Chapter 26: The Lost Secret Passage (2)

Fu Hui took us quietly to another place, I recognized this house, it was Gu Chengzi's house. We went around to the back of the house, and Fleur felt under the fence and found a very short rope. This rope is buried in the soil on weekdays, and if you don't look for it carefully, no one will really find it. She pulled the rope up, and a baffle was lifted out, and inside was a basement, and we went into the basement one by one, and although it was dark but very spacious. When the three small balls of light were in the pipe, they were already gone, so Mo Qingyan took out his last small ball of light, and reminded us that we need to find a way out of the town as soon as possible, and it is best to go out before dawn, otherwise this small ball of light will never be enough to last the second night. We each found a place in the basement and sat down, drank a sip of water and rested for a while, while Mo Qingyan went to check Ali's body. I looked at the others, their eyes were full of confusion, and perhaps mine too, only Fleur's eyes were firmly looking ahead, unchanged.

"Sister Fleur, what is this place?" I asked weakly.

"This is when my brother and I played hide and seek when we were kids, and I always found him, and in the last hurry I dug this cellar, and since then, as soon as I play hide and seek, he hides here, and he thinks I don't know, hehe, I already knew, I deliberately didn't go to him, let him be bored here. "I looked into Fleur's eyes, and they were very deep.

"Captain......" Lao Xu said in a low voice.

"What?" Fleur looked up and blinked.

"No, it's been a long time since I've seen you say so much at once. Lao Xu said.

"Oh, to whom did I give my words? Fleur replied coldly.

"Okay......" Lao Xu stopped talking and sat back.

"Hey, by the way, Lao Xu, Sister Furui, what did you just dig up?"

"Oh, this, I'll tell you! Little Joan! This is the beginning of everything, if it weren't for it! we wouldn't be where we are today. Lao Xu said while shaking his head.

I think of the scene when I first arrived at this place, when I first arrived at Lao Xu's house.

"Could it be...... Is it something inside the dark compartment, a diligent heart-to-heart bell?" I asked in surprise.

"Well, yes. That's it. Lao Xu nodded at me.

Fleur took out the Zhuang Zhou box from her bag and gently opened it, the golden fountain pen inside slowly revealed, although it was still mixed with some soil, but this could not hide its exquisiteness, I have never seen a pen so beautifully made. A lifelike phoenix is carved on the body of its pen, and it is soaring with its wings. If you look at this pen closely, it is as if you see yourself on a high mountain, looking at this phoenix, you are chasing it, and it is chasing you. Under the slight light, it seems to reflect a piece of colored light, and the phoenix on the pen body seems to soar in this colorful light, which is really beautiful.

We all saw God one by one, Lao Xu said, there are countless people in the town who take the heart stone to Seiko, but only the diligent heart bell can make him breathtaking, and no matter how you look at it, you will never get tired of it, and you have to praise it every time you look at it. I subconsciously wanted to touch it, but Fu Hui quickly closed the Zhuang Zhou box, she was afraid that any friction would make a bell, and laziness would hear the news, and then we would be in trouble. But where can we go now? Fu Hui and Mo Qingyan were discussing.

"Sister Fleur, how are we going to get out of town?" I asked.

"Let me think about it. Fleur pondered earnestly.

"According to the latest intelligence, there is a small gap every morning that we can fight for. Mo Qingyan said.

"Not necessarily, Lazy must know that we're in town now, and he's bound to step up his guard patrols, and that little gap isn't worth the risk. ”

"And tomorrow night, let's sneak out again?"

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"How's that?" Mo Qingyan asked again.

"No, the secret passage of Lao Xu's house has been sealed, and the secret passage of several residents in the town can't get out of the town, and even Aunt Xue's secret passage has been discovered, and now we have no way out. I have a solution, though. Fleur sighed as she spoke.

"What's the way?" Mo Qingyan asked.

"The only way now is to have a signal tower east of the town, if we can use the signal tower to send a message to the base and let them officially attack, maybe we can escape when there is chaos. ”

"This ...... Captain ......"

"Mo Qingyan, I know what you're worried about, don't hide it, just say it. ”

"Captain, let's not talk about our current equipment...... Less than half of the lazy, at this time the attack is to send death, and if we send a message to the base, it is possible to move the whole body, and the laziness will come to the door, then it will be troublesome. ”

"......" Fluff looked into the distance, unable to say a word, we didn't want to put too much pressure on her, so we kept silent.

"Everyone, stop, I have an idea, I don't know if you want to hear it. ”

Just when Fu Hui and Mo Qingyan racked their brains and couldn't come up with a foolproof solution, Ah Li interrupted, and all of us looked at him suspiciously, he was startled by my battle, only to see him adjust and continue.

"I knew there was a place to get out. ”

"Where?" asked Fleur.

"Lazy nest. Ali replied firmly.

"Is the lazy nest that tall building?" I asked.

"That's right. ”

"How can there be a way out there. Fleur asked, puzzled.

"You don't understand this, you think those secret tunnels in the town appeared out of thin air, but they were all dug up by our generation. ”

"You dug it up?"

"That's right, you know, there used to be nothing in the town, so I finally had some food, but it would go bad after a day, so in order to preserve the food, we dug some cellars under the ground so that we could store the grain. But after a long time, every house was digging cellars there, and gradually it became a secret passage that you know. ”

"There is such a past. Mo Qingyan sighed.

"There are so many things you don't know. Ali said proudly.

"And how are we going to get there?" asked Fleur.

"Don't worry, didn't I say it, these cellars are connected, I remember that there is one in the north of the town that has their cellar that leads to the lazy. ”

"Zhenbei, we can be in Zhennan now. Mo Qingyan questioned.

"It's okay, I'll take you with me. Ali patted his chest and said confidently.

"Okay, captain, do you think it's okay?" Mo Qingyan wasn't sure, so he had to ask Fu Yuan's opinion.

"Well, yes, while the lazy brigade hasn't come back yet, it's okay to go over now, let's go now. ”

"Good!"

Fleur gently opened the basement baffle, and as I climbed up, I looked up but froze, and I found the moon hanging in the middle of the box, as if watching our every move with wide eyes, and my heart was a little uneasy for some reason. Fleur swept her hand in front of my eyes, and I came back to my senses, but the uneasiness in my heart did not diminish in the slightest. When I went up, I could feel that a dark and terrifying aura was enveloping the entire town of Laziness.

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The moonlight hit the ground indifferently, the quiet and lazy town was full of gloom, and the phrase suddenly flashed in my mindβ€”"There is a way in heaven that you don't take, and there is no way to break into hell." I think that if there really is a hell in the world, the environment there should be no different from the lazy town at this time, which can make people feel the deepest fear.

Ali, Lao Xu, Mo Qingyan, Fu Hui and I were hurrying to the north of the city, and even if we were walking in concealment on the ground, there was no guarantee that nothing would go wrong. If we are discovered by the lazy ears and eyes, it will be difficult for us to find a way out. So, Ali took us like gophers, sneaked into other people's houses, opened their cellars, and slowly walked to the north of the town through the underground tunnels that could be connected to each other.

What is surprising is that there are a lot of mechanisms in the cellar of each house, and only by pressing the mechanism, the secret passage connecting with other cellars will appear, and ordinary people can't find the location of this mechanism, so they will only think that this is an ordinary closed cellar. Unexpectedly, the underground tunnels in this lazy town are no less complex than the bases outside the town. However, among our group, the most surprised ones are Mo Qingyan and Fu Yuan. Mo Qingyan took out the small steel ball that had been detecting the Scrap Valley before, scanning the structure of the entire cellar, and Fu Hui carefully recorded the location and use of each switch. I walked up to them and asked them.

"Sister Fleur, what are you recording all this for?"

"Well, Sister Joan, do you know how long we've been secretly exploring Lazy Town?" Fleur said and sighed.

"How long?"

"It's been about three or four years. Three or four years! But do you know how many secret passages we have found?"

"Ah, I don't know. ”

"Little girl, it's been four years, and we've only found a dozen!" At this time, Mo Qingyan couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes, fourteen or fifteen! There is one in the old Xu family. Alas......"

"What's even more infuriating is that except for the old Xu family, the others are some inconsequential secret passages!" Mo Qingyan shook his head and said in an atmosphere.

"Yes, if we could have a person like Brother Ali at that time, we would have mastered the method of going to every house, and we could also find more people like Lao Xu. Fleur said.

"So, we want to write down these roads and use them later. Mo Qingyan nodded.

"Hey, what's wrong with someone like me?" Lao Xu suddenly came over.

"Oops, it's none of your business. "I didn't want to pay attention to him and pushed him out.

"Why don't you have my business, you all mentioned me just now. ”

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"It's that if we can find more people like you, then there will be more contacts in the town, and we won't have any of us now after you are exposed. Fleur explained slowly.

"Oh...... I see. Joan, now you know, I'm important. Lao Xu raised his eyebrows and said to me very obscenely.

"Yes, yes, you matter. I covered my ears and rolled his eyes three hundred and sixty degrees

"Brother Ali, how long do we have to go?" asked Fleur.

"Hey, that guy's sister, we're only halfway through now, and we're still half gone!"

"There's still half the way. ”

"This underground is different from the aboveground, this road is tortuous, if you want to get to the destination, you have to put in some effort, what's the matter?

"Okay. We'll be fine, just come with you. ”

Furao let the restless Lao Xu on the side be quiet for a while, and continued to follow Ali forward. But after walking for a while, I vaguely felt everything around me shaking, and I reached out to touch the rock wall, only to see my hands vibrating regularly. Just as I was about to take a step forward, the strong vibration made my legs lose strength all of a sudden, but fortunately Ali next to me helped me, otherwise I would have to fall on my heels. The sand on the surrounding rock walls was shaken down, and the whole tunnel was dusty, and we had to cover our mouths and noses with towels. At this moment, Ali asked us to stop, let us gather around him, and asked Mo Qingyan to turn off the machinery in his hand, and wait for the vibration to subside before continuing to walk, and he spoke to us earnestly.

"We're almost in the center of the town now, and the monitoring here will be much stronger than in other places, so you should quickly turn off all the machinery in your hands." ”

"But we still have to probe. Mo Qingyan said.

"Probe, and probe, if you are discovered, the lazy person will dig you out." ”

"Okay, Mo Qingyan, just turn off all the instruments as Brother Ali said. ”

"Everyone, I want to ask, what just happened?" I asked, puzzled.

"Actually, we don't know very well, since Lazy took over, there has been a lot of tremors here, and the closer we get to the center of town, the more powerful the shaking becomes, and we don't know what he's doing in there. Don't worry, little girl, it's okay. Mo Qingyan explained.

"Strange to say, though, the tremors here seem to be confined to the vicinity of the town centre, and never to be seen farther afield. And when I was on the ground, I never felt a tremor. Lao Xu said.

"I guess, that lazy thing is not necessarily doing in the ground. Ali said as he nodded.

"Big Brother Ali, what's the big thing?" Fleur immediately tensed.

"Oh, I also said it casually, in the memory of that guy before, I saw a big mechanical head, at least two or three people tall. ”

"Huh?!really?" Fleur cried out in surprise.

"I'm just casually saying that I've seen memories like that, don't take it seriously. Ali said.

"Captain, if you want to be lazy and want to make a robot of that size, you can't hide it on the ground. Mo Qingyan said.

"Hmm...... So the underground ...... If it's true...... Why would he do it?"

Fu Yuan's face was clouded with gloom for a moment, and Mo Qingyan even scratched his head and looked at her tightly, estimating that if they went back safely, their plan would have to be discussed for a long time. After a few words of advice, let us follow him carefully, and we should be extra careful on this part of the road. When we first came down, we could still talk for a few words, but the next time, as if everyone had something on their minds, they were all thinking about their own affairs, and walked with their heads down and without saying a word. The silence didn't stop until Ali stopped us with his hand, and he turned to us and said, "It's here."

Ali searched the rock wall with his hand, grasped a rock block and turned it clockwise a few times, and heard the sound of the lock cylinder turning, and the rock wall of the tunnel slowly turned ninety degrees, opening a crack that could pass through a person. Ali told us to go through the crack first, and when we were all inside, he pushed the rock wall back, twisted a mechanism, and locked it again.

When we entered, we found that it was a room full of dust, and every piece of furniture was covered with dust, and even every step we took could kick up puffs of dust. Ali took us to a side room, took a little water with a rag, wiped the stool and told us to sit down and rest for a while.

"Ali, where is this?" I asked.

"Here it is...... It's my home. ”

He smiled wryly, did this smile mean anything?