's painting of "Away from the Blue Dragon on May 13th."
On the top of the wall, there is a plaque with four large black characters about half a foot in diameter.
"May 13th."
Su Yang said: "It seems that we can find the answer from here."
Ding Xi had already clenched his fists, which were trembling. Deng Dinghou also took a deep breath and tapped several acupuncture points on his chest.
These acupuncture points can not only prevent his wounds from bursting and bleeding, but also stimulate people's spirit. It seems that Deng Dinghou is also ready to fight desperately.
If it is really that person, the three of them must fight with their lives if they want to survive.
As if to prove Su Yang's words, as soon as he finished speaking, a creaking sound suddenly sounded in the hall.
Following the sound, I saw that the wall with the dragon and tiger engraved on it was trembling slightly, and slowly separated towards the two sides along the center line.
Behind the wall is endless darkness, like another world, the abyss of hell.
A strange and pungent smell emanated from the darkness.
Following this smell, several footsteps sounded in the darkness, from far to near, as if beating on everyone's heart.
A tall figure, wearing a blue robe, walked out from behind the wall and appeared in front of Su Yang. (To be continued...)
ps: There are a lot of typos in the first few chapters, and some book friends have reminded me that I will check them before posting!
However, I found that I am blind and often miss typos after checking. Feel free to despise this~~~
