35. Dark Suspension Bridge
Qiu'er led the cliff around the temple all the way, and it was late at night, and everyone closed the door. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
According to the doctrine, ordinary people are not allowed to wander in the upper deep hall without authorization, and since it has not been peaceful recently, it is better to stay away.
Fortunately, I didn't meet anyone, and even those few unruly ones were arrested by Grandma Wu, so smoothly, which Qiu'er never expected.
The second floor of the temple is the same size as the one below, half of which is the dwelling of the maidens, and half of which is divided into rooms of various sizes. Either piles of books or utensils with no apparent purpose. The side where the cliff blended in happened to be at the end of the dwelling.
Turning around and not seeing the way up, Jie Ya asked while observing the movement behind him, "The temple is so high from the outside, is there only these two floors?" ”
"No......"
Countless hallways strung together another, with doors on both sides looking the same.
Qiu'er counted back and forth as she replied, "Just like the place you came up just now, each staircase is hidden in a room, and the entrance to each floor is not in one place. ”
"No wonder you can't find your way."
The position of the two of them was indeed the same as the one they had walked before, with a large wooden floor, a rickety lamp hanging overhead, a few steps away in the dim light, and the walls were made of solid stones, and occasionally there were one or two narrow lattice windows, on which hung thick curtains, which seemed to be dark red in the first glance.
After a few steps, I walked through one of the doors, and behind the door was a hallway, but at the end stood two kneeling goats, their eyes gouged out, and half of their faces wearing a pitch-black mask.
This thing seems to have been seen somewhere, Jie Ya couldn't help but touch it with his hand, the goat's body has no hair, but it is very soft and waxy to the touch, and the place where it was pressed quickly rebounded, just like the real thing.
He couldn't hold back the nausea in his heart and took a step back.
Qiu'er buried her head and looked carefully at the goat's neck, where a piece of skin and flesh was faintly blue, and she said, "I've only been here once." ”
"Aren't you from the deep hall?"
"There is a previous hall and a next hall in the upper deep hall, where we are in the next hall, the lower floor is the place where ordinary worshippers and elders are active, and further up there is another place, we can only stay in our own range...... And in that, where the saint and the people who serve her are, is the last church. ”
"Above the tower?"
She nodded, and immediately frowned: "The day my sister was selected, I secretly followed up and watched. ”
Then she took the cliff and turned left along the goat with a blue spot on its neck, and the door in the corridor was still unrecognizable.
I saw Qiu'er squatting down and checking along the door frame one by one.
"It's here!" She beckoned to the cliff, pointed to a small crack in the ground, and then smiled: "It seems that no one has noticed the mark I left before!" ”
Jie Ya shook his head helplessly, originally wanted to secretly write down the way back and forth, but found that it didn't work at all.
Just thinking about how to fool the girl into taking her out, Qiu'er took out a delicate dagger from her pocket and stuck it in the crack of the door and turned it around.
A puff of hot smoke rose, and the edge of the door lock quickly lifted into the air to dissipate a twisted rune.
"It worked!"
She said as she reached for a push.
In the darkness, a rickety drawbridge protrudes from beneath its feet and disappears into the distance.
Looking down was a large room, faintly recognizable as a large table, surrounded by ten soft chairs, a false window just below the wall where he was, and the ground flickered with sporadic firelight.
From such a distance, it looks like a landscape of undulating mountains.
Looking up, you can see the starry sky in the distance, but the nebula is different from the real scene. The cliff lowered its head again, and the twinkling stars were in the same pattern as the ground.
The walls on both sides go straight up like a knife-cut cliff, and there is no wind between the mountains, but the suspension bridge still sways back and forth.
He couldn't help but feel a little surprised, Qiu'er pointed along the suspension bridge to the dark opposite bank: "There! If you go ahead, you will see the entrance. ”
"The Tower over there?"
"That's right! I can only send you here," she looked at the door beside her, "Tomorrow morning, Lord Mu will find that the forbidden area has been opened, you must hurry." ”
Jie Ya nodded, turned to stare at the other side, and Qiu'er stopped him a few times beside him.
"Here you ......," she shoved the dagger into his hand, "I borrowed it, it seems to be a very powerful thing, you should take it with you!" ”
He looked at the dagger he had received, the blade was thin, like a block of ice to the touch, and faintly glowed with blue light.
With a slight turn of the wrist, the whole dagger will shake like flowing water and create fine ripples. Approaching the hilt, you can see a few small characters the size of a few meters, and Jie Ya raises the blade.
"Empty as ......"
He read it again, and it was embedded like amber glass.
"This thing is so precious, I'll have to return it to you when I come out."
That being said, by the time Jieya put down the dagger in his hand, Qiu'er had already disappeared.
In the darkness, only Jie Ya was the only one left, and the figure hiding in the night in the distance.
He really followed, and he was standing there at the moment.
Jieya has been talking to Qiu'er on the surface, but secretly he has to be wary of him.
It seems that he has only one purpose, which is to let the cliff pass all the way from here.
The show was about to begin, and the corners of his mouth raised and he sneered softly: "Since you have fallen into my arms, then let's just plan it, so as to lure that person out and see what kind of virtue it is." ”
Something in the darkness whimpered quietly, and the cliff turned back silently.
In the direction where the drawbridge disappeared, there was a wet clattering sound, something was lurking there, and there was a heavy gasp under the gums, constantly ****ing his minions.
Cliff poked the dagger in his hand in that direction, and a faint light was just enough to illuminate his feet.
At that moment, there was silence on the other end.
He took a slow step forward, and the drawbridge squeaked from the weight.
Over the years, some parts of the rope have been deflated.
He carefully avoided the side that might break, and farther away, the planks on the bridge deck were almost unclear, and a few hemp ropes stretched out vertically, as if there was a person on the other end who was always pulling in his hand, and the further you went, the more he shook the arc in his hand with joy.
Jieya clenched the dagger in his hand, pulled away the humid air with one hand, and walked cautiously towards the opposite shore.
"Fifteen, twentie, twenty-five......"
Every time I walked five steps, I counted them silently, and the wooden planks on the soles of my feet were only as wide as two pen shafts, and each board had gaps as thick as fingers, so I couldn't look down, and it was extremely terrifying black ahead.
The cliff stopped at the "fifty-fifth", and when I looked back, even the edge of the wall was gone, and it was impossible to tell whether it was in the middle of the bridge or when it was about to arrive.
The muscles of the calf jumped suddenly, and with a violent twitch softened.
The bridge swayed sharply as he knelt, and half of his foot was stuck in the gap, and the dagger illuminated in his hand was about to be thrown out, and he bent down to pick it up, and with a re-grasping motion, he pulled it back firmly, and at this time half of his shoulder was out of the rope.