Chapter 19: The Prince's Messenger
Professor Mei took the two Dao Masters and their four apprentices down the Lonely Mountain, and Uncle Mi, who was waiting on the shore, greeted everyone happily when he saw everyone coming: "Hey, Professor Mei, on this foggy day, you want to take the Second Dao Leader and the Third Dao Elder to Har City?" ”
Without waiting for Professor Mei to speak, Gao Dao said in a loud voice: "Shall I go to the Ba Wangfu to arrest Li Ji Demon?" ”
The smile on Uncle Mi's face suddenly froze, and he looked at Professor Mei and asked, "Li Ji Demon?" Who is he? ”
Professor Mei smiled helplessly, "Uncle Mi, let's talk about it when we get to the ship." ”
When everyone got on the boat, Uncle Mi untied the rope tied to the trunk of the tree on the shore, and then jumped on the boat to support the boat offshore.
The chief of the road sat at the back, he looked at the river and suddenly thought of a question, and before Uncle Mi could ask him, he opened his mouth first: "Uncle Mi, have you sent any strangers who came down from the lonely mountain to the other side in the past two days?"
Uncle Mi looked puzzled, "I haven't seen any strangers coming down the mountain, Erdao Chief, what happened on the mountain?" Professor Mei had already asked the same thing when he came, what did the three Dao chiefs say just now, could it be that there was an old ghost demon who escaped down the mountain? ”
The head of the road said: "Exactly, the Li Ji ghost in the old ghost prison has turned into a demon after three hundred years, since it is a chicken demon, it must look like a chicken." Since Uncle Mi hasn't seen it, it means that after the ghost turns into a demon, his strength has increased greatly, and he can paddle across the river. ”
Hearing this, Daoist Gao turned his face to Professor Mei and said seriously: "Professor Mei, the demon can paddle across the river, this is another major discovery in my Lonely Mountain Dao Realm over the years. Looking back, don't forget to record it in the history books to warn future generations. ”
Professor Mei smiled bitterly and lamented in his heart: If the demon magic is not eliminated, the history of Pakistan will end here, what else will be recorded?
The head of the lonely mountain road has a horse-drawn carriage in the warehouse of the wharf all the year round to go out shopping and errands.
On the shore, the two Taoist masters got into Professor Mei's carriage, and the four little Taoist priests drove another carriage, and the two carriages left the dock one after the other and headed in the direction of Har City.
As soon as the two carriages drove onto the avenue, Professor Mei, who was driving the carriage in front, saw a hazy figure riding a horse approaching in the fog ahead, and he didn't feel nervous in his heart, could it be that his whereabouts today were being targeted by someone surnamed Hu?
The horseman soon appeared in a clear field of vision, and the man on the horse had undoubtedly seen Professor Mei in the carriage, he slowed down his horse's pace, raised his whip in his hand and shouted, "Professor Mei! Stop it! Stop it! ”
Professor May hurriedly grabbed the reins of the horse and stopped the carriage, the voice of the horse rider was a little familiar, but he couldn't tell who it was. Because he wore a hat on his head to cover half of his face, and he was wearing a robe, which seemed to have come from afar.
When the horseman came to him, flew down and took off his hat and took off his hat, Professor Mei couldn't help but exclaim: "Four babies! How did you get here? What about Prince Shun? ”
The fourth baby is the personal entourage of Prince Shun, and the two have always been inseparable.
Siwa looked to be in her twenties, with a mustache on her face, he glanced at the two Taoist masters behind Professor Mei, and did not answer Professor Mei's question directly: "Professor Mei, I went to your house early in the morning and pounced, and my sister-in-law said that you came to Gushan to find the Taoist to go to the palace to crack the witchcraft, so I hurried here, don't go to the palace, you just die!" ”
Professor Mei and the Daoist behind him were shocked.
"Siwa, why do you say this?" Professor Mei asked.
Siwa said: "That demon's demon skills are not ordinary, so many guards in the palace and more than 100 people from our prince can't deal with him, he holds a demon sword that can send drugs and points at whoever is fascinated, and the demon can transform the witchcraft, and the princess was turned into a cat by him!"
"Ah, Li Ji Demon can transfigurate? Siwa, are you looking away? Gao Dao Chang asked with a tug at his throat.
Siwa's face changed greatly: "Dao Chang be quiet!" You're yelling like that, and if the demon hears it, you're in trouble. What is the Li Chicken Demon? That demon has a cat's head! ”
The chief of the road looked confused, and hurriedly asked, "Cat demon?" So the fourth junior brother of my family looked away, it turned out that a certain cat ghost in the Three Realms Hall had turned into a demon! ”
Siwa said dissatisfiedly: "Dao Chief, this cat-headed demon is not a ghost from your Three Realms Hall, the prince thinks that he is a demon from the outer world!"
This time it was Professor Mei's turn to be confused, he jumped out of the carriage and walked to the young man and asked in a low voice, "Siwa, what did Prince Shun say?" Where are the princess and princess now? ”
Siwa pulled Professor Mei into the woods on the side of the road and whispered: "The prince took the princess to the old world to find the descendants of the great general to help eliminate the demon, and before leaving, he sent me to the prince to report what happened in the palace.
I later found the prince, there were a few security guards around the prince to protect and hide in the countryside for a while, the prince was worried that Professor Mei would have an accident with the master of the Hutang if you didn't know it, so he sent me to Har City to find you. The prince wants you to pretend to be confused for the time being, so that you can enter and leave the palace normally to learn about the life and death of the king and queen. ”
Professor Mei was even more surprised, "The prince and the princess went to the old world? How did they get there? Did they meet the god Hal Celestial? ”
Siwa's head shook like a rattle, "The prince didn't say how to go to the old world, and it wouldn't be that he met the god of Hal Heaven, otherwise the prince would have taken the god directly to the palace to get rid of the demon?" In any case, we can't let the Dao Elders go to the palace, they can't deal with the demons outside the sky, and the demons surnamed Hu are colluding together, and we will also be sent to death if we join forces. ”
Professor Mei calmed down, "The king and queen are still alive, but they have been fooled by witchcraft. In that case, I sent the Taoist elders back to Lonely Mountain first. Siwa, if you go back to Har City with me and hide in my house first, Song Ren will definitely come to my house tonight to report the matter in the martial arts hall. ”
Although the martial arts hall is a large mansion, it is still difficult for fifty young men and girls to live here at once. Thirty boys lived in two large rooms, each full of fifteen single beds, with only a narrow passage in between.
Song Ren grabbed the nearest bed to the door, which was conducive to the secret activities of the night. After the lights went out at night, the companions in the room went through a day of hard sword training, and soon fell asleep one after another. But Song Ren tried his best to stay awake and just lay on the bed with his clothes to rest.
Convinced that everyone else in the room was asleep, he quietly got out of bed, opened the door and listened intently for a while, and after making sure that no one was watching, he walked out and closed the door gently.
After secret reconnaissance during the day, Song Ren was well aware of the topography of the building facilities inside and outside the martial arts hall, and there were old disciples of the hall master and wolf dogs guarding the gate of the courtyard day and night, and he could only go out from the remote place over the wall.
He walked briskly to the public toilet in a corner of the wall, and after making sure that there was no one inside or outside the wall, he climbed to the top of the wall with both hands and pulled up to the top of the wall with a pull-up, then turned and slid out of the wall and into the weeds on the ground.
The insects in the grass were enjoying a rich supper together with the whole family, and Song Ren fell from the sky and frightened them into screaming loudly and fleeing for their lives. Amid the screams and curses of the insects, Song Ren stumbled out of the grass and onto a road.
This road is located in the wilderness on the outskirts of the city, and there are no pedestrians or cars on the road at this time, and Song Ren has long heard that this area is haunted, and Song Ren is a little frightened.
With the faint light of the sky, he quickly ran in the direction of the flickering lights in the distance, and a group of wild cats suddenly rushed to the road from the roadside woods like wolves, causing Song Ren to break out in a cold sweat.
Finally he rushed to the street with the lights on. The street was bustling, and the wind-proof street lamps hung high in the treetops by the roadside, emitting colorful lights, which used to look pleasing to the eye, but tonight they were as cold as the eyes of the green-faced owl.
Most of the shops on the street were still open and the lights were on, and Song Ren sat down to rest in the shade at a crossroads. After practicing the sword very hard for a day during the day, and having just run a few miles, his legs trembled a little, and after confirming the direction of the route, he ran towards his destination again.
Professor Mei's family and Siwa waited for Song Ren's arrival in the house after dinner, discussing major issues related to the survival of Pakistan.
Professor Mei said to Siwa, "If the Cat People from the Outer Heaven can come to our world, why did the Hal Heavenly God take Princess Jane to the Outer Heaven five hundred years ago and never come back?" When the Taizu of my Mei family was old and frail, the first king and King Meng often came to visit my house, and they often sat in the courtyard looking at the starry sky and asked the same question over and over again: Why didn't Hal Tianshen and Jian'er come back?
When King Meng lived to be eighty years old, he said to those around him when he died: 'Remember, if my brother comes to the new world one day, tell him that his brother will miss him day and night while he is alive. ’”
After Professor Mei finished speaking, he looked at Siwa, he had already heard Prince Shun say that the young man in front of him had a very active mind and was the most reliable.
Siwa said: "I also talked about this with the prince, and the prince thought that the Hal Heavenly God might have helped us Ba people to violate the rules of heaven, so as soon as he returned to the outer world, he was punished and even imprisoned by the heavenly court, so he can no longer come to our world." The gods were forbidden to travel, and Princess Jane could not come back to visit the former king Meng, not to mention that Princess Jane was a mortal and would die after a few decades in the outer world. ”
Everyone was talking and seeing that it was getting late, but they had not seen Song Ren arrive, Professor Mei began to be anxious: Could it be that Song Ren had an accident in the Martial Arts Hall?
When everyone was in a state of distraction, there was a knock at the door, and Professor Mei walked up quickly to open the door, and was pleasantly surprised to see Song Ren standing in front of the door panting.
Entering the living room, Song Ren was surprised to see a stranger staring at him under the light in the room, and Professor Mei hurriedly introduced: "Song Ren, he was sent by the prince, you can just call him Brother Siwa." ”
Siwa greeted Song Ren with a smile: "Song Ren, Professor Mei said that you are a highly talented student of the King's Academy, have you found anything in the Martial Arts Hall?" ”
Song Ren's nervous heart relaxed, he sat on the wooden chair, Mei Liang immediately brought him a cup of tea, Song Ren was already thirsty, he took the teacup and drank it all, drank the tea and breathed calmly, he said: "Teacher, master, brother Siwa, I saw two cat-headed people living with the master of Hu Hall in the martial arts hall, and the witchcraft of the palace was undoubtedly done by the cat-headed people." ”
To Song Ren's surprise, the people present were not shocked by the top-secret information he said, Professor Mei just calmly asked, "What did the cat-headed man do to you?" ”
Song Ren couldn't help but ask, "The teacher already knows about the cat-headed man?" ”
Professor Mei nodded and said, "Siwa followed Prince Shun and fought with the cat-headed man the night before yesterday and knew how powerful he was, Song Ren, I have very bad news to tell you first, the princess was turned into a cat by the cat-headed man that night. ”
Song Ren was shocked, he stood up abruptly and exclaimed, "The princess has turned into a cat? So where is she now? ”
Siwa said: "The prince took the princess to the old world to move the rescuers, but Professor Mei and I still don't know how the prince got to the old world." ”
Hearing this, Song Ren remembered what Hall Master Hu said during the day, and his excited emotions calmed down, "Hall Master Hu said that the Hal Heavenly God gave the first king King Meng a Tongtian treasure five hundred years ago, but not long ago, the Tongtian treasure was stolen by Prince Shun, and Hall Master Hu already knew that Prince Shun fled to the old world with the princess. ”
Professor Mei's family and the four babies were all shocked this time, and Professor Mei's eyes widened and said, "Tongtian baby? I don't even know about this, how did Hu know about it? ”
"Hu Zheng told us that the cat-headed man is the archmage of the outer world, and it was the god of Hal who sent him to return the treasure of Tongtian in the hands of the king, and the god of Hal was imprisoned in the prison because he saved our ancestors of the Ba people, and he can only be released if he takes back the treasure of Tongtian." Song Ren said as he recalled.
"The surname Hu is nonsense!" Professor Mei said angrily, "How could the Hal Heavenly God send a demon to our country to harm the king of my Ba people? ”
Siwa looked very calm and said: "Professor Mei, the words surnamed Hu are not all untrue, he said that the idea of the Hal Heavenly God being locked up in the heavenly prison because of saving my Ba people is the same as the prince's idea, it is likely to be true, otherwise, the Hal Heavenly God and Princess Jian will not come back to visit King Meng after they go to the outer world." In addition, if there is no heavenly treasure of the gods, how can the cat-headed demon come to our world? How did he know about such a secret thing that the gods had given to the ancestor king Tongtian five hundred years ago? ”
Song Ren had thought about these questions seriously, but he had never been able to understand them.
There was silence in the room.
Mrs. Mei looked at Song Ren to break the silence and said, "Song Ren, have you seen the cat-headed demon face to face?" What bad things did he do to you? ”
Song Ren said: "Hui Shi Niang, yes, I have seen two cat-headed people in person, they are old and young, the old cat-headed man also said a few words to us, although the accent is different, but we can understand what he said, Hu Tang Master said that it is because the Har Heavenly God taught the archmage to speak the language of our Ba people." Hall Master Hu selected six people, three men and three women, and I was among them, he wanted to personally hand over our swordsmanship, saying that the Archmage would teach us divine skills, and a month later, the six of us would follow the Archmage to the outer world with Hall Master Hu and a senior sister. ”
Professor Mei and others were shocked again.
"The surname Hu wants to take you to the outside of the world? What are you going to do? Professor Mei asked urgently.
"Go to the outer heavens to help the archmage defeat his enemies, and then the archmage will take us to the old world to rebuild the kingdom of Pakistan." Song Ren replied.
Siwa said calmly: "So the cat-headed demon has enemies in the outer world!" This is good news for us. Speaking of this, he said to Professor Mei: "Professor Mei, if Song Ren follows Hu Zheng to the outer world, it will also be an opportunity, so that he can find out whether the Hal Heavenly God has anything to do with the cat-headed people. Secondly, Song Ren can manage to find the enemies of the catheads, and those alien spells may surpass the catheads, and they can be asked to crack the palace magic. In addition, even if my prince goes to the old world, he may not be able to find a magician who can turn the princess back into a human form, and there is no record in the history of my Ba people that there is this kind of transformation spell in the old world, and it is likely that only the world of the cat-headed people has such a magic spell. ”
After listening to Siwa's words, Song Ren became even more determined to go to the outer world, he stood up and said to Professor Mei: "Teacher, Brother Siwa is reasonable, I may be able to find the Hal Heavenly God when I go to the outer world, even if I can't find the Heavenly God, I can find a kind mage and ask them to come here to help us." It's not too early, I have to rush back as soon as possible, in case Hall Master Hu finds out that I ran out secretly, I won't be able to go outside the world. ”
After listening to Siwa's words, Professor Mei's emotions calmed down, "Okay, Song Ren, after going to the outer world, you must first protect yourself, and in addition, you must try to persuade the other five classmates to help you." The night is long and there are many dreams, and we must try to drive Hu Zheng and the cat-headed people out of our world as soon as possible. Siwa, you ride a horse and send Song Ren back to the martial arts hall, be careful all the way. ”