There was uncertainty in Xiong Lin's eyes, but after thinking about it for a while, he said firmly.
"If I had really forgotten something, I should have at least an impression of it. Moreover, those four old fellows should at least have some information about him. Look, this secret passage was clearly in the courtyard where they lived, but they never had any disturbances. However, how did Lil 'Lei and Lil' Ling find out? "
Xiong Lin was confused, but Lin Mengya did not continue to ask.
The place they were in was the courtyard that the elders had lived in back then.
However, the entrance to the secret passage was in a house where the ancestral tablets were worshiped.
When Xiao Lei and Xiao Ling brought them over, Xiong Lin was truly startled.
No one expected that there was such a secret under the table where the ancestral tablets were worshiped.
"I'll go down first. Ya 'er and Qinghu follow behind me."
Holding the torch, Long Tianhao pushed open the entrance to the secret passage.
The table was moved to the side, and there was a hole in the wall that was half the height of a person. It was dark inside, without any light.
Lin Mengya could not help reaching out and grabbing Long Tianhao's sleeve.
"Be careful."
She knew that Long Tianhao made this arrangement for her safety, but she could not help worrying about him.
Long Tianhao gave his beloved wife a comforting smile as he patted her hand.
His intuition, which he had developed over the years, told him that there should not be any hidden weapons in there.
Seeing him bend over and enter the entrance, Lin Mengya could not help feeling anxious.
One minute, two minutes … five minutes passed, but there was no movement inside. Lin Mengya could not help standing at the door and looking inside with concern.
"Don't worry, it's okay."
Qinghu patted her on the shoulder and comforted her softly.
Finally, just when Lin Mengya's patience was about to run out, Long Tianhao's voice came from inside.
"There's nothing inside. You can come down."
Lin Mengya had no time to respond, so she took the lead and entered the door.
Qinghu entered behind her with the torch in his hand. Soon, Lin Mengya walked to Long Tianhao's side.
However, at this moment, he was faced with a choice.
There were three forks in the road ahead.
"What should we do?"
Long Tianhao turned around and asked the people behind him. The three roads looked almost the same at the moment, and they were all dark. Moreover, he had explored each road for a certain distance and found that there was no danger, so he spent a little more time.
Lin Mengya and the others didn't expect it either. But since they were here, it was better to see it clearly.
She immediately decided to team up with Long Tianhao and take the middle tunnel, while Qinghu and Xiong Lin each took the left and right tunnels.
The four of them parted at the fork. Long Tianhao held Lin Mengya's hand tightly and walked towards the unknown secret passage.
Although it was easy to get lost in the dark secret passage, Lin Mengya, who had the Shen Nung system, had already scanned the map of the entire village into the system before entering.
Now, they were walking towards the east of the village.
The system showed that the tunnel was getting deeper and deeper, but strangely, they didn't feel like they were suffocating at all.
The torch swayed, but it burned very vigorously. It seemed that there should be wind in front.
This was strange. According to the system's records, their destination should be one of the mountains surrounding the village.
Could it be …
Long Tianhao quickened his pace. They didn't know how long they had walked, but they finally appeared at the exit of the secret passage.
It was a pitch-black door, about the height of a person.
Long Tianhao motioned for her to step back, and carefully stepped forward to touch it.
"It's a stone door."
Lin Mengya nodded and walked to the front of the stone door.
Long Tianhao had checked carefully just now, and there was no mechanism. Although the door was not smooth and flat, there was nothing that could be used to open it.
Unwilling to give up, Lin Mengya looked up and down, and found that the bottom of the door actually extended into the ground.
In other words, this might be a door that couldn't be opened.
She dug the soil under the stone door, and it was very hard. Anyway, even if her fingers were broken, she wouldn't be able to dig it out.
She shook her head helplessly. She didn't expect that the road they chose was a dead end.
"Is it just used to confuse people?"
Long Tianhao stood in front of the stone door, and no matter how hard he pushed or tried to think of other ways, the stone door didn't move.
"It seems so. Look at the soil below. It seems that this stone door has never been opened before. "
Lin Mengya pulled Long Tianhao and shone the torch at the bottom of the stone door. Long Tianhao took out his dagger and stabbed it hard into the soil.
Unexpectedly, the palm-length dagger couldn't reach the bottom of the stone door no matter what angle it was used to.
It seemed that it was buried very deep.
"But it's also possible. If it's an invasion, this could be a good camouflage."
This possibility was not impossible, but Long Tianhao felt that it was very unlikely.
If it was really a smokescreen, then there should at least be some sort of mechanism here. Moreover, the fork that led to this place would also be more conspicuous than the other two, making people feel that this was the correct place at a glance.
For example, there might be some mechanisms at the other two crossings, which were not very powerful, but enough to make people flinch.
But he had explored and found no mechanism.
If it was not, then wouldn't it be unnecessary to have a stone door that couldn't be opened?
Lin Mengya raised the torch and looked around carefully.
The wall of the cave was not very smooth, and when they came here just now, the passageways were big and small, without any pattern.
She didn't know these digging techniques, but in this secret passageway, there was neither equipment for lighting nor any special marks.
It really looked like a passageway made by ordinary people to take refuge.
But when she looked around, she felt that something was wrong.
"Tianhao, if there is a passageway for hiding, there should at least be some food, or some specific division of the area, right?"
She turned her head and asked. Long Tianhao thought for a while and then answered her.
"That's right. When we were at the border, we also saw the people there dig tunnels to defend against the foreign enemies. Just like you said, not only are there emergency supplies, but the living areas are also very detailed. This is just a passageway. "
She knew that Long Tianhao had also discovered the abnormality here.
In other words, the secret passageway here could be used to escape, but it would be difficult to hide.
While the two of them were talking, the sound of footsteps suddenly came from outside.
They immediately stopped talking, leaned against the corner, and put the torch close to the wall, trying to make themselves less conspicuous.
Long Tianhao even held his dagger tightly. If there was anything wrong, he would immediately kill the person who came.
The first figure gradually appeared, and the light elongated his shadow, making it difficult to recognize his specific appearance.
Lin Mengya clearly felt that Long Tianhao's breath gradually became very low, and then she heard another voice.
"Why are you here?"
It was Xiong Lin!
"I walked over here, and this is it."
The other person was Qinghu.
Lin Mengya immediately breathed a sigh of relief, it was just a false alarm.
Two people immediately walked out from the corner.
But when Qinghu and Xiong Lin saw them, they looked very surprised.
"Why are you here?"
Eh? The two of them asked in unison.
Lin Mengya suddenly felt that the situation was a little strange. If she was not here, where should she be?
The four people looked at each other, and finally, Lin Mengya couldn't help but say.
"Didn't the two of you go to other crossroads? How did he appear behind us? "
Qinghu said impatiently as soon as she finished speaking.
"I walked along the crossroad on the left, and encountered many crossroads, but most of them were exits in the village. Later, I walked along those tunnels that were not exits, and came to this place. "
After he finished speaking, Xiong Lin also said.
However, his experience was similar to Qinghu's. When they encountered crossroads, they would continue to choose the path that was not the exit.
Hearing this, Lin Mengya felt that something was wrong.
Because when she and Long Tianhao came here, they did not see any crossroads.
Could it be that they came through the wall?
"Then, do you remember which crossroad you came from?"
"Isn't it at — Eh, why is it gone?"
Qinghu pointed in a direction at random, but unexpectedly, it was a dark cave wall, and there was no crossroad.
He rubbed his eyes, and did not give up, turned back to touch it.
It was hard and cold, and did not seem to be able to walk over.
Xiong Lin also turned his head, and suddenly, there was a lot of cold sweat on his forehead.
What was going on? Why did the crossroad he came from disappear?
A layer of cold sweat appeared on the backs of the four people.
This was too strange, wasn't it?
"Could it be that we … met a ghost?"
Xiong Lin said in a low voice, and his eyes were wide open.
However, at this time, even Lin Mengya was at a loss.
Fortunately, she had encountered many strange things before, so she calmed down and said.
"Let's go back along this road, and see if we can get out of here."
The four of them walked in the middle of the road. However, they were not as calm and composed as they were when they came. At this moment, the four of them could not help but have various speculations in their hearts.
Fortunately, there was no change in the way back.
When they returned to the hut where the ancestral tablets were worshiped, the four people felt a lingering fear.
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