my lord baby

In the cave that can only accommodate two people walking together, the more you walk, the more you feel bottomless. If there are no lights on the side of the cave, you may think that this is an endless tunnel leading to hell.

"Phew, I can't move anymore. We've been walking inside for an hour. We can't get out, right?" Xiao Yun leaned against the side of the stone wall and looked at him wringing his fingers, counting lightly at the corner of his mouth. Murong Yuchen.

Seeing that Murong Yuchen was still looking up and looking around, muttering to himself, pointing and touching with both hands, he didn't hear himself speak at all.

"Hey, can you say something, it's been an hour, you don't say a word, don't ignore me like this, can you?" All the boredom and impatience in my heart were released at the moment.

Xiao Yun was originally an extroverted woman. When she was free at home, she always disguised herself as a man and went out. Whenever she saw any injustice, she would shovel it all away... and she couldn't stand loneliness the most.

But as soon as he entered this labyrinth-like cave, the young man next to him didn't say a word, just walked away, and concentrated on looking at every place in the cave, sometimes frowning, sometimes the corners of his mouth slightly curved, sometimes in deep thought, Sometimes he danced and danced, completely immersed in his own world, at first he thought he was looking for a way to break through the level, and didn't bother him, but an hour passed, and the expression remained the same.

Seeing that Murong Yuchen was still in deep thought, Xiao Yun sighed helplessly, stomped where he was standing angrily, but this stomp made Murong Yuchen yell.

"I found it..." After speaking, he pulled Xiao Yun away, squatted on the ground, and stretched out his hand to scoop up the place where Xiao Yun stomped just now.

I saw a fist-sized stone popping out.

"This is?" Xiao Yun also squatted down in surprise, pointing at the stone in front of him with a bewildered expression.

"This is another passage..." Murong Yuchen glanced at Xiao Yun happily, then stretched out his palms and pressed on the stone.

In an instant, the stone wall that Xiao Yun was leaning on just now turned into a stone door, which slowly opened to both sides.

Then a curved and narrow cave appeared in front of the two of them... At first glance, there were still oil lamps lit at intervals, but the light was much dimmer, and there was a dizzying unpleasant smell faintly odor.

Seeing Xiao Yun, he opened his eyes wide and looked closely at Murong Yuchen.

"How did you know there was a secret door here?"

Murong Yuchen supported the stone wall and stood up, smiled softly and said, "Because I counted the lights... I have counted seven thousand seven seven seven seven seven seven lights in this hour, and this is exactly seven thousand seven hundred and seventy eight."

"If I remember correctly, we should have been walking around this cave, and more than once. Is there more than 7000 lights of yours? Besides, how do you know that there must be dark lights here?" door, not under the other lamps."

After listening to Xiao Yun's words, the corners of Murong Yuchen's eyes narrowed into crescent moons, and his pale mouth slightly lifted up. Xiao Yun was taken aback by a cute and gentle smile, and his heart slowed down for a moment.

"Because I have a mark, you see." Murong Yuchen pointed to a small stone in a blind corner under the lamp beside him and continued: "That is the mark I left when you and I started walking, every time I pass A stone will be placed under a lamp, and even though we are still going back and forth in this maze, I can still see what kind of maze it is."

Pretending to be mysterious, he put his hands behind his back, with a proud expression of asking me if he wants to know.

Xiao Yun wanted to be patient and didn't want him to succeed, but her curiosity made her heart itch.

Immediately he sighed in his heart and asked, "Speak up, don't be a fool."

"When I was a child, my mother used to play some simple games with me... Among them, counting lights, counting steps, and seven lines are the most familiar to me."

"What are the lights, counting steps, and the seven elements?" Xiao Yun asked with eyes full of questions.

"The so-called lamp marking is to place a certain number of lamps on the ground and arrange them in a circle, then cover your eyes, turn the number of circles equal to the number of lamps, and then let them recognize which one is the head and which one is the tail." .And counting steps is, on the premise of playing the lamp game, put something under one of the lamps, and then use the size of the steps to measure the distance to find out the location of the thing." Xiao Yun said that the eyes still A look of confusion appeared.

Murong Yuchen paused for a moment and continued: "The words of the seven lines simply mean that one thing is placed every seven steps, and the number of things to be placed must be related to the number seven at the end. It is related to such a repeated cycle. It will be a labyrinth, and if people go in, it’s like being in a pocket, they can get in, but they can’t get out, no matter how you search, it will be fruitless.”

Hearing a flash of light in Xiao Yun's eyes here, he immediately clapped his hands and shouted loudly: "You mean we entered a maze of seven rows?"

"Well, that's right. This maze is called Seven Lights Walking. It is a maze built according to the number of lights, counting steps, and seven lines... At first, I felt that the distance between each light was a bit regular, and then I counted each light. The steps and distances of each lamp...I also put different marks on the corners of each lamp...Finally, I counted all the steps and the total number of lamps...I found that there is a gap between them. law."

"What rule?"

"Each light is seven steps apart, and every time we go around, seven marked lights are repeated, and then seven unmarked lights appear, so I thought, it's all about seven, Suddenly I remembered the three games I played with my mother when I was a child, so I decided to count the lights, as long as I counted all the lights, the answer would come naturally.”

When Murong Yuchen said this, he was even more certain in his heart that the owner of Zui Milou must have a great relationship with him, because no one outside of the Qideng Xingbu knew about it. Yes, because I was young back then, my mother divided it into three parts and played with it for myself. No one seemed to know about this maze except myself and my mother. people.

Thinking of this, Murong Yuchen couldn't help frowning slightly.

"Then how do you know there must be a secret door here?" Xiao Yun's words made Murong Yuchen withdraw his thoughts.

"Because the exit is the entrance, we started here from the beginning, and there is one more lamp, which is both the lamp head and the lamp tail, so I concluded that this is the exit." After finishing speaking, regardless of Xiao Yun's thinking face, pull Then the person walked into the stone gate.

But Ouyang Lie and Zhong Li's group followed the three men in green clothes and walked around the tree in seven turns and eight turns, as if they were walking some kind of formation, very cautious.

But at this moment, the sound of fighting came from the front.

Xiaodouzi saw a familiar figure in blue and white clothes through the dense trees with sharp eyes.

He jumped forward without saying a word, and shouted: "Xue Yi, stop!"

Hearing the voice, the man in blue and white shirt immediately turned around and jumped to Xiaodouzi's side.

Sure enough, it was Xue Yi with a veil on his face, and the five yellow-clothed men who fought with Xue Yi were also stopped by the three green-clothed guide men who rushed over at this moment.

"What's going on?" One of the men in green yelled softly at the five men in yellow in front of him.

"Speak to Lord Xiao, we are here to defend the formation, and suddenly someone entered the forest, so we fought." One of the men in yellow clothes stepped forward and said.

After hearing this, the man in green with the long Xiao in his hand swept Xueyi's body, then his brows loosened, and he waved back the five people, standing aside without saying a word.

"Where's the young master?" Seeing that the five people who left didn't bother him any more, he turned around and looked at Xiaodouzi, but he couldn't see the whiteness, and his heart immediately became anxious.

"Young master, he has entered three levels alone." Xiaodouzi said, and was immediately punched in the face by Xue Yi.

"How can you let him go alone? If something happens, how will you and I explain to the Lord and Madam, Snow Ghost!"

Snow ghost, Xiaodouzi's body stiffened immediately to the point of trembling when he heard this name... Ignoring the blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, Xiaodouzi's eyes were immediately covered with a dead silence, and his whole person seemed to have changed in an instant, lifeless.

"I thought that with the three of you by his side, it shouldn't be a big deal. I just wanted to explore the reality of Zui Mi Lou first. Even if I can't get through three levels and six questions, I can snatch the flower in the snow, but you let him Go through the level alone." Xueyi glanced at Xiaodouzi, Nanyue, and Qiannu with a pair of angry eyes.

Nanyue and Qiannu's expressions immediately showed guilt.

In the end, he looked at Ouyang Lie and Zhongli with hatred.

"Hmph, since the young master met the two of you, nothing good has happened." After speaking, he turned to the three men in green clothes behind him and said, "What happened to my young master this time, I, Xueyi, will never let it go." After speaking, he glared at Xiaodouzi, turned around and jumped out of the woods.

Seeing Xiaodouzi's expression of silence and dead silence, Qing'er stepped forward to comfort him and said, "You understand Xueyi's character better than any of us, he is just worried about the master, so don't be like this, let's go in quickly, Maybe the master is waiting for us now." Hearing this, Xiaodouzi regained his composure and nodded slightly.

But after Zhong Li and Ouyang Lie heard Xue Yi's scolding words, their eyes flashed with self-blame, but they only flashed and became firm again.

Zhong Li stepped forward and smiled at the three men in Tsing Yi: "Please come forward and lead the way."

After hearing this, the three nodded calmly and continued to lead the way.

Everyone remained silent and followed closely behind.

in the cave.

In the winding and narrow passage, Murong Yuchen and Xiao Yun walked for half an hour, the lights inside were very dim, and the damp stone walls gave off a faintly disgusting pungent enzyme smell.

"Hey, maybe I went wrong again, the taste in here is delicious...uh..." Before Xiao Yun finished speaking, he saw the hand holding his nose and mouth immediately moved away from his mouth, bent down and lowered his head to dry his mouth. vomit...

After seeing it, Murong Yuchen exhaled with an ugly face, and looked around the stone wall again feebly...Suddenly, he felt a pain in his lower abdomen, and then Yihua staggered a few steps aside, and then a feeling of nausea immediately emerged from the bottom of his heart, He bent down and vomited.

When Xiao Yun saw it, he immediately strengthened his mind and stepped forward to support him.

"How, how?"

Murong Yuchen took a few breaths tiredly, and said helplessly and aggrieved: "It seems that we have to vomit all the way out, it's really disgusting... How dare you use such a smelly cave as... an exit .” After speaking, the corner of his mouth was pale and he gasped for breath.

"Are you sure this is the only exit?" Xiao Yun asked with a hint of doubt and disbelief.

"If I'm not mistaken, along this cave to the end, there will be a source of water... so the third level should be related to water."

Murong Yuchen was very annoyed, because when he picked up water, he felt an inexplicable fear in his heart, and it seemed that nothing good would happen to him when he touched water.

Suddenly something came to mind, and he immediately opened his eyes wide and looked at Xiao Yun: "Do you know how to swim?"

Xiao Yun saw Murong Yuchen looking straight at him with watery eyes, his heart beat faster, and after a while he blushed and said: "I will."

When Murong Yuchen heard this, he felt relieved.

He let out a long breath, and said lazily, "It's up to you later... It seems that the third level is sad."