Chapter 10: The Lord of the Fallen Turbulent Valley
Cheng Wulin was woken up by a burst of aroma.
He stretched with his eyes closed and muttered, "Who ordered takeout?" So fragrant. ”
"What do you say?" Wang Luli's voice came from the toilet.
Cheng Wulin opened his eyes and looked around: "It's okay...... I'm a little sleepy......"
"Envy," after a burst of toilet flushing, Wang Luli scratched his back and walked out, "I haven't slept well, you sleep so well, you're snoring." ”
"I'm snoring? How can it be? Cheng Wulin sat up excitedly, "I never snore!" ”
"Actually, it's not snoring, but the breathing sound is a bit heavy."
"That's okay...... Cheng Wulin reached out and pulled the clothes on the pillow to put them on, pulled on his shoes and walked to the table along the source of the fragrance. There are a few heavy meat dishes and two bowls of rice on the table, which look still hot.
"It smells tempting, but it's too tiring to eat it when you wake up. When was it delivered? ”
"I don't know, it's been a long time. The meal was steaming hot all the time, and I felt that this table could keep heating up on its own. Wang Luli touched the dark but warm table.
Cheng Wulin rubbed his somewhat confused eyes, ran to the bathroom to wash up, and came back to see Wang Luli standing at the window and watching.
"Is it morning or evening?" Cheng Wulin looked around, there was no such thing as a clock.
"I can't see it," Wang Luli pointed out the window, "It's been this brightness since I woke up." ”
Cheng Wulin also walked to the window, only to see that it was very bright outside the window, but it was foggy and he couldn't see anything clearly. The windows are fully enclosed, and there is no handle that can be opened.
Wang Luli also walked over: "There is no switch in the window, and it can't be opened." The door is also locked, and I just unscrewed the handle, but it can't be wrewd. ”
"Can't get out? Isn't this just a prison cell? Cheng Wulin said angrily, "That woman really didn't have any good intentions!" ”
"Didn't you still think she was pitiful last night, why is she not at ease now." Wang Luli quipped.
"That's when I'm dazed!" Cheng Wulin scratched his scalp angrily.
He crouched down, pulled his shoes on, and paced around the room. It's just a very small room, except for a bedroom and a toilet, and it looks like a regular express hotel room. Walking to the door, he knocked, "Anyone?" ”
No response.
Cheng Wulin twisted the handle again, but he really couldn't twist it. How is the food delivered? He thought to himself, and then inadvertently pulled the door sideways.
"Big brother," he turned back and burst into laughter at Wang Luli, who was knocking everywhere on the wall, "This he. Mother. is a sliding door. ”
"Uh......" Wang Luli sweated wildly.
"What to do, Holmes I has ruined his reputation." Cheng Wulin stretched out his hand and poked Wang Luli's waist.
"Oops! Don't kid me, I'm not as smart as you think......" Wang Luli jumped up when he was poked, wriggled and dodged backwards, and said with a wry smile.
Cheng Wulin smiled evilly, and said while poking after him: "Then you didn't mention a word of your reasoning when you bombed Instructor Wu, and later said that I was afraid that I wouldn't understand, and I could hold a grudge!" ”
"Don't, I'm afraid of itching!" Wang Luli ran out of the door with a puff of smoke and leaned against the back of a strange-shaped potted plant next to the elevator, "I was wrong! Eldest brother! Spare your life! ”
"As soon as I got up, the two little brothers were so energetic." A familiar brisk voice sounded from the sides of the two.
The elevator door opened, and Tu Tingting, who had changed into a water-green dress, jumped out: "I heard you two flirting through the door." ”
"I'll you!" Cheng Wulin said angrily, "Why are you everywhere?" As soon as he saw Tu Tingting, he was inexplicably angry.
Tu Tingting glanced at him without answering, and walked into the room between the two of them by herself, "Huh? Haven't eaten? I asked my cook to make it carefully. ”
"I'm so tired."
"No appetite."
"Don't eat," Tu Tingting pursed her lips and walked back to the porch, "Although it's only 5 o'clock now, the people who are going to take you to see you basically don't sleep, so there's no problem going directly." ”
"We've slept for so long?" Cheng Wulin glared and exclaimed, "Why don't I feel it at all?" ”
"I've given you something to calm your nerves." Tu Tingting smiled mysteriously.
"It's this plant, isn't it?" Wang Luli frowned and looked at the potted plants at the elevator entrance, "No wonder I haven't slept well, I don't like this smell very much, I used to smell it with bated breath." ”
"That's right, I won't explain the specifics to you, and the person who will see you later will tell you." Tu Tingting turned her back and walked back to the elevator, "Follow me." ”
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Unlike yesterday, the three people entered the elevator and did not speak. The air was a little embarrassed, only Tu Tingting had no scruples, staring back and forth at the faces of the two boys with a smile.
There's no floor prompt screen or anything.,Anyway, when you came up yesterday, was it so long? Cheng Wulin said in his heart, feeling that he had nowhere to put his vision. Seeing from the reflection of the elevator wall, Wang Luli was also a little uncomfortable, constantly changing the center of gravity of his body.
"Ahem, why don't you see anyone else in this tower?" Cheng Wulin cleared his throat and asked.
"I'm the city lord, and the entire upper tower is my home, how can I let others in casually." Tu Tingting smiled.
Cheng Wulin said in his heart, let's not just come in.
He still had a lot of objections to the concept that Tu Tingting was the city lord in his heart, because the other party really didn't look like a city lord.
She dressed like a student who was not deeply involved in the world, walked and jumped without a serious look, and felt like a verbose old aunt in her heart, without a little girl's shy look in front of strangers, and her eyes sometimes showed a lustful gaze that was not commensurate with her young and pure face.
This last point makes him quite concerned, even if you like handsome guys, you don't have to be so straightforward, right?
For him, Tu Tingting is more like a pampered second-generation rich princess than the so-called city lord of such a strange city.
Cheng Wulin shook his head, feeling that his own speech did not have any effect on the atmosphere, but became more embarrassing.
Fortunately, at this moment, the elevator stopped with a clang, and he breathed a sigh of relief and ran out first. Wang Luli stretched out his hand and motioned for Tu Tingting to go first. Tu Tingting smiled and walked out after Cheng Wulin.
The space outside the elevator is large, a semi-circular hall, and a red carpet is paved along the elevator entrance all the way to an open arched door in the distance, which should be the exit of the tower.
Cheng Wulin: They also saw someone other than them for the first time. Several men in white uniforms saw them come out, bowed in their direction, and sat on either side of the red carpet.
Tu Tingting smiled back at them.
The three of them didn't stop in the foyer and walked out along the red carpet.
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The weather outside the gate was good, and the breeze swept the white clouds slowly drifting forward. The white ring-like walls of the city glittered in the early morning light, all the more majestic from their perspective, staggering and turning like giant gears.
The White Pagoda is surrounded by a vast and endless square, and neatly cut stone bricks are constantly lifted from the ground, rising out of thin air, and crisscrossing stone stairs between the rings.
Cheng Wulin squinted and saw a figure walking on those stone stairs from below.
Tu Tingting waved her hand to the ground, the stone bricks in front of her trembled, and then lifted up one by one, forming a straight stone staircase, all the way to the highest outer ring ring city in the distance.
"Awesome," Cheng Wulin said in surprise: "These stone stairs are so handsome, why do you still use elevators in your own tower?" ”
"My elevator also flies on the same principle, I just think it's more used to being an elevator, after all, the way to go upstairs is like this in our time in the Nether."
As they climbed the stairs, more and more people saw Tu Tingting's figure, and they waved and shouted at them from the other stone stairs.
"By the way, here in the mirror, people of the same era basically get together, and deal with those people from hundreds of years ago or in the future, sometimes you may feel that ......the generation gap is a little deep," Tu Tingting waved back her hand and said to the two behind her.
"So, the person we want to see is also the person of the future. You'd better not talk nonsense......" She stopped, pulled Cheng Wulin, who almost fell on him, and added.
The further up she went, the stronger the wind became, and Tu Tingting's green gauze skirt began to flutter with the wind. As we got closer to the end of the staircase, the windows on the ring ring were gradually visible, and many men, women, and children poked their heads out of the windows and waved happily at them.
A flock of pigeons flew over and landed on the stairs in front of several people. Cheng Wulin stopped, looked back at Wang Luli, who was walking slowly, and asked, "Are you okay?" Do you need me to help you? ”
Wang Luli shook his head: "It's nothing." ”
Tu Tingting stretched out her hand, and a pigeon flew to her hand. She tapped her finger at the pigeon's neck. The pigeon didn't dodge, and lay down comfortably in the palm of her hand.
She said in a brisk tone, "If you're tired, you can sit down and rest for a while." ”
Cheng Wulin exhaled: "I still think the elevator is better now......"
"I have a question, I felt that the elevator was going up just now," Wang Luli, who was sitting down, had an unnatural face, wiped his sweat, and asked with his eyes closed, "You said that the upper tower is your home, which means that we were actually in the spire under the city before?"
"That's right, under the waterfall is the upper tower." Tu Tingting stroked the white wings of the pigeon in her hand.
"No wonder I felt the moisture outside the window in my room just now. You're not the lord of the city, why do you live under a gloomy waterfall? Cheng Wulin asked puzzled.
Tu Tingting waved her hand to let the pigeon fly out, and watched it gradually fly away all the way. She brushed the windswept hair from her sideburns back behind her ears: "Because it's facing the Upper Realm,"
"A city lord is to protect the people behind him at the forefront of facing the enemy." Tu Tingting turned around, bent down slightly and said, smiling like an elf who only came out of the painting.
Cheng Wulin looked at the cheering crowd in the window not far away, and his impression of the girl in front of him changed a little.