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Overnight, the weeds on the originally bare mine overflowed the instep, and Jiuru picked up a stick to beat the weeds in front of him, just in case the grass didn't mix with anything else. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The smoke was filled, and the figures in the four corners were full of figures, and Zhao Ran lay on Jiuru's back and looked back, in the green smoke, the heads on the treetops shook slightly along the wind, weird and infiltrating.

"Could it be lost?" Fu Heng asked Meng Chengtian.

A brocade guard said dissatisfiedly: "When we came, these heads didn't do anything to us? You burned too much smoke, but you couldn't see the road clearly." ”

Meng Chengtian smiled freely: "I'm also for everyone's good, if the adults are not satisfied with the measures below, we can divide into two ways, you go yours, and I go mine." ”

"You!" brocade guard glared angrily.

Fu Heng raised his hand and said, "Okay." Let's find a way out first. ”

Yang Wan also cocked his horn beard: "Don't be noisy, don't be noisy, wait for me to take a cinnabar plate out and take a look." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the compass and fiddled with it, pointing in the direction where the smoke was drifting: "There!"

"Let's go!" Fu Heng waved his hand, and he headed in that direction, and the brocade guards immediately followed.

Sure enough, after about a pillar of incense, the outline of the Egret Book City appeared in front of them.

The refugees at the gate of the city were rushing outside with bags and small bags, but the brocade guards breathed a sigh of relief and said to Fu Heng: "My lord, it seems that this city has not completely fallen. ”

Meng Chengtian stopped one of them and asked, "What's the situation in the city?"

"The academy is collapsing, and the city is about to fall!" the man said in alarm.

Zhaoran's eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly asked, "When did the academy collapse?"

"Just yesterday, the sky suddenly cracked, and a big pit appeared under the academy, and the entire academy collapsed! When the man had finished speaking, he took his bags and went away without looking back.

A brocade guard turned to Fu Heng and said, "My lord, the front is collapsing, why don't we find someone to go in and explore first, and then make a decision." ”

Fu Heng groaned slightly: "Okay, the others will rest outside first, Ding Liu, you will go to the city for a trip." ”

Zhaoran summoned a large-billed finch and passed a note to Lu Tian, looking at the figure of the large-billed finch flying away, hoping that Lu Tian would be safe.

As soon as Ding Liu and Ma Xing returned, Zhao Ran also received a message from Lu Tian, he unfolded the note, and saw that it was written: Little Dad, I am trapped under the academy.

"My lord, the whole academy has sunk!" Ding Liu replied.

Fu Heng turned his head and asked Meng Chengtian: "What do you think?"

"Presumably, the taproot of this head tree is under the academy, and now that it is out of the city, the part of the root that supports the academy is loose, so the whole academy will sink. Meng Chengtian said.

Fu Heng looked at Yang Wan, Yang Wan nodded and said, "It makes sense to say this." ”

"In that case, we may be able to go to the academy to find out, and perhaps we can find out the origin of this demon tree. Fu Heng turned his head to look at Jiuru and Zhaoran, "What are your opinions?"

Zhao Ran wanted to save Lu Tian, nodded and said, "I agree." ”

Jiuru didn't speak, only bowed slightly.

Surprisingly, Hengsheng said, "I'll go too!" he pursed his lips and said, "Now that the army is in chaos, the outside that is not seen is safer than the inside." ”

Fu Heng glanced at him, nodded and said, "It's okay, you follow Young Master Meng, I believe he will protect you well." ”

Meng Chengtian said lightly: "If he doesn't believe it, he can stay outside the city." ”

Heng Sheng's face turned pale: "What kind of person is Young Master Meng, how can he care about me." ”

They were divided into three teams, Fu Heng and Jinyi Weiyang were in the front, Zhaoran and Jiuru were in the middle, Meng Chengtian led Hengsheng to guard behind, and then everyone walked into the book city against the flow of people.

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The streets of the Book City were originally smooth and moist little green bricks, but now they are coiled like torn ribbons.

After this big change, now the city is ten rooms and nine empty, under the bright sun, the whole street is almost uninhabited, and occasionally a few hurried figures are also fleeing outside the city with their burdens.

Yang Wan fiddled with the compass in his hand along the way to point out the direction, and chattered: "I think when we are apprentices, just looking at the compass will take three years, don't look at this compass but turn left and right, but how to turn, how to turn a few grids, how to match the sexagenary branches, that is all knowledge." ”

More than a dozen brocade clothes are all from the Jinyi Guard near the Egret Book City, but how can the Jinyi Guard have no eyes, how can it be seen that Fu Heng has some friendship with this cowhide Taoist, and there is no situation along the way, so they greeted one after another: "This compass in the hand of the Yang Daoist looks like a treasure." ”

Yang Wan said seriously: "Adults are people who know the goods." Compass is the treasure handed down by our ancestors, the more good things are, the more good things need to be maintained, see if the cinnabar on this is not, the best cinnabar, taken from thousands of years of bloodstone. ”

A brocade guard joked: "It's so rare, and it's thousands of years, why do you need a hundred taels of silver?"

Yang Wan shook her head and raised an index finger: "One hundred taels of gold." ”

Jin Yiwei gasped, and Yang Wan sighed: "According to the rules of the Zhaoben faction, Xie Yi, who does not have a hundred taels of gold, is not allowed to use this compass. ”

Fu Heng coughed lightly: "Don't worry, Dao Chief, do things for the court, the court will not treat you badly." ”

Zhaoran snorted in his heart, and he had to recognize each other, it turned out that the master and apprentice were waiting to cheat money.

He leaned over, looked at the compass and said, "It's really a baby......

Yang Wan smiled dryly: "That's, that's." ”

Zhaoran's neck was cold, he stretched out his hand and touched it, his fingertips were slightly wet, Zhaoran looked up at the sky, the sun was shining.

He only took a few more looks, and the dark clouds rolled in the sky, and suddenly the duck-blue sky was like a layer of lead gray, and there was no sun and moon in the sky, and the deep fog locked the streets and alleys.

"Be on guard. Fu Heng spoke, and a few people followed the voice.

The fog was layered, and only a few figures were seen running towards them, and when they got closer, they heard one of the students say in surprise: "Sir!"

It turned out that Jia Chen and the others didn't wait for Jiuru to respond, only to hear the sound of flying sand and stones, and saw the dead branches behind the students swimming towards them like snakes in mid-air, the speed was faster than that of birds, and they swept away Jia Chen in an instant.

Jinyiwei's face changed greatly, and he shouted: "It's the demon tree, the demon tree is here!"

A few more dead branches stretched out from the dense fog, and they swept away a brocade guard and a Meng Chengtian guard.

They watched as the brocade-clothed guard was pierced through the chest by a dead branch, and the bright red blood seemed to be sprayed on the white mist, like a painting with thick ink, hideous and gorgeous.

"This way!" Yang Wan shouted with a compass.

All of them didn't think much of it, and rushed desperately in the direction that Yang Wan pointed out for them.

The withered branches twisted behind them with teeth and claws, and the brocade guard, who had been pierced through the chest, had turned into a lone human head fruit on the branches.

A few branches flew and chased after them, and from time to time someone screamed and was strung up by the dead branches, although he didn't look back, but Zhao Ran still felt that the dead branches had chased after him.

Jiuru suddenly turned around, and a series of several Demon Falling Bows successfully forced back the withered branches again, Zhaoran took advantage of the withered branches to retreat, summoned the large-billed sparrow, and in an instant, sparks exploded behind them, and the scorching tongue of fire licked their faces slightly hot.

"Let's go!" everyone ran forward desperately, their feet creaking as they stepped on the splashed muddy water.

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They ran all the way, and soon saw the ruins of the academy, and the entire academy really sank more than half, and the once tall and majestic stele in front of the gate also shrunk into a few broken pillars.

"My lord, are we going in?" Jin Yiwei asked Fu Heng.

Their original purpose was to come to the academy to find out, but if this was really the lair of the demon tree, wouldn't they be sending them to death if they went in now?

"Where did you come across these dead branches?" asked Zhaoran.

Jia Chen pointed to the distance and said, "When the academy collapsed, I ran out desperately with my juniors, and probably passed the place of Guanjing Lane, and the branches of the trees suddenly came out, killing many of our students. ”

As soon as his words fell, Zhao Ran heard a few sobs, probably the old friends of the victim student.

Fu Heng nodded: "If that's the case, there may not be the roots of the demon tree in the academy, otherwise it doesn't have to wait for you to run to Guanjing Lane, and it can hunt you down here in the academy." ”

Meng Chengtian said lightly: "Since the demon tree has been under the academy for so long, there may be something in this academy that can balance it. ”

As soon as he said this, something eager to try appeared on Jin Yiwei's face again, in fact, they have now penetrated into the range of the demon tree, even if they go now, they may not be able to escape the range of the human head fruit tree, but if they find something to restrain the demon tree under the academy, then they can save their lives and make great achievements.

Zhao Ran wanted to go in to save Lu Tian, but he didn't believe Meng Chengtian a little, he never believed that Meng Chengtian instigated Fu Heng and them to go deep into the underground academy in order to save the book city, he always felt that Meng Chengtian had some purpose.

Meng Chengtian seemed to have guessed the suspicion in Zhaoran's heart, turned his head and smiled: "I really don't have anything to do with the Book City, but after all, I also want to live, compared to the academy below, the risk outside the Book City is not small." Besides, I don't want to be my host, so don't worry. ”

Zhao Ran whistled, and a flock of large-billed finches circled above his head: "You can do this and that." ”

Although their appearance is completely different, their personalities are also somewhat similar, they are all conceited and confident in themselves, but compared to Zhaoran, Meng Chengtian is more like a gentleman.

Meng Chengtian's gaze swept over Jiuru's face, and he said with a smile: "The disciples that Mr. accepted are really more powerful than the other. ”

Jiuru didn't answer him, but pointed to his feet and said, "The academy is seeping water." ”

At this time, they found that there was a puddle of water under their feet, and they hadn't paid attention to the heavy rain in the sky, but now they found that the water under their feet was not the rain in the sky, but the water that was constantly gushing out of the sinking pit of the academy.

"If you want to go down, I'm afraid you'll have to do it quickly, or this place may become an egret book lake in a while. Meng Chengtian made a joke lightly.

The students who were rescued by them couldn't help but look at him with some anger, the Egret Academy was destroyed, and the whereabouts of Meng Shanchang were unknown.

Fu Heng said to those students: "If you want to go first, you can go, but for the sake of the people of the city, we must go down to the academy to find out, please forgive me for not being able to deploy manpower to protect your consideration." Or you can wait for us to come out from the top of the academy. ”

The sons looked at each other for a while, and someone said, "My lord, I don't know if there is anything we can do?"

Fu Heng shook his head slightly: "Although manpower is needed below, but you are all pillars of the country, if you go down and encounter an accident, wouldn't it be a dereliction of duty on the part of the official?!"

These students witnessed their classmates being killed by the demon tree, and experienced the pursuit of the demon tree themselves, but after being so lightly said by Fu Heng, their blood suddenly boiled again.

"It was the long-cherished wish of our generation of scholars, and we are also familiar with the terrain of the academy, so maybe we can help when we get to the bottom. ”

"That's right, the demons are rampant now, how can we stand by and watch. ”

Jia Chen turned around and bowed to Jiuru again and said: "Mr. often teaches us that reading first corrects one's heart, and then one's business, this demon tree's matter is related to the lives of thousands of people, and it is also related to the righteousness of heaven and earth. ”

Zhao Ran glanced at these classmates, thinking that Fu Heng said it so righteously, but he let these students go down, just to think of a few more cannon fodder that could be discarded casually. What can they do when they go down, that they may add fruit to the trees of men's heads?

He thought that Jiuru would refuse, but Jiuru seemed to ponder for a while and then nodded, "Okay." ”

Fu Heng waved his hand: "All the students of the academy will walk in the middle by relying on the little sage, and Meng Gongzi will hand it over to you later." ”

Meng Chengtian said with a smile: "Then it's time to bother the adults to open the way in front." ”