Chapter 18: The Chamber of Secrets
"Oh, no, I can't find it at all! Where the hell is the entrance? After some searching to no avail, Liukai leaned on a bookshelf carved with hollow patterns on the side with sweat, and his right hand was rubbing his face indiscriminately, while sighing a little frustratedly and said: "It seems that something is interfering with my intuition, what is affecting me, and it always makes me unable to find what I need as I wish." Damn, hateful, hateful......"
Liukai lowered his head, his body sitting on the ground gasped from time to time, his teeth clenched his lips, a slight pain came, and his hands were still pounding the floor made of wood or mixed wood, and the dull slapping sound was ethereal and strange in this quiet room.
"Damn, damn!" Liukai screamed desperately, completely ignoring his own roar, and was repeatedly hitting the wall with the sound of banging on the floor. In the slightly yellowed walls around him, the musty smell of the pages on the bookshelves filled the air, but an imperceptible wind that came in from somewhere rustled the pages of several old books on the shelves.
Liukai, who lowered his head, seemed to be still forcing his tense nerves to calm down quickly. His clenched fists began to slowly let go, and the back of his left hand, where he had just hit the floor hard, was swollen at the moment, and there was still a slight bruise. The hollow bookshelf next to him, from the corner position, felt a trace of coolness.
But then there was a "crunch" crashing sound that resounded through the silent and gloomy room. Before he could react, Liukai, who was sitting against the bookshelf, disappeared into this narrow space at once. What kind of feeling is this, Liu Kai felt that he couldn't describe it for a while, only that his whole body was in a rapid slide, falling very quickly, and he was in a narrow passage, and there seemed to be hard stone walls on both sides, because he could clearly feel the burning sensation caused by the friction between his skin and the stone wall during the sliding process.
By the time he realized that the slide had stopped, Liukai had already fallen to the ground, facing his back to the ceiling, and had come to a strange room with pure white walls.
"Hey? What is this feeling!? Liukai didn't care about the pain on his body, and quickly turned over and looked at the room he was in, which was not spacious, but strangely decorated. Unlike the previous room, the four walls of this room are lined with bookshelves, not elegant and delicate hollow patterns, but very elaborate mahogany bookshelves, and the four bookshelves on the four walls are completely different in style, but Liukai's eyes are staring straight at one of the retro bookshelves that exudes a faint aroma of wood.
Liukai was nervous at every step, but the instincts that had been suppressed just now began to sharpen and become real again, as if some kind of spell had been lifted. The books placed on this retro bookshelf caught his eye one by one, and the words about curses, sparks, and K-factors also quickly jumped in front of his eyes as he flipped through them.
"Finally found ...... This is where ......" Liukai's emotions exploded in an instant after being suppressed for a long time, and he took three steps and two steps, completely ignoring his tired body and the scars formed in the sliding, and began to go back and forth in front of the bookshelf repeatedly, pulling one book after another from the bookshelf.
"That's right, it's here, that's right, that's ......what I want to know," Liukai frantically browsed the collection of books here, and there were words in his mouth.
With Liukai's rapid browsing speed, the information here began to be continuously absorbed by Liukai, but surprisingly, the luster in his eyes also dimmed a little. The atmosphere of the whole room also began to become ghostly, and suddenly, Liukai's eyes rolled to the side, and he shouted in a low voice: "Who!?" Although it was a moment, Liukai clearly saw a black shadow flashing by.
Liukai put down the book vigilantly and slowly walked towards the place where the black shadow flashed. I don't know when Yong molded a dagger that glowed faintly in his hand. "Huh!" Liukai suddenly flashed out from behind the bookshelf, the dagger in his hand cut through the air in a standard arc and stopped in front of his chest, only the flickering lights and the figure that seemed to be dragged up and down by the firelight, other than that, there was no one else,
Suddenly, Liukai's pupils dilated rapidly, and he turned around suddenly, and his vision seemed to fall into darkness for a moment, but it was fleeting, and an ominous premonition swelled. (Just now, something was behind me and disappeared just as I turned around!) A few drops of sweat unconsciously oozed from the corners of Liukai's forehead, and at the same time, he had a strange feeling in his heart, the same as before he entered the library.
"Huhuhu~" seems to blow up from the ground, and the flame of the torch is blown away little by little. Liukai's figure writhed wildly in the reflection of the flames, as if it were a cursed mad demon.
There was a "bang", as if a gust of wind was coming out of the corner of the room, and the whole room suddenly became dark. fell into a deathly silence, but the strange feeling of disharmony in Liukai's heart became more and more intense. Suddenly a red light flashed in the darkness, accompanied by a "stab" sound, and a beastly scream resounded through the room.
"Whew~! ~! ~! ”
The girl who was sitting on the ground suddenly stood up, looked around nervously, and asked nervously at a tall and thin young man, "What was the sound just now?" ”
"Any sounds? I didn't hear anything, Miss! The tall and thin young man standing beside the girl looked at the girl with a puzzled expression, and his voice replied with a faint timidity. Forget it, just when I didn't say it. Idiots, idiots, fools. The girl was very dissatisfied with the young man's answer, and instinctively threw out this mantra.
In the huge dark library, the figures of young girls and young people walked along the path illuminated by the light. "Let's go back, Miss, I always feel like it's so dangerous here!" The young man who spoke was the housekeeper who was called Xiao Feng by the girl before. It is also the person in this mansion who has the strongest dissatisfaction with Liukai.
"I haven't asked you yet, who told you to come with me? How dare you sneak up on me suddenly? The girl's voice was full of accusations, and she questioned the young man who followed her as she walked.
"Wasn't I afraid that if you screamed, that guy would find out?" The young man named Xiao Feng showed an aggrieved and pitiful expression, and explained to the girl in a low voice.
"Cut, idiot, idiot, stupid! Did I have you stalking me? Don't forget that you're going to obey my orders? When did you learn to eat inside and out, are you not afraid of death? The girl completely ignored Xiao Feng's explanation, and continued unforgivingly.
"But I'm worried about you, and besides, what are you doing here? The lord ordered that this place is forbidden to enter! This is a hall of death where 100% of people who enter it will die! Xiao Feng's tone seemed to be withdrawn from the role just now, and he regained the calmness that he should have as a young man, and said in a light tone.
"This ...... Actually......" The girl looked a little embarrassed when she saw Xiao Feng say this, and she didn't know how to explain it for a while, but soon she used her almighty mantra to resolve her embarrassment: "Idiot, idiot, stupid!" Are you teaching your master a lesson? ”
"No, it's not, yes, I'm sorry." On the contrary, it was the girl's seemingly weak rebuttal that made Xiao Feng look like a frightened hamster for a moment, and his body seemed to be curled up. Standing in place, not daring to take a step, the girl walked away after speaking, not caring about Xiao Feng, who was motionless.