Chapter 9: Waiting for Them to Make Mistakes
The four of them scattered down the hall in search of the mechanism.
Soon Zhou Zhizhi found an unusual brick, and on the wall to the left of the gate there was a wall tile that was smoother than the side, and there was no dust, as if it had been rubbed by someone.
"Click"
When Zhou Zhizhi gently pressed his hand on it, the wall tile made a soft sound and immediately slid in.
"What's going on?"
Several other people rushed over, and when they saw the recessed wall tiles, the third uncle asked, "What did you find?"
"I don't know, this wall tile is recessed when you touch it. There was a slight clicking sound from inside the wall, as if some kind of mechanism was activating.
As he spoke, the brick slowly recovered, and then the sound of the mechanism in the wall disappeared.
The third uncle pressed his hand up, the wall tiles were recessed again, and the subtle clicking sound came again, but there was no other change.
"Xiao Wu, go to the other side to see if there is such a wall tile. β
Xiao Wu walked to the other side of the door, looked at it and replied, "Third uncle, there is also a piece of the same here." β
"Press it. β
At the same time that Xiao Wu pressed it, the third uncle also pressed it. Then they heard another click coming from inside the wall, but the door still didn't open.
"Sure enough, there should be others. β
"Look, find. Xiao Wu shouted at the Zhou family's father and son.
Everyone searched for a long time, and finally found a strange thing on the ceiling near the door, originally the ceiling and floor of the hall were made of large blue bricks square by one person, but there was a bluestone brick with a square foot at the position of the door, which was very similar to the bluestone bricks on both sides of the door.
The height of the hall is about three zhang, and the third uncle and Xiao Wu are not good at light work, but this high speed is not enough to stump the two of them.
The third uncle asked Zhou Zhizhi and Dad to press the mechanisms on both sides at the same time.
Then, I saw Xiao Wu swing a horse stance, the third uncle stepped on his open hands, and scurried upward, and the lower Xiao Wu's arms were raised upwards at the same time, and the third uncle easily reached the ceiling and pressed on the bluestone brick with his hand.
The moment the three bluestone bricks were pressed at the same time, all the iron cones stabbed out, but at the same time the two gates also opened, and a rancid wind gushed out.
"Hmmβit stinks. β
Several people covered their noses and waited for a while before the stench slowly dissipated.
The doorway was as dark as ink, and even if a few people had the blessing of internal qi in their eyes, they still couldn't see the world inside the doorway.
The third uncle took out a few torches that smelled of pine oil from the package, and after lighting them, he gently threw the torches into the door.
The torch crossed an arc in the air, and fell to the ground with a bang, through the faint light of the torch, Zhou Zhizhi saw that behind the door was a wider and deeper corridor, the corridor was messy, leaving some huge scars on the wall, the floor was almost completely broken, the potholes, the wall tiles were scattered all over the ground, and there were many small doors on both sides of the corridor that were open or closed.
"What's that?" Xiao Wu pointed to the black handwriting that appeared on the wall on one side.
"It's an ancient text, and it seems that this is not a pre-Qin ruin, but in the Great Chaos or even earlier in the Age of Divine Creation. The third uncle was a little excited, the older it is, the more likely it is to hide the secrets of the gods, and most of the current cultivation techniques are inherited from the pre-Qin, and the pre-Qin is inherited from the Great Chaos and the Divine Creation Era.
Xiao Wu asked, "What do these words mean?"
"I'm afraid that few people in this world know, maybe a few old antiques from the Thirteen Sects and the royal family know some. β
Shelter 07
Zhou Zhichu recognized these words at a glance, but when he heard the words of the third uncle, he was secretly surprised, he knew these words, but he didn't know why he knew these words, let alone where he knew them.
Who am I?
When he was wandering, he knew that he knew how to read at the beginning of the week, and he knew all the notices posted on the wall, but this did not make him think much about it, because it was not too strange to be born in this era and know the words of this era, just like my father guessed, maybe he was born well before he lost his memory, and he didn't think about these things, because other thoughts were superfluous in front of the idea of how to live all the time.
But now I have inexplicably recognized these ancient words that almost no one knows, which is obviously not a sentence that can be explained by a good background, and the original ignorant thoughts and questions slowly surfaced in my mind: Who am I?!
"Come in, what are you thinking!" Xiao Wuyi pushed the young man who was awake in a daze.
Zhou Chuchu's heart froze, and his shoulder dodged Xiao Wu's arm. He saw that the third uncle and Zhou Laohan had already walked into the corridor behind the gate, waiting for him and Xiao Wu.
"Huh. Although Xiao Wu pushed it casually, he didn't expect Zhou Zhichu to dodge it, and the evil thoughts in his heart rose, and he kicked the young man's knee.
This time Zhou Zhizhi didn't dodge, with a click, his knee was almost dislocated, and the pain in his heart made Zhou Zhizhi almost kneel, but he gritted his teeth and stood there and suffered this kick.
"Stop!"
"Stop!"
The third uncle and Zhou Laohan shouted in unison.
Zhou Laohan, who was already injured, was in a hurry, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, followed by a violent cough.
Zhou Zhichu gritted his teeth and dragged his injured right leg into the door.
"Daddy, how are you?"
"I'm fine," Zhou Laohan raised up and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hand, "I vomited blood just now, but now my chest feels lighter." It's you, how is your leg, is it badly injured?"
At the beginning of the week, he was relieved to see that his father was fine, he touched the knee of his right leg, and Xiao Wu's strength was very measured, which could make him feel pain without hurting his bones.
"It's just a little painful, but my knee is fine. β
The third uncle pulled Xiao Wu to the side and scolded in a low voice: "Idiot, if you kick and injure this kid, will you go ahead to explore the way?"
"Hehe, third uncle, don't worry, I'm measured. β
"You have to use your brain to do things, and the rabbit bites when you are in a hurry. β
"I think he dares!"
"Hmm, you dare!" the third uncle glared at Xiao Wu fiercely.
Xiao Wu immediately smiled on his face, and said that he didn't dare, but when the third uncle turned around, his face was gloomy and terrifying.
On the other side, Old Man Zhou and the young man also had ugly faces.
"Son, it seems that tonight is more auspicious, if there is a chance later, ......"
"Dad, I won't run away alone. β
"Okay," Zhou Laohan shook his head, his son's words both comforted him and made him regretful, "Let's run away together." β
"I just don't know when I'll get the chance. β
"So wait, wait for them to make a mistake. Father Zhou's eyes flashed, and he seemed to have made some kind of decision in his heart.
This time, the whispers of the two were not heard by the third uncle and Xiao Wu, and the long corridor inside the gate seemed to be even more strange, even if there were torches, they couldn't see far, and the same was true for the sound, which could not be heard from a little farther away, so the four of them felt extremely silent in the long corridor.