Then he looked down at the man on the ground, looked up, and said, "Let's go." ”

Gu Xi asked instead: "Since you care about her so much, why don't you want to take her out?" ”

I shook my head and said, "There's no need for that, this is the best place for her." "I believe that for Xie Xiaoqin, this place is the place with the most memories and the closest to her brother Yu.

Gu Xi naturally didn't really want to take the corpse out, he just asked, and after listening to me, he pulled the corner of his lips with a slight sneer and pulled me to the corner. I looked back at the passage and couldn't help but remind, "The road is behind." ”

Without looking back, he replied, "We're going to go up there again." ”

Go to the top? Blacklight Siege? Before I could figure out how to go up, I saw him press and push hard against the wall, just like when he had entered through the passage before, and a "wall" fell in response, and a cave that was diagonally upward appeared in view.

Needless to say, this must have been dug up artificially, and it was even likely to be a feather.

When I walked into the passage, I subconsciously turned my head, originally wanting to take another look at Xie Xiaoqin, but when my eyes crossed the top wall, I suddenly paused, forgetting that there was another important thing I didn't ask Gu Xi.

I tugged at his arm, and when he looked back, I pointed to the top and asked, "What the hell is that?" Why do you say it looks like it has life? ”

He gave him a faint glance and said an answer that left me speechless: "It's a tree." ”

"Trees?" I couldn't control the volume of my surprise, I had the feeling that Gu Xi was referring to a deer as a horse, which didn't look like a tree no matter how you looked at it. But he said again, "What you see is its roots, and the four pipes are its main stem veins, and if you look closely, you can see that there are many stems around it." It has been at least a thousand years old. ”

The more I listened to it, the more outrageous I felt, but looking at Gu Xi's expression, it didn't look like he was fooling.

"You say it's lived for thousands of years? Don't...... Could it be that people have been feeding it with live blood for thousands of years? ”

"Naturally not. Before the sacrificial disc was activated, it was purely a thousand-year-old tree. ”

After a pause, he said with a slight annoyance: "Can't you finish it all at once?" "If you say a little and keep a little, I will ask. A smile tugged at the corner of Gu Xi's mouth, and he was about to kiss me in his arms, but I put my hand against his lips and shook my head at him, the time and place were not right.

He didn't force me, he just pulled me into the aisle, "I'll tell you as I go." ”

Gu Xi said that the tree has grown for a thousand years and can be regarded as fine. Of course, the "essence" here is not the kind of imaginary goblin or the like, but it is said that it collects thousands of years of essence into a spirit. If no one uses this tree, it will always grow there quietly, waiting for the day when life will pass away. But it was discovered, and its thousand-year-old essence was cut off, and only the roots remained, and the spirit of the roots was used to nourish the sacrificial plate.

When the sacrificial disc is not opened, it has a thousand years of essence to live and nourish enough to last for decades or even hundreds of years of immortality, and once it is opened, the essence will be absorbed by the sacrificial disk. Therefore, if you want to maintain it in the future, you must rely on the vitality in the living blood of people to replenish the nutrients, otherwise once the tree dies, the essence is extinguished, and the sacrificial plate will also be destroyed, then the entire underground siege and even Brin Town will disappear.

Gu Xi also said that even if it was sacrificed by living blood like this, it would not be able to support it for too long. Because the sacrificial plate needs to manipulate such a large space, it needs a steady stream of vitality to supply, and once the supply is insufficient, it will suck the essence of the tree, so fifteen years is the longest period. In other words, the opening of the sacrificial plate happened to be exactly twelve years ago.

Another twelve years! It seems that the timing of everything points to 12 years ago.

Then at least one thing is certain, this sacrificial plate was opened by the man named Yu. He single-handedly arranged for Xie Xiaoqin, who was not yet ten years old, to be his promoter, so that she and Xie Fu and others would guard this place from being known.

According to Gu Xi, the purpose is obvious, this person must be trying to hide some secret, so we are back in the siege again. At the first stop, we went to find the other three stone doors according to Xie Xiaoqin's original intention.

It may be due to the fact that one party is closed, and the atmosphere of the space has become very dull. If there is no fresh air to circulate, then this place will not stay for long, but it will not be too much of a problem at the moment.

I don't need to think much about how Gu Xi knew the mystery on the stone door, and when the reliefs of those fragment patterns protruded from the stone, I only sighed that it was really ingenious. I originally thought it was a texture hidden in the stone door, but it turned out to be all floating, just how complicated should the machine scraping structure in the stone door be?

After reading the three stone gates, Gu Xi came to ask me, "How is it?" ”

I closed my eyes and opened them with certainty, "All of them." ”

"Everything?" Gu Xi was sure again, knowing what he was thinking, but I still nodded, all the pieces were here, the same as the ones hidden in the painting.

Gu Xi may have thought that the fragment patterns on these four stone doors not only included the picture of Lao Tzu riding a green ox, but also might have hidden other paintings. It's like seeing the top wall, no, it should be said that it is the core of the root of the thousand-year-old tree, and when the trace on it is engraved with the same proportion as the bronze square vessel, you will think that there may be two or more square pieces, each engraved with different paintings. Then one of them was hidden somewhere in this underground siege by Yu.

This is also the reason why Gu Xi insisted on looking at these three stone doors again.

But now it shows that the fragments on the stone gate are just a picture of Lao Tzu riding a green ox, and I have to wonder if that trace was originally left by Gu Xi's bronze square vessel? So he asked, "Where did you get that instrument?" ”

He glanced at me, hesitated slightly, but replied, "It's in a secret place, but it's badly corroded because of poor preservation." After hearing this, I asked, "Then do you think it is possible that the original square was here?" You also tested Xie Xiaoqin before and asked her if she had seen anything in the center of the root of the tree, and her expression was dazed at that time, which didn't look like a fake, which proved that at least there was no covering in that place when she knew that place existed. I don't even think I've ever seen that feather. ”

Gu Xi frowned lightly and asked me, "How can you see it?" ”

"The reason is simple, if he had seen that square before, then he wouldn't need to hide the fragments on the stone door in the painting for me to solve the mystery for him. Because a person who is good at drawing, even if he may not be able to put together the pattern completely, he must be familiar with the stylus and lines. ”

Gu Xi didn't speak after listening to my analysis, and pondered to himself.

I won't bother him, but I'll walk around the walls and see if there's anything else to be found. Because the flashlight was in Gu Xi's hand, I originally wanted to be within the light range, but when I walked more than ten meters away, there was a faint light in front of me, as if I saw a figure flashing. I was shocked, there are still people in this place?

When I looked closely, I only saw the misty city wall. Thinking it was dazzling, he subconsciously wanted to turn back to see what Gu Xi was doing, but when he turned around, the light and shadow flashed in front of him again.

If it's dazzling once, it's definitely not twice. And the two times I saw the figure before and after, it was about five meters away from the city wall, and the position did not change, just at the junction of the bottom line where the light arrived. I clenched my hands into fists and walked towards that position step by step, my heartstrings tightening.

My brain may have short-circuited at this moment, if there was really someone hiding in the shadows waiting for an opportunity, then even if I called for help a moment later, Gu Xi would not be able to rush over so far away in an instant.

But after I walked more than ten steps, I got closer and closer to the bottom line, and I could almost stretch out my arms and go into the darkness. I hesitated, it felt like a life-and-death decision, if this side of the light was the human world, the other side of the darkness was like an endless hell, once I stepped in, there would be no return.

As soon as the outstretched hand reached mid-air, a familiar voice suddenly hit the eardrum: "Little wish." ”

I slammed a spirit, slowly turned around, and was nearly twenty meters away from Gu Xi, and his figure fell into sight as if it was stretched by the light. Suddenly, I had a flash of inspiration, turned my head and looked at the darkness behind me, and I realized in a trance.

At this time, Gu Xi had already walked here, looked at my face and asked, "Why did you call you not just now?" ”

I grabbed his hand and told him what I had just found with some excitement: "When I got to that point just now, I suddenly saw a figure flickering here, and I thought someone was hiding in the shadows and came over. Seeing what Gu Xi's mouth was about to say, I reached out to cover his mouth without thinking about it, "Listen to me first." Just now you were standing there, the flashlight was in your hand, the light was just right to the place where I was standing, as long as I took a step forward, I was outside the light realm, and when I walked over, I didn't notice any remnants of other people's breath, which I believe you are aware of now. ”

With Gu Xi's acumen, if there is a breath in the air that belongs to a third person, it will not escape his eyes.

He must have seen that I was excited and that I was foreshadowing what I said, so he pulled my hand off and asked, "And then?" I said, "Then you called me, and I looked back and saw your shadow stretched out by the light." ”

His eyes darkened, and he immediately understood the meaning of my words: "You want to say that the figure you saw in a flash before is actually mine?" I nodded excitedly, yes, I just wanted to tell him about it.

saw him raise his eyebrows and asked, "So what?" ”

I was asked, and my excitement was as if I had been poured a basin of cold water, cold from head to toe. I don't know what to say, yes, what does the discovery of this strange phenomenon mean?