One day when I was seven years old, I was put in a cage containing animals. My memory of that day is a bit fuzzy. I don’t know where my parents were. Maybe they locked me in. Maybe it was done by some rich guy who likes to watch perverted performances. Maybe it was done by some kid who was older than me. mischief.
Tianyi once asked me if I wanted to know the truth, and I said I didn’t want to. I think there should always be some mysterious things in people's lives, or some secrets that can never be solved.
At the same time, I also feel that if the answer to something may be unacceptable to you, it’s best not to ask.
Tianyi and I have been friends for many years. When I met him, I was only a teenager, and he looked like he was in his twenties or thirties. After all these years, he still looks like this.
Maybe I just want to dig out the secrets of this mysterious person and gradually build a friendship with him. But I have to admit that he is an elusive person. I even suspected that he was the one who threw me into the cage, because what he did was completely unpredictable.
Let’s talk about the cage...
The lock is not complicated, it is the kind of lock that can be easily opened with human hands but can never be opened with the claws of animals. How could a seven-year-old boy be locked in such a cage? It's simple. The person who threw me into the cage tied a bunch of chains to the lock.
The cage quilt was still in a very desolate forest. I vaguely remember hearing some bad noises in the surrounding area. It was probably either a bear or a wolf.
I put my hand out of the cage and dragged the iron cage some distance with difficulty. I picked up a relatively hard stone and tried my best to smash the iron chain. I smashed it for a long time, but the seven-year-old child didn't have much strength. And I didn’t know that I was an esper at the time.
Anyway, I finally escaped and walked in the forest for a day or two without eating anything. Then I saw the road.
I ran until my legs were paralyzed until I was on the side of the road.
An old gentleman found me, I couldn't remember my parents, I couldn't remember my name. There was nothing to prove my identity, just ordinary dirty clothes, so the old man took me in.
The old man was a down-and-out magician who had enjoyed some success when he was young. But during a large-scale performance, an accident occurred, and most of his organs were damaged. The medical expenses cost almost all his savings. In the end, he only got the reputation of a bad magician and a lingering body.
Those dozens of hours in the cage may have left some strange shadow on my young mind. I can accept unsolvable mysteries, but I cannot tolerate unsolvable constraints.
So I asked the old man to teach me various escape techniques. This former "escape master" would be a very competent teacher, if he was not so obsessed with magic. He could have changed his career to become a locksmith, or simply become a security consultant or something. Instead of wandering around and performing in unfashionable venues. Barely enough to survive.
I was supposed to be a very talented kid for a year. I learned to pick every standard lock. Then I learned more things, and I mastered more than a dozen ways to easily escape from the straitjackets of various sizes. You could hang me upside down, put me in a straitjacket, put on chains, add seven or eight different locks, turn off the lights in the room, and close the door. Assuming that the air in this room is only enough for a person to survive for five minutes, then when you come back ten minutes later, you will never see an upside-down corpse, but an empty room with straitjackets, chains and other equipment scattered on the floor. Lock…
The old man died when I was thirteen, and before he died I had learned all his tricks. In fact, many well-known circuses had contacted me at that time, hoping that I would become the star of their tours, but I refused them all. You ask me why? Because I don’t want to be in a bigger cage for people to watch.
Performing with Master is to repay his kindness, but now that he is dead, I should live my own life and live a good life.
I am very confident. Before the age of eighteen, I was already one of the top thieves in the world. Except for some very difficult places, such as the Louvre and Tiandu, like ordinary museums or jewelry stores, I can come and go easily.
It was also during those days that I met Tianyi. He tried to make a deal with me, and his bargaining chip was my lost memory.
I didn't accept his proposal. Later I realized how wise my choice was. Entering into his game usually has no good results.
However, he seemed to think that a person who did not bother to get to the bottom of everything would be a good friend. Of course, it's also possible that he is just interested in my special abilities and wants to take advantage of me. Who knows, I didn’t ask anyway.
Tianyi became my second mentor, both a teacher and a friend. He taught me on-demand topics about people with abilities, and even gave me advice in my professional field. In terms of thief skills, I am a master of theft and escape. , but he is indeed far better than me in planning.
Then one day, our contact suddenly broke off, and ten years passed in a flash.
I have matured in the past ten years. I no longer steal for material enjoyment, false reputation or difficult challenges. I have become a righteous thief, like Robin Hood, who specializes in stealing from nobles and royal families who are unkind for their wealth. Do some business to rob the rich and give to the poor.
Ironically, the sins I accumulated over the years of stealing seemed less serious than those I had accumulated in the years leading up to my arrest. It seems that a few days ago I was still at large, no one cared about me, and I could openly go to the convenience store to buy things. But when a pair of nobles took action, I became a felon who had to be transported across the province overnight for walking down the street without makeup.
Later, I met His Highness the Seventh Prince. He was indeed a powerful figure. I had heard of the name Tea Fairy before, but I never thought that one day he would come to hunt me down. The results proved that I was inferior in terms of intelligence and strength.
After Tianyi rescued me from Hell Island, he told me that it was time for the world to change. So far, I have seen the changes in the world, but Tianyi's purpose is becoming more and more puzzling to me. Not to mention, his identity and the situation he has put me in at this moment.
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After the golden light in front of Shen Yao dissipated, a straight corridor appeared in front of him. A few seconds before the light source completely disappeared, he vaguely saw that the walls on both sides were blue, the ceiling above his head, and the floor under his feet. They are also made of the same blue material as the walls.
It was very dangerous to move forward in complete darkness, but Shen Yao had no choice at the moment. He couldn't see his fingers, and he didn't carry anything that could provide illumination, so he could only move forward blindly.
He touched the wall on one side and moved forward. The material felt neither like metal nor stone, and he couldn't tell what it was made of. While walking, Shen Yao sorted out the situation in front of him in his mind.
Breathing is relatively comfortable, the air here should be fine, and there is no obvious feeling of inhaling dust; the energy induction... cannot detect the presence of people; the sense of smell is normal, but there is no special smell; hearing...
Shen Yao stopped and listened carefully. His hearing was very good and he could open the safe without a hearing aid. But at this moment, except for his own weak breathing, he heard nothing in the darkness.
Being unaware of the surrounding situation made his actions seem futile, but he had no choice but to move on. Just now, I was fighting the three-eyed giant outside the ruins. Why did I end up in such a place a few seconds later
In such darkness, human instinct will undoubtedly cause some fear in the heart, but Shenkey has already overcome the psychological impact of darkness. Naturally, he will not be afraid of anything, let alone lose his ability to think calmly.
After walking forward like this for a long time, Shen Yao discovered that the wall was no longer straight, but had a certain arc. This is a very troublesome thing. If this corridor simply had right-angle turns, it would be easier to remember, but with this gradual change of direction, it is difficult for people to construct a map in their brains.
"Wait a minute..." Shen Yao remembered what he saw before the golden light dissipated. "Could this corridor be..." He took a few steps to the side and touched another wall, the wall on the other side of the corridor, and the one he just saw. The walls they are supporting are completely parallel and have the same arc.
Shen Yao was shocked, "Those three eyes locked me in a maze?"
But then he regained hope, because since it was a maze, there must be an exit. According to common sense, the simplest and most effective way to get out of a maze, which God Key has been doing since just now, is to move along the wall on one side, and you will find the exit sooner or later.
The question now is, how big is this maze
Divine Key has a slightly bad premonition at this point. From the structure of the walls, it is difficult to judge how big a maze with square corners is because you are constantly turning. But with a curved maze, you can tell one thing or two, that is, how close the curvature of one wall is to a straight line. .
Shen Yao feels that judging from the current state of barely feeling any deviation along the way, this maze is ridiculously big. How many roads are there, how many turns do you need to go around, and how long does it take to reach one of the roads? At the end of the world, everything is unknown.
So, God Key simply mobilized his energy, touched the wall on one side with his hand, and began to run forward wildly.
No matter how large the maze is or how astonishing the total length of the walls is, every step forward is one step closer to finding the exit, because in the end, all mazes are just a circle, and there will always be a gap in this circle.
The God Key is extremely fast, almost as fast as a sports car, and it consumes no fuel. Just after he sprinted like this for ten full minutes, he suddenly felt something. It was the breath of a creature, an overwhelming sense of presence... To be continued. .