Puff ...... Puff ......

In the silent passage, Shen Xiao only heard her heartbeat stirring her eardrums like thunder, she stared closely at the orange-red shadow in the darkness, her nerves were tense to the extreme, and she didn't dare to act rashly for a while.

Who is it!? Could it be ...... "that person"?

Shen Xiao was worried about the "Gray Demon" in his heart, and the more he looked at that shadow, the more frightened he felt.

Who else but him can hide so quietly under my nose?? Wait, look at the outline...... Is this really "human"?

Shen Xiao took a deep breath and looked ahead again, only to find that although the outline of the shadow looked like a "person" sitting on the ground with his arms and knees crossed at first glance, the neck of this "person" was disproportionately slender, as if a person with an elongated neck was poking his head out and looking at him fixedly.

Shen Xiao suddenly felt a chill in her spine, her heartbeat accelerated more and more, and even her body began to stiffen slightly, she immediately squinted her left eye and looked forward with her normal right eye. In the distance, the passage was dark, and nothing could be seen, but when I opened my left eye, the strange "figure" glowed orange-red due to infrared thermal imaging jumped into view.

Shen Xiao struggled to suppress the fear surging in his heart, and quietly turned the mechanical beetle on his thumb that had been ringed. As the slider shifted, a tiny hole appeared on the surface of the ring, and the anesthetic needle inside was her only remaining self-defense weapon.

It doesn't matter what it is, it's the first thing to do!

With the support of the hidden weapon, Shen Xiao seemed to have confidence, she calmed down, while her whole body was on guard, she took a deep breath, and shouted loudly at the "shadow":

"Somebody hiding there! Come out for me! ”

There was no response, and the other party did not move.

Shen Xiao tried to shout again, but there was still no movement in front of him, and Shen Xiao couldn't hold back a little now.

What the hell is going on? Don't...... Hey, wait a minute, it doesn't seem right?

Shen Xiao, who calmed down, suddenly realized a problem that he had ignored before - the temperature of the "human figure".

In the left eye, which projected thermal imaging, the main part of the "figure" except for the head and neck was almost wrapped in orange-red, and to achieve orange-red in the thermal chromatogram, the temperature was obviously far beyond the normal body temperature of the human body! In addition, when I looked at my palm with my left eye, I didn't show such a dazzling orange-red color, so I can rule out that it was my own equipment failure, so what ......is it in front of me now!?

Shen Xiao glanced at the countdown on the bracelet, a long time had passed since the agreed time, and she had no way out at this moment, after weighing it again, she finally made a decision.

Or...... Let's go up and have a look, shall we?

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"Alas~ I thought it was the cement wall sinking, it turned out that our room as a whole was moving upward~" Xiaolu looked at the scenery that had long been restored to the transparent glass curtain wall slowly moving downward, and the surprise on her face was self-evident.

In fact, not only Xiaolu, but even Ye Yu and Yang Yunyi were deeply surprised. Originally, they thought that they would have to enter the intricate labyrinth of pipes again after the mechanism was opened, but they didn't expect this "glass greenhouse" to move upwards like a lift, and from the current point of view, it seems that it has been raised to about half of the entire building's floor.

"It's really effortless~ You say, will we just go straight to the top like this?" Shinoru blinked her shiny and "innocent" apricot eyes, revealing a girlish and innocent appearance, and her sweet and greasy voice seemed to have a hook, but unfortunately the two big men beside her who were puzzled looked away, ignoring Shinolu's "pink" offensive at all.

"Hmph, boring stinky man! I'm going to die!? Seeing that she was completely ignored by the other party, Xiaolu looked a little angry, but she soon recovered, looking at Ye Yu with a smile, her lips opened lightly, and her sweet voice floated again.

"Anyway, you're really lucky, I didn't expect you to be able to make a progress with me after such a bad performance in the last game, obviously you have such a long time difference...... Did you take any shortcuts? ”

"It's none of your business." Ye Yu didn't plan to talk to Xiaolu too much, and he didn't even look at her. "Besides, my last result is also due to you."

"Oh, is it really good for a big man to hold grudges like that?" Xiaolu obviously didn't have any psychological burden, and her eyes were still like water. "A man should be broad-minded~"

"I'm sorry." Ye Yu still had a cold face. "Eat a lot and grow wise, and my 'broad-mindedness' is also divided into objects."

"You ......" Xiaolu didn't expect that not only did she not get the words, but she was also choked back by Ye Yu, and she was suddenly so angry that she couldn't find any words to refute for a while, and at this moment, the room that was originally rising suddenly shook and stopped.

"Why don't you move?" Shinoru came back to her senses from her anger and immediately looked left and right.

"It looks like this glass 'lift' can only take us halfway." Yang Yunyi looked outside the glass wall and said. "The official really won't let us go so easily, I'm afraid the road ahead is full of risks, and we need to be more careful."

As soon as the words fell, in the middle of the physical wall in front of the three of them, a secret door suddenly opened. There was a faint blue light in the pitch-black door, and I didn't know what was inside.

"Is this our next stop......" Yang Yunyi picked up Ye Yu and looked cautiously into the door. Let's go inside and have a look. ”

"You'll go in first."

Xiaolu lightly dropped a sentence and began to swing her nails carelessly, looking calm; And Yang Yunyi knew Xiaolu's careful thoughts, so he didn't bother to talk, and after making sure that there was no danger in the door for the time being, he tiptoed into the door with Ye Yu.

Xiaolu quietly watched the backs of the two disappearing into the darkness, and after observing for a long time, she found that there was nothing unusual, so she quickly rushed in.

"Bang!" As Shinoru entered, the secret door closed without warning, cutting off their back path.

The three of them felt a pang in their hearts, but they couldn't turn back, so they could only bite the bullet and continue to move forward in the darkness towards the little blue in front of them. Fortunately, there seems to be a sensor light device installed on the ground of this place, which will automatically turn on after the three of them have traveled a few meters, and at this time, Ye Yu and the three of them can really see what place they have come to.

This is a huge circular confined space, the size of a square, and in the center of the entire space, a large black spoon-shaped object is glowing with a faint blue light, it seems that this is what Ye Yu saw in the darkness before.

"That thing...... What is it? Yang Yunyi focused his gaze on the black object in the distance, and was about to step forward, but was hurriedly stopped by Ye Yu.

"Wait, look at the ground!"

Yang Yun was shocked when he heard this, and immediately stopped, only then did he notice that the ground in the square in front of him was not a complete plane, but was cut into dozens or even hundreds of square floor tiles like tofu blocks, and these floor tiles were mixed with many incomprehensible black ornaments on the surface, some of which seemed to be line segments, and some of which seemed to be on the side of Chinese characters, which really made people unable to see any mystery.

"What kind of mechanism is this?" Yang Yunyi stood at the edge of the square, squatted down and checked carefully, not daring to step on it easily for a while.

"The place we are in now is completely sealed, and if we want to find the exit, I'm afraid the clue is here." Ye Yu said, observing the entire circular square at the same time.

The light gray ground was irregularly sprinkled with all kinds of strange patterns, which spread from the edge of the square in front of him to the spoon-shaped object in the center, and the whole was distributed in a circle around the "spoon". And those patterns don't seem to be depicted, they look more like they are shining from the inside of the floor tiles, and even give people a sense of unreal etherealism.

How does this layout feel familiar?

Ye Yu thought to himself, and his gaze suddenly swept to the fragmented lines on the surface of a few floor tiles not far away.

Parallel line segments, long and short...... Wait, isn't this ......!?

The memory picture not long ago suddenly crossed Ye Yu's mind, and he suddenly realized why this layout was so familiar, because just a few hours ago, he had seen a similar picture on a huge cyan stone door.

"Those fragmentary patterns on the ground seem to be able to be spliced together!" Ye Yu pointed to a few floor tiles and said. "Look at the piece on the right front, if you put it together with the piece at our feet, what do you think the combination pattern looks like?"

Yang Yunyi followed Ye Yu's instructions and suddenly realized something. "Three parallel lines, the middle one is disconnected...... Isn't this a hexagram symbol? Could it be that there is actually a gossip formation hidden on the floor tiles here? ”

"I'm afraid it's not just that, if it's just gossip, the patterns won't be so complicated, I look at some of the floor tiles that seem to have small seals written on them......" Ye Yu's gaze kept flying in the square, and at the same time, he kept matching those seemingly fragmentary patterns in his brain.

Unitary, Xin...... Taiyin, Liuhe...... Alas? This is?

Ye Yu immediately stepped back two times, looking at the entire circular square, and a picture gradually took shape in his mind.

"Compass...... The patterns here are all written symbols on ancient compasses! Ye Yu looked at Yang Yunyi beside him and said excitedly. The whole square seems to be a large compass! In this case, the huge spoon-shaped object in the center is probably ......"

"It's Sinan." Xiaolu, who had been silently watching from the sidelines for a long time, suddenly muttered to herself, and this time, the usual teasing and snorting in her tone disappeared, replaced by a rare seriousness and seriousness.

"Heh, Qimen Dunjia? Interesting. ”

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Author's Note:

Yesterday, I rushed to the draft late and still didn't get it done, so I postponed it to today.

These chapters have been writing about the open and secret battles in the examination room, and another important line that cannot be ignored in this article is about to surface, and even directly affects the development of the subsequent main line, so stay tuned.