Chapter 161 Brother, Gu Yanzong!
Gu Yanchen walked forward and stretched out his hand to move the shelf away, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move the shelf at all.
"This bookshelf is embedded in the wall. If my inference is correct, there should be a deeper secret passage behind it."
Ran Qingxuan also felt that this was a possibility. Her ability was not strong enough to take an entire bunker-like thing back into the space. The only explanation was that there was another space on the back of the shelf.
But the things on the shelf had been taken away by her, and there was no mechanism or anything like that.
The two speculated that the mechanism was most likely set up somewhere else, so they simply started looking in the study.
Now, except for the books and bookshelves taken away by Ran Qingxuan, almost everything else in the study has not been touched.
Almost everything that might have moved was grabbed by the two of them, until they stood beside the desk, looked at each other, and began to focus on the desk in front of them.
Even after they removed the decorations above, neither of them found the mechanism to open the secret room.
“That doesn’t make sense!”
Ran Qingxuan was tired of searching, and when he sat on a stool and was thinking about what went wrong, his right foot accidentally hit the table leg. Unexpectedly, a slight "click" sound was heard, and the shelf on the right suddenly shook...
“I’ll go!”
Ran Qingxuan quickly stood up, took out a flashlight and looked at the place where he had accidentally kicked.
A bottle cap-sized bulge appeared on the table leg, and at first glance anyone would think it was a decoration.
Gu Yanchen went forward to check and pressed the bulge on the table leg with his hand. He found it a bit difficult, so he simply sat on the stool and kicked hard with his right foot.
A continuous sound of "click...click..." was heard, and the shelf on the right side began to pop out continuously.
Ran Qingxuan speculated that this mechanism might not be opened by just pressing a button, but required manual pressure to make it work.
When the last button was pressed, there was a rustling sound of a chain being pulled, and the wall behind the shelf popped out completely.
But before the two of them could get close, a strong fishy smell instantly wafted out from the dark hole...
Gu Yanchen took the flashlight from Ran Qingxuan's hand, took a deep breath to get used to the unpleasant smell, then walked straight in.
Just after walking about ten meters, the unpleasant fishy smell became stronger and stronger. Although Ran Qingxuan tried hard to suppress the nausea in his heart, he still retched a few times due to physiological instinct.
Before Gu Yanchen had the chance to ask her how she was, a very small sneer came from deep in the cave, as if mocking Ran Qingxuan's reaction just now.
The two looked at each other and quickly groped forward. After taking a few steps, Gu Yanchen suddenly raised his hand to stop Ran Qingxuan, and shone the flashlight downwards.
A pit that seemed to be about three meters deep appeared in front of the two people. A dirty and ragged man was curled up in the corner, and the sneering sound just now was also made by him.
The strong light of the flashlight was shining on this person. A normal person would put up his hands to cover his eyes, but he did not move at all, as if he felt nothing.
If they hadn't noticed that his shoulders were still rising and falling, they would have thought that the sound just now was made by a ghost!
Because the dead man he just met had caused him to be emotionally unstable, when he saw someone again, he only asked carefully, "Who are you?"
The person at the bottom of the pit did not respond, but just closed his eyes silently. In his opinion, who he was no longer important.
Imprisoned in this dark water dungeon, Gu Yanzong didn't know how long it had been. Those people came in to take his blood and throw some food at him like feeding a dog. Besides that, they tortured him severely in an attempt to find out where that unrealistic thing was.
They always have to see if they have lost their minds. Gu Yanzong has been numb for so many years. In his opinion, the man and woman who came this time are probably just here to torture him again...
"Who are you?"
Gu Yanchen's eyes were scarlet, and he asked again with a strong nasal tone.
Gu Yanzong opened his eyes slightly, and in a trance he thought he heard his brother's voice.
But soon his reason overcame his longing for his family, and he growled in a hoarse voice.
"What tricks are you trying to play? Do you think you can succeed by finding someone with a similar voice to me to get close to me?
Don’t be such a fool and let people look down on you… cough cough cough…”
This was the most words he had spoken in a long time. After coughing violently a few times, Gu Yanzong heard the sound of someone jumping down.
With difficulty, Gu Yanzong straightened his chest and quietly waited for a new round of torture.
But after waiting for a long time, the person who jumped down didn't make any move.
Gu Yanchen now pulled Ran Qingxuan closer and slowly squatted down. The strong light of the flashlight made Gu Yanzong have to squint.
Due to long-term torture, Gu Yanzong no longer looked the same as before. In Gu Yanchen's eyes, the man in front of him was filthy, with messy hair hanging in clumps behind him, and insects could be vaguely seen crawling on them.
Not only that, except for the arms stretched out to block the light, every exposed part of the body was shriveled like a mummy.
It was not until the man adjusted to the light and slowly lowered his arms that Gu Yanchen could clearly see the features of the emaciated man in front of him.
Gu Yanchen's lips trembled, his tone full of expectation, but also with a hint of uncertainty: "Brother? Is it you?"
Gu Yanzong thought that the voice just now was an hallucination, but now Gu Yanchen's voice was really ringing in his ears. Gu Yanzong stretched out his trembling hands and rubbed his cloudy eyeballs hard, and looked carefully at the person in front of him with the light of the flashlight shining on the top of his head.
"Sixth brother? Are you really my sixth brother?"
Gu Yanchen was uncertain at first. After all, the haggard man in front of him was too different from the tall, mighty and high-spirited elder brother in his impression!
He is only thirty-four or thirty-five years old, but he looks like an old man, which makes people feel sorry for him.
Gu Yanchen stretched out his hand tremblingly, trying to help him brush away the messy hair in front of him.
There was a wall behind Gu Yanzong and he had no way of avoiding it. He could only stretch out his trembling hands to block it.
"Don't touch, big brother is too dirty..."
But the next second, a long-suppressed cry came out of Gu Yanchen's mouth, and then he hugged the person tightly regardless of anything. Feeling how skinny the person under his arms was, Gu Yanchen's heart was bleeding at that moment.
"Brother, I'm sorry, I'm late..."
Gu Yanchen found it hard to accept for a moment. It was also the first time that he expressed his inner sadness so directly. Ran Qingxuan was also affected by this scene. He turned his back and silently wiped away the tears that were about to flow.
Gu Yanzong felt the long-lost warmth and gently patted Gu Yanchen on the back, but he also started to cry.
"It's not too late, it's not too late, isn't my brother still alive and well?"
Gu Yanchen felt even more uncomfortable after hearing this. If it weren’t for that parchment scroll, Gu Yanzong wouldn’t have ended up like this!
Ran Qingxuan glanced at the time and knew that this was not a good time to ask Gu Yanzong for details. He put his hand on his shoulder and reminded him, "Husband, let me check my brother's physical condition first. After all, we have been down here for some time."
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