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"No."

"Really?"

"……Not at all."

"..."

"I'll pick out all the snake meat for you next time, pick it out carefully," Feng Pingping said, "Are you hungry for a while? Do you want to eat?"

"No." Ye Weiliao shook his head vigorously, and didn't want to say anything to him, turned his back to him and stared at the wall angrily.The entire wall was covered with snakes, and his face turned green, but his face couldn't be seen in the dim cellar.

There are no lamps and candles, and the lighting is a few light sources inlaid at the corners of the walls, which are green like ores and like will-o'-the-wisps.

"Look at that on the sixth day," Ye Weiliao pulled Feng Pingping and pointed to a green light at the foot of the wall. There was no wooden snake cage three feet away on one side of the green light. And the gap is slightly wider than other places. "Does it look like a secret door? I know there are other ways to get in and out. No matter how good Qin Zhong Lu Qinggong is, she can't fly, and even the little girl Yingshi can't. She can't climb up with a rope."

Feng Pingping flew over, carefully inspected the rocky wall, patted each stone, pushed it, extended to the nearby wall, and even reached out to knock on the stone behind the snake cage, but there was no movement.With both palms out, he pushed the rock with all his strength; the hunting knife was out of its sheath, and inserted into the gap to pry up, down, left, and right; with the hunting knife, he climbed up and checked the high wall; finally, he threw the machete to the top of the cellar , turned around a few times and fell down... Tried all kinds of methods, the whole cellar was explored, but still no passage could be opened.

Ye Weiliao sat in the center of the cellar away from the cages of swimming snakes, watched him busy back and forth for two hours, and persuaded: "The sixth day, forget it, the mechanism of the door was probably opened from the outside, or Set it out of your reach..."

Having said that, he suddenly stopped, and carefully jumped down from the sand pile.

Turning around to look at the pile of sand, it was the only place in the cellar that Feng Pingping hadn't beaten. Immediately, he scraped the sand away with his hands and feet, and Feng Pingping also came to help. After a while, the ground was cleared out, but it was still uneven rocks , a square stone surface nests an irregular circle in the middle.

"Hey." Ye Weiliao looked up at Feng Pingping and smiled.

He grasped it on the inner circle with his hands, and asked Feng Pingping to grasp it on the outer square. When Yingshi turned the mechanism of the clay pot, it turned left on the inside and right on the outside, and this may be the same.

Ye Weiliao turned the circle around, and the square stone jumped an inch above the ground. He nodded to Feng Pingping, and Feng Pingping was just about to grab it on the stone surface and was about to force it, when suddenly there were several crackling sounds from all sides of the cellar, like a rock Everyone woke up, and the ground and walls seemed to shake slightly.

Ye Weiliao hurriedly caught Feng Pingping's hand and pressed it, not letting him turn the square stone again, for fear he might make a wrong turn.

"What?" Feng Pingping asked.

"It's not right," Ye Weiliao said: "This mechanism is not turned right. Maybe the whole cellar will collapse. We will be two lumps of meatloaf when so many rocks fall down. The way to open it twice is actually different. Now it's impossible to turn it backwards." I don't know if it's right or not, it's troublesome."

Ye Weiliao pulled his hand away from the back of his hand, scratching his head in thought.

Feng Pingping was about to let go, when he suddenly felt that Fangshi tightened, and he still wanted to spin it away.He had no choice but to grab back and look up at Ye Weiliao.Ye Weiliao was also surprised when he saw it. Now he couldn't let go of this mechanism and dared not turn it around, so Feng Pingping was stuck here.

"Try it upside down." Ye Weiliao gritted his teeth.

"Yeah." Feng Pingping muffled his strength, only feeling that the stone in his hand seemed to be extremely heavy, and he didn't move at all.

Feng Pingping put his left hand on it, and Ye Weiliao caught the back of his hand with both hands. The two of them worked together. After many attempts, the mechanism was still as firm as a rock and would not move. No more spinning past.

Ye Weiliao sat back down, snorted coldly, and said, "Otherwise we'll fight, let it go!"

"Don't move!" A crisp and sweet voice came from behind the wall, yelling fiercely: "You are the only one who has trouble!"

As soon as the words were finished, the wall that Feng Pingping had knocked countless times just now was separated from the gap, rumbled and turned outward, and then moved to one side, revealing an entrance more than a foot wide. The green light illuminates the stone steps going up all the way.

Yingshi just stood at the opening of the wall and didn't go any further. With his hands on his hips, he cursed angrily, "I'm shutting you in so that you can reflect on yourself. Don't keep making trouble for my master. What are you doing down here? Hey, hey." Can’t the snake do it? If you have to mess with the mechanism, the whole cellar will be destroyed as soon as you let go! It doesn’t matter if you are dead, what about the snakes!”

"Blame us? If you don't shut us snakes, there will be no danger?" Ye Weiliao wondered.

"Blame you! You're the only one looking for trouble all day long!" Ying Shi said angrily.

"Hmph," Ye Weiliao smiled instead of anger, and quickly said in a low voice, "Chu [-], change hands and catch her!"

Feng Pingping raised his hands, Ye Weiliao followed closely and grabbed Fang Shi, Feng Pingping stepped in front of Yingshi, slashed his machete, Yingshi closed his eyes and shouted: "Kill me and you won't get out! Sooner or later Still die here!"

"Catch! Catch, not kill!" Ye Weiliao also shouted.

"Hmph!" Feng Pingping said.

Feng Pingping folded his hand to put away the knife, reached out to grab Yingshi's neck, and dragged her into the cellar like a lamb.Yingshi swung her arms wildly, kicked her feet wildly, grabbed Feng Pingping and grabbed Feng Pingping several times, then clapped her palms together, a cloud of gray smoke billowed in front of his eyes.Feng Pingping didn't care what she was doing, and brought her straight to Ye Weiliao.

"...You, are you a living person?" Yingshi was startled and frightened, and wondered, "I said at least seven or eight kinds of poisons on you, and the poisonous smoke was newly made by my master. How do you react?" nothing?"

"He's your senior brother, isn't he an axe?" Ye Weiliao was still squatting and grabbing the stone, smiling smugly.

"I am my master's serious disciple!" Ying Shi said angrily.

"Alright, alright, serious disciple," Ye Weiliao looked up at the top of the cellar, and said, "You are now down in the cellar like us, tell me how to get out, or else we'll be meatloaf together?"

"Bah." Yingshi spat in disgust, and said, "I'm not here to let you go, I'm here to let the snake go."

"It's true that the snake is more important than us. For the sake of the snake, can you also talk about how to turn this mechanism?"

"There used to be a maid in this cellar who was responsible for feeding the snakes. Later, the master killed her," Yingshi said with a sweet smile, and said, "Didn't you want to know who died in the snake room in Yishan?" huh? I told you."

Ye Weiliao and Feng Pingping exchanged glances, no wonder the headless corpse had the same smell as Tan Zhonglu, and he got along with snakes and herbs day and night.

Yingshi went on to say: "Later, I had to come down to feed the snakes by myself, and sometimes Master would also feed them. It was still more troublesome than before. The two of us have lived a quiet life for less than a month, and you have caused many troubles. Now that Master's whereabouts have been leaked, I don't want to." I want this snake house, tell me to come here to release the snake, and destroy the cellar... You are just doing me a favor in advance, the cellar will collapse sooner or later, I don’t care if it collapses or not.”

"You don't care, believe it or not, I asked Chu Liu to scratch your face with a scimitar? His scimitar is specially used for skinning, it can peel off all of your face and keep you alive." Ye Weiliao said with a dark smile.

"I'm not afraid of you," Yingshi tilted her head and smiled, "Because you're afraid of snakes."

After she finished speaking, she put two fingers on her lips and whistled a long whistle, with many twists and turns, with many fancy changes.Feng Pingping hastily reached out his hand to cover her mouth, and was bitten by her in the jaws of a tiger, making a series of teeth marks with all her strength.

It was still a slow step, and a few thin snakes had come out of the cage and slowly swam down. The snakes on the dead wood swam along the stone gaps to the scattered sand piles, and the big snakes that were thicker than the gaps in the wooden cages were also stretching their bodies. On the dry branches, the wooden cage was broken with a crackling sound.Yingshi's whistle was like ordering a group of snakes, responding to every call.

"On the sixth day, can you stop these snakes?" Ye Weiliao asked with all his might.

"No." Feng Pingping shook his head, dragged Yingshi to his side to protect him.

"Scared you to death, hee hee." Ying Shi let go of Feng Pingping's tiger's mouth, and said with a smirk from behind his palm.Ye Weiliao glared at her and said angrily, "Chu [-], hit her laughing point!"

"Snakes! Bite him!" Yingshi shouted tit for tat.

Feng Pingping pinched her neck with one hand to keep her from making a sound, took out a packet of medicinal powder with the other hand, and sprinkled it around Ye Weiliao's body in circles.When the swimming snake got close to the medicine powder, it seemed to be invisible blocked, and slowly circled around.The snakes that covered the walls and racks of a cellar gradually came out of their cages, swarming across the ground in groups, flocking towards the narrow exit.

There are also those who entangled and fought at the exit, some devoured each other, and some still lingered outside the medicine powder circle.

Ye Weiliao watched so much that he wished he would go blind, but he didn't dare to close his eyes, for fear that a snake would slip through the net and come to him.Although the Yishan Snake House ran past snakes like this once, at that time it was full of smoke and fire and they couldn't see clearly, but now a group of snakes danced wildly in the deep and dim green light, it was really like a nightmare.

"Are you okay?" Feng Pingping lowered his head and asked him.

"Hmm." Ye Weiliao nodded while clutching Fang Shi tightly, with a tense face.

"I have something to do..." Yingshi shouted hoarsely in his arms: "I'm going to be strangled to death by you..."

"Forget about strangling," Ye Weiliao snorted coldly, "It's not impossible to get out anyway. Snakes can walk, but people can't? Go out first on the sixth day, find a large rock that can be moved, and come back and press it on it. On the ashlar. No more than two pieces, blocking the left and right sides, as long as it can be supported so that it does not turn for a moment, it is enough for me to run out."

"Wait!" Yingshi called out, "I'll tell you!"

"I don't want to hear it." Ye Weiliao said.

"The exit mechanism is also closed. I only left a very thin gap. The snake can pass through, but you are so big and squashed and you can't get through." Yingshi tilted his head and smiled: "If you touch the snake rashly again If you go to another agency, you will die even worse and be more wronged."

"It doesn't matter, anyway, you die first." Ye Weiliao smiled.

"Why do you hold grudges so much! Although I let the snake bite you, but I didn't bite you, just scare you and you're like this!" Yingshi was so angry that she flattened her mouth and said aggrievedly: "I was imprisoning you to scare you, As long as you promise not to chase after my master again, or look for her everywhere, then let you go."

"Okay, you can turn on all the organs." Ye Weiliao said.

"He hasn't agreed yet." Yingshi pointed at Feng Pingping, and the two of them looked at each other dissatisfied.

"I agreed for him. If I agreed, he agreed. Our brothers advance and retreat together as one person." Ye Weiliao smiled and said, "Hurry up and turn on the mechanism, Xiaoying. If you are stubborn, let her go, I am tired from squatting."

Feng Pingping let go of her neck, still holding her arm, and said, "How do you say it, I'll do it."

Yingshi stared at him, but couldn't shake him off even with a shake of her arm, and said angrily, "Hmph."

"If you don't say it, you will kill it."

Yingshi also knew that Feng Pingping's "kill" was different from Ye Weiliao's "kill". He really knew how to kill, but unfortunately he couldn't kill him with poison, so he said flatly, "There is a black iron box under the square stone. You can turn it upside down when you open it, your fingers are so thick and your hands are so big, you can’t reach in, so I have to do it.”

"Okay," Feng Pingping said coldly, "Go ahead, if there is anything weird, I will kill you right away."

Humming, Yingshi knelt down beside Ye Weiliao, leaned over and reached into the flat gap under the square stone, groping with her body tilted and her head tilted.Ye Weiliao carefully held Fang Shi, watching the expression on her face.She smiled at him suddenly, it was sweet, but there was a chill in her eyes.

"Master said..." Yingshi paused, as if he couldn't remember anything.

"What did she say again?" Ye Weiliao asked.

"call out--"