Chapter 79: Celebrating A Little Too Early (2/2)
What else could Lou Qingyun say?
It was still Lou Qingyun’s brain that worked better. He talked and explained a bunch of stuff regarding mechanisms, then instructed Tang Doudou to carry him and head towards the pile of broken iron chains next to the large hole.
The first step was to carry a big man so Tang Doudou thought it would take a lot of energy. However, after she lifted him up on her back, she realized that it wasn’t that hard. Looks like this was a benefit of Li Xueyi’s valiant constitution along with the concentrated amount of inner strength. In a short while, she made it from one end of the palace to the other end.
This place was precisely the place Xin Yue used to be in. Due to the fact that her entire body had exploded from the force of one palm strike from Tang Doudou, all her iron chains had shattered into debris as well. Because of this, the area Tang Doudou was currently walking on was filled with blood-and-flesh-covered iron chain pieces. The wretched sight was so terrible the two didn’t dare to lower their heads to look.
Lou Qingyun recalled the back figure he saw before he fainted and looked pensively at the back of Tang Doudou’s head for a long while, his eyes filled with a mysterious deep light.
“It’s here, right?” Tang Doudou looked around. “You said this place had a switch so why did you want us to go out from the ceiling earlier?”
“With Xin Yue here, even if I knew there was a switch, I couldn’t risk coming over. That’s why I could only think of some other idea…” Lou Qingyun explained.
Tang Doudou nodded and said in approval, “You’re rather smart ah!”
This is something that anything human would be able to think of, alright?
Lou Qingyun didn’t even know how many times he had been made speechless today. Not bothering to reply to her imbecile-like question, he patted Tang Doudou’s shoulder so that she would let him down.
Tang Doudou looked up and around, then asked him, “You sure you want to go down?”
Upon hearing this, Lou Qingyun also looked at the floor, then decisively declined. “I’ll stay above.”
It was just that Tang Doudou’s figure was too delicate and small, both her waist and her shoulders seemed very frail. When she walked, she kept swaying and wobbling as if she was about to trip and fall so he kept worrying about crushing her. That was why Lou Qingyun wanted to get down and see if he could walk on his own. However, the ground was covered with blood ah, flesh ah, and even some Black Demonic Nightcrawlers that haven’t been burned to death yet. Thus he decided it would be better for him to behave and stay on her back.
How could Tang Doudou know that he had all those worries? As she felt the surrounding temperature rise, she hastily asked, “Where’s the switch?”
“On the pillar over there. Look and see if there’s any area that’s not like the rest!”
After hearing this, Tang Doudou rushed over to the pillar.
The stone pillar was very large and its diameter was about the length of three people’s outstretched arms. Some strange decorative four-legged beasts were engraved on it, however, it had been too long so they were all faded. The entire pillar was so mottled and the designs so disconnected that it was impossible to make out with the naked eye what part was different.
“If you can’t see, try using your hand to feel around for it,” Lou Qingyun said.
“Then I’ll put you to the side first?” Although it didn’t take a lot of energy for her to carry him this way, Lou Qingyun’s body weight and height were still there. After walking for awhile, she felt a little tired. While she could still carry him with both hands, she felt that she probably wouldn’t be able to with one hand.
Lou Qingyun thought she was tired so he quickly replied, “Alright, you can put me down. Just don’t put me on those bugs.”
Tang Doudou lowered her head and looked for a place that was a little cleaner. Then she wanted to put Lou Qingyun down, but no matter what she did, she couldn’t crouch down. After struggling for a while, she just dropped Lou Qingyun onto the ground as if he were a sack. The second person didn’t manage to react in time and fell so hard he grimaced. “Are you trying to make me fall to my death?”
“Ahem, sorry, my mistake, my mistake…” Tang Doudou patted her aching arms. Without paying attention to Lou Qingyun, she headed to feel that pillar. She felt around the entire pillar in order, yet she couldn’t feel anything out of the ordinary.
She turned back to ask Lou Qingyun. “That’s not right ah, how come there isn’t a switch?”
“Feel it more closely. The switch won’t be that conspicuous so if you don’t examine it closely, you won’t be able to find it.” Lou Qingyun had watched her feel around like a little lady and spoke with a dumbfounded tone.
Tang Doudou replied ‘oh’, then turned around to continue feeling the stone pillar. This time, she slowed down and even patted a lot of the dust left over from the engravings. Finally, at a part of the ground that was engraved with something that was either a crane or a heron, Tang Doudou found a moveable rock piece. Her filthy little face turned elated. “Lou Qingyun, I’ve found it! I’ve found it!”
“Hahaha, we’re saved!”
Tang Doudou turned around, rushed towards Lou Qingyun and gave him a huge bear hug. “Haha, we can finally leave this damned place!”
Lou Qingyun turned rigid when she hugged him and a strange feeling came from his heart. However, before he had a chance to think deeply about it, Tang Doudou had released him and reached out to help him up. “Let’s go. I’ll help you over.”
“Not yet, don’t be hasty.” Lou Qingyun slapped away her hand. “You should go test it out first to see if it’s the switch we need.”
“Huh?”
“There’s probably quite a lot of switches in this huge palace. I’m worried that it’s not the one we’re looking for. If that’s the case, when the time comes it’ll be troublesome.” Seeing that Tang Doudou seemed confused, Lou Qingyun said this in explanation.
“Wha, doesn’t that mean that if this isn’t the exit switch, we still have to keep looking?”
“Pretty much. There’s no time to lose, Alliance Head Li should hurry to it.”
Hell, she celebrated a little too early. Tang Doudou was annoyed as she walked towards that pillar again. “Will this switch be dangerous?”
As she spoke, her hand paused on that stone piece. However, she didn’t hear Lou Qingyun’s reply so she turned back curiously. Unexpectedly, Lou Qingyun had stood up at some unknown time. He was supporting himself with one hand on the wall and smiling sinisterly.
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