Chapter 25: Truth 1
"Why hasn't Zhou An come back yet?" Li Fangzheng looked around and said.
"I think Professor Zhou has some problems this time, maybe he brought us here this time." Wang Yuan rubbed his eyes and said.
"How can this be ......" Li Fangzheng was a little unconvinced.
At this time, Xiaoying also seemed to want to say something. Wang Yuan asked, "What's the matter, Xiaoying?" ”
Xiaoying lowered her head and said, "Actually, I came with Qi Zhuang and Zhao Bin this time, and I have something to do with Professor Zhou......
"What?" Wang Yuan said.
"When you were leaving, Professor Zhou told me privately that you didn't bring anything to eat, let me prepare some and send it to you later." Xiaoying said with some self-reproach.
"My God, didn't I say that you should stay at Uncle Liu's house honestly? And why didn't you tell us before. Wang Yuan said.
"I think he's a good guy, and after we got trapped, I'm afraid you'll blame him, so I didn't say it." Xiaoying said.
"Maybe you've thought too much, he's out of good intentions." Li Fangzheng said. At this time, Liu Xingye had been standing aside and did not speak.
At this time, Qi Zhuang walked to a building-like building, gently pushed the door, and the wooden door clicked, slammed on the ground, and shattered, and the surrounding area was suddenly dusty.
"Don't move, you kid!" Liu Xingye yelled at Qi Zhuang.
Qi Zhuang poked his head into the door and looked at it, but there was nothing but a collapsed kang and a stove-like thing.
"Let's go, let's go find Zhou An." Liu Shiye became a little serious and said.
"You know where he is?" Li Fangzheng asked.
"It's almost ......," Liu Xingye said and walked towards the city.
"What do you mean almost?" Li Fangzheng said, a few people can only follow behind Liu Shiye, a person with a character like Liu Shiye suddenly became serious, and the surrounding atmosphere instantly became a little embarrassing, Liu Shiye has been walking along the moat that leads from the dragon's mouth towards the city, and no one knows where he will take them.
"Did I get into trouble......" Qi Zhuang saw Liu Xingye suddenly being so serious, thinking that his own matter had annoyed him just now.
"Don't mess with the things here, Uncle Liu may be taking us out." Zhao Bin whispered to Qi Zhuang.
"Wang Yuan, do you look like the surroundings are illuminated by the moonlight?" Xiaoying said.
Wang Yuan looked around, and under the light blue light at the top, the simple dwelling-like buildings around him looked like a quiet small village in the bright moonlight. "Who are these houses for? Is it someone from the Underworld Country, or someone from the Qin Kingdom? Where have they all gone now? Wang Yuan said in confusion.
"You're all going to listen to me, you know?" Liu Xingye walked and suddenly turned around and said to the person behind him.
"Yes!"
"Understood!"
"Yes!"
Several people replied.
"Finally going out......" The mood that the group had been suppressing began to relax a little, but after a few minutes of walking, several people realized that things were far from so simple, because in the distance there seemed to be the outline of a tall city wall......
"That seems to be the inner city ......," Zhao Bin lifted the frame of his glasses and looked carefully at the city wall in the distance.
"What's the inner city for?" Qi Zhuang asked.
"Ancient Chinese cities were generally divided into outer cities and inner cities, the outer cities were generally inhabited by ordinary people, and the inner cities were inhabited by the officials of the city, which was the core of the city." Zhao Bin said.
"Is this city from the Underworld or from the Qin State?" Wang Yuan asked.
"It should be Qin's...... Because the location of the war we just saw should be here, which means that it is very likely that the Qin troops destroyed the Hades Kingdom here and then built this city here. Zhao Bin said.
"It's getting more and more mysterious...... Could it be that they are immortal here? Qi Zhuang said.
Soon, in a few minutes, they were under the inner city, and the dry moat also led into the city walls, but unlike before, the river was blocked by slender stone pillars, as if specially used to filter, and several people could not enter the inner city through the river. Liu Xingye looked at it and began to walk along the city wall towards the other side.
"Liu Shiye, do you know where Zhou An is?" Li Fangzheng said to Liu Shiye.
But Liu Xingye didn't even reply, Li Fangzheng seemed a little annoyed, and wanted to keep up with Liu Xingye to ask for an understanding, but Wang Yuan tugged at Li Fangzheng's clothes, shook his head at him, and signaled not to do this.
Several people got together again after a lot of hardships, and it should not be far from the exit at this time, this should have been a happy thing, but Liu Xingye suddenly became so quiet and better, plus Zhou An, whose whereabouts were unknown, and the rest of the people seemed to vaguely feel that things were not over.
Compared with the outer city, the inner city is obviously much smaller, a few people only took about five minutes to walk to the corner of the city wall, walking in front of Liu Xingye looked back, saw a few people after nothing abnormal, turned the corner and began to walk forward, a few people passed through this corner and saw the outline of the gatehouse in the distance.
"Could it be that Uncle Liu is going to take us into the inner city?" Qi Zhuang whispered.
Wang Yuan didn't answer, obviously the few people who followed him at this time had such doubts in their hearts. The surrounding dark environment, the eerie city walls, just like in a dream full of oppression, even if someone gains immortality, then living in this environment will be oppressive to death.
Several people soon came to the inner city gate under the leadership of Liu Shiye, and the metal gate, which was about ten meters high, was already rusty, and a huge gap was opened for several people to let them in.
Liu Shiye looked up at the tall city gate and the gatehouse more than ten meters high and said: "The door is open, don't you think it's surprising?" ”
"It seems that everything that has happened these days is really not a coincidence, and in the end it is to guide us here." Wang Yuan looked at this crack and said.
Liu Xingye looked at Wang Yuan and said: "Everything you are confused will find the answer in it, you can choose for yourself now, and behind you is the way back." After speaking, Liu Xingye pointed behind the dark body.
"If we choose to leave, will you still go in?" Wang Yuan said.
"Everything that Yan Shengshan has been doing for thousands of years is coming to an end today." Liu Industrial said.
"I've been waiting here for a long time, Mr. Liu." At this time, Zhou An's voice came from the gatehouse. "Let's let a few children and Mr. Li come in too, everything we found today will be shared."
"Professor Zhou, don't make trouble, let's go......" Qi Zhuang shouted.
"Long time no see, Master Liu, Liu Qi." At the same time, several familiar figures appeared from behind Wang Yuan.
Wang Yuan and the others looked behind them, and sure enough, it was the group of Scarface Men. "He just said Liu Industry, Liu Qi? Could it be ......" Wang Yuan looked at Li Fangzheng beside him, but he also seemed to be full of confusion. "No, Li Fangzheng can't be Liu Qi...... What the hell is this scar-faced man talking about? Could it be that Zhou An is Liu Qi? Wang Yuan thought to himself.
"It's been twenty years since I said goodbye last time, Master Liu, how are you doing?" The scarface grinned with that disgusting grin.
"How can there be Liu Qi here?" Qi Zhuang said.
The scar-faced man seemed to look at Qi Zhuang a little strangely, and the surroundings suddenly quieted down, Qi Zhuang looked at the five people behind the scar-faced man, and was also a little frightened and took two steps back, the scar-faced man pointed at Liu Shiye and asked Qi Zhuang, "What is his name?" ”
"Don't you know? His name is Liu ...... Industry ......," Qi Zhuang stammered.
The scar-faced man reacted for a moment, and suddenly burst into a loud laugh that echoed through the dark space. "Hahahaha...... Master Liu...... Liu Shiye, interesting...... Hahahaha, this doesn't look like your style......"
Liu Shiye ...... Liu Xingye ...... But the pronunciation is not the same, could it be Master Liu? Wang Yuan suddenly reacted. The others were still confused about the conversation they had come to at this point, but they didn't dare to ask.
"No wonder I haven't been able to find out a single bit of your information for so many years, I thought that you, like my ghost, died together at the hands of two locust trees." Scarface said.
"You're the leader of the ghost organization?" Liu Industrial said.
"Yes, you can call me Scarface, back then, you Master Liu led more than a dozen of our organizations into Yansheng Mountain, but I didn't expect it to be such a tragic result." Scarface said. "I didn't expect to be able to meet you here again today. However, Liu Shiye, you are really powerful, it was you who let this group of children meet me and say that they came with two locust trees, if it wasn't for the blocked entrance when I came, I would almost have escaped. ”
"Okay, if you two want to catch up with the old days, you still have time in the future, why don't you let us come in together to find the treasures of more than two thousand years ago?" At this time, Zhou An had already come down from the gatehouse and walked out of the city gate.
"You're very capable, what kind of person are you?" Liu Xingye asked.
"That's what I'm going to ask you." Zhou An said with a smile. "I think you've been here, right? Now, please help me unlock the secret of more than 2,000 years ago. After speaking, Zhou An stretched out his hand towards the door and made a gesture of "please".
"You go straight inside, and the palace is it." Liu Industrial said.
"I don't know much about this place, so please lead the way." Zhou An still said with a smile on his face.
Liu Xingye looked back at Wang Yuan and the others and said, "Follow me." ”
As soon as a few people entered the city gate, they saw a huge empty flat ground in front of them, and at the feet of several people, there was a road paved with floor tiles leading to a huge palace-like building in the distance, which should be the main hall of the entire palace. On both sides of the road, there is a pillar with a diameter of more than one meter and a height of seven or eight meters engraved with golden dragon carvings every four meters or so, which is very spectacular. In the distance on either side, there are still some buildings that should be on the border with the city walls, but compared to the grand main hall in front, those are clearly supporting characters used as a foil.
Zhou An followed behind Liu Shiye, looking around as he walked, he seemed to be completely intoxicated by the magnificent palace in front of him. He walked to a pillar, wiped the dust covering it with his clothes, looked at the shiny golden yellow, and said twice, judging by his greedy gaze, it should be gold. In stark contrast to Zhou An's fluttering performance, Liu Shiye, who was leading the way beside him at this time, seemed to only look at the palace in front of him at this time, and he didn't even look back at the people behind him from beginning to end. Wang Yuan glanced back at the scar-faced man and his group behind him, the scar-faced man was also looking around, but the five people around him were always expressionless and stared at Liu Shiye who was leading the way in front of him with a cold gaze......
Soon the group reached the bottom of the palace, and they only had to walk through the staircase in front of them, which was carved with a delicate dragon pattern.
"What you want is inside, and you can go in now." Liu Shiye said to Zhou An and the scarface man behind him.
"Hahaha...... It turned out that it was only so simple...... "Zhou An looked ahead and ran up while laughing, probably because the dust had accumulated too much and slippery, Zhou An stumbled and fell on the stairs, but he quickly got up and continued to run forward a little funny.
"Aren't you going in? Scarface. Liu Shiye said to the scar-faced man.
"I'm going to go in with you, it was after you disappeared inexplicably that the nineteen teams that led to me were left with only half my life." Scarface said. "I forgot to introduce it, behind me is a new ghost."
Liu Xingye looked at the people, his eyes did not change, he looked a little indifferent, and said, "Come on." ”