"Suddenly, from the top of the tower, the city of bones collapsed little by little, first the tower, then the pedestal, and then the city wall extending from the pedestal. Where the city wall collapsed, billowing smoke and dust suddenly rose.

Seeing the smoke coming in the direction I was standing, I took two steps back. Before I could stand firm, the walls next to me were crumbling. Countless bones were smashed down on me.

"I woke up in a panic.

I felt the wall behind me start to shake and quickly got up with a grunt.

"The moment I got up, large pieces began to fall down around the corner of the wall where I had just sat down, and where the skin had fallen, the brick walls were exposed, and those bricks were more than two feet long and four or five inches thick, unlike the bricks that usually build walls.

Then, at the corner of the two walls, bricks collapsed from the walls. Then I heard the rumbling sound of an urn, and a large hole collapsed in the corner of the wall.

"I made up my mind, thinking to myself, this basement may be overflowing, maybe it's going to collapse. You have to hurry up and call Cunli up.

"Just as I was about to wake up your sixth master, I saw a few faint rays of blue light coming through the hole through the dust.

"I approached the hole to see what was going on.

"Just as I walked to the edge of the hole and stuck my head out to look out of the hole, a white thing suddenly flew out of the collapsed pile of masonry and came straight at my head.

"I flashed my head to the side, and with a thud, the white thing struck the roof of the cell and sank into the roof of the basement. In the dim light, I couldn't see what it was, only an oval object, with two circular black dots lined up on it, and it looked like two small black holes, and there was a triangular black hole in the middle of the round black hole, and the two round holes formed a full momentum, which looked like a skull without a jaw.

"As I looked up at the white thing on the roof, I heard another movement in the pile of bricks behind me.

"When I looked back, I gasped.

"I saw that in the pile of masonry and rubble that had collapsed in and outside the wall, and in the middle of the section of the wall that had not yet collapsed, there were many white flowers, some like sticks, some like tickles, some like heads, some like kitchen knife handles, and some like round teapots without mouths, like things that had just fallen into the top plate.

"The white things moved slowly, gathering into piles and piles. In a few moments, a human-shaped shelf was erected on each pile.

"It dawned on me that these white flowers were human bones, which were originally scattered in the masonry and walls, but now they gathered into skeletons.

"As soon as the skeletons took shape, they stretched out their arms and surrounded me, and two of them were still moving in the direction of your sixth master.

"They were moving much faster than the bones that had just been scattered on the ground, and I stepped back until my back was plastered with an iron fence.

"Just as the skeletons were about to catch me, I heard a whoosh, and the skeletons froze in place.

A second later, the skeletons fell to the ground, and when they fell, they all shattered into puddles of powder, and the entire cell became a lime kiln.

With a long sigh of relief, I slid down the iron fence and sat down on the ground. A puff of white smoke drifted from overhead, a skull sunk into the top panel.

"I looked at your sixth master, he was still asleep, and there were two or three piles of white ash less than a foot beside him.

At this moment, a figure poked into the hole in the corner.

"'Escape, young man, do you still have to sit through the prison?' I heard the man who had gone into the hole.

"By the faint light, I saw that the man was wearing a blue-gray robe, with a belt around his waist, a long sword hanging, and a white and black-faced Taoist boots on his feet, his long hair coiled on the top, and a black cloth hanging from his ear, which looked to have just been masked. He looks to be in his twenties.

Seeing his outfit, my heart trembled, and I thought, wasn't it a dream just now, I really traveled to the Ming Dynasty?

"I timidly asked, 'Hero, how many years has it been since Hongwu?'

"The man laughed violently and said, 'Little brother, have you just been tortured and your spirit has been stimulated?'

"I said, 'I have not been punished, but my companion has been punished.' ’

"After I finished speaking, I pointed to your sixth master.

"The man heard and said, 'Then how do you talk nonsense?'

"I was silent.

"When the man saw that I didn't speak, he said: 'How many years have you been here? You have been in prison so much that you have forgotten the time? You want to ask how many years the Republic of China is? This year is the 30th anniversary of the Republic of China. ’

"Hearing about the 30th anniversary of the Republic of China, the stone in my heart finally fell to the ground. Don't worry about never seeing my mother and Yuhua again.

"'Let's go!' said the man eagerly.

"I was puzzled and asked, 'Where are you going?'

"The man said, 'Run!'

"I said, 'This iron gate is locked, can you open it?' Besides, there are officers and soldiers guarding it, and there are four high walls, how can you escape?' ’

"The man stomped his foot and said, 'Why did you run away from there?'

"That's when I realized that the hole could lead to the outside of the cell.

"I thought for a moment and said, 'If you go out at night, the gates of the city will be closed, and you will not be able to get out of the city, and they will search the whole city early tomorrow morning, but they will not be able to escape.' ’

"When the man heard this, he waved his hand and said, 'Leave you alone.' ’

After saying that, he got out of the hole and left.

"I thought, instead of staying inside and waiting to die, I should go out first. Hurriedly woke up your sixth master, pulled him, and followed the man out of the hole.

"When we got through the hole and came to the outside of the wall, I realized that the corner of the cell was the corner of the wall, and the outside was the moat. The moat had dried up, and the bottom of the river was as high as the prison's underground cells, more than a foot deep from the ground.

"The man was already standing on the bank of the moat, and he shouted: 'Why don't you stay in there?'

Then he threw down a rope and said, 'Come up quickly.' ’

"I helped your sixth master to the bottom of the riverbank, tied the rope around your sixth master's waist, let the man pull it up first, he put the rope down again, and I grabbed the rope and climbed up the riverbank.

"When we both came ashore, I got down on one knee in front of the man, clenched my fists and thanked, 'Thank you for the rescue.' We are fortunate not to die in prison today, and we will repay our great kindness as cattle and horses in the future. ’

"When your sixth master heard this, he also knelt on the ground in a daze and said, 'Thank you for saving your life. ’

"The man lifted us up and said, 'What a great favor this is?' I don't think you're a bad person, and I'm just giving you a wake-up call so you can run away. Don't be so polite. I think you must have offended the officers and soldiers and were arrested, right?'

"Your sixth master is still at a loss, I don't know what happened, he pulled the corner of my clothes and said, 'What's going on, who is this hero?'

"The man said, 'My name is Yi Qi Chong, you can call me Brother Chong.' Now let's leave it at that, I'll go first, and you get out of this place as well. I hope to see you again in the future. ’

After speaking, he covered his face with a black cloth and walked away quickly.

"Your sixth master asked again: 'Buddha Dai, tell me, what happened just now?'

"I said, 'It may have been an earthquake that had knocked down the walls, and our cells were right on the corners. Just now, the hero happened to be passing by, and when he saw the wall collapse, he came in and shouted for us to flee. ’

"I didn't talk to him about the bones.

"Your sixth master took two breaths because of the pain from the wounds on his body, and naturally said to himself: 'Why did I sleep so deeply, I don't know if there was an earthquake. ’

"I recalled the route I had taken during the day, looked at the terrain around me, and thought that this should be the northeast corner of the city.

"I said to your sixth master: 'Let's go quickly, the officers and soldiers will not be able to run away from the city at dawn. Then you will go and help him.

"He said, 'I'm healed, and the pain is gone, so let's hurry.'" ’

After saying that, I left first, and I followed him closely, in the moonlight, watching him clench his teeth.

"In the wilderness outside the city, two long shadows were moving slowly. ”