"Earth Dragon and Wood Boy can go inside, there's no reason why we can't."
Liu Banxian felt that Yin Xiu's statement was indeed reasonable. Since Muhai'er had really seen the "living dead" in the underground palace and was guarding it, it meant that this road was the only way to the underground palace.
When he said this, Ren Qi and Hai Dongqing, who were about to stand up, sat down one after another, either crossing their legs or leaning against the wall, thinking about the questions raised by Yin Xiu.
How did Wood Boy enter the underground palace and then return?
And he seems to have come here more than once. Maybe he treats this place as an amusement park to some extent. He might come here every once in a while. How on earth is this done?
Ren Qi tangled his eyebrows and thought for a while, then stood up and came to the bronze door.
He picked up the shovel and tapped it in a circular arc while placing his ear against it and listening.
However, after a long time, he didn't hear any sounds representing mechanisms or gears. There didn't seem to be some kind of key that could open the door.
Ren Qi clicked his tongue and pushed with his hands. However, even with the strong wrist strength of a master in the synesthesia realm, it seemed that he could not push the giant door at all.
"What do you think?" Ren Qi looked at Yin Xiu.
Yin Xiu looked up, "Are you asking me?"
"If I don't ask you, who else are you asking?"
Ren Qi stretched out his hands and spread them out, "I really can't think of a solution at the moment. Besides, I'm not good at these things. I've never really understood mechanisms, code words and the like."
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"Code language?"
Yin Xiu frowned, "You said it's just what is written in martial arts novels. How do the White Lotus sect connect their upper and lower lines now?
Is it a code word or something like a token? Break a piece of jade pendant into two halves, one piece for you and one for me, butt them together. If this piece of jade is put together, the token will be considered to be neatly calibrated? ”
"Do you think it's the jade seal passed down to the country?"
"That's right poetry!"
Liu Banxian also said: "The earth shakes the high hills, the streams and mountains are beautiful through the ages, the door faces the sea, and the water of the three rivers flows for thousands of years!"
"Is this a joint or an opera show?"
Ren Qi was quite disdainful, "If those bastards had read a book and knew a few words, would they have been deceived by those witches and gods who performed eating charcoal and drinking boiling oil, and become White Lotus sect members?
It's just because they can't read at all, so they can only pick a few random cats and dogs and put them together and bark them.
What's a little better is that on the day of giving birth to a daughter, someone gave a pair of bottles to congratulate her, which was called Ping'er, and a jade hairpin, which was called Chai'er.
If you ask these people to memorize poems clearly if they can't even remember their birthdays, you might as well have them beheaded. ”
Having said this, Ren Qi couldn't help but laugh.
"Those bastards can just open a medicine shop, a teahouse, or a sesame cake stall in the market. The secret codes and other things are just to mention the seven aunts and eight aunts who live in which village, how many kilograms of donkey meat do they want today, and where will they be tomorrow? It's just a matter of killing a pig and asking someone to help.
Most people don't care when they hear these trivial things, and find them verbose. ”
"How do you know so clearly?" Hai Dongqing asked curiously.
"What's unclear about me when I'm working in Ouchi?"
Ren Qi crossed his hands and sneered: "Those bastards all claim to be loyal generals, and they think they are heroes who can be beheaded without blinking an eye.
I won't be nagging these people. I'll beat them with a whip first, then sterilize them with some salt water, give them some special drinks made by Dane, lock them in the dungeon for one night, and take a look at them the next morning. The smell is really refreshing even after wearing three layers of masks.
After such a reception, let alone asking them to reveal the meeting place, I will tell you everything about peeping at the old woman taking a bath when I was five years old! ”
Hai Dongqing frowned, feeling that Ren Qi's smile came from hell. Although he had never seen the expressions of those born killers, but looking at Ren Qi's expression at this time, he felt that any murderer was nothing more than this.
When Hai Dongqing was feeling cold, Yin Xiu asked again: "Then do you think there is a chance to correct it if the code does not match?"
"What do you mean?" Ren Qi put away his smile.
"For example, as you said, these people have not read much. If you ask them to recite a poem or a play, it will be difficult for them. What will happen if he says the wrong password?"
"Wrong password?"
Ren Qi touched his chin, as if recalling.
"There have been one or two times. Sometimes we caught one of those bastards before they even met and asked him for the password.
You know these people are all bastards, and they won’t be able to say a word without being beaten first. But sometimes the person who happens to be asking for advice is so cruel that you never thought that bastard would not be beaten like that. The opponent who was hit in one blow was left with only one breath left, or was knocked unconscious.
The secret codes asked at this time are often either incomplete, full of random sentences, or simply false.
We don't know whether it is true or false before we contact someone, so we can only believe that what he said is true and go to contact others with the wrong code.
As soon as you meet and the other person asks the above sentence, you know you're doomed.
Because the other person asked about angelica, wolfberry, red dates, and the secret code you know is duck egg, egg, goose egg, which is completely unrelated and incompatible with the other person.
What can be done? It’s already here, so I can only bite the bullet and say it while preparing for a fight.
But many times, the other party may only remember half of what they want to say, and completely forget what the other person wants to respond to, or people in the world may not stick to trivial matters and actually don’t care whether you said it correctly or completely. After all, they will make these things incomprehensible. Those words must have been spoken only by those who came to connect.
Therefore, we can easily pass this level and blend in.
Sometimes what you catch is the upline, that is, the owner of a certain inn or the doctor at a drug store. He is not the one who is looking for someone to contact you, but the one who is waiting for others to contact you. At this time, it is much easier.
You just ask him casually, what kind of medicine he wants, or what kind of food he wants to eat.
It's fine for the other person to answer fluently, but the people who come to contact are often the unlucky ones who have been drawn the lottery of life and death. There is a high probability that they will never come back. He is also nervous to death, and his speech is stumbling and he cannot speak clearly.
What can we do at this time? Could it be that since he couldn't remember the code and couldn't understand the dialogue, he was sent back to memorize it before coming back?
Of course, you can only tell him that it doesn't matter, and just make the password clear next time.
It's not a martial arts novel. How can there be so many neat dialogues and poems? Let's just make it up, you fool me, I'll fool you, so why are you being serious? ”
"..."
There was silence in the passage.
No one would have thought that people like the Ouchi masters and the White Lotus Sect, who walk on the tip of the wire, would be so careless in joints, even a little ridiculous.
However, Ren Qi is not joking, because that is the fact.
After coughing twice, Liu Banxian asked Yin Xiu: "So, are you guessing the connection between the earth dragons and this bronze door, or that the code may not be that complicated in fact, and there are traces to follow?"
"I think so."
Yin Xiu nodded, "After all, Mu Hai'er and the Earth Dragon can play together, which means that they probably have similar temperaments, and maybe their IQs are also...
Muhai'er is a child after all. If you ask him to remember so many complicated things, will he remember it?
And he only asked us from beginning to end if we were going to find the living dead, without doubting whether we could find him. ”
"It's strange to say."
Liu Banxian scratched his head, "Do you think that wooden boy treats us as friends?"
"At least they didn't regard us as enemies, otherwise they wouldn't have dismantled the magic circle, and even gave Xiaoyu a few ginseng tendrils."
"In this case, he is an enthusiastic child. Shouldn't he send Buddha to the west, let us go, and then tell us how to enter the bronze door?" Liu Banxian asked. "Is it possible that we didn't ask him?" Ma Xiaoyu said.
"It's not like that."
Yin Xiu shook his head, "That's a chirping little baby. If you don't ask, he will tell it."
"Then why didn't he tell us how to open the bronze door?"
Yin Xiu frowned and thought carefully, "Maybe, this bronze door was originally open? I mean, before we entered the tunnel, Muhai'er didn't actually encounter it every time he followed the earth dragon into the underground palace. The obstacle of this door.”
"You mean, the bronze door was closed when we entered the passage?" Hai Dongqing was confused.
In fact, he was just confused, and everyone present was lost in thought.
Why is it that Muhai'er can pass through without obstruction and the bronze door will not hinder him, so that he doesn't take the existence of the bronze door seriously at all.
But the group of them was blocked outside by this solid and thick door, and they were helpless?
This is definitely not because the magic technique he used can pass through this door, otherwise with the character of that child, he would definitely tell it and show off without anyone asking.
"Hmm, is it possible that the timing is different?"
Liu Banxian suddenly said: "For example, at a certain time of the month, the bronze door was open, but when we entered the tunnel, it happened to be closed again.
The wooden boy only thought this place was a place for recreation, an amusement park. He didn't come here often, so he didn't notice that it was closed today, so he forgot to remind us? ”
"Hey, the character of a child is really elusive."
Ma Xiaoyu shook her head, "Maybe excluding other things, there is such a possibility?"
"Maybe, but we haven't ruled out all possibilities yet," Yin Xiu said.
"Anything else?"
"Of course, maybe we haven't exhausted those possibilities yet."
"Not exhausted yet?"
Liu Banxian put his fan against his chin and thought hard.
"That is to say, we still need to compare. What is the difference between the state of the tunnel when we came down and when Muhai'er and the others were here?"
"Yes, this should be the most important factor. Something in the tunnel has changed."
Yin Xiu looked at everyone.
"What exactly is the change?"
"Time?"
"Number of people?"
"Visitor?"
"Mud?"
As soon as Ma Xiaoyu finished speaking, Yin Xiu came up to her.
At this time, Ma Xiaoyu was holding a shoe in one hand, exposing her feet in thin socks.
Being stared at by Yin Xiu, she couldn't help but blush and took a step back, "What's wrong?"
"What did you just say? Mud?"
Yin Xiu looked serious, "Why did you suddenly think of this?"
Although Ma Xiaoyu felt embarrassed, Yin Xiu looked so serious and did not look like he was taking advantage of her. This made her have no choice but to answer bravely even though her face was red.
"This cave is wet. It reminds me of the time when we were in the Infernal World and fell into the mud made by those mud monkeys. My feet felt sticky, just like now!"
Ma Xiaoyu's voice became lower and lower as she spoke. It was not until she finished the last sentence that Yin Xiu stopped staring at her and finally felt relieved.
Although her voice was not loud, the passage was even smaller, so everyone vaguely understood why Yin Xiu asked such a question.
"Is this the reason?" Hai Dongqing asked nervously.
"It's hard to say, how certain it is." Yin Xiu wasn't very sure either.
"The biggest difference is indeed the mud."
Ren Qi quite believed in this speculation, "We emptied the mud before entering this passage, but Muhai'er and the others obviously did not need to evacuate the mud below in order to walk here.
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Didn't you say that this place looks like a pipe and the bronze door looks like a plug? Then maybe, this mud is the [water] in the pipes.
If the bronze door hadn't been open, I'm afraid this place would have been collapsed by the flowing mud that had nowhere to drain. ”
"How sure are you?" Yin Xiu asked.
"Confirmed?"
Ren Qi sneered, "When have you ever needed to be sure about something? I don't have any confidence at all. If you ask everyone to guess, I will just say whatever you want, that's all."
After hearing this, Yin Xiu took a deep breath and said, "This is a mistake, but it can lead to death..."
"When did you die again?"
Ma Xiaoyu had already put on her shoes and glared at him. She didn't know whether it was because she was angry that she had been rude in front of others, or because she was saying that Yin Xiu's current attitude was not straightforward.
"So many times, I would have died long ago."
"That's right."
Liu Banxian also adjusted his sunglasses, "I've calculated it for you. Brother Yin, you are not a short-lived prime minister."
"Generally speaking, a bad guy like you won't have such a short life." Hai Dongqing muttered.
"Okay," Yin Xiu took a deep breath, "But are you sure you can do it? This is a big project."
"Of course!"
Ma Xiaoyu took out a few talisman papers and held them in his hand.
Liu Banxian also held the Dragon King's Water Controlling Order and the Mountain and River Splendid Ruler in his hands and shook them at him.
……
Hai Dongqing opened his mouth wide and swallowed as much as possible, causing his chest to bulge and his eyes to almost bulge out of their sockets.
Half of it was due to holding my breath, and the other half was due to nervousness.
Because in the passage, huge turbid waves were rushing toward them, and they would be swallowed up in an instant, leaving them with no escape! (End of chapter)