Chapter 5: The Masked Girl
"Where did the little lady come from, and dare to take care of our Yu family's affairs?"
When one of the Yu family's guards was still struggling with whether to attack the mysterious young man in front of him, a woman's reprimanding voice appeared, which couldn't help but make him turn his fear just now into full anger and scold.
"Smack-" The guard wanted to scold a few more words, but was slapped in the face by the fat young master Yu Liangcai, who ran like the wind.
"You idiot! Is there a place for you to talk? If you don't want to die, shut up! Get out!"
Yu Liangcai was extremely angry! That is a big man from Pingyang City, and you can afford to be provoked by a small guard? Even if you haven't seen it, you have to learn to see the situation clearly. If you anger him, you will be implicated yourself.
"Yu Liang of the Yu family has only seen the pavilion master, and he didn't know that the pavilion master would come here, which is really unwelcome. The subordinate has eyes and ignores Mount Tai, and he collided with the pavilion master, and he is willing to dispose of it casually with the pavilion master!" Yu Liangcai bent his waist at a right angle to the masked woman, sweating profusely, on the one hand, he was tired from the wild run just now, and on the other hand, he was frightened.
The guard, who had just been slapped by Yu Liangcai, woke up in shock, knelt on the ground, and begged for mercy from the masked woman. Although I didn't know the woman in front of me, as the guard of the big family of Pingyang City, I had heard some rumors. In Pingyang City, let the master of his family grovel, and the woman who can be called the pavilion master is probably the only one.
"Yu Liangcai, you are also a descendant of the Yu family in the imperial city, you can't get along in the imperial city, so you came here to bully the common people with the guards, shouting and killing. You're really getting more and more out of the flow. ”
The masked woman did not look at Yu Liangcai, but lectured Yu Liangcai while carefully looking at the deep cave in front of her, which was suspected to be an ancient tomb. A crisp voice came from under the veil, and it seemed that he was only seventeen or eighteen years old.
I'm afraid this is really a real big man in Pingyang City, Li Xuanji thought.
"Don't make trouble here, it's the face of the nobles of Pingyang City. Didn't you come all the way from the Imperial City to this ancient tomb? Let your guards protect you, it's very dangerous here, and maybe you will lose your life. The masked woman didn't seem to want to waste time, and after speaking, she turned and left with the four guards.
"Pavilion Master......"
"Don't follow me. If you play yours, it's like you've never seen me. If you let me know you're looking for me, you'll know how serious the consequences are. ”
Yu Liangcai was about to speak when he was interrupted by the masked woman, and when he heard the other party's warning, Yu Liangcai couldn't help but shrink his neck.
When the masked woman walked past Li Xuanji, she glanced at Hu Yuanqing, who was unconscious on the ground, and then looked at the young man who was looking at her quietly, nodded, and said hello, and then walked towards the dark cave with four guards with guarded faces.
Li Xuanji also nodded politely to the other party, and tacitly did not speak. I was a little more curious.
"That woman still remembers you?" Jin Ning, who couldn't fight anymore, patted Li Xuanji's shoulder with a grin, and looked up and down exaggeratedly, "I didn't expect you to have such a great charm, junior brother? You're very promising!"
"If you make up my gossip like this again, after I return to Qingzhumen, I will go to Senior Brother in Charge and Senior Sister Jin to sue you for the crime of deceiving teachers and destroying ancestors!" Li Xuanji said with black lines on his head.
"Cut, do you think I'm going to be scared?" Jin Ning clapped his hands and said nonchalantly, but he didn't mention the topic again and turned to Yu Liangcai in the distance, "Eh, that fat man over there!
“......”
Yu Liangcai's eyes were full of anger and he stared at Jin Ning silently. The hateful woman in front of her used that vicious elixir to make him taste the taste of life worse than death, and snatched the map of the ancient tomb brought out of the family, and now she even insulted him with words. He almost wanted to take this woman back to the house and ravage her to death.
However, as soon as Yu Liangcai thought of the woman's warning just now, and looked at Hu Yuanqing, his right-hand man who fell to the ground and fainted, Yu Liangcai had to give up if he wanted to take revenge. Called a few guards to carry the unlucky Hu Yuanqing away, and then slowly groped his way into the cave surrounded by the remaining guards.
"That fat man is scared!" Jin told Li Xuanji with a smile.
"It's not all you provoked. ”
Li Xuanji replied angrily. He glanced down at the scarred purple bamboo cane in his hand and sighed, this time he had to find a weapon to take advantage of.
"Let's go, go into the cave and see. If you go late, maybe someone else will take away all the good things. There are many dangers inside, you remember not to come nonsense, otherwise you and I may have to take our lives. ”
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you this time. I will do what you tell me to do. As soon as it came to entering the cave, Jin Ning immediately came to his senses.
If you stand at the foot of Wolong Mountain and look at it from a distance, it is just like a black spot at the foot of the entire stone mountain. But when one got to the middle of it, he realized how big the cave was.
The bottom of the cave is flat and full of pebbles, and the stone walls on both sides are joined together at the top, giving the cave a triangular shape. The highest point is tens of zhang high, and even the width can allow ten carriages to be driven side by side without crowding. There is a small stream flowing out of the middle of the cave, the water is clear but especially cold, and there are no fish and shrimp in it.
Since the discovery of the cave by tomb robbers, people have entered the cave every day in search of treasures, some in groups and some in solitary travelers. But no one has discovered the so-called large treasure. Many people disappeared inside and never came out, and some were injured by the hidden danger inside and had to retreat, and even those who could come out unharmed were mostly empty-handed.
But these people are not undiscovered.
Many people have found old stone buildings inside, found a large number of military standard weapons, found many burial caves full of bones, encountered some strange spirit beasts with high poison, and many dangerous mechanisms and mysterious formations. Some people have even found some of the magic weapons used by relatively broken cultivators, although they have been damaged by the years, but when they use their mana, the power is not bad.
A succession of discoveries has made the cave even more confusing and mysterious. It made many people believe even more that this was the tomb of a big man in ancient times. Many treasure hunters believe that there must be an amazing figure buried in this cave, and there are countless treasures buried. Everyone believed that if they were brave enough and careful enough, they would be able to find the heaviest treasure and soar overnight, even to the point of becoming rich. As for the high casualty rate, it doesn't matter anymore, everyone believes that they are the lucky ones.
Li Xuanji and Jin Ning slowly walked into the cave and walked towards the depths.
There was some silence in the cave, and the people who had entered before seemed to have evaporated, and no one was encountered.
When the two of them traveled a hundred feet, the entire cave had been completely hidden in the darkness, and the little light at the distant entrance of the cave could no longer be seen, as if the terrain of the cave had quietly changed with the slow deepening, and even the direction had changed.
"Huh-" A bright light illuminated the grotto of the Black Hole Cave, and Jin Ning took out a small copper lamp from his arms and lit it.
"Why did you even bring out the precious study lamp of the senior brother in charge?" Li Xuanji looked at the small copper lamp in Jin Ning's hand and said in surprise.
The study lamp is a copper lamp refined by the head of the house. Smaller than the size of a palm, it is made of volcanic red copper, the wick is made from the 'Flame Purple Orchid', a precious spiritual grass that grows in the lava lake, and the lamp oil is refined from an ice frog oil that lives under the frozen soil of the snowy plains. After the study lamp is practiced, it is a magic weapon of flame attribute. However, Daozhen was not used as a weapon, but was placed in the Tibetan Scripture Hall to illuminate the scriptures when reading the classics by himself.
That's right, it's used for lighting! The light of the study lamp is particularly bright, but it is not dazzling, and if there is no interference from external forces, it can last for thousands of years.
"Yes, you always have to be well prepared when you're out and about. This was the first time I had gone out without an elder, so of course I had to be prepared. So I picked up the best things I usually used from Master. This study lamp is really right, with our cultivation is not able to see things at night, it is best to use it to illuminate here. Jin Ning shook the small copper lamp in his palm proudly and showed off.
"What are you using?, did you bring all the pots and pans used by the senior brother in charge?" Li Xuanji glanced at Jin Ning's full chest and clothes in surprise.
"How is that possible? Am I so stupid? If I do that, Master will not punish me to death after I go back! Oh, what do you see?" Jin Ning covered her chest with her arms in shame.
"I didn't ...... Nothing, it seems like there is a situation, you listen to the sound. Li Xuanji pointed to the dark cave in front of him in embarrassment.
"Squeak-squeak-"
“...... Stay back...... Help ......"
There were a lot of sounds from the dark cave from far and near, and there were faint sounds of people saving their lives.