Chapter 44: Re-entering the Secluded Capital

Fan Li only felt that it was dark in front of him, and the sound of dancing Meiyan in his ears gradually faded away, Xie Ling had already put on an eyepatch like her, and Kai Xuan and Jialan listened carefully to Wu Meiyan's words, while tasting red wine. Fan Li felt that his body was getting lighter and lighter, and he suddenly felt a breeze under him, and when he looked down, there were fluttering clouds below, and the blue sky above, he was actually flying!

Is this what it feels like to be free? Light, flying, unrestrained, even gravity can't help him. He spread his arms and glided like an eagle, drifting below him over the mountains, rivers, green grasslands and endless deserts, feeling sometimes refreshing, sometimes hot, and careless, he rushed into the flock of geese, and flew side by side with them.

Probably, as Fredem said, dreams are the opposite of reality, and the more compact the reality, the more relaxed the dream becomes. Dreams are a good medicine for the mind, more addictive than drugs and gambling. Fan Li felt that the reality he lived was a scene where he was held in the palm of his hand, he had learned more than ten years of knowledge of spirit thieves, but he could only open a reptile shop, he felt that he had no pressure, because the passion for spirit thieves filled his heart, but those countless people who have been taught to forget their passion since childhood, when they face the cruel life, what do they do to make up for the defects?

A meadow appeared in front of him, and he clearly saw the cattle and sheep on it, and a child who was always smiling at him, sitting in the middle of the meadow, holding a glass of red drink, and holding a glass of wine to salute himself. Fan Li remembered that he had never drunk this glass of wine, but he had drunk it twice, and the feeling was exceptionally refreshing, just like a person who had not closed his eyes for three days and three nights, and suddenly lost his tiredness.

Suddenly, a thick burst of red smoke surrounded him, and he suddenly felt that he could not breathe, so he tried to fly downward, and when he pierced through the red smoke, there was a crowd of people in front of him. It was supposed to be a show, in an open-air plaza full of people, and he tried to fly through the crowd towards the stage, and behind the colorful lights, he saw a familiar face and fiery red hair.

What a familiar face, he has only seen her on the street posters and cosmetics facades, it is the famous singer Ni Ziqiong, this girl born in the 90s who stands out, jumping jubilantly on the stage, the moment he flew over her head, she suddenly raised her head and looked at herself, the moment her eyes converged, he seemed to see his own shadow.

"Don't sleep." He only felt someone knock the top of his head, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Wu Meiyan, Xie Ling, Kai Xuan, and Jia Lan all standing in front of him, while he was still slumped in his chair.

"This is there?" Fan Li rubbed his eyes, and his mind was still recalling the scene just now.

"You slept to your destination, about two and a half hours of sleep." Xie Ling glanced at his watch and replied.

When I walked out of the airport, I saw an off-road vehicle parked outside the airport, and a man in a suit nodded at Wu Meiyan with a smile on his face.

"Mei Niang, have a good trip." After handing over the keys to Wu Meiyan, he walked to another car and left.

"You really know a lot of people." Fan Li praised.

"Who doesn't have a few friends who are tough." Wu Meiyan pursed her lips and smiled helplessly. "Get in the car, don't bother."

After about three hours of travel, they arrived at the entrance of the Youdu, the last time he came with Brother Jiu, they entered through the back door, and he was familiar with the road from the back door to the Flame Temple, so this time he still decided to go deeper through the back door. Xie Ling spread all the equipment on the ground, everyone quickly put on their diving suits, and then followed Fan Li to swim through the V-shaped secret passage. The last time they left here, they were in a hurry, and Jialan didn't block the entrance, so this time they walked into the secret room smoothly.

Fan Li kept walking forward according to the memory of the last arrival, and as soon as he walked out of this secret room, he saw an object lying on the floor in the distance, Fan Li motioned for them to slow down, but Wu Meiyan strode forward and squatted beside the thing to look at it for a while.

"This should be a charred corpse." Wu Meiyan grabbed the thing's arm and picked it up.

"It's not." Fan Li's words surprised Wu Meiyan, she turned her head to look at the charred skeleton shelf in her hand, and nodded.

"Then it's called Scorched Skull?" She tossed the skeleton aside, then looked down at the ground and picked up a bullet casing.

"So many bullet casings, it should be a machine gun."

"It's Ye Yuning's person, I've seen it, she has a policewoman under her who can lift Gatling, last time she smashed the charred corpse and saved my life, but this time they encountered a skeleton, and this skeleton was not broken, it seems that there was no gunshot wound at all." Fan Li looked down at the skeleton, and thought of the corpse skeleton he had seen in the temple.

"The heart slave is scheming, and Yu Ning will definitely suffer if she wants to fight him." Xie Ling looked around and said. "This guy should have followed the skeleton's trajectory and kept strafing, but unfortunately not a single bullet hit the skeleton."

"Luckily, they found another way to kill it." Jialan tapped the skeleton's body and shook her head. "It's not a human skeleton, it sounds like it's steel."

Hearing Jialan's speculation, Xie Ling and Wu Meiyan glanced at each other, Wu Meiyan shook her head at Xie Ling, and the two returned to calm, and they didn't notice the whole process.

"Let's keep walking." Wu Meiyan said. "There should be more corpses ahead."

Fan Li remembered that further on was the Temple of Bones, and thinking back to the resurrected war horse and statue at that time, he thought that the monster on the war horse had been chasing them until they had retreated to safety, but then what? If the knight is still in the Netherworld, he will either become a slave of the heart, or he will have been killed by the heartslave, or he will hide somewhere and wait for the prey to come to the door by himself.

Charred skeletons can be seen everywhere along the way, but unlike the previous ones, the skeletons in the back are basically incomplete, either with their heads shattered or their necks pinched. Fan picked up the skeleton fragment, it was a cinder-like substance, although it had the same color as the corpse that was highly carbonized due to burning, but it was very different in hardness, this skeleton fragment was as hard as steel, what was it that could crush steel?

Fan Li led them to the temple where the skeleton war horse was served, this temple had many broken parts, and the two statues at the door were only the statue pedestals, and there were only scratched murals inside.

"There should be a fierce battle here." Wu Meiyan stroked the bullet holes in the wall, and she saw the scratches and fist marks of the dagger, and there were many destroyed charred skeletons around her.

"Imagine that Yu Ning and his party were chased at that time, and then hid in this place, using the terrain here to take advantage of the terrain to eliminate the skeletons, and then where would they go?"

"From here to the Flame Temple, there is a three-way entrance, and there is a secret passage in the middle of the road, which can lead directly to the Flame Temple, but I have never told Ye Yuning about this, it is difficult for her to find the secret passage by her own ability." Fan Li replied to Wu Meiyan's words.

Yu Ning was too light on the enemy, she only had the prison besieging Qin Ziyang in her field of vision, nothing else, she must think that this heart slave was just like those charred corpses, something that could be broken with a shuttle bullet. By the way, Fang Tian's painting halberd is in the Flame Temple, right? Xie Ling asked.

"I was there, I don't know if there was any change later, I'll take you there."

Following Fan Li through a slender corridor, the other two temples came into view, unlike last time, there were only statue pedestals left on both sides of the temple, and the statues next to these two temples had not been resurrected when they came last time. Around the statue pedestal, there were many charred black skeletons, lying on the ground one by one, each of them was beaten to the point that they were missing arms and legs, and they used the same technique. There were also many scratches on the wall next to the statue, and Fan Li thought that the monster he had seen was holding a giant sword in his hand, and that kind of giant sword should be able to produce such scratches.

"The skeletons we saw along the way were all broken heads, or broken necks, and like the ones in front of us, it seems that the same person did it, and this person didn't have any sharp weapons." Wu Meiyan picked up a strip of blue cloth from the corpse, which was stained with blood, and she glanced around, and found something like a very thin steel pipe.

"Their uniforms are dark blue police uniforms." Seeing the clues found by Wu Meiyan, Fan Li added.

"Ye Yuning is a genius in manufacturing mechanical products, I think she must have come prepared." Wu Meiyan preached.

"Shh Jialan suddenly issued a warning, Wu Meiyan and Fan Li immediately closed their mouths and looked at her, at this time Jialan had already drawn her bow and arrows to the door of the temple, motionless, as if listening to something. Seeing Jialan's strange appearance, Xie Ling also held the flamethrower behind his back in his hand.

"There's movement in the temple, it's supposed to be a living thing." They looked at the temple for a long time, and the silence was broken by Jialan's voice.

"You're waiting here." Wu Meiyan took out a short knife of about fifteen centimeters from her waist, took a deep breath, and her body gradually became transparent.

"This ......" Seeing that Wu Meiyan's figure gradually disappeared in front of him, Kai Crossbow almost screamed, and Xie Ling quickly covered his mouth. Wu Meiyan just disappeared without a trace in front of everyone, and then there was a slight sound on the floor where she had stayed.

"What the hell is this dancing girl...... Jia Lan leaned into Fan Li's ear and asked in a low voice, Fan Li just shook his head.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang ahead, and a boulder flew from the black temple, heading straight for Fan Li's Heavenly Spirit Gai.

"My old ancestor!" Kai crossbow let out an exclamation when he saw the scene in front of him, Jialan wanted to pull Fan Li away, but it was too late, a strong wind brought by the stone had already blown to Fan Li's face, and at this time, there was a sound behind him, and a shadow rushed in front of Fan Li, followed by the piercing friction sound caused by the stone falling to the ground.