I don't know how long I slept, it seemed like a very long time, yet it felt like an instant. I was woken up by a loud slap. The moment I opened my eyes, the small flashlight in the corner of the wall flickered on and off, as if it was about to run out of battery.

  In the stone room, the German little dragon girl and four eyes were lying down. My gaze gradually focused, and I found that the person who slapped my palm was passerby A. Subconsciously, I just wanted to scold him, but suddenly, I felt something was off. Passerby A's exposed jaw and lips were almost deathly pale.

  At the same time, my nose caught a strong smell of blood, and when I looked down, there was a wound on his shoulder that I hadn't noticed before, with bright red flesh inside, and the blood had almost dyed half of his shoulder red.

  Then, passerby A panted heavily and said: "The one with the surname Sun released a seductive fragrance, we fell for it... Cough, cough... Go wake them up, let's get out of here quickly." After finishing speaking, his entire body leaned forward and thudded to the ground, motionless.

  I was startled and quickly went to check his breathing, still gasping for air.

  It wasn't until I made this move that I realized my whole body felt like it had lost all its strength, and even moving my fingers felt exhausting. Passerby A said we'd been drugged with aphrodisiacs, but when I sniffed the air, there didn't seem to be any unusual scent.

  Now in the stone room, all three of them have fallen down. This Qi surname said it was Old Sun's doing. Presumably he was the first to react at that time and had a fight with Old Sun. Now he is dragging his almost fainting body, and the first one to wake me up. I really don't know whether I should be honored or have other reactions.

  Obviously, compared to Xiaolongnv, this Qi surname seems to trust me more, and he's not afraid that after he faints, I'll finish him off with two more knives.

  I saw a pedestrian A faint, the blood flowing from his shoulder wouldn't stop. I couldn't think much, with one hand supporting myself against the wall, I got up shakily and felt my whole body was soft and weak, even walking made me stumble.

  With great difficulty, I managed to move in front of the four-eyed man. Without being polite, I slapped him, but now my strength was too weak, and it took me several slaps before this kid opened his eyes with a bewildered expression.

  I didn't say much to him, patted his shoulder and instructed: "We've fallen into Old Sun's trap, been poisoned by the bewitching fragrance, hurry up." His eyes were dazed for a moment, the confusion in his eyes instantly disappeared, weakly said: "The traitor is Old Sun?"

  My heart skipped a beat, this statement is quite astonishing. Could it be that this kid had known all along that someone in the team was harboring ulterior motives? Then wasn't the previous action of Roadside A stopping me from saving people an attitude of "it's better to kill by mistake than to let go"?

  Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart, just how ruthless is this Qi fellow.

  Siyan finished speaking, turned his eyes, propped himself up, and said: "The incense is over there." I followed the direction of his pointing hand and found that in the dimly lit environment, on the platform of that Gedoku, a small incense burner had been placed at some unknown time, only as big as a palm, and now wisps of white smoke were rising from it. What was strange was that there was no scent in the stone room.

  Four eyes stumbled and ran over, knocking over the still-burning incense burner, and the contents spilled out. It was a black crystalline substance with a red light flashing on its head.

  I don't know what this thing is, it looks like musk, who knows, the four-eyed face changed color, and a weak voice said: "It's carbon monoxide crystals." No wonder I'm feeling weak all over, dizzy and swollen-headed, it turns out this thing was playing tricks on me. This is just carbon monoxide poisoning!

  I came to my senses, and I think the old Sun didn't kill us because he had already calculated that we would die from poisoning. I quickly woke up the German beauty, who was still dazed and confused, with poor physical condition, and her whole body was limp on the ground. Although she was awake, she couldn't even crawl, but just moved her lips before continuing to lie there lifelessly.

  I took one look at the situation and my head swelled up, it's all over. Passerby A was unconscious, Little Dragon Maiden was stiff as a corpse, I and Si Nian were soft and limp, even worse than Lin Mei Mei. What to do? How did that Sun fellow get out of here anyway?

  I suddenly remembered what happened before I fainted, and subconsciously reached for my waist, only to recall that the equipment on my waist had been taken away by passerby A. As a result, just as I was panting and walking up to passerby A, I touched the corpse-handling gloves at his waist, but apart from the white porcelain bottle and the red stabilizing pill, the pearl spat out by the Qilin was nowhere to be seen.

  My heart skipped a beat, could it be that I was really stunned?

  I rushed to look at the Qilin relief, and then a surprising scene appeared. The Qilin on the stone wall was still in its original shape, with no objects inserted into its eyes, but its direction had changed. Previously it was facing right, now it was facing left, directly towards me. At first glance, I met its white eyeball reflection, which looked very eerie.

  How could this be? How could this Qilin stone wall turn around? Weren't we in that previous stone room before?

  Soon I saw the hole we had chiseled out on the floor and immediately vetoed this idea.

  We were still in the same place, but the stone wall had turned over. I let Siyan go and extinguish that carbon monoxide, shook my head and calmed down.

  Now it's clear that my previous idea was correct, this stone room has a mechanism, and the activated part is the Qilin bead in the upper stone room. Now I finally understand why one stone room needs to set up a mobile mechanism, which is protected at great cost, and also hide the six-angle bell mechanism in the stone room. This multi-layered protection is obviously all for the sake of the bead in the Qilin's mouth.

  This bead can trigger some mechanism in this stone room in front of us, I don't know how Lao Sun discovered it, but apparently, he has left here with this bead, and it can be imagined that the world opened by this bead must be extremely important. It is protected layer by layer like the ghost seal that opens the bronze gate, and I coincidentally got it into my hands, now unexpectedly letting others take advantage of it.

  But how did Mr. Sun know the way to start the mechanism?

  If I'm not mistaken, that pearl, from start to finish, I haven't shown it to anyone. He followed passerby A all the way and suddenly turned against me in this stone room, apparently he discovered something.

  Could it be... that his destination is already very close? Will it be just behind the organ?

  I thought for a moment and made up my mind, asking Siyan: "Do we still have explosives?" Now it seems that only explosives can be used. If we use less of them, the tunnel shouldn't collapse.

  The four-eyed one finally managed to extinguish that source of toxic gas, but weakly shook his head and said: "I've used it all up."

  It's all over, there's no other way out. Seeing the four of them getting paler by the minute, I immediately kicked him and said, "Cheer up, the toxic gas in here hasn't dissipated yet, we have to get out of here." After saying that, I pointed to the underground passageway we came from and said, "Let's hide in there first."

  Siyan nodded and went to pull the German beauty, I turned around to pull passerby A. Starting from Siyan's head down, his legs had just stretched out when he suddenly shouted and disappeared in an instant, as if something had pulled him away. One moment he was still in front of me, the next second he was dragged into a hole and vanished into thin air.

  I was stunned, and my scalp went numb in an instant. How could I have forgotten that there were still corpses down in the pit?

  I immediately lit a flashlight and carefully made my way down, but as soon as the light appeared, it was grabbed by a withered purple hand, which then yanked it out of my wrist.

  I was knocked to the ground by this force, and the flashlight in the cave was still shining. Through the weak light, I saw the situation in the cave that made my hair stand on end. There were more than a dozen withered purple arms slowly crawling out of the cave entrance, one of which was almost about to stretch out.

  It was probably the human stress reaction that took effect, and I instantly dragged over the equipment bag next to me, blocking the hole. That equipment bag was probably also turned over by Sun, and the good stuff was likely all taken away. The bag wasn't as heavy as before, so I immediately pressed down on passerby A next to the bag again.

  In an instant, I finished all this, and my entire brain was almost blank. People who have not experienced carbon monoxide poisoning may not be able to understand this feeling. At this moment, my brain started to ache, and the pain became more and more severe, making it almost impossible for me to think.

  I clutched my head, punching myself hard on the temples a few times, my eyes reddening. Suddenly I remembered that TV show where they used a urine-soaked cloth to cover their mouth and nose to avoid toxic gas. At this point, I had no other options, so I could only pin my hopes on the fleeting TV plot, hoping the director had some conscience and hadn't lied to me.

  I had no clothes on me, so I pulled out a dagger and cut three pieces of cloth from the belly of a German beauty, then hastily urinated on them and wrapped one around myself.