The second elder was furious at Jiang Yixue's ridicule. He winked at the third elder and threatened Jiang Yixue, "Lock this girl in the next room. If she dares to make a sound again, cut off her tongue."
The third elder took Jiang Yixue out of the room and locked her in an adjacent room.
"Don't touch me, I can walk on my own."
Jiang Yixue strode out of the room. She noticed that there was a long corridor outside the door with heavy iron doors on both sides. It was like a big prison.
There are some stone steps at the end of the passage, which should be the exit to the second floor.
An old-fashioned incandescent bulb was hung on the ceiling of the passage, providing dim light that barely provided illumination.
Seeing the electric light, Jiang Yixue felt more at ease. She should still be on earth. The hell and underworld were all just scare stories created by the Second Elder.
The third elder used a key to open an iron door next to him and said coldly, "Go in, little girl."
Jiang Yixue glared at the Third Elder provocatively and called him an old monster, which made the Third Elder so angry that he was helpless.
When closing the door, the third elder sneered: "Don't run, this is hell. If you run away, you will die. You can live a little longer if you stay in the room."
When the heavy iron doors were closed, the room became dark and the air was filled with dampness.
Jiang Yixue was wearing a jade pendant on her chest. It was a self-defense pendant given to her by Ye Feng. It emitted a faint fluorescence in the dark.
It was this self-defense jade pendant. The soft jade pendant exuded a faint warmth, which made her cold heart feel a trace of warmth and hope.
With the help of the fluorescence of the jade pendant, I saw that the room was empty. There were some scattered stones piled in the corner, like the incomplete limbs of a stone statue.
She sat on a cold stone and prayed silently: "Ye Feng, where are you? Can you hear my thoughts? Your telekinesis can enter other people's brains and read their thoughts. Can you read my thoughts now?"
Touching the warm protective pendant on her chest, Jiang Yixue was filled with melancholy. She was still a little scared, but the belief that Ye Feng taught her allowed her to temporarily forget the feeling of fear.
"Brother Ye, I don't even know where I am, and you probably don't know either. I don't know how long I will be locked up here, one day, two days, or forever?"
She heard the sound of incantations coming from next door. Four elders were chanting incantations at the top of their lungs. They sounded particularly hard-working, almost crazy. She wondered what horrible magic they were casting.
After a burst of shrill reading, everything became silent.
Suddenly, there was a deafening explosion and the whole room was shaking as if the earth was shaking.
Could it be that Brother Ye broke in? To her disappointment, the explosion came from next door, accompanied by the angry curses of the wizards.
Apparently, the spell they had just chanted with all their might not only had no effect, but it also caused an earthquake and destroyed something they valued.
The four wizards seemed to be discussing something, but through the two iron doors, it was impossible to hear what they were saying.
She put her ear against the cold iron door, listening to the noise outside, and everything returned to silence.
With the help of the light from the pendant, she noticed that the door lock was a relatively primitive mechanical door lock with a relatively simple lock core. She took a thin hairpin from her hair and fiddled with the lock core, hoping to pull it open.
Amidst disappointment, there is also hope.
Not long after, Jiang Yixiu felt her wrist tremble, and the door lock made a slight spring sound. The iron door opened gently, revealing a gap, and the light from the corridor shone in through the gap.
A desire to survive filled her chest, surprise, fear, and confusion. She quietly ran to the end of the passage, but found that the evening gown she had worn for the jewelry exhibition and her five-inch high heels hindered her escape.
The hem of her skirt was too narrow for her to take a step, so she simply tore the hem of her skirt to above her thighs and tied it around her waist into a knot.
She took off her high heels and held them in her hands. She walked barefoot, revealing her slender, snow-white thighs, quietly through the aisle and up the stairs.
After climbing the stairs, she was surprised to find that there were only a few steps leading upwards, but behind them was a very long downward passage, with stone steps that seemed to extend into a bottomless abyss.
Facing the dark cave, she was a little worried. The threats of the Third Elder kept echoing in her ears. She bit her red lips, ignored the threats, and stepped onto the stairs barefoot.
The stone staircase was very long, and she could only rely on the residual light from the pendant to illuminate the distance within one meter in front of her as she walked down the stone staircase one step at a time.
On one side of the stone steps was a cold stone wall, and on the other side she could not see anything. It felt like an endless abyss, with a faint mist floating in from time to time.
Some parts of the stone steps were covered with water. When she was walking down, she accidentally slipped and the high heels in her hand fell out of her hand and into the abyss on the other side. To her horror, she did not hear the sound of the high heels hitting the ground.
How long is this staircase? Does it really lead to hell
She felt her heart pounding, and she almost turned back the way she came. The fear of the unknown stabbed her heart like a knife.
She couldn't help but stick close to the wall, for she was really afraid that she would fall into the endless void on the other side.
She didn't know how long she had been walking before she looked up. The hole above her head was like a small, glowing skylight, and seemed particularly far away.
She was sure she had reached the bottom, and the ground beneath her feet was all sand, soft and wet.
After getting to the bottom of it, she became even more confused.
Just now, she used the jade pendant to illuminate the one-meter square under her feet and mechanically walked down the stone steps. There was only one way, and she gritted her teeth with great confidence and insisted on walking to the end of the stone steps.
But now, she felt like she was facing a vast plain, with no roads, no goals, leaving her without direction.
She could only walk forward aimlessly, and suddenly she stepped on something and fell. To her surprise, what she stepped on was the high-heeled shoe that had just fallen from mid-air.
These were the new women's shoes she bought from Daphne. She liked them very much. It would be a pity if she lost one and only kept the other. She happily hugged her shoes and kissed them.
After taking a few steps, she felt like she had bumped into a wall. She looked up and realized that it was not a wall, but a stone statue standing there. She had just bumped into the statue's body.
Looking up, the upper half of the statue was shrouded in darkness and I couldn't see clearly what it was.
To her surprise, she bumped into a wall after taking a few steps. She wondered in her heart where this place was and why there were so many stone statues here.
The strange thing was that she felt that what she hit this time was not a stone statue, but more like a stone wall.
When she saw what was in front of her clearly with the dim light of the jade pendant, she couldn't help but turn pale and gasp.
(End of this chapter)