Chapter 190: Finding a Key
"Boy, can you now understand the true meaning of 'the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky'?"
The two of them stood on the river beach, looking at the rolling Yellow River, and Lao Wu suddenly asked me in a low voice.
Blown by the evening breeze mixed with the smell of earth, I suddenly woke up half drunk, and hurriedly replied: "Isn't this a poem in Li Bai's "Will Enter the Wine"! β
"What I really mean by that!" Lao Wu's tone raised.
I knew he meant something else, so I simply shook my head and said I didn't know.
"In your eyes, Li Bai is a poet, but in the yin and yang circle, he is a very respectable predecessor, he once wanted to solve the hidden secrets under the Yellow River by himself, but his strength was too small, and he finally died in the Yellow River."
"I know - I got drunk and tried to catch the moon in the water, and I drowned!"
Lao Wu smiled and asked me: "Do you believe this kind of naΓ―ve statement?" β
"Could it be that there was another reason for his death?"
"He died because of the mysterious power hidden in the Yellow River!" Old Wu paused for a moment, and then continued, "I want to remind you of two things, one is that the hidden power under the Yellow River should not be underestimated, and you must be clear about what you are doing. Second, I want to remind you that the so-called history and the so-called worldview that you know may not be true. β
I didn't seem to understand this, but I nodded and waited for him to continue.
Lao Wu was silent for a moment, and his voice raised: "Are you kid ready?" β
I should have understood this, and nodded again with a wry smile.
In fact, I really want to tell him that I can't help this at all, whether I want to or not, whether I'm ready or not, I have to do it! Because this is a task given by Yin Si.
At 11 o'clock that night, Lao Wu and I arrived at the abandoned Yellow River ferry.
According to the content of the video, Lao Wu judged that the ferry was one of the three Huangquan intersections left by Dayu back then, once the Huangquan intersection was opened, the soul within a radius of hundreds of miles would directly enter the underworld from here, and would not go through the normal channels - first be crossed by Yincha, then pass through the Yin Yang Road, step across the Nai He Bridge, and then follow the Huangquan Road full of flowers on the other side to reach the place where they should go.
The yellow spring can be crossed, and the yin is orderly. For thousands of years, both the living and the dead have followed this rule, so that there is order in the yin and yang worlds.
If the intersection of Huangquan Road is opened, the soul of a person will take a shortcut after death, so that those who have done all the bad things in the world will escape the judgment and punishment of the Yin Division.
The order of the Yin Division is gone.
Approaching the ferry, I suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing, and I couldn't help but shrink my neck.
Lao Wu glanced at me and reminded softly: "Boy, if this is really the intersection of Huangquan Road, there must be a lot of ghosts nearby, and the evil aura will be extremely heavy, be careful!" β
I know that Lao Wu is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, probably related to his previous tragic experience! In the month or so I've known each other, this is the first time I've heard her say something about caring about someone, and I'm a little moved.
From a distance, the entire Yellow River crossing was filled with a thick fog that was white and red, and the fog was still spinning, as if it was a huge whirlpool hovering overhead.
"Be careful, too!" I also reminded Lao Wu, which was regarded as "paying back", and at the same time took out the soul pestle.
"Put it away! Taking out this thing in a place like this is about killing yourself! β
"Hmm!" I didn't ask why, so I quickly stuffed it back into my bag.
"Old Wu, you ...... Can you see the fog? β
Lao Wu shook his head and asked me, "Is there fog?" β
I understood, it seemed that what I saw in front of me was not a normal fog, but a gathering of yin and evil qi, so Lao Wu couldn't see it.
Continuing to approach the small house at the toll booth, about fifty meters away from the small house, the two of them also fell into a strange fog, and a terrifying and strange scene appeared in front of my eyes.
There were at least a dozen people in shrouds, slowly walking towards the small house, walking to the wall, their bodies as if they were slowly melting into the wall, as if by magic.
Maybe because of the angle, you can't see this scene in the mission video sent by Yin Si before.
Look closely at these people.
The walking action is mechanical, the face is expressionless, and the walking posture is exactly the same as that of the people in the video sent by the Yin Si.
Lao Wu shouldn't be able to see it, and he wanted to continue walking, so I hurriedly grabbed him.
"Old Wu, you can't go any further!"
Lao Wu's body seemed to pause suddenly, and he froze in place in an instant.
"What's wrong?" Something should have been realized, and asked me in a very low voice.
"There are a dozen ghosts up front β just like the one in that video."
Lao Wu looked at me expressionlessly, paused for five seconds, and then asked in a low voice, "What, you...... Can you see it? β
"Yes! Let's tell you the truth! Actually, I have yin and yang pupils. β
"Good! Very good! The corners of Lao Wu's mouth raised slightly, "Actually, I should have seen it a long time ago." β
"What now?"
"Observe! You...... Look at it, how far is the shortest distance between the two souls? β
"Hmm!" I agreed, and looked at it again.
There are more than a dozen souls who happen to be men, women, old and young, and they seem to be out of order, but when Lao Wu reminded me like this, I can see that these dozen souls come from four directions, southeast, northwest, and northwest, but at least a distance of more than three meters is maintained between the two souls in front and behind.
This should not be a coincidence.
After observing for a minute, the distance between the two new souls from all sides was at least three meters.
"About three meters!" I whispered to Lao Wu.
"Three meters? That...... There's still time, let's go back first! β
"Just going back?"
"Tonight's goal has been achieved, let's go back first!"
"Okay!"
It wasn't until I walked out of the fog that I asked Lao Wu again: "Lao Wu, what do you see?" β
"First of all, I am sure that it is one of the three Huangquan intersections left by Dayu back then, and it has been reopened." Old Wu paused, and then continued, "However, judging from the distance between the souls, the entrance here has not been opened for more than forty-eight hours, and we still have time to make up for it!" β
"That'...... So what should we do? β
"Plug it in ninety-six hours, or there will be chaos in the two realms."
This made my scalp tingle, and I hurriedly asked: "I know - the key is how to block it!" β
"I need a key!"
"Keys?" Sometimes I really want to kick Lao Wu to death, I always speak secretly, and I like to only say half of it - I can die if I say a complete sentence!
"I can't say anything about this in a few words, I'm responsible for finding the key." Lao Wu looked at the direction of the Yellow River and said lightly.
"What about me?"
"You don't have to do anything for the time being, I'll talk about it when I get back."
"Good!" I remembered Jin Laosan's confession again, and I hurriedly changed the conversation, "That's right! Lao Wu, you have been in the ferry factory for more than ten years, do you know that there is a mysterious space under the ferry factory? β
Lao Wu's face changed, and his voice trembled slightly and asked me: "Who told you this?" β