Bi Ling and others first went north against the Lancang River, and after entering Sichuan, they traveled eastward along the Jinsha River, trekking nearly a thousand miles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The season has fallen unconsciously. It had just rained heavily, and the weather was finally getting cooler. When the sky cleared again, an ancient town appeared in front of them on the cloudy mountainside by the river. This is the capital of the city.

Although Bi Ling had heard of the name of the ghost town for a long time, she had never seen it with her own eyes, and now that she was there, she was originally excited, imagining what kind of strange people and wonders she would see, or what kind of demons and monsters? Is it really possible to reach hell and meet the dead? But in fact, except for the sparse population, the Yudu she saw was no different from the ancient towns in the southwest. It is nothing more than an archway, a street, a stone bridge, and a dozen houses, large and small, which are completely impossible to connect with the ghost town. This naturally made Bi Ling a little disappointed, but as long as she could find Xu Wuchang here and learn Leng Qiuxun's whereabouts, it would be worth the trip.

"Looks like we're early." Lin Ziqi said, "Xu Wuchang won't appear until the evening, and it's noon, so let's wait until it's dark." ”

Bi Ling asked, "Since they are already here, why don't you just wait here until it gets dark?" ”

Lin Ziqi's eyes showed a hint of surprise: "You want to wait here?" ”

Yu Xiaowei also said: "Now in this halfway up the mountain, there is no place to go, why don't you just wait here?" ”

Lin Ziqi nodded slowly and said, "Then wait here." ”

Bi Ling was tired of walking, sitting on the stone pier in front of the archway to rest, suddenly smelled a fragrance, looking for taste, not far away by the stone bridge, there was a small stall. The stall was set up by an old woman with gray hair. There is a stove next to the stall, and a pot is boiling on the stove, and water is boiling in the pot. There is a row of bowls on the stall with never-before-seen herbs. One of the bowls has already been soaked, and it is from here that the fragrance wafts out. Tempted by this fragrance, Biling became even more thirsty, so she walked to the stall.

With a smile on her face, the old woman asked, "Miss, do you want a bowl of soup?" ”

Biling nodded and asked for a bowl. The old woman picked up the bowl that had been brewed. Bi Ling took it and felt that the fragrance was getting stronger and stronger. She blew lightly and tasted it in small bites, and sure enough, the taste was sweet, but not hot, but fresh and smooth, making the whole body exude coolness. Biling drank it all, then asked for another bowl. Still smiling, the old woman scooped up a scoop of hot water, poured it into a bowl, and waited for the herbs to soak well before serving it to Biling. Bowl after bowl like this, Biling drank four or five bowls in a row.

Yu Xiaowei also found this stall, but he was not as thirsty as Bi Ling, so he asked the old woman: "No one comes here, can this stall have a business, auntie?" ”

The old woman still smiled and replied, "Those who are destined will naturally come." Isn't this young lady coming? ”

Yu Xiaowei asked again: "Is the eldest lady from this town?" ”

The old woman nodded and said, "I don't remember how many years I've lived here. ”

Yu Xiaowei immediately asked, "Then do you know someone named Xu Wuchang?" ”

The old woman shook her head and said, "The old man only sells soup and doesn't know anything else." ”

Yu Xiaowei knew that he couldn't ask any more, it seemed that the people in Xudu were really a little weird.

After drinking a few bowls of soup, although Bi Ling's thirst was quenched, she was even more sleepy and just wanted to find a place to sleep. She returned to the stone pier in front of the archway and sat down, supported her head with her right hand, and soon fell asleep.

When she was sleeping in a daze, Bi Ling heard someone walking in front of her, so she slowly opened her eyes. It was already dark, and it turned out that she had slept for so long. Lin Ziqi and Yu Xiaowei were nowhere to be found, leaving her alone to sit alone in front of the archway. In front of her, a group of people were lining up along the street, under the torii. Who are they? Where to go? Of course Biling didn't know. Moreover, these people also looked strange, all of them with their heads bowed and expressionless.

Biling was looking curiously at the group of pedestrians in front of her, and suddenly, she was stunned, because she found a familiar face among the pedestrians. It was a face she would never forget, a face she still loved so much, and a face that Su Qing loved. "Su Qing? Isn't he already ......? Biling was not only more confused, but also couldn't help but feel a wave of excitement in her heart. She didn't expect that there would be a day when she would see Su Qing again. This excitement made her shout out Su Qing's name.

However, as if he couldn't hear, the man didn't respond, still keeping his head down, and slowly following the procession. Although Bi Ling didn't know what was going on, she concluded that it was Su Qing. She saw Su Qing walking in front of her, and was about to catch up, when she suddenly saw three big characters written on the top of the archway: "Ghost Gate"! This archway is the ghost gate? So, isn't this ancient road the Huangquan Road? Xudu has indeed become a netherworld!

Is what Bi Ling just saw actually Su Qing's soul? Whether it is a person or a ghost, as long as he is Su Qing, Bi Ling will not be willing to let him leave again. Biling wanted to catch up, but she didn't seem to have the strength to catch up. It wasn't until Su Qing stopped at the end of Huangquan Road that Bi Ling caught up, grabbed Su Qing's sleeve, and looked at Su Qing's face. After a while, Bi Ling's tears burst out of her eyes. She shouted, "Brother Qing, it's me!" ”

At this time, a familiar voice sounded in Bi Ling's ears: "Miss, do you want another bowl of tea?" ”

Bi Ling looked back and saw that the old woman who sold tea during the day was actually there. It's still the stall, it's still the soup, and behind the stall, it's still the stone bridge. But the difference is that the stalls are no longer deserted, and all the pedestrians in line will walk up to the stalls, drink a bowl of soup, and then walk across the stone bridge. The stone bridge also seems to be different from what it sees during the day, and there are three more words on the bridge: "Nai He Bridge".

Bi Ling's eyes widened, pointed at the old woman, and asked, "You?" Are you the ...... during the day? ”

The smile on the old woman's face did not change, and she said, "The old man's surname is Meng, and the young lady can call me Meng Po." ”

"Meng Po?" Of course Bi Ling knew the name, "And ...... this soup you sell?" ”

Meng Po replied, "It's Meng Po Tanglo." ”

"What? Meng Po soup? Biling was shocked. Isn't Meng Po soup the soup that can make people forget all the memories of their lives? This should have been something that should have existed in mythology, but Biling not only saw it with her own eyes, but also drank it with her own mouth.

Before Biling came back to her senses, it was already Su Qing's turn to drink. Bi Ling hurriedly stopped in front of Su Qing and shouted loudly: "Brother Qing! You can't drink it! You can't drink it! Drink it and forget it all! ”

"It's useless!" Meng Po said on the side, "He's dead and can't hear what you say." Today is his anniversary sacrifice day, and it should be the day to drink Meng Po soup and go to the reincarnation hall to be reincarnated. ”

Su Qing really couldn't hear Bi Ling's call, so he just walked forward vigorously. Bi Ling hugged Su Qing, although she still couldn't exert her strength, she still wanted to use her body to stop Su Qing's steps.

Meng Po finally got a little impatient and shouted, "Okay! There are so many people waiting in the back! I saw that with a wave of her left hand, she bounced Bi Ling away from Su Qing.

Bi Ling could only watch Su Qing finish drinking Meng Po soup and walk onto the Nai He Bridge. Frustration once again took over Biling's mind, causing her to lie on the ground, crying silently. Unexpectedly, her reunion with Su Qing turned out to be another parting of life and death.

Just when Bi Ling was in this extreme pain, Meng Po came over with a bowl of soaked soup and said with a smile: "Miss, isn't it painful now?" In the final analysis, it is just a 'love' word. It's better to forget everything, and forget the pain. You have drunk the daytime soup, so you can reach the bridge alive; Now, as long as you drink this bowl of night soup again, there will be no more troubles. She handed the soup to Bi Ling, "Drink it!" Drink it! ”

Bi Ling stared at Meng Po soup, the torment in her heart made her painful, but the fragrance that came to her nose made her flutter, maybe it was really as Meng Po said, only by drinking this bowl of soup could she be relieved from the current pain. She finally took the bowl.

"Miss!" At this moment, a voice pierced the sky, and Yu Xiaowei came out of nowhere, ran straight to Bi Ling's side, and knocked down the bowl in her hand with a sword. The bowl shattered and the soup spilled on the floor. Yu Xiaowei pointed at Meng Po and shouted, "What do you want to do?" ”

Bi Ling woke up like a dream, quickly stood up, and saw that Su Qing had just crossed the Nai He Bridge, so she chased after him again.

Meng Po hurriedly turned around and shouted: "Stop! People who haven't drunk Meng Po soup are not allowed to cross the Nai He Bridge! ”

At this moment, Yu Xiaowei's sword stabbed straight into Meng Po's body from behind, and then stabbed out from his chest. Suddenly, the muscles on Meng Po's face twitched together. In a heart-rending scream, Meng Po disappeared out of thin air.

Those pedestrians who were lined up on Huangquan Road should no longer be people, but ghosts, and suddenly they no longer lined up in an orderly manner, but instead stared at Yu Xiaowei, with anger in their eyes. Slowly, slowly, they pressed towards Yu Xiaowei. Yu Xiaowei was deeply uneasy and waved the sword in his hand.

Su Qing also stopped, turned to face Bi Ling, still expressionless, still didn't speak. Suddenly, his hands grabbed Bi Ling's neck. Bi Ling was defenseless, and her whole body was already weak, and she was even more out of breath this time. At the beginning, before Su Qing died, he also pinched her like this; Unexpectedly, now that they are reunited in the underworld, they will pinch her again. Bi Ling's eyes were full of tears, and she really understood at this time that Su Qing was dead and would never come back.

Yu Xiaowei saw that Bi Ling was pinched and was about to die, so he roared and rushed towards Su Qing, but the yin spirits around him made it difficult for him to move an inch. He slashed desperately, but the Yin Soul killed more and more. Just when he was anxious, the sound of a flute sounded in his ears.

The sound of this flute swept through the entire capital like the wind, blowing away the yin soul and Su Qing, and the capital turned back into an uninhabited ancient town. Biling collapsed to the ground exhausted. Yu Xiaowei didn't care about being tired, and immediately ran over, picked up Bi Ling, and called her name.

After a while, Bi Ling regained her senses. The lively scene just now disappeared all at once, only Yu Xiaowei was still looking at her affectionately, and Lin Ziqi had also appeared beside them.

Biling asked weakly, "What's going on?" ”

"You've just fallen into the illusion of the drunken." Lin Ziqi explained, "Everything is normal during the day, but at night, there will be a miasma, which will sharply increase the sense of gloom and horror, and it will also make people hallucinate, as if they are in the underworld, and they can't extricate themselves when they see the old people they are thinking about, and they are called lost in the illusion." ”

"Lost in the Illusion?" Yu Xiaowei suddenly realized, "That was all an illusion just now?" ”

Lin Ziqi nodded and said, "Not bad." And this hallucination is most likely to occur when the miasma first appears in the change of day and night, so I said, wait until it gets dark. ”

"Ahh So you already knew! Yu Xiaowei pointed to Lin Ziqi and shouted, "Then why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

Lin Ziqi replied calmly: "Why do you want to tell you so much? As long as I'm not afraid of this miasma, you'll be fine. ”

"You ......" Although Yu Xiaowei complained in his heart, he had nothing to say.

Bi Ling was able to stand up at this time, but her head was still a little dizzy. She held her head and said, "It turns out that Yudu is called a ghost town because of this miasma. ”

Lin Ziqi smiled: "How can there really be ghosts in the world?" ”

"Oh." Bi Ling lowered her head silently, although she knew that everything that happened just now was fake, but she still had a shadow in her heart. It's like having a nightmare, even though it's a dream, it's hard to say that it's not a portrayal of day and night thoughts. At least it's true that he misses Su Qing, and it is true that he longs to see Su Qing, and it's true that Su Qing is dead and will never see him. Just as the grief was about to come to her heart again, Bi Ling suddenly remembered why she came to Xudu, so she immediately held back the grief and asked, "Then can we go to Xu Wuchang now?" ”

Lin Ziqi said: "Xu Wuchang lives in this ghost town, and only he likes to live in this ghost place. In order to make the Lost Illusion more realistic, he also named the buildings of the capital to the underworld, just like the ghost gate and the Nai He Bridge. As he spoke, he took Bi Ling and Yu Xiaowei across the Nai He Bridge.

On the opposite bank is a square with a round platform built in the middle of the square, like an altar, and several houses stand around the square, which seem to be very old, the bricks and tiles are broken, and the pillars and beams are decaying. The south-facing house is the tallest, with steps in front of the door, and a plaque hanging on the door, which reads: "Hades Palace".

Lin Ziqi walked straight up the steps and opened the door with the top of the flute, accompanied by the "creaking" sound of the door, a ray of moonlight entered the house. The inside of the house was even more dilapidated than the outside, a mess, with a few pillars broken and cobwebs in the corners and window lattices. In such a dilapidated house, there is only one thing that stands out as a high-sounding thing, and that is a large nanmu coffin placed in the middle of the room. Dark red, half a person tall, more than a foot long, five feet wide, I'm afraid not ordinary people can afford it. It should not be surprising that there is such a coffin in this ghost town.

Bi Ling followed, and when she saw so much dust, she immediately covered her nose and asked, "Where is this?" ”

Lin Ziqi replied: "This is Xu Wuchang's residence. He is a man who always sleeps during the day, so if we want to find him, we can only wait until night. At this hour, I think he should wake up too. ”

At this time, the lid of the coffin made a dull sound, and it slowly moved outward, and when it was half removed, a hand stretched out. This scene frightened Biling to the point of almost screaming. Yu Xiaowei also shouted in a panic: "What is that?" I saw that the hand was on the mouth of the coffin, and the other hand stretched out again and pushed the lid of the coffin. Then, a human head rose from the coffin, unkempt hair completely obscuring the face.

Is this a zombie? Just as Bi Ling and Yu Xiaowei were dumbfounded, Lin Ziqi strode to the coffin, reached into the coffin with his right hand, and lifted it vigorously. I only heard the "zombie" scream: "Oops! He was taken out of the coffin whole. When the "zombie" stood on the ground, Bi Ling and Yu Xiaowei were really shocked, because the "zombie" was not even the waist of Lin Ziqi, and it was obviously disproportionate to its huge head, and it looked like a big mushroom at first glance. It turned out to be nothing more than a dwarf.

The dwarf touched his big head, looked left and right, and when he saw Lin Ziqi, he frowned and asked, "Why are you again?" Can't you be polite every time you come? ”

Lin Ziqi turned to Bi Ling and said, "He is Xu Wuchang, if you have anything, ask him now." ”

"Huh? Xu impermanence? Although Bi Ling had heard about Xu Wuchang's eccentricity a long time ago, she was still frightened at the moment. This Xu Wuchang not only lives in the capital, builds a ghost city, sleeps in a coffin, and goes out day and night, but also has such a strange figure, how can it not surprise people?

Xu Wuchang was impatient and said, "Don't call me by my name!" Call me Devil's Eye! ”

Bi Lingqiang held down her surprise and cut to the chase: "Yes!" Devil's eyes! I have heard of your Excellency for a long time! The little girl has a question for something, so she came to ask for advice. ”

Xu Wuchang turned his head and said, "Hmph! You're disturbing my sleep and want my help? ”

Yu Xiaowei hurriedly apologized and said, "Great Immortal, please calm your anger." ”

But Xu Wuchang didn't seem to appreciate it at all.

Lin Ziqi said coldly on the side: "Alas! Actually, he doesn't know everything, so I'll take you to someone else. ”

As soon as Xu Wuchang heard this, he immediately became anxious and shouted: "My ghost eyes reach the sky, up to the Nine Heavens, down to the Five Oceans, the Three Realms and Five Elements, in all directions, what do you not know?" ”

Lin Ziqi hurriedly asked, "Then do you know the white-haired ice demon?" ”

"Who?" Xu Wuchang showed nervousness.

Lin Ziqi said again: "White-haired ice demon." ”

"This ......" Xu Wuchang's momentum just now immediately disappeared, and he turned hesitant, "What are you looking for her for?" ”

Biling replied, "Kill her!" ”

Yu Xiaowei also followed: "Yes! Kill her! ”

Xu Wuchang laughed, pointed at Bi Ling and Yu Xiaowei, and said, "Kill the white-haired ice demon? Just the two of you? ”

"And me!" Lin Ziqi said.

Xu Wuchang's expression immediately became serious. He looked at Lin Ziqi and asked, "Have you decided?" ”

Lin Ziqi nodded firmly.

Xu Wuchang touched his head again, slapped it violently, and said, "Okay! He returned to the coffin, reached out and took out two pieces of yellow paper from the coffin, walked to the door, faced the direction of due south, closed his eyes, folded his hands, and held a piece of yellow paper in each of them, and said something in his mouth. After a while, the two pieces of yellow paper spontaneously combusted. At the same time, sixteen words came out of Xu Wuchang's mouth: "What you are looking for is in the west, and you have passed the Wuguan, that is, the Kunlun and the holy mountain." At the end of the words, the yellow paper happened to burn out, and Xu Wuchang opened his eyes again.

"What do you mean by that?" These sixteen words, the more Yu Xiaowei listened, the more confused he became.

Bi Ling tilted her head and said, "The meaning of the first three sentences is probably that the person we are looking for is in the west, has crossed the Wuguan, and is about to cross the Kunlun Mountain. As for the last sentence, it seems to say that her destination is the Holy Mountain. ”

Yu Xiaowei asked again: "Where is the holy mountain?" ”

Biling replied, "I've heard my mother talk about this place, but I don't know where it is. ”

"In Tibet." Lin Ziqi suddenly said, "Without further ado, let's leave for Tibet!" ”

Although Bi Ling and Yu Xiaowei didn't understand how Lin Ziqi knew that the Holy Mountain was in Tibet, they absolutely believed Lin Ziqi's words.

Before going out, Lin Ziqi looked at Xu Wuchang again. Xu Wuchang was still standing at the door, his eyes fixed on Lin Ziqi. Lin Ziqi bowed his hand and said, "Thank you!" ”

Xu Wuchang squeezed out a smile and said, "You're welcome. I think we'll see each other again soon! ”

Lin Ziqi didn't understand what Xu Wuchang meant, and he didn't think much about it, so he took Bi Ling and Yu Xiaowei and left the capital. Xu Wuchang stood alone in front of the palace of the king of Hades, looking at the distant forest period, and actually lowered his head and sighed.