Chapter Twenty-Nine: Who Stole the Map
"Susu, is there anything special about this?" I pointed to the demon diagram on the stone wall and asked Lin Su.
She frowned and thought for a moment before she said suspiciously: "No, the altar is generally used to sacrifice and pray for blessings, this is too weird, unless ......"
"Unless what?" I asked.
"Unless...... The builder of this place knew that he was doing something evil, and judging from the peacefulness of the mural in front of him, the owner of this place may have undergone a process of blackening psychologically. ”
After Lin Su finished speaking, Kong Xian continued: "Yes, the master here seems to be using the walls here to record the transformation of his psychological state. ”
"Hear my guess?" I raised the corners of my mouth and looked at Kong Xian.
Kong Xian nodded and smiled: "Then please start your performance." ”
"This place is likely to belong to the prince of the palace, he has always felt that he is a very kind person, but when he has a thought, he begins to feel that God is unfair to him, obviously he is the eldest son, and the emperor is the most loved, but the gods are not favored, and he is born weak. had already entered a state of resignation, but when he met Li Buxiao, he began to have a dark psychology. So he gradually degenerated, and did not hesitate to do all kinds of hurtful things for his own purposes. As he walked to the altar, he recalled that his life was not too long, and that every step was a transformation, so he left his mental process from heaven to hell on the walls built independently on both sides, which is his most vivid portrayal. ”
After I finished speaking, I felt that I was a talent, that was simply the incarnation of Sherlock Holmes, Conan's life mentor, and a sense of pride that no one was in my eyes spontaneously.
Before he could get two seconds, Kong Xian applauded and smiled: "Not bad, it's really a non-vivid explanation, you are very powerful, follow Kong Ze to learn hypnotism in the future." "I was stunned and poured a basin of cold water on me.
Looking at Mo Ranchen and Lin Su again, they were also boring, and I felt quite embarrassed, so I touched my nose and stopped talking......
"Eh, why hasn't Dayang caught up yet?" Lin Su suddenly mentioned it, and I noticed that Liu Yang, who was not far behind us, really didn't keep up.
It's been more than ten minutes since I was separated from him, and even if he really wants to cut the wall with a waist knife, it's time to make a cut. Besides, this is a straight road, and the place where we threw him off before is not far away, no more than a hundred meters at most. But when I shined this flashlight, I couldn't see anything.
I remember that he was standing in front of a wall with an Arhat painted on it, and he looked for it.
The flashlight shook twice, and it was easy to find the wall where the Arhat was painted, but that place was empty, where was Liu Yang's shadow?
"Is it convenient to go?" I asked, suspicious.
"Dayang!" Kong shouted, but there was no reply.
A few of us are nervous, but don't something happen, right? Liu Yang is a rough man, and he didn't care about peeing behind me in the gap under the collapse before, and it was impossible to ignore us because he was shy. And he insisted on smashing the wall before, so there should be a mechanism in the wall, right?
"Let's go look for it." Kong Xian greeted, and we walked back together.
Because we didn't know what was going on, we walked cautiously, and the speed was naturally much slower.
However, after all, it is used to walk, and it has not slowed down to the speed of a turtle. In less than five minutes, we were back on the wall where the Arhat was drawn.
However, after going around the wall, we didn't find Liu Yang, as if he had disappeared from the space we were.
"Dayang!" Kong Xian shouted again, and Lin Su also called twice. However, it was still very calm, and there was no voice from Liu Yang to reply.
"Come here." Mo Yanchen suddenly said two words behind the wall.
When we heard this, we turned behind the wall to see what he had found.
When I turned around, I found that there was a chiseled hole in the wall behind it, and the area was very small, about the size of a thumb cover, under the wall, near the ground. We didn't pay attention to it before, we all thought that it was because the wall was aging and missing, but now Mo Zhanchen pointed to it, and we took a closer look.
It was obviously the traces of the waist knife, but the traces were very fresh, and they were obviously Liu Yang's masterpieces.
"it...... This thing can't really trigger the mechanism and be destroyed, right? I said with a frown as I shone my flashlight through the small gap.
This kind of wall is the hollow structure of our house. Two bricks in the front and back, with a gap of about one brick in the middle. But the wall in front of us is not as I thought, there are any hidden weapons, and it is not like Lin Su's story, there are a lot of gold and silver treasures. There's just air, nothing else.
"How can this be a mechanism?" As I spoke, I turned my head to look at Mo Zhanchen. He nodded at me, saying that I was right, that the wall was intact and that there really could be no mechanism.
"What now?" Lin Su was very afraid, she hugged her two arms and rubbed them, and slowly leaned towards Kong Xian.
Kong Xian was also very entangled, so he had to say helplessly: "Take a look around, see if you can find it, and make other plans if you can't find it." ”
After he finished speaking, Mo Ranchen nodded and went back to look for it, Lin Su didn't dare to go far, just wandered around. Kong Xian seemed to want to see if there would be any special marks on the map of the ancient city for the altar in front of us, so I planned to go to the horizontal area and take a look at the open areas on both sides of the road.
Before I could take two steps, I suddenly heard Kong Xian "huh".
"What's wrong? Did you find anything? I turned back and asked.
He groped with his two hands on his body, digging into his pockets and bags, and his face became more and more ugly after a long time.
I asked again what was wrong, and then he looked up, with a cold glint in his eyes, and said, "The map is gone." ”
"Gone?" I was a little incredulous, so I accompanied him to look for it, rummaged through my bag and body, and then looked at the road we were walking over, but still couldn't find the map.
"How could I have lost it?" I asked, "When was the last time you saw it?" ”
Kong Xian thought for a moment before saying, "When we were in the black room, I used to take it out and look at it for a while, but I clearly remember that I put it in the pocket inside my coat, it is impossible to fall out, this pocket has a zipper. ”
"Do you remember, who came near you?" I asked again.
"Except for Lin Su, there is no one else." Kong Xian said.
I shook my head and denied: "Impossible, Lin Su can't take the map, our map is what she found, if she really wants it, she will definitely take a copy of the map herself before returning it to me." ”
"Yes, so now the most suspicious ...... I think it's Liu Yang who disappeared inexplicably. Kong Xian's eyes were very cold, like the ice of the North Pole, and I couldn't help but shudder when I saw it.
"Can you guess what the motive is?" I asked, "Liu Yang shouldn't know the use of the resurrection technique, and he can't be the one who wants to get the resurrection technique." ”
Kong Xian said: "I can't guess yet, but we don't have a map, the road behind is troublesome, he shouldn't have gone far, we have to find him back quickly." After he finished speaking, he called Lin Su and Mo Ranchen. Then, when they came back, I told them about the situation.
The two of them also feel that Liu Yang is the biggest suspect now, the key is that Liu Yang's disappearance is too coincidental, from beginning to end, we didn't hear any movement here. There was no mechanism, no attack by the face bamboo, no sound from Liu Yang, and he disappeared with the map. Nine times out of ten, this thing stole the map and ran away.
But what we can't figure out is, what is the use of Liu Yang asking for this map? He couldn't read it in his brain at all, so did he still want to bring the resurrection technique back alone to invite him to succeed? Besides, if he really wants to get the things in the palace by himself, he should wait until we enter the underground palace and get closer and closer to the palace, and then it will be easier to rebel, isn't it?
"Master Jin, you haven't taken off your coat from beginning to end, he really took something out of your pocket, didn't you feel it?" I asked Kong Xian.
He waved his hand at me, then frowned and said with a cold face: "I naturally feel it, but it's not like I haven't taken off this dress from beginning to end." ”
Hearing him say that, I thought to myself, what does this mean? In my memory, he did take off this clothes once, that is, after the human-faced bamboo attacked him, Kong took it off when he helped him clean his wounds, and then I put it back on for him.
But after thinking about it, he said that he had taken it out and seen it when he was in the little black house before, so it means that what he said was not the same time as I thought, and he must have taken off this dress at some point, after we set off from the little black house.
"You took a nap while we rested by the fire in the dark room." Kong Xian said to me: "After I came up from the rope before, I felt that the wound on my back was a little cracked, so I took advantage of the time to ask Liu Yang to show me the wound on my back." Because my hand makes a large movement that will affect the wound, Liu Yang helped me take off the coat outside, and he took the clothes with me in those few minutes. ”
"Hmm." Mo Ranchen said: "He is indeed the most suspicious person, but the ten minutes we were separated from him before were enough for him to hide far away, plus we have also consumed some time now, and it is very difficult to find him back." ”
"yes." Lin Su nodded, also with a sad face.
Kong Xian leaned against a wall and thought for a moment, then took a decision and said to us, "In this case, let's go ahead and find the entrance to the underground palace first." Even if Liu Yang takes the map, he has to go to find the entrance like us, otherwise the map will be useless to him. If we're lucky, we'll run into him on the way. ”
After all, this is the only way we have now, so we have to stop worrying about Liu Yang's whereabouts for the time being, and go forward along the road in front of us first.
But while walking, we are still discussing Liu Yang's matter, after all, his approach makes us too confused, this is not a decision that a person in a normal mind should make, unless there is another factor that we don't know about.
After walking about one or two hundred meters, we finally reached the end of this road, I looked back at this long road, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "This prince is also a talent, a road to the altar is so long, why doesn't his old man build a highway?" is really a good prince who is hard-working and hard-working, and he is not afraid of tired feet. ”
Lin Su chuckled: "Mumu, you don't know, the prince stays in his palace every day, it's rare to have such an opportunity for him to exercise, I guess he directly repaired this altar as a back garden." ”
I tapped her twice with my finger and exclaimed with a smile: "Well, we just have ideas, and at first glance we are rare talents in architecture." ”
As we spoke, we stepped on the steps of the altar, and the sound of the water that we had faintly heard before was now in our ears, and it sounded quite lively, as if I had really entered someone's back garden, maybe there were a few koi swimming in the water, and there was a stone tablet on the shore, which was written in inky black Song script: Forward this koi, and you will get eternal life.