28. [II] Ghost
Before the shouts of Lu Cun fell, the Huabiao standing on all sides suddenly collapsed, and before everyone had time to react, the ground under their feet suddenly changed dramatically. The originally mirror-like black jade disappeared from their sight one by one, one by one, with lightning speed.
In the blink of an eye, most of the open square in front of the hall had collapsed, and the huge black hole was still devouring the Yongque people who had just walked to the middle at a speed as fast as lightning.
The sudden occurrence was so fast that Qin Xuan had no time to do anything, so she looked up with a sigh, her waist tightened, and the scenes on both sides slipped in front of her eyes vaguely. She blinked hard, staring at the familiar faces behind her, running in panic and despair.
After all, someone was weak in his feet, and he was a step too late, and he fell into the bottomless abyss with a miserable scream in an instant.
From start to finish, it's just a moment. Qin Slow's thumping heart almost broke through her chest when she was put on the ground by Yongque, she turned pale and grabbed his sleeve tightly, and squeezed out a sentence as if she had just come back to her senses: "It's dangerous......"
yes, it's dangerous. Huo An and the brocade guards, who had escaped death, couldn't help but follow her words and look back at the world that had been turned upside down in a moment. At this moment, the dungeon seemed to have finally lifted the veil of its bewilderment of sentient beings, revealing its hideous minions, and giving them a head-on blow.
The fallen hollow is an abyss, and there is no bottom in sight. Yongque stood on the edge of the steep, and the cold wind of Yin Void rolled up from the abyss, blowing his clothes fluttering, like a pair of invisible hands ready to drag him into hell. He looked at it for a moment, then stooped down and picked up a stone the size of a skull, shook it, and threw it in the air.
The stone fell into the sinkhole under their watchful eye, falling all the way, and after waiting for an unknown amount of time, they could not hear it fall.
Everyone's face turned pale slightly, who dug this black hole, and where did it lead? No matter who used how much manpower to dig it, it would not be able to lead to the Outer Wonderland, it could only be the Netherworld Hell!
Huo An sat on the ground in a daze, just one step away, he was about to fall like that and fall to the bones...... He suddenly didn't want to go into the palace that was too beautiful for people to enter, its outer periphery was so sinister, what would be the situation inside.
After a sudden change, the rest of the people looked at the jade wall and the golden roof was endlessly gorgeous, and only the heart palpitations of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe. A few fans wiped their sweat and drank water in silence, while Yongque looked at the black hole without saying a word, and then looked at the palace that was close at hand.
Suddenly, his sleeve was tugged, and a hand as thin as a chicken's paw handed him a water bladder: "Overseer, drink water." ”
He glanced at the bladder, which was open, and he glared at the wet lips of his little face.
Qin Chu didn't realize that he might be disliked, but he still persuaded slowly: "Overseer, drink some water, you haven't eaten much since the morning." ”
She especially emphasized that from early to now, in vain he was surprised that her backbone had grown, and even a seven-foot man was depressed by this change, she was still like no one, it turned out that she still wanted to retreat with a thief heart!
Yongque's eyes narrowed slightly, glanced at her who was pretending, and sure enough, as soon as their eyes met, the little face froze. He had always had a very accurate grasp of her intentions, and he reluctantly took the water, sighing in his heart that he was too young. However, with time and careful carving, it may not become a sharp blade.
At first, he used her as a chess piece, but now he has the mind of cherishing talents, he has always loved money and talents. Qin Slow is a piece of jade in his eyes, and it can even be said to be a beautiful jade among jade. It's a pity...... He swept over her paper-pale skin and features, and suffered a great loss in appearance. Xindi is a young man who loves the country and the beauty. Otherwise, with her exquisite thoughts, she will be sent to the harem with his help, and it will not be a problem to compete for favor. In the future, when he gives birth to a dragon son, the future of him and her is limitless.
After regretting it, he felt that it didn't have to be like this, the inner palace was a battlefield, and the court outside the palace was the same. Some court officials don't look at the hard bones and don't eat his Dongchang set, and when they go home, they haven't been scolded by their own mother-in-law with their ears in their ears? To cure the enemy with weakness, to take the enemy with skill, to clean up these stinky bones, we must start from the women in each house.
Then, he needs a woman, or a smart woman.
Taking the opportunity to recuperate, Yongque had already made a lot of calculations in his heart, and he felt that Qin Que could still stay.
Qin Slow, who lowered her head and pulled the dry food in her mouth, was stared at by the inexplicable gaze from Yongque, and she endured it and finally couldn't help but raise her head: "The overseer......"
She paused in the middle of her words, and everyone else, including the others, instantly stiffened into wood and stone.
"There is Qiming in the east, and Chang Gung in the west. There is a trip to the end of the day, and the line of giving. "The faint singing voice floated gracefully, not like singing but like crying. There were still remnants of the dust raised by the subsidence floating in the air, mixed in the mist and weaving a vast net over the heads of the people.
The last time they heard this song, they almost died in the ground, and what awaits them this time?
Whatever it is, staying where you are and waiting to die is clearly not the best option.
Without Yongque's instructions, the remaining few brocade guards got up one by one, drew their knives out of their sheaths, and waited solemnly, which was evident from their well-trained.
"Since there is no way back, we can only step forward." Yongque sighed, but there was no frustration in his voice. Listening to Qin Slow's ears, it seems that since the buns are gone, then we will eat steamed buns today as easily as usual.
She also sighed, under normal circumstances, if she could choose, she still prefers to eat steamed buns, because there is meat. But as Yongque said, they have no way to retreat.
The singing voice surrounds them from afar, and I don't know if it is the illusion that the atmosphere is depressing, and it seems to be getting closer and closer to them. So, without hesitation, Yongque was in front of the cushion, and the group went to the towering Jade Palace Grand Hall.
As they had seen from a distance before, the Jade Palace and the Zheng'er Eight Classics Palace must have been on the small side, but the steps were repaired to be exceptionally high. Qin slowly made a slight visual inspection, there were about dozens and nearly a hundred steps, and Yongque, who was walking in front, heard her count the steps as she walked, and when she counted to about ten, she suddenly hummed.
He walked leisurely, and at first even such a thrill did not make him feel at a moment's loss: "What? ”
Although he was asking, he knew that Qin Slow must have seen something on the steps, and his gaze naturally fell to his feet.
The style of the staircase is similar to the tomb they first saw, with no carvings or lines, and it is a simple and simple ashlar steps.
Qin looked at it for a while and asked an irrelevant question: "Overseer, do you think that Princess Hui was really caught here?" ”
"It's not the point that the person is not here, the point is that she must have something to do with here."
"What could it be about...... A lady in Shu, a sick and weak vassal king in Huizhou," Qin said to him and seemed to be talking to himself, "No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with this kind of mysterious place." It's weird, it's weird. ”
Yongque was silent, if you really want to compare, I am afraid that there is no place in the world that can be more than the secrets of the royal family. King Haihui has not yet figured out the depths, and his future in-laws must not be simple.
What's more, it is almost impossible to build such a magnificent underground palace in the boundary of Huizhou, without alarming the local lord of a state.
He could think of this, Qin Chu might not have thought of it, but these suspicions and calculations would be out of proportion. Qin slowly looked at him for a long time and looked up at him, but saw that he was slowly moving up step by step with his wide and thin back, and he didn't mean to talk to her. He didn't walk very fast, just enough for her to hop three steps at the hem of his robe dangling behind him.
"Governor, who do you say is buried in this palace?"
He ignored her, and she took the initiative to annoy him? He snorted in his nose and sneered in a long tone: "Am I an immortal?" Who is buried, how old is Fang, I need to know if they are vegetarian and eat meat? ”
"Oh......" Qin Slow was teased and touched his nose, she had already understood Yongque's yin and yang weirdness, and she didn't feel uncomfortable, but she scolded him in her heart.
After a while, when he was about to reach the top edge, Qin slowly touched his stomach and sighed: "I'm still hungry......"
Yongque was not her dim sum bag, so she naturally ignored her, so she turned back pitifully: "Huo Xiaogong's ......"
Although the people in front of her couldn't see her expression, they could imagine the pretending pity when they heard the tone, and there was nothing brilliant on that face, but a pair of eyes were still smart, and squeezing out a few tears that seemed to be real or false could probably frighten many people.
Sneer, Yongque sneered, he admitted that he still had a trace of curiosity about Qin Slow, at first glance she was a little girl who had just come out of the rivers and lakes, but she was meticulous in the world, better than many old rivers and lakes.
Huo An stayed for a long time, then took out the dry food from the blanket and hurriedly handed it to Qin Slow: "Girl, please use it." ”
He no longer called her Mrs., and even a blind man could see that the relationship between Qin Slow and Yongque was completely the relationship between the master and the follower, and the title had changed unconsciously.
Qin Chu didn't care about this, and even secretly breathed a sigh of relief, even if she married, she couldn't marry a eunuch, the master who was bursting by her temperament knew that her leg would be broken!
With food, Qin Slow'an divided a lot, and as everyone climbed the last step, he stood in front of the vermilion gold gate of the main hall.
The song of the "female ghost" has gradually left them, and the cool breeze on the towering palace is like water, and two rows of thin copper pillars stand silently, and at the head of each pillar stands a bird's head-like mouth, and a fishtail lamp hangs under the thin copper hook in the mouth.
The lights flickered in the miserable wind, but they never went out, burning quietly there, as if it had been burning here for thousands of years.
......Most of the people in the palace know that most of the people in the palace know that most of them are in the imperial mausoleum or the temple, saying that the lamp oil inside is made of merman ointment, which will not be extinguished for a hundred years and thousands of years, and can be burned for thousands of years.
"Shark Cream ......" Qin sighed slowly, "Shark again?" ”
She mentioned it casually, and the rest of the people couldn't help but think of the lotus pond where strange fish were hidden when they first entered the underground palace, and the lotus flowers in the pond were woven from the so-called shark yarn.
Before the others could finish thinking about the relationship between the two, she immediately shook her head again and said: "The mermaid only exists in the legend, it is impossible and impossible." ”
Whether it has anything to do with the merman or not, you can find out when you walk here and enter the temple.
There didn't seem to be any trap on the long path in the middle of the bronze pillar, and the group walked unharmed to the half-closed temple door, which was made of mahogany and gold from a distance, and only when they looked up close did they find that it was a red stone door standing on both sides.
Just by looking at the weight, you can see that it is no less than the sealed door at the end of the tomb. But this is a door after all, and if it is, there is a crack in the door, and it takes a lot of effort to pry it open.
Several big men with round shoulders and thick waists each held crowbars, looked for a good point to exert force, shouted loudly, and broke violently.
The dust and sand fell from the rubbing of the stones, and the torches and the faint light on the bronze pillars slanted into the dark main hall, and if the exquisite and gorgeous scenery behind the sealed door stunned everyone, then this extravagant palace was once again beyond their expectations.
The hall is completely devoid of the extravagant furnishings outside, it is completely an ordinary boudoir wing structure, and the ear halls on both sides seem to be used for study and other purposes. Because in the end it is a palace, it is much wider than the boudoir of an ordinary woman's house, and the inside and outside are opened for the three or four layers of curtain pavilions, and some places are made of blue yarn and glass screens.
Inside and out, virtual and real, there are two or three tea cups on the table, and there is still half a cup of clear soup left after one is turned over, as if someone has drunk it not long ago. On the table is a straight placket with a white pear spring rui, and an ink-colored koi is embroidered on the shoulder, as if it is about to swim out of the clothes......
With a few futons placed on a needlework dustpan, in which are half-embroidered female workers, the shape should be a square handkerchief. In the same way, what was not embroidered on the veil was a golden fishtail......
Reminiscent of the fishtail lamp at the door, it seems that the owner of this room has a soft spot for fish. But I really like it, why do you use fish paste to make lamp oil?
The stark contrast between the inside and outside of the hall made everyone stunned, and everything seemed to be an illusion, which made people can't help but look back to confirm whether it was all a dream.
As soon as he turned around, Huo An screamed so loudly that his throat was about to burst:
"Who!"
Almost instantly, everyone was in front of the sword, and the first three and the fourth set up a formation to meet the enemy. However, the silence in the hall was as good as before, only the sound of the wind leaked into the side and the cold was light, lining the lonely room.
Huo An trembled his hand and pointed forward: "You, you see, there is a person there?" ”
Following the direction of his finger, the brocade guards in Lu Cun were all shocked, and even Qin Xuan screamed in surprise.
In the northeast of the hall, there is a translucent glass screen, and behind the screen stands a delicate figure, holding a lotus lamp as if looking at them. The flame of the lotus lamp was extremely dense, illuminating the woman's appearance blurred.
Lu Cun jumped on tiptoe, flew up and slashed the screen, and the crisp breaking sound was accompanied by colorful glass falling to the ground, but to his surprise, there was nothing behind the screen, only a lotus lamp on the wall burned alone.
The people present were all first-class masters, but no one heard the sound of someone walking there, not to mention that Lu Cun's body method was as fast as the wind, and that person disappeared in an instant.
Before they could discern the number of people, the song that had been drifting away sounded in their ears again, and this time the song was so close that it seemed to surround them. Almost at the same time, the vanished woman mysteriously appeared, behind the curtain in front of them.
And her posture seemed to change from looking around to staring directly with her hands, staring coldly at their group of intruders through the layers of seemingly transparent and covered curtains.
Is it a shadow? They all thought that it was still a ghost......
Qin slowly listened to the singing, and slowly read out the lyrics: "There is Qiming in the east, and Chang Gung in the west." There is a trip to the end of the day, and the line of giving. Listen...... Sounds familiar. ”
"It's a verse from "Xiaoya Dadong". Yongque cold interface.
"Uh...... What are you talking about? "For poetry and songs, Qin is really not good at anything.
"It's about a certain country in the West that stole the throne of a vassal state in the East in ancient times, thus causing the people to live in poverty......"
Before Yongque's words fell, there was a soft sound, and everyone's torches were extinguished together.
Someone snorted heavily, listening to the sound like Wang Xi, before he could shout another scream, a handful of hot blood splashed up, not falling on their faces and clothes.
Lu Cun, who was closest to Wang Xi, pulled Wang Xi with the power of lightning, but he only pulled a hand full of sticky blood!
The "people" who attacked Wang Xi did not stop there, and almost immediately attacked Lu Cun, only to hear him shout: "Be careful! ”
I only heard the loud sound of swords and soldiers connecting with each other, and the crowd fought together in an instant, and the light and shadow were chaotic but did not prevent the brocade guards who cooperated with tacit understanding to distinguish between friend and foe. The smell of blood gradually thickened, and the other party was menacing, and after fighting for a long time, the Jinyi guards were shocked to find that they could not catch their footwork.
Like...... It's like you're fighting ghosts!
Yongque stood in the center of the chaos, strangely surrounded by a mess, but they seemed to be isolated alone, and he looked coldly at the chaotic figures around him.
Suddenly, a strange thing slipped through his mind, and he suddenly moved sideways half a step to the left, and a wisp of imperceptible wind flew past the side of his neck. If he hadn't noticed it just now, there was no doubt that the strong wind would have hit the wind pool hole at the back of his neck!
"Huh? Who? Qin Chu suddenly screamed in confusion, he subconsciously grabbed it, but found that his hand was empty.
Qin Slow was gone.