Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: The Secret Room of the Royal Palace

I let out a long sigh of relief and shouted: "Good guy!" Bai Su looked at me with a very reproachful look, of course she was blaming me for being so overbearing when she knew the other party was going to attack, and took the other party's punch forcefully without avoiding it or blocking it. I also admitted that I was really careless, so I had nothing to say, I looked up at Tu Wang, and saw him sitting down on the ground, and Uncle Tusheng was walking towards him in a hurry, trying to help him up.The king of earth is very strong, although he is holding his right arm with his left hand, and the five fingers of his right hand are red and swollen, and he can no longer grasp it into a fist. Of course, it is the result of being injured by the rebound force. over pain.

But when Uncle Tusheng reached out to help him, he bumped him sideways. He struggled to stand up by himself, and imitated me and shouted: "Good guy!" At this time, Bai Su whispered beside me: "This person is basically a gentleman." I nodded and agreed——First of all, the punch he punched at me must not have used all his strength, because I could clearly see the process of his force, it was just a random punch, and it could already hit me Take a step back, you know I misread him from the very beginning, he is really a person with superb martial arts!It can be seen from this that he did not intend to hurt anyone with that punch just now.

In the end, he suffered more than me, and he didn't get angry. He didn't ask his guards to deal with me—it must be known that this place is his territory, he can do whatever he wants, and he didn't use his privilege like a rogue. It's not easy to be able to do this while being traumatized. And even though he needs my help very much, Qi Bai also said to let me help him first, but he still refused—he can get my help first, and then renege on his debts. In terms of his status, who There is nothing he can do about it. He doesn't do that, which proves that he's basically a gentleman.

So when he stood up and came up again, I walked up to him.The two came to a close distance where their noses almost touched. He spoke first: "It's a well-deserved reputation. It's a pity that you actually have such a friend. It's a pity that you and I can't get along with each other. It's a pity! It's a pity!" He repeatedly expressed regret, very sincerely.I also sincerely said: "Actually, you have misunderstood Qi Bai. Qi Bai is a great person, he can help you more effectively than me, maybe he is not good at introducing himself, that's why you don't know him—"

Next, I spent about three minutes to briefly introduce Qi Bai's magical ability, his ability to freely come and go to the underworld, his unique identity, etc. Qi Bai had already walked out of the car at this time, he was very grateful to hear me introduce him like this. The Earth King looked sideways at Qi Bai, apparently half-believing in my words. I don't know what Qi Bai did to make the earth king despise him so much (maybe it is mostly related to his request to the king), I emphasized again: "So in the unfathomable test, what he can give you help more." At this time, Qi Bai also looked at Tu Wang with eyes full of expectation. Tu Wang was thinking seriously while shaking his right hand which was obviously still in great pain.

After a while, he shook his head slowly: "No, if I accept his help, I will accept his favor, and I must consider his request—" When he said this, he shook his head even more—he didn't mean that if he accepted Qi Bai's favor, he would agree to Qi Bai's request, but just said "it must be considered".But just thinking about it already made him shake his head, so it can be seen that it is impossible for him to agree to this matter. He paused for a while, and then said: "So, Wesley, I know that you are a very difficult person, but I would rather ask you to help and accept your favor."

I was angry and funny when I heard it: "What are you talking about? I am a difficult person? Are you pestering me now, or am I pestering you?" Tu Wang smiled wryly, "Forget what I said was wrong, you... this person... is difficult to deal with!" I spread my hands and said, "There is nothing difficult to deal with - if you promise to help Qi Bai, I will promise to help you, the matter is as simple as that." After all, we are back to the old question. The king of earth stomped his feet resentfully, and turned around.It seems that once this issue is mentioned, there is no room for negotiation.

Bai Su and I looked at each other, and Bai Su's expression was also full of doubts.At this time, Uncle Tusheng walked up to King Tu and said in a low voice, "It doesn't matter if you agreed to Wesley's request regardless of the throne." Uncle Tusheng's persuasion was reasonable, but Tu Wang immediately flew into a rage and yelled, "You know what! Don't talk about the throne, I would rather be burned to death immediately by the fire of the gods than listen to the nonsense of the bastard." language!" When he said "bastard", he gave Qi Bai a hard look to express his hatred for Qi Bai.

And what he said, "God sent fire from the sky to burn him to death" was the most vicious oath in the religion he believed in, and it was not something that could be said casually, so Uncle Tusheng backed away again and again in fright, and did not dare to speak out again. Qi Bai's "nonsense" was able to make Tianjiatu Wang swear such a poisonous oath. It is really hard to imagine how "chaotic" the content is. I looked at Qi Bai, but he didn't dare to make eye contact with me, obviously he was afraid that I would press him for the content of his request to King Tu.

At this time, I was also really angry, Qi Bai begged me to help him, but he didn't say anything about it.I regard him as a friend, and I am willing to accompany the earth king to undergo a test without knowing the content for him, but he actually wants to hide his purpose from me──this does not regard me as a friend anymore. So I got angry, sneered, and raised my voice: "This bastard is definitely not a thing, you can ignore him, we can do whatever we want!" I said these two sentences to the king of earth. When the king of earth heard it, his whole body slammed, and then he opened his mouth wide, but he was speechless. Obviously he never thought that things would suddenly change like this.

I didn't say anything, just nodded to him very sincerely. The king of earth jumped up, yelled, opened his arms, and rushed towards me.I stood still, he hugged me all of a sudden, hit my forehead with his forehead, hit it very hard, made a "bang bang" sound, he hit me ten times before he let me go, Take a step back. My forehead hurts from being hit by him. I didn't know why, but Uncle Tusheng already said loudly: "Congratulations, Mr. Wei!" I can't help but laugh: "Where does joy come from?" Uncle Tusheng smiled and said: "Tianjia Tuwang has regarded you as his brother just now, so it is a great joy to share misfortune and fortune together from now on!" I looked towards Tu Wang, only to see that he was also looking at me with a smile, as if I should be grateful to him. I was just a little dumbfounded just now, but now I am completely dumbfounded.Maybe other people will think that it is a happy event to be called brothers and sisters with the king of earth, but I don't mean it at all. Just as I was about to speak, Bai Su whispered beside me: "As long as you don't compete with him for the throne, it won't hurt you to have this cheap brother." What I originally wanted to say was to say that it is extremely dangerous to be a brother of the earth king—anyone who has a relationship with the throne and may become an earth king is like sitting on the crater of a volcano, and he must recruit the incumbent. Prevent and exclude, if not done well, there will be a disaster of death. This is the iron law in the case of external dictatorships in ancient and modern times, without exception.In history, there are countless examples of brothers killing each other, father and son harming each other, and comrades fighting desperately! So I didn't feel that it was a happy event at all, besides, I couldn't understand it in my heart——The earth king's move was nothing more than trying to buy people's hearts so that I could work hard for him.This kind of trick is worthless! But Bai Su said this to me. For a while, I didn't understand if she had other deep meanings, but she pointed out a very important point: as long as I clearly let the earth king know, I don't have the heart to fight for the throne, and I don't want to fight for the throne. what a bad. Immediately, I nodded to the earth king, "Very well, when passing the test set by the gods, I don't know what kind of dangers will be faced. It requires two people to work together to deal with it. There must be no suspicion between the two of you." .” As I said that, I also walked over to him with open arms, hugged him, and bumped his forehead at the same time, practicing "come without reciprocity". When I was doing this, I didn't know that forehead bumping is a very grand ceremony for them, similar to the Chinese drinking blood as an alliance or offering incense and kowtow, and if one party performed this ceremony to the other party, the other party would If you don't do it again, it will be a great insult to the party who saluted first──I only found out about this after the fact. At that time, I also went to hit the head of the earth king. It was just a kind of naughty mentality: just now you Hit me, now I bump you back! Unexpectedly, it was a mistake, but it was completely right. In addition, what I said in advance was very decent, so even though the forehead of the king of soil was reddened by me (the swelling of his right hand is still there), he was still inexplicably happy and patted me on the back with his left hand. Be friendly. Then, he took my hand and said loudly: "Get in the car, get in the car!" He wanted to stretch out his hand to pull Bai Su again to show affection, but his fingers were so red and swollen that it was difficult to bend them, so he had to change it to a gesture of please get in the car. When the three of us got into the car, Uncle Tusheng also followed in. Qi Bai came to the front of the car, but Tu Wang shouted to him: "Since we all think you are that bastard, you don't have to stay with us." Already!" Qi Bai obviously didn't expect the earth king to do this, he froze there for a while, not knowing what to do, he looked at me with a sad face. Although I was annoyed at him just now, but seeing his pitiful appearance, I couldn't bear it in my heart. It's just that the earth king has already spoken, and I don't know how to invite him into the car. At this time, Bai Su said to Qi Bai: "Your Excellency, why not go away for a while, wait for them to pass the test - this is exactly what Your Excellency originally meant!" Although Qi Bai's face was ugly, but after listening to Bai Su's words, he nodded again and again and backed away. The king of earth gave an order, and the car drove away quickly.When the car left Qi Bai far away: Tu Wang couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, which shows how disgusted he is with Qi Bai. My heart moved, thinking that this is a good opportunity to inquire about the news.So I deliberately said: "If he is not willing to leave, it is impossible to get rid of him." The earth king's eyebrows were knotted, and he looked very troubled.I went further: "He has the ability to break through the space, you know it?" Tu Wang stayed for a while longer, then sighed, shook his head, looked extremely helpless, and said: "I saw him once, and rushed once, no matter how thick-skinned he is, I'm afraid he will be too embarrassed to pester him any longer." I took the opportunity and said: "He has such an important matter to ask you, I don't think he will give up." I pretended to know what Qi Bai asked of him, so that I could lure King Tu to tell the truth. But Tu Wang was not stupid at all, he looked at me for a while, then shook his head and said: "No matter what he does, I don't agree, forgive him there is nothing he can do." After speaking, he immediately changed the subject, and he didn't say a word about Qi Bai's request, and he didn't miss a word. It is inconvenient for me to ask further questions, so I still have to wonder inwardly. At this time, the car had already entered the urban area, and the siren of the car clearing the road in front sounded, and all the traffic lights turned green, so that the convoy could unimpeded and head straight for the palace. It won't be long before you can see the majestic and resplendent palace. At that time, it was the setting sun, and the setting sun shone on the golden roof of the palace, flashing a large piece of golden light, brilliant and dazzling, as to the extreme. Satisfied, the Earth King asked loudly, "What do you think? Well-deserved reputation!" I didn't want to spoil his interest at first, but I couldn't help it, so I said coldly: "This palace is for the earth king, right?" The answer to this question seems to be superfluous, but there is a lot of meaning in the bones, I think the earth king should be able to hear it. Sure enough, the earth king's face darkened: "I will live in this palace until I die!" After gritting his teeth and saying these two sentences, he still felt unsatisfied, and continued: "I will designate who will come and go in the future!" I sneered secretly, and wanted to tell him the story of Qin Shihuang and Afang Palace—no matter how big his palace was, it would never be as great as Afang Palace's "covering more than three hundred miles, isolated from the sun", but I changed my mind. Think, this kind of native, if you tell him about history, how can he understand it?So I just muttered to myself: "Ten generations, a hundred generations, ten thousand generations..." That's exactly Qin Shihuang's fantasy about his empire—what the King of Earth said just now, and his mentality is also the same. Unexpectedly, this earth king was unusual, and he understood just this sentence. He glared at me: "I don't know how many royal palaces have been burned in history, but it won't be mine." I shook my head and didn't continue to argue with him, and he suddenly showed a very tired expression—of course it was because he knew very well in his heart that if he failed the test.He didn't even have a chance to leave that cave, and it didn't make any sense to him who the palace belonged to. Thinking of this, I suddenly thought of a question, and I asked: "What happened to the three earth kings who were tested before, and their assistants?" Tianjia Earth King looked directly at me, and said word by word: "Same as those three Earth Kings, after entering that cave, they never came out again." Although this answer was within my expectation, after hearing it, I still felt a chill naturally. Earth King looked serious—I really admire his courage—he said seriously: “So this time I’m not only going to test myself, but I can also go to find them, maybe in the cave, not just The three earth kings and the three assistants, there may be more people inside." Although he knew the danger was extremely dangerous, he still went forward courageously. Although it was to preserve his throne, it would be difficult to achieve it without a little determination. We looked at each other for a while, and he said again: "Although you have agreed to enter the cave with me, you can still consider leaving." Instead of being angry, I smiled: "You don't need to provoke me. I often say things that don't count, even if I don't talk back now. Maybe when I get to the entrance of the cave, I will retreat. You have to be mentally prepared." Tu Wang looked bitter, and after a while, he said sincerely: "I'm sorry, I will never say that kind of thing again." During this process, Bai Su never spoke.Later she said to me: "The king of earth has extremely high political methods. He keeps you talking and puts you back tightly, telling you that you must go through the test with him. You fool, you are not his opponent at all." .” At that time, I recalled the situation, and it was indeed the case-this earth king was really not simple. But it was said that the car drove into the palace and stopped before a group of buildings.The king of earth asked me: "Should I rest for a while, or study how to proceed immediately?" I said, "Of course it will be done immediately." Tu Wang was very happy. After getting off the car, many people greeted him and waved him away. He took Bai Su and me to walk inward. Uncle Tusheng Wang followed a door and stopped. . On that door, there is a very complex relief pattern, all coated with gold powder, although vulgar, it is also resplendent. I noticed that when I got here, not only Uncle Tusheng stopped, but also all the attendants did not follow.Obviously, this place has reached a forbidden place that only the earth king or his authorized people can enter. The earth king came to the door and stood very close to the door, obviously trying to cover up something. His behavior was petty, so I stabbed him: "No matter how good the lock is in the world, there are always people It can be opened." The earth king was stunned for a moment, and moved back a little, only to see his hands touching the relief, and after a while, the door slowly rose upwards. Behind the door is a huge space, empty, except for a large statue in the middle, there is nothing. The space is octagonal, at least two hundred square meters.On each side of the octagon, there is a door that looks exactly the same. The earth king glanced at me, and without waiting for him to ask a question, I said, "There is only one door that can lead to the destination, and the rest are death traps." The king of earth smiled, without saying anything, he walked to a door on the left, stretched out his hand and pushed the door open: "Please come in." I walked in with Bai Su, and there was a big study inside.There are tall bookshelves on all sides, full of books.I raised my eyebrows, and then I looked a little puzzled. Before I said anything, Tu Wang said: "Of course, I haven't read all the books here, but I have read sixty to seventy percent." I was thinking just now: there are enough books, how many have I read? Tu Wang's ability to judge appearance and color is so strong that the Shanghainese said: "You can move your head when you step on your tail, so clever." I didn't say anything at the moment, he brought me and Bai Su to a huge desk with a computer on it, we sat down by the desk together, Tu Wang sighed: "About the test There is really not much information, the only thing I know is that there are reliable records that three earth kings and their assistants entered the cave, but they did not come out when the deadline was reached—and they never came out again after that.” I said, "Could it be that the cave is sealed too tightly, and the horn can't be heard outside when the horn is blown inside?" Earth King stared wide-eyed, shook his head and said, "It should be impossible." I said: "Just in case. I think that in addition to the horn, you should also bring excellent communication equipment to communicate with the outside world." After the earth king listened to my suggestion, he didn't respond. I said again: "In order to know what is weird in the cave in advance, you can use a radio-controlled camera—send a camera in, and you can find out what's going on in the cave." When Earth King heard this, he suddenly laughed: "If I do this, people will know, and from now on, I will never be able to lift my head up in front of anyone again." I raised my eyebrows and thought to myself: It is not difficult for you to be invisible. The Earth King sighed again: "Even if I can do it and no one knows, I can't pass my level!" He paused, then continued: "I can lie to people, but I can't lie to God!" I did not expect him to be so devout in his religious beliefs. I had many proposals that would be of great help to him in passing the test, but it seemed that he would not accept them. I frowned, glanced at Bai Su, and asked her if there was any way to convince the earth king.Bai Su thought for a while, and said: "Using modern technology to help overcome difficulties, this is not considered deceiving God." The king of earth shook his head: "Tradition is tradition, and the gods stipulate it. Any change is disrespectful to the gods. No matter how good modern technology is equipped, it is difficult to resist the punishment of the gods." I snorted: "Is it just going to be carried out with bare hands like this? As long as there is a bigger python in the cave. You and I have no chance to come out again!" Shi Wang still shook his head: "According to what you said, don't we want everyone to bring a machine gun in?" I was annoyed: "Not only machine guns, but also hand grenades—the more weapons you can carry, the better." The earth king showed great disdain: "You still don't understand that no matter how many weapons you have, you can't match the power of the gods!" I stood up abruptly: "Then why do you need me as an assistant? I am no match for the power of the gods!" The earth king's expression was both impatient and a little annoyed: "Speaking of it, you still haven't figured it out - going to the test is definitely not going against the gods, so there is no need to compare strength with the gods. If the gods think I can Continue to be the earth king and rule my people, and he will let me pass the test, otherwise, even if you carry an atomic bomb, it will be useless, do you understand?" I cursed secretly in my heart: Are you an idiot? Later, I discussed the situation with Bai Su, and Bai Su said: "At that time, we overlooked one point, that is, the earth king had a real belief in the god in their religion, unlike us, who didn't believe in any god at all, so I felt that He acted stupidly." What is the situation, I cursed in my heart at the time, and of course it didn't look good.The Earth King sighed: "I must accept the test, and I must do it completely in accordance with the tradition—that is, the rules of the gods. I cannot let others catch any irregularities. Otherwise, it means that I don't have the courage to accept the test! " Having said that, the King of Earth looked bitter: "Although I decided to accept the test, to be honest, I thought I was always scared—that's why I asked you to be my assistant. I asked many people, and everyone respected you. ability. I feel that with you and me, I will not be so afraid." He can be regarded as very frank when he speaks to this extent. I could only smile wryly in my heart—it's really "people are afraid of being famous", and I was involved in this matter inexplicably, and I can't even tell what it is. I felt so helpless—it turned out that the earth king regarded me as a lifebuoy in the stormy sea, but unfortunately, my lifebuoy was also hard to protect myself! I had no choice but to say: "You believe too much in other people's evaluations of me. But since I promised you, I will work hard—when will we start?" Earth King pointed to the calendar on the desk: "There are still seven days." After he said that, he paused for a while, and then said: "In these seven days, those who covet the throne of the earth king will definitely try their best to destroy it, so please be careful, it is best to be here Don't go out, so as not to cause trouble." I was annoyed and amused when I heard it: "You go to the test. According to the past records, there is no good luck at all. People who want to be the earth king should encourage you to go. How can you stop the destruction?" The earth king fixed my eyes on me: "It's because I invited you to be my assistant. Everyone knows that my chances of success are greatly increased, so they will have bad intentions. This guy Haigao pretended to be me to offend you. This is an example." Bai Su suggested: "You might as well make this matter public and let all the people know. Even if someone wants to deal with us, they will have to risk the disapproval of the world, so they won't dare to act rashly." The Tu Wang was so happy, he immediately picked up the phone and gave a series of orders.He called me "the number one warrior in the world" in the announcement, I heard him say this, corrected it so loudly that he yelled loudly, but the earth king ignored it, and when he put down the phone, I couldn't help being very annoyed: "You Calling me like that is really making a fuss out of nothing, causing me trouble!" But the king of earth said: "I must make the people have confidence in me-two warriors going to pass the test of the gods together is the top priority for our country's 300,000 people. The people of the whole country must be inexplicably excited. Already!" I poured cold water on him: "If we two warriors never come back, it will be even more lively." King Tianjiatu was not angry at all, he looked at me for a while, and said with a smile: "You have no confidence in yourself, but I have full confidence in you──Only I may never come back, you must have a way Come back!" His confidence in me is indeed stronger than my own, Bai Su smiled at the side: "I can be sure of this, if I don't have this confidence in him, how can I let him go." I yelled: "You two, why are you cursing around the corner?" The earth king didn't understand: "How could you be scolding you?" I snorted: "Two people go in and one person comes out, isn't that scolding me for only caring about myself and not caring about others!"