Chapter 51
Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli acted quickly, and four mirrors and several wooden vines worked together to completely cover the area where they were.
Miu Yi also jumped out of Pei Zhao's pocket in an instant, ran straight towards the two men, and knocked them out with two elbows.
In the darkness, Pei Zhao said, "The sea monsters are not at the lighthouse during the day, so who are they working for?"
"I don't know." Zhou Yuli's voice came, "We'll know when we go in and take a look tomorrow."
Due to the darkness, their vision was obstructed and they could only hear the sea monster's breathing, low and powerful.
Miu Yi whispered, "Is he a dragon? Why is his breathing so loud? Shouldn't fish need to breathe?"
Pei Zhao wanted to laugh, because sometimes the focus was really laughable. But what he said made sense. Since it was called a sea monster, why did it need to breathe?
"I have another question now," Zhou Yuli's voice came faintly, "Since the door can only be connected once every 24 hours, how did the sea monster get in?"
Pei Zhao also reacted. Yes, but let’s not talk about the time issue. The sea monster doesn’t look big enough to enter the lighthouse. With the size they saw, the lighthouse should be as small as a toothpick next to the sea monster...
Therefore, Pei Zhao guessed: "Maybe there is a second form, or his purpose is not the lighthouse at all."
Pei Zhao looked at the two people in the darkness and thought, if only one of them had been left alive.
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The next day, he and Zhou Yuli changed into the clothes of the two men and came to the lighthouse according to the time they saw the day before. Just in case, they left Miuyi in the building to guard the two men.
As was the rule, they passed through the door at the exact time, and as expected, the lighthouse was empty as far as they could see.
Pei Zhao originally thought that this lighthouse was where sea monsters lived. Sea monsters might like shiny pearls or many bones, but there were none of those. The interior of the lighthouse is like a retro tavern. There are no treasures or skeletons inside, only small wooden sculptures.
Further inside there is a spiral staircase that leads to the second floor.
Pei Zhao and his friends walked over to take a look and found that there was a wooden board blocking the end of the way to the second floor. Pei Zhao tried to push it, but it didn't move.
Pei Zhao tried knocking, "Bai Zhou, Lan Ji, it's me."
But no one paid any attention to him.
Pei Zhao was embarrassed: "Is the sound insulation so good?"
Zhou Yuli stretched out the vine and asked Pei Zhao, "Just pull it off?"
Pei Zhao shook his head: "No, we haven't figured out the building structure here yet. If it's torn, it will be ruined."
They still didn't understand the matter of the sea monster until the end of last night. What if that guy is really powerful and comes back to see his house collapsed? Wouldn't that lead to a bloody battle?
Pei Zhao said he was tired and didn't want to fight unless it was necessary.
Just as they were hesitating, they suddenly heard three "puff" sounds.
The sound came from the ceiling, that is, upstairs.
"Is it Bai Zhou and the others?"
After the three sounds, there was no sound. After a while, three more sounds were heard from another location.
"What do you mean?" Pei Zhao was confused.
Zhou Yuli touched his chin and said, "...I have a very immature idea, which may even be a little outrageous."
"Tell me." Pei Zhao blinked, "How outrageous is it?"
Zhou Yuli didn't say anything, but raised his hand towards the baffle. Several vines burst out from his palm, and the roots tightly fixed the baffle.
Only a sharp brake sound was heard, and Pei Zhao felt the entire lighthouse shaking violently. Zhou Yuli was even dragged for a distance. Pei Zhao subconsciously reacted and realized that the second-floor structure was the same as the gate structure. Both were high-speed rotating building structures connected to the entrance. Only when the two entrances overlapped could people pass through.
New vines continued to grow on Zhou Yuli's body, and soon they took root in the ground like a thousand-year-old tree. At the same time, the vibrations in the room subsided, and several heavy and powerful hammering sounds were heard from the second floor.
Pei Zhao shouted: "Bai Zhou? Lan Ji?"
Two more echoes came from the second floor. Pei Zhao was delighted, but then a problem arose. Zhou Yuli fixed the second floor. If Bai Zhou and the others wanted to come down, the second floor had to be rotated. Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Zhou Yuli say, "Window."
right! There are also windows on the second floor.
Pei Zhao remembered and shouted, "Go through the window!"
After three echoes from upstairs, there was no more sound. Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli waited for a while before retracting the vines. In fact, he only lasted for a moment, but Zhou Yuli was soaked all over and his face was very pale.
The two waited in the lighthouse for a whole day, and when the gate closed again at night, they immediately left. Pei Zhao couldn't wait to get to the window. The blue powder extended to the nearby buildings. Pei Zhao was sure that this was the trace left by Lan Ji. He walked over and saw Lan Ji and Bai Zhou, who were covered in dust.
"Bai Zhou, Lan Ji!" Pei Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief, "Are you all right?"
Bai Zhou shook his head: "No, this is the first time I've seen such a violent torture device. I still have to say that the water prison in Hall City is too gentle."
Lan Ji's face wasn't looking good either: "It's much better now, Pei Zhao, we've discovered something else." Lan Ji raised his hand and pointed behind them. Miu Yizhen was sitting side by side with a figure. The more Pei Zhao looked at the figure, the more familiar it looked.
“…Zhou Ran?!”
He turned around slowly, and Pei Zhao's eyes lit up: "Zhou Ran!"
When Zhou Ran saw him, he was first in disbelief, then delighted, and then shocked and alert: "Wait, wait, wait, answer me first, what is the name of our most fierce head teacher in junior high school and what is his catchphrase..."
Pei Zhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Isn't it Lao Xiao? You are the worst class I have ever taught, right?"
Zhou Ran chuckled, then rushed over and wiped away two tears: "God Pei, you don't know how much suffering I have endured since I was abducted here. I don't want to ride a carousel again in my life. And that cosplayer is as white as a dead person..."
Pei Zhao raised his eyes and looked at the person who Zhou Ran said looked like a dead person, and thought, well... he's not a dead person, he's a vampire.
Pei Zhao pulled Zhou Ran off his body and asked, "How did you get here?"
Zhou Ran got angry when he mentioned this: “I don’t know. When the lockdown was lifted, I was walking in school and suddenly fog came up. Everything around me was white. When the fog cleared, I was under the water. I was scared to death! Fortunately, there was a guy named Xiao Hei who said he would lead the way for me… I thought I was going to heaven and needed a guide. I saw that he led me to the city, so I thought it must be because of the thick fog and the King of Hell took the wrong soul and wanted to send me back. Who knew… Damn the King of Hell, I met the Dragon King of the East China Sea.”
Pei Zhao thought: Well, this unconventional speaking style is really Zhou Ran’s style.
Pei Zhao patted Zhou Ran on the shoulder and said, "Tell me about the Dragon King of the East China Sea in detail."
Zhou Ran sighed, "Myths are all lies. I thought the Dragon King of the East China Sea had horns on his head and scales on his body, but the actual Dragon King of the East China Sea, Pei Shen, is almost the same as Brother Li."
Pei Zhao was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Zhou Ran: "Handsome, Pei Shen, you know there are many kinds of handsomeness. Hard-core handsomeness like you is one kind, but handsomeness like Li Ge, which comes with hormones, is another kind."
Pei Zhao didn't know what he meant by "hormonal handsomeness". He glanced at Zhou Yuli and said simply, "He looks a lot like Zhou Yuli?"
Zhou Ran nodded: "Not only do they look alike, but their speaking styles are also similar, silent and taciturn." As he spoke, he raised his hand, glanced coldly at Pei Zhao, and pointed his finger back, "See? Just like that, I was thrown into the cell."
Bai Zhou also rolled his eyes and interjected: "Yes, that's right, we were thrown in like this too."
Pei Zhao called Miu Yi over and said to Zhou Ran, "Why don't you go play with that cosplayer for a while? I'll talk to them."
After making sure that Zhou Ran wouldn't hear it, Pei Zhao waved to Bai Zhou and Lan Ji, and the four of them sat on the ground.
"Tell me about your situation." Pei Zhao was straightforward.
Lan Ji frowned, "There is a power division in the seabed, between the demons and humans, but the division failed. Now the world is ruled by the third faction, and we are involved. The so-called restoration of order may be to maintain balance."
Bai Zhou added: "Our 'Zhou Ran' should be the leader of the human race, and the sea monsters here are demons." He was puzzled, "What on earth is going on with this underwater regime? How did the human race end up on the seafloor?"
"It's probably not the real human race and demon race, maybe they are just distinguished by their transformation." Lan Ji said, "In fact, similar discussions have taken place in Hall City before. It's nothing more than facing the outside world in human form or in demon form. In our opinion, it's just a pastime in peacetime."
Pei Zhao said, "What do you mean by the third faction? Black Fish?"
Bai Zhou nodded: "Those who play between the human race and the demon race, instigate a fight between the two, but protect themselves and gain benefits from it, are the third faction, and Black Fish should belong to this faction."
Pei Zhao pressed his solar plexus, "...three parties, that's a headache." He didn't like history very much, and always felt that those coups were of no benefit except bringing about war. In Pei Zhao's view, if the ruler is not good, all he has to do is rebel. Power is a fictitious thing, and whether it exists or not is of no importance to the common people. It is just a game between those in power.
But Bai Zhou was born in an imperial family, so he should be able to handle this kind of thing easily. But as soon as Pei Zhao looked at Bai Zhou, he waved his hands, full of resistance, "We in Hall City believe in fighting if you don't agree, otherwise Lan Ji would not have chosen to be defeated on the battlefield and captured."
Pei Zhao had no choice but to look at Zhou Yuli: "What do you think?"
Zhou Yuli thought for a moment, "Unite with the secondary enemy and attack the primary enemy. Which one?"
Pei Zhao tried to understand, and finally realized, "You mean, we don't need to solve their superficial problems, we just need to find the root cause and solve the problem of one of them?"
Zhou Yuli nodded, "Then the two are now equally powerful, so after they join us, there should be an appropriate result."
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