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Chapter 373: The Mechanism of the Candlestick

After excluding several candlesticks with symmetrical positions, Gu Chaoxi simply started looking from the asymmetrical positions.

The first asymmetrical candlestick on the left is positioned so that when she stands next to it, the height of the candlestick is about the height of her neck.

There are not many candles left above. According to the length of consumption from before to now, this candle can only last for another two hours.

That is, if she hasn't found a way out after two hours, all the candles will go out.

This means that she may hardly have the chance to take Pei Yan out.

Thinking of this, she began to observe the candlestick in front of her.

The entire candlestick is mainly made of bronze, with complex patterns carved on it. Because of the dust, it is covered with a layer of dust and is not very clear.

The candlestick was embedded in the wall. The location where it was embedded was covered with a layer of moss because it had not been moved for a long time.

Gu Chaoxi raised his hand and rubbed it, scraping off a thin layer from it.

She rubbed her fingers together, and after a moment, she suddenly raised her hand and pushed the entire candlestick upwards.

"Click!"

There was a sound like a lock being fastened back into place, and Gu Chaoxi put down his hand.

A muffled sound came from behind the wall. The candlestick in front of me shook twice, slowly moved upwards, and then stopped moving.

She frowned and turned to walk towards another asymmetrical candlestick.

Just like before, push the entire candlestick upwards.

The same "click" sound was heard, and then the sound of the lock returning to its place was heard.

Go around the corridor surrounding the outer wall to the other side and push the remaining two asymmetrical candlesticks up in the same way.

Then, with the turbulence underfoot, the entire ground seemed to be shaking.

She knelt on one knee, holding onto the wall to ensure her body stability.

However, in the gully in the middle, the level of mercury seems to be rising!

This made Gu Chaoxi nervous for a moment, and he immediately stood up and wanted to go to the middle.

But the violent shaking made her unable to keep her balance, and she fell backwards and fell to the ground.

The shaking was gradually calming down, and the mercury in the gully did not rise up. On the contrary, it was decreasing little by little, and the gully was closing.

However, correspondingly, the original location of the cave collapsed even more severely.

The large rocks that were originally piled on top fell down one after another due to the shaking of the ground.

Soon, another hole appeared.

Gu Chaoxi didn't have time to think too much, he got up and rushed to Pei Yan's side and helped him up from the ground.

There is no gap between the two sides now, and they can communicate with each other.

As she left, she looked back again and saw that the cave entrance was gradually collapsing.

The speed was so fast that in just a glance from Gu Chaoxi, the ground began to fall.

Oops!

She shouted in her heart and immediately helped Pei Yan walk towards the passage.

However, he was still a step too slow. The moment he felt his feet hit empty air, Gu Chaoxi pushed Pei Yan back forward.

That's the passage, it won't collapse.

The feeling of weightlessness almost made her close her eyes subconsciously, but then, her whole body was suspended in the air, and a force on her wrist pulled her.

She opened her eyes and saw Pei Yan with a tightly frowned face.

His left hand was supporting himself on the ground, his right hand hung down and tightly grasped her wrist, his face became even paler.

The headache symptoms did not ease, but at that moment, he seemed to sense the danger of Gu Chaoxi and forced himself to break out of the nothingness.

"Morning and evening..."

The sound was so light that it was instantly covered up by the sound of collapsing and falling rocks in the air.

But Gu Chaoxi heard it. It was Pei Yan calling her.

She pursed her lips, grasped Pei Yan's wrist with her backhand, and with the help of Pei Yan's strength, she tried to reach up.

Finally, the other hand grabbed the edge of the ground.

She immediately used the momentum to climb upwards, and managed to reach the passage before the rocks on the edge fell completely.

The candlesticks around the stone wall were still lit, but now the emptiness in front of them was like the devil's mouth, swallowing everything.

She looked down, but couldn't see the bottom and didn't know what was going on down there. She just felt that she should get out faster.

Pei Yan leaned against the stone wall of the passage, suffering from a splitting headache.

He raised his hand to press his head, burying his head in pain, and for a moment his whole body began to feel uncomfortable.

"Ayan!" She raised her hand and pressed Pei Yan's shoulder, the pain in her eyes almost overflowing.

Pei Yan shook his head, gritted his teeth, raised his eyes and looked towards the other end of the passage.

"Chaoxi, we have to go out."

This place seemed to aggravate his headache, so he had to get out quickly.

"Okay." She responded, and immediately helped Pei Yan to stand up, and the two of them walked back in the original direction.

As they walked deeper and deeper, the candlelight behind them could no longer illuminate them.

Fortunately, the tinder was still there. Gu Chaoxi blew it up and lit it, then walked forward.

When the bed was pushed up, there was no one in the room.

She came up from the bottom first, then turned around and pulled Pei Yan up.

He closed the bed and let Pei Yan lie on it first.

After everything below was isolated, Pei Yan's headache symptoms were indeed alleviated a lot, but the tingling sensation would not disappear for a while.

He simply lay on the bed and relaxed, and soon he felt sleepy.

"Zhaoxi, I want to sleep for a while."

He muttered, and before he heard Gu Chaoxi's answer, he fell into a coma.

Looking at Pei Yan lying on the bed, Gu Chaoxi sighed, stood up and began to tidy up his clothes.

Her clothes were stained with blood and she had to change them soon.

Fortunately, there were some robes in Mrs. Zhao's room. She took one out of the closet and changed her dirty clothes.

When I turned around, Pei Yan was still sleeping on the bed.

After thinking about it, he decided to let Pei Yan rest here first while he went out to find Qin Wei and the others.

Speaking of which, when Qin Wei and Qi Chuzhao came up from downstairs, the other people were resting around the room.

Seeing that there were only two of them coming up, Shen Yao first helped Qin Wei up before asking her.

"Pei Yan and Chao Xi and the others?"

"Something happened. We'll talk about it later. We have to go back and change our clothes first."

With the four of them protecting him, it was actually quite easy for him to go back to his room and change clothes.

After Qin Wei and Qi Chuzhao changed their clothes and treated their wounds, they had time to recount what happened to them underground.

Shen Yao frowned when he heard this.

In fact, not long after they went downstairs, Shen Yao left Mrs. Zhao's room.

He had always been suspicious about the two brothers of the Qin family, so he simply went to check other things while they were not in the room.

Not much to gain though.