Chapter Twenty-Seven: Shengmen
Gu Wanwan looked around and found that they were in a boxy room, or it couldn't be called a room, because there was nothing in it except water that didn't reach a finger on his knee. The bright light she saw just now was the lamp that Feng Jiu had brought down from above, and it was still on without being drenched in water.
"Where is this?" Gu Wanwan asked. Feng Jiu knew that this was the Linglong Tower, so he should also know where they were now, right?
"I don't know." Feng Jiu said coldly. If it weren't for the woman running around, they might have been out by now.
"Don't you know a lot about this Exquisite Tower? How can you not know where this is? ”
"Do you know why the Linglong Pagoda is called the Linglong Tower?" Feng Jiu looked at Gu Wanwan and spoke meaninglessly.
Gu Wanwan couldn't figure out Feng Jiu's intentions for a while, so she could only guess cautiously, "Is it because it's exquisite?" ”
"Heh," Feng Jiu chuckled, "You're right to say that, it's indeed because it's 'exquisite'. Legend has it that there are countless cells in the Exquisite Tower, and we are one of them where we are now. Do you remember the glowing beads on both sides of the aisle? ”
"Remember, what's wrong?" Gu Wanwan hesitated to speak, "You don't want to tell me that those beads are..."
Seeing that she had guessed, Feng Jiu nodded and slowly spoke, "That's right, those beads are the entrance to the cell. Each bead is a prison cell, so I just stopped you from touching it, but I didn't expect you to move quickly. ”
It was obviously a very ordinary tone, but in this environment, it was a little more infiltrating, and Gu Wanwan felt that the hairs on her whole body stood up! A bead is a prison cell, and they have just walked for so long, passed by so many beads, and they are all ... Oh my God! This exquisite tower is simply terrifying!
"So, how are we going to get out now?" She didn't want to stay in this place any longer!
"You ask me, then who do I ask?" Feng Jiu was still in the mood to joke, "Legend has it that the prison cell of the Linglong Pagoda can make life worse than death, should I thank your subordinates for showing mercy and choosing such a "comfortable" one?" ”
"Hehehe..."Gu Wanwan laughed dryly, if she had known that she would never touch those beads! Although she was always a little unable to take her eyes off these valuable things because of her old job, she still knew very clearly what she could take and what she couldn't. She was really just excited, she didn't expect to come across that bead so coincidentally...
Feng Jiu held the lamp and walked around the wall, wanting to see if there were any clues.
Gu Wanwan leaned against the wall on the side, staring blankly at the top of her head, in addition to despair or despair in her heart.
In the cell.
Gu Wanwan leaned against the smooth wall, watching Feng Jiu holding the oil lamp and constantly groping around the corners, and asked weakly, "What are you looking for?" ”
Feng Jiu didn't look back at her, he was busy with his own affairs, and threw two words out of his mouth, "Shengmen." ”
"Shengmen? What do you mean? ”
"It's the exit." Feng Jiu didn't bother to explain to Gu Wanwan, but seeing that she looked loveless, she still had a little more patience after thinking about it.
Hearing his words, Gu Wanwan straightened up all of a sudden and exclaimed loudly, "Exit?!" There is an exit here?! ”
Feng Jiu obviously said that there is no entry and exit in the Linglong Tower, so she thinks that she will definitely die here today, if she had known that there was an exit, what would she be doing standing here stupidly?
Gu Wanwan took three steps and ran to Feng Jiu's side in two steps, with the sound of rushing water under her feet, and her desire to survive made her ignore Feng Jiu's aura of being unapproachable, and slapped him on the shoulder, "Didn't you say that Linglong Pagoda has no exit?" How is it again now? ”
Feng Jiu turned his head and stared straight at Gu Wanwan, seeing that she looked unconscious, she endured it and endured it, and finally didn't slap the hand on her shoulder. He tried his best to ignore the hand on his shoulder, and said in a cold voice, "I am in and out of the way, which means that the Linglong Pagoda has not exited since it was closed." But now the Linglong Pagoda is not closed, of course there is a way out. He glanced back at Gu Wanwan, and then said: "Every cell in the Linglong Tower has a door, look carefully, and you can go out if you find it." ”
Although Feng Jiu's voice was so cold that he could drop the ice slag, the words he said made Gu Wanwan's heart ecstatic. She thought for a moment and asked, "How do you know that the Linglong Pagoda is not closed?" We've all been down for so long, maybe it's been closed a long time ago? ”
Feng Jiu raised the oil lamp in his hand and shook it from Gu Wanwan's eyes, "The keys are still here, how could the Linglong Pagoda be closed?" "This woman is so stupid! They took this lamp and found the Linglong Tower, and she still doesn't know what this lamp is?
Key? What key? How could she not know that Feng Jiu had the key to the Linglong Pagoda on her body? He only had an oil lamp in his hand... Oil lamp! Gu Wanwan suddenly realized, no wonder Feng Jiu protected the lamp so tightly, she said that the aisle was brightly lit, and he was holding the lamp completely superfluous, but he didn't expect it to be because it was the key to the Linglong Tower!
No wonder... No wonder the entrance appeared in that room as soon as the lamp was picked up!
So, they can go out? Gu Wanwan's originally desperate heart was full of hope again, and her body that was about to stiffen seemed to warm up all of a sudden. It's good to have an exit, she doesn't believe that she can't find an exit with her ability!
Feng Jiu's range of motion was limited due to his physical condition, so he could only check along the four walls of the cell. But Gu Wanwan doesn't have this limitation. She immediately held her breath and dived head-down to the bottom of the water, the underwater light was even darker, she used to walk at night, and she had developed the ability to see things in the dark. But now I can only vaguely look at the approximation.
Gu Wanwan kept her eyes open as wide as she could, while carefully groping with her hands on the underwater ground. The touch of her hands was smoother and smoother than the surrounding walls, and she touched the floor of the entire cell, but she didn't find anything unusual at all, let alone the birth gate in Feng Jiu's mouth.
Gu Wanwan stood up from the water, wiped the water from her face, and found that Feng Jiu was stopped in the middle of the cell, motionless.
"Are you really sure that this place has a living door?" Gu Wanwan walked over and asked suspiciously.
Feng Jiu didn't answer, still staring at the oil lamp in his hand and didn't know what he was thinking.
Gu Wanwan wanted to ask something more, but when she saw him in a trance, she stopped talking.
The whole cell was silent, only a small oil lamp was on, but the dim light began to show some dim signs.
It had been about half an hour since they fell into this cell, and Gu Wanwan felt that the chill kept rushing from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, especially the lower half of her body that was immersed in the water was almost unconscious. She wrapped her hands around herself and stamped her foot vigorously to warm up.
The water under his feet was stirred and made a rattling sound. Gu Wanwan suddenly felt that something was wrong, just now she still felt that the water was only at the position of one finger above her knee, why was it close to two fingers now?
More water?! Gu Wanwan was frightened by the conjecture in her heart, and hurriedly looked at Feng Jiu in the room, and stammered: "Hey, do you think that there is more water in this cell?" ”
Feng Jiu was originally in a trance, but after listening to Gu Wanwan's words, he suddenly came back to his senses, and the water became more? He has been sitting in a wheelchair, and he has been concentrating on finding the place of birth, so he has not paid attention to the water under his feet. Now that Gu Wanwan reminded him, he realized that the water was indeed a little higher than when they first came in.
"Normally, it would be strange if the cell in the Linglong Tower was a simple water prison. Now it's just a little bit of water, and I don't know what will happen if I stay any longer. Feng Jiu spoke in a deep voice, and the hand holding the oil lamp couldn't help but tighten, this life gate must be found as soon as possible.
But where does this water come from? If it was dripping from above, he would definitely feel it. Feng Jiu pushed the wheelchair closer to Gu Wanwan and said, "You put your hand under the water and touch it." ”
"I've just checked it, and there's nothing unusual underwater."
Feng Jiu looked up at the wall above his head, since it wasn't from below, then...
Gu Wanwan also felt strange, since this water didn't come up from the bottom, where did it come from? She walked to the wall and pressed her palm against the wall, feeling a hint of water. What's going on? Gu Wanwan touched it carefully, making sure it was not her own illusion. The cell was full of water, but there was absolutely no water on the walls when they entered.
Gu Wanwan touched one end of the wall to the other, and found that the entire wall was wet, as if there was water flowing through. But the solid touch of the wall under my hand doesn't look like it can seep water...
Wait a minute! There is water flowing through! Gu Wanwan looked up at the top of her head, she knew where the extra water came from! The water was dripping down from the cracks in the wall above, no wonder she couldn't hear it!
The door must be on the top of the head!
Just as Gu Wanwan figured out the key and wanted to turn around and tell Feng Jiu, he suddenly heard a sound of breaking the air in his ears, and an unknown object flew towards him quickly.
It was too late to dodge, Gu Wanwan seemed to see a familiar figure slowly walking towards him before she was hit and fell unconscious...
More and more water, more and more... Slowly from the knees to the legs, to the waist... Gu Wanwan felt that it was becoming more and more difficult to breathe, and all the water below her neck made her feel that her heart was overwhelmed, but the water kept rising... To the nose, to the eyes, until it is not over the top of the head...
"Miss Awan, Miss Awan? Wake up, wake up! ”
With Xiuchun's gentle voice in her ears, Gu Wanwan opened her eyes suddenly, and the dazzling light made her unable to adapt to it all of a sudden, and there was a white light in front of her.
Gu Wanwan blinked her eyes slowly a few times, and her eyes slowly became clearer, and Xiuchun's anxious look came into view.
"Miss Awan, how are you?" Xiuchun's voice was full of worry.
Gu Wanwan raised her hand and pinched her eyebrows, and looked around intently only to find that she was actually in the Youwang Mansion.