Well of Mystery

Cold, really cold, piercingly cold.

Bai Xiuqi found himself back to the original state of pajamas and pajama pants, his feet in slippers stepped on the thick snow, which was almost numb from the cold.

Such a bad but real feeling is obviously no longer a dream.

He was trembling all over, stomping his feet on the spot and looking around.Soon, I found myself standing on a snow-capped wasteland, surrounded by only broken bricks and broken tiles, and a few small trees growing faintly in the distance, supporting a herringbone-shaped work shed. I can't see clearly.

Bai Xiuqi was so cold that he was about to die, so he ran towards the shed trembling.I thought to find a warm and warm place with people first, and then ask about the situation, but when I got to the side of the work shed, I found that there was no one there.

No, it's more than just empty, there's not even a single sign of people living in the shed.On the ground is a grid of large earth pits, dug meticulously, and some small labels can still be seen vaguely in the pits.

Here is the archaeological exploration party!

Bai Xiuqi's brain started working quickly: the presence of an explorer means that this place should be an archaeological excavation site, but there are no obvious security measures around.This means that the archaeological site is probably not in the wild, but in a relatively safe place where thieves cannot easily approach.

Could it be that this is the Zhangling area?

Trouble... Zhang Mausoleum is not open to the public at night. If someone finds out in the mausoleum area, it will be a big trouble.

Thinking of this, Bai Xiuqi shuddered, and quickly opened his pot and got in.

The warm spring breeze, the soft grass... Bai Xiuqi breathed a sigh of relief, and his numb hands and feet felt tingling little by little.

"Ouch..."

The tomb-suppressing beast, which had been locked up alone in Hutian for many days, ran over.Rubbed Bai Xiuqi's head with his furry head.Bai Xiuqi was licked so much that her neck shrunk, and her hands unconsciously stretched into the thick long fur of the tomb-slayer beast.

... so warm.

Relying on this super big hot water bottle that automatically heats up, Bai Xiuqi finally warmed up a little bit.Then I started worrying about what to do next.

Regardless of how I got here just now, the most important thing now is how to get out.The tomb is so big, and I didn't know which tomb's direction it was from a quick glance just now.If you go out of Hutianli rashly, in case you encounter some kind of night watchman or something.On the contrary, it is not easy to explain.

But you can't just sit there like that.It's even harder to explain until dawn.

Under the entanglement between the two, Bai Xiuqi simply put his heart on the line, patted the head of the tomb town beast and asked, "Are you listening to me or not?"

"Aww—" Zhenmu rubbed against Bai Xiuqi.She turned her belly meekly towards it.

"Well, you follow me out. Wherever I tell you to go, you have to go there, and you are not allowed to run around. Do you know?!"

The tomb-suppressing beast lay down in front of Bai Xiuqi in a regular manner, and put its ears down to its head.He raised his eyes again and blinked at him.

"Good boy." Bai Xiuqi also nodded at it: "Let's go."

The crock was reopened, and the tomb-suppressing beast charged Bai Xiuqi out of it, and landed lightly on the snow-covered ground.

The sky ahead was not pitch black.You can see a little farther away, there is a white light from a high-power lighting lamp.

Where there is light, it should be the main road of traffic.If you follow the light, you should be able to walk out in no time.

"Go forward and find a place where no one is around." Bai Xiuqi tightly grasped the long hair on the back of the tomb-slayer beast.Stick it in its ear and issue commands.

The Tomb Slayer didn't act immediately.It raised its head first, sniffing the illusory human breath in the air.Then he raised his paw and ran in the opposite direction.

The biting cold wind was blowing head-on, Bai Xiuqi bent down as much as possible, and buried herself in the thick long fur of the tomb-slayer beast.This feeling can't be said to be very good, but it is obviously much more comfortable than stepping on the snow with bare feet before.

One person and one beast ran forward lightly and soundlessly, bypassing several ruins and bushes, and the lights ahead became brighter and brighter.There are some unusual things that gradually become clear.

...is the "God Wall".

There was a thick gray wall about three stories high, and a giant stood in front of Bai Xiuqi, blocking the way forward.A tall induction lamp was erected on the city wall, illuminating a green brick hut beside the city wall.

Bai Xiuqi noticed a small red-painted door in the center of the divine wall, but even if he didn't go up to observe it carefully, he could be sure that the door must be locked, and it would not be easy to get out from here.

"Idiot, what did you bring me here for?"

Bai Xiuqi patted the tomb town beast on the head, trying to make it turn around and find another way out.However, the tomb-slayer beast seemed to not understand what he said, and opened its mouth and let out a "owwow".

"fool--"

Bai Xiuqi's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly reached out to cover the mouth of the tomb town beast.However, it was already too late at this time, the light was turned on in the hut beside the god wall, and a figure came out tremblingly.

It's the janitor!

Changing into elbows and armpits really didn't give Bai Xiuqi enough chances to react.He could only watch the man in his 40s poke his head out of the room yawning, then his eyes widened and his mouth widened, unable to speak a word.

Oops, it's really over now.

Bai Xiuqi sighed inwardly, but before he could think of any countermeasures, the Tomb Slayer Beast under his crotch moved again, rushed over and slapped the man to the ground.

Is this about killing people? !

Bai Xiuqi quickly jumped off the tomb-suppressing beast, and crawled to the man's side with hands and feet, only to find that the tomb-suppressing beast just pressed the man firmly with its two front paws, and did not hurt at all.

Only then did he regain his composure, trying to recall the technique that Jiang Chenglu had taught him, and then held the man's head and forced him to look at him.

"Look into my eyes and listen to my words...tonight all this you saw was a dream. Forget it now and never think about it again!"

The poor janitor had already been frightened into a dumbfounded chicken, and he didn't react at all.It wasn't until Bai Xiuqi repeated the spell for the fifth time that he rolled his eyes and fell asleep.

This time it finally stopped.

Bai Xiuqi ordered the tomb guard beast to squat in place and not move, and carried the gatekeeper back to the house and put it on the bed.Searched around again.Find a bunch of keys and go back to the root of the god wall.

He tried the keys one after another, but none of them could open the small door under the wall of the gods.It seems that the management of the mausoleum area is quite strict, and the keys for entering and exiting the main roads should be kept in a unified manner.

So what to do?

Bai Xiuqi was worrying when he suddenly heard a clear "click" from the door lock at hand.

……opened? !

He tentatively pulled the big brass lock, and the lock bolt had fallen out of the slot.

what happened?

Bai Xiuqi looked at the tomb-suppressing beast squatting beside him, and the tomb-suppressing beast stuck out its tongue and licked him.

"Could it be... I did this?!"

Without doing anything, Bai Xiuqi simply took the lock off the gate.Take it in your hand and press the latch again.He said "open" silently in his heart.

After two seconds of silence, there was another crisp sound.The door lock opened again.

This is convenient!

Bai Xiuqi was overjoyed, but he didn't think carefully about when he became so capable.Hastily turned around and returned the key to the gatekeeper.Then he led the tomb-slayer beast to open the small door and slipped out.

There is still no movement of people outside the door, but the road under the feet has turned into a hard stone road, as if there are still some uneven lines carved on it.On both sides of the road are neat and wide flower beds, with rows of tall trees growing.

Because it is winter.The leaves have already fallen off, leaving only dormant branches swaying slowly with the breeze.It looked like some kind of malicious deep-sea monster.

This place looks familiar...

Bai Xiuqi frowned and thought about it, his heart suddenly brightened.

Isn't this the path where Su Zi ran into a "ghost"?

Once I had that thought, something started to dawn on me.Bai Xiuqi turned around on the spot.He re-examined the door he just walked out of.

Could it be that Su Zi saw the big bloody eyes through the crack of this door?

Bai Xiuqi took a deep breath and realized that some subtle things were starting to piece together.certainly.A new question also arises - what is the hall in the ruins inside this door, what is calling him here in the dark?

Can't just walk away like this.

Bai Xiuqi walked towards the divine wall again.Go back to the small door and peep through the crack of the door just like Su Zi did back then.

It was still the same infinite lamp, or that simple little brick house, and a light snow began to fall from the sky, making everything look more and more peaceful.

Bai Xiuqi just looked into the crack of the door quietly for more than ten seconds, and was just beginning to feel a little bored, when suddenly a big blood-red eye appeared in the crack of the door.

"—I'll go! When did you run over! Come back!"

Bai Xiuqi glared angrily at the tomb-slayer beast on the opposite side of the door, and ordered in a low voice.

After just seven or eight seconds, the tall but not bulky tomb-slayer beast easily climbed over the high god wall, and jumped to Bai Xiuqi's side to lick his face.Bai Xiuqi straightened its head and looked at its eyes, they were as red as blood.

Could it be that what Su Zi saw through the crack of the door that day were the eyes of a tomb-slayer beast?

This is really a windfall!

At this moment, a series of questions and hypotheses began to arise one after another in Bai Xiuqi's mind, urging him to climb over the wall of the gods again and return to the mausoleum to find out.

But the coldness and reason made him make another choice.

It's better to go back to warm up and change into decent clothes first.

In the stillness of the snowy night, the vigorous tomb-suppressing beast shuttled through the wild mountains and forests, and galloped silently towards the town to the west.

When the straight roads and concrete buildings became simple silhouettes in the dark, Bai Xiuqi seemed to see the figure of those dead soldiers guarding Gongzi Han thousands of years ago, running from the night to the dawn...