I don't know if it's because the dead city has just blown a storm, although there is a snake's eye stone lighting, the three of them feel a little gray when they walk on the road, the rubble is still a little slippery, and the water droplets on it have not dried, and they are falling to the mud.

There was also an unknown smell of herbs in the air, as if someone was boiling herbs and emitting the aroma of medicine.

"Hey, it's called Hanako, do you feel that something is wrong?" Feng Baobao asked uneasily.

Xu Zhaohua shook her head, "I also feel a little strange here, but I can't say it yet, for now, we are safe, let's go ahead, the hall that was covered in the storm just now is in this direction, and it should be the ultimate." ”

Feng Baobao had no choice but to put aside his doubts and continue to walk forward, and after walking forward for about a mile, a river suddenly appeared in front of the dead city, the water was crystal clear, more than a meter deep, and there were plankton wandering around at the bottom of the water.

In addition, two blue-winged flying foxes (a type of underground bat) hanging upside down in the dome shot down towards the water, and the moment their beaks touched the water, they flapped their wings violently to dodge, as if they had found something remarkable in the water, and as if they were afraid of the river.

Two flying foxes chirped and flew out of sight.

"Let's go, let's go."

Xu Zhaohua greeted Feng Baobao and the fat man, and saw that there was a big stone on the river that had been erected at some point, and people could easily cross the river by stepping on it.

The fat man stepped on the stone and began to walk to the other side of the river, and the whole person felt like he was floating on the water, and he had a lot of fun.

There is such a record in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" that Qiu Qianzhang, the elder brother of Qiu Qianren, who floated on the water with iron palms, pretended to be his younger brother and was abducted and deceived everywhere. The fat man was still thinking about how this was possible, but after experiencing it himself today, Jin Yong's description seems to be very reliable.

On the other side of the river, Feng Baobao was about to keep up with Xu Zhaohua's footsteps, but when he saw that he had no intention of moving forward, he asked, "What's wrong, is there any problem?" ”

Xu Zhaohua turned around, holding his turtle shell in the palm of his hand, which was covered with a thick layer of water droplets, as if it had been washed.

Xu Zhaohua stood aside, looked at some of the caves in front of her that were gradually shrouded in mist, her brows gradually furrowed, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

Feng Baobao saw that something was wrong with him, and asked in a low voice: "It's called Huazi, do you really find something abnormal?" ”

"The hexagram of the turtle shell shows that there is danger ahead, and everyone must not get separated after a while." Xu Zhaohua nodded, looked at the two and said.

Feng Baobao felt a little chilled all over his body, and carefully stared at the mistt gradually flooding from the cave opposite, as if a layer of gauze was gradually wrapping the stone wall, and he couldn't see the situation inside even if he wanted to see through it.

According to Hanako's explanation, there should be something unclean in front of her, or perhaps, that dirty thing is right in front of you now, and the three of them can't see it at all now?

Xu Zhaohua patted Feng Baobao and the fat man on the shoulder and said, "Don't be too nervous, we don't know what is in here, and now we have no room to turn back, so we can only go on hard until we get out of the end." So, once you get in, everything will be on your own. ”

Later, the three of them stepped on some damp mud in front of each other, and walked in one foot deep and one foot shallow.

After walking for more than ten minutes, the fat man suddenly screamed, and Feng Baobao came back to his senses and looked over as he walked.

"Look, what's that!"

In front of the cave, there is a small basin that is flat and even somewhat low-lying.

The flat ground was full of large stones, some placed horizontally, some vertically, some two or three pieces together, and some large stones broken in two to form a tripod from the middle, in short, strange shapes, even several times larger than the stones encountered when I came before, some of which looked like Stonehenge in England.

Stonehenge in England is also a mysterious ruin, spread across almost all parts of England, where huge, towering stones have been erected in the wilderness or at the foot of mountains, where rough surfaces have been planed and sharp edges have been sharpened into smooth arcs. Because the boulder has been exposed to the wind and sun, there are many strange-shaped holes on the surface, which are arranged in the form of a concentric circle, horizontal or vertical, and finally converge into a pattern, what the pattern says, no one can understand.

If Feng Baobao hadn't seen these boulders with his own eyes, he would have almost thought that they were the British Stonehenge, those strange stones from the Ice Age.

"It's called Hanako, do you think these are stone formations, why do they look so evil?" Feng Baobao poked Xu Zhaohua's arm and asked.

“…… I finally understood that this should be the Soul Gathering Coffin, and if I didn't expect, there should be a coffin in the center of these large stones. As soon as the memories appeared in her mind, Xu Zhaohua's expression suddenly became a little solemn, and she was even a little jealous.

"What is the Soul Gathering Coffin? What are you doing with this thing? People used to be so idle, and it wasn't a brisk thing to bring these big stones in. The fat man muttered to the side.

"Gathering the soul coffin is a long-lost formation, after finding a unique dragon vein, the legend is that the stones are arranged in the order of the sixty-four hexagrams of Fuxi, so that you can absorb the essence of the sun and the moon of the mountains and rivers, which is the so-called gathering soul.

The location of the golden well in the stone formation is also the so-called central position, but it is not the center as we understand it now, but the center of the I Ching, where the coffin is buried, and the coffin will generally bury the person who built the stone formation and arranged the coffin of gathering souls.

This person is in a coffin surrounded by stone formations, although the person is dead but the soul is still there, the seven souls and six spirits are trapped in the coffin and constantly struggle, after thousands of years of soul gathering, this person can be born and return to the world, this is the so-called soul coffin. ”

After listening to Xu Zhaohua's introduction of bluffing and drinking, the fat man felt a little like listening to ghost stories, and he had goosebumps all over his body, and hurriedly asked: "Do you mean that there is really an ancient corpse in this coffin in Jinjing, and maybe when it will be resurrected?" ”

Xu Zhaohua nodded, "The formation of the Soul Gathering Coffin is rumored to have disappeared without a trace in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the last one who has been recorded to have used this formation seems to be Ji Wendan of the Zhou Dynasty, he wants to resurrect his wife, but the later records are gone, and no one knows whether it succeeds or not, I always thought that the Soul Gathering Coffin was a formation fabricated in metaphysics, but I didn't expect to be able to see it today." ”

"You have a big heart, and you're not afraid that there are really ghosts in that pile of stones, why don't you go over and take a closer look?" Feng Baobao said instigatingly on the side.

Xu Zhaohua didn't resist, saying that he had planned to go to see the soul gathering coffin, he always felt that there was something wrong in the stone formation, if he could prevent it, he would have to go over and take a look, but he had to calculate the location of the gold well first, otherwise the coffin would not be dug up.

"Dansha wood essence, gold is merged, gold hydration, wood fire is a couple, the four are chaotic, listed as a dragon and tiger, three things are a family, Jinjing Futu ......"

Xu Zhaohua muttered mysteriously, while pinching with her fingers, and finally stood still with her feet and headed in one direction-

"The fire hexagram of the I Ching, the golden well is on the off-the-spot." Xu Zhaohua pointed ahead.

"Let's go, let's dig it up!"

The fat man didn't want to go in, so he had to be shoveled in by Feng Baobao with a sapper.

Feng Baobao took out the sapper shovel from the backpack and dug it at the place Xu Zhaohua just pointed to, the advantage of the sapper shovel over the Luoyang shovel is that it has a large shovel surface and a strong rigid structure, and the efficiency is higher than that of the Luoyang shovel when digging the soil. Generally speaking, the Luoyang shovel is specially used to insert soil to identify tombs, while the sapper shovel is used to dig graves and dig graves.

Although he had to dig four or five meters deep in the soil, Feng Baobao felt like he had poked into the sand with a shovel, and it was easy to bring out a large amount of soil as soon as he inserted it to the end.

I don't know if it's because of the mist or because of the dirt itself, but the shoveled soil is soft and damp when poured on one side.

Finally, after a mound the size of a mound of earth was piled up on the other side, the sapper shovel stumbled into something below again, and with a crisp 'poof', it should be the coffin buried in the golden well.

Xu Zhaohua cooperated with Feng Baobao to pick the soil aside, revealing the shape of the coffin, and found that its workmanship was extremely fine, perfect like a specially polished work of art.

A piece of quaint agarwood is riveted and nailed together, the front end is large, the back end is small, into a ladder shape, on its body, the bevel of each board used is leaning, and each part of the shape also reflects the front large and small bevel. The two sides and the lid are oblique and arcing, and from the front of the timber head, the whole coffin seems to be a half-sided log.

The front of the coffin is painted with the crane deer of the stele hall, two snow-white cranes fly above the glazed tile hall, the hall is surrounded by green pines and cypress trees, the front of the hall is the green grass of fragrant and colorful, the middle of the grass is the stone step path leading to the hall, it looks very clean and elegant, the whole picture decorates the coffin head like a fairyland room, like a quiet villa.

On the top of the coffin is written the three big characters of 'Taibai Palace', which closely links the coffin head picture with the coffin itself.

On either side of the coffin are painted two golden dragons chasing and teasing the orb. Around the dragon is painted with the weapons of the eight immortals such as Lu Dongbin, also known as the "dark eight immortals", as well as the guqin, the ancient painting, the plum orchid chrysanthemum bamboo, the peach pomegranate longevity fruit, and there is "Shoushan Fuhai" on the coffin. All the pictures on the coffin are made with techniques such as standing powder and gilding, as well as the deployment of pigments, which fully move the painting style of ancient mythological colors into it, so that the whole coffin is generous, the color layers are clear, gorgeous and orderly, and the lines are also elegant and smooth.

Feng Baobao, as a native who has studied history professionally, the observation of these details is extremely important.

"It seems that there is a big man here, let's bring it up and see if the corpse is corrupted, don't make it into a dumpling." Xu asked Hua to glance at Feng Baobao, and the two of them stood aside and planned to lift the coffin with their hands.

Squeak Squeak –

Suddenly, Feng Baobao heard a few whispers in his ears, like the movement of some animal running over from Stonehenge.

Feng Baobao and Xu Zhaohua glanced at each other, then put down their tools and walked out by feeling the stones.

In the mist on the periphery of Stonehenge, the bright light of the snake's eye stone was reflected colorfully, and the two looked around and found that the fat man was gone!

"Where's the fat man!" Feng Baobao couldn't calm down, and rushed from Stonehenge to the path to look around.

Xu Zhaohua looked towards the end of the trail, where the water mist had become thicker, like a strange mist miasma in the Wonderland, and he always felt that something would come out of that thick fog in the next second.

"Let's go, let's go over and have a look first, the fat man can't disappear for no reason, it won't work to find a way like this." Xu Zhaohua took the lead and pulled out his parting hook from his waist.

Feng Baobao could only hum and walked side by side with Xu Zhaohua into the dense fog in front of him.

"The big rabbit is sick...... Two rabbits look...... Three rabbits buy medicine...... Four rabbits boiled ......"

As I was walking ahead, I suddenly heard a burst of singing from the empty underground cavern, and I don't know where it came from.

Feng Baobao asked Xu Zhaohua, and Xu Zhaohua said that he felt like he was floating down from the top of the wall, and the voice kept wandering above his head.

The strange thing is that Feng Baobao is not from the source of the voice he heard, why did he listen to the song as if it was coming from the ground? Is it a hallucination?

The song is like a group of children singing nursery rhymes, and the sound is a little ethereal and weird, which makes people's hearts feel muffled and even more depressed.

"It's called Hanako, do you think there can be anyone else in this dungeon besides a few of us, how can there be children singing?" Feng Baobao remembered the little boy he had a nightmare dream about last time, and he was suddenly a little nervous, and a handful of sweat broke out in his palms.

Xu Zhaohua raised her index finger at her and shushed, Feng Baobao saw that his forehead was also a little sweaty, and his lips were bitten white, "Don't talk yet, continue to listen, this song is weird, listen to what kind of fame this singer is doing." ”

The singing in the cave continues.

- Five rabbits died, and six rabbits carried ...... Seven rabbits dig pits, eight rabbits bury ...... The Nine Rabbits sat on the ground and wept...... Ten Rabbits asked him why he was crying?

The nine rabbits said that the five rabbits will never come back.

Not coming back.

Come ......"

The singing voice became even more weird, and it became a female voice again, a very shrill and very complaining cry. But one moment it was a child's voice, and another moment it was a woman's voice, and Feng Baobao heard it a little numb.

"Damn, it's called Hanako, we shouldn't be a ghost, right?"

Feng Baobao wanted to hold Xu Zhaohua, but when he turned around to look for it, he found that there was no one in front of him or behind him.

Xu Zhaohua is also gone.

Feng Baobao was the only one left in the underground cave.

It's white.