Little Alido huddled in the corner of a stone chamber with her knees folded, her big eyes scanning her surroundings blankly, responding to her except the dimness and rumbling belly of the stone chamber, but the same godless eyes of the other children.

After having lunch at noon yesterday, the children have not had a grain of rice in their stomachs, and only when they woke up from their sleep about two hours ago, they were forced by the guards to drink a bowl of light brown soup, which was bitter and astringent, and very unpalatable.

"How will it pass today......" Alido's heart suddenly inexplicably popped up such a thought, these days, all the children who were caught in this place only need to stay in the stone rooms honestly, drinking a bowl of cold soup that is difficult to swallow every day, those fierce guards did not call the children to work as coolies, but Alido was keenly aware of another emotion that frightened her from the eyes of those guards. Alido noticed that the guards looked at the children in the same way that Dam, the cook at the grocerie shop, looked at the chickens and ducks being sent to the back kitchen.

Footsteps sounded in the dark corridor outside the barred gate, and some children subconsciously looked out the door, whispering to wonder if the breakfast delivery had finally remembered them.

A short man dressed as a martial artist, carrying a wooden barrel and a wooden spoon in his hand, walked to the door of the first stone chamber, knocked on the iron railing with the wooden spoon, and shouted inside: "Take the bowl that was given to you, come to the door and line up!" Fast! ”

The children, who had been tossed like puppets these days, finally reacted, and they were so hungry that their chests were pressed against their backs, and they hurriedly picked up the wooden bowls in front of them, and swarmed to the door, holding the wooden bowls with their wilted arms, and sticking out of the iron fence.

The stout man placed the barrel at his feet, picked up the wooden spoon and scooped it into the bucket, and what came out was not the rice porridge or vegetable soup that the children longed for, but water.

"This ......" the children widened their eyes and looked at each other, and at last, one of the children dared to ask, "Master, it's okay, give me something to eat." ”

Before he could finish begging, the stout man's eyes widened, and the wooden spoon struck the child on the forehead through the iron fence, and the child clutched his head and rolled on the ground, and the wooden bowl in his hand fell to the ground, and the water was scattered on the ground.

The short man said viciously: "You will reward you, and you will accept it with gratitude; If you don't give it, you will honestly sew up your own dog mouth, and endure it for me when you are hungry! ”

The stout man glanced at the shivering children, and raised his voice a little more, as if to let the other children in the stone chamber hear it as well: "Listen to me, no matter how much you want to eat, it's not as simple as a light knock on the door of your head!" Hurry up and drink the water given to you, moisten your throat, and follow me to the owner's house for a while, and if you do a good job, you will eat well next time; If you do it poorly, don't even want to eat a little if you starve to death! ”

Just as the short man was spitting and splashing, another man's voice came from the other end of the corridor: "Lao Chang, are you okay?" Hurry up and let those little monkeys drink the water, and the owner is urging us to hurry up! ”

"Right now! Right away! The short man hurriedly answered, and quickly turned his head, and the wooden spoon clattered twice on the wall, "Quickly reach out your bowls, take the water and drink it quickly, and when you are done drinking, stand in the stone room, the owner has a job for you." ”

Little Alido silently got up from the corner, silently walked to the iron fence with the wooden bowl, silently walked back to the corner with the water, silently squatted down, and sipped the cold water in the wooden bowl while staring at the dark corridor with big eyes. For some reason, she was afraid to walk into the darkness of the corridor, and Alido had the idea that after leaving this stone room, she would say goodbye to this world.

"Uncle...... Dad...... A-Niang...... I really want to go home......"

Crystal tears fell on the pitted floor tiles, and then the wooden bowl that had been half-drunk fell to the ground, and the little girl suddenly found that she could not hold the wooden bowl steadily.

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"Old Shi, what's going down there?" Wu Neng lowered his voice and whispered to a communication stone.

After discovering the entrance to the secret passage on the lake beach, Shi Cheng asked Tie Mian and Wu Neng to guard the entrance, and he jumped down first to open the way for everyone.

Shi Cheng turned out a pair of communication stones from his storage bag, which were taken down from Zhu Mingtao's relics, but the quality of this communication stone was very average, and the maximum communication distance was only two miles, so Shi Cheng didn't take this thing very seriously, and only turned out this communication stone when he packed up before entering the forbidden area this time.

"There are a lot of formations underneath, it's very different from the entrance we found next to the small waterfall before, there is no guard here, you and Tie Mian can hurry down, don't forget to cover the entrance."

Tie Mian and Wu Neng glanced at each other, and Tie Mian jumped down expressionlessly.

"Wait for me, Lao Tie!" Wu Neng grabbed the soft ladder in a panic, and while controlling the entrance to close, he hurriedly climbed down.

When Wu Neng went down to the bottom, he saw Shi Cheng and Tie Mian looking at a bluestone wall with mysterious patterns, and the patterns on the bluestone wall were arranged very regularly, outlined by wave patterns, and arranged into a circular pattern on the wall.

"Old Shi, the entrance to the secret passage has been closed, wouldn't it be too dangerous?" Wu Neng said as he wanted to take a step forward and walk to Shi Cheng's side.

"Don't move!" Shi Cheng noticed Wu Neng's movements, and hurriedly stopped him, "This entrance is actually set up with a water gate array, with your cultivation, if you step on it, the power of the formation will make you immortal and seriously injured." ”

"What, if you don't die, you will be injured?" Wu Neng's face turned green, and his left foot hung in the air and swayed back and forth, not knowing where to put it, and finally it was Tie Mian who came over and led him to avoid the Water Gate Array.

"I finally know why the builders of the secret passage put the entrance at the water's edge, in order to arrange this water gate array." Shi Cheng held his chin with his right hand, and his face was full of enlightenment.

"Lao Shi, what are you talking about the Water Gate Array? ……”

"It's an ancient formation used to block interception, I thought it was lost now, but I didn't expect anyone to use it?" Shi Cheng explained, "I think that the entrance to the small waterfall and the entrance found in the place where Du Heng disappeared have secretly installed this formation, and they will be launched together at the critical moment, turning this huge secret passage into an impenetrable cage." ”

"I don't feel how dense and impermeable it is, with Lao Tie with me, can't I get around this kind of cultivation?"

Shi Cheng smiled, "Old Wu, just look at the Kenbin King City and the forbidden area, how many masters of the half-step Grandmaster Realm are there?" Of course, this formation will definitely not be used to block people, and it is more than enough as a formation to block the door. ”

"Didn't you come to block people? Is that? Wu Neng was still confused.

"It's used to block the forbidden area." Iron Mask said.