Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao were left at the corner of the passage, Ai Yu found that the Han Zhu conjured by the demon refining pot was suddenly attacked by an unknown attack in the process of exploring the path, and then disappeared, considering that the passage is currently built in an "L" shape, if you continue to move forward, you really find any danger ahead, whether the four of them are fighting against the enemy or strategically retreating, it is extremely inconvenient, so the first and second oil bottles of tow oil are naturally stopped here.

"Why did you keep the two of them there again?" Xu Qingran turned his head, and the afterglow fell on Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao, who were curled up in a ball, Ai Yu was startled for a moment, and smiled slightly apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't think it through just now and said something strange." I hope you don't care......"

Xu Qingran raised a smile, but he didn't say anything, and the two of them just walked quietly and cautiously.

Ai Yu's gaze fell on the familiar and reassuring figure who was crawling forward, and smiled silently and brightly.

It's because he is too sensitive, and when he sees the emotions he shows to Shen Junyao, he has a sense of crisis, so he messes up his mind and makes wrong judgments and decisions, which is really bad.

I can't go on like this, Ai Yu, cheer up.

The light left by Han Qi's rapid walking and exploration lasted for a long time, and when the figures of Chen Yang and Zhao Xiao behind him almost turned into small black dots and were about to be invisible, the front was finally soaked in pure black, Xu Qingran stretched out his hand and waved it back, Ai Yu kept a distance of one or two meters without moving, on the dividing line between light and darkness, there was fresh blood, sticky with a fishy smell. Xu Qingran confirmed the color of the bloodstains, took out the disposable flashlight given by Ai Yu from his bag, unscrewed the switch, and the strong light broke through the darkness and illuminated the secret hidden in the black.

About five meters away from Xu Qingran, there was a wooden door with five or six silver chains, and on the right side of that door, there was a relatively low vent, and the iron mesh fell to the ground, and the vent was not blocked or illuminated.

Xu Qingran looked at the backpack bar for a while, and chose the lightest prop to put on the wrist of his right hand, Ai Yu saw this, and also took out a small red ball in his hand, Xu Qingran looked back at her, nodded, and the two kept their distance and moved forward again.

[Wrist Arrow: Attack prop, attack in the specified direction according to the consciousness of the Dream Traveler, up to five arrows at the same time at a time, a total of 20 arrows can be used in one round of attack, and the cooldown time is three hours]

[Peter's Toy Ball: A special prop, which can be thrown as an attack prop, and the object that the ball touches will randomly produce one of the three symptoms of stiffness, dizziness, and poisoning, and when used as a defensive prop, it can generate a layer of defensive shield within the range of motion and have a knockback effect on nearby enemies. Half an hour of use, four hours of cooldown】

Xu Qingran had already climbed to the vent, and the flashlight shone into the space behind the vent, which was a square utility room of about fifteen square meters, and there was also a vent on the wall on the left side of the utility room, and the bright light came from there, and the faint light made the utility room not pitch black. The utility room is much more spacious than the passage, and there is no need for people to crawl forward, Xu Qingran stood in the grocery room, first stretched a big lazy waist, as if to alleviate the physical discomfort caused by curling up in a small space for too long. Ai Yu also stepped into the utility room, and after his body relaxed, the two began to look for clues in the utility room.

"This looks like a normal utility room...... It's nothing special, although it's a little bigger than the passage behind it, but it's actually not very big, nothing unusual. Ai Yu rummaged through the things piled up in the utility room, and said to himself, Xu Qingran held a flashlight, and his attention was all on the surrounding walls, he almost stuck to the wall to observe, not letting go of any corner.

"There's no trace here, as you said, it's just an ordinary utility room that can't be ordinary anymore, but the setting of this utility room is too strange, there are no doors, only two vents can barely be used as entrances and exits." Having said this, Xu Qingran squatted down and pulled the iron bar at the vent, using not very much force, but easily opened the vent, "The dust traces around are not obvious, it seems that it is often used, and from the perspective of looseness, even if it is a seven or eight-year-old child, it can pull it." ”

"So, the children came from here into the bell tower?"

"I guess so," Xu Qingran leaned out of the vent with half of his body, and sure enough, outside was the sunset square, his eyes were on the forest in front of him, he squinted his eyes slightly, and Ai Yu next to him paused when he saw his movements, "What's wrong?" What do you see? ”

Xu Qingran came back to his senses, returned to the utility room, got up and patted the dust on his body gently, "It's nothing, it's Sunset Square outside, the children should have come in through this vent, and then ran along the narrow passage, that passage is very narrow for us adults and we have to bend over and walk, but for children, they can run directly without scruples." ”

"It's just that, in this case, this thing chasing the children should be very small, right? At least...... Wouldn't it be a person? ”

The light of the flashlight in Xu Qingran's hand shone on the vent when it came again, "I don't know what it is, there is another house here, right next door." ”

As he spoke, he walked towards the vent, as if he was about to crawl back into the passage again, Ai Yu looked puzzled, not knowing if he was puzzled by Xu Qingran's sentence "I can't tell what it was", or if he was puzzled by his behavior of returning to the passage while talking about another house.

Xu Qingran had already crawled back into the passage, he made a stop gesture to Ai Yu, so he squatted there motionless, the light shining on the door with several silver chains, Xu Qingran frowned, and looked down at the ground.

There were traces of blood, dark red blood that had dried up and coagulated.

In addition to this, there are fresh, sticky, bright red blood stains, and the two colors are intertwined, presenting an inexplicable weirdness.

Xu Qingran reached out and pulled the pull ring on the door, and the crack in the door showed slight signs of movement due to his actions.

It is a door that opens outward.

Xu Qingran looked at the intertwined silver chains in front of him with a headache, and there was a lock hanging on the chain, this lock looked very new, and it may have just been replaced. There is no way to open this door without unlocking the lock and removing the chains that stand in front of the door.

He reached out and touched the hanging lock, and made sure that it was strong and could not be easily broken by violence, so he flipped the lock and looked at the keyhole, which was a crescent-shaped keyhole, very special, and ordinary people may have never seen it, and it became extremely impractical to pry it open with a hairpin.

You can't violently open the lock to make too much noise, and you can't try to pick the lock opportunistically, the door in front of you is undoubtedly a clue, and the fresh blood stains on the ground should be left by the attack, so it must be opened.

But the method of opening the door is sealed by the damn time curse rule, what should I do?

Thinking of this, Xu Qingran held his forehead with his hand and felt a headache.

......Ai Yu handed over a key, Xu Qingran was stunned for a moment, looked at the thing in her hand with some puzzlement, and tentatively stretched out her hand to take the key.

[Solomon's Key (Shen Junyao Prop): A special item that can open any locked thing, with a cooldown of three hours]

Is it Shen Junyao's prop? Why is it in Ai Yu's hands?

Xu Qingran frowned and looked at Ai Yu, Ai Yu waved his hand, "It's the ...... that Jun Yao handed me when I just came in."

"Ai Yu, wait a minute." Jun Yao stopped Ai Yu, who was about to walk to the corner of the stairs, and she held a golden key in her hand and handed it to Ai Yu.

"It's ......"

"It's a prop of mine, a key that can open anything. When Jiang Xian was outside, she looked at the structure of the entire bell tower, and she said that the space we are in now is much smaller than what is estimated to be seen outside, and if there is a long passage behind the secret door, then there must be a hidden space hidden somewhere in the passage. This key will help you even more. ”

"I suspect that if it's really a passage at the back, it's going to be very narrow, and if there's a door hidden in the depths of the passage, there's little you can do to keep the volume down and you can barely open the locked thing."

Ai Yu looked at the key in his hand in a daze, "You...... Aren't you afraid that I won't give you back your props if I take them? ”

"Huh? Anyway, I'm a member of the big organization 'Beidu', and my prop is nothing special, is it really worth grabbing? Jun Yao covered her mouth and smiled, "Besides, Ai Yu, will you?" ”

Ai Yu heard the meaning of her words, shook the key in his hand, and smiled slightly, "I won't." ”

Xu Qingran was stunned for a moment, and then a smile was aroused, with a little bit of emotion that Ai Yu couldn't understand, he inserted the key into the lock hole, turned it twice, and then the lock opened.

Xu Qingran reached out and untied the lock hanging on the iron chain, and before the next move, the iron chains that were intertwined into a complex shape moved by themselves as if they had life, they were like snakes dormant in the dark, disturbed by the sudden unexpected factor, and gave up their original plan to leave, all the iron chains melted into the wall, leaving only an old wooden door.

Xu Qingran stretched out his hand to open the door, and was immediately shocked by the scene behind the door.

It was a candle-lit reddened room, with four hideous but very different monster statues in the center of the walls, and a mahogany table with thirteen candles and a silver-white cross on the north side.

[Please note that special missions have been opened]

[Special Quest: Complete the worship ritual of the gods to unlock special clues]

[Time limit: 30 minutes]