149 Past and Present Lives: Shadow of Death (2)
There is a big open space in the bamboo forest, and a big house is built on the open space, which is said to be a big house, which is larger than any courtyard of the enemy's family, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small palace, and the highest place is much more than the bamboo next to it, but outside the bamboo forest, even a corner can not be seen.
As soon as Chen Lan entered the ancestral house that can be called a big thing, the outside was shocking, and the inside was even more fantastic and changeable.
It is a vast world, there are two mountains next to each other, in the mountain is a "canyon", said to be a canyon, but in proportion to the mountain, in fact, the canyon is more than ten meters wide, not to mention the length, at a glance, are almost to the edge of the sky.
But in the canyon, there is a large disk, and there are several pillars on the top of the disk, and there is a disc on the top of the pillar that is smaller than the bottom disk, and there are several pillars on the top of the disk, and there is a smaller disc on the pillar, like a cake on top of the layer, there are nine layers, and the height of the last layer is almost the same as the two mountains.
This is the ancient array, when you stand in front of it, you will feel a strong sense of oppression, you will be shaken from the heart, in front of it, even gasping for breath has to be careful.
And next to the big array, near the big mountain, there is a group of people who look like ants compared to the big array of mountains, digging mountain rocks over there, these people are wearing thin clothes, their hands are full of scars from the stones, their eyes are dull and numb, and they beat the mountain stones like puppets, and then the others carry them to the side of the big array.
Among these people, there was a child who was less than the height of an adult's thigh, his small clothes were tattered, and his delicate little hands were dirty, black, blue and swollen, and he picked up the stones that the adults had thrown down, and they were too big to move, so he could only choose the smaller ones, and moved the stones into the basket with the strength of milk, and so moved a few pieces, and probably exhausted his strength, and the stones fell from his hands, not only hitting his own feet, but also cutting his little hands.
Xiaobao finally couldn't stand it anymore and cried: "Mother, mother...... Mother...... Whew, where are you ......?"
The caretaker next to him walked over and kicked Xiaobao directly: "Cry, cry, cry, hurry up, hurry up!" ”
Afraid of being beaten, Xiaobao wiped away his tears, sobbed and went to move the stone that had just fallen on the ground again, his little hand was still bleeding, and it hurt when he touched it, he endured crying while moving the stone up, his small mouth was very tight, and the tears that flowed down again still seeped into his mouth.
When Chen Lanyi and I saw this scene, our hearts twitched with pain, and I scolded fiercely: "Bastard, bastard...... Lan Yi, save Xiaobao! ”
Chen Lan was about to bite his little lip and bleed: "No, we have to endure it any longer, they must have set up a trap waiting for me, I appeared rashly, not only could I not save Xiaobao, it was in vain...... Brother Qiu...... Sacrifice your own price in vain......"
She said loudly, she wanted to kill the guard who beat her son, but he was in front of her, but she couldn't move, listening to her son crying and calling for his mother, her heart was like a knife!
However, she was not completely motionless, she quietly lurked beside Xiaobao and helped him lift the stone, so that he could move the stone into the frame without much force.
Xiaobao was so surprised that he forgot to cry, looked at the stone that had just been put into the frame, looked at his hand, and looked at his front, at that time, his eyes were almost on the same as Chen Lan, and Chen Lan almost couldn't hold back crying.
Xiaobao trotted back, tried to move another stone, and found that the stone had really become lighter, he blinked in surprise, and looked in the direction where Chen Lanyi was again, but he was very smart, he didn't say anything, he still buried his head in carrying the stone, afraid of being seen, and pretended to be very hard, and his small body shuttled "hard" in a group of adults.
When there was no one around, he asked in a low voice, "Mother, is it you?" ”
"Yes, it's my mother, it's my mother!"
However, Chen Lanyi's words could not be heard by Xiaobao, and there was only the sound of hammers and chisels smashing stones, and he hung his head in disappointment.
Finally, when it was time to eat, the caretaker brought two large pots, one pot was full of steamed buns, and the other pot was full of gruel, Xiaobao tried very hard to rush over there, but he was so small, and there were stout workers next to him, and when he finally got a steamed bun, he didn't know who hit him, and the steamed bun fell to the ground and was trampled on.
Xiaobao picked up the dirty steamed buns, and then saw that the two cauldrons had been robbed earlier, his stomach was growling with hunger, he patted the sand on the surface of the steamed buns with his little hand, and opened his mouth to take a big bite......
Chen Lan turned her face away, she couldn't bear to look at it, she had just thought about helping Xiaobao grab some food, but the others couldn't rely on it, and it was not good to report it if she found something wrong.
"Patience, patience......" she said to herself over and over again, biting her trembling fingers and biting out blood.
After eating a steamed bun that was not clean, Xiaobao sat on the side and shrunk his body, trying to shrink his sense of existence, as if he was afraid of something.
Although there is no day or night here, the real time at this time should be night, Xiaobao's reaction shows that at this time in the past, something should have happened to him, causing him physical and mental harm, so that he is like this.
Chen Lan felt that something was wrong, and after a while, two people came, dressed in the clothes of the enemy's guards, and the people guarding here saluted them, they ignored it, and after looking around and seeing Xiaobao, they walked towards him.
"What do they want to do?" I asked anxiously, Chen Lan didn't reply to me, but the nervousness and worry in my heart were no less than mine, but what we can't do now, we can only watch them grab Xiaobao one by one, Xiaobao cried loudly and let go, shouting for his mother to save me, the two guards didn't react, and left with Xiaobao.
Chen Lanyi hurriedly followed behind them.
Walking through the Void Gate, as soon as Chen Lan returned to the door that led to the space where the Ancient Great Array was located, the corner of his eye swept to the guard with Xiaobao turned to a certain road, followed again, and finally entered a stone door.
There is the most eye-catching in it, it is a big Dan furnace, the Dan furnace is still burning flames, there are many cages next to it, the cages are filled with all kinds of poisons, poisonous snakes, snakes, ants, poisonous spiders, poisonous centipedes, etc., next to the cage pile are shelves, and on the shelves are all kinds of herbs, many of which are rare plants in the mortal world.
There is also a stone room next to this stone room, and a blood pool was built in it, and there was a barbed wire fence above the blood pool, and Xiaobao was tied to the barbed wire, and the surrounding environment made me wake up the blood pool under the sunset mental hospital, and the blood pool not only fell down, but even the corpse was turned clean in an instant, and it could also refine the ghosts of the two half-hanged people, which was terrible to think about.
So much so that when I saw the pool of blood under Xiaobao, my heart trembled: "Them, they ......"
At this time, Qiu Chengan and a man in a black robe and hat who couldn't see his appearance walked in together, Qiu Chengan looked at Xiaobao, there was no pity for the other party as his little cousin at all, and he was cold and ruthless as if talking about a piece of pork: "How is it?" Is it fruitful? ”
The black-robed man's voice was gloomy: "I have to try more, this child's body is a big treasure, and he must be stimulated so that he can be used by the Lord." ”
"Then I'll have to work harder."
The black-robed man nodded, he walked to the edge of the blood pool, made a handprint, and then the blood in the blood pool began to boil, and then, the guard escorted in a man with a black bag on his head, and put him in a groove on the side of the blood pool, and in that groove, a knife pierced the man's heart, and the man convulsed and struggled for a while, and the blood that flowed from his chest flowed into the blood pool through the groove.
The man did not breathe until his blood was almost dry, and he did not know how much pain he had to endure in between.
When people die, the guards wear special gloves and take out the poisons from the cages one by one, dispose of them in the grooves, and then let their blood flow into the pool of blood.
The blood pool "stabbed" sounded, smoke came out of the boiling, the smoke drifted to Xiaobao's body, and little by little from Xiaobao's pores seeped into Xiaobao's body, Xiaobao let out a painful cry, writhing and struggling on the barbed wire, but he was like a mosquito entangled in spider silk, no matter how he moved, he would only be entangled in the web more and more tightly.
"Mother, Daddy...... Save Xiaobao, Xiaobao hurts, Xiaobao hurts......"
Chen Lan had one or two hands hanging down at her side, her back was slightly arched, her head was hanging down, and her whole person seemed to be in a negative state, but in fact, her body was very tight......
With Xiaobao's twisting, the barbed wire cut through his delicate skin, oozing blood, and the blood beads condensed under the barbed wire, and it was about to drip into the pool of blood.
Feeling that this was not enough, the black-robed man also said to Qiu Cheng'an: "Take another piece of meat from his chest, and I will refine the pill together." ”
"Okay." Qiu Chengan immediately responded, personally took a short dagger, took a medicine that could prevent the influence of the blood pool, and then flew up to the barbed wire, and had already pulled Xiaobao's clothes with one hand.
"Ban Lan, do you know," Chen Lan said faintly, "Sometimes, when a person dies, it is really better than living, and it is better to sleep forever than to be awake, why, because ......"
She opened her eyes, her hunched back straightened, her lowered head was raised, and her eyes were completely resolute: "I peeked into fate, I tried to change it, but I still lost to fate after all, Ban Lan, I can't do anything, everything can only be handed over to you!" ”
She broke out suddenly, and a strong hurricane suddenly blew in the stone room, blowing Qiu Chengan almost fell from the barbed wire into the pool of blood, he took advantage of the situation to lie on the barbed wire, his face was horrified: "What person? ”
The black-robed man also took two steps forward, looking around the entire stone room warily.
The hurricane was blowing bigger and bigger, and Qiu Hanchen's soul power to protect her could have lasted a day to make her invisible, but this time, she gambled all this soul power here.
She didn't want to endure it anymore, it was no problem to die, she died with her son, it was better than leaving her son to be tortured like this by these beasts!
The black-robed man realized that something was wrong, and shouted to Qiu Cheng'an, who was still on the barbed wire: "Cut his flesh quickly, quickly!" ”
Qiu Chengan didn't dare to disobey, and approached Qiu Xiaobao again against the strong wind, the short dagger flashed coldly, he grabbed Qiu Xiaobao's clothes with one hand, and the short dagger was aimed at the white and tender chest that had been opened, and pierced it without leaving any questions-
When the tip of the knife touched Qiu Xiaobao's skin, a pair of hands stretched out from the hurricane held the blade, Chen Lan didn't know when she was also on the barbed wire, she rolled her eyelids coldly and stared at Qiu Chengan: "You, find, die!" ”
With a "bang", the short dagger broke into two, Qiu Chengan found that Chen Lan wanted to attack for a while, but the speed was more than a little bit slower, and Chen Lan slapped out one step at a time.
Chen Lan took the opportunity to hug Xiaobao and jumped off the barbed wire, the black-robed man led people to stop him, and was forced back by Qiu Hanchen's soul power, Chen Lan rushed out of the stone room in one breath.
She ran in the dark aisle, her soul power couldn't last long, and the injuries on her body were not healed, she knew that she couldn't escape with Xiaobao, so she endured it before, and wanted to wait until the subordinates she rescued before and the two brothers Fan Xuan arrived, and then try to save Xiaobao.
But Fan Xuan couldn't break through immediately, and she couldn't watch her son being taken from blood and cut flesh anymore, she knew that she might have taken the worst path, but she didn't regret it, especially when Xiaobao hugged her neck with both hands and happily shouted over and over again, "Mother, Xiaobao knows that Mother's mother will definitely come to save Xiaobao", she thought, her choice was right.
She quickly ran to the door that entered the Ancient Great Array with Xiaobao in her arms, and when she heard that there were pursuers in front and behind, she re-entered the door without hesitation, and then came to the front of the Ancient Great Array again.
The workers and managers who were still here were stunned when they saw her and Xiaobao, and then they rioted, and it was impossible for a few managers to stop Chen Lanyi, Chen Lan repelled them, and jumped into the ancient array before the pursuers chased after him.
From the outside, the Ancient Great Array was a disc made of stone and a disc, which was supported by a pillar and accumulated upwards, but once you jumped in, you couldn't see Chen Lanyi and Xiaobao.
I just felt my eyes flicker, and then I arrived at a place that at first glance looked like it was in an ancient tower.
In the middle is actually the tablet of the ancestors of the enemy family, two white candles that seem to never be extinguished are lit in front of the front, Chen Lan knelt in front of the ancestral tablet with Xiaobao in his arms, and shouted bloodily: "The ancestors and the ancestors are above, the Qiu Chen family is in no form today, it is really a last resort, I just want to keep the child in my arms, and I hope for the ancestors, forgive me!" ”
She kowtowed down, her head hit the ground heavily, Xiaobao couldn't understand, she pulled her mother in fear, and then touched her mother's forehead with a few strokes with her little hand with a distressed face: "Mother? ”
Chen Lanyi's blood was sucked into the floor, and then behind the ancestral tablet, a wooden staircase appeared, leading to the upper floor.
"Thank you, ancestor, Qiu Chen and his young son thank you!"
Another ring, Chen Lan picked up Xiaobao, and after running to the tablet, she didn't immediately go up the ladder, but with the support of this big array, those chasing soldiers outside couldn't get in here for a while.
There are nine floors in the Ancient Array, each of which is actually an independent space, and there is another hidden space in each space, like a room on top of a room.
As soon as Chen Lan found the hidden space on the first floor, as soon as he entered, the purpose was a coffin, each coffin was built taller than ordinary coffins, and the material was also made of all-black wood.
Chen Lan walked through the many coffins and stopped in front of the largest sarcophagus in the innermost part.
The sarcophagus is white and cyan, enough to be the height of Chen Lan's neck, and it is placed here, like the stars and the moon, like a king, standing here.
Chen Lan bowed his head to the sarcophagus, mourned for a while, and then stepped forward, holding Xiaobao with one hand, pressing the side of the sarcophagus with the other hand, and shouting loudly in his mouth, the whole sarcophagus was pushed by her, and then flew up, and finally landed on her shoulder, which was supported by her alive, and held the coffin firmly on her shoulder with the other hand.
She carried the huge sarcophagus on one shoulder, held Xiaobao in one hand, walked out of this hidden space and returned to the ancestral tablet on the first floor, and then carried the coffin with the child in her arms and stepped up the stairs.
She went up step by step, and she resisted several bumps along the way, and when she finally came to the ninth layer of space, she couldn't help but spit out blood.
"Mother, mother!"
Chen Lan took a sip of the blood remaining in his mouth and smiled at Xiaobao: "Mother is fine." ”
She then put the coffin down, I was worried about my previous life all the way, and I will have time to take a good look at the ninth floor, which is very simple in the shape of a round house, surrounded by several Buddha statues carved on the wall, but these Buddha statues are not kind at all, but fierce and vicious, like a fierce Buddha, one of the Buddha statues, I have vaguely seen, is in the willow forest of the Bone Mountain, Qiu Shishi seems to have invited out.
In addition, the entire sixth floor was empty, and the area was much smaller than the first floor, and the huge sarcophagus in the middle already occupied most of the position.
Chen Lan put Xiaobao down, squatted in front of him, and first treated the wounds on his body: "Xiaobao, does it hurt?" ”
Xiaobao shook his head, then snuggled into his mother's arms, and continued to hug Chen Lanyi with both hands insecurely: "Mother is here, Xiaobao doesn't hurt." ”
Chen Lan kissed Xiaobao's forehead with tears in his eyes: "Good boy, it's my mother's bad parents who didn't protect you well." ”
Xiaobao shook his head vigorously, and his little head rubbed against Chen Lanyi's face.
The mother and son hugged warmly for a while, and the big array fed back the news to her that the gang was about to break in.
Chen Lan hugged Xiaobao harder at the moment, and it took a few seconds to let go, she stroked Xiaobao's hair and little head, and Yin Yin taught: "Xiaobao, baby, you are tired, sleep for a while." ”
Xiao BMW became nervous, and the hand around Chen Lan's neck could almost be said to be strangled: "Where are you going to go?" Don't leave Xiaobao again! ”
"Xiaobao is obedient, obedient, and my mother promises that when Xiaobao wakes up, I will still be able to see my mother."
Xiaobao asked suspiciously, "Really?" ”
"Of course, how could my mother deceive Xiaobao."
"So, what about Daddy, can you see Daddy when you wake up? When is Daddy coming back? ”
Chen Lan endured the pain of his heart being excavated all his life, and said to Xiaobao with a smile: "Xiaobao sleep well, and when you wake up, ...... Not only can you see your mother, but you can also see your father, but if Xiaobao doesn't sleep, she won't see anything. ”
"Xiaobao sleeps, Xiaobao sleeps on the BMW."
In order to be able to reunite the family, even if Xiaobao felt that something was wrong with his mother, he still chose to be obedient.
Chen Lan took Xiaobao in her arms, just like she did every time she coaxed him to sleep, letting the child sit on her lap, pillow her arms, and shake gently.
Xiaobao is also tired, since his mother's accident, the enemy family was quickly controlled by the old lady and the devil, he has been bullied, Sister Ziyang died, Sister Green Mandarin was injured and disappeared, the familiar people around him are gone, he has to be forced to work, he has heard Uncle Villain They say that if you want to exercise his physique, let him follow the digging of rocks and move stones.
He has little strength, he can't move a lot of stones, he will be bullied by adults, he can't eat, he cries and the guards beat him, so even if he finishes his work every day, he will be taken to the stone room with a pool of blood to be "experimented", although he has not been cut before, but other drugs acting on him alone are enough to kill him.
So he hadn't slept well for a long time, and now in his mother's arms, all he could smell was his mother's smell, and his mother's lullaby humming softly for him, he felt that his eyelids were very heavy and heavy, and he wanted to see his mother more, but he couldn't stop closing it, and he fell asleep not long after.
Chen Lan picked him up, put one hand on the lid of the sarcophagus coffin, and slapped it hard, the coffin lid flew up and hung in the air, and in the sarcophagus, there were no bones, only an intact piece of older clothes, the thread on it seemed to be gold wire, and the workmanship was very exquisite.
Put Xiaobao down, and then put the dress on Xiaobao, looking at the clothes that should be adults, as soon as you wear it on Xiaobao, it is just right, Xiaobao is already cute, and when she puts on this dress, she looks more like a doll carved out of jade.
"Sleep child," Chen Lan reluctantly stroked Xiaobao's little face, his voice hoarse and gentle, "just fall asleep like this, wake up after five hundred years, remember what your mother told you, and then, okay, okay, do you remember clearly?" ”
Naturally, Xiaobao would not answer her again, and after putting on that dress, his breathing became shallower and shallow, until it disappeared completely.
Tears dripped down his white cheeks, but they couldn't make him react in the slightest.
The news fed back to her by the big array became more and more urgent, Chen Lan took a breath, then slowly spit it out, wiped away her tears, and came out of the sarcophagus, the suspended coffin lid also fell, covered the sarcophagus, and closed tightly, and then the sarcophagus emitted a cyan light, and the light lasted for about two breaths, and then it was extinguished.
In this world, except for Qiu Xiaobao himself, no one will be able to open this sarcophagus.
After doing this, Chen Lan turned her back to the sarcophagus, and a new staircase appeared, and she stepped on it without hesitation.
She appeared on the stone plate at the top of the large array, which was also the ninth layer, but it was no longer the specification of the ancient tower, but the original appearance of what she saw outside, she looked down and saw Qiu Chengan's father, leading people to rush into the first layer, she stood here, and could see the appearance of those people in the first layer.