after a change of heart

Wang Wuyou led Kasyapa through the cramped and dark underground passage. In order to illuminate the path in front of him, he tiptoed and pried off a pearl from the wall with the tip of a knife.

The pearl exudes a soft and white radiance. Although the illuminated area is not large, it can at least allow Wang Wuyou to see the bluestone floor tiles under his feet clearly, so that he can't see his foot in the air when a dark trap appears.

Walking in such a dark and quiet environment for a long time is actually a test of people's psychological endurance.Especially if you don't know where the front leads, it's easier to feel hopeless.

Fortunately, both Wang Wuyou and Kasyapa were strong-minded people, and they walked for nearly an hour without feeling restless.

Wang Wuyou stopped, and a stone statue appeared in front of him, blocking the middle of the road.

This is a male portrait, the carving is lifelike, and the clothes should be that of a gentleman in the Tang and Song Dynasties, with a very handsome appearance.There is a long sword stuck in his chest, and the long sword enters from his left chest and runs through his back. However, he has a smiling face and calm eyes, and there is no pain in his expression.

It was extremely strange that such a stone statue suddenly appeared in such a dark tunnel.

Wang Wuyou was a little hesitant, he held the pearl, and said to Kassapa: "Kasyapa, you wait here, I'll go and see." As he spoke, he shook the hands they were clasping tightly, motioning for him to let go.

Kaye shook his head.

Wang Wuyou sighed helplessly, held the pearl in his mouth, and separated Kasyapa's hand with his free hand, then held the pearl and walked towards the stone statue.

Kasyapa was stunned, and immediately followed, grabbing Wang Wuyou's clothes and not letting go.

Wang Wuyou finally saw how stubborn he was, so he had to let him go. Anyway, grabbing clothes is much more convenient than grabbing hands.

Looking closely at the stone statue, Wang Wuyou found that the carving of the stone statue was unbelievably fine. If it wasn't for the fact that the skin of the statue was not as white as jade, he might have thought it was a real person.

In fact, Wang Wuyou and Kasyapa could pass by the stone statue by turning their bodies sideways, but Wang Wuyou had never eaten pork and had seen pigs run. The strange stone statue did not appear here just to block the road, there must be some mystery.

The reason why the man carved in the stone statue is weird is that the emotions he displayed are completely incompatible with the environment he is in. Since he has been stabbed through the heart with a sword and will undoubtedly die, why is he still so relaxed and comfortable, and even has a feeling of relief? hapiness?

A person who feels happy and relieved at the temporary moment must be free from the pain that he cannot get rid of while alive. This pain has made him desperate to the point where he must die, so he will show such a calm expression when he is about to die. .

Wang Wuyou didn't intend to study carefully why this person suffered in life. There are many reasons for the pain. The possibility of seeing it from a stone statue is almost zero, unless there is a written description.

Wang Wuyou was about to walk sideways to the back of the stone statue to see if there were any clues behind the stone statue, but he only took two steps against the wall when the stone statue shattered and turned into a pile of dust finer than flour and piled on the ground.

Kassapa looked at him and opened his palms, a bright white bead was lying on his palms.

"..." Wang Wuyou wondered whether Kasyapa had found the key to clear the level in an instant, but when his eyes touched the bright red bead on the back of his left hand, he was afraid that it would be nothing but joy, so he asked seriously, "Where did you get it?" of?"

Kassapa blinked and pointed to a pile of jade powder on the ground.

Emma!It was really taken from a stone statue.Wang Wuyou didn't want to know why he didn't find any doubts after searching for a long time, so Kasyapa found the round bead in the stone statue without showing the mountain.

Kasyapa's light emerald eyes were illuminated by the brilliance of the pearl, without any impurities, like spring water with a clear bottom, appearing extremely pure and innocent.He handed the white ball to Wang Wuyou, and the other hand automatically grabbed Wang Wuyou's clothes.

Wang Wuyou took the round beads, couldn't hold back, raised his hand and stroked Kasyapa's hair, his movements were as gentle as smoothing the fur of a kitten.

Kassapa looked at him motionlessly, letting him touch casually.

This kind of Kasyapa is really... so cute, especially for Wang Wuyou, a cat lover.

"Uh... let's go." Wang Wuyou touched it a few times, feeling that he was not very moral, so he withdrew his hand and said solemnly, "There are many dangers here, we'd better be more cautious, next time we see something wrong , don’t do it yourself, it’s dangerous.”

Kasyapa nodded obediently, and followed Wang Wuyou.

Less than ten meters away from the location of the stone statue, the straight road turned to the left at a ninety-degree angle, and the endless secret road ended. There was a wall in front of it, and there were two doors on the wall, and the distance between the two doors was not enough. One meter long, with a square chessboard inlaid in the middle. The black and white pieces on the chessboard are inlaid with round beads. This is an ordinary Go game.

So do you still have to take a chess test?

Wang Wuyou suddenly had a headache, he played chess well, but as for Go, he only knew the rules of Go.

He turned his gaze to Kassapa, hoping that Kassapa could solve the chess game.Kassapa happened to look at him too, and the two looked at each other, seeing puzzlement in each other's eyes.

Wang Wuyou sighed, and first observed the two doors. The two doors were obviously identical, both were ordinary stone doors, and did not provide any useful information.He had no choice but to study the Go board, which he knew nothing about. In martial arts novels, don't there often be chess games arranged according to the Big Dipper, the heavenly stems and the earth's branches?Take a closer look, maybe you can see some mystery.

However, he looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see any special direction of the chess pieces.The white ball was tightly held by his fingertips, but it couldn't go down.

"Forget it, let's fight for character." Wang Wuyou closed his eyes and took a random position.

The moment the ball was inserted into the chessboard, the chessboard glowed with a faint white light, and then the chess pieces on the entire chessboard slowly rotated, and finally a black ball fell from the chessboard with a ding, and Wang Wuyou quickly caught it.

Wang Wuyou was a little dazed, and couldn't believe that he was mistaken.

The stone door on the left opened slowly, and the bright light inside leaked out, illuminating the surrounding area.

The moment Wang Wuyou pulled Kasyapa into the stone gate, he glanced sideways at the chessboard.

The chess pieces on the chessboard form a portrait, which is a freehand Chinese-style portrait, and the man in the painting seems to be committing suicide——swinging a sword to kill himself.

Suddenly, Wang Wuyou felt shuddering.

The stone door slammed shut behind him, Kasyapa seemed to sense Wang Wuyou's uneasiness, imitating Wang Wuyou's previous movements, and rubbed his hair.

His movements were not gentle, even a little clumsy, but Wang Wuyou felt a lot more at ease, he took Kasyapa's hand that kept moving on his head, and smiled at him.

It would be nice to be bound to such a Kassapa for a lifetime.Wang Wuyou thought to himself, this kind of Kassapa is much cuter than the Kassapa who was full of danger before.

Wang Wuyou calmed down quickly, his eyes adapted to the bright light after being in a dark environment for a long time, and he began to observe the surrounding environment.

Behind the stone gate is no longer a narrow passage, but an ancient bedroom, divided into two compartments, separated by bamboo curtains and two large screens.The decoration in the room is simple and elegant, quite in the style of a literati. Looking at the furnishings, one can tell that this is an adult man's bedroom.

The reason why there is such a uniform and bright light is because the top of the room is actually a whole piece of luminous jade!

Wang Wuyou took out the black round bead that fell from the chessboard, looked at the white light above his head, and found that it was not a pure black jade bead, although the bead was black, it was somewhat translucent. Strong light, you can see that there is something inside.

Wang Wuyou narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at it for a while, and finally figured out what was in the bead.

It was an ant - a small ant with dark red luster and claws.

Boom!

A crisp sound suddenly sounded in the silent room, and Wang Wuyou's attention was distracted. He put the black ball into the inner pocket of his clothes, and looked up at Kasyapa.

At Kasyapa's feet, a wooden stool was turned upside down. He pulled Wang Wuyou, and wanted to use his feet to hook a stool for Wang Wuyou to sit on, but he didn't hook it firmly, and the stool flipped over with a bang. on the ground.

Wang Wuyou didn't know the reason, he thought the stool was by Kasyapa's side, and he accidentally knocked it down.

"Do you want to sit here, or look for clues with me?" Wang Wuyou asked.

Kassapa answered him with his eyes, I will go wherever you go.

This bedroom is relatively large, with an external compartment near the door, a small sandalwood table and chairs in the middle, and a pot of tea, two teacups, and two plates of snacks on the small table.Although Wang Wuyou's stomach was rumbling with hunger, he didn't dare to eat the food in this secret room, even if it hadn't spoiled.

There are desks and bookshelves against the wall in the compartment, and there are many ancient scrolls on them. Wang Wuyou walked over, took out the scrolls and flipped through them casually, and found that there were not only the Four Books and Five Classics, but also miscellaneous notes such as Shan Hai Jing and Liaozhai. , There are several landscape paintings hanging on the wall, all of which are freehand Chinese ink paintings.

There is a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk, as well as a stack of clean white rice paper that has been written on.

Wang Wuyou's heart moved, and he unfolded it to see.

I saw that on the top piece of rice paper, there were four lines of characters written in traditional characters, which translate into simplified characters——

There are beauties, and you will never forget them.I don't see you for a day, and I think like crazy.

Feng Fei soars, seeking phoenix from all corners of the world.Helpless beauty is not in the east wall.

Replace the piano with the language, chat and write from the bottom of my heart.When will I see Xu Xi, comfort me in my hesitation.

Wish to match virtue, hand in hand.Don't fly, make me perish.

The short four-line writing is smooth and flowing, and the writing is like a cloud of smoke, which seems extremely casual.

This character is much better than the characters of modern calligraphers. Wang Wuyou admired it for a while, then flipped through the following pictures, and saw the problem one by one. Mood has obviously changed.

There is only a short poem on a few large rice papers.

Not to fly, let me perish

Not to fly, let me perish

Not to fly, let me perish

These poems were frantically written on a piece of blank paper, no longer the casual freedom before, the strokes were extremely heavy, and the obsession between the lines was shockingly deep, Wang Wuyou turned to the last one, the snow-white There is only one word of Dou Da on the paper.

Perish