Zhang Ze saw that the light was sunlight coming from the top of the passage, and the light illuminated a cave. He looked carefully and found that the cave was under a wall made of blue bricks, and there were exquisite paintings on the wall. He suspected that this should be an ancient tomb.
Ali took out a rope from her backpack, with a fishhook attached to the rope. She aimed it at the shore and threw it hard, and the fishhook got stuck in the cracks of the rocks.
"Come and help me." Ali shouted to Zhang Ze.
Zhang Ze stepped forward and helped her pull the rope, bringing the can closer to the river bank. Then the two of them worked together to pull the can up.
"We will still need it when we leave, so we can't lose this ship."
Ali clapped her hands, put the rope back into her backpack, and led Zhang Ze to the cave.
"You are new here. According to the rules of our Lilliputian country, you must register first."
Zhang Ze nodded: "I understand."
The two walked into the cave, and the wind with a damp and musty smell blew out from inside. After walking for more than a hundred steps, they walked out of the cave. Suddenly, a city appeared in front of Zhang Ze.
There is no fixed style of architecture in Lilliput, it is entirely determined by the preferences of the building owner.
However, Zhang Ze could see that the little people were influenced by humans, so the architectural styles were roughly in the same category.
For example, the owner of the house on the right probably lived in Daxia, so the architecture of the house is very oriental.
The house on the left is in Gothic style, and the house in front of it is in the farm style of the western part of country M.
The whole Lilliput is like a World Architecture Exposition and looks very interesting.
Ali brought Ji Yi to a house and said, "This is the registration office. Although Uncle A Feng is very serious, he is not bad. You don't need to be nervous."
Zhang Ze nodded and followed Ali through the door.
The house was similar to the style of a police station office. The person sitting behind the desk was also wearing nondescript police uniforms and was looking through documents. When he saw someone coming in, he raised his head and asked angrily: "Don't you two know how to knock on the door?" ?”
"Huh? Who are you? I've never seen you!"
Ah Feng's eyes moved to Zhang Ze, his eyes suspicious, and he reached for the weapon on his waist, a toy baton.
"Uncle Ah Feng, he is my friend!" Ali said quickly: "I saw him being chased by humans outside, so I brought him back. Register him, and he will be a resident of our Lilliputian country from now on. ”
"Are you sure he is not a bad person?" Ah Feng was still wary of Zhang Ze and said, "The person Ah Gao brought back last time stole our things and ran away. Ali, you have to keep your eyes open. Now he is bad. There are also many villains!”
Ali patted her chest and promised: "Uncle Ah Feng, don't worry, I'll give him a guarantee!"
"Well, be sure to keep an eye on him!" Ah Feng turned around to find the registration form.
Ali explained to Zhang Ze in a low voice: "It's not Uncle Feng's fault. There are many homeless people out there. They don't know the rules and are very selfish. We helped them, but they don't know how to be grateful. They even steal things. Wound our people.”
"Otherwise, this kind of registration of outsiders would not have happened. It was all forced."
Zhang Ze nodded to express his understanding.
"Now, fill this in."
Ah Feng pushed the registration form and pen in front of Zhang Ze and reminded: "The observation period is three months. If you perform well, you can apply to become a permanent resident of our Lilliputian country. Otherwise, I can only ask you to leave!"
"Don't worry, I won't stay that long." Zhang Ze said.
However, he still filled out the registration form. There was nothing special on it, just name, gender, age, experience, etc. Finally, Ali also signed it and became Zhang Ze's guarantor.
"Thank you, Uncle Feng, let's go first!"
"Ali, wait a minute..."
Ah Feng took out a bottle of oral liquid and handed it to Ali, saying: "Take this to your grandpa. This is borrowed from humans by the expedition team. It seems to be able to treat coughs. You can give it to your grandpa to try." "
"That's great! Thank you!" Ali was overjoyed and thanked Ah Feng holding the oral liquid that was about the same size as her.
The two walked out of the house. Zhang Ze saw that Ali was struggling to hold the oral liquid, so he offered to help her hold it.
Seeing that Zhang Ze could hold up the oral liquid with one hand, Ali marveled at Zhang Ze's natural power.
"Your grandpa has a cough?"
Zhang Ze looked at the trademark on the oral liquid. Although he couldn't understand the foreign language on it, there was still no problem with the pattern. What was drawn on it was the shape of the stomach.
"That's right." Ali sighed and said, "A year ago, my grandfather and the expedition team went out to borrow something, and accidentally inhaled the pesticide sprayed by humans. Although he was rescued in the end, he kept coughing, and it has become worse recently. It’s getting more serious…”
She looked gloomy: "Doctor Ami said that grandpa's lungs may be infected and need special medicine to treat it, but we can't find it, so we can only keep delaying it. We hope that this oral solution can cure grandpa."
"Um...I want to tell you some bad news." Zhang Ze curled his lips. He didn't want to hurt Ali, but he didn't want to tell her the truth, lest it affect her grandfather's condition.
"This bottle of oral liquid is not for treating the lungs, but for treating the stomach."
Zhang Ze pointed to the pattern on the oral liquid label and said, "Look, the stomach is drawn here, not the lungs, so it has no effect on your grandfather's disease."
"Ah? No!" Ali was disappointed and said with a sad face, "I thought grandpa's illness could be cured."
After following Ali back to her home, Zhang Ze discovered that Ali's home was in the style of Daxia, or an old courtyard house. It seemed that her grandfather should have lived in the imperial capital of Daxia.
"I don't know, what does Daxia look like in this world?" Zhang Ze was a little curious, but he knew through his conversation with Ali that this was not Daxia, but some small European country.
There have been no disasters in this world, and human life is peaceful.
"Grandpa, I brought a friend back!"
As soon as Ali entered the room, she shouted: "He has black hair and black eyes. He should be born in Daxia Kingdom like you..."
Zhang Ze put the oral solution aside and looked around. The decoration and furnishings in the room also looked like the old imperial capital.
"Ahem...Aly is back."
An old man, leaning on crutches and with a stooped body, slowly walked out of the back room. When he saw Zhang Ze, he smiled and said, "Is this Aly's friend? Hello, I am Aly's grandfather."
"Hello, grandpa." Zhang Ze also greeted politely.
Ali's grandfather asked Zhang Ze to sit down and shouted to Ali: "Ali, make tea for the guests."
Soon, Ali brought tea. She smiled and said: "This tea is grandpa's treasure. It is easy not to drink it."
Zhang Ze smiled and thanked him. He knew that it was not easy for a villain to borrow things, and it was definitely not easy to get things like tea. It seemed that Ali's grandfather had a good impression of him.
The two chatted while drinking tea, and Zhang Ze learned about Grandpa Ali's experience.
This old man was born in the East and lived in Daxia for decades. Later he met a female foreigner, the two got married, and he moved here with her.
Zhang Ze also briefly talked about his situation, and Ali and Grandpa were surprised when they heard it.
"You are not a villain in this world?" Ali murmured: "No wonder you don't understand the world of villains at all."
Ali's grandfather said: "Then what are you going to do in our world?"
"We are looking for a stone door and a key." Zhang Ze explained: "In order to save our world, we must go all the way to the last level of the Demon Realm."
"Shimen..." Ali's grandfather held his chin in thought and said, "Wait a minute."
After saying that, he stood up shakily, took a photo album from the bookshelf nearby, and placed it on the table.
Zhang Ze and Ali came around curiously and saw the old man taking out another yellowed postcard from the album. On it was a stone door. The doorposts on both sides of the stone door were each carved with a coiled dragon, which looked exquisite and lifelike.
"This is...Dragon Gate?" Zhang Ze read the words on the postcard.
"I saw this in the Daxia Palace. At that time, I thought this door was very strange and gave me a mysterious feeling, so I quietly borrowed a postcard of it." Ali's grandfather chuckled: " Thirty years have passed in a flash, and I really miss that time...ahem!"
The old man coughed so hard that he even coughed up blood!
Ali was so frightened that she almost cried.
"It's okay, grandpa is okay." The old man comforted Ali, wiped the blood at the corner of his mouth with a tissue, and said, "Brother Rakshasa, I have a request. If you go to Daxia in the future, can you take my ashes back? , I want the fallen leaves to return to their roots.”
"Grandpa!" The tears that Ali had just held back flowed down again.
Her parents died young, and it was her grandfather who raised her single-handedly, with a very deep relationship.
"Ali, everyone will die sooner or later." The old man patted his granddaughter's hand with a calm expression: "I'm ready to meet your grandma and your parents."
Ali wiped her tears and said stubbornly: "I won't let you die, I must find medicine to cure you!"
The old man just smiled and shook his head without saying anything.
Zhang Ze looked at the dragon gate on the postcard and thought to himself: "Since I met Ali and her grandfather, and saw this postcard, there is a high probability that this stone gate will be cleared."
"It seems that I have to go to Daxia Kingdom in this world... Well, that's pretty good too."
"But I have to rescue my companions first."
The old man was sick and felt tired after chatting with Zhang Ze for a while, so he asked Ali to help him go back to rest.
Zhang Ze was also assigned a room, and he was going to log off to see if everyone had returned to the real world.
Grassland base camp.
Zhang Ze appeared in the camp. He looked around and called his sister's name, but no one responded.
His heart sank and he thought to himself, "Isn't everyone offline?"
He called Liu Yueying, Jushen, Yiye Zhiqiu and others again, but the result was the same, no one came back!
"This time it's bad!"
Zhang Ze became a little nervous. The life and death of his companions were uncertain, and he didn't even know their whereabouts. What should he do?
But he has now exited the Demon Realm and cannot enter again until eight o'clock in the evening. Now he can only wait.
Worried about the safety of his sister and companions, Zhang Ze didn't eat for a whole day. A Shot Through the Heart could only comfort him, but it couldn't help him.
It was hard to wait until eight o'clock in the evening. When the time came, Zhang Ze immediately entered the Demon Realm and returned to Ali's home.
As soon as he appeared, he heard Ali knocking on the door: "Rakshasa, are you awake? Can I come in?"
"come in."
It just so happened that Zhang Ze also wanted to ask her something.
Ali opened the door. She was fully armed and looked like she was going out for an adventure: "Rakshasa, you want to save your companions, and I also want to save grandpa. Let's work together and go to the human world!"
"Um... Okay, but I don't know where my companion was caught." Lin Yi scratched his head, looking embarrassed.
Ali patted her chest and said, "I'll figure this out. Come on, I'll take you to find my friend A Bao."
Abao was Ali's childhood friend and her childhood sweetheart. The young man wore glasses and was gentle and elegant. Compared with the heroic Ali, he looked very weak.
When Ali brought Zhang Ze to Abao's house, he was conducting experiments.
"Ali, you came just in time. Look, my aircraft will be successful soon!"
Abao happily pulled Ali up to the roof of his house without even noticing Zhang Ze who was following behind.
"Abao, I have something to discuss with you..."
"Wait a minute, I'll show you the demonstration first!" Abao climbed onto the aircraft, asked Ali and Zhang Ze to stay away, and then pushed the operating lever.
Then...boom!
"Damn it! Failed again!"
Po climbed out of the wreckage of the aircraft in disgrace, but fortunately he was not injured.
Ali seemed not to be surprised, she helped him dust off his body and said, "Abao, we are going to the human world, can you help us?"
"Us?" Abao then saw the Rakshasa next to him and wondered, "Who is this person?"
"He is my friend Rakshasa." Ali introduced: "His friend was kidnapped by humans. He is going to save people, and I am going to borrow medicine for grandpa. Can you help us?"
"Of course it's no problem!" Abao wiped his glasses and said, "However, the three of us alone are not enough. The human world is too big and dangerous. We need a guide and bodyguard."
Abao didn't even change his clothes, and left home with Ali and Zhang Ze directly to find the guide and bodyguard he mentioned - A Yong.
After twisting and turning in the city of Lilliput, they came to a small square and saw a man with his upper body bare, showing his strong muscles, and he was hitting a sandbag hard.
Zhang Ze saw that this man had several shocking claw marks on his back, as if he had fought with a ferocious beast.
There are also a lot of fitness equipment and weapons placed next to the sandbags, such as nunchucks and long knives, but they are all pocket versions and do not look very strong.
"Ayong! Ayong!"
A Bao stood outside the fence of the square and shouted to the man. A Yong stopped, pulled a towel and wiped his sweat, walked over and asked, "A Bao, what do you want from me?"
At the same time, he looked at Ali and Zhang Ze next to him.
"My friend and I want to go to the human world. Can you be our guide and bodyguard?" Abao said, "I won't let you work in vain. In the future, if your weapon breaks, I will help you repair it for free."
A Yong did not agree immediately, but asked: "Where are you going? Let me hear it."
The human world is full of dangers. If the place where the other person wants to go is too risky, he will not agree.
