The moment Wen Yantong heard the voice, his whole body relaxed, and he no longer struggled.
It's Chi Jingxi.
In this dark tunnel where you can't see your fingers, the danger and fear are self-evident, and there is a risk of being stabbed if you are not careful.
But after hearing Chi Jingxi's voice, Wen Yantong's originally panicked mood suddenly softened.
She herself knew very clearly that if it was Mu Yang, Fu Zixian, or anyone else standing behind her covering her mouth, she would not let go of her fear in such a short time.
Unless it's Chi Jingxi. She had a wonderful feeling, as if if she was with him, there would be no danger. I don't know if it was because she knew that Chi Jingxi was an important supporting role in the original book.
After realizing that Wen Yantong was not struggling, Chi Jingxi slowly released some strength in his hands, and pulled her to move back gently.
Wen Yantong's mouth and nose were liberated, and he took a deep breath hastily, panting too loudly, and was covered by Chi Jingxi again. Just as she was about to free her nose, she suddenly heard footsteps coming from the tunnel again.
The shoulders around her waist increased their strength again, and Chi Jingxi almost covered her whole body in her arms, breathing so lightly that she couldn't hear it just above her head, and the scorching breath brushed past her ears. Wen Yantong raised his heart again, turned his head to the side, subconsciously burrowed deeper into his arms, and buried his face in his lapel to soften the sound of his breathing.
Chi Jingxi seemed to feel that she was too close again, pinching her face and pulling her away. Wen Yantong heard the footsteps getting closer, and rushed towards this side in a panic. She was too scared, and secretly competed with Chi Jingxi.
The more he pushed out, the more she drilled in.
When the sound of footsteps came to him, Chi Jingxi was afraid of making a noise, so he stopped moving. Wen Yantong also stopped, and just heard the voice passing by the back of her head, bringing a slight cool breeze, and ran over at once.
The two of them were not found standing next to each other.
Hearing the sound getting farther and farther away, Wen Yantong let out a long sigh of relief, and when he was about to speak, Chi Jingxi pushed his shoulder and took two steps back.
Wen Yantong immediately stuck to it again, humming in a low voice, "It's so dark here, young master can't push me, what if I fall down?"
There was darkness in front of Chi Jingxi's eyes, but one could also imagine Wen Yantong's expression when he said this, with his mouth curled up, and his delicate eyebrows and eyes were filled with displeasure and complaints.
His throat rolled, and he said two words in a deep voice, "Stand still."
Wen Yantong stood up according to his words, but his hands were unobtrusively grabbing Chi Jingxi's sleeves, and his hands were full of fox fur. As soon as Chi Jingxi moved, he could feel the tug of his sleeves.
Chi Jingxi's brows twitched uncontrollably at the thought that she had picked a large circle of mud from the ground just now, and now she was grabbing the hem of his clothes.
Wen Yantong obediently followed behind him, and asked in a low voice, "Young Master, how do you know I'm here?"
Chi Jingxi didn't explain, just said, "Shut up."
Wen Yantong didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, fearing that someone would come around again, so he even breathed lightly, and followed Chi Jingxi in the cave. Because it was too dark, neither of them was fast.
But obviously Chi Jingxi was somewhat familiar with this underground labyrinth. He methodically led Wen Yantong around a few turns, gradually slowed down, and finally stopped and said, "It's safe here."
Wen Yantong breathed a sigh of relief, looked left and right, and found that there was still no light, and couldn't help being suspicious, "How do you know it's safe here?"
Chi Jingxi ignored her doubts, but said, "Why are you here?"
Wen Yantong muttered, "Young master hasn't answered my question yet."
Chi Jingxi fell silent again. In such a dark place, as soon as he kept silent, Wen Yantong felt as if he was standing here alone, so he asked, "Can I light a fire here?"
"You have a fire?"
"There are two fire pockets on his body." Wen Yantong said. This was something she kept in her pocket when she had nothing to do before she left, and she always thought it would come in handy.
Chi Jingxi said, "Take it out."
Wen Yantong hurriedly took out two fire folders, groped for Chi Jingxi's hand, and handed him one. After pulling off the cover, she blew lightly, and a small flame appeared, adding a touch of light to the endless darkness.
The outline of Chi Jingxi was drawn in an instant. Although the visibility was not high, he could still see his beautiful and deep eyes. Wen Yantong was a little happy, and said, "Young Master, why don't you explain it to me? At least say a few words to solve my doubts!"
Chi Jingxi didn't blow the torch in his hand, but took the one from Wen Yantong's hand, stretched it to the wall, and walked a few steps along the wall.
Wen Yantong followed closely behind him. When he stopped, he pointed his fingers at the wall. Only then did Wen Yantong realize that there was a palm-sized tiger engraved on the wall, which looked very inconspicuous.
Chi Jingxi said, "This is Yinhu Road, a place where those people don't come often, so it should be considered safe."
"How do you know?" Wen Yantong was puzzled.
Chi Jingxi doesn't look like he's been here before, why is he so familiar with the tunnel
He took out a folded piece of paper and handed it to Wen Yantong, "This is a map."
Wen Yantong was startled, quickly took it over and unfolded it, and looked under the light of the fire - he couldn't understand anything.
She blinked in confusion, only feeling that the lines on it were dazzling. She glanced at Chi Jingxi, folded the paper in half without any trace, and asked, "How did the young master get into this tunnel?"
Chi Jingxi seems to have expected that she would not understand, "Yinhu Road is close to the self-destruct device in the underground chamber, so few people come here on weekdays, unless there is something serious and those people need to self-destruct and escape, they will come here .”
"How do you know this?"
"Forcing questions." Chi Jingxi said.
Wen Yantong asked again and again, Chi Jingxi was overwhelmed by the disturbance, and explained the situation in a few simple words.
In fact, it was similar to Wen Yantong's, someone suddenly got out from under the bed while sleeping.
Hearing this, Wen Yantong couldn't help but want to complain. Are these people in the secret room all cockroach spirits? I like to get out from under other people's beds.
But after waking up Chi Jingxi, the man had no good end, and was beaten up by Chi Jingxi.
Chi Jingxi didn't go into details about the beating, but just said, "I subdued him so that he couldn't move."
Wen Yantong originally thought that Chi Jingxi had found something to tie up the man, but later he found out that he directly screwed the man's hands and feet out of place, making him unable to move at all.
He asked the man about the main structure of the tunnel, and only then did he learn that there was a self-destruct device inside. He realized that he could not send guards in hastily. What is the purpose of the underground organization of Nian'an Temple
So Chi Jingxi thought for a while, and came down with a map.
Wen Yantong had the same situation as him, and had different coping methods, but the result was the same.
Wen Yantong was a little angry after hearing this, "How can you take such a risk? Don't you care about your own safety at all! It's so dangerous down here, no matter what, let the guards come down to explore the way!"
Chi Jingxi raised his eyes, "Are you teaching me a lesson?"
Hearing his bad tone, Wen Yantong hesitated for a while, but it was a rare moment of hardening, "Shouldn't you be taught a lesson? How could you act so recklessly?"
Chi Jingxi looked down at her, remained motionless, and soon stared at her until he felt guilty.
Then he suddenly moved his footsteps and walked forward, Wen Yantong hurriedly backed away, shrunk his neck and thought in secret, Chi Jingxi was said to be angry and wanted to beat her up, right
Chi Jingxi walked forward step by step, Wen Yantong could only move his hind legs back with his heels, until his back hit the wall, and there was no way to retreat.
Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Chi Jingxi raising her hand, and panicked.
Wan Duzi, I don't know if she knelt down and hugged Chi Jingxi's leg to apologize now, can she be forgiven? If it doesn't work, it's not that she doesn't want to call him daddy.
The moment Chi Jingxi's hand fell, Wen Yantong's knees softened, and she was about to kneel, but found that his hand passed her head directly and pressed somewhere on the wall.
Wen Yantong's knees straightened immediately.
She breathed a sigh of relief, leaning against the wall and moved aside, making a false alarm.
Seeing that she was so frightened, Chi Jingxi squeezed out a low hum from his low voice, mixed with a little ridicule.
Wen Yantong was so angry that his teeth itched, only then did he realize that Chi Jingxi was trying to scare her on purpose!
Chi Jingxi touched a mechanism on the wall, and the fire folder took a closer look, and found that the mechanism was the square printing described by the person earlier, so he tentatively pressed it in.
Then there was the sound of gears and chains turning on the wall, and there was a slight vibration, and then a gap opened in the wall in front of it, and it was slowly pulled aside.
Wen Yantong originally thought that the Shimen organs were like those shown in TV dramas. After they were activated, they were very fast and then made a lot of noise, but when they saw it with their own eyes, they realized that the speed was not only slow but also very low.
After the door opened, Chi Jingxi walked in, and under the faint light reflected by the fire fold, he saw a wall a few steps away in front of him.
The door on this wall is very obvious, there are some gaps that can be seen at a glance, and there are glaring traces of vermilion on the door, which seems to mark that this wall cannot be touched.
Chi Jingxi said lightly, "I found it."
Wen Yantong stood beside him and said softly, "Is this the self-destruct device?"
"The door is what they hid in the underground secret room." Chi Jingxi handed her the fire pocket, took out a key, and walked towards the door.
Wen Yantong hurriedly followed to illuminate. At the same time, he also understood that the self-destruct device he was talking about was actually not a device that destroyed the entire underground secret room, but a device that destroyed the things in this door.
After walking to the wall, Wen Yantong obviously smelled a strange smell, like the smell of a mixture of wax, oil, fire and medicine. Although she didn't know what it was, as soon as she smelled it, she knew that it would be easy to burn with a little fire. with.
Chi Jingxi looked down, and then squatted down in the lower left corner by the door. Wen Yantong also squatted down quickly, and saw a very inconspicuous keyhole mark in the lower left corner.
He explained unprecedentedly, "This keyhole is connected to the mechanism on the top of the wall. If the mechanism is opened, the inside of the wall will be covered with fire wax flowing from it, and everything behind the door will be completely burned by the fire."
Wen Yantong nodded suddenly, and asked casually, "But how did you destroy this device?"
Chi Jingxi glanced at her with the eyes of a fool, then inserted the key, only halfway in, and then pushed it aside forcefully, the key was abruptly broken by Chi Jingxi and stuck inside.
Really simple.
Wen Yantong scratched his head in embarrassment, "Actually, I just thought of it just now, but I just asked along the way."
Chi Jingxi didn't talk nonsense with her, got up and said, "Let's go."
Wen Yantong hurriedly responded, and followed Chi Jingxi's footsteps, who knew that when he was about to step out the door, a sharp knife stabbed from the side, pointing directly at Chi Jingxi's neck!
Chi Jingxi reacted very quickly. He tilted his head back, dodged the sharp blade in an instant, flipped his wrist and struck the man's hand, and heard a crisp sound, and the blade fell out of his hand in an instant.
He picked it up with his toes, and the knife was kicked to Wen Yantong's feet, "Pick it up!"
Wen Yantong was terrified, and hurriedly went to pick up the knife, when he was about to touch it, suddenly a foot stepped on the handle of the knife.
She raised her head subconsciously, and saw a man holding a knife high up, as if he wanted to chop off her head! She was frightened out of her wits, and blurted out a cry!
Chi Jingxi spun her toes, turned around and kicked the man in the side. With a scream, the man was kicked straight away and fell to the side.
He grabbed Wen Yantong's shoulder, lifted him up all at once, and at the same time picked up the knife, stuffed it into Wen Yantong's hand, and snatched the fire pocket from his hand.
Wen Yantong had never seen such a scene before, she was panicked long ago, the sharp blade refracted the shimmer, in her view it was a deadly threat, and her mind was frozen.
Just in the middle of this moment, another person with a knife hacked at him from behind. Chi Jingxi turned his face, and after seeing it from the corner of his eyes, he held Wen Yantong's neck and pressed her body down. One blow, right in the man's face.
There was another scream, and the man covered his face and took several steps back.
Wen Yantong once heard from a biology teacher that the nose, neck, and stomach are the most vulnerable places in a fight. If you have enough strength, you can make people immobile with just one punch.
At that time, the naive Wen Yantong also sincerely expressed doubts, "Can't the little brother down there be considered fragile?"
Then he was punished by the biology teacher for copying the textbook.
I don't want to mention the past, but Wen Yantong saw Chi Jingxi's elbow go down, as if smashing someone's nose, covering his face and screaming so miserable, he really lost the ability to backhand.
Taking advantage of this time, Chi Jingxi lit the tiger head lamp hanging on the wall by the door, and the surrounding area finally became brighter. Wen Yantong looked around, only to find that a dozen or so people had come here in a short time, all of them were holding knives.
Just now, in the blink of an eye, there were already three lying beside him. Chi Jingxi is great, but what are the chances of winning a fight with a dozen people
What's more, he was carrying an oil bottle with him.
Wen Yantong gritted his teeth in annoyance. It would be great if she was not a dragging oil bottle but a boring oil bottle, and these dozen people should not be taken seriously at all.
Seeing that her hand holding the knife was shaking violently, Chi Jingxi knocked her on the head angrily. Wen Yantong groaned in pain, and heard him say, "Idiot, hold the knife carefully, if anyone comes close to you, you will cut him."
"But I... I've never cut anyone down!" Wen Yantong said tremblingly.
Chi Jingxi pondered for a moment, "Chop it like you would chop a lazy chicken."
Wen Yantong stared, how could this person be like a chicken
Chickens are killed to eat, but what about killing people? Murder is illegal! Wen Yantong, who had been educated in the laws and regulations of the 21st century, would not be able to pass this hurdle for a while anyway, and his legs trembled in fright when facing these thugs.
This is probably the most real reaction of an ordinary woman facing danger in this era. Like the kind of time-traveling heroine described in the novel, when encountering a dangerous situation, she is wise and calm, with a knife in her hand, killing people is like chopping bones, Wen Yantong has nothing to do with it.
She was able to stand still steadily, as if she had reached the sky.
In just a short while, the surrounding people came up again, with hideous and terrifying faces, and the knife in their hands was merciless, slashing at the stomach, neck, and head. cranium.
How could Wen Yantong handle it
Chi Jingxi turned around, made a soft arc to avoid the blade, and pulled out a short palm-length knife from his sleeve. When the blade turned, he cut the person's throat before he saw how it was done. .
But no matter how fast he was, the splashed blood still stained his delicate and luxurious robe red, dripping onto his clean chin.
He didn't stop at all, he turned around like a cloud and flowing water, and the handle of the knife hit the side of the other man's neck, knocking the man's mandible with a crisp sound, and he kicked the man in the abdomen, kicking him away.
A dozen or so people filled the aisle. As soon as Chi Jingxi knocked down one person, the people behind filled it up, leaving almost no gaps. From the corner of the eye, he saw that Wen Yantong was getting farther and farther away, and he became anxious.
Seeing that Chi Jingxi was difficult to deal with, most of those people went to help, but there were also a few who couldn't make it to the front, so they naturally wanted to clean up Wen Yantong.
Once she saw a person slashing at the front with a knife, Wen Yantong screamed and resisted with the knife instinctively, the man's knife was on the blade, the blade buzzed with huge force, and her arm also Bursts of numbness.
The other person wanted to cut off her arm when he saw this, Wen Yantong was so frightened that he dropped the knife and retracted his hand, and saw that the person looked at the face of the person in front of her with the knife, and the blade slashed from the nose to the left to the base of the ear, and immediately cut his face Cut in half.
Wen Yantong took a few steps back in fright. Seeing that his brother made a mistake, a person in the back rushed to make up for it and continued to attack Wen Yantong, but he didn't want the man whose face was shaved to flustered because of the severe pain. He waved a big knife in a panic, and slashed diagonally into the man's neck from behind. He fell to the ground, clutched his neck and twitched for a while, then died in front of Wen Yantong.
The smell of blood is like rust, permeating the air, wrapping Wen Yantong's nose sticky.
Seeing that the two brothers were about to die, the man who had accidentally chopped the knife at his brother rushed towards her again with the knife in his hand. Who knows, he stepped on something on the road, stumbled, and fell all over, with the knife in front of his neck. Once it falls, the person is gone.
Someone saw all three fell down in front of her, hurriedly filled the gap, and rushed to attack her. But I didn't expect that a person on Chi Jingxi's side was kicked in the shoulder, and after turning around twice suddenly, the big knife just pierced the person's side, left and right, and the person disappeared again.
Before he died, the man stared at Wen Yantong who was standing not far away with a panicked face, and suddenly had an idea.
This kid is a bit wicked.
Wen Yantong didn't know what was going on, it seemed that the people who wanted to kill her fell in front of her one after another because of accidents, she touched her body and found that apart from a little blood, there were no missing arms or legs.
In a blink of an eye, seeing that Chi Jingxi was still surrounded by four or five people, he didn't have time to think about anything, and hurriedly snatched the sword from the dead people on the ground, and ran to the outside of Chi Jingxi's encirclement in a few small steps.
Two or three people had their backs to her, Wen Yantong gritted his teeth, closed his eyes suddenly, and swung the big knife from behind that person. She only heard the sound of the clothes being torn by the blade, and the tactile sensation when the blade touched the flesh made her heart tremble, and her face was warm.
At the same time as the screams sounded, Chi Jingxi kicked him away.
Without even giving Wen Yantong time to be afraid, he grabbed her wrist, pulled her forward two steps, then turned to one side, waved Wen Yantong's hand forward, and the blade pierced into the villain. chest.
These villains are used to killing people, and their blades are so sharp that they can easily pierce even thick cotton clothes.
When Wen Yantong was under the control of Chi Jingxi, he didn't dare to open his eyes at all, for fear of blood splashing into his eyes, he just felt his body being pushed back and forth, and various sounds exploded in his ears.
There seemed to be only two thoughts left in her mind: hold the knife tightly in her hand, and trust Chi Jingxi.
Then the sound of the wind died down, and the screaming stopped, only the sound of panting, and the strength holding her hand loosened. Wen Yantong opened his eyes only now, and saw that there were people lying around, some of them were dead, some were still holding their pain and moaning.
Chi Jingxi was standing beside him, a lot of blood was splashed on his handsome face, dripping down the delicate outline. There was still a murderous intent in the ink-stained eyebrows and eyes, which slowly dissipated when he looked down at her.
Wen Yantong dropped the knife in his hand all of a sudden, his legs softened, and he subconsciously hugged Chi Jingxi beside him for support.
Chi Jingxi smelled of blood all over her body, her chest heaved violently, after being hugged by Wen Yantong, she didn't push her away immediately, but took a breath and asked in a low voice, "Is there any injury?"
With tears in the corners of Wen Yantong's eyes, he quickly shook his head, then remembered that Chi Jingxi was injured in the original plot, so he quickly looked up at him, "What about you? Are you injured?"
As soon as he finished asking, he saw the blood on his right shoulder almost stained his entire arm, dripping down his arm, Wen Yantong choked for breath.
Sure enough, he was injured.
Knowing that she had found out, Chi Jingxi didn't say anything, but said, "Find a way out quickly."
Wen Yantong panicked, "Yes, yes, the way out, how do we get out?"
In the plot of the original book, Chi Jingxi finally found Fu Tanghuan's room. At that time, he was probably afraid that going out directly would affect Fu Tanghuan's reputation, so he insisted on staying in Fu Tanghuan's room for the rest of the night.
Fu Tanghuan treated his wound briefly, and he left quietly when it was almost dawn.
Now it seems that it is a bit illogical. Chi Jingxi didn't come out of Fu Tanghuan's room at night, why did he stay in the middle of the night before coming out at dawn? Aren't the results all the same
"Do you still have the map?" Chi Jingxi's breath was weak.
Wen Yantong nodded hurriedly, and took out the map from her pocket, fearing that the blood on her hands would stick to it, she pinched the corners with her fingertips.
But just now she was too frightened, her hands were shaking involuntarily, which was very obvious.
Chi Jingxi looked at it, then suddenly reached out and took her hand.
His hands are big, with slender fingers, and he can cover Wen Yantong's hand in one go. The temperature of his palms is hot, and the whiteness of the back of his hands can be seen from the gaps in the blood.
I don't know if it was because his breath was weak, but the words he said were much gentler, "It's safe now."
He was telling her not to be afraid.
Wen Yantong's heart seemed to be hit hard by a clock.
Unexpectedly, she calmed down slowly and asked, "Where do we get out from?"
"The end of Yinhu Road is to the left, which is the direction of your house. That is the nearest exit, go out from there." Chi Jingxi said.
Wen Yantong hurriedly responded, took out a torch to light up, and then walked forward with Chi Jingxi across the ground full of corpses. On the way, she noticed that Chi Jingxi's footsteps were getting slower and slower, and she seemed to be struggling. She guessed that he must have injured more than his shoulder, so she stuffed the fire pocket into his left hand.
Chi Jingxi was about to ask her what she was doing, when she put his left arm on her shoulder and said, "Young Lord, I will help you walk."
"No need." Chi Jingxi refused.
"No, if I support you like this, you can use less strength and walk faster." Wen Yantong was anxious, thinking that Chi Jingxi didn't want to get too close to her.
"It's useless." Chi Jingxi said, "You're too short, it's even more difficult to put pressure on you."
"… oh."
It turned out to be a meme.