Chapter 1287: Distant Bell

Although his face was full of confusion and reluctance, Jin Yuanxun knew Chen Junnan all too well.

Under his persistent nagging and persuasion, Jin Yuanxun had no choice but to take on the task of dismantling all the doors with him.

Soon, Jin Yuanxun realized that the task wasn't actually that difficult, since all the doors here looked extremely dilapidated, and some could even be shattered with a single hard kick.

Even so, Jin Yuanxun turned his head and glanced at the seemingly endless corridor, still feeling that the road ahead was long and challenging.

“Ge,” Jin Yuanxun paused, “You said this ‘Lietongche’ is divided into three parts... so what’s the third part?”

“I just said you don’t bring any brains with you, didn’t I?” Chen Junnan said. “Do you even need to ask?”

“Ah?”

“The third part is the ‘Mianshi Qu’ ah,” Chen Junnan said gravely. “Deep in the darkest and most damaged corridor, there are our everyone’s ‘Mianshi Fangjian’. We were guided to walk out from the other end of the corridor and reach different areas respectively. If we had been determined to go in the opposite direction back then, we could have seen the ‘Tianji’.”

Jin Yuanxun listened and paused, raising his question: “So, do we need to break the doors of our ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ like that?”

“That...” Chen Junnan thought for a moment, seeming stumped by this question.

“Ge, considering the strange layout here and the previous ‘Cangjie Qi’...” Jin Yuanxun also pondered, “Our ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ might be in various places, not even on the ‘Lietongche’, oh?”

“Yes... that’s about right,” Chen Junnan nodded. “We seem to have come from the ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ to the corridor, but the ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ could be anywhere, maybe in A'fuhan, or perhaps in Takelamagan.”

“Ge, please try to say things I can understand...”

“Anyway, these ‘doors’ will make us traverse great distances, eventually leading to the same corridor...” Chen Junnan said. “And the door at the end of the corridor is odd; different teams end up in different places after going out, plus we each clear the room games at different times, so we arrive at the ‘Zhongyan Zhidi’ in batches within a day.”

“Oh, that’s indeed the case,” Jin Yuanxun nodded.

“By the way... you kid waited for us at the place where we descended,” Chen Junnan said. “You probably understand this principle better than I do.”

“Yes, Ge, Chu Ge also said that although everyone arrives at the ‘Zhongyan Zhidi’ at different times, they all do so within the same day,” Jin Yuanxun replied. “This day doesn’t count as within the ‘Shi Ri’; Chu Ge calls it the ‘Jianglin Ri’.”

“Lao Qi calls this day ‘Di Ling Tian’,” Chen Junnan nodded. “These two kids figured it out so early...?”

“So...” Jin Yuanxun still didn’t quite understand, “Do we really need to destroy the doors of those ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ or not...”

“I feel it doesn’t matter, since the spaces behind those ‘doors’ are in various places, far away from us...” After Chen Junnan finished, he paused, feeling as if an invisible clue suddenly pierced through his mind.

“Wait a minute...” Chen Junnan blinked. “Damn...”

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Wait... let me sort this out...” Chen Junnan murmured. “Young master thought of something; how does it feel so strange...”

Jin Yuanxun felt that what Chen Junnan just said was already strange enough—was there something even stranger?

“Xiao Jin! Xiao Jin!” Chen Junnan patted Jin Yuanxun’s shoulder. “Quick, help me think... Our ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ could be in A'fuhan and Takelamagan... theoretically very far from the ‘Lietongche’, and even farther from the ‘Zhongyan Zhidi’... right?”

“Yeah...” Jin Yuanxun nodded. “Wasn’t that what you just deduced, Ge...?”

“That’s fucking ridiculous...” Chen Junnan’s expression gradually turned puzzled. “Why didn’t I ever realize that these things are so far apart before?”

“Hmm?” Jin Yuanxun paused. “What do you mean, Ge...”

“I was in that stupid room for over seven years... With my smarts, why didn’t I think of this?” Chen Junnan asked. “I always thought the ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ was right in the ‘Zhongyan Zhidi’; I thought they were very close... With my smarts...”

Jin Yuanxun wanted to say “Maybe you don’t have any smarts,” but thought it was impolite, so he changed it to:

“Then what do you think it’s because of?”

“It’s because I fucking heard the bell...” Chen Junnan’s expression changed instantly. “Damn it... Why could I hear the bell in our ‘Mianshi Fangjian’? Is that reasonable?!”

“Ah?!” Chen Junnan’s words made Jin Yuanxun’s face change. “Ge... are you saying you could hear the bell in your room?”

“You couldn’t hear it, right?” Chen Junnan said. “If I’m not wrong... damn it, not many ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ in the entire ‘Zhongyan Zhidi’ can hear it... because it’s completely unreasonable... This means our ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ is very close to the Ju Zhong... We can’t hear it on the ‘corridor’, but we can in the ‘Mianshi Fangjian’, which means to go to the ‘Zhongyan Zhidi’, we might not even need to go through the ‘Lietongche’...”

“Ge, I’m a bit confused again...”

“My fucking head is a mess too...” Chen Junnan frowned. “Doesn’t Lao Qi know about this... Why can we hear the bell in our room...”

Chen Junnan closed his eyes and thought for a long time, feeling that although the situation was suspicious, he couldn’t figure out any leads.

Qi Xia must know that the room is strange; based on what happened before, that strange room was even arranged by him... But what’s the purpose?

Chen Junnan suspected that their ‘Mianshi Fangjian’ might be directly in some part of the ‘Zhongyan Zhidi’, hidden among the numerous ruins of the city.

But that room is completely sealed, so logically, it can’t be entered from the outside, so where is it hidden?

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became; at this point, the best thing to do is to find Qi Xia. If Qi Xia knows about this, he can ask him directly; if not, they can analyze it together.

But the ‘Lietongche’ is too long; going to find Qi Xia now would take too much time, and they only have one night to destroy all the ‘doors’.

“Although my mind is full of questions, young master probably doesn’t have time to deal with it now,” Chen Junnan looked at Jin Yuanxun. “If we have time, let’s destroy all the ‘doors’, including the ‘exit’ at the end of the corridor. I want to completely sever the connection between the ‘Lietongche’ and the ‘Zhongyan Zhidi’.”