Chapter 42: The Door of Life and the Door of Death

"Is it still the same as the last time I went to the hotel to open a room?" Ye Xuanyi asked.

Du Chao said with a smile: "The last time I went to the hotel to open a room, it was because of the urgency of time, and this time I had six hours to prepare, of course, I don't need to go to the hotel." ”

"Let's go home." Nie Yuqian looked at Du Chao and said.

Du Chao nodded in agreement: "Yes, it will not change." ”

"Then we'll have plenty of food." Ye Xuanyi said with a smile, "Maybe this time it's not just about surviving for seventy-two hours." ”

After the three of them discussed, they immediately got up and drove back to Phoenix, where the two beauties lived, and went crazy to buy food in the nearest supermarket, with noodles, eggs, vegetables, and frozen meat, the better, and Du Chao also specially added a few sharp knives.

Although it is not as sharp as a saber, it can still be used for self-defense, and it is better than using bare hands.

Back at the residence, simply packed up the food, locked the doors and windows, and completed all the preparations in only two and a half hours, Du Chao and the three of them sat side by side on the sofa and stared wide-eyed.

"Here, a knife, self-defense."

"Will this knife work? Let's chop vegetables. Ye Xuanyi took the steel knife from Du Chao's hand, held it in her hand casually and turned it around twice, and asked with a suspicious face.

Du Chao spread his hands, "It's not that there is no way, I didn't expect the task to come at this time, I knew that I would order a genuine saber and sapper shovel from a certain treasure of the almighty." ”

"Well, why didn't you say it earlier." Nie Yuqian complained.

"Let's not talk about that, I hope we can enter the virtual world with the knives we have at hand."

Ye Xuanyi looked at the time on her wrist frequently, and always felt that the countdown of six hours was too slow, and every minute was a torment for her.

Nie Yuqian looked at it in her eyes, put down the sharp knife in her hand, reached out and grabbed her girlfriend's shoulder, and comforted her softly: "Xuanyi, relax, don't be nervous." ”

"I'm not nervous, I'm just ...... Waiting is scorching. ”

Du Chao smiled slightly, "It's like waiting for an important but uncertain exam, right." ”

"It's very vivid." Nie Yuqian nodded in agreement.

Du Chao glanced at the smart bracelet and proposed: "Anyway, it's still early, it's boring to sit dry, find something to do, is there poker?" The three of us are just fighting the landlord. ”

Nie Yuqian glanced at Du Chao, "You're really relaxed." ”

Du Chao shrugged, "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided, besides, I have been injected with a genetic enhancer now, and my physical fitness is many times stronger than before, and the general task will not be difficult for me." Rest assured, two beauties. ”

Looking at Du Chao's swearing, Nie Yuqian and Ye Xuanyi were a little more confident, and really found out the playing cards to fight the landlord of the three of them, and the loser accepted the punishment, and he needed to complete the action designated by the winner.

After a while, the three of them were immersed in the game of fighting the landlord, and the anxiety and fear of the new task were all thrown out of the clouds, and the air was full of joy.

"Alright, fifteen minutes left, we should be ready." Du Chao said as he put down the neatly shuffled playing cards in his hand, grabbed the sharp knife with both hands and turned around twice, closing his eyes and preparing to enter the virtual world.

Nie Yuqian and Ye Xuanyi glanced at each other, each took a deep breath, and grabbed the knife in his hand.

Fifteen minutes passed in a blink of an eye, the familiar electricity was transmitted from the wrist to the brain, Du Chao opened his eyes again, and the familiar sofa coffee table was no longer in front of him, but a fully enclosed stone tomb.

The dilapidated stone walls are distributed in an octagonal shape, with a closed stone door on each side, flanked by stone carvings in the shape of a dragon's head, and the open dragon's mouth flickering with dim lights.

The top of his head is about two meters high, and Du Chao can reach out and touch the top. At the foot is a gossip diagram corresponding to the eight stone gates, and a pattern corresponds to a door.

The smart bracelet "Didi" rang, and a line of red font appeared: Lost lamb, escape from the ancient tomb within twelve hours, or accept punishment.

"Damn."

Du Chao couldn't help but scold, this script is not right, it is completely different from what they predicted, it is not virtual reality at all, but completely out of reality.

Looking around, he was the only one, and he didn't see Nie Yuqian and Ye Xuanyi, Du Chao immediately clicked on the smart bracelet and called the two: "Qianqian, Xuanyi, where are you?" ”

"I seem to be in a stone tomb, what about you?" Nie Yuqian's voice came out.

"Me too, there are eight doors in front of me, and I don't know which one to go into." Ye Xuanyi quickly replied.

"I'm like you, are you twelve-hour mission?"

"Yes." Nie Yuqian and Ye Xuanyi replied at the same time.

"Okay, don't be nervous, we have time, take your time." Du Chao approached the smart bracelet and spoke loudly.

"Du Chao, which door do we enter?" Ye Xuanyi asked.

"Let me think about it."

Du Chao was at a loss for what to do with the gossip map, he had never studied the gossip, he couldn't understand the hexagram of the gossip map, he didn't know which sign represented what meaning, which door was auspicious and which door was fierce.

Du Chao fell silent, Nie Yuqian was unwilling to wait in place, leaving the center of the gossip map and walking to each door to observe, trying to find some useful clues.

Ye Xuanyi stayed in place very cautiously, squatted down and touched the horizontal lines protruding from the gossip diagram, and said to the smart bracelet: "This seems to be a Tai Chi gossip graphic." ”

"I know it's a gossip map, but I don't know what each figure represents." Du Chao responded.

"We can search on the Internet," Ye Xuanyi said excitedly, and when she touched the pocket behind her buttocks, she found it empty, and there was no mobile phone at all.

Her phone didn't travel with her, not even the knife in her hand.

"My phone and knives are gone."

"Me too, nothing. What about Du Chao? Nie Yuqian responded.

"Like you, bare-handed."

Ye Xuanyi glanced at the time on her wrist, twelve minutes had passed, she felt that time was too slow when she entered the task before, and now she had no clue about the task, and she felt that time passed quickly.

"If you just find a door to go in and have a look, you won't be able to leave here if you wait." Ye Xuanyi proposed.

"No," Du Chao categorically denied it, and said in a loud voice: "Have you watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?" ”

Nie Yuqian asked, "I've seen a little bit, does it have anything to do with the Three Kingdoms?" ”

"Of course there is, I remember that in the Three Kingdoms, Cao Ren attacked Xinye and set up the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, which was based on this gossip and evolved into a battle array. Xu Shu commanded Zhao Yun to enter from Shengmen and break Cao Ren's formation from Jingmen. ”

"You mean we do the same thing? Entering from the raw door? But which gate is the birth gate? Hearing that Du Chao thought of a way to enter the door, Ye Xuanyi couldn't help but be happy, and even her tone was three points higher, looking forward to Du Chao's answer.

"That's exactly what I have a headache for, and I don't know which hexagram represents Shengmen."

Nie Yuqian circled around the eight gates, and her eyes stayed on the hexagram of the stone gate on the right, which was cut off from the middle by three horizontal lines, like a canyon.

Nie Yuqian's eyes lit up, and the other hexagrams had complete horizontal lines, only if this hexagram was completely cut off, it didn't mean that there was a way to go, this should be the birth gate.

"Du Chao, Xuanyi, I decided to choose the hexagram cut off in the middle, I think it is the birth gate." Nie Yuqian said confidently.

Nie Yuqian explained, and Ye Xuanyi and Du Chao both thought that what she said made sense.

With the support of her companions, Nie Yuqian's confidence increased greatly, and she pressed the Tai Chi in the center of the Bagua diagram, and the stone door made a "creaking" sound and slowly opened.

Nie Yuqian took a deep breath and walked in.