Chapter 1132: The same location (1/2)

Long Feiye wanted Tang Li to shout?

Everyone was puzzled, Tang Li included. He asked, “Big bro, what are you planning?”

This method wouldn’t lure Bai Yanqing to them, but send him running even farther away!

“Stop wasting time and shout!” Long Feiye pressed.

Tang Li loudly went “ahhhhh,” even dragging out the sound. Han Yunxi and the rest all covered their ears, but Long Feiye listened carefully. At the end, Tang Li looked at Long Feiye and seemed to recall something. He immediately turned to run for the stone room. Long Feiye and the rest hurried after him, but Tang Li was already shouting out loud inside the room!

His voice was even louder than before, but it didn’t travel beyond the nearby surroundings. Both Han Yunxi and Gu Beiyue were no fools and soon understood Long Feiye’s reasoning. They were in a hurry to rescue the hostages but didn’t notice this abnormality! Even if Ning Jing had a loud voice, her shouts inside the stone room shouldn’t have reached so far. Han Yunxi remembered running here took plenty of time, so she was very far away from the “imprisoned Ning Jing.”

“Could it be that Ning Jing’s not here at all? But it sounded like the screams came from this stone room?” Gu Beiyue wondered.

Tang Li knitted his brows before he exclaimed, “I got it!”

As he unsheathed his sword to probe for switches in the ceiling, he explained. “Ning Jing should be above the stone room. I remember reading about a secret switch technique in one of my books. Some mazes will use special structural designs and materials to amplify sound across distances. In certain locations, a normal sound will be magnified. In fact, it’d even affect people’s perception of its location.”

Han Yunxi was taken aback by the news. Amplification and reduction of noise was commonplace in modern settings, but she never thought Cloud Realm Continent could grasp the principles without using any electricity. As expected, the past is full of strange things. Sometimes the ancients are even smarter than modern men,

“Big bro, we might have been tricked. Ning Jing and Su Xiaoyu might have been together all this time! Maybe at the topmost layer of the maze.” Tang Li was very excited. Every time he found a clue that could lead to Ning Jing, hope filled him. Even though all those hopes had led to nothing so far, he had never given up.

Long Feiye raised his sword to help Tang Li probe for hidden switches in the ceiling. Gu Qishao looked at Tang Li and suddenly realized that he was a complex fellow to know so much about secret switches! Truly speaking, Tang Li was no simpleton. His interest in secret switches and tunnels far surpassed his interest in assassination weapons. Because the two fields overlapped frequently, he could study the former quickly and understand even the most ancient, complicated texts.

In his life, Tang Li had never met a switch he couldn’t crack. Very soon, he found what he was looking for.

“Big bro, all of you, get out of the way. Move to the left--there’s probably hidden weapons on the right,” he told them sternly.

Han Yunxi was filled with hope at the sight of such a Tang Li. She was certain he’d be able to track down Ning Jing. As Tang Li activated the switch, multiple daggers flew down from the ceiling’s right side at impossible speeds to dodge. Without his help, they would’ve been in deep trouble.

“Heheh, impressive!” Gu Qishao gave a rare speech of praise.

Tang Li chuckled at him. “Of course!”

After activating the first switch, the two slabs of rock above them slowly split apart. Looking up, they saw an endless passage above them. Tang Li was about to fly up when Long Feiye grabbed him. Then he wanted to go, but Gu Qishao beat him to the punch. When it came to things like traps, it was best he faced them first. Without Tang Li having to explain, Gu Qishao perched on the slab and gave a soft shout down. Unexpectedly, his voice was amplified as a result.

“Gu Qishao, quick, see if there’s a red rock anywhere near you?” Tang Li urged.

Gu Qishao lit a match and searched around him before he laughed. “It’s not just one, but a whole bunch! I’ll take them all with me afterwards.” The red rocks around him felt strange to the touch, but these were the Amplifying Rocks that Tang Li had been describing before. When Gu Qishao tried whispering to them directly, his voice turned even louder than before.

“I guessed right! Ning Jing has to be above us!” Tang Li rejoiced.

If this was any other day, he’d be digging up the rocks instead because they were considered treasures. But no treasure could compare to the one in his heart: Ning Jing!

“Big bro, I’ve seen this setup before. The secret passage here should be at least as tall as a ten-storey building. Let’s hurry up there, Bai Yanqing might still be walking below it!” Tang LI said tensely.