Tang riddles

The sound of thunder rumbling across the sky instantly deprived everyone of their hearing.Strong lightning, through the felt, illuminated the dimly lit carriage for a moment. Zhang Ruohan's eyelids trembled, and she covered her ears, trembling in fright. In the fading thunder, she seemed to hear the neighing of a camel With people's exclamation, the carriage swayed left and right, and ran forward for a while as if out of control. The inside of the car was extremely bumpy, and the outside was full of noisy sounds.She, Wu Ya, and Shen Jin were frightened for a moment, and curled up in the car.

After a while, the noise outside passed away, and the carriage stopped. She, Wu Ya, and Shen Jin looked at each other, and then she boldly opened the felt curtain and looked outside.At some point, it was already pitch black outside, and two old horses pulling a wide-wheeled cart were right in front of her line of sight, shaking their manes and snorting, and pawing the ground restlessly with their hooves.The task of driving this carriage is that Wu Ya and Ying Niang came in rotation, but right now, Ying Niang who is on duty is not in the driving position, so she does not know where she has gone.

It was dark outside, and there was no sound.Zhang Ruohan couldn't help calling out:

"Tween girl? Chishi?"

But strangely, no one answered her.

She turned her eyes to the two people around her again, Shen Jin looked a little pale, and said:

[Sister-in-law, let's go down and have a look. 】

"No, you stay here to take care of Qianhe, and Wuya and I go out to have a look." Zhang Ruohan said.Although she was terrified, she forced herself to calm down.She glanced at Wu Ya, Wu Ya pursed her lips, and her eyes became firm.

[Be careful, sister-in-law.If there is anything, you must call me. 】 Shen Jin said worriedly.

"Don't worry." Zhang Ruohan shook her hand.

The two lifted the felt hood and got out of the carriage.

"It's dark?" Wu Ya looked at the black night outside and couldn't help being surprised.

Compared with Wu Ya who was surprised by the night, Zhang Ruohan paid more attention to the surrounding situation. For some reason, all the partners around him disappeared.Brothers and sisters Congyun and Congyu who were protecting them around the carriage before, Hutuo and Yanniang, all disappeared.Not to mention Shen Sui and Huyan Zhuoma at the front, as well as the Qianyu Sect brothers at the back, also disappeared without warning.

Zhang Ruohan was a little flustered, she didn't know what happened, so she couldn't help but let go of her voice and shouted again:

"Chishi! Twinkle! Brother Huyan! Where are you?!"

Seeing Zhang Ruohan shouting at the side, Wuya quickly followed suit, but after a long while, there was still no one responding.Zhang Ruohan panted, looking at the towering stone walls on both sides of her body, she looked so powerless and weak standing under it.Cold sweat slowly trickled down her spine.

"Third, Sanniang... what should I do?" Wu Ya was on the verge of crying.

Zhang Ruohan lowered her head slowly, clenched her fists, and subconsciously stroked the jade ring on her ring finger with her left thumb.

Akashi...something must have happened, I can't panic, Wu Ya and Qin Nu have to rely on me, as well as the unconscious Qianhe.She said it to herself over and over again.I have to find Akashi, I have to find her...

"Get in the car!" She frowned at Wu Ya, the firm light in her eyes gave Wu Ya some comfort.The two hurriedly re-boarded the carriage and got into the hood.

【how? 】As soon as she came in, Shen Jin asked anxiously. She also heard the shouts of Zhang Ruohan and Wu Ya. If no one responded, it meant that everyone had separated, and she inevitably panicked.

"People are gone. I'm afraid the lightning and thunder just now startled the camels, and everyone scattered. The road here is complicated, and I'm afraid we won't be able to find it for a while." Zhang Ruohan said.

"That's good, how could there be such a strong thunder and lightning?" Wu Ya asked strangely.

Zhang Ruohan didn't answer the words for a while, and looked thoughtful.

[Sister-in-law, for now, shall we stay where we are, or try to walk around in the maze? 】 Shen Jin was a little undecided.

"It's useless to stay where we are, we have to leave." Zhang Ruohan gently pushed aside the felt curtain, looked at the faint smoke that filled the outside, and said:

"This smoke is very unusual. I am afraid that if we stay in this maze for a moment longer, we will be eroded a bit, and we must leave here as soon as possible."

"Sanniang? What's the meaning of this? Could it be that this smoke...is some drug?" Wu Ya asked.

"It's impossible to have such a sudden thunder and lightning in the desert, and it's not the rainy Jiangnan. It's very rare for the desert to rain. Besides, look at this." She pointed to the drain in the corner of the car. Pot, said:

"It's just past the Shen time, and the unitary time has not yet arrived. At this time in the past, the desert has not yet set, so it should be day, but the sky has turned into night. This is not caused by overcast clouds, the sun has really disappeared." She sighed, and said, "So many unusual phenomena have appeared, I'm afraid, the maze in this maze has been opened, and we have all fallen under the illusion in the maze."

[Illusion...] Shen Jin murmured, then she suddenly remembered something, took out a pill from the jade bottle in her bosom and said:

[This Qingxin Pill, will it be effective if taken? 】

Zhang Ruohan also took out her share, patted Wu Ya, and said:

"Let's all accept it. We can resist a little bit. It is still unknown whether we can go out."

The three of them took the medicine, opened the curtain and looked out for a while, but the scene in front of them didn't change much.Zhang Ruohan said:

"It seems that even if we realize that we are under the illusion and take the medicine to wake up the mind, it will not work. The labyrinth in this maze should be based on a certain basis of reality, not all of our fantasy. "

Wu Ya and Shen Jin looked at each other, and the worry in their eyes was even more serious.

"Let's go, Wu Ya, you drive, I'll lead the way." Zhang Ruohan said.

"Yes, San Niang."

[Sister-in-law...your body...]

"Don't worry about Qin slave, I'm fine, you guard Qianhe, this is your task." Zhang Ruohan smiled at Shen Jin, stroked the top of her hair like a child, and then sat on the shaft of the car.Looking at her back, Shen Jin's eyes were a little moist.Sister-in-law is not around, and sister-in-law is obliged to take the responsibility of taking care of her. How lucky she is to have such two elder sisters who love her so much.

I can't hold back... She gritted her teeth secretly.

Zhang Ruohan sat on the shaft of the car, looking up at the sky.That day was like thick black ink, without a single star.They didn't light any lighting objects in their hands, but everything around them was still visible to the eyes, and they could clearly see the road several feet ahead, the surrounding rock walls, and the horses pulling the cart.

But farther away, she couldn't see it.

An immature idea was slowly forming in Zhang Ruohan's mind, and this bold guess gave her more courage.She kept her breath, remained calm, and tried her best to observe the surrounding scene with her own eyes, but signaled Wu Ya and Shen Jin to keep quiet and not to speak out from now on.

Wu Ya drove the carriage, at a slow speed, quietly shuttled through the complicated and difficult to distinguish maze roads.What appeared in front of him were all almost identical rock walls, and it was impossible to tell where he was.Wu Ya felt his palms sweating, his muscles tensed, and the palms of his hands holding the rein had been scratched red. He was afraid that a monster would pop out of the darkness the next moment, and he could not relax for a moment.

But Zhang Ruohan looked calmly, looking around quietly, without saying a word, even breathing very lightly.

The carriage wandered in the maze, and the dark night seemed endless.Zhang Ruohan sometimes looked up at the sky, and sometimes stared closely at the rock walls on both sides, wondering what he was thinking about.

I don't know how long he has been walking like this, Wu Ya only feels more and more sleepy, the tension has disappeared, and the heat of the summer desert seems to be gone, everything is so quiet, and the spirit seems to be sinking slowly.Only the occasional instructions from Zhang Ruohan to go straight, turn left, and turn right would cheer her up.

Just as Wuya's eyelids were fighting, a cold hand suddenly grabbed her wrist.

"Stop, Wu Ya." It was Zhang Ruohan's voice, Wu Ya was startled, looked at San Niang, and found that she was not looking at him, but was staring at the rock wall ahead on the right.

Wu Ya hastily pulled back the reins, his heartstrings tensed immediately, he bit his lips and looked forward to the right.There was just a seemingly ordinary wall, nothing there.

Zhang Ruohan got out of the car and approached that place gently, Wu Ya's heart was about to jump out of his throat, he hurriedly got out of the car and stood by Zhang Ruohan's side.

"San Niang, what's the matter?" Wu Ya asked while holding Zhang Ruohan's sleeve tightly.

"Hush..." Zhang Ruohan raised her index finger to signal her to keep silent.Then she raised her hand and pressed it against the rock wall.After tentatively pressing for a moment, her long and slender fingers stopped suddenly, and her fingertips groped at the stop, saying:

"Wu Ya, go get the lantern on the car."

"Yes." Wu Ya hurried away.

When Wu Ya came back after lighting the lamp, Zhang Ruohan seemed to have found something.She greeted Wu Ya and said:

"Come on, follow here."

Wu Ya leaned closer, and saw that Zhang Ruohan's finger was at the lower right corner of the rock wall, close to the ground. She pressed it, and suddenly there was a "click" sound, followed by the loess rock wall. A small piece popped out.

"This is..." Wu Ya was dumbfounded.

"I'm afraid it's a hidden door mechanism jointly created by the public loser and the Tang Sect. Be careful, there may be hidden weapons of the Tang Sect." Zhang Ruohan said with frowned eyebrows.

After the rock wall popped up, Zhang Ruohan pushed it back, and the rock wall returned to its original shape again. After a while, there was a slight vibration from the ground. The rock wall retreated inward for a small section, and then opened directly to the left, completely retracting into the rock wall on the other side. In the end, this section of the rock wall disappeared like this, and a brand new opening appeared. .On the outside, there is nothing unusual at all, as if it was born like this.

"This..." Wu Ya was tongue-tied.

Zhang Ruohan squatted down, stroked the yellow sand and dust on the ground, and saw the track buried below.

"The rock wall is movable, and there are rails under it, which are very delicately made, so there is almost no sound when it moves. The light is too dark, and you can't see the nuances. Once the rock wall moves, it will drive the rocks that turn the sand underneath. plow, turning the sand on both sides to cover the track. I am afraid that it is because of these movable rock walls that we have been lost and led by the nose."

"It's amazing!" Wu Ya exclaimed, "San Niang, how did you find out?"

"Because I wrote down all the roads I walked just now, and the details of all the rock walls I observed, I chose eight roads around here, deliberately walked each road twice, and then I discovered Subtle changes here." She pointed to the broken rock wall and said:

"There is a small gap where the rocks have been weathered and shattered. I remember that I turned right here. But when I saw this gap again, there was an extra wall here."

Wu Ya was really dumbfounded, she took a closer look at the gap, and suspected that she had seen this gap in countless places, how did Sanniang recognize it?She knew about Sanniang's memory, but she really couldn't understand how Zhang Ruohan, who sometimes got lost in the familiar Imperial College and Chang'an City, entered the real maze, as if possessed by Si Nan, and would not get lost at all direction.

"San Niang...you, you are truly a fairy." Wu Ya almost lost his strength.

Zhang Ruohan ignored her, and his expression became more serious.

"A change in the mechanism means that someone has been manipulating the mechanism, and the enemy is still lurking in the dark. Although I have solved the mystery of the trapped people in the maze, I have not yet figured out the origin of the black night and lightning. Perhaps, we are still in the dark." In illusion, there must be no lightness."

It is impossible for the sky to be black in an instant, even if an extremely wide black cloth is stretched above the head, it is impossible to create such a realistic pitch-black night.Zhang Ruohan didn't even think it was an illusion. She always felt that the night sky was weird, and there was an indescribable sense of disobedience.So, why is it dark in an instant?Why can't I see a single star tonight in the starry night of the desert?There must be a reason for this.Zhang Ruohan still vaguely remembered that in his dream, the stars in the night sky became the key to solving the maze.The current behavior of the enemy just proves this point.But, she can't see the stars, how can she crack it?

Going up to Qiongbi and down to Huangquan, the two places are gone...

The six spirits are above, the heavens and the earth are in all directions, looking for a smooth way to the dark...

The maze model seemed to be solved right in front of her eyes, but Zhang Ruohan's thoughts suddenly got stuck. She was a little anxious, and her beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly.

"San Niang, where are we going now?" Wu Ya asked, and after waiting for a long time, she yelled before she got an answer:

"Third Niang?!"

"Ah?" Zhang Ruohan was pulled back by her thoughts.

"Where are we going now?" Wu Ya asked again.

"Get in the car first. I don't know how many such agencies there are. I need to think about it first."

"En." Wu Ya nodded.

They returned to the carriage, and Shen Jin in the carriage was waiting anxiously. Seeing them coming back, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.The three of them got together and discussed quietly.

They didn't notice, but at the corner of the road behind the carriage, a black figure was standing there, watching them indifferently.

The author has something to say: The road-crazy attribute of the lotus maid is actually one of the foreshadowings. (laugh)

The updated schedule (tentative) for the seven-day Spring Festival holiday is as follows:

New Year's Eve, the first day, and the second day of the new year, there is no update.

In the third and fourth grades of junior high school, there is one change each.

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This is the last chapter of the year. Xiaoshu, together with Chishi, Lianmai, Maomao, Huanhuan, Qinnu, Qianhe and Xiaohuanger, is here to wish everyone a prosperous New Year. , I Chang'an.