CHAPTER XLIV
Chang'an City at night is exceptionally quiet, because of the curfew, the long streets and alleys are extremely clean, and generally no one will move around except for the soldiers who patrol the night, which also brings a lot of convenience to Yi Feichen and his party.
After seeing off Shan Lingyun in Ding Xiaohao's medical hall, Yi Feichen and Yanranxiao discussed it properly and decided to go to meet the thing that could fall asleep overnight. After touching the green dragon claw with the compass, the pointer on the compass began to rotate wildly, and finally designated a direction, and the group of people who packed up and followed the direction of the compass.
Originally, according to Yi Feichen and Yan Ranxiao's decision, Ding Xiaohao and Di Di were left behind, and Di Di had no objection to Yan Ranxiao's decision, but Ding Xiao Xiao had to follow Yi Feichen alive or dead, the reason was that he was in the palace before, if he hadn't followed, Yi Feichen would have died in Longshou Qu, anyway, no matter where he went, taking him with him would be a guarantee to save his life.
Ding Xiaohao has such a strong reason, that is, no matter how Yi Feichen guarantees that the previous palace affairs will not appear a second time, it is useless, after all, Ding Xiaohao is in the palace, not only saved Yi Feichen, but also saved Han Xinyin and Telbo, so he had to agree to Ding Xiaohao's request and bring him with him, but Yi Feichen repeatedly asked Terbo to be the first to carry Ding Xiaohao and run first.
"Sure, I've carried it in the palace before, and I'm familiar with it. Telbo patted his chest and replied, but Ding Xiaohao kicked Telbo fiercely, and said hatefully: "If you don't say it, you'll die, I don't want to lose face!"
Since Ding Xiaohao didn't choose to stay, it was not appropriate to leave Didiu in Ding Xiaohao's medical hall, Yanran smiled and called Didiu alone, and after instructing Didiu for a while, he took off a jade pendant from his body, cast a magic trick and handed it to Didiu, who hesitated for a long time before nodding and leaving.
Later, in the face of Yi Feichen's question, Yan Ranxiao just said simply: "We have been away from the demon world for too long, and a lot of news is not clear, so I asked Di Di to go back to the demon world to do some things." ”
So in the end, the five people who followed the compass all the way were Yi Feichen, Ding Xiaohao, Yanranxiao, Han Xinyin and Telbo, and a group of five people followed the instructions of the compass all the way to the south, and after arriving at a deserted place in Changle Fang in the south of the city, the compass rotated wildly again, showing the arrival of the destination.
One hundred and eight squares in Chang'an City, known as the east is rich and the west is expensive, and the north is real and the south is deserted. When Chang'an City was built, the area was too large, and the population was not so large that all the places were filled, most of the people lived in the north of Chang'an City attached to the palace, especially around the east and west cities, while the Fang City in the south of the city was sparsely populated, and many of them were reduced to places for growing vegetables and raising sheep.
And Changle Fang is the most deserted place in the south of the city, in addition to the farmers who almost graze cattle and sheep, there is not even a serious home, as for the Fang Zhengfang or something, there is no such thing, in other places to hide, to avoid the curfew of the group, to Changle Fang, you can appear openly.
"What led us to this place of the. Ding Xiaohao has lived in Chang'an for more than ten years, and has never been to Changle Fang, but now he has followed, looking at the rubble everywhere, the half-human height of the weeds, and the cold night breeze blowing, he couldn't help but shiver, and complained: "This is a good place to tell ghost stories." ”
"You might as well say it's a good place for ghost stories. Yi Feichen followed up and complained.
"Let's go around and look for it. Yan Ran smiled and frowned, the compass began to circle wildly when it arrived at this place, no matter how much it was stimulated with the green dragon claw, it didn't work, indicating that this was the place where the compass wanted to guide them, just because this place was too remote, and it would take a little effort to find the exact destination.
Fortunately, today's moonlight is good, and it didn't take much time for everyone to find an altar submerged in the barren grass, Yi Feichen remembered the green dragon in his dream, which was the altar outside the city, although it was still in Chang'an City, but not far from the city gate, the compass went crazy again, no longer guiding the direction, it seems that this is the place.
"Ghost ...... Altar of ghosts. Han Xinyin found a stone tablet that was almost smoothed out by the side of the altar, and the name of this altar was engraved on it.
"Yi Feichen, come and see. ”
This altar is not high, only two floors and more than three feet, which is why it is covered by weeds, causing Yi Feichen and his party to look for it. The altar is made of bluestone, carved with ancient and unrecognizable patterns, except for the words on the stone tablet, the rest are strange and difficult to distinguish patterns, there is a depression in the right, look at the size, the compass in everyone's hands will be put in, but it is just right.
"Do you want to put it in?" asked Yanran with a laugh.
"Put!"
People are all here, and they are afraid of an egg, anyway, they have four compasses here, and if you put one in it, there will be three other spares.
"The green dragon claw is ready. ”
The fake green dragon claw was placed on Yan Ranxiao's body, and the real one was left on Yi Feichen's body, Yi Feichen reminded Yan Ran Xiao to wait for the green dragon claw, just take it out of her and bluff the thing that can fall asleep.
"Yes. Yan Ran smiled and tightened the fake green dragon claw in her sleeve, and instructed Terbo: "Terbo, your speed is fast, put the compass in, what's wrong, run quickly, the others stand farther away and get ready." ”
"Good. The five of them dispersed, just enough to circle the small altar of ghosts and gods, and Telbo stepped forward with the compass and carefully placed the compass into the depression on the top.
Everyone came all the way, and it was this compass that was used to guide the way, and the needle of the compass was still spinning wildly, but when it was put in by Terbo, the pointer seemed to be attracted by a magnet, and pointed in one direction and did not move.
"This is ......" Yi Feichen looked in the direction of the pointer, but happened to point to a pattern carved with a strange-faced monster, his mind suddenly moved, as if he was enchanted, and regardless of Yanran's laughter on the side, he stepped over and reached out to press the pattern carved with a strange-faced monster.
"Stop!"
"Second Senior Brother beware!"
Accompanied by the sound of everyone's exclamation, it was a rumbling sound from inside the altar, Yi Feichen's reckless press seemed to have some effect, at least it triggered the mechanism inside the altar, and Yi Feichen himself did not encounter any danger.
The rumbling sound of the mechanism rotating lasted for less than half a pillar of incense, and as the compass placed on the top of the altar slowly fell into the altar, the stone tablet engraved with the altar of ghosts and gods moved horizontally, and a dark and deep tunnel appeared in front of everyone.