Jianghuke

After a short period of panic, Chi jumped onto the edge of the well and shouted inside, "Sanshui??"

The reply came quite quickly, like ripples swirling in the well, but no one answered.

For a moment, he thought of the cold poison on Gu Miao's body. It was freezing outside, and there was water in the well, so it was hard not to fall directly into the water and freeze to death.

Chi Heting panicked, and turned his head to find a rope to go down to rescue someone, before he took two steps away, a familiar voice suddenly came from the well, complaining indistinctly: "What are you shouting, my ears are deafened by you .”

"Three waters!"

"I'm just exploring the way, why are you panicking? There's no water here."

Chi Heting collected himself, squinted his eyes and looked into the dark well.It is true that I did not see those sparkling lights before, only a dark shadow standing below.The hanging heart finally fell down, and he looked at the not-so-spacious well wall again, hesitatingly said: "Will I not squeeze you when I go down?"

"You just get down."

Chi Heting took a deep breath and jumped down with a "whoosh".Just when he couldn't see his fingers when he went in, he staggered and fell into someone's arms.

Gu Miao supported him and said, "Be careful."

"Is there... a stone slab under here?" Chi Heting slowed down, stomped his feet lightly, and was very surprised, "Why is there a stone slab?"

"After the mechanism was activated, the well water was drained." Gu Miao just stretched out a finger, and suddenly realized that it was almost invisible in the well, and retracted it regretfully, "We have a quarter of an hour to open the second channel." organ."

"The second way?" Chi Heting touched the wet smooth well wall twice, and asked in confusion, "Where is it?"

"...I don't remember clearly, I have to look for it, and it will take a little time."

"What happens if a quarter of an hour passes?"

"The well will come back up and drown us both."

"...Then I'm giving up my life to accompany a gentleman." The bottom of the well is quite spacious, Chi Heting leaned on the wall of the well, and joked, "You have to move faster, otherwise I won't be a ghost if I drown Let you go."

Gu Miao accepted this with pleasure: "If you don't come to me then, I will come to you."

Chi Heting: "?"

Fortunately, Gu Meiren had a good memory. Before the well water flooded her ankles, she managed to open the stone door of the secret passage. There was no danger, and the two of them did not drown at the bottom of the well in this barren mountain as a pair of desperate mandarin ducks.

The stone door behind him slowly closed, and the last trace of light disappeared completely.Some ore above the head suddenly lighted up faintly, dotted with fluorescent lights.That soft but dim light actually illuminated the entire secret passage, like a bright river of stars across the night, extending toward the darkness ahead.

In his previous life, he had seen such a strange stone in the Qiankun Cave, which he had never heard of or seen before, but he was too busy to get the Qiankun Lock at that time, so he didn't bother to study it carefully.

Chi Heting looked at the ore on the top with great interest, and even wanted to dig out a piece to take a look: "Sanshui, do you know what kind of ore this is?"

"It's a star that fell from the sky."

"..." Chi rolled his eyes, "Are you coaxing the children?"

"My mother told me so back then." Gu Miao retorted confidently, "I was just a child back then?"

"Okay, okay, it's a star." Chi Heting didn't know whether to laugh or cry, stopped arguing with him, stood on tiptoe and tried to break off a piece, but after a long time, he couldn't reach it, and finally noticed something was wrong, "How high is the top of this secret path?"

"It's very high, I can't reach it even if I step on your shoulder." Gu Miao watched him jumping for a long time, and said with a smile, "It's just that these things will give you the illusion that you are very close."

Chi Heting was dumbfounded.

He complained, "Didn't you say it earlier?"

Gu Meiren said innocently: "You didn't ask either."

"..."

After a while, Gu Miao gently held his hand and said, "If you're really curious, you might as well bring the ladder from the library later to find out. How long will it take to get to the Tiankeng courtyard?"

Being held by hand, Chi's awkwardness immediately disappeared without a trace, and he was dragged obediently into the depths of the secret passage, asking: "Why is it called such a weird name? Your mother or before Didn't the Patriarch of the Pei family give him a name?"

"In the past, there were only hot springs and a shed there." Gu Miao said, "My mother built this yard herself after she became the head of the house. However, she doesn't seem to be very good at naming things."

It's never worse than yourself.Chi thought very self-aware, but he likes the name Gu Miao very much, he likes the name, and he also likes people.He blurted out without thinking: "Your name is very good, your mother has a good name."

Gu Miao stopped in her tracks, looked back at him, and said with a strange expression, "Is it good?"

Chi nodded sharply, and took the opportunity to offer courtesy and said, "I like it very much."

"It was taken by my father." Gu Miao paused slightly, a trace of indescribable emotion flashed in his eyes, which dissipated in the blink of an eye, and continued to walk forward, "It's a pity that because of Xuanzong, my mother is not married. The only surname my dear left me must be covered up."

"Your mother's surname?" Chi Heting heard a little strange, pondered for a while, and suddenly said, "So, your father is not from the Pei family, so you take your mother's name? I thought everyone in this hidden world was Intermarriage within the clan... Huh? You all fled to the Yulong Mountains and hid, and even let foreign surnames marry, aren't you afraid of being discovered?"

"Once outsiders step into the Pei Family Villa, regardless of gender, they can only live in the inner courtyard of their relatives for the rest of their lives." Gu Miao seemed not to be interested in this topic, so she briefly explained a few sentences before turning off, "We are leaving the library. The entrance is still far away, and it takes about half an hour to walk. Take off the cloak, it will be hot."

This secret passage seems to lead obliquely to the depths of the ground, the more one goes in, the warmer one feels.The inside of the library is even more dry and warm, comfortable and pleasant, and you can sleep soundly with the bed and bedding on the floor.

But Chi Heting searched through most of the books in the building, but couldn't find the reason. At this moment, someone happened to be able to ask, and asked, "Why is it getting hotter? Is it because of the special location or the structure?"

Gu Miao sighed, stretched out her hand to hook his shoulder, and whispered into his ear, "Ah Chi, I was still a child at that time."

The implication is that it is impossible to know everything.

At the end of the secret path, there is a simple and simple stone gate.

This is already the second stone gate, if you enter from the outside, you have to go through several traps.

After a lifetime, when he saw this door again, Chi Heting was filled with emotion and sighed. He stopped Gu Miao who was about to open the door, and said, "Let me try."

Gu Miao raised her eyebrows, took two steps back, and gave way to the six turntables on the stone gate.

Different star charts are engraved on these six turntables. No matter the order or the number of turns, if you make a mistake in any step, you will be stuck directly, and you can wait for seven days before trying again.However, as long as you have time, you can keep on trial and error, without triggering another trap, and the things that can kill people are all outside.

Chi Heting turned the turntable familiarly.

After a while, the stone door opened with a bang, revealing the collection of the Pei family's mechanism art that had been sealed in dust for 15 years.There are a lot of things to see.

Gu Miao stared at his back, thoughtful.

First there is the small crossbow mechanism, then there is the guide pine, and there is also the library mechanism... The mechanism technique is something that needs to be practiced continuously to learn, and it is absolutely impossible to be familiar with it to this level casually—I don’t know what kind of chance it is, let Ah Chi kept his mouth shut and kept secret.

Gu Miao lowered her eyes, hid all her curiosity in her heart, raised her hand casually, and asked, "Ah Chi, just guess, behind which bookcase is the secret passage in the Tiankeng courtyard?"

The author says:

There will be four updates this week!

I put a bowl here to see if any starfish will jump in by themselves~