Beside the trap, I saw a swarm of ants rushing towards me like a tide, and a deep despair rose in my heart.

I was bitten by just two bullet ants and my whole body was convulsing with pain. If we were surrounded by the swarm of ants, we would surely die.

The trapdoor was extremely heavy. Manjing withstood it for a few seconds, his face turning red and his bones making a slight cracking sound.

Just then, Jiang Man rushed to my side, picked up the Molotov cocktail I had made, lit it, and smashed it directly at the swarm of ants that were attacking us.

"boom!"

The Molotov cocktail exploded, and the flowing alcohol instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire, driving the ant swarm away to a distance.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Man ran to Lin Que's side and together they pulled the monkey up.

"Bang!"

Manjing saw Lin Que pull the person up, release the stone slab in his hand, and his chest began to heave violently.

"This alcohol won't burn for long, we have to leave now!"

After the monkeys were freed, Jiang Man bent down and held my arm, trying to pull me up, without letting everyone rest. However, I was paralyzed and unable to cooperate. Jiang Man tried twice but failed to lift me up.

"I'll do it!"

Manjing took a few breaths on the spot, then walked over, bent down and carried me on his shoulder.

Monkey and the others carried me up and started clearing the way with flashlights. When they reached the edge of the slope, they froze: "Damn, how are we supposed to get through this?"

"What's wrong?"

Hearing what the monkey said, Jiang Man went forward to check and frowned as well. She turned to me and said, "Duan Shenxing, there's a problem with the road ahead. I'm afraid only you can solve it. Can you still hold on?"

"I……"

At that moment, I felt as if a thousand needles were constantly pricking my body. The single word I squeezed out of my throat was already causing me to break out in a cold sweat from the pain. I gritted my teeth and forced out four words: "Adrenaline!"

When Jiang Man heard me say that, she took out an adrenaline needle from the medical kit at her waist and pricked my arm with it: "Monkey, Lin Que, get some more things to start a fire. Adrenaline takes about thirty seconds to take effect, and the alcohol won't last that long!"

"clear!"

The monkey blocked our way and said to Lin Que, "Open food packaging and waterproof bags; those plastics take longer to burn!"

After the adrenaline injection, the pain in my body finally eased a bit, but in just a short while, I developed a high fever and felt like my back was broken. Fortunately, I still had the strength to speak: "Manjing, take me to the front to see!"

"Why!"

Manjing agreed, adjusted my posture, carried me on his back, and walked to the front of the slope.

Under the beam of the flashlight, below was a sloping ramp covered with hexagonal patterns, about thirty centimeters in diameter, which at first glance looked like the surface of a soccer ball.

Jiang Man shone her flashlight on the pattern below and said to me, "The gaps between these hexagonal stones are quite large, and they look like they've been carved very deeply. I'm worried that there might be something wrong here, like the eyes of the statues behind us. What do you think?"

"It's the Eight Trigrams Formation!"

I took a deep breath to ease the pain and continued, "This ramp is wider at the top and narrower at the bottom. The lowest point should be a circular platform, which is the general's position in the Eight Trigrams Formation. This ramp is one of the eight directions in the Eight Trigrams Formation."

Jiang Man glanced at the ant swarm behind her, which was blocked by the flames and was now poised to move: "Do you know the route?"

"Breaking the Eight Trigrams Formation is not difficult. The front metal position is the Bird Soaring Formation, the back wood snake coiling formation, the left water dragon flying formation, the right fire tiger wing formation, the northwest Qian position is the Heaven Covering Formation, the northeast Gen position is the Cloud Hanging Formation, the southwest Kun position is the Earth Bearing Formation, and the southeast Xun position is the Wind Rising Formation. Each formation has a different route and way of moving."

I recited the directions and formations of the Eight Trigrams Formation with great familiarity, and continued, "The difficulty of this slope lies in the fact that we cannot determine which direction it uses, so we cannot analyze the route. Take out my compass!"

Upon hearing my instruction, Jiang Man quickly took my compass out of my pocket and placed it flat in front of me: "Is this how it is?"

I shook my head: "Turn it over."

Jiang Man turned the orientation around: "Like this?"

"Yin and Yang are opposites, look at the Yellow Springs with a different eye, turn right and wrong over, face down."

Jiang Man turned the compass over and began to instruct her to use the pointer to correct the direction. Once the pointer was aligned with the passage, she said, "It's ready, this is the position, southeast Xun position, Feng Yang formation!"

Seeing that I had given an answer, Jiang Man continued to ask, "How do I get there?"

"The first row, you can't touch the left and right sides! The four in the middle can't be touched. Starting from the third row, the three on the left and right sides wrap around downwards, for a total of four rows. From the third row to the middle of the fourth row, there is a triangle that you can't touch!"

Seeing that Jiang Man was confused, I sighed and said, "The Wind Rising Formation is one of the simpler formations in the Eight Trigrams Formation, only a little more difficult than the Dragon Flying Formation, ranking second to last. But it's still too difficult for you. Here's what we'll do: I'll direct Manjing to go, and you'll follow behind!"

When Jiang Man heard me say that, she called Lin Que and the monkey over as well. The monkey walked to the side of the slope, glanced at the ground, and suddenly said, "We were in such a hurry just now that I didn't notice anything wrong, but if you look closely, why isn't there a single ant on this slope?"

"The eyes of those statues behind are sealed with a special material. That material is very fragile and cannot keep out these ants at all, which means that the material contains some kind of ingredient that can keep out these ants. This slope must also contain this ingredient."

I looked at the orderly arrangement of hexagonal patterns below: "This is a series of traps. If the ants behind can't stop people, they can also be used to drive intruders over here! Manjing, go to the far right, count three stones to the left, then take four steps forward, and then one step to the left."

Under my direction, Manjing carried me up the slope, and the others followed. We had only gone a few meters forward when the flames behind us went out. A large number of ants crawled to the edge of the slope and covered it up in a dense layer, but they all stayed at the edge and dared not climb up the slope. Even if some ants were pushed off, they would crawl back as if their lives depended on it.

The shape of the Wind Formation is like a fan-shaped shield, with one of the pointed ends pointing towards the general's position. We enter from behind, and as long as we draw an arc, we can move forward smoothly.

This ancient formation was not difficult to break. Following my instructions, Manjing quickly passed through the sixteen steps and stood on the round platform below the slope.

Only after we reached this position did my tense nerves relax: "We are now in the general's position of the Eight Trigrams Formation. There are no traps set in this kind of place. Everyone is safe for now!"