Subsequently, no matter how hard I tried, I could no longer take the ring off and seemed to have become one with my finger. However, I did find an unexpected gain, that is, since wearing this ring, I can instantly feel the entire ancient city wall in my heart.

It was a wonderful feeling, as long as I closed my eyes, I could think of all the details of the entire circle of ancient city walls in Xi'an, every section of the city wall, every city gate, and even the cracks on every ancient brick, as if I and the ancient city wall were already one.

I couldn't believe this sudden turn of events, but I had to believe it, and it also made me take a strong interest in the little girl just now, and it seemed that I had to find her as soon as possible and ask her what it was all about.

Then I drifted along the city wall in the direction of Yuxiang Gate, because in my memory, when I had just gotten off the train and walked along the foot of the city wall, it was this little girl's faint call that attracted me to the Yuxiang Gate.

Later, when I was about to cross the street to check in at the Mango Hotel, I accidentally saw this little girl in the railing of that house, so it is very likely that she is hiding in that house again.

Thinking of this, I sped up and drifted towards the Yuxiang Gate. Sure enough, I didn't find any clues about the little girl along the way, and it seemed that I was the only one left in the whole world.

When I finally came to the city wall above the gate of Yuxiang Gate, the ring that had not moved in my hand had a slight warmth, and I was suddenly happy in my heart, could it be that the ring sensed that the little girl was nearby?

So I tried to float towards the mansion under the city walls, but the closer I got to the mansion, the hotter and hotter the ring became, and even gradually glowed white.

I knew that my guess was completely correct, and with this joy I quickly floated towards the courtyard, and as I floated down, I carefully examined everything in the courtyard.

I remember seeing the little girl behind a railing, so I slowly drifted towards the railing as I recalled. At first I didn't notice anything, just a slight glimmer of black on the ground, but I couldn't make out what it was because of the many fallen leaves on it.

As soon as I landed on the ground, I crouched down, gently brushed the fallen leaves away, and blew a few more breaths, and the black thing on the ground was finally revealed.

When I looked closely, it was a square black granite slab, but when I saw the three ancient fonts on it, I couldn't help but take a few steps back, and it turned out that it was written on it!

The so-called clothing mound is a burial form in which the body of the deceased cannot be found, and the clothes and other items of the deceased are used instead of the body to be buried.

In other words, the little girl I saw earlier is actually dead, and her clothes should be buried underneath, so what is the purpose of her bringing me here?

I gently stroked the words on the stele with my hand, not knowing what to do next, should I dig it up and see? I'm afraid that's not appropriate. I took another look at the ring and saw that the light of the ring had become a little harsh, and I tried to move the ring back and forth on the stele, only to be surprised to find that the stele had melted and soon disappeared completely, revealing a hole in the ground.

In the hole in the ground neatly placed a set of little girl's clothes, looking at it, I suddenly became very sad, although I have only met the little girl just now, but such a cute little girl is no longer alive, I still feel deeply sorry for her.

I carefully picked up the little girl's clothes, and with a heavy heart, I blew the dust off them, and when I opened them, it was a white dress. I was going to put it back, but considering that the stele was destroyed by my ring, how could I just leave it there?

Just as I was thinking about how to take care of the little girl's clothes, all the light on my ring suddenly shifted to the little girl's clothes, and then an incredible scene happened, only to see the clothes on my hand shrink rapidly, and finally turned into a small white point of light that was completely sucked into the ring.

Soon the picture of all the city walls of Xi'an came to my mind, and I saw that small point of light constantly flying in the city wall, flying, and finally flying to a small brick crack at the corner of the city wall and stopped.

My mind moved, the brick crack kept getting bigger and clearer in my mind, and when the picture finally stopped, I finally saw clearly, it turned out that dozens of bricks had been deliberately removed from the city wall, and a whole body skeleton like a child was stuffed into it.

I also saw the point of light fly in from the center of the skeleton's eyebrows, and then the skeleton gradually grew muscle and skin, and finally changed into a little girl in a white dress. When I saw her appearance clearly, it was the little girl I was playing hide and seek with before.

In other words, the little girl asked me to pick up the ring and play so-called hide and seek with her, which was actually a hint that I came to the house to find her clothes, and then found her body through the ring, but what was her purpose in doing so? Let me report the crime? Redress for her?

"Did my granddaughter Yu'er bring you here?" Just as I stared at the hole in front of me in amazement, I was startled by an extremely old voice behind me, and although I didn't see anyone, I could still feel that she was an old lady.

Suddenly cold sweat flowed down my forehead involuntarily, and I didn't know for a moment whether to answer or not, and whether to turn around to look at her, but my intuition told me that she should be the old lady of the mansion mentioned by the hotel waiter, and it was also strange that as long as she answered the three questions correctly, she was willing to rent this mansion for free.

Considering that there was no point in dodging, I mustered up the courage to boldly turn and look at the old lady who was talking to me. When I saw her face clearly, my heart twitched again, she was really a very old lady, her eyes were almost closed, the wrinkles on her face were dense, and her skin was dry and black.

If she hadn't been standing in front of me but lying down, I have every reason to believe that she was an old man who had been dead for a while.

"Hello mother-in-law, is the little girl I saw just now your granddaughter Yu'er? She said play hide and seek with me, and I found it all the way here, and under the slate behind me was her clothes, right? But the clothes disappeared again......" I asked respectfully, and I didn't know how to explain the bizarre scene at the mention of the sudden disappearance of the clothes, and I was so anxious that I didn't know what to say.

"That's right, she is Yu'er, and she is also the guardian of the ancient city wall of Xi'an. Looks like she's already chosen the next Guardian, which is you, so you must have found her through that ring, right? The old lady said calmly with her eyes still closed, as if she knew everything about what I had been through.

"Yes, according to the demo footage given to me by the ring, Yu'er is currently in a brick crevice at the corner of the city wall. Well, what? Guardians? What do you mean? I instinctively replied truthfully, and as soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly remembered that the old lady mentioned that the little girl chose me as the next guardian, and I felt a little confused, so I couldn't help but ask.

"Since ancient times, all the relics of ancient civilizations with a truly long history have their own guardian relics and guardians. The ring on your hand is the guardian relic of the ancient city wall, and the person who has the qualification to protect the holy relic is the guardian. ”

"Then are there so many ancient civilization relics and guardians in the world? Why have you never heard about this? I asked curiously.

"It's not that you didn't hear the report, it's that the report concealed the secrets of the Guardian Relic and the Guardian, so you thought you didn't know. Let's just say that the world is constantly looking for and applying for World Cultural Heritage, in fact, the only basis for successful application is to have a guardian relic and a guardian. The ancient city wall of Xi'an has not been successfully applied for so far, because more than 20 years ago, the sacred relics and guardians of the ancient city wall disappeared. ”

"So your granddaughter Yu'er disappeared twenty years ago, have you been looking for Yu'er for more than twenty years? This is also the first question you have to ask for renting out this house for free, that is, the reason why Yu'er is located? I finally asked.

"Yes, because more than 20 years ago, when a monk passed by my house, he accidentally found that my granddaughter Yu'er can be psychic, that is, she can go out of her body, and ordinary people's souls will die once they leave, but even if the body of a psychic person dies, the soul can still wander in the world. It's just that only people who can also psychic can see her, which is why you were able to see Yu'er before. And that monk was the guardian of the ancient city wall, and he knew that his time was running out, so he passed the ring to Yu'er. Considering that Yu'er is too young, the monk told me everything, hoping that I would take care of her and protect the holy relics before Yu'er became a full adult. But I didn't protect the holy relics, and even Yu'er disappeared. The old lady seemed to be extremely depressed when she recalled this past.

"Can I be psychic too? So why can't I see Yu'er now? I looked around, but I didn't find Yu'er, and asked puzzled.

"That's because you've fulfilled her last wish and become the next Guardian, so she's already asleep on the wall, and when you find the next Guardian and successfully transfer the ring, your soul will also sleep on the wall and become a part of the wall. The reason why ancient cultural relics have survived for thousands of years is precisely because they are not only inanimate stones, but also the souls of people with firm intentions. ”

"It turns out that the ancient cultural relics are guarded by souls with strong ideas, no wonder there is always a special momentum every time they get close, I think, the so-called cultural heritage should refer to the soul precipitated by the ancestors with strong ideas, right? By the way, mother-in-law, what is the responsibility and mission of the guardians of the ancient city walls? I glanced at the ancient city wall with emotion and asked humbly.