Jiaohua

Chapter 489 Uneasy (Part [-])
While the old man was concentrating on tearing down the pillars, Xia Zhaoxue and the others pulled Rougu up from the water, Xia Zhaoyi and Shen Lie went from east to west, crossed two towering natural stone walls on the left and right, and stopped at the edge of the cliff at the end of the clearing.

In the depths of the cliff, the sound of the wind was like weeping, and the reverberating wind blew the torches in Shen Lie's hands, and their figures were pulled and shattered on the ground amidst the shadows of the flames.

It was pitch black all around, and it was difficult to see the top of the cave in the dark, so it was vaguely judged by feeling that it was open and open.

As far as the eye can see, except for the slightly polished flat rocks under the feet, it is the slender trestle bridge in front of him, which leads silently to the other side of the cliff.

Xia Zhaoyi lowered his head and unfolded the paper in his hand.

The paper was a calligraphy and painting they took off the wall. On the back of the calligraphy and painting, she had used small stones picked up from the ground to draw corridors, stone chambers, and several large and small caves, gradually forming a map like branches and leaves.

She picked up another stone, supported it with her hand, and marked it.

As she wrote, her eyes stayed on the paper, a little lost in thought. For some reason, she couldn't forget that stone pillar in her mind.

Shen Lie raised his eyes and looked around, when another gust of wind blew up, his eyes fell in the air, in the darkness, there was something hanging faintly.

"Ali," said Shen Lie, "there is something there."

Xia Zhaoyi looked up, the cave was too high to see clearly, until another gust of wind blew up, and the hanging things moved with the wind.

"What's that?" The girl's bright snowy eyes blinked.

"It seems to be skeletons in cages," Shen Lie said in a deep voice, "There are several rows."

Xia Zhaoyi lowered his gaze, looking directly under the cage, which was just a deep abyss.

"So ruthless," Xia Zhaoyi frowned, "Even if they die, they won't let them go..."

"If the wind doesn't move, you can't see these cages clearly." Shen Lie looked to the side and said, "To illuminate the roof of this cave, I don't know how much firelight is needed."

"To suspend so many cages, a lot of institutions and manpower will be abolished." Xia Zhaoyi retracted his gaze and looked at the map on the paper. "I don't know who this person is now. He has no place to hide, but we can't." In the past, if he cut a knife on the other side, we could only let him be slaughtered."

As he spoke, Xia Zhaoyi frowned, and shook his head again: "No, we are not the only ones who are worried that the bridge cables will be cut off, everyone who steps up will have this worry. This person must also be afraid that we will be behind him Cut off the bridge cable, so it won’t be easy to pass through.”

"Unless he is absolutely sure that we can't catch up with him, or the trestle is very short, allowing him to escape within a controllable range." Shen Lie said.

"I think there are other passages." Xia Zhaoyi looked up and said, "Neither he, nor the person who built this trestle bridge, would never regard such a trestle bridge as the only way, as for other roads... ..."

Xia Zhaoyi paused, looked back at Shen Lie, and was about to speak, when Shen Lie looked at her and said, "It may have something to do with those big water trucks."

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and said: "As far as we have been searching all the way now, we have not seen any other possible roads, and the place where the iron chain of the big water wheel we saw before is the only possibility left now. The organs they affect are only in the direction Shen Yan is going, there may be a way there."

She lowered her head, moved her fingers along the dotted line on the map, and said, "It should be at the southwestern end, where we descend to the southwest of the Longyuan stone steps."

Mentioning Shen Wen, Xia Zhaoyi didn't know why, but that stone chamber appeared in his mind again.

She has been restless, this kind of anxiety is not strong, but it is always there, like a chill is always wrapped around the back, clinging endlessly.

During the period of time when she was scouting the road and looking for the mechanism, she had a little calculation in her heart, and all of them were big culprits.

But what is the cause of the crime, she is puzzled and unpredictable.

Bone blossoms.

Bone blossoms.

Why do these four words appear from time to time?

Seeing her thoughtful eyes, Shen Lie didn't speak.

But after a long time, seeing that she was always in a trance and her vision became distracted, Shen Lie called out in a low voice: "Ali?"

Mingguang focused in the girl's eyes, she raised her eyes and said, "Let's go."

After speaking, he folded the calligraphy and painting in his hand.

Shen Lie watched her put away her calligraphy and painting, moved her lips, wanted to speak, but stopped.

When they came, they passed through the middle of two big stone walls. The left and right sides of the stone walls formed a straight line, the inside and outside were both open spaces, and the space between them was like a tall and wide gate.

Two figures, one tall and one short, returned and passed through the tall "gate" again. When they passed between the two stone walls, their figures were particularly small against the backdrop of the stone walls.

Xia Zhaoyi stopped suddenly, turned around and looked behind him.

The orange light in front of her eyes came from the torch in Shen Lie's hand, and the darkness further away engulfed everything. In the depths of the darkness, she inexplicably felt that there seemed to be a pair of eyes looking at her.

"Perhaps it would be better for us to extinguish the torch," said the boy next to him, "Ali, is your little oil ball lamp still there?"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled, and looked up at him: "Do you know what I'm thinking?"

"Huh?" Shen Lie lowered his eyes.

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and shook his head, and said, "You're right, it would be better if it was extinguished, at least it won't expose us."

"That……"

"Leave him alone," Xia Zhaoyi said with a last glance at the distance, "Let's go and find Shen Fan."

The distance and space are too far away, and the torch in Shen Lie's hand is as tiny as a star in the distant sky when viewed from the other side of the distant cliff.

In the darkness, a man stood on a steep rock, watching the "planet" go away, getting darker and disappearing from sight.

A gust of wind from the abyss was blowing, and the wind was quite strong. The man was wearing a toga and a skirt, and he was holding a dagger in his hand behind his back.

After standing silently for a while, he stepped down the rock and walked to the side of the trestle bridge.

Expressionlessly raised his hand and patted the thick rope on his arm, the man felt a little bit of a sigh in his heart, but then he drew out the dagger, and the sharp blade collided smoothly and smoothly on the stone pillar that bound the rope, making four crisp clangs.

After every clank, there will be a roar of rebounding from the taut rope.

The huge trestle bridge suddenly fell into the abyss after a short period of inertial force, and the dust accumulated for a hundred years was blown away by the wind, setting off huge waves in the darkness.But also because the wind is too loud, engulfing everything, the movement it brings is almost silent.

Xia Zhaoyi's heart skipped a beat, his brows were furrowed, and he stared blankly at the dim light at the entrance of the corridor ahead, which came from the lamp socket on the wall that they had lit when they passed by.

The footsteps did not stop, the direction was seriously deviated, and Shen Lie called out in time: "Ali."

Xia Zhaoyi raised his head and looked at the handsome silhouette of the boy in the thin light.

"Shen Lie..." Xia Zhaoyi said in a low voice.

"What are you thinking about?" Shen Lie said softly, "I shouldn't ask more questions, but you are very preoccupied and have been in a trance. Is it because you are unwell, or is it?"

　(`) After two beloved dogs died, it was too embarrassing to see life disappearing in front of me. The feeling of powerlessness made me confused and depressed.I cried and cried and couldn't eat for half a week. I picked up another puppy a few days ago. There were a lot of wounds on his body, and the bites were rotten and pus. Although I put a duckbill on the wound when cleaning it, it didn't growl. , didn't show his teeth, no matter how bad the pain was, he just shook his feet, he didn't mean to hurt me at all, and suddenly he got warmth again.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)