The faint sound of footsteps came, and his eyes were particularly gloomy as he walked into the light and shadow, so I stepped forward and folded his eyes with my hand and said, "Go again, but this time you close your eyes first, and choose the direction for me." ”

There was a flash of doubt in his eyes, but he closed them after two seconds. I pulled him to a position, took a deep breath to turn off the lights, and said, "Let's get started." ”

This time, it was still Gu Xi who was pulling me along, but the speed had slowed down compared to just now, and it seemed that his restless mind had been calmed down. As expected, in about the same time we arrived at the city walls again. I squeezed his palm lightly and said in a reassuring tone, "Again, according to the method just now." ”

He stared at me for a second, closed his eyes again without asking.

We've been walking back and forth for four or five hours, and my legs and feet feel sore, but my heart is gradually clearing. Maybe I can't measure Gu Xi's pace, but at least I can "see" what others can't.

Under the city wall, I turned on the light, smiled and asked Gu Xi, "Did you notice any difference?" ”

His dark eyes swept over the walls, silently waiting for my next step.

This time, I took his hand and walked along the city wall, until I reached the stone gate, Gu Xi's eyes always fell on my face. He didn't look at him, stretched out his hand and rubbed it on the stone door for a while, and then said: "The original craftsman was ingenious and able to make every stone and seam unique, but I don't know that there is no stone in this world that is exactly the same. ”

Gu Xi said: "This is not the door we came into?" ”

I pursed my lips and smiled, "Stone, like wood, has its own texture, even if the surface is polished smooth, it is difficult to hide the impurities in it. It's not that we're in the wrong direction, it's that there are more than one such walls and stone gates in this place. ”

"Northeast, South, West? There are four walls in total? Siege ......"

The advantage of talking to Gu Xi is that basically I don't need to describe it too much, and he can follow my train of thought and think deeply on his own. Usually sometimes I am more agile than I am, as just now, I just thought that this wall is actually more than one side, there is one side on the front and back, there is one side on the left and right, but he said that the siege of the city... I suddenly had an epiphany, yes, this place is like a city in ancient times, if it is not surrounded by mountains, in order to prevent enemies from attacking, walls will be built around the city, and these four stone gates are city gates as the name suggests.

Without thinking about how long this underground space has existed, it is surrounded by four walls, but it is deserted except for one house, and it can only be regarded as an empty city at best.

If it were me, I would have felt hopeless if I had lived in such an empty city.

Judging from the direction, this stone gate is not opposite to the place where we entered, it should be left to the south. Whether it is according to the previous theories of Gu Xi, or the direction of the town of Brin at the top, you should go due west to find the stone door hidden in the secret room under the hotel. The mistake I made just now was to see a long piece of the city wall and take it for granted that I was back to the beginning, but I never thought that there were almost identical walls and stone gates on all four sides, and this was inside. The periphery cannot be seen due to the obstruction of the line of sight, resulting in a blind spot.

Finding that Gu Xi hadn't spoken for a while, he would take action if he solved the mystery. I turned my eyes to look at him, and saw that his expression was even more grim than just now, and I couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong? ”

He raised his eyes as if interrupted by my question, and the cold light in his eyes startled me and gave me a nameless look.

In the next moment, he dragged me and shouted: "Hurry up!" "I didn't have time to react, I was already dragged by him, not to mention after more than five hours of walking, even when I was full of energy, I couldn't keep up with his speed. After a stumble, his long arms wrapped around his waist, almost lifted him to his side and flew into the air.

I didn't understand why he was in such a hurry, but I knew he couldn't be joking at this point, something was about to happen or was already happening.

Later, I also seemed to feel the unusualness in the air, and Gu Xi's face became even darker, I am afraid that this is the first time I have seen him so anxious since I met him. In the light of the flashlight, the city wall is imminent, and two closed stone gates also appear quietly, which is due west. I'm still thinking about how to open this stone door, because we have all pushed it just now, and I can't push it, thinking that I am afraid that some mechanism will touch it.

It can be seen that when Gu Xi rushed to the front of him, he raised his leg and kicked towards the stone gate. I couldn't help but widen my eyes when I saw it, he actually used the most barbaric way?! The soles of his military boots clattered on the stone door, but he didn't think that the stone door was loosened after he kicked it hard a few times, he put me down and shouted at me: "You push the left, I push the right, work together!" ”

I immediately exerted all my strength to push the stone gate, but the stone gate seemed to weigh a thousand gold, but I heard the sound of stones and ground polishing on Gu Xi's side. Originally, I wanted to take off his hand and try to push it with both hands, but he held it very tightly, and when he noticed that I was struggling, he said, "Don't let go!" "Hearing this, I had to give up, so I simply put my body against the stone door, and just as I was about to exert my strength, I felt that Gu Xi dragged me aside and pushed out the gap that had just been pushed open by him half of the stone door, and followed him out of the body.

There was a boom, and the stone door was closed behind him.

Even if I didn't know what was going on, I would be afraid, thinking that if I didn't get out of the stone gate, I would be afraid that the consequences would be unimaginable. When he turned his head, he found that Gu Xi's forehead was covered with a layer of sweat, but his expression was relaxed, and he no longer looked like he was facing a great enemy just now. As soon as I wanted to ask, he stopped me from talking by holding his finger to my lips, only to hear him say, "Listen carefully." ”

I listened closely, but I didn't hear anything. But in an instant I changed color, not because of some terrible sound, but because the ground was shaking under my feet, and the sound of things falling and breaking overhead.

This is...... Was there an earthquake?

Gu Xi took me to lean against the stone door, no matter how his feet swayed, he was calm and steady from beginning to end, and even with me, he always snuggled smoothly by his side. The tremors lasted about five minutes before they subsided.

I had no experience with earthquakes, and I had only watched the catastrophe that was widespread in Kawachi on TV. Based on what I have seen so far, at least there are no houses collapsing and devastated as shown on TV, I wonder if this is a blessing? But I didn't know if it would collapse in the next second, so I didn't dare to move, I just listened attentively with palpitations, and didn't let go of the slightest sound.

"Scared?" Gu Xi's low inquiry came from his ears.

I looked into his dark eyes and nodded honestly. He asked, "And what did you hear?" ”

He hesitated, "You mean just now or now?" Seeing that he only raised his eyebrows and did not make a sound, I had to say: "When you asked me to listen to it just now, I couldn't hear anything, and then it shook underground, and the sound of all kinds of things smashing on the top; Right now...... I feel like I hear someone crying. "Someone is crying? I reacted suddenly, looked up, looked around, and then looked around again, "This is ......"

He pursed the corners of his lips and whispered, "What I let you listen to is the voice of this human." ”

Stunned, he meant...... "Are we safe?" "The sound of that thing smashing, that crying, this is the secret room under Xie Xiaoqin's hotel!

Gu Xi skillfully pushed open the partition on the top, and after the two climbed out one after another, they saw a scene that seemed to have been swept over, all the tables and chairs were turned to the ground, and the ground was full of fragments of wine bottles and vases. When I walked to the lobby of the hotel, I only heard the sound of crying, but I didn't see Xie Xiaoqin's person, and the bar counter also fell sideways there.

After listening to it, I realized that Xiaoqin was originally pressed under the bar.

I hurriedly stepped forward to help the bar up, but I didn't think that the bar was extremely heavy, so I had to call Gu Xi to help. He frowned, walked over reluctantly, and when he picked up the bar, he saw Xie Xiaoqin huddled in a corner, trembling pitifully, his eyes were full of fear.

She seemed frightened, and even when I reached out to help her, I stepped back to dodge.

It took a while to finally recognize me, and as soon as he grabbed my hand, he began to cry, muttering that he couldn't hear anything clearly. Probably because of the sudden earthquake, she had nowhere to hide, so she could only hide behind the bar, and unexpectedly, the bar also collapsed.

After calming her down for a while, Gu Xi and I walked out of the hotel after her mood eased up. The streets are also chaotic, bicycles and battery cars are hanging to the ground, people are running in a panic, and no one has the extra heart to pay attention to others.

After only a few dozen meters, I heard someone shouting: "The school buildings are all collapsing!" "Immediately, we saw people running eastward, and we quickly arrived at the school gate in the crowd, but we saw that the iron fence school gate had been twisted and collapsed there, and the school building inside no longer existed, and had become a mass of rubble scattered there.

It is impossible to say that I am not moved, for I have been here during the day yesterday and have spent the whole night underground in the evening. There was a lot of discussion on the side, and they all lamented that it was fortunate that it was summer vacation, otherwise the children and teachers would all be crushed to death.

It's just that none of them thought about why none of the houses in the town collapsed, but this school collapsed?