"Who?" We asked at the same time.

Li Yang kept his mouth shut, and his attention had shifted from the photo to the piece of paper pasted on the wall. The paper was yellowed and brittle-looking, and the paper was very old, rarely seen nowadays, some on letterhead, some torn from a notebook. I blew off the dust on it, looked at it, and found that the content on it was very trivial. There are letters, a few lines of mood essays that can't be called a diary, and patterns of children's graffiti.

Most of the words on it are written in ballpoint pen, which is very vague, and the content can barely be smoothed down, making it difficult to read. I looked at it for a while, and I was a little impatient. At this time, Li Yang called me over, pointed to a letter posted on the wall, and said, "This is kind of interesting. ”

I took a flashlight, and the paper of this letter was very old-fashioned red-line letterhead, with pen writing on it. The first half of the letter, with its childish handwriting and floating strokes, looks like it came from a child's hand:

"Mom, my dad and I have arrived in Korea. Dad told me that the place where we lived was called Seoul. The buildings here are so tall and so high. Dad said, you're doing a very important job, you can't come to see me, and I'll be able to look for you when I'm older. Mom, I want to grow up quickly, I miss you. The following is signed "Lin'er".

In the second half of the letter, the handwriting has changed, and it is all written in series, mature and atmospheric, from the handwriting of adults.

"Feng'er, Xiaolin and I have arrived safely in South Korea. Most of the family's assets are also in place, and we are doing well now. It's just that Lin'er is clamoring to find her mother every day, Feng'er, I know that we are not the same people, but is it really worth abandoning your husband and son to pursue your so-called 'ideal'? The detachment in exchange for abandoning family affection, I don't think it's okay. We have known each other for more than ten years, and I will never love other women in this world. I hope that in this life, the day when our family will meet, we will not let 'mother' become a word that Xiaolin can only shout in his dreams. Husband, Wu Ming wrote with tears. ”

At the end of the letter, there were a few drops of water that were already hard to see, and I believe that they must have been traces of tears.

It's just that I don't know whether these tears were shed by "Husband Wu Ming" or "Wife Feng'er" who read the letter.

A name popped up in my mind, and I couldn't help but say: "Luo Feng! ”

More than ten years ago, the builder of this building did not leave a single word in the historical archives of the mysterious person Luo Feng.

Copper lock squeezed over and shouted: "Who is Luo Feng?" ”

Regarding Luo Feng, Li Yang only told me alone, and now he can only be patient and tell Tongsuo and Qin Dan about his investigation results about Luo Feng.

Copper Suo was extremely shocked when he heard this, patted his thigh and said, "Isn't it obvious, Luo Feng finished building the mansion and sent her husband and son out of the country, and then stayed alone to cultivate and plan to become an immortal." Fuck, evil door, this woman is really ruthless. ”

Ignoring the dust, we began to carefully flip through the manuscripts on our desks. The pieces of paper, books, and notes were all submerged in the thick dust, and when they moved, the dust and smoke flew up, choking people and coughing.

Even so, a strong curiosity drives us to keep looking for relevant information.

Except for the glow of the flashlight, it was pitch black and eerily quiet, except for the small sound of us flipping the paper.

Li Yang asked us not to patronize the content on the paper, and then read it carefully after sorting it out. The paper is almost always glued to the tabletop and must be handled with care. When tidying up, Qin Dan suddenly stopped, and the girl shone in with a flashlight, looking a little cramped and uneasy.

Seeing that something was wrong with her, I asked what was wrong.

Qin Dan looked at us, blinking his eyes and said, "Do you realize a very serious problem?" ”

"What's the problem?"

"Luo Feng, where is he now?"

As soon as this sentence came out, the three of us stopped our movements and looked at each other together. When I said this, there was a cool breeze on the back of my neck. That's right, where did Luo Feng go?

It was an enclosed chamber, and the only passage, the iron door, was littered with old debris, and it was clear that no one had touched it. So where is Luo Feng, who has been locked up in the house?

Could it be that she really cultivated into an immortal and turned into green smoke and left?

In the room that was originally very hot, I suddenly felt a chill, and a gloomy thought arose in my heart, she wouldn't still be in this room, right?

Obviously, several of them are also aware of this problem, and their throats are tight, and everyone can't help but lean on each other.

Li Yang took a deep breath, stabilized his mind, and said, "It seems that the answer can only be found from these manuscripts. ”

He organized the paper on his desk into two parts. Some of them are all kinds of ready-made newspaper clippings, books, and fragments of words copied from nowhere; The other part is Luo Feng's handwritten notes, this woman's handwriting is very beautiful, quite the style of brush words, clear and beautiful, comfortable to look at, must be from a scholarly family.

The content of the first part is simply the relevant content of various literature and materials about 'autopsy immortals'. For example, there is a story that says that during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old man surnamed Wang in Cangzhou, whose cause of death was unknown, and his death was tragic. The whole person swells and rots, as if he was fished out of the water, and the whole person is a "giant view". Some people say that this corpse is ominous and must be burned. But for some reason, the family never dealt with it, and the body was parked at home. One day it rained heavily, and suddenly there was a burst of thunder in the sky, only to see the corpse of the old king's head "belly exploded like a drum", and with a loud bang it was broken like a broken watermelon, the flesh and bones were rotten like mud, and all the shrouds were burned into ashes.

Below this content, there is a big question mark behind Luo Feng's annotation "The snake flies and flies, and the corpse is not immortal", indicating that she doubts whether the decomposition and rupture of the old man's corpse is the process of becoming an immortal.

There is also a paragraph of her analysis below, many of the handwriting is already very blurry, and after reading it, several of us looked at each other, and we all felt an indescribable coldness.

I will briefly summarize this analysis and write it in plain language. It is said that there is an old immortal named Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he wrote a Taoist book called "Hug Puzi", which has a very important chapter called "On Immortals", and there is such a paragraph: "The sergeant lifts the form and ascends to the void, which is called the heavenly immortal; The sergeant swims in the famous mountain, which is called the land immortal; The corporal dies first and then sheds, which is called the autopsy immortal. Now the young monarch will be the autopsy. "What do you mean? After a discussion with several of us, it can be explained in this way. In the process of feathering into immortals, people with profound skills can soar in the daytime, and they are called heavenly immortals. People of medium level, you Mingshan absorbs the essence of nature, and gradually becomes an immortal, called an earth immortal. And the most inferior people must go through the same death as ordinary people, and the process of transformation can only occur when they die, which is called autopsy immortals.

There is a very paradoxical place here, and it doesn't make sense, since autopsy is a relatively low-level way to become an immortal, then the proportion of immortals in the past and present should account for the majority, and there should be more records left. However, in the ancient Taoist books, there are very few processes and methods of autopsy into immortals.

In Luo Feng's scattered notes, some of them are her opportunities and insights about cultivating immortals, and some ...... It was actually written about Luo Feng's process of cultivating autopsy in this secret room.

Just as he was about to take a closer look, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the iron gate, and Wang Chen's voice came: "...... outside"

He stumbled into the room and breathed a sigh of relief, "You're all here, that's great." I've been shouting outside for a long time, and you haven't responded to anything. I thought, let's come in, at least we are a companion. ”

"You just shouted outside ......," Copper Lock said.

"Oh, I'm talking about the black outside, and I'm scared, so, so I got in." He still had the coats of a few of us in his hands.

Li Yang said: "Okay, everyone comes in and takes care of each other." ”

"What are you doing?" Wang Chen was curious.

I said, "We've found a secret room here where someone has lived...... and I picked up a brief story and told me about it.

Rao is like this, and he also frightened Wang Chen enough, and said, "I didn't expect there to be so many sets of heads here." ”

"What do you think?" I hummed: "The water here is very deep, not only has the clues of the modern underworld, but also involves a very secret incident of becoming an immortal more than ten years ago. ”

As we talked, Li Yang and Qin Dan had been sorting out the text materials on the table, and they looked at them quickly and carefully, communicating in a low voice from time to time, with very solemn expressions.

I walked over and cautiously picked up a fragment of a notebook they'd looked at. It is messy, large and small, and the same word "immortal" is written in different fonts. There are official scripts, regular scripts, cursive scripts, seal scripts, and some unintelligible fonts, and there are always more than a dozen kinds of fonts. The strokes are elegant, the structure is beautiful, and the writing is really a bit fairy.

But at this time, it seems that there is a very uncomfortable feeling.

Wang Chen said beside him: "This girl probably wants to become an immortal and wants to be demonic, and she is schizophrenic in this ghost place alone." ”

I was noncommittal, looking at the scraps of paper they had sorted out on the table, but I had no desire to look at them. If you are in the study or in a coffee shop, it is a good reading material to kill time. But now, I was in such a gloomy secret room, there was no light around, it was pitch black, I really didn't have anything to read, and I was inexplicably anxious.

I have to admire Li Yang and Qin Dan, they are really not afraid of trouble, they don't think because of the environment, and they look very seriously.

"How?" I asked.

Li Yang rubbed his brows: "I probably figured out an idea, but it's just ......"

"Just what?" Copper locks are in a hurry.

It's just that the written information is incomplete. The rest is just that, the most critical process of Luo Feng to perform autopsy into an immortal here is only a head, and the back is obviously torn off, and there is no information we have sorted out so far. ”

Brass Lock yelled, "The most important thing is lost." ”

Qin Dan said: "Don't call it yet, let Li Yang tell me about Luo Feng first." ”

Li Yang nodded and said I'll talk about it briefly.

Among the scattered text materials on the desk, there is a very special note, which Li Yang calls Chengxian Note. Inside is the autobiography written by Luo Feng when he was in this secret room, which can be regarded as the last last words left in the world.

The notes are scattered, undated and unmarked, and the names are unclear, they can be written wherever they want, and even the timeline is confusing. Li Yang was also in a hurry, and he could only sort out a rough idea.

Luo Feng's birth year is unknown, but it is certainly not the age she seems. A simple calculation, in the photos of the early nineties, it seems that she should be in her twenties and thirties, and according to this, she should be born in the late sixties. This is not the case with what she described in her notes, and her actual age is much older than she seems.

Although there is no time benchmark to measure it, the notes describe a mysterious figure who could be used as a reference for her age.

This person, Luo Feng called him "Senior Brother". The age of the elder brother's birth is also unknown, but there is a very important account in the notebook, saying that during the Japanese invasion, the elder brother donated a lot of assets to the government at that time to resist the Japanese, and he was also a patriot. Coupled with some other fragmentary clues, if you push it carefully, he is probably born in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and Luo Feng and him are not much different in age, because they grew up together.

This elder brother is a scholarly family and was born in a big family in Taiwan. The successive patriarchs of this family are also the successors of a certain sect of Taoism.

This sect has a history of nearly 1,000 years of development, the number of people is scarce, the sect is secretive, and the purpose of their cultivation is very simple - that is, to become immortals. For a long time, the members of the sect searched and sorted out all kinds of spells and secret classics, looking for ways to become immortals, and slowly developed into a very systematic cultivation lineage. The sect has also been prosperous, especially in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and has entered the peak period of development. Generations of people in the sect have been elected to serve the emperor in the court, become a national teacher, and be honored as "old immortals". Especially in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jiajing devoted himself to the Tao, talked about Xuanqing cultivation, tossed out the treasury silver, built a Taoist temple in the palace, and saw the real person who practiced and could not move, the old man just wanted to live forever and enjoy happiness forever. At that time, an elder in the sect called Lan Daoxing as the "Blue Immortal", and the scenery was the same, but it was a pity that he was involved in political struggles after the most deaf, and he fell into a different place and died without a place to be buried. Since then, the sect has not participated in the affairs of the court and China, and has begun to practice in seclusion.

The notes didn't say how many people in this sect had successfully cultivated to immortals, but I thought about it a lot, after all, it could still stand the test of a long time. The generation of "senior brothers" is catching up with the "changes unseen in China for 5,000 years", everything is innovating, everything is changing. This kind of old-fashioned and mysterious sect is even more sparsely populated, with only two people, "senior brother" and "little junior sister".

This "little junior sister" is Luo Feng.

In the notes, Luo Feng did not describe his experience too much, and his pen and ink were recording some background history of the sect in detail. She mentioned the method of becoming an immortal in their sect, which is simply eight words: practice in the underworld, and dissect the corpse into an immortal. The so-called Yin Land cultivation, this opportunity is very rare, and it is almost the biggest threshold for the sect to become an immortal. The concept of yin and earth is vague, and even Luo Feng himself can't understand it, and he barely understands that it is the place where the two worlds of yin and yang intersect.

The two worlds of yin and yang are the yang and the underworld, and the place where they intersect is the ghost gate of the line of life and death. Is there really such a place as a ghost gate in this world? It is recorded in the notes that there is! In some parts of the earth, there are special areas that are the entrance to connect yin and yang. I don't know if this understanding of the Dao is correct: to go to the underworld, in addition to death, you can enter through these special areas in some way!

As to whether or not you will be in the same form as a dead soul when you enter Hades in this way, then there is no answer at all, and you can't even make any assumptions, because it's completely beyond your knowledge.

The Yin cultivation mentioned in the notes is to practice with a secret technique near the "Ghost Gate Pass" that connects the two worlds of yin and yang, what is this secret technique, what is the process, and how to practice, there is no record in the notebook. I only know that the result of the cultivation of the Dao is that the corpse is finally dismembered and becomes an immortal.

Now it is certain that Luo Feng has found the underworld, that is, the "Ghost Gate Pass" - the building where we are located. Although I don't know how she spent all kinds of scheming to build the Lou Zhongguan and the secret room, it is certain that she wants to practice here and become an immortal.

Thousands of clues gradually converged, and Li Damin, who was looking for Ma Danlong, and the little boy next to Master Xie were probably all related to this. The fog is still heavy, and it's hard to think about.

Speaking of autopsy into immortals, there is a very strange process here, that is, you must die and become a corpse before you can become immortals. If Luo Feng wants to become an immortal, he must commit suicide first and kill himself.

"That is." Speaking of this, Li Yang looked at us coldly: "Regardless of whether Luo Fengcheng becomes an immortal or not, there must be her corpse hidden somewhere in this room." ”