The apparitions only existed for a short time, and then vanished, leaving me elusive.

"What the hell is this......" Miki smiled wryly, "Let's go, we won't find anything here." ”

We walked back along the road, silent all the way. In fact, after this profound conversation with that mysterious figure, we have a deeper understanding of the situation in Jinan, and everyone's cultivation in thaumaturgy has reached a higher level.

Jinan is a big city in the Central Plains, and its position on the mainland map is extremely delicate, so the rulers of all dynasties have a high view of Jinan.

For now, Jinan is indeed the barrier of the capital, and if the lord of the merman launches a rebellion from the sea to the east, Jinan is just the choke point, able to contain the enemy's attack.

In a normal military contest, it is believed that the national army will be invincible. What we can do is to destroy the strong enemy on the level of thaumaturgy and defend the country.

I don't know what Zhang Quanzhong thinks, but I am personally ready to sacrifice everything for the country.

When he was about to reach the end of Yong, a person in front of him suddenly rushed over, it was Mrs. Wang.

"Where's my child? Give it back to me—" she cried out anxiously.

I looked behind her and made sure she was just one person, and then I calmly replied, "Don't worry, Mrs. Wang, let's go up and talk." ”

Since she can get here safely, we will definitely be able to get out safely, and that pavilion is equivalent to an elevator.

"Give me back the child first—" cried Mrs. Wang.

Zhang Quanzhong sneered: "The child is not here." ”

"Then where is he?" Mrs. Wang turned to Zhang Quanzhong.

Zhang Quanzhong looked up and laughed: "If you want to find a child, go ask Mr. Wang, go ask Wang Yongbang!"

Mrs. Wang cried: "I only want children, I only want children...... Don't get involved in your business, my children...... Do you know how much it took for the Wang family to have such a child, he is my heart and eyeballs, and if anything happens to his child, I will not live......

I made a gesture to Zhang Chengquanzhong, signaling him not to speak, and not to provoke Mrs. Wang. In this case, everyone must endure and work together to get out alive.

I pressed Mrs. Wang's shoulder and whispered comfortingly: "Don't worry, the child must be fine." Tell me, how can I get back to the surface?"

Mrs. Wang stopped crying and sobbed for a while before replying intermittently: "The mechanism is in the old man's room, and there are many buttons with different functions...... Two of them are the ability to make the pavilion go up and down. I've heard Yongbang say before that the master is a strange person, and everyone should not ask about anything, otherwise it will cause a big disaster...... I've always listened to him and never went to the old man's room, but this time I really couldn't do it...... I've arranged for a henchman to wait there, and in an hour, she'll help me press the button, and the pavilion will go up and back to the ground......"

I nodded, but then frowned, when the pavilion fell, the child was in the pavilion, and Zhang Quanzhong and I were on the pavilion, so where did the child go now?

Mrs. Wang saw that my expression was wrong, her mouth flattened, and she was about to cry again.

Suddenly, there was a strange sound in the hallway, as if some kind of creature was breathing hard.

"What is the sound?" asked Mrs. Wang, alarmed.

I turned around and spread my arms to protect Mrs. Wang.

The night pearl in the corridor is still bright, and the light is still cyan.

"The voice came from there. Zhang Quanzhong said.

I nodded, the tunnel was just a simple passage, and there was no mechanism on the surface. What can really make a difference is the stone room where Zhang Quanzhong and I have been.

"Where is my child?" said Mrs. Wang, howling in a low voice.

"Don't scream, don't scream!" Zhang Quanzhong said viciously.

I ignored the two of them and listened.

The sound must have come from the stone chamber, and we didn't hear it when we went there or came back. Now that the voice suddenly appeared, something extraordinary must have happened.

"Let's take a look. I said.

Zhang Quanzhong became anxious: "Brother Xia, it's better to go up first, there are many dreams at night, who knows what will happen later? If Wang Yongbang has any more accidents, we may have to be buried here forever." Brother Xia, let's stop making any more extraneous branches, okay? Let's go to the ground first and control the situation. ”

Mrs. Wang opened her mouth and was about to scream again, but Zhang Quanzhong's eyes glared, and Mrs. Wang was scared to shut up.

"We have to find out what happened in the stone chamber, otherwise, even if the three of us return to the ground safely, it will bury a bigger hidden danger for Jinan. Then, as thaumaturgists, wouldn't we be violating our own work ethic?" I smiled.

In this situation, the power of a smile is great, and it can overcome fear and drive away the darkness.

Zhang Quanzhong has already messed up, Mrs. Wang is a woman, if I don't insist, our camp will collapse.

"I still think—" Zhang Quanzhong insisted on his own opinion.

"I'll go with you, I'll go with you to Mr. Xia! As long as I can find the child, I'll go to the Longtan Tiger's Den too." Mrs. Wang said.

Zhang Quanzhong smiled bitterly: "I'm not as good as a woman? Okay, let's go back and take a look in the stone room." ”

The strange sound rang for about five minutes, and then the hallway fell silent again.

I walked in front, Mrs. Wang in the middle, and Zhang Quanzhong in the last. After a lot of twists and turns, we walked into the stone chamber.

The stone room was silent, and the light and shadow had disappeared.

"What is this place?" asked Mrs. Wang.

Zhang Quanzhong wanted to speak, but I stopped him with my eyes in time. Since everyone's mood is so bad, it's better to say a few words, otherwise it will lead to arguments.

"Mrs. Wang, this stone room is likely to have been built by Mr. Wang, and your husband Wang Yongbang must have known the truth, but he didn't tell you. But it doesn't matter, we've come to this point, we'll help you find the child, and you'll get back to the ground safely. ”

Mrs. Wang nodded again and again and said thank you.

"The kid isn't here, let's go?" Mr. Zhang said.

I looked around, my gaze falling on the bookshelves, slowly sweeping.

If the strange sound didn't come from here, could there be other passages in the stone chamber that led to something farther?

Once again, I lament that Mr. Wang passed away too early and took all these valuable secrets with him. It can be seen that every thaumaturgist in the world has a great value, and if it is not used properly, then these values will disappear and disappear with the death of the thaumaturgist.

This is a huge waste of knowledge, and it is a pity that there is no technology that can replicate these values in their entirety and make them the common wealth of the people of the world.

"Help me, help me find the child. "Mrs. Wang tugged at my cuffs.

"The child is not here. Zhang Quanzhong said again.

"Look closely. I said.

Zhang Quanzhong frowned, and said angrily: "Didn't we have already looked for it before, there is no other channel here, and it will be in vain to find it again!"

I shook my head: "If there is no passage, there is no tuyere, and without tuyere, there will be no sound." Mr. Zhang, you calm down and think about it, the Wang family needs this child, he is the only hope of the Wang family to pass on the ancestry. If you were Mr. Wang or Wang Yongbang, what would you do? Do you have to do your best, and if you can't find it, you will never give up? We are thaumaturgists, and we are here to solve difficult problems for this world. If you go back like this, and only care about saving your own life, what's the point? The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, has Mr. Zhang forgotten this ancient adage?"

I didn't want to offend Zhang Quanzhong, but in front of Mrs. Wang, Zhang Quanzhong's performance was really unsatisfactory.

"Brother Xia, it's not that I don't help, but there are no children here at all, and even if you get all the books off the shelves, you won't find anything. Zhang Quanzhong explained.

His words woke Mrs. Wang up, and she suddenly rushed to the bookshelf like crazy, grabbed the two ancient books with both hands, and left them directly on the ground.

"What are you doing, Mrs. Wang?" Zhang Quanzhong shouted angrily.

"I'm looking for my son, I'm looking for my son!" cried the princess, and as she cried, she kept pulling the book to the ground.

In my opinion and Zhang Quanzhong, those books are of extremely high cultural value and must be treated with care. They had to be moved, and they had to be careful not to damage the cover and paper of any of the ancient books. Littering like Mrs. Wang is really a tyrannical thing.

Zhang Quanzhong took a step forward, wanting to stop Mrs. Wang.

My heart suddenly moved, and I immediately pressed Zhang Quanzhong's shoulder: "Don't move, let her throw." ”

Zhang Quanzhong frowned and turned his head to look at me.

I calmly explained: "Mr. Zhang, the same thing, done by different people at different times, the results obtained are definitely different. Just because we haven't found the passage just now doesn't mean that Mrs. Wang can't find it either. Let's watch for a moment and don't disturb her. ”

Zhang Quanzhong is a thoughtful person, and in a blink of an eye, he figured out what I meant: "Okay, okay, just do what you want, let's watch from the wall and see if she can make new discoveries." ”

Although Mrs. Wang was a woman, she was so angry that she threw all the ancient books on the ground in the three layers below the bookshelf in a blink of an eye. The bookshelves were empty, revealing only cyan stone walls, without any secret doors and holes.

Zhang Quanzhong looked at the top of the bookshelf and whispered, "If there is a secret passage, it is likely to be in the top corner of the stone wall." ”

I also looked upward, pondering possible secret passages.

Mrs. Wang was tired, panting and stopped her hand and looked at me from afar.

"Wait a minute, don't be impatient. I waved at her.

Mrs. Wang leaned against the bookshelf, her hands over her face, her shoulders shrugged, and she sobbed silently.

In fact, it was Wang Yongbang who should have come down to look for the baby, not Mrs. Wang. In a family, the husband is the pillar, standing upright, upright, able to deal with any emergency, and always rushing to the front line in case of trouble. Like Wang Yongbang, he retreated when he encountered things and pushed his wife out to solve the problem, which really doesn't look like a man.

I even suspect that this baby is not his own at all, and is not related to him by blood, which is why he is so cold.

"No, no. Zhang Quanzhong shook his head helplessly, "I didn't find anything." ”

"What would happen if you threw down all the ancient books on the top floors?" I asked.

"At best, it's the same result. Zhang Quanzhong replied.

"Then get them all down. I said.

Zhang Quanzhong did not move, obviously not agreeing with me.

Mrs. Wang gasped and said, "Mr. Xia...... Mr. Xia, I can do it, I can climb up, layer by layer...... Get all those books down, for the sake of the children, I don't want to ...... this life"

That being said, she was a woman, with no martial arts, no thaumaturgy, and it was almost impossible to climb to the top of the bookshelf.

"Mr. Zhang, you stay down and beware of other changes, I'll go up and try it. I said.

Since Zhang Quanzhong doesn't move, then I can only do it myself. It seems to me that someone in the past built such an underground stone chamber with so much effort, and it must not have been just to preserve a video. In this stone chamber, at least a bigger secret should be buried. Regardless of whether there is a secret passage behind the bookshelf, we have to get the ancient books down and carefully search every corner.

I don't blame Zhang Quanzhong, the unexpected changes of the Wang family one after another, coupled with the appearance of the three trees, have exhausted Zhang Quanzhong's patience, which is forgivable. Now, I just want to help Mrs. Wang find the baby, so that the Wang family can inherit the family and have a happy result.

"Brother Xia, let's go, you are guarding below. Zhang Quanzhong said.

When the two of us first met, he was a teacher and I was a student. After a series of changes, until now, we are equal to each other, teachers and students. Therefore, whoever has the right point of view should listen to whomever it is, rather than blindly following it.

Zhang Quanzhong was agile, climbed up the bookshelf, and quickly threw down all the ancient books on the previous floors. In order to find children, we can't take care of these ancient books at all.

Disappointingly, after the bookshelves were emptied, there was nothing on the stone walls. Zhang Quanzhong knocked on every section of the stone wall, and the echoes emitted by the stone wall were all "dong dong" sound without exception, not "tom tom", which proved that there was a solid structure behind it and there was no void.

"We failed, you see, it's not wrong, right? Brother Xia, let's not waste our efforts, if we delay any longer, we won't know how to die. Zhang Quanzhong said.

I was indeed very disappointed, thinking that there was a secret hidden behind the bookshelf, so I took so much effort to throw all the ancient books on the ground.

"Mr. Xia, look for it again, and ...... again Look for it, don't give up, please help me find the child......" Mrs. Wang cried.

Zhang Quanzhong jumped down from the bookshelf, patted the floating soil on his body, and said loudly: "Let's go, now the situation is very clear, the child is not here." ”

Mrs. Wang raised her head, her face full of tears, and whispered: "The child is not in the pavilion either, and when the pavilion was raised, I checked it inside and out." ”

I couldn't help frowning, if Mrs. Wang had checked, then the child would have disappeared after the pavilion fell. Therefore, the pavilion rose to the ground, and she could not find the child.

"I feel like the kids are here. I said.

Zhang Quanzhong frowned: "That's almost impossible!" The two of us came down together, stopped for a while to find the Yongdao, and then walked here. The whole time, he didn't hear the baby's cry, how could he be here?"

I shook my head to stop him: "Don't say impossible at any time and under any circumstances, what ordinary people say is impossible, just because of the limitations of knowledge, no real law has been discovered." As thaumaturgists, this is the most important mistake we should avoid. Mr. Zhang, in the eyes of ordinary people, there shouldn't be this kind of stone chamber structure underground, nor should there be a corridor and a night pearl, let alone such an elevator, right?"

Zhang Quanzhong sneered: "It's one thing to be reasonable, but it's another thing to be realistic." Brother Xia, I hope you think twice, your life is your own, if you don't cherish it, there will be a big problem. ”

None of us could convince anyone, but now I really feel like the baby is nearby.

"He's crying, I hear him crying, I hear crying!" Mrs. Wang suddenly jumped up and looked blankly in all directions.

Zhang Quanzhong and I both thought she was having auditory hallucinations, so we just stood there and remained silent.

It is common sense that people are prone to auditory hallucinations or bad vision hallucinations when they are extremely tired and desperate.

"Mr. Xia, listen, the child is crying, the child is crying......" Mrs. Wang ran to me with a cry and grabbed my hand.

"I didn't hear anything. Zhang Quanzhong said.

"No, he's crying, I hear you!" said Mrs. Wang, shaking her head vigorously.

"Where are you crying?" asked Zhang Quanzhong.

"It's ...... Just ......" Mrs. Wang looked around, and it seemed that she could not tell where the sound was coming from.

"It's an auditory hallucination, it's definitely an auditory hallucination. Zhang Quanzhong said.

"No, it's not!" retorted Mrs. Wang, crying, "it's not an auditory hallucination, I heard the child's cry, and I am his mother, and I can't be wrong...... All his life, he was this kind of cry, and he would never be wrong. Mr. Xia, you help me find it, he is here...... You can't be wrong, I dare to vouch for it with my head!" Mrs. Wang was incoherent.

I closed my eyes and listened.

There was indeed no crying around, neither babies nor adults. Except for the voices of Zhang Quanzhong and Mrs. Wang's words and breathing, I couldn't hear anything

"Okay, okay, okay, let's go, don't waste time here!" Zhang Quanzhong urged.

"No, no, you can't go, my child is here, I'm not going anywhere, I beg you, save my child...... Mrs. Wang began to cry. ”

I know that there is a peculiar sixth sense between mother and son, which has long been proven by medical experts. Therefore, I was skeptical of Mrs. Wang's words, and I did not dare to confirm or deny them.

"Brother Xia, let's go?" Zhang Quanzhong said.

Mrs. Wang opened her arms violently, stopped us, and shouted: "No one can go, no one can find my son, no one can go!"

Suddenly, in the far wilderness of the mind, I heard a voice, the cry of a baby.

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes again. The cry came from right in front of me, and I walked forward with my eyes closed, getting closer and closer to the cry.

Out of sight, it was dark in front of my eyes, but as the cry got closer, a warm light suddenly lit up in the darkness. The light shone on a swaddling swaddle, and the baby inside was already half of its face exposed, and it was crying with its mouth open.

I rejoiced in my heart and quickened my pace. But the further I went, the farther away the swaddling clothes were, and the more they stayed in that light.

I don't know where the baby is now, and I don't know where I am, but the light was real, just ten steps ahead of me. I believe that the baby is now under the protection of a mysterious force and will not be in much danger.

"Mr. Xia, Mr. Xia......" Mrs. Wang's voice sounded.

At the same time, my left hand tightened and was caught.

When I opened my eyes, Zhang Quanzhong had stopped in front of me, grabbing my left hand, and Mrs. Wang was standing on the right, her face full of panic and her lips trembling.

"Mr. Xia, what's wrong with you, don't scare us!" called Mrs. Wang.

"Brother Xia, what did you see?" asked Zhang Quanzhong.

I shook my head: "It's okay, it's okay. ”

Zhang Quanzhong frowned: "How can it be okay? You just walked more than thirty steps, if I don't catch you, you will keep walking out!"

I looked around and saw no baby.

"Did you have visual hallucinations?" asked Zhang Quanzhong.

I nodded, "I just saw the baby, in this stone room." ”

"Really?" said Mrs. Wang, surprised and delighted, and grabbed my right hand.

I nodded: "Really, you don't have to worry, the child is not in danger." ”

"But where is he?" asked Mrs. Wang.

Instead of rushing to answer, I walked to the center of the stone chamber and looked up at it.

Zhang Quanzhong followed, and just as he was about to speak, I immediately stopped him: "Don't come over, if I have something, please take Mrs. Wang out safely." ”

Zhang Quanzhong frowned: "How can there be something? Don't talk nonsense." ”

In my subconscious, there is a strange connection between the baby, Mr. Wang, Wang Yongbang, and even Mrs. Wang, which must be related to reincarnation.

I stand here as if I am at the heart of the universe, and everything is connected through me. In that case, I will know all the information in the world and can help the Wang family to the greatest extent.

"Mr. Zhang, I'll try again. If you stop Mrs. Wang, don't disturb me if anything happens. I said.

Zhang Quanzhong nodded, took five steps back, and stood side by side with Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang nodded vigorously and said, "Mr. Xia, please rest assured, I won't disturb you, just watch from the side." I have one more thing to say, though. If someone has to die, I'd rather be myself, exchanging my life for my child's life!"

I smiled lightly: "Mrs. Wang, I am not the king of Yama, it is useless for you to ask me like this. In everything, we have to think in the best way and do our best. ”

"Yes, yes. Mrs. Wang nodded repeatedly.

I closed my eyes and imagined that there was a beam or rays of light coming out of the center of the stone chamber above my head, passing through my body and into the ground, as in a pavilion.

At this moment, I am one with the light, and my mind rides the power of the light until it reaches infinity.

I thought that since ancient times, all great people have the talent to bear the expectations of all things, and to open up the world and take charge of the world with their own strength.