Chapter 78
"What, what's the problem?" Nan Yang asked softly.
Qinghuan hugged Nan Yang's neck, shook her head slightly, and hugged Nan Yang's hand to play with a white yarn on Nan Yang's white robe intentionally or unintentionally. In the dim environment, her lowered eyebrows and eyes took on a chic and elegant black, and a little bit of light reflected in her eyes, as if a section of the starry night sky was cut and sewn into her eyes.
It's beautiful.
Miao Shan habitually raised her hand and touched the human skin mask on her face, making sure that it was still sticky and firm, but she couldn't help but sigh in her heart: This face is really ugly, and her appearance is not inferior to this skin.
Nan Yang raised her eyes lightly, looking at the female disciple who stopped on the side as if she was waiting for them, and vaguely remembered that she had drugged Qinghuan before, so she nodded at her kindly: "What's wrong?" ”
Miao Shan coughed without a trace, grasped the timbre of his voice, and said busily: "The valley master is worried that you are in danger of falling behind, so let his subordinates take care of it...... Also, I heard from the people at the front that this mile is almost finished, and I am about to enter the tomb, so please get ready. ”
"Thank you." Qinghuan raised her chin slightly, looked at Miaoshan and smiled gently.
Miao Shan was stunned for a moment, and the fingers on the side of the shirt tightened suddenly, grabbing a few folds of the clothes. She immediately laughed again: "The girl is polite." …… Girl, seeing that your face is covered with ash and blood, it must be very uncomfortable, let me wipe it for the girl. ”
“…… It's not good to bother you......"
"Where, the valley lord just asked me to come and take care of it." With some difficulty, Miao Shan pulled the human skin mask and smiled as kindly as possible, then took out a handkerchief and leaned towards Qing Huan without saying a word.
Qinghuan had to obediently turn her face to the side, like a docile little rabbit lying weakly on Nanyang's shoulder, looking at Miaoshan gently with dark and warm eyes.
Miao Shan swallowed inexplicably, and then sped up the movement of his hand and wiped Qinghuan's face. Her strength was a little strong, and Qing Huan's head swayed back with her movements, and she looked eager, and naturally reached out her other hand to gently press the back of Qing Huan's neck.
There was a small Gu worm that crawled out of the clothes on Qinghuan's back and quietly burrowed into Miaoshan's cuffs.
Miao Shan only glanced at the bug in a hurry, and couldn't help but feel very distressed. This is one of the few medical Gu that she has been refining for several years, and it has been sacrificed by many rare treasures in the world, and she used it for this little girl in a hurry, seeing that the Gu worm has lost a lot of weight compared to when she first put it in, it is estimated that she will not survive.
However, looking at her like this, the back injury should be much better.
Miao Shan sighed softly, lowered her gaze, and only slightly deviated in one direction, and happened to meet Nan Yang's cold gaze staring at her.
Miao Shan couldn't help but shudder: "You...... What are you doing? ”
“…… Is it done wiping? Nan Yang asked lightly.
"Master, don't do this." Qinghuan seemed to feel the coldness of Nan Yang's tone, and hurriedly whispered in Nan Yang's ear.
“…… Let's go when we're done, we're already some distance behind. Nan Yang turned his gaze away and stepped up with Qinghuan on his back.
But in the blink of an eye, Miaoshan was left behind by Nanyang, she held a dirty handkerchief in one hand and a dying medical Gu in the other, and couldn't help but roll her eyes. Really, you can't touch it, and you can't see who saved your precious apprentice. Good intentions are not rewarded.
The distance of one mile was not very far, and the group groped their way forward, and walked for about half an hour. Liu Wuhe has always been at the forefront, and then he is on the side. He had a fire fold in one hand and a dragon plate in the other, and the corners of his forehead were covered with fine sweat.
“…… It's here. Liu Wuhe took a breath and raised his hand to signal the people behind him to stop.
Bian Zi poked his head out to check, and in the faint light of the fire, he saw that there was a very obvious interception point on the soil wall not far ahead, and there was still loose soil slag on this side, and there were thick tomb bricks on that side, but from here, there was a wall at the end, sealing the tomb tightly......
"Yes, that's the road we walked back then." Liu Wuhe nodded, sent the fire fold in his hand out a little, and squinted at the wall close at hand, "It should be that they found out later that the hole was filled, and the bricks used are a little different from the bricks on the wall next to them." However, more than ten years have passed, and this kind of brick should not be particularly strong. ”
Bian Zi took advantage of the moment of silence, turned his head and asked Jun Qiao behind him: "Is there any way for the young valley master to quickly destroy this brick wall?" ”
Junqiao thought for a while and sighed lightly: "Yes, wait a moment." As soon as the words fell, she turned sideways to face Nameless beside her, reached out and touched Nameless's eye socket, and with a skillful force, she gouged out Nameless's left eyeball.
Bian Zi couldn't help but squint his eyes and subconsciously touched his left eye.
Jun Qiao took the nameless left eyeball sideways and walked over to Bian Ziqian and Liu Wuhe, put the eyeball on the corner of the brick wall, and turned his head slightly to signal them to step back.
She pulled out a few more small traps from her fanny pack and placed them in the corner, then took two steps back, calculating lightly.
"Five...... Four...... Three...... Two...... Burst! ”
Nameless's left eyeball was carried by those small mechanisms to achieve a small blast, I don't know what material the eyeball is made of, the power of the explosion is quite amazing, with a "boom-" sound, the brick wall was instantly blasted out of a hole large enough for one person to pass guò, and the slag on the roof of the tomb was shaken down a thick layer down.
The cave was suddenly filled with smoke and dust, and everyone covered their noses and coughed lightly.
Liu Wuhe frowned, waved the smoke and dust lightly with one hand, poked out the fire fold with the other, took a few steps forward, and took the lead in poking out the hole in the wall.
The hole in the wall is in a small corner of the tomb, and when you look out from here, you can only see the bottomless dark tomb, and the small everlasting lamps placed on the walls of the tomb, scattering a little faint light. Supporting the lantern is a strange iron beast that resembles a tiger, but the tail behind it resembles that of a cow.
Liu Wuhe looked around, carefully and slowly walked out, very cautious step by step, he needed to make sure that there were no mechanisms around at the front.
Everyone followed him out of the tomb slowly, and a bunch of people stepped into the tomb one after another.
Nan Yang was the last to walk out with Qing Huan on his back, Qing Huan blinked his eyes and looked around, and whispered to Nan Yang: "Master, let me down, you have been bending over in the tomb for a long time." ”
"Are you feeling better?"
"It's much better, it doesn't hurt much in the back anymore. It's okay for me to walk on my own, and you should rest too. ”
Nan Yang had no choice but to put Qinghuan off his back, and the moment he looked up, he saw the ever-bright lamps placed on the wall of the tomb, and his brows furrowed.
Qing Huan saw Nan Yang slightly distracted, and couldn't help asking, "Master, what's wrong?" ”
"Look...... That lamp, isn't it...... Where have you seen it? ”
Qinghuan followed her gaze and tilted her head slightly: "...... The lamp is not familiar, but the support underneath is ...... Hey, yes, this isn't the one in the floating jade building in Zhongyang City...... That ......"
"Boom." Jun Qiao, who came to her side at some point, took over.
Several people around looked at Junqiao, and Junqiao stared at the lamp and continued: "It is recorded in the Second Classic of the Southern Times: 'Five hundred miles to the east, it is called the Mountain of Floating Jade, looking at the Gu District in the north, and looking at Zhubi in the east. There is a beast, its shape is like a tiger and the tail of an ox, its sound is like a barking dog, and its name is 彘. ’。 ”
This passage is exactly the same as what she once said in the floating jade building, word for word.
"How can this be......" Nan Yang muttered to himself.
"The valley owner is well-informed and knowledgeable, but it is different. We didn't care about the details at all, and no one knew what the animal was. I remember that after we broke through the maze at that time, there was a body of water to the north, which happened to coincide with the record in the Second Classic of the South, so it can be deduced that this tomb was roughly created by the structure of Fuyu Mountain. ”
"So...... In fact, the floating jade building in Zhongyang, the force behind it is simply the Burning Heaven Gate? ”
Junqiao shook his head: "Don't guess yet, these clues are too messy, if you want to deviate, it is easy to cause us to have a mindset." …… It's important to get out of here first. ”
Liu Wuhe was silent for a moment, then changed the topic and said: "As soon as we enter the tomb now, we are already in a hollow-shaped maze, the so-called 'Hui' word, that is, the center of the maze is the main tomb, and the outside of the maze is outside the tomb." This maze is to trap the inverted thief, so it is very difficult to enter the main tomb or escape outside the tomb. We are now walking along the tomb road, only to find ourselves in a circle, there is no exit at all, only by breaking the formation, the exit will appear. ”
Cheng Zhuming said impatiently: "What kind of nonsense, just talk about how to break the formation, how can I have so much time to listen to you introduce this broken tomb." In a few hours, the starvation will be dying here. ”
Liu Wuhe quietly glanced at Cheng Candleming, paused for a moment, and his tone became dull: "I don't know how to break it, back then...... It's not that I'm broken. ”
Cheng Zhuming opened his mouth and closed it again.
Everyone looked at each other a few times, but they were all speechless. The atmosphere was low for a while, a little depressing.
"Let's go forward first, I know a little bit about the formation, and Nanyang should also understand something, there is always a way to get out." Junqiao mentions yì road.
"I have to do this, observe while walking, I believe that the master can break it." Bian Zi took advantage of it.
Nanyang Moyun, He Qinghuan and Junqiao walked to the front of everyone, followed by Liu Wuhe and Bian Ziyan, and behind were nine people including the Shanshan faction and Ranhuagu.
The long tomb road has no end in sight, the black holes, and the ever-bright lamps placed on the left and right actually do not play the role of lighting, and the hideous iron-cast beasts add an eerie atmosphere. No one spoke while walking, and only empty footsteps could be heard in the graveyard.
"Master, I don't know about this formation, how can we break it?" He asked softly.
“…… Hongfei Pavilion taught. Nan Yang replied expressionlessly.
Qing Huan lowered his head with embarrassment, coughed a few times in a low voice, and lowered his voice: "Formation...... It's so boring, I ...... I slept through. ”
Nan Yang looked a little helpless in his eyes, sighed lightly, and had to say: "Although the formations in the world are strange and different, the general routine is still the same. It's like everyone looks different, but they all have one head, two arms, and two legs. All formations have ten directions: heaven, earth, east, south, west, north, birth, death, past, and future. And what can usually be broken through is in the door of life and the position of death; As long as you can judge these ten directions, you can break this formation from the birth gate or the death position. ”
"That's right...... So where are we now, and what is the approximate direction? ”
"This array was originally non-stop, maybe you stepped on the Shengmen this step, or you may still step on the Shengmen in the next step. But we made a hole through that side and entered the maze, and its direction was limited. The location of the tomb is fixed as 'the past'. But where the life gate and the death position are moving at this time, we still have to judge as we go. ”
"The disciple is ashamed." Qinghuan touched the back of her head rather embarrassedly.
Bian Zi smiled lightly while he was on the side: "Senior sister, I don't blame you, this kind of thing is boring, and senior brother also slept in it back then, haha." ”
Nan Yang looked at the two apprentices beside her with a side face, and her voice was faint: "...... You two, go back and copy the "Tiangang Ten Phalanx" five times, take it five times and then come back to me to memorize it again. ”
Qinghuan: "......"
Bian Zi took advantage of: "......"
"Nanyang, now that you're in the tomb, don't be so ......" Junqiao couldn't help but smile.
“…… Ten times. ”
Qinghuan and Bian Zi hurriedly said: "The disciple receives the punishment, and the disciple receives the punishment." ”
Nan Yang turned his head and looked intently at the road ahead, and as he walked, he drew a shallow smile at an angle that they couldn't see, and in an instant he disappeared into the darkness.
I don't know how long I walked, but after about half an hour, a corner appeared in front of me.
Nan Yang took the dragon plate from Liu Wuhe, and first stood alone to the corner place, carrying a wind and rain lantern to carefully watch the changes on the dragon plate. Junqiao also stepped forward and stood beside Nanyang.
“…… It's the 'future'. ”
"No, this half is the future, and the other half is the 'north'." Nan Yang corrected.
Jun Qiao was a little suspicious, so he walked to the corner of the wall, put his palm on the brick wall, and knocked lightly. She summoned Nameless again, unloaded a small magnet from Nameless's severed arm, placed a small needle on it, and compared it everywhere.
"You're right, these two directions coincide...... Junqiao took out a talc from his waist bag, squatted down and drew a long line on the ground, writing "north" on one side and "not" on the other.
"Keep walking, you follow me in front, pay attention to the changes in the dragon hunting plate." Nanyang to Jun Bridge Road.
“…… The heavens, the earth, the birth, the death, the past, and the future will all change with the change of the formation, but the four directions of the southeast, south, and west are absolutely fixed. If the direction we were facing when we first came was north, from the perspective of the direction of the cemetery, it would have been ...... West ......" Junqiao looked at the dragon hunting plate in Nanyang's hand, stared at the magnet in his hand, and muttered.
"According to the law of changes in the dragon hunting plate, guess that the next corner may be 'heaven', and the 'ground' position will be ranked at the end or the penultimate corner." Nan Yang added.
"......" Junqiao was noncommittal about Nanyang's guess, and took out a small wooden board and used talc to calculate quickly, and after complex calculations, the conclusion was exactly the same as what Nanyang said.
"It's worthy of the lord who has lived for more than a hundred years......" Jun Qiao sighed twice.
Qing Huan walked beside him, but his speed gradually slowed down, and he bent down slightly from time to time and coughed lightly, looking like his body had not yet recovered completely.
A hand suddenly grabbed her arm.
"Girl, are you alright?" Miao Shan pressed the human skin mask on his face with his other hand, and said softly in his throat.
"It's you. Thank you, I'm fine. Qinghuan smiled weakly.
"I have some medicine, you can take a little first to replenish your vitality?"
"No need, I can hold on." Politely declined, and without a trace, he pulled his elbow out of Miaoshan's palm a little.
"Don't hold on, listen to my persuasion girl......"
"Gurgle-cluck-cluck-" Suddenly a strange sound came, and the loudness was not small.
Everyone stopped and looked around suspiciously, only Nanyang, Junqiao, and Nameless, who were walking in the front, were still walking, as if they had found something in front of them.
Suddenly there was a sense of foreboding.
Qinghuan instinctively pushed Miaoshan away, wanting to run to Nanyang's side as soon as possible. But then the movement became violent, and before the people behind could react, a heavy brick wall fell from the sky, and slammed into the ground with a "boom," completely separating the two groups of people in front and behind.
Qing Huan looked at the wall that suddenly fell in front of her, and the white-clothed figure who was still walking calmly in front of her eyes a moment ago disappeared behind this wall without warning.