Ling Yue pursed her lips and spit out two words lightly, and then there was no sound, because Ling Yue's cold and little-talking personality had long been preconceived, so this sentence of "stupid" made Li Zixiao a little unacceptable for a while. But then I thought about the first time I saw her in the hospital, wasn't she also cold and didn't eat incense in the world, but the Qiao Xiaoyan who was caught off guard behind was not accepted by herself.

Hawkers, anyway, it's a good start, and if she's always been cold-faced, it really makes me a little uncomfortable.

After figuring everything out, Li Zixiao's smile became even stronger, "Ling Yue, thank you for helping me." ”

The sudden thank you made Ling Yue a little flattered, not so much flattered as a panicked face, "Lord, why does the master want to thank me?"

Ling Yue's subconscious has been instilled with the idea that Li Zixiao is the master, and what the master says must be absolutely obedient, so when Li Zixiao thanked her, she thought that it was what she did wrong or what she did badly that attracted these unnecessary three words.

Li Zixiao looked at Ling Yue a little strangely, he didn't understand why Ling Yue was so excited when he heard the words of thanks.

"After all, you helped me to find Ji Ruobing, and I have to thank you for being reasonable!"

"Isn't this still unfounded? Well, don't rub it off, master, you won't be able to see anything here when it gets dark. ”

Ling Yue seemed to deliberately avoid such topics, perhaps she had always been sensitive to such topics in her heart.

Li Zixiao looked back at the entrance where sunlight was still refracted in, and then at the staircase that stretched into the basement.

This doesn't seem to be any different from getting dark! It's also the same thing that you can't see your five fingers, and there are a lot of things in it, it seems that Ji Ruobing is not so easy to find.

Although he had already figured things out in his heart, he didn't plan to say it, he always felt that if he said it, Ling Yue would have some reaction.

Li Zixiao didn't continue to speak, but followed Ling Yue and slowly walked towards the depths of the basement, the more he walked, the darker it became, and he could still see the light of the steps, which gradually disappeared into darkness as he went deeper.

"Why is this basement so strange in Ling Yue, don't you feel that this staircase is spiral-shaped?"

"No, I don't. ”

Ling Yue's heartless answer almost didn't make Li Zixiao vomit blood and die.

Li Zixiao wiped the sweat on his forehead and looked at the current environment carefully, no different from entering the basement just now, there were cement walls on both sides.

"Huh, what is this?"

Li Zixiao squatted down and wiped a handful of cement walls, and when he withdrew his hand, he found that his fingers were stained with some white powder, and he put it on his nose and smelled it, and there was no strange smell.

Grinding the white powder on his fingers, Li Zixiao looked ahead with sharp eyes, as if he was thinking about something, and after about a minute, Li Zixiao walked up to Ling Yue, "If I'm not mistaken, we've already walked into a trap." As he spoke, he raised his arm and ripped off the sleeve of his right arm in his coat with a "zila" sound.

Ling Yue was stunned by Li Zixiao's actions, "Master, you are ......"

Without waiting for Ling Yue to finish speaking, Li Zixiao threw the half sleeve on the ground and then walked in front of Ling Yue, "What are you still in a daze, hurry up." ”

"Yes, yes, master. ”

Ling Yue was slightly stunned, the aura exuding from his body was completely different from when he came in just now, if it was his usual state just now, then what was the awe-inspiring aura he exuded now? Not only was the aura exuding from his body different, but even his eyes had become sharper than before, and that look seemed to be able to see through everything.

Ling Yue couldn't figure out why she just followed behind Li Zixiao stupidly, the steps under her feet flickered and dimmed, and it was even darker in front of her, and she couldn't find a sense of direction at all.

Ling Yue didn't know how long she had been walking behind Li Zixiao, looking at Li Zixiao's back, she suddenly felt that the boy who was so frightened that she was crying when she saw her lift up and realize that she was dying in the hospital actually had tall shoulders, and she was very relieved to walk behind him, and she didn't have to think about whether there were traps under her feet at all.

Suddenly, Li Zixiao stopped, Ling Yue suddenly knocked down Li Zixiao's back because he was too focused for a while, "Yes, I'm sorry master, because it's too dark, I didn't ......"

"Sure enough, it was exactly what I thought. Li Zixiao didn't care about Ling Yue's collision just now, and squatted down to himself.

Ling Yue poked her head out with some curiosity, and she was stunned when she saw the scene in front of her.

There is a sleeve on the ground where Li Zixiao squats, and that sleeve is the same color as the clothes on Li Zixiao's body, which is clearly the one that Li Zixiao just ripped off!

"Master, we've been going around in circles here!" Ling Yue frowned and shouted loudly.

"Hehe, it seems that you are aware of it too. That's right, the two of us started to circle around this basement not long after we entered it, and I had a vague feeling that something was wrong as the staircase slowly transitioned from this staircase to a spiral staircase, but I wasn't too sure so I ripped off my sleeve and threw it here. As he spoke, Li Zixiao stretched out his hand and wiped it on the cement wall again, then stood up and faced Ling Yue.

"Do you know what this thing is?" Li Zixiao asked as he stretched out his hand in front of Ling Yue.

Ling Yue shook her head, "I don't know." ”

"This white powder is called saline, because a lot of water is used in the construction process, and there are many salts and alkalis contained in building materials that are dissolved in the water.

Normally, this situation will only appear in a newly built house, but the basement we see outside has obviously been rusted like that for a long time, since it has been here for a long time, why does the wall have this kind of salinity that only appears in a newly built house?"

"Because this wall was newly built later!"

Ling Yue said it to the point.

Li Zixiao smiled and nodded, "That's right, I can only say that the owner who owns this basement is really a genius who can actually build the Penrose Staircase." ”

Ling Yue was a little angry by Li Zixiao's smile, "When will you still be able to laugh, why don't you hurry up and find a way to get out." If you don't want to do anything, I'll just destroy this wall, and I don't care if you are buried alive when the time comes. ”

Li Zixiao, who was still smiling, instantly turned into a black line on his face, "Hey, do you treat me as a master? Why do I seem to me to be such a dispensable existence!"

In an instant, the awe-inspiring momentum on Li Zixiao's body disappeared without a trace, and he was replaced by the appearance of a weak scholar, Ling Yue may have been going around in circles, feeling that she was being tricked, and she was a little angry in her heart, and she didn't pay attention to the tone of her words, and when she saw that Li Zixiao seemed to be a little angry, she woke up.

"I'm sorry, master, but I said something like that because I've been going around in circles here. ”

Li Zixiao was not a person who liked to be careful, coupled with Ling Yue's somewhat aggrieved eyes, the anger in his stomach immediately disappeared, he touched Ling Yue's head, "You don't have to take it to heart, let's go, I'll take you out now." ”

After speaking, Li Zixiao took Ling Yue's hand and walked forward, this should be the first time Li Zixiao pulled Ling Yue's hand, maybe it was because the darkness made Li Zixiao's heart calmer, feeling Ling Yue's smooth, weak and boneless little hands, Li Zixiao's face was a little hot.

Ling Yue behind her is not much better than Li Zixiao, after all, she is a girl who has never touched a boy except for practicing martial arts with her master, she panicked at this moment, and her heart "plopped and plopped" and jumped non-stop, not to say, an indescribable feeling was eroding her body.

"Lord, Master, I ......"

Before Ling Yue finished speaking, Li Zixiao grabbed the topic, "Ling Yue, you are close to the wall on the left, stretch out your hand and feel if there is a door or something." ”

"Oh, okay. Ling Yue agreed, and then stretched out her hand to rub against the wall on her left.

Li Zixiao was not idle, he was thinking about this basement while touching the wall on the right, judging from this Penrose staircase, this basement is likely to be the Doctor's research institute, this kind of staircase is not something that ordinary people can design, and the darkness of this basement maximizes the role of the Penrose staircase.

Fortunately, I learned about these strange buildings when I went to the bookstore, otherwise I would have to sit on the ground and stare at it now, and I can't find a way, the doctor is really a wizard who doesn't know what kind of traps are waiting for us in this research institute, and he just came in and encountered such a tricky trap. Although there are no weapons to shoot this trap, mental torture is the most painful and cruel method.

"There's a little door here, host!"

Suddenly, Ling Yue shouted and pulled Li Zixiao back from his thoughts.

Li Zixiao came to this small door, stretched out his hand and touched it, it was twenty centimeters thick, and its shape was very special, arched, slowly narrowing from the outside to the inside, and finally could only allow one person to drill through.

"Even a door is so intricately designed, such a door is easy to give the illusion, and the dark people in the basement can't help but burrow into it once they touch it. Saying that, Li Zixiao drilled out of the small door, and a light that was not bright shone on his face.

The Penrose staircase designed by the Doctor is not a wonderful idea, and in order to give people the illusion, a small hole was deliberately made in the wall facing the sunlight inside, so that people can feel the light after entering the small door. Once the person who enters finds that he has been going around in circles, he instinctively runs towards the place where there is light, but he does not know that the light that is close at hand can make him run for ten lifetimes without touching it.

Ling Yue followed Li Zixiao and also got out of that small door, a feeling of the rest of his life after the catastrophe arose, although Ling Yue didn't care about his own life, but this was human instinct, it was irresistible.

After coming out, Ling Yue first took a heavy breath of air, and then looked at the steps that almost demolished the wall, this step was built very strangely, after entering from the entrance of the basement, the steps slowly curved, due to the lack of light, people followed the feeling under their feet, the arc of the steps was not very obvious, so it was naturally brought into the "endless staircase" by this step.

If you look closely, there is a very inconspicuous step at the turn of this curved staircase, which goes straight down into the basement, and the two steps are put together in exactly one "Ya".

"Hmph, Ling Yue now you know it's not easy. ”

Li Zixiao came to Ling Yue and patted her shoulder, and naturally took her hand, "Let's go, let's move on." ”