Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Dark Shadow
In the dark, I stood at a small crossroads, torn and confused.
I don't know why I chose such a place, the stone houses around me are all the same, but I don't know when their orientation changed, was it just like that and I didn't notice?
Standing in place for a while, I suddenly remembered a term: ghost hitting the wall!
I'm not going to be hit by a ghost, am I? I used to hear that some people would encounter some strange things, such as wandering in front of the house, but always unable to find their way into the house; Or go around in circles in one place, and you won't get out of it for a long time, but it's actually a very empty place.
"Hey, what are you doing?!"
Coldly, Liang Ruoyi's voice came, startling me, and I hurriedly followed the sound and saw Liang Ruoyi standing outside the door of a stone house, looking at me with a puzzled expression.
And this stone house, not far from me, is not the direction I was going in just now. For a while, the east-west, north-south direction pointer in my entire head was instantly confused, and I looked at Liang Ruoyi with a frown: "Hey, do you think there has been any change around here?!" β
Liang Ruoyi took the flashlight and shone it around, and also frowned: "Why is the direction of the house messed up?" β
"Got it!" Liang Ruoyi said as he looked up at the top of the two-zhang high, then at the structure of the stone house, and said, "I understand!" I guessed right, when they lived here, there would be a lot of mechanisms overhead that could be opened to bring in sunlight! You look at the bottom of the stone house! β
I walked up to Liang Ruoyi and took a flashlight and shone it into the place where the ice beauty was pointing - it was a two-finger-wide gap next to the stone house, and it was pitch black, and when the flashlight shone into it, I saw a small stream of water......
After looking at it for a few seconds, it dawned on me that the foundation under each stone house was a round platform, or rather a cylindrical foundation, and it was separated from the ground. Around the foundation, there is a waterway that diverts water, and when the water in the waterway passes through the foundation of the cylinder, it is washed to slowly rotate the cylinder at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye!
That's why the orientation of the surrounding stone houses has changed, and I feel like I've encountered something hitting the wall!
"But why is that?" I looked at Liang Ruoyi and became even more puzzled.
"You're sometimes, no, most of the time, you're still very stupid!" Liang Ruoyi looked at me with disdain and said: "If it is according to my guess, this is to distinguish between day and night, this water flow should be brought from the underground river channel and used to irrigate the farmland here, so that the sunshine and water can be solved!" β
I nodded, and looked down again, and saw that the foundation of the cylinder had been washed away by the current, and it looked like it had been washed away for hundreds of years...... In this way, this underground barracks was not built on a whim, but a big project of the Golden Family.
"It's morning, let's go get something to eat!" Liang Ruoyi said a word to me, turned and walked towards another stone house.
I opened my mouth to ask her what she was going to do, but when she turned her head and glared at me, I realized that she had to solve her personal problems too, so I went back to the stone house, got some food out of my backpack, set the campfire at the door, and set the milk aside to warm it.
Looking at the time, it was already more than eight o'clock in the morning, and I tossed at the door for a morning......
Waiting for Liang Ruoyi to come back, he had breakfast, but there was still no news from the seventh master.
"Shall we go up and have a look?" I proposed.
Liang Ruoyi shook his head: "Forget it, this place shouldn't look too big, no matter where they come in, we can detect it, since we haven't arrived yet, let's act first." β
I could only answer, packed my backpack, and followed Liang Ruoyi forward.
This time, we still had a good heart, and instead of going to those ordinary stone houses, we went straight to a tall stone building not far ahead.
About ten minutes later, we came to the bottom of this stone building that looks two zhang high, at this time the distance is closer, only to find that this stone building is very much like a border tower or something like that, about one zhang wide, square, bluestone, there is a small door below, there is a black hole inside, I can't see what is there.
Liang Ruoyi and I glanced at each other and walked in with a flashlight.
The inside of the door was not large, just enough for three or four people to stand side by side in it, and there were some messy things on the walls around it, and a closer look found that most of them were rotten wood and rusty iron tools, and if I guessed correctly, they should be some weapons of the time.
Facing the door is a hanging ladder upward, that is, some iron rods are inlaid on the wall, and when you look up, you can see that there is another layer above, which is probably a place to look at the wind.
Liang Ruoyi reached out and grabbed the iron rod and climbed up, standing on the second floor.
I saw that the area above was only one floor so large, four or five square meters, so I simply didn't follow: "Hey, I'll rest for a while, if you see something good, take it down and show it to me!" I ......"
Before the words fell, I suddenly felt a chill in the back of my head, hurriedly touched it subconsciously, and then said softly: "Not good!" It looks like there's something, be careful, get down quickly! β
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a crisp sound of "dong" from above, followed by a deathly silence, and Liang Ruoyi did not have any echo!
I was stunned below for a few seconds, the back of my head was still cold, I tied the flashlight to my wrist and stretched out my hand to grab the iron bar: "Hey, beauty?!" I went up?! β
There was still no reply from Liang Ruoyi, so I gritted my teeth, used my hands and feet together, and grabbed the iron rod and climbed up.
Soon, I poked my head out of the one-man exit, and at that moment I saw a dark shadow pass over me, because there was already darkness around me, and by the time I could react, the thing had disappeared into the darkness......
What is it? Is it Liang Ruoyi? Wrong! The back of my head is no longer cold, the thing I left just now is an evil thing, but, what about Liang Ruoyi?!
I stared at the empty second floor, where is Liang Ruoyi?! Could it be that she was taken away by that thing just now?!
I took a closer look at the entire second floor and made sure there was nothing before I climbed down from it.
At this moment, the entire underground barracks could no longer hear any sound, I walked out of the small stone building with a flashlight, looked around, and still found no trace of Liang Ruoyi. Where will this guy go?!
"Bang-"
I was looking around, and suddenly there was a noise from behind the stone building on the side, I hurriedly turned my head to look, but saw that under the beam of the flashlight, the familiar black pig, no, it was black and sealed I don't know when it stared at me again, at this time, seeing that Liang Ruoyi was not there, he rushed directly towards me!
"Look for death!" After Liang Ruoyi disappeared, I was already holding my breath, but when I saw this beast appear again, I simply took out the dagger directly, thinking that I wanted to fight with it!
But as soon as I took out this dagger, my body stopped halfway, and my limbs kept scratching on the ground, one head let out a muffled roar of "roar", and the other head made a "click" sound.
What's going on?! I looked at this weird side with a dagger in my hand, not knowing what it was doing.
"Roarβ"
The pig's head that was facing me suddenly roared, like a beast, and then turned its red eyes at me again, kicked its limbs, and rushed towards me!
I have also been prepared for a long time, learning from Liang Ruoyi not to retreat but to advance, and the dagger in my hand stabbed directly at the black pig!
But after all, my speed was much slower than Liang Ruoyi, and the dagger that was swung out was dodged by the seal, and the beast twisted its body, opened its mouth and bit my left calf!