Can't speak

Inside the door is a darker stone room, with night pearls also embedded on the top, but it can only be seen clearly that this is a long and narrow place, with a width of several feet from left to right, but only five or six steps from front to back.

The two stood at the entrance, looking at the empty stone room and the twelve doors separated by an arm's length on the opposite wall, they couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

"Ning Jian?" After a long while, Su Yangui called out in a low voice.

Ning Jian ignored him, but just pushed him away without any trace, while looking around.

Su Yangui followed his gaze, only to find that there was also a door on the left and right of the entrance, which seemed to be connected to the remaining doors in the previous stone chamber.

"The doors on the left and right probably correspond to the other two doors in the stone room just now?" Su Yangui walked to the door on the left, saw a small golden ring beside the door, and couldn't help but pull it .Unexpectedly, the door slid open silently.

"Be careful!" Ning Jian dragged Su Yangui behind him, with the dagger out of the sheath in his hand, looking at the door with a vigilant expression.

But there was no movement inside the door, there was only a short narrow passage inside, Ning Jian raised his sword and walked in, Su Yangui followed, at the end, there was also a door with the same golden ring beside it, Ning Jian After hesitating for a while, he pulled like Su Yangui, and the door opened.

After waiting for a while, there was still no movement, the two carefully probed, and saw that the door was indeed the original stone room, the two were slightly relieved, Ning Jian pulled the golden ring again, and the door closed again silently.

Su Yangui also cleverly closed the other two doors, walked back to Ning Jian, and heard him say: "It seems that there are only these twelve doors to go forward."

"But we don't know which way to go?"

"I don't know what's behind each door." Ning Jian walked over while talking.

There were all gold rings around the door, Ning Jian took a breath and pulled the gold ring on one of the doors.

"Get out of the way." The last sentence was called to Su Yangui, and he himself took a step back at the same time.

The door opened in response, but nothing shot out from inside. Ning Jian was a little confused, and looked back at Su Yangui. Su Yangui thought for a while, then ran to the other side, and pulled the golden rings on the two doors. The doors were also opened, but there was still silence.

Ning Jian took another two steps back and looked at the three opened doors. Inside the doors was the same narrow passage, very dark, so she couldn't see clearly what was going on inside, let alone where the narrow passage led to and where it ended.

"There is also a golden ring inside. It should be possible to open and close the door inside." Su Yangui walked around the door curiously, and finally said.

Ning Jian didn't respond. After thinking for a long time, she opened the other doors and found the same narrow passage inside.

"Looks like we have to try our luck." Su Yangui smiled, "I wonder if we can pick the right one."

Ning Jian pondered for a while, and said, "You choose."

Su Yangui suddenly looked up at him, the smile on his lips faded.

Ning Jian didn't believe him.

Doubt he knows the right way, so let him choose.Because no one would choose a path to death knowing the truth.

Lowering her eyes slightly, Su Yangui smiled again, and pointed casually: "This one, don't blame me if you die."

Ning Jian didn't speak, closed the other doors one by one, and walked to the door Su Yangui pointed at.

Su Yangui started looking for Huo Shi, Ning Jian waited for him for a while, and finally couldn't help it: "You don't need to be so troublesome." After saying that, he turned over and jumped up, raised the dagger to the top, and a ray of light fell into his palm , When he returned to the ground, Su Yangui saw clearly that Ning Jian picked out the night pearl from the stone room.

Originally there were only two night pearls in the stone room, but Ning Jian picked out one, and the surrounding area became even darker. Ning Jian took a step inside: "Let's go."

Su Yangui turned her head to look at the remaining Ye Mingzhu, then followed closely, and closed the door according to Ning Jian's instructions.

With the light of the night pearl, you can see that the walls on both sides of the narrow path are neatly repaired, but the top is higher than expected. If you walk in the narrow path, if you don't deliberately step lightly, you will hear chaotic echoes.

The road was too narrow for the two of them to walk side by side, Ning Jian walked ahead with Ye Mingzhu and sword in hand, Su Yangui couldn't pass him to the front, so he could only follow behind, keeping an eye out for any movement.

The narrow road was very long. The two of them walked all the way. At first, they could vaguely feel that the road was going in a certain direction. Later, they gradually became numb, and they couldn't tell which direction they were going.

The longer he walked, the more exhausted his body became. In the dark, Su Yangui could hear Ning Jian's breathing getting heavier and heavier, as if he was trying to endure something.

"Ning Jian..." Su Yangui reached out to support Ning Jian's shoulder with some worry.

Ning Jian didn't answer, but her breathing seemed to be slowly returning to normal.

"Ning Jian, Ning Jian!" Su Yangui calmed down a little, and his voice became a little more excited.

Ning Jian turned a deaf ear to it.

"Ning Jian." Su Yangui smiled and dragged his voice to the elder.

"If you talk again, I'll cut off your tongue." Ning Jian finally replied, her words were flat, and there was no sense of threat at all.

Su Yangui shut her mouth obediently, but smiled even more happily.

The hand was still on Ning Jian's shoulder, and after walking for a while, he couldn't help but slowly touched his arm.

"If you touch it again, your hand will be cut off."

Su Yangui immediately stopped, reluctantly retracted half an inch, and then pushed back reluctantly.

Ning Jian didn't struggle anymore, Su Yangui naturally supported his shoulders and quickly followed him.

In the hand is the warmth of that person, and the slight shaking caused by walking is like a hand that is twitching in the bottom of my heart, which makes people feel itchy.

Su Yangui's hands tightened tightly, and he began to recite silently "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form", but there seemed to be a demon in his body, and he chanted "Ning Jian, Ning Jian" one after another, Su Yangui even narrowed his eyes.

After walking for a long time, they vaguely saw a door in front of them. The two stopped in front of the door, not sure what was behind the door.

After a long silence, Ning Jian said, "I don't know what's behind this door. You back up, and I'll open the door. If something happens, you run back."

Su Yangui was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and swiftly pressed a kiss on Ning Jian's face.

Before Ning Jian came back to his senses, Su Yangui had already squeezed in front of him, reaching out to pull the golden ring: "How can I let you do this kind of thing!"

Seeing him pulling the golden ring, Ning Jian could no longer stop it, so she could only draw the sword with a clang, and stared at the door as if facing a formidable enemy.

The door opened silently, but there was no movement inside.

The two looked at each other, Su Yangui poked his probe inside the door, it was pitch black inside.

Ning Jian seemed to have noticed it too, and walked in with Ye Mingzhu, followed by Su Yangui.

The light gradually spread in the darkness, and the surrounding outlines gradually appeared, but both of them couldn't help but gasp.

Inside the door is still a stone room, the room is long and narrow, with twelve doors lined up on one side of the wall and three doors on the other side, which is exactly the same as the previous stone room.

"Is this... the place we were in before?"

Ning Jian frowned: "Not necessarily, maybe it's just the same place."

While speaking, he walked to the opposite door and pulled the golden ring of the door on the left. The door opened in response. As expected, there was still a short passage inside. Ning Jian frowned and exited, pulled the golden ring and closed the door again. Looking around, he finally jumped up and didn't fall until he touched the roof of the room.

"It seems that it is really the place we were before, and there is a hole left after I dug away the Ye Mingzhu." Ning Jian pondered for a while, and then said, "The remaining Ye Mingzhu is not there, I am afraid someone else came in gone."

Su Yangui said, "If they followed the same path as us, wouldn't they also come back here?"

"So we have to leave here immediately." Ning Jian said so, but her face was serious.

Su Yangui understood what he was thinking: "Let's choose another door now, maybe we will meet them on the way too?"

Ning Jian was silent for a long time: "These doors may not all be connected. Maybe it's just that the two doors we walked through are connected. If other doors lead to different places, we may not run into each other. Choose a door and walk in. , is safer than staying here." He turned around and closed the exit door, and said, "Choose another door."

Su Yangui looked at him with a smile: "Ning Jian, count from one to twelve, how much do you like?"

Ning Jian looked at him blankly, and finally said one word: "Three."

Su Yangui smiled and turned around to count: "Then this one."

Only then did Ning Jian understand his intention, he hesitated and walked over, Su Yangui held Ye Mingzhu in his hand and walked ahead, Ning Jian tried to pass him several times, but was blocked all the time, so he had to give up.

This road was very similar to the previous one. Although they didn't meet anyone, the road seemed to be longer. The two of them ate dry food halfway, and walked forward for a long time before they saw the end.

It was still the same door, and the hearts of both of them sank slightly.Glancing at each other, Su Yangui carefully pulled the golden ring, the door was silent and pitch black.

The two walked in cautiously, the light of the night pearl quickly spread, the scene in front of them looked very familiar, and they returned to the starting point.

Su Yan returned to the ground and sat down: "There are twelve gates, you have to walk six times to find the right way, right?"

"Assuming that one path is correct, we won't come back here, but in this case, the remaining eleven doors can't be matched in pairs, so at least two doors should go forward. "Ning Jian said calmly, "I just don't know whether these two doors can lead to the future, or lead to death."

"It's such a long road, I'd rather die than go again." Su Yangui sat there like a child.

Ning Jian ignored him, just took the Ye Mingzhu in his hand: "I want to go forward, you want to follow me or stay, it's up to you."

Su Yangui suddenly jumped up and rubbed against him: "Of course I will go with you, even if I die, it would be worthwhile to die with you. And you won't be able to find the treasure without me!"

Ning Jian seemed to have gotten used to his rhetoric, so she just glanced at him, opened a door and walked in.

Su Yangui closed the door with a smile and followed behind, squeezed in front of him, grabbed Ye Mingzhu, saw Ning Jian frowning at her, grinned, and stuffed Ye Mingzhu into Ning Jian's arms, secretly stuffing it into Ning Jian's arms. Touched it, and said seriously: "It's too bright, it's easy to be spotted, let's hide it first."

Ning Jian had no objection, but just glanced at Su Yangui's hand, Su Yangui slowly put the Ye Mingzhu away before pulling her hand back, and even patted Ning Jian's chest to show she was safe.

As the night pearl was put away, the narrow road became invisible, Ning Jian said, "I'll go ahead."

Su Yangui directly reached out and touched his hand along his arm, and then held it tightly: "I'll go in front, and you guard the back. The ones in the front are easy to spot, but the ones in the back don't know what's going on." It will appear in time."

Seeing that Ning Jian didn't speak anymore, Su Yangui began to pull him forward, "I can't make a sound when I walk, and there is no light here, so I have to hold hands."

There was a little more cautious and tentative in his words, but Ning Jian didn't seem to notice it, and just responded in a low voice: "En."

Su Yangui smiled, and held Ning Jian's hand even harder, with a trace of tenderness in his words: "If you hold it tightly, you won't get lost."

Everything became quiet in the darkness, as if there was a ambiguity lingering around, which was unbearable to break.

Ning Jian felt a little pain from being grabbed.

But even he could hear the longing in Su Yangui's words, and he couldn't help but develop a kind of indulgence like treating a child.

The hand was tightly held, and the place where the hand touched was already a little sweaty. When he moved uncomfortably, Su Yangui used even more strength to grasp it tightly.

Ning Jian finally couldn't help it, and whispered, "Even if you're afraid of getting lost, there's no need to hold on so tightly, right?"

"Yes." Su Yangui replied in a muffled voice.

Ning Jian didn't ask any more questions.

Ever since he was a child, he has hardly ever held hands with anyone, and even once or twice, his memory is already blurred.

If Su Yangui said "yes", then probably there is nothing wrong.

In the darkness, I couldn't see anything clearly, even the sound of footsteps was restrained, and there seemed to be a silence that was about to swallow people up.Walking in such a narrow road, all you can feel is the other person in your hand, as if the other person is the only one in the world.

Su Yangui held Ning Jian's hand contentedly, and rubbed his finger on the back of his hand when he couldn't help it. Ning Jian asked that time, and didn't say anything after getting the answer. No matter how unscrupulous Su Yangui was, he would All accepted as a matter of course.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. Before halfway through the journey, Ning Jianjian suddenly broke away from his hand.

Su Yangui was startled, and heard Ning Jianzheng draw his sword: "Bow your head."

He lowered his head subconsciously, only to hear a few ding dings, as if something was swept to the ground by Ning Jian with a sword, and then someone shouted in front: "Who?" The voice was already very close.

Ning Jian pulled Su Yan back behind him, jumped in front of him, made two more ding dings, and then heard a scream, obviously someone was injured.

"It's not ours. Sure enough, someone else is here. Quick, go back and tell Qin Da..."

Ning Jian shot very fast, and in the narrow passage, his short sword had the upper hand. Before the speaker could finish speaking, he fell down with a muffled grunt, followed by the sound of footsteps, as if his companion was walking run back.

Ning Jian was about to chase again, but was held back by Su Yangui. Before she could speak, she heard a soft click. Ning Jian rushed towards Su Yangui without thinking.

Su Yangui only wanted to tell him not to chase after him, but he didn't expect that Ning Jian threw himself on him, his feet were unstable, and the two of them fell to the ground.

Before Su Yangui uttered "Ah", there was a bang behind him, as if something had exploded, emitting thick smoke that made him choke.

It wasn't until he regained his breath that he realized that Ning Jian was still on top of him and was startled. Su Yangui yelled, "Ning Jian!"

After a while, Ning Jian gave a low cough and got up slowly: "Call Master."

The big stone in his heart fell, Su Yangui heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Ning Jian, you actually like me very much, don't you?"

"what?"

"Otherwise why would you throw me down?"

Ning Jian fell silent.

Su Yangui wanted to say more, but a voice that was not unfamiliar came from the other side of the narrow road: "Ning Jian, are you inside?"

"Qin Yueshu." Ning Jian whispered, Su Yangui listened, and could almost imagine his frown.

Reaching out and grabbing Ning Jian, Su Yangui smiled and said softly, "Isn't he interested in you? At this time, it's time to find the treasure, but he still wants to find out if you are there."

"Stop talking nonsense." Ning Jian scolded, but her tone was so flat that she didn't have much momentum.

Su Yangui got up with a smile: "Then what should we do now?"

"If it's the crown prince Feng Ning'an, he doesn't have to take my life, but if it's Qin Yueshu, as long as he has a chance, he won't let me go. Now I can only go back, hoping to get out of the narrow road before them , otherwise Qin Yue would stay guard in the stone room, then we would be the turtles caught in the urn." Ning Jian said while pushing Su Yangui.

While running back, Su Yangui continued: "Then who is Qin Yueshu? Why do you have to kill you?"

"The eldest son of Prime Minister Zuo, the prince's companion, is Feng Ning'an's most trusted person."

"Since he belongs to the prince, his master doesn't even want your life, why is he crazy?"

Ning Jian didn't answer any more, just pushed Su Yangui a few times, seeing that he was running fast and sometimes slow, she simply grabbed Su Yangui's arm and carried him forward.

At first Su Yanhui yelled twice exaggeratedly, but then she simply hugged his neck and let him run with her happily. It's nothing compared to the cheapness.

All the way to the door, Ning Jian put Su Yan behind him, holding the sword like facing an enemy.

Su Yangui listened for a while behind him, and knew that Ning Jian hadn't moved, so she suddenly slipped under his armpit, touched the golden ring with one hand and pulled it suddenly, and she also turned over and rolled into the stone room.

"return!"

It was too late when Ning Jian reached out to grab him, and when she withdrew her hand, she found that the stone room was dead silent, and there was no sound.Ning Jian hesitated for a moment, and finally walked in with her sword straightened out, and pulled the golden ring behind her back to close the door.

"It seems that we are one step ahead of them." After listening for a while, Su Yangui finally spoke while getting up from the ground.

Ning Jian nodded, and it took a while to remember that the surroundings were pitch black, and Su Yangui couldn't see at all, so she responded again: "En."

"But I don't know which door is connected to the one we walked through just now... If you choose one at random, it will be troublesome if you run into them. But we can't stay... Ning Jian, compare yourself to Qin Yueshu , whose martial arts is higher?" In the end, Su Yangui suddenly changed the subject.

Ning Jian replied subconsciously: "In terms of fighting alone, if I am not injured, I should be above him."

"But you are injured, so we can only hide but not fight... Alas..." Su Yangui sighed, "Ning Jian, let's find a door that we went in. At least we can be sure that Qin Yueshu is not inside. "

Ning Jian was silent for a while, and finally said firmly: "No, let's go back."

"Ah?" Su Yangui was stunned for a moment, Ning Jian had grabbed his wrist and pulled him forward, and he couldn't see the surrounding scene clearly, only felt that Ning Jian was leading him towards the opposite direction of the door.

In the end, I heard the sound of a door opening and closing, and a light appeared in front of my eyes. It was Ning Jian who took out the Ye Mingzhu again.Su Yangui squinted her eyes for a long time before she could see the surrounding scene clearly.

This is a very short narrow road, and the ends on both sides can be easily seen. Su Yangui easily understood what Ning Jian meant by walking back.

They were going back to the stone chamber covered with stone piles.

Watching Ning Jian pull the left door on the opposite wall and walk in, Su Yangui couldn't help but said, "But even if we go back, we can't get out."

"There's no need to look back, just wait here. Qin Yueshu couldn't find us, so he would naturally think that we escaped through one of the doors again. When he leaves us and then goes out, he can turn his back on the hostess."

Su Yangui nodded, while walking back and forth in the extremely short narrow path, after a while, he suddenly called out "Ah".

"What's wrong?"

Su Yangui pointed to the door at the other end that was supposed to be connected to the first stone room, and after a long while, he managed to say: "The golden ring on this door won't move!"

Ning Jian's face also changed.

Before entering the twelve doors, he had looked back at this door, even pulled the golden ring on the door, and seen the nine stone pillars in the stone chamber inside the door with his own eyes.But now Su Yangui told him that the golden ring on the door wouldn't move.

Of course, it couldn't be that the mechanism happened to be stuck, so there was only one possibility left, that is to say, although the layout was exactly the same, the stone room they were in was no longer the original one.

Su Yangui laughed: "It seems that we have found the key point."

"Don't be too happy too early." Ning Jian replied calmly, "No wonder we didn't run into Qin Yueshu when we came out. The two ends of the narrow road lead to different stone rooms, so of course we won't run into each other. It's just..."

While he was talking, Su Yangui also began to ponder over there:

"Ning Jian, I think this is more troublesome. If it's just one stone room with twelve doors, then it's easy to handle. At most, you can choose the right path among the twelve. But now we don't know how many similar stone rooms there are. I don’t know how the doors in these stone chambers are connected, and I don’t know whether the correct path is behind the twelve doors or the three doors on this side…”

While talking, he rubbed his whole body on Ning Jian, "Even if we die like this, we may not find the right way, Ning Jian..."

Ning Jian took a step back without any trace: "That's not necessarily the case. Although I don't know how many stone chambers there are, I can guess seven or eight points of how the doors are connected."

Su Yangui clung to each other and then rubbed against him, responding perfunctorily: "Oh?"

"The first time I walked to this stone chamber after taking down the night pearl, I looked at the roof to check whether it was the original stone chamber or a similar stone chamber, and I found the concave hole where the night pearl was inlaid, so I thought it was In the original stone room, because the other Ye Mingzhu was not there, it was assumed that someone else had entered."

Ning Jian didn't try to hide any more, just let Su Yangui stick to her side, and analyzed it very seriously.

Su Yangui knew that he had always been like this, just like the usual address, even if he occasionally asked himself to be called "Master", it was just a casual mention, and he would not force it if he didn't change it, so he posted it on Ning more and more like a dog. Beside Jane, staring at him intently.

"That is to say?"

"That is to say, this mechanism is creating an illusion. In fact, every time you enter a door, you will enter another stone room, but you will feel that you are just going around in this stone room. To create this illusion, the distance between the two stone rooms There is a rule as to which two doors are connected.

"For example, if we enter through the first door of the first stone chamber and exit through the seventh door of the second stone chamber; then if we enter through the first door of the second stone chamber, we must also be at the seventh door of the other stone chamber. door. Although it is possible to just turn around in the two stone chambers, it is also possible to go straight ahead.

"And in order to create such an illusion, the doors must be connected, so the real way forward will be behind the three doors on the other side. If people want to move forward, they will get used to only staring at the front to look at the road, instead of looking back to see if the road behind is still the road I walked on.”

Su Yangui was confused, and quickly stopped: "Ning Jian, you just need to tell me how to get there."

Ning Jian pondered for a while, and said, "Let's identify a door first, let's go straight down and have a look."

"Okay! It's better to be 'three'." Su Yan replied, and opened the door readily.

"Wait..." Ning Jian stopped him again, "Let's take a look at what's behind these two doors."

"Okay, I'll go." Before Ning Jian could reply, Su Yangui had already run to the side and opened the two doors. The central door was just a wall behind, and the right door was the same as the left one. , although it is very similar to the very beginning, the golden ring on the door at the end cannot be pulled.

After Su Yangui looked at it carefully, he ran back to Ning Jian: "It seems that this is just a stone room for illusion."

Ning Jian nodded: "Then let's walk around from here."