Chapter 19: Crossing over to the Zhou Dynasty
Qi Lu didn't have the heart to appreciate this strange light, he walked to the skeleton and took down the ancient mirror.
As if it had lost its support, the skeleton drooped the moment the ancient mirror left its hand bones, turning into dust, as if it had never existed.
"Maybe this mirror is a Horcrux for skeletons." Qi Lu muttered and handed the ancient mirror to the professor.
It looks like a relic of the Zhou Dynasty, the back of the mirror is full of intricate patterns, and the mirror button is inlaid with a smooth and delicate red agate, and the edge is also adhered to the crumbs that resemble animal skins.
Jiang Wenhao just touched it lightly with his hand, and the dander was scattered on the ground, and the color of the red agate also dimmed a little.
"Strange!" Jiang Wenhao couldn't help but marvel at the ancient mirror, and looked at it over and over, trying to find out the surname of the person casting the mirror, but the result was disappointing.
Seeing that the mirror was covered with stains of patina rust, Jiang Wenhao gently wiped it with his hand, and all the patinas fell off and floated on the ground. The mirror has become brand new, and Jiang Wenhao can clearly see his face in the mirror.
In an instant, Qi Lu suddenly noticed that there was a dangerous aura in the air, and his gaze stayed on the red agate, seeing that it was like a drop of solidified blood under the light of the flashlight.
"This mirror may be a hoodoo thing," Qi Lu stared at the strangely red gem a little dazed.
"It's not as serious as you say, is it?"
At this moment, the bright lights on the cave wall suddenly went out, and a cold voice came out of the darkness: "Hand over the treasure mirror, I will spare you from death!" ”
Jiang Wenhao exclaimed: "Oops, someone is following us!" ”
Qi Lu blocked his body in front of the professor, and said in a deep voice to the unknown ghost: "I said I wanted it, and I didn't even say a word of invitation, have you considered my feelings?" ”
"Then wait for death!"
When the menacing words were finished, the cave fell silent for a moment.
There was no movement for a long time, Qi Lu shone the flashlight towards the road, but he couldn't see any figure, he couldn't help laughing and said, "It turned out to be a coward who talked big." Professor, let's go out first, lest we be plotted by the enemy. ”
"Okay."
Suddenly, there was a harsh sound of "rustling" around the ground, and in the stunned eyes of the two, all the bones scattered on the ground flew in the air, and then slowly converged, turning into an active skeleton, staring at Qi Lu and Jiang Wenhao with dark eyes.
"Xiao Qi, what the hell are we doing?" Jiang Wenhao showed a look of horror.
"Possibly."
Qi Lu took out several pieces of rune paper from his arms and began to recite the incantation skillfully. The rune paper glowed faintly, and then flew into the air.
"Kunlun Tianyu, the demon has appeared!" The spirit rune immediately followed Qi Lu's order and directly hit the skeletons closest to them!
But Qi Lu's spell obviously didn't have any effect, and those skeletons with spirit talismans only paused for a second, and then ripped off the rune paper with their bony hands and tore it to shreds.
"It's fucking unlucky." Qi Lu muttered, since the spell didn't work, so he reacted on the spot, raised his leg and kicked at the chest of the nearest skeleton.
With a "bang", the skeleton was kicked apart by him, turning into a pile of white bones and falling to the ground.
Before Qi Lu could breathe a sigh of relief, those scattered bones squirmed, and they were converging with each other as if they were alive. In this case, it would take less than a minute for the bones to be put back together into a skeleton.
Qi Lu didn't dare to think about it, he swung his fist at the mandible of the other skeleton, and immediately broke it into bones. There was a rib in the crushed skeleton that flew straight towards his head, Qi Lu quickly reached out to catch it, and bit his teeth hard, and the rib was broken into two pieces in his hand.
He threw the two bones at the two skulls that came at him, knocking their skulls to the ground.
The headless skeleton didn't seem to be affected, and it was still waving its bone claws and grabbing Qi Lu, which looked quite terrifying.
Just when Qi Lu was fighting these skeletons of unknown origin, a skeleton suddenly appeared behind Jiang Wenhao's side, stretching out his bone claws and snatching the bronze ancient mirror in the professor's hand!
Jiang Wenhao couldn't let it succeed in its trick, and he also learned Qi Lu to swing his fist and hit the skeleton's chest, but it was like hitting a hard stone, the skeleton did not suffer any damage, but shook his hand painfully, so that he no longer had the strength to fight back.
The skeleton gave Jiang Wenhao a grab when he didn't react! The professor's aged body flew out like this, and the ancient mirror in his hand fell to the ground.
Just as the skeleton bent down to pick up the ancient mirror, the professor, who valued the cultural relics more than his life, had already crawled back into his hand.
At this moment, the skeleton was completely enraged by Jiang Wenhao's actions, and its bone claws were clenched into fists and smashed into the professor's chest!
Jiang Wenhao was already old and frail, and he could withstand this blow, but he felt a stuffiness in his chest, and a large mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth and spit on the ancient mirror.
In an instant, the unforeseen happened, the mirror surface rippled like a dead pool of water being thrown into it, and the skeletons that attacked them suddenly froze like dead things.
"This mirror is a powerful artifact?" Qi Lu looked at everything in front of him in surprise, and his eyes widened.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang without warning, and the sudden strong suction force made Qi Lu float, and he quickly looked back and found that the professor's body was also floating in the air like him.
Before Qi Lu could figure out what was going on, everything around him spun rapidly. Man is like a small boat in the wild waves of the sea, tossed in the great waves, and gradually swallowed up by it.
In the haze, Qi Lu heard someone calling for him, he suddenly opened his eyes, and found himself lying on the bluestone street, Jiang Wenhao was squatting beside him looking at him, with a confused look in his eyes.
"What is this place?" Qi Lu stood up and looked around blankly.
He found that there was not a single pedestrian in the empty street, and the houses on both sides of the road were old buildings that he had never seen before.
"I don't know." Jiang Wenhao shook his head and said, "But these houses are a bit like the architectural style of the Zhou Dynasty. ”
"Professor, don't be kidding." Qi Lu was slapping the dust on his body.
Jiang Wenhao said anxiously: "That ancient mirror is gone. ”
"Why don't we look for it?" Qi Lu proposed.
"Drive, drive!" In the distance, the sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground could be heard.
Qi Lu looked up and found that someone was riding a horse at the end of the street!
This is a young warrior wearing ancient battle armor, white armor, white robes, and even the horse he is riding is as white as silver, and the whole person is like white lightning rushing towards Qi Lu!
The speed was so fast, Qi Lu didn't have time to dodge at all, and the horse's high front hooves were about to trample on top of his head!
"Ahhh
Like a gust of wind, the horse's hooves passed through his body and fell to the ground, and then galloped away again, Qi Lu didn't feel the slightest.
"How so!" The expression on Jiang Wenhao's face froze completely, and he looked at the horse and warrior who were about to disappear, and there was an incredible look in his eyes.
"Have we met the Revenant?" Qi Lu looked up at the golden morning sun, and hesitated in his heart.
"Let's go ahead."
The two of them walked forward like this, and slowly, the street became more and more pedestrians, all of them wearing ancient clothes.
Qi Lu frowned and said, "Did we come to the film and television shooting venue?" ”
Jiang Wenhao said in a deep voice: "No, the costumes of these people are exactly the same as the costumes of the Zhou Dynasty that I saw during archaeology. ”
Hearing the professor say this, Qi Lu's face became gloomy, and he quickly stepped forward, grabbed a middle-aged man who was dressed like a farmer with a hoe on his shoulder, and was about to ask him a question.
But his hand fluttered into the air, as if he was passing through nothingness, and Qi Lu found that he couldn't touch his body at all.
"Hey, can you hear me?" Qi Lu shouted.
No one answered, no one paid any attention to him, and the pedestrians in the street went about their business as if he didn't exist.
"Ghost City, or Fantasy Land?" Qi Lu felt that his palms were oozing sweat.
The two looked at each other in amazement, and had to wander aimlessly through the streets, opening their eyes to see the passers-by pass through their bodies without hesitation.
After walking silently for a while, Qi Lu saw two old men arguing loudly in the middle of the street in front of him, but it was difficult for him to distinguish which place the accent was, so he wanted to come forward to see the excitement, but Jiang Wenhao stopped him.
"Professor, what's wrong?"
Jiang Wenhao said with a solemn face: "They speak the Guanzhong dialect. ”
"Guanzhong, do you mean that we came to Shaanxi Province in an instant?"
"During the Zhou Dynasty, the Guanzhong dialect was also called Yayan."
Qi Lu smiled: "Why did you get involved with the Zhou Dynasty again?" ”
"Yayan, in modern parlance, is the officially designated Mandarin."
"You mean we traveled to the Zhou Dynasty?" Qi Lu had a panicked look on his face.
"Alas, there is not much time left for you, and you are still chirping here!" Someone behind them was suddenly talking to them, not in the Guanzhong dialect, but in authentic Beijing films.
"Who, who's talking to me?" Qi Lu turned around and saw that there was no figure behind him.
With a "bang", an animal jumped down from the trunk of a tree on the side of the road, and it ran to Qi Lu and stood up like a human.
"It's you!" Qi Lu was speechless in surprise, this black little animal was the black cat that had molested Lao Wu twice that night.
"If you grind any longer, you'll miss the opportunity to learn the truth." The black cat speaks.
A gust of wind blew in his face, and Qi Lu's nose moved, unable to smell any spiritual breath flowing.
Qi Lu was stunned, and it took a long time to come back to his senses and ask, "Who are you sacred?" ”
"Your companion is also your comrade-in-arms."
"Can you name me?"
"Can't!" The black cat shook his head and said, "I used the power of the mirror to teleport you to the time of King Mu of Zhou, so that you can deal with that fierce and cunning monster in this world. ”
Qi Lu's throat moved, and he hesitated and said, "Why should I believe your words? ”
"Hey, hey!" The black cat's laughter was as heroic as that of an adult man, and it crouched down and said, "I didn't save you just now, you would have been torn apart by those skeletons." ”
The black cat's laughter seemed familiar, Qi Lu seemed to have heard this familiar laughter a long time ago, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.
"Come with me, or you will become dead souls and be imprisoned forever in this era, and you will never return to the 21st century." The black cat brushed Qi Lu's body and trotted in front.
"Shall we follow it?" Jiang Wenhao whispered in Qi Lu's ear.
"I don't think we have a choice either." Although Qi Lu's tone was firm, there was a confused expression on his face.
In this way, the two adults followed a black cat forward, and when they encountered an obstacle such as a wall, they walked directly through it like a ghost.
Qi Lu didn't take it to heart when he was well-informed, but Jiang Wenhao experienced such a strange encounter for the first time in his life, and he was a little afraid. I felt that I was in the crevice where yin and yang overlapped, and there was a thick eerie aura everywhere.