It's too late, it's too soon. Gao Hai pushed Xue Ze away and blocked the stone with his knife.

Xue Ze watched the stone fly past in front of him, then turned his eyes to look at the mark on Gao Hai's blade, and immediately took Gao Hai to the side and retreated five meters to the side.

In an instant, the light dimmed a few degrees, and a loud bang erupted in the air. The place where they had been standing was dark, and the mud and sand were flying. Hundreds of stones flew like bows and arrows, slamming into the walls, leaving holes and puffs of dust.

"This?" Gao Hai was speechless, if it weren't for Xue Ze's quick reaction, they would have been overwhelmed by flying stones.

"Don't make a sound!"

Xue Ze condensed his mana, turned his wrist and raised it, and several ice chips combined into an ice sword and headed towards the source where the stones flew from.

"What are you?"

"Leave it alone!"

Yukisawa and Takakai stood aside, listening carefully to the sounds coming from inside the corner. The sound of striking continued, and finally a thousand sounds turned into a crisp sound, and the ice sword shattered.

"Girl, where are you going?"

Xue Ze frowned, "Don't come here!"

Yukisawa ran over quickly, standing beside the ice chips and looking at the wall in front of him.

When Gao Hai chased after him, he saw that Xue Ze had already put away all the ice chips, and the thick layer of stone fragments on the ground should have been made by the ice sword.

On this passage stands a wall with intricate patterns and ingenious mechanisms that block the path of the future. On the wall there is a red letter: This road is not passable.

"Is there a mechanism here?" Yukisawa exclaimed.

"It's... This is also the first time I know. It seems that it is not easy to get inside!"

"That means that both the dead here and the murderers who have been hiding here are familiar with this place. It seems that the murderer is not alone, and should have something to do with the royal family. ”

Gao Hai was very puzzled, not knowing why Xue Ze came to such a conclusion.

"Why? Isn't it possible for the murderer to find this place on his own, and then lure the dead here?"

"How can we get those prisoners in without a lot of time and brains? You know, it's a murder, and the murderer... It's been a long time since he was struggling!" Yukisawa touched the dust on the wall, "How can he succeed if there is no one to help?"

Gao Hai thought about it and had nothing to refute. "The girl is right, but... Why did the murderer choose this place? The forbidden land can provide a place of concealment, but it cannot supply anything else, doesn't he need grain, doesn't he need clothes?"

"This ......" Yukizawa turned his head away, not wanting to answer the question. As Gao Hai said, the murderer didn't seem to be an ordinary mortal, and Xue Ze also felt a little nervous.

"This murderer is a real headache!"

Xue Ze looked at Gao Hai with a sad face, and then looked at the wall that said "This road is not passable", and he had a choice in his heart, and his fingers moved inexplicably.

"There are many guards on the mountain behind the palace, and ordinary people don't come here to do things. This forbidden land should be sealed because of this cave, and the only person who knows the cave and knows how to crack the mechanism is probably only a high-ranking person. But the murderer is obviously not in power, he hides everywhere and harms people's lives, so he should cooperate with others......"

"What does the girl mean is that the people who died here were only covered up later? And the case of the palace is a conspiracy between the murderer and the people of the royal family?

"That's your consideration, I only care about why he killed. If you take the life of a masculine person, can you really want to practice miraculous skills?"

Gao Hai was shocked and asked nervously: "In this way, there is really a secret technique in the world that needs the essence of the most masculine and rigid people?"

Xue Ze pursed his lips and smiled, "You even know the essence, it seems that your investigation is not less powerful than ours!"

Gao Hai nodded, "You and I both know that coming here to investigate is not the starting point, but to continue to step up. I am familiar with this place, and I can easily deduce that it is because of a long period of exploration and discussion. Presumably the girl was also appointed, right?"

"Yes, I did know a lot before that. I also know most of the things here. I'm here just to explore and discover something new. I didn't expect to find out as soon as I came!"

"Oh?

Yukisawa smiled and looked at the wall. "I'm afraid the mechanism here hasn't always existed. ”

"What?" Gao Hai looked at it carefully, and asked suspiciously, "How did the girl know about it?" It's clearly a long time ago, so why would you want to target this?"

"Everything can be disguised and faked, so what's so difficult about this mechanism? Although the surface is as new as new, and the details are in place, those hidden weapons can't deceive me!"

"Hidden weapon?" Gao Hai picked up a stone, looked at it carefully, and suddenly had an understanding. "It turns out that the girl saw it from this, and she is really discerning, which makes me ashamed of those who practice martial arts. If I don't pick it up and look closely, I won't be able to see it!"

"I'm guessing because of the marks it left on your blade. ”

"So, the girl used the ice sword to find out?"

Xue Ze nodded, "Childe is really smart! If this stone has been stored for a long time, no matter how good its texture is, it will not have such great power." Although Childe's knife is not a treasure sword, it is also as sharp as clay, how can it be easily engraved by stones?"

"Come to think of it, the girl's ice sword is so powerful, but it was destroyed with them. The mechanism here seems to have been set up deliberately, and it is bound to deter those who come from it. It seems that I have just been concerned about my safety and neglected important information. Fortunately, there is a girl here, so we didn't come for nothing. ”

"Actually, it's because my senior brother came here, and he came in to investigate not long after the incident, and the journey was smooth at that time. He went straight to the depths of the cavern and said that there were hundreds of corpses there, and that I could find my way by the scent. However, along the way, it was a labyrinth and the smell was a little diffuse, which didn't help me find my way. Therefore, I suspect that there is something wrong with the organ, and it is deliberately obstructing!"

"However, fortunately we found it in time and were not hurt by it, otherwise I wouldn't have known how to deal with it. ”

"Delivery?"

Gao Hai was stunned for a moment, and replied embarrassedly: "The words are wrong, don't mind!"

"Well, when I clear this mechanism, let's get in quickly!"

"It's... It's so hard to dismantle this mechanism, so why don't you choose another way?"

"The crisis is over here, and only this organ is in the way. I don't know how to set it up in other places, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult. Don't worry, I'll be able to get rid of it soon with a spell!"

With that, Yukizawa cast a spell that caused a gust of wind that pushed Takami around the corner.

Concentrate your thoughts, call softly, and the ice needle appears in your hand. Yukisawa gently pushed it forward, and a burst of silver light flashed, and suddenly disappeared in front of the mechanism. Immediately, a gust of cold wind swept by, and the walls and mechanisms all collapsed and collapsed to the ground.

Gao Hai saw a burst of silver light and immediately rushed over, only to see that Xue Ze had already put away a silver needle, and the road was already unimpeded.

The scraps of the wall and the mechanism lay on the ground, and there was no life except for a little dust flying on the surface.

"This ......"

Xue Ze ignored Gao Hai's exclamation, and just went straight forward.

After passing through this wall, Yukisawa could smell it clearly, so he thought to himself: Could it be that this wall was placed here on purpose? You can find your way through it, but fortunately there is no detour. However, after this, I seem to feel a little unwell, why is that?

The farther you go in, the dimmer the light becomes, and Yukisawa was about to cast a spell to find some light, when she suddenly felt a burst of fire. Looking back, it turned out to be Gao Hai, who walked over with a fire fold.

"It's dark ahead, girl, be careful!"

"Good!"

Takakai followed Yukisawa closely, illuminating her surroundings. Although he couldn't smell it, he sensed an unusual atmosphere. Inside this cave, it is very strange, silent and damp, sometimes cold and sometimes hot.

After a while, the two of them saw a few bits of light, and suddenly there was some white light on the road ahead, as if there was a light source penetrating in.

The two glanced at each other, quickly stepped forward, and found the light source.

It was an open circular area, and light was shining through a small hole in it. The beam hits a round table in the center of the place, which acts like a mirror, reflecting the light to other places.

By the light, the two saw the corpses displayed under the round platform, each of them wearing prison clothes, with no trace but a frightened face.

"These are the condemned prisoners, so they are really here!"

"Why is Childe so surprised?"

Gao Hai smiled awkwardly, and said wryly: "I didn't come in before, I only heard rumors, and now that the rumors about them have been confirmed, I can't help but be a little excited......"

Xue Ze was slightly confused, "Confirm the rumors?"

"Previously, a person ran back from the back mountain, and said in horror that there were monsters in the forbidden place of the back mountain. Since then, rumors have spread in the palace. Soon after, 100 condemned prisoners were missing. Everyone is rumored to have been eaten by monsters in the back mountains, so there are no corpses or news. The emperor also had some disputes with the queen mother for this, because the queen mother ordered the queen mother to take him out of the cell, but the queen mother did not want to pursue ......"

"And then, no one comes to the back mountains, and no one cares where these people go?"

"On two occasions, the investigators came, but they stopped in front of the cave. Because he is a death row inmate, no one cares about life or death. If it weren't for the Wangfu case that appeared later, this place would not have been discovered!"

"I see!"