Chun Hua Yun/ Spring Blossoms / Kill Me Love Me

Chapter 010 Simple Puzzle Part 4

White steam began to rise on the stone path. Mei Lin stretched out her hand to reach up, gasping involuntarily, then quickly pulled it back and hurriedly dragged Murong Jinghe up a few steps.

"This is bad. We may not be able to get out before the fire is out..." She whispered, with a hint of guilt in her voice.

If they want to wait until such a big fire is extinguished, probably the two of them will either be roasted alive or suffocated to death.

Murong Jinghe was not as pessimistic as she was. He looked away from the blazing flames and said, "Help me stand up." The smell produced by the burning flames was not like tung oil or kerosene, so what could it be? Produce such a fierce flame?

While he was thinking about it, he was already stirred up. Mei Lin stood in front of him and supported him with her back.

Murong Jing was quite tall, and her chin rested just right on Mei Lin's head. From this angle, he could have a panoramic view of the surrounding situation. He had been resting on her shoulders before, which was actually a bit aggrieved.

"Look at the passage on the left." He said to her eyebrows while looking in other directions.

Mei Lin followed the instructions and couldn't help but feel goose bumps all over her body. She saw a dense mass of things being blown away by the heat, or attracted by the fire, crawling out of the tall corridor, covering the stone path on the left, and many fell into the flames, making a sizzling sound of burning. She shivered and quickly looked across the corridor where they came from to make sure nothing crawled out, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.

Murong Jinghe asked her to look to the right again. There was nothing strange crawling out of the passage on the right, but there were flames and black sand spurting out, which echoed the flames outside.

"It seems that we are quite lucky. We hit a dead end, but it is not a dead end." He smiled, turning his head to look at the rose-coloured white stone forest behind him, secretly judging whether the inside was as dangerous as those passages.

Of course, no matter whether it is dangerous or not, they can only move forward but not retreat. So, without thinking any more, he said calmly: "Let's go."

Mei Lin cheered up slightly. It was obvious that the torch was no longer needed, so she felt much more relaxed. She carried the bag on one shoulder and the weight of the man on the other, and began to climb up the stone steps through the stone forest.

To their surprise again, the small stone forest was not as traceless as the outside, but there were clear roads running through it. The two of them walked slowly along the white stone road. Although it seemed to be going east and west, they were still going upwards.

There were also forks in the road, but Murong Jinghe was able to cling to the main road. Several times when Mei Lin thought they had taken a detour, she would see that the shortcut he initially thought had gone down to other places. So, she couldn't help but secretly wipe her sweat, glad that she listened to his words.

"This is just a simple puzzle, much simpler than the serial puzzles outside." Murong Jing said calmly, smiling, but his expression was not relaxed, "But outside the puzzle is the eight gates. Xiu Sheng hurt Du Jing, if you open the eight gates in a hurry, whether they are good or bad, you will be doomed if you take a wrong step. I really don’t know whether the people who built this place want to prevent outsiders from breaking in, or to prevent the people inside from getting out. "

Mei Lin had no idea what he was talking about, but her curiosity was still aroused.

"What door did we come to?"

The two of them had reached the top of the stone forest, and a huge coffin appeared in front of them. The coffin seemed to be made from a whole piece of white jade, with exquisite totems carved on it, reflecting the firelight outside, and it was extremely gorgeous.

Murong Jinghe's attention was attracted, and after a while he said calmly: "Dumen. It's meant to be a blockage, there is no way out, it's just a waste of effort, it's not dangerous." When he said this, he seemed to think of something, and couldn't help but smile, stand up. "The person who built this place must not have expected that someone would dig a big hole just a stone's throw away from Dumen, and the blockade turned out to be open."

Mei Lin secretly thought that if they couldn't get through, maybe the two of them would find a way to climb out of the big pit and leave safely elsewhere, so that they wouldn't fall into this strange place where life and death were uncertain. But she didn't know that in a place like this, if Murong Jinghe hadn't been there, she would have been trapped in the stone array outside, let alone fall into the pit. As for this small seemingly simple stone forest, it is not something ordinary people can pass through safely.

"Then he is the owner of this place." Murong Jinghe continued, "Let's go and see who he is. He is so powerful."

Mei Lin also noticed the gorgeous coffin, but she was not very curious. At this time, what she cared about most was not the man who had been dead for countless years, but how to get out of this strange place.

Seeing that she had no intention of moving, Murong Jinghe added: "Maybe there is a way to escape inside."

Therefore, Mei Lin quickly led him towards the jade coffin without hesitation.

"Wait a minute." A layer of sweat broke out on Murong Jinghe's back, because this woman was somewhat reckless in her decisiveness, although her recklessness was not common. But every time she commit a crime, it will have serious consequences.

Mei Lin retracted her stretched out foot and looked at the man lying on her shoulder in confusion.

"Look at the ground." Murong Jinghe gestured.

At first glance, the ground is clearly paved with white stones. If they look more carefully, they will find that some of the white stones are radiant with jade, while others appear cold and astringent.

Mei Lin saw it, but didn't understand what it meant. She was a little confused: "How to get there?" She also knew that some traps were located under the floor tiles, but she had no research on it. Even if she encountered it, she would only force to break-in.

Murong Jinghe smiled and said, "You are getting more and more stupid." He naturally remembered the methods she used to evade capture, which impressed him deeply, but since entering this stone forest, she has become less and less fond of using her brain.

Mei Lin sighed and wanted to explain, but then paused. She really couldn't admit it. That was because he knew too many things, so much that she didn't want to be embarrassed in such a completely unfamiliar field without self-awareness. She also had to admit that along the way, she had involuntarily formed a dependence on him, and only then did she reveal the recklessness that had been carefully suppressed.

"Tap the stone surface lightly with the dagger." Seeing her helpless expression, Murong Jinghe was delighted, and specially warned: "Don't use too much force."

Mei Lin helped him sit down, and then pointed the dagger handle at the stone surface as instructed. There was no response at the first and second stones, but there was a slight floating feeling at the third stone. Her heart suddenly became brighter, knowing that there must be something like that underneath. It's shut down.

However, there is a distance of nearly ten feet from here to the jade coffin. Could it be that they have to go there piece by piece like this? What's more, even if she did do this, how would she take him there?

When she was in trouble, Murong Jinghe was still smiling, as if he hadn't realized that he might not be able to get through.

Mei Lin saw it from the side, and her heart moved, and she immediately decided to leave the problem to him to solve.

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