Chapter 46 Fire Can Give Birth To Earth (1)

  In the depths of the giant pit, it was pitch black, and one couldn't see their own fingers when stretching out their hand. The fallen horse inn's main hall lay quietly at the bottom of the pit, surprisingly still intact without being smashed to pieces. It was strange that a house made of bricks, tiles, and wooden beams could maintain its integrity after such a rapid fall.

  Yan Jing Tian slowly stood up, waved his hand in front of the dust, shook his head and shouted: "Shou Zhen, Shou Yi, Shou Ren, are you there?"

  Someone coughed a few times in the darkness, crawled up from the ground, and shouted loudly: "Damn their eight ancestors! Almost fell to death! Master Yandang, I'm here! Nothing's wrong!"

  Yan Jing Tian realized it was Yan Shou Zhen and felt a bit relieved, continuing to shout: "Shou Zhen, don't move for now, wait until I get a clear sense of the surroundings before we do anything!"

  Someone in the darkness shouted: "Master Yandang, are you all right?"

  "Yan Shou shook and shouted: "Shou Ren! We are all fine! Are you okay too?""

  "It's nothing!"

  In a corner, someone whispered: "Master Yandang, I'm fine, it's just...my leg might be broken." It was Yan Shouyi's voice.

  Yan Shou scolded: "Your leg is broken and you say it's nothing? Are you made of wood?"

  Yan Jing Tian said: "Everyone is still alive, great! Don't make any rash moves! This should be a giant pitfall trap, we've already fallen to the bottom, there may be poisonous spikes or mechanisms."

  Everyone responded, Yan Jing Tian took a deep breath and calmed his mind, gathered his senses, and slowly moved forward. Soon he reached the location of Yan Shou Yi. At this time, the dust slowly settled down, and a faint light seeped into the room, allowing Yan Jing Tian to see the situation inside the house clearly.

  The room was like a hurricane had swept through, in complete disarray, the floor cracked and broken into fragments, uneven and littered with debris. The doors and windows of the house were stuck to the wall, completely blocked.

  Yan Jing Tian came to Yan Shou Yi's side, touched Yan Shou Yi's leg and found that the small bone of his leg was already broken.

  Yan Shouyi didn't cry out in pain, he just said: "When I fell down, my foot got stuck on the ground and it broke."

  Yan Jing Tian pressed down on Yan Shou Yi's calf with both hands, examining the injury, and said in a low voice: "Endure it!" With a burst of strength, he straightened Yan Shou Yi's leg. Yan Shou Yi only let out a faint hum. Yan Jing Tian took two chair legs from beside him, tore strips of cloth from his clothes, and bound them to Yan Shou Yi's leg.

  Yan Jing said with a serious expression: "Shou Yi, if it hurts too much, just shout out loud."

  Yan Shouyi said in a low voice: "It's just painful, I can bear it."

  Yan Shouzheng cursed from a distance: "Shouyi, you fool! You just love to show off!" Yan Shouzheng was always finding fault with Yan Shouyi, but at this moment, it made Yan Jingtian feel slightly more at ease.

  Yan Shouyi raised his head and said, "Who's a fool! It doesn't hurt that much if you can bear it!"

  Yan Jing Tian also didn't speak, secretly sighing: "Fortunately! This pit actually doesn't have poisonous thorns or corrosive water that can kill people, otherwise falling down like this would be hard to survive."

  Yan Jingtian tied Yan Shouyi to a wooden stick, stood up and looked around again, then called Yan Shouzhen and Yan Shourong over, carried Yan Shouyi away, cleared a small piece of land, and the four gathered together.

  Four people, except for Yan Jun who had his leg broken, the other three were only slightly injured. Yan Jing Tian looked up at the roof and saw that the load-bearing wooden beams were already skewed, all the eaves had fallen off, but despite this, the roof did not collapse, it just broke with more than a dozen holes, from which some light shone through, but the outside view was still unclear. Yan Jing Tian ordered Yan Shou Ren: "Shou Ren, you climb up and take a look, if the roof can be opened, we'll follow the ditch

  "The wall can be climbed."

  Yan Shouren responded, and after a few flips, he climbed onto the roof. At the broken hole, he used his hands to knock and pry off several bricks and tiles, and the light became even brighter. But when Yan Shouren reached up again, he suddenly felt a iron bar about two fingers thick, which seemed to be buried in the roof. Yan Shouren shouted loudly: "Master Yan Tang, there's something wrong with this house! There's an iron bar inside!"

  As soon as Yan Shouren's voice fell, a loud crash was heard outside the roof, as if something had fallen. Yan Shouren was shocked and jumped down from the roof in one move. The crowd waited with bated breath, looking up at the roof, wondering what had happened. They really didn't know that this was the first corpse thrown down by Jia Chunzi.

  After a moment, there was a dull hum, and another object fell from the roof, causing the roof tiles to shatter and fall. Then someone let out a low groan, but soon there was no more sound. This was the second person that Jia Chunzi had broken his arm and thrown into the pit. When this person fell down, he slightly came to, and after hitting the roof once, he didn't die, and with great effort let out two groans before finally dying.

  Yan Shouren was shocked and asked, "Is that a person?" Everyone looked at each other, feeling very strange. How could such a large object fall down with such force without even piercing the roof?

  Then they waited for a moment again, but there was no movement, and they all smelled the pungent smell of blood.

  Yan Jing Tian furrowed his brow, silently gesturing to Yan Shou Ren with a wave of his hand. The two climbed up onto the rooftop and searched for the source of the loud noise. Before long, they confirmed that the two objects that had fallen from the roof were indeed corpses. Yan Jing Tian enlarged the hole made by the falling bodies and saw rows of iron bars, spaced about a fist's width apart, densely packed together. It was clear that no human could have fallen through such an iron net.

  Yan Jing Tian said in a low voice: "Could it be that this house is just a huge iron cage?"

  Yan Shouren exclaimed in surprise: "Iron cage? Are these iron bars..."

  Yan Jing Tian nodded and said, "It's highly likely that all the houses on top of the giant pitfall array at the entrance of the fallen guest house are made of iron cages. The walls and wooden beams we see are just decorations attached to the iron bars. If one falls into the pit with the house, it would be like covering the opening of an iron cage."

  Yan Shouren said: "Isn't that just a trap set up specifically to catch people?"

  Yan Jing Tian said: "Indeed, it's hard to guard against!"

  Yan Jing Tian fell from the rooftop, walked to the door, kicked down the wooden door frame, and indeed found another thick iron bar. Yan Jing Tian sighed: "This is terrible!" He stretched out his hand to feel the wall outside the cave entrance. The wall was covered with a layer of sticky asphalt, under which was a layer of mud that was unusually hard. Yan Jing Tian used all his strength to dig with his fingers, but only managed to scrape off a tiny piece.

  Yan Song hastily approached and asked, "Master Yan Tang, can this wall be dug through? I used four pieces of gold to dig a section, and it should be possible to dig from the outside to the rooftop."

  Yan Jing Tian said: "This cave wall is made of a mixture of asphalt, limestone and gravel, which is the same method used to build some roads in Fengtian City. The hardness is extremely high, not like the brick walls we usually see. Hehe, it seems that the people who built this giant pit array thought very carefully, they must have wanted to trap people at the bottom of the pit! Even if we dig, without proper tools, relying only on these four gold pieces, I'm afraid that even with the combined strength of the four of us, we can't dig out a hole as tall as a person in one day."