Chapter 8: The Secret of Cixi

More than twenty minutes passed.

About three or four kilometers away from the small hotel, on the side of another unknown road, Ji Yiming was waiting for the bus with a bag on his back.

The "Taiyi Immortal Formula" that he had cultivated since he was a child had already brought him an extremely strong breath sensing ability before condensing his internal breath, and since a faint internal breath began to appear in the meridians, this kind of "spiritual sense"-like sensing has become more and more intense.

So in fact, from the moment the group of black-clothed people first appeared downstairs and smashed all the surrounding street lights and surveillance, he had already taken the initiative to wake up from his sleep: by the way, he also sensed two other powerful breaths in the same room.

When the old man made his first move, broke out of the window directly with that powerful and incomparable force, and forcibly slapped the head of one of the black-clothed men to "explode", he knew very well that no matter whether these three parties were coming at him or not, just the slight internal breath that had just condensed in the evening was definitely not something that he could mix.

So he didn't even wait for Ying Xingtian to make a move, and of course he didn't see the latter slip directly and quickly through the front door.

For some reason, the Gu "Fly Confusion" driven by the leader of the men in black should have directly controlled people's hearts, but it had no effect on him.

"Jiang Zhiyou, Jiang Zhiyou......"

"Why are there not only martial arts masters who are tracking you, but also the evil way of playing Gu worms! Being pursued by these many forces at the same time, what great deal did you provoke?!"

Standing on the streets of Shanghai in the middle of the night, the scene of the old man directly blowing up the head of the man in black still echoes in Ji Yiming's mind.

He never thought that human beings could exert such a powerful power, nor did he ever think that the power of "Gu Thing", which is even more magical than the internal strength of martial arts, was not made up by a novelist.

And then...... Dead.

Tracking down Jiang Zhiyou's missing whereabouts, he is actually dead.

This is not a casual battle of hundreds of "dead people" in movies and television, but the first time in Ji Yiming's life that he has seen someone die in front of him. Or is it so...... Such a tragic death.

Even if he knew that the whole incident was not under his control from the beginning, and the danger was far beyond his ability, Ji Yiming never thought that before he arrived at Cixi Shanglin Lake, the Yue Kiln Ruins in the clues did not even see a shadow, and things developed to such an uncontrollable point.

He let out a long sigh of relief, and the nascent internal breath in the meridians flowed from the heat - maybe the breakthrough of "Taiyi Longevity Formula" brought this small hole card was not enough to see at all.

The idea of calling the police was quickly ruled out after only a spin in his mind, and such a ferocious battle on the streets of Shanghai must have been followed up by the police immediately.

As for whether the police can deal with those masters, Ji Yiming is not sure at all.

You must go to Shanglin Lake as soon as possible, find Jiang Zhiyou and make plans!

Before leaving the inn, he had already made such a decision in his heart. And since there are three forces that can follow him casually, it is obviously not safe to wait until dawn to go to Shanghai South Railway Station to take a bus: just came all the way, Ji Yiming simply chose a location completely randomly, and then sent a hitchhiking order on Didi.

Taking a randomly assigned hitchhiker to Cixi by the software is the safest way he can think of at the moment.

Ten minutes later, a Toyota Lei Ling stopped in front of him.

The driver was a Cixi office worker who was on a business trip and was going to go home overnight, and asked someone to share the fuel cost by the way.

Ji Yiming repeatedly sensed and made sure that the other party was indeed just an ordinary person before opening the door and getting into the car, and fell asleep in the back seat.

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If it was a few years earlier, from Shanghai to Cixi City, you had to go to Jiaxing and Hangzhou to make a bend, at least more than 300 kilometers away. Since the opening of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, it can directly pass above Hangzhou Bay, and the distance has been shortened by half.

But after all, it was late at night, and the commuter who drove the car didn't dare to let go of the speed, and drove for almost three hours in just more than 150 kilometers - when Ji Yiming slept in the back seat and woke up naturally, it was already five o'clock in the morning.

The hitchhiker's home was in the city, and after entering Cixi City, he kindly asked Ji Yiming where he was going, and was going to send him to his destination.

Ji Yiming didn't want to reveal the real destination, so he randomly pointed to an intersection and got out of the car.

After the Toyota Lei Ling drove away, he opened the navigation software to search for the location of Shanglin Lake.

It seems a bit too cautious, but after everything last night...... Who knows exactly how far those mysterious forces can go.

The closer you get to the destination marked by Jiang Zhiyou, the more careful you must be.

Located in the alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta, Cixi is only an ordinary prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province, but its economic development is still far beyond the domestic average. At five o'clock in the morning, the streets are surrounded by rows of high-rise buildings, spacious and clean roads, and there is no match with the "small city in the south of the Yangtze River" imagined by Ji Yiming before he came.

β€”β€”In the past few years of economic development, most cities are rushing towards modernization, and if you want to find the kind of clear river in the city, the canopy boat rocking the oars "squeak and squeak" in the historical records, and the scene of the soft Jiangnan minor tune, you can only go to Wuzhen and Nanxun to find the artificial commercial ancient towns.

Ji Yiming's location at the moment is considered to be in the center of the city, in the middle of a road called "Qunfeng Road".

The mobile phone navigation software shows that it is about 13 or 4 kilometers away from Shanglin Lake, and there is a "tourist second line" bus that can go directly to the southeast gate of Shanglin Lake Scenic Area, but the earliest departure time has to wait until two hours later.

"Shanglin Lake, Yue kiln ruins...... The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. ”

found a McDonald's that is open 24 hours a day, because last night's fare cost another 15, Ji Yiming was cheeky and didn't order anything, just rubbed a seat, charging his mobile phone and power bank, and took out "Cixi County Chronicles" and "Yue Kiln Porcelain Appreciation" to continue to read and study.

"There is a stream in the south of the country, and Dong Huang of the Eastern Han Dynasty is 'filial piety to the mother and son', so it is named Cixi. However, before the name Cixi, the ancestors of the Hemudu culture can be traced back to more than 5,000 BC, and at that time there was already a history of burning paper pottery. ”

"Among the cultural relics unearthed from the Hemudu site in Yuyao City next door, it clearly shows the fully evolved civilized life of the inhabitants in the Neolithic Age, more than 7,000 years ago. The unearthed cultural relics include kettles, bowls, plates, beans, pots, pots, cups, tripods, bowls and other cooking, drinking, and receptacles, and there are exquisite textile utensils, and there are works of art with ivory, bone, jade, stone, pottery, and wood as carriers. ”

As a history student, Ji Yiming is no stranger to Hemudu, a treasure of Chinese civilization not far from Shanglin Lake, and there are several chapters devoted to this history in his sophomore Neolithic civilization course.

It's a pity that Hanzhong University didn't offer an elective course on ancient porcelain, and he didn't know much about the origin and history of Shanglinhu, the "mother porcelain" of the Yue kiln.

At this moment, sitting on the cold plastic table and chair of McDonald's and looking through the materials, Ji Yiming gradually immersed himself in it, and found a little bit of the feeling of studying the learning materials in the study room of Hanzhong University.

"Firing began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, five dynasties, extended to the Song Dynasty, starting from Shanglin Lake along the lake Mubi Bay, Ao Skirt Mountain, Zhubai Bay, Yellow Eel Mountain, Yanzikun, Lotus Heart, Dog Head Neck Mountain, Dabutou, Chen Zishan, Wujiaxi, Zhoujiaao, along the way a total of more than 120 ancient Yue kiln sites. ”

Shanglin Lake, Ancient Shangao Lake, Du Lake and Ancient Silver Ingot Lake.

Around these four lakes, the most magnificent civilization in the history of human porcelain culture gathers. And among them, the most dense, unearthed ancient porcelain pieces, is Shanglin Lake - until now, Shanglin Lake is still lying at the bottom of countless ancient Yue kiln broken porcelain pieces, it is said that in the last century, there were occasional naughty children swimming in the lake, fishing out a lot of complete ancient porcelain.

"Appreciation of Yue Kiln Porcelain" is mostly pictures, even if only through photos, Ji Yiming can still feel the profound attainments of those ancient craftsmen thousands of years ago on aesthetics.

He took out the Han Eight Knife Jade Cicada hanging on his chest, and rubbed it to feel the delicate feel of mutton fat white jade: "It is also from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is also the top artistic crystallization in human history." Between you...... What kind of connection is there? ”

Hey?

Originally, he just took it out casually and sighed, but Ji Yiming noticed that the moment he touched the jade cicada, the "Taiyi Longevity Formula" mental method that had always been in slow operation in his body suddenly sped up a few points.

This is......

Ji Yiming closed the book, took the jade cicada off his neck and held it directly in the palm of his hand.

This time, the speed of the mental method has accelerated even more obviously, and even the internal breath that has risen and risen seems to have become a little stronger.

"Did you guess wrong?"

Could it be that among the things left by Jiang Zhiyou, this piece of Han Eight Dao Jade Cicada is the most important existence?

From beginning to end, are the groups of mysterious organizations, martial artists, and Gu worms who practice Gu and play bugs all coming for it?

Ji Yiming did not know the specific market value of this Han Dynasty mutton fat white jade cicada, and the rough estimate was about one million or more. But shaking it in the palm of your hand at this moment senses that it is obvious that the flow rate of the mind method is increasing and the internal breath is increasing......

"How can such a sacred object be worth as worldly cash can measure? ”

He whispered to himself, and then his mind suddenly moved slightly.

Before he could react, a familiar figure appeared in front of him and sat directly across from the fast dining table.

The eyes are like autumn Hong, the sword eyebrows are in the sideburns, and even women will envy the delicate facial features.

"Winning the Sky...... How did you end up here?!"

- Ji Yiming's incident last night had quietly slipped away before he saw it all, and he didn't see Ying Xingtian after cleaning up the mess, but at this moment, thousands of miles away, McDonald's in the third and fourth-tier cities of Cixi saw each other at five or six o'clock in the morning, which was definitely not explained by the simple word "chance encounter".

"This thing is just a piece of jade, and it has nothing to do with Jiang Zhiyou's involvement. ”

Seeing that Ji Yiming couldn't help but clench the mutton fat jade cicada in his hand, Ying Xingtian only glanced at it and turned his gaze away, looking at the two books in his hand: "But you guessed the direction correctly, the Shanglin Lake Yue Kiln Ruins are indeed the target of this gathering of wind and clouds."

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