The Chinese staff began to clear the ground and sharp arrows, while carefully transcribing the poems inside the bells of the stone pillars.
Meiru Z looked around and glanced at the time: "It's a bit too early to get off work now. I can still go to their place to have a look."
Liu Jun and Xu Zaiyuan went to the Taomu Sword Key Point and have not returned by car yet. It is not far from here.
Chu Qianli stared blankly at the hidden weapons all over the ground. These sharp arrows were carefully polished and it was obvious that they were not scary toys, but were intended to kill people.
Tan Muxing noticed that she was distracted and asked concernedly, "Do you still have a headache?"
Ever since Chu Qianli walked through the corridor, he would feel uncomfortable in his head from time to time, especially when he wanted to tell fortunes.
Chu Qianli shook her head: "It doesn't hurt that much now, but it feels weird."
"What's strange?"
"Since they discovered the mineral vein long ago, why didn't they just dig it out? Why did they build ruins here instead?" Chu Qianli tilted his head. "And this organization really wants to kill people, not just avoid thieves."
If someone doesn't understand Xinyi and places the key carelessly, he might be pinned like a hedgehog by a hidden weapon.
Chu Qianli and the others originally thought that they only needed to take the key to the designated location and put it away, but the seniors had obviously set up some traps and the door was not meant to be open.
"Alas, I should have studied it at the Gate of Truth yesterday, but it gave me a headache to stay in the lobby and speculate..." Chu Qianli said distressedly, "I always feel like something is wrong."
Mei Ru Z saw her scratching her head in worry and said, "Don't worry about it, it will cause your hair to fall out."
"Let's go meet them first, and then we can go to the lobby in two days." Tan Muxing said.
The group drove together to the peach wood sword key point. On the way, they learned that the second bead had fallen into the slot, and now there were only five beads left, and the first two were Chinese keys.
Meiru Z: "They're pretty quick, too."
The Sanqing Bell and the peach wood sword were successfully placed. The Chinese team was obviously incredibly efficient and was expected to crack all four places in one fell swoop.
The compass and tarot cards that Chu Qianli owned were too far away, and in completely opposite directions, one south and one north. It would be inconvenient to take a car without these two keys, so they planned to go there tomorrow.
A moment later, Chu Qianli and others arrived at their destination, but they only saw Liu Jun at the entrance of the cave, but not Xu Zaiyuan.
Chu Qianli raised her hand to greet him, and said cheerfully, "It's time to get off work, I'm here to pick you up."
Liu Jun didn't look happy when he saw them, but said worriedly: "Zaiyuan hasn't come out yet."
Talking about the evening star, he was surprised: "But we heard in the car that the bead had fallen?"
"Yes, he just sent me a message saying that he had returned the key and was walking back, but now he is nowhere to be seen." Liu Jun frowned, "I can't contact him using the device either."
"Are you letting him in alone?"
"Zaiyuan said that the yin energy in the cave was too strong and ordinary people might not be able to bear it, but he was carrying a peach wood sword so it wouldn't be a problem, so he said he would go alone to put the key down." Liu Jun said in embarrassment, "We were in contact all the time until the key was put down, but he suddenly lost contact on the way out."
Chu Qianli suddenly realized that this was just like what happened in Tingfeng Xiyulou. Xu Zaiyuan felt that the Five Ghosts Formation was not good and advised her to stay outside instead of going in casually. The only difference was that Liu Junzhen was persuaded to stay.
Chu Qianli was surprised and said, "This is your fault. You have already taken off your Taoist robes, so how can you still believe his words that he has too much Yin energy?"
Liu Jun was quite ashamed: "Actually, I'm not afraid of Yin Qi, but Yuan has always been a wise man, and I'm worried that if I don't do what he says, I'll cause him trouble..."
Xu Zaiyuan is a man of few plans, and Liu Jun's level is not that high, so he naturally often accepts the other party's opinions. This is probably a natural respect for the big boss, just like Qiu Qingkong unconditionally trusts Chu Qianli's divination and even does not believe in his own divination results.
Chu Qianli recalled how Qianmen bet all his efforts on Xu Zaiyuan during the special selection match, and realized, "I have figured it out. He lacks someone like my brother who dislikes metaphysics. When he is always surrounded by people who believe in hexagrams, sometimes things will go wrong."
If she is always held in the arms of devout believers, she will probably fall one day.
"He is indeed a man of many divinations, but he is a human being after all, and humans have weaknesses." Chu Qianli was afraid that there would be another corridor pattern in the cave, so she simply made a fortune-telling at the entrance of the cave in advance, and then breathed a sigh of relief, "There seems to be no mechanism in the cave, and he is not injured, but he is trapped by something."
Chu Qianli was originally afraid that there might be arrows in the cave, but fortunately there were no such deadly weapons. It was simply because the feng shui of the cave's location was weird.
Judging from the hexagram, Xu should be safe and sound in the abyss, but he is going around in circles, which is confusing.
Tan Muxing: "Let's go in and look for someone first."
Liu Jun immediately organized his men and went into the cave to search for Xu Zaiyuan according to Chu Qianli's divination.
Inside the cave, Xu Zaiyuan stared at the stone wall that had not changed, and finally confirmed that he had encountered a ghost wall. He used too many spells before the formation, and finally solved the puzzle with a peach wood sword, but was misled by vision on the way back.
This is a subtle technique, which is set up on an inconspicuous mountain wall. It has no effect on ordinary people, but is designed to trap people who are proficient in metaphysics. Ordinary people will directly ignore the hidden information on the mountain wall, but people who are proficient in metaphysics will not ignore it, and may subconsciously accept the hint.
Xu Zaiyuan was more sensitive to external information than others. In addition, he had just consumed a lot of physical strength in the battle, so he was caught accidentally and could not escape for a long time.
The people who came in initially thought they were on the right path, but in fact they were confused by the mechanism and kept going in circles. The builders were really cunning and experienced. They guessed that people would relax their vigilance when leaving, so they set up another mechanism behind the formation.
Those who do not understand metaphysics cannot break the formation in front of them, while those who understand metaphysics will be trapped by a ghost wall after breaking the formation.
Xu Zaiyuan stopped and looked at the equipment in his hand. Now the machine was silent and there was no sound of Liu Jun.
Liu Jun had been trained, so it was impossible for him not to answer. So there was only one possibility left, did he really contact the other party?
He thought that he had contacted his companions but received no response. Could it be that the mountain wall had set up a misleading message? In fact, he had not contacted Liu Jun at all. He was simply confused by the information from the mountain wall and mistakenly thought that he had asked for help.
"This is actually a trap set by the inner demon." Xu Zaiyuan sighed. He looked at the mountain wall carefully and realized that if he didn't crack the key information, he might not be able to get out for the whole day.
The cave was quiet, and inner demons gradually arose.
In a hazy state, Xu Zaiyuan suddenly saw a familiar figure, and he stood still as if struck by lightning.
On the other side, Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing went into the cave to look for the missing Xu Zaiyuan. She pointed in a direction based on the hexagram and said, "It seems to be that way."
Others asked, "But how many roads are there?"
Liu Jun: “Search them all!”
Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing walked together to search. As the passage was very narrow and the light in the cave was dim, they did not know what dangers there were. Tan Muxing explored the way ahead and Chu Qianli followed behind.
Tan Muxing saw the fork in the road and turned back to ask, "Which way should we go..."
His voice stopped abruptly because there was no one behind him!
The naughty kid is gone.
Tan Muxing suddenly felt cold from head to toe. She didn't even know when Chu Qianli disappeared. She was clearly with him before he turned the corner.
The cave was filled with cold air and there were occasional echoes.
"Xingxing, I think we can go this way!" Chu Qianli said happily. She didn't get a response for a long time. She looked forward curiously and asked in confusion, "Xingxing?"
There is no one ahead.
Chu Qianli was stunned when she saw this, and her smile faded immediately. She immediately looked around and muttered, "It's really sinister. This ruins specifically captures people who know how to tell fortunes. No wonder the little Taoist priest couldn't escape."
Chu Qianli's doubts grew stronger. She discovered that the ruins were aimed at those with metaphysical talents. From the murals in the corridors to the layout of the caves, they were all traps set specifically for geniuses.
She was misled by vision at the corner, and the stars could not see any unnecessary information, but she could not control the information flowing into her brain, so she was naturally and inexplicably caught at that time.
Chu Qianli immediately observed the layout of the mountain wall. If he wanted to break the formation, he had to grasp the information, which meant he had to decipher a lot of hidden content on the mountain wall.
Ordinary people are not sensitive to this information, but people with strong associative ability are different. Divination itself is to turn the abstract into the concrete, and then deduce the outcome of the event.
The information on the mountain wall will poke at people's inner weaknesses, allowing them to see illusions that they are unwilling to accept.
Although hallucinations are vivid and lifelike, they are invisible to outsiders and are even different for everyone. Ultimately, they are subconscious suggestions.
A huge amount of information poured in, blurring my vision.
Inside the cave, Yu Xin and He Zhenghe inexplicably appeared. Their faces were no longer filled with the tolerance and kindness they had in the past. Instead, their brows were furrowed and their faces were gloomy. They complained with disdain, "Why are you so bad? You can't compare to Shi Chen in everything?"
Chu Qianli clapped her hands happily: "Because I am a useless little piece of trash, I thought Mom and Dad already knew about it. Okay, okay, let's go to the next one. I have to hurry up!"
Chu Qianli was very sure that what she saw was an illusion, so she would not be affected by the illusion at all. She couldn't wait to get out of the confusing environment as soon as possible.
The next moment, He Shichen appeared, his eyes flashed with coldness, and he said with disgust: "Do you know how much I want you to disappear?"
"Good fellow, the brother in my hallucination is actually pretty much the same as he is in reality." Chu Qianli subconsciously took out his phone and said admiringly, "I really should have taken a picture of him, he's the best person who looks and feels the same."
He Shichen's figure disappeared, and then everything around him turned dark.
An invisible pressure suddenly surged up, as if to crush her completely, followed by a familiar feeling of suffocation.
She was like a small grass drifting in the huge waves. She had no power to fight back against the raging waves and could only allow herself to fall and fall in the depths.
“Is this a simulated death?”
It seemed as if she was about to fall into a deep sleep in the darkness, never to open her eyes again to touch the light.
Chu Qianli felt she couldn't breathe, but she managed to hold on. She relaxed her body with the waves and slowly closed her eyes.
“…But I’m not afraid of death.”
The next moment, the dead silence and darkness disappeared, and I returned to the cave. Everything just now seemed like a dream.
Without parents, without He Shichen, there is no feeling of death.
This is still inside the cave, she is here to look for someone.
Chu Qianli knelt on the ground and gasped for breath. She shook her head hard to get rid of the influence of the information from the mountain wall. When she looked up, she saw an extremely familiar figure at the bend.
Tan Muxing didn't know when to find her.
"Xingxing..." Chu Qianli subconsciously reached out to him, hoping that he could pull her up.
However, Tan Muxing did not ask about her well-being. Instead, he suddenly slapped her hand away with a crisp sound!
Chu Qianli was stunned. She raised her head in disbelief, but saw an expression on his face that she had never seen before.
It was an expression that was unfamiliar to her.
Chu Qianli's breath was choked and he suddenly lost his strength.
She didn't say anything for a long time, just staring at the person in front of her quietly. She wanted to raise the corners of her mouth and tease him as she did just now, but she couldn't control the sense of loss that surged in her heart, and it finally turned into a complicated expression.
"This time my defense was really broken. Even though I know it's fake, I still can't stand it." Chu Qianli lowered her head in frustration, her eyelashes trembling, "But I know Xingxing better than Xingxing, so don't use his face to do OOC things..."
“…I’m really going to get angry.”
She could remain calm in the past, but was particularly annoyed by this scene. It was not because of Tan Muxing's indifference in the hallucination, but because she thought this subconscious attitude was a vilification of him.
"Even if we didn't know each other today, he wouldn't have done that."
Chu Qianli stood up slowly from the ground, patted her dirty clothes and pants, and with a crisp and decisive palm, she shattered Tan Muxing's illusion. She was too lazy to even look at him, and could be said to be disdainful of him.
Others may have harbored evil thoughts in their hearts, but Tan Muxing is definitely not such a person. The imitations steal the form but do not know the essence of the originals, discarding the fancy and deceptive appearance. What he values most is never the surface.
A true star would rather hurt himself than hurt others on his own initiative.
She was so sure of it.
After a while, Tan Muxing went all the way back and finally found Chu Qianli at a dead end. He didn't know why she had inexplicably run into a dead end.
He had obviously rushed back, and now his hair was disheveled, his face was anxious, and he was covered in dust. He only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her.
Chu Qianli saw Tan Muxing's frightened and anxious look, and she began to reflect on how the thug got hit. The big white bear would definitely look at her with a worried look on his face. In the illusion, Tan Muxing's expression was not right at that time.
The only explanation is that she let down her guard when she saw the stars and forgot to pay attention to many details.
"Why are you staying here?" Tan Muxing was relieved to see that she was safe and sound. He did not blame her for falling behind suddenly. Instead, he strode over to check if she was injured.
Chu Qianli saw him looking at her with concern, her nose twitched, and suddenly she hugged his arm and snuggled up to him, only then did she feel the reality.
The big white bear's body is warm, not like the wind that scatters at the first touch, but always firm and reliable.
These are real stars.
Tan Muxing was caught off guard by her arm being held, and felt her infinitely close to him. He suddenly felt hot all over, and was at a loss, not daring to move, and blushed as he asked, "Huh!?"
He didn't have time to be shy for long, and soon something strange happened.
The next moment, Chu Qianli suddenly pulled open his sleeve, revealing his arm inside the sleeve, and then took a bite angrily!
"ah--"
Tan Muxing didn't feel much pain from her biting teeth. Instead, he felt a warm and tingling touch, as well as soft and moist lips. He made a sound as if he was electrocuted, and his face was filled with embarrassment, unable to speak. He almost fell down on the spot.
Chu Qianli originally wanted to take a big bite, but when he heard him exclaim, he held back, leaving only a circle of marks.
Tan Muxing's face and ears were covered with red powder. He raised his arm with a small tooth mark on it and said in panic, "This..." Why?
Chu Qianming knew it was an illusion, but she was still full of grievances and said in a sad voice: "Xingxing hurt me! Xingxing hit me! Xingxing also slapped my arm!"
She wants to use the sword of the previous dynasty to cut down the star of this dynasty!
Talking about Muxing and scolding her, he couldn't help but be confused: "???" He just came here?