Chapter 255: Choice
I only heard Xu Chuchu shouting from afar: "Come this way, there is a road here!"
Xiao Yu hurried to catch up.
They used their spiritual power to illuminate the front and found a spacious and clean stone brick passage in front of them.
The passage is wide enough for two adults to walk side by side, and the stone bricks are laid flat and neatly. If you don't look carefully, you can't tell that it is paved with bricks. This shows the meticulousness of the people who repaired it.
The three of them walked cautiously for a long distance, but did not find any changes or any mechanisms.
"This place is bigger than I imagined." Xu Chuchu said solemnly, "To be able to build a house at such a deep bottom of the lake, it must be not an ordinary person, but a cultivator."
Xiao Yu agreed, "And they keep such big fish in the lake. They must be guarding something important."
But none of the three had any idea what they were guarding.
Could it be built specifically to imprison Hu Shanshan? That would be too much trouble, after all, there are many magical instruments that can imprison demons.
Xu Chuchu guessed that this underwater space had been built long ago and was used by the people who imprisoned Hu Shanshan.
If imprisoned at the bottom of a lake, foxes, which are of the fire element and afraid of water, would find it difficult to escape.
"Be careful, the environment has changed." Xiao Yu reminded.
The other two immediately noticed that the surrounding area was no longer the stone brick passage they had just visited. The building materials on both sides had become large stone slabs.
"This stone slab seems to be purely natural." Xu Chuchu gently stroked the surface of the stone slab and felt many bumps and grooves.
"More than that!" Chen Zhaozhi suddenly said, "There are murals on it!"
He suddenly activated his spiritual power, illuminating the pattern on the wall.
Xu Chuchu’s first reaction was still the ancient tomb, because only the walls of the ancient tomb would have the life story of the tomb owner painted on them.
However, after looking at it a few more times, I felt something was wrong.
The pictures above are all about the interaction between a man and a woman. They don't tell anyone's life story or anything specific. Instead, they look like a couple...
"This is the daily life of a couple." Chen Zhaozhi smiled. "The mural expresses the deep love between husband and wife."
"Is there?" Xu Chuchu frowned as she looked at those messy little people.
Chen Zhaozhi glanced at her and explained, "Of course not. Look at this one. It's the wife welcoming her husband home. This one is the wife changing her husband's clothes in the morning..."
Xu Chuchu was not good at looking at ancient murals, and it took him a long time to recognize what those lines were.
After a while, he said, "This is not a loving relationship between husband and wife, this is a one-sided sacrifice by the wife!"
"What are you talking about?" Chen Zhaozhi said, "Isn't this how husband and wife should get along?"
As he spoke, there was some longing in his eyes. He imagined how Xia Wanqing, who was as cool as a valiant girl, would be gentle and submissive in front of him. Oh my god, this would be so cool.
Xu Chuchu said unhappily, "Why should changing clothes, soaking feet, and cooking be the wife's job? Where is the husband?... Forget it, you won't understand even if I tell you."
She was really out of her mind, talking about gender equality to an ancient person.
"I understand!" Xiao Yu said quickly, "A husband should help his wife share more of the burden."
"Dogleg." Chen Zhaozhi cursed.
"But then again." Xiao Yu touched the patterns on the stone wall, "These murals are very new, it seems they were carved in the past few years."
"Why do you want to do this?" Xu Chuchu asked.
But no one answered, and Xiao Yu and Shen Zhaozhi didn't know either.
They had no choice but to continue walking inside. The further they went, the more outrageous the things described on the murals became. They even expressed the content of women's virtues and education in the form of patterns, teaching women to obey their fathers at home and their husbands after marriage.
Chen Zhaozhi thought it was normal, but Xu Chuchu couldn't stand it at all and hoped that Xia Wanqing would teach him a lesson in the future.
Then, suddenly, two forks in the road appeared in front of me, one on the left and one on the right.
Xu Chuchu took out the compass to check, but there was no movement.
Xiao Yu took the lead and chose one of the paths. He walked a little further and then turned back. "The path is very deep and there may be no turning back. We should choose one of the paths."
The other two nodded, but which one should they choose?
"Why not split up into two groups?" Xu Chuchu suggested. "The three of us have cultivation skills and are capable of protecting ourselves. This passage doesn't have any traps or spiritual energy fluctuations, so it should be safe."
"Then I want to team up with you. You have Uncle Big Ear's bell, so you can go out later." Chen Zhaozhi said immediately, pointing at Xiao Yu, "He's alone."
Xiao Yu looked at him angrily.
Xu Chuchu was helpless: "What's the use of having a bell? Can the bell stop that big fish? Now we have to take it one step at a time. It's important to find your mother. After we find her, we can think of a way out."
She looked at the two people beside her: "How about this, let's be fair, I'll be on your left, Chen Zhaozhi on your right, and Xiao Yu...it's up to you to choose."
After saying that, she turned around and walked straight into the passage on the left.
Xiao Yu naturally caught up with Xu Chuchu without hesitation, leaving Shen Zhaozhi cursing behind.
How is this fair? It's as if Xiao Yu might choose him!
Seeing his two accomplices walking away, Chen Zhaozhi calmed down and turned to the right.
In fact, if he had to choose, he would make the same decision.
After all, it was his mother who saved him, so he should face it alone.
…
Xu Chuchu heard the footsteps chasing after her from behind, and knew it was Xiao Yu even with her hair.
But both of them walked in silence, without saying a word.
Even without the annoying Chen Zhaozhi, the atmosphere became even more solemn.
"Did you hear any sound?" Xu Chuchu suddenly stopped and asked in a low voice.
Xiao Yu immediately listened attentively and noticed some tiny rustling sounds.
It was as if something slippery was crawling across the ground.
"Turn off the lights... I mean, extinguish the spiritual power." Xu Chuchu pulled Xiao Yu's hand down, signaling him to stop using spiritual power for lighting.
The two stood in the dark for a while, waiting for their eyes to adjust to the darkness before continuing on their way.
The further they went, the clearer the rustling sound became, and the lighter the movements of the two people became.
Suddenly, something soft and slippery brushed against Xu Chuchu's feet.
Her whole body was stiff.
Xiao Yu knew what was in front of him without her reminding him.
A giant snake, or rather, many snakes.
Xiao Yu condensed a small ball of spiritual power in his palm, threw it forward quickly, and then pulled Xu Chuchu to hide in the corner.
The spiritual power flew into the air, illuminating the scene in front of them. The two of them couldn't help but gasp when they saw it.
In a not-so-big empty room, there were densely packed fine-striped snakes of all sizes crawling around, some curled up, some stretched out their bodies, and some stacked up on top of each other.
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