Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

We walked slowly along the stone steps, opened the last black iron gate, and crawled out from the fireplace of a certain room. The lotus pattern can be seen everywhere in this building. It once appeared on the last page of the Animal Skin Book and is the unique family emblem of Jade Flower. The implication is that the mansion is his private residence. This ancient military advisor of Lu Ku, whose name is only heard but whose identity is not seen, may live here.

Going out from the hut is a long corridor, with dozens of statues of gods seen on the Chimera at both ends, with different expressions and angry eyes. The polished eyes reflected the candlelight, as if they were living creatures. When I walk under it, I always feel embarrassed that I am being watched, and I raise my head to be wary from time to time. Leeann, however, seemed calm and calm, not even looking at them, and said that this kind of statue is called the God of Corpse Spine, which is said to be the seated statue of a certain saint at the beginning of the creation of the Golden Staircase. They use special wood to carve a skeleton, and then send it to a dense forest to bury it in the ground. After more than ten years, it will grow into this ferocious look. Finally, it will be cut down and shipped here by sea, and it will be placed in the hall as a decoration. The mansion is full of them.

Although she said it lightly, I always felt uncomfortable in my heart. As a thief walking in other people's halls, I should be watching all directions and listening in all directions, and be cautious. But this woman was holding a cigarette in her mouth and scratching the wainscot with her slender fingers, fearing that the movement would not be loud enough. Her nonchalant expression on her face was surprising. In comparison, I, the co-criminal, seemed even more timid, constantly reminding her in a low voice not to go too far, and to be a thief, you must behave like a thief. Dare the emperor not rush the eunuchs

"Do you understand the rules or not? I'm a thief, and if you are as careless as you, we will be caught soon."

Seeing that she didn't listen to the advice, I had no choice but to rush forward to clear the way, leaving her far behind. If any security guards on duty passed by, I could also hold her back and evacuate. She was so careless and said so brazenly. It was a fantasy to cover me.

In this way, I shuttled between two rows of swaying sculptures, and finally walked out of this narrow corridor, and my eyes began to become brighter. I squeezed out sideways and stepped onto the corridor, and my eyes were dark again. It was so big that I almost smashed my head. I just raised my legs to give this wooden lump a few kicks. When I looked closely, I couldn't help but tremble all over. I hurriedly ducked back into the darkness, and rolled and crawled to the ground to escape.

"Change the route, there is no way forward, there is a big and thick guard blocking the door."I spread my hands towards the woman and said

"The security does not have permission to enter the mansion. Are you dazzled?"Leeann stopped, hesitated for a moment, pushed me away, and strode towards the corridor.

"Eh? I said you stupid woman, how could I make a joke about this kind of thing? This will cost you your fortune and your life, stop right there!"Seeing her whizzing away, I broke out in a cold sweat and cried secretly in my heart. It's over. This guy is used to doing his own thing. He thinks that his way is profound. He is destined to fail to achieve anything with such a high profile. It seems that I have to start over. Prepared again.

I stood up and caught up, and saw the woman stopping behind the security guard and looking around, with a confused look on her face. She complained to me and asked where the guard came from? Why didn't she see it? Am I itchy? To make her happy?

"This, isn't it?"I was also secretly surprised. Two people were bickering in front of a flower pot stand less than two meters away from the security guard. As a result, this man was as motionless as if he was dead. It was really weird. Could it be that he was also a statue?

"Those who can enter this mansion are all senior members, so there is no security."The woman dragged me to the front of this man, pointed at the pendant on the collar of his black suit, and said,"Did you see it? This metal pattern like a roof beam is the symbol of the golden staircase. He is singing hymns at the moment and is deep in meditation. Even if you draw a knife and stab him, he will not be aware of it. This is boarding the ship."

Looking up, the man in the suit turned his eyes white, raised his head to the sky, and his lips moved. He said strange and unclear words in his mouth, but there was no reaction. I was hesitant and touched his hand. It was cold to the bone, and it was different from the venue. Exactly the same as Leeann when she was out of body

"Take it if you want, but be quick and don't stand around looking at it with relish."Seeing me holding the strong man's hand, she mistakenly thought that I was eyeing this guy's diamond ring, and urged:"Their boarding ceremony only takes half an hour, and they can't afford to waste time."

"Hey, who do you think I am? How can you casually slander someone's innocence? We also pay attention to character when we go out to hang out."I glared at her angrily, put the gold watch hanging on the chest of the strong man into my pocket, and strode away without looking back.

After passing this person, Leeann and I came to a lobby-like rotunda. , there is a marble staircase standing due east. It is surrounded by people wearing black suits with pendants hanging on their necks, both men and women. Not only that, there are also many people crowded at both ends of the staircase, and the positions are chaotic. The prelude was like someone suddenly pressing the pause button at a cocktail party, and all the guests were stunned in place.

Everyone raised their heads at a 45-degree angle, humming indistinct murmurs, singing in a cadence and sonorous way. Powerful. I felt like I was thrown into the morning parliament, forced to listen to this noise, and I quickly became dizzy. It turned out that the breathing of the huge creature I heard in the shanty room was the harmony of this collective chant, and I I had to cover my ears and quickly walk through the rotunda.

Leeann also looked in pain, and hurriedly jumped up the stone steps, trying to avoid the sound bombardment that was stronger than the wave. At first, I turned sideways, trying my best to avoid all kinds of obstacles. Taoist people crawled under their armpits or crotches, and gradually became impatient. They also began to imitate women and roughly pushed the crowd away, reaching the middle section of the stairs.

Everywhere in the corridors upwards were also crowded with people. There were people standing, leaning against the stone wall or leaning against the railing, in various positions. There was even an old woman holding a golden ball the size of a bowling ball in her hands, and she was sweating profusely., but it is so straight that I feel guilty just looking at it. As I climbed higher and higher, the dark shadows in front of my eyes became thinner, and my ear canal became much clearer. I had already reached the third floor.

This corridor is designed like an open lotus, and each petal is a hedging door. After a rough count, there are about a dozen doors. If you have to enter each room, and it takes an average of two minutes, the boarding ceremony will be over after checking others, and it will be almost impossible to escape, not to mention that some of them are locked. The woman couldn't help being dumbfounded when she saw this, and began to curse Madeleine for doing nothing. I asked her how many hairpins she wanted to pick the lock, and motioned her to go to the other end, so that we could both look at one end to save time.

Leeann had just walked about ten steps when I grabbed her from behind. She stared with a pair of peach blossom eyes and felt strange when she saw me suddenly bend down and couldn't help but yell:"What are you doing? Go about your business. Why are you rifling through my bag?"

"Do you carry lipstick with you? I kept silent, nodded and smiled at her, and said,"Don't forget that you and I have been here many times." If you look at the foot line, what is that?"

The woman followed her gaze and noticed that there was indeed a light-colored lipstick ribbon under her feet. Someone had drawn an arrow on it, pointing to one of the doors. She reached out to open the bag, took out her lipstick, and after unscrewing it, she found that a large piece was missing. Cut, not only surprised but also happy

"Maybe the failure in the first few times was due to the lack of time. It may be the accumulation of our continuous attempts. From this point of view, maybe it is a good thing that Madeleine was dropped."

I asked her to step aside, took apart the hair card and began to pick the lock with concentration, which seemed particularly difficult. The most unsightly thing about Madeleine's body was her hands, with no trace of my genes, and her fingers were thick and short.. People who do crafts in this world, such as pianists, gamblers, and thieves, rely on their fingers. They must be slender and flexible to get twice the result with half the effort and cleanly. But if it is another person, although the skills are still there, the hardware is not good enough. It became very difficult to open the lock.

I had intended to show off in front of her, so that this girl could see how powerful I was, but it turned out that I failed and it took me a full five minutes of struggling to open the lock.

"You can’t blame me for this. Madeleine never engages in sneaky things. Even if she owes someone else a piece of steel from a shop, she will rush back to pay it back immediately after she gets it home. Such inferior hands are only slightly better than being disabled."I explained with a red face. I was about to get up, but suddenly I felt a hard object hitting the back of my head. I looked sideways and saw that it was the barrel of the Ingram Mac10. The woman ordered me to put my hand where she could see it. Get up slowly, don't make any tricks

"Sure enough, when considering the gains and losses of interests, love is not a meal, so now is the time for the rabbit to die and the dog to be cooked?"I had to unload the magazine from the MP5 as the woman asked and handed it to her obediently. I was angry and anxious.

"It's good for you and me. If you don't want to get hurt, just stay in front of the door."Leeann was indeed very cautious. She took the hairpin and turned it on the lock cylinder to ensure that it could no longer be locked. Then she pushed the door and entered the room, twisting the clockwork-like switch in the corner. A beam of warm orange light shot down from above her head. , illuminating the glass cabinet in the center of the hut.

I finally saw the original appearance of Vulinsha. I had glimpsed it in front of the strange tree before. They had been broken into pieces and turned into gold foils of different shapes and sizes. In fact, they were combined together. Together, it was an armor-like sari, shining under the light. The woman stepped forward, smashed the cover to pieces with a swing of the folding gun butt, then glanced at me and ordered the suitcase to be kicked over. After opening it I took out two pieces of copper sticks that looked like tree branches, carefully crossed the two ends of the sari, took it off, put it inside and started packing it.

I sneered secretly, thinking that even with your amateurish skills, you still dare to threaten me. If not I'm a compassionate person by nature. I'd have kicked you unconscious while you were busy and escaped. But Leeann really has no intention of betrayal, I can see that.

"What are you doing? Why don't you leave quickly? The woman hung the Mac 10 on her waist, picked up the box and hurried out, snapped her fingers at me, and shouted:"Now turn back the way you came, go back to the warehouse to hide for a few hours, and then go to Romeo Point after midnight.""

"No matter how urgent you are, you have to put away the saree. Several pieces are still hanging outside the box. Aren't you afraid that they will be torn off and scattered in the middle?"

"You're right, you should be more careful. I didn't expect Vulinsha to be so long. It seems that the box was prepared to be small."She motioned for me to step forward and hold the tail, protecting the exposed pieces of gold foil, and said as she walked

"Eh? Suddenly I remembered something."The one facing me happened to be the curved neckline that Sister Di wanted to pick in the past. It was engraved with strange words as thin as hair. If the woman explained that it was a relic after death, what were the words? Engraved on it? Thinking about it, I patted her shoulder and raised the question, asking:"Could this be some kind of cipher text that seals its efficacy?"

"This is not something you and I should consider. Let’s just take it away and end it. She also glanced at it and sighed:"This kind of symbol is called silk language. Don't ask me what it means, because no one in the world knows it, and it's hard to tell whether it was created by humans.""

"No, that's not what I meant. Perhaps Jade Flower can understand the meaning of this symbol. We once found a pamphlet in an orichalcum mine called Phoenix. It was full of these words, and the place where it was hidden was another secret room of this old man!"

Before I finished speaking, I felt another slap on my head, and my whole body fell into chaos. When my eyes cleared, I saw that I was staring at the suitcase at my feet in a daze. Leeann slung the gun on his shoulder. , why are you in a daze, why don't you leave quickly?

Why do I feel so familiar with this scene? It seems like it happened before. When I turned around, I saw that I was still in the secret room, and I didn't even step out of the door. No, this There must be something wrong with it. I clearly remember her hanging the gun on her waist. Why did she change it to her shoulder? I hurriedly picked up the box and saw a few pieces of gold foil exposed outside the box again.

"I didn't expect the Vulinsa to be so long. It seems that I chose a small one when preparing the box. But you are right, you have to be careful." some ofSomething went wrong. Just like when I was at the meeting, I suddenly forgot the existence of time. I couldn't remember anything in my confusion. Looking at my hands again, I couldn't help but scream, and reached out to grab Li En who was rushing out.

"They turned back the way they came and hid in the warehouse for a while. They never expected that someone was still here. After midnight, Romeo clicked……"The woman was still talking to herself, not noticing the strange color on my face at all, and proudly lit a cigarette for herself.

"Leeann, this is so wrong, wait a minute, come and see!"I had to stop her and raise my hands for her to take a closer look at. As for why I was trembling all over, it was because I don't know when the beating started, but there were many lipstick marks on both palms!

"What's the meaning?"She was stunned, then reached for her purse, flipping through it and said,"The lipstick is in your pocket, not mine."

"fool? Don't you understand yet? Do you really think that everyone on the Golden Staircase is an idiot? We have been tricked, although we don’t know how this happened? I don’t know how many times I have died here. During the time that was deleted, these lipstick marks were made by me with my own hands, telling me that the next person who comes here must try to remember something! I pointed at the suitcase and shouted anxiously:"So, even if you and I repeat it hundreds or thousands of times, the ending will still be the same. You will still die tragically under the waterfall transformed by the mountain hunter and become warehouse 0514." The evil spirit raging within! I said, can't we give up doing this stupid thing? Li En, you know that people will naturally develop emotions when they get along with each other. I don’t want to see you die in vain!"

"I'm afraid there's no turning back."The woman let out a long sigh and lowered her head.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and was reflected in scarlet red by the bright lights of Mist Dragon Ya Island below. The rain gradually subsided, and icy hail began to fall, hitting the window glass with bursts of crisp sounds. But it didn't disturb the singing and praying all around. I grabbed the woman in front of the door and raised my hands to try to make her understand. In just a few minutes, the whole thing started to become more and more strange.

"did you know? I am no longer a black narcissus, I have become a fragrance that does not leak out, and there is no way out."The woman sighed and said

"Of course I know, that is, the human bait, the female anchor trapped under the waterfall, is our new and unbreakable beauty. I was shocked and asked,"Do you have any relatives controlled by them?""

"I was brought out of the Latama Crypt without any relatives. If you become a good person, you will have two months to make a choice, and others will not invest their energy in someone who is difficult to match. So I volunteered. From time to time, she would poke her head to see what was going on underneath, lift up the box and stamp her feet at me, saying,"No matter how urgent you are, don't stay here. I really want to say you can go to the warehouse!" The boarding ceremony on the Golden Stairs is about to end. Do you want to be captured alive by them?"

"Okay, I can adjust my thinking in another place."The moment I walked back to the corridor with the woman, I saw a line of words clearly written on the back of the door. Not only did I gasp, but I pointed at it and shouted:"No, you can leave if you want. I have to clarify the whole matter here. , Anyway, now that the sari is in hand, it might be safer if I'm not with you."

The handwriting of this line is neither mine nor hers, and the content is even more bizarre: March 15, 1972, still there, H1-092,A.C.What does it mean? Could it be that a third person appeared in the house while I was wandering?

"this? The woman followed the guidance and looked at the door panel, rubbed her eyes and exclaimed:"I recognize it, it is Madeleine's handwriting!""

"What? His message? When did this happen?"I squinted my eyes carefully and couldn't deny this. As a son, I have almost never seen my father holding a pen. He is used to writing with a typewriter, and my mother is responsible for keeping accounts at home. Looking back, I , Leeann took out the matchbox from her pocket and compared it, and spread her hands to me, saying that she was going crazy.

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