Chapter 6: Escape into the Ancient Forest
The door of the dark passage slowly closed with a rattling sound, and Luo Jianchen watched Luo Yi's face disappear at the end of the dark passage, his heart suddenly jumped, and a trace of uneasiness was restless in his heart. "Why did Dad prepare the secret passage? Could it be that he was ready to run away? But it's not right, the man in black is here to hunt down and kill the Teng family brothers and sisters, and it is impossible for my father to know in advance? Why didn't he go with me? What else is he hiding from me? The fact of what happened today was too bizarre, and her mind was chaotic for a while, she shook her head, took a deep breath, and secretly said: "Listen to Dad, go to the Thousand Days Forest first, Dad doesn't seem to be really confused, since he can prepare the secret path, he naturally has a way to get out." "
Reaching into his bosom, he took out the fire fold and lit it, and looked at the surrounding scene by the flickering light of the fire.
It is a passage more than one person high, which can accommodate two people to pass through Guò side by side, but it winds and turns to the outside of the West City. The stone walls and the ground of the passage are uneven, and there is water seeping out of the ground, but it may be because of the downward slope, although there is water seeping out constantly, it does not form water, but the road area that has been blistered by water has become thick and slippery. There was a corrosive smell in the passage, and the smell was a little disgusting.
Luo Jianchen looked back at the Teng brothers and sisters who looked like puppets, laughed out loud, and said to Teng Yu: "You follow obediently, don't lose it, the ground is very slippery and careful." Teng Yu nodded obediently, Luo Jianchen looked at Teng Yu's well-behaved and obedient expression was very different from usual, and couldn't help but feel childlike, came to Teng Yu and patted his face, and said with a smile: "It turns out that your obedient appearance is quite cute, I knew that I should have used this soul incense to make you more obedient." Teng Yu nodded obediently. Luo Jianchen couldn't help but giggle when he looked funny, and the uneasiness in his heart was forgotten for a while.
Luo Jianchen held the stone wall with one hand, took Teng Yan's hand with the other, and walked forward slowly. After turning three corners, the road under his feet became smoother, but it was more slippery, and the passage became narrower and narrower, until finally he could only accommodate one person, Luo Jianchen had to let go of Teng Yan's hand, and only walked a few steps, then he heard a thud behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Teng Yan slipping and falling to the ground on all fours, and Teng Yu stood behind her and watched expressionlessly. Luo Jianchen hurriedly ran over and bent down to help her up, through the dim firelight, suddenly found that the road under her feet had disappeared from the moss since when, under the reflection of the firelight, the ground revealed a bright blue light, as smooth as jade, she couldn't help but be surprised, squatted down and touched the ground, the tentacles were really as warm as jade, and looked up and carefully checked the stone wall, but also through the blue glow, and the ground was like one.
Luo Jianchen was very excited, and said in his heart: "Is this passage made of jade?" With such a large piece of jade, what method did Dad use to get it here? How much does it cost? Or was this a jade mine in the first place? Was found by my father and rebuilt like this? She has been running around for a living since she was a child, although she also enjoys it, but whenever she can't make ends meet, she always thinks that she can earn more money, not only to support her family, but also to open a medical clinic in the future, so she usually saves money, and Luo Yi always spends money without feeling distressed, and often uses up her savings for alchemy. In desperation, Luo Jianchen had to often go in and out of the mountains to find some rare herbs, hoping to sell them at a good price and save some money. Now that he suddenly found out that his father had such a large amount of wealth, the excitement in his heart can be imagined, and he seems to vaguely understand why his father always cares so much about money.
Luo Jianchen helped Teng Yan up, afraid that she would slip and fall, so she had to tighten her hand again, so that she could only move forward carefully step by step, walked a short distance, and was not careful under her feet, she almost fell, and she could only hold Teng Yan's waist and half-hold her forward, fortunately, both of them were slender girls, and their bodies were barely able to pass Guò if they were tightly attached.
After another stretch of travel, the road became rough again, and the jasper road disappeared. The nose vaguely smelled a strange light fragrance emanating from Teng Yan's body, as if it were nothing, if it weren't for the corrosive smell in the passage becoming more and more intense, and Teng Yan was close to Luo Jianchen, Luo Jianchen almost couldn't notice it, she had always been sensitive to smells, and she couldn't tell what kind of fragrance it was, and she couldn't help but be secretly surprised in her heart.
After about half an hour, the road came to an end. A dark hole appeared, Luo Jianchen couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart, and he didn't know what kind of situation was outside this cave?
She let go of Teng Yan and said to the two: "You stay here and don't move, I'll go out and have a look first." The two nodded obediently and stood still. Luo Jianchen smiled happily and said in his heart: "If it weren't for this soul-leaving incense, with the temperament of these two brothers and sisters, I don't know how much trouble it would cause along the way." Hey, it's a pity that the medicinal effect of the soul incense is only for an hour and it is harmless to the body. "
Luo Jianchen approached the entrance of the cave, only to find that the entrance of the cave was blocked by a stone door, which was integrated with the surroundings, and it would be difficult to be found if he didn't take a closer look. She pushed it down with her hand, but the stone door did not move at all, and said in her heart: "Could it be that there is some mechanism?" So he searched up and down, left and right, but there was nothing to start with. I couldn't help but wonder, "How do I get out of this?" Is Dad confused again, and he didn't tell him how to get out? After thinking about it: "Dad, this person is just a trivial matter, and since he has not said it, there must be a very simple way." "What could that be? I was annoyed by myself, and suddenly saw a flash of purple light on my wrist, and my heart couldn't help but move, could it be that the method of opening the door is related to this Qiankun bracelet? So he concentrated his mind and shouted in his heart: "Open the door", which is strange to say, the stone door that was originally tightly closed actually made a slight creaking sound, retreated from the left side, and a hole appeared, and a fresh air drifted into the hole with rain.
Luo Jianchen pushed aside the grass blocking the entrance of the cave and poked his head out.
It was dark outside the cave, and the torrential rain had stopped, except for some rain floating in the night sky. Through the glimmer of fire, Luo Jianchen recognized that outside this passage was the bamboo forest next to the sheep belly trail that must be passed to the Thousand Days Forest.
At this time, it was past the dawn, Luo Jianchen listened carefully, except for the rustle of leaves in the wind and the ticking of raindrops, there was silence all around. Luo Jianchen put his mind at ease, turned around and walked back to Teng Yu Teng Yan and said, "I'll take you out, but you have to follow." She extinguished the fire and took the lead to climb out of the hole, and Teng Yu Teng Yan also climbed up one by one. Luo Jianchen closed his eyes at the entrance of the cave and said in his heart: "Close the door." I heard a soft sound of a clatter, and the door of the cave closed again, and from the outside, it was just a protruding stone mound.
Luo Jianchen turned around and looked at Teng Yu Teng Yan who was standing there, and said secretly in his heart: "I hope you are sober and don't cause any more trouble." He reached into his bosom and took out a handkerchief and shook it gently under the noses of the two of them, and after a while, only to hear a loud sneeze from one of them, and the original sluggish expression disappeared.
"Where is this? Teng Yu looked around blankly.
"This is a bamboo forest outside the West City. "
Teng Yu glanced at Teng Yan, who was standing beside him with a confused face, and said, "Outside the West City? How did we get here? Did you bring us here? "
"It's not. I didn't know, I opened my eyes and it was here. Luo Jianchen was afraid that he would not be able to finish asking questions, and besides, she couldn't explain some things, so she simply lied.
"Brother Jianchen, why is it so dark here? Teng Yan grabbed Luo Jianchen's sleeve and said, "Brother, where are we going?" Suddenly remembering something, a look of panic appeared on his face, and he shouted: "Ah, did we escape?" "
"I guess so. You tap. Seeing Teng Yan's startled appearance, Luo Jianchen really had a headache.
Suddenly, I heard a chaotic sound of footsteps coming from the path outside the bamboo forest. There was still a faint firelight shaking, and the three of them were stunned, how could there be people on this deserted path at this hour? Could it be that they are chasing after them?
Luo Jianchen put his finger on his lips, made a silent gesture to the two, took Teng Yan's hand and squatted down next to the stone hill, Teng Yu glanced at the two strangely, and also squatted down beside Luo Jianchen.
A man's scolding voice came from far and near: "Damn, in the middle of the night, you sent us to this hellish place, so that Lao Tzu didn't have a good night's sleep, catch someone, I think I catch a fart." Who is this? "
"That's it, who will hide in this hellish place and say Zhang Tou, why is our team always so unlucky, where is it not clean, where is it sent to it, there is a thousand days in front, I think we should go back." I can't go to that place, and others didn't catch it. Another shrill male voice rang out.
The man who was called Zhang Tou said: "You can say a few words, who wants to come to this place on this big night, but who told us to live with official salaries, we must run errands under orders from above." "
"What do you say this Teng family has committed, and if you want to make such a ruthless move, you will kill it when you say it, and you really want to kill it all? "
"Tianwei is unpredictable, I heard that someone came from Beijing, the official is not small, and the Tengfu in Beijing was also copied. "
A rough voice said: "Two days ago, I was listening to the tea house and saw Teng Yu's kid, hey, don't say that that kid is not bad, he is good enough, I think he is better than Xiao Cheng's little bastard."
The shrill male voice said: "Brother Cao, I said that you speak lightly, this is going to be sued, you say that you are bored."
The gruff voice said, "Who the is full." Fuck this asshole thing. "
Another deep voice pretended to be mysterious: "Hey, have you seen anyone from the capital?" He laughed twice, paused deliberately, and continued when he saw that no one accosted him: "I saw it to you," he paused again, and saw that there was still no one to acquiesce, so he had to continue: "It's a man" Before he finished speaking, he caused a burst of laughter, "Isn't it a man, is it still a girl?" A male voice laughed.
"It's a man who is more handsome than a girl, and he can pinch out the water with his tender skin. "
"I think you're thinking about women going crazy, Li Lao Liu. Another burst of laughter rang out.
"Could it be a eunuch? "
The open-headed voice said: "I said that you people are really itchy, what nonsense, this is going to get out, don't blame me for not protecting you." Hurry up, poke around again, it's okay, go back and hand it over. "
Footsteps and laughter echoed in the silent forest, through the faint firelight in the distance, Luo Jianchen saw Teng Yu's face pale, staring straight out of the forest, his eyes seemed to be about to erupt fire, since she knew Teng Yu, he always looked like a smiling boy, how could he have the current expression, knowing that he must be angry to the extreme, I was really afraid that he would get up for a while and rush out. Reaching out and squeezing his clenched fists hard, he shook them gently.
"Zhang Tou, I don't even see a ghost here, let's go back. I don't dare to go into the forest in front of me, my wife and children still have to rely on me to support them. "
"We can't get in, even if the two Teng family really escape, it's a dead end. "
The man with a sharp voice said, "How can you feel eerie after staying here for a long time?" Don't get anything dirty. "
"Okay, go to the bamboo forest over there and take a look, and go back to pay if there's nothing. "
The sound of footsteps came from far and near, and stopped outside the bamboo forest. Luo Jianchen's heart suddenly rose to his throat.
The few people who spoke, Luo Jianchen, and the three of them all recognized that they were the officials of the town's government office. Teng Yu and Xiao Cheng have a small fight for three days, a big fight for five days, often to alarm Master Xiao, at the beginning Xiao Jizu also personally went out to persuade the fight, and after accidentally receiving a few punches, he, a weak scholar who can only "call the caller", no longer dares to take the lead to persuade these two little overlords, so as soon as there is such a thing, he hides far away, and let his subordinates act as cannon fodder. The officials have been on errands for many years, and of course they all understand the stakes in this, and none of them can afford to provoke these two people, so when the two of them are left alone, they all try their best to make friends. Although Teng Yu has a bit of a young master's temper, he is also a person who understands his temperament, and he will give them some face when something happens, so he mixes well with this class of officials.
A rustling of footsteps came from outside the bamboo forest, one step, two steps closer and closer to the small mound where they were hiding, Luo Jianchen could already see their soap-colored boots shaking in front of her eyes, she obviously felt Teng Yan's body move, and she was about to stand up. The heart said that this eldest lady should not make any more mess at this time, these officials are easy to deal with, but if the fight starts, it will be miserable if the man in black is alarmed. didn't have time to think about it, stretched out his arm to hug Teng Yan, pressed her into his arms, and whispered close to her ear: "Don't move." Teng Yan originally heard the footsteps getting closer and closer, and in a panic, she wanted to get up and run, and was suddenly held in Luo Jianchen's arms, and his soft voice came from her ears, her face couldn't help but turn red to the root of her ears, her chest was pounding like a deer, and her heart was inexplicably filled with a trace of sweetness, and she forgot that she was in danger for a while.
"I said forget it, let's go back, don't really run into that kid, how can we beat him, it's not for nothing. "
Another shouted, "Searched, no one." "
The sound of footsteps and the light of the fire walked out of the forest, fading away and disappearing into the darkness.
It wasn't until he couldn't hear a sound at all that Luo Jianchen breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel that a layer of cold sweat had appeared on his back, and he let go of the hand holding Teng Yan and stood up, and Teng Yu Teng Yan also stood up.
"Brother Jianchen" Teng Yan's cheeks were red, her eyes were rolling, her face was shy, she pulled Laluo Jianchen's sleeve and said, "This is for you." Reaching out and taking a dark red stone from his neck and stuffing it into Luo Jianchen's hand, without waiting for her to answer, he turned around and ran to Teng Yu's side, looking at Luo Jianchen with a pair of bright eyes.
Luo Jianchen looked at the stone in his hand, and couldn't help but be surprised, this stone was exactly the same as the broken blood crystal taken from Teng Yu's body, and secretly said in his heart: "Could it be that this is also a broken blood crystal?" It turned out that the Teng family actually had two broken blood crystals, why did Teng Yan suddenly give it to herself? "
Teng Yan saw Luo Jianchen holding the stone in a daze, afraid that she would not accept it, so she whispered to Teng Yu with anxiety: "Brother, I gave the talisman stone that my mother gave me to Brother Jianchen, you, you understand my thoughts, right?" "
Teng Yu's heart was in turmoil, he frowned and looked at Luo Jianchen and then at Teng Yan and said, "Jianchen, since Ah Yan gave it to you, you can take it, but don't let her down in the future." "
Luo Jianchen heard Teng Yu speak, his heart was weak for a while, Teng Yu's broken blood crystal was still in his arms, if he took it out now, he could still have an explanation, but his stone had been opened by himself, if he returned it, would he really bring trouble to him as his father said? If he doesn't pay it back, how can he explain it if he finds out? In a flash of thought, he didn't understand the meaning of Teng Yu's words, but nodded again and again: "Yes, it is to live up to her wishes." "
Teng Yan smiled brightly, ran to Luo Jianchen's side and said softly: "Brother Jianchen, will Ah Yan listen to you in the future?" "
"Oh, good. Luo Jianchen was speechless for a while.
Seeing Teng Yan smiling and snuggling beside Luo Jianchen, Teng Yu's tense face gradually relaxed.
"Jianchen, you can't stay here for a long time, we have to find a place to settle down while it's dark, you are familiar with this neighborhood, where do you say to go?" "
"In front of us is the Thousand Days Forest, and through the forest is Weishan, so let's go to the forest to hide for a while, and when dawn I will take you to Weishan. "
"To the Thousand Days Forest? Brother Jianchen, isn't there a goblin there? "
"Leprechauns? Luo Jianchen said, "I've run thousands of times and haven't encountered a goblin, but the man in black you recruited for me tonight is more like a goblin." "
Teng Yu frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Okay, listen to Jian Chen, let's go to the Thousand Days Forest." Teng Yan saw that Teng Yu also said the same, so she didn't say anything anymore.
Luo Jianchen took out Ning Xindan from his arms and swallowed one grain first, then took out two more grains and gave them to the two, and said, "Swallow this, and enter the forest for a while to avoid miasma." ",
The three of them got ready and quickened their pace out of the bamboo forest. Teng Yan was a little scared in her heart, and grabbed Luo Jianchen's hand tightly.
The rain had stopped, the sky was dark, and it was the first shift.
There were still less than ten steps, and I could vaguely see the mist outside the Thousand Days Forest. Luo Jianchen's spirit perked up, his tense nerves were relaxed, and he said in his heart: "It's safe to enter the forest." "
Suddenly, a gloomy laughter sounded behind him, Luo Jianchen's blood seemed to freeze in an instant, and the only reaction left in his mind was "run".
After running two steps, a black shadow swept over his head, and there was already a man dressed in black in front of him, with a cold smile on his bewitching face, and said coldly: "Three little dolls, how can you run out of the palm of this seat." "
Luo Jianchen was the closest to the man in black, and he was originally extremely scared, seeing that there was nowhere to escape, and suddenly he didn't know where to get a momentum, he pushed Teng Yan hard, and shouted: "Fast into the forest" grabbed the body of the man in black with both hands, and bit down on his arm when he opened his mouth.
Teng Yancui was caught off guard, pushed by her, ran forward more than a dozen steps, and her body suddenly disappeared in the fog, Teng Yu also reacted, ran with her feet, and disappeared into the fog in the blink of an eye.
The man in black didn't expect this little young man to be so bold, his anger rose sharply, and he struck down on his vest with a palm, seeing that Luo Jianchen was about to die under his palm, suddenly a colored light flew up from Luo Jianchen's wrist, and rushed straight to the door of the man in black, the man in black changed his palm, and hit the colored light, the colored light was very flexible, turned over in the air, and the man in black had good eyesight, this time he could see clearly, it turned out to be a small colored snake, he couldn't help but be angry, his palm turned over, and he saw a flame with black gas spewing out of the palm, encircling the little snake in the middle, The little snake rushed left and right in the flames, and suddenly twisted its body and opened its mouth to spew out a cloud of white gas, and the flame was forced back a little by the white gas. But the little snake was obviously a little scared, and he didn't dare to pounce on the man in black anymore, and with a bow, he flew back to Luo Jianchen's wrist.
Luo Jianchen took advantage of the distraction of the man in black and ran away.
"Look for death. The man in black originally thought that these three young men who had left the support of their elders would definitely be captured, so he had a contempt for them, and he didn't want them to flee into the dense forest because of this, so he was furious in his heart, and his hand raised a ball of black qi and attacked Luo Jianchen's back with flames.
Luo Jianchen only felt a sharp pain in his back, his chest was stuffy, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, staining the placket of his chest to the ground, and a strange fragrance suddenly wafted in the air. She gritted her teeth and forced herself to endure the sharp pain in her heart, and plunged headlong into the mist.
"Condensing Yin and Gathering Yang Body" An incredible look suddenly appeared on the face of the man in black, he took a sharp breath, his body shook, and he had come to the edge of the forest, looking at the little blood droplets dripping from the ground, and suddenly laughed. "This young man is actually a body that condenses yin and gathers yang, this is really a rare adventure for a thousand years. Compared with the pure yin and pure yang physique, this kind of physique is even rarer, and people with this physique, their blood will have a special aroma, and using this blood into the pill can not only quickly improve the cultivation realm, but also have the effect of rejuvenating the face. If you cultivate as a furnace ding, people with this kind of physique have an inexhaustible source of Yuan Yang and Yuan Yin, because Yin and Yang can originally be mutually beneficial.
The man in black showed a greedy glint in his cold eyes, staring at the misty woods in front of him, and muttered to himself, "I actually set up a hum, and I escaped to the edge of the sky and arrested you." With a move in his left hand, there was already a dark red toad covered with markings in his hand, and the toad's belly was swollen, as if it was about to break, and suddenly raised his head and spit out a cloud of pink smoke, which was strange to say, and the pink smoke quickly turned into a wisp of pink smoke like a spirit, fluttering into the mist. The man in black jumped into the fog with the fine smoke.
In the dark sky, a blue light fell in front of the forest from far and near, and a middle-aged Taoist with two swords on his back and a bright yellow robe appeared, he frowned and looked at the woods in front of him, as if he was thinking, only a moment of effort, his eyebrows spread, and he stepped into the forest.