Chapter 50
The mask that Zhou Ran was trying so hard to maintain seemed to have cracks. After a moment of panic, he immediately calmed down, "Really? Then maybe it was the sound coming from outside the window? So, you heard it too, right?"
Miu Yi pointed at himself and blinked in confusion: "Me? I was sleeping soundly."
"Okay." Zhou Ran wanted to say something else but was interrupted by Pei Zhao.
Pei Zhao looked tired, "Zhou Ran, we are going out to look for Bai Zhou, do you want to come with us?"
"I..." Zhou Ran opened his mouth, "I'd better forget it... I didn't sleep well last night, and I'm not feeling well."
It's full of loopholes. Pei Zhao sneered in his heart, and nodded calmly, "Well, that's fine, then you stay here and rest. By the way, Zhou Yuli?"
Zhou Yuli stepped forward immediately, "Yes."
Pei Zhao pointed to a place with little shelter and said, "Since we are not here, let's put a vine here to prevent Zhou Ran from getting into danger."
Zhou Ran hesitated to speak and was about to refuse when Zhou Yuli raised his hand.
A green vine sprouted from the ground, and in an instant it was as tall as a person. At the end of the vine grew a huge ball, with a tender green stem wrapping around the pink ball.
Zhou Yuli snapped his fingers, and the sphere opened, revealing a flower with a golden core.
Zhou Yuli said: "This is a new surveillance device I developed. If anything happens here, we will know it at any time."
Pei Zhao raised his eyebrows in surprise and looked at Zhou Yuli. The man had a calm expression and didn't seem to be lying. Pei Zhao retracted his gaze and said to Miu Yi, "Let's go."
Leaving the bank, the city appears before our eyes. Pei Zhao glanced back to make sure Zhou Ran wasn't following him, and chuckled, "When did you start doing research and development? And surveillance."
Zhou Yuli also laughed. When he left, he looked back at Zhou Ran, who was sitting there with a guilty look on his face, trembling with fear.
"He is not Zhou Ran." Pei Zhao lowered his eyes, with a hint of coldness in his eyes.
"I was just kidding him," Zhou Yuli sneered, "No matter how receptive Zhou Ran is, he can't accept sleeping with a vampire for a whole night and sleeping soundly with him. It's ridiculous."
Pei Zhao was dismissive of Zhou Ran's lame lies, but he was worried about the real Zhou Ran: "The real Zhou Ran was replaced, and no one knows where he went."
Zhou Yuli thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I think that the one who looked like the real Zhou Ran yesterday was just... maybe he was replaced at night?"
"Although it's just a guess, it's not impossible." Pei Zhao touched his chin and waved to Miu Yi, "What happened to you last night? Tell me in detail."
"Last night... I fell asleep as soon as I entered the house. Speaking of which, I was extremely hungry today. We didn't even have dinner!"
Miuyi rubbed his belly and said, "That human is really careless. Isn't it obvious enough that I'm a vampire? He slept right in front of me. How arrogant."
Pei Zhao glanced at Zhou Yuli meaningfully, and Zhou Yuli nodded in understanding.
"It seems that it was replaced at that time."
The only thing that can be confirmed is that the replacement took place last night or even earlier. It is hard to recall whether the Zhou Ran I saw yesterday was the real Zhou Ran.
"Don't think about it." Zhou Yuli comforted, "Go find Bai Zhou and Lan Ji first. Zhou Ran is here and he can't run away." As he said that, he shook the wooden vine in his hand.
He indicated that if there were any problems, he could stop at any time and Zhou Ran would not be able to escape.
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The debris left by Lan Ji extended to the street, and because there was no one around, it was well preserved.
As he was walking, he heard a burst of chaotic footsteps. Pei Zhao was stunned, and before he could react, Zhou Yuli dragged him into a building nearby. Miuyi was so tired from walking that he turned into a bat and huddled in his pocket.
Through the gap in the cover, two people in strange clothes ran out. Why do they say strange? That’s because their clothes are the same as the uniforms of the guards in the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea in those old-fashioned TV dramas, with their breastplates shining with silver light and they even holding weapons in their hands.
"The king brought back those two people, and I don't know what to do with them..."
"…Lock it up like the previous one."
"...It's too powerful... It's different from the previous one... It seems like it was hundreds of years ago..."
"…You believe in fairy tales…"
They walked away chatting, Pei Zhao narrowed his eyes: "Are they talking about Bai Zhou and Lan Ji? Who is the 'one before' referring to? Zhou Ran?"
"It's very likely." Zhou Yuli said, "When they say great king, do they mean the sea monster?"
"Not necessarily." Pei Zhao curled his lips, "What an old-fashioned name, is it a bandit's den?"
Zhou Yuli watched the two men walk away, and while helping Pei Zhao up, he said, "It does look like a bandit's den. How about we go over there?"
Pei Zhao nodded. With the help of Zhou Yuli's vines, the two of them jumped to a high place effortlessly and soon saw where the two people went.
It was a lighthouse, almost on the edge of the city.
There was blue powder in front of the lighthouse, and Pei Zhao knew that they had found the right place.
From the outside, this lighthouse has two floors. What’s special is that these two floors are constantly rotating.
The first layer rotates clockwise and the second layer rotates counterclockwise.
Pei Zhao tried to reach out and touch it, and found that it was something hard like a wall.
"...It's actually a rotating building." Pei Zhao sighed, "But what's the use of this?"
Zhou Yuli pointed to the side, and Pei Zhao saw that not the entire wall was a wall. At a certain position in the circle, there was a hole that was only half a person's depth and could accommodate one person.
"What's the use of this?" Pei Zhao was puzzled.
Zhou Ran thought for a moment, "I've seen this before in a book about game construction. There's a kind of game where the door is created through relative motion. This kind of wall is usually double-layered, with a half-depth door opening on the outside and a half-depth door opening on the inside. The outer layer is always rotating, while the inner layer is stationary, similar to the earth's revolution. At a fixed period, the two door openings overlap, and you can enter."
After a pause, Zhou Yuli added, "Those two people just now might have come in through this door."
They chased them here and watched them enter the lighthouse, but when they fell behind for a while and caught up with them, they couldn't get in.
Pei Zhao sighed, "If I had known earlier, I would have knocked them both out. What should I do now?"
Zhou Yuli looked up and said, "Would you like to try the second floor?"
Pei Zhao looked up and saw that the second floor was also rotating, but the speed was different from the first floor. Moreover, the second floor had more windows than the first floor, and he could see light coming through from time to time.
"Go up and take a look."
Zhou Yuli manipulated the wooden vine and quickly sent the two people to the second-floor window. They were stunned at first sight.
Compared to the slow rotation speed of the lower floor, the rotation speed of the second floor is faster, driving the rooms inside to switch continuously. The window was a small one embedded in the wall. Because of the fast speed, Pei Zhao took a long time to see what was inside clearly.
"It looks like an old-style prison. All you can see are a lot of iron bars and nothing else." Pei Zhao stared at it for a long time and even felt like vomiting.
Zhou Yuli blocked Pei Zhao's eyes and said, "Let me see."
Pei Zhao leaned against the wall to rest. Zhou Yuli's method was not much better than his, and was even more tiring.
Zhou Yuli chose to follow the second floor.
Pei Zhao hesitated: "No... this is too stupid..."
A few seconds later, Zhou Yuli stood in front of Pei Zhao with a livid face and said coldly, "The prison is all there."
Pei Zhao nodded quickly and went over to pat Zhou Yuli's back, "Thank you for your hard work, Zhou Yuli."
I can’t get into the first floor, let alone the second floor. The two of them could only wait there until it was almost dark, and neither of the two people who went in came out.
Pei Zhao couldn't help yawning. "They work more than eight hours, right? Is this reasonable?"
Zhou Yuli didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "This door should close once every twelve hours. We need to wait for some time."
Including last night, they haven't eaten for the whole day, which is a double torture for both body and mind. But there is no way. A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. If we give up now, all our previous efforts will be in vain.
Just as I was thinking about it, two people walked out. Zhou Yuli quickly tightened the vines, tied up the two men, and brought them into the building. Pei Zhao raised his hand, and a long, soft mirror whip took shape in his hand. The whip fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
“Who are you working for?”
The two men had no idea that they would be caught. They trembled like a sieve and said, "Who are you? Our king will not let you go!"
Pei Zhao was speechless when he heard this word. He rolled his eyes and said, "Can you change the word? If you say this word in our place, you will be laughed at."
As he spoke, Pei Zhao raised his hand and brought it down, lashing the mirror whip at their feet, causing the two to scream.
"We are wrong! We are wrong! The master will be back soon, we must go back..."
grown ups?
Pei Zhao narrowed his eyes: "Is it a sea monster? Come to think of it, you look like creatures of the sea. Why didn't you follow your Highness, but chose to join some master?!"
The man was about to cry, "Your Highness is Your Highness, and the Master is the Master. Your Highness only abuses us, and it was the Master who saved us from the water..."
"Oh?" Pei Zhao raised his eyebrows, "This is interesting."
He put away the whip and said, "Tell me the time when the gate will open tomorrow morning, and we will let you in tomorrow morning."
"No, no!" The man shook his head, but Pei Zhao just raised his hand, and he lowered his head and shrank back, "Okay, I'll take your place, but you have to be careful and don't let the adults find out..."
Pei Zhao is now becoming more and more curious about who the adult they are talking about is.
Is the sea monster that I caught a glimpse of that night the adult they were talking about?
Xiao Hei brought Bai Zhou and the others here and imprisoned them. Does this mean that Xiao Hei is that adult's man?
What about the prince played by the fake Zhou Ran?
Pei Zhao felt that all the information was complicated and confusing, and he was having a headache. Suddenly, he felt someone approaching from behind, and then a hand pressed on his solar plexus.
"Don't think about it, just let it be. There will always be a way out when you reach the mountain."
Zhou Yuli's voice was low and steady, and it almost immediately calmed Pei Zhao's heart.
"good."
Outside the building, night fell, and Pei Zhao saw a huge black shadow flying towards the lighthouse.
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