Chapter 58: The King of Thieves
It was a deep fear, and I ran down the spiral staircase until I couldn't breathe and had to stop.
I leaned against the stone wall at the inside of the staircase, gasping for breath as I stared at the darkness around me.
It's still pitch black, it's still out of sight, there's still no exit......
I was exhausted, but I still hadn't made it back to the second level of the castle that led to the spiral staircase.
There are only two possibilities.
The first possibility is that I ignored the stone gallery on the second floor of the castle while running.
The second possibility, the entrance to the stone corridor on the second floor of the ancient castle, is really missing......
First of all, the first possibly.
Although I ran all the way, one of my hands was always next to the inner wall of the spiral staircase, so as long as there was a stone gallery, I should have felt empty, but it didn't ......
The second possibility.
First of all, put aside the dreaded unbelievable, calm down and think about it, in fact, it is possible that the entrance of the second layer of the stone corridor of the ancient castle is missing.
For example, there are stone doors at the entrance of the stone corridor on each floor, but when I enter the revolving staircase from the entrance of the stone corridor on the second floor, the stone door happens to be opened by the rose that entered one step before me, and after I enter the revolving staircase, the stone door at the entrance of the stone corridor closes again.
Thinking about it this way, not only the second floor, but also every floor of this ancient castle is designed in this way, and the stone corridor cannot be found, just because the stone corridor on each floor is closed with a stone door!
Thinking about it, I couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope in my heart, and I didn't run wildly, but leaned against the stone wall in the stairs with my back, and carefully leaned on the stone wall with one hand, and knocked on the stone wall with the other hand, moving downward.
As long as there is a stone door, no matter which layer it is, there will definitely be gaps, and there will definitely be repercussions when knocked.
I walked cautiously downward for more than ten minutes, and gradually, my heart was completely cold.
For more than ten minutes, I groped for seven or eight laps, but there were no gaps at all, no repercussions, and the stone walls in the seven or eight laps of the revolving staircase were all solid textures, indicating that there was no stone door......
I stopped, and I was really panicked, because not only was I facing the problem of the stone gate disappearing, but I was also facing another problem.
I've been running down or groping for dozens of laps of stairs, and dozens of laps of stairs represent dozens of floors.
How many floors does this castle have? I've been down for so long, why haven't I reached the bottom yet?
Yes, dozens of floors, I should have reached the bottom of the castle, but no, the whirlpool of spiral stairs below me, take a closer look, it is a completely bottomless dark abyss, where is there any bottom?
This made me think of the dojo I went to with Shen Li, the yin banner room in the metal door of the dojo.
In that Yin Banner room, Shen Li and I couldn't walk to the end, because we were wrongly guided by the Yin Banner, and we were always circling in circles.
And this rotating ladder, if it is the same, I can't get to the end, then will this rotating ladder also guide me wrongly?
Maybe I'm not descending at all, but going around in circles on the same staircase......
Yes! This would explain why I didn't reach the bottom of the castle after running down dozens of laps!
So how do you prove my hypothesis?
It's very simple, I just need to take out my phone in my pocket, turn on the powerful flashlight, as long as there is light, I can see the panorama of this rotating staircase, I can judge whether I am really spinning in circles at this time.
But in this situation, taking out your mobile phone and turning on a powerful flashlight is really not a rational way.
Because I have already exposed, the rose already knows that there are intruders in the castle staircase, so maybe there are already manor security guards who have arrested me on this revolving staircase, but because of the darkness around them, they can't find me.
And once I turn on the powerful flashlight, in such a dark space, even if I grab my manor security, several floors above me, or several floors below me, I will be found.
So, how do I know if I'm going around in a circle on this spinning staircase?
Pregnant!
If the revolving staircase I'm on at this moment is really a circle, then I'm going to go up this circle and I'll always come back to where I am at that moment.
Conversely, if the spinning ladder I'm on at this time isn't a circle, then I'm definitely not going back to where I am at this point.
So I just need to mark where I am at this moment and walk around again to see if it will come back to its original position to verify what the spiral staircase is.
Without much thought, I took off one of my shoes and placed it in the corner of the staircase against the wall where I was at this time.
So, I go around the spiral ladder again, and if the spiral ladder is really a circle, I will definitely meet my shoes again, and otherwise, I will not encounter my shoes.
Taking a deep breath, he cautiously moved down the staircase again, leaning against the stone wall in the spiral staircase.
Step by step, until a few minutes later, I was able to determine that I had already completed a circle, and however, I did not meet the shoes I had taken off earlier......
This shows that the situation of this rotating staircase is not guiding me to turn in circles, as in the Yin Banner Room of the dojo......
And in this way, it also shows that I did move down in the spiral staircase, but why, after moving for so long, I still didn't reach the bottom of the castle?
Or have I already passed through the bottom of the castle, and where I am at this time, below the bottom of the castle, deep underground......
I was completely clueless and didn't know what to do.
Keep going down, or going back up?
At this moment, before I could think about it, the silhouette of a figure suddenly appeared in the stairs of the first floor above me!
Yes! The silhouette of a figure, just one level above the stairs I was at this time, was about the same distance as I had followed the rose before!
I was stunned, of course, thinking of the security in this manor, and the silhouette of the figure, after being equally stunned for a moment, rushed towards my side at the bottom of the stairs, of course, it found me!
He did not hesitate, nor did he move cautiously against the stone wall in the staircase, but ran towards the bottom of the staircase again.
Grass...... I don't want to be charged with burglary!
ran wildly like this, and it was dark in his sight, but he no longer had the faint feeling of hair in his heart.
Because since there are other people on this revolving staircase, it means that this revolving staircase is not without a head and tail, but can be entered...... Wait a minute!
If the silhouette of the figure chasing me at this time is the security guard in this ancient castle, then why is he so quiet?
Not bad! The silhouette of the figure chasing me from the top of the stairs at this moment did not make a sound, although he was running as wildly as I was.
If he's a security guard in the manor, shouldn't he shout and call the other security guards over?
I frowned, the hairs in my heart rose again, and I glanced back at the top of the stairs, but found that the silhouette of the figure chasing me had chased me to the same staircase as me, and it was obvious that he was running faster than me!
If it goes on like this, I'm sure I'll get caught!
I couldn't figure out how a person could run so fast......
Until the silhouette of the figure approached, an inexplicable chill gradually appeared in my heart, and I also saw clearly because of the approach of the silhouette of the figure, the silhouette of the figure ...... Not alone at all!
Yes! This silhouette is not a person at all! In other words, the silhouette of this figure is not the appearance of a person at all!
Because the silhouette of this figure is clearly chasing me on all fours!
Landing on all fours, exuding yin energy, and running so fast, I couldn't help but think of something...... A corpse beast made of Tan Ling's body!
Yes!
The corpse beast fully meets these three conditions, which also means that the scorpion organization has come to the ancient castle of Xu Qiu City, and they are hired by Xu Qiu City, of course, they will be desperate to get rid of me!
I was terrified in my heart, and I couldn't stop running under my feet, but the silhouette of the corpse beast was obviously much faster than mine, and it was about to run within five meters of me.
I gritted my teeth, forcibly suppressed the panic in my heart, took out the electric shock pen and wanted to turn back, but at the same time as I turned back, I suddenly stumbled under my feet, and the whole person lost my balance and fell hard to the spinning stairs below.
In this fall, I was smashed on the stairs, and the only thing I could do was to hold on to my head.
Until the tumbling stopped, I was in sharp pain like a falling shelf, and I collapsed on the stairs panting, unable to move at all.
Lightheadedness, tinnitus and dizziness.
At this moment, a head suddenly burst into my lying line of sight, staring at me face to face, with blue pupils, like a hungry wolf!
Corpse Beast!
Shocked in my heart, I endured the pain in my arm, and stabbed the electric shock pen in my hand towards the corpse beast's head.
However, my hand holding the shock pen was stretched out, and my other hand suddenly grabbed my wrist.
"Brother, I don't think you look like a security guard, do you?"
I was stunned, and it took me a full two seconds to determine that it was this corpse beast with blue eyes that spoke!
"What? Did it scare you? ”
The corpse beast spoke again, and put another hand on its chest, made a complicated gesture, and whispered a word.
"Pro!"
In an instant, the blue light in the corpse beast's eyes completely receded, and with that, I saw only a pair of pitch-black hoods similar to those I was wearing.
Yes, it wasn't Tan Ling's distorted face, but a pitch-black hood.
Shen Li?
But the voice of the man wearing the hood was clearly that of a man......
"Who are you?"
I propped up my upper body and leaned against the stone wall in the staircase.
The man with the hood also stood up, no longer looking like a beast on all fours, and with his "coming" just now, the yin qi emanating from his body before was completely gone.
However, as long as there is yin qi, it means that this man is an alien......
"Lin Mu."
The hooded man replied and held out his hand to me.
"Little brother Jiang Wangsheng, I'm very happy to be able to meet a living person who is not an enemy in this ghost place."
I was stunned when I heard this, of course, I didn't shake Lin Mu's outstretched hand, but tightened the electric shock pen in my hand.
"How do you know my name is Jiang Wangsheng?"
I asked, staring straight at the only eyes exposed in Lin Mu's hood.
"Not only do I know that your name is Jiang Wangsheng, but I also know that you are born in ninety-three, and your birthday is July 28."
Lin Mu replied and stretched out his other hand to me, and I followed to find that he was holding a boxy ...... Grass, my wallet!
I quickly took my wallet, and Lin Mu shrugged again.
"What are you doing so nervous? I don't have much money in my bag~~"
As I listened, I instantly thought of the identity of this Lin Mu.
This Lin Mu is the 'king of thieves' who asked Xu Qiucheng to order the entire manor to be on guard!