In the Cloud Building, in a narrow and dim corridor, Li Bai and Xun Qing listened to the noise spreading outside, and their lingering palpitations did not disappear.

They didn't climb far along the ventilation duct at all, and after escaping some distance, they jumped off and blended into the crowd to escape. But the front and back doors of Yunjian Building had been sealed, and they had no choice but to hide up.

In the darkness, Li Bai heard Xun Qing's violent gasps, and the palpitations did not disappear.

Thinking of the way he had just tried his best to save himself, he suddenly felt grateful, and patted Xun Qing's shoulder hard: "Thank you." ”

Xun Qingyan shook his head ashamedly.

He would rather Li Bai scold him twice, and feel more comfortable.

But they were not given more time to catch their breath, and footsteps sounded again in the distance.

Li Bai glanced at him and began to flee again.

The Yunjian Building of Nuoda was still immersed in the aftermath of chaos at the moment, the cups and plates in the corridor were in disarray, and there were many precious wine vessels discarded everywhere, which made Li Bai feel pity.

If he had to find one of the good things about it, it was that the wine was really good.

But other than that, it's nothing good at all.

It looks like it is splendid, but in fact it has no highlights except for the pile of gold and silver, and the luxurious furnishings everywhere do not stand out at all except for the smell of copper.

In particular, the poor taste of its operators has seeped into every part, and there are huge floor-to-ceiling bronze mirrors everywhere, reflecting everyone's face, and the light refracted becomes colorful.

It's as if you're going to admire your face anytime and anywhere, and it's annoying for you.

In contrast, he preferred Lu Daoxuan's old man's workshop. The beauty of the living machine is revealed in each dead thing, and all the mechanisms are as if they have been carved out of the soul, vividly and vividly. Even the workshop itself is in constant flux, as if there is an infinite number of appearances, just like this Chang'an.

But now, the more he and Xun Qing move forward, the more they feel that something is wrong.

When they look at each other, they can't hide their confusion and amazement.

Because they went around and around, they saw exactly the same thing, and no matter how they walked, they ended up just wandering in the same place.

The same broken wine glass, Li Bai has already seen it for the third time!

"Illusion!"

Li Bai lowered his voice, and when he looked around at the exaggerated bronze mirrors around him, he finally realized it.

It's like the mirage that often appears in the desert in the clouds, and the ghost hitting the wall in the desolate ancient city that people can't get out of. The entire Yunjian Building, all the bronze mirrors, turned out to be the fulcrum of illusion!

Unless all the bronze mirrors are destroyed, these outsiders who don't know the trick will not be able to get out at all, and can only be restrained in them little by little like fish in a net.

But if it makes a noise at this moment, it won't have time to shatter it all, and it can only attract the attention of those searchers!

When they came to a dead end again, the footsteps around them were getting closer and closer.

"Hey! You go over there, I'll search this side! Be careful! ”

Someone gave a loud order, and then a low step walked towards the place, rummaging carefully room by room.

Xun Qing's face turned pale, and he subconsciously held his breath.

"Peace of mind."

Li Bai stood in front of him, still calmly comforting him: "It's a big deal, I'll rush out with you all the way...... They couldn't stop me. ”

Xun Qing bowed his head.

He had seen Li Bai's swordsmanship and did not doubt his ability.

It's just that I'm afraid that the hope of collecting evidence will be completely reimbursed at that time. If Ji Xian is prepared, I'm afraid it will be difficult to catch his feet.

Messed him up again!

finally caught Ji Xian's bastard's feet, and finally was able to avenge that child, but he messed up him again! It's like everything he's messed up since he was a kid.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I, I didn't mean to ......"

He didn't know how to face Li Bai anymore.

"If you mess up this time, you have to pay attention to it next time, you always have to mess up a little bit in life, so even if you mess up, it doesn't matter."

Li Bai turned his head and glanced at him.

The boy looked so calm that he told him, "It's not your fault. ”

Xun Qing lowered her head, and she couldn't help crying.

But here it is not only his friends, but also his enemies, no matter what, he can't cry in front of those guys, even if it is death......

Just as the footsteps were approaching, Li Bai suddenly heard a small sound behind him.

A closed door suddenly opened, and in the darkness someone beckoned to them.

"This ......"

Before he had time to think about it, Li Bai grabbed Xun Qing and rushed behind the door.

No sooner had the door closed than a sound of footsteps approaching rapidly.

"How come this place is still open? Hasn't it been abandoned for a long time? ”

The patrolling guards stood guarded: "Hey, is there anyone in there!" ”

In the silence, there was a crisp sound of a series of chains rubbing.

In the dark room, the huddled figure moved his hands and feet, dragging the chain, and his voice was immature and soft: "Sixth brother, I'm inside...... Can you let me out? ”

The door opened.

Outside, the sword-drawn guard looked inside vigilantly, only to see the empty utility room and the child locked up in the corner.

Behind the door, Li Bai, who was hiding, subconsciously covered Xun Qing's mouth, and even heard the sound of his heart beating wildly.

"Is that you?"

After the guard saw it clearly, he sneered: "Offended Mama, you can stay well, and wait for Mama's anger to disappear...... Did you hear anyone coming? ”

"Nope." The kid shook his head, "I've been sleeping." ”

"Cut."

The guard shook his hand and closed the door, and walked away unhappily.

In the dead silence, Li Bai let out a sigh of relief and relaxed a little.

I only felt a sinking in my hand, only to find that Xun Qing, an unfortunate guy, had fainted?

Scared.

Don't talk about him, Li Bai himself is still undecided.

I don't understand, why...... That kid is going to help them?

As if sensing Li Bai's sharp gaze, in the dimness, the shackled boy of about thirteen or fourteen years old raised his head, looked in their direction, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly asked softly:

"Is it Brother Xun Qing?"

Li Bai frowned, suspecting that his ears had heard it wrong, but he didn't expect to be able to meet Xun Qing's old acquaintance here, picked up the fainting guy, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know?" ”

"In the past, we often met at Dao Xuangong's mansion." The young man propped up his body, groped, picked up the pipa and walked into two steps: "What's wrong with him?" ”

"Uh, probably...... Did I scare you? ”

Li Bai scratched his head, pinched people again, and shook hard.

It took a long time for Xun Qing to come back to his senses.

Pale and ready to scream.

was quickly covered by Li Bai's eyes.

By the glimmer of light, he saw the young man in front of him clearly, and his eyes widened.

"You, are you really Li Xiang?"

Xun Qing recognized this poor remnant child: "Wait, why are you here?" Didn't I read it wrong? ”

Seeing the shackles on the child's hands and feet, as well as the bruises on his wrists under the cloth clothes, his face suddenly turned pale: "Who hit it?" Your uncle's dog thing? ”

Li Xiang shrank his hand slightly, "I wanted to run out, but I was discovered by my grandmother." ”

"If you are short of money, you can find me, find Dao Xuangong, he will definitely not let it go." Xun Qing asked angrily, "Why do you want to come to this kind of ghost place?" ”

Li Xiang was silent for a long time, and lowered his head: "It's my uncle who gambled all the money and mortgaged me here......"

"That bastard!" Xun Qing was furious.

Li Bai was also stunned for a while: I couldn't understand why someone in this world would sell his life to his relatives and sell his nephew into the devil's cave for a little money!

"Don't be afraid, I'll take you away." Xun Qing lowered his head and struggled to pull the chains on the ground.

Seeing that he had been dragging for a long time to no avail, Li Bai shook his head, stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and the iron light flashed, and the shackles wrapped around the young man's wrist broke silently.

Originally, he was ready for the teenager to be frightened.

But he didn't expect that the blade of the sword was so swept over his wrist that Li Xiang was at a loss, and he didn't even know what was going on.

When he got closer, he saw clearly, the young man's empty pupils.

A pale.

This child is blind......

"What do you call this gentleman?" Li Xiang turned his ears to this side in confusion.

"Li Bai."

"Then, thank you, Mr. Li Bai."

The young man leaned over, saluted uprightly, and was meticulous, I don't know how much better than Xun Qing's guy who could only cry. At a young age, he is as mature as an adult.

Coupled with those eyes that can't see anything, I can't imagine how much suffering I have suffered.

Li Bai shook his head and sighed silently.

"Mr. Li Bai, why did you and Brother Xun Qing come here?"

Li Xiang asked curiously, "Are you here to save me?" ”

Xun Qing was stunned for a moment, and his face flushed.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were sold here, we came here to investigate Ji Xian's dog thing, but I didn't expect to be almost caught. Without you this time, we would be miserable. ”

"Where, the two of you saved me."

Li Xiang shook his head nonchalantly, holding his pipa, his light smile full of happiness and gratitude, "I thought I would starve to death here." ”

"It's pretty much the same." Xun Qing shook his head in frustration: "Now that the doors are sealed, and there are illusions, we can't escape, and it has also affected you, if they know that you helped us, they must ......"

will die.

Just thinking about such an ending, he was about to lose his breath.

Especially it also affected Li Bai and Li Xiang......

"Don't be afraid, it's not time to be discouraged yet."

Li Bai laughed, patted him and Li Xiang's shoulders, and said solemnly: "Don't worry, you will be fine." ”

The young man held his sword, the grass roots at the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and he looked back and assured them: "I will protect you!" ”

No matter what happens.

He will not let innocent people die in front of his eyes.

“…… I know a way out that I might be able to. ”

In the silence, Li Xiang hugged his pipa and said timidly: "You can still go through the secret door, but I don't know how to get in." ”

The two were stunned.

"How do you know?"

"Everyone thinks I'm blind, so they never hide it from me when they do things. But my ears are very sharp, and I can hear clearly. Li Xiang shook his head bitterly: "Originally, I wanted to run through the secret door, but I didn't have eyes, so I could only hide in the car and get out, but I didn't know why I was caught." ”

"Even if there is a secret door, it is useless to find it." Li Bai sighed: "It's all illusions outside now, and it's ...... at all."

Before he could finish speaking, he froze in place.

He stared blankly at the child in front of him.

Magic?

In the world, what illusion can deceive a blind person?

If you can't see it from the beginning, how can you be deceived by what is in front of you?

After a brief moment of astonishment, he lowered his head and carefully looked at the child in front of him, unable to restrain his surprise.

After a long time, he squatted down and asked seriously, "Aren't you afraid?" In case something goes wrong......"

"No matter how terrible it is, it's not as good as being locked up here as a slave for life."

Li Xiang shook his head, "Besides, didn't Mr. Li Bai say that he wanted to protect us?" I won't be afraid. ”

"So, can you please show me the way, Li Xiang?"

Li Bai solemnly stretched out his hand and pressed the child's shoulder: "Bet my life and promise you that you will be free!" ”

In the silence, the blind child was stunned for a long time, felt the heat of the palm on his shoulder, and nodded vigorously.

"Hmm!"

Li Bai never thought that the illusion could be so easy to crack.

Originally, they couldn't get out of the bronze mirror maze no matter what, but under the exploration and leadership of Li Xiang, they turned left and right, and walked out with great ease.

Even thanks to his keen hearing, they didn't even encounter a few blockers along the way.

Sometimes people haven't come over yet, and they are still outside the two corridors, they have already been noticed by Li Xiang, and they hid behind the room and the door.

Occasionally, there were two guests who couldn't get around, and they were also knocked down instantly by Li Bai pretending to be drunk, and then Xun Qing stuffed a rag into his mouth and tied them up, and threw them into other empty rooms.

Soon, I came to the end of the corridor, and there was nothing left on the wall in front of me.

"Wrong?" Li Bai frowned.

"No, it's here." Li Xiang stretched out his hand and groped the wall: "There should be a secret door here, but I don't know where it is." ”

"Wait a minute, this style of secret door, let me see, it should be here?"

Xun Qing rolled up his sleeves and stepped up, groped for a moment, and finally his eyes fell in front of a huge bronze mirror, stretched out his hand and knocked, and a hollow sound came.

As he grabbed the candle stand and pressed it down, a low grinding sound sounded from behind the bronze mirror. The huge bronze mirror turned over, revealing the dark corridor behind it.

A gust of wind blew from the darkness, making Li Bai's eyes light up, and he could already hear the distant echo in it.

"Xun Qing, good job!"

Li Bai patted him on the shoulder, looked inside, and found that the passage behind the secret door was surprisingly spacious, enough for three people to walk in parallel.

Moreover, after walking forward for a while, I found that the space was also incredible, and it faintly led to the key points of Yunjian Building.

Even, go deep underground!

The further down you go, the more huge the space becomes, and the fewer traces you see left by people's lives.

In their place are a variety of bulky traps and parts.

It's like walking through a huge machine.

After Li Bai calculated the height, he found that they had gradually passed through the surface of Chang'an and entered its 'inner side'!

"That guy even dared to dig the transmission layer of the mechanism in Fang City!"

Xun Qing's face turned pale: "This is completely joking with the lives of everyone in Changle Fang!" ”

If Chang'an is an unprecedented huge institution, then Fang Shi is a huge module on its body. Compared to this ancient capital, all the works of the mechanics are as small as dust.

Maintaining the operation of Chang'an is the unshirkable obligation of every organ master, and at the same time, protecting it from destruction is also the duty of the organ master to be written into the life of the organ master on the first day of becoming an organ master.

It's a pity that the existence of Chang'an is too large and ancient, so huge that for so many years, countless organ masters have only explained it to the eleventh. So old that even the earliest records have not unveiled the mystery of this city.

After countless painful lessons, the authorities found that Chang'an did not need them to maintain and protect. Because no matter what kind of disaster it encounters, Chang'an will still exist and will never waver. It was none other than a group of explorers who wanted to dig up the ancient darkness on their own......

Over time, there was even a taboo called the 'Underworld'.

Even if Xun Qing knew that Ji Xian's doing this would not hurt Chang'an, but if there was a slight mistake, the entire Changle Fang would probably be affected.

As a victim of a great avalanche, he couldn't accept such behavior from the bottom of his heart.

What's more, the one who did this was also Ji Xian, who had experienced the pain of the Great Collapse!

"That bastard thing!"

He gritted his teeth and was about to scold, but he heard the confused murmur of the blind boy Li Xiang next to him: "What a smell......

At some point, the touch under my feet was no longer solid steel, but softer, like soil.

In the darkness, a strange smell of wind blew in the distance, mixed with the sound of leaves swaying, which made him unbelievable.

If he closed his eyes, he even felt that he had suddenly found himself in a farmland.

It can be in the faint light overhead.

In this wide underground space, there is only one narrow passageway, and it has been planted with dense crops. A breeze blew, and there was a tidal version of the rustle.

Countless flowers of bewitching colors dance in the wind, undulating like an ocean.

A strange stench spreads.

Nauseating.