Volume 1: Night Shines Kyushu Ming Forty-Seven: The Power of Believing
Qiu Shaohu's words were too unexpected, and Zhou Fuyun thought about it for a moment before slowly sorting out his thoughts.
At this moment, they suddenly noticed that not far ahead, a faint light appeared.
"So, it's an exit?" Zhou Fuyun was a little uncertain.
"Someone, it seems to be around there." Qiu Shaohu felt a slight tremor on the ground, as if someone was walking around there. "Check it out."
After Qiu Shaohu finished speaking, he took Zhou Fuyun over there again. And the closer they got, the stronger the pungent smell of sulfur became, and both of them couldn't help but cover their faces with their sleeves.
Rounding around an even narrower corner ahead, they finally saw where the end of the light source came from.
Just in the depths of the tunnel, a deeper tunnel reappeared, separated from each other by railings, and a torch was lit inside, illuminating the larger space.
The tunnel below was more like a prison cell, where a young man sat in the corner with his back to them, and in front of the young man there were two guards guarding him, blocking all paths to leave.
"Sun Congtian!" Zhou Fuyun almost exclaimed.
Qiu Shaohu's eyes were quick and he covered his mouth. If it is discovered at this time, it will be a big deal.
was blocked, Zhou Fuyun forcibly held back his words, but subconsciously stepped back, kicked away a small stone under his feet, and slipped under the railing.
The stone falls crisply to the ground, and it endures in the empty dungeon.
Because Sun Congtian was closer to them, the voice caught his attention first, and he subconsciously turned around, and Yu Guang saw it above, and was slightly startled.
"Who?" The two guards also heard the movement in the next second, and became alert.
Sun Congtian suddenly moved, fell to the ground, pretended to make a sound, and said, "Oh, I'm about to lose my strength, trouble you...... Can you get me some water......
The two guards were attracted by his words and didn't pay any attention to anything else. Hearing Sun Congtian's request, a person motioned to get him a bucket.
The bucket was placed in front of him, and Sun Congtian also turned around by pretending to drink water, signaling Qiu Shaohu and Zhou Fuyun, who were still there, to leave quickly.
"Knowing he's here, I'll be able to save him later. Let's go first, it's too unsafe here. Qiu Shaohu took Zhou Fuyun and turned to leave, and at the moment he turned around, he suddenly saw that there was another person in the dungeon below.
That person came around from another direction, and it didn't seem that he was looking at Zhou Fuyun, but just passing by.
Even if the dungeon is dim, Qiu Shaohu still sees it vividly in his eyes, and in that person's hand, he is clearly holding a few books, and the outermost one, regardless of shape, size and cover, is clearly "Juan Enji".
Qiu Shaohu's pupils suddenly constricted, and the sudden incident instantly disrupted his original thoughts, he didn't even know whether he should leave step by step now, or Zhou Fuyun and Sun Congtian didn't care about grabbing those books.
The purpose of saving these people is to find out the truth, and to find out the truth is because they came here, and the purpose of coming here in the first place was to find those books.
But now that they were in front of their eyes, it seemed that nothing else was needed.
The opportunity in front of us is fleeting, and there is no more time to think about it.
Zhou Fuyun also noticed that he stopped unconsciously, and felt a little strange in his heart, so he asked, "...... you?"
"Who's there!"
Directly ahead, a low cry suddenly came.
Both of them were shocked, and then they saw that at the corner of the tunnel, another person came to them, he did not wear the clothes of the Luo Chamber of Commerce, but directly put the deerskin clothes outside, obviously with those gangsters.
It's really bad to bump into a person head-on here.
Qiu Shaohu was not confused at all, and said a set of rhetoric that he had already thought of to deal with this situation: "This person is going to escape, and I have arrested him." ”
"What are the escapees doing when they come back and come to the place where they are locked up alone in the shopkeeper of the Bao Merchant Bank?"
The other party asked.
This answer was really unexpected, and Zhou Fuyun was so frightened that his palms broke out in a cold sweat.
"He suddenly said that there are important things to tell us, but we must see Sun Congtian, otherwise we will not talk about it." Qiu Shaohu said: "I can only bring him over." ”
Hearing Qiu Shaohu being so methodical, Zhou Fuyun felt a little relieved in his heart.
Unexpectedly, the man suddenly said: "Since this is the case, let him not say anything!" Someone like him who is so tricky will kill him directly. There is never a shortage of hostages anyway. ”
"I ...... I'm a ...... of the Zhou family Childe ......" Zhou Fuyun was dumbfounded and stammered.
"Okay, then he'll leave it to you." But he didn't expect Qiu Shaohu to betray himself directly to the other party, and Zhou Fuyun was even more shocked.
Qiu Shaohu didn't care what he thought, he directly pushed Zhou Fuyun forward and walked towards the opposite side.
The incident happened suddenly, Zhou Fuyun was not prepared at all, and fell in front of the other party after stumbling a few steps, and the person opposite also subconsciously went to help.
At this moment, Qiu Shaohu suddenly pounced forward, like a goshawk pounced on a rabbit, rushed to the opponent's side with an arrow step, threw out his arm, and hit the opponent's neck with his elbow, and the sound of bone cracking was clearly audible.
This blow was enough to break the person's cervical vertebrae, but the other party endured it stubbornly, and stabbed Qiu Shaohu with a knife he was holding with his backhand.
Zhou Fuyun on the ground saw all this clearly, and almost exclaimed, but soon remembered that he couldn't make a sound now, so he covered his mouth.
This blow was also greatly unexpected by Qiu Shaohu, he endured the pain and then punched the opponent's vest again, this heavy blow was enough to make people arrest, but there was no guarantee that he would not make a sound.
"Ahh
"There's a voice over there!"
"What's going on!"
In the tunnel, more than one person heard the sound from this side and rushed towards this side.
"You ......" Zhou Fuyun saw Qiu Shaohu casually and threw the dagger stuck in his body aside.
"I'm fine." Qiu Shaohu looked down at the man who fell, only to find that he was a hunchback, and his neck was also deformed from ordinary people, no wonder his first blow did not work.
"Let's get out of here!" Qiu Shaohu dragged Zhou Fuyun towards the other side of the tunnel, although this road had never been walked, but now the footsteps were heard elsewhere, and this was the only way to go.
Along the way, the walls on both sides are getting wider and wider, and the bricks on the floor are getting more and more neat, as if they have been specially repaired.
In the place where this road passed, the smell of sulfur was gone, and there was a lot of fragrance of medicinal herbs on both sides. There are also many harvested medicinal herbs stacked around like firewood, piled up high, looking like a medicinal herb warehouse.
However, it came to an end, but there was no way out.
"What to do, it's sealed!" Zhou Fuyun saw that there was no way around, and he was anxious.
"Silence!" Qiu Shaohu asked Zhou Fuyun not to make a movement, listened carefully to the footsteps around him, and found that the footsteps nearby were becoming more and more chaotic.
When I touched the wall with my hand, I suddenly felt something unusual.
"The touch is not right, it doesn't look like it's a sealed ......" Qiu Shaohu touched a slate above and pushed it up, and it was indeed a secret exit. When I looked up, there were some figures on it, but it didn't look like they were chasing them.
"Is there an exit?" Zhou Fuyun was extremely pleased, and when he came up to take a look, his face immediately changed, "This ...... How is the place above where I was locked up before? ”
"Where are you locked up?" Qiu Shaohu looked carefully, and sure enough, he found that the people on it were all merchants who had been imprisoned before.
Originally, the people who took care of them seemed to be looking for their traces because Qiu Shaohu was so troublesome just now, so they couldn't take care of these people for the time being.
Temporarily closed this tunnel secret mouth, Qiu Shaohu groaned, and said to Zhou Fuyun: "Take off your clothes!" ”
"Huh?" Zhou Fuyun didn't know why.
"You put on what I'm wearing now, and go out pretending to be their guy." Qiu Shaohu said: "I didn't let you leave from the main gate before, because there must be someone guarding there. Now that all the people should have been mobilized, you put on their clothes and find a way to get out and find helpers! ”
"I ...... A ...... alone Go out ......" Zhou Fuyun didn't know the bottom of his heart.
Qiu Shaohu didn't have time to talk to him, and said while quickly taking off his clothes: "We alarmed those people just now, and now Sun Congtian should have been taken to another place by them, and he is still looking for us everywhere." If you sit back and wait to die, it will not be a death sooner or later. You take this and go outside, don't look for the government, go directly to the Fushen Governor, tell them the direction here, as soon as they see this thing, they will definitely come immediately! ”
What Qiu Shaohu gave to Zhou Fuyun was an insect talisman of the resting place he left before. Fu Shendu has just had a bloody battle with the resting place, and once he sees this kind of thing again, he should be able to raise his spirit, and he is not afraid that they will come slowly.
While speaking, Qiu Shaohu took off the fish scale armor he was wearing inside and put it on Zhou Fuyun's body, "Wearing this can protect you." You must bring the rescuers back, now it is up to you to live or die with so many people here. ”
"I'll definitely be back!" Zhou Fuyun saw that Qiu Shaohu had left such an important thing to him, and said solemnly.
Qiu Shaohu chuckled, "In the customs I have come into contact with, such an important thing has to be hooked. ”
"Is it binding just to pull the hook?" Zhou Fuyun was puzzled.
"That's because the oath is different, most people say 'no change for a hundred years', but what I heard is 'break the oath and swallow the elixir first, and the wife is separated and no one guards it.'" Parents and brothers died lately, and the souls came to curse each other night and night. The body of the alliance will be subject to a thousand knives, and the vicious dog will always gnaw at the flesh and bones. Heaven and earth are broken by fire, and there is no end to life. ’”
Qiu Shaohu said it lightly, and Zhou Fuyun's heart was already full of coldness.
Such a curse, just a broken oath, requires life and life without detachment, and it is too vicious.
In the end, he just smiled bitterly and said to Qiu Shaohu: "I will not live up to your trust." Then he climbed out of the dark passage and left the place.
"Won't you live up to the trust?" Qiu Shaohu was more touched by his words.
In this situation, it is not so much that he trusts the other party, but that he has no other way than trust.
So in the end, he had to use that empty oath to shock Zhou Fuyun.
Pure trust is tantamount to putting all your fate on someone else, and just one thought will have irreparable consequences.
Like, Yundi Village back then.