Just as the black-clothed Toothcatcher and the Zhong family were fighting, the men and women trapped in the abyss fell into excitement because of the sound of a water droplet.

"This abyss looks far away at the Kanluoling Mountain Range, how can there be the sound of water droplets behind this stone wall?" Jiang Ming was suspicious, and he was hopeful. Mu Qinglan said: "Is it the Songjiang River that crosses behind Huangshi Town?" "The Songjiang River is behind Huangshi but turns in the southeast, flowing to the territory of Xuantianye, this stone wall faces north, how can it be that the Songjiang River flows through?" And the Songjiang River runoff is huge, any one is enough to cross Huangshi, if we are behind this stone wall, what we hear is not the intermittent sound of water droplets, but the whistling water. Mu Qinglan said: "Could it be just the sound of water droplets from fog or stone and soil seeping water?"

Jiang Ming thought for a moment and said: "I don't rule out this possibility, but if you touch the soil on the ground and touch this stone wall, they are at the bottom of this abyss, it stands to reason that they should be extremely wet, but we just feel dry and cold, just like the cold autumn wind in September, which shows that the stone and soil here rarely seep water, and the water droplets behind the stone wall may be in a narrow and ventilated space, so we can explain why we heard the sound of water droplets." And do you remember the mountain stream in Goat's Pass?" Mu Qinglan exclaimed, "You mean that behind this stone wall is the mountain stream?"

"No, this may be the source of the mountain stream, haven't anyone in the town looked for the source of the mountain stream? They only said that it was next to the abyss, and they would not believe it, that the mountain stream was at the very bottom of the abyss. Jiang Ming said confidently. When Mu Qinglan heard this, she shook her head and said, "How is it possible? This abyss is a hundred meters high, and even the sunlight can't shine in, and that mountain stream can't flow through Huangshi at this height?" Jiang Ming smiled and said: "Have you forgotten what kind of geographical environment Goat Pass is? A ring-shaped group of high mountains, this mountain stream flows out of the abyss, and then passes through Goat Pass, and the water accumulates into the mountain plain, where it seems to be a natural reservoir, but the height of that pool may be a little unbelievable. Mu Qinglan still couldn't believe it, and said, "It's just your guess?"

Jiang Ming looked serious and said, "It may be true." ”

The stone wall can't be dug up, but Jiang Ming has a clever plan, a bag of unknown powder, a three-inch long iron nail, and a bag of granular matter, which is his trick. He said while operating in his hands: "I once saw in the ancient books of Uncle Zhu's house that a person once used burnt soap alum to corrode the hard-to-care stone to build a house, I wanted to test whether there was such an effect, but it is difficult to melt the soap alum by burning the fire, and there is no hard container to hold it, until I found a metal that can produce high temperatures, I call it green rock powder, and the other two things are ordinary combustibles." Jiang Ming rolled the particles in the powder, and then found the gap on the stone wall and put it in, and took out a slender strip from his arms, and rubbed the nail with an iron, the strip emitted a white light, and quickly burned, Jiang Ming did not hesitate for a moment, and stretched the strip to the stone wall full of particles, the powder on the surface of the particles heated up rapidly, and the particles slowly melted into liquid, and the liquid hit the stone wall and emitted a "hiss" At this time, the stone wall was corroded and began to slowly shatter, and gradually a little light came through, and finally a hole with a large head was formed.

"There's light, there's light, you see. Mu Qinglan suddenly jumped up, she lowered her head and even saw the water droplets dripping over there, she said in disbelief: "It's really a spring, and there is a small stream, could it be that this is really the birthplace of that mountain stream?"

Jiang Ming didn't speak, and kicked out the stone wall that was no longer expanding, and the stone wall suddenly shattered a stone, and the road in front of him was also unobstructed: a space that looked like a cave, with many small water droplets hanging on the top, but they all slowly condensed and slid to a sharp milky stone in the center, as if it would take three or four minutes to drop a drop, but the place where the water droplets fell had gathered a rather large pool, the water was clear and cold, cold, and could be reflected, and the waterhole slowly opened a small stream with a thick finger, which flowed out of the cave like a snake。

"This cave has probably been opened for thousands of years, and only a few thousand years of accumulation can gather such a large spring pool. It's really amazing, nature is amazing, and there can be such a situation in this Jedi!" Jiang Ming sighed and sighed.

They came to the cave through the broken wall, and they were all fascinated by the magnificent scenery in front of them, but because they didn't dare to live for a long time because their situation was too clear, they wanted to leave, but Mu Qinglan returned and blocked the broken wall with gravel again, leaving only a shallow gap. At this time, Jiang Ming asked what this was doing, and Mu Qinglan smiled and said: "Such a natural situation is hard to find, wouldn't it be a pity if it was destroyed by people?"

After that, the two of them followed the light of the cave entrance, and the cave was about fifty meters deep, but because it came out of the deep waterhole cave, there was light from the stone gap on the top of the cave a few meters apart, so the cave and the road were not very dark, enough to illuminate, enough to soothe the girl's frightened heart.

"Jiang Ming", Mu Qinglan suddenly grabbed the other party's sleeve, her face became sad, and she said timidly: "It seems that we can go out in this way, right? However, I didn't want to go out again just now, so there was nothing bad about it." You know what I mean? I mean that. Jiang Ming was stunned for a moment, turned to a hearty smile, and said: "Qinglan, I want to go my own way, I don't want to be hindered by anything now, now I feel that I have the strength to take this road, and I won't stay." ”

What does this mean? Mu Qinglan seemed to be greatly ashamed, but still felt that the man in front of him should say something, so he asked: "I know that you are different now, so can I know what happened to you? Let me understand what you are going through?" Jiang Ming looked at Mu Qinglan and found that her eyes were already red, and she even suddenly noticed the trembling when she spoke, but his heart was broken, as if he had broken with foreign objects, and he said, "No." ”

The two stood opposite each other, silent for a long time, he looked at her with a trace of pity, she looked at him full of incomprehension and resentment, but there are too many things that cannot be explained, and there are too many thoughts that people can't understand. Many years after the incident, Jiang Ming always felt sad when he saw this scene in his memories, and even cried, of course, this is a later story.

"Let's go, Daddy must be in a hurry, let's get out quickly. After Mu Qinglan finished speaking, she walked out towards the head of the cave, like a wounded rose.

"Wait. Jiang Ming stopped suddenly, looked at the cave wall on one side, looked down and observed carefully, Mu Qinglan also came over, and when he looked up, it was a palm-sized stone tablet that Jiang Ming pulled out, the stone tablet was not an ordinary stone slab, but really contained words, this is not like the old site where primitive people lived, it seems that there is a premeditated record of the ancients.

"There is a monument to pave the road, this is, there is no monument...... No monument touches the wall, in front of the big eye hole, what, this is the 'first knowledge', the first knowledge of the pilgrimage throne. What is this?" Jiang Ming looked extremely serious as he wiped the soil from the stele and tried to understand the words on the stele. Mu Qinglan was surprised: "I'm afraid this is an ancient willow-shaped script, right? You can understand this?" Jiang Ming smiled and responded: "I learned more things in my spare time, but I didn't expect it to come in handy." ”

Mu Qinglan silently looked at the man in front of him, and his story suddenly became mysterious. He can be resurrected from the dead, he can use extraordinary force to outnumber his enemies, he can know a lot of narrow knowledge, as if he only knew her, as if she didn't know him at all.

I remember that he once said that he wanted the people of the world to bow his head. A word is a sin.

"Look, there seems to be something!" Jiang Ming lifted the stele and smashed it against the cave wall, which did not bounce the stele away, but slowly absorbed it like a mouth.

Seeing this, Jiang Ming and Mu Qinglan were shocked.

The strange sight on the stone wall is really terrifying, if a person touches such a cave wall, will they also be sucked into it? Jiang Ming and the others thought about this, and they didn't feel cold sweat.

"Does this seem to be a door?" Jiang Ming motioned for Mu Qinglan to step back away, while he slowly walked towards the cave wall, his face complicated. Mu Qinglan said in a panic: "Otherwise, don't stay here, I think this cave is weird everywhere." Jiang Ming said with a serious face: "I want to go in and take a look, there may be something magical in it." ”

"No, don't", Mu Qinglan walked over, grabbed his cuffs, and said with a begging look: "Don't go, let's go back." Jiang Ming's eyes flashed with unbearability, but he turned into a confident and firm look, and said, "If I find danger, I will come out immediately and wait for me obediently." ”

Jiang Ming wanted to walk into the cave wall, as if he had made a decision without hesitation. It's just that Mu Qinglan thought that there was already a gap between them, and there was a lot of mustard, which caused Jiang Ming to be so indifferent at this time. "Is it really me pushing too much?" no one could answer!

As soon as his hand touched the cave wall, Jiang Ming felt a huge suction force, pulling him into the cave wall, as if he had changed into a living person, Jiang Ming disappeared in front of him.

"Jiang Ming!" Mu Qinglan wanted to follow him, but he just stood motionless in front of the cave wall, he didn't have any unnecessary resentment, no painful remorse, just single-mindedly let go. This sentence flashed in her mind: Qianqiu is a body, and she is free.

Jiang Ming, who was ingested into the cave wall by the suction, looked at the surrounding things vigilantly, this place was no longer the damp and desolate of the big eye cave, and it was not as boiling and vulgar as the outside world, there were four solid stone pillars carved with flying dragons, and there were vermilion stone paved roads, and on both sides of the road were seven or eight lifelike clay figures, and even the panic between the expressions was particularly distinct. All the way through the stone path, there were more than a dozen weapons with swords, hooks and forks, and piles of white bones, they seemed to be living beings, and they were crawling in one direction - at the end of the stone path, a white bone in a tattered golden silk robe sat on a throne inlaid with gems, as if he could overlook the beings below.

"This is ......" Jiang Ming looked at the path of pilgrimage to the White Bone Throne in front of him in surprise, his heart was wrapped in an extremely desolate and heroic emotion, but he choked on his lips and didn't know what to say. But at this moment, as soon as the pause of the two words exited, the clay figures on both sides of the road quickly turned into dust and drifted away inch by inch.

"Oh no! It's very strange here, and you can't stay for long. This thought overflowed his brain, Jiang Ming wanted to run towards the exit, but he inadvertently turned his head, just caught a glimpse of the still arrogant white bones on the throne, he couldn't help but walk towards the vermilion road, his face was stiff and pale, every step seemed to exhaust all his strength, if he kept walking like this, he would probably lose his strength and fall to the ground in less than ten steps.

"Hmph!" A muffled sound spread from Jiang Ming's heart, from the inside out, and even the entire cave shook. Jiang Ming suddenly came back to his senses, only to find that he was taken by the soul, and it was thanks to the muffled snort in his heart that he woke him up, and it was impossible to guess that this was the remnant soul of the predecessor in his body helping him, but he didn't dare to stay any longer, but he picked up a halberd on the ground and ran straight out.

"Wow!" Jiang Ming flashed out, but saw Mu Qinglan looking at him blankly in front of the cave wall, he was even more sad in his heart, and took her hand and ran towards the outside of the cave, and when he looked around, he found that he was already halfway up a mountain cliff, but he was happy when he looked at it from afar, this was the goat col when he came, and it was the mountain group that was about to come out with a towering posture.

Mu Qinglan asked, "What did you see?" Jiang Ming looked at her sluggish face stupidly, gently brushed away her scattered hair, and sighed: "It's nothing, this place is too demonic, I don't think I can go any deeper, maybe this is what the older generation of Huangshi Town thinks is 'in the town of the palace', the birthplace of the mountain stream that really nurtures Huangshi." He knew what to say, he knew more secrets than he could say, and he didn't want the people around him to get involved in this kind of strange thing.

Mu Qinglan smiled indifferently and said, "This halberd makes people look terrible. ”

After Jiang Ming heard this, his eyes locked again.

After about half an hour, Jiang Ming and Mu Qinglan returned to a trail in Goat's Pass, but they were silent. They no longer rejoice in surviving because there is a pain that is more tormenting than death, and they no longer exist for the sake of being, because there is too much death in the world, like those clay figures, which crumble into the earth in an instant.

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In the Zhong family's compound, no matter how fierce the resistance of the subordinates of the Zhong family's father and son is, under the attack of hundreds of well-trained black-clothed toothcatchers, they can only become ghosts under the knife who have entered hell one after another.

"God, do you really want my Zhong family to perish? The descendant Zhong Tiefeng adheres to the century-old foundation of the ancestors, although he has made achievements in business for several years, but it is not enough to prosper the family business, if I let the Zhong family cut off children and grandchildren, you will also be unwilling!" Zhong Tiefeng let out a long roar unwillingly, the cruelty and bloodthirstiness in his eyes were particularly terrifying, he didn't expect that the black-clothed toothcatcher was so much stronger than his own guards in the courtyard, if it weren't for Ren Jinying's slow approach who didn't want to risk letting the people of the Zhong family escape, maybe their father and son would have died under the black-clothed toothcatcher's cold blade.

"Dad, you see, Xingyue Robe, that's Lord Burning Song's men, he came to save us, he came to save us. Zhong Qiao looked at the figure standing among the trees, and was very surprised. Zhong Tiefeng was also quite excited when he saw this, he didn't expect to be able to wait for reinforcements when this kind of family business was overturned, and he immediately became atmospheric, and said: "This lord, you were sent by Lord Burning Song, right? Zhong promised that if the adult can help my Zhong family through this difficulty, I can give you a hundred taels of silver every month in the future." ”

There is only one currency in circulation, which is gold and silver, the inferior is silver, the medium is yuan silver, the upper grade is yuan gold, and there can be 1,000 taels of silver, which is already astronomical in this poor Huangshi Town, even the black-clothed tooth catcher who came over is hesitant, just praising Zhong Tiefeng's courage, it is not an ordinary tyrant landlord can compare.

Ren Jianying looked at the figure in the Xingyue robe, did not move lightly, and did not dare to move lightly, the senior Fang Bingzhu had already explained the complex situation in Huangshi during this period of time, and he could not easily become a dead end with one side of the force, whether it was the Zhu Tianye family or the Jinshui Sect, there was room to advance and retreat freely.

"Huh!" In just a few seconds, the star-moon robed man flashed in front of the Zhong family's father and son, and there was no trace of him. Zhong Tiefeng was slightly startled, and met a flattering smile: "This lord, thank you for your hard work to save me, and ...... in the future." Ugh!"

saw that a golden dagger had already pierced Zhong Tiefeng's chest, and he touched the dagger in disbelief, and slowly fell down unwillingly. I only heard the Xingyue robe man smile coldly and said, "You can't even do this kind of trivial thing, and your lords don't keep you as waste." "Poor Zhong Tiefeng thought that the reinforcements had arrived, and until he died, he knew that death was coming, and he was killed by the expectations he relied on, which is a great irony!

"Don't kill me, don't kill me, this old guy forced me to do any bad things, leave me a cheap life, I will be a cow and ......a horse for you" Zhong Qiao hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowing to the robed man one after another, in order to survive.

However, with a knife cut down, no matter what it is, the robed man didn't want to look at the corpses of the two fathers and sons, and walked straight towards the Zhong family's hall, and Ren Jianying and the black-clothed tooth catchers were all ignored.

"Your Excellency, please ......"

"Less trouble for things you shouldn't provoke, and I don't mind taking a few more lives. ”

Blood and ferocity filled the entire courtyard, and death wrapped the eyes of the living, although there were too many people, they still couldn't hide this solemnity and sadness.