While a series of questions were running through his mind, the fire outside had spread to the cave.
There is nothing that can burn except kerosene in the entire hall. If we hold on for a while longer, will the fire go out automatically? That way I don't have to risk opening the mechanism in the cracks of the stone.
As soon as this thought came to my mind, I rejected my idea.
Just looking at the raging fire outside, you can tell that not only will the fire not stop for a while, but it is also growing rapidly. The pipelines supplying oil to the sea of fire are by no means limited to the few in the secret room.
We were hiding in the crevices of the rocks, and if not burned to death, we would be roasted alive.
I didn't have time to think about anything, so I reached out and grabbed the iron ring on the ground and pulled it up suddenly. The sound of the machine's rotation immediately rolled away from my feet and behind me. After a blink of an eye, the cracks in the stone behind us expanded to both sides like double doors. Come and reveal a stone staircase leading underground.
"Let's go!" I led Xia Qingqing and the others back down the stone steps without any hesitation, and rushed into a secret room before stopping.
But before my feet could stand still, I felt a violent red light coming from behind us. I didn’t need to look back to know that the isolation strip I dug out did not block the flames at all. The fire had already followed the stairs. .
"Close the door!" Xia Qingqing and I closed the secret room door at the same time.
Originally, I was worried that the stone door, which was only a few inches thick, could not block the raging fire outside. However, I did not expect that after the stone door closed, there were six or seven loud sounds of the stone gate falling on the steps outside.
Judging from the sound, at least six dragon-breaking stones fell from the sky in an instant, cutting off the entire passage. Cold sweat dripped down my forehead. The fire can't get in, but how can we get out
Xia Qingqing and I looked at each other and saw panic in each other's eyes.
I gently patted Xia Qingqing's shoulder: "There will always be a way out, don't worry!"
When I turned around to look at the secret room, I discovered that there was only a circular pool and a dozen vents in the secret room.
Apparently, this secret room was specially designed for people to escape after a fire broke out in the underground palace. But why did the person who originally designed the secret room have to hide the secret room in a crack in the stone? Is it just to hide
I walked slowly to the edge of the pool and looked down at the pool.
The water in the pool is so clear that people are afraid of it. Even people who are used to seeing pure water will feel that it has a strange clarity when they see it.
"You two, step back!" I asked Xia Qingqing and Su Zimo to step back a few steps, then reached out and pulled her into the pool.
My original intention was to see what was special about the pool water, but I didn't expect that when my palm touched the water, I felt a sharp pain on my fingertips, as if my fingers had been cut with a knife.
When I instinctively raised my hand, round blood beads fell into the water in clusters. My fingers lost a layer of skin for some reason, and the blood on my hand couldn't stop falling into the water.
Before I had time to look at the injuries on my hands, I saw blood droplets falling into the water and spreading around. In an instant, the water in the pool was dyed a blood-red color, and the water that was originally as smooth as a mirror began to vibrate. Waves of blood surged and jumped in the water, and a series of bubbles were set off at the bottom of the pool.
"Back off!" I stepped back a few steps, drew my sword out of its sheath and pointed it at the blood pool.
We only stood there for a few seconds when we heard the sound of the machine turning on behind us.
"Get down!" As I turned over and fell down, countless arrows passed over our heads.
Just as I was about to stand up, my hands on the ground felt a tremor caused by rapid friction, ejecting from the ground toward me.
There is a hidden weapon underground!
I slapped a palm towards the ground, and with the force of my palm, I jumped up from the ground. Rows of steel knives also shot out of the ground in an instant, chasing after me. The sharp tips of the knives were almost touching. When it touched the tip of my nose, the ejection momentum was stopped, but the mechanism on the wall behind us was activated again.
I just glanced at the wall out of the corner of my eye and knew that I could no longer dodge the secondary launch of the concealed weapon.
The moment I glanced at the wall, countless fish-scale blades rose up from the wall, like a crazy blizzard, covering the sky from the moment it appeared, unless I was willing to lie on the ground covered with blades. , otherwise, it would be impossible to avoid the overwhelming fish scale knives.
"Hide behind me!" I roared and blocked Xia Qingyi behind me at the same time. As for who among them was in what position, I couldn't see and I didn't have time to see.
The fish-scale knives all over the sky came in an instant. I moved my hands in front of me at the same time, protecting my head and face, and let the sharp blades scrape across my body quickly.
According to common sense, such a dense concentration of hidden weapons would be enough to kill me with a thousand cuts in the blink of an eye.
However, I don't know whether it was because the mechanism was in disrepair and lost its original strength, or because of some other reason, the flying blades only cut open my skin and then bounced to the ground.
When the hidden weapon passed by like a storm, except for dozens of thin cuts on my body, no vital parts were hurt. The injuries of Xia Qingqing and the others were not even as serious as mine. They only had a few bloody wounds on both sides of their bodies.
Before I had time to talk to Xia Qingqing, a secret door opened automatically on the other side of the secret room.
We definitely can't get out of the front of the secret room. If we don't want to be trapped alive in the secret room, we have to go out through the new door.
I didn't have time to think about anything, so I pulled Xia Qingqing and ran into the secret door. Before I left the secret room, I took a special look into the pool. The water in the pool was already much clearer at that time, and the blood that had fallen into the water was of the same color. , seems to have begun to settle to the bottom of the pond.
At that glance, I didn't see anything wrong.
What I didn't know was that not long after I left the secret room, the pool became filled with blood and mist again.
Normally, I should have taken another look into the secret room, but before I had time to look back, the heavy dragon-breaking stone crashed down in front of the secret room door. The broken dragon-breaking stone sent rubble flying several meters away. Passed by my ear.
I didn't care to look at the scene in the secret room and ran all the way to the passage behind the only secret room.
The dragon-breaking stones that fell from the sky seemed to be deliberately forcing us to move forward. Every time we passed a certain distance, a huge stone would fall.
The loud sound of rocks falling to the ground followed us several hundred meters away before it gradually stopped.
When I held my hand against the wall and gasped for air, I heard voices coming from outside the wall.
I stood up and touched the wall several times before I found a hidden compartment from which I could see outside.
I don't know what is used to cover up the other end of the hidden compartment. However, I am sure that the original intention of building this passage was to monitor the underground palace outside.
If I guessed correctly, the entire Fox Palace underground palace was designed with an internal and external mezzanine. Most people can move freely in the underground palace, but a few people can stand on the mezzanine of the wall to observe everything outside.
I tilted my head and glanced outside, but I didn't expect that the mechanism hidden under the secret compartment could move back and forth like human eyes, clearly seeing everything in half of the hall outside.
As soon as I saw more than a dozen detectives gathering in the hall, Su Zixuan's voice came faintly: "Li Qi. Are there really ghosts in the world?"
Li Qi said impatiently: "Where in the world do ghosts come from? Why haven't I seen them before? There is no need to scare yourself."
Su Zixuan whispered: "But we have killed that man three times, and he still..."
"Shut your mouth!" Li Qi roared: "Then someone must be causing trouble..."
While Li Qi was speaking, another voice sounded in the hall: "I told you before, you can't kill me! The more you kill me in my previous life, the faster I will come back..."
"Get out!" Su Zixuan was the first to lose control and went crazy, raising her gun and shooting wildly at the wall.
The Detective Hands, who were still barely able to calm down, seemed to be infected by Su Zixuan's fear. In an instant, they all raised their guns and fired wildly at the wall. I saw someone turning the muzzle of the gun in my direction, and quickly turned around. Xia Qingqing and Su Zimo fell to the ground.
As soon as the three of us touched the ground, the bullets that penetrated the wall passed above our heads...
Li Qi outside roared angrily: "Stop, everyone, stop it. Do you hear..."
Although Li Qi's roar mixed with the gunfire was unclear, the gunfire outside stopped for an instant. When I looked outside, there were two more corpses on the ground. It seemed that Li Qi shot two of his men to death. , and then forcefully suppressed the scene.
Li Qi slapped Su Zixuan on the face: "If you dare to go crazy again, I will kill you first regardless of the elder's orders."
"But..." Su Zixuan just covered her face and said two words, then slapped Li Qi again: "From now on, when I don't let you speak, you'd better shut your mouth."
"Haha... Why bother?" The voice hidden in the dark sneered: "It's not shameful to be afraid at this time."
Iron love
Only then did I recognize the other person's voice, which was irony.
Li Qi said sternly: "Whoever is pretending to be a fool over there, get out of here."
Tie Qing said lightly: "I haven't reincarnated yet, so I can't come out. I will come out to see you after I am reincarnated, so don't worry."
Someone trembled: "Who are you and what is this place?"
I secretly breathed a sigh of relief: someone finally asked for an idea.
Tie Qing laughed and said: "This is the place of reincarnation. Anyone who walks in will continue to experience reincarnation of life and death, and be born in the underground palace one life after another."
"Let's put it this way!" Tie Qing's voice said after a pause: "Everyone's past life is different. Maybe in that life, he fell into the animal realm and turned into a fox."
"If you are lucky and become a fox in the land of reincarnation, then congratulations, you will become the royal family of the underground palace. If you have always been reincarnated in human form, haha... "
Tie Qing's voice deepened and she said: "I can only send you four words, 'Be a slave for the rest of my life.'"