After saying that, Ding Ze turned around and took two steps towards the mountain wall covered with wisteria without any trace of ink. He casually reached out and used a black gold dagger to push away the wisteria in front of him.
As soon as the vines were pushed aside, the dilapidated mountain temple that had been covered appeared.
Hu Bayi and the others saw...
Fatty: "Damn it! There really is a building!"
I was shocked, such a good opportunity, how could a fat man let it pass...
The fat man immediately turned his head to Hu Bayi, "Old Hu, didn't you say that this building collapsed?"
Hu Bayi: "(??へ??╬)!! Fatty, what I said is possible!!!"
Hu Bayi said angrily, ignoring the fat man, and walked quickly to the vines, "Old Ding, let's clean up these vines and go into the temple to have a look."
Hu Bayi said, "The toad with the secret passage inside may be under the stone gourd. Considering the Feng Shui layout here and King Xian's original idea of letting his subjects go to the Minglou to worship regularly... the stone gourd
The opening and closing should be controlled by the agency."
"If that's the case, then the agency should be in this mountain temple."
What he said is reasonable and well-founded.
Ding Ze nodded and responded with a smile, "I think so too."
The vines that cover the mountain temple are densely packed one after another.
It will take a little time to clean up.
About two minutes later.
It was severely eroded by rain insects and ants. It adopts a wedge-shaped wooden frame structure. Some of the tiles have fallen off and the wood is in decay. However, miraculously, the main entrance of the mountain temple has not collapsed. It is almost completely exposed.
into the sight of four people.
Hu Bayi looked at it for a while and said, "The broken insect tunnel on the mountain wall is indeed ineffective. Otherwise, with the location of this mountain temple and the weather conditions of the insect valley with little rain all year round, it
It shouldn’t be ruined like this.”
Ding Ze was not interested in things that were dilapidated but not dilapidated. His eyes fell on the bird's nests scattered on the palace floor. "There are birds building nests here. The air quality should be fine. It seems that the gas masks can be taken off for the time being."
The four took off their gas masks.
The fat man urged, "Didn't you say that the agency is inside the temple? We don't have much time, so hurry up and get in. It's going to be dark if you keep talking like this."
This is not an exaggeration.
After all, time passes really quickly...and now, it is almost noon, which means that half of the day has passed.
"Well, go in," Hu Bayi agreed.
The purely wooden gate of the mountain temple was severely damaged due to the failure of the insect tunnel on the mountain wall. With a slight push, it was completely pushed to the ground, stirring up some dust.
The four of them raised their feet, crossed the threshold, and entered the main hall.
At a glance, the main hall is already covered with various plants. Looking at this scene, it is estimated that in a few decades, with their terrifying vitality, these plants will completely occupy this mountain temple.
.
The main hall is not large in scale, and the clay statue on the altar is pushed to the corner by the vines... However, even so, this expressionless black-faced statue of the god with slightly closed eyes is just like that.
It still showed a cold and majestic feeling.
Next to the altar without the black-faced statue of the god, there are two ferocious clay mountain ghosts with green faces and fangs.
The mountain ghost on the left is holding a flaming stone gourd in his hands. The mountain ghost on the right is holding a stone toad in both hands.
Hu Bayi saw it and said, "It turns out that gourds and toads are the things of the mountain god. This way, the stone gourd outside can make sense."
When Shirley Yang heard this, she moved her mouth and her tone was a bit doubtful, "It makes sense, but this mountain god and the two mountain ghosts next to him, how come they all look ferocious and terrifying? They are completely different from what they should be."
His peaceful attitude...and what does the mountain god want the gourd and the toad to do?"
Hear the words.
Ding Ze knew the answer to this question, but it was not convenient to say it now, so he held his cigarette in his mouth and remained silent.
The fat man had a voice at this time and urged, "Whatever, maybe the gourd is filled with wine and the toad is used as an appetizer... Don't worry about these useless things and find the mechanism quickly."
After hearing the words, Shirley Yang shook her head helplessly, but didn't say anything.
Hu Bayi responded, "It seems that the agency is not in the main hall. Let's go to the back hall and have a look."
Between the main hall and the back hall, there is a green stone screen with a portrait of the Mountain God, the black-faced god in the main hall.
The four of them briefly glanced at each other, then walked into the back hall without looking any further.
The apse is built inside the mountain, without any light and completely dark.
The darkness was frightening, so the four of them turned on their flashlights.
The light of the flashlight was projected out and moved slowly, and soon the back hall was roughly illuminated.
I saw that, probably because it was built using a natural cave, the apse was very narrow, much smaller than the main hall.
Because of its small size, with the help of the flashlight light, the four of them quickly saw the row of nine huge stone toads lined up horizontally at the end of the apse.
Saw a toad.
Ding Ze smiled and said to Hu Ba, who was obviously brightened up, "Old Hu, those nine toads should be the trap."
Hu Ba nodded, "If nothing else, absolutely."
Hu Bayi said with a very firm tone, "The nine toads correspond to the number of nine twists and turns. This kind of mechanism can be said to be complicated, and it can be said to be simple."
Hu Bayi said, raising his feet and walking towards the nine toads, "The difference between simple and complex lies in whether the person who encounters this kind of mechanism understands the Book of Changes."
"If you understand it, this kind of mechanism can be easily cracked. On the contrary, I'm afraid it will never be cracked."
Words with a very clear meaning of embarrassment came out...
The fat man heard, "Old Hu, you are out of breath again. Could you talk less nonsense and do more?"
Hu Bayi: “╮(╯▽╰)╭!!!”
Hu Bayi was helpless and shook his head, "Fat man, your mouth should be sealed!"
Fatty: "Hey..."
The fat man still wants to say.
It's a pity that there is no chance.
Because once again, Shirley Yang was very timely and could be said to be extremely skilled. She spoke in time to stop the commotion between the two of them, "Okay, Lao Hu, hurry up and break the mechanism."
Hear the words.
"Well," Hu Ba nodded, "these nine toads all have different orientations, and their mouths also open and close. This means that in order to crack this mechanism, the orientation of the toads and the opening and closing of their mouths must match."
"There are many different arrangements involved, and only one of them is correct."
"Furthermore, as far as I know, these nine toads must be modified in order from left to right and cannot be moved randomly. Otherwise, once three consecutive modifications are made incorrectly, the mechanism will be completely locked, and the secret passage will no longer be possible.
opened."
Hu Bayi said, "You guys stay quiet and don't make any noise. I'll calculate the correct arrangement."