Daily life of civil servants in the prefectural government

They are in a dark closed space.

The air in the nose is dull and turbid, and every breath feels like a fine sieve. While getting oxygen, even the uncomfortable particulate matter in the air is inhaled into the lungs.

Su Xiyan rubbed his nose uncomfortably, he relaxed his body slightly, and let himself half lean against the wall.The cold and rough feeling penetrated slowly into his body through his clothes, and goosebumps quickly exploded on the back of his hands to express his protest.

His fingertips suddenly touched a piece of damp and cold, Su Xiyan turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, and the rough cement plastered surface almost at the same level as his head flashed past his eyes.

They are now in a low and cramped passage, the ground and walls are all blanks that have been smeared with cement. Every five or six meters, they can only see a light bulb hanging from a wire on the cement surface above their heads, like a strange And the ugly decorations, wrapped in a thick layer of dust, calmly display the simplicity.

The person who built this passage seems to be a very strange person. He handled this passage very roughly, and he obviously didn't take it to heart.But on the other hand, this passage is not as bad as it looks on the surface.

Su Xiyan reached out and touched the place where he just felt wet, the tentacles were slippery, with some water stains, the feeling was a bit strange.

"What are you looking at?"

With a warm arm on his shoulders, Su Xiyan smiled and raised his head, showing Cui Zhao what he just discovered.

In the white palm, a piece of dark green moss was lying quietly, with the two finger prints he just pinched in the middle.

"We're underground."

This statement is a declarative sentence, without doubt but a firm statement.Cui Zhao didn't deny it either, he picked up the small piece of moss that was smaller than a potato chip, rubbed it into a ball, and flicked it lightly.The small dark green plant fell into the darkness, rolled a few times in the dust and disappeared.

Su Xiyan thought he was cheap, and didn't think much about it. After hitting him, he squatted in front of the wall holding the flashlight.On that piece of cement surface, there were a few irregularly undulating fine seams, which should have cracked due to the fact that the cement surface could not bear the pressure.On the edge of that slit, there is a row of small dewdrops, which have seeped in from the outside.

In Su Xiyan's eyes, not only the little drops of water seeped in, but also a layer of strong earth atmosphere.The gas of the black gas infiltrated from the outside in a chaotic manner, probably due to its relatively dense mass, it fell vertically on the ground and rolled into a ball with the dust.

If I had to describe it, it felt like a piece of dry ice was placed on the edge of this wall, and smoke was blowing out, entangled around his ankles, but the smoke was black.

Su Xiyan reached out to grab a handful, and when he touched the tip of his nose, he smelled a slightly cold smell with an earthy smell, and then it dissipated in a flash.

This is the feeling given by the extremely strong earth atmosphere. It seems that the place where they are now is at least 20 meters below the ground.Building such a not-so-short passage in this kind of place is not something that a rude plasterer can easily do.

Su Xiyan didn't see that when he was checking the earth's qi, Cui Zhao shook his fingers in disgust, and a wisp of black smoke that looked similar to the earth's qi slowly dissipated between his fingers.

"We have searched both sides of the passage, but we have not found the exit."

The people from the Beastmaster Sect took their spirit beasts around and came back to join them who stayed behind. Their faces were not very good-looking, and the spirit beasts huddled around their masters whining, looking very disturbed.

"There will be no exit here."

Su Xiyan patted the dust off his hands and stood up straight.He had told them this sentence before, but they didn't believe it, so he asked them to go around by themselves, but they didn't find anything.

"Remember the ruins we saw over the playground? We should be under the ruins now."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, the experience along the way made them deeply convinced and awed Su Xiyan and the others in their hearts.Hearing him speak, even if there is no evidence, he will subconsciously follow up and think, instead of denying it the first time.

"How did you find out?" A disciple of the Beast Sect asked cautiously. He obviously looked much older than Su Xiyan, but he naturally used the word you.

"I didn't see it, but I guessed it. I know a little more than you, and it is more convenient to speculate."

Su Xiyan waved his hand to signal him not to be so nervous. He knew that they were all curious about what happened just now, but he didn't dare to ask more because he was afraid that some of his skills would be involved.In the sect, this kind of person who asks the other party's details without authorization is the most likely to be disliked.

Su Xiyan didn't grow up in the sect. Although he knew their taboos, he didn't really care about them.So he straightforwardly told all the things he and Cui Zhao had encountered upstairs, and the main object of description was the teaching building and the reading room, which obviously already had sanity.

"Before Cui Zhao told me that they made puppets using the long-lost puppetry technique, and I was a bit puzzled. To be honest, I am the last heir of the puppet master. I didn’t count any of my colleagues who were still alive, so I turned my target to the reading room.”

Su Xiyan lightly recited the name of puppet master's heir to himself, completely ignoring the arrest warrants still hanging on those sects and the government.He took out his mobile phone and showed everyone the chat records between himself and Guo Chenfei.

The content above was basically that he asked Guo Chenfei, who were the names of the two puppeteer couples who combined Chinese and Western styles, and where they lived at home.

As expected of an encyclopedia of humanoids, Guo Chenfei quickly reported the answer.

The residence of the puppeteer is exactly the same as that of the Dachi Library. Although it sounds a bit ridiculous, if there are no descendants or successors, when he is about to die, he will write a book of his lifelong learning and donate it to the library.This kind of miraculous choice is placed on someone in the Taoist sect, and it is not too surprising to think about it carefully.

The old Taoist priest who saved Su Xiyan wrote this Dao Dharma analysis before he died and asked him to stuff it in the library. Because there were too many private goods in it, it was returned many times, and finally it could only be stuffed in Su Xiyan's home safe.Madly bragging about his own Taoist temple and recruiting disciples for the Taoist temple by the way, Su Xiyan said that he is not actually a member of this Taoist temple, and his heart is always dedicated to the motherland.

The library that was burned but has given birth to a little wisdom, and the puppet books hidden in the library, plus those cult believers who were made into puppet.

A guess that sounded even more unreliable appeared in his mind, those dolls should be made by that reading room.

Novices are on the road, and they have succeeded with their talents, but they have no way to control them, so they can only stalemate each other.In the end, because those cult believers kept abducting children to commit suicide, they used that power to completely suppress the newly born spiritual house, and then the dolls made dolls again with the help of other powers, and finally turned the reading room into that appearance.

The above are all Su Xiyan's guesses, which seem reasonable, but there is no actual evidence.So when he was on the top before, he tried it by mistake.

That little yellow flower was the way he used it to test the reading room. If he remembered, then he might help.Su Xiyan always remembered what the librarian uncle said back then, he said that there were so many plants in those plants, and quite a few bloomed, it was strange that only one flower bloomed in that pot.

Although placed in front of the window, there is no guarantee that the plants will receive enough light.Many plants need to be moved out to bask in the sun and watered, but the one that bloomed with a small yellow flower is very strange. The flowers are quite few, but people have always been very energetic, and there is no wilting at all.

The uncle administrator studied it carefully, and was shocked to find that the plant would rotate every day.It's not that the plant itself has a positive direction and rotates by itself, but it rotates together with the flowerpot.

Like a Peking duck, it receives light evenly every day, and the flowers bloom brilliantly and beautifully.

Everyone thought it was moved by someone who loves flowers secretly. Some students who often come to the library wrote this incident into a touching essay.Only Su Xiyan, who was holding the homework book, noticed the strange traces left on the flowerpot. He thought it was some ghost that moved it secretly. Now it seems that the reading room of the book may have been sane for many years.

Looking at the backside of the ID photo, Su Xiyan couldn't help sighing at the sentence written crookedly on the blank side.

[The little yellow flower is beautiful, thank you. 】

A book reading room that likes little yellow flowers, this taste is quite cute.

After setting off the smoke bombs, Su Xiyan continued to look at the passage in front of them. It is impossible for the reading room to send them to a desperate situation where they cannot get out, so there must be an exit here, but it will not be in the passage.

Cui Zhao silently followed behind him, compared with the people who were focused on looking for the exit, his attention was more on his feet.He was silently wary of something.

A disciple of the Beast Master Sect quietly poked their team leader.

"Master, he said he is the last descendant of the puppeteer." The rewards for the puppeteer on the arrest warrant are super high, should they report this to the head when they go back?

The disciples who asked this question were not all for those rewards, this type of arrest warrant would be suspected of betraying the sect if they encountered it.How unfair it would be to bear such a blame for no reason at that time, but Su Xiyan is their savior again, without him and Cui Zhao, the group of them would probably have collapsed.

As soon as he mentioned it, several disciples changed their faces, full of confusion.

Their team leader uncle slapped his thigh and let out a long sigh.

"Say it, of course you have to. How can you do it if you don't talk about it. We have to talk quickly. You can also receive part of the reward when you meet the puppet master's successor."

Really want to say?

All the disciples looked at each other, looking at the honest and honest face of their uncle, there was always something in their hearts that silently collapsed, didn't they say that uncle Chen is the most loyal?

The loyal Master Chen showed a gritted expression.

"The underworld is so tight-lipped that it took away all the puppeteer's heirs without revealing the slightest word. When we get back, we'll go straight to the leader's hall and get the things quickly. If it's too late, that stingy old man A bald head will definitely not hair anything!"

Disciples: ...

"Then shall we do nothing?"

"What else do you want to do?" Uncle Chen, the team leader, cast a questioning look, "Everyone is our own, just watch, all the wanted orders for puppet masters will be withdrawn when we go back."

At the end, he couldn't help but smack his lips and sigh.

"The people in the underworld are too quick to start. It's great to have a big family and a big career. I also want to have a puppeteer as a fellow." How majestic when you go out to do tasks!

Disciples: ...No, uncle, that's not what you said before you came to do the task!

Wasn't it you who pushed us to say that we must never lose to Longhushan and the others?What else is there to win the first place and strive to welcome the younger brothers and younger sisters? We already made up our slogans back then!

Disappointed disciples turned their heads to look at Longhushan, only to find that their only female disciple was tossing back and forth with her mobile phone.

"Why is there still no signal? This is not right. Brother Su can chat with people. Could it be that the mobile phone signal reception is not good?"

"Why can't you make some money? Aren't you the latest Big Apple? Are you worthy of your worth?!"

Siri showed a proud smile on the screen of Su Xiyan's phone.

Su Xiyan was holding a flashlight, observing the passage in front of them, or rather the heavy iron doors inside the passage.In this not-so-long passage, there are a total of three iron doors, and the thick rust and blood stains almost make them blend with the concrete surface of the passage.

The three iron doors are separated by a little distance, except for the door with thirteen on the door plate, the other two are written storage and rest respectively.Among them, the storage looks better, but the rest is the same as Thirteen, and it makes people feel a little uncomfortable to get close.It was a sticky and disgusting feeling that seemed to be wrapped around a person's neck.

An old-fashioned iron lock hung heavily on the doorknob.After experiencing time and the humid climate underground, those iron locks have been completely covered by iron-red rust, and they thought they were weights at a glance.

When they first discovered the iron gates, they had already tried to open them, but these specially made iron gates seemed to have really grown together with the wall.No matter how much they pulled, they couldn't pull the iron gate open. Longhushan and Yushouzong were not the kind of sects that were very good at fighting. The attack methods in the hands of the two factions were basically peach wood swords, talisman papers and spirit beasts.

None of these three things could pry open a heavy iron door. The people from the Beast Master Sect went to check both sides of the passage, and they were trying to pry open the door here.As a result, it is conceivable that there is no way at all.

A group of priests from Longhu Mountain were at a loss for what to do with the three big iron gates. They were in a dilemma. Seeing Su Xiyan and the others approaching, they immediately followed with bright eyes.

Maybe these two ghost messengers can find a way to open it up!

Under their attentive gaze, Cui Zhao stretched out a finger, like poking tofu, and easily inserted it into the iron gate.The lightness of that gesture was shocking, but soon he frowned and retracted his fingers.

"It's too thick, and it didn't hit the bottom."

The heavy iron door was surrounded by people, and a finger of more than ten centimeters failed to pierce the iron door open. Who built this door in the first place?Did he think he was working on a bank vault door?

I don't want money!

"That's not right," Su Xiyan's murmur drew everyone's attention, and he ignored the mess on the ground, half lying on his stomach as soon as he lifted his clothes, pinching an arm bone and squinting his eyes to look back and forth.

The white bones on the ground were discovered at the beginning. After careful study, the person died of natural causes and there were no other injuries on his body, and then they were put back to their original positions.Except for the skull that Gulu Gulu rolled a certain distance and was picked up by Bai Yueying and straightened up solemnly, the other bones remained basically the same.

Su Xiyan didn't pay attention at first, but now she realized that the posture of this person after death looked very strange.

He stretched out his hands as if trying to reach something.The upper body has already bent over a certain distance, but the lower body is still facing the direction of the iron gate.

In other words, he actually wanted to reach the iron gate in front of him. It is not difficult to imagine the tragedy of the poor man being shut out by his companions. So what is the last thing he wants to reach?

Su Xiyan looked forward along his arm, and there was an empty passage in front of him, there was not even a corner that could be explored.Then all that's left is...

Su Xiyan raised his head, and on the top of the passage not far away, a round light bulb hung there quietly like a small gourd, motionless.He pulled the light bulb with the arm bone in his hand, and the light bulb turned up and down, sending up a cloud of gray smoke.

The place here is small, even if Su Xiyan dodged quickly, he still sucked in a few mouthfuls of dust, he coughed a few times in discomfort, his eye circles were choked and reddened.

Holding a sky-blue mask in one hand and handing it to him, Su Xiyan looked up suspiciously, just in time to see Cui Zhao's red eyes that were also choked.

As a monster, his senses are much sharper than that of humans, so the only mask the two of them wore was already taken by Su Xiyan for him.But this guy has been stubbornly refusing to use it, Su Xiyan has no choice but to let him go.

Now he donated the mask again, Su Xiyan thought about it and still took it.

Putting the mask on his face, he turned around and went to Bai Yueying to ask for a tissue, and asked Cui Zhao to cover his nose, which would make it easier.There were tears in his eyes, and he didn't know what he was stalemate about.

"Number one."

He called out, and a certain one that had been pitifully shrinking in the shadows finally turned its head. He Han was beside him, and turned back very naturally, with a sad face.

"puff."

Someone couldn't hold back their laughter for a moment, and laughed softly.

No wonder they were laughing, Su Xiyan almost couldn't hold back, a piece of white paper towel was stuck on No. [-]'s face, and the eyes and nose were pinched out with his fingers, and he was torn into thin strips because of the outbreak. Clothes, now the whole person is like that kind of... not very good-looking performance artist.

"Master qwq, I've become so ugly."

No. [-] was sobbing, wiping away tears while quietly covering his crotch, with an aggrieved look of shamelessness.

The growth of the bone spur was too amazing, except for a little underwear, he had nothing left on his body. If He Han hadn't been loyal enough to contribute a coat, I'm afraid he would have to show his underwear now.

"It's okay, it should be a change after the reorganization of the body. If you like that face so much, we can go to Mr. Zhang and ask for a mask when we go back."

Su Xiyan said comfortingly.

No. [-] nodded, sobbing, and walked over obediently clutching his coat.

"Master, what do I want to do?"

"Find out what's behind that light bulb."

"Oh." No. [-] nodded obediently, reached out and stuffed his hand into the wall above the light bulb.He actually dug out a hole in the seemingly solid wall.

"Hey, is there a bug biting me?"

No. [-] screamed, and took out the beetle that had been twisting desperately from the hole. He didn't even look at it, just threw it into his mouth and chewed it.After his hand was pulled out, a black mass fell out of the hole and hit the ground directly, making a crisp sound.

Cui Zhao picked it up first.

Irregular zigzag openings, yellowed and floating rust.

This is a bunch of keys.