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The tomb passage was extraordinarily quiet, and after Ji Huai stopped his movements, the sound of breathing became extraordinarily obvious.

And getting closer and closer to him.

Ji Huai clenched the dagger in his sleeve, the sound of breathing approached suddenly, he suddenly rolled on the ground, and heard the sound of the sword cutting on the stone.

"What are you running for?" The voice sounded familiar.

Ji Huai was taken aback, "The gatekeeper!?"

However, his utterance also exposed his position. The man walked towards him in a slow manner, and at a very fast speed, "I heard they said your name is Ji Huai?"

Gritting his teeth and holding his breath, Ji Huai got up neatly and ran forward.

The footsteps were neither fast nor slow, but they followed closely behind him all the time, "Ji Huai, what are you running for?"

Ji Huai thought, isn't this nonsense, if I don't run and wait to be hacked to death by you?

The gatekeeper seemed to be dragging a long knife, and the tip of the knife scratched on the stone bricks, making harsh noises, but he didn't seem to care, and smiled strangely: "I didn't even have time to see what you look like."

"I didn't have time to give you a name when I left home. Your mother hoped that you would be a little girl and let the three brothers above you protect you..." The gatekeeper, or the real Ji Yu, said unhurriedly: "But the name Ji Huai really sounds good."

Ji Huai's scalp was numb when he heard it, and he resisted the urge to answer, and walked forward tightly against the wall.

"Did Ji Ming send you here?" Ji Yu asked with a smile, "What did he send you here for?"

"But you don't look like your mother or me at all." Ji Yu said slowly: "It's strange, the monk who is with you looks a bit like your grandfather, but I don't like him very much."

Ji Huai frowned.

Ji Yu doesn't seem to know that he is not the real Ji Huai, let alone that Zhan Hua is the real Ji Qi.

If he thought he was his own son, why would he be led into this tomb passage?

Listening to what he said inside and outside the meaning, it seemed that he and Jiming were identified as a team.

Just as Ji Huai was thinking, there was a sudden sound of piercing in the back of his head, his back felt cold, someone in front of him suddenly pulled him violently, the blade slashed against his shoulder, and there was a burst of burning pain.

"Huh?" Ji Yu asked in confusion.

Ji Huai was covered by someone.

The long knife dragged on the ground and drifted away, and the man who was covering his mouth let go of his hand after the sound could no longer be heard.

"Are you injured?" Quan Ning's voice came from the side.

"It's okay." Ji Huai coughed lightly, "Why are you in this tomb passage?"

"What's this one?" Quan Ning asked doubtfully, "I've been here and never went out."

Ji Huai: "... There are eight interconnected tomb passages here, and there are organs everywhere in the tomb passages."

"Oh, it may be that my martial arts are too high and I avoided all the traps." Quan Ning said quietly: "There is no way to do this."

Ji Huai twitched the corner of his mouth.

But if this guy is dead or not, he has to add: "I definitely didn't see you messing around with that bald donkey."

Ji Huai's face flushed suddenly, fortunately it was pitch black and he couldn't see, otherwise he would really have to find a trap and crash into it.

Therefore, although Young Master Ji Qi's face was flushed, his tone was unusually calm and he said: "I like him so much, I can't help it, what's the problem?"

Quan Ning was furious, "I've told you so much before, you've got the right to ignore it, right!?"

"I remember everything you said." Ji Huai said: "If he is really as scheming as you said... I will also recognize him."

"Aren't you afraid that he will kill you?" Quan Ning didn't understand.

"I'm afraid." Probably because of the darkness around him, Ji Huai didn't hold back any more, and said in a deep voice: "I want to defeat him and find a way to detoxify him. If he is just playing tricks on the spot, I will lock him up and let him die." He played for me for the rest of my life."

After a long while, Quan Ning said quietly: "You really wasted this seedling if you don't go to the Devil's Cult."

"Thanks for the compliment." Ji Huai twitched his lips.

Seeing that he was determined, Quan Ning stopped trying to persuade him for a while, and could only take it slowly and asked, "Do you take the spike I gave you with you?"

"Zhanhua is not happy to see her, so I—" Ji Huai sighed.

Quan Ning said angrily: "You lost it again!?"

"I hid it in the side of the boot." Ji Huai said, "I think it will be useful to some extent, how could it be lost?"

Zhan Hua secretly threw it to him last time, and Ji Huai was very wronged.

But in front of Quan Ning, he didn't say this, he could only bear the crime for Zhan Hua silently.

Quan Ning breathed a sigh of relief, but felt aggrieved, he just said: "Remember to keep it, don't lose it."

Ji Huai nodded, and realized that he couldn't see in the dark, and was about to speak, when the surroundings were spinning again. This time, he learned how to be smart, and took the opportunity to draw a heavy line on the stone wall below him, and then fell into it. In the mechanism of opening and closing.

-

Nanyu hit the ground with a thud, and then stared at Ming Ye.

"Too great!" Nanyu almost wept with joy when she finally met her companion after going through two tomb passages alone.

It's just that her companion looks like she's about to cry now.

Nanyu looked at the empty tomb passage, but did not find any danger, and asked strangely, "What's wrong with you tomorrow night?"

"It's... a long story." Ming Ye sighed sadly.

"Then make a long story short." Nan Yu said, "Are you injured?"

"Basically, I lost all my martial arts." Ming Ye frowned.

"Hiss." Nan Yu took a breath of gloating, "Why did you lose all your martial arts skills?"

"Do you still remember Zhao Yue who chased and killed me before?" Ming Ye asked.

"Of course I remember." Nan Yu nodded seriously, this is their master's 'self-confident' rival in love.

"He fed me a poison pill." Ming Ye said with anger on his face.

"You just let him feed you honestly?" Nanyu looked at him puzzled, "He doesn't seem to have martial arts?"

"He kissed me." Ming Ye said angrily.

"Oh, he kissed you—huh!?" Nan Yu's tone changed, and she looked at Ming Ye with a subtle look.

"It's not what you think." Ming Ye gritted his teeth, "I'm going to kill him sooner or later."

"Well, the master said the same thing half a year ago." Nan Yu smiled slightly, "Now we are almost the same person as Yao Yinzi."

Ming Ye: "..."

Suddenly felt a little bad.

"What about Zhaoyue people?" Just kidding, Nanyu is still on the side of his companion.

"The tomb passage was reversed twice, and he and I got separated." Ming Ye said.

"Master and Young Master Ji are looking for the fifth tomb passage." Nanyu looked up at the floor tiles above her head, "The sooner the better."

"How to find it?" Ming Ye asked.

"I don't know, Master and the others guess that there should be signs or codes." Nanyu has much more information than him, "There are a total of eight tomb passages in this, connected with each other, three out and five in, remember?"

Fearing that they would get separated again at some point, Nanyu told him the most useful news as briefly as possible.

"Understood." Ming Ye nodded.

The two walked cautiously through the tomb passage, and Ming Ye suddenly said, "There is a mark over here."

Nanyu leaned over to look, and found that the mark looked familiar, "It was left by the master before, and we were in this tomb passage before."

She passed through the two tomb passages and returned to the original one. Nanyu frowned, "Could it be that the two passages facing this tomb passage are connected?"

Ming Ye couldn't understand, "What do you mean?"

"Forget it, it's just my guess, let's continue to look for the mark." Nanyu shook her head, feeling that this guess was unbelievable.

-

Holding a candle, Ji Huai looked at the strange arrangement of floor tiles above his head, and a long memory came to mind.

'Shichiro, how about I teach you how to play chess? '

'ah. '

At that time, he was still very young, and he could only memorize a few poems by stumble, but when he heard that he was going to play chess, he immediately became energetic.

He couldn't remember the specific situation at that time, but——

Ji Huai looked at the five floor tiles above his head that were obviously older than the other floor tiles, and was quite speechless.

It's that simple.

It is five tiles connected together to represent five.

But now the tomb passage has two directions, Ji Huai only raised his head to look carefully at the five floor tiles. The floor tiles look square, but if you look carefully, you will find that one end is small and the other end is large, Ji Huai's heart was shocked .

Regardless of the size, as long as there is a distinction, you can find the real entrance after one more try!

Ji Huai chose one side to continue walking, and when the tomb passage turned over, he stopped decisively and stuck to the wall. After hearing a chaotic sound, more than a dozen people rushed in from a few feet away.

It was Heng Taki, Huan Ziang and others who described the embarrassment.

Ji Huai: "!!"

People from the Martial Arts League got separated a lot in the tomb passage, when Heng Long and Huan Ziang saw him, Heng Long said: "Junior Brother!"

"Ji Huai!" Huan Ziang looked around and found that there was no Zhan Hua, he breathed a sigh of relief, "You have to give us an explanation!"

Ji Huai frowned slightly, "Explain?"

While walking towards him, Heng Taki said in a deep voice: "Junior brother, why did you mix with people from Hell Sea? Did you collude with the people from Hell Sea who attacked us outside Shiyuan City that day?"

Ji Huai said helplessly when he heard the words: "If I really have such a great ability, I won't be kidnapped by you from the beginning."

"Junior brother, you can't say that." Heng Taki coughed awkwardly: "We are all for you too."

Ji Huai: "...Although I'm not very smart, I'm not a fool either."

Seeing that Ji Huai did not cooperate, Heng Taki could only patiently persuade him slowly, "Then there must be some misunderstanding, why don't we have an open and honest talk?"

"Leader Heng, there's nothing to talk about." Ji Huai said, "The Qiankun map you want is in this tomb. Whether you can get it or not depends on your ability."

Hearing the whereabouts of the map of Qian Kun, Heng Long, Huan Ziang and the people behind them immediately became energetic.

Huan Ziang hurriedly asked: "Then do you know where the Qiankun Map is?"

Ji Huai smiled and said, "If I know where the picture is, I don't need to wander around here."

"This kid is very shrewd!" Someone shouted: "Leader, don't be fooled by him! Let's arrest him!"

"Yes, arrest him first!" Someone echoed.

"Wait a minute!" Heng Taki said inwardly, and hastily stopped him, but this group of warriors who were about to be tormented mad by this weird tomb passage would not listen, and came towards Ji Huai aggressively.

Ji Huai fumbled for the mechanism behind him, slammed on it, and the stone door turned over, separating the group of people behind the wall.

However, even so, Ji Huai did not dare to relax, after all, no one knew who else was in the tomb passage that came in.

Ji Huai was tense, the candle in his hand was almost extinguished, he hurriedly raised his sleeve to protect it, a cold hand suddenly touched his neck.

Ji Huai's scalp exploded, and the candle almost burned his sleeves.

The other hand supported his wrist, and took the candle steadily, "It's me."

Zhan Hua's voice.

Ji Huaiwu breathed a sigh of relief, his whole body relaxed, and he leaned against him, "Next time, remember to talk first."

If he comes again so many times, he is afraid that he will be frightened crazy.

"." Zhan Hua supported him, looking down at the injury on his shoulder, "Are you injured?"

"I met Ji Yu—" Ji Huai paused, "I met your father."

Zhan Hua took him to sit down and bandaged his wound, "My adoptive father raised me, and I only called him father."

Ji Huai was taken aback.

"To me, the Ji Mansion is no different from the Qi Mansion on the side of the road." Zhan Hua sprinkled medicinal powder on his wound, "I will go to the Ji Mansion, and I just want to use you as a medicine introduction , never thought of anything else.”

"Hiss..." Ji Huai gasped in pain.

"It hurts?" Zhan Hua relaxed his movements.

Ji Huai said: "But your mother and three brothers... They should be looking forward to your return."

"I haven't seen them for more than [-] years, and I'm no different from strangers." Zhan Hua tied a cloth strip on his shoulder, turned Ji Huai around, stared at him and said, "If you really talk about it carefully, I only know one Ji Huai in the whole Ji Mansion."

"You..." Ji Huai raised his eyebrows, "You just identified your medicine introduction?"

"Yeah." Zhan Hua lowered his eyes, wiped off the dirt on his hands with a handkerchief, and said in a muffled voice, "Mine."

Obviously there was no emotional turmoil in the answer, but it made Ji Huai feel a little sweetness from the root of his tongue. He leaned forward and kissed the tip of Zhan Hua's nose, and said with a smile, "Your."

Zhan Hua turned his head blankly, got up and reached out to him, pulling him up from the ground, "Let's go."

Before, Ji Huai ran around in the tomb by himself, and he was able to jump around faster than a rabbit when he was injured. Now that he was with Zhan Hua, his legs hurt, his hands hurt, his wound hurt, and he couldn't even hold a candle. up.

Zhan Hua also let him go, clasping his hand tightly with one hand, which made Ji Huai's bones ache.

"I'm not that stupid." Ji Huai touched his nose with the other hand uncomfortably.

"The mechanism will be triggered at any time in the tomb passage." Zhan Hua pulled the person closer, and said solemnly: "If you don't catch it, it's easy to lose it."

Even though there were only the two of them in this tomb passage, Ji Huai still felt his ears burning. He cleared his throat and said seriously, "Then you have to hurry up."