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Bang!

Xiao Shiliu's knife slashed at a certain place on the wall, and the knife was deeply embedded in the wall, even if the handle of the knife was released, it would not move at all.

It was only then that Qiu Lingfu saw that where the knife was deeply embedded, there was a twisted crack like a centipede, extending obliquely from the ground to the darkness on the stone wall that was not illuminated by the fire.

This crack was not cut out by a knife, it was there originally, but it was inserted by a knife, and the crack that fit perfectly was enough for people to see clearly with their eyes.

The pale-faced Mu Rong glanced at Qiu Lingfu, unhurriedly opened his bag, took out more than a dozen iron wedges from inside, and stuffed them into the crack.

Then, with that sickly, seemingly weak and boneless hand, he slapped a few palms on the iron wedge. It seemed that it was only a few light strokes, but the wedges sank one by one.

The crack became a narrow slit, and the big knife fell down.Before landing, Xiao Shiliu kicked it up, and the heavy sword flew up like a shuttlecock, and landed in his hand.Xiao Shiliu blew the ashes off the knife smartly, but he didn't put it behind him.

Looking at the narrow gap, Qiu Lingfu couldn't help walking up, seeing that A'po didn't object, he knew there was no danger, he stretched out two fingers to poke, and the tip of the middle finger just touched the cold.

The coldness seemed to be able to touch death, he was startled, and stretched out his hand.

Glancing at the ground again, I immediately knew the mystery of this door.

It turns out that the gate is closed by taking advantage of the terrain, which is high on the left and low on the right, and the huge stone is tilted and closed. If you want to open the stone gate, you must be able to withstand the thickness of the huge stone wall.

It doesn't matter if you have strength, you have to be good at martial arts, otherwise you won't be able to open the stone gate.Even if it is opened, it may be injured when evacuating.

Qiu Lingfu stretched out his finger again, and probed into the gap, and it became clear at this moment that there was a layer of stone wall inside.

But even two-layer doors don't have to fit so close together.I'm afraid this is not a real stone wall, but a threshold to cover the door from the inside.

Qiu Lingfu said: "This door can only be entered from the outside, it cannot be exited from the inside."

Granny Liu watched from the side and did not stop him. After hearing this, she sneered and said, "It seems your mother didn't tell you."

Qiu Lingfu heard his mother, but did not move at all, still looking at the crack in the stone.

Granny Liu looked at him: "If your mother had been here 15 years ago, our Bai family would not have been wiped out."

When Qiu Lingfu heard this, he suddenly sneered.

He just laughed, but Granny Liu felt insulted, and her expression changed: "What are you laughing at?"

"Weng Yiwei of Yuzhou Village is an old friend of Bai Huanpu. As the leader of a faction, he has great power, so he didn't come to rescue him, and many of Bai Xingyi's old friends still think that his death was worthy." Qiu Lingfu laughed, "I I just thought that my mother would end up with the same reputation as the murderer just because she didn't save her, so your revenge is really a long way to go."

Granny Liu paused when she heard this, but Old Uncle Xu said: "But the head of the sect only asked for Qiu Xinsu, she's not going to save her, she's treacherous!"

Qiu Lingfu laughed and said: "After my father died, my mother hid to hide from the enemy. She had her own difficulties. But she knew that it was a matter of safety, so she insisted on pinning her hopes on one person, and even put a door on her. The choice between life and one's own life is left to the old man to decide. Who is the treacherous?"

Granny Liu took a deep breath: "The head of the sect has considered it carefully. Since Qiu Xinsu was entrusted, she must be the one. No one knows the original situation!"

Qiu Lingfu turned his head, his eyes burning brightly: "Since no one knows what happened back then, why did Granny Liu speculate like the storytellers on the roadside and taunt me all the way?"

Qiu Lingfu looked around again as he spoke, except for Ah Po standing behind him, Xiao Shiliu had a calm expression on his face, staring at him seemed to be interesting, while the others did not move at all, just let the iron wedge stick in the crack of the door left out.

He immediately had a clear idea: "You are telling me about my mother here, don't you want to keep me here?"

When I came outside, there were many snowy roads, but now I want to go out, the snow has melted and I don’t know the way, and I don’t know the way without melting.If he went out to find the main road before the snow melted, he was unlucky and the snow stopped late, and Qiu Lingfu might be buried in the snow.

And since this is a secret road, it must be a thousand organs or a fork in thousands of roads, and Qiu Lingfu can't leave even if he wants to.

This place was a natural prison for Qiu Lingfu.They wanted to keep Qiu Lingfu here and come back to clean up after they settled the matter.

Granny Liu was noncommittal: "Tell us why we brought you."

Qiu Lingfu took a breath after hearing this, and subconsciously glanced at A Po secretly, but saw A Po only smiled, approached Granny Liu, and whispered a few words in Granny Liu's ear.

Qiu Lingfu was always annoyed and suspicious when he saw Ah Po whispering to others, but this time he only felt very at ease.No matter what Ah Po said, the appearance of leaning sideways and whispering, even the movements are chic and beautiful.

Granny Liu listened to Ah Po's words, and looked at Qiu Lingfu with eagle-like eyes, sizing her up and down.

Qiu Lingfu stood upright.

After Ah Po finished speaking, Granny Liu finally reluctantly took her eyes away from him.

She snorted coldly: "Let's go."

Xiao Shiliu was a little surprised: "Bring that kid?"

Granny Liu snorted.

Xiao Shiliu was not happy anymore, he was obviously a tall man, but he acted cheeky and coquettish: "What did Ah Po say, so effective? Granny Liu, you are so partial!"

Mu Rong stared at Qiu Lingfu with a gloomy expression.

There was a lot of noise over there, Ah Po just smiled and went straight to Qiu Lingfu.Without saying a word, he stuck his index finger into the gap.

Qiu Lingfu waited for Ah Po to open the door, but Ah Po just looked sideways at him and said in a low voice, "Don't ask me what I said?"

Qiu Lingfu said: "Grandma Liu agrees."

Ah Po smiled and said: "The fallacy you just said is only useful to good people, bad people are unreasonable, regardless of reason or fallacy."

Qiu Lingfu snorted: "I'm unreasonable with bad people, I'm likable...then you say Granny Liu is a good person and a bad person?"

Qiu Lingfu raised his eyebrows, thinking of watching a joke, he insisted on Ah Po telling the truth about Granny Liu.

Ah Po was taken aback, and said with a smile: "Maybe he is a bad guy."

Qiu Lingfu smiled and said, "That's good, me too."

Ah Po looked at Qiu Lingfu, curled his mouth, and suddenly exerted all his strength, and the door trembled slightly.

Qiu Lingfu reached out to help him.

"No need."

Ah Po's smile made Qiu Lingfu stunned, suddenly the pressure on his fingers lightened, and the door was pushed open two feet suddenly by Ah Po.

Ah Po gritted his teeth, his face was flushed red, his muscles tensed, and his feet slipped an inch on the ground.

Qiu Lingfu reached out to continue to help him.

But as the stone wall was pushed away, the stone wall behind it gradually shone with light, and then the stone wall seemed to be broken, and the broken light hit a skull on the ground behind the stone gate.

A stench came, and the dead bones entangled everywhere saw the candlelight one by one.

"This······"

It was expected that Qiu Lingfu had always pretended to be calm, and the horror and disgust of this scene still exceeded all the scenes he had imagined.

Qiu Lingfu felt a tightness in his chest, and suddenly supported the stone wall with one hand and let it out.

Xiao Shiliu assisted Ah Po to open the giant door little by little, and Granny Liu's shadow was first reflected on those fragmentary skeletons.

She stepped on those dry bones, and the bones rubbed against the mud, making a creaking sound, as if she was talking.

She didn't change her face: "Young Master Qiu has been well-clothed and well-fed since he was a child. If you feel disgusted, then you can stop here."

Mu Rong and Old Uncle Xu went in one by one, Qiu Lingfu was spitting on the side, Ah Po had no time to take care of him, but he saw a clean and neat plain handkerchief stretched out in front of him.

Without even thinking about it, he quickly picked it up, covered his mouth and continued to walk.

Shen Xiaoru was surprised: "You still want to go in?"

Qiu Lingfu's face was pale, and he leaned on the wall and walked forward: "Do you want me to stay there alone, guarding this pile of dead bones through the door?"

He wanted to hold back the churning in his stomach, and wanted to walk this distance quickly, but after he passed Xiao Shiliu and Ah Po, he heard a sound behind him.He suddenly thought of Ah Po, and subconsciously glanced back.

At this time, Xiao Shiliu had already stepped on the human bone with one foot, and Ah Po let go of the stone wall, and was about to enter sideways.The torches on the ground outside have not been extinguished, and the ground is blown wildly by the evil wind.

At this moment, he saw an extremely small needle flying past his ear and shooting towards the position behind him!

It's not Xiao Shiliu's position, this needle is aimed at Ah Po!

How heavy this huge boulder is, how agile Apo needs to be to retreat from the side of that boulder!But at this moment, he was concentrating all his energy on controlling the coordination of his muscles, so how could he notice the needle shot out from the darkness and from his trusted friend!

Qiu Lingfu wanted to remind Ah Po, but the sudden change was only in an instant, the blood in his body was almost frozen, and the words were choked in his throat, how could he make a sound!

Subconsciously, he stretched out his hand and grabbed it forward.

There was a sudden sharp stabbing pain in his hand, and with the last glimmer of light from the unclosed boulder, he saw blood spattering from his fingertips.His fingers twisted stiffly against the light, behind him was the black shadow of Ah Po running towards him.

After the needle was thrust out of his hand, it lost its momentum and landed on those dry bones.

The rotten breath poured into the lungs, and the weakness after vomiting came back again. Qiu Lingfu's sudden burst of strength was like a dying struggle—how swift and violent this blow was, the weakness of the stamina was as soft as it was.

He leaned forward and fell into someone's arms.

Xiao Shiliu exclaimed exaggeratedly: "Yo! What's the matter, my young master Qiu?"

Then, Qiu Lingfu felt that he quickly fell into another warmer embrace.

A voice was pressed close to the ear: "What's wrong?"

Not far away, old man Xu added some oil to the small torch, and the flame suddenly brightened.

Qiu Lingfu was dizzy, but the sudden light made him see the dense human bones along the way, so he helped Ah Po to the side and vomited endlessly.

Granny Liu snorted: "Young Master Qiu is physically weak, and can't stand the smell of blood and bones."

Qiu Lingfu had vomited enough, and before he could catch his breath, he immediately retorted angrily: "Fart! Someone wanted to kill Ah Po just now, didn't you know?"

When he said the last sentence, he looked at Xiao Shiliu beside him.

Xiao Shiliu pointed at his nose and said with a smile, "I killed him?"

Qiu Lingfu trembled: "You saw it."

Xiao Shiliu spread his hands: "I didn't see it."

Qiu Lingfu raised his hand and pointed at the human bone under his feet. There was a faint needle between the rotten flesh and bones. He raised his hand again, and his hand was blood red.

However, the damage caused by a mere needle shows that this person's skill is quite good.

But who among the people here is average in martial arts?

Ah Po was terrified and almost snatched Qiu Lingfu's hand, Shen Xiaoru gasped and leaned over to watch.

"Not poisonous." Shen Xiaoru said after checking for a long time.

"Not poisonous? I think someone is directing and acting on their own, using bitter tricks." The one who spoke was Mu Rong who had been silent all the way.

Old Uncle Xu and Granny Liu didn't speak, but the expressions on their faces were cold because of the torches.

Qiu Lingfu's heart was still not calm, and he was angry in his heart, so he wanted to refute, but Ah Po said: "Stop talking, since everything is fine, let's go on."

Seeing that Ah Po didn't pursue the matter, Qiu Lingfu thought he was weak, and scolded, "Why is it all right! I'll pay it back..."

Thinking of the "bitter trick" that Mu Rong said, he shut his mouth again and stopped complaining.

"let's go."

Qiu Lingfu could see that his words were not useless to these people.They were much more nervous than before, and they began to look at each other's faces.

And Xiao Shiliu was the one with the most relaxed posture among these people. When he said this, he really walked forward, just like what Qiu Lingfu said just now was just a joke.

The relaxed person can always make the nervous person follow his pace, and the others also slowly moved up, as if they really didn't hear or notice anything.

Ah Po and Qiu Lingfu fell behind.

"I know." Apo whispered.

"You know you're still hiding?" Qiu Lingfu's face was twitching, almost furious.

"What I said is, I know what you said is true." Apo smiled, "Only your needles will not dodge the needles that are shot, and the needles that must be blocked because of protection will not be dodged."

Qiu Lingfu stared at him seriously, and said in disbelief, "You're still laughing."

Ah Po bandaged his hand, and kissed the wound again: "Don't laugh, my heart hurts to death."

Qiu Lingfu's heart skipped a beat when he saw it.

Ah Po grinned again: "But happy."

Qiu Lingfu punched him in the face with that injured hand—but was caught by Ah Po again.

The corner of Ah Po's mouth curled up: "You are worried about my death, I am very happy."

"Are you afraid of death?" Qiu Lingfu asked seriously.

Ah Po smiled and said, "I wasn't afraid before I met you."

Seeing that Qiu Lingfu was stunned, he hurriedly said: "There are people here who want to kill me, and there are people who want to kill you. You and I both know, so that's good. As for the other people, even if you try your best, you still can't understand them. If you continue, I will I'm afraid you're tired."