I looked at Dong Tian and said, "Is there something you haven't told me yet?"
According to Dong Tian, there would be no one else in the secret realm except those who sneaked in.
She didn't move the fingers or activate the mechanism, so how did the cave door open? Dong Tian must be hiding something from me.
Dongtian gently placed his hand on Xiao Baitang's shoulder and smiled, "Even if I'm hiding something from you, can you still go back?"
Dongtian held down Xiao Baitang not to threaten me with her, but to tell me a fact—all my friends are in her hands. Even if the secret place in front of me is a den of dragons and tigers, I must step forward towards death because I have no choice.
I stared at him for a long time before I turned around and walked back into the cave. It was not until I stepped into the cave that I heard Dong Tian shout, "Go on!"
I turned around suddenly and saw Dongtian throwing the little white sugar towards me. I instinctively grabbed the little white sugar and moved my feet several times to dissipate Dongtian's force, but I also stepped into the depths of the cave.
I had just put down the frightened Xiao Baitang when the cave door slowly closed in front of us. Dong Tian's figure standing between the two doors began to become narrower and narrower, but her voice came through clearly: "Although the Miao people cannot enter the secret realm, they can open the mechanisms in the secret realm. I have opened all the mechanisms. The secret realm is a killing game for anyone. I let you enter the secret realm just to confirm whether there are still people alive. Except for you two, I don't want anyone else to come out alive."
When the last word Dongtian said faded away, only one eye remained of her figure left in the crack of the door. As Dongtian and I looked at each other from a distance, I saw a strange red light flash in her eyes.
After the bronze door closed, I could only follow the torches on both sides of the cave to the depths of the secret realm. Before I had walked for long, a three-way intersection appeared in front of me. I squatted down and looked for a long time with the help of the firelight on the wall, but I couldn't find any trace of anyone passing through. Could it be that those who entered the cave earlier flew over from the sky
Just as I was hesitating, I heard Xiao Baitang's trembling voice say, "Over there... that person over there seems to be alive."
"Where is anyone?" I didn't feel like there was anyone nearby since I came in.
"Under that lamp over there!"
When I looked in the direction of Xiao Baitang's finger, I indeed saw a figure kneeling on the ground. The other person raised his hands above his head, holding a lamp tray the size of a washbasin with his palms facing the sky. In the center of the lamp tray was a flaming wick.
Along the way, I saw at least four similar lamp holders, but only this "lamp holder" gave me the feeling of having a faint breath.
"Stand still!" I let go of Little Sugar and slowly walked towards the eternal lamp. Only then did I gradually see the other person's scattered hair. No matter how carefully the real lamp holder is made, it will not leave human hair. There must be a living person under the lamp holder.
I reached out and grabbed the man's hair, and when his face slowly revealed itself, I couldn't help but be slightly stunned: I have seen this man before, isn't he Sun Xiaomei's subordinate
Gu Piaoran brought Sun Xiaomei in
When the other person saw me, he made two strange "uh uh" noises from his mouth, as if he wanted to say something to me, but the half of his tongue left in his mouth could only make him whimper like a dying beast.
I hesitated for a moment before I grabbed the other person's body and pulled him forward. The man couldn't help but tremble and scream. He didn't slowly calm down until I let go.
The moment I pulled the man away from the wall, I saw four iron hooks piercing his flesh. He was forcibly hung on the wall, made to look like a lamp tray.
From the position of the iron hook, I can tell that the wound was definitely not caused by a mechanism. Although the ancient secret techniques of mechanisms were sophisticated, they could not accurately penetrate human bones without damaging the opponent's internal organs.
I let go and stepped back a few steps, then took three ghost eye coins from the Rakshasa, sat cross-legged at the fork in the road, and threw the ghost coins into the air. The three big coins flipped in the air for a moment, then floated in the sky at the same time, and passed by my eyes one by one.
After my eyes met the hole of the first coin, I soon saw that two warlocks of the Hanging Mirror Division ignored their companion's pleadings and used iron hooks to pierce each other's ribs from behind and hung him on the wall.
Just as I was about to take a closer look, a strong wind suddenly blew up behind me. Before I could react, the first ghost coin was out of my sight in an instant, and the strong wind that was originally about to hit me from behind also disappeared at the same time.
The second ghost coin turned in front of me, and this time I only saw two human legs walking past me, while I was clearly looking at the other person in a kneeling position. What's going on
The moment I stared at the hole for the coin, Xiao Baitang suddenly patted me from behind. I was startled and three coins fell to the ground at the same time. I couldn't help but turn around and said, "You want..."
"Shh!" Xiao Baitang made a gesture to keep quiet, "Someone is coming!"
I immediately lowered my body and put my ear to the ground, and indeed I could hear footsteps in the passage on the left.
I turned my sight several times but couldn't find a place to hide. I was in a straight corridor with torches on both sides. Even if I hid at the gate, I might not be able to avoid the other party's sight.
Ask me to hide in another passage? That would be like clearing the way for others, and I don't want that.
As I was anxious, I suddenly saw a coffin hanging above the cave. I reached out and grabbed Xiao Baitang: "Go up, quickly, lie on the coffin."
Before Xiao Baitang could object, I lifted her onto my shoulders. Without waiting for her to stand firmly, I held the soles of her feet with both hands and lifted her up with all my strength, pushing her into the air. When Xiao Baitang climbed onto the coffin lid with both hands grasping the edge of the coffin, the four ropes pulling the coffin suddenly made a soft sound.
Little Baitang, who stuck his head out from the edge of the coffin, was so scared that he quickly covered his mouth and pointed at the rope desperately, meaning that the rope was about to break.
I made two gestures to her in a row, meaning for her to quickly retreat and hide.
After Xiao Baitang retracted his head, I started to worry. The rope hanging the coffin obviously couldn't bear the weight of two people, so I couldn't hide on it anymore.
As I was anxious, a light bulb suddenly flashed before my eyes - didn't I feel like I was kneeling on the ground and saw someone passing by me? Then I should have hidden in the lamp holder!
I found an empty groove, knelt on the ground with my back to the wall, and pulled the lamp panel upwards with both hands, pretending it to be a lamp holder. Soon, someone came out from the corridor on the left.
I heard Sun Xiaomei's voice from afar: "Mr. Gu, you clearly said that the road on the left was a way out, but we lost six people in a row and still walked into a dead end. How are you going to explain it?"
"There is no need for me to explain anything." Gu Piaoran's voice really rang out, but his tone seemed unusually calm. "As a practitioner of the art of magic, you should know that a person's fate can change in an instant under certain circumstances, especially in a situation like this, when one is trapped in a dangerous place, it is even more unpredictable..."
Sun Xiaomei interrupted the other party before he finished speaking: "What you said is destiny. Can a passage be as unpredictable as destiny?"
"Nothing is impossible in this world..." Gu Piaoran said in a deep voice, "Don't you think that no one can enter the secret realm except us? Isn't there someone coming in now?"
I couldn't help but feel a "thump" in my heart. I dared to pretend to be a lamp holder and kneel not far from Sun Xiaomei and the others, just to take advantage of the fact that others turned a blind eye to this place - this place must have been searched many times by Sun Xiaomei and the others, and because they had seen it so many times, they would not carefully search the surrounding area, so I could naturally fish in troubled waters.
But Gu Piaoran is different, he is a real liar and is very good at grasping other people's psychology. I am afraid that my tricks cannot fool him.
Sun Xiaomei frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
"Look at your feet." When Gu Piaoran pointed to the ground, Xie Jingwen exclaimed, "Miao girl! A Miao girl has come in! Didn't they say that the Miao people are not allowed to enter the Shenzhai secret realm?"
Xie Jingwen mistook Xiao Baitang for a Miao girl. Xiao Baitang had been wearing Miao clothing since we first met, and even her shoes were authentic Miao style, so the footprints she left were naturally no different from those of a Miao girl.
Gu Piaoran sneered, "You can trick the Miao girls into going around in circles, and make them willing to die to follow you into the secret realm. Can't the Miao family's wizards make an exception and come in?"
In Miaojiang, there is an interesting thing, that is, whether it is a wizard or a Gu master, the most outstanding ones are women, and men rarely become great wizards. Therefore, what people in the art of magic really fear are Miao women.
However, Xie Jingwen, who came from the Nianhua Sect, was exactly the scourge of women, especially the simple-minded Miao girls who were willing to sacrifice their lives for love, and it was even more difficult for them to resist his methods.
Xuan Jingsi must have used Jie Jingwen to do something.
If I'm not mistaken, the masters of Xuan Jingsi deliberately deployed troops on the border of Miaojiang and lured away a large number of Miaojiang masters, but sent Xie Jingwen to confuse a wizard of high status and let her sneak into the depths of Miaojiang with a special force.
With a wizard leading the way, as long as they put on some makeup, it would not be difficult for them to pass through many checkpoints and lurk near the God Village. But, how could Sun Xiaomei and the others be with Gu Piaoranbiao
At that time, I had a feeling that Gu Piaoran seemed to be plotting against Sun Xiaomei. If my feeling was correct, maybe I could really escape the disaster.
I was paying attention to the other party's movements, and Xie Jingwen said in a calm voice: "Where is Dongbao? Let her come over!"
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