Chapter 21: The Divine Key

One day when I was seven years old, I was put in a cage with animals. I don't know where my parents were, maybe they locked me in, maybe some big guy who likes to watch perverted shows did it, maybe some kid older than me was playing a prank.

Tianyi once asked me if I wanted to know the truth, and I said I didn't want to. I think there should always be something mysterious in a person's life, or some secret that can never be solved.

At the same time, I also feel that if the answer to something may be unacceptable to me, then it is better not to ask.

I've been friends with Tianyi for many years, and when I met him, I was only a teenager, and he looked like he was in his twenties and thirties, and after all these years, he was still like this.

Maybe I just want to dig out the secrets of this mysterious man, and then I will gradually form a friendship with him. But I have to admit that he is an elusive person. I even suspected that he was the one who threw me in the cage back then, because what he did was simply unpredictable.

Or let's talk about the cage......

How could a seven-year-old boy be locked in such a cage that is not complicated, it is the kind of lock that can be easily opened by a human hand, but can never be opened with the claws of an animal?

The cage was still in a very desolate forest, and I vaguely remember hearing some bad sounds around at that time, probably either bears or wolves.

I put my hand out of the cage and dragged the cage for some difficulty. I picked up a relatively hard stone and struggled to smash the chain, which I had been doing for a long time, and the seven-year-old child did not have much strength. And I didn't know I was capable at the time.

Anyway, in the end I managed to escape, walked in the forest for a day or two, didn't eat anything, and then I saw the road.

I ran until my legs went limp until I was on the side of the road.

An old gentleman found me, I don't remember my parents, I don't remember my name. There was nothing to prove my identity, only a very ordinary dirty dress, so the old man took me in.

The old man was a down-and-out magician, and he had a good time when he was young. But during a major performance, an accident caused most of his organs to be damaged, and medical expenses cost him almost all his savings, and in the end he only got the reputation of a crappy magician and a barely able body.

Those dozens of hours in the cage could have left some kind of strange yīn shadow in my young mind. I can accept puzzles that I can't solve, but I can't tolerate the constraints that can't be solved.

So I asked the old man to teach me all kinds of escape techniques, and this former "escape master" was a very competent teacher, if he wasn't so obsessed with magic. He could have changed his career to become a locksmith, or simply a security consultant or something. You don't have to go through that kind of wandering, performing in places that don't go into the stream. Barely mixed with a well-fed rìzi.

I should be a very gifted child, a year. I learned to undo every standard lock. Then I learned more, and I had more than a dozen ways to easily escape from the bondage of each mark. You can hang me upside down, wrap me in a bondage suit, tie a chain, put seven or eight different locks, turn off the lights in the room, and close the door. Assuming that the air in this room is only enough for a person to live for five minutes, then when you come back ten minutes later, you will not see an upside-down corpse, but an empty room with bondage clothes, chains, and locks scattered on the floor......

When I was thirteen years old, the old man died, and before he died, I had learned all his tricks. I had already been approached by a number of well-known circuses to be the star of their tours, but I refused. You ask me why? Because I don't want to be in a bigger cage for people to see.

Performing with the master is to repay his kindness, but since he is dead, I should live my own life and live a good life.

I'm confident, and by the time I'm eighteen years old, I'm one of the top thieves in the world, and I'm always going to and from museums or jewelry stores, except for some very tricky places, like the Louvre and the Tiandu.

It was also in that rìzi that I met Tianyi. He tried to make a deal with me, and his chip was my lost memory.

I didn't accept his offer, and I later learned how wise my choice was, and that stepping into his game usually didn't end well.

However, he seems to think that a person who does not get to the bottom of everything is very suitable to be a friend. Of course, it's also possible that he is just interested in my special abilities and wants to take advantage of me. Who knows, I didn't ask anyway.

Tianyi became my second mentor, a mentor and a friend, he called me on the subject of the able, and even gave me advice in my field of expertise, in terms of thief skills, I am a master of theft and escape, but he is indeed far superior to me in terms of planning.

One day, our contact was suddenly broken, and ten years passed in a flash.

In the past ten years, I have matured, I no longer steal for material pleasures, false fame, or challenging difficulties, etc., I have become a righteous thief, like Robin Hood, who specializes in stealing from the rich and the unkind nobles and royal families, and doing some business to rob the rich and help the poor.

It turned out to be ironic, and the sin I had accumulated over the years of stealing things did not seem to be as great as the years before I was arrested. It's as if I'm still at large, and no one cares about it, and I can openly go to the convenience store to buy things. And a pair of aristocrats attacked, and I became a felony who had to cross the province overnight if he walked on the street without makeup.

Later, I met His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince, he is indeed a powerful person, I have heard of the name of the tea fairy before, I really did not expect that one day he will come to hunt me down. As it turned out, I was outmatched in terms of resourcefulness and strength.

After Tianyi rescued me from Hell Island, he said to me that it was time to change the world. So far, I have seen the changes in the world, but Tianyi's purpose has become more and more incomprehensible to me. Not to mention, who he is, and the situation he's putting me in at this moment.

............

After the golden light in front of the Divine Key dissipated, a straight corridor appeared in front of his eyes, and a few seconds before the light source completely disappeared, he vaguely saw that the walls on both sides were blue, and the ceiling above his head and the floor under his feet were all made of the same blue sè material as the walls.

It was very dangerous to move forward in complete darkness, but the Divine Key had no choice at the moment, he could not see his five fingers, nor did he carry anything that could provide light, so he could only walk blindly.

He felt for the wall on one side, and the material didn't feel like metal or stone, and he couldn't tell what it was made of. As he walked, the key was sorting out the situation in front of him in his mind.

Breathe relatively well, the air here should be fine, there is no obvious feeling of inhaling dust, and the energy is inducted...... No human presence detected, normal sense of smell but no unusual smell, hearing ......

The key to God stopped and listened carefully, his hearing was very good, and he could open the safe without hearing aids. But at this moment, except for the faint sound of his own breathing, nothing was heard in the dark.

The lack of clarity about his surroundings made his actions seem futile, but he had no choice but to move on. I was fighting the Three-Eyed Giant outside the ruins just now, how did I end up in such a place a few seconds later?

In such darkness, human instinct will undoubtedly cause some fear in the heart, but the divine key has already overcome the psychological impact of darkness, and he will naturally not be afraid of anything, let alone lose the ability to think calmly.

After walking like this for a long time, the Divine Key found that the wall had begun at some point, and it was not straight, but had already shown a certain arc. It's a troublesome thing, and it's easy to remember if the corridor simply has a right-angle turn, but it's hard to build a map in your head with this gradual change of direction.

"Wait......" Divine Key remembered what he had seen before the golden light dissipated, "Is this corridor ......" He took a few steps to the side and touched another wall, the wall on the other side of the corridor, and the wall he was holding on to just now, was completely parallel, with the same arc.

The Divine Key exclaimed, "Those three eyes have locked me in a labyrinth?"

But then he rekindled hope, because since it was a labyrinth, there must be an exit. According to common sense, the easiest and most effective way to get out of a labyrinth, in fact, the Divine Key has been doing it since just now, that is, to go along the wall on one side, and sooner or later it will find an exit.

Now the question is, just how big is this labyrinth?

The Divine Key has a slight bad premonition at this point. From the perspective of the structure of the wall, it is not easy to judge how big the maze of square corners is, because you are constantly turning, but the arc maze can be judged one or two, that is, how close the arc of one of the walls is to a straight line.

The Divine Key feels that according to the current path, there is almost no sense of deviation, this maze is very big, how many roads there are, how many bends to detour, how long it will take to reach the end of one of the roads, all are unknown.

So, the Divine Key simply picked up the energy, touched the wall on one side with his hand, and began to run forward.

No matter how many mazes there are, how long the walls are, every time you take a step forward, you get closer to finding the exit, because at the end of the day, all mazes are a circle, and there will always be a gap in this circle.

The Key is extremely fast, almost as fast as a sports car, and he doesn't use gas. Just as he had been sprinting like this for a full ten minutes, suddenly, he felt something, it was the breath of a creature, a sense of presence that overwhelmed xìng...... (To be continued.) )