But the joy on the faces of the others and my contradictory expectations all ended at the end of the stone road, and we stood in place in dismay, without the long-awaited demon kingdom, and there was still endless grass and trees in front of us. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Everyone scattered around to search, but no stone road appeared, and the mountain that was last shown on the guqin was already close at hand, and even if we didn't have to reach it, we could determine that the demon kingdom would definitely not be among them.

This is a long and narrow strip of land, and it is impossible to build a demon kingdom from the perspective of the terrain and area, and the stone road is interrupted under our feet, and it feels like all hope is also ended.

"What the hell, the road is all built here, but, what about the Demon Kingdom?" Huang Ping came back from the grass, without any harvest or discovery, and said dejectedly.

Ye Jiuqing was at a loss, with his decades of experience in exploring tombs, and now his face was full of doubts, and the laborers mobilized the crowd to build a stone road in the deep mountains and old forests, just to facilitate the transportation of Lantian jade, but everything disappeared magically.

"Dad, come here!" Ye Zhiqiu's voice came from the depths of the grass in the other direction.

We thought that she had made a discovery, and hurriedly ran over, Ye Zhiqiu stood on the mound, and below was a spacious flat land, which was the first time we had seen such a flat place in Jiulian Mountain.

Following the direction of Ye Zhiqiu's finger, there were countless lights on the flat ground below, and when he looked at it from a distance, it looked like many pairs of eyes were blinking, but those eyes were full of light blue ghosts.

I was shocked, I couldn't see what those lights were under the moonlight, although I didn't find the Demon Kingdom, but there was a direct connection between this place and the Demon Kingdom, and what could appear here would definitely not be simple.

"Fireflies?" Xue Xinrou said timidly.

"Have you ever seen a firefly this big?" Tian Ji said as he picked up his gun and stood in front of us.

The lights below were constantly moving, and we were alert to each other's weapons on guard, but after a long time, we found that it was not on our side, but had been wandering in the flats.

I remembered that there was a flare in my backpack, and I fired one at the flat ground below, and the blazing light roared into the sky, and when it fell, the bright light illuminated everything in front of us, which was a rare flat land in the Jiulian Mountains.

There was no vegetation growing, and what surprised us the most was that with the flickering of the flares, the light blue light points that had moved before disappeared in an instant, like ghosts that would only wander in the dark, and the moment the fleeting strong light of the flares disappeared, those light spots immediately bloomed in the darkness.

"yes, it can't be a real ghost." The field chicken squirmed in the Adam's apple.

Ye Jiuqing's expression gradually changed from being dazed at the beginning to shock, and he walked down without saying a word, and before he understood the situation, I was worried that he would have something to do and hurriedly chased after him.

When we reached the flat ground, it became clear that the pale blue light was all floating fireballs, suspended in the air and swaying everywhere with the wind.

"Bet, it's less than a meter down here, and there's something buried." Ye Jiuqing's eyebrows stretched slightly.

"Buried what?" The high priests were a little curious.

"Dig it up and you'll know." Ye Jiuqing took out a shovel and began to dig.

We all went up to help, and in a moment the shovel touched something, making a crisp cracking sound, and the depth of the excavation happened to be one meter as Ye Jiuqing said, I jumped into the dirt pit to clean up, and waited until the person above lowered the torch, and I saw clearly that what I was holding in my hand was actually a skull.

Suddenly frightened, he threw it away in a panic, his eyes fell on the excavated soil layer, and he was dumbfounded to find that there were countless corpses densely piled up inside.

"Ghost Fire!" Ye Jiuqing's voice came from above.

I looked up at him in surprise, the other people's expressions were as surprised as mine, Ye Jiuqing patted the dirt on his hands, looked around and said affirmatively: "The older generation said that after people die, if the ghosts continue to linger there, there will be ghost fires." ”

"Uncle Ye, this is all unfounded statement, in fact, the so-called ghost fire is actually phosphorus fire, because human bones contain phosphorus, and phosphine will be produced when phosphorus reacts with water or alkali, which is a gas that can spontaneously combust, because it mostly appears in cemeteries, so it becomes a ghost fire by false rumors." Xue Xinrou explained.

"I know, after visiting the grave all my life, there are many opinions on this play, and where there is a ghost fire, there must be corpses, but I have never seen so many." Ye Jiuqing raised his hand and pointed to the flat ground. "If I'm not mistaken, this is a mass grave, and there are tens of thousands of dead buried inside, and I'm afraid there are more than that."

"Mass graves?" Tian Ji looked around in a daze. "Who's buried underneath?"

"The one who built the Demon Kingdom!" It suddenly dawned on me that killing people and servitude was the best way to keep secrets, no wonder there had been no rumors about the Demon Kingdom for more than 2,000 years, and it was impossible for the laborers who were escorted here to escape from the primeval forest.

After the construction of the demon kingdom was completed, all the people involved were killed on the spot.

"So...... The Demon Kingdom was built. Huang Ping said.

"Yes, since the pit kills labor, it means that the Demon Kingdom does exist, and it is near here." Ye Jiuqing stood up and nodded.

"With the scale of the Demon Kingdom, there is no place to build a Demon Kingdom in this vicinity." I frowned, a little distraught.

"Find a place to rest for the night, since the clue of the guqin points to that mountain, we will set off after dawn." Ye Jiuqing said.

Huang Ping and Tian Ji went to find dead branches, we planned to return to the stone road mountain, find a place to rest, just walked a few steps, we saw Huang Ping and Tian Ji come out of the grass, the two kept retreating, it seemed that there was something in the grass, the gun in Tian Ji's hand had been raised.

As soon as I was about to open my mouth to ask what was going on, I saw Huang Ping slowly raise his hand and signal us to be silent, no matter what they saw, something in the grass must be unusual.

There was a rustling sound in the grass, at first in one place, and then gradually all around us, and the dense grass began to shake, as if something was moving in it.

Judging from the sound, the moving thing was not small, and the grass was like a wheat field that had been harvested, and a large number of them were overwhelmed, and I was secretly shocked in my heart, and subconsciously touched the weapon on my body.

Until a huge colorful flower appeared in the moonlight, the unusual enchantment made people a little overwhelmed.

Then the second, and then the third......

Until the strange flowers bloomed in the grass around us, and everyone looked at each other at a loss, I always felt that the huge flower was very familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere.

The flower was about two meters high, and it looked particularly eerie in the firelight, Tian Ji and Huang Ping had retreated to us, and the flowers were approaching step by step, and when they came out of the grass completely, the flowers were split in the middle, and in the cyan light and shadow I saw a pair of fierce eyes.

"Magic Flower Mantis!" The corners of my mouth quirmed, terrified.

We have already encountered this monster once in the Temple of the Ancestral God, and we didn't know it at the time, this huge Demon Flower Mantis was one of the strange witches created by the Ancestral God, and the mutated Demon Flower Mantis was wrapped in bronze armor, and only a pair of eyes were exposed.

The pair of scythe-sharp tentacles are indestructible, in this dark night, encountering the magic flower mantis in the barren mountains and mountains is undoubtedly a nightmare, and I am glad that no one else has the memory of this nightmare.

Only Wen Ru and I were in horror on our faces, Tian Ji's hand raising the gun was slowly raised, I pressed his hand quietly, the bullet in my memory could not penetrate the bronze armor of the Demon Flower Mantis, and now we are surrounded by a group of murderous witches, once we anger these monsters, we will be torn into pieces in an instant.

I remember that it was a complete massacre at that time, and everyone had no power to parry in front of the Demon Flower Mantis, but fortunately there was a general at that time, and he could hit the eye of the Demon Flower Mantis in a hundred steps, which was the only weakness of this strange witch, but now we don't have such ability.

The appearance of the Demon Flower Mantis proves that the Demon Kingdom is nearby, and these strange witches are guarding this place like guarding the road to the Temple of the Ancestral God.

I glanced at the woods next to me, now that we were surrounded on all sides, it was the only place that was not surrounded, and lowered my voice and asked Huang Ping to give me the flares: "Remember, don't look back, keep running, go and don't shoot." ”

I admonished the others, then took a deep breath, and suddenly raised my hand to fire a flare, and the blazing light instantly bloomed in the darkness with a dazzling strong light, and all the magic flower mantis were startled by the sudden change, and they erected tentacles to cover their heads.

"Run!" I shouted.

Everyone took advantage of the fact that the magic flower mantis was disturbed, and immediately rushed into the mountains and forests, and we ran forward desperately, once the flare was extinguished, the magic flower mantis hunted us will begin.

Maybe it was the strong light of the flare that made the magic flower mantis very uncomfortable and helped us delay to escape for a long time, but even if it was extremely difficult to walk in the mountains and forests during the day, let alone the night when we couldn't see our fingers, in order not to let the magic flower mantis notice, we didn't even dare to light the torch.

Stumbling and only knowing how to panic and run forward, suddenly my feet were mixed with stones, I fell to the ground hard, my palm was penetrated by the hard vines, and the sharp pain was heartbreaking, Ye Jiuqing in front of them heard the sound, and when they saw me fall to the ground, they all turned back, and just wanted to help me up and continue running.

Suddenly, there was a dense rustling sound in the grass behind him, and the magic flower mantis was already approaching rapidly, and through the gap in the grass, only strange flowers were swarming in our direction under the moonlight.

"Go, leave me alone!" I pushed Ye Jiuqing and them, once they were caught up by the Demon Mantis, I would affect everyone, and I could even imagine that this would turn into a pool of blood with thousands of broken corpses.

But no one listened to me, Ye Jiuqing pressed me to the ground with a heavy blow, signaling everyone else to be quiet, the mountains and forests were lush with grass and trees, trying to see if I could hide in it and escape the hunt of the Demon Flower Mantis.