I know it’s wrong, but I still have to do it. I don’t know if this is hypocrisy.【】
However, it seems that Xia Zhaoxue is not trying to flatter himself and claim that he is a good person, so this is not considered hypocrisy.
Maybe, I really hate it.
Zhili felt that he couldn't understand the deep hatred yet, so he simply didn't think about it.
As for these corpses, he felt that there was no need to sort them out.
Judging from the lamp oil, books, herbal medicine, and not much dust around, it seems that someone lives here permanently.
Whoever lives in the house has tidied it up. He probably isn't a good person anyway, Zheli thought a little irresponsibly.
The old man was holding a big hammer and had gone far away.
After walking out of the hall, the old man stopped and looked at the darkness ahead with his hands behind his hands.
It's Qiao again.
A few months ago, I heard a friend mention it in a casual chat that the Qiao family's Yuexiashao was found in the bandit den that was first destroyed in Zhaoyun Mountain in Chongyi. The head of the gang, Mrs. Bian, was also named Qiao.
Now here, I ran into someone related to the Qiao family again.
The old man didn't know who was at odds with the Qiao family. He even didn't think it was true that the Qiao family was a cowardly bunch of people who abandoned the whole city and ran away first.
There are too many such things in the world, such as frame-up, blame-shifting, and death without any evidence.
However, he has bumped into the Qiao family from time to time over the years, which is also strange.
It's not that I'm surprised by this unprovoked coincidence, but I'm surprised by who did it to create such a huge base.
Just like catching the ball, he caught four of the five red balls. This can be called a coincidence.
But if there are a hundred red balls, if he catches them casually, it would not be surprising if he encounters twenty red balls.
The Qiao family now seems to be just these one hundred red balls.
The Qiao clan members were scattered and scattered all over the place, and they all died in strange ways, even here in the Qianqiu Palace in Longyuan.
Who could do it?
At this moment, there was another loud noise in the distance.
The old man looked up and saw that it was not in the same direction as the twenty or so sounds that had been heard before.
Were they dispersed, or was someone on the other side a trap?
…
…
The sudden loud noise scared Rougu, who was running wildly and panicking, so much that her legs weakened.
She held on to the wall in time, her heart racing.
Fortunately, the loud noise did not come from behind, but from the direction they came from.
She panted and raised her head, looking at the large platform outside the front entrance.
After a while, she ordered herself to refresh herself and continued running forward.
Passing under the platform, there were only a few venomous snakes left. Rougu ignored them and speeded up.
When she came down from here, she didn't feel that there were many steps, but when she went up, she found that it was so difficult to walk. Inside the iron cages at the top, there were white bones scattered in the dark. She had never been afraid of skeletons, but when she saw those skulls, her heart was trembling.
She was afraid to death, afraid that Shen Xu would die here, and she was afraid that Shen Xu would become a withered bone here.
Rougu's eyes were red and she cried again.
The loud noise in the distance sounded again, but she was not frightened this time and ran back to the fork that had been marked.
But it was really too big here, and she didn't know where to go.
"Shen Lie!!!" Rougu couldn't care less and stood at the fork and shouted, "Shen Lie, can you hear me!!"
In the empty corridor, her echo came from far away.
This feeling of emptiness and loneliness was even stronger than when she first descended into Longyuan while hanging on a rope.
"Shen Lie! Miss Ah Li!!!" Aunt Rou's voice sounded like she was crying, "Where are you!"
No one answered her, except for another loud noise in the distance.
Rou Gu raised her hand to wipe her face with her sleeves, wiped away her tears, and planned to return to the alchemy room first.
After running for a long time, she realized that there was something wrong with the road.
They came along the road, and wherever there was a lamp holder, they lit a fire. Now she was walking back along the light of the fire, but the road conditions seemed to be different. She had no impression of this place.
Rougu stopped, took out the dagger, and held it tightly.
The two walls of the corridor are old and gray, and the stone bricks are large and wide, showing a silent oppression.
Rougu walked forward, her steps slowing down. The surroundings were so quiet that she seemed to be able to hear the heartbeat in her chest.
At this time, her gaze fell in front of her, and she froze, eyes widening.
A low door appeared under the stone wall ahead. She was familiar with this low door. When they came down from Longyuan, she was the first to tie a rope around her waist and pry open a stone door.
That's the outlet for drainage.
But when they came out of the alchemy room, they didn't see any short door!
If you see it, you will not fail to notice it, and you will not stop to pay attention.
A cold chill crept up the back of Rougu's neck.
The most important thing now is to find Shen Lie and Ah Li immediately and go back to rescue the young master.
But if the road is wrong, if she herself is in danger, what will the young master do?!
"Is there... anyone?" Rougu called out very softly.
She stepped back and looked at the bright road ahead. One lamp holder after another stretched to the end, and it was bright.
"Is there anyone there?" Rougu shouted again.
"Who is it!!!" A voice sounded in the distance, very far away. Judging from the timbre, it seemed to belong to a little boy.
Rougu was shocked and looked ahead.
"Why are you a woman!" the little boy shouted again.
Why is there a little boy here?
"Have you seen my senior sister? Where are you?"
"By the way, my senior sister's name is A Li!"
"Tell me, where are you!!"
…
Ah Li!
Rou Gu's expression changed and she shouted with joy, "Can you hear my voice? I don't know where I am. Can you hear my voice?"
There was no movement in the distance.
"Master!" Zhili looked at the old man and said happily, "There is someone!"
As if the old man hadn't heard anything, he was holding a big hammer and circling a stone pillar on the side of the road, looking up at the texture on the stone pillar.
"I know where Ah Li is! Can you come to me?" Someone in the distance shouted again.
"Senior sister!" Zhili became excited, "Master, did you hear that? It's senior sister!"
"If you want to go, just go." the old man said.
"Master, aren't you going?"
The old man tapped his finger bones on the stone pillar.
"Then, master, I'll let my senior sister and second brother take me there first?" Zhili said again.
"Okay," the old man said, taking a step back, "you go away."
Knowing that Master was about to tear down the pillars again, Zhili and Xia Zhaoxue took a few steps back.
"I don't know if Master is here to see Senior Sister, or to dismantle other people's things," Zhili muttered, "Maybe Senior Sister will encounter some danger."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "bang" sound, and the old man hit the pillar with a hammer.
He was busy and retreated.
"Senior sister and second brother," Zhili raised his head and looked at Xia Zhaoxue, "come with me."
Xia Zhaoxue looked at the large crack that the old man had smashed into the pillar, like half a spider web, and was really curious about what was inside.
However, saving people is more important.
Xia Zhaoxue could only nod, "Okay."
"Master, let's go then," Zhili said.
What answered him was the old man giving the wall another heavy blow.
