The cave was accidentally discovered by Xu Xuan while catching rabbits.

Xu Xuan had never caught a rabbit, and that day he abandoned the fat and sturdy rabbit and aimed at an old rabbit that looked a little thin.

The old rabbit reacts slowly and doesn't run fast, although the meat is old, but if you go to ask Uncle Ali to roast it, you can make up for it, Xu Xuan thought like this. He quietly approached the old rabbit, the rabbit didn't react and was still gnawing on the grass there, Xu Xuan was secretly happy in his heart, and pounced, who expected that at that moment, the rabbit turned in a circle and avoided Xu Xuan. Xu Xuan looked at the rabbit running forward, spit out the mud and sand that had just entered his mouth and chased after him. How do you know that although the rabbit's escape speed is not fast, there are always stumbling obstacles in the place where it escapes, Xu Xuan is stumbling from time to time, and occasionally the rabbit looks behind Xu Xuan, Xu Xuan swears that he saw the ridicule from it.

"This rabbit has become a sperm. Xu Xuan followed the rabbit for a while, and the rabbit was still running in front of Xu Xuan without hurrying, and then turning a corner, Xu Xuan followed and found that the old rabbit was gone.

"Where did you go?" Xu Xuan looked at it carefully. At the bend is a stone wall overgrown with vines, the vines have thin barbs, the stone wall is grayish-yellow, the texture is very hard, the ground in front of the stone wall is very flat, overgrown with weeds, and occasionally a few white unknown wildflowers are mixed in, but there are no traces of burrows dug by rabbits as far as the eye can see. Xu Xuan didn't give up, and checked the vine stone wall again, and he really saw some problems with this look.

Under the stone wall three zhang away from Xu Xuan after turning the corner, there was an unnatural slight separation on both sides of the vine, Xu Xuan fixed his eyes and saw that the stone wall behind the vine was not complete, there was a crack with a width of the shoulder, and the rabbit must have run into this crack. Xu Xuan separated the vines left and right along the crack, and finally, a passage that allowed a person to walk sideways appeared.

Xu Xuan's face leaned towards the passage, feeling a slight coolness in his face. There was wind, there were other passages in it, and Xu Xuan passed the crack sideways.

The inside was unexpectedly spacious, but it was too dark for Xu Xuan to see clearly the inside of the cave, at this time, there was a small sound around him, and through the light from the crack Xu Xuan saw that the rabbit was running outside, Xu Xuan couldn't react, the rabbit had already run out in the blink of an eye, and he could only give up the rabbit.

Later, Xu Xuan went to the cave in the crack several times to explore, and the cave could accommodate several people, and the air inside was always fresh. Xu Xuan used this cave as his secret place, and occasionally he would come here to stay quietly when he was irritable, so there were torches and other objects prepared by Xu Xuan in the cave.

Xu Xuan dragged Wan'er to the cave, in order not to be discovered, every time he left, he would carefully use the surrounding vines to cover up the cracks. There, he believed that if the cloth-clothed swordsman couldn't stop him, the man in black wouldn't be able to find him and Wan'er for a while.

When he arrived at the cave, Xu Xuan took out the vines he had prepared before to cover them, and when he saw it in the evening, he also came to help, but he accidentally cut his hand by the barbs on the vines.

Looking at the scars on her hands, Wan'er's face couldn't help but darken. Wan'er, who stopped temporarily avoiding pursuit, resurfaced the figure of Uncle Ali who fell to the ground in his mind. She looked at Xu Xuan with red eyes: "Is Wan'er particularly useless, obviously she is an instrument master, but she doesn't know how to use the instrument soul, if Wan'er can help, won't Uncle Ali ......" Wan'er said and couldn't stop tears falling, Xu Xuan hurriedly put down the vines in his hand and walked in front of Wan'er.

"If you want to say it's useless, I'm useless. Xu Xuan clenched his fists, he was not even an instrumentalist, in the eyes of those people in black, he was an ant. But ants should feel sorry for themselves? If he can become an instrumentalist, can Uncle Ali's death be changed? Xu Xuan has never felt such a strong sense of pain and humiliation.

"Brother Xuan. A pair of tender hands covered Xu Xuan's hands, and because they were too hard, a trace of blood fell down Xu Xuan's fingers. What is this, if you have the ability to help Uncle Ali, what can you do if you are injured. Xu Xuan looked at Wan'er's sadness and worried about his expression, but calmed down. Now you need to be vigilant, there is still Wan'er by your side, even if you lose this life, you can't let Wan'er stand in front of you again.

There was a huge stone block in the cave, the surface of the stone was very smooth, and it could be used for people to sit down and rest, Xu Xuan asked Wan'er to go there and sit and rest first. Later, when he walked to the stone and was about to sit down, he suddenly saw something and exclaimed quietly.

"Brother Xuan, look, there's something under the stone. ”

Xu Xuan squatted in the direction Wan'er pointed to check. Because it was too dark, Xu Xuan lit the torch left before, and finally saw the whole picture of the stone by the light of the fire.

The stone is milky white and has a delicate texture, but it is slightly cold to the touch, just like other stones. There was a slight crack in the place at the bottom of the stone, and there was some light faintly shining through the crack.

Xu Xuan knocked it with his hand, the stone made a crisp echo sound, and the inside was empty, Xu Xuan gave the torch to Wan'er and then tried to break the crack.

The seemingly solid surface of the stone was unexpectedly easy to be breached by Xu Xuan, and Xu Xuan carefully looked inside along the gap.

Illuminated by the torch held by the evening, a finger-length, bottle-like thing could be seen, and it was shining.

Xu Xuan took out the thing and looked at it carefully. If you want to describe it, it is more like a vial containing pills, the whole body of the vial seems to be glowing with a faint blue light, but in fact, it is the color of the material of the bottle itself, the bottle body is cooler than a stone, and the temperature does not change when held in the hand for a long time. The mouth of the bottle was very small, and the cork made of the same texture material, Xu Xuan opened the cork, and there was nothing inside.

Wan'er was a little disappointed, Xu Xuan couldn't help but laugh when she looked at it: "Silly girl, you still dare to take the pill after so long?" ”

Wan'er's words woke Xu Xuan up, he remembered that the air he felt every time he entered the cave was always fresh, but he had never explored where the wind outlet was, and now he checked it carefully before the man in black found it, if there was any place to hide, even if the man in black found this cave, he and Wan'er could still have a place to hide.

Xu Xuan touched the stone wall to look for it, focusing on the corners that he usually didn't go to when he came here, not to mention, he was really said by the late son, there was a small bulge on the mountain wall behind the giant stone.

The raised stone seemed to be able to turn, Xu Xuan tried, but it didn't move. Xu Xuan thought that there was a rumor in the village that a master of the instrument had lived in Yuzhi Mountain, could this be the place leading to the master of the instrument, and the master was needed to open it? Xu Xuan shouted to come and try it later.

Wan'er stretched out her hand to twist the stone for some reason, and it turned easily, and sure enough, it took an instrument master to open it, Xu Xuan thought to himself. As the stone turned, the stone wall in front of it slowly turned, revealing a pitch-black passage.

There was a burst of dust in his face, smelling a little old musty smell, Xu Xuan coughed a few times, but soon, the wind from the passage blew away the musty smell, Xu Xuan first pulled Wan'er back a few steps, threw the torch in, I heard the old people in the village say that some passages and caves that have not seen the light for a long time will explode when they see fire, but this passage is not, and the torches thrown in are still burning quietly on the ground.

"Follow me. Xu Xuan put the vial he picked up into his arms, held Wan'er with one hand and picked up the torch with the other, and slowly walked towards the passage. Wan'er looked up at Xu Xuan who was walking in front, her handsome and upright body, her resolute gaze, even if there was any danger, Wan'er knew that Xu Xuan would protect herself to the death, this feeling of being cared for made Wan'er's heart sweet, and she was no longer afraid in the face of unknown dangers.

The stone walls around the passage are made of the same material as the cave outside, and they are in the interior of the mountain, but for some reason they have been artificially built to cover up the movable door. There are also the same protruding stones inside the passage, and the stone door is closed by twisting the stone blocks at night. The passage is very narrow and long, giving people a sense of oppression, if it weren't for Xu Xuan's attention to observing the different ups and downs of the stone wall, he would really think that he was constantly spinning in one place. I don't know how long it took, but a bright light finally appeared in front of the two of them.

Xu Xuan and Wan'er squinted, slowly adapting to the light, outside the passage was a green grass, different from the weeds in other places, the grass here seemed to only grow in a specific location. There was a flower garden next to the meadow, which was planted with all kinds of flowers, but the common thing was that Xu Xuan couldn't even call out his name. There is a small lake not far from the flower garden, the lake surface is slightly golden under the sunlight, and the strangest thing is that there is a statue next to the lake, because it is too far away, Xu Xuan can't see the appearance of the statue clearly.

"Wan'er, don't you think this looks like someone's back garden?" Xu Xuan looked at Wan'er for a while and said.

Wan'er nodded, "Brother Xuan, it's very strange, there is no statue-like thing around the lake, and there will be no flower beds, is there still a person living here?"

"It should be said that it was once inhabited, and you can see that the flowers in the garden are already crowded, with a tendency to grow outward, and the grass is too deep, indicating that no one takes care of it. ”

Wan'er nodded, "Brother Xuan, let's go and see what that statue is." ”

Xu Xuan has this intention, this place has never been mentioned by others, it is very likely that in addition to the owner of this place, Xu Xuan and Wan'er are the first people in the village to come here.

They approached the statue, which was a woman, lifelike. The woman is very young, about 20 years old, and you can feel the vitality of her body through the statue, which makes people involuntarily close. The woman was wearing a long skirt, sitting on a stone platform, her hair was pulled up high, a butterfly hairpin was inserted in her hair, and she was holding a bottle in her hand and looking at everyone with a smile.

The bottle? Xu Xuan took out the bottle on his body and compared, except for the difference in size, the style was exactly the same.

"This bottle...... Hidden in that kind of place, and now it appears in the hand of the statue again, is there any other use for this bottle?" Xu Xuan couldn't help but fall into thought. Wan'er didn't bother Xu Xuan, she walked around the back of the statue and found a few words written on the stone seat behind the statue. "My daughter Luoran. ”

Luo Ran, Wan'er seems to have heard of this name, it appears in the story told by Grandpa Atai? Wan'er can't remember, she looked around, there was a huge stone not far from the statue, and two words were engraved on the stone. "Water dwelling. Wan'er couldn't help but read it out, interrupting Xu Xuan's thinking.