Chapter 287 289 Five Colored Floating Ladder
"Talk less! Let's think about what to do now. The boss doesn't know if it's safe or not. The boss just told us not to move, but we can't just sit here and wait like idiots!" Tian Zhen said with a frown.
"How did the boss fall just now? Did he accidentally trigger some mechanism? Who of you saw it clearly?" Yang Ping asked the other two people.
"The boss fell down suddenly. He didn't touch anything, I'm sure. I wanted to touch the pillars at that time, but he stopped me. Then I kept paying attention to his movements!" Tian Zhen said with certainty.
"Then let's try walking in the same direction the boss just walked," Zhang Shouyi suggested.
"Okay." The three people agreed unanimously, but they walked back and forth many times, and the ground did not move at all. There was no sign of any attempt to open the stone slab where Ning Qingyun fell.
It's really a headache. If they hadn't seen Ning Qingyun falling from this place with their own eyes, they would never believe that this place would have hidden mechanisms. After all, it looks like a seamless whole without a single gap.
"Could this mechanism be a mobile one? No matter what, it will not run away from this place. Let's search for it separately." Zhang Shouyi suggested.
"Let's act together. The boss said before that the nine-headed monster snake is very likely hiding here. It's very dangerous here. We shouldn't get separated again. We are no match for that monster snake. If we are left alone, we will be in trouble." Yang Ping suggested cautiously.
"Yang Ping is right. We can't look for him separately. Let's look for him together so we can help each other." Tian Zhen agreed.
Afterwards, the three of them stumbled around searching for the disappeared mechanism, hoping to find the entrance and then reunite with Ning Qingyun.
However, Ning Qingyun was caught off guard and the stone slab under his feet suddenly flipped over, and he fell down. While falling, Ning Qingyun remained calm and steadied himself when he was about to hit the ground. He stood on the ground with his head up and his feet down. The impact force transmitted from his feet made his legs weak and his waist numb.
After standing there to relax for a while, he looked around at the surrounding environment. Although he was now underground and the light was dim, there were some luminous stone pillars around, so he could see the general outline of the surroundings.
Right in front of Ning Qingyun's sight, there was a towering tall palace. It was majestic and magnificent. In the dim light, it looked hazy, mysterious and distant.
Where Ning Qingyun was standing was a huge floating stone platform. On the edge of the platform stood a long stone slab with five large characters engraved on it: "Five-Colored Floating Ladder to Heaven".
Below the stone platform is an abyss that is bottomless and dark, and one cannot see what is in the abyss.
Ning Qingyun withdrew his gaze and looked forward, and saw that from where he was standing to the road leading to the palace, there were many circular stone platforms with a diameter of about one meter floating. These stone platforms were of different colors, swaying and floating up and down, and it seemed that they could fall into the abyss at any time, making them seem very unstable and unreliable.
But if you want to get to the palace, these stone platforms are the only passage.
Ning Qingyun was not scared by this road. He carefully observed the direction, color, and undulation pattern of these stone platforms. It seemed that the five-colored floating ladder referred to this road composed of floating stone platforms.
Now there is only one way left for him to go, stepping on the five-colored floating ladder and entering the palace in front. There is no other choice.
After studying for a while, Ning Qingyun basically figured out how to get around this road. There were five-colored floating ladders and five colored stone platforms. The five colors corresponded to blue, red, yellow, white and black. The five colors corresponded to the five elements, which are wood, fire, earth, metal and water. The five elements are mutually generated and restrained, and there is unity in opposites. These five-colored stone platforms rose and fell in accordance with the principle of mutual generation and restraint. Ning Qingyun found the pattern and tentatively stepped onto the blue stone platform in front. The blue stone platform was floating steadily. Blue corresponds to wood, red corresponds to fire, and wood generates fire. The next one is the red stone platform.
Ning Qingyun calculated as he walked, taking every step carefully, and finally stepped on the last black stone platform and came to the front of the palace. When he was about to enter the palace, he suddenly discovered that this palace had no door.
What's going on?
Ning Qingyun frowned as he looked at the tall and heavy wall in front of him. Could it be that his guess was wrong? Wasn't this the way to go?
Just as he was daydreaming, there was a "click" sound under his feet. The black stone platform hit the thick wall, and a place on the wall immediately became dented. The black stone platform was like a key, embedded straight into the wall. Ning Qingyun watched the black stone platform carrying him through the wall. Fortunately, he bent down in time, otherwise he would have hit his head and was bleeding.
When Ning Qingyun was congratulating himself for his quick reaction, his body was thrown out by the black stone platform like a sandbag. With a "bang", Ning Qingyun was thrown to the ground.
Ning Qingyun swayed a few times, staggered a few steps, but managed to stand firm without falling to the ground.
This should be the interior of the palace. Compared to the majestic palace seen from the outside, this is a closed and narrow space.
Ning Qingyun guessed that this should be a secret room in the palace. He was thrown in by the black stone platform. Would there be any rewards for passing the level in this secret room?
On the map of the parchment scroll, this underground palace is also called the treasure land. If there is no treasure, how can it deserve this name?
Ning Qingyun looked around the secret room. There was a five-colored stone inlaid on the left wall. He pressed the stone down gently, and with a "click", a rectangular stone table rose up in the secret room. There was a box at each end of the table, and a yellowed parchment in the middle. It said on it: Rewards for those who pass the level. However, don't be greedy. You can only take one item, otherwise you will stay in this secret room forever.
The box on the right side of the stone case is a rectangular box that looks like a metal. There is a line of words engraved on it, "Sword box, there is a sharp sword inside."
The box on the left side of the stone case is a small square wooden box with a line of words engraved on it: "A beautiful hairpin can sometimes become a deadly weapon."
When Ning Qingyun saw the beautiful hairpin, Rong Xianxian's appearance immediately appeared in front of his eyes. In the past, he had let others choose the gifts he gave her. Now thinking about it, it seemed so perfunctory.
(End of this chapter)
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