This time they were not locked in that dark secret room, they were allowed to return to their respective intellectual youth points, and several girls, Gu Haili, Ye Chun and Yan Yan saw that their companions had finally returned safely, and they all cried with joy. Seeing their sour appearance, they had been hungry for several days, and they didn't bother to say that they immediately found food and drink. I don't know what kind of smelly rotten fish and shrimp were mixed in the big black bowl, and several people were also swept away.

After the three bowls, Lao Pi was still not satisfied, and wiped his mouth and said to Ye Chun: "Little Yezi, give my brother another bowl." ”

"I didn't ...... It's gone......" Ye Chun was the most shy among them, she looked at the empty pot with a spoon and said, "After you leave, we will have no food...... If it weren't for Da Zhuang secretly sending some, we would ......" Speaking of this, her eyes turned red and glowed a little, then Li Xin was a woman and hurriedly stepped forward to protect her and said: "Don't cry, it's us who have caused you a burden." ”

"This old Xing who has suffered a thousand cuts!" Lao Pi threw the bowl on the ground with hatred and said: "Fourth brother, I must go back to ask for an explanation for this matter, first I was wronged, and then I was imprisoned for no reason, and now I am running out of food and water to bully people in a different way!" ”

"What can you say?" Wang Ling got up and looked at the girls who were crying and said, "In the final analysis, we broke the rules first, change our clothes first, I guess it won't be long before Lao Xing will ask us to go." ”

"Fuck!" Lao Pi's stomach was full of fire but there was no place to sprinkle it, and when he saw Zheng Jiuwu lying there and looked like an uncle, he was angry again, "It's all this plague god who has made us miserable!" ”

"Come on, you just don't have to say a few words!" Wang Ling was also irritated when he heard this, and finally pulled down his face and shouted: "It's not enough to make infighting, the eight of us came together, we have to support each other together, if it weren't for Lao Zheng, I estimate that your kid's life would have been lost in that cabin, okay, go to the water first to wash the smell." After that, he pushed Lao Pi out, and at that time they bathed directly into the sea, and he said softly to Lao Pi while pushing: "Don't shout yet, I have something to discuss with you." ”

This old skin is naturally not stupid, he also saw the strangeness in this, and said as he walked: "Let's probably think of it together, Lao Xing and Zheng Jiuwu are eighty percent together and put us together!" ”

Soaking in the seawater, Wang Ling wiped his face and spit out the salty taste in his mouth: "What is your basis?" ”

"First of all, Zheng Jiuwu is very familiar with this place," Lao Pi said, "He didn't follow us when we crossed the line the first time, but as you see later, even if he has the nose of a hunting dog, he may not be able to follow the smell of our two to chase it there." I don't remember where this kid got on the train from, but I asked a few of them privately, but no one knew clearly, as if he had suddenly arrived on our team for some reason. ”

Wang Ling nodded and said, "You go on." ”

Lao Pi continued: "According to what this kid himself said, his grandfather's generation knew that there was such a thing as Wang Zhi's treasure, but in this vast sea, there were too many small islands like Xuanwu Island scattered during the period. According to a vague oral secret, he Zheng Jiuwu can find this island? In other words, Fourth Brother, you are also a scholar, just give you a coordinate to figure out the exact location of an island the size of a sesame grain on the sea, I'm afraid you won't be so easy to do it, right? ”

Wang Ling smiled and said: "Even if you have coordinates, you need to know the use of those nautical instruments, such as compasses, sextants and nautical charts, etc., these knowledge cannot be learned from books alone." Even if Zheng Jiuwu really knew the specific location of that island, how could he guarantee that the educated youth point he was going to was exactly that island, and none of us knew where we were going before getting off the train. Xuanwu Island is inconspicuous but hidden enough, this is not reasonable, it can only show that Zheng Jiuwu has been here in the past, and even has been living here, if this is really the case, it is too terrible, it means that all the people on this island cannot be trusted. ”

"That old Xing tried his best to kill us because he broke into the forbidden land by mistake," Lao Pi continued: "This forbidden place is actually related to the secret of that treasure, and the reason why he didn't let the people on the island cross the line was that he was afraid that the secret would be exposed, so he just used Zheng Jiuwu's jump to push the pot on our heads, and unknowingly found an excuse." These two people concluded that they were colluding, but in fact, they were in a group, just to get that treasure, and anyone who would threaten this treasure could be killed! ”

"Good boy!" Wang Ling smiled and stretched out his hand to touch Lao Pi's head and said: "I can't see your big grinning temperament, but your mind is careful enough, their flaws are too many, it's just that we were shocked at every step before, and we didn't have the heart to think about these things at all, since we both have this guess now, but don't expose it." This place is far away from the emperor, and we have to be responsible for the safety of several other companions, and we must not be reckless, so as not to involve more people. ”

After taking a bath and returning to the Zhiqing point, the two of them had a very tacit understanding to sleep with their heads up, this sleep is called a comfortable, the fatigue and tension of the past few days have already made people reach the bottom line of physiological bearing, until Wang Ling opened his eyes and found that the sky was already dark.

"Awake?"

Wang Ling turned his head sideways and saw that there was a shadow leaning on the door, it turned out that Li Xin was washing clothes for a few of them there. Wang Ling was a little embarrassed and wanted to get up and grab it, but Li Xin shook his pants and smiled: "My little woman is not dirty, but you are an old man with ink." She said while washing: "Brother Zhuangzi came here just now, saying that when you woke up, let me go to Cheng Ye's place." ”

"Cheng Ye?" Wang Ling remembered the name and had never crossed paths with the old man on the island. He asked again, "Didn't Lao Xing bring a message?" ”

"No," Li Xin continued: "Brother Zhuangzi said that Cheng Ye went to bed early at night, so he asked the two of you to go over early." ”

"The two of us?" Wang Ling turned around and looked back at Lao Pi, who was still asleep, and said, "You mean I'm with Lao Pi?" ”

"Hmm!" "This is strange," Wang Ling thought to himself, this was obviously five people coming back together, why did they just find him and Lao Pi? As soon as I remembered that the conversation between the two in the afternoon was whispered in the sea, no one heard it, "Yes, I'll go and drag the old skin up and go over." ”

By the sea, there is a fort in front of the old house, and this location is very easy to find. There were no windows in the stone house, only a wooden door, which was closed, and through the cracks in the door could be seen the stars. Lao Pi and Wang Ling tiptoed to the front but didn't dare to knock on the door easily, after all, there was no bottom in their hearts.

"Why do you think this old man is looking for us two if he has nothing to do? I heard that this old man even gave Lao Xing three points. ”

"Let's act when the opportunity arises," Wang Ling said: "A big place with a big palm, you can't hide if you want to, I wonder why Lao Xing hasn't moved yet, but this old man, hey......"

The two were chatting outside, when a cough sounded inside, and then a drooping old voice said, "Young man, the door is not closed, come in." ”

I originally thought that the house of such an elderly man living alone should be full of sour smell and musty smell, but the moment I opened the door, a faint fragrance wafted in. In the center of the shrine is a shrine with an incense burner emitting green smoke, and on the left side of the shrine is an ancient bed made of elaborate wooden carvings, and the old man is sitting on the edge of the bed staring at a bowl of clear oil burning on the ground in front of him.

The light of the fire came from this bowl of oil, and as soon as Wang Ling entered the room, he jumped at the flame the size of a soybean, and then extinguished itself. Only then did he see that half of the face of the old man with a wrinkled face fell into darkness, Wang Ling's heart suddenly chuckled, and he hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I guess I opened the door and let the wind blow out the fire." ”

After that, he motioned to Lao Pi to relight the fire, but Cheng Ye said: "That's it, fire is the essence of fireflies, its temperament, good people ask for heart, bow down to courtesy, everyone has to follow the will." ”

"What's that?" Lao Pi was confused when he heard this, turned his head and looked at Wang Ling and said, "Fourth brother, what does Master Cheng want to tell us?" ”

"Firefly refers to Mars, also called Red Star." Wang Ling said to him: "In the eyes of the ancients, this star is not an auspicious omen, it often means death or the coming of war. ”

"This ......" Lao Pi was also speechless for a while, why did he have such an evaluation of them this time, but Wang Ling said: "But the fire spirit is the most polite, and he must be polite and virtuous to people and things. After that, he took a step forward and learned to be like his predecessors, knelt on his knees and kowtowed: "The two juniors came to visit late at night, forgive the offense of disturbing, and hope that Cheng Ye can guide the juniors out of this dangerous situation." ”

He is a smart person, and from the words that Cheng Ye said, he can judge several meanings, one is that they are in trouble now, the second is that this difficult old man may be able to solve it, and the third is that he needs to have a sincere heart. From the words, Wang Ling thought that Cheng Ye should be a master who had learned physiognomy and was proficient in numerology, but anyone like this would pay the most attention to the rules, otherwise, why would this old man who had never known him go to great lengths to make these mysteries?

Seeing Wang Ling like this, Lao Pi also knelt down together but didn't speak, and the two of them waited with their heads down for the strange old man's next move......