His head hurt so much, Hachi woke up in a daze, he only remembered that he drank and ate with the rice ball at the end, and drank a lot of wine. As for how to get back to the inn, I don't remember anymore. Seeing that the sky was already dark, Hachi remembered that he would have to leave for Jifen Tower tomorrow, so he went out to buy some useful things.

The next day, as soon as the sky was cute, Hachi packed up his things and settled the room payment with the inn guys. Because when Xia Yu sent him away yesterday, he mentioned that this ancient ruin seems to be very large, and he may stay in it for a few more days. Therefore, it is impossible for a thrifty person like Xiaoba to pay a room fee in the inn for nothing.

Soon, Xiaoba came to the gate of Jifen Tower, there was already a person waiting for him here, but to Xiaoba's surprise, this person was not Xia Yu who should be waiting for him here, but Xiao Fantuan!

"Why are you here?" Hachi asked when he saw the rice balls.

"I'm waiting for you! I hurt you that day, and I decided to go on an adventure with you to make amends for my mistakes. Onigiri said with a smile.

Hachi is not a child who just came out of the mountains and doesn't understand anything, where do you believe this, he didn't say anything but squinted at the rice ball. Onigiri was seen by him like this, hurriedly lowered his head, after a while, seeing that Hachi did not move, he quietly raised his eyes to peek at Hachi, and when he saw that Hachi was still staring at himself, he hurriedly lowered his head deeper, until a long time, Onigiri raised his head, grinned, and smiled embarrassedly at Hachi.

At this time, Xiao Ba spoke: "To be honest, otherwise don't think I will take you there." ”

Onigiri laughed embarrassedly "hehe" twice, took out a book from the package behind him, unfolded the book, handed it to Xiaoba, pointed to a fiery red mushroom on it and said, "Look at this, red flame mushroom." It is said that this mushroom grows in the ancient ruins of Jipta Tower, so I wanted to pick a little. ”

"What do you want this, what are you going to do, and if you really need it, you tell me that I want to see it and bring it out for you, and you don't have to go yourself. Hachi glanced at the picture in the book and said.

"I'm sorry to excuse you... I want this mushroom to participate in the Spring Festival Chef Contest to be held in the Imperial City in a month's time. But I've only heard of this mushroom, but I haven't actually used it, and I don't know how it is, so it takes a lot of trying, and the red flame mushroom needs to be processed and kept fresh immediately after it is picked..."The rice ball looked at Hachi a little embarrassed, but revealed that I had to go.

Xiaoba spread his hands helplessly and said, "Okay, I agreed, but I don't know if the old man agrees." It's not up to me to decide, you have to find a way to convince that old man, I can only mention you, he especially likes to be slapped on his ass..."

"What are you talking about?" A good-sounding, but cold voice came, and I saw Xia Yu walking out of Jifen Tower. She glanced at the rice ball and asked Hachi, "What's the matter with her?"

Hachi hurriedly explained: "This is my sister, a very powerful chef. I don't think it's going to take long for us to go in, I didn't eat or drink, so I brought her to cook for us, and by the way, she also wanted to pick some mushrooms, no problem, right?"

Xia Yu glanced at the rice ball lightly and said, "I can't call the shots in this matter, you go and ask the teacher." Then he turned and explained to the guards of the Gippon Tower, and walked into the tower. Seeing this, Hachi and Fanturi also hurriedly followed, and Fanturi also called out sweetly, "Sister, you are so good", which made Xiaohachi stumble and almost didn't plant on the ground.

Entering Jifen Tower, this time he changed the rice ball as a soil bun, and Xiaoba also acted as a tour guide and explained it to the rice ball, so that the rice ball was impressed by him, of course, what he said was a joke he made on the first day.

The three of them soon came to a corner of the Jifen Tower, where Lu Youxue was waiting for them. Also seeing the arrival of the rice balls, Lu Youxue also frowned, and asked Xiaoba why he brought outsiders here. But soon, when the rice ball quickly spit out a sentence, "Uncle, you are so handsome", Lu Youxue was killed in seconds. made Xiaoba grin, and whispered: "You can be a grandfather, and being called Uncle Ju is beautiful like this, self-deception" Xia Yu also cooperated very much and whispered "um" on the side.

The three of them, led by Lu Youxue, came to a closed room not far away. At this time, Lu Youxue took out a stone with five colors of red, blue, green, yellow, and purple and pasted it on the door, only to hear a "click", and the door slowly opened. And inside this house turned out to be an empty room, only the cylindrical elevator that Hachi had made at the beginning. Then, to the exclamation of the rice balls, the elevator began to move underground.

I don't know how far it went, about the time of a cup of tea, Lu Youxue took the three of them out of the elevator and came to a strange door. The reason why this gate is strange is because inside this gate is a dim mountain range full of strange rocks. And the only partition is the water ripple light curtain above this door.

"This is the ancient ruins?" asked Hachi to Lu Youxue.

Lu Youxue nodded: "This is it, there are three layers in total, and the Ethereal Stone is on the second layer." Remember, don't enter the third layer, because none of the people who have entered so far have come back alive. ”

"No one came out alive? You give him a teleportation charm, won't he come out when he is in danger?" asked Hachi, puzzled.

Lu Youxue sighed and explained, "Do you think we haven't done it? After you entered this gate, you cut off any contact with the outside world, so even the teleportation charm can't bring you out from inside. In it, you can only rely on yourself. But don't be afraid, as long as the three of you don't have problems, there should be no problem going to the second layer. As long as you don't go deep into the third layer, there is no danger. ”

The three of them nodded in unison.

"Alright, let's go!" Hachi beckoned, and stepped into the light curtain in the door. Lu Youxue is still very satisfied with Xiaoba's approach, and his attitude towards Xiaoba has improved a little, after all, Xiaoba's courage is still very satisfactory to him. The second one to enter was the rice ball, and when she saw Hachi enter, she jumped in as well.

As soon as you enter, you will feel a warm breath on the surface, although the scenery here is very dark and desolate, and there are black strange rocks everywhere, but the temperature here is much higher than outside. It's winter in the outside world, and it's like summer in May or June.

Soon Xia Yu also walked in, and suddenly felt the change in temperature, Xia Yu was also stunned, obviously she hadn't come in before.

"Xia Yu, how are we going?" Xiao Hachi looked at Xia Yu and asked.

Xia Yu shook his head: "I don't know, the teacher said that the passage to the second floor will change every once in a while, so he can't tell us the right way, the only thing that is certain is that the passage has never appeared within fifty miles of this gate, so let's go forward first." ”

Hachi and Onigiri glanced at each other and nodded at the same time, and the three of them began to explore this unknown ancient ruin.

The second layer of ancient ruins

A mountain of broken armor piled up, and suddenly, the mountain of armor shook, and the armor on it began to slide down one by one. Immediately after a loud "boom", the entire armor mountain exploded, and I saw a pitch-black, but humanoid guy standing in the middle. At this moment, several bonfires on the side suddenly lit up. The light emitted by the bonfire illuminated the land, but what was surprising was that its body was like a ray that could not be saved, and the light from the bonfire strangely disappeared after reaching him, while its body did not reflect any light, if I had to describe it, it was like a shadow, a shadow that would never be illuminated. At this moment, the head of this shadow showed a row of white teeth, and the shape of the exposed row of teeth was a grim smile.

......

"Do you think this is the legendary underworld after death?" Hachi asked as he walked to the front, turning to the rice balls. Because Xia Yu always looks cold, Xiaoba rarely talks to her, and along the way, she is basically talking to the rice balls.

Onigiri replied casually, "No, there are no ghosts here, you say, right?"

“......”

"Huh, starling, you said yes, right?" saw that Hachi didn't react, and asked again.

"Uh... If there are no ghosts, then... What's that..."Hachi pointed to the front, his voice trembling a little.

"That's..."Fantuan and Xia Yu beside him looked in the direction that Xiaoba pointed, and at this look, Fantuan said half of his words, and suddenly stopped abruptly. I saw that two hundred meters ahead, a man with a cloak and a slightly transparent body, and suspended in mid-air, was wandering back and forth...

Xiaoba turned around and smiled bitterly at the two: "Are we living hell..."