Strongest Worker

"How long have we been gone?" Li Qing asked in a low voice.

Deng Shi looked down at his watch: "about two hours."

Li Qing suddenly stopped and sighed softly, "go around for two hours."

"Why? Don't you go?" master Deng stopped behind Li Qing, with a look of doubt on his cheek.

"No." Li Qing shook his head, glanced at the colorful clouds around him, then raised his hand and pointed forward, "haven't we already arrived?"

"Ouch!" master Deng screamed, ran over Li Qing for more than ten steps, narrowed his eyes and saw that an entrance with a width of more than ten meters had been impressively presented in front of him, and a long ladder had been extending upward. It was obvious that the three had found the entrance to the eighth floor of the ancient building.

"Your eyes are getting worse and worse, so obviously you can't see..." Li Qing came up from behind and shouted carelessly.

Master Deng gave a dry smile and a touch of embarrassment flashed across his cheek. He stepped forward quickly, raised his feet and tiptoed gently on the steps. He immediately retracted, half knelt on the ground and looked for the steps with electric light.

After the flashlight, the steps showed a deep dark green, with a faint crystal luster.

Li Qing took Caiyun behind master Deng and asked softly, "what's the matter?"

With a slight wipe of his fingers on the steps, Mr. Deng turned his head and was stunned: "the steps are made of jade. They are perfect in color. They are just as big as fists. They are sky high outside."

Master Deng stood up and gently relaxed the air conditioner: "there are so many here... This step alone is enough to buy half of your Li family..."

Li Qing stagnated slightly, and his face immediately changed: "don't talk nonsense. How much can that broken industry be worth? I'm the most important person in the Li family. I can't buy it for much money."

When the voice fell, Li Qing walked up the first step: "go up and have a look. I think the rain and smoke should have come one step first."

Master Deng nodded: "there are footprints on the steps. Some people are one step earlier than us."

All the way up the steps, there are bronze statues on both sides of the jade steps. Each bronze statue is also equipped with a strange bronze mask. Under the dim hand lightning, it is like a deadly ghost climbing out of hell.

Deng Shi was obviously more interested in jade. He was almost lying on the steps and climbing all the way up.

"Captain, when we leave, let's break a piece." master Deng murmured, "I feel like stepping on the money now. It's cheap to take the initiative to send it to the door. Don't take it for nothing."

Li Qing turned his eyes angrily: "if you still have such leisure at that time, feel free. But you don't want to talk about me. I'm not interested in dead people's things."

"Well, well, you are rich and powerful. You don't care about this." master Deng said with a smile, "I'm really going to break a piece and go back to make some bracelets to give my little wives. Caiyun, do you want to? Give you one?"

Caiyun glanced at Li Qing gently. His little face blushed and replied softly, "I'm not rare..."

"Stop!" Li Qing suddenly shouted.

Master Deng's body suddenly stiffened, his outstretched hand retracted again, and his face was uncertain: "what's the matter? You're about to have a heart attack."

Li Qing turned her head and asked Caiyun, "have you counted it? How many levels are there?"

"Eighty one." Caiyun gently replied, "count this last one, a total of eighty-two steps."

Li Qing nodded gently: "yes, it's the same as I counted."

Mr. Deng straightened up and put his hands on his hips: "what do you mean?"

Li Qing replied in a deep voice, "there are only 81 steps on the map. The ancients always regarded jiujiuguiyi as the ultimate. There can be no 82 steps."

Mr. Deng stretched out his finger: "then this..."

"It's a mechanism." Li Qing replied faintly, "jump over."

"Oh, I see." master Deng, with a suddenly enlightened look, bent down again and lit it with a flashlight, with a smile on his face. "Yes, yes, there are no footprints on the last step. It seems that our Miss Xie is also very smart."

Deng Shi's voice fell, his feet suddenly kicked on the ground, and the whole man jumped in.

Li Qing and Caiyun looked at each other. They were about to enter later, but suddenly they heard a scream from master Deng who stepped in first, and immediately the whole person flew out.

The light in his eyes was slightly coagulated. Li Qing stretched out his hand and just caught Deng Shi flying upside down. In a cold voice, he asked, "what's going on?"

Taking a deep breath, master Deng's face was filled with anger: "an asshole ambushed me inside and was kicked out!"

"Enter again!" Li Qing's voice fell down, and with one arm, he threw master Deng back.

"Ah!" master Deng didn't expect Li Qing to come here with him. Immediately, he flew in and directly rolled with the man inside.

Li Qing and Caiyun followed up. Deng Shizheng leaned against a stone wall and gasped. There was a faint scratch on his forehead, and blood was spilling out.

"Captain, this bastard... Is so fierce..." master Deng murmured.

Li Qing looked up at the other side and couldn't help but bring up a smile. At the moment, the man standing opposite Deng Shi with a bruise on his cheek is Hu Feng.

Seeing Li Qing, Hu Feng's cheeks slowly filled with amazement, and then gradually calmed down. He stared at master Deng and asked, "Master Li, is this your man?"

"Well, this is my brother."

"Just now I'm sorry, miss. I've offended you by asking me to stay here." Hu Feng nodded at Mr. Deng, then breathed a sigh of relief, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help smiling. "I'm much more at ease if Mr. Li can catch up."

"I'm sorry for the trouble." Li Qing whispered, "where's the rain and smoke?"

"Inside, I'm still angry. Master Li, be careful."

"Thank you." Li Qing thanked, then patted master Deng on the shoulder, bypassed the stone wall and continued to go in. Li Qing also has a little understanding of Hu Feng's details. Deng Shi fought with him at a disadvantage. On the contrary, neither side took advantage of him. It's not easy.

Turning his head and aiming behind him, master Deng lowered his voice and asked, "who is this goods? Why haven't I seen it before?"

"Hu Feng, YuYan's bodyguard." Li Qing replied faintly, "it was so deep that I couldn't even touch his way."

After walking forward for a while, the long light embedded in the stone wall has been lit, and the remaining lamp oil is slowly burning, emitting a faint fishy smell, which is bright everywhere. Li Qing turned off the small flashlight and suddenly came to the bright place, which broadened his mind a lot.

Caiyun stared at the relief on the stone wall, tightly pursed his small mouth and said nothing.

Seeing that the little girl was pale, Li Qing couldn't help reaching out and touching her little head: "isn't it uncomfortable? What do you see?"

"I don't understand, but it seems to be a ceremony." Caiyun answered gently.

Li Qing also looked at the stone wall with her eyes. It seemed that the soldiers were cutting down slaves. There were some strange symbols around, such as ancient characters. Li Qing couldn't understand it, so she had to give up. She thought that maybe she could ask Xie Yuyan for advice later.

While thinking, the three men had walked out of the stone road and entered a bright hall.

The eighth floor of the ancient building is much smaller than the other seven floors. It is roughly half the size of a football field. However, it is extremely empty here. The most prominent is the bronze columns of stable buildings, which are engraved with strange patterns, but it is almost difficult to distinguish because they are covered with a thick layer of copper rust.

More than 20 bronze tripods stand on all sides, and the fire is blazing inside. Even if they are more than ten meters away, Li Qing seems to feel the heat.

The floor is paved with jade, and the center is surrounded by a bronze statue into a circle. A copper coffin is placed in the middle of the circle. Li Qing's eyes stopped above the copper coffin. A beautiful and graceful woman was sitting on the coffin, drinking water with a kettle in her hand.

The corners of Li Qing's eyes twitched slightly, and a funny color appeared on his face.

Master Deng shrunk his neck and said carefully behind Li Qing: "Miss Xie is really different from ordinary people. Sitting on the coffin and drinking water? If there is king Zhou Min in the copper coffin, even if she lives, she will have to be angry again."

"Shut up, you take good care of Caiyun, I'll go and have a look." Li Qing whispered.

"Hehe, I will pray for you." master Deng looked around. "Be careful, don't be castrated by this ancestor."

Li Qing took a deep breath and stepped forward. Xie Yuyan obviously received the notification from his men first. At the moment, he didn't show much surprise. She dropped the kettle, blinked her beautiful eyes, and stared at Li Qing who came all the way. She looked inexplicably.

Old gun stood at the foot of the hall with more than a dozen people. He didn't know what he was busy with. The more than a dozen bodyguards of Xie's residence are resting nearby and talking low. Several others are standing around Xie Yuyan and patrolling around with vigilant eyes to deal with unexpected - situations that may arise at any time.

"There are only more than 30 people left?" Li Qing was surprised at the bottom of her heart and looked at Xie Yuyan carefully again.

Xie YuYan's cheek was a little paler than what he saw last time, but his spirit was still good. It didn't seem to matter. Seeing that she was all right, Li Qing was also slightly relieved.

Standing outside the bronze statue, Li Qing pulled the corners of her mouth and forced out a reluctant smile: "rain and smoke, I'm back."

"Oh, this pair of elopement dog men and women finally escaped back to one." Xie Yuyan blinked his long and narrow beautiful eyes, with a bit of mockery in his words.

Li Qing glared: "Xie Yuyan, you are also born in a scholarly family. Can you leave some words of virtue? Moreover, is elopement so useful?"

He snorted and Xie Yuyan said coldly, "what do you want me to say?"

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