One brick, two bricks, three bricks...... It wasn't until the fifteenth brick that the maid finally stepped on the right little tile.

The wall opened again, and when the little maid was hesitating and didn't know which side of the secret passage to enter, she saw that there was a dark red money bag on the ground in the dark passage on the right, and she decided that Ye Luqing and Ji Liuli had walked into the dark passage on the right.

The little maid had the courage to walk towards the dark passage on the right, but as soon as the little maid entered the dark passage, the wall suddenly closed, and the sudden darkness frightened the little maid to immediately call for help. "Whoa, a

On the left side, there was also a secret passage where they couldn't see their fingers, and Ye Luqing and Ji Liuli could barely hear the cries for help from the secret passage next door.

Ji Liuli, who was covered in hair, subconsciously hugged Ye Luqing, who had never left her since she entered the dark passage, her body was unconsciously tense, obviously frightened by the sharp voice of the woman next door.

Immediately afterwards, Ji Liuli wanted to ask Ye Luqing about the woman next door who secretly called for help, but in the next moment, the miserable screams of the woman next door frightened Ji Liuli and buried her head in Ye Luqing's chest.

"Don't be afraid. Ye Luqing hugged Ji Liuli's delicate, soft and trembling body with both hands, and comforted Ji Liuli in Ji Liuli's ear with an extremely low voice. "It's okay, I'm here. ”

After a while, the voice of the woman in the secret passage next door stopped abruptly, and Ji Liuli dared to raise her head from Ye Luqing's arms.

"Brother Qing. Ji Liuli's voice calling Ye Luqing was mixed with a hint of trembling, although she still had lingering palpitations at the woman's last miserable scream just now. But she wanted to know the whole thing. "What the hell is going on?"

Ye Luqing didn't answer Ji Liuli's question first, but first stretched out his right hand and groped for a mechanism on the wall on the right.

'Click', the mechanism is opened. Many torches were lit in the originally dark dark passage from near to far, illuminating Ji Liuli's sight.

Ji Liuli, who had been in the dark for nearly a stick of incense, couldn't adapt to the brightness in front of her for a while, and buried her face in Ye Luqing's arms again, until her eyes adjusted to the light again, and Ji Liuli finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Hoo ......"

Ye Luqing gently pushed Ji Liuli into his arms and took Ji Liuli's little hand. "Let's go, Li'er. It's time for us to go to the lair, I'll tell you about the secret passage next door as we go. ”

"Good. Ji Liuli nodded.

Ye Luqing, who got Ji Liuli's head, led Ji Liuli step by step to the depths of the dark passage, and also told Ji Liuli why there was a woman's scream in the secret passage next door.

Originally. When Ye Luqing was helping Ji Liuli to get out of the carriage after getting out of the carriage, he swept two suspicious women, so he chose to bring Ji Liuli into the store quickly when Ji Liuli stood at the door of the 'old nest' store in a daze and looked around.

Inside the shop, Ye Luqing noticed that one of the two suspicious women had followed him and Ji Liuli into the shop and was deftly hiding behind the door. Therefore, Ye Luqing urged Ji Liuli to walk into the store.

However, his conversation with Ji Liuli in the store did not subside. He believed that the woman had heard his conversation with Ji Liuli clearly, so it seemed that he would never let the woman walk out of the shop alive.

So he had a plan, slowed down and opened the door of the secret passage, deliberately threw the money bag he was carrying into the dark passage on the right, and he covered the small mouth of Ji Liuli, who wanted to ask, and brought Ji Liuli into the dark passage on the left.

These two secret passages were originally designed to confuse enemies who would one day discover the hidden passages, therefore. At the beginning of the tunnel on the right, there are hidden weapons and traps.

Also, because the end of the tunnel on the left is also equipped with hidden weapons and traps. The place leading to the real 'Thousand Phoenix' lair is not actually the end on the left, but the place between the beginning and the end of the dark passage on the left.

Counting the torches hanging on the wall from the starting point, the thirty-second fire is the mechanism that leads to the real secret passage of the 'Thousand Phoenix's lair.

"Brother Qing, that woman ......" Ji Liuli looked up at Ye Luqing with a cold face beside him.

The woman's voice had not come out again after screaming, could it be that she was unconscious or ...... Death of incense?

The speculation in Ji Liuli's heart was quickly confirmed by Ye Luqing.

"Surely death. Ye Luqing threw out these four words loudly.

Ji Liuli looked at Ye Luqing with some disapproval. "Brother Qing, isn't this too cruel?"

Even if the woman followed her and Ye Luqing into the store and knew the location of the secret passage, Ye Luqing threw down the money bag and misled the woman into the secret passage where hidden weapons and traps were arranged at the starting point, was it too much?

Ye Luqing shook his head, his tone was very helpless. "If she doesn't die, I'll be the next one to die. ”

In fact, he himself is not a person with a vicious heart, but he has always adhered to the belief that 'if people do not offend me, I will not offend others, and if people offend me, I will pay back a hundred times', so he will never be merciful to those who take the initiative to offend him.

"......" Ji Liuli was silent, it seemed that after a long time of inner struggle, she finally had an answer in her heart. "Then let her die. ”

Although she is a healer who is supposed to save lives and help the wounded, she does not save everyone, and if the person waiting for treatment hurts her or someone she knows and loves, then she will definitely choose to stand by and watch instead of saving her enemies without doing anything.

Just like the incident when she saved Nangong Mobai more than a year ago, it was only because Nangong Mobai might know clues about her biological parents, and Nangong Mobai herself did not directly hurt Ye Luqing, so she decided to save him.

This time, for the death of the woman next door, Ji Liuli really didn't have the mood to pity the woman.

Because instead of putting Yeluqing's life at risk, she would rather secretly let the woman next door die.

"Poof. Ye Luqing couldn't help laughing, his little Li'er is really a pistachio. "My Li'er is so nice, hahahahaha. ”

After walking for a while with a smile and a smile, Ye Luqing led Ji Liuli to stop in front of a torch.

"This is the secret passage to the real lair of the 'Thousand Phoenix'. Ye Luqing let go of Ji Liuli's little hand, walked to the torch, and gently twisted the base under the torch.

Immediately afterwards, a crack appeared between the thirty-second and thirty-third torches.

The separated stone walls slowly parted to the two sides, revealing the illuminated dark passage behind them. (To be continued.) )