Outside the corridor, under the illumination of the candlelight that was still intact, he could clearly see the scene next to him.
The wreckage of the wooden furniture was everywhere, almost covering the entire corridor. Not to mention the room that Gu Zheng had stepped into. Even the floor was almost crushed. The only place that was intact was under Zhu Huo's body.
Even the several doors around the room were completely destroyed by the other party.
"It's really strange."
Gu Zheng quietly took a few steps and looked at the candle on the side. He stretched out his hand to grab it, wanting to see how it could be ignored by the other party. Was it so hard that it could not be damaged at all?
However, as soon as his palm touched it, it was like a phantom, directly passing through it. He did not grab it at all.
"So that's how it is! Do you know where it is? "
Gu Zheng found that it was not in this space, but it had some connection with this place. No wonder when those ghosts came, they could only affect its brightness. However, he turned his head and whispered to the kitten next to him.
When the meatball just left, the kitten woke up from its sleep and asked.
"I want to rest! That Dragon Soul can affect me. " The kitten shook its head, indicating that it did not know. Then, its whole body condensed and turned into a small golden ball, and then rushed into Gu Zheng's arms.
"Well, you continue to rest well." Gu Zheng did not expect that the other party was affected by the Dragon Soul, so he put the other party in a hidden place and said to it.
This kitten had helped him a lot, and in the end, in order to let Gu Zheng and the others safely out of the turbulence, he had used up a lot of energy, which made the other party, who had just recovered, over-exhausted itself again.
After a little tidying up his mood, Gu Zheng continued to walk along the road. At the same time, he looked at the thing that he had just taken out and carefully observed it.
At this time, the bright light on this thing had dissipated, and it could be seen that it was a relatively simple brass key with some complicated patterns engraved on it. It felt heavy in his hand, and it was quite heavy. At first glance, it was relatively high-grade. He did not know what to use it for, but it was most likely to open a door of an unknown place.
Gu Zheng took a closer look but couldn't find anything special about it. Thus, he put it away.
While carefully moving forward, Gu Zheng lit up the candlesticks along the way one by one. After encountering a room, Gu Zheng did not hesitate and continued to rummage through the cabinets and chests. However, to his disappointment, he did not find anything after nearly a day. Only then did he realize how lucky he was at the beginning. If it were not for the sudden impulse at the end and the danger, he would not have gained anything.
It seemed that the greater the risk, the greater the reward.
Although he didn't know how to use this key, he knew that it was definitely something good. Perhaps it was used to open something. He had a feeling that this key wouldn't appear here for no reason.
In other words, the things that appeared here might be the key to them passing through, or they might be able to help them in some way.
Of course, this was just Gu Zheng's own thoughts. It might be useless, or it might be useful but not useful.
At this time, he still hadn't reached the end of this area. Coupled with the fact that he had to avoid the patrolling ghosts from time to time, his speed was simply too slow. However, no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't take the risk.
The only thing that comforted him was that with the dragon soul in his body, he discovered that it was still slowly replenishing his energy. At the very least, he didn't have to worry about running out of energy in a short period of time. This also made him more patient to search.
For three whole days, with his tortoise-like speed, he didn't have the slightest time to rest. He roughly understood this area, but didn't find any useful information. After turning around, he continued to walk in another direction.
"Ding ling!"
Just as he arrived at an unfamiliar intersection, apart from the road he came from, it was still pitch-black. A soul-stirring sound came from the front again, causing him to immediately stop and listen to the other side's movements. He prepared to change direction and go around it.
However, after taking just two steps, he suddenly heard a head-numbing sound in front of him. Helplessly, he could only turn back again.
Gu Zheng slowly walked towards the third passage. He didn't believe that there would be ghosts here. What made him feel relieved was that there weren't any ghosts here.
As he slowly went deeper and explored the terrain, he lit a few candles and prepared to look at the nearby rooms. The candles in the distance behind him flickered, and at the same time, two bells rushed into his ears, causing his thoughts to immediately fall apart.
"How unlucky, two of them actually came together."
Gu Zheng complained as he continued to walk inside. He would rather go around them than hide inside. This was because on the way to search for some things, the door that he had closed had been opened by someone. This meant that the other party might have gone into the room to check. If they happened to come to the place where he was hiding, wouldn't it be like catching a turtle in a jar?
He had encountered this once before. Fortunately, there were doors on both sides of the room. When the other party came in and was about to open the door, Gu Zheng quietly opened the door on the other side. He waited until the other party left before returning, and the other party didn't notice at all.
One had to know that although some rooms could lead to the opposite side, most of them only had one entrance. Obviously, this was the case for the few rooms nearby. It was not a good place to hide.
Now, he had a rough idea of the ghost women's patterns. Although there were more of them, as long as he wasn't surrounded by a few, he could still avoid them. The most important thing was to avoid them when they didn't ring the bells. At that time, he would probably have to rely on the candles to find them.
If he was in the dark, unless he was lucky, the other party would be far away from him. If he met them at the corner, it would be the greatest danger.
At this distance, Gu Zheng slightly quickened his pace. The other party still couldn't detect his presence. Soon, he slightly increased the distance between them.
Gu Zheng turned here and prepared to go around from the other side. Of course, he still had to light the candles along the way. This was the best thing to be vigilant of.
After turning twice, he could no longer hear the bells. Before Gu Zheng could relax, he heard the running sound of the meatball in his ears. The other party was moving quickly around him.
"Damn it."
Gu Zheng muttered in his heart. Then, he slowed down his pace and prepared to find a room to hide from the other party first.
To deal with this guy, it was better to be safe. Otherwise, if the other party rushed to where he was, he wouldn't have time to react and would be discovered.
He directly walked to the side passage. Although it was pitch black, Gu Zheng wasn't worried at all. This was because he found that there must be a room in every passage.
"Hmm? This is a dead end? "
This passage didn't have any candles. When Gu Zheng reached the bottom, he found that there was a blurry wooden wall in front of him. And on the side, there was a small room. Just as he was about to go back, the loud running sound behind him became louder, as if it was walking nearby.
After hesitating for a moment, Gu Zheng still didn't go out. Instead, he hid in the small room at the side.
The room was empty, but there was a candle flame in the middle of the room, which was very strange.
After lighting the candle, he waited for the sound outside to fade away. Then, he came out and prepared to leave.
However, as soon as he came out, he subconsciously glanced at the dead end. Through the hazy light, he discovered that there was a strange pattern at the end of the dead end. He lit up the crystal again and prepared to take a closer look.
But when his light shone, he found that the pattern had disappeared. It was just an ordinary wooden wall. When he reached out and touched it, there was no difference at all.
Waiting for Gu Zheng to dim his own light, under the illumination of the candlelight, the mysterious pattern was revealed once again. However, the light was too dim, and the pattern could not be seen clearly. However, it could be seen that the pattern was all gathered towards the center, and there was a keyhole-like hole there.
"What a coincidence."
Gu Zheng took his key and looked at the pattern on it. It vaguely resembled the pattern on the key, but it was too blurry in front of him. He couldn't be sure, but he still picked up the key and inserted it into the hole.
Ka ka.
Two very soft sounds rang out in the air, and Gu Zheng's key went in smoothly. He couldn't help but be happy. He was looking forward to what was behind. It was hidden in such a secret place. If he didn't look carefully, he wouldn't have found it. After all, the area illuminated by the candlelight was too blurry.
If it weren't for the meatball behind, Gu Zheng wouldn't have lit the candlelight even if he opened the door and saw that it was empty. He would have just left and not found this strange place.
Gu Zheng gently twisted the key, and slowly twisted it half a circle. He could clearly hear the sound of a mechanism opening. But halfway through, Gu Zheng's arm was stuck. It seemed that he couldn't twist it at all. At the same time, the wooden wall in front of him suddenly shook and made a loud noise.
The pattern on the wooden wall suddenly lit up. At the same time, a huge force came. Gu Zheng's body flew back and fell to the ground.
The wooden wall was still rumbling, and the key that Gu Zheng twisted half a circle slowly returned to its original shape.
However, Gu Zheng didn't have time to look. He got up and quickly ran outside without stopping for a moment.
He rushed through the short passage and rushed directly into the other side's passage. He then opened a door and hid inside.
Just as he closed the door, the door stopped vibrating. However, an even clearer vibration came from afar and rushed into the tunnel.
A loud sound of the door being pushed open entered Gu Zheng's ears. Then, there were several loud collision sounds, as if the meatball was hitting the wooden wall.
"Crash!"
The "bang bang" sound in the air suddenly stopped. Then, there was a loud shattering sound, and the meatball walked away.
Gu Zheng could feel his heartbeat, but he was still suppressing his breathing. His body was right behind the door, but he didn't even try to hide. He was afraid that he would cause any commotion and attract the meatball that was right in front of him.
After half a cup of tea's time, there was silence outside. However, he didn't move at all. He was still waiting because the meatball seemed to have broken the wooden wall and didn't come back.
However, Gu Zheng didn't have to wait too long. Soon, the familiar vibration came from outside again. Soon, the meatball rolled away and left this place.
Gu Zheng came out from this side and continued to walk to the other side of the passage.
When he walked inside, he found that the original wooden wall had been violently broken by the meatball, revealing a small path that led to an unknown place. In the small room next to it, it was also attacked by the other side. Even the candlelight was broken by the other side. It was incredible.
Gu Zheng picked up a section of the pillar under the candlelight. It felt like some kind of cloth, but it was very hard. Was this candle not like the previous one, which was hidden in the void?
He didn't know. Maybe it had something to do with the wooden wall. He looked inside again. At this time, there were already candlelight lit up inside. There were candlelight at intervals, illuminating the passage. It was easy to see that there were stone walls on both sides. The ceiling was less than ten feet above him. It seemed to be a hidden passage that led to another place.
Gu Zheng carefully walked over the fragments on the ground so as to not accidentally step on them and make a sound. He continued to walk inside. No matter what, this place was so strange. He had to take a look. Perhaps Meng Zhen was trapped inside.
Speaking of which, even if Gu Zheng was mentally prepared at this time, he still didn't expect that the meatball would be so violent. It could even break the strong mechanism here.
Just as he took two steps, a golden light flashed from the ground, causing him to stop again. He bent down and picked up the key hidden in the fragment. He didn't expect that the key would be safe under the attack, which was also out of his expectations. However, he put it away, as it might be useful in the future.
Walking slowly along the passage, he could see the traces left by the meatball. However, the other side couldn't break through such a strong stone wall. There were some broken stones on the ground.
At first, he walked slowly because he was always vigilant of the mechanisms in front of him or around him. After an incense stick's worth of time, he still saw the same scene. Thinking that the meatball had spent so much time, it would be a waste of time to walk step by step, so he quickened his pace and strode forward. At the same time, he was vigilant of his surroundings.
After an incense stick's worth of time, just when Gu Zheng thought that there was no end to this place, there was finally a different change in front of him.
Around the wall, there were rows of candlelight, and in front of him was a spacious cave.
Gu Zheng's spirit was aroused. He walked in, wanting to see what was in this place.
In this cave, most of it was empty. Besides the candlelight, there was only a big smiling face mask hanging on the opposite wall.
That smile was very obvious. Upon closer inspection, the corners of Gu Zheng's mouth were slightly curled up, as if he had encountered something happy. However, he didn't seem to notice it at all, as if he couldn't feel himself. His eyes were a little dull as he walked forward.
Under the smiling face mask, there was a red table. On the blood-red surface, there was an exquisite box, but it had been opened at this time. Under the help of the golden silk, a golden round jade lay quietly inside. Under the soft light of the jade, Gu Zheng's eyes slowly regained their clarity.
He subconsciously took two steps back and looked in front of him. At this time, the big smiling face had disappeared, and only the box was left.
When he had looked at the smiling face, he had lost consciousness in an instant. He didn't know what had happened, he didn't know how he had come here, and he didn't understand why this thing had awakened him again, as if it wanted him to notice it.
After calming down a little, Gu Zheng stepped forward to examine it. At least he could see that this place didn't have any malicious intentions towards him.
The golden light in front of him slowly fell. What surprised him was that on the originally smooth surface of the round jade, there was a smiling face. Under Gu Zheng's gaze, it slowly disappeared.
The box below also made a "kacha" sound, and from the side of the box, an object instantly shot out, rushing towards Gu Zheng. Its speed wasn't fast, and he subconsciously caught it in the air.
It was a round plate, one size bigger than Gu Zheng's palm. It was made of some kind of mahogany, and circles of patterns were entwined on it. In the middle, there was indeed a side that was as transparent as glass, and he could clearly see what was below.
There was actually nothing below, only a red dot in the middle of the circle. On the outside, there was a small red circle that encased it, and at the edge, there was a similar big circle. In the middle of the big circle and the small circle, there were some symbols that Gu Zheng couldn't understand, arranged in a disorderly manner.
Before he could take another look, there was a new change in front of him.
In front of him, the round jade slowly rose from inside and floated in front of Gu Zheng, making him look at it again.
Gu Zheng subconsciously reached out with his other hand and directly grabbed the round jade in front of him. Then, his vision blurred, and he found himself standing in front of a wooden wall, next to the wooden door that had been broken apart by the round ball.
He had been sent back to the place where he first entered.
"What is the meaning of this?"
Gu Zheng looked at the wooden wall in front of him, completely blocking his way, as if the path behind it was just an illusion.
He had come out, but the golden round jade was still in his hand and didn't disappear. Just now, it wasn't an illusion at all. At this time, a warm current seemed to be flowing from the round jade, making Gu Zheng feel warm all over. The gloomy and cold air around him couldn't get close to Gu Zheng's body at all.
After thinking for a while, Gu Zheng still couldn't figure out this thing. Right now, it was just like an ordinary golden round jade, but looking at its shape, it seemed like it could be placed somewhere.
Gu Zheng took the other round plate and compared it slightly, and found that the small circle's shape was actually very gentle.
Thinking of this, he first retreated to this passage, and for his own safety, hid in the room next to it, and then prepared to experiment.
"Tick tock"
As Gu Zheng placed the golden round jade in the middle, the golden round jade's golden light lit up again, penetrating through the outer layer and slowly entering the inside. Then, an extremely low sound rose from the inside of the round plate.
A golden pointer appeared from the bottom, and then it began to spin rapidly inside. The pattern inside also lit up along with it.
After a full ten breaths of time, the golden needle finally pointed up, as if it was pointing in a certain direction.
However, before Gu Zheng could figure out what it was pointing to, a small purple needle that was less than one-third of the size of the golden needle suddenly appeared from below. After spinning around, it pointed in a completely different direction from the golden needle.
"This is Meng Zhen's aura!"
Gu Zheng looked at the purple needle. Compared to the golden needle, which didn't have any aura, there was actually Meng Zhen's aura on it, as if it was telling him the other party's location.
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