Chapter 237
In response to Gu Hongying's shock, Yu Tu remained silent.
He let out a long sigh, feeling as if the dust had finally settled. "Did Master Yi reply to you?"
"Tu Tu... this..." Gu Hongying scratched his head, hesitating, "this..."
The expression on Yu Tu's face gradually cracked: "You're not going to tell me that I can't get in touch with you?!"
"The message was sent..." Gu Hongying said, "but now there is no signal and I can't receive a reply. It's so weird!"
The inner world uses spiritual power to fix points, and each watch is equivalent to a moving point. Unless it is in a special formation or a special area, no matter it is deep in the mountains or in an unknown corner, the watch will not fail to receive signals.
"Tu Tu, calm down." Gu Hongying comforted Yu Tu instead, "Think about it, this is not the first time we have encountered an emergency. We will get used to it in the future."
Yu Tu: “…”
He stared at Gu Hongying and silently took out a short-acting silencing talisman.
Gu Hongying was horrified: "I was trying to comfort you out of kindness, Tutu, how could you repay me with hatred!"
Yu Tu: “…”
How about...posting two?
Yu Tu held a talisman in each of his left and right hands, staring at Gu Hongying fiercely. Gu Hongying stared at him for a few seconds before giving in. He stretched out his arms and sighed, "Stick it, stick it, I won't resist."
"Forget it." Yu Tu thought for a moment and put the talisman back. "It's useless to try to fix it later."
Gu Hongying, who had dodged the talisman, asked, "Should we wait here or go down and take a look?"
Yu Tu sensed some slight malice from the position of the "well", but Gu Hongying sensed an inexplicably familiar aura. He had a vague intuition in his heart that the owner of the aura would not harm them.
"No." Yu Tu used his wood power to clean a stone and sat down, saying seriously, "Every time we are dragged in passively, we have almost no right to choose. This time we will wait here. I believe Zhizhi and the others will definitely notice our disappearance tomorrow morning."
Yu Tu now feels a little regretful. He shouldn't have thought it was childish to throw away the anti-lost bracelet—this thing is so practical!
After listening to Yu Tu's words, Gu Hongying thought about the experiences in this year which were more "exciting" than those in his 18 years combined, and he suddenly felt depressed. Well... he should just stay here honestly.
The sky gradually darkened, the stars twinkled in the night sky, Gu Hongying held his newly-forged sword, feeling so bored that he wanted to look up to the sky and howl. But now he couldn't leave this situation, he couldn't receive any news, and he couldn't practice sword. He could only recite to Yu Tu in boredom, from high school math, physics and chemistry formulas to the common sense of the inner world, and now he had drawn the properties of herbs.
Seeing the look in Yu Tu's eyes, Gu Hongying stood up suddenly: "I'm going to fly another circle to see if I can fly out of Lingfeng."
When he stood up, he heard his stomach growling a few times.
Gu Hongying: “…”
I really miss Kunlun’s delicious cafeteria QAQ.
Gu Hongying went out for a walk, and Yu Tu watched him step on the Kunwu Sword in the air, then slowly withdrew his gaze. He could no longer sense any malice, not even a trace, as if the initial perception was just a misjudgment when the earth was shaking.
Yu Tu stared at the dark cave entrance, unconsciously lost in thought—
"What are you thinking about? So serious!"
After Gu Hongying patted Yu Tu's shoulder, Yu Tu was surprised that he had been staring at him for so long without realizing it.
Yu Tu was about to answer that it was nothing, but he vaguely heard someone else talking: "Who?!"
Gu Hongying was startled by Yu Tu: "What's wrong?"
"Did you hear anyone talking?" Yu Tu pointed in the direction of the cave entrance. "More than one."
The north side of the ruined Lingfeng Mountain was dimly illuminated only by the starlight. The whole place was rather dark. There was no sound at night in Lingfeng Mountain, not even the sound of wind blowing through the treetops. In such a scene, Yu Tu's words created an atmosphere like a ghost story - Gu Hongying's sad memory of taking the entrance exam in the deserted mountains in his pajamas was instantly awakened.
Yu Tu always spoke to the target, Gu Hongying's muscles tensed up, the blade of the Kunwu sword pointed outwards, and red light floated on the edge of the sword, already on guard.
"Tu Tu." Gu Hongying pointed the tip of his sword at the dark cave entrance. "I feel something is wrong."
Yu Tu instantly took out a short-acting silencing talisman and stuck it on the back of Gu Hongying's head!
Gu Hongying choked on his throat before he could finish his words. But before he could do anything, he felt the Kunwu Sword in his hand trembling, and his entire arm was shaking as well, as if something in the dark cave was resonating with the Kunwu Sword.
Gu Hongying: “???”
He tried his best to pull the sword back, but the Kunwu Sword and the unknown object in the cave were like the positive and negative poles of a magnet. Gu Hongying actually felt an indescribable stickiness, as if it was a tug-of-war or saw game.
In a flash, Gu Hongying suddenly leaned forward. There seemed to be an invisible rope in the dark cave that wrapped around Gu Hongying and dragged him quickly inside. Yu Tu's fingertips just brushed the short-term silence talisman floating on the back of Gu Hongying's head.
The talisman was torn off, and Gu Hongying's scream of "Ahhhhhhhh——" echoed in the north of Lingfeng, spanning several sound ranges. Yu Tu only blinked once, and the person quickly disappeared at the mouth of the "well".
Yu Tu: “???”
Where are the people?!
He ran forward for a distance and came to the front of the "well". He used a lighting charm to rub out a ball of light and threw it downwards. The light spot became smaller and smaller, and was finally swallowed up by the darkness silently. It was impossible to tell how deep it was.
Yu Tu walked around the well for several times, and finally used his spiritual power to draw dozens of light-body talismans and stuck them on his body. He stood by the well, took a deep breath, and then jumped into the well. With a strong sense of weightlessness, Yu Tu opened his mouth to scream, but no sound came out. Before, he was worried about disturbing the unknown things below, so when Yu Tu was sticking the light-body talismans, he also stuck a short-term silence talisman on himself.
Amid the fierce sound of falling wind, Yu Tu felt vaguely suffocated, perhaps because the underground area to which this "well" led had not been ventilated for too long.
With a very light "thump", his feet landed on the ground. There was a thin layer of dust on the dry stone floor. Yu Tu used the lighting spell to summon a small ball of light, which floated about half a meter in front of his eyes.
The moment the ball of light appeared, Yu Tu suddenly fell into a long silence.
———This is a very high underground space. The place where he is seems to be the entrance to this space, a place where the light ball cannot reach. A straight road disappears into the darkness.
Yu Tu took a few steps to the right, and the small ball of light floated forward with his movements. With the help of the light, Yu Tu saw a lot of books, densely packed, one after another, row after row. Both sides of the wide passage were filled with such books. It was extremely shocking.
Is this an abandoned library?
Yu Tu subconsciously held his breath and walked forward cautiously. Everywhere the light shone, he could see densely packed, old, and yellowed books. Yu Tu did not touch them, because the further he walked in, the more uncomfortable he felt with the books on both sides of the aisle.
Yu Tu mobilized half of the remaining spiritual power in his body and gathered it towards his eyes. He now had a vague idea of how to trigger his [Talent].
Spiritual energy gathered in his eyes, causing them to feel hot. Yu Tu pressed his eyeballs through his eyelids with some discomfort. When he opened his eyes again, he saw a faint black color in the light of the ball of light. The black color was thinly attached to the rows of bookshelves.
[Talent] was passively triggered, and his five senses became sensitive. He felt malice in the faint black, exactly the same malice he felt twice before, but he failed to capture the trajectory of Gu Hongying's spiritual power.
Yu Tu walked to a fork in the road, which had three directions: left, front, and right.
In the passage on the left, a faint black color extended past, and in the passage in front, the black air flow was fluctuating irregularly, as if there was something in the air flow, and in the passage on the right, the black color suddenly disappeared.
The probability of choosing the right answer is one third, and the probability of choosing the wrong answer is two thirds. Yu Tu was suddenly in trouble.
He used his spiritual power to simulate a spiritual dice and decided to use the elimination method based on the points: one and two points were on the left, three and four points were in front, and five and six points were on the right.
The first dice thrown by Yu Tu was "six", so he decisively eliminated the channel on the right. The second dice was "five", so Yu Tu became even more decisive. After throwing two sixes and three fives in a row, Yu Tu finally threw a "two", and he immediately eliminated the channel on the left.
Having ruled out the passages on both sides, Yu Tu decided to walk through the middle. The books on both sides of the middle wall gradually became fewer and were replaced by various exhibits. Through the dusty glass, one could vaguely glimpse the former glory, but the black aura on these exhibits was thicker than the black aura on the books before reaching the fork in the road.
Arriving at another fork in the road, Yu Tu still chose to go straight, but this time the walls on both sides were turned into various photos. Yu Tu looked at them one by one with the help of the light source—
【Group photo of Kunlun graduates in the Jiazi year】
【Memorial of the Linguang City Mission in the Wumao Year】
【Photo of the exhibition of the Yichen-class innovative formation】
…
Everyone in each photo is looking at the camera with a smile, full of vigor and energy.
Yu Tu saw many familiar people. The teachers in the photo didn't look much different from now, except that their eyes looked a little weathered by time.
Yu Tu even saw Qu Yutao, who looked like a student. He was on the left side of the photo, with Shi Wan in the middle and a strange girl on the right. The three of them were smiling brightly and looking at the camera at the same time with high spirits.
The photo is signed [Outstanding student representatives of the Renchen year Qu Yutao, Shi Wan, Yan Doukou].
Photographer: Qu Lianxi.