After entering the dark hole, Li Qiusheng stretched out half of his body and came over to tidy up the contents of the hole. Then on the cover plate of the cave entrance, lay some of the original ash on the ground, press some messy firewood, grass and dry wood branches, and slowly shrank down to cover the board. Then, follow the old man Dong who was already waiting in front and walked down the stone steps.

The stone steps in the cave descend steeply and then gently through the tunnel. The size is only enough for two people to pass with torches, but this is almost as wide as the official road of peace for Li Qiusheng and Old Man Dong who escaped.

The fire flickered, and the walls were old. The moss is green, and the water is murmuring.

Looking at all this in front of them, Li Qiusheng and Old Man Dong let out a deep sigh at the same time in the dark pass.

It seems that the master who can make the dark path so lenient must also be a wealthy and fruitful family, and he must also be a master of the world who is good at the way of the world and is smooth in the wind and dust. I was actually fully prepared to flee with my family in case of unforeseen circumstances.

The dark passage, the winding path is secluded, circling and winding, and it has a taste that makes people tighten their heartstrings.

Although Old Man Dong has rich experience in the rivers and lakes, in the face of such a deep and long-lasting dark pass, he can only take one step at a time.

Li Qiusheng is different, it seems that everything is as he thinks in his mind, this is just an ordinary escape through the dark pass, not like the old man's mouth is full of traps and traps like the secret pass in the structure of the palace compound, which makes it difficult to move an inch.

Therefore, the two of them are completely different in shape and mood at this time, and Old Man Dong is cautious, for fear of touching the red line and tricking the mechanism.

Li Qiusheng is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and his expression is relaxed, as if he is on the ground, free and easy, what to fear.

Therefore, the mood of the two of them escaping all the way in the dark pass is very different, but until now, nothing unusual has happened, and mechanisms such as triggering traps and the like. On the surface, despite being cautious and cautious, Old Man Dong still didn't dare to carelessly let Li Qiusheng go ahead, for fear that if something happened to him, he would regret it.

Probably because of the freshness and excitement, Li Qiusheng's nerves were particularly high and agitated at this time, and he looked at the long dark passage in front of him without blinking, and he always unconsciously fantasized about something that suddenly jumped out.

When Li Qiusheng thought about it like this, his hands and feet became restless. As far as his eyes went, his hands and feet moved, and he swallowed dates, Li Qiusheng touched a protruding cone of soil on the road wall at the turn.

Suddenly, there was a loud sound, and a fierce arrow wind in front of him came quickly, shooting straight at the two of them.

After all, Old Man Dong is an old man, and he knows what this loud bang means. He flew out with an arrow step, and with a kick of his hind foot, he put Li Qiusheng's body on the left wall of the cave. When he finished this series of movements, twenty or thirty dark arrows flying in the wind passed in front of Li Qiusheng and Old Man Dong, swishing, swishing, swishing and blowing a cold wind, making people shudder.

Old Man Dong sighed a few times before moving his mouth and said, "Boy, do you see it?" If you want to be as careless and negligent as you, you have no brains, maybe we will report to Lord Yama before we escape from this broken courtyard, and what else are we talking about going to the capital to save people? You, in front of these worlds, you better put away your set of deflated ideas, and save your life to save Yanzhi's girl. With that, he shook the torch in front of him again, and only after making sure that there was no danger did he take a step.

Li Qiusheng was robbed of white by Old Man Dong like this, and immediately froze in the middle, his face turned from red to green, from green to blue, and layers of cold men appeared on his forehead. I secretly thought in my heart that if it wasn't for Old Man Dong just now, he might have fallen in a pool of blood at this time, and he would have let himself be presumptuous here.

Seeing that Old Man Dong walked up again with a torch, Li Qiusheng patted his chest that had not been calmed and followed behind again. But this time Li Qiusheng learned to be obedient, he didn't shout or scream, just silently followed behind Old Man Dong, and no longer dared to arrogantly touch anything protruding and concave on the cave wall.

Old Man Dong looked back at Li Qiusheng, who had become well-behaved at this time, and smiled, his eyes showed a little sarcasm, and he didn't say anything, shook the torch in his hand and walked into the dark passage.

In the secret passage, Old Man Dong and Li Qiusheng went back and forth along the crossing, going around and around, and finally heard a trace of wind and cranes from outside the cave at the tenth turn. The mood of the two couldn't help but perench, and their eyebrows and eyes also showed a rare brilliance these days.

Li Qiusheng suddenly said, "Master, we are almost at the entrance of the cave and can regain our freedom all day long, and we don't have to be restricted by this golden woman anymore, it's really a happy thing to think about." ”

After saying that, he raised his eyes and looked at the dark hole in front of him, and thought to himself. "Thief mother-in-law, we Li Qiusheng don't have to suffer from your cold and arrogant insult anymore. The old man and we are going to go to the capital to save Dong Yanzhi, you can do your spring and autumn dreams in this broken courtyard. I'm sorry, bite. Bye-bye, it's only you who made this gentleman's agreement with us. Haha, who told you to underestimate our little deflated people on the streets? ”

Old Man Dong stood still and turned around and replied, "Boy, we haven't completely walked out of this dark passage yet, although we can hear this slightest wind now, it doesn't mean that there is no trap ahead." Let's be careful, don't forget the dozens of sharp arrows that suddenly burst out just now, almost killing us. ”

"Well, what the old man said is that you have more experience than me in this area, and I will listen to you." Li Qiusheng replied without objection, as if he could no longer bring up those stubborn prejudices at this time.

"What's good, boy, follow the old man, you better follow carefully behind, just keep a distance of four or five steps. If something happens, it is good to be able to support each other in time. Old Man Dong still said meticulously, and used a torch in his hand to tease the hole in front of him to see if there was anything wrong, and then took the next step forward.

Li Qiusheng looked at the old man in front of him so cautiously, and all kinds of feelings suddenly surged in his heart. He began to feel that he had a deep self-blame for the old man's various causes and effects. Maybe he was young and frivolous, or maybe he developed the habit of deflating since childhood, and he was even more allowed to be a person who deviated from the warmth of the world, and what he experienced and did was those who did not take it for granted, and in those days it became a matter of course.

When Li Qiusheng was thinking about self-blame like this, the old man Dong in front of him shouted. "Boy, take a few steps back, the old man's feet have triggered the mechanism. I'm afraid that we won't be able to escape this time, so you have to be careful. ”

After speaking, it was too late, it was fast, and in a moment, a crack was suddenly opened two steps away from Old Man Dong's feet, and with the muffled sound, it quickly opened a distance between the two ends, revealing a pit two or three battles deep. Looking down through the swaying firelight, the tunnel was covered with dense towering spears and sharp knives. At this time, if the old man or Li Qiusheng accidentally fell down, the hole in this body is probably like a needle felt.

The sudden change in front of him made Old Man Dong panic suddenly, and the two ends of this deep pit were getting longer and longer with a muffled sound, and there seemed to be no intention of stopping. Even if the old man has a little arrogant martial arts, it seems to be a little difficult to cross this sword forest without help and tools.

Old Man Dong's face became suspicious, and he glanced back at Li Qiusheng and said. "Boy, do you know why the old man is walking in front, do you walk behind? That's because you don't understand these worlds at all, and the old man is afraid that you are not deeply involved in the world and it will be difficult to guard against it. So even if something happens to my old man, you can still go back to the broken courtyard, at least we don't have to die at the same time. ”

"Hey, hey, old man, is this pit so serious? We have experienced so many difficulties, do we still care about this pit of knives and guns? Li Qiusheng said with a deflated appearance again, as if he was comforting Old Man Dong's worries and concerns.

"Boy, you don't have to comfort me like that. Look at this pit of swords and guns, the length of which is more than three battles. Even if I can leap over, I can't leap over with you alone. You can't get out, so what's the use of me going out? It's a wasted effort. Old Man Dong said while analyzing the situation in front of him, as if he couldn't come up with any good way to solve the difficulty in front of him for a while.

Li Qiusheng stepped forward to look at the deep pit, except for the flickering light of the sword and gun, it was a piece of the black hole, as if a man-eating monster was waiting for the approach of its prey with its mouth open, and it could enjoy the delicious food as long as it closed its mouth gently.

Li Qiusheng hung his head weakly, just as Old Man Dong said. If you don't have the tools to help you through this pit, you have to have wings to fly through it.

However, when Li Qiusheng's hanging hand touched the rags, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. Since you have to use tools to get out of trouble, it is better to take off this set of rags on your body and tear it into strips, and then twist it into a rope.

When this thought flashed through Li Qiusheng's mind, Old Man Dong was also looking down at him, and the situation was particularly strange and complicated.

Li Qiusheng seemed to see through Old Man Dong's thoughts, he got up and tore off the rags on his body, and tore up the strips of cloth one by one. Old Man Dong wired the strips of cloth that Li Qiusheng tore off one by one, and in an instant, they became a powerful thin cloth rope.

Old Man Dong grabbed the rag rope and pulled it, to see if there was no break and the possibility of not being able to stand gravity, so he tied a torch to the other end of the cloth strip and burned the leftover wooden stalk, and rubbed it on the ground angrily, and the wooden end showed a sharp wrinkle. Like a sharp iron nail, as long as you use a force, you can nail it hard to the soil of the dark passage, and it will not move.

After Old Man Dong had done all these temptations, he tied Li Qiusheng and himself together, then took a few steps back, rushed up again, and jumped over the pit with a volley. Seeing that there were still two battles away from the hole at the other end and about to fall into the pit, I saw that Old Man Dong threw the wooden nail in his hand to the other end as hard as he could, and the rag rope in his hand flew to the ground at the front end of the hole.

I only heard the sound of wood and stones, and the wooden stalk tied with the rag rope had firmly stumbled into the ground. Old Man Dong borrowed the power of breaking the rope again, held his breath and jumped up, and borrowed strength along the cave wall.

Old Man Dong's leap was so dangerous, only to hear the weight of the rag unbearable, and with a cracking sound, the rag lost its center of gravity and fell. Seeing the situation, the old man Dong saw that the success was dying, so he was so anxious that he pushed forward again, grabbed the broken rope head that was about to fall and borrowed his strength to make a longitudinal ride, and finally even the rope was hit by the edge of the other end of the dark passage, and he did not fall directly into the deep pit.

Li Qiusheng lay on the back of the old man Dong, seeing that the situation was not good, he was in a hurry, and he also learned from the old man Dong, and quickly took out the dagger in his arms and thrust it into the edge of the dark passage, and finally firmly attached the two of them to the edge of the dark passage.

The two of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and a rare smile appeared on Old Man Dong's face. Suddenly, he said, "Boy, you're clever enough. We have to work together at the critical moment, and this time you did your best. ”

Li Qiusheng replied proudly, "Yes, we can also help in times of crisis." Hey, hey. ”

The two of them struggled to climb up the dark passage, they were already exhausted, sweating profusely, and panting.

Li Qiusheng wanted to rest on the spot and slow down his exhausted body. But Old Man Dong urged in his ear, "Boy, don't be brutal, are we still in this dark way?" I don't know how many dangers I have to go through. We can't stop here, we should go out of this dark passage in one go to stop and rest for a while, otherwise if we touch the mechanism, it will be equivalent to walking on the edge of the ghost gate. ”

Li Qiusheng stared at Old Man Dong helplessly, his lips tightened, and he followed Old Man Dong to move forward.

As soon as the two of them left, the two of them walked out of the dark passage without encountering any obstacles.

It turned out that this secret passage connected to the other side of the mountain, just east of the ruined village.

Outside the entrance of the cave is a sheep intestine path, across the edge of the cliff, a large river several battles wide leads directly to the official road outside the mountain village.

At this time, the sky was still slightly dark, and the darkness before dawn seemed to be thicker at this moment, and the cool mountain wind was blowing through. The two of them were like fugitive beggars who had lost their souls, and they were actually broken to the point where they were unable to deal with it.

There were still a few cold stars in the sky, still bursting out of the afterglow.

Li Qiusheng sat down like a mess of mud, and as soon as he got on all fours, he lay straight on the ground outside the dark passage.

Old Man Dong also obviously exhaled a long breath of gas, and as Li Qiusheng's body collapsed with a breath, he couldn't stand it and slowly lay down.