"Let's go to the back of the house and have a look!"

Hao Jun proposed, and Ling Shiyu agreed, and flew directly to the back of the house with her, wanting to find the approximate location of the tree and the map that Luo Yuanshan said first, similar to stepping on the spot in advance as a thief.

However, as soon as the two of them arrived at the back of Luo Ya's house, they were both dumbfounded.

I saw that behind the house was a pond of about five acres of land, which was a pond dominated by a circular ditch, and a relatively large island was deliberately left in the middle of the pond, and there were piles of fresh soil on the edge of the pond, as if it had just been excavated.

"Brother Jun, what's going on?" After a long pause, Ling Shiyu finally couldn't help but ask.

Hao Jun looked at the big pond in front of him in a daze, and guessed: "Look at it like this, it may be a lobster farming, and the aquaculture industry has been vigorously promoted here recently." ”

"Huh? Isn't the map buried in the mud? Ling Shiyu was so anxious that she was spinning in the air, and couldn't help but blame herself, "It's over, if only I had brought their two senior brothers and sisters to look for it earlier, it wouldn't have ended up in the current situation, what should I do?" ”

"Alas, it's all my fault, I haven't been able to spare much time, if I had time, I would have asked you to bring them over a long time ago, now..." Hao Jun said as he spoke, not knowing what to say, he paused and asked again, "Do you remember what your master said at that time?" ”

Ling Shiyu recalled: "Master, he just said that there was a pine and cypress tree directly north behind his house, and about two meters to the west of the pine and cypress tree was the location where the map was buried, and the map was sealed in a plastic bottle in his memory!" ”

"Pine and cypress trees? Plastic bottles? Hao Jun groaned and searched around with the help of the moonlight, and suddenly said, "Hey, you see there's a pine and cypress tree there!" ”

Ling Shiyu turned her head to look, and sure enough, there was a pine and cypress tree behind Luo Ya's house, and the shape of the pine and cypress tree was relatively unique, and it was faintly recognizable even at night.

"Let's go check it out!" She was immediately excited, and hurriedly flew towards the pine and cypress tree.

She soon came to the tree, circled around the trunk, and kept muttering, "Due west, where is due west?" ”

Hao Jun also followed her closely, looked the pine and cypress tree up and down, and gestured to the trunk with his own hands for a while, suddenly shook his head silently, and sighed: "Don't look for it, it's not this tree at all!" ”

"Huh? What did you say? Ling Shiyu couldn't help but look at Hao Jun and asked anxiously.

On such a quiet night, as long as the rooster crows from time to time, Hao Jun is speaking beside her, she has actually heard it clearly, but she is a little afraid to accept the facts, Hao Jun's words seem to suddenly make her last glimmer of hope unceremoniously shattered.

Although Hao Jun was also very anxious, he still patiently explained: "Think about it, your master has been dead for more than ten years, even if the pine and cypress tree he said was temporarily planted by him for the purpose of making a mark, that pine and cypress tree is already at least ten years old, if that pine and cypress tree existed before, let alone more than ten years old." ”

Ling Shiyu listened, and her heart was half cold.

She sighed faintly, "Alas! What do you mean—" She paused at this, as if she didn't want to go on.

"That's right, what I mean is that this tree is not the one in your master's mouth at all, if you look at the growth of this tree, I'm afraid it will only look like six or seven years after it has been full of turbulence!" Hao Jun still maintained the most basic judgment ability in his anxiety, and when he said this, he saw that Ling Shiyu was already very disappointed, but he still continued, "So, let's not waste our efforts to find it!" ”

"But how do you ask me to explain to the master and his old man, as well as the two senior brothers and sisters of the Yin Corpse Gate who are outcast and fled here, you have long said that I should bring them over and find a way to get the map, but I have been waiting to come with you, but now it's good, the map is lost, what face do I have to go to see them again?" Ling Shiyu felt that she had committed some heinous crime, and she was also uneasy in her heart, and she kept blaming herself.

Suddenly, she thought of a glimmer of hope again, and couldn't help but ask Hao Jun again: "Brother Jun, do you think it is because this tree lacks nutrients and is stunted, so it grows slowly, although it has passed ten years, it doesn't look like a ten-year-old tree?" ”

Hao Jun shook his head helplessly, of course, he also knew that Ling Shiyu's heart was very uncomfortable, but he didn't want her to waste her energy on the wrong thing in vain, so he had to smile bitterly and continue to explain: "Look at the sky near this tree, there is no obstruction, which shows that the light is full of time; If you look at it, the soil dug up here is very moist and very fertile, which means that water and nutrients are not a problem. And if you look up at this pine and cypress, it is straight and thick, lush, and it is in a very healthy and vigorous state of growth! ”

Hao Jun's every word was like a hammer hitting Ling Shiyu's heart.

"Alas..." she couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and finally began to accept this cruel and helpless reality, but she was really unwilling in her heart, and said gloomily like a little godless, "Is it just that, tell Shi Yihua and Wu Dongyao directly that the precious map left to them by their master is lost?" ”

"To be honest, I don't know what to do!" Hao Jun shook his head slowly, admitting that this matter was indeed difficult to deal with.

Think about the head of the family, before he died, he told his two precious apprentices the secret that had been buried in his heart for more than ten years, and hoped that his two precious apprentices could follow the instructions of the map, gain something, grow up quickly, and not only clean up the portal for the Yin Corpse Gate in the future, but also avenge his blood hatred, but all these wishes were ultimately unable to be realized because of his own negligence and procrastination.

Ling Shiyu saw that Hao Jun was also in deep thought, and his spirit was not good, so he couldn't help but stretch out his hand and point around the pond, and proposed: "It's not okay to be in a hurry, we still look nearby, especially in the soil that has been thrown ashore, maybe we can find something?" ”

"Well, that's all there is to it now!" Hao Jun nodded, and did not hesitate, and immediately separated from Ling Shiyubing, one on the other, floating in the air at a height of more than half a meter above the ground, and looked for it around the newly dug pond.

The two parted at one end of the pond and met again at the other end of the pond after a long while, but what was the result?

But they only looked at each other and shook their heads and sighed, and both of them found nothing.

"Forget it, let's go see Luo Ya, and then let's go home first, and when the light is good tomorrow during the day, we'll look for it again, maybe we can make new discoveries!" Hao Jun comforted Ling Shiyu like this, but he was actually comforting himself silently.

(End of chapter)