Chapter 4 "I... I think I can understand what you're saying..."
"I think I can understand what you're saying."
As Liu Qingyue spoke, she was still in a state of great shock.
Why did he suddenly understand when he couldn't understand it before?
Also, Qin Ren wasn't speaking the official language of his Da Yong, but rather the dialect he couldn't understand before.
Qin Ren replied to him, "I can understand what you're saying too."
"Why is that? I couldn't understand it before?"
Qin Ren lowered his eyes and looked at the bronze key he was holding in his hand.
"It's probably related to this thing."
They each have a key, and both keys have become their masters. It's likely that because they've both been chosen as masters, they can understand each other's meaning through the keys.
Although this whole thing is really bizarre, the fact that a passage could appear behind this door and that they could understand each other's words makes it seem less strange.
Liu Qingyue's mind wasn't as quick as Qin Ren's, and she stared at him blankly after hearing his words.
Seeing this, Qin Ren explained to him, "This key is a bit special. It's what caused you to travel to my house. And now that we can understand each other, it's obviously also related to it."
After Qin Ren finished speaking, he gestured for him to follow.
Since the other party is from ancient times, they shouldn't be appearing in modern times.
With so many germs in the modern world, and the other person being an undocumented immigrant, staying in the modern world isn't a good thing.
Seeing that he was still going to walk into the passage, Liu Qingyue could only quickly explain, "No, no, there is a temple on the other side of the passage. Someone in the temple is trying to capture me. It will be dangerous for us to go there."
"Arrest you? Why are you being arrested?"
“I got separated from my family while fleeing. I met a group of bandits on the road. They wanted to capture me and sell me for money. I stumbled into a temple and came to your house through a stone gate.”
Qin Ren looked at his delicate face. With such a handsome appearance, he did look quite valuable, no wonder he was targeted by bandits.
Qin Ren: "Then you stay here for now, I'll go check on the situation."
"No, aren't you afraid of bandits? There are many of them, and they are very dangerous. They might kill you."
Seeing that he still didn't understand what kind of cheat code they had, Qin Ren patiently explained it to him.
"With this, I can come back anytime, anywhere. Without it, they have no way to catch up with me, do you understand what I mean?"
"Why?"
"idiot!"
Qin Ren cursed, and Liu Qingyue, who was cursed, looked aggrieved and pitiful. Why couldn't this person speak properly? Why did he always have such a fierce look on his face?
Finally, in order to make him understand, Qin Ren had to take him through several trials, and only then did Liu Qingyue slowly understand what he meant.
"Ah, ah, I see! You mean, they can't get in without the key?"
So... if he has this, does that mean he can escape on his own even if he encounters danger?
"Before I had the key, I couldn't open the passage, and I couldn't even enter it even though I could see it. Only when I have the key and it is successfully recognized as my own can I open the passage and successfully enter it."
Even if the key falls into someone else's hands, that person won't be able to open the passage; the key is only useful when it's in their possession.
Qin Ren just tried to see if a key that had been bound to another owner could be bound to another owner.
The answer is no.
In other words, a key can only recognize one owner.
Qin Ren was still holding his key, trying to see if he could open the passage with other doors.
The answer is also no.
What they now know is that in Qin Ren's world, the only way to open that passage is through the bronze door of Qin Ren's house and their respective keys.
Neither a bronze door nor a key can open the passage.
As for whether Liu Qingyue's world is the same, Qin Ren would need to go and investigate personally to find out.
Liu Qingyue said that he pushed open a stone door, but logically, since this side was a bronze door, the opposite side should also be a bronze door.
There must be some pattern that Qin Ren doesn't know about, and he has to go and figure it out, otherwise he won't be able to feel at ease.
Because Liu Qingyue said there might be bandits on the other side, Qin Ren found a stun gun and carried it with him.
Their village is a small mountain village, and in earlier years, wild boars, jackals, and other animals would appear there.
Qin Ren's family lived in a relatively remote area, with only his family and Yang Dan'e's family living nearby.
After Qin Ren went away to school, he became very worried that his grandfather might encounter large animals.
He bought two stun guns from a friend and had his grandfather carry them for his own protection.
Unexpectedly, the old man who had never used the stun gun before is now using it himself.
In ancient times, the stun baton was considered a divine weapon. As long as the opponent did not have a powerful ranged weapon, his stun baton was a deadly weapon in close combat.
With the added advantage of having the copper key, Qin Ren was quite confident in his safety.
Seeing Qin Ren head towards the passage again, Liu Qingyue couldn't help but feel a little worried. He wanted to go with him, but was afraid that he would be a burden, so he hesitated and didn't move.
When Qin Ren went in, he said to him, "Stay here and don't wander off."
Seeing that Liu Qingyue nodded, Qin Ren walked into the dark passage.
The passage is very long, about a hundred meters or so.
The entire passageway is about 1.8 meters high. Because Qin Ren bumped his head a bit when walking inside, the passageway is probably not as high as Qin Ren.
The passageway is nearly two meters wide, and the entire passageway is paved with stone slabs, including the walls on both sides.
The stone slab was not an ordinary stone slab; it had many intricate and exquisite patterns on it, which looked very similar to the patterns on Qin Ren's bronze door.
Qin Ren walked silently forward until he reached the stone gate that Liu Qingyue had mentioned, and then he stopped.
He didn't open the door immediately, but first observed the stone door.
His side had a bronze door, but this side had a stone door; it seemed the situation was somewhat different from what he had expected.
Could it be... that he can freely enter his world without needing a specific bronze door?
With this in mind, Qin Ren carefully pushed the stone door.
A sound came from the stone door, and then he slowly pushed it open.
This door is quite heavy. I didn't expect that little thief to be so strong.
After pushing open the stone door, Qin Ren first looked outside to make sure there was no movement before cautiously walking out.
After he left, he closed the stone door.
He used the key to open the stone door; if the stone door wasn't closed, the passage would remain.
Although he had confirmed that people without the key could only see the passageway, they had no way to enter it like the others.
However, the discovery of the passage was not a good thing for them either.
Those people cannot enter the passage, but they can stay outside it, which will bring them a lot of danger.
Qin Ren walked around the temple but did not see the so-called bandits.
He didn't doubt the thief's words; the thief had been going to his house for some time.
The bandits who were chasing him didn't see him at the temple, so they must have gone elsewhere to look for him.
The bandits have just searched the temple, so it is safe for the time being.
The door here isn't made of bronze; he suspects that there's no need for a fixed door here at all, as one can travel to his world through different doors.
With this idea in mind, Qin Ren conducted an experiment.
He didn't go back to the stone gate, but instead found an ordinary door and pushed it open.
When he had the key, he could simply push open any door to access the passageway.
This discovery is very interesting. It means that even in times of chaos, as long as he has this key, he can return to his world through the door.
Qin Ren then conducted two more experiments.
The first experiment was that he entered the passage through this wooden door back to his basement, and then returned to the world of the petty thief from the basement.
This time, he pushed open the door, not through the stone door, but through the wooden door.
If he and the thief are both in the thief's world, and they open two doors from different places, the location of the last person should be used as the teleportation point.
To verify Qin Ren's idea, Qin Ren conducted an experiment with the thief, and the results were exactly as he had expected.
The second experiment concerns the world of the thief, where as long as both of them have the key, any door they open will open a passage.
Opening the door at any time will create a passageway, which is not a good thing; on the contrary, it will cause them trouble.
However, without the key, they have no way to immediately open the passage and escape in case of danger.
Qin Ren then tested whether the key would continue to accidentally open the passage without touching his body, by putting it in his backpack.
The test results were quite good; as long as they didn't let any part of their body come into contact with the key, they could perfectly avoid the fact that the passage was always open.
This is a great feature; you can cover the key when you don't want to open the passage, and simply touch the key when you want to open it.
Qin Ren returned to his basement with the thief and said to him, "I'm taking your key."
"Why? This is mine, why are you taking it?"
“Your key can come to my house, which I find dangerous. I can trade you other things for it. If you give me the key, I can give you food, clothes, medicine, or even weapons.”
He remembered the thief saying that he had gotten separated from his family while fleeing, which was why he was targeted by the bandits.
He was both a refugee and a bandit; his world was clearly in chaos.
In chaotic times, the most needed things are all kinds of supplies.
The supplies Qin Ren provided him were definitely much better than those in ancient times.
With enough resources, he could survive well even in chaotic times.
"No, no, this is a treasure left to me by my grandfather. I can't give it to you. Besides... I've thought it through. This treasure can protect me. If I encounter danger again in the future, I can use it to hide in the passage. Don't worry, I won't bother you. I'll hide in the passage and won't steal your eggs anymore."
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