Not just her, everyone else's faces looked horrified for a moment.
Xia Zhaoyi admitted that he was a little scary, but compared to the initial plan of lying on their heads and hanging upside down to scare them, now this... is nothing.
"What's wrong with you?" Xia Zhaoyi said, "Are you scared?"
If it's so easy to be scared, then how did they live here for so long...
Especially the woman in front of him. Xia Zhaoyi had just seen her with a cold expression, but now, her face was pale, her lips were trembling uncontrollably, as if she had seen a ghost, and all her composure seemed to have been defeated.
At this time, the woman suddenly turned her head, looked at her subordinates, and shouted: "Fire the arrow!"
The men received the order and immediately raised their crossbows towards the girl.
The weight of the crossbow was slightly heavy. Taking advantage of this gap, Xia Zhaoyi turned around and ran up the steps. During the run, he stepped on a stone wall and jumped up using his strength. He climbed up to the top of the stone wall deftly, supported the top and the right wall with both hands, and hooked upside down.
A somersault, and quickly turned outwards.
This is how she came here just now, with her soft limbs and nimble skills, and with the sound of the wind, she was as silent as a cat.
Those arrows were shot in the air, and the men caught up with them, but it was not easy to raise the crossbow and aim it upward. By the time the angle was adjusted, the girl had already run far away.
The men quickly chased after her, and the woman shouted: "Don't scatter!"
She looked at the direction where the girl disappeared and couldn't calm down, but what was certain was that she was not her.
But who could she be?
Uncontrollably, the woman suddenly raised her voice and shouted: "Who are you! Just now you said you wanted to ask a question, go ahead and ask!"
The echo was so vast that it spread out and could be heard throughout the cave.
Xia Zhaoyi had reached the flattest underground space, standing with her back against a pillar under the rows of bones. The wind blew her hair into pieces. She looked towards the direction of the source of the sound, not understanding the woman's transformation.
That "shooting arrow" sound was more frightening than trying to catch her.
Moreover, it seemed that her appearance scared the other person.
The firelight lit up in clusters, and the woman stepped up the steps, looked around cautiously, and said in a deep voice: "Girl, I won't hurt you anymore, come out."
His men were closely following him, some were raising crossbows, others were drawing swords, and they were all on alert.
"Girl, are you still here?" the woman asked again, walking forward.
The strong wind from the south swept through the open space, whizzed around the pillars, and caused the bones to sing, creating an endless symphony.
Movement seemed to come from all directions, and for a moment they couldn't tell whether there was anyone there.
Several crossbow arrows were fired into the darkness, but they missed their target and made no sound.
"What do you want to ask," the woman said again, "Come out and I promise not to hurt you."
They were scattered slightly, but they didn't dare to spread too far apart. The open space was too big, and the light illuminated by the fire was really limited.
To the south is the cliff at Dafengkou, and the entrance to the cave from above has been blocked by them. The only way to go now seems to be the north.
Xia Zhaoyi leaned against the pillar and did not move. He watched the woman take the lead to walk towards the north, looking around as she walked, still calling her.
The firelight illuminated the empty bones above, and rows of dead bones crisscrossed each other, creating a faint light in the strong wind.
The ground is flat and clean, the north is not as wet as the south, and there are no instruments of torture or spilled blood.
As they walked away, a row of long, wide and neat stone steps appeared at the end. Nearly ten paintings and calligraphy were hung on the stone wall beside the steps. There were lamp holders on the wall between the calligraphy and paintings. When the firelight passed by, they could be seen in the distance.
Exquisite as a palace lantern.
"How did you come here," the woman said loudly, "Why did you come with the Shen brothers? Where did you learn from such a skill?"
Several more arrows shot across the open space, one of which was very close to Xia Zhaoyi, passing her five steps away.
There were no fingers visible where Xia Zhaoyi was standing, and it was dark all around. Therefore, the space was empty, and there were strings of bones in the sky like a ceiling. There was nowhere to hide. In addition, the fire was bright, and it would be difficult to hide once discovered, so they could only be chased all the time.
She has been hiding here and there, so she doesn't plan to go out now because her body can't afford it.
"Girl, come out! If you want to live, you have to come out. Are you really not afraid of death?" the woman said again.
Xia Zhaoyi looked at their figures, and something seemed clear in his mind, but he was even more confused.
She turned her gaze and looked at the stone path leading up.
I've been there, and I can't say I've found nothing, but I've certainly found nothing substantial.
Calculating the distance, the stone gate at the end of the road was located approximately in the middle of the pool. She was really curious about what was behind the stone gate.
And, the most crucial point is the group of light and shadow that appeared in the water that she saw above.
After all, the reason why she came down from above was because of the dissipated dark light, but now it was as quiet and dark as the netherworld, with nothing there.
"I promise you, I won't hurt your life. Just come out." The woman said again, her voice full of energy and bright.
Judging from this posture, it seems that he will not give up until he finds her.
And now that the firelight is approaching and the shadow is coming, she will be discovered sooner or later.
The remaining warmth of the small oil ball lamp in the palm of his hand was fading rapidly. Xia Zhaoyi put it away, turned his head slightly to look at the light, and said, "If I go out now, will you really not hurt me?"
Suddenly, the cold voice came, and everyone immediately looked towards the source.
The crossbows all aimed at the pillar where she was hiding.
The woman raised her hand and signaled her men to put down the crossbow, and said, "Yes, I promise you that I will never hurt you. Come out."
"Do you believe this yourself?" Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile, "If you don't believe it, do you think I will believe it?"
"I really won't hurt you." The woman said, walking slowly towards her.
"Madam, she can't escape anymore. We don't need to." The men next to her followed her and said very softly. Just as the strong wind was blowing, all the bones were ringing. He made sure that the girl could not hear the sound.
One of the men lowered the crossbow, then picked it up again and aimed it at the pillar.
"Have you ever thought," Xia Zhaoyi said, "that what you think is catching a turtle in a jar is actually my earthly net and heavenly trap?"
"Don't be so harsh, just come out." The woman said, and at the same time she pressed her men's forearms and asked him to put down the crossbow.
"Then let's have a fight," Xia Zhaoyi smiled, "it will be endless fun."
She raised her head and looked at the empty bones: "I'm sorry, everyone."
"What?" The woman didn't know.
The same goes for the subordinates around me.
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a sharp blade coming out of its sheath, like the roar of a dragon.
The men hurriedly raised their crossbows and fired several arrows, but then they heard a crack coming from high in the sky.
Before they could raise the crossbow and aim it high into the sky, the girl's thin figure fell from the pillar, knelt down on one knee and picked up a crossbow arrow from the ground. The next moment, her figure appeared in front of another pillar, and in an instant she stepped on the two-person high pillar.
After reaching the top of the pillar, with a stroke of his arm, the sharp blade broke through the air, and the long rope in the air "collapsed", like a piano string breaking.
