Chapter 162 The Secret of Sound

Pan Yun smashed a large rock and found it was empty.

The hole was barely big enough for her to crawl in. She took out a candle from the spiritual space, lit it, and leaned in to take a look.

When she saw the dark and bottomless space inside, she couldn't help but burst into laughter triumphantly, "I found you——"

Pan Jun fixed the candle on a nearby rock, then tossed the broken rocks down, muttering to himself, "They said the caves on Siguo Cliff are connected. I've been looking for them for so long but couldn't find them. It turns out they are hiding here. This connected space seems quite large and deep. It's strange. It's dark on the other side. Could it be that they are all deep holes with no landing point?"

Pan Jun didn't believe it, so he picked up a stone and threw it at the opposite side. There was no sound of the stone falling to the ground, but it fell down and then there was a thud.

Pan Yun was shocked, "Is this hole so big?"

Pan Yun broke off another stone, weighed it, stood back, mobilized her energy, shouted, and swung the stone forward to smash it. This time she heard the sound of the stone falling to the ground right in front of her. She estimated based on the sound and felt that it was quite far away. Anyway, she could not fly over there without flying with a sword.

Then she began to throw stones down from all directions and at a certain distance, and asked the black cat to record it. "Write it down quickly. It will land on the ground in about ten feet in two breaths..."

"Fifteen feet, four breaths to the ground."

"Twenty feet to the left, six breaths to the ground. Twenty feet to the right, five breaths to the ground. It seems that the ground below is also uneven..."

Pan Yun was doing various experiments and having a lot of fun, but the people below were suffering.

Zhou Wangdao was startled, but something on the bottom floor was hit and woke him up.

The rocks kept hitting his body. He opened his eyes and climbed up. The chains were tied to his body. He looked up and a rock hit his nose with a bang. He roared upwards in anger, "Who—"

Who~~~
Pan Jun broke off another stone and was about to smash it down. He paused when he heard the long, twisted sound and turned to ask Black Cat, "Did you hear that? It sounds like someone is talking."

Pan Xiaohei: "I heard it. He was asking who it was."

Pan Jun looked down at the big stone in his hand and frowned, "I thought the cave below was the same as mine, isolated and sealed, unless someone broke the cave like I did, but there is nothing behind my stone wall, isn't theirs?"

"If so, how can I hit them after breaking it?"

He was not sure, so Pan Yun threw the stone again along the same trajectory as the previous one.

After a while, another long and distorted roar came from below.

Pan Jun was extremely surprised, and quickly leaned out and shouted down, "Hey, brother~sister, which cave are you in~"

Zhou Wangdao lay on the wall. Although the voice was distorted, he still heard the complete words. He turned around excitedly and shouted at the wall, "I, I, I am in Room 25—"

After shouting, Zhou Wangdao felt that the voice just now was a little strange, and a little familiar, strangely familiar. He rushed to the wall and shouted inside, "Junior Sister Pan, is that you, is it you?"

Pan Yun pricked up her ears and heard a faint sound. She frowned, pondered for a moment, then ran to the cave entrance, lay down at the entrance and shouted, "Is there anyone down there? Did I hit anyone just now?"

There was silence in the dark night, no one responded to her, only the whistling wind and the occasional sound of water hitting the cliff.

Pan Yun didn't believe it and continued to shout, "Hey——"

She kept shouting "Hello" for half a minute, which annoyed Cheng Lingzi who wanted to ignore her on the top of the mountain. He walked to the edge of the cliff and shouted down: "Stop shouting. You were fine in the past few days. Why did you suddenly go crazy today?"

Pan Yun turned his head and looked upwards, and asked, "Brother, will this cave block our voices? Why didn't the people in other caves respond when I shouted?"

Cheng Lingzi said: "It's not isolated, it's just that the sound is shattered after leaving the cave. All they hear is the sound of wind and water."

Pan Yun became interested, "So magical, what kind of formation is this?"

Hearing the excitement in her tone, Cheng Lingzi knew that she was different from those crazy people before, so he simply sat on the edge of the cliff and chatted with her. After all, they were not far away from each other and it was not difficult to talk.

"Why do you think the Cliff of Repentance is located here? It is because of this mountain, this water, and the wind that never stops blowing for 365 days."

Pan Yun was thoughtful, "There are high mountains on both sides of the river, but Siguo Cliff is only located on this mountain because this is the turning point between the river and the two rows of mountains."

"The wind and water gather here, and the surrounding terrain makes this place just in the right position, which increases the wind speed. With a little design, this will become a natural formation."

Cheng Lingzi heard it with his sharp ears and said with a smile: "You are quite talented."

"But you can hear so clearly here, and your ears are so sensitive. Is it because the formation is in your hands, and you are the master of the formation?"

Cheng Lingzi was silent.

"If you don't tell me, then that's it. So all the movements in this formation can be hidden from others, but not from you." Pan Yun smiled and said flatteringly, "Brother, can I take a look at the formation plate of this formation?"

Cheng Lingzi: "This formation doesn't have a formation plate. Even if it does, what are you thinking? Will I show it to you?"

"Then can I learn this formation?"

Cheng Lingzi didn't say anything.

"Brother, please be more generous. We are a school and our job is to teach children knowledge."

Cheng Lingzi: "Child, this is not something you should learn. It's so late now. If you don't go to bed, you will become a dwarf."

"Wait a minute, I have one last question." Pan Yun was afraid that he would leave, so he quickly stuck his head out and asked, "Brother, will you always listen to the sounds in the formation?"

Cheng Lingzi smiled slightly and said in a low voice, threateningly, "Yes."

Pan Yun shouted in horror: "Doesn't that mean you also heard us when we were making noises?"

Cheng Lingzi's expression was blank for a moment, and he immediately understood her "hmm", and was furious: "Do I have time? Go back to sleep, and I don't have the desire to peek!"

Pan Jun retreated, holding Pan Xiaohei and sitting under the candlelight for a long time. When there was no movement on the cliff, he said, "I knew it was impossible for him to listen to the movements in the formation all the time. Maybe he could do it when he first came, but after one day, two days, one month, or three months, I don't believe he can still do it."

Especially those who are locked up here, generally they will go crazy after three days. No matter they are really crazy or simply venting their emotions, the emotions they show will not be good anyway. In this case, if Cheng Lingzi is always receiving all kinds of sounds in here, I am afraid that the people locked in the cave will not go crazy, but he will go crazy first.

After confirming, Pan Jun felt relieved and went back to sleep with Pan Xiaohei in his arms.

She could finally sleep peacefully after thinking about it, but Zhou Wangdao below was lying on the wall listening to the noise, just like a gecko.

After a long time, when he could no longer hear any movement, Zhou Wangdao began to doubt himself again, "Did I hear it wrongly? Was it all an illusion?"

"No, no, no, it's impossible. How could it be an illusion?" Zhou Wangdao wanted to cry but had no tears. His cave was extremely dark and all the candles he brought with him were used up. Now he could only rely on feeling to feel his way back to the stone platform.

Lying on the straw, hugging the quilt he brought with him, Zhou Wangdao was really about to cry. He knew that being in the Cliff of Repentance was hard, but he didn't know it was so hard.

If it happened again, when he heard the unusual noises in Fengqiyuan, he would go and take a look even if it meant making an enemy of Zhang Weiliang.

Woo woo woo, Master, I know I was wrong.

When Zhou Wangdao was hugging the quilt in agony, the being at the lowest level below also pricked up his ears to listen to the movement above, and when he found that no more stones were falling, he lowered his head and lay there motionless.

After a moment, he felt unsafe, so he moved his body a little further away from where the rock had fallen, then he continued to lie down and closed his eyes.

The night passed peacefully. The first thing Pan Jun did when he got up was to run to the black hole and shout to the people below, "Good morning, brothers and sisters~~~"

After shouting, he pricked up his ears and listened. He heard no response, but he was not disappointed. He excitedly went to drink a bowl of water and then began to wash his face.

Because she was busy with other things, she didn't hear the faint echo from below shortly after she left.

Zhou Wangdao thought he heard the voice again. He leaned against the wall and asked loudly again, "Junior Sister Pan, is that you~~"

No one responded to him.

Zhou Wangdao was disappointed, but fortunately it was daybreak and not as scary as the night, so he also went to brush his teeth and drink water.

Washing my face was out of the question.

Cheng Lingzi was very strict with them. He only gave them one clay pot of water every day, which was only enough for them to drink and rinse their mouths. He would only wipe their face with a handkerchief dipped in water every two or three days.

These days are so hard.

The Cliff of Repentance is really not a life for human beings.

It would be fine if he couldn't take a shower for a month, but he also couldn't wash his hair for a month, couldn't wash his face for a month, wuwuwu...

Just as he was thinking this, a wooden barrel with a rope dropped down from the side of his cave...

Zhou Wangdao had a dazed look on his face. He looked down along the rope blankly, then twisted his neck stiffly to look up.

Pan Jun, who was looking down, exclaimed, "Eh!"

Zhou Wangdao's eyes were filled with tears, "Junior Sister Pan, it really is you."

Unfortunately, the two could only see each other's head and mouth opening and closing, but could not hear any sound.

This formation was really magical. She could clearly hear the sound from the top of the cliff, but she could stick half of her body out of the cave, but she couldn't jump down with her whole body.

She had made various attempts in the past few days and had basically confirmed that as long as she did not use her internal force and energy, she would most likely be able to jump out, and the formation in the cave would definitely not stop her.

But if that happened, she would be upset.

In other words, this formation prevents her from escaping, but it will not prevent her from dying.

Now there is only one experiment left to confirm the result, but unfortunately she doesn't dare to do it.

Pan Yun grabbed the rope and waved excitedly at Zhou Wangdao. Although they couldn't hear each other, it didn't prevent them from communicating. They just read lips. "Brother Zhou, why are you here?"

As if realizing that Pan Jun couldn't hear him, Zhou Wangdao used his inner strength to inject his voice, "Junior Sister Pan——"

When Pan Jun heard this, she was extremely surprised. How was this done?
After a brief thought, she understood and used her inner strength to infuse the sound, "Brother Zhou, can you hear my voice now?"

With just one sentence, the internal energy in her dantian was quickly consumed.

Pan Jun exclaimed, "Wow!" and raised his eyebrows. No wonder it was so quiet here. It turned out that one had to pay such a high price to let others hear one's voice.

"Interesting, interesting, really very interesting." Pan Jun said to Pan Xiaohei, "The formation on this mountain is no less complicated than the formation that sealed you. If I could go back to my previous life, I would definitely go to Longhu Mountain to see if this formation is still there."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I feel like this formation is enough for us to do research for twenty years. I wonder how many researchers it can support."

Pan Xiaohei: ...

"Junior sister, what did you say?" Zhou Wangdao's face turned pale, and he began to choose his words carefully, "Infuse the words with internal force."

Pan Jun looked down at him and nodded to show that she understood.

The two looked at each other, and because speaking consumed a lot of internal energy, neither of them spoke for a while.

Pan Xiaohei had to remind her, "Your bucket."

"Oh," Pan Jun came back to his senses, looked down, and began to let the rope down.

Zhou Wangdao also came to his senses and looked down, and saw the bucket falling down section by section, and finally stopped when it was about to reach the water surface.

Is there no rope?

Zhou Wangdao looked up.

Pan Jun was not disappointed. He pulled the wooden barrel up a little, then stepped on the rope, took out a rope from the spiritual space, continued to connect it, and continued to release it.

The knot she tied was so secure that it would never come undone.

Pan Yun tied the knot and continued to lower the bucket.

After a while, the bucket fell into the river, was washed by the current, and sucked in water after rotating. Soon it was full.

Pan Yun grabbed the rope and started pulling it up.

Zhou Wangdao quickly stood up, pulled the rope towards him, and helped to pull it up.

As the barrel rose, a head popped out, then another head popped out, then another head popped out...

Pan Jun occasionally looked down and was extremely surprised. There had been no movement in the cave below. She thought no one lived there, but there were actually so many people there?
More than a dozen heads popped out and watched silently as Pan Yun fetched a bucket of water from the bottom of the cliff.

Nearly one third of the water had been spilled, and there was still more than half a bucket left. Pan Yun laughed and poured the water into the large wooden barrel and continued to pour it down.

This time, when the bucket reached No. 25, Pan Yun stopped pulling it up and shook the rope without saying anything. He just gestured to Zhou Wangdao.

Zhou Wangdao understood it at a glance, and immediately pulled the wooden barrel in, filled the earthenware jar with water, and then found two earthenware jars left behind by the predecessors and filled them with water as well.

Only then did he scoop out all the water in the bucket.

He let the barrel out.

Pan Jun pulled the wooden barrel up, and this time she put Pan Xiaohei into the barrel, "You go."

Pan Xiaohei didn't bargain with her because it also uses a lot of water.

Although cats don’t like taking a bath, they will like it once they are bathed. Moreover, cats like cleanliness, so they use a lot of water.

Pan Yun put the barrel down again, but this time someone grabbed it halfway down. The person wanted to pull the barrel into his hole, so he pulled the rope downwards. As a result, the barrel got closer, and Pan Xiaohei in the barrel got closer, scratching his eyes with his sharp claws...

The other party was startled and immediately let go of his hand and pushed the barrel out. Pan Xiaohei's legs were hanging on the rope of the barrel. He screamed sharply, but before leaving, he grabbed his hand and successfully injured him.

Pan Jun smiled slightly and continued to put down the wooden barrel. After two successes, she had expected that something unexpected would happen the third time. If she wanted to be the fisherman, she had to see if she had the ability to do so.

(End of this chapter)