Chapter 45: To Find the Nangong Token…… (1/2)
Translator: Li Xinyi
Proofread by Prof Zhu Yuan
She stretches out her hand to the jade monkey, and the poisonous bracelet on her wrist sparkles slightly, which shows that the jade monkey is also poisonous, and that the poison is a deadly poison among deadly poisons. In other words, a person who touches the poison will die instantly. However, she remembers that one area of the jade monkey is safe and non-toxic.
She taps the monkey's nose with the tip of her finger.
This jade monkey's nose is not big enough to be easily overlooked, so it is hard to imagine that it is the button that opens the door of the secret room. As soon as her nail touches the monkey's nose, she hears a little noise and her eyes light up. But then, suddenly, she hears another little noise, and she looks round doubtfully and thinks, should this mechanism be opened twice?
In fact, she doesn't remember very well. She had only been here when she was a child, so even though she's trying to recall her memory now, she can't remember the details.
Behind her is a wall, but now she looks back and sees that the wall is gone, and a door has taken its place. The area behind this door is the real reason why An Hall is so important. She enters, and the door closes noiselessly.
Behind the door is a long corridor. Nangong Ning takes a match from her sleeve, strikes it, and lights the candlesticks on either side of the corridor according to her vague memory. The corridor lights up. She blinks, adjusting to the brightness of the room and lifting her feet forward. The candlesticks are one every five meters, and she lights them all. Three candlesticks are lit before she reaches the end of the corridor.
At the end of the corridor is a stone chamber.
The room is empty except for a stone table in the middle. Nangong Ning goes over and looks at the stone table. The surface of the table is smooth, and there is no word or pattern on it. It looks very ordinary, and there seems to be no place to hide things. But Nangong Ning remembers that the phoenix bracelet is locked inside the stone table.
She lifts her right wrist and looks at the bracelet carefully.
In order to avoid the occurrence of other people to see the special part of the bracelet, she specially makes its appearance into an ordinary jade bracelet. But in fact, it is only covered with a thin layer of green jade, the interior of it is a kind of advanced intelligence chip which can accurately detect poison and also emit a kind of sound wave that can detoxify and avoid poison. But the function of transferring poison is beyond her imagination, and she cannot understand its principle.
But now she thinks that if something like time travel can happen, what is impossible?
She pulls a hairpin from her hair and points it at her fingertips. With a sudden thrust, her blood runs out and falls on the stone table, melting as if in water. The whole desktop suddenly turns into red with only one drop of blood. Her eyes light up as she watches the scene.
Soon, the originally dim stone table turns into a reddish transparent one, just as jade. The table top that does not have any pattern originally, has grain to appear slowly, and after a while, in the middle part of the stone table, a small area begins to rise slowly. Soon a black stone box appears before her eyes.
Nangong Ning picks the box up and unlocks it.
As soon as she opens the box, a light bursts out of it. Her vision becomes very blurred at that moment, and then she dimly sees that there is an image of a bracelet in the box, which flies to her wrist and then merges with the bracelet on her wrist, completely disappearing.
Nangong Ning stares at the empty box and at the unchanged bracelets on her wrist, wondering if she has been dazzled.
She has only suspected that her poison bracelet and the Nangongs' phoenix bracelet has become one, but now she is quite sure that her poison bracelet is the phoenix bracelet. These two bracelets originally existed in two worlds, but they magically merged into one when she came to this world.
She stares at the bracelet, feeling only a slight tremor in her heart. She is a little excited.
In her previous world, the poison bracelet was one of her companions. Now in this world, she has a new life and an old friend, which gives her an instant sense of security. She bows her head and gives her bracelet a nasty kiss.
She puts the stone box back, and the stone table soon becomes plain again. She turns and walks out of the room and into the corridor. When she looks down, she sees two people lying in front of the corridor. They are none other than Nangong Luo and Madam Yang.
She knows they will follow her, so when she lights the candlesticks, she puts poison in them. When the candles burn, the poison will be released. If they dare to follow her in, they will be poisoned and faint.
It now appears that the couple also make the strange sound she hears earlier.
She goes over and kicks Nangong Luo twice, and then she squats down and searches him. She finds a stack of bank notes, which she collects in her sleeve without counting. She searches again and finds something strange, which a thin cylinder, a little like a piccolo. She soon discovers that there is a button on the cylinder, and when she presses it, a small poisonous arrow will be shot from it.