Abduct a shadow guard to investigate the case

"Quickly, where is the exit?" Xuan Qi's voice was as cold as ice.

Just as the restrained man was about to turn his head, Xuan Qi's sword moved slightly, drawing a bloodstain on his neck.

"Don't kill me..." The man dared not move any more, and said in a trembling voice.

At this moment, a loud voice came from the entrance of the cave——

"Lu Zangming has escaped!"

"Someone has sneaked in!"

"Go to the main cave and take a look!"

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"You can't run away." The man in the cloak regained some confidence, but couldn't hide his trembling tone.

Xuan Qi's sword cut another point, "Take us out, you will still have a way to survive, otherwise you will surely die."

The cloaked man gasped, blood flowed down his neck, the pain clearly stimulated his nerves, he absolutely believed that the sword-wielder would mercilessly cut his throat the next moment...

"You can go out of the cave on the left." He said quickly, and then closed his eyes tightly.

"Take us there." Xuan Qi moved his sword edge slightly away and said.

Xuan Qi escorted the cloaked man, and they were about to rush to the left hole when Lu Zangming suddenly said, "Wait! Go to the right."

"There is an organ on the right..." Before the man in the cloak finished speaking, Jianfeng pressed his neck tightly again.

Xuan Qi looked at Shen Yao, saw him nodding, and adjusted the angle of the sword tip, not giving the cloaked man a chance to say more.

After he finished these, he felt that something was wrong, and quickly looked at Lu Zangming. Lu Zangming glanced at him and started to walk to the right.

The four quickly walked into the hole on the right.

The road inside the cave was tortuous. Before entering the cave, Shen Yao picked up a torch and held it up in his hand for illumination.The further you go in, the more moss grows on the ground and stone walls, and the feet become slippery.

The sound of chasing footsteps could be heard faintly behind them, and they quickened their pace, and soon came to a tall stone gate that opened opposite.

"What's behind the stone gate?" Lu Zangming asked the cloaked man.

"..." The cloaked man was silent for a moment, and said, "It's time to exit."

"Go and open the door." Lu Zangming said.

Xuan Qi then pushed the cloaked man forward, pointing the sword point at his back, and the three of them stood against the wall to prevent fraud.

The man slowly stretched out his hand towards the stone gate, and the moment he touched it, he suddenly turned his head and shouted, "Boss, save me!"

A few people were startled, and looking back, the man in the cloak took advantage of this opportunity to suddenly get short, rolled on the spot, and ran back.

Xuan Qi flipped his hand and stabbed, the soft sword picked up the man's cloak, and drew a long bloody gash on the man's back.The man in the cloak screamed, but still ran forward desperately, hanging the cloak on Xuan Qi's sword.

At this moment, there were a few "swish", several flashes of flames came towards him, and it was actually a wave of burning arrows flying towards him.

Shen Yao and the others immediately flew up, dodging and moving in the passage, Xuan Qi even used his sword to fly the cloak, and caught several rockets at once, and the cloak instantly burned. Then he threw it away.

The figure pushed out a palm in the air, and the wind in the palm was powerful and sinister, and it shook the cloak to pieces, and sparks flew in all directions.

Shen Yao took out the jade flute and stood in front of Lu Zangming together with Xuan Qi, blocking the flames one by one. A few drops of sparks splashed on the back of his hand, burning his skin painfully.

The figure landed on the ground, and the cloaked man jumped to his side. His body was stained with blood, and half of his face was scorched, and he was very embarrassed.

"Boss, you are finally here!" he wailed.

"Trash, step back!" The leader's voice seemed to come from an urn, buzzing, and the original sound could not be heard at all.He wore a black cloak and covered his face with a silver mask that completely covered his face except for the eyes.Judging from the body shape, it should be a man.

At this time, a few more people rushed over, stood behind the leader, and blocked Shen Yao and others in front of the stone gate.

"The back is not an exit, you can't escape, just grab it!" said the leader, and he pointed at Lu Zangming, "As long as Master Lu cooperates obediently, he won't have to suffer from the trial medicine soon. And you two, He looked at Shen Yao and Xuan Qi standing in front, "I can give you a quick death."

"Hahaha..." Lu Zangming laughed loudly, and walked forward from behind Shen and Xuan, "You are a remnant of the demon sect, want to control the owner of this villa with medicine? Dreaming! Even if I die here today, I will not Will be subject to you again!"

While speaking, the hand behind his back made a gesture quietly, Shen Yao couldn't understand it, so Xuan Qi's expression froze.

"Oh? It seems that Master Lu is toasting and not eating fine wine!" The leader sneered, and his body moved. Lu Zangming was already prepared and jumped up to meet him.

The two fought, one with a ghostly body, the other with a dignified body, the space in the passage was cramped, and the inner strength clashed, spreading around.The rest wanted to help but had trouble coming forward.

Shen Yao watched the two move back and forth, and found that the leader's moves were weird, indeed like the way of the Demon Cult, but it was not very natural. Could it be that he wanted to hide his true identity?Looking at Lu Zangming again, although he has a slight upper hand now, his internal strength is faintly declining, which may be caused by the torture of the past few days, and he may soon be suppressed by the opponent.

At this time, Xuan Qi whispered to him, "I'll go and open the door, my lord leans against the wall to avoid it."

"...!" Shen Yao grabbed him and said, "I'm with you."

Seeing Xuan Qi frowned, he said, "I chose this road too, I should gamble whether the exit is behind the door." Having reached the door, Xuan Qi stretched out his hand to block it, but Shen Yao grabbed it. His hand, Xuan Qi's hand was very cold, Shen Yao couldn't help pinching his palm.Xuan Qi was stunned, seeing that Shen Yao was looking behind him, he followed suit, and saw that one of the opponent's subordinates had noticed their movements, with an anxious expression on his face, but it wasn't gloating, and he didn't show any vigilance to dodge.

The confidence between the two of them increased, Shen Yao let go of Xuan Qi's hand, said "be careful", and pushed hard towards the crack of the door, Xuan Qi also extended his hand to help.The heavy stone door made a muffled sound and was gradually pushed open.

At this moment, behind the two of them, the masked leader hit Lu Zangming's left shoulder with a palm, and Lu Zangming was sent flying out of the air, over the heads of Shen and Xuan, hit the stone door, and smashed open Shimen, fell in.

"Villa Master!" Xuan Qi exclaimed, and rushed into the door.Shen Yao followed closely behind.

Inside the stone gate is an empty rotunda, with flat stone bricks under the feet, curved walls, and many faded portrait murals on it.

In the center of the hall is a one-meter-square stone platform, on which stands a carved stone pillar as tall as a person.

Looking around, this is a closed hall with no other exits.

Xuan Qi rushed to Lu Zangming's side to help him up. Lu Zangming's complexion turned pale and his breathing became disordered.

The masked chieftain and his men rushed in.Xuan Qi slashed the soft sword in his hand, and rushed forward.

The sword moves were fierce and fierce, and the leader was caged in the sword light in an instant, but the sword edge failed to touch the man. The masked leader shot without a shadow, piercing the wind of the sword with his palm, and caught Xuan Qi On the chest, Xuan Qi turned sideways and backed away, gritted his teeth to swallow the bloody blood, raised his sword and struck again, this move was as fast as a rainbow, but his opponent's movement skills and internal strength were really strange, and seeing that he was about to stab again, his figure suddenly appeared In a flash, leaving a gap, Shen Yao's jade flute swirled from behind him, hitting the leader's heart directly.The leader turned back and dodged, the jade flute was full of stamina, and he couldn't give up, so he had to take advantage of the gap and waved his right arm, the sound of the jade flute hitting the upper arm bone was heard, and then he was shaken high into the sky by his internal force, here Xuan Qi The sword move came again, and Shen Yao jumped up to catch the jade flute, and Xuan Qi went up and down, and hit east and west, cooperating tacitly, and immediately fought to a tie with the leader.

On the other side, Shen Yao and Lu Zangming had already cleaned up several of the opponent's subordinates while Xuan Qi was holding the leader back.Now he was fighting with Xuan Qi and the leader, and a subordinate who still had enough energy climbed up from the ground again, trying to attack Lu Zangming. At this time, Lu Zangming's internal energy was in disorder, and he waved his hand with a palm, and his internal energy flowed , The palm storm rose, knocking the man into the wall, and then fell heavily, hitting the ground hard.

Steep changes in the stone hall——

With the central platform as the center, along the four ground seams, bright red flames a few inches high were ignited. The flames quickly spread to the edge of the wall, and spread along the edge of the wall in an arc. The circle of fire is also rising!

Someone yelled "No!", and several of the men who were still alive struggled to get up and rushed out the door.

Shen Yao turned his head to see that Lu Zangming was holding his chest and struggling to stand up.He gave Xuan Qi a wink, Xuan Qi withdrew his move and ran to support Lu Zangming.

Shen Yao delayed the masked leader and was led towards the door by him.

Xuan Qi supported Lu Zangming and rushed to the door. At this moment, Shen Yao was defeated and turned back. The masked leader was erratic, jumped over the fire circle, and flew out of the door. He was about to close the door with a wave of his hand. Xuan Qi jumped Attacking, the masked leader raised his hand to meet him, Xuan Qi's sword tip was still half an inch away from his palm, and he could no longer move forward. The leader curled his fingers into claws, and with a push of luck, the sword in Xuan Qi's hand broke with a sound, and he was stunned. With a snort, the whole person was shaken back into the door.

The stone door slammed shut.

Xuan Qi staggered to the ground, raised his hand to wipe away the blood from his mouth, and seeing that Shen Yao wanted to rush to his side, he quickly shook his head at Shen Yao.

The three of them were locked in the stone hall. The fires in the four cracks gradually extinguished, and the flames around the walls burned higher and higher. The flames danced wildly, black smoke billowed up, the heat wave was scorching, and the air became smoky.

Outside the door, a subordinate asked, "Leader, what should we do now?"

The leader snorted and shouted to the door, "Lu Zangming, if you can't escape, if you don't want to be burned to death, let your two rescuers cut off their right arms first and throw them out of the door, and I will send someone to put out the fire and save you." .”

Shen Yao sneered and began to look around.Unexpectedly, Xuan Qi came to Lu Zangming, knelt down heavily, and said, "This subordinate is not good at protecting the master, please punish the master. This subordinate is willing to cut off his own arms and design to escape from trouble."

"!!!" Shen Yao was startled, and stretched out his hand to pull him, saying, "Get up quickly, the owner knows that you have tried your best." As he spoke, he looked at Lu Zangming, who had a tense, cloudy complexion indefinite.

Shen Yao's subordinates exerted force, but Xuan Qi didn't move, and Shen Yao said again, "We haven't reached a dead end yet, there may be more than one mechanism here, let's find a way out quickly."

Lu Zangming finally let go, and said to Xuan Qi, "Get up, find a way out first."

Xuan Qi got up, Shen Yao secretly gave him a look, Xuan Qi lowered his eyes and asked, "Does Mr. Shen have any clues?"

Shen Yao supported his forehead and said, "Let's look around the wall, it seems that the mechanism was triggered there just now."

Lu Zangming stayed in the center of the hall, while Shen Yao and Xuan Qi approached the wall. The man who was shot to death by Lu Zangming just now was lying in the fire, and the smell of burning was already horrible.The heat wave made people unable to open their eyes, Shen Yao raised his hand to cover his face, and heard Xuan Qi cough twice.

"It's okay," Xuan Qi hurriedly said upon seeing Shen Yao's concerned gaze, and told his discovery, "Look, my lord, there is a slightly raised stone brick under each mural!"

Shen Yao looked intently, except for the ground blocked by the corpse, the left and right portraits were facing the ground. As Xuan Qi said, the ignited ring of fire was sandwiched between the murals and raised stone bricks.

They walked around and counted a total of twelve murals, each of which was a portrait of a fairy with a crown on his head, long beards on his face, and a magic weapon in his hand.

"The raised stone bricks should be able to trigger the mechanism, but there are 12 bricks in total. If you touch them randomly, the consequences may be unimaginable." Shen Yao analyzed while wiping the sweat from his head. The air became cloudy. If they come in, they will probably be roasted to death and smoked to death. "Is this related to the nursery rhyme? 'A lion roars and jumps three times, and it runs away into the clouds'. Where are the lions and clouds?"

"Hey, look at the top!" Lu Zangming's voice came.

Shen Yao and Xuan Qi raised their heads. The hall was not well lit just now, so they felt that the top of their heads was pitch black. Now the fire was shining brightly. The ceiling of this hall was actually engraved with complicated astronomical constellation maps.

"This is the star map." Xuan Qi said.

"Xuan Qi, I order you to unlock the mechanism as soon as possible." Lu Zangming ordered.

"Yes!" Xuan Qi walked to the middle, raised his head to look carefully, and then looked around at the murals, pictures of star officials, portraits of immortals, nursery rhymes he heard before... All the clues are intertwined and collided, and the context of the answer is complete from point to surface. light up -

"Villa Master, Young Master, Xuan Qi thinks that if you tap the stone bricks under the mural in the south direction three times, you can get out of trouble!"