Chu Huai didn't care if he could see the road under his feet clearly this time, and stepped up the steps in three or two steps, but was blocked by the stone door in front of him.

"Master Shu, come up and take a look, how should this stone door be opened?"

"You look to your right and you should find a bump that you can press down and it opens." The voice of Shu Shan came from the depths of the darkness, and the sound of footsteps accompanied by the sound of the staff on the ground reverberated steadily in the air, from far and near.

Chu Huai stretched out his hand and touched the stone wall, the rough texture was stained with a layer of ash in his hands, although there was some diaphragm, but he couldn't care about making himself comfortable at the moment.

"Where?" Chu Huai touched everything he could with his hands, but he couldn't find the bulge that Shu Shan said.

"Look inside, and the switch is placed in the depths."

"It seems that in the future, I will have to find a master of the organ to learn the structure of the mechanism, and I can't even open such a simple stone door." Chu Huai muttered quietly, he gently put the mandarin duck on the ground, so that she could lean against the wall by the steps, while he rolled up his sleeves and leaned into the wall.

Finally, after a few random touches, I finally found a faint bulge in the gap between the gap with the wall on the side of the steps, which is almost the same as the stone wall, and if you don't feel it carefully, you will really miss it.

Chu Huai pressed down hard, and soon the sound of the mechanism operating sounded in the stone wall, and the stone door slowly opened in front of him. It's just that when he saw the aisle in front of him that was only for one person to pass through, he was a little troubled, how to get out of here with the unconscious mandarin duck.

At this time, Shu Shan also happened to come up from the bottom, looked at Chu Huai, who was standing in a daze in front of the stone door that had been opened, and asked puzzledly: "Master Chu Gu, what's wrong with you?" ”

"With such a narrow aisle, how can I get out of here with a mandarin duck?"

Shu Shan also made a difficulty, "Could it be that you and I want to carry the mandarin duck girl away?" But that doesn't seem to be particularly feasible......"

"Indeed, we can't go out and leave the mandarin duck here alone!"

Shu Shan also frowned, "If only there was any other way to go...... That's right! Another way, Lord Chu Valley! There are other ways to go here! ”

"That's great! Where is the path you are talking about? Take me there! As he spoke, Chu Huai picked up the mandarin duck and gently pushed Shushan's shoulder, he seemed to see hope in an instant, urging Shushan to quickly take himself and the mandarin duck out of this place.

"I go in and out of this road on weekdays, and when I get used to it, I almost forget that there is a road to the outside world in the basement, but this road is connected to the dead forest, and I still need to walk back for a while to return to the house."

"That's better than just staring there."

Shu Shan took Chu Huai and walked quickly back to the basement of Fang Cai, and the night pearls in the four corners lit up again the moment the two passed.

Shushan looked around the basement, saw a direction, and moved the canisters piled on the ground to the side.

"What are you doing here?"

"Because the door has not been used, it has been blocked by these jars, and if you don't remove them, Xiaosheng won't be able to find the switch."

One by one, the jars were piled up on the other side, but strangely enough, he left one alone, and tried to lift it, but his hands were stunned, and he turned to the others.

It was only when there was a path in front of Shushan that the two of them could walk side by side that he stopped and faced the jar that stood in the middle of the road.

He opened the lid of the jar and reached in, unaware of what was stirring, only to see him pull out a thick chain from the jar, and the moment he let go, it retracted back into the jar.

The sound of friction between the stones sounded, and a pitch-black gap slowly opened in front of Chu Huai, until it became the size of a person, and the stone gate was quiet.

The darkness was opening its arms to them.

"Let's go." Shushan picked up the oil lamp placed on the ground and walked into the stone gate first, and the oil lamp illuminated the way forward. Before the light disappeared, Chu Huai hurriedly followed.

Walking into this dark passage, a sense of depression instantly hit Chu Huai, and the stone top was not far from the top of the mandarin duck's head, it seemed that if he grew taller, the mandarin duck would unfortunately hit his head.

"Lord Chu Gu, you should be quite uncomfortable, right? Please bear with me, and I'll be able to get out soon. ”

"Why is this place built so low?" Chu Huai's neck didn't dare to move, there was always an illusion that as long as he raised his head slightly, he would make a big bag on his head.

"When this secret passage was first built, it was in case of any emergency one day, so that you could escape from here to the outside, and if you dig some higher, the sound of the person walking underground will be heard by the people above, and it will be blocked in the basement, but it will suffer."

"I see."

"Fortunately, the village has been very peaceful over the years, and this dark passage has been useless, but I didn't expect it to come in handy today. Fortunately, the secret passage was built at the beginning, otherwise I don't know what to do now. ”

After walking for a while, Chu Huai gradually felt that the road under his feet seemed to have become uphill, and the feeling of depression in the dark passage was slowly disappearing, and the gap above his head finally became much wider. Isn't Mo already out of the mansion?

Shu Shan's voice also sounded at the right time: "Lord Chu Gu, it should be much better than Fang Cai now, right?" We're about the bottom of the dead woods now, and we're about a little further down to the outside world. ”

"But where is the end of the road?"

"I'm ashamed to say that in the cave you strayed into that day, because it was always too strange to appear from something else, and that cave was used by Forgiveness to prepare for the sacrificial ceremony, it was relatively hidden, and it would not be known by others about this place, and even Forgiveness himself didn't know that there was a secret passage leading to home in this cave."

The time spent walking in the dark always passed much faster than the time Chu Huai walked blindly in the woods. A stone door similar to the one in the basement appeared in front of the two of them.

Shu Shan just pressed casually on the edge of the stone gate, and the stone door made a loud noise, and the oil lamp in Shu Shan's hand was also extinguished, and a light slowly appeared in the darkness, as if it was jumping and swaying.

When the stone door opened completely, the two of them met the stunned gaze of the forgiveness who was lying on the stone bed behind the curtain.

The shadow cast on the roof of the cave also froze in place following the movements of its master.

Countless doubts filled Forgiveness's mind, and it was only after a long time that he reacted and asked his doubts because of the shock:

"Brother? You...... How do you ...... How did it end up here? How is this place ...... How can there be a door? For...... Why did I never know there was such a place? ”

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