17 Hidden Paths
"No danger? That's good news,"
When he returned to Lin Xiao's mansion, the young governor was still busy dealing with various affairs in Suzhou.
After asking Mo Yu to hand over the information about the Hidden Dragon Cave to the sisters, she thought about it while processing the documents and said:
"The identities of the missing people have been counted, and all of them are professionals invited from all over the world for the further development of Suzhou,"
"And until now there have been no demands for ransom or anything like that, so,"
Suzhou's future development plans will harm the interests of others and let him use this means to stop ......
Impossible, right? How can you care about ordinary interests if you have that kind of means?
"It's a little incredible, but please think about it,"
Li Xiyue seemed to guess what Lin Xiao was thinking, put down the information in her hand and looked at her:
"The next step in Suzhou's development may make someone unhappy, or something special. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
The young governor thought about it, stood up and flipped through a few records, sat back in his chair and showed Sister Li Yiru a concept map:
"The plan is to expand Suzhou outwards as a whole, and the current location of the city wall will be changed to the fifth ring, after which all post stations and docks will be included in the new city wall," he said.
"The market street in the center of the city will be consolidated into a huge shop that can accommodate all the merchants, and there will be no more weather disruptions,"
"It's a good thing for everybody, and it's completely impossible to see who is going to suffer."
All "people"?
"Woo-"
Li Yiru was asking Lin Xiao when the Sword Saint and his disciples would leave, when a familiar roar came from outside the window,
Wind Spirit Beast?
Looking out of the window, the big green monster was hovering over the large market in the inner two rings, spitting green flames.
"Oh no! Let's stop it! ”
Li Yiru jumped up suddenly, but found that her sister, Lin Xiao and Mo Yu did not react at all,
"What's wrong?"
The teenage governor looked out the empty window:
"What's there?"
"Can't you all see?"
The red-haired girl's eyes widened, and then she turned her face to look at her sister pitifully:
"...... Shio"
"Then Miss Lin Xiao, let's take our leave,"
Li Xiyue sorted out the information in her hand and handed it back to Mo Yu, glancing at the usual noisy bazaar and swaggering monsters outside the window:
"It seems that this matter is really up to us to solve."
……
"Huhu...... Satsuki, can you fly? ”
This time, the wind spirit beast seemed to have taken a lot of food, and as the sisters walked through the bazaar, there were rumors of people in many snack shops, dim sum houses, and restaurants like, "Why is it gone?" Such exclamations,
Yiru and Xiyue closely chased after the wind spirit beast that no one else could see, and because the speed was too fast, they were out of breath after a while.
"You should be the one to cast the flying spell,"
The black-haired girl slowed down and waited for her sister, watching the monster in the air get farther and farther away:
"It's no problem if you don't chase so closely, it's indeed going in the direction of Hidden Dragon Village, and the Sword Master said that the missing person is not in danger, so we can investigate slowly."
"Huhu...... Ha. ”
After slowing down, Li Yiru adjusted her breathing:
"They also prepare food for those they captured, it seems that the hiding place is not only safe and good, but why didn't Grandpa Sword Saint find it?"
"It's like they can't see the Wind Spirit Beast, right?"
While speaking, the two girls had returned to the entrance of Hidden Dragon Village, and the tourists were completely unresponsive to the green monster flying overhead.
"So there should be a secret passage in this cave that we can see but neither the Sword Master nor his disciples can see."
Li Yiru thought for a while and nodded:
"It makes sense, because we are the only ones left who remember that my father is the head of Shushan."
Li Xiyue blinked, didn't say anything about it, and looked up at the entrance of the cave:
"Let's go in and find it."
……
Hidden Dragon Village naturally has its advantages as a scenic spot, and last time I was sent away by the Sword Saint too quickly to have time to visit.
In addition to the many stone houses that form the village at the entrance, the culverts and underground waterways crisscrossing the depths and the stone bridges that cross them form a natural labyrinth.
According to the information given by Lin Xiao, there were countless poisonous snakes and lizards entrenched in this labyrinth, but now there is no sign at all.
From time to time, you'll come across tourists who are more interested in adventure than adventure - if they do, there are youkai in the wild.
"Nothing was found......"
Happily turned around the maze for a long time, but neither the hidden hole nor the mechanism was found, Li Yiru was a little depressed:
"Why don't we go out and find a way to climb to the top of the mountain?"
"There's no need for that,"
Li Xiyue shook her head and pointed under the bridge, where the two girls were standing on a stone bridge at this time, holding on to the railing to watch the luminous lotus.
"We've found it."
"What?"
The red-haired girl looked down, and there was nothing except a large patch of lotus flowers on the dark river under the bridge that were connected together and emitted a glowing white light.
"No......"
"Hint: Surroundings."
"Guess the riddle?"
Li Yiru casually glanced around,
Caves, stone bridges, dark rivers, lotus flowers, tourists, and other places are no different......
"Huh?"
As a tourist hurried by, the red-haired girl finally noticed the problem:
Such a large area of lotus flowers is unique on the road they pass by, but the tourists passing by seem to have not seen it at all.
Occasionally, I still look at my hair color, so ......
She looked at her sister:
"These lotus flowers are the same as those on our island?"
Xianling Island is divided into two layers, inner and outer layers, and if you want to enter the inner island from the outer island, you must step on the [Welcome Lotus] on the Lake of Fog around the inner island, and once you are perceived by the lotus flower with malice, you will sink on the spot.
"Not really, but it should be about the same."
Shigetsu took her sister's hand and jumped off the stone bridge with her.
"Huh? Wait a minute—"
When Li Yiru hurriedly pulled out the umbrella and was about to freeze on those water surfaces, he found that he had stepped firmly on those lotus flowers:
"Sure enough, these glow-in-the-dark lotus flowers are not visible to others."
The black-haired girl nodded, leading her on,
Unlike the moving ones on their own island, the luminous lotus here will disappear every time they step on a community of lotus flowers gathered together, and the next one will appear.
This repeated route along the underground water veins sent the sisters to a location that ordinary tourists would never reach—directly below the Hidden Dragon Village,
Who would have thought that there would be a hole underneath this resort that has been in operation for a long time?
"Uh...... I have a bad premonition,"
Li Yiru looked at the stone gate at the end of the path:
"It'......"
If something can happen, it will.
When the red-haired girl stood in front of the door and hesitated whether to push or knock, the stone door became noble and gorgeous again, and opened with lightning speed.
"Hey! You're foul—"
Bai Guang ignored Li Yiru's dissatisfaction and erupted.