Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Gates of the City Are Opened
Li Youwu's words are right, no matter what, it seems that the only way to crack the secret behind this underworld is to start by finding those women, and perhaps when you find them, it will also be the time to confront the mountain ghosts.
And we discussed, the most likely place to find them at present is in the big temple tower in the center of the city, but usually the gate is closed, ordinary people are unable to enter, even if they break in, I don't know how many organs are ambushed inside, and acting rashly will not only not succeed, but may also startle the snake and lose the army.
The old man said that the situation in the big temple, although he had been caught in and out several times when he was caught working in the past, but every time he entered, he only worked in a row of secret rooms on the periphery, and he had never entered the hexagonal tower, and there had never been any noise from the building.
Company Commander Wang said at this time: "Iron Eggs, they are still hungry there, we have to help them send some food after eating." By the way, I don't know why some people in this city have lost their souls, but people like us are still normal? ”
This question is exactly what I want to know, so I looked at Aliangbo and the wizard old man.
"It's a simple question, since we entered the city and we've all been in town together, and we've gone through all the sober people together. The old man has the most right to speak, according to his statistics, the people who enter the city, no matter which group of people enter the city, there are only two kinds of people who will not lose their souls, that is, the woman with all yin and the man with all yang. ”
Oh...... No wonder, if this is the case, then Li Youwu and I, Jin Facai and I are naturally eight-character all-yang, even if it is not the body of the ancestral spirit, it can keep the mind clear, and Ah Zi is eight-character all-yin, which is not a problem. As for Ah Hu Ah Leopard, who was able to visually inspect Ah Yiduo's soul before, he was naturally protected by some kind of spell in Thailand, so the company commander Wang and the rest of the sober soldiers should be the people of the Eight Characters Quanyang.
"Could it be that the mountain ghosts and those blue-eyed ghosts here, can't they see that you are different from ordinary people?" Jin Facai asked.
"I can see that I can't see the difference, and I can't escape anyway. Staying here is no different from those who have lost their souls. Aliangbo said: "Of course, we are just guessing, maybe they really don't know or possibly, in short, we can't reveal our sane identities outside, usually walking and talking, we have to have a few more minds, mixed in the crowd, it is difficult to distinguish." More is better than less, right? ”
Aryanbo said that, but in my opinion, having such a group of people will definitely help us escape in the future.
After a full meal and wine, the group got up to say goodbye, packed a few physical items by the way, and hurried downstairs.
When I went out, Lee You-go deliberately got in front of me and let everyone else go first, and I realized that he had something to say, so I slowed down and pretended to look around to watch the street scene.
After the person in front of us was a few meters away, Li Youwu asked softly beside me, "Daguan, don't you think something is wrong?" ”
"What's wrong?" As soon as I heard him say "something is wrong", I knew that this guy must have made something new, and it became his mantra at a critical moment.
He shook it, frowned slightly, and whispered, "I can't tell you what I feel, I always feel that when the meat in front of me is served, there is a very strange taste." But there is nothing wrong with eating, it is just a sense of smell, a strange sense of smell. ”
I recalled the previous dishes, when I was eating and chatting, and I was so hungry that I didn't pay much attention to it: "It seems that there is no problem, our family has very strict requirements for food, if it is the kind of thing that is not dry and clean, it will make a stomach upset immediately after eating, and now it seems that I don't feel anything." ”
Li Youwu looked at the person in front of him, lowered his head and lowered his voice: "It's not that there is a problem with that meat, but the smell of this meat faintly reveals a ...... How can I describe it, it's like the first time I smelled the smell of Lian Commander Wang's body, it's just different from ordinary people. ”
Since he started talking, I also followed his meaning and asked: "By the way, I remember the first time you said that he had a bit of a ghost smell or something, I found that you always have a defensive psychology against Company Commander Wang, but I see that this person is no different, although he has a bit of a leadership temper, but his heart is not bad, and he is quite upright." ”
Li Youwu nodded, and then shook his head again: "Well, people are not bad, but I always feel that something is wrong, and it is the first time I have encountered this situation, which is really strange." ”
I knew he had a keen sense of smell, but now that he couldn't tell why, he couldn't ask any more. The people in front of us were already almost in the city square, and suddenly we saw a few of them in a panic, as if something was wrong, so we quickened our pace and chased after them.
I saw that Jin Facai's face was pale, his eyes were straight, his legs were weak, he was held by a tiger and a leopard, and he shouted: "Ouch mom, mom......"
The people next to me were already panicking, and when I saw this, I quickly said, "Don't panic, hurry up and help him back!" ”
I knew that when the fat golden man was dizzy, there would definitely be something new to discover, and the square in the center of the city was too close to the hexagonal tower, and a few passers-by with dull eyes had gradually stopped to look at us.
If we accidentally reveal our identities at this time, we will definitely cause a lot of trouble, and the best way to do this is to leave this place of right and wrong immediately before he comes to his senses.
Ah Hu and Ah Leopard had great strength, so they took turns to carry him all the way, and several of us also followed the footsteps, rushing to Ah Liangbo's yard, according to the last experience in the underground waterway, Jin Facai's fainting time was only a few minutes, but this time it was different, he walked all the way for almost twenty or thirty minutes, and seeing that he was about to return to the yard, Jin Facai was still lying on their backs in a coma, and he didn't even have the strength to hum before.
Back in the courtyard, Commander Wang went to the inner room to distribute the food he brought back to them to eat, and Aliangbo arranged for us to move Jin Facai to the next room, and lay him flat on a wooden bed, and then Aliangbo took Azi to the kitchen to make a fire and boil water for everyone.
Ah Hu Ah Leopard got out of the house and continued to be responsible for following those fellow villagers to guard the yard. Only me and Li Youwu were left to stay by Jin Facai's side and wait for him to wake up.
Waiting, maybe because he was too tired, Li Youwu was already sitting on the bench and leaning against the back of the door and snoring softly. I looked out of the house, explained a few words to Ah Hu, asked them to adjust their shift rest time, and then returned to the room, sat down cross-legged, and prepared to sit for a while.
The hand knotted the seal of heaven and earth, and soon he settled down, and his consciousness and mind began to slowly detach, floating from the heavenly spirit aperture, staying in the sky, and looking around the room first, Jin Facai was still lying on the wooden bed like a lethargy, Li Youwu seemed to be dreaming, snoring softly while his facial expression was sometimes frowning and sometimes calm.
I remembered that I hadn't seen Ayido for a long time, so I put my divine sense into my backpack, and after reciting the spell, I got into the bird's head box, and I saw that she was still lying on the ground and asleep, and the glass light on the dome shone on her face, which looked warm and flexible, if not, who would have thought that she was just a wandering spirit.
"Ayido, Ayido!"
"Master!" When Ayido opened her eyes and saw me in front of her, her sleepy eyes immediately released a bright smile.
She got up in a hurry, and made a gesture with a hippie smile on her fists with both hands: "The master is above, and he is worshiped by the little waiter, hahaha." ”
"Okay, okay, don't be hippie and smiley, the master is in trouble now." Then I told her about what happened in the past two days: "Now I don't know when the city gate will open, and even if I get out of the city, I don't know how to escape from this ghost place. ”
"Yin and Yang Cracks...... Yin and Yang Crack......" Ayido paced back and forth, repeating this sentence while thinking about something, I saw that she was thinking seriously, so I didn't bother, and looked at the small stone powder that was still at the entrance of the cave, but the original green seemed to be slowly lightening, and gradually getting closer and closer to the white of the relic.
"Hey, I figured it out!" Ayiduo suddenly floated in front of me: "Master, aren't you just a god now, what kind of wizard old man, his soul can go out of the city, why can't you, you can also go out, not only can you go out, I can also go out!" ”
"That's right! You don't say I forgot about it, haha, you're amazing! "Being reminded by Ayido really made me pause.
"Master, what are you hesitating about, let's go quickly, I also want to go out and have fun, and now I have endless energy!" Ayido didn't ask me to agree, so he ran out of the cave first.
The previous time, she had only slept in it for a few minutes, and her soul power had already increased a lot. I don't know where this relic comes from, the power that can help Ayiduo quickly regain her vitality, and now that she looks like she is jumping around, it seems that she has added a lot of energy.
The two of them walked out of the bird's head box together through the spell, and before Li Youwu could smell the smell of Aido, they hurriedly walked out of the door, flew out of the courtyard wall, and walked all the way down the alley to the street.
Along the way, I found that Aido's soul power is really different from what it used to be, and it was just a jump to take off before, but this time, it can fly all the way with my divine sense, and it doesn't fall behind at all. It's only been two or three days of sleeping in the bird's head box, and it's hard to imagine that the progress is so fast.
The two of them walked along the street towards the direction of the city wall, seeing that the city gate was not opened at this time, they easily flew over the city tower more than ten meters high, and the sky also passed from darkness to daytime in an instant with the process of crossing the eaves, I was worried that Ayido couldn't stand the light of the day, so he quickly fell down first, and asked: "It's daytime outside, are you okay?" ”
"It's fine, I don't feel it at all, it's just as comfortable as at night." She raised her eyebrows easily and landed with me on the stone bridge outside the wall, "It's strange, I used to be uncomfortable during the day, but I don't seem to feel suffocated here." ”
I secretly thought that the energy replenishment of the bird's head box may not be one of the reasons, but at present, it may be that the day here is not real daytime at all, but just an illusion similar to day and night in the gap between yin and yang.
"Where are we going next?" Ayido looked out beyond the city at the endless farmsteads and woods.
"Let's go and see the old banyan tree, where the entrance we came in disappeared." As I spoke, I flew in the direction of the forest, because I knew that although Aido's soul power improved very quickly, my divine sense had a limit to use, although it was not like the wizard old man who only had a short stick of incense, but after all, this is a place where there is no end to the infinite loop, in case I lose my body, but I can't find the direction to go back at all.
Soon, the two of them came to the middle of the forest, standing at the foot of the old banyan tree, on which they could vaguely see the words and arrows engraved by Li Youwu, but the exit of the underground water channel was still not seen.
After a short discussion, we decided to look in the distance in the opposite direction first, because the speed of the divine consciousness flight was much faster than running, so the two of them flew all the way, and it didn't take long for them to return to the banyan tree, and sure enough, as those people said, they ran from the beginning to the finish line, as if they were going around an invisible ball.
We flew around the city along the moat outside the city, and after a few laps we found nothing. Later, I went to see the farms along the way, where many people were sent out to work in a scattered manner, farming, feeding chickens, and cutting wood...... Everyone is busy, although their eyes are dull, but their movements are quick. We didn't meet any overseers along the way. It is estimated that the next time the city gate is opened again, it will be the time when this group of people will return to the city to pay the money, and the next group of city residents will be escorted out to work.
Alean Bo said that the recent period is the peak period for the opening and closing of the city gates, and if we are lucky, we may meet those ghosts who are holding a new batch of people out of the city.
The two of them really had no clue, and they couldn't think of any way to crack the mystery of the disappearing entrance, so they planned to go back to the stone bridge in front of the city gate to lay an ambush, and if my divine consciousness could hold on, I would insist on waiting, in case I couldn't hold on, and the way from there was very close.
The two of them came to the stone bridge, fearing that their identities would be exposed, so they hid under the bridge along the river bank, and there was just the stone base of the bridge base, a large piece of the water was exposed, and the two of them sat on the stone base, and they could barely see the location of the city tower when they looked up, and once the city gate appeared, we could find out.
When I got bored, I asked Ayido: "By the way, you've been sleeping in it for two or three days, haven't you ever woken up?" Can you dream? ”
She shook her head: "I don't know how long I have been asleep, I have been sleeping since I came in, until you woke me up, it turned out to be two or three days...... Dream...... It seems to be done, but it doesn't seem to be done......"
"What does it seem like that I don't even know if I dream about it?"
"Hmm...... Anyway, although I didn't have any specific dreams, I always felt like someone was talking to me in the middle. ”
"Talk? Say what? Is it the voice of a friend or acquaintance? When I heard her say this, I secretly felt that there was something mysterious.
"Definitely not, because the voice is far away, but it is very powerful, although it speaks our Yi language, but it is a little incomprehensible, it seems to be an ancient Yi language...... And...... And ......"
"And what?" I asked.
"And it's not an ordinary conversation, it's like chanting scriptures, and it's like teaching me something......"
Although I don't know if what she said is a dream or a hallucination, I have a vague feeling that maybe this is why she was able to improve her soul power so quickly after only sleeping for two or three days. And this "chanting-like" voice, is it the one who is Biasura? Or even a trace of Shakyamuni's thoughts on the relics?
At this time, suddenly the river under our feet gurgled and rippled, we quickly flew away from the stone foundation, under a closer look, only the river under the bridge hole was bubbling, and the river on both sides was still calm as a mirror, there was a dull rumbling sound faintly on the bridge, I looked at it, the wall under the city tower appeared like a mirage smoke screen, the gate was faintly emerging in the smoke screen!
"Ah, my lord, the gates are open! Look at it!! …… Ay? Master, what's wrong with you? ”
I know that our ambush has waited for the time to open the door, but my divine sense is exhausted at this time, and I can't hold it anymore, what should I do! What to do!?