Juliana’s workshop Chapter 33: Lei’s luck
The exit in front of Lei is relatively narrow, and even Julius has to bend over a little to walk inside. After assessing the size of this exit, Julius felt that it would be comfortable to walk inside, but those strong men might not be so comfortable. But anyway, this is also a passage for people to pass through. As long as they are not giants, most people can pass.
“Is this the new channel?” Julius asked.
“Yes, but you can also say no.” Lei replied. Lei’s words confused Julius, “What does this mean?”
Lei walked in first, and then looked back at Julius, “Just follow me and you’ll know.”
Julius followed Lei in. After entering the narrow passage, the fire light no longer spreads out, making the light covering the two of them brighter, and it also makes it easier for Julius to see things. This passage seemed to be filled with cold air, causing Julius’ skin to get goose bumps. This passage is much colder than outside, and the breeze blowing from the opposite side of the passage deepens this feeling. The flame on the torch was swaying with the wind and fluttered behind Julius.
This passage is not long, and Julius and Lei soon came to an end. Even in such a passage with only two directions, Lei is still marking it with a guide stone. When the two of them came to the end, the bag in her hand was empty, and there was only one in her hand.
Julius thought Lei would take him to a brand new place, but when he reached the end of the passage, he was stunned. There is no exit in front of him, no other passage, only a thick wall. The wall is not made of bricks and stones, but a stone surface. This is probably blocked by a whole boulder, which is stronger and more reliable than a wall. Bricks can be exploded with explosives, but a complete boulder, if you don’t drill holes on it, it will be more difficult to explode.
“There is no way.” Julius said with a frown. If this is the new area that Lei is talking about…wasted a whole bag of guide stones to get such a harvest, and let Lei and Julius enter a safe place in the sewer for free. This loss is not big, but it is If a little girl is fooled like this, those people will not have a good face.
” I’m the same as you. When I first came here, I thought I had made a mistake. There is no new area at all. There are only endless dead ends in this place. Fan’s new place.” Lei has a smile on her face, a confident look. She squatted down, not knowing what she was groping on the ground, she was not too dirty, and she slid her hands on the ground. After a while, Julius heard a clicking sound coming from Lei, the sound of rubbing between stones.
“Found it.” Lei’s voice sounded happier. Then Julius saw an incredible scene, that the huge boulder blocking the road was moving slowly down, knowing that the space behind it was exposed. After the boulder was moved away, the wind became louder and more voices came over.
Lei squatted on the ground, raised her head and looked at Julius, “I’m lucky, right?”
“Is this a place that can be found by luck?” Julius asked rhetorically.
Lei clapped her hands, patted the sewage in her hands, “But if you have luck, you can indeed find something new.”
For Julius, Lei’s words are a bit optimistic, maybe too optimistic. But she did find a place that no one else seemed to have found at all, and she attributed it to luck.
Lei walked in first, not worrying about whether there was something dangerous lurking behind the stone wall. Seeing Lei’s defenseless look, Julius thought she might have been to this place several times.
“You have been to this place.” Julius said, and got a positive response from Lei, “Of course I have been here, but this is the first time I have brought people here. There are some places I can go through. So you can avoid those costs, but you can’t, you are not a dwarf.”
Julius understands why Lei would do this. She needs someone who can protect her, but this person can’t dodge the cost of those rat paths like her “little mouse”. Either he or she are people who are already having a hard life, especially Julius’s food is surprisingly high, and even let Lei take out part of her little gain to help Julius.
Julius followed Lei and walked through the descending stone door. After walking for a while, the two finally left the maze-like place behind them. In front of them, there was a completely different world~IndoMTL.com~ The two of them stood on a platform high in the sky. There was no place to stand around, and no stairs to go down. This space is a circular channel leading up and down, which looks like a large vertical pipe. There is a smooth wall on the edge of the platform, and there is no place to stand on it, and it seems that there is no place to climb. The bottom is a bottomless abyss, and the top is also pitch black. I don’t know where it leads to or where there is no passable place above.
Now the platform on which Julius and Lei are standing has guardrails on the side, which prevents them from falling off due to slipping under their feet. However, this guardrail has been corroded by moisture and dripping water for many years, and it looks unreliable. Julius walked to the side and put his hand on the guardrail. The guardrail made a crunching sound, just as he thought, it was not reassuring. Neither he nor Lei had any plans to pin their safety on these things.
Julius looked around for a while and summed up one thing: It looks like a fresh place, but this is actually a dead end. You can’t go up, and you can’t go down–unless you jump down and go down as a dead person.
”This is also a dead end.” Julius said, “I am afraid those guys will not be satisfied with your reward.”
Julius has dealt with the big bosses, they are all rude and stingy guys.
“If they are willing to work hard, they can make a ladder down. Most of the roads from the shallow water to the middle are ladders. From now on, there will be just one more ladder.”
“Is this our end?”
Lei shook her head, “No, that is the end of these guide stones.” She threw the last handful of stones in her hand below. “I have a way down.”