[Rebirth] Bone Quest

The long corridor extends infinitely downwards, and the surroundings are pitch black. No one knows when it will end, as if walking straight down the stairs will lead to hell.

Qiao Yu and Cong Rong walked one after the other, without any light in front of their eyes, and the other senses on their bodies became extremely sharp because their eyes couldn't see them.The muscles of their whole body tensed up, and they used their toes to explore the unknown road ahead little by little. No one knew whether there would be a trap in this weird corridor in the next second.

The two walked in silence for more than an hour, but they hadn't seen them go out yet. The surrounding scenery was exactly the same, and they couldn't tell where they were.The calf became a little sore from the continuous movement down the stairs, and the quiet and suffocating atmosphere gradually made the two of them feel uneasy.

"Do you think Chen Yin will lie to us, there is no Xisen here at all, he just wants to trap us here?" Qiao Yu couldn't help but break the silence.

Cong Rong stopped and shook his head: "No, we are in his territory now, and he has a lot of ways to kill us, so why bother, what's more, he stabbed himself in the stomach, just because he didn't want Xi Sen to suspect , this determination should not be an act."

Qiao Yu nodded, although he agreed with Cong Rong's words in his heart, he was still at a loss for the predicament in front of him, "That said, it's not an option for us to go on like this, the surroundings look exactly the same, there is not even a mark, if you want If it wasn’t for the constant soreness in my calves, I would have thought I was standing still.”

Cong Rong was taken aback, looked around, suddenly grabbed Qiao Yu's arm, pointed to the mural behind him and said, "I'd have forgotten if you didn't tell me, look at the painting behind you, before we leave, I'm afraid there will be What kind of trap, I drew a cross with a gun on the crane above, I didn't expect ours to go around and go around in the same place!"

Qiao Yu was startled suddenly, turned around and saw the conspicuous cross on the painting, "Are you sure you drew this cross, isn't it a coincidence?"

"I'm sure, if you don't believe me, you can touch it with your hands. The scratches on it are absolutely the same as my pistol." Cong Rong scratched his hair in a breakdown, but he still couldn't escape Sissen's trap.

"Impossible, we've been walking for so long, there's no reason to stay where we are, and the stairs here go all the way down, even if Xi Sen has great skills, it's impossible to change the terrain here?" Qiao Yu squatted discouraged On the ground, he was so tired that he was out of breath, and the wound on his body was burning and hurting, which made him even more upset.

Cong Rong paced around in place, rubbed his chin and thought about the ins and outs of the matter, but couldn't figure out what the problem was.He walked up to the stone wall, lowered his head and looked around carefully.

There are murals of cranes, handrails carved and hollowed out, and auspicious cloud symbols evenly arranged on the stone steps...

etc!Auspicious cloud symbol?

Cong Rong seemed to have thought of something, squatted down and stroked the patterns on the stone steps with his hands, and walked down one step after another, stopping to look at the carved patterns before taking a step.

Qiao Yu looked at him in confusion, "What are you looking for?"

Cong Rong suddenly laughed lowly, and his low voice echoed in the stone room, "We were deceived, this is not some weird mechanism, it's nothing more than a trick.

Surprised, Qiao Yu stood up and walked quickly to Cong Rong, and asked eagerly, "What do you mean? Have you thought of a way to get out?"

"Probably." Cong Rong showed a smile, took Qiao Yu's hand and pointed to the murals on the stone wall and said, "The murals and decorations here have the meaning of 'crane rides on the clouds, good fortune and longevity'. I mean, I read a book before, which mentioned that although the crane is a mascot that blesses longevity, only people with predestined relationship can be protected by it, and ordinary people can’t see the real crane if their roots of wisdom are not deep.”

Qiao Yu was confused and confused, "What do you mean about cranes and auspicious clouds? What does this have to do with how we go out?"

Cong Rong nodded Qiao Yu's head and said with a smile: "You used to preach to me, but this time it's finally me. Since this corridor is decorated with cranes and auspicious clouds, it must be more than just looking good. , I think the mechanism here is also related to the implication of this painting. Since it is said that only people with predestined relationship can be sheltered, then the so-called "persons with predestined relationship" should refer to those who can walk out of this staircase. If this is the case, at least It proves that there is definitely a way out here, and we won't be trapped to death."

Qiao Yu suddenly realized, and then he couldn't laugh or cry, "I don't see that you understand these things quite well, so you might as well change your career to be a Feng Shui master in the future."

Cong Rong waved his hand stinkingly, "Where is it, come out to eat a meal, I don't tell ordinary people, you are a policeman, you have to know everything, don't you?"

"Cut." Qiao Yu sneered, rubbed his sore calf and asked, "It's really panting to say that you are fat, don't be poor, didn't you just say that you thought of a way to get out, don't be foolish and finish talking quickly. "

Cong Rong pursed his lips and coughed a few times, pointed to the auspicious cloud talisman on the ground and said, "Look at the patterns on the stone steps, do you find anything different?"

Qiao Yu glanced at him suspiciously, lowered his head to look carefully, but was still confused: "Aren't they all in a straight line? There is no difference?"

"Then close your eyes and touch it with your fingers along a straight line."

Qiao Yu closed his eyes and followed suit. After touching the pattern on the first step with his fingers, he continued to look for the pattern on the second step along the direction. He couldn't find it no matter how he touched it. He didn't give up and continued to search but couldn't find it. Then he opened his eyes and found that the patterns in front of him were still in a straight line, but he deviated from his position and stood on the right side of the second step.

His eyes widened in surprise: "How could this be? I obviously walked down a straight line."

Cong Rong came over and said in a low voice: "Do you understand now? In fact, this staircase is a trap set by our visual gap and walking habits. These patterns appear to be on a straight line, but they are actually a diagonal line. In a dark place, we will subconsciously follow the pattern, thinking that we have been walking down, but in fact we have already left the original position, so we will always circle in place."

Qiao Yu opened his eyes wide, and said in surprise, "So as long as we don't follow the pattern, we can go out?"

Cong Rong touched his nose and nodded: "It should be like this."

Qiao Yu tore off a long piece of wool from the sweater on his body, pulled it into a straight line, and walked along the direction of the wool, only to find that this staircase was far from being as narrow as it seemed on the surface, but spread out in all directions. Expanded and very spacious.

The two walked for more than two hours, and finally went out, seeing a bright light not far away.

This is a stone room completely different from other places, or in other words, it is more like a spacious and bright temple.

The architectural style is completely Chinese, with carved beams and painted buildings. On the high ceiling, the shape of a lotus flower is carved out of sandalwood and decorated with gold lacquer.There is a Buddha statue in the main hall, resplendent in gold and jade, with a kind face.There is a faint scent of sandalwood in the air, and everything looks solemn.

Qiao Yu and Cong Rong looked at each other, and they both saw sarcasm in each other's eyes.

Xi Sen, an old pervert who kills people without blood, actually believes in Buddhism. In such a gloomy underground palace, there are Buddha statues enshrined. Who is he to pretend to be merciful?

Cong Rong sneered, "Buddhism talks about karma, I wonder if this old pervert Xi Sen will be punished by heaven."

Qiao Yu raised the corner of his mouth and sneered, "Maybe he thinks he is immortal, and the Buddha has nothing to do with him."

Cong Rong laughed, leaning against a pillar, and looked around, "Don't say it's still in good shape here, if I didn't just walk up the damn stairs, I really thought I had entered a temple .This place is so open and bright in private, where can Sissen hide that old thing?"

"Who knows, he always likes to play the trick of the cunning rabbit and the three caves. Let's look around and maybe we can find some mechanism."

Qiao Yu walked up to the Buddha statue and bowed devoutly, "Buddha, if there is any disrespect in a while, you must take care of it. We really don't want to mess with your offerings. When we finish our work, how much money will I burn for you?" A bundle of incense will do.”

After speaking, he began to rummage around on the altar, while Cong Rong rubbed around along the wall.The spacious hall was turned upside down by the two of them in a short while, not to mention hiding a person, even a mouse could hide.

"I knocked on the surrounding walls and floors. They are all made of stone. There is no echo when I knock. There should be no secret room." Cong Rong turned around and said to Qiao Yu who was squatting in front of the Buddha statue.

Qiao Yu nodded, and continued to caress the Buddha statue with his hand, "In my opinion, Sisen would not be so stupid as to open the door of the secret room in such an obvious place on the wall. There must be other hiding places here."

As he said that, he found a narrow gap behind the Buddha statue, and there was a slight light in it.He stretched out his hand to feel inside, and found that the texture of the wall inside seemed to be different from the outside. Without giving up, he supported the Buddha statue with his left hand, pressed his whole body against the wall, and stretched his right hand hard.

"Qiao Yu, what are you doing?" Cong Rong didn't see Qiao Yu's shadow after he finished speaking, and climbed up to the altar with some worries, taking a panoramic view of the scene just now.

"Don't talk nonsense, come and help me, my hand seems to be pinched."

The corner of Cong Rong's mouth twitched, and he stretched out his hand to pull him out. His fingers accidentally touched the lotus seat behind the Buddha statue. As a result, there was a loud noise, and the stone wall in front of them suddenly cracked, and the stone slab at the bottom of their feet rotated rapidly. When they got up, the two staggered, were thrown out, and fell into a dark room that suddenly appeared in front of them, and then the stone wall behind them closed with a bang.

"Hiss...it hurts...hey, you are so heavy, don't press me down, my shoulder seems to be bleeding again." Qiao Yu curled up in pain and pushed Cong Rong away who was pressing on him.

Cong Rong propped his hands on both sides of Qiao Yu's head, raised his head and stared at the front dumbfounded, and didn't listen to Qiao Yu's words at all.

"Did you hear that, get up quickly..." Qiao Yu pushed Cong Rong a few more times, but found that he hadn't moved, and looked up and followed his line of sight in a daze.

This is a secret room made of bronze mirrors. The surrounding walls are all golden mirrors. In the middle of the secret room is a fist-sized luminous pearl, which shines brightly and is reflected on the surrounding mirrors, making it even more dazzling.

"This, this can't be the legendary Ye Mingzhu?" Cong Rong asked a little stupidly, stuttering.

Qiao Yu had never seen such a strange thing before, and he didn't realize it all at once. Just as he was about to speak, he vaguely saw a third shadow reflected in the mirror in front of him. There is a third person!

He turned around abruptly, and suddenly found Sisen standing not far away.

Cong Rong followed his line of sight and took a few steps back in shock. When did this man come out? !

Sissen was much younger than when Qiao Yu saw him before, and his whole body was refreshed. His originally withered and shriveled figure became tall and straight, and even his wrinkled face seemed to have regressed several decades, becoming smooth and handsome. Ting, at the age of seventy or eighty, but now with a face of thirty or forty, how weird it is, if Qiao Yu hadn't known him for so many years, he would really think he was dazzled.

He was sitting cross-legged on a lotus platform, wearing a pure white silk coat, his eyes were closed, his expression was very peaceful, and there was even a smile on his mouth, it was not at all obvious that he was a pervert with bloody hands.

Cong Rong had never seen Xisen before, and the person in front of him was far from the Xisen described by Qiao Yu. He held Qiao Yu's hand in a puzzled way, and asked in a low voice, "Who is this man?"

Qiao glared at him gloomily, steadied his disorganized breathing and sighed, and said two words: "Xisen"

Cong Rong was taken aback, took a few steps back, and pinched his face hard before he woke up, "Didn't you say that you are an old man who is about to die? Why...how did you become like this?"

Qiao Yu broke out in a cold sweat nervously, his hands were tightly clenched together, and his eyes were fixed on Xi Sen.

If as expected, Sissen should have formulated the real Deathless reagent, 'Time flows backwards, immortality', the situation at this time is much worse than Qiao Yu expected, this ending means that Sissen has become immortal, he With Cong Rong, ordinary people, flesh and blood, how can they be his opponents!

He tried his best to control his trembling fingers, took a deep breath, and said softly, "Father."

Xi Sen, who was sitting on the lotus platform, slowly opened his eyes. His black eyes had never been so clear and translucent. These eyes, which were as vicious as poisonous scorpions and snakes, fell on Qiao Yu, and then smiled, "Dear Baby, you're here at last."

The tone was so gentle, floating in the huge secret room seemed extraordinarily ethereal, Cong Rong seemed to feel Qiao Yu's nervousness, and grabbed his hand vigorously, giving him encouragement.

Qiao Yu narrowed her eyes and said in a low voice, "Ah Yu, shouldn't I congratulate you for finally finding a way to live forever?"

"Hehe." Sissen chuckled a few times, stood up, and walked towards them step by step, "It's thanks to you, if you hadn't helped me get Lao Li's 75DL document from the police station, I don't think I would have done it." With you and me today."

Qiao Yu looked at him without flinching, "You know I'm going to kill you?"

"Not only that, you have been a misbehaving child since you were a child. You have infidelity and betrayal in your eyes. I know you will do something to me sooner or later, but I don't think you have this chance. However, before you die, I will I should tell you something about your little lover."

Cong Rong sneered, put his hands in his pockets, and said lazily: "Where do you have the confidence to kill us? Just based on what you said... Oh yes, DL Reagent, you really think there is immortality in the world This matter? Stop dreaming!"

Xi Sen let out a low laugh and shook his head slightly, "How pitiful, ignorant and ignorant, blinded by the worldly world, thinking that he sees through the whole world. Qin Shihuang sent a large number of people to find the medicine of immortality, and the emperors of all dynasties believed in Buddhism for the dream of immortality. Believe in religion, but they are all losers, only I am the No.1 in this world, don't you understand?"

This time Cong Rong didn't even want to answer the words. The old man Xi Sen is obviously a psychopath, and he doesn't know which muscle in his head is in the wrong place. He daydreams like this all day long. I really don't know if his head is just pretending. It's all I.

"Human beings are so stupid. They believe in destiny and ghosts, but they don't believe in me. Such a fragile body can be destroyed in a bucket of knives. Your body can't heal itself. Your cells and organisms are dying every day, and I am the greatest in the world. My creator, my body is indestructible, and your human weapons can't hurt me at all, yet you are still stupidly standing in front of me and shouting, what a pity."

Sissen became more and more excited as he spoke. He waved his hands and was in high spirits, as if he was God, the God who controlled everything.But Cong Rong and Qiao Yu who stood aside looked at him with a sneer and talked to himself.

Cong Rong touched Qiao Yu's arm quietly, and said in a low voice, "Why do I feel like a sow thinks I'm a mascot after taking a bath? This guy is also a human being, right? I am the savior."

Qiao Yu couldn't help laughing, and really admired Cong Rong for being so calm under such circumstances.

"Since you are not ignorant or ignorant, why didn't you still want the Xiao family's Suzaku Linglong soul-suppressing bottle in order to save your own life? You don't believe in ghosts and gods, but you have a Buddha statue in the underground palace. Don't you deceive yourself? You are more pitiful than us, I can't recognize myself until I die."

Qiao Yu really didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so he took out his pistol and prepared to fight. Cong Rong, who was standing by the side, also suppressed his smile and was ready to fight.

Sissen suddenly laughed, looked at the two of them contemptuously and said, "This is the funniest joke I've ever heard! You can't kill me, and this kind of ordinary weapon won't leave any marks on me. Your body will heal itself in a second, and you have no chance of winning."

"Ayu, because you have been by my side for so many years, I originally wanted to keep your whole body, but you are too stubborn. Since you can't get out of here today, I might as well tell you a secret. "

Qiao Yu's eyes narrowed, and he sneered: "What trick are you trying to play?"