Wu Lian plucked up her courage and interjected on the side: "No matter what your name is, Ai Nuxia has won!" You should take us to the West Courtyard. ”

Zhan Feipeng ignored him and said to Ai Li: "I only promised to take you there." ”

Wu Lian was shocked and said, "Ai Nuxia, don't leave me alone!" ”

"Shut up! Do you want to wake up the whole house? Zhan Feipeng shouted in a low voice, raising his knife and approaching him.

Wu Lian quickly covered her mouth and hid behind Ai Li. Ai Li took a step forward, protected him in front of him, and said directly to Zhan Feipeng: "I brought him here, I have to take him back, he has to follow me!" ”

Zhan Feipeng glanced at Wulian, saw that he was trembling with fright, with tears in his eyes, and was very contemptuous of him, and said, "You must go, don't regret it if you die." ”

Wu Lian panicked and looked at Ai Li with great pity. Ai Li said to Zhan Feipeng: "You don't have to worry about this, I will protect him." ”

Zhan Feipeng snorted and turned to lead the way in front.

The three of them came to the corner gate of the west courtyard, Zhan Feipeng took out the key to open the door, and pushed the door in.

Ai Li and Wu Lian were about to follow him in, when suddenly four figures burst out of the darkness and stopped in front of them.

One of them shouted at Zhan Feipeng: "Yun Python, what are you going to do!" ”

Ai Li was secretly shocked: This temple is really not simple! Although the martial arts of these four people are quite different from Zhan Feipeng, they are at least at the second-rate level. She was silent and watched how Zhan Feipeng dealt with it.

Zhan Feipeng's face sank, and he said to the four people: "You go back!" I have the final say here, if something happens, I will ask the abbot and the old monk for guilt. ”

Seeing that Zhan Feipeng was resolute, the four of them glanced at each other, saluted Zhan Feipeng, and retreated.

Ai Li and Wu Lian entered the West Courtyard, and Zhan Feipeng locked the corner door again.

The west courtyard was silent, and in the moonlight, several houses were scattered, seemingly indistinguishable from the others.

Zhan Feipeng led the two to a corner of the courtyard. He lifted several stone slabs from the ground, revealing a well underneath. Ai Li looked into the well, and it was pitch black, as if it was bottomless.

Zhan Feipeng slowly climbed down the wall of the well, and he waved his hand to signal the two to follow. Ai was very surprised, and also crawled down with him. Wu Lian hesitated at the well for a moment, gritted her teeth, and followed Ai Li.

Two rows of small holes were carved into the wall of the well that would allow them to climb hand and foot, and the small holes continued downward, and the well seemed unfathomable.

Ai Li's eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness in the well, and when he looked down in the faint light of the moon, there seemed to be a flickering light of water in the extreme distance below the well.

After climbing down for a while, he was finally close to the water, but he saw that Zhan Feipeng was still crawling down. The lower half of his body gradually submerged into the water, and the well water had overflowed the base of his thighs.

Suddenly, he pushed the wall of the well with both hands, and the whole person shrank into the water, and disappeared.

Ai Li was slightly startled, and continued to crawl under the water, and when the water was about to submerge her waist, her feet were empty, as if she had stepped on a large round hole. She thought about it, took a deep breath, and pushed it on the wall of the well with both hands, and the whole person slid into the hole.

After sliding into the darkness for a while, Ai Li felt a sudden lightness on the top, as if the water was flowing, and she lifted her head out of the water.

In the darkness not far away, a fire gradually ignited, and it was Zhan Feipeng who lit a torch.

Ai Li looked around by the light of the fire, Rao was a person she had seen, and after seeing the surrounding scene, she was also taken aback.

Here is a huge cave. The cave is more than one person tall and is built by man, and the top and four walls of the cave are neatly laid with bluestone bricks. The water she was in led to the depths of the cavern.

Ai Lizhong wondered: who built this cave so neatly and orderly? And why was it built?

Don't let her think about it, Zhan Feipeng was standing on the shore waiting for her, she jumped up and stood next to him.

There was a sound of water, and Wu Lian also came out of the bottom of the water, and he was also dumbfounded when he saw the cave, Ai Li reached out and pulled him ashore from the water.

Ai Li suddenly felt the sound of heavy breathing in front of her, and when she looked up, she saw Zhan Feipeng staring at her in a daze, with a pair of eyes that seemed to be breathing fire.

Ai Li glared at him viciously, Zhan Feipeng's face turned red, turned around uncomfortably, and walked along the shore to the depths of the cave. Ai Li followed behind him, secretly using his internal strength to dry his clothes.

Zhan Feipeng held a torch in front of him and walked without looking back. Ai Li looked carefully as he walked, and the water flow in the cave was not very wide, about two zhang or less, and on one side there was a stone bank that was only a foot wide for one person to walk, and on the other side it was close to the wall made of bluestone. The west courtyard of this Zhenguo Temple really hides something strange!

Ai Li secretly noticed that the air in the cave did not smell too musty, and the water was also flowing, and she secretly wondered in her heart, could it be that this water flow all the way to the river outside the city?

Suddenly, Wulian behind her let out a scream of "ah", which was extremely terrifying in the empty cave.

Zhan Feipeng and Ai Li looked back at him at the same time, only to see Wu Lian's face pale, stretching out a finger and pointing into the water tremblingly.

Ai Li looked in the direction of his finger, there was a mass of white flowers three feet underwater, and if you looked closely, it was actually a corpse! The man must have been dead for a long time, his clothes had rotted, revealing his swollen body, and he was caught by something under the water, and he rose and fell with the current, and if he didn't look closely, he thought it was the belly of a big fish.

Zhan Feipeng glanced at Wulian and said abruptly: "What's this, there are many more ahead." ”

Wu Lian's face turned blue after hearing this, her body trembled more and more, and a mist appeared in her eyes.

Zhan Feipeng saw that he wanted to cry or not, he couldn't help frowning, and said impatiently: "If you're afraid, just wait here!" After saying that, he strode forward.

Ai Li patted Wu Lian's shoulder, signaling him not to be afraid, took his hand, and followed Zhan Feipeng.

Ai Li's hand was not big, but it was warm, and there was a reassuring feeling, Wu Lian was held by her, her heart was much more settled, she was calm, and followed her tightly with her head down.

After another step forward, the water became thinner and thinner, and finally it was all drawn underground, and the ground became a smooth bluestone brick road.

Zhan Feipeng suddenly said solemnly: "Keep up!" There's a mechanism here, don't mess around! ”

Ai Li nodded, cautiously stepping on Zhan Feipeng's footprints. When Wu Lian heard this, she trembled all over, and followed Ai Li with weak steps.

The three of them walked silently, and the only sound in the cave was the "crackling" sound of the torches burning.

After walking for a long time and turning a corner, Zhan Feipeng finally said: "This is the last passage with a mechanism, you can rest assured after passing here." ”

Wu Lian breathed a sigh of relief, her body was too nervous just now, this relaxation, her feet were soft, and she couldn't help but hold on to the wall with her hands.

Suddenly, several hidden weapons flew towards him. At the last moment, Ai Li turned around suddenly, drew his knife and shot down the hidden weapon.

Zhan Feipeng said angrily: "Hurry up!" It's going to be a nuisance! With that, he quickened his pace and sped through the passage. Seeing this, Ai Li immediately grabbed Wulian and followed closely.

Wu Lian only felt that countless white lights flashed in front of her eyes, the sound of "jingling" in her ears was endless, and her left hand was tightly grasped by Ai Li, so she could only follow with a little bit of a footstep.

Suddenly, Ai Li, who was in front of him, sank down violently, and Wulian was also pulled by her to stumble. I only heard Ai Li shouting: "Catch!" Then, his body was off the ground, and he flew forward quickly.

Wu Lian closed his eyes and exclaimed loudly, and the next moment his body was grabbed and his feet stood on the ground. Zhan Feipeng's extremely impatient voice came from his ears: "What a noise!" I'll kill you if you quarrel again! ”

Wu Lian opened her eyes in horror, only to see an extremely heavy hole in the ground not far away. Ai Li was nowhere to be seen. It turned out that when she was running just now, Ai Li stepped on the hole with him, and when she fell, she threw Wulian towards Zhan Feipeng in front.

"Ai Woman!" Goren cried out.

"Follow me!" After Zhan Feipeng yelled at Wu Lian, he walked in the direction of the cave while knocking on the hidden weapon, his face full of concern.

"I'm fine!" With a flash of red light, Ai Li jumped out of the cave, and protected Wulian with Zhan Feipeng, blocking several hidden weapon darts with his hand.

It turned out that just now, at the moment of falling, she used the Red Flame Farewell Knife to stand on the top of the hole, and after dodging an attack of the mechanism, she turned over.

Wu Lian glanced into the cave, only to see that the bottom was full of dead corpses, all kinds of deaths, miserable.

When Zhan Feipeng saw her coming up, he raised his eyebrows and laughed: "I knew you weren't so easy to die." I still want to compete with you! ”

Ai Li blocked the hidden weapon and said with a cheerful smile: "This is also my wish!" She glanced at Zhan Feipeng, this person looked rude, but he was actually a lover.

The two of them protected Wulian, and in the rain of blades and arrows, they walked forward with a big smile.

Listening to the laughter of the two, Wulian suddenly felt that her courage had increased, and her steps were no longer weak. He opened his eyes and looked at the flickering sword light around him, and felt that this sword light was not terrible. Sometimes, pride is like a torch that illuminates the people around you.

Out of the final passage, the hole in front of it gradually became short and narrow. Ai Li and Wu Lian had to walk with their heads down, and they were as tall as Zhan Feipeng, and they had to bend over.

As he walked, Zhan Feipeng stopped, and a smooth jade wall blocked the way.

Ai Li looked up and saw that the jade wall was made of a complete piece of white marble, with a circular pattern in the middle, which was engraved with a winged Vermilion Bird, which was surrounded by a fire pattern. The carving of the pattern is simple and concise, and the movements of the Suzaku are carved vividly with just a few knives.

Ai Li secretly thought: There is a Vermilion Bird in the south, and there is Xuanwu in the north, and this Vermilion Bird is the patron saint of the south. The south belongs to fire, so the Vermilion Bird is also known as the fire phoenix. Looking at the fire ornament with the Vermilion Bird should be an ancient totem, since the Vermilion Bird is the guardian god, I don't know what it is to protect here?

Just as he was thinking, Zhan Feipeng handed her the torch in his hand.

I saw him stride steadily, and with a low shout, the muscles of his whole body suddenly bulged. Then he pushed the jade wall with both hands, and the jade wall was gradually lifted by his brute force, and he put the jade wall on his shoulder, shook his head at Ai Li, and motioned for her to pass.

Ai Li took the torch and lowered his head sideways and drilled under the jade wall. Wulian followed her, and she also got under the jade wall.

Zhan Feipeng waited for both of them to pass, and also lowered his head to drill through the jade wall.

At this moment, there was a sudden "boom" behind him, which shook the cave, and the sound came from the direction of the entrance!

Zhan Feipeng's face changed, and he hurriedly said to the two: "I'll take a look!" Wait for me here. With that, he turned and hurried towards the entrance.

As soon as he let go, the jade wall brush suddenly fell back to its original place, separating Ai Li and Wulian in the cave.

Ai Li raised the torch and shone a picture around the cave.

The cave here is very different from the cave outside, the four walls of the cave outside are paved with bluestone bricks, but the cave here has no decoration, and directly retains the appearance of the earth and stone when it was excavated. Moreover, the digging tools used here seem to be relatively backward, resulting in a very uneven surface of the cave, which can be judged that the cave here and the cave outside were not excavated at the same time. The cave inside was excavated quite a long time ago, and the cave outside should have been excavated on the basis of the cave inside.

The light of the torch gradually faded, and finally went out, but Zhan Feipeng never came back, and the surroundings fell into darkness.

"Ai Woman, Ai Woman!" Golian screamed nervously.

"Don't be afraid!" A little fire slowly lit up, and Ai Li took out a fire fold from his arms and shook it.

Wu Lian looked at Yubi with a pale face, and almost cried: "Ai ...... Ai Nuxia, is Zhan Feipeng not coming back? How are we going to do it? ”

"Take it!" Ai Li handed him the fire fold, and like Zhan Feipeng, he first steadied his horse and then carried it all over his body. Then she pushed the jade wall with both hands. Yubi moved slightly under her strength, Ai Li gritted his teeth and continued to exert force, Yubi began to slowly lift up, and gradually rose off the ground. At a distance of two inches from the ground, Ai Li's breath was exhausted, and as soon as his hand was released, the jade wall sank again.

Ai Li took a breath, and his heart felt measured, this stone wall could be lifted up to three inches with his own strength. From this point of view, the brute force of Zhan Feipeng is indeed amazing.

She looked at Wu Lian, who was looking at her with a panicked expression. Ai Li secretly thought: If he tried his best to lift the jade wall, he could reluctantly let the little monk climb to the side of the jade wall, but he couldn't get over. But I don't know what the situation is over there, sending this crybaby over there is undoubtedly going to die.

After thinking for a while, Ai Li lightly admonished, "Keep up!" "Go deeper into the cave. Since there is no way back from the rear, let's move forward.

Wulian looked at Ai Li's determined figure, and had no choice but to follow.

As we walked inside, the narrow cavern grew wider. After a little further on, the light of the fire fold suddenly became much dimmer, and it turned out that they had come to a more spacious place. Ai Li stopped here.

Wu Lian was about to ask Ai Li why he didn't leave, and then he also saw that there were eight holes side by side in front of him!

He swallowed hard and asked, "Ai Nuxia, how should we go now?" ”

Ai Liwei hesitated and walked into the first hole on the far left.

Wu Lian's eyes lit up, she saw hope, followed closely behind her, and asked, "Ai Nuxia, have you been here before?" ”

Ai Li said, "I haven't been here." ”

Wu Lian asked again, "Then how do you know which cave to take?" ”

Ai Li said: "I don't know. ”

Wu Lianqi said: "Then why do you want to go to this hole?" ”

Ai Li said calmly: "You have to choose one to take a look around." Sometimes, when you don't know which one to choose and you have to make a choice, choosing one at random is also a way to go. ”

Wu Lian's eyes darkened again, and she walked with her head down.

The two turned a corner, and Wu Lian suddenly caught a glimpse of a seated figure reflected on the cave wall in the firelight.

Someone! Wu Lian almost exclaimed, but Ai Li, who was walking in front, walked calmly past the man without stopping a single step.

Wu Lian was very strange, and when he looked closely, he screamed in fright.

Skeleton! In the corner of the cave sat a skeleton! I saw it sit cross-legged on the ground, Sensen's white bones pulling out a distorted shadow in the flickering firelight. It had a bun on its head, and a few long strands of dry hair were pulled down from the top of its head. The place that was originally the eye has dried up into two round and large holes, and it is so dark that I am not afraid of people!

Ai Li turned around and smiled at him, "It's okay, it's just a dead man." ”

Wu Lian trembled and said, "What do you mean it's just a dead person, Ai Nuxia, aren't you afraid?" ”

Seeing that he was so frightened, Ai Li teased him, "Do you want to meet a living person here?" ”

Wu Lian said: "Of course, it is better to meet the living than the dead. ”

Ai Li said: "Then that living person won't let you go over, and will fight with you here." Or maybe the living person tells you that there is no road ahead, so don't go. Is that good? ”

Wu Lian thought about it and felt that it was really better to meet the dead than the living, but immediately worried: "What if there is really no way out?" ”

Ai Li laughed and said, "It's okay, even if there is really no way out, I can make a way." ”

Wu Lian was no longer scared by what she said, and her face showed her first smile since entering the cave.

I don't know how long I walked, but finally an exit appeared in front of me. Wulian couldn't help but feel a burst of excitement.

However, to his disappointment, when he walked out of the cave, they had returned to the open space they had entered. They came out of the fourth hole.

Without hesitation, Ai Li walked towards the second hole on the left.

Wu Lian was slightly panicked, but saw that Ai Li was so calm and calm. After thinking about it, he understood: if one of the caves here could lead to an exit, then if he walked through all of them, he would definitely find the exit. Thinking of this, he mustered up the courage to continue to follow Ai Li.

The second cave is not much different from the first, the same earth and stone walls, the same long and boundless. The second hole came out and they were back to the beginning, this time the seventh.

No longer hesitating, Wulian followed Ai Li towards the third cave. After the third cave came out, it returned to the starting point, and it turned out that it was connected to the eighth hole.

Wulian sighed, and walked towards the fifth hole. Just as they were about to enter the fifth cave, the fire fold that Ai Li had brought with him burst into flames.

There was darkness all around, and Wu Lian couldn't help but panic again, and he shouted loudly, "Where are you, Ai Nuxia?" ”

"I'm right next to you." Ai Li's voice came from the darkness. A hand reached out to him, grabbed his hand steadily, and only heard Ai Li's deep voice sound at the other end of the hand: "Don't panic, keep walking!" ”

Wu Lian suddenly stabilized her mind for some reason. Ai Li's hands are always warm, but the skin on his hands is a little rough, but it is this hand that is not smooth to the touch but is very warm, which makes him feel at ease. The owner of this hand should be trustworthy, right? No matter if you're useful or useless, you won't let go of yourself easily, right?

In the darkness, Ai Li felt that they had come out of the hole, and Ai Li had dark luck and stared into the darkness. It turned out that the fifth hole came out of the sixth hole. They walked through each hole, but they all returned to the beginning.

"What's wrong?" Wu Lian noticed that Ai Li had stopped, and couldn't help asking.

"Let's go again." Ai Li said lightly.

"Are we back to square one?" Hearing this, Wu Lian panicked again: "Could it be that there is no exit here!" "The skeleton I saw just now was also trapped inside because I couldn't find it, right?

Wu Lian said in despair in the darkness: "The monks of this Zhenguo Temple are very weird. That Zhan Feipeng is not a good person at first glance, he can't want to trap us here, right? ”