05 People are scary
Xie Yixiang next to her was frightened, and she couldn't imagine that Shang Buqi would use such a heavy punishment, so she hurriedly persuaded: "Shang Tou Hunt, this place is not a public court, how can you and I, as the head catcher, use the punishment privately?" Shang Buqi couldn't help but glance at her, and sneered: "Pedantic! No matter which dynasty or generation of the law, killing people should pay for their lives, and the lives committed in the hands of the face-ripping demon are more than hundreds? Even if this girl is cut with a thousand knives, it is not too much!" Xie Yixiang was speechless by what he said, and wanted to persuade again, Shang Buqi shouted loudly: " Right now, you and I are trapped here, and I don't know what the hell that so-called 'Tianshan Falling Dragon' is. If this girl insists on refusing to speak, I am afraid that you and I will be worried about our lives. If you, the eldest lady of the official family, are not used to seeing me tortured, just let me dodge it!"
In this way, Xie Yixiang is not good at saying anything. Shang Buqi saw that Ning Cui fainted to death, and slapped her twice, but he didn't wake her up, and couldn't help but mutter: "It's a little interesting, it's a little interesting...... As soon as this girl was tortured, she immediately fainted to death, which can be regarded as a skill. As he spoke, he pinched Ning Cui's cheek and made her open her mouth, then untied the water bladder from his waist and poured water into Ning Cui's throat. After a while, Ning Cui coughed violently a few times, and she had already choked up, and before she could speak, Shang Buqi inserted a piece of wood into the nail between the middle finger of her right hand, which hurt her heartbreakingly, and she fainted again.
After Shang Buqi woke up Ning Cui with water again, he asked lightly: "I only ask once, the secret of the 'Tianshan Falling Dragon', do you say it or not?" Ning Cui's face was so pale that he didn't see a trace of blood, just staring at Xie Yixiang next to him. Xie Yixiang couldn't bear it in her heart, so she hurriedly avoided her gaze and said, "As long as you tell us what you know, we will naturally not embarrass you." At that time, if the head of the merchant catches you and wants to execute you, I will not stand idly by. But if you insist on not saying it, I and Shang Zhutou are both arrested by the imperial court, and it is inconvenient to interfere with his interrogation. ”
Ning Cui tried to squeeze out a smile and whispered, "It's very ...... The three of us walked together, from the beginning to the end...... I'll go first, see you on Huangquan Road!" Xie Yixiang knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly said loudly: "No!" Fortunately, Shang Buqi has rich experience, and he has already pinched Ning Cui's cheek, and shouted: "If you want to bite your tongue and kill yourself, it's not that easy!"
Seeing that Ning Cui's eyes were staring at him viciously, without the slightest intention of giving in, Shang Buqi laughed angrily and said slowly: "It's also to blame me for not interrogating the prisoner in person for too long, but I forgot about this stubble." As he spoke, he had already taken out an iron ruler from his waist, cautiously probed into Ning Cui's mouth, gently pressed against the corner of her mouth, and said with a hideous smile: "Aren't you a girl who likes to tear other people's faces the most? Have you ever thought about the reincarnation of heaven, and today you also have this retribution? It's just that a little girl like you who is shy of flowers in the moon, if a pretty face is cut, it will be a pity." ”
Hearing this, Ning Cui's eyes finally showed a trace of fear, and her whole body trembled, which showed that she was still a woman after all, and she couldn't withstand the threat of having her face ruined. Shang Buqi hurriedly asked: "Do you know how much I hate you, I can't wait to cut your face immediately! I asked you one last time, what is the so-called 'Tianshan Falling Dragon'?"
Ning Cui was silent for a while, suddenly closed her eyes, and shook her head firmly, and with this shake, two tears slipped from the corners of her eyes. Shang Buqi was so angry that he smoked, and immediately shouted, and the iron ruler in his hand was about to cut her cheek. Who knew that Xie Yixiang next to him couldn't hold it anymore, and hit Shang Bu's wrist with the scabbard of the disorderly knife, forcing him to let go of the iron ruler in his hand, and then said loudly: "Enough! Since she would rather die than speak, do you really want to force her to death?"
Shang Buqi suddenly said angrily: "Xie Yixiang, what do you want to do to help this murderer three or four times?" Xie Yixiang said in a deep voice: "I don't discuss right and wrong with you, I have always acted only to seek peace of mind, no matter what crime Ning Cui committed, after all, she is a little girl, if you are allowed to be destroyed like this, my conscience will not go!"
Shang Buqi saw that she said this categorically, and he was obviously really angry, since he had already captured Ning Cui, in this situation, it was inconvenient for him to turn his face with this Miss Xie San. At that moment, he cursed a few words in a low voice, sealed several big points on Ning Cui's body, so that she could not exert her internal strength, and then took out a long rope from the bag that Sadiq had fallen, tied Ning Cui's hands behind his back, and said coldly: "For Xie Yixiang's sake, I will spare your life for the time being." If you dare to play tricks again, I can kill you at any time. ”
Ning Cui glared at Shang Buqi fiercely, his eyes eager to break him into pieces. Xie Yixiang asked Shang Buqi at this time: "Just now you said that there is a 'ghost hitting the wall' formation in the stone ladder corridor, and the leader of the formation is Ning Cui, is this true or false?" Shang Buqi glanced at her and said disdainfully: "Of course it's fake." This stone staircase walkway is indeed strange, but it is just a mechanism design, how can it be rare for me? If I don't tell this lie, how can you help me catch Ning Cui?" Xie Yixiang had already guessed, and asked angrily, "Then what is the matter with this stone staircase?"
Shang didn't give up laughing and didn't answer, just pulled the rope that bound Ning Cui, took her to the platform where she stood before, went up to the stone staircase steps that turned back, and then asked Xie Yixiang to come up too. Shang Buqi sat down on the steps of the stone staircase, and then smiled: "You'll know in a while." Although Xie Yixiang didn't know what he meant, he also knew that Shang Buqi liked to sell Guanzi the most, so he simply didn't ask again.
After a meal like this, Xie Yixiang suddenly found that the platform under the stone ladder was actually moving to the side. She quickly rubbed her eyes before she was sure that she was not mistaken. It is said that the design of the entire stone staircase walkway is like a hollow box, which is a stone staircase that turns back in a zigzag shape, and the three of them have seen before that there is a circle of gaps under the three corners of the three walls of this platform, which extends to the wall of the stone staircase below, as if the entire stone staircase walkway is cut off. Xie Yixiang saw the movement of the platform at this moment, that is, the lower half of the entire stone ladder walkway was moving along the gap to the side, thus dislocating with the upper half of the stone ladder walkway where the three people were.
For a while, Xie Yixiang couldn't understand what was happening in front of her, but with a stick of incense, the lower half of the stone ladder walkway had been completely removed, and the upper half of the stone ladder walkway where the three of them were located had turned into a bottomless hole. I only listened to Shang Bu and said: "You feel carefully, whether the stone staircase we are in at the moment is moving." Xie Yixiang noticed it slightly, and suddenly woke up, and blurted out: "The upper half of the stone staircase walkway where we are is ...... Falling?"
Shang Buqi explained the reason to her, it turned out that the entire stone staircase walkway was not actually a whole, but was divided into several sections, and the gap in the corner of the platform wall that he had seen several times before was the location where each stone staircase walkway was divided. If you put it figuratively, each section of the stone ladder walkway is like a hollow bamboo tube, which is spliced into a complete stone staircase walkway, and the splicing method is a bit complicated.
Taking bamboo tubes as an example, the design of the stone ladder walkway is like a section of hollow bamboo tubes side by side, starting from the first bamboo tube on the left, which is marked in order, "bamboo tube 1", "bamboo tube 2", "bamboo tube 3...... The three of them started to climb from the stone chamber behind the "Trap Dragon", and the first stone staircase walkway to climb was the "Bamboo Tube One" on the far left. When the three of them are traveling in the "Bamboo Tube One", this "Bamboo Tube One" is actually falling at a very slow speed, until it falls below the "Bamboo Tube No. 2" on the right, and then slowly pans to the right, so that the top of the "Bamboo Tube One" happens to be connected with the bottom of the "Bamboo Tube No. 2" on the right, so that the gap in the corner of the platform wall that the three people saw along the way is formed. In the same way, when the three of them enter the "Bamboo Tube 2", the "Bamboo Tube 1" below will be translated back to the left, and then return to its original position. The "Bamboo Tube 2" repeats the action of "Bamboo Tube 1", first falling and then panning to the right, and connecting to the bottom of the "Bamboo Tube 3" on the right.
Therefore, the three of them climbed in the stone ladder corridor for more than two hours, just looking at the height of the ascent, it seems that it is indeed more than 150 zhang, even higher than the entire "Suli Tang Peak", but in fact, they are just climbing in a side by side stone ladder walkway. Because each section of the stone staircase walkway has fifty or sixty zigzag stone stairs, and everyone also climbs hard, it is extremely difficult to detect the fall or translation of each stone staircase walkway. If Shang Buqi hadn't noticed the strangeness in the stone staircase walkway a long time ago, and knew that this place was built by the Mo family of Tianshan Mountain, he really wouldn't have found such an ingenious mechanism design.