Being scolded, Ding Ze smiled and did not scold him again.
The three of them continued to climb up silently.
Time passed by minute by minute.
Before I knew it, half an hour passed.
When the time reached this moment, Wu Xie was panting, sweating profusely, and extremely tired.
"Boss Wang, haven't you arrived yet?"
Almost unable to hold on any longer, Wu Xie asked for the Nth time.
Boss Wang at the top responded, "It's almost over, just hold on for a few more minutes."
A few minutes later.
The three of them climbed up the plank road one after another.
After a little test of the sturdiness of the plank road, and after confirming that there was no problem, Wu Xie sat down and gasped, "Oh, it almost killed me!!"
Wu Xiethief cursed unhappily, then raised his arm and wiped the sweat from his face.
Ding Ze saw this, took out cigarettes, handed one to Wu Xie and Boss Wang each, "Wu Xie, seriously, if you still want to do this in the future, you have to find a way to practice more after you go back this time."
Practice physical strength.”
"Your body is too weak."
Wu Xie took the cigarette and glanced at Ding Ze, "Fuck you, when I go back this time, I will never come out to do these things again!"
"This industry is not suitable for me at all. It's better for me to be my little boss honestly!"
Ding Ze smiled.
'I'm afraid it's not up to you.'
With this in mind, Ding Ze said, "Maybe, but this person, sometimes...or in other words, many times, he doesn't actually have a choice."
Wu Xie: "????"
Wu Xie, who had just lit the cigarette, looked at Ding Ze again. This time, his eyes were obviously complicated, "Brother Ding, what do you mean?"
Ding Ze: "I'll tell you in detail on the way back."
Wu Xie didn't say anything immediately. He looked at Ding Ze for a few seconds before moving his mouth and said, "Okay."
The conversation ends here.
Neither of them said anything and rested quietly.
Boss Wang leaned against the rock wall, holding a cigarette in his mouth. He did not rush to urge him. He waited until the cigarette was finished before he said, "Mr. Wu, have you recovered?"
Wu Xie nodded, "That's almost it."
With that said, Wu Xie stood up, turned on the flashlight, moved the light, and observed the situation of the plank road.
Observed again.
Wu Xie said, "Boss Wang, you are right, this plank road is indeed well preserved. However, it does not seem to be because the emperor is leaving and the construction is particularly strong..."
"It's because, before the work was stopped, this plank road had been under repair, and the death row inmates built a layer of angular frames made of oil bamboo and tangerine on the outside of the plank road."
"This kind of angle frame is very moisture-proof and will not rot for hundreds of years. That's why the plank road is in such good condition."
"Mr. Wu, are you engaged in construction? How do you know so much about this kind of thing?" Boss Wang heard this, smiled, and asked in a tone that didn't care at all that his guess was wrong.
Wu Xie responded, "Well, I studied architecture in college."
Boss Wang: "No wonder, do you see anything else about this plank road?"
Wu Xie: "I can tell a little bit. This part has nothing to do with architecture, and you should have noticed it too."
Boss Wang: "Tell me about it."
Wu Xie had no ink mark, "Look at the roots of these trees hanging down along the rock wall. They are very dense, indicating that this place must not be far from the surface."
"Considering this place, the whole thing should be a natural cave."
"That means that there is probably a rock layer above the top of the bronze tree, and the rock layer above is the surface."
"In this way, combined with the path that Lao Itch took to come here three years ago, and the fact that people from the ancient She Kingdom could not have walked through the mountains to come here to perform sacrificial activities..."
"There will definitely be at least one passage up there that can lead directly to the surface."
Wu Xie said in one breath.
Boss Wang nodded in agreement, "I think so too. If everything goes well, we may not have to go back the same way."
"By the way, did your brother Lao Itch tell you where the passage above is and what's going on inside?"
"As far as I know, normally, there must be some defensive measures in the passage used for sacrifice."
Wu Xie shook his head, "He didn't go into details. He only said that a dozen of them found a banyan tree hole on the ground and got in. Many people died along the way before they got here."
"That passage probably has very dangerous defensive measures... It may not be easy for us to get out of that passage."
Boss Wang: "Is that so? We'll wait until we get to the top of the tree. Let's go up now."
Wu Xie: "Yeah."
"Be careful when you go. The roots of these trees have cracked the rock wall. There may be gravel falling down from above. We'd better protect our heads to avoid being hit by falling rocks.
, that would be such an unjust death."
Seeing that Wu Xie had no objection, Boss Wang gave the instructions, then raised his feet to take the lead, held his head in his hands, and moved forward.
Wu Xie didn't say anything, just held his head and lifted his heels in the same manner.
Ding Ze saw that he was not in a hurry and lit another cigarette. He followed Wu Xie forward without any hurry, with a relaxed look on his face and without holding his head at all.
'That's how cool the master is!'
Ding Ze thought nonchalantly.
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The three of them walked slowly...
To be precise, it was Boss Wang and Wu Xie. Because they had to hold their heads to guard against falling rocks and be careful about their steps, they walked very slowly.
Ding Ze, who was walking at the back, was forced to walk slowly.
With such slow movement, time passes quickly.
In the blink of an eye, almost half an hour passed.
The three of them continued walking, and they didn't know how many times they had walked along the plank road.
suddenly.
While walking, Boss Wang at the front suddenly stopped and shouted, "Stop, there is a gap ahead."
Words spread.
Wu Xie quickly put his head forward and looked forward.
Ding Ze, who was at the very back, saw this and in order to make his appearance reasonable, he pretended to look forward.
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There was a gap of about ten meters in length on the plank road not far in front of Boss Wang.
The plank road in the gap has almost completely disappeared, with only a few scattered pieces of wood still embedded in the rock wall.
"It's such a long distance that you definitely can't jump over it. You have to get on the rope."
After gesturing the distance of the gap, Wu Xie said to Boss Wang, followed, moved the flashlight, looked up, and said, "We are not far from the top of the tree now. I think we can rest here for a while."
Bar."
"Walking this plank road is no easier than climbing the rock wall before. My energy is almost exhausted, my body is covered with sweat, and I feel very uncomfortable."
"This ghost place is extremely cold... If you don't try to dry your clothes, you will easily get sick."
Wu Xie said with a bit of embarrassment in his tone.
Boss Wang heard this and looked at Wu Xie without joking, "That's fine. If you're not in a hurry, just find a place to light a fire."
As Boss Wang said, he moved his eyes quickly and started searching.
Wu Xie had the same behavior.
Naturally, Ding Ze also cooperated and started searching.
Soon.
Boss Wang found a tree hole formed by the roots of the tree and the plank road. "This tree hole is quite big. Let's rest here."
Wu Xie and Ding Ze have no objections.
The three of them got in one after another.
Then, just like the original plot, Boss Wang took out a solid wind lantern from his backpack and hung the lantern on a tree root with a dagger.
Seeing the wind lantern, Wu Xie quickly took off his coat and began to bake his underwear.
Ding Ze was tossing and turning along the way and sweated a little, so since he had spare clothes in his backpack, he took out his clothes and put them on.
Boss Wang didn't care about sweating or anything, so he didn't bother. He just sat by the lantern, lit a cigarette, then took out the telescope and some food from his backpack, and placed the food on the ground.
"Eat something to replenish your strength," Boss Wang greeted, and then he took a pack of biscuits. While eating, he picked up his telescope and looked towards the top of the tree above.
See the situation.
Ding Ze picked up a bag of bread and turned to look at the top of the tree.
Wu Xie didn't look at it and concentrated on eating the food.
Boss Wang watched for about half a minute, put down the telescope, and heard a voice, "Mr. Ding, can you see anything on the top of the tree? Why do I look at it and feel like there is something strange up there?"
The darkness here was too dense and Night Eye's ability was limited. Ding Ze didn't see much, only a rough outline.
"It seems so," Ding Ze responded, reaching into his backpack and taking out the binoculars, "Let me take a closer look."
Words enter the air.
Wu Xie, who stuffed some food into his stomach, said, "Boss Wang, lend me the telescope and I'll take a look too."
Boss Wang had no ink marks and immediately handed the binoculars to Wu Xie.
Wu Xie took it and looked up at the top of the bronze tree.
At this time, Ding Ze's eyes had fallen on the top of the bronze tree.
Only seen.
The top of the bronze tree, which was about ten meters to no more than twenty meters vertically from where the three of them were at the moment, was almost completely obscured by the countless tree roots hanging down from the top of the cave a little higher up.
Those tree roots and roots that look like pale ghost claws are twisted together like twists. It is indeed like a giant hand grasping the top of the bronze tree tightly, trying to pull the entire bronze tree from
In hell, pull out...
It does seem that the entire top of the tree is a huge totem wrapped with fossilized pythons.
‘Soon after, Wu Xie will materialize a giant python, probably because the scene at the top of the tree has given him a hint...
After taking a second look, I felt that the tree roots above did look a bit like fossilized pythons, Ding Zeru thought.
Ideas pour out.
Ding Ze blinked and focused his gaze on the edge of the tree top.
Because he knew what was there, after a moment, he saw two bronze arms with a large pile of tree roots slightly exposed.
Then, more or less, I saw a bronze statue wrapped in tree roots.
Glancing at the statue, Ding Ze didn't look much, his eyes moved slightly, and then he looked at the plank road not far away from the statue.
Look at this.
The fact that the plank road was obviously higher than the top of the bronze tree appeared in his field of vision.
Face this fact.
Ding Ze couldn't help but think about a question, 'The reason why the plank road is higher than the top of the bronze tree is really because, as written in the original book, the bronze tree has sunk a little over the past few hundred years?'
I thought silently for a moment.
Ding Ze had a negative answer.
'wrong!'
'The reason is obviously not this, at least, not entirely.'
'Because it is obvious that this plank road was built from top to bottom... Therefore, the real reason is that the plank road was much higher than the top of the tree from the beginning...'
'In this case, the starting point of this plank road must be...the ground? Or, a passage leading to the ground?'
'After all, according to the "Hemu Collection", this plank road was used for Emperor Qianlong to view the bronze trees...'
'Then, at the beginning of building the plank road, the person in charge should have considered a very critical issue... After the plank road was built and Emperor Qianlong came, how would he get to the plank road?'
'We can't say that we should let Emperor Qianlong crawl around in the mine.'
'That's unrealistic and impossible.'
'So, Emperor Qianlong would only walk down from the ground and onto the plank road.'
'It's actually not difficult to achieve this.'
'There were over 3,000 people who were responsible for the excavation here. With so many people, it would not be difficult to go to the ground corresponding to the bronze tree and find the passage through which the ancient She people came down. It would only take a while at most.'
'Even if you can't find the passage through which the ancient She people came to offer sacrifices... with so many people digging hard, they can still dig out a new passage...'
'In other words, the end of the plank road is most likely either the ground or a passage leading to the ground.'
'The possibility of passage is greater.'
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'So, is that passage still passable now? Could it be that Emperor Qianlong sent people over, killed people and silenced them, and then blocked the passage again?'
Being idle is also idle, Ding Ze continued to think about it.
'Probably not.'
'The secret that Emperor Qianlong wants to keep is the existence of the dragon-patterned stone box, not the existence of this bronze tree and this place.'
'Otherwise, the underground mine tunnels should also be blocked or destroyed.'
'In other words, there is a high probability that we can go straight up the plank road and return to the ground...'
Thinking about it, Ding Ze recalled what Lao Itch said before about how a group of them came down from the ground and many people died...
'If my guess is correct... then the passage at the end of the plank road must be safe enough and there cannot be any mess...'
'Then, Lao Itch and his group must have taken another passage three years ago... maybe it was the passage where people from the ancient She Kingdom came to offer sacrifices.'
Think of this.
Ding Ze glanced at Wu Xie.
'That's interesting.'
'In a moment, do you want to find an opportunity to confirm whether the passage exists?'
'But, if the passage really existed... Wu Xie probably wouldn't have been lured by Lao Itch, discovered the real Lao Itch's bones, and been so frightened that he doubted his life...'
'That plot is quite important...'
Ding Ze was a little hesitant and couldn't make up his mind.
At this time, Boss Wang spoke up and pointed towards the top of the tree, "Mr. Ding, Mr. Wu, have you seen it? Does it look like there is something strange standing there at the edge of the top of the tree?"
"
The words hit my ears.
Ding Ze thought for a moment and decided not to worry for now. He would wait and see what happened later. He moved his mouth and replied, "Well, it looks like a statue."
When Boss Wang heard this, he was a little excited. The fat on his face trembled, "Yes! I think it's a statue too!!"
"The angle here is not good. Come on, let's change places and take a closer look!"
"Maybe that thing is the treasure we are looking for!!"
Boss Wang said, got up and left.
Ding Ze saw it and didn't move in a hurry. He turned to look at Wu Xie.
Seeing Wu Xie frowning, he happened to look over.
Ding Ze smiled and said, "Let's go and have a look."
"good."
Wu Xie agreed with a somewhat solemn expression.
The two of them said no more, got up and followed Boss Wang.