Chapter 18: The Heart Flower (15)
Yi Ci didn't answer her question, but said, "Don't go out these days, otherwise I won't be able to save your life."
Besides, your ten lives are not worth the emperor's life, so you can stay in the General's Mansion and take care of Jian'er.
General Zhenbei and I will be very busy these days, and you yourself should pay attention to safety in the house. ”
“……”
In the face of Yi Ci's stern explanation, Nan Le clearly felt that he was not joking, but that something really happened.
In the days that followed, Yi Ci and Su Yueche went out more and more frequently, and they didn't stay in the General's Mansion for three days.
It's enough for Nanle to be a slave for him for a month, but now that there is a big incident with the state, she can't settle with him for the time being, so she has to do it for him for a while.
In order not to be busy and to be able to get the carve heart flower smoothly, she did as he said and stayed in the General's Mansion all the time.
Until, the appearance of a flying pigeon biography made her no longer able to hold back her impulsive heart.
The warm afternoon sun poured in through the open windows, spreading a soft warmth into the house.
The carrier pigeon landed on the windowsill along the light.
Nanle took the letter, and the carrier pigeon flew out of the window and was far away.
Roll up the small letter paper, and the ink has not dried into the pupils - tomorrow at this time, follow the people to Hezhou to step on the door.
The payment is the owner of the door.
It seems that the recent turmoil in Hezhou is indeed not small, and even the owner of the hidden door has come. Could it be that there are not enough people to step on the door with the state? Just called her over? Wait a minute! How did the owner of the stable door know that Nanle was in Hezhou? He didn't come to arrest her, did he?
Either way, she had to go.
The next day, Nan Le instructed someone to be optimistic about Yi Zijian, left a note for the regent, and hurried out.
Not far away, she heard someone calling her behind her: "Miss Nan, please stay."
Nan Le turned around, only to see a third-level disciple of the hidden step door covered with a veil, a woman in yellow walking slowly towards Nan Le.
Nanle immediately paused, and then remembered that he didn't know where the hidden door of Hezhou was, and remembered that the letter from the door owner to her said, "Follow people to the hidden door", presumably the person in front of him was the one who answered.
Nan Le saw her walking slowly, and without waiting for her to open her mouth to explain her identity, Nan Le said straight to the point: "Well, let's go."
It's already one step ahead.
On the way to the hidden gate, the streets and alleys of Hezhou were as lively as ever, but there were more or less soldiers guarding everywhere.
Nan Le recognized that this was a soldier from the Zhenbei General's Mansion, and knew that the regent didn't come here to eat, drink and have fun, and at present, there was no abnormality in Hezhou City, and the people were still living and working in peace and contentment, so what was about to happen to make the regent, the general of Zhenbei and the master of the hidden gate all vigilant?
These questions have been swirling in Nan Le's heart for a long time, and I don't know if the third-level disciple who stepped on the door of Hezhou Yin knew some inside information, but she didn't have much communication with the woman in yellow who led the way in front of her, and I believe that everything will be clear when she sees the door master.
At dusk, not far away, on the majestic mountain range, the cold wind pulled a few clumps of dead grass to stagger, autumn was not over, but it seemed to be colder than winter, and everything on the mountain was torn by the wind and made a ghostly howl - wild grass, dead trees, skeletons half-hidden in the soil and let the wind shuttle.
Only the tall and solemn stone tower in the center stood in the cold wind.
Within a radius of 100 miles, there are no living beings.
At the foot of the mountain, Nan Le followed the woman in yellow and looked at the barren surroundings, wondering if it was a good organization to help others. How could it be built in such a remote and terrifying place, and the owner of the door who didn't think of her still had a hand? Specially full of killers in it?
At the top of the mountain, they stood in front of the tall stone gate, and the woman in yellow paced to the left side of the closed stone door, opened the dark grid on the stone wall, and bit her index finger and dripped a drop of blood in the mechanism.
The blood quickly spread along the lines in the mechanism, and the stone door slowly pushed away to both sides, revealing a deep and dark narrow passage inside.
"Miss Nan, please come with me."
The first time I heard her voice, Nanle didn't notice anything, and the second time I heard her voice, it suddenly felt familiar.
What is familiar is the timbre, and what is unfamiliar is the cold and hard tone.
Thinking about it like this, I feel that her back is also a little familiar, and I always feel that I have seen her there before.
Seeing that no one was keeping up, the woman in yellow turned to Nan Le and cast a surprised look, signaling her to follow quickly.
Nanle hesitated thoughtfully for a moment, then raised his head and walked towards her.
After following her for a while, Nan Le quickly took a few steps to catch up with her, walked side by side with the woman in yellow, and said naturally: "Senior sister, I remember that the door master said that you have to go through a waterway to enter the door, why hasn't this arrived yet?"
"......," the woman in yellow was silent for a moment, and then said, "Not long ago, the waterway was clogged up, and it was filled. ”
Nan Le Deng stopped and froze in place, turning his prepared face out.
She asked coldly, "Who the hell are you?"
The waterway thing simply doesn't exist.
The woman in yellow was silent for a moment, a little weak-hearted, and weakly squeezed out two laughs: "Miss Nan...... Aren't they all called senior sisters? Why do you ask? ”
Nan Le didn't talk nonsense to her: "You don't have to act again, I've been deceived by you to get here, you might as well say it directly."
The woman in yellow was silent, turned sideways and took a step back against the wall, and made a gesture of giving way: "As long as Miss Nan takes two more steps forward, everything you want to know will be clear."
Nan Le stared at her for two seconds, then turned his gaze to look at the corner not far ahead, and walked forward suspiciously, his eyes kept glancing at the woman in yellow leaning against the wall, carefully observing her every move.
The woman in yellow's hand quietly touched her back.
When Nan Le walked slowly to her side, there was a "click", the sound of the mechanism touching, and a square opened under his feet, Nan Le's expression tightened, and when he fell, his hand quickly stretched out his hand towards the woman in yellow.
The woman in yellow thought that Nan Le was going to pull herself down together, and quickly clinged to the wall, but she was caught off guard and pulled off the veil on her face.
In the next second, Nanle had fallen heavily on the limestone ground underground, and the stone door that leaked above her head had also closed with a "boom", so airtight that people couldn't see the gap at all, and they couldn't even believe that there was really a door on it.
Nanle got up, looked up at the top of his head, and clenched the veil in his hand, with nowhere to solve his doubts.
She really saw the face of the woman in yellow clearly, it was Cen Huaiyao who she saved in the Xiangxiang Courtyard, but at this time, the scar on her face had completely disappeared.
As for the reason why all this happened, she didn't know anything.
- "Lucky to meet again." ”
Behind him, a clear voice echoed in the stone chamber.
Nan Le suddenly looked back, and saw this quiet and dark empty stone room, and the white-robed man sitting at the stone table.
"Why are you here?" Nanle was shocked, the last time I saw him was on the mountain in the western suburbs.
Feng Chihao fiddled with the chess pieces on the stone table in front of him, and said calmly: "I don't know."
A terrifying conjecture came to mind, Nan Le walked quickly in front of Feng Chihao, and said in disbelief: "Wouldn't it be you who asked Cen Huaiyao to trick me here?" What do you want to do? ”
Feng Chihao shook his head, put the white chess piece in his hand lightly on the chessboard to block the black chess, and explained to Nan Le without hurrying: "No." I was knocked unconscious a while ago and woke up right here. ”
Nanle looked at him suspiciously for a while, and then asked, "How long have you been here?" What the hell is this place? Can we still get out? ”
Feng Chihao held a black chess piece in mid-air, thinking carefully about how to plan the next step, and leisurely answered a series of questions from Nanle: "How long, it has been two days; Where, it is not yet known; Whether you can get out, I'm afraid not. ”
By the end of the sentence, black had fallen, blocking white on the board.
Nan Le watched him throw the full plate of chess pieces into the small stone caves on both sides of the stone table one by one, and the crisp sound of "let's click" was particularly loud in the empty stone room, just like Feng Chihao's leisure at this time.
Nanle crossed his waist and said, "You won't just sit here and entertain yourself for two days, right?" How do you know if you can't get out, or if you don't want to go out at all and plan to die here? ”
As she spoke, she was already wandering around the dimly lit stone chamber.
However, apart from the four walls, a stone table carved with a chessboard, the stone benches on either side of the stone table, and the chess player who sat on the stone bench and had nothing to do with himself......
And then there was nothing.
Nan Le still didn't give up, looking on the walls on all sides to see what the mechanism was.
When she looked into the corner, she found a small dark compartment.
Nan Le was like a treasure, and shouted at Feng Chi Hao in surprise while clapping hard: "Feng Chi Hao! Come and see! There's a dark compartment here. ”
Feng Chihao didn't raise his head and said, "Don't waste your efforts, that's the window for delivering food in, and it won't open until you get to the meal."
Nanle filmed for a long time, but there was still no movement, and I couldn't help but believe what Feng Chihao said.
Suddenly, she thought of something and realized, "You mean, there are punctual meals delivered every day??" Someone is manipulating us?! ”
Feng Chihao nodded lightly and said, "Exactly."
Nan Lemo rubbed his fingers and thought for a while, and said: "Since food and drink are provided, it must be to keep us alive, then there must be a way to get out, maybe the person who controls it just wants to see how we can get out by ourselves?"
Feng Chihao seemed to agree with a light "um", didn't say anything more, and just started a new game of chess by himself.
Nan Le's eyes turned, and suddenly stared at the chessboard on the stone table, she walked over and carefully studied each chess piece placed on the chessboard, pinched one, squinted her eyes, and said, "Is the mystery here?"
After all, there's only so much to it here.
Feng Chihao said: "As you said, I have been playing chess for two days and have not found anything wrong." He suddenly raised his head to look at her, and smiled gently, "Miss Nan can play chess?" Why don't you play against me? ”
"When are you still in the mood to play chess!" As he spoke, Nan Le was already standing in front of the stool around the table, rolling up his sleeves and making a gesture to fight him.
While sitting down, he disrupted Feng Chi Hao's self-amusing chess pieces and said: "Miss Ben, she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, I am afraid that you will not succeed."
What she said was the truth, she was really proficient in everything, but she was just "capturing and riding Shu", "capturing" means fighting, "riding" means racing, "Shu" represents enjoyment, and "words" represents amplifying words.
As soon as Nan Le sat down on the stone bench, there was a "click", as if she had touched some mechanism, and the curved shackles drawn from both sides of the stool imprisoned her legs, making her legs unable to move, and the same sound came from the opposite side of Nan Le.
"How so?" Nanle struggled twice in vain.
Feng Chihao glanced at the confinement on his legs lightly, and still said calmly: "Oh~ It turns out that the mechanism is triggered like this."
"What do you mean? Stuck on the stool I'm sitting on? Nanle was surprised.
"No, I've sat there with you."
"Then why did it trigger when I sat down?"
"It's because of gravity."
Nan Le reacted for a while, and suddenly became annoyed: "What do you mean!" Where am I fat! ”
"Uh...... That was not what I meant. I mean, the real reason why the trap triggers is because both stone benches are gravitational at the same time. ”
Nanle suddenly became depressed: "But we can't even move now."
Feng Chihao smiled with some pleasure: "Yes."
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