ragginovel Chapter 555 Clock Tower
Chapter 555 Clock Tower
Chapter 555 Clock Tower
"Fuck...where is this?" Sun Yixie muttered to himself when he woke up, while looking around him.
He quickly determined that he was lying on a terrace high up in the castle. His trident fell not far from him, and on the other side of the trident was Huang Donglai, who woke up almost at the same time as him.
"Oh my god, what's going on?" Huang Donglai sat up and rubbed his temples while asking, "Where are Roman and the Balder people?"
"How should I know? I just woke up too." Sun Yixie replied.
After saying this, he paused and continued, "Eh? I remember that we were clearly washed away by the current. Water should flow to lower places... How did we end up on this roof terrace?"
Huang Donglai shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who knows? This damn place is upside down and the connection between spaces is inexplicable. Maybe something happened when we lost consciousness."
When——when——
Just as the two said these two sentences, a sudden bell interrupted their conversation.
The sound sounded loud and close, so Sun and Huang immediately looked in the direction of the bell, but as far as they could see, they could only see a huge black shadow that looked like a building.
We have to mention here that although the two of them are on the outdoor terrace at the moment with a blood moon in the sky above their heads, the view provided by this blood moon is very strange. If I had to describe it, it would probably be like the light in a darkroom when developing photos, that is, it feels very dazzling, but you can't see things that are a little further away.
Of course, it’s too far to see clearly, so just get closer and look.
After hearing the bell, Sun and Huang exchanged glances, then both stood up and walked towards the direction where the bell came from.
Soon, they reached the edge of the terrace and found a tattered wooden suspension bridge hanging in the air. On the other side of the bridge was a building that they could not see clearly just now but could now make out what it was.
Its true appearance... I think many people have guessed it, it is a clock tower, or as Brother Sun said in his hometown dialect - a clock tower.
The tower is in the shape of a square column. Although there are many cracks on the stone wall of the outer wall, there are not many points for climbing. The clock face on the top of the tower looks like a grotesque round face under the strange moonlight, and the rugged outline of the spire above it is like a sharp blade piercing the sky, splitting the blood moon in the sky into two.
"Why are you looking at me? Aren't you good at Qinggong? You go first." In front of the suspension bridge, Sun Yixie didn't even wait for Huang Donglai to speak. He just received a look and threw the words away.
"Is it possible? It is precisely because I am good at light work that I should follow you from behind. In this way, if you have any accident while crossing the bridge, I can save you in time." Huang Donglai replied.
"Hmph... I don't know who saved whom before." Sun Yixie immediately laughed and said, "Besides, if you really encounter danger, isn't it easier for you to save yourself than to save others? Then why don't you rely on your better Qinggong to test out the danger first?"
"Oh, I'll step on all the mines first, and then you can avoid them when you leave, right?" Huang Donglai asked following Sun Yixie's words.
"That's right?" Sun Yixie said confidently, "I just want to ask you, what's wrong with this?"
The two of them exchanged sharp words, intrigues, and showed off their shamelessness to each other... In the end, Huang Donglai was no match for Sun Yixie, so he had to "step on the minefield" first.
You know what, there really is a trap on the bridge.
But it wasn't a particularly dangerous trap. It just had a few wooden boards that would break if you stepped on them, and the gaps between them were big enough for an adult to fall through.
This may be a big deal for most people, but for Shuang Xie, or for any martial artist in the Central Plains who has a basic knowledge of martial arts, it is funny.
The two of them crossed the suspension bridge without much effort and arrived at the entrance of the bell tower.
This entrance is more like a large "window" than a "door", because entering from the terrace side actually leads to the middle section of the bell tower; the real gate of the bell tower is at the bottom of the building, connecting to the center of the castle.
Before stepping into the bell tower, Sun Huang first discussed whether they should go up or down after entering.
Putting aside the uncertainty of the "portal", according to general logic, if you go up to the upper level of the bell tower, you will definitely reach a dead end when you reach the top, and you will have to come down again; but if you go downstairs, you should be able to return to the interior of the castle.
But after discussing for a few minutes, the two decided to go up first because they wanted to see if they could find anything useful in the "dead end".
After entering through the "window", Sun Huang came to a not very big room. There were no portraits, sculptures or vases in this room. Instead, there were many large clocks ticking. There was no carpet on the floor, just ordinary stone slabs. And for some reason, there was a small bonfire burning on the floor in the middle of the room...
The fire was also quite strange. It didn't look big and there was not much smoke coming out, but it made people feel particularly warm when they got close to it. It could even be said that the entire room was within the range of its heat radiation.
It just so happened that Sun Huang was still wet at the moment, so the two of them simply took off their clothes and warmed themselves up for a while.
They also took this opportunity to review the information that had not been fully exchanged when they were "playing dumb" through the mirror, as well as the new information that both sides had obtained after the mirror was broken.
About twenty minutes later, the two people who were squatting there in their shorts, warming themselves by the fire and chatting, felt that their whole bodies were very dry, and the clothes they took off and hung to dry looked like they had just been taken out of the dryer.
In this way, the two of them were refreshed and ready to set off again.
After a while, they opened the door on the other side of the room and entered the bell tower. This place was really different from other areas of the castle: countless huge gears and metal-cast beams, columns, and brackets supported a barrel-shaped space that led directly to the upper floor. The walls around it were no longer hung with candlesticks and torch holders, but with large light bulbs emitting cold light.
Even though the history of this universe is very different from what we know, there is no doubt that we are still far from the time when the light bulb was invented.
Fortunately, Sun and Huang were the two people in the original universe who were not very clear about when the light bulb was invented. In addition, the current environment is not normal, so they were not surprised and did not dwell on it.
Soon, the two of them jumped onto the constantly moving large gears and platforms one after another, and relied on their lightness skills to leap back and forth and go up all the way without encountering any obstacles.
Of course, the book implies here that, normally, "jumping back and forth between huge moving gears and platforms" is itself a difficult obstacle. There are some places where you simply cannot jump over without the help of tools such as ropes and whips.
But Shuang Xie, the two men who were skilled in Qinggong, didn't feel anything about it. It could even be said that this "jumping up" activity was one of Huang Donglai's hobbies, so they moved up very quickly.
In the process of climbing the tower, the two also discovered that several rooms would pop up from time to time around this barrel-shaped space. However, after opening two of them, they encountered a two-meter-high mobile armor and a monster that looked like a zombie swordsman... They never opened them again.
Ten minutes later, the two reached the top of the tower.
Here, there are no gears, only a large circular platform with a door at each end.
The first door was an ordinary wooden door with a faint glow of fire behind it, and it looked very similar to the room they had first entered. The other door was a dark blue bronze door with many bone carvings engraved on each side of the door frame and a red crystal ball embedded in the center of the door.
Almost at the same time when Sun Huang and his companions reached the top floor and saw the two doors, several monsters with eagle bodies and human heads swooped down from above their heads, from the shadow of the beams on the spire of the bell tower.
These monsters would either swoop down and pounce with the claws on their feet, or scatter their hard, sharp feathers at the Twin Harmonies like darts.
However, these two methods of attack were undoubtedly exactly what Sun Huang wanted.
Sun Yixie didn't even need to swing his trident when dealing with enemies flying towards him from the air. He could just lift it up and chop the opponent in half. Not to mention Huang Donglai, he could catch any hidden weapons thrown by hidden weapon masters, and he could easily catch the feathers thrown by these monsters instinctively, and then throw them back to kill them.
Someone must be saying at this point… Iron Head Kung Fu, right? Diamond Kick, right? What if Sun Yixie faces long-range attacks and Huang Donglai faces melee attacks?
Actually, it’s not a big deal. Huang Donglai can dodge when facing a close-range attack, and then he can continue to throw the feathers that he catches. As for Sun Yixie, facing a long-range attack... although he may not be able to dodge it completely, he has a protective armor that can make up for it.
To make a long story short, Shuangxie easily took care of the monsters guarding the top of the tower, and then opened the door that was suspected to be the "bonfire room".
However, after opening the door, they did not go in, because when they looked at the door, they found that there was nothing in the room except the bonfire, so they immediately closed the door again.
Then, the two came to the blue bronze door.
"Hey~ This door doesn't even have a handle or anything, how do you open it?" Huang Dong looked at it and said with a pout.
"Hmm...it looks like the crystal ball embedded in the middle of the door is very suspicious. Why don't you try touching it, Brother Huang?" Sun Yixie continued thoughtfully.
"Go away, why don't you touch it?" Huang Donglai said.
"Oh... If you don't dare, forget it." Sun Yixie sneered, "How about this, I will just use the trident to split the door open, so that no one has to touch it."
"Heh..." Huang Donglai sneered upon hearing this, "Don't you have that door-smashing fist? Why don't you take this opportunity to show it off?"
"What am I showing off? Even if you use the Door-Breaking Fist, you still have to touch the door with your hands. So what's the difference between me and just touching it..." Sun Yixie stopped halfway through his reply and subconsciously waved his arm towards the door.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stretched out his hand, the door seemed to sense it and shrank into the stone wall above the door frame with a "whoosh".
As a result, Sun Huang caught a glimpse of... the space behind the door was actually a square larger than a football field where one could see the "starry sky".