Chapter 1: Waking Up
"Well!"
Wang Liang held his head and tried hard to open his eyes, trying to see where he was. But after he opened his eyes, he found that it was very dark in front of him. Only an oil lamp in the distance proved where he was.
This turned out to be a prison cell of only about five square meters. Wang Liang was leaning against a main wall made of huge bluestones, and on both sides were fences made of wood as thick as a human head.
This cell might be located underground. The straw on which Wang Liang was lying was slightly damp and musty. There was a bucket placed near the door, and one could tell what it was used for at a glance.
On the left and right sides of the room, there were slight breathing sounds, one rapid and the other barely audible. It could be seen that someone was imprisoned in the cells on both sides.
After thinking about it carefully, Wang Liang remembered what happened. He remembered that he seemed to be falsely accused of colluding with the generals on the border and plotting evil because of his contact with the generals on the border. His whole family was confiscated and all the people implicated by him were killed. Only he was saved by the eunuchs' plea, and was exempted from the death penalty and exiled to Huanzhou.
He encountered bandits on the way to Huanzhou and was captured by them. It has been more than twenty days since then.
Gently pressing his forehead, Wang Liang suddenly had a doubt in his mind. Why did he wonder where he was just now?
At this moment, the door outside the cell was suddenly kicked open, and a bloody came from outside the door. Wang Liang stood up with some confusion, walked to the fence and looked outside, just in time to find five men and women walking in from outside.
These five people were wearing strange Taoist robes or armor, and their hair was red, purple and green. They looked quite weird.
What made Wang Liang speechless the most was that there was a line of words floating above their heads, which read "Dragon Riding Gunner Yin Zhiping", "Open your mouth and say it", "Strangle your **" and other strange words.
When they walked to the corridor outside the cell, the man with the name Dragon Rider Gunner Yin Zhiping written on his head said loudly: "Hello everyone, the bandit leader guarding the cell outside has been killed by us. I found a key from him, but there is only this one. Who should I let out?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a woman's voice came from the cell to the left of Wang Liang.
"Sir, if you are willing to let me go, I am willing to follow you as your slave."
Just as she finished her words, a voice came from the cell to the right of Wang Liang, "I have a copy of the Xiantian Qiankun Gong. The bandits have locked me up here just for this copy. If you let me out, I'll give it to you."
Dragon Rider Gunner Yin Zhiping did not make a choice, but looked at Wang Liang, "What about you?"
"I..." Wang Liang was about to tell his identity, but a thought suddenly flashed through his mind, "I think I'm pretty good at divination. If you let me out, I can do divination for you once."
After Wang Liang finished speaking, the five did not make a choice immediately, but started discussing. Wang Liang could vaguely hear some of their conversation.
" That girl doesn't look that good, and she doesn't have any advantageous skills. It would be a bit of a waste to have her as a follower."
"'Xiantian Qiankun Gong' is good, but the one he gave me should be a fragment. It takes fifteen copies to combine into one. We only come here to read it once, so it's a bit of a waste. The price outside is not high either."
"That fortune-telling star can only predict things in the village, and can't predict opportunities outside."
“…”
After discussing for a while, Dragon Rider Gunner Yin Zhiping walked to the left side of Wang Liang's cell with a key, opened the door and let the girl out.
After that, they didn't even look at Wang Liang and the cell on his right, and just turned around and left.
When they walked out of the dungeon door, the door closed automatically. At the same time, Wang Liang was surprised to find that in the cell on the left, there was a slight breathing sound.
What’s going on? Wasn’t the person in the left cell released? Why is there another one? Is he a human or a ghost?
This strange situation made Wang Liang feel uneasy, and he was thinking about how to escape from this haunted place.
Think about what those five weirdos said just now. They seemed to say that the bandit leader outside had been killed. If you don’t escape now, then when will you escape?
Wang Liang didn't think much about it. He walked directly to the gate of the fence. At this moment, he discovered something unusual that he had not noticed all these days. The gaps between the wood of the fence were obviously almost the same. For some reason, Wang Liang could see everything on the front corridor, but could not see the people in the cells on both sides.
At the same time, he noticed that the fence was not actually tight. Although the door was locked with an iron chain, the fence was made of wood.
Although what is done here is not very eye-catching, if you look closely you will find that it is all made with mortise and tenon structure.
It can be seen that there are some experts among the workers who built the cells.
Wang Liang had played with things like the Luban Lock before, so he knew that these mortise and tenon structures could not be dismantled by force. The more violence was used, the harder it would be to open it. Instead, he would have to find some openings or mechanisms to have a chance to open the fence.
Wang Liang carefully touched all the wood, looking for something that could be used.
He noticed that his actions did not attract the attention of the people in the cells on both sides. It seemed that no matter how he messed around in his cell, the cells on both sides seemed like another world.
After Wang Liang carefully touched all the wood on the fence, he finally found a piece of wood that could be shaken. However, that piece of wood was not the one at the front gate, but a piece of wood next to the cell on the right.
Wang Liang gently shook the wood and began to move the mortise and tenon joints on it. Finally, he managed to pry open a crack, which was enough for at least a normal person to enter the cell on the right through the crack.
After prying the wood off, Wang Liang looked at the gap in front of him and lowered his head speechlessly.
As an official who is both civil and military, Wang Liang's height is quite surprising. He is over 1.9 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a thick waist, arms strong enough to run a horse, a square face full of righteousness, and fair skin. At first glance, you can tell that he is a handsome middle-aged man.
However, it was still difficult for him to squeeze through the gap with his body.
But in order to use the gap that was finally opened, he took a deep breath, tried hard to shrink his stomach, and squeezed through the gap to the cell on the right.
After squeezing in, Wang Liang saw an old man in his sixties with messy hair lying there. He didn't seem to have any reaction and didn't even raise his head when Wang Liang squeezed in.
Wang Liang noticed that behind him were several books with blue covers, with the words written on them.
"Xiantian Qiankun Gong".
