As soon as I stepped into the room, the damn broken door was closed "fully automatically". Only then did we realize that something was wrong, and we "sluggishly" went to open the door, but it was too late.
I can't even pull it, but fortunately it's quite big here, so it won't be too suffocating. But the smell is a bit unbearable, with a damp, musty smell lingering around.
Although this is an old warehouse for many years, everything is arranged neatly. The most eye-catching thing is a tall glass cabinet with a thick layer of dust on it. There are various metals in the cabinet.
Although no one has touched it for many years, it is still very beautiful.
"Meng Tianze, do you think your ring is made of this thing?"
He stretched out his hand and looked at the material of the ring carefully, then looked at the metal in the cabinet, and nodded.
"But why is it here?" He frowned, as if he was confused.
"This is not simple. Your adoptive father got it from you. He has strong limbs but a simple mind!"
"What do you mean about yourself?"
I made a face at him and went to look at something else.
Strange, why doesn’t anyone have boxes in their houses? I couldn’t figure out what they were for, and I didn’t touch them. There was an opaque cabinet against the right wall with a lock on it. I took a closer look and found that it was already there.
It was rusty, but it was not locked. I took it off with my hands and opened the cabinet.
Dizzy, all the tattered things in the cabinet fell out and fell to the floor, making a loud noise.
"Are you a pig? You want to tell your adoptive father that we sneaked out and ran here and can't get out, so that he can come and save you, right?"
This time I made up my mind and had nothing to say, so I had to pick up the things on the ground one by one. They were all rags, broken paper, broken bottles, and broken cups.
"Why does your adoptive father have so much rags?"
"Who told you to open it? You deserve it!"
"Don't worry about making sarcastic remarks, come and help me!"
"Why should I help you when you dropped it?" He was just admiring the rings leisurely, and I was so angry that I didn't even know what to say.
It was with great difficulty that I picked up those moldy and smelly junk things and piled them in the cabinet. I swore that I would never touch the damn things here again! I quickly picked up the lock and locked the cabinet tightly.
"You are so stupid at work. You have been pretending for a long time and you still missed one!" He finally turned his head and looked at me. I don't know if he was tired of playing with other things or because he saw me making a fool of myself.
"Where is it?" I searched around but couldn't find it.
He bent down and picked up a transparent broken glass bottle from behind me with a piece of paper stuffed inside. I grabbed it.
"Guess what is here?" I asked him.
"Treasure Map!"
"Have you read too much science fiction? It's so easy to find a treasure map. I guess it's a bottle containing a message from overseas!"
"Halo, you are a little too 'romantic', and you still believe in foreign countries. You think so."
"That's not even possible!"
"If you don't want to argue with a short-sighted girl like you, open it and take a look!"
I was about to throw the bottle to the ground, but he stopped me.
"Are you crazy?"
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"Try this!" He took out the ring again and pointed it at the bottle. There was no change in the bottle for a long time. I was finally happy, maybe it was a bit ironic.
"Are you okay? You didn't forget the spell, did you?"
"What do you know? My adoptive father said that there is no so-called spell in the transformation ring. It has spirituality and should be integrated with the heart and mind of the person who wears it. It should be used to do whatever it is supposed to do."
"That's what you think!"
"Nonsense! Doesn't it work if you think about it?!"
"Really, just tell me that your crap thing doesn't work and it's over. It's a big circle, it's not real! Let's try my old method." I knocked the bottle on the ground a few times, it broke, and I never stopped.
I took out the piece of paper from the glass and unfolded it carefully. It was really a piece of paper. I could tear it into pieces with just a shake of my hand.
I carefully spread it out on the ground and looked at it over and over again, but couldn't figure it out. "What is this?" I asked him. "Idiot, a map!"
After hearing what he said, I felt that it looked a little like a map. The light red square-like figures were next to each other, extremely small and densely packed. Looking at it this way, the underground city we lived in looked like an ancient city.
The tomb...
"Have you two had enough fun?"
As soon as I heard that the damn voice must be that of the elusive old woman, I was immediately frightened. She must have developed a conditioned reflex... She never made a sound when she walked. She came and went with the wind, leaving nothing behind.
trace.
In order to protect our trophies, Meng Tianze quickly hid the piece of paper in his pocket, and then stood up to look for the ghost old woman. This old woman is really strange... She is in her fifties and she wears colorful clothes all day long.
She is gorgeous. Her face is covered with thick rouge and gouache. I really don’t know if she has ever looked in the mirror...
"No need to look for it, you can't find me unless..."
"Unless what? If you have something to say, say it quickly and don't hesitate!" I shouted at a wall.
With a "bang" sound, an opening opened in the wall behind, and she jumped out.
"Ah!" I screamed, almost scared to death by her! I was panting heavily and didn't realize that I was pulling Meng Tianze's clothes.
Meng Tianze glanced at my hand holding his clothes strangely, and I noticed that he had an arrogant expression on his face: Tsk! I'm not surprised... and then he jerked his hand back.
The old woman habitually took out a pocket mirror from her right pocket and looked at it, "Oh my God, I have wrinkles again. You two little devils are running around and making me look older!"
Meng Tianze and I acted quite the same this time. We looked at her with strange eyes and then made a vomiting gesture. The old lady immediately put away the mirror. She really didn't listen and didn't know. When she heard it, she jumped and finally knew that "pervert"
"How do you write these two words?
We had no choice but to go back with her.
"Mother-in-law, please, can you please don't tell anyone else about this?" I started begging her as soon as I left the "warehouse".
She actually pretended not to hear and strode forward with a shy belly.
"Why beg her? Why didn't she tell her adoptive father? It would be weird if she didn't tell her! Hey, old woman, you have been a widow for more than eighty years, right?" Meng Tianze looked nonchalant and put his hands in his pockets.
He was walking so fast that he could think of this sentence.
The old woman turned around very sensitively and stared at the two of us with resentful eyes. I guess this "old woman" and "widow" were the ones she was most allergic to. She pinched her waist with both hands and walked towards us step by step.
, I was so frightened that I hurriedly hid behind Meng Tianze. The old woman stopped moving when she walked in front of us. Her facial expression changed from anger to sadness, and then she burst into tears. Her crying look was even more disgusting.
"Wow...I'm an old woman? Old lady...old woman? You think I'm only fifty-eight and you're talking about me like that, I...I'm not alive anymore, husband, why did you die so early, just keep me?"
One, husband..." Oh, life is hard! I'm not saying her life is hard, I'm talking about my adoptive father, how could he find such an old woman as a servant? His life would be shortened!
Meng Tianze and I took the opportunity to run away and went back to our respective rooms. I fell on the bed and fell asleep. Who knew that guy was not asleep, and spent half the night studying the tattered paper. I couldn't figure it out!
The next day he knocked on my door and said he wanted to tell me something, so I opened the door.
"Girl, do you remember what I told you last night?"
I scratched my head, what did he say to me last night? Where can I remember it? I couldn't sleep at all.
"forget!"
"Stupid!"
"Just say it again!"
"I'm scared of you. I'll tell you again, listen carefully. My adoptive father mistook you for my girlfriend yesterday. Do you understand?"
"I understand. If you tell him clearly, it's over!"
"Nonsense, if you tell me clearly why I came to you, do you think I am willing?"
"Oh, you mean no one wants me?" I pretended to be poor with him.
"Okay, okay, I won't make trouble with you anymore, you have to help me today!"
"How can you help me?"
"Put this on first, and then we go to dinner. Give it to me when you come out!" He handed me the purple ring. To be honest, I wasn't happy at all. If he had given me that ring before yesterday,
Maybe I can still play with it for a few days, which is quite strange, but now I feel nothing at all. The only thing I remind myself now is: Don't forget to return this piece of shit to him after you come out.
I took it and put it on my finger. Suddenly I felt that there was a special power in the ring, a hint of coldness and a little bit of heat. Of course, this feeling was fleeting and I didn't pay much attention to it. I followed him.
As soon as I entered the restaurant, my adoptive father glanced at my fingers, then smiled and asked us to come over to eat. This meal must be very delicious. The reason why I say this is because I didn’t even think about it.
While I was focusing on eating, I had one thought in my mind: Don't forget to return the ring to him when you go out.
I hurriedly finished my meal and took him out. As soon as I walked out of the door, I nervously took off the ring and gave it back to him.
"Oh my God, no need. Are you stimulated?" He opened his eyes wide with a look of surprise on his face and put away the ring.
Since the last time I sneaked into the "warehouse", found the map, and met the old lady, we haven't run around in the middle of the night. Our life for these three days has been so the same. When I get up in the morning, he comes to me, puts on the ring, goes to the restaurant, eats,
He came out and returned the ring to him, which made Meng Tianze and I go crazy every day. On the fourth day we went out after dinner. I originally wanted to return the ring to him, but at this time the old lady came out with him.
.I quickly put my hands down.
"Ah, you've finished eating. Are you full?" I pretended to smile and asked Meng Tianze. He seemed to be frightened. He looked at the old lady.
"Now that you're full, how do you think today's meal was?"
"It's okay..." The two of us just pretended to chat and hurried forward. This corridor really didn't even have a turning point. We didn't know where to hide.
None of us dared to look back, so what should we do? Let's go! We have to have a route, we can't just walk along a corridor like this, she should say we were running around.
We walked along the corridor for a while, and when we saw the doors on both sides running backwards, we realized that we had gone a long way. We turned two more turns to the right before stopping.
"Hey! Is your room?" I suddenly pointed to the door on the right. We seemed to have passed by here yesterday. Yes, it should be his room.
"No..." He frowned and looked at it.
"No, it should be."
"But our rooms are not far apart, so where do you think your room is?"
I had to point to the left out of habit, only to find that there was no door there at all.
I feel a little strange, this is obviously...
"Then what is here?"
"How did I know! This place is so big, it's not common to have two identical doors?!" He spread his hands, looking very innocent.
"You have a map, just take a look and that's it!"
He took out the map from his pocket, and the marks on it were much clearer.
"Have you ever painted it?" I asked him and he nodded.
"I think we should be able to use it here. I have been very careful to draw on the original mark in the past few days."
"Then why don't you draw another one?" I looked at the torn, moldy yellow paper and really didn't know what to say.
"You have no brains. You will get lost if you make a slight mistake. Can you guarantee that the newly drawn map will be exactly the same as this one?"
I glared at him, bro! Can you please stop insulting my intelligence?!
I looked at the map carefully, and easily found the restaurant, the corridor facing it, walked straight, turned right, turned right again, that's...
"Meng Tianze, have you lost something?" I pointed to the map, because I clearly saw that the place we were in was already outside the map. In other words, the only corridor on the map was the one facing the restaurant and the one to the right.
After the turn and the intersection to the right, the next thing is blank.
"How could it be? I'm very careful. I'm sure I haven't lost anything!" He looked around. It was still peaceful, but I felt that it was a bit eerie. Maybe it was because of the incomplete map, or maybe it was because of me.
The corridor under my feet, maybe because of... a feeling, I don't know if it is an omen or something, or the most instinctive rejection of unknown things.
"Qin Mengrong, let me ask you, do you want to go in with me now or go back?" He seemed to feel that something was a little bit wrong, and his tone suddenly became serious. This was the first time I saw him look serious. He was really serious.
Pretty cool.
I looked at the intersection where I came from, and then at the deep corridor in front of me.
"Oh, what can I do? Let's go, we're all here!"
The corridor was not as dark as we imagined, and the surroundings were very bright. The walls still had the same candlesticks, paintings, murals, and sculptures, and were magnificently decorated. Who replaced these burned candles with new ones?
I clenched my hands tightly, feeling not fear but a sense of mission. None of us spoke to anyone. We could only hear our footsteps in the corridor and see our shadows dangling on the walls on both sides.
Although we looked forward carefully, we forgot that this was also part of the "underground city" and that the walls here would move.
The wall behind us gradually opened without making any sound. Two "people" walked out of it and moved towards us at an amazing speed and with a sound that could not be heard by others. The two of us didn't even notice.
The armor equipment of those two "people", including helmets, masks, clothes, gloves, pants, and boots, were completely covered tightly by the armor and could not be seen inside. It was strange that they did not leave a gap for the masks to observe.
Where are you breathing? The steel swords in their hands were raised, and everything happened softly behind their backs. I frowned, turned around and squatted down, raised my right arm subconsciously, and saw a faint streak of light coming out of the ring.
Purple lightning streaked across the front of my eyes. That kind of light may only be felt by those who have experienced the dark night. It is neither hot nor cold. It is soft and full of power. It can extend infinitely to both ends.
It seems that something can be divided into two halves, and the broken things can be completely put back together. Lightning, perhaps has a more artistic conception than lightning. I don't know what it is. In an instant, the "person" facing me fell into pieces of armor.
, I suddenly woke up and felt that they were just hollow guards at the mercy of the hand. I looked at the still shining ring again, and felt a little confused. Meng Tianze also noticed the iron armor behind him, and quickly stepped aside. This time he
It was not unintentional. I looked at the ring on my finger seriously, pointed it at him, and then closed my eyes. I have no way to help him now, and he is not 100% sure that he can help himself. He probably just put it.
Think of this as a bet, but this time the bet is life.
If he gets the ring and his mind becomes one, then we will go to see his adoptive father safely today. If not, then the consequences can be imagined. I said I couldn't help him because I was also deceived.
In the dark, I was really scared just now. I stared blankly at the moment Meng Tianze closed his eyes and clenched his right hand tightly.
It was just that one, such a short one, so short that I didn't even see it clearly. I knew we won the bet, because I saw the armored helmet staying on the ground without moving. I didn't know.
Do you know what blew it away just now? Was it a gust of wind? I didn’t see it clearly, but at least it rushed out of the light blue ring. It was only a few minutes, but it felt so long to me.
I don’t know if I was scared just now, at least I was worried and nervous. I had lost any interest in the armored guards. I just stood up quickly, exchanged a look with Meng Tianze, and then turned back sharply.
run.
Are we deserters? Probably not, because I believe we will definitely come here again.
We didn't speak for a long time. The key is that I don't know what topic to talk about. Is it about just now? Or should I continue the original topic. I have probably forgotten what we said before coming here. As for the scene just now, I have ten mouths and I may not be able to say it.
Clearly, it was he who broke the silence in the end.
"I know why!"
"what why?"
"That map."
"What's wrong?" I was a little numb to his reaction. It could also be said that I was not fully awake.
"That incomplete place..."
That incomplete place? I suddenly thought of this question, and it makes sense to connect it with the scene just now. So...
"So what you're saying is that no one can complete this map?" I turned my head and looked at him with a serious expression. He was the same.
"Yes, it can be said that perhaps, at least for now, no one can pass through that place." He pointed to the entrance of the corridor we just visited.
"Just now..." We both spoke at the same time, both wanting to say something, but we both stopped.
He smiled and said, "Speak first."
I originally wanted to ask him what the wind-like thing was. I thought he should know, just like I could feel the existence of the lightning. I felt that the thing had a "cold" feeling.
, maybe it really was Gust? But I suddenly took it back. I wanted to hear what he wanted to ask me.
"Ah? It's nothing." I had no choice but to use this sentence to fend him off, and he didn't continue to ask me anything.
We just walked back along the original path, and he didn't speak until we reached the door of my room.
"Go back and have a rest. Nothing will happen." Then he smiled faintly. In fact, he was right. I was a little frightened at the time. Just as I was about to enter the room, I suddenly remembered something and walked out.
Stopped him.
He turned back again.
"Here you go," I took off the ring on my right hand and gave it back to him, "Thank you for this. It came in handy today!"
I don't know what time it is when I'm lying in bed. This place is always so dark and surrounded by candles. Only the devil knows the existence of time.
I lay on the bed with my face naturally facing the ceiling.