Chapter 40: Finding the Secret Passage
"Phew!" Ji Qingyi spat and said, "What nonsense are you?" Shut your crow's mouth. ”
He Qingyun lowered his head and kicked on the ground, and kept shouting: "You two hurry up, have you found a place?" It's really not okay, let's go another route, this route has reached a dead end, in case there is no secret way, maybe he will accidentally ...... this route"
He Qingyun was talking and didn't know where he kicked under his feet, and with a 'boom' sound, a crack opened in the wall on the side, and from this gap there was a faint glimmer of light, the gap was very narrow but just enough for a person to enter.
Ji Qingyi immediately smiled and said to the air: "He Qingyi, you can be lucky."
Saying that, he stood up and was about to go in, Xiao Jin seemed to know her next move, stretched out his arm and wrapped his arm around Ji Qingyi's waist, he whispered: "Don't rush in first, look for where the switch is just now, otherwise if you turn to other directions in a while, it will be even more difficult to find the mechanism."
When He Qingyan heard this, he squatted down and lay on the ground to find it, he said: "I was just kicking back and forth here just now, the switch should be here,"
As he spoke, his hand touched a raised arc of the ground, and when he pressed it, the wall closed automatically. Ji Qingyi has been there and asked, "Where did you run into it?"
He Qingyun pointed to the ground and said: "The ground here doesn't look any different, in fact, a small piece of the ground is convex, just a little convex, not very obvious."
As he spoke, he pressed the raised ground again, and the wall opened again. The three of them entered the secret passage, although this secret passage has no windows, and there are no oil lamps on the walls, but it is as bright as day, and they walked through the secret passage unimpeded and came to the fourth floor of Chongyang.
As soon as I came out of the secret passage, my eyes were still a little difficult, because it was already very dark outside, and there was no light, which contrasted with the strong contrast in the secret passage, and it was easy to suffer from transient blindness.
He Qingyi said to Ji Qingyi: "Didn't you say that the secret book is on the fourth floor of Chongyang? The structure of each floor is almost the same, where is it on the fourth floor of Chongyang? ”
Ji Qingyi looked around and said, "How do I know, the disciple of the Nightmare Palace said that he found out that the secret book is here."
Xiao Jin suddenly turned around and said, "Half an hour is up, do we still want to sprinkle stealth powder?"
Ji Qingyi looked at it, it was true, thought about it and said: "Don't sprinkle it first, wait until there is danger."
He Qingchen also nodded in agreement, he walked forward and said: "If we are on the fourth floor of Chongyang now, then if we go all the way to the east, will we pass through the fourth floor of Wuyang, the fourth floor of Baiting, the fourth floor of Quqi, the fourth floor of Shangshan and the fourth floor of the North Pavilion?" We can start by looking for Xiaobai on the fourth floor. Xiao Jin shook his head and said, "If you keep going east, you will come to a dead end, because the height of the six directions of the fourth layer is not the same." If you want to go somewhere else, you have to follow the map. ”
He Qingyun said with a smile: "I estimate that the disciples of the Nightmare Palace who have lived here for more than ten years will also get lost, no wonder Hongchen will give you a map, otherwise we don't know how to die,"
Xiao Jin said: "This map only shows the icons that go to the direction of several layers, and it does not mark what is on each layer."
He Qingyun also echoed: "Well, that is, it would be nice to know what is on each layer and what it is for, so that you can guess where Xiaobai is."
Ji Qingyi glared at the two of them at this time and said, "You two don't talk about those useless things, why don't you hurry up?"
As she spoke, she walked inside, she turned her head and said to Xiao Jin, "Where is the fourth floor of Chongyang here?"
Xiao Jin glanced at the map and said: "There is no clear display here, it only shows that there will be a fork in the road later, if you go to the left, it will be the fifth floor of Baiting, and if you keep walking, it will be the third floor of Shangshan."
Ji Qingyi nodded with all his thoughts and said: "In this case, it is from the time we came out of the secret road just now to the fork in the road for a while, it is the fourth floor of Chongyang." Xiao Jin nodded and said, "You're not wrong to do this."
He Qingyun pointed to the stairs in front of him and said, "Are you referring to this very long step?"
Ji Qingyi and Xiao Jin turned around at the same time and saw a fork in the road.
Send Qingyi: "......"
Xiao Jin: "......"
He Qingzhen: "What should I do?" We were so quick to get to the fork in the road, but we didn't even see a room along the way, it was a wall. ”
Ji Qingyi also looked at the road they walked just now with some doubts, these few steps, about a hundred meters, really didn't find anything when they walked over, and they didn't even find a house How to find a cheat? Just as he was worried, he heard Xiao Jin say: "Do you think it could be an illusion set up by the master of the Nightmare Palace, so that we mistakenly think that there is no room around?"
Ji Qingyi frowned and said, "If what you said is true, then does the Palace Master of the Nightmare Palace know that we are here?"
Xiao Jin shook his head and said, "She may know that we ran away, but she shouldn't be sure where we went, but I heard that there are many palaces in the Nightmare Palace, if they are all like this palace, then wouldn't we be looking for a needle in a haystack?"
He Qingyun bit his lip on the side and said, "Even if it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, if Xiaobai really becomes a living Gu, I will also take him home."
After speaking, Ji Qingyi slapped him on the head and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?" Do you think the Living Man Gu is easy to practice? You talk some more frustrating nonsense, see that I don't wring your tongue! ”
Xiao Jin frowned and said, "Can you stop arguing?"
After speaking, he walked to the wall and looked at it: "Now I am standing here, after a while I close my eyes, you will push me towards the wall, if I am retreated, then this wall may really cover the illusion of the fourth-floor room in Chongyang."
Saying that, he closed his eyes in front of the wall now, He Qingyun and Ji Qingyi glanced at each other, and the two shouted 'one, two, three' and pushed Ji Qingyi violently, and then really pushed it into the wall, and immediately disappeared. When they saw this, they closed their eyes and slammed into the wall.
Because the two of them used too much force, they almost fell to the ground, and when they raised their heads, they saw the scene inside.
The fourth layer of Chongyang is like daylight, brighter than in the secret passage just now, and the light in the secret passage should come from here. They looked around and found that all the rooms were locked, Ji Qingyi rolled her eyes and said, "It's really heavily guarded here, even the whole family is not allowed to enter." Xiao Jin stepped forward and touched the lock, and as soon as Ji Qingyi wanted to stop him, he saw several silver needles shot out of the lock, and the needles were poisonous.
He Qing said: "My God, there is still a secret weapon?!"
Ji Qingyi nodded and said, "I forgot to tell you, that Nightmare Palace disciple did say that there are a lot of secret weapons on the fourth layer of Chongyang, and it seems that there is a treasure guarding the palace master of the Nightmare Palace in the past dynasties."
Xiao Jin frowned: "In that case, you two should pay attention to yourself, don't touch anything, if you are injured by a hidden weapon, it will be fatal."
Ji Qingyi: "Big brother ......, who is touching other people's things?"
He Qing swallowed his saliva and said, "I'm so thirsty, are you thirsty?"
Ji Qingyi shook his head and said, "I'm not thirsty, do you want to drink water?"
He Qingyan licked his lips uncomfortably and said, "I don't know, I just suddenly feel thirsty and want to drink water."
Ji Qingyi frowned lightly and said, "Did you touch something just now?"
He Qingyun shook his head, rubbed his head and said, "I didn't, I didn't touch anything."
Xiao Jin walked to He Qingyun's side, raised his face to look at it, and suddenly said with cold eyes: "He was poisoned."
"Poisoned?" He Qingyan said hoarsely: "Why am I poisoned?" I didn't touch anything. ”
As he spoke, he crouched down uncomfortably and leaned against the wall to the side.
Xiao Jin lifted him up with his big hand and said, "Get up, don't touch the wall, it may also be poisonous."
Who knew that He Qingyun suddenly hugged his neck, panting uncomfortably: "I'm uncomfortable, so thirsty."
Xiao Jin immediately threw him to the ground, slapped his shoulder in disgust and said, "Bear with it."
Ji Qingyi was stunned, and just wanted to walk over to see what was wrong with He Qingyi, but was stopped by Xiao Jin, she turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Jin glanced at Ji Qingyi and said, "There is a part of his poison in the *, so he feels very thirsty." Don't go over, he will insult you again. ”
He Qingyan stood up half-propped up, glared at Xiao Jin and said, "What nonsense are you talking about!" I didn't get poisoned, I just didn't have the strength to do it, you don't save you when you die, you still fall into the well, don't let Qingyi get close to me. ”
Xiao Jin glanced at him and said lightly: "My wife, why should I let her get close to other men."
"You!" As soon as He Qingyun said a word, he fell to the ground weakly.
Ji Qingyi walked in front of He Qingyi, squatted down and looked up at Xiao Jin and said, "In this case, you must find a water source first."
Xiao Jin thought for a while and said, "I still have the antidote given by Hongchen here, I don't know if it will work for his poison tube."
As he spoke, he took out a pill from his arms and stuffed it into He Qingyun's mouth. After a while, He Qingyun stood up, shook his head, and said in a hoarse voice: "My body has strength, but I am still very thirsty."
Ji Qingyi glanced at him sympathetically and said, "You bear with it, where can I find you water to drink now?" Even if I find it, I won't dare to let you drink it. ”
He Qingyun nodded and swallowed hard.
Xiao Jin asked him, "What did you encounter just now?"
He Qingyun shook his head and did not speak. Ji Qingyi said: "I guess I sucked something when I went somewhere, don't let him talk, save some saliva."