Chapter 2 The Secret Door 2-1
Chapter 2 The Secret Door “Ques Yu, why are you here? Did they catch you also because you got that iron token? Or do you already know this competition from the beginning?” Bird Three asked. “Clever! I thought that you were only good at martial arts.” Ques was surprised by his quick mind. She looked around and pointed at some people. “People in this room are not all nobodies. You, the son of the legal wife of Jinyuan Kingdom’s general. And you, the eighth son of our Qiongyue Kingdom. As for me, I am the best predictor of the Qiongyue Kingdom. I don’t believe that none of us knew about this competition and are here for casual reasons. ” The people she mentioned were the well-known big names in the land of Canghun. They did not think that their identity would be made public by this little girl. "Since you know so many things, why not explain it to all of us?” Bird Three insisted. “According to my knowledge, this secret escape competition started in the splendor era of Earth. After that, due to the misuse of high tech by human beings, the ecosystem was destroyed. People of that age became extinct by the extreme weather, including endless earthquakes and tidal waves. Then we welcomed a long period of time on the planet without creatures. ” “Now the Monsters become more and more stronger, and we humans can’t defeat them, so the four hidden families of Canghun made a secret covenant about renewing the competition for select capable talents to battle the monsters for us, mankind.” During her speech, Tiger Lin turned to Dragon Zhen and said, “You have sought hegemony in our village for so many years. I never believed you could be fooled by such a little girl.” Dragon said, “No doubt your wife did the same thing to you every day. You are no better than me.” After joking with each other, they both became disappointed by the situation of being locked here. “How can I believe you? Do you have anything to prove your identity?” Bird Three asked the girl as he hinted to his followers to keep quiet. “I am the legal heir of the Que Family, one of the four hidden families on this land. My face is the proof.” “We never get out of this small village, so we don’t know you.” “I forgot to bring my certificate due to rushing out. But that’s not my problem if you don’t recognize my beautiful appearance overwhelming the whole land of Canghun.” “Overwhelming the whole of Canghun?” Taking a look at her freckles, Bird Three laughed. “I can say you are a cute girl, but that is far from proving your identity.” “You foolish, wild kid! Why tangle on this stupid issue?” Ques Yu got angry from his comments on her looks. She forged a red spiritual fire on her right hand fingers, aiming toward him. “Do you think I dare not kill you?” “The spiritual fire? She is really the decedent of the Que Family!” someone in the audience yelled. People grew uneasy. Ques Yu smiled with pride and satisfaction. “Now you know who am I.” “Since you are the one you claimed, may I have one more question?” Bird Three continued. “Say it.” “Do you know the rules of this competition?” “For sure there are regulations for competing, but our manager, Cass, never follows it, so it isn't important.” Now the eighth son of the Qiongyue Kingdom came near, and he was a good-looking young man. “Maybe this competition has no rules.” All the famous guys previously pointed out by Ques joined them. “Second brother, you disobey the orders by our master and get to know some material artist without his permission; aren’t you afraid of his punishment?” “You are also interested in the guy called Bird Three. Is he someone special?” The eighth son was curious. “Look, what’s this?” Someone called them in another corner of the room. The person found a white cotton and hemp cloth on the cashier. On this cloth, there was an eighty-one-grid square drawn, with nine lines and nine columns. It was a partially completed grid, with some numbers in certain grids, and the rest empty. “Nine-nine grid? Dragon, come here to show them how we wild kids play this.” Tiger threw the cloth to Dragon, and said, “Be careful, don’t lose our faces.” Dragon took a Chinese brush and wrote some numbers on it. The system confirmed that the answers were all correct. On the other side, Bird Three negotiated with Ques Yu. “The price of the chicken butts was too high. Three orders cost me one gold coin, and this is even after a discount. In my village, I only need to pay ten silver coins.” “This Taohua Village was remote. We should buy everything from outside. So the dishes are expensive. Hey, look at this. Here is a pit on the ground. ” Bird Three swept off the dust on the ground to check the pit, and said, “Here is a phrase: ‘The spiritual fire.’ What does it mean?” “It means the power of spiritual fire. Only the person with the smartest brain can use this kind of power. It is the most powerful strength we can use to fight the monsters.” “Then what’s this special power?” “It was something left by the people from the splendor era. They once owned the smartest brains, and they created many things that benefitted the whole world.” Ques Yu continued, “But their intelligence also destroyed the earth. Now we at least won’t use that great power to destroy things, but instead we use it to forge the spiritual fires.” After the explanation, she pointed her finger to the fire symbol between her eyebrows, and then her fingers forged a fire to lighten the ground. Those words dissolved in the light and some of the grids appeared. She filled in the grids with the correct numbers with her spiritual fire. When she finished the last number, all of the people in the room felt the ground under their feet begin to shake, and a crack formed and became wider and wider. Then a secret door opened before their eyes, with an abyss so deep that nobody knew how deep it really was. “The secret door is open. What do you want to do next?” Ques Yu asked Bird Three. “I feel this is wrong, but I just don’t know why,” Bird Three answered her with doubts. Tiger and Dragon both asked, “What’s the mistake?”