treacherous world

Zhan Zhao didn't seem to be affected by this incident, he decided to go to the bank of Yishui with Bai Yutang to visit the little monkey who had missed several times.

"There is such a thing as people having a tail." Sitting on the back of the stone, the fourth son said to Xiao Liang beside him, "Daddy said that this is normal, it's just that the tail bone is a little longer."

"Really." Xiao Liang reached out and touched his back subconsciously, "Tail bone..." He went to touch Xiao Sizi's again...Little Sizi turned away with a red face and smiled, and pushed Xiaoliang's arm, " Xiao Liangzi, you are necrotic."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked in front side by side, both of them took their time, listening to the movements of the two children, inexplicably envious... The children are good, it doesn't matter how much trouble they make.

The road by the river was not smooth, and occasionally there was a pothole, so Bai Yutang would reach out his hand to lightly block Zhan Zhao, so that when Bai Yutang raised his sleeves, there was a sound of wind, and Zhan Zhao stopped.

Soon after reaching the river, there was indeed a small shack not far ahead, but it was desolate on all sides, and there was only one shack left. There was a coffin at the door of the shack, filled with mud and growing some fruits and vegetables.

This picture, no matter how weird it looks

"It's probably there." Bai Yutang saw cooking smoke rising from the roof—someone was there!

"That kid." Little Si's eyes were sharp, and he saw the kid squatting on the ground outside the hut playing with mud at a glance. It was the little monkey who disappeared in a blink of an eye that day.

The little monkey also seemed to notice someone approaching, stood up and stared at Zhan Zhao and the others for a while, then turned around and ran into the house, closing the door!

"Did he run away?" Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang when he heard some movement.

"Well, we're in the house." Bai Yutang nodded, and while speaking, he had already reached the door of the shack, and saw the wooden door was tightly closed.

Bai Yutang reached out and knocked lightly on the door of the shack, but no one answered.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao in a blink of an eye, "What's the name of the door?"

Zhan Zhao was a little surprised, "Have you thought about it?"

Bai Yutang was helpless, "You suggested to come."

"...Little monkey." Zhan Zhao was silent for a while, then knocked on the door and shouted to the shack, "We are not bad people, please open the door, we have something to ask you."

The corner of Bai Yutang's mouth twitched lightly, and he smiled silently.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang shrugged, "No..." Surprised in his heart, did he know without making a sound? !

"I heard you laugh." Zhan Zhao said seriously, "You still laugh..."

As soon as Zhan Zhao's voice fell, everyone heard a slight "quack quack" laughter from inside the shack.Although the laughter was not loud, it was very strange, and the voice was very hoarse.

"It's not you who laughed..." Zhan Zhao also understood.

"The people inside are laughing!" Xiao Liang listened to the door panel, then turned around and said, "It seems to be coming from a very far away place, or a very stuffy place.

"This house is only so big." Bai Yutang was a little puzzled, "Why is it so far away?" Thinking, he walked around to the back of the house and found that everything was normal and there was a window facing west.

Bai Yutang couldn't help frowning, who built this house?Do not open the windows to the east, but to open the windows to the west.

"in vain."

Sitting on the stone, the fourth son ran over, pointed to the curtain, "The curtain is moving.

There is no wooden window in this window, but a heavy curtain blocks it.

Bai Yutang gently lifted the curtain with the back of his knife.

Thanks to Bai Yutang's courage, when the curtain was opened, a fish head was blocked on the window at the back... I don't know what kind of fish it was, it looked very ugly, with round eyes, and its mouth was open and its teeth were bared. But it can be seen that it is a dead fish.

Putting down the curtain, Bai Yutang returned to the front door with the little Sizi who was startled and slapped his chest.

"How is it?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Bai Yutang shook his head lightly, "I don't know what the custom is to put fish heads against the windows."

"Fish head?" Zhan Zhao loved fish the most in his life, but this case revealed that he almost hated fish.

Xiao Liang inserted a small dagger into the crack of the door and gently lifted the latch.

The door was pushed open, Xiao Liang looked in and asked, "Little monkey? Are you there? We have something to talk to you, and we won't hurt you."

As soon as Xiao Liang finished speaking, he heard that weird rattling sound again.

Zhan Zhao pulled Xiao Liang aside, fearing that there might be an ambush, the little monkey was very weird, he still remembered that when Master Liu died, the little monkey was by his side, said "Go to hell", and then Master Liu is really dead.It's hard to say whether it's just a coincidence that it's the same as the little fourth son kicking the young master of the Eryue Palace, but the little fourth son doesn't think about other people's death at all, and the little monkey is different.

"Bai Yutang raised the curtain and entered the room, the room looks the same as the outside, the room is very small.

The room was empty, with a stove, a table against the wall and a bed.

According to the height of the stove and the size of the bed, the little monkey will not live alone in this place.

"Where's the person?" Xiao Liang searched back and forth, left and right, but there was no sign of the little monkey, and felt strange, where did the child go.

"Quack quack..."

At this time, the weird laughter started again, and everyone followed the sound to find...

I saw a cage in the southwestern corner of the room, covered with a thick black cloth... that's where the laughter came from.

"Is it a raised bird?" the fourth son asked.

At this time, Xiao Liang had already searched both front and back, corners, cabinets, boxes, all the places where people could hide, but he couldn't find the little monkey.

Zhan Zhao waved his hand, "There's no need to look for him, he has already escaped, and there are only a few of us here."

"How did he escape?" The fourth son didn't understand, "Did he escape by climbing the window?" He thought it was impossible, the window was blocked by the fish's head.

Bai Yutang walked to the side of the birdcage, and took off the white cloth cover. Sure enough, he saw a crow inside, a big black crow.

"Who would raise crows..." Xiao Liang looked at the bones of some dead fish at the bottom of the crow's cage, and couldn't help frowning.

"Here, there are a lot of dead fish." The fourth son raised his head and pointed to the roof, and saw a lot of dried dead fish hanging on the beams...but it didn't have the smell of pickled fish. I don't know how to do it into.

"Brother Bai, there is a small hole here." Xiao Liang found a small hole blocked by a wooden plank beside the bed, which is big enough for a child to enter and exit. "He may have escaped from here just now."

Bai Yutang squatted down to look, then stood up and asked Zhan Zhao, "Go after him?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, "Where are you going to chase after him, it's better to wait here."

"There's still rice cooking in the pot." The fourth son stepped on the stool to look at the stove, there was rice in the pot, "It's going to burn."

Xiao Liang hurried over to put out the fire.

At this time, Zhan Zhao heard the sound of "swiping" digging the ground, and asked, "Is the stone digging a hole again?"

"Stone, don't dig other people's floors." Xiao Sizi got off the stool to stop the stone from digging, but Bai Yutang blocked it.

Squatting down to look at the place where the stone is being dug... Bai Yutang found that there seemed to be a hard stone slab under a thin layer of dust, and the stone's claws were grasping a gap between the stone slabs.

Bai Yutang pulled the stone away a bit, stretched out his hand and gently buckled the stone slab... There was an empty "dong dong" sound, the sound was empty, but not muffled—there is a hole in the ground!

"It's true that there is a hole." Zhan Zhao leaned over and listened, "The wind is blowing very fast, so the hole should not be too small.

Bai Yutang groped around on the ground, clasped the gap with one hand and threw it to the side...

"A stone slab was actually lifted, and another one can be lifted when looking at the other side. There is actually a stone slab door on the ground. This door is not small, enough for one person to enter and exit. The dark tunnel under the door leads directly to the ground, and there are steps.

"Stairs?!" Xiao Liang wondered, "This doesn't look like a tunnel dug by ordinary people. You can see that the tunnels on the ground are all made of whole bluestone, which seems very expensive."

Bai Yutang tapped on the bluestone ground lightly, it was indeed a high-quality bluestone, the stone was hard and cold - it was a sea stone!

"It's not like something that ordinary people can use." Bai Yutang said to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao also groped for the steps, and naturally had the same thoughts in his mind as Bai Yutang—they thought it was strange before, how could they build their house here without going to the village or back to the store?It turned out that there was an underground palace underneath!

"Squeak." The nature of stones is to drill into holes when they see them. This place looks like a big black hole, and it went down with a squeak.Stepping on the steps and walking halfway, looking back at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang... as if urging them to hurry up.

Xiao Liang was clever, ran to the kitchen and got some firewood to make a torch, lit it and ran over holding it up, gave one to Bai Yutang, and took one for himself.

Holding the torch, Bai Yutang walked down, subconsciously reached out to pull Zhan Zhao, and whispered, "Be careful, it's very dark."

After Zhan Zhao heard this, he smiled slightly. Bai Yutang usually looks cold-faced and cold-hearted, but in fact it's just an illusion, a very gentle person...

But I don't know why, every time Bai Yutang accidentally gets serious, Zhan Zhao wants to tease him, but this time his lips itch again, and he smiles softly, "It's okay, I'm used to it."

Bai Yutang was instantly embarrassed again, every time he only remembered that Zhan Zhao was inconvenient and needed to take care of him, but he always forgot that his eyesight was not good...

Zhan Zhao wanted to laugh when he thought of Bai Yutang's expression now, so he also walked down the stone steps he had just touched.

One foot was firmly stepped on, and the other foot followed... But there was a "crash", the sound of stones rolling down.

Zhan Zhao stepped on an empty body and tilted.

"Be careful!" Bai Yutang stretched out his hand to pull him, but Zhan Zhao is not an ordinary person, he is already very good at lightness kung fu, and his bones are light through practice. Lean inside.

Bai Yutang was about to send him out to pull him back, when Zhan Zhao bumped into him headfirst, hitting his arms full.

The little fourth son who was following behind smiled and winked at Xiao Liang—hugged him!

Xiao Liang looked helpless, Jin'er didn't care about anything and just wanted to match the two of them.

Zhan Zhao retreated to the side, thinking that leaning on him like this was not an option.

"Wait." Bai Yutang held up the torch to shine on both sides, wanting to see what was going on in the darkness.

This photo didn't matter, and Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang gasped in shock behind them - they saw that this place was not a cave in the ground, but an underground palace... The four sides are open, and there is only a section of stone steps leading to it out of thin air. Next, how to see how scary.

"Oh, don't make trouble, be careful!" The fourth son tugged at the clothes corners of Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang in front, the two sides here were empty, and there were no handrails on the ten-foot-wide stone steps.

"Jin'er, come!" Xiao Liang held the torch in one hand, and put his arms around the waist of Xiao Sizi in the other, carefully watching his feet and keeping walking in a straight line.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao are two adults, and the fourth son and Xiao Liang would take up space if they walked together, let alone two adults, the current situation is that they can't stand without being next to each other.

Zhan Zhao was a little depressed, "Is this tunnel for a single person?"

"Squeak!" In front of him, the stone had already bounced down much better. Seeing that no one came, he ran up and yelled twice, signaling them to hurry up.

The fourth son stretched out his hand to poke Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao in front of him, "Bai Bai, hug Meow Miao tightly to prevent him from falling, and Miao Miao is not allowed to make trouble, let's go!"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao just couldn't laugh or cry, it was embarrassing.

"Cough." Bai Yutang coughed and looked at Zhan Zhao. In the darkness, Zhan Zhao's face looked normal, but his ears were a little red.

Bai Yutang couldn't help but chuckled in a low voice, this cat...

"Let's go, be careful." As he said, Bai Yutang blocked Zhan Zhao's side with one hand to prevent him from accidentally falling, and holding a torch in the other hand, he carefully stepped down the stone steps following the stones below.

Zhan Zhao felt lucky that he couldn't see, so he wasn't so embarrassed anymore, but then he thought, if he could see, he wouldn't have to walk side by side, so he just listened quietly to the movement around him, and tried not to care about the shoulders leaning against Bai Yutang.

The fourth son smiled and looked at Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang next to him, and Xiao Liang reminded him from time to time, "Jin'er, don't laugh, watch your step."

"Yeah." Little Four nodded and said, "Xiao Liangzi, hold the torch steady and don't shake it!"

Xiao Liang was a little puzzled, "It's not shaking."

"Huh?" The fourth son rubbed his eyes, "Then why is the light flickering?"

When the fourth son said this, Bai Yutang also noticed...he was completely focused on Zhan Zhao just now, so he really didn't notice, but now he looked at it...it was indeed as the boy said, the flames were shaking.

"Wait." Bai Yutang stopped, and handed the torch to Zhan Zhao, "Take it."

Zhan Zhao didn't quite understand what he was going to do, so he stood there with a torch and waited.

The stone ran up, squeaked and jumped while looking at the top of his head, as if he had discovered something.

Bai Yutang took out a ringing arrow for communication from his bosom and threw it into the sky... only a clear whistling sound was heard.

With a muffled "bang", the arrow hit the ground at the top and exploded instantly.

White fireworks scattered in all directions, and strong light shot out to illuminate the entire cave.

Bai Yutang and the others raised their heads and looked up...and immediately understood - why the fire was shaking!Because the top is densely packed, full of staggering things.