Chapter Twenty-Three: The Lost Spiral Staircase

Then, there was a loud bang, like some incredible force, slammed the boulder into it, shaking the entire basement. The song went on and on, without stopping.

"It's coming from the entrance to the tunnel. Seser said.

"Where's Captain Baby?" asked Yin Xinmei.

"He should be guarding the entrance. ”

"Is there a switch or a key that opens from the inside?"

"Don't get your hopes up. ”

The two hurried to the entrance, Seser in front and behind him. When they got there, they borrowed the torches in their hands and found that the door had been shaken up with dust and a lot of broken stones. The huge square stone gate, which had been tightly fitted, was now completely misplaced, and it had moved a lot inward.

Sether tugged on the handle next to him, and sure enough, the door didn't open.

"Captain Baby, Captain Baby," Hidden Eyebrows tried to speak to the other side of the door, "Are you outside?"

Only echoes answered her.

Seser was still scrutinizing the misplaced stone door, "unimaginable······

"There must be another exit, isn't it?" Hidden eyebrows interrupted his self-talk.

"Scared?" Sether turned to look at her playfully, the firelight flickering in his pupils, "Do you believe in ghosts?"

"I don't believe it," said Hidden Eyebrows, as the two of them prepared to return the way they came, "but if you want to hear me, I have a lot of ghost stories to tell." ”

The sound of footsteps, echoes, and the strange singing echoed throughout the basement, and the two men walked back and forth for a long time, and the torches were almost burned out.

"Stop!" Cried Sether, "don't you think we're going round and round in circles?"

He was right. At this moment, the torch in Yin Xinmei's hand has been completely extinguished, and the one in Sether's hand can't last long. The two sat down on the stairs against the stone wall, thinking about what to do.

"Your Majesty, you should have a lot of enemies, right?"

"Those two words are superfluous," said Sether, "do you think it's an Assassin?"

This is a reasonable explanation at the moment. ”

"It's not very conventional," Sether said, looking around, "Do you know what language it is?" he said, referring to the song.

"I've never heard this language, is it some ancient language that is no longer in use?"

"At least not any of the old sayings I know. ”

"This strange tone is like some kind of witchcraft," Hidden Eyebrows seemed to suddenly remember something, "where the hell is this?"

Sether looked at her, and after a moment said, "This was once an altar for the Semians, and my father turned it into a torture room. ”

Hidden eyebrows held back the words that came to his lips.

"If you want to ask me what I'm doing here," Seser guessed the question she held back, "I'd normally have meetings here that are unpleasant or might cause trouble and have to do it." ”

So, the tone may have something to do with some kind of witchcraft sacrifice. Hidden eyebrows repeated dryly.

"Is that what the Hidden Lotus says?"

"The Hidden Lotus do not worship any alien gods, which our ancestors believed would bring evil. ”

"Interesting idea. Do you think the temple of Austa in Sethor City might be brewing evil?

"It's hard to say, after all, I haven't been to this temple or done any research on it. ”

"Our ancestors of the Viaphants believed that most temples or sacrifices were for money, and in the negative, your ancestors and our ancestors had some thoughts together. ”

"Your Majesty, isn't it too much to compare the Hidden Lotus and the Weisheng Kai Imperial Family together?"

"You're starting to think about me. ”

"I mean······"

Sether gestured to silence her, and she listened closely, the sound of hurried footsteps in her unchanging singing voice. At that moment, a dark shadow flashed through the aisle where they were.

The two men immediately got up and chased wildly.