Before Du Leding could react, there was a heart-piercing scream from behind.

Although the voice was extremely unpleasant, it could still be recognized as a person.Su Teng held down Knight's hand holding the gun, and asked tentatively, "Dou Le?"

Du Leding turned his head, and saw the person behind him dressed in red and green, with a mixed face, a pair of eyes wide open, and a terrified expression, as if he had seen a ghost.During the scuffle just now, he probably passed out. The mercenaries thought he was dead, so they ignored him.

But even though he woke up, his consciousness was not so clear. Du Leding waved his hand in front of Dou Le: "I'm Ding Ding, do you still recognize me? I said, can you stop barking?"

Dou Le was frightened and stimulated, talking nonsense in his mouth, repeating words such as monsters and bugs, and almost hitting Du Leding in the face with his waving arms several times.

Su Teng frowned and pulled Du Leding aside. Knight stepped forward without saying a word, and slapped Dou Le to the ground twice. His incoherent wailing stopped abruptly.

Knight looked down at him: "Calm down?"

With a gaudy face, Dou Le nodded dumbly.

Knight: "Go ahead."

Dou Le's thoughts collapsed, and she swept her eyes in confusion and said, "Where am I, who am I, am I still alive?"

Du Le Ding said with a smile: "I'm dead, this is hell, a woman will come and let you drink soup in a while, so don't take it and drink it up."

Dou Le asked blankly: "Drink soup, what kind of soup?"

Du Leding said seriously, "Forget Soul Soup, after you drink it, you will forget everything about it."

Dou Le was stunned for a while, then suddenly his expression collapsed, tears came out of his eyes, and he said in a broken voice: "I don't want to forget my mother!"

This kid is so funny.Du Leding couldn't help laughing, and patted Dou Le's trembling shoulder: "You are really funny, I'm just kidding you, you're still alive, put away your tears and tell me what's going on .”

Dou Le was stunned for a moment, but didn't know where to start.Du Le Ding picked him up from the ground, didn't bother to ask him what he had experienced along the way, and went straight to the point: "Why did those mercenaries bring you two into the Giant Belly Mountain?"

Dou Le's Adam's apple slipped rapidly, choked up and said, "Their boss said they were going fishing."

"Fishing?" Du Leding touched his chin, "What kind of fish are you fishing? None of them know how to fish. Do you have to ask the two of you to help?"

Dou Le grabbed Du Leding's arm: "I don't know what they mean by fishing. I followed them along the way and encountered many terrible things, and many people died. This 'fishing' is definitely not literal Meaning!"

Thinking of the thrilling scenes along the way, Dou Le had a horrible expression on his face.

Su Teng pulled Dou Le's hand off Duleding's arm calmly: "Did they say anything else, such as their purpose, or anything that might be related to identity?"

Dou Le's mind was muddled, he looked at Su Teng, then at Du Leding, and shook his head blankly: "Last night they mentioned that many people died during this trip, and the rewards would be doubled or something. After entering the mountain, the situation became worse and worse, and almost no one spoke."

There was a mess under their feet, and Dou Le looked like he couldn't bear to look back on the past. Du Leding was a little lucky that they didn't enter the mountain from the Shinto, but found the cave under the cliff.

"Anyway, let's hurry up. 'Fishing' probably refers to the final target. If they reduce their staff all the way, maybe we will have the upper hand in the end."

As Du Leding said, he stepped on the stone steps, and Su Teng and Knight did not hesitate.Dou Le's legs are as limp as noodles. There are unknowns in front of him, and dangers behind him that he cannot face alone. He gritted his teeth and followed.

During the years of decay, the spiraling stone steps have collapsed into gaps one after another, which are sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, and you need to be very careful when you step on it.From time to time, heart-pounding sounds came from the top of their heads. Maybe they were just some slight sounds, but they echoed deeply in the empty mountain. Sometimes they looked like mournful sighs, and sometimes they looked like roars of grief. .Knight occasionally touched the rock wall, and there was a fine vibration in the palm of his hand.

The black box on the rock wall was close at hand, and Charlie moved the tip of his nose nervously: "The few boxes I've seen before all make sounds. Wouldn't it be scary if so many boxes rattled together?"

Knight remembered the theory that Dulledin said in the cabin, and couldn't help but glance at him, but seeing that he had no awareness of spreading pseudo-scientific rumors, he immediately told Charlie what he had said.

Not only Charlie, but Dou Le behind was also trembling with fright, trying to stay away from those haunted boxes, but the edge of the stone steps was on the right hand side, and he almost fell down when he dodged like this.

Du Le Ding quickly grabbed his collar, dragged him back to the middle of the stone steps, and said with a smile: "With your courage, how dare you sneak into the mountain with Scotch?"

Dou Le's face was downcast and his eyes were dim: "I tried to persuade him, but he didn't listen. I'm useless and I'm not smart. When I'm with Scotch, I'll do whatever he asks me to do... ..."

At the end, he smiled helplessly a few times, which was a bit self-deprecating.

"You do whatever he asks you to do," Du Leding recalled the scene in the bar on the train, and Skoki must have abused Dou Le a lot, "You owe him money?"

Dou Le bit her lip and murmured: "I'm used to it. It's been like this since I was a child. No one listens to my opinion, and no one is willing to help me...except you."

"You mean on the train?" Du Le Ding said very sincerely, "I don't want to help you, but I'm afraid that Skoki will really start a fire and make things worse, and delay my inquiry with the boss."

Dou Le was speechless with such frank and frank confession without false feelings.

Du Leding said casually: "I grew up in a very difficult environment. There are a lot of children living together, and I have to fight for everything I want. Have you ever heard of the saying 'crying children have candy'?" ? Only those who can cry and make trouble have the opportunity to let the teacher or others hear their thoughts."

Of course, having an idea is not enough, you must have the means to realize the idea.

Dou Le didn't know what Du Leding meant by these words, but just listened in a daze.

Du Leding continued: "But among them, there is one child who is dumb. Even if he is bullied and beaten, it is impossible for him to cry. Whether it is the teacher or others, it is difficult to notice him. You Say, what will he do?"

Dou Le sniffed, feeling that he was that dumb kid, no one paid attention to him, and no one listened to his thoughts, he lived like a transparent person.

Du Leding didn't say what the mute child did, but said to Dou Le in a brisk tone: "Don't expect to be rescued and relieved from others. No one in this world can hear your inner needs except yourself."

Su Teng knew who the mute child was. He looked at Du Leding's swaying back and wanted to hug him.These words are easy to say, but there is a lot of sadness behind being ignored and ignored.

However, Du Leding turned his head suddenly, without a trace of sadness indulging in memories, his face was full of excitement, and he waved his fingers forward: "We should not be far from the mausoleum."

At the end of the stone steps is a passage. A few people went up along the road. Gradually, brick-carved wood-like structures appeared in the passage. Every once in a while, there were imitation wood brick columns embedded in the wall. Nat, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped. , Looking up, there are some portraits carved on the top of the tomb.

"These people seem to be those stone statues in the mountains." Charlie said excitedly.The poses and costumes of the people in the murals are exactly the same as the stone statues, but in the paintings, the heads of these stone statues are intact, the facial features are delicate, and the pair of red phoenix eyes are half-opened and half-closed, as if they are watching something.

What surprised Charlie even more was that the eyes of the portraits were the same as the "eye wood", with an extra small pupil: "Could these stone statues not be human beings, but revered gods or evil spirits?"

Du Le Ding speculated: "It is also possible that those children who were born with double pupils were enshrined as messengers of gods when they grew up."

Su Teng said, "This person's eyes were looking to the right just now."

Several people looked over inexplicably, and the person in the mural was looking to the left.They took a quick look at the flowers, there were so many portraits in the murals, how could it be possible to remember which eyes were looking in which direction.

But Su Teng has a photographic memory, and he will never forget it.

Charlie stared at the portrait intently, as if feeling his gaze, the portrait's eyes suddenly turned and met Charlie's gaze.

"Wow!" Charlie frowned under the gaze of the portrait, and jumped off the ground.

"What's your name?" Knight was staring at the portrait just now, but he didn't see anything unusual.

Charlie and Dou Le pointed at the portrait incoherently and said, "Move, move, move the eyes!"

Su Teng seemed to have noticed something, took the flashlight from Knight, moved his position while looking at the portrait, stretched out his hand to poke the portrait's eye, and pulled out a round thing.

His actions surprised Charlie again, the male god was so mighty, he poked the person in the mural blind if he didn't agree with each other.

"Huh?" Charlie suddenly felt something was wrong. Since it was a mural, how could he pick out his eyes.

Su Teng raised the "eye" in his hand and said: "This is amber. The circle on it seems to be formed naturally. The color is very close to the color of the mural, so it can't be seen that it is inlaid. Just now when the flashlight hit it, the light and shadow changed , causing the illusion of eyeball rotation.”

Charlie was speechless: "Are the eyes of all the portraits in the murals all amber?"

Su Teng nodded, and the flashlight shone deeper. Wherever the light went, streamers flickered, as if all the characters in the mural were alive, and they all looked at the intruder.

Although I know it's just an illusion, it still makes people feel very uncomfortable.Several people quickly passed through the corridor and entered a broad stone hall. Above the stone steps directly opposite them was a stone door that was forcibly pried open.

The unicorn stone carving that originally replaced the door-sealing stone to lock the Shimen was destroyed and "disfigured".

On the walls on the left and right sides, there is a large black box inlaid on each side.Moss emerged from the cracks in the stone walls, dyeing the hall a dark dark green.Even if the area is not small, the hall does not look spacious, but instead gives people a sense of depression and depression.

Charlie looked at the majestic unicorn opposite, and thought of the shadow cast by the light and shadow mechanism in the ancient tomb of Wushan.He said to Du Leding: "Didn't you always think that this might be the tomb of Princess Wushan and her husband? It seems to be true!"

Du Leding shook his head, but overturned his previous speculation: "Whether it is the rock paintings or the murals just now, they all depict the content of sacrificial activities. This may not be a tomb, but a place for sacrificial offerings."

The three-snake vortex map should be the totem of a certain tribe. It is impossible for a nation to have two totems.The unicorn, which is full of the cultural style of the Han nationality, obviously does not match the mural painting style. It is very likely that this stone hall was deliberately built later.

Duledin looked around, his gaze swept across the wall, and when the flashlight in Knight's hand flickered, a dark light slid past.

With a thought in his heart, he went to the wall to inspect the black box embedded in the wall. The rusty hinges protruded, and it looked no different from the small ones before.

"Nate, take another shot here," said Duledin, pointing to the hinges on the box.

The flashlight projected over immediately, and there was a glimmer of light in the hinge, as if there was something.

Du Leding took a closer look, and found that the thin copper sheet was not a hinge at all, and did not have the function of opening and closing at all. There was a black metal sheet in the small circular hole, the surface was very smooth and could reflect light.

He turned around and looked at the main hall. There were two small stone altars behind him and on the opposite side. He probably understood the design of this stone hall: "The metal pieces on the box respond to light. These stone altars should be used to set the light source." It uses the optical principle to trigger the mechanism, just like the glazed tomb of the Wushan ancient tomb. The person who built this stone temple and the designer of the Wushan ancient tomb, if not the same person, probably came from the same school."

But those mercenaries didn't care about the special way to open the door, and they violently destroyed the Shimen with their usual behavior.Logically speaking, the Shimen was designed like this. If it is destroyed rashly, it may trigger the mechanism, such as the entire hall collapses, or there is quicksand in the wall, and the entire army will be wiped out in a blink of an eye.

However, the scene was clean and there was no trace of the mechanism being used. It may be that the mechanism has failed due to the age, and the mercenaries passed the level unscathed.

"Let's go." Knight took the lead through the stone gate, but soon stopped.

The rest of the people stood behind her and looked at each other in surprise.In front of them was a mountain wall shaped like a hornet's nest, with dozens of large and small caves.According to the direction they walked all the way up, Du Leding speculated that behind these caves should be the "belly" of Giant Belly Mountain.

But among the densely packed holes, there may only be a few real passages, and the rest are either dead ends, or there are deadly things waiting inside.

Between their feet and the "hornet's nest" on the opposite side, there is a stone bridge, which is narrow enough for only one person to pass through.Under the stone bridge was a black water pool with unpredictable depth. Knight kicked a stone down, and after a "boom", he was so lifeless that he couldn't even see the ripples.

Duleding's back froze immediately, and he didn't dare to look down at all, not because of the shocking height - he didn't feel so frightened when he fell off the cliff - but because of the dark water pool, which resembled a very In the winter night, the ice hole that seemed to never sink to the bottom.

He raised his head subconsciously, kept his eyes level, and at the same time stepped back a few steps, but his back hit Su Teng's chest.

"Sorry." Du Leding turned around and whispered.

Dou Le was standing behind Su Teng, and he could see his movements clearly. He deliberately walked behind Du Le Ding, and even made a protective posture, as if he was afraid that Du Le Ding would fall headfirst.

But when Du Leding thought he bumped into him accidentally, he didn't have any explanation.Dou Le couldn't help feeling that Su Teng's actions had the meaning of silent protection, but it was a pity that the other party didn't understand this intention.

The flashlight swept across the dark holes, and Knight said, "I don't know which hole those mercenaries entered."

Du Leding touched a stone on the ground and said while drawing a circle: "It's useless to follow them, this hole is not just walking casually, there is actually a mystery inside."

Some of these caves are naturally generated, and some are dug out artificially, in order to set up a strange "ecstasy array" of dunjia.

He drew four concentric circles on the ground, wrote eight directions around them, and filled in the corresponding characters in the circles: "According to my guess, there are a total of 64 caves here, and only eight of them can lead to the mountainside. And in these eight caves, the degree of danger is different."

Charlie took advantage of this time to count the openings of the caves, and it turned out that there were no more than one and no less, exactly 64.

In fact, from the moment they walked through the stone gate, they had already joined the battle.Regarding the "software" mechanism of Qimen Dunjia, Du Leding didn't study much. He silently recited the formulas that he had almost forgotten half of, and deduced according to the graphics on the ground, according to the nine stars of the sky, the nine palaces of the location and the giant belly mountain. Factors such as Feng Shui pattern and season time point to one of the 64 caves.

"With a little more luck, we should be able to pass safely." Duleding's convincing, serious expression and state just now disappeared with a "bang" the moment he got up, and he resumed his usual sloppy tone .

Luck is naturally unreliable, and Dou Le can only hope that Du Leding's so-called Qimen Dunjia theory will be effective.But he really admires Du Leding, who can be so optimistic anytime and anywhere.And even when the way forward was unknown, he even yawned leisurely.

Only Du Leding himself knew that he was yawning because of the lack of oxygen in his nervous brain when he thought of the pool under his feet.

Knight had already walked onto the stone bridge, carefully paying attention to the situation under his feet, and walked towards the opposite side at a leisurely pace.

Su Teng patted Du Leding's arm, and said in a low voice: "When a while passes, just don't look down, or you will be pulling my clothes from behind?"

"No," Du Le Ding touched his nose. Doesn't that scene look like a kid following an adult's ass, "I'm not afraid of heights, it's fine."

Then he set foot on the stone bridge.Su Teng followed behind him, staring at Du Leding closely, for fear that he would become dizzy and unstable.

The length of the stone bridge was beyond Duledin's psychological tolerance, and even Charlie could see his uneasiness from his stiff steps.But at this time, no one dared to talk to him, for fear that the sudden noise would frighten him.

I'm not afraid of water—Du Le Ding said hypocritically to himself, poking his eyes straight on Nat's slightly swaying ponytail, and followed her step by step.

Seeing that he was about to reach the opposite side, Du Le Ding couldn't help feeling a little anxious when he thought of getting relief soon.At this moment, hurried footsteps came from behind them, and a rough and gloomy voice said: "Everyone on the bridge stops, or they will shoot."

Several people stopped and turned around slowly. There were more than a dozen mercenaries standing at the entrance of the stone hall, and Scorch was held in his hand like a soft-legged shrimp.

The leader among them is the intimidating commander.He is tall and burly, like a hill, with broad eyebrows and bright eyes, deep eyes, his throat seems to have a subwoofer, and his voice is booming.

Du Le Ding was in a frenzy, he was about to go ashore, but now he stopped on the bridge so desperately, thinking of the puddle under his feet, he wanted to bite those people to death.

Knight whispered behind him, "Why are they behind us instead?"

Du Le Ding tilted his head and said: "Some holes may be the way for people to go back to the stone palace."

It can be considered that this group of people's lives are hard, they picked such an easy hole to pass through, and just went back.

The commander stepped onto the stone bridge first, and led the dozen or so people towards Du Leding and the others.Nate narrowed his eyes, considering the situation at hand.

She is currently at the rear, and even if she has a chance to shoot, she can't aim at the target.

Although the commander looked rough, his mind was not rough. Let them stop on this narrow stone bridge, and they couldn't use it at all, let alone a firefight, they couldn't even run.

After a while, when you get closer, as long as you hold the nearest person, you won't be afraid that they will hide in the cave immediately when they reach the opposite cliff.

Seeing that group of people getting closer and closer, but walking unhurriedly, Du Le Ding was about to be driven crazy.

Just when the commander arrived at the midpoint of the stone bridge, the stone bridge suddenly shook. People standing on the bridge felt the slight changes under their feet and dared not act rashly for a while.

Immediately afterwards, a "click" sound came from the soles of his feet, Du Leding's whole body tensed up, his body temperature dropped to freezing point in an instant, and even his breathing froze.

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