To be honest, I never expected that the underground palace would collapse all of a sudden!!
According to the records in the secret art of "Fa Qiu Secret Art", the Tianmen Stone Array does have a self-destruct device. Generally speaking, the self-destruct device is on the surrounding walls or under the floor under our feet. There is a mezzanine in the middle of these places, and thick oilcloth is laid in the mezzanine. This oilcloth is soaked in kerosene at that time and then dried, then soaked again, and then dried again. This is repeated more than ten times, and then the oilcloth will be completely soaked and very flammable. Even after a thousand years, it is the same. Put a flint near the oilcloth. Once the self-destruct device is activated, the flint will hit the oilcloth, turning the entire ancient tomb into a sea of fire. Moreover, this tomb of Li Cunshi appeared in the late Tang Dynasty, when gunpowder was already used in the military. Now, many ancient tombs excavated in the late Tang Dynasty have already had blasting mechanisms set with gunpowder. This Li Cunshi was a soldier. I guess there may be gunpowder in the underground and wall interlayers...
However, no matter how powerful this self-destruct device is, it will generally not be activated until the Tianmen Stone Formation is solved incorrectly three times. We have only touched the eight-door mechanism twice, and this self-destruct device has been activated?
It was completely useless to let my doubts fill my head. I fell down in the flying rocks. The stones and tiles hit my face and hurt. I couldn't help but feel bitter in my heart - it seems that my buddy will be buried alive this time!
At this time, Hua Mulan's voice suddenly rang in my heart: "Don't panic, try to adjust your posture, don't head down, I will try my best to hold you when you are about to land!"
While speaking, Hua Mulan actually appeared on my left and was falling with me slowly.
"Haha, don't forget me, little Taoist priest!"
Princess Changping also came out from the jade handle of the Baipi Knife at this time, flying to my right, and chuckled: "The gate array has been broken. Now I can act on my own in this ancient tomb. With me here, I will definitely keep you safe!"
When I saw these two people coming out, my frightened heart was slightly settled. With Princess Changping, a thousand-year-old female ghost, I shouldn't be buried alive this time. I calmed down and began to adjust my posture while falling, trying to keep my legs facing down.
I don't know how many meters the stone chamber under the Tianmen Stone Array is hollowed out. In short, I feel that I have descended at least several dozen meters in this breath. At this time, Hua Mulan and Princess Changping reached out and grabbed my shoulders at the same time, avoiding the falling rocks while dragging me out. I could faintly hear the sound of huge rocks falling into the water below me. I was confused at the time - could there be a dark river or underground lake below?
If so, then Zhang Bowen and the other three still have some chances!
My mind was moving quickly, and Hua Mulan and Princess Changping dragged me horizontally for a long distance before they finally let go of my hands. Then I felt my legs touch the ground, but because Hua Mulan and the other two let go too suddenly, even after landing, I couldn't stand firmly due to inertia. I stumbled and sat on the ground with my buttocks, which hurt a lot.
But I couldn't care about the pain at this time. I heard the "plop plop" sound of people falling into the water all around me, but it was dark in front of me. I couldn't see anything. I didn't know what was going on. It was not a pleasant feeling. I had to figure out the situation first, so I quickly fumbled for a strong flashlight from my backpack and turned it on. Only then did I finally see my current situation clearly - there was indeed an underground lake under the Tianmen Stone Formation. It was not big, with an area of only a few hundred square meters at most, but the depth was indeed not ambiguous at all. After the stone chamber collapsed and cracked, the large rocks that fell into the lake "plop" and disappeared without a trace. It seemed that the depth was at least ten meters, otherwise such a large stone would not make such a noise after falling in. As for me, I was actually sitting on the shallows next to the underground lake.
Suddenly, I saw a figure falling from above, screaming and then "plop" falling into the depths of the underground lake about ten meters away from me.
That person... was Li Jiajia!
"Wife, Princess Changping, help me save people!"
I yelled and called Hua Mulan "wife". I would not have the courage to do this under normal circumstances. I still have some respect for my wife. I always feel that she is a goddess who is far away from me and high above me. I dare not blaspheme her in the slightest. Even if I call her "wife", I just think about it silently in my heart. But at this time, I was really anxious. I actually shouted it out, and then threw away my backpack and jumped into the lake without saying a word.
Suddenly, a piercing cold came, and I shivered all over. Because this underground lake is underground without sunlight all year round, the water temperature is extremely low. I can't stand jumping in with my warm body. In order to determine the location of Zhang Bowen and others, I shouted immediately after jumping into the underground lake: "Brother Zhang, Xiao Jing, are you okay?"
"It's okay, I was just hit by a rock, it's okay!"
"I'm fine too, I can swim!"
"..."
Zhou Jing and Zhang Bowen answered from my left and right respectively. As soon as they spoke, Hua Mulan and Princess Changping on the shore determined their location and flew towards them. Only Li Jiajia, who fell into the water last, did not respond for a long time, but just made two muffled groans in the depths of the underground lake!
Damn, this woman can't swim!
I immediately cried out inwardly, "Oh no!" and dived into the underground lake. Because the high-intensity flashlight I bought is waterproof, it can still be used in the water. As soon as I got into the water, I could see the underwater situation clearly with the help of the flashlight. It was a big deal, but I almost died of fear - there were leeches as long as an adult's index finger everywhere in the water! !
When these things saw me, they were like flies seeing a delicious meal. A large group of them rushed towards me directly. At that time, I felt some sticky and soft things sticking to my face, hands and other exposed parts. I was extremely disgusted and a little scared. Leeches are also called leeches. People also call them meat drills. Although they look soft, they are not vague at all when sucking blood. There are three jaws in the mouth, one on the back and one on each side. There are keratinous longitudinal ridges on the jaws, and each ridge has a row of fine teeth. When sucking blood, they use the front suction cup to tightly suck the host's skin, and then use the teeth on the jaws to saw a "Y"-shaped wound to suck blood. The most important thing is that they will secrete a histamine-like compound that dilates blood vessels, has an anticoagulant effect, and can make people's wounds bleed continuously! !
So many leeches rushed towards me at once, they would suck me to death, right?
I cursed in my heart, but it would take a while for the leeches to kill me, but Li Jiajia couldn't afford to delay any longer. She might drown in a little while. So I gritted my teeth, holding a strong flashlight in one hand and paddling underwater with the other, struggling to pass through the dark leech group. According to the direction where Li Jiajia landed in my memory, I swam forward for more than ten meters in one breath. Then, with the help of the flashlight, I shot a strong light more than ten meters away and vaguely saw a figure struggling in front of me. Although I could only see the approximate body shape, I was sure that this person was Li Jiajia, and I swam towards her with all my strength.
At this time, Li Jiajia was obviously panicked. She kept floundering in the water. Leeches were crawling on her face and hands, and bubbles kept coming out of her mouth. Obviously, she didn't hold her breath at all. The water from the underground lake was choking her lungs, and the air in her lungs kept coming out. If she swallowed more water, she would probably die! !
Anyone who has saved someone in the water knows that no matter how good you are at swimming, saving someone underwater is actually very dangerous. No one can guarantee that they will be able to save someone, and you may end up getting yourself into trouble. Because people who can't swim lose their rationality after falling into the water, and they will not let go of someone as if they have grabbed a life-saving straw. Even the best swimmers may be dragged down and drowned.
At this moment, to save Li Jiajia, I must give her a breath and calm her panic.
Thinking of this, I didn't care about the separation of men and women. After putting the flashlight in my pocket, I swam up and hugged Li Jiajia's waist with my free hand. I groped my way up and passed the air I was holding in my lungs to her mouth. I'm not afraid of being laughed at. This was actually my first time to have close contact with a girl. I was stunned when I touched her lips. I was afraid that no one would believe me if I said I didn't have any lustful thoughts. After all, Li Jiajia is also a beauty. However, this lustful thought was quickly extinguished by me. From the moment Hua Mulan would rather die than save me, I vowed to never let her down in this life. Even if she is a sinister person, I have no regrets. So it took only a moment for me to adjust my mentality - human life is more important than heaven, it's just saving people, nothing else!
Li Jiajia seemed to be in a much better state after I breathed a breath. Anyway, she stopped struggling, so I held her and swam all the way to the surface of the water. When I rushed out of the underground lake, I quickly took a breath and dragged Li Jiajia all the way to the lake.
When I got to the shallows, I was exhausted from the struggle underwater. I lay on the wet soil with a strong fishy smell and gasped for breath like a dead dog. Zhang Bowen and Zhou Jing were already at the lakeside. When they saw me and Li Jiajia coming up, they came to help. I gasped and said, "Hurry up, help me pull out the leeches on my body!"
Zhang Bowen obviously knew that there was this thing under the water. As soon as I asked him, he immediately got busy. He took down the leeches that sucked my blood and made their bodies round and stepped on them to death. There were pools of bright red blood, which made my eyes twitch. Fortunately, I was wearing military camouflage uniforms with my sleeves and trouser legs tied, otherwise this thing would get in through these holes and I would be in big trouble.
I rested for a while lying on the shallows, and when I recovered some strength, I started to check my wounds. At present, there are patches of red spots on my hands where the leeches bit me, and blood beads are still oozing out. Fortunately, they stayed on me for a limited time and did not bite the arteries, so there was no heavy bleeding from these wounds, and basically no treatment was needed. Zhang Bowen and his friends were basically in the same situation as me.
Probably because he saw that I was fine, Zhang Bowen came up to ask me about Hua Mulan and Princess Changping who were already wandering around.
I knew that this matter could not be concealed, and if I was not afraid of scaring Zhang Bowen and others, I would not deliberately conceal the existence of Hua Mulan. Anyway, I feel very proud to have such a wife. Although she is a Yin person, she is much stronger than many Yang people. She is the most perfect goddess in my mind, so I immediately pulled Hua Mulan over and introduced her to Zhang Bowen, of course, as my wife.
Zhou Jing knew about Hua Mulan, so he was very calm. Zhang Bowen laughed after hearing it, and kept praising my wife for her beauty. He didn't care that the other party was a shady person. I don't know if it was because of his nerves or because of his professional habits, he was not surprised by shady people. On the contrary, Li Jiajia, I don't know if it was because of the shock, kept silent when I introduced her, and only said a few words when greeting Hua Mulan, looking a little depressed and worried.
Then I told Zhang Bowen and others about Princess Changping, so that Zhang Bowen and others would not have any grudges against Changping, which would affect the joint actions later.
Unexpectedly, just when I finished talking about Princess Changping, Princess Changping, who had been wandering in the distance, suddenly laughed wildly in the darkness. Her laughter was so sharp and shrill that it gave me goose bumps all over my body: "Haha, it's really a piece of cake to find it without any effort! Li Cunshi, it turns out that your tomb is hidden here!!!"