Chapter 124 I'm Scared, I'm Pretending
"Hallucinations and hallucinations!" Lian Shurong said impatiently. As he spoke, he slumped on the ground helplessly, closing his eyes to rest.
Pei Wuyan had already helped Qi Yao to stand up. The two of them leaned crookedly, supporting each other, and walked towards the stairs, ready to continue going upstairs.
Yu Qingfeng couldn't scream, so she could only pull Pei Wuyan.
"Your Highness, respect yourself and don't hinder our investigation."
Pei Wuyan shook Yu Qingfeng away in disgust and only paid attention to Qi Yao who rested her head on his chest.
Yu Qingfeng's whole body was already weak, as soft as a ball of cotton, and she would fall down with a push.
Illusion, hallucination, everything is an illusion. If you want to escape from the illusion, you have to get out of the tower immediately! Yu Qingfeng decided that even if she was a turtle, she had to climb down immediately.
"Shurong, Shurong..."
Yu Qingfeng, who had climbed more than a dozen steps, heard Lin Ming calling for Lian Shurong from behind, but Lian Shurong did not respond.
It's hard to say whether Lian Shurong had hallucinations. It seemed to be because of his physical condition, or because Lian Shurong was indeed fearless, so his symptoms were not hallucinations, but simply fainting.
Yu Qingfeng didn't have time to take care of Lian Shurong. She didn't have time to take care that the five people were divided into three groups at this time, moving up and down and staying still. At the moment, the most important thing was to get out of the tower first, and the most important thing was to regain consciousness and physical strength.
"Master Pei, Qingfeng, Shurong fainted." Lin Ming's voice was very labored, as if he was trying hard to carry Lian Shurong, who had fainted.
Yu Qingfeng only heard a "dong" sound. It was obvious that Lin Ming was also exhausted and could not carry Lian Shurong at all.
The voices of Lian Shurong and Lin Ming were no longer heard. Yu Qingfeng could only vaguely hear Qi Yao's soft sobs and thoughts, and Pei Wuyan's soft comfort.
Yu Qingfeng held on to the stone pillar and walked upright with difficulty. Every step she took seemed like she was crossing thousands of mountains and rivers.
She was so dizzy that she couldn't count how many floors she had descended, but she finally realized what Ma Lei said, as if she could never reach the bottom no matter how hard she descended.
I don't know how long it took, but Yu Qingfeng vaguely heard the mournful cries of hundreds of ghosts, and her body felt the complex temperature of a mixture of cold and hot air.
She stopped on the stairs and looked down through the wooden partitions, clearly seeing the flames jumping in the depths.
Just as Ma Lei described, it was the fire of hell in an alien space. The Netherworld Tower was indeed connected to the entrance of hell. What she saw was the first level of the eighteen levels of hell, the Tongue Pulling Hell.
Yu Qingfeng was so frightened that her whole body collapsed and she fell down on the wooden steps, trembling all over.
Really exists, really exists, hell on earth really exists!
Yu Qingfeng couldn't explain how she felt at this time. Hell really existed. Should she be happy or sad.
"Hallucinations must be hallucinations. It was Ma Lei's description that caused me to have such hallucinations!" Yu Qingfeng talked to herself and smiled wryly to dispel her fear.
Yu Qingfeng continued to go downstairs and tried to speed up. The door to the truth had been opened. The hell hiding the cruel truth was close at hand. She had to go down to find out.
The stairs reached the end and there was no way down, so Yu Qingfeng stepped firmly on the ground of hell.
Everything in front of him was just like Ma Lei's description, a fire, two motionless ghosts behind the fire, surrounded by iron cages. Under the reflection of the fire, the "ghosts" in the iron cages all looked terrifying.
He grabbed the iron cage and shouted at Yu Qingfeng.
No one could speak a clear word, they just roared like animals. The screams were full of painful accusations, venting of pain, and begging for mercy.
Yu Qingfeng looked at everything in front of her and was stunned. It turned out that the imagination based on Ma Lei's description was so different from what she saw with her own eyes. She was so shocked that her whole body trembled and her mind went blank.
Suddenly, the two ghosts behind the fire each moved a step to the side and avoided the fire! They were actually alive. Unlike what Ma Lei described, they could move and were not models.
The two ghosts flanked each other and walked towards Yu Qingfeng with heavy steps.
Yu Qingfeng's legs became weak, and she fell down and sat on the ground, looking up at the ghost in Fan Zhizhou's portrait described by the witness, her eyes full of horror.
The two ghosts seemed to enjoy Yu Qingfeng's terror and were not in a hurry to take the next step.
The one on the left took out a small dagger with black blood stains on it from his arms; the ghost on the right raised his hand and pointed to an empty iron cage behind him.
Yu Qingfeng suddenly put away the panic on her face and asked in a relaxed and joking tone, "So, you want to cut off my tongue and put me in that iron cage?"
The two ghosts were stunned, and their frightened faces could not be seen through the masks. But Yu Qingfeng could imagine their expressions and racing hearts at this time.
"I didn't have much confidence at first, and I was worried that I was working in vain. She is the princess, and she has a noble status. How could she commit such a heinous crime? How could she send me to hell and have my tongue pulled out just because of jealousy?
Punishment?"
One of the two ghosts moved forward, wanting to cut off Yu Qingfeng's tongue now; the other took a step back, causing the one who stepped forward to turn back in surprise and anger.
Yu Qingfeng lamented and shook her head, "Oh, I would rather my reasoning was wrong and all this is just an illusion. Su Niang and Wang Jiansheng, there are two roads before you now.
"First, surrender immediately and testify against Qi Yao, the mastermind, so that you can avoid Ling Chi and save your family; second, if you are stubborn, you will be buried with Qi Yao. Qi Yao is a princess, so naturally he will not be punished, so you will take his place.
."
The two ghosts still didn't speak, just looked at each other.
"Okay, stop pretending, just speak up if you want to discuss it." Yu Qingfeng suddenly thought of something, "Did I guess wrong that one of you is Fan Zhizhou?"
The ghost guy holding the dagger simply took off his mask with one hand, revealing his true face.
That face was all too familiar to Yu Qingfeng, Qi Yao's confidant, the one she sensed danger from the first time she met - Su Niang.
"Yu Qingfeng, now that you know everything, I can't keep you!" Su Niang raised her dagger and rushed towards Yu Qingfeng.
Su Niang suddenly had a crossbow arrow on her arm holding the dagger.
Su Niang saw her arm that had been shot clearly and screamed in pain.
Lin Ming jumped down from the upper level, stood in front of Yu Qingfeng, and kicked Su Niang away.
Lian Shurong then landed on the ground, stepped forward in two steps, and directly subdued another Guizhao who was stunned on the spot. Then he easily broke off a long fang on the mask, inserted it directly into Guizhao's palm, and knocked him
Nailed to the ground.
The ghost mask fell off, and Wang Jiansheng, whose appearance had been praised by Yu Qingfeng, was so painful that his face was distorted, like a ferocious ghost from hell.
The two ghosts suffered at the hands of officials from the human world. The cruel devils who once dominated "hell" and tortured innocent people were finally bitten back and tasted the pain they inflicted on others.
Looking at this bloody scene, Yu Qingfeng didn't feel any horror at all, she just felt very happy.
Even so, the screams of these two people were indeed harsh. Yu Qingfeng couldn't help but cover her ears.
"It's too noisy!" Lian Shurong regretted a little and struck Su Niang and Wang Jiansheng on the backs of their necks with two hand knives.
Seeing Su Niang and Wang Jiansheng fainting, Yu Qingfeng put down her hands covering her ears, "It's really an advantage for them."
"Don't worry, they will wake up soon. What awaits them is the hellish torture of the government office and life worse than death." After Lin Ming finished speaking, he looked around at the miserable situation in the iron cage, his eyes full of sorrow.
"Everyone, be quiet, don't be afraid, we are here to save you!"
Yu Qingfeng glanced around and saw that there were seven people in the iron cage. Four of them were holding on to the iron cage and shouting for help, while three were lying motionless.
Their hair was disheveled, and it was hard to recognize who was who for a while.
Seven men who were originally from Bonan Kingdom disappeared a year and a half ago. Three men have disappeared in the past six months. Plus Ye Xuanlang, who came to the door on his own initiative, there should be eleven people.
But now, there are only seven people. What is the fate of the four people? Yu Qingfeng holds on to a glimmer of hope.
Lian Shurong grabbed the keychain from Wang Jiansheng's waist and walked to Yu Qingfeng, "Twelve guards are waiting outside the tower. The question now is, where is the entrance and exit of the Netherworld Tower!"
"The entrance and exit are hidden. Just like in this tongue-pulling hell, there is still a hidden space, and there is at least one person who must be responsible for running the mechanism in it-Ghost!"
Yu Qingfeng said, looking around, looking for the entrance to the hidden space.
"Is there anyone else? Could it really be Fan Zhizhou?" Lian Shurong was surprised.
Lin Ming shook his head, "How could it be Fan Zhizhou? Qingfeng said that this person must stay in the tower and be responsible for operating the mechanism to open the entrance to here."
"Who could that be? More loyal than Su Niang and Wang Jiansheng, who are willing to live in this hell without seeing the light of day in order to be loyal to Qi Yao?"
"I'm also very curious about who this person is and how many there are."
Yu Qingfeng was searching while talking, and when she accidentally looked up, she saw that those people who were holding on to the iron cage and shouting just now had all quieted down, stretched out their hands, and pointed at the fire.
They were reminding Yu Qingfeng that the hidden space where the hidden mechanism Yu Qingfeng was looking for was under the fire.
The three of them went over and took a look, and there was a square stone brick behind the fire where the two ghosts were standing.
The four people in the iron cage stretched out their arms together, hugged the air, and made a spinning motion.
Just below the brazier is a round stone pillar that can be embraced.
Lian Shurong stood in front of Yu Qingfeng, pointing his crossbow arrow at the stone bricks in a defensive posture.
Lin Ming bent down and hugged the hot stone pillar, spinning it vigorously.
With a "click" sound, the stone bricks on the ground bounced up to the height of a palm.
Lin Ming just wanted to bend down and lift the stone brick again, but the stone brick moved upward and to one side on its own.
Then, they saw a pair of arms removing the stone bricks. The sleeves were in tatters and the exposed skin was full of scars.
A man came up from the hidden space below. Judging from his appearance, he looked exactly like the prisoner in the iron cage.
When he saw a strange face, he was surprised at first, and then immediately knelt down and kowtowed, stretching out his hands to ask for something.
He can speak, but it's just unclear. It's conceivable that his tongue was not completely cut off, it was probably just a short one.
"Holy Mushroom, Holy Mushroom..."
"What?" Yu Qingfeng suspected that she heard wrongly. This man called her Saint Aunt?
Chapter completed!