[Underground trapped, smell the fragrance to the fifth watch]

Secret passage of the inn.

Wan Zhang lit a torch in his hand and carefully walked along the spiraling stairs, while Du Yunlou followed.

As we descended, the wooden staircase had somehow turned into a stone staircase, and the stone walls on both sides gradually became darker. The passage was about four feet wide, barely big enough for two people to walk side by side. At the same time, a strong smell of blood rushed to their nostrils, and the two of them covered their mouths and noses, forcing the disgusting smell down and continuing to walk.

About more than 100 meters down, there was a miserable white light coming from the stairs below, Wanzhang hurriedly grabbed a few steps, but found that it was different from what he thought, there was still an endless stone staircase below, the difference was that there was an oil lamp emitting a miserable white light embedded in the stone wall at each corner.

Seeing this, Wanzhang did not extinguish the torch, and there was a bright yellow firelight, which could dilute the rather permeable atmosphere here.

"What the is this!"

Wan Zhang scolded and scolded, glanced at Du Yunlou who was following behind him, and was suddenly startled, and then hurriedly approached the torch in his hand and exclaimed:

"When did you wear a black robe?"

"Don't you know that people are scary and scared to death!"

Du Yunlou had always been dressed in a short coat before, but at this moment, this guy was quietly wearing a black robe at some point, Du Yunlou's head was hidden in the wide robe and hat, and by the light of the fire, his eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose could be vaguely seen.

Du Yunlou grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, which was a little weird under the light of the torches and the miserable white light.

"Usually when I am about to kill someone, I will put on this robe, this, don't you know?"

Wan Zhang subconsciously took a few steps back vigilantly, widening the distance between the two.

Du Yunlou's eyes lit up, adding to the weirdness.

"Hey, hey, hey. ”

Suddenly, I saw that his words changed, and he lifted his wide hood, revealing his huge head again.

"You don't have to be careful, I just have such a habit, everything ahead is unknown, I have to be prepared. ”

Wan Zhang nodded when he heard this, he was just taken aback just now, but now he reacted and thought about it a little, but he felt normal. If the other party wants to make a move on him, there is no need to make such bells and whistles. Cautious to cautious, he still had some confidence in his ability, so he simply didn't say anything more and continued to walk down with a torch.

As he walked, he vaguely heard a burst of footsteps in front of him, and hurriedly called Du Yunlou behind him and quickened his pace.

"There's movement! It could be Childe, we're going to ...... soon."

Halfway through his words, he stopped abruptly, and he looked behind him with a frown.

At this moment, behind him, in addition to the spiraling stone staircase and the miserable white light, there is no shadow of Du Yunlou.

What kind of moth is this old boy?

Wan Zhang had no choice but to walk upwards in turn, and after walking a few steps, he saw Du Yunlou squatting in one place.

"What's wrong with you?"

Du Yunlou didn't make a sound, but stood up, his fat face showed a hint of solemnity, and then stretched out a finger and pointed to the steps under his feet.

Wanzhang followed his fingers, only to see that at the edge of the stone steps, there was a faint mark, Wanzhang approached the torch, looked at it carefully, and suddenly exclaimed:

"It's half a bloody footprint!"

"Yes, and the blood is still wet, which means that this person has not been gone for a long time. ”

Du Yunlou spoke, and an unknown look flashed in his eyes.

A bad premonition flashed in Wanzhang's heart, and he hurriedly walked up a few steps, and found the mark again at the corner, the mark became lighter and lighter, presumably the blood on the soles of this person's feet was dried here.

Continued to look down, and sure enough, Wanzhang found the footprints again, still half, only the toe part.

Each footprint was almost from one corner to another, separated by twelve steps, and the further down it went, the thicker the footprints became, and the bloodier it became. Even if there is no discovery of Du Yunlou above, Wanzhang who walks in front of him will eventually find out.

This person is not ordinary.

The same thought flashed through their hearts and they continued to walk down.

"There's just movement ahead, be careful!"

Wanzhang admonished, glanced back at Du Yunlou, but saw that this guy didn't know when he had already pressed one hand on his waist, vigilant and abnormal, obviously he was doing too much.

Ignoring Du Yunlou anymore, Wan Zhang pulled out a dagger with one hand, and held a torch with the other, and leaned towards the place where the sound came from.

I don't know how long it took, according to Wan Zhang's speculation, the two of them walked down at least more than 500 meters deep, and there was still a stone staircase with no end in sight under their feet, and the footsteps that had just appeared had never appeared again after a while.

God knows how these Penglai people dug it up!

The torches gradually went out, and the stone staircase returned to a miserable whiteness again, and to everyone's doubts, the bloody footprints disappeared here!

"Da~Dada~"

Suddenly, the two of them heard a sound of footsteps at the same time, this footstep was light and heavy, and it was very real to hear in the empty stone staircase space, and gradually came from under the dark stone staircase, and faintly, there seemed to be a faint sound of conversation.

Not again!

"I want to see what the hell is going on!"

Wan Zhang was worried about Hua Xie Yu and the others, and there was a touch of fierceness in his eyes, so he simply stopped being cautious, directly operated his body, and rushed down quickly.

"Wait!"

Du Yunlou behind him was startled, looked at Wanzhang who had disappeared from view, and hurriedly followed.

The reason why he was so concerned about this matter was because that person had explained something to him before he came.

"Remember, protect one person here, and leave the rest alone. ”

"Protect whom?"

"Flower Explanation. ”

"Does she need my protection, isn't she our opponent?"

"It seems that it is better to turn enemies into friends than to die and break the net. ”

"You don't understand, our opponent has never been a certain person or a certain force, but ...... This world. ”

"As for her ......"

"Maybe it's our friends. ”

“......”

The man's words were still in his ears, and although Du Yunlou didn't understand, he didn't dare to slack off.

After walking for a short time, Du Yunlou saw Wanzhang who stopped again.

It's not that I'm not happy to go, but the stone stairs have come to an end.

The position where the two of them were now was a platform more than nine feet wide, and the stones under their feet were no longer steps, but jagged stones.

At the end of the stone wall, there is also a miserable white oil lamp embedded in it, illuminating the surrounding stone wall like dogs' teeth, and it is clear that the original craftsmen only chiseled here at random, and it was not too fine.

But the two who came to the end not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but gave birth to more questions.

The two of them came all the way, and they didn't find anything other than bloody footprints and footsteps, but how could this be possible! Not to mention whether the footprints were anyone, they both saw it with their own eyes when Hua Jieyu and his party came down.

The footsteps are gone! Who is its owner?

Where have all the dozens of people gone? Could it be that they have evaporated out of thin air?

Besides, there is a big passage, and I haven't met a single Penglai person! Where have the hundreds of first-class masters and transformation realm masters in Hua Jieyu's mouth gone?

The two of them glanced at each other, and both saw a look of solemnity and incomprehension in each other's eyes, and then they spun around the place, in a vain attempt to find out if there was a secret path or something.

The two of them looked left and right, hammered east and west, and worked hard for a long time, and after the investigation was fruitless, they were suddenly a little depressed, there was no mechanism here at all. The walls are solid, and the ground is solid, and there is not a single crack in it.

Du Yunlou pondered for a moment and said:

"Lao Wan, you said that since we can't see the dudes here, does it mean that they are the same as us, and they can't find a way out in the end?"

Wanzhang pondered for a long time and said:

"If that's the case, it's better. I'm afraid, I'm afraid, they are trapped or they are bad at Penglai people's plots. ”

"I think we should go back and have a look, even if we don't meet the playboy when we go out, we can find more people to investigate together, I don't believe that a bunch of big living people can disappear out of thin air!"

Du Yunlou's eyes flashed, and he proposed.

Wan Zhang nodded when he heard this, for the sake of today, there is no other way.

The two of them said that they would move, because they had gone through it all over again, and they were not as careful as they had at the beginning, and they directly ran their own high and high postures, and they walked more than 400 meters high stairs without a stick of incense.

It's just that at a certain moment, the two suddenly stopped in unison.

Looking at each other in pairs, there is an incredible time in their eyes.

And a touch of deep horror!

I don't know when the two of them were going down!

How can it be!

"Really... Really hit the devil?!"

The corners of Du Yunlou's mouth trembled, the fat on his fat face trembled, and suddenly a layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead and sideburns, when the two of them came down, there was obviously only one road, and they didn't see any forks in the road at all, how could they go down the ladder again!

Besides, as the two of them are the top masters, the insight of either one of them is far beyond ordinary people, how can they not be aware of it?

Can't figure it out!

"Ge Laozi! I really don't believe in this evil. ”

Wanzhang forcibly suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, burst into a foul mouth, turned around slowly, and walked towards the stone steps above step by step, every time he went up the stairs, he would count a word.

"One, two, three, four, no anomalies. ”

"Five steps, six steps...... Fifty steps, no ...... Huh?"

"Stop!"

didn't let Wanzhang continue to count, Du Yunlou's always hippie smiling expression disappeared, and his face was grim at the moment.

"Don't you notice that we don't know how many steps we have started to go down?!

Hearing this, Wan Zhang's heart chuckled, and his face turned slightly pale. Looking along the place where Du Yunlou signaled, he suddenly saw a small half of a faint bloody footprint.

This place, they noticed soon after they came down, and it was also the first mark that Du Yunlou discovered.

"This ......"

The two looked at each other again, and both fell silent.

Silence returned to the pale stone staircase.

"Alas, since the footprints have disappeared here, it means that this person must have gone up from here, and it is very likely that the owner of this footprint knows the real way out. ”

Du Yunlou sighed, his buttocks sank, and he sat directly on the stone stairs.

"There's a you're saying now, who can't see it, the key is how to solve the puzzle here, this must be the ghost of those Penglai grandsons. ”

Du Yunlou sighed again, and was just about to speak, as if he suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up, and he said slowly:

"How do I think that the breakthrough should be where the footprints first appeared below, since we can't go up, then we can only go down now, and where the footprints first appear, there is probably another passage. ”

Hearing this, Wanzhang immediately looked at him, groaned slightly, and then patted his thigh, and agreed:

"Yes, let's go down!"

The two of them returned, groping around all the way, and returned to the place where the first bloody footprint appeared below.

The two looked at the first bloody footprint, which was slightly more complete, and compared it to determine that it was left by a man. Reaching out and touching each other, a sticky feeling suddenly came.

The two of them walked back and forth in the narrow stone staircase around the first three footprints for a long time, but still found nothing.

"What the hell!"

Wan Zhang scolded and scolded, his brows furrowed high.

Just as the two of them were frowning, a sound of footsteps came again.

This time, it's on the right!

The two of them looked up to the right in unison, and then attached their ears to the stone wall, only to feel that the stone wall was cold and quite smooth, but when the two of them listened carefully, the strange thing was that the footsteps disappeared again.

"Hey~!"

Wanzhang suddenly let out a long shout, startling Du Yunlou, who was unprepared on the side.

"Hey.... Hey...... Hey, hey, hey......"

The echo resounded through the empty staircase, and faded after a while. Silence returned throughout the staircase.

"Look, there's a word here?"

Du Yunlou seemed to have made a discovery, and suddenly pointed to a stone wall on the right and said.

"Don't say it's true, this word ......"

Wan Zhang walked up and saw that this word was located next to an oil lamp, which happened to be in the shadows, and only a small part was exposed, which was not discovered by the carelessness of the two just now.

At this moment, affected by the strange footsteps, it happened to be seen by the sharp-eyed Du Yunlou.

"This should be a ......"

Halfway through his words, his expression sank suddenly, and he flew back a few steps, the dagger in his palm flashed coldly, pointing directly at Du Yunlou.

Du Yunlou was a little confused, so he hurriedly jumped back and shouted angrily:

"Old man Wan, what are you smoking!"

Wanzhang's expression was gloomy, and a sneer set off at the corner of his mouth, recalling that since the two of them just came in, this guy had behaved wrongly, he was wearing a black robe, he found footprints, and even the direction of every action was his opinion, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

This old boy always speaks with a strange air of yin and yang, and he doesn't look like a good person at first glance.

"You didn't do it, see for yourself what is written on it!"

"What can I do, I've been with you all the way, don't you know? ”

Du Yunlou's voice was full of bitterness and helplessness.

"You can't have an extra clone, but you said that there are other people in your pavilion who may also come here, and you want to use the hands of the Penglai people to wipe out our Yanyu Building. ”

Wan Zhang's eyes were gloomy, staring at Du Yunlou tightly, once he had any bad intentions, the dagger in his hand would instantly cut his throat.

"I said that you are really interesting, then you came to ask us to help, and when I came, now I doubt us, no matter what, we are now grasshoppers on the same line, and even if we are embarrassed, we will not reach the step of joining forces with Penglai dog!"

Du Yunlou spread his hands, rolled his eyes a little helplessly, but didn't care about Wanzhang's appearance as if he was facing a great enemy, he walked over, bypassed its dagger, turned his back directly to Wanzhang, and then calmly looked at the words on the wall.

Seeing that he didn't seem to be a fake, Wan Zhang relaxed his vigilance slightly, but the dagger in his hand still did not put down.

"Hiss~"

After seeing the handwriting on the wall, Du Yunlou suddenly gasped, no wonder Wan Zhang had such a reaction, just because the word on the wall was really too coincidental.

To be honest, since the two of them were trapped here together, but they have not been able to find the traces of Hua Jieyu and others for a long time, they are already a little impetuous, coupled with the eerie atmosphere here, as well as the strange footsteps from time to time and the influence of the bloody footprints on the ground, the string in the heads of the two people is tight, once they find anything wrong, it is enough to make them instantly become vigilant and abnormal.

It's not surprising that Wan Zhang had such a reaction.

The handwriting on the wall looks like it's been around for many years, and judging by its technique, it's a raised yang script.

It just so happens to be a "Du" word!

"Then you explain, how can there be your last name here?"

Wanzhang came back to his senses, put away the dagger, touched the big bald head and asked.

"You ask me, I ask who to go, and I also want to know who engraved Lao Tzu's surname. ”

Du Yunlou burst into a foul sentence and groped along the handwriting on the stone wall.

"Huh!"

"It's a trap!"

Du Yunlou pressed the handwriting with his palm and pressed it down hard, and suddenly the handwriting disappeared on the wall, completely embedded in it, and this dark corner was once again smooth.

"This ......"

"Boom!"

Before the two of them could show their surprise, their feet were empty, and then they fell down at the same time.

"Ahh

"Ahh

Two screams pierced through, echoing endlessly.

......

Halfway through the fourth watch, there was a fire in the east of the southern city.

The flames soared into the sky, illuminating the sky in the eastern section of the southern city, and the black smoke billowed up, startling a burst of chickens and dogs jumping, and then the noisy sound made a loud noise, and the quiet eastern part of the southern city instantly became lively.

During the process, the cries for help, the sound of panic and escape, the sound of splashing water, the crying of young children, and the sound of houses collapsing were endless. Some people ran out in a panic, some people were trapped in the fire and had no way to escape, some people hurriedly carried wooden basins and buckets to carry water to extinguish the fire, and some people stood in pairs from afar to watch the excitement.

Fortunately, there is a lake on the side, and it is convenient to take water, but the fire came suddenly, but it was extinguished quickly.

With the combined efforts of the people, the fire was quickly extinguished.

The fire was extinguished, but the original pavilions and buildings were reduced to ruins, and many of the collapsed pillars still emitted faint green smoke.

After some checking, everyone gasped in unison.

Everyone is fine, and it is said that they should be happy, but only a few knights who live in seclusion here have all been burned to charcoal!

Everyone took a closer look again, and found that the entire throat of these people had been cut from it, and it turned out that their throats had been cut in advance.

In other words, this fire was not an accident, but someone set it behind the scenes.

For the sake of destroying corpses and destroying traces.

It shouldn't be!

This smelling fragrant Yu Xie has two top masters in charge, and he can actually catch the way? Besides, Yu Xie's knights have always been chivalrous, how could anyone attack them?

There was a lot of discussion, but it was even more unclear. When the discussion was being discussed, I saw the two of them coming from afar, but they were the husbands here.

"The weather is dry, be careful of the candle~"

"Boom, boom!"

The two husbands, one tall and one short, walked through the area with a wooden bang in one hand and a gong in the other, and gradually moved away. The sound of gongs and shouts gradually faded away, and the whole world returned to calm.

The discussion was fruitless, and there were those who shook their heads and sighed, those who gloated, and those who left quietly. For a while, all living beings were exposed, looking at the fire extinguished in front of them, and the heat and coldness of the world were extremely cold.

After a while, everyone dispersed in twos and threes, leaving only a pile of broken bricks and black wood with green smoke slowly emitting by the water.

At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and there were gradually roosters crowing in all directions.

In front of Yuxie's broken door, there was only a rattle left.

and a rag doll.

The doll has an inexplicable smile on its face.