Seeing this, Song Lin was shocked and rushed to the door anxiously, trying to open it.
However, the two guards beside the Imperial Master came forward and grabbed his arms, put a knife to his neck and brought him in front of Imperial Master Hua.
"Xiu Xiu has no martial arts skills, she will die in there!" Song Lin yelled anxiously at Master Hua, struggling to get back to the door.
Master Hua stroked his chin with his long nails and said in a gentle voice, "Don't worry, Young Master Song. As long as you obey me, I will spare the life of your beautiful young lady. However, since she has spoken so arrogantly, she must suffer a little in here."
Song Lin struggled a few times with an angry look on his face, as if he couldn't hear anything.
After a while, Pei Zhiyuan was also brought over.
Also coming was the little emperor wearing a bright yellow dragon robe. He was thin and had a gloomy face.
Master Hua and his entourage did not bow to the emperor, but asked the little emperor very naturally what he was doing here.
The emperor looked angrily at the Imperial Guards who were roughly escorting Pei Zhiyuan, and asked, "What did Pei Zhiyuan do that the Imperial Master wanted to bring him here?"
"Lord Pei has colluded with the rioters and boasted that he would break the formation and steal the Dzi beads. Today, this master will give him and the rioters in the room a chance. If they can really steal the Dzi beads, they will be spared."
"Mr. Pei?" The emperor looked at Pei Zhiyuan with a stern expression, only to see that he pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.
The two men who were holding Pei Zhiyuan pushed him into a door without saying a word and quickly closed the door.
Master Hua took the little emperor to a lifting platform, while Song Lin was escorted up the stairs by two guards.
Several people gathered on a high platform on the roof. Song Lin predicted that the location should be the top of the alchemy hall.
The roof is visible above the platform, and outside is the vast view of the beautiful imperial city. Inside is a shaft covered with iron chains. Looking down along the shaft, you can see complex rotating gear mechanisms in the dark, and iron chains connecting the mechanisms and traps.
At the other end of the iron chain, there are rows of strung crossbows, cages for ferocious birds and beasts, containers of iron slurry and kerosene, rolling stones, poisonous sand, and a huge pool filled with water, all of which are connected to each other and are intricately arranged.
And on the high beam above the pavilion and well, there happened to be a winter melon-sized Dzi bead hanging.
Colorful and extremely strange.
Master Hua ordered his men to release Song Lin, drank two cups of tea, and sat leisurely on a chair beside the balcony, glancing sideways to pay attention to the movements of the mechanism in the well.
The little emperor stared at the Dzi bead hanging on the beam with greedy and sticky eyes.
Song Lin couldn't bear to look at what was happening in the well, his amber eyes staring at the sunset in the distance through the window pane.
Looking out from the window panes of the Alchemy Hall, the scenery to the west of the Imperial City looks like a painting hanging on the wall.
The sky was clear and the golden glazed tiles shone with golden light in the setting sun. In the distance, the tall dead trees were full of black crows, giving the bare trees the illusion of lushness.
Song Lin felt that everything seemed a little unreal. Just last month, he and his wife were still sitting on the eaves of a low bungalow, looking at the quiet countryside smoke.
It was clear that a few months ago, he was even alone on Ivory Mountain, spying on the movements of bandits.
But at this moment, he was in the alchemy building in the imperial city, doing something that was life-threatening.
"Young Master Song, does Rock Dusk look beautiful?" Master Hua called him softly, stood up and handed a cup of tea to him.
"You don't seem to be worried about your little lady anymore?"
Song Lin spoke calmly, "It doesn't matter. Life is fleeting, youth fades, and everything is just a passing cloud."
At this time, the little emperor's gaze shifted from the Dzi beads and fell on Song Lin.
Master Hua tutted his words and said coldly, "Mr. Song is truly a man of integrity and righteousness."
Song Lin did not answer, nor did he drink the tea he handed to him. Instead, he turned his gaze to the little emperor standing beside him. When he met his burning gaze, he quickly looked away.
When I glanced back, I saw a very noticeable blush on that thin, fair face...
He suddenly felt nauseous and uncomfortable. He really didn't like the looks of these two people. They were cold and a little sticky, weird and strange.
On the other side, in the secret room.
Shen Xu walked around the wall and found a secret compartment on one side of the wall. When he opened it, he saw four pull rings distributed up, down, left and right.
She looked up at the dark and high ceiling, where iron chains seemed to be hanging from the darkness.
After estimating the height, she tore her outer and inner garments into long strips, tied them together, and twisted them into two ropes, one long and one short, which together were enough to circle half the room. However, she did not open the mechanism in the room immediately. Instead, she sat on the ground against the wall, closed her eyes and rested for a while.
After a while, Pei Zhiyuan came over.
She said lightly: "Coming?"
Pei Zhiyuan walked over with a stern look on his face, without saying a word.
The passion he had just had with the emperor made him feel very depressed, and coupled with being taken to this alchemy formation where there was a chance of death, his face was now terribly gloomy.
Seeing his attitude, Shen Xu immediately remembered what Xiao Zheng had said to him, so he asked, "National Master, have you been humiliated again?"
Pei Zhiyuan didn't answer, but stared at the surrounding environment vigilantly, "How do we get out?"
"This is the Qimen Four Symbols Formation. It is generally divided into four formations. The four symbols are connected, changing unpredictably and lurking with murderous intent."
"Then how do we break the formation?" Pei Zhiyuan couldn't help but wonder when he saw her wearing a thin undergarment and looking calm.
She replied, "The so-called Four Symbols refer to the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise, corresponding to the Sword Mountain and Fire Sea Formation, the Golden Spear and Iron Horse Formation, the Red Silk Bewitching Soul Formation, and the Golden Scales Transforming into Dragon Formation, respectively."
This should be the first formation, the Sword Mountain and Fire Sea Formation. The positions of the four pull rings above correspond to the four kinds of mythical beasts and the four kinds of mechanisms.
"What happens when you pull these tabs?"
"It will trigger the corresponding trap mechanism. When all four pull rings are pulled out, the mechanism will fail and the door will open."
Pei Zhiyuan frowned slightly and asked, "How can we escape from here safely?"
"Can Master Pei swim?"
"meeting."
Shen Xu nodded and asked him to take off his coat.
Pei Zhiyuan was stunned in confusion and hesitated for a long time before slowly taking off his coat.
But Shen Xu tore open his clothes and twisted them into a rope without saying a word.
Finally, Pei Zhiyuan's inner garment and undergarment were added, and they were twisted into three long ropes.
Pei Zhiyuan was shirtless, and he covered the kiss marks on his body with his hands uncomfortably. He frowned and asked, "So what are you going to do next?"
Shen Xu glanced at his muscular body and replied, "All things flow with the waves, but even metal and stone will eventually come to a stop."
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