About the center of the stone chamber, a large stone pillar was opened. Hanging from the stone pillar was a girl, her hands were tied above her head, her neck was forcibly pulled up, and her half-rotted face was facing them.
Not only was her neck forcibly lifted up, but her lips and eyelids were also lifted up. Very small iron hooks pulled her eyelids and brought them to her forehead. Her eyeballs were about to burst, which was so sudden and compelling. Her lips were raised in a curve, which seemed to be a smile but not a smile.
If it were just a ferocious and weird look, it wouldn't scare them at all, but... this girl's face is very similar to Ah Li.
At first glance, they even thought it was the little girl they had seen not long ago.
While they were looking at it, the girl hanging in the air seemed to be looking at them. From her neck down, she was cut open and empty...
The sound of a giant object hitting the ground was heard again, and the undissipated dust in the room flew up again.
What fell was the large medicine cabinet and bookcase in the stone room. Xia Zhaoxue and Zhili turned around and saw the old man in the smoke. Zhili was startled and shouted, "Master!"
The old man was smashing and overthrowing the medicine cabinet and bookcase in the stone room. He didn't notice someone coming amidst the noise. Now when he heard the noise, he turned around and saw Xia Zhaoxue and Zhili.
The two of them stood on the steps at the door of the stone room, with expressions of astonishment still on their faces.
The old man retracted his gaze, put down the big thing in his hand, slowly took off his coat, and walked towards the big stone pillar in the middle that he had smashed.
Covering the girl's body with his coat, he turned around and looked at the two people at the door, and said lightly, "Why are you here?"
Then, as if nothing happened, he went back to pick up the big thing on the ground and walked towards the next bookcase.
The corpse was covered by the old man's coat, so the visual impact was not that strong. In addition, seeing the old man here, I felt relaxed for a moment. I stepped over the corpse that had been exposed to the wind on the ground, went down the stone steps, and trotted over, "Master!"
"Yeah." The old man responded, raising the sledgehammer in his hand and hitting the bookcase again.
Zhili hurriedly stepped back and said, "Master, what's going on with that pillar?"
"Nothing happened," the old man said.
Seeing the old man smashing the bookcase to pieces and dragging the broken bookcase down, he raised his eyebrows and said in a low voice, "But, he looks so much like my senior sister... How can anyone in this world look so similar?"
People."
The old man said a faint "hmm" and looked at the secret passage exposed behind the bookcase without replying.
Zhili also saw this secret passage and said in surprise, "There is a road here!"
"Um."
"Shall we go down?"
The old man looked at it for a while and said, "No."
Carrying the big hammer, he walked towards the next medicine cabinet.
Xia Zhaoxue's face turned pale, he came over and said, "Senior."
"Why are your clothes wet?" the old man asked.
"Ah Li is looking for you," Xia Zhaoxue said, "something happened over there."
"That's right..." Zhili said suddenly, "Master, senior sister asked you to go over there. It seems that the eldest brother of the Shen family has fallen into a trap. There is a big pool over there, it's a big trap!"
"Water pool?" The old man stopped and said solemnly, then without hesitation, he turned around and said, "Let's go."
"What about this side?" Zhili pointed at the messy room destroyed by the old man, "Master, are you worried about this place?"
Especially the girl's body, just let her hang under the stone pillar like that?
"It's important to save people," the old man said.
"Okay," Zhili said, hurrying to follow, "Master, wait for me!"
After running a few steps, he turned around and looked at the young man behind him, "Sister, second brother?"
Xia Zhaoxue followed them, distracted, and couldn't help but look at the covered female corpse several times.
There are so many people with similar faces in the world, so it’s not surprising, but people like this...are they twins?
If Ali is really his sister, then so is this girl?
After Jing Zhili shouted, Xia Zhaoxue looked away and nodded, "Yes."
"Let's not think about it for now," Zhili looked up at him and said, "I'll ask Senior Sister later when I meet her, and we won't think too much. Besides, Master is here, so we won't be afraid."
Zhili pointed at the old man walking in front.
Xia Zhaoxue looked up.
Since he had no coat, the old man looked as clear as a bamboo, and the hand behind his back still held the big hammer.
Such a heavy hammer did not affect his steps at all, making him as easy as carrying a bag of cotton.
In such a short time, he had already stepped through the stone gate and left without looking back.
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The bones were knocked crisply, making a clanking sound in the strong wind.
Xia Zhaoyi finally came down, holding the small oil ball lamp in his hand, walking among the sounds of bones.
It's not very big here. Although it's empty, it's only one tenth less than the open space on the ground.
There was a set of stone steps going down in the direction of the pool, and she was heading towards the stone steps now.
Along the road there were many torture instruments of various kinds, all of them cruel and brutal, but also rusty, showing that they had not been used for a long time.
The lamp holders on the wall were all out of oil and could not be ignited. Instead, she found a brazier placed on a dark corner stand in the corner. A few pieces of charcoal inside were successfully ignited by the small lamp oil she brought.
The scope of the fire expanded, and the visibility also increased. In the dark, dry passage, the walls on both sides seemed to have been splashed with blood and were mottled. On the way down, there was a long row of iron hooks hanging from the stone beam facing her.
There were several white heads hanging on iron hooks.
The further forward, the less blood stains, and gradually the sound of water can be heard.
At the same time, the road turned to the right, bypassing the pool.
Who would have thought that there would be a road at the bottom of this pool.
The sound of water came from the water seeping into the wall of the pool, but it was very slow, with a few drops falling. When she passed by, it formed a small stream of water on the ground.
There were also a lot of bones here, some of which were badly broken. Xia Zhaoyi walked past them and found another oil lamp on the wall. He tried it this time and was able to light it successfully. The oil lamp inside was fresh.
The road ahead is still long, and it seems that we can reach the other side of the river where Rougu and the others are resting directly from here.
Xia Zhaoyi did not continue forward, but turned around and looked towards the way he came.
Now it's on the right side of the pool, so is there a road on the other side?
Just when she turned around to look back, the fire at the steps in the distance brightened at the same time.
Xia Zhaoyi paused. The fire over there came from the brazier she lit.
Now the fire is bright, this is the new torch.
She immediately stepped on the wall beside her and jumped up, using her strength to knock down the oil lamp on the wall and extinguish her own small oil lamp at the same time.
Almost an hour after she had lit her fire, the owners of the torches came down.
There were about six or seven people, all of whom were wearing long-sleeved skirts and wide robes.
