They walked into a tower house in the wilderness and found that the house was empty, but there was an unusual sound coming from the ceiling. Wei Zi whispered,"
"There might be someone upstairs!"
" Let's go up and take a look-" Zhang Zi was eager to try.
"Wait, I think there's something fishy about this!”Zheng Zi hurriedly grabbed his arm and stopped him.
"What's so strange about it?"
"Did you see the entrance to the upper floor?”She reminded him softly.
With the help of the dim yellow light, they realized that there was a protruding wooden board on the ceiling near the corner of the wall. It was square like a small door for the entrance. At the bottom of the wooden board, there was a big lock hanging.
"The entrance to the top is locked!" Wei Zi pointed at the big lock.
"Strange, why is it locked? Could it be that there are prisoners locked up upstairs?" Zhang Zi muttered in confusion.
"In that case, we are in a dangerous place, and this place is very likely to be a bandit's nest?”Zheng Zi speculated.
Even as they were whispering to each other, there was another suspicious rustling on the ceiling.
Before they could react, a black object fell from the ceiling and landed on Zhang Zi's shoulder.
Zhang Zi turned pale with fright. He immediately jumped up and reached out to grab the strange thing on his shoulder.
Who knew that the strange thing could move and scream. It let out two or three squeaks and crawled along Zhang Zi's chest to the ground. In the blink of an eye, it scuttled out of the door and disappeared.
"Mouse? Ah, ah, so it's a damn big rat that caused us to have a false alarm!”Zhang Zi shouted angrily.
"Lower your voice. Let's hear if there's any more noise upstairs.”Wei Zi gestured for Zhang Zi to be quiet.
The three of them immediately held their breaths and listened. The ceiling was dead silent.
"There's no one up there! Perhaps the rats had built a few comfortable nests on it!”Zhang Zi said.
After confirming that there was no one upstairs, their hearts finally settled down.
"This place is empty. It must be an abandoned old house! We can only make do with it tonight and rest here! Sigh, I'm so tired after walking for half a day!”
Zhang Zi walked to the corner of the wall and sat down. Then, he waved at Zheng Zi.
"Mimi, are you tired too? Come over and sit beside me!"
Zheng Zi obediently walked to his side, untied the paper bow on her back, and placed it against the wall. She sat down next to him and leaned her head on his shoulder.
Zhang Zi hugged her contentedly, forgetting about the false alarm just now, forgetting that he was in an unfamiliar and shabby old house, and forgetting about Wei Zi's existence. The two of them were head to head, as intimate as a loving couple!
Ever since he had Zheng Zi, Zhang Zi's behavior was completely different from before. Holding his beloved woman in his arms was like swallowing a calming pill. His entire mind was calm and full of energy. His voice was also much louder.
Wei Zi tactfully walked to another wall and sat down. He turned sideways to face the two of them and closed his eyes. He seemed to be sleeping, but he was not sleeping. He was deep in thought. From time to time, he heard Zheng Zi giggle.
Her laughter evoked a myriad of thoughts in his mind. He thought of that dusty woman. She also loved to laugh. Although he had never heard her laugh through Miaozhu, he thought that her laughter must be pleasant to the ear.
In fact, it was her pure smile that moved his heart. Her smile often soothed his anxious heart. At this moment, he missed her so much. He wondered if she could sense his longing.
It was said that if one sincerely chanted the name of their loved one 666 times in their heart, they would be able to telepathically sense it.
The dust woman had no name. Hence, he decided to give her a name so that he could recite her name day and night.
Naturally, the name Junko popped up in his mind. Junko's name was just like her, just like her pure smile. From then on, this dusty woman had a name. He muttered,"
"Junko…Junko!"
He took out the cloth bag and took out the pearl. Holding it in his hand, he began to recite her new name to express his deep feelings.
In the darkness, he couldn't see her clearly. He could only see a light blue halo reflected from the crystal clear pearl.
He was slightly surprised. Why did this pearl have a light blue halo?
This thought flashed past his mind, and he did not think about it further. He only touched the pearl with his hand and felt that it was still solid and elastic, proving that the dusty woman was safe and sound. He was relieved.
Closing his eyes, he repeated Junko's name over and over again in his heart while gently caressing Miao Zhu. Gradually, his sleepy body leaned against the wall and fell asleep.
The pearl was still in his hand.
In the other corner, Zhang Zi was hugging Zheng Zi. The two of them were deeply in love. After rubbing their ears and temples for a while, Zhang Zi lay on Zheng Zi's shoulder and fell asleep.
Zheng Zi couldn't sleep peacefully because something strange had happened to her just now, and it was bothering her.
She had to wait until Zhang Zi was asleep before she could check on this strange thing.
In the quiet room, the snores of two men, one near and one far, could be heard. After confirming that they were both asleep, she quietly moved Zhang Zi's head away from her shoulder and let him lean against the wall behind her.
She took a rouge jade pendant from her neck. There was a small round hole in the middle of the jade pendant. A red string passed through the round hole like a protective pendant. It hung around her neck and had been hidden in the clothes on her chest.
Just now, when she and Zhang Zi were entangled, she felt the Rouge Jade Ring hanging around her neck heating up slightly.
This rouge jade ring was a relic that her father had given her before he died. It was once her sister's amulet. When he placed the Rouge Jade Ring in her hand, his father had left a message for her, saying that when the pearl appeared, the Rouge Jade Ring would react and glow.
However, when the Rouge Jade Ring passed into her hands, it did not show any reaction.
Now, it finally reacted! Not only was it warm to the touch, but it also emitted a faint rouge halo in the dark. It suddenly glowed like leather pants over cotton pants-there had to be a reason. Could it be that there was a pearl nearby that she was desperately looking for?
After all, that pearl was her sister's life record.
Thinking of her sister, the terrifying and merciless wind tribulation many years ago was still fresh in her mind.
At that time, her sister was playing alone in the open space at the door. A sudden wind tribulation carried her away. From then on, her whereabouts were unknown, and her life and death were unknown.
Her father picked up the amulet that his sister had left behind, a white jade ring. From then on, this white jade ring became the knot in his father's heart.
Every night, he would caress the jade pendant and silently recite the words of his little daughter. He would often dream of his little daughter's pure smile. Through telepathy, he firmly believed that she was still alive.
Day after day, the snow-white jade ring gradually turned into a rouge color in his father's hands.
Her father could not forget his youngest daughter when he was dying. He personally handed this jade ring to Zheng Zi and instructed her to use this jade ring to find her sister's pearl. As long as she could find the pearl, she would be able to find her sister.
Her father's conviction was her greatest motivation. As long as she was still alive, she would do her best to fulfill her father's last wish.
Therefore, this long-cherished wish became her greatest spiritual pillar of survival, supporting her to live tenaciously all the way.
She knew very well that only by entering the pupa tower and transforming into a mud man would she have a chance to find her sister Miaozhu and complete her father's last wish. This was an important thing she had to accomplish in this life.
At this moment, there was the sound of thunder outside the house. There was also the sound of the wind blowing on the trees. It was getting closer and closer. It seemed that a heavy rain was about to fall.
She was a little flustered. She glanced at Zhang Zi beside her and quickly hung the rouge jade ring back around her neck, then tucked it tightly into her clothes at her chest.
Then, a few deafening thunders and lightning bolts woke Zhang Zi up from his sleep. He opened his blurry eyes and groped in the darkness as he shouted,"
" Zither-my Mimi-"
"Dang dang, I'm here!" Zheng Zi hurriedly moved closer to him.
"This thunder is so scary! A storm is coming!" He pulled her into his arms and whispered.
"Hmm? "I heard a sound above my head, like thunder…" Zheng Zi raised her head and looked at the ceiling warily.
Wei Zi was also woken up by the thunder. He put away the pearl in his hand, stood up, and walked to Zhang Zi and the other two. When he heard Zheng Zi's words, he couldn't help but perk up his ears.
Indeed, a few thuds came from the ceiling, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground.
"The sound is so loud that it doesn't sound like a mouse crawling. Could there really be someone upstairs? The thunder just now had also alarmed them!”Wei Zi analyzed softly.
Zheng Zi nodded and said,
"Yes, I am! Looking at the situation, it seemed that someone was locked up above. Who were they?”
"Once, a man told me that on the way, I might encounter some half-stone people who do all kinds of evil! I'm worried that this might be the hideout of the Stone Golems! "Why don't we leave this place as soon as possible?" Wei Zi suggested in a low voice.
"Even if this is a bandit's lair, it's the middle of the night now. It's going to rain heavily outside. We have nowhere to go!”Zheng Zi shook her head.
A series of thumping sounds came from the ceiling.
"Judging from the sound, I'm afraid there's more than one person upstairs! They might be some pitiful people who were captured by the robbers and imprisoned up there. Should we go up and save them?”Wei Zi was moved by compassion.
"Forget it! It's dark and we don't know the details. If we poke a hornet's nest, we won't be able to bear the consequences!”Zhang Zi only wanted to protect himself and did not want to be a busybody.
"Dang dang, I know you have the most chivalrous heart. Since we are already trapped in the bandits 'nest, we might as well save those poor people before the bandits arrive.”Zheng Zi gently advised Zhang Zi.
Zhang Zi's cold heart softened in an instant. In addition, he was also curious and wanted to know who was locked up upstairs, so he could only nod in agreement.
"Alright, alright, alright, I'll do as you say! But how are we going to pick the lock?”
Wei Zi suddenly thought of the self-defense weapon in the cloth bag--that stone.
"I have an idea! You two, set up the wooden ladder in the corner first!”
As he spoke, he took out the cloth bag and took out the stone. Zhang Zi and Zheng Zi groped around and moved the wooden ladder in the corner to the entrance.
Wei Zi raised the stone. Zhang Zi looked at it and asked suspiciously,"
"No way! The method you're talking about is this stone? That was a huge iron lock! Is this stone useful?"
"Whether it works or not, we can only rely on it! Let's try!"
Wei Zi grabbed the stone and climbed up the ladder step by step. He climbed to the door and used the sharp edges of the stone to smash the big lock.
Strangely enough, he had barely smashed it a few times when he heard the lock snap and fall to the ground.
"It was smashed open so quickly?" Zhang Zi looked at the big lock on the ground in shock.
"Hmm, so it's a rusty lock that can't withstand being smashed!”
To them, breaking the lock wasn't scary. What was scary was what they would see after breaking the lock and pushing open the wooden door that led up to the second floor.
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