Zhan Zhao and the others followed the sand ghost into the dense forest.

The woods in this area are smaller than those where wolves gather, and they are full of dead shrubs, and there is a smell of decay when you walk in.

However, the trees here are sparse and there is no sunlight all year round.

Everyone followed into the forest and began to wonder - this forest is so abandoned that even the wolves can't look at it, and the commander of the sand ghost can't be something unsightly, right?

Just as they were puzzled, they saw that the sand ghost stopped, and everyone hurriedly looked for a tree trunk to hide.

At this time, it is noon, which should be the most sunny time, the temperature difference between day and night in the desert is large, and this time of day is often dry and hot, but here it is cold and damp.

When the sand ghost stopped, he stood where he was, kicked away a few pieces of rotten wood, pulled some dirt away, and finally opened an iron plate under the dirt.

Everyone raised their eyebrows - oh?! It turns out that there are authentics!

The sand ghost burrowed into the tunnel.

The people came out from behind the bushes to see the entrance to the tunnel.

They glanced at each other, what does that mean—can't go down?

Bai Yutang was still ready to go down first, and just as he wanted to jump, he heard Zhanzhao whisper in his ear, "There may be bugs." ”

Bai Yutang froze and looked at Zhanzhao.

Yin Hou sighed helplessly, his grandson was also idle, and he had nothing to do to toss Bai Yutang. Bai Yutang is the same, and he has no way to deal with Zhanzhao if anyone has a way.

"Go down first for the teacher!" Tianzun wanted to jump down, but Bai Yutang grabbed it.

"I'll go first!" Zhao Pu was about to jump down, but Ouyang and Zou Liang grabbed him.

Lin Yehuo couldn't stand it anymore, and was helpless, "You guys can run away from that sand ghost again!" ”

The crowd looked at him together.

Zou Liang shook his head and jumped down the tunnel first, Lin Yehuo also followed, and everyone jumped down after the end.

When I entered the tunnel, I found that it was just a very ordinary passageway, and there was light in front of it, and it seemed that there was an exit.

Everyone looked at each other.

Zhao Pu thought for a while, "The terrain around here is still quite complicated, is it hidden in some ravine?" ”

So the crowd ran quickly, and sure enough, when they turned the corner, they saw an exit.

Through the exit, I saw that there was a steep hill outside, and the sand ghost had already left the tunnel and was walking halfway up the opposite hillside, and there was a cave on the mountainside.

The sand ghost crawled to the mouth of the cave and went in.

When they came out of the cave, they found them in a col. But there are no shrubs near this col, only chaffed ochre-colored rocks.

Ouyang thought for a while, "It should be in the ravine area, there are many barren mountains like these hollowed-out stones nearby, and they are rarely visited. ”

When they reached the hillside, they found traces of artificially hewn steps, but the workmanship was very crude, and it seemed to be very old.

Easily ascending the mountain, turning into the cave, I found that it was very wide, and a large steep slope led to the bottom of the cave.

Zou Liang still took the lead, because Zhan Zhao scared Bai Yutang and said that there might be a big spider, Bai Yutang had a little urge to plug Zhan Zhao's mouth, but remembering that the spider still couldn't bear it, the fifth master would rather go behind.

As the slope fell, the environment became more humid, and a simple wooden bridge was built over a ditch, and as they crossed the bridge, they heard a voice.

When I listened to it, it seemed to be a voice, but I couldn't hear it really, and it felt like a ghost crying.

Zou Liang looked at Lin Yehuo, Lin Yehuo opened his mouth, that means - you first!

Zou Liang looked at the sky, but he still took the lead and walked over.

When I walked to the end of the walkway, I noticed some stalagmites, and there seemed to be some space behind the stalagmites, and the faint light came out through the cracks in the wall...... Depending on the flickering of the lights, it should be a candle flame.

The crowd raised eyebrows - how could anyone light a candle here?

"You're the only one?"

While he was wondering, a hoarse and old voice came out.

If you don't see anyone just listening to the voice, it makes people think that this person probably won't live long, or has his throat been burned? The sound is also too scary.

"Go find a few people in a nearby village and catch a few cats to feed me......"

This sentence was said in the man's hoarse and weird voice, and everyone felt that their hairs stood on end—how many cats did they catch to eat?

Bai Yutang felt that someone was holding his shoulder, and when he turned around, he saw Zhan Zhao holding his shoulder to hide behind him, squinting his eyes with a look of disgust.

At this moment, the sand ghost turned out from behind the stone pillar, and was stunned when he saw everyone.

But before he could react, Tianzun raised his hand and patted him lightly...... Look at it again, the sand ghost has frozen into icicles, Tianzun learned to look like no sand, chanted "Amitabha", and then flicked his sleeves......

The sand ghost shattered to the ground.

Tianzun smiled and turned his head to look at Bai Yutang, which meant to ask-Is it good to be a teacher?

Zhan Zhao gave a thumbs up to Tianzun behind Bai Yutang, and the others also nodded their heads in appreciation, so they heard Bai Yutang suddenly say, "Remember to wash your hands when you go back." ”

Everyone looked at the sky, and Tianzun rushed over to rub Bai Yutang's face with his hands.

Yin Hou sighed - Tianzun is an old man who is not respectful, and he has bullied his apprentices for decades and is still bullying!

Yin Hou stretched out his hand to help Bai Yutang pull Tianzun away, walked out of the stone pillar, and when he arrived at a place with lights, he saw that it was a secret room.

The others also followed, and the sight in front of them made everyone a little dumbfounded.

I saw the secret room in front of me empty, simple and tattered furniture, and an old man who was as old as a dry corpse, to be exact...... It's not one, it's half!

The old man's legs were broken off at the root, and his upper body was left, sitting in a special wheelchair, his skin was gray and dry, and his cloak was dirty, looking like no one was a ghost.

Everyone was dumbfounded, could it be that this is the real mastermind behind the sand ghosts?

The old man looked frightened at this time, and looked at everyone, "Someone! Come! ”

Everyone thought that he might be calling those sand ghosts, right? Pity...... The sand ghosts are dead, even the two-headed snakes.

Zou Yue, who came in behind everyone, suddenly walked up a few steps and stared at the old man.

The eyes met, and the man hurriedly turned his face.

Zou Yue was stunned for a long time and spoke, "It's you?" ”

Everyone looked at Zou Yue in surprise.

Zou Liang asked, "Dad, do you know him?" ”

As soon as Zou Liang's words fell, the old man turned his head suddenly, looked at Zou Liang, and then looked at Zou Yue, and then looked hideous, "You actually have a son?" Your wife and children should all be dead! ”

Zou Liang's eyes were cold, and Zou Yue gently pressed his shoulder, signaling him to be calm.

Zhao Pu felt that the environment here was too bad, so he asked the shadow guards to bring the old man back to the camp for interrogation.

After the shadow guards took the old man away, everyone also went out, but Zhanzhao stood in place, as if looking for something in the secret room.

Bai Yutang asked, "What are you looking for?" ”

"Spider." Zhan Zhao replied.

Bai Yutang reached out and grabbed the back of Zhanzhao's neck, and looked around by the way—there should be no spiders.

Zhan Zhao then looked around.

Seeing that the two of them were not leaving, Yin Hou grabbed Tianzun, who was about to run out, and asked Zhanzhao, "What are you looking for?" ”

Zhanzhao rummaged through the cabinets and said, "When I was having breakfast this morning, the little fourth son said that I had good fortune today. ”

"Fortune?" Bai Yutang was puzzled.

At this time, I saw that Zhanzhao knocked on the wall when he moved a box, and the sound was very muffled.

Everyone subconsciously glanced at the wall - there was something inside?

Zhan Zhao pulled out the giant que, "banged" at the wall, swept the sword diagonally, and then dragged the wall......

With a "boom", the wall collapsed, and the wall skin and broken bricks were scattered on the ground, but when they looked at the things behind the wall, everyone was dumbfounded......

I saw the walls full of golden bricks.

Zhan Zhao knocked down the wall skin, and the most embarrassed ...... The gold brick wall is presented to everyone.

Bai Yutang glanced at it and reported, "One hundred thousand taels of gold." ”

Everyone was stunned.

Zhao Pu plucked his ears, "How much?" ”

Bai Yutang replied, "One hundred thousand taels." ”

Tianzun touched his chin, "Who found it?" ”

Yin Hou wordlessly dragged Tianzun's clothes by the collar and dragged the person out of the coffin, so as not to cause him a mess.

Zou Yue was stunned in place, looking at the gold brick wall for a long time, and let out a long sigh after the most reluctance, "It turned out to be for these." ”

Everyone else was puzzled.

Lin Yehuo was neither big nor small, and his arm was on Zou Yue's shoulder, "My sister is his godfather, do you know where these things come from?" ”

Zou Yue nodded, walked over, stretched out his hand and pulled out a gold brick from the wall, showing it to everyone, and saw that on the top of the gold brick, there was a "Zhao" character.

Everyone was stunned.

Zhao Pu was surprised, "This is military salary!" ”

Zou Yue sighed, "Back then, we all thought that we would fight a war with the Liao State, so the imperial court allocated a military salary. Because of the large number, my soldiers and horses will be transferred to the western foothills, the purpose is to protect this batch of military salaries. ”

"That batch of military salaries is here, does it mean that they were robbed back then?" Zhao Pu asked.

Zou Yue nodded, "It should be...... After so many years, I have never been able to figure out why I could have seen a ghost town so coincidentally, not to mention the destruction of my family, and the death of nearly 100,000 brothers, now that I think about it...... It turned out to be just for the money! ”

Everyone looked at each other, and when they saw Zou Yue's emotion, they seemed to be a little sad, Zhao Pu glanced at Zou Liang, and Zou Liang and Lin Yehuo accompanied Zou Yue out of the city first.

Zhan Zhao looked at the gold on that wall, "I haven't heard of losing so much military salary." ”

Zhao Pudao, "It should be kept secret, if the news comes out, it will shake the morale of the army, and it may also cause unnecessary trouble, anyway, I don't have much else in the Great Song Dynasty, just a lot of money...... It's really not worth it to make such a bunch of for a few pieces of gold, so many people have died, and Zou Yue has lived in the sea of ghosts for twenty years to find out the truth......"

Zhao Pu arranged for the shadow guards to bring people to dig for gold, while the others returned to the barracks.

Zou Yue's mood had calmed down at this time, and he told everyone that the old man was a low-level general who was originally stationed at the western foothills. He and several other teams were in charge of guarding the gold, waiting for his army to arrive.

After hearing this, everyone realized that it was a prison guard who had stolen himself.

Zou Yue told everyone that this person's name was Shi Fang, and he joined the army at almost the same time. He became a general all the way, and he was only a low-level general with a garrison salary after reaching the bottom. They had a grudge when they were young. Shi Fang's hands and feet are very unclean, and he is a little smart, but he has no sense of responsibility. When he first entered the barracks, he and Zou Yue were both very appreciated, and they soon became commanders. Once the two of them were responsible for guarding a city, Shi Fang ran to gamble money, and let the soldiers guard it, thinking that nothing would happen anyway.

But that day, there was a sudden enemy sneak attack, Zou Yue led people to fight, won more with less, and kept the city.

It was such a coincidence that the general of the Song army was also in the city that day, and Zou Yue had great merit and was rewarded heavily. And Shi Fang left his post without permission and was heavily fined, in addition to demotion, he was also fined twenty sticks.

The person who executed Shi Fang was a soldier under Zou Yue.

The soldier's brother was originally in Shi Fang's army, and the two joined the army together, and he followed Zou Yue all the time safely, but his brother had an accident with Shi Fang. Because Shi Fang left his post without permission, several of his soldiers died, including the soldier's younger brother. The soldier was resentful and made a black hand during the execution, so that Shi Fang's leg was broken and he fell ill.

Since then, Shi Fang's career has not been smooth, he has not been able to rise, his health is getting worse and worse, and his legs and feet are becoming more and more disobedient day by day.

But Zou Yue rose all the way to the rank of general, commanding 100,000 soldiers and horses, and was supported by everyone.

Shi Fang has always been worried about this, and the soldiers who executed him were Zou Yue's subordinates, so he always believed that Zou Yue instructed him.

Zou Yue knew that he hated himself, but he didn't appreciate Shi Fang's personality either. Zou Yue has an upright temperament and feels that people like Shi Fang are not qualified to be soldiers at all. As a commander, leaving his post without permission is tantamount to putting his brother to death, which is a crime that should be punished for violating military orders.

After that, Zou Yue didn't know what to do.

And Zhao Pu asked the shadow guards to interrogate Shi Fang, and he knew the second half of the story.

Shi Fang looked for home remedies everywhere to treat his foot disease, but there was no good medicine, and his body was getting worse day by day. He heard that snakes in the field could heal foot injuries by soaking in wine, so he went to the heart of the desert to look for snakes. Before he knew it, he walked into the sea of ghosts.

Shi Fang doesn't look at people very authentically, but he has a very smart brain, and he is proficient in a lot of crooked things. In the sea of ghosts, he discovered the secret of the wind and sand wall, and by mistake, he walked to the stone formation.

There, he spotted the two-headed snake.

Shi Fang knew some secrets about the two-headed snake, so he killed the big snake, left the snake eggs, and waited for the baby snake to hatch, and he was the owner of the snake. He asked a few soldiers from the barracks to try it out, and sure enough, the soldiers who had turned into sand ghosts obeyed him.

Shi Fang ordered the sand ghosts to stay in the desert and help him find out the secrets of the desert.

Gradually, he discovered that there were still red sand demons in the sea of ghosts. The sand ghosts have always existed, and the two sides fought fiercely. The earlier sand ghosts didn't know who they were following their orders, but they were quickly wiped out by the sand demon clan.

Shi Fang originally cultivated his own sand ghost clan, just to facilitate life and for future use. Until one day, a large number of military salaries arrived.

Shi Fang had no intention of joining the army again, and the so-called desire to make money came up with the idea of paying the 100,000 taels of gold for the military salary.

It was such a coincidence, the day when Zou Yue led the troops to transfer was a windless day, and Shi Fang knew that the city should appear at night, so he felt that it was providence, so he let the sand ghosts ambush the people brought by Zou Yue inside......

Everything went well, and Shi Fang also felt that he had killed Zou Yue and his wife and children, and avenged it.

But after the worst incident, when he successfully stole the military salary and escaped, he had a leg attack, and in order to save his life, Lang Zhong sawed off his two legs.

Although Shi Fang got a lot of gold and silver, he lost both legs, and there were marks on the military salary, if he took out the money and used it, he might be investigated and punished, and then he would lose his life. He also listened to the sand ghost reply, Zou Yue is not dead.

Shi Fang had a grudge in his heart, and he had to take Zou Yue's life, so he ...... He found a hidden valley to live in temporarily, wanting to kill Zou Yue first, and then wait for the limelight to pass, and then go out with the gold.

But who knew that the will of heaven made people, Shi Fang guarded 100,000 taels of gold and lived a life of no one and no ghost in the deep mountains, and sent a large number of sand ghosts to kill Zou Yue. Unexpectedly, Zou Yue joined forces with the Sand Demon Clan, and he couldn't kill him no matter how he killed, and he killed the Sand Devils under him almost cleanly.

Shi Fang also drilled the tip of the horns, and he had to kill Zou Yue, so he ...... That's more than 20 years. Shi Fang has difficulty moving, and he needs to be taken care of by sand ghosts when he eats and drinks, and he can live what can be said to be the worst life.

For more than 20 years, the world outside has changed dynasties, and Shi Fang, who wants to wait for the limelight to pass before coming out of the mountain, has ushered in the Zhao Pu era of Black Wind City. Zhao Jiajun is not a little stronger than the Song army back then, and if he takes the military salary out of the army at this time, he will still be arrested.

Originally, he was counting the days, but recently there was going to be a windless day again, and the sand ghosts under him were about to die, so he planned to repeat his old tricks, and it was best to introduce more people from the ghost sea, become sand ghosts, and make a comeback by himself, so there was this series of incidents, and those news were also released by him.

Before, the sand ghosts were going to bury them alive, and they were all ghost ideas that Shi Fang came up with. Shi Fang had already figured out the ghost sea, of course, it wasn't him who touched it himself, it was the sand ghost who told him after understanding the terrain.

After Zou Liang and Lin Yehuo learned the whole truth, they wanted to skin the old man alive, but Zhao Pu didn't let them do it. At that time, the Song army suffered heavy losses, and Zhao Pu asked the military law to dispose of the stone square to comfort the souls of the soldiers in the sky.

With the stone square being corrected, this ghost sea maze has lost that layer of mystery.

Lin Yehuo took everyone from the Sand Demon Clan to Devil City, and Zhao Pu brought all the Song troops left behind back to Black Wind City.

Ouyang Shaozheng and Long Qiaoguang took people and blew up the lost city.

When the maze was blown up, it was really earth-shattering, and the power of tens of thousands of thunderbolts exploding at the same time shook the entire Sha.

Many people in Liao and Western Xia said that Zhao Pu was crazy, but with the collapse of the lost city, the ghost sea is no longer a dangerous place.

Zhao Pu found craftsmen, and with the help of the Sand Demon Clan, marked the location of the quicksand pit and built an official road on a safe road...... This greatly shortens the road for merchants to travel, saving them the trouble of bypassing the ghost sea.

After this riot, everyone has their own gains. Zou Liang found his father, Lin Yehuo found his sister and a large group of relatives, and Song Jun recovered 100,000 taels of gold. But the most bizarre thing is Bai Yutang, the fifth master went to the west to take a turn, and he got a dragon back.

The author has something to say: "The Lost City of the Ghost Sea" is over, and the next case is "The Mantra of Seven Songs", everyone will go back to Kaifeng and continue to toss.