Chapter 113: Nether Tower Night
When Ma Lei heard it, didn't he meet an expert.
"yes, why didn't I think of that?"
Yu Qingfeng shook his finger and said proudly:
"It's useless for you to think about it, you can only draw, but you don't know how to advertise. We're different, we have branches everywhere, and we can build momentum and advertise for hell. We have connections and sales. ”
"Advertising?" Ma Lei didn't understand.
"It's to spread the word and let more people know about your experience, your reputation, and your paintings. Let you truly become a great painter who can be famous for eternity. ”
Ma Lei opened his mouth, as if he had seen a bright future. Love and career are both harvested, where can he resist?
"I, what am I going to do?"
Yu Qingfeng took out the style of a female president and stretched out three fingers:
"There are three steps: the first step is to tell us in detail all the experiences you and Ye Xuanlang had in the Nether Tower, how to enter the hell, how to get out, and all the things you saw and heard in the hell, the more detailed the better;
"The second step is to extract the most exciting and commercially valuable parts from them, and you're responsible for drawing them. That's right, not only do you have to draw a picture of hell, but you also have to draw the scene in the Nether Tower, and you can also sell it as a peripheral;
"The third and most important step is to draw eighteen pictures of hell. Draw eighteen of the most terrifying scenes from hell and combine them to create a complete picture of hell. ”
Ma Lei definitely didn't understand what "peripheral" was, but this did not affect his approval of Yu Qingfeng's words, and he nodded vigorously.
Pei Wuxian kept smiling and listened to Yu Qingfeng paint a big cake for Ma Lei in words, and then added: "We have prepared all the painting tools for you, these days, you must retreat here and paint wholeheartedly." ”
Lin Ming also helped: "That's right, as for Wen Miaozi's side, you don't have to worry, we will explain the details to her clearly." If she knows that you can earn enough food for your family of three for a lifetime, she will definitely give her full support and wait with peace of mind. ”
How can Lian Shurong lag behind? He came to Ma Lei's side and sighed with envy in his eyes:
"Ma Lei, Ma Lei, your luck is really good, how many painters in our painting garden have worked hard for half their lives, and they don't have such a chance to become famous. You deserve it, though. I don't have the guts to go into the Nether Tower. ”
Ma Lei was dizzy and giggled vigorously.
Waiting for Ma Lei to laugh for a while, Yu Qingfeng got to the point, "Then let's start, the first step, tell me about your experience of entering the tower with Ye Xuanlang, from the beginning." ”
Ma Lei admitted that the reason why he came up with the idea of entering the Netherworld Tower to draw a picture of hell was to marry Wen Miaozi. And this inspiration was actually given by Wen Miaozi.
Wen Miaozi looked at his paintings and gave a pertinent suggestion: these landscapes are too monotonous and boring, painting and painting is just a different combination of different buildings and landscapes, and if you want to make money, you have to paint something novel and unseen scenery.
Ma Lei knows that his painting skills are average, and he really has to work the content of his paintings.
Just when Ma Lei was thinking hard about what to draw, Wen Miaozi inadvertently mentioned Ye Xuanlang. She said that Ye Xuanlang is a peerless good man, infatuated, and willing to go to hell for his newlywed wife who has not yet entered the cave room.
Ma Lei asked curiously, and Wen Miaozi told him about Ye Xuanlang's plan to enter the Netherworld Tower.
Ma Lei was still thinking about what to paint, what was the novel scenery that everyone had never seen, no, the Netherworld Tower and Hell were sent to the door.
Wen Miaozi heard that Ma Lei was going to go to the Netherworld Tower with Ye Xuanlang, crying and blocking her, saying that she couldn't lose Ma Lei.
Ma Lei asked: Then he can't earn a bride price of fifty taels, is she willing to marry?
Wen Miaozi said that she couldn't marry without a bride price, and not only that, but she had to go back to her ex-mother-in-law.
Hearing this, Yu Qingfeng looked at Ma Lei who was sympathizing with Wen Miaozi.
Ma Lei, Ma Lei, love brain zero IQ, people say they can't lose you, and then they turn their heads and want to leave you, so contradictory, you don't notice it? People just forced you into the Nether Tower, and you didn't have the slightest suspicion?
If the poor want to make a fortune, in addition to waiting for the pie in the sky to fall, they can only take risks and risk their lives. Ma Lei made up his mind and immediately went to find Ye Xuanlang.
At first, Ye Xuanlang was reluctant to enter the tower together, he felt that Ma Lei was a greedy person.
Ma Lei had no choice but to tell the truth, he took the risk for love, in order to marry the woman he loved.
Infatuation does not deceive infatuation, since the Tao is the same, it is natural to conspire with each other. Ye Xuanlang immediately decided that on this trip to the Netherworld Tower, the two of them would go together.
Wen Miaozi said that if you want the Hell Map to be trusted by people, then you must create a momentum. Ma Lei and Ye Xuanlang entered the Netherworld Tower together, and this matter must be known to as many people as possible.
So Ma Lei set up a signboard when he set up a stall on the street to sell paintings, directly telling passers-by that he wanted to enter the Netherworld Tower with Ye Xuanlang.
In this way, more than a dozen curious and lively people have been gathered to pay attention to this matter.
Seeing that the momentum was enough, the two set a date.
On the night of two days ago, Ma Lei and Ye Xuanlang were ready to lead the team in front of the team, as if they were going to be a generous hero, followed by more than a dozen friends who saw them off, and set off mightily.
The spectators spontaneously pooled their money and invited the two heroes to drink in the tavern at the city gate. They opened a private room, and more than a dozen people gathered inside, but only Ye Xuanlang and Ma Lei were really drinking.
That's right, since it's to make money, then everyone is definitely not willing to give more, since it's to see the excitement, then you have to stay sober. So some of these visitors didn't get a drop of wine, and some just touched their lips, which meant it.
Filled with wine and food, the large procession marched towards the Nether Tower.
Before the time, Ma Lei and Ye Xuanlang entered the tower. Because the blind fortune teller said that if the entrance to hell is really in the tower, then it will only be easiest to open when it is a child.
As soon as he entered the Netherworld Tower, Ma Lei felt a gust of yin wind, pouring in from the top of his head and hovering in the tower.
The wind whistled against the walls, making strange noises of different tones, as if it were not the wind, but an invisible hellish beast and ghost, roaring and flying around the tower.
The range of light that the oil lamp can illuminate is limited, but it is only in front of the eyes, and the surroundings are all unknown darkness.
If it weren't for the wine, warm body, and boldness, Ma Lei couldn't wait to turn around and flee back immediately. He admits that as soon as he entered the tower, he regretted it a little.
But Ye Xuanlang beside him moved forward firmly, and seemed to be fearless.
was infected by Ye Xuanlang, and Ma Lei thought of Wen Miaozi, and the idea of escaping quickly dissipated.
The two of them took small steps, tentatively moving forward, and finally saw the spiral staircase in the center of the tower.
The staircase is very special, in the middle is a column of thickness surrounded by one person, which is cold to the touch, and is made of stone.
The spiral staircase is actually a piece of wood, inserted into the stone column, spiraling upwards.
Therefore, there are no handrails on this staircase, and the gap between the wooden planks is not small, and it is still dangerous for people to walk on it. If you are unlucky and always slip through the gap, it is also possible to fall several floors high.
Standing in front of the stairs and looking up, although the line of sight is small, you can only vaguely see the structure of the second floor going up. But it is conceivable that all the way to the top, the fourteenth floor, should be like this.
In other words, the center of the Nether Tower has a circular hole that runs through the body of the tower, and in the center of the circular hole is a towering column. The staircase of the Nether Tower is a spiral arrangement of wooden planks inserted into columns.
To reach the top of the fourteen-story tower, you have to make fourteen turns, one floor at a time.
The two were not in a hurry to go upstairs, but made a small circle around the stairs; And he made a big circle against the wall. Finally, it was confirmed that there was nothing on the first floor.
The absence of windows has long been known, there are no traces of people living with people, and there are no mechanisms on the walls that can be pressed. Of course, there was no one on the first floor except the two of them.
As for whether there are ghosts or not, ghosts know.
Where is the entrance to hell? They thought that since it was the entrance to hell, the entrance should be on earth. But the ground was just a tightly knit stone brick, and there were no gaps at all.
I think of the people who have entered the Netherworld Tower before who said that the number of layers of the tower is different, and the person who said the eighteenth floor will be seriously ill after going back.
Both of them felt that the entrance to hell was not an ordinary hole in the ground, and that the so-called hell was actually another dimension, which they would enter inadvertently in the process of climbing the stairs.
Ye Xuanlang took the lead and stepped up the steps first.
Ma Lei followed behind Ye Xuanlang, stretched out his left hand, leaned on the column, leaned his body to the right as much as possible, and stepped on the right side of the plank to facilitate the lifting of his feet and ensure safety.
On the second floor, the two of them confirmed in a small circle again, and there was nothing, it was exactly the same as the first floor.
Three, four, or five floors, all of them are exactly the same. If they hadn't counted them, they really couldn't tell how many floors they were in.
By the time they reached the sixth floor, both of them had weak legs and dizziness. They began to regret that they shouldn't have drunk so much, and now they were mistaken.
Continue to climb the stairs.
While Ma Lei stepped on the first floor of steps, he heard a "click", like the sound of wood cracking. At the same time, I felt dizzy and my body lost balance. He was so frightened that he fell down and screamed.
It didn't matter if he fell like this, the oil lamp in Ma Lei's hand fell directly from the gap in the steps.
Ma Lei's screams drowned out the sound of the oil lamp crashing during the fall and finally falling to the ground.
Ma Lei's screams mingled with the wind, hitting the surrounding walls, bouncing back, rushing up and down, as if to tell something in the unknown darkness that they were here.
Ye Xuanlang hurriedly turned around and asked Ma Lei to calm down.
Ma Lei fell and sat directly on the plank, with his legs sticking out directly from the middle of the two planks. Fortunately, Ma Lei hugged the plank in time, otherwise he would have been able to slide down through the gap between the two plank steps.
Ye Xuanlang squatted down and gave Ma Lei a hard point, asking him to quickly grab him and retract his legs.
Ma Lei also wanted to, but he was stuck quite tightly, and he was a little dizzy, so he really couldn't pull it back for a while.
As the two of them were exerting their strength, they heard the sound of the plank breaking at the same time.