Dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty, I was working as a detective in Chang'an

I said to Xiao Tianbao: "Pick a cloth bag around my waist with your feet. There is a dagger in it. Use this dagger to try to cut my rope."

This little Tianbao is really flexible. He hooked my waist with one foot first, then opened my shirt with the other foot, and found that there was indeed a cloth bag tied around my waist. This is what our police officers often do. The fortification bag worn contains waist tags, self-defense weapons, etc.

He took out the dagger with his feet, and then used the dagger with his feet to reach the rope that tied my hands. It was really hard this time. He was not tall and his hands were hung. He used his strength He swayed a bit and hooked one foot around my neck, as if he was riding on me. He held the dagger between his thumb and forefinger with his other foot and stabbed the rope bit by bit. The rope was very strong. After a while, I saw sweat on his face.

Over a cup of tea, he finally cut the rope for me. I untied Tianbao's rope and found that there were still six or seven half-year-old boys locked up in the water prison. I untied them one by one and told them to be silent to avoid being discovered.

At this time, I looked around the water prison again. This place is a huge underground kiln, about the size of a ten-square-meter room. The reason why there is water is because the pit was dug relatively deep, so the groundwater gushes out, forming the current water prison. There is a brick-lined path beside the pit, which can barely pass a person. At the end of the path, there are about ten steps built, and there is a stone door through which you can get out.

The structure of this water prison is very strong and can only be opened from the outside. It is impossible for us to get out of it. It seems that if we want to get out from here, we must find a way.

The water prison in which we are imprisoned is made of strong wood. It is impossible to cut them off one by one with my short dagger. However, since there is water in the water prison, the wood stuck in the water will become stronger over time. It will be eroded by water. I wonder if I can use a dagger to saw off the wood soaked in water?

Fortunately, our hands were now untied. I squatted down and touched the wood at the bottom of the water. It was slippery and covered with algae such as sphagnum moss. I tried to stab it with a dagger, but it had no effect at all. Look. This approach won't work.

Just when I was feeling depressed, I suddenly spotted a dark shadow, the same one I saw in the dark passage. This dark shadow quickly passed before my eyes.

I don’t understand the intention of this black shadow. It has no intention of harming me, but this thing is floating around in front of me, which always makes me doubt the ideological education I have received from the Party for so many years. But what is this if it is not a ghost?

I wasn't sure if I was hallucinating, so I said to Xiaobao: "Besides us, do you see anything else here?"

Tianbao suddenly flashed his big and bright eyes, looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said, "No, Brother Guo, I didn't see anything. What did you see?" He looked around in horror.

I couldn't scare him, so I could only tell him it was nothing. Maybe I was blinded.

At this time, the black shadow moved again, and I saw it float to the wall opposite the dungeon, then suddenly got in, and disappeared in the dim light.

I walked along the place where the black shadow disappeared, and found that the wall was made of earth. Maybe it was soaked in water. There were many cracks on the wall. The black shadow might have floated out along the black shadow. . I patted the wall hard, and there was a "dong dong" sound. It felt like the wall was hollow, and there was a very weak wind blowing in from the wall.

There is wind blowing in, which means there must be an open space or something on the other side of the wall. There may be another mechanism. Could this black shadow be guiding us to get out from here? I didn't have time to think too much, so I asked Tianbao to hold the oil lamp, and I tried to dig on the earthen wall with the dagger.

This underground kiln seemed to have been dug recently, so the tamped soil was not very strong. It took me just one meal to dig a hole in the wall in front of me. At this time, the people in the prison saw that we had a chance to get out, so they all came to help with hand planing. After a while, we dug through the wall.

Outside the wall was a dark secret passage. I held the oil lamp and walked in front. I found that the secret passage did not look like it had just been dug. The walls of the secret passage were stronger than those in the water prison. We slowly walked along this secret passage. After walking for about half an hour, we found that there were many branch roads in this secret passage. We didn't know which secret passage could lead out.

For the time being, I only asked Tianbao to look at me and asked everyone else to stand still and not move, because I was afraid that too much noise would attract people's attention, and because the situation ahead was unknown, I was afraid that everyone would be in danger. These dozen teenagers were frightened by the dark passage, so they stopped and waited for news from us.

Tianbao and I slowly explored with oil lamps and found that there were one or two secret rooms in each secret passage. The doors of the secret rooms were painted with blood-red lotus flowers, just like the secret doors I found in the underground cellar. I pushed open a dark room with a strange masked portrait hanging inside. It was an altar. And when I opened another darkroom, there were more than a dozen boxes inside. I opened one at random and found that it was filled with countless gold and silver jewelry, shining brightly in the darkroom. In other dark rooms, there were corpses hanging upside down. They were all naked and had their genitals cut off. The state of death was extremely horrific.

Tianbao didn't show much excitement when he saw so much gold. He just took a look at it and walked out of the secret room. However, the dark room with dead bodies frightened him. He pulled the lapel of my clothes, pointed at the corpses and said, "Brother Guo, let's get out quickly. Do you think these corpses will turn into ghosts?"

I smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, little brother. There are no ghosts in the world. These are the poor people who were tortured by the Red Lotus Sect. If we can't escape, we will end up like this, so we must stay alive." Get out so you can avenge these tragic deaths.”

Xiao Tianbao nodded vigorously to me. The look of fear on his face also reduced a lot, and he no longer trembled.

It turns out that this is a complicated underground network system. It not only has a main altar, a torture chamber, but also an altar and a treasury. The scale is beyond my imagination.

Tianbao and I just walked blindly along the secret passage, and found ourselves back to the original place and saw those dozen children. It seemed that we had walked back. When they saw us turning around and coming back again, they looked frightened. One of them said:

"Oh my God, did we encounter a ghost breaking the wall? I heard my grandfather say that this is a ghost that has been bewitched. No matter how we can't get out, we will all be trapped here alive. I don't want to die. I haven't yet. I’ve eaten the gourd tou from Shuntianlou and the soy sauce beef from Lao Ma’s house. It’s too flattering to die like this.” He started crying again.

It seems that this kid is also a foodie, and he still wants to eat at this critical moment, but such a kid is easy to coax. So I shouted in a low voice: "There are no ghosts in the world. It's just a deception here. If we break it, we can go out and eat well." Everyone heard my firm words and gradually became quiet.

In this dark tunnel, how can we escape and ascend to heaven?