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The jade wall opened slowly, revealing a hole the size of a baby's fist. You could see the warm white jade inside, without a trace of variegated color, inlaid with patterns of pure gold, like a dragon and not a dragon, like a phoenix and not a phoenix, like a tiger and not a phoenix. Tiger, I can't tell what it looks like, but it is meticulous, even the feathers on the beast's body are clearly visible, shining brilliantly under the pearly light.

Xie Qi couldn't even hold his breath, he took a step forward involuntarily, stretched out his hand to grab the hole, then forcibly retracted in mid-air, clutching the corner of his clothes nervously and rubbing it.

Mai Mai glanced sideways at Shao Jing, and both of them understood very well.Xie Qi might not be like Hai Dongqing and A Hua's deliberate efforts just for this golden book and jade slip, but now he is obsessed with money, as long as he gets the things, he will definitely kill people.He has been a guide here for several years, and he can go out without a companion or a horse.

Shao Jing sharpened and cut the climbing rope.Xie Qi's attention was completely attracted by the gradually opening jade wall, he didn't even need to be afraid of seeing him.It's just that the quality of the climbing rope is so good, he cut it for a long time, but only cut half of it.

The huge yin-yang fish slowly rotated, the hole in the middle was getting bigger and bigger, and the exposed area of ​​the gold-encrusted white jade plate was getting bigger and bigger, until the hole was the size of a baby's head, Xie Qi was shocked suddenly, and blurted out-- Dark cracks appeared on the white jade board, and it could be seen that the cracks spread in all directions like spider webs.Xie Qi didn't care about anything else, he jumped to the jade wall in one step, and stretched out his hand to grab the hole.Naturally, the opening of the hole would not be opened faster because of his hands, but still slowly expanded outwards, continuing to show the glaring gray-black cracks on the white jade plate.Until the opening of the hole expanded to the size of a human head, a small piece of gravel fell out, bringing out a handful of soil, and sprinkled it on Xie Qi's lapel.Xie Qi stood blankly, the jade board was completely exposed in front of his eyes, and it could be seen that it should have been the front of an exquisite white jade box, and the box probably contained golden books and jade slips.But now, except for the four to five centimeter square in the center of the jade plate, which is still intact, the rest has been crushed, and the sand between the fragments is as hard as a stone.

Xie Qi howled, pulled out his dagger and started digging like crazy.Fragments and sand kept falling, but after digging for a long time, it was still only soil and sand, only a piece of gold thread or a small piece of jade that had been stained was occasionally mixed between the sand. .Although Dayu set up such an ingenious mechanism, it still couldn't stop the changes of nature for thousands of years.Maybe it's the distortion in the growth of the mountain, maybe it's the vibration of the earthquake, in short, the white jade box has been shattered, and the golden book and jade slips inside have also turned into a part of the mountain.

Xie Qi broke his hand even after digging. He dug out a deep hole but still found nothing.He stayed for a while, then suddenly turned his head quickly to look for the two candle dragon eyes embedded in the jade wall.The two gemstone eyes had been separated on both sides of the wall following the change of the yin and yang fish, so he used a dagger to dig out the yang eye first, and after seeing that it was still intact and moist, he was relieved, and turned his head to pick the yin eye again. Eye.The Yin eye was pulled out, fell into the palm of his hand, and hit the Yang eye that was originally held in his hand. Suddenly, a white brilliance burst out from between the two longan eyes, causing everyone in the cave to close their eyes.Xie Qi clenched his fists instinctively and held the two longan eyes in his hands. After the white light passed, he hurriedly opened his hands to look, but saw that the two longan eyes had lost their luster and turned into two gray-black stones. Thank you With a little force on the chess player, the two stones shattered into a pile of dust, which rustled down between the fingers.

Xie Qi stared at the handful of dust in his palm, and suddenly laughed, but the laughter was worse than crying.While laughing, he crazily raised his dagger and stabbed at the wall, watching Maimai frightened, lest he suddenly turn around and strike the two of them with the same knife.Fortunately, Xie Qi laughed wildly for a while, then stopped, mumbled something, looked around, and saw the golden box next to him, his eyes lit up immediately: "Yes, there is this one, this one is also valuable!"

He ran over while grumbling.The golden box is half a person's height, and the pure gold box is an inch thick, and it weighs tens of kilograms at least.Even if it is only calculated by weight, the current market value is worth hundreds of thousands. If you add the value of handicrafts and antiques themselves, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is worth a lot.Xie Qi got carried away with excitement, stretched out his arms and shook the box, trying to weigh it.The box was unexpectedly heavy, as if its foundation was welded to the cave floor. Xie Qi shook it with all his strength, and the box shook violently. There was a crunching sound from nowhere, like some kind of chain was turning. sound.Xie Qi was taken aback, fearing that the box would open up like a Yin-Yang cauldron to devour people, he jumped away quickly.But there was no movement from the box, the crackling sound seemed to come from underground.Xie Qi checked back and forth on the ground in amazement, but Xiaomai could tell that the sound was indeed coming from under the golden box, but the sound seemed to follow a line on the ground toward the entrance of the cave, and finally went beyond the entrance.

Shao Jing suddenly realized: "The entrance is about to be closed!"

Xie Qi was stunned for a moment before he realized it, and ran away, but he was reluctant to part with the golden box after taking a step, turned around and shook it vigorously, trying to drag it away.I don't know if the golden box was loosened by his shaking just now, or because it touched some mechanism, it was really dragged by him.But the weight of dozens of kilograms is not light, Xie Qi dragged such a burden, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't run fast.Seeing that the light at the entrance of the cave is getting darker and darker, it is obvious that the mechanism outside is gradually closing.Xie Qi gritted his teeth and dragged fiercely. Seeing that there were still dozens of steps ahead, it was impossible to run out with this box anyway. He finally let go of the box and rushed out in three steps at a time...

The chugging sound stopped, the faint light at the entrance disappeared, and there was a dead silence all around.Shao Jing finally cut the climbing rope, but it was too late.He also cut the rope on Mai Mai's body, and in the whole cave, only the breathing of the two of them was heard.

"The entrance is closed?" Mai Mai moved her numb hands and feet, walked to the entrance and looked up.It was indeed dark.He tried to go up and feel it, there was a layer of stone, just like what they saw when they came in, there was no gap, one piece, as if it had never been opened.

"Closed." Shao Jing walked to the side of the golden box and kicked it, "There is a mechanism under this thing, and it will be closed if you touch this entrance. Dayu doesn't want to give this thing to people."

Mai Mai hurriedly pulled him away: "How can you kick him, it's too disrespectful. Senior Dayu, don't bother with him--" What if you kick something again, good or bad?

Shao Jing didn't say anything, just looked around: "What should we do now?"

"Can you open that entrance again?" Maimai knew the answer as soon as he finished speaking, "Needless to say, I know I can't, Haidongqing dug a hole to get out. Ah, then can we dig it too?" out of the hole?"

"Difficult." Shao Jing said succinctly, "How far does it take to dig out from here? At that time, Hai Dongqing was wearing the sun eyes of the candle dragon. Keep digging, but we--and the soil here is silt...we dig here, it will grow after us, if we dig slowly..." He didn't go on, but the wheat had understood , If the digging is slow, the growth rate of the soil will catch up with their progress, and finally they will be buried in the belly of the mountain.

"Then-brother Shen, can they find us?"

Shao Jing took out the locator from his underpants, and that little button-like thing didn't look like it would send out a signal at all.Shao Jing fiddled with it a few times, then shook his head: "I'm not sure. I don't know if this thing will work underground, and - here is already different from the world above the ground. It's hard to say whether the signal can pass through the Yin and Yang realms."

Mai Mai sat on the ground dejectedly: "Then what should we do, are we waiting to die here?"

Shao Jing stood there with his mouth tightly shut and did not speak.Mai Mai immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing, and Shao Jing was most afraid of hearing the words "wait for death".He quickly stood up and grabbed Shao Jing's shoulders: "Oh, let's find a way to get out, we've come out of places so hopeless in Gu Dao, there's no reason this place can trap us."

Shao Jing put his arms around him, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I'm afraid we have to dig. Hai Dongqing must have stayed here for a long time, and must have studied all kinds of methods, and finally chose the method of digging." But Costin can use this method, they...

Mai Mai turned back to look through the backpack: "See how much supplies we have left." There are several backpacks here, with enough dry food and less water. Together, they can last for four or five days. If the limit of the human body is also taken into account , ten days is no problem, if you don't consider whether they can still dig holes when they are extremely thirsty and hungry...

"There are engineering shovels here." Wheat pulled out two engineering shovels, "Our equipment is much better than that of Haidongqing. How can this dig a hole better than that box cover?"

Shao Jing knelt down beside him, and touched his face after a while: "Mai--"

"Ok?"

"……I love you."

Mai Mai froze for a moment, then smiled: "What's the matter, why is it like parting from life and death?"

Shao Jing turned his face away, pressed his lips forcefully, and said again in a low voice: "I love you."

Mai Mai responded to him intently, until the two separated before panting and saying: "I love you too, but I think we can save these words until we go out."

Shao Jing looked into his eyes intently, and smiled after a while: "Yes, we can talk about it later." He stood up, pulled up Mai Mai, and hugged him tightly, "Come on, Let's see where it's best to dig."

"I think it grows the slowest here." Wheat pointed to the location on the west side of the cave near Yangding.Twenty minutes ago, they dug with engineering shovels every two meters around the cave, and now only this place still has traces of excavation, and the rest of the place has been restored to normal.

Shao Jing frowned: "It's strange, it's just the opposite of what I thought. I thought the place behind the Yin cauldron would grow the slowest. After all, Xiyang is a living thing, and it should always like yang and hate yin--I didn't expect that it would grow the slowest. That location grows the fastest, but here it grows the slowest, does Xiyang love yin and hate yang?"

What Mai Mai thought was another way: "Would it be possible that after we dig in, the deep soil will not be affected by the Yangding, and will grow faster?"

Shao Jing was stunned for a moment: "This--" He really hadn't thought about it, "Maybe--" If so, their chances of success would be slimmer.

"What if we can drag this Yangding?"

"Oh!" Shao Jing suddenly realized, "It makes sense! It's impossible to drag such a big tripod, but we can get some of it in. In fact, if Xi Yang really likes yin and hates yang, then we only need to get some yang energy Heavy things can slow down their growth. It's a pity that the sun eyes are ruined, otherwise it must be useful."

"By the way, how did those two gems turn into ashes? Because the mechanism has been opened, it is useless?"

"I'm afraid it's because Xie Qi shouldn't have touched them together. Yin and Yang clashed, so they were destroyed together. These two longan eyes haven't met before, and Xie Qi doesn't understand anything."

"If you want to say that the yang energy is strong, it should be you?" Mai Mai said half-jokingly, "Didn't you have the Great Sun Tathagata Golden Wheel Curse, I remember that concubine said that you are a bodhisattva in the flesh."

Shao Jing didn't think it was a joke: "That's right. And your Xuanyuan mirror. Xuanyuan can illuminate both yin and yang. I use the Tathagata Golden Wheel Mantra, which can amplify the power of the Golden Wheel Mantra by ten times. , can inhibit the growth of the soil.”

The engineer shovels dug up the mountain wall behind Yang Ding.Shao Jing was digging the soil in front, and Mai Mai was responsible for transporting the soil to the back. He also dragged a big bag, which contained all the food and drinking water, and a night pearl was tied on the bag belt for lighting.Because they were worried about the growth of the soil, they dug the tunnel a little wider, but it only allowed one person to move forward on his stomach.Every ten meters or so of digging, Shao Jing would use the Golden Wheel Curse once, and Xiao Mai would use the Xuanyuan Mirror to reflect a little golden light shining from his palm, illuminating the surrounding soil once again.

The initial excavation was relatively fast, but as time passed, it was impossible not to slow down their movements.After all, people are not machines, and they are not living dead like Hai Dongqing, but they are both hungry and tired.

"Take a break?" Mai Mai heard Shao Jing's heavy breathing, which sounded very clear in the tunnel, "Why don't we change, and I will dig in front?" Of course it is harder in front, not to mention that Shao Jing has to keep digging. Use the golden wheel spell.

Shao Jing didn't answer, he just flattened his body and lay down on the ground panting.Mai Mai unloaded the big bag, squeezed past him, and kicked him: "Go behind."

It was only when we really started digging the wheat that we realized how hard it was.The half-prone and half-kneeling posture is difficult to use force. It is not so much digging as it is poking on the mountain with an engineer shovel to loosen the soil and sand before digging it out. If you encounter a large stone, you have to go around.After digging for a while, Mai Mai felt his arms were sore, so Shao Jing came to replace him.Until their stomachs started to growl desperately, Shao Jing looked at his watch, he had been digging for six hours.

"How deep have we dug?" Wheat looked back, and could no longer see the entrance of the tunnel, and there was no light coming in. I don't know if it was because the tunnel was too deep, or because the entrance had been re-sealed due to the growth of soil.For a moment it occurred to him, if the entrance is sealed, what are they breathing?The air in the tunnel should soon be cloudy, right?Costin is a living dead, doesn't he need to breathe?But the idea only swirled in his mind for a moment before he suppressed it, because if they thought about it, they themselves would collapse first.

Exhausted, Shao Jing turned over and lay on his back: "Take a break and eat something."

They dug a few shovels upwards and made a small hole that was a little more spacious. Both of them could sit up, lean side by side, take out food and water, and have a meal.No one tasted it, they just stuffed it into their stomachs as soon as possible.While they were eating, the surrounding soil was already growing, compressing a little bit the little habitat they had just dug out.While it may be only a centimeter change, it's still noticeable in such a tight place.

No one dared to say rest.Shao Jing finished eating one step faster than Mai Mai, turned over and picked up the engineering shovel: "I'll go first, you follow." Mai Mai hurriedly stuffed the last bit of food into his mouth, packed up the bag that had become lighter, and looked behind him The silent and sinister darkness followed...