Chapter 18: Escape
When Summer Night was stunned by a box of treasure, the silver-faced man had already opened several other boxes one by one. However, he didn't seem to have any interest in the jewels, just burying his head and searching for it, not knowing what he was looking for.
At the beginning, Xia Ye was indeed shocked by these treasures, and his heart swelled so much that he couldn't do it, and he felt that he wanted to do this, and he liked it, and he really wanted to pack it all and take it away, but after calming down, he thought that he was about to lose his life, and what did he want these external objects to do, and his heart suddenly became cold, and he felt tasteless about the baby in front of him.
"What are you looking for? Do you want my help? Summer Night looked at the silver-faced man and asked.
But the silver-faced man did not answer her, only cursed a few words hatefully, and then reluctantly picked up the calligraphy and paintings in the box, and looked at them carefully, but each time it seemed to disappoint him, he looked at one and threw one at a time, if it were not for the mask on his face, he would have seen a depressed face on the summer night.
Finally, he slammed the lid of the box and began to stand by in a daze.
"You say, will there be a dark grid here?" The silver-faced man suddenly looked at Summer Night and asked expectantly.
Summer Night looked around, except for a stone staircase leading to the top, which was full of uneven stone walls on three sides, and she thought it was not impossible, so she said, "Look for it, maybe there will be!" β
After listening to Xia Ye's words, the silver-faced man felt that there was some hope again, and he hurriedly searched carefully along the stone wall, and Xia Ye also accompanied him to find it.
Maybe it was because Summer Night had a natural sensitivity to such things as a hidden grid, and soon, she felt an unusual place on the stone wall in the corner, and she turned around and whispered to the silver-faced man: "There seems to be a dark grid here." β
The silver-faced man walked quickly to her side, looked in the direction of her finger for a while, seemed a little dazed, and said, "I don't see any difference. β
Indeed, this secret door blends in naturally with its surroundings, and if it is not for the hands, it is easy to look away with the naked eye alone. Summer Night picked up the silver-faced man's finger and gently placed him on a stone wall.
"There are two holes!" The silver-faced man's voice trembled a little with excitement.
Xia Ye nodded and said, "However, I don't know what the purpose of these two holes is. β
The silver-faced man looked at it again and said, "It must be convenient to hook the door open with your fingers." β
Xia Ye thought about it and felt that it was a reasonable explanation, but it was difficult to ensure that there was no mechanism on this door, so she squatted down, her eyes were parallel to the secret door, and she thought, if you don't test it with an iron drill first, she took it out of the package behind her, but because her body was half squatting, and she was a little tired, she lost her balance at once, and the person rushed forward uncontrollably, her hands immediately pressed on the stone wall, but she didn't expect to press on the secret door, and there was a force from her hand that bounced outward, and she was pleasantly surprised. It turned out to be just a press-type opening method.
In order to straighten the body, Xia Ye pushed the door of the dark grid hard, and the person left the stone wall, and the stone door in front of him also bounced open instantly, but with the opening of the stone door, a belt-like black shadow suddenly appeared in front of her, shooting towards her like lightning, and before she could react, she was bitten heavily on the neck, as if two steel cones had hit the flesh and bones, and she was so painful that her eyes were full of stars, and she screamed and fell to the ground.
At the same time, the exclamation of the silver-faced man was heard: "Snake! I saw that he quickly pulled out the long sword on his back, and with a turn of Qingfeng, a snake with a black body and a faint red body was cut in two, and the snake's tail fell to the ground and fluttered.
The silver-faced man stretched out his hand again, quickly pulled out the snake's head that would not let go, and threw it fiercely on the stone wall, but even so, the snake's head was still dead but not stiff, and it opened its fangs without giving up, as if it wanted to bite again.
Summer Night felt her neck visibly swollen, slowly squeezing her breathing, and her eyes began to blur, and she saw things as if she had been separated by a layer of frosted glass. At this time, she understood that those two holes were used to breathe the poisonous snake, why was she so careless.
"How are you?" The silver-faced man turned to pick up Summer Night, his voice full of anxiety.
Summer Night wanted to answer that she was uncomfortable, but her tongue had already swollen into a lump, blocking her mouth, not to mention making a sound, and even breathing was difficult. Immediately afterward, she felt her body begin to get colder and colder, as if the blood had stopped flowing, and her whole body became numb and stiff, and at that moment, she 'saw' Silverface suddenly take off the mask on her face and lean down towards her.
Summer Night stared at a blurry human face and forced it in front of her, his snort burning her skin, and Summer Night felt her heart beat so loudly that it almost burst her eardrums. She wanted to avoid him, but she could still move half a minute.
The silver-faced man's soft lips finally touched the neck of the summer night, she felt like two red-hot irons, scorching her skin, she knew in her heart that the silver-faced man was helping her suck poisonous blood, one bite at a time, the sound of sucking was close to the ear, clear and ambiguous, the summer night felt that the blood that was stagnant all over her body instantly boiled again, she coughed lightly twice, let out a long breath, it seemed that the neck had been swollen, and her body had regained some consciousness, she was eager to break free from such an embarrassing predicament, but just wanted to exert force, immediately dizzy, had to lie honestly in the arms of the silver-faced man.
Finally, the silver-faced man noticed that the blood that had flowed from the neck of the summer night had turned a bright red color, so he picked her up and gently placed her against the wall, he stood up, walked to the dark grid, and carefully probed it with his sword, and found that there was no more danger, so he reached out and took out a rectangular wooden box from it.
Summer Night was leaning against the wall weakly, and when she saw the back of the silver-faced man, she suddenly shook violently, so that she wondered if he was stained with some poison again.
Suddenly, the silver-faced man stood up and slammed the thing in his hand to the ground, and Summer Night saw that it was a scroll, and after rolling on the ground a few times, it spread out like a red carpet at a wedding, and she saw that there were many vague words on it.
The silver-faced man stared at the scroll lying on the ground, as if staring at the corpse of an enemy, and the expression on his face could not be seen clearly on the summer night, but his anger could be felt by his stiff body movements and clucking fists. After a while, he picked up the scroll from the ground, put it back in the wooden box, carefully put it back in the compartment, and even bent down to throw the viper's corpse into it, and then closed the door.
However, the moment the door was shut, the torches on the stone wall flickered, the light in the cavern flickered, and the air smelled dangerous.
"Run, run." Although Xia Ye was poisoned by the snake, after the emergency treatment of the silver-faced man, he was able to speak, but his voice was so weak that it was like a heavy gasp. Her sixth sense is very sharp, even if it is highly poisonous at this time.
The silver-faced man also seemed to sense that something was wrong, and hurriedly retreated to Xia Ye's side, and at this moment, he saw strips of colorful 'liquid' flowing from the stone wall, as if the stone wall was bleeding pus.
"It's a snake." The silver-masked man gritted his teeth and whispered.
Summer Night felt a 'buzz' in her head, thinking that a snake would harm itself like this, and the walls were all over the place, and he and the silver-faced man were not here anymore.
"Take it." The silver-faced man shoved the fire fold into Xia Ye's hand, turned around and carried her on his back, "Hold me tight." His tone was decisive and resolute.
"Hmm." Listening to the sonorous heartbeat of the silver-faced man on a summer night, it seemed that there was nothing to fear.
However, the 'silky' sound of the snakes is slowly approaching.
The silver-faced man didn't hesitate anymore, picked up the summer night and ran out, just ran up the stone steps, the summer night suddenly had an idea and stopped the silver-faced man: "Wait." β
"What are you going to do?"
Summer Night didn't answer, but turned around with great difficulty on the back of the silver-faced man, and slapped the button that he saw when he entered the cave room, which might have been the stone door switch, and heard a loud 'pop', and a large stone slab fell, blocking the snakes in the cave. However, more than a dozen snakes came out and chased after the two relentlessly, and several of them had even become entangled.
Before she could react, a large amount of water suddenly gushed out from the damp staircase, and the silver-faced man was caught up against the wall, and the summer-faced man fell into the water, and the cold water almost suffocated her, but she was immediately scooped upβit was the silver-faced man, and he gasped and clumsily carried her behind him again.
However, this sudden current of water also washed away those entangled poisonous snakes. The danger of poisonous snakes seems to disappear for a moment, but a new danger is imminent.
"Quick, go, the water is coming, we're going to drown." Summer Night was washed by the cold water, and she seemed to be much more awake again, and she felt that the water had reached her waist.
The silver-masked man didn't speak, he took a deep breath, and began to wade up the water, the water filled quickly, as if following their footsteps, but fortunately the door to the cave was not closed, and the silver-masked man finally crawled to the outside of the cave before the water reached his neck.
As soon as he came up, he wanted to close the door of the tunnel, but the bad thing was that the switch failed, and the door could not be closed at all.
"Leave it alone, let's just run out." Summer Night reminded him by patting his hand on the silver-faced man's shoulder.
"Hmm." The silver-faced man also reacted immediately, and quickly rushed to the stone gate with the summer night on his back.
However, when they arrived, the two were dumbfounded, because in a hurry, they couldn't find the switch to open the stone door.
At this time, the water gradually overflowed again, and it had already passed the knees of the silver-faced man.
"Put me down." The summer night is weak and authentic.
The silver-faced man put her down, and the icy water made Xia Ye tremble: "There is no way, if we continue like this, even if we don't drown here, we will be frozen." She fumbled around the stone wall for a while, and said to Silverface with great certainty, "You hit it hard in this position." β
"Why?"
"Don't ask." Summer Night didn't have time to explain, only she knew that this location was where the machine was, and she had to use the stupidest old method.
Seeing this, the silver-faced man didn't ask any more questions, and hurriedly took out a hammer from the package, "Knock! Boom! Boom! He kept smashing against the stone wall, gradually revealing a hole the size of a fist.
Summer Night watched as the water rose higher and higher, reaching her chest, and the width of a palm was about to reach the position of the machine, and if there was resistance from the water, it would be even more hopeless to smash the stone wall.
"Work hard, and you'll be done." Summer Night clenched her fists nervously.
The silver-faced man didn't speak, and swung a few more hammers in a muffled voice, and finally the whole machine was once again presented in front of the eyes of the summer night. Ignoring the stiff fingers that were blistered by the water, the summer night dripped with water, and the machine was operated for a while, and the stone door made a beautiful 'click' sound, and it was about to open.
However, the door loosened a little, and then suddenly stopped.
"Oh no, the pressure of the water is too much." The summer night secretly complained bitterly. But fortunately, the mechanism has been opened, as long as the crack in the stone door can be made larger, and the water can flow out smoothly at that time, I am not afraid.
"Pull the door open, quick!" Summer Night's voice was sharpened at this time, as if snake venom or something didn't exist anymore.
The silver-faced man also knew that the situation was dangerous, only to see him take a steady step, luckily, break the stone door that had just opened a finger wide slit, and pull it hard in his direction, and then he heard the stone door make a difficult 'click' sound, and slowly was opened the palm-sized gap, and the water immediately couldn't wait to leak out, and the summer night felt that the water level was obviously receding downward.
Finally, the stone door opened automatically.
Xia Ye breathed a sigh of relief, they were finally safe, but she also collapsed because she had overdrawn too much strength.
The silver-faced man hurriedly picked up the summer night, and before the stone door was fully opened, he squeezed out, and a cool night breeze blew wet on the summer night, and he couldn't help but shiver, and his head began to dizzy.
"Soon they were out." As soon as the silver-faced man comforted Summer Night, he heard a loud shouting sound from not far away.
"Something happened to the Lockin Tower."
"Quick, quick, this way."
The silver-faced man hurriedly escaped from the rockery with the summer night, burrowed into the nearby trees, and slammed the branches into a 'rustle' sound.
"Here it is! There are people here! β
They were quickly discovered, the silver-masked man was silent, running wildly with the summer night on his back, and after a while came to the place where he had just climbed over the wall, but the shouts behind him were already approaching......