Volume 1 A Troubled Boy Chapter 1 The Beginning of the Story Section 14 Caught in a Dilemma

Under the dazzling light of the jade bracelet, the python disappeared, leaving not even a corpse or any fragments.

Before she had time to check how the python had disappeared, at this time, the woman's body was weak and she could no longer stand still.

At the moment when the woman lost consciousness and fell, Luo Bei hurriedly caught her with her own arm, and at this time, her whole body was like a ball of completely soft cotton, and she fell unconscious into Luo Bei's arms.

Luo Bei tried the woman's snort, and although it was faint, the breath was still even.

It should have been that the "spell" she had just used made her too weak, which is why this temporary fainting phenomenon occurred.

At this time, she needed to find a stable place to rest, but her feet were wet everywhere, and there was no place to rest.

Luo Bei looked back at the long and deep cave behind him, the two of them had been walking in for a long time, and they couldn't get out at all in a short time.

Therefore, there was no way, it was too far to get out of the cave now, so he could only hold the woman and continue to walk forward.

He could only hope for a safe and clean place ahead.

Maybe there will be the possibility of unknown danger if you go further, but there is a woman in her arms, Luo Bei carefully calculated, the echo can return quickly from the front, then it proves that there should be no way out not far ahead, maybe this is the cave where the python is entrenched, or it is unknown if there can be an exit ahead.

If it is really a place where giant pythons are haunted, then there is a high probability that there will be strange flowers and plants, and maybe it can also make the woman recover faster.

Therefore, Luo Bei decided to hold the woman and continue to walk forward.

In the depths of his heart, there was even a feeling that there was an indescribable sense of familiarity in it.

He looked into the bottomless cave, as if something was calling to him, telling him that he could go forward.

Walking on the wet and sticky liquid on the ground, Luo Bei walked carefully and slowly.

He even had some doubts about whether the liquid on the ground would be the fishy mucus flowing from the mouth of the giant python, and when he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel sick again.

But the python disappeared without a trace, and even if it was killed, it should have left a corpse.

The woman in his arms was motionless, her body was soft, her breathing softly, as evenly as a baby in her mother's arms.

Luo Bei hugged her soft body, and through the once thin white clothes, he could feel that the delicate and silky skin on her body was a little cold like her hands.

The woman's body was so light that it didn't take much effort for Luo Bei to hold her.

Under the guidance of the dim light of the glowing beads, it didn't take long to finally get out of the slippery area.

As expected, the road came to an end not far away.

At the end of the road was a slightly open cave, perhaps because the space had become much wider, the light on the beads in Luo Bei's hand had become extremely dim, and there was even a feeling that it would be extinguished at any time.

It was pitch black in the cave, and although he couldn't see clearly, he could feel the dryness under his feet.

So, he bent down and carefully laid the woman flat on the ground.

The woman's breathing and heart pulse are normal, and it should only be a matter of time before she wakes up.

After Luo Bei put down the woman, he wanted to see the place in front of him more clearly with the last bit of light from the beads.

So, he leaned against the wall and walked forward cautiously, step by step.

The walls were also dry, without any slippery feeling, and the rocks on the walls should be very hard, because Luo Bei could feel that the rocks were as cold as cold iron.

His hand groped its way along the wall, reaching for uneven rocks that didn't seem to be anything special other than that.

But just as he was about to give up groping and stop, suddenly a stone touched by his fingers turned out to be soft, and under the action of his little effort, he actually fell into it.

Luo Bei's heart trembled suddenly, I don't know if I have touched something that shouldn't be touched?

At this moment, there was a sound of "Teng", as if an invisible wave of qi rippled from Luo Bei's side.

Then, a flash of light flashed in the darkness in front of him.

And then...... The world in front of me suddenly lit up.

Luo Bei slowly opened his eyes, and he was surprised to find that the space in front of him was not very large, not even like a cave inhabited by some kind of animal, but more like a house that had been inhabited.

The things in the room are very simple, a stone bed, in front of the stone bed is a wooden piano stand, and there is also a guqin on the piano stand, which is already covered with dust.

In the middle of the room, there is a square stone platform with a height of one zhang, and the stone platform seems to be a square stone table, and there are two large stone chairs sitting opposite each other next to the stone table, but the top is already very high, and the situation on the stone chair cannot be seen clearly from the angle of Luobei.

He looked up and saw that above the stone table was a very high dome, and from the stone wall of the dome hung a tray, from which all the light in the room emanated, and there must have been a light source that could shine.

At this time, the woman lying on the ground suddenly let out two very light coughs, Luo Bei did not look any further, but hurried back to the woman's side.

He squatted down, the woman had slowly opened her eyes, and before Luo Bei could ask her how she felt, she unexpectedly stretched out a hand and held Luo Bei's face, the slightly cool hand trembled slightly and gently stroked Luo Bei's face, as if she was caressing a face that she hadn't seen for many years but was still extremely familiar.

Luo Bei was in a trance, thinking that the woman was probably so weak that she was a little confused, otherwise she would not have made such an amazing move, he wanted to retreat, but when he saw the crystal tears in the woman's eyes, those beautiful eyes were full of expectation, and his body seemed to be frozen.

But the gaze in his eyes was still caught by the woman, and then her hand seemed to be electrified, and her slender fingers stopped in the air.

Then, she turned her head slightly, and tears slid down her eyes and down her cheeks.

A teardrop fell, and the woman's beautiful eyes returned to the state of emotion and emotion when they first met.

She put her hands on the ground, trying to support herself and sit up, but her body had not fully recovered, Luo Bei reached out to hold her arm, but he coldly pushed away.

So, Luo Bei could only watch her stand up with difficulty.

Luo Bei really didn't understand why the woman's mood changed so quickly, she was still very affectionate touching her face just now, and after a while, she was as indifferent as an iceberg.

Could it be that she thinks of herself as who she is?

Luo Bei didn't think much about it, because he knew that he couldn't get an answer from the woman.

He didn't have time to think about a woman's mind, for he soon discovered that something was wrong with the stone house.

That is, there is not even an exit to this room, and even the cave from which it came is gone.

This is really strange, they have walked a long way, and they have encountered the attack of the python, but why can't they find the exit after entering the cave?

Luo Bei's hands snapped fiercely along the walls around the cave, but the stone wall was extremely hard, and there was not even a trace of looseness, where was there any trace of a way out?

Everything is changing too fast and completely beyond imagination.

Luo Bei smashed his hands with resentment, but in the end, there was still no way, so he could only sit on the ground with his legs weak.

He began to be a little irritable and annoyed, and inexplicably went into this deep cave, and was in danger again and again, but in the end, not only did he not find Dabai, but he was even trapped in it.

As he sat on the floor and was agitated, the woman's vitality seemed to have recovered considerably, and she kept wandering around the room with very light steps, observing every corner very carefully.

She crouched beside the bed, gently stroked the stone bed, and then wiped the dust off the strings and stand, caressing the ancient guqin that had been stored in this cave for I don't know how many years.

The slender fingers beat gently between the strings, and they had no intention of stroking the qin, but the moment the strings and fingers touched, there were still bursts of clear sound.

As soon as the piano sounded, Luo Bei calmed down a little, reminding him of his master Qin Muchuan, whenever he saw his master playing the strings, he felt that he was the real him at that moment.

The woman's hand suddenly stopped on the strings, and instead of playing or continuing to touch the strings, she stood up and walked to the stone wall behind Luobei, as if she didn't care about him at all as she walked past Luobei.

The woman looked at the empty stone wall and was in a daze for a long time.

Then, I saw her frown between her eyebrows, as if it had taken a lot of effort to slowly raise a hand, and the index finger of that hand was gently poking out, and the finger was shining with a very white and dazzling light.

The finger that shimmered with white light reached out to the stone wall, but before she could touch the stone wall, as if she had encountered some obstacle in the void, the finger that poked out was bounced back, and where it touched the finger, there seemed to be an invisible air flow fluctuating.

The woman didn't continue to test any further, but slowly turned around, faced Luo Bei and said, "There is a formation in this room......"

Luo Bei listened to her words, and couldn't care about the irritability in his heart just now, so he quickly got up and asked the woman, "Then you...... Can you crack it?"

The woman didn't speak, but shook her head gently.

The hope that had just risen was shattered in an instant, and Luo Bei couldn't help but start in a daze when he looked at the stone platform in the middle of the room.

In the following time, the woman checked almost every part of the stone house, and found that there was nothing here except for the simplest furnishings, no food, no water source, and not even a hole that could connect to the outside.

Every time she activated the shining white light of her fingertips, her body would weaken a little, until finally she could only sit on the stone bed and look at the guqin in a daze.

Time passes by minute by minute, and in such a closed and desperate environment, every minute of stay will give people more despair.

At the beginning, Luobei was still imagining the scene outside, even the most common Moon Stone, and the forest had become the most beautiful scenery at this time, and it had also become the greatest luxury.

I think of Master, Sister Xiaochan, and even the old man, my parents who I haven't seen in the family for a long time......

Everything seemed to be echoing before my eyes......

And all of this, perhaps, will never be seen again......

Only the woman was still calm, she had been sitting there quietly, not lost, not irritable, sometimes she would look at Luobei quietly, and then quickly lowered her head.

I don't know how much time has passed, but in the uneasy mood, everything that can be recalled in my mind has become nothing.

Luo Bei began to feel that this closed world was becoming smaller and smaller, and even the air began to become thinner, and sweat seeped from his forehead, gradually pooling into beads of sweat......

He sat on the steps of the stone platform, looked at the woman, and suddenly asked, "Are we going to die here?"

Hearing his words, the woman's swaying legs on the edge of the stone bed stopped, and she raised her head and looked at Luo Bei seriously.

"You're going to regret dying like this, right?"

Luo Bei was stunned, and without waiting for him to answer, the woman got up from the stone bed, and then walked straight to Luo Bei's side, and did not look at him more, but walked towards the high place of the stone platform step by step.

The stone platform is very high, there are nine steps, each step is carved with a lifelike picture, there are not many people on the picture, the most time is only a few dozen, the least is only a dozen people, there is a group of people around a place that looks like an altar is performing the sacrifice picture, and there are also people sitting around an old man, as if listening carefully to what he is teaching.

All the pictures show a peaceful scene.

Until the eighth step, a figure suddenly appeared on a tall horse, and his head turned into darkness.

He stretched out his hand to the heavens as if to curse with hatred, and the world beneath his feet began to fall, clouds obscured the sky, and mountains fell into the great river, and the river rushed to the village......

It was a terrible sight to behold, a complete catastrophe......

On the top nine steps, however, there is a blank space, and I don't know if it was omitted by the person who carved it at the time.

The woman looked very carefully at each step, and Luo Bei saw her sometimes frowning and shaking her head, and sometimes her eyes showed a sense of relief, but she didn't know what those wonderful pictures were telling or portending.

Seeing that the woman was looking at the picture on the steps very seriously, Luo Bei couldn't help but get up and follow her, and the two of them walked from the steps to the top of the platform step by step.

After carefully looking at the pictures carved on each step, Luo Bei wanted to know if the woman had seen any clues, and if it had anything to do with cracking the formation in the house?

But the woman told him that these were just related to an ancient sect, and there was no mention of anything related to the formation at all.

Luo Bei was a little disappointed in his heart, but he didn't care so much about one more disappointment in despair.

The two of them finally came to the high platform.

Between the two large stone chairs placed opposite each other on the high platform is a stone square table, which is also very large.

On the square table, there is a chessboard, which has been covered with a layer of dust, but the dust does not completely cover the black and white pieces scattered on the board.

I think someone has played here a long time ago, and even after many years, Luo Bei and the woman, who don't know how to play, can still see a sense of fighting through the chess pieces on the chessboard.

Because they didn't understand the chess game, Luo Bei and the woman didn't pay too much attention to the chessboard.

Because, what they saw next almost made them fly out of the sky in an instant.

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