While the old man was focusing on tearing down the pillars and Xia Zhaoxue and the others pulled Rou Gu out of the water, Xia Zhaoyi and Shen Lie walked from east to west, passing through two towering natural stone walls on the left and right, and stopped at the cliff at the end of the clearing.
The sound of wind was like weeping deep in the cliff, and the echoing wind blew the torch in Shen Lie's hand. In the chaos of fire shadow, their figures were pulled and broken on the ground.
It was pitch black all around, and it was difficult to reach the top of the cave in the darkness, so I could vaguely judge that it was empty and open by feeling.
As far as the eye can see, except for the slightly polished flat rocks at the feet, there is a slender trestle in front of me, leading silently to the other side of the cliff.
Xia Zhaoyi lowered his head and unfolded the paper in his hand.
The paper is a calligraphy and painting they picked off the wall. On the back of the calligraphy and painting, she has used small stones picked up from the ground to draw corridors, stone chambers, and several large and small caves, like branches and leaves, gradually forming a map.
She picked up another stone, held it in her hand, and marked it.
As she wrote, her eyes stayed on the paper, a little lost in thought. For some reason, she could not forget the stone pillar in her mind.
Shen Lie raised his eyes and looked around. At this time, another gust of wind blew up. His eyes fell on the sky. In the darkness, there was something hanging faintly.
"Ah Li," Shen Lie said, "there is something there."
Xia Zhaoyi looked up. The cave was too high to see clearly. Until another gust of wind blew up, and the hanging objects moved with the wind.
"What is that?" The girl blinked with bright snowy eyes.
"It seems to be skeletons in cages," Shen Lie said in a deep voice, "There are several rows of them."
Xia Zhaoyi lowered his eyes and looked directly below the cage, where he saw the deep abyss.
"So cruel," Xia Zhaoyi frowned, "I won't let them go even to death..."
"If the wind doesn't move, you can't see these cages clearly," Shen Lie looked to the side and said, "I don't know how much fire is needed to light up the roof of the cave."
"Suspending so many cages will waste a lot of machinery and manpower." Xia Zhaoyi retracted his gaze and looked at the map on the paper. "Now this person's identity is unknown. He has no place to hide, but we can't In the past, if he made a cut on the other side, we would have no choice but to let him slaughter us."
As he said that, Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyebrows and shook his head, "No, we are not the only ones who are worried that the bridge cables will be cut off. Everyone who steps up will be worried about this. This person must also be afraid that we will cut down the bridge cables behind him." The bridge rope fell off, so it won't be easy to pass by."
"Unless he is completely sure that we can't catch him, or the trestle is very short, allowing him to escape within a controllable range," Shen Lie said.
"I think there are other passages," Xia Zhaoyi raised his head and looked around and said, "Neither he nor the people who built this trestle would ever regard such a trestle as the only way. As for other ways... …”
Xia Zhaoyi paused and looked back at Shen Lie. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Shen Lie looking at him and said, "Maybe it has something to do with those big waterwheels."
Xia Zhaoyi smiled and said, "As far as we have been searching along the way, we haven't seen any other accessible roads. And where the iron chains of the large waterwheel we saw before point to, the only possibility left now is that they The only agencies involved are in the direction Shen Chen is going, and there may be a road over there."
She lowered her head, moved her finger along the dotted line on the map, and said, "It should be at the southwest end, further southwest when we go down to the Longyuan Stone Steps."
When Xia Zhaoyi mentioned Shen Xu, for some reason, the stone chamber appeared in his mind again.
She has been uneasy, this uneasiness is not strong, but it is always there, like a cool chill always lingering on her back, clinging endlessly.
During the period of time when she was exploring the road and looking for the mechanism, all the small calculations in her mind turned out to be serious.
But what the evil is, she doesn't understand, and it's hard to predict.
Flowers grow from dry bones.
Flowers grow from dry bones.
Why do these four words pop up from time to time?
Seeing that her eyes were thoughtful, Shen Lie remained silent.
But after a long time, he saw that she was always lost in thought and her vision became blurry. Shen Lie called out in a low voice, "Ah Li?"
Bright light focused in the girl's eyes. She raised her eyes and said, "Let's go."
Xia Zhaoyi nodded and folded the calligraphy and painting in his hands.
Shen Lie watched her put away her calligraphy and paintings, moved her lips, and wanted to speak, but stopped.
When they came, they passed between two large stone walls. The left and right sides of the stone walls formed a straight line, and there were open spaces inside and outside. The space between them was like a tall and wide gate.
Two figures, one tall and one short, returned and passed through the tall "door" again. When they passed between two stone walls, their figures were particularly small against the stone walls.
Xia Zhaoyi suddenly stopped and turned around to look behind him.
The orange light in front of her came from the torch in Shen Lie's hand, and the darkness further away engulfed everything. In the depths of the darkness, she inexplicably felt like there was a pair of eyes looking at her.
"Perhaps it would be better if we extinguished the torches," the boy next to him said, "Ah Li, is your little oil ball lamp still there?"
Xia Zhaoyi smiled and looked up at him, "Do you know what I'm thinking?"
"Huh?" Shen Lie lowered his eyes.
Xia Zhaoyi shook his head with a smile and said, "You are right, it will indeed be better if it is extinguished, at least it will not expose us."
"That……"
"Ignore him for now," Xia Zhaoyi took one last look into the distance, retracted his gaze and said, "Let's go and find Shen Xu."
The distance and space were too far, and the torch in Shen Lie's hand looked as tiny as stars in the distant sky when viewed from the other side of the distant cliff.
In the darkness, a man stood on a steep rock, watching the "star" go away, getting darker and darker, and disappearing from the field of vision.
The long wind blowing from the abyss was quite strong. The man was wearing a coat and a wide robe, and he was holding a short sword in his hand behind his back.
After standing silently for a while, he stepped off the rock and walked to the trestle.
Expressionlessly, he raised his hand and patted the thick rope on his arm. The man felt a little sad in his heart, but then he drew out his dagger, and the sharp blade collided neatly and smoothly against the stone pillar that tied the rope, making four crisp clanging sounds.
After each clang, there will be a strong roar that rebounds from the taut rope.
The huge trestle suddenly fell into the abyss after a short period of inertial force. The dust accumulated for hundreds of years was blown away by the wind, setting off huge waves in the darkness. However, because the wind was too loud and swallowed up everything, the movement it caused was almost silent. .
Xia Zhaoyi's heart skipped a beat, his eyebrows furrowed, and he stared blankly at the dim light at the entrance of the corridor ahead, which came from the lamp holders on the wall that were lit when they passed by.
The steps did not stop, and the direction was seriously deviated. Shen Lie called out to him in time, "Ali."
Xia Zhaoyi raised his head and looked at the young man's handsome silhouette in the thin light.
"Shen Lie..." Xia Zhaoyi said in a low voice.
"What are you thinking about?" Shen Lie said softly, "I shouldn't ask more questions. It's just that you are very preoccupied and have been lost in thought. Is it because you are not feeling well, or is it?"
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