Chapter 8 The Secrets of the Ancient Village
Ding Yixi only felt that his body was fluttering, and the wind was raging in front of him, he opened his eyes slightly, only to see a black shadow flickering, but he felt that his body sank in shock, as if he had landed suddenly, his feet were unstable, and he fell to the ground.
"Oops!" Ding Yixi sat on the ground, and when he opened his eyes again, the crowd of people around him had turned into a deserted alley, and next to him sat a woman in green who was as dizzy as himself, and Cheng Xiwu was standing a step or so in front of him with his back to the two.
"Wow, what kind of spell is this, and it can teleport?"
"The flash spell just moves with my spiritual force field, but fortunately you two are still relatively light. ”
Ding Yixi raised his forehead and shook his head: "Xiao Xixi, you can't optimize this movement spell or something, it will make us dizzy." ”
Cheng Xiwu tilted his head slightly and sighed, "Besides, what's going on with the two of you?"
The woman in green raised her eyes and looked at Cheng Xiwu, her face seemed to be a little unstable, she pouted and quickly stood up: "Actually······ It's nothing. ”
"Nothing?" Cheng Xiwu turned his head, "It's good now, I originally planned to look for clues related to the surrounding Yueling here, but now that I have caused this incident, it seems that I can only leave quickly." ”
"Yueling?" Ding Yixi and the woman in green whispered at the same time.
Cheng Xiwu sighed again and changed the topic, "This girl, where are you from, you don't look like a local······
"Oh, by the way, we are also in trouble, and we should know who you are. The girl in green thought for a moment and smiled heartily, "My name is Yue Xin, what about you?"
"I'm ······ As I said just now, Cheng Xiwu, a student of the First Academy of Duwu City, this is my ······ The younger brother is called Ding Yixi. ”
The woman in green looked at Ding Yixi, Ding Yixi smirked and nodded, the woman in green glanced at Ding Yixi, and said, "Oh, this stupid boy is also from the First Academy of Duwu City?
"Hey, are you still looking for my fault?" Ding Yixi jumped up and pointed at Yue Xin with an unhappy expression.
"Okay, hurry up, tell me what's going on!"
Ding Yixi and Yue Xin looked at each other, Ding Yixi shook his head, and said, "Then I'll talk about it······" So Ding Yixi roughly described what happened just now, and the culprit Yue Xin looked in other directions on the side, avoiding the sight of the two, and Cheng Xiwu smiled bitterly.
"Then what is Miss Yue Xin going to do next? I'm afraid it will be more troublesome if I keep it here. ”
Yue Xin seemed to think for a while, looked at the two of them again, and said with a smile: "If only I had Brother Cheng's body like this, no one would be able to bully me." ”
"Hey, this is starting to call Brother Cheng?" Ding Yixi looked disdainful, "Anyway, you don't want to find an accomplice when you eat and drink?"
"Do you think I want to eat and drink? I'm also ······ justice." Yue Xin's voice became smaller and smaller, and it seemed that he was still very embarrassed about this matter.
"Dare to say-" Ding Yixi looked unhappy, "Your extension can stretch us all in!"
"Why are you so boring!"
"Oh, then didn't you almost be invited to Gu Qianlong's house for tea just now?"
Cheng Xiwu looked at the two of them and said impatiently: "Don't talk about these unhurried things, now the other party will definitely not give up, and ······ Knowing who we are······"
"It's not because you thought that the First Academy of Duwu City could suppress that guy, but I didn't expect it, it was ······ useless at all." Ding Yixi said casually, but seeing that the words did not fall, Cheng Xiwu was embarrassed, and hurriedly covered his mouth and said, "No, no, no, who knew that Gu Qianlong was a lonely and unheard person······ Isn't it, Miss. ”
"Ah, yes, yes, this can't be blamed on Brother Cheng, the main thing is that Gu Qianlong is too ignorant······" Seeing that Cheng Xiwu's face seemed to be a little better when he heard this, Yue Xin was thoughtful, and suddenly asked, "Brother Cheng, are you really from the First Academy of Duwu City?"
"Yes, what questions do you have, girl?"
"Hmm······ Have we met before?"
Cheng Xiwu listened to Yue Xin's question, but he was surprised: "I think we should have met for the first time, or have you seen me?"
Yue Xin's eyes flashed, he shrugged his shoulders, and said, "How can I casually meet with the master of the famous First Academy of Dusk Martial City, I'm just asking casually, but I've really seen Master Violet before, so I'm just a little curious." ”
"Master often attends some press conferences, and it's not surprising that you've seen it, but as for me······ I've just joined the master's door, so it's no surprise that I haven't seen it. ”
Yue Xin nodded and turned his back: "Okay, but thank you Brother Cheng and this nasty ghost today, I won't trouble you, and there will be a period later." ”
"Huh, you're interesting, aren't you afraid of being caught by Gu Qianlong as a guest at home?"
Hearing this, Yue Xin exuded a murderous aura all over his body, and turned around and said, "Don't always drag this matter!"
Ding Yixi's body was shocked, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I'······ I don't care about you, I'm afraid something will happen to you. ”
Cheng Xiwu also echoed: "Brother Ding's words are reasonable, and the three of us can take care of our actions." ”
"No, no, no, I've troubled you so much, so I don't owe you any favors anymore, as for the current favors······ Let's pay it back in the future!" After that, without waiting for the two to reply, Yue Xin trotted all the way and disappeared at the end of the alley.
"I'm really convinced, there is no benefit, but it is a big trouble. Ding Yixi covered his face with a painful expression.
But at this time, Cheng Xiwu frowned, and said slowly: "I don't think I have to worry about her, you were in a disorder of breath when you escaped with the two of you just now, and Miss Yue Xin was indeed stable all the way, and when she finally landed, she didn't feel any sinking, but I was afraid that she was a master of light skills." ”
"Ahh
"It's not clear, although it seems that she knows some spells, but she seems to be deliberately hiding her body, so she just pretended to be unstable on the ground, but in fact, I have seen through the flow of her spiritual power along the way. In this way, it is easier for her to escape alone, and the two of us who are not good at light skills are easy to be caught by Gu Qianlong. ”
"Damn, I thought she was leaving for the sake of not being a burden, but she didn't want to take the two of us with her. ”
Cheng Xiwu looked around, and his eyes became sharp: "Let's not talk about this first······ I'd like to ask you what was the situation yesterday, and I think I've learned professional spells before, right?"
Ding Yixi looked at Cheng Xiwu's serious eyes, swallowed his saliva, and said, "No, I don't have any identity, don't you see that I am an admitted student of the First College of Duwu City······"
"But the demonic aura in your body, as well as yesterday's magical power and weird fainting······"
"This is my physical problem, and if I didn't have two brushes, I wouldn't have been able to enter the First Academy of Duwu City. ”
Cheng Xiwu touched his chin and nodded, but then shook his head: "I have just arrived at the First Academy of Duwu City, and I don't know much about the things in the academy, and I don't know why there are students at this time······ But he is an extraordinary living disciple. ”
"I did my best!" Ding Yixi replied with a wry smile, but thought in his heart: "I thought that the Holy Son was as well-known as me in Dongli City, but it turned out that no one knew me when I left Dongli City······ It seems that the matter of the Holy Son is indeed a type of state secret. ”
Cheng Xiwu relaxed his vigilance a little, his eyes softened, and asked, "That can also explain why you fainted, I'm afraid that it was because of the excessive use of spiritual power." How are you feeling now?"
"It has to be good. Ding Yixi also raised his hands and made a gesture to show off his muscles.
Cheng Xiwu smiled bitterly and turned into a frown, Ding Yixi asked when he saw this: "I said Xixi, why are you always like an old mother, unhappy every day." ”
"You know this better than I do. Cheng Xiwu glared at Ding Yixi and said slowly, "As far as the current situation is concerned, when we escape, you can go back to the First Academy of Duwu City directly." ”
"What about you?"
"I'm going to the Moon Tomb. ”
"Yueling?" Ding Yixi sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember where he heard it.
Cheng Xiwu looked at Ding Yixi's expression and said, "There was a letter on the person in black who was full of evil qi last night, which mentioned Yueling, it is a very moment, and that person has strange spiritual power, which feels a little familiar······ So I think there must be something strange. ”
"Then you're going to the Moon Tomb. ”
"Yes. ”
"Then you take me with you, I can't go back anyway, the city is blocked. Ding Yixi looked at Cheng Xiwu with a yearning expression.
Cheng Xiwu said unhappily when he heard this: "This is something that I thought of temporarily, because there is no way to contact my senior brother and them, so if something happens, I have a heavy responsibility, so I can't take you with me." ”
Ding Yixi pouted and said: "I don't care about these things, but you, you were almost killed yesterday, if I didn't help you, you still have a chance to be here?"
"If it weren't for you, would I still go out of Beiqu City to sleep in the wilderness?"
"Cut-" Ding Yixi waved his hand, "Anyway, I'm going to follow you, after all, it's still early for me to report, and it's still my freedom to go anywhere, and you have no right to control me." ”
"You're really stubborn!" Cheng Xiwu thrust his waist and looked at the sky, "I wouldn't have told you this if I knew it." ”
"Since you told me, it means that you treat me as a friend, since you are a friend, then I will also help you, at least I stabbed the basket and still had the life to go back to the academy to confess!"
Hearing this, Cheng Xiwu's body shook and frowned slightly, Ding Yixi saw this, tilted his head and asked, "What's wrong?"
Cheng Xiwu reacted, coughed, and said slowly: "Okay, as long as you don't help." ”
Ding Yixi grinned, thought for a moment, his face suddenly became a little yearning, and he turned his head and said, "Yueling······ Could it be the mausoleum of Yueke, the prime minister of Qi State more than 400 years ago?"
"yes, so you know. ”
"Then how can you not know!" Ding Yixi suddenly became longing, "Prime Minister Yueke is one of my idols, at that time, King Sheng Baiyue, Prime Minister Yueke and the national teacher Shang Yun first pacified the internal strife in Qi, and then unified the five eastern countries, laying the foundation of the current prosperity of the first country in the double of the Great Qi Kingdom, known as the "Double Moon Prosperous Age". ”
Cheng Xiwu was interested when he heard this: "Oh? It just so happens that I don't know much about this history, tell me about it, maybe there are some clues." ”
"Hehe, it seems that you are also historically illiterate. Although Ding Yixi only inquired a lot of Yueke's history because of his admiration for Yueke, in addition to Prime Minister Yueke, Ding Yixi is actually a historical blind, but at this time he can talk eloquently, "It's a pity that Prime Minister Yueke was sick and weak, and died less than half a year after the reunification of Qi at the age of 24." This Yueke Mausoleum is a mausoleum built by the national teacher Shang Yun for Yueke. Legend has it that Shang Yun has always been in love with Yue Ke, but because of national events, until Yue Ke died, neither of them showed to each other, so now this tragic fate is also a mystery for the ages······
Cheng Xiwu obviously didn't like to listen to these stories, but seeing that Ding Yixi's expression changed very vividly, it was not easy to disturb, so he coughed slightly and said, "Then is there a record in the history of the situation of the Moon Tomb?"
"Yes, legend has it that Shang Yun spent three years building this tomb, and then lived in seclusion in the Yueke Mausoleum, and used his peerless genius to lay countless enchantment prohibitions in the tomb throughout his life, and finally died of depression five years later, that is, at the age of 32, and then Yueke and Shang Yun's friend General Gu Huaifeng took this place as a fief and guarded it for generations. Of course, with the change of time, the guardians of the Yueke Tomb left one after another, but due to the enchantment of Shang Yun's national teacher, it still discouraged all kinds of tomb robbers, and until today I have never heard of anyone being able to enter this tomb. ”
"Oh, that's very similar to what I heard. ”
"This is natural, Shang Yun is a genius of the Heavenly Sect, and some of the books she left behind have not been able to read through so far, so it is naturally even more difficult to break the barrier of Yueling. ”
Cheng Xiwu's face became even more solemn when he heard this, and he whispered: "That······ What are they going to do in the Moon Tomb, is there a way to enter the Moon Tomb?"
Although Ding Yixi still wanted to talk more about this history, when he saw Cheng Xiwu's worried look, he patted Cheng Xiwu on the shoulder: "Haha, don't you feel that I am still very useful!"
Cheng Xiwu casually opened Ding Yixi's arm and said, "Although your news is useful, it is all bad news, in the final analysis, you have to go over and find out." ”
Ding Yixi smiled and said, "You must know that those tomb robbers are all formation geniuses who are proficient in tomb robbing spells, and they can't enter, so you don't have to get your hopes up." ”
"Although what you said makes sense, but since the man in black means Yueling, there must be some conspiracy, even if you can't get in, you will gain something by squatting outside. ”
Ding Yixi also became interested when he heard this: "Okay, good, a feeling of spy warfare, it's very exciting." ”
"This is not play!"
"Received, yes, sir!"
Cheng Xiwu looked at Ding Yixi's playful attitude, although he felt a little unreliable in his heart, but it was rare for someone to talk to him like this, and there was indeed a sense of warmth. When he was a child, I didn't know why, the master never let him contact outsiders, and he had just come into contact with some senior brothers recently, but his serious and dislike of socializing still made him feel a little inferior, so when he saw Ding Yixi going to enter Yueling with him, and said the word friend, Cheng Xiwu was still a little yearning for a while.
Thinking of this, Cheng Xiwu couldn't help blushing a little and quickly turned around.
"Then let's find a way to go to the Moon Tomb to explore. ”
"Okay~"
As soon as the words fell, suddenly there was the sound of hurried footsteps of many people at the entrance of the alley, mixed with a few shouts: "They may be here, you come here to find them!"
"No, this is to mobilize the whole village to find us?" Ding Yixi scratched his head and glanced at Cheng Xiwu with a sad face.
Cheng Xiwu pointed at Ding Yixi again, shook his head and said, "Forget it, anyway, I'll just go back and ask for guilt after that, I really don't understand why people like to cause trouble casually now, how good it is to stay in the hotel obediently." Well, I've got some stuff left at the inn, you can find a place to stay quietly for a while, don't make any more trouble, I'll go back and put my things away, and let's find a chance to sneak out." ”
"Let's go back together, it's so boring for me to be alone. ”
"It's boring, I don't want to be ruined by you!"
"There are always some challenges in life!"
"You-" Cheng Xiwu clenched his fists and turned his back, "Okay, I really owe a lot in my last life to make you a bad friend." ”
"Hehe, finally treat me as a friend, it's not some kind of demon monster!"
Cheng Xiwu turned his back and only cared about moving forward, and no longer bothered with Ding Yixi.
The two of them avoided Gu Qianlong all the way to find the entourage of the two, but fortunately, this place does not look as convenient as the big city, only a few small broken cars that look like "underworld" are running around, and spell masters like Ding Yixi and Cheng Xiwu are naturally easy to dodge.
The two sneaked into the hotel, and when they arrived at the door of a room, Cheng Xiwu signaled that he would go in first and let Ding Yixi wait outside, but before Ding Yixi could answer anything, Cheng Xiwu had already gotten in. Ding Yixi snorted and turned around, but saw a dark shadow at the corner of the corridor slowly walking over, and quickly followed Cheng Xiwu's house. Cheng Xiwu saw Ding Yixi also slip in, and said angrily: "What are you doing here?"
"Someone's coming!"
"What?" Cheng Xiwu frowned, "Is it such a coincidence?"
Before the words fell, he heard the doorknob ring, and a waiter walked in humming a little song, and his eyes happened to be with Ding Yixi and Cheng Xiwu.
Cheng Xiwu and Ding Yixi's bodies stiffened, swallowed their saliva, and didn't react for a while, the light in Cheng Xiwu's hands gradually rose, if the situation was not good, it seemed that they could only deal with it first.
Seeing that Cheng Xiwu was about to knock out the waiter in the next move, he saw that the waiter was slightly puzzled at first, and suddenly clapped his hands and said, "You are the three people who have been the whole ancient dragon today······ Oh no, two?"
Ding Yixi sighed, "Huh?", raised his head and hummed a little song: "You······ You admit it's wrong, how did I not know there was such a thing!"
"Don't worry, you two, I was watching just now, and I saw your white light flashing, and you disappeared with a 'boom', what a wonderful spell!" The waiter put down the registration card and notebook in his hand and walked over.
Cheng Xiwu saw that there was nothing to hide from the situation, nodded, and said, "Okay, but looking at your appearance, it seems that you won't report the two of us, right?"
"What are you talking about!" the waiter laughed and looked out the window by the way, "Gu Qianlong, this guy······ You Zhuangzi just ask casually, it's notorious, it's also difficult for the old owner, why did you give birth to such a thing, I think this Zhuangzi will be over when the old owner dies. ”
"Is it so serious?" Ding Yixi couldn't help laughing, "I think it's hopeless to be a man to this point." ”
The waiter had already drawn down the curtains and closed the door in this gap, making sure that no one was approaching before he slowly continued: "But you still have to be careful, although Gu Qianlong has a poor mass base, but there are also many people who can use insidious spells under his hands, and now there are many plainclothes mages wandering outside, you may not know each other if you don't come often, we all know very well." As for the passage from the inside of the village to the outside, it should have been blocked. ”
Cheng Xiwu's expression became more solemn when he heard this, and asked, "Then may I ask my little brother, how can I go out, we still have some important things to do." ”
The waiter's face also didn't look very relaxed, and said, "After all, Gu Qianlong also issued a reward this time, and our boss is afraid that he won't dare to keep you······ But there's a place they might not get into easily. ”
"Where is it?" Ding Yixi was a little puzzled.
"That place is called the forbidden land by the ancient family, that is, the cliff behind the warehouse on the edge of the ancient village, there are some caves at the bottom of the mountain that look like karst caves formed naturally, I heard my grandfather say that there was once an ancestral training by the ancestors of the ancient family, and the village is a forbidden place for no one to enter except for the owner. ”
Hearing the words "forbidden land", Ding Yixi became interested: "What kind of forbidden land, is there any treasure or a formation enchantment?"
The waiter shook his head and said, "I really don't know what this forbidden place is, from a distance it looks like a continuous cave, and every summer there will be a fairy spirit lingering······ I remember that it was a ban made by the ancestor Gudian Zhuang a long time ago, and it is really unclear what is in it. ”
"Gudian?" Cheng Xiwu touched his chin and pondered for a moment, "If you talk about Gudian, it will be at least more than two hundred years old, and Gudian is also a well-known figure, and there is a portrait of the owner of Gudian in the hall of fame in the academy, and I heard that he participated in the war with demon beasts." In that case, we will definitely not be able to get close to there, after all, it is the words of the ancients. ”
Ding Yixi didn't think so, and said: "No one approaches that place just by the words of the ancient owner?" I always feel as if there is something greasy, although it is said that the general of Gu Huaifeng back then was a bold and righteous hero, it is difficult to guarantee that future generations will not do anything, maybe there is hidden in the looted people's fat and people's ointment. ”
"Don't you have any brains?" Cheng Xiwu patted Ding Yixi's head, "The owner of Gudian Village is not the kind of person you said, besides, you said it yourself, the ban can be extended for hundreds of years, and there will definitely be no shortage of good people stealing into the forbidden land during this period, but there has been no leakage so far, which shows that the ban here is indeed extremely strict!"
The waiter shook his head and said, "I used to be curious, and I often went to see around there, but there were only a few guards around, and I didn't feel the enchantment or anything like that." Speaking of this, the waiter suddenly smiled and said: "By the way, in fact, my grandfather also told me the legend of the thieves breaking in, about 100 years ago, there was a group of thieves who first went to break into the Moon Tomb, but I don't know why they suddenly turned here to break into the forbidden land, that night it was quite fierce, shouting and killing, my grandfather didn't dare to go out, but the next day he came out to see, as if nothing had happened." ”
"Yueling?" Cheng Xiwu glanced at him, "Go to Yueling first, and turn here halfway······ Could it be related?"
"Yes, my grandfather is good at formations, and he has a lot of yearning for Yuekeling, but it's a pity that he didn't explore the secret of Yuekeling in the end······" The waiter sighed again and again, as if he remembered something.
Ding Yixi saw that Cheng Xiwu seemed to be a little moved, and hurriedly persuaded: "Xiao Xixi, you said that we can't do without this Red Jade Villa, and it is very troublesome to carry it in a place where they can search, so it is better to go to this forbidden place to have a look, and by the way, you can hide from them." ”
"That's a thief's act, we're people from the First Academy of Dusk City, we can't be so reckless. Although Cheng Xiwu also wanted to find out in his heart, after all, he was not a person who stole chickens and dogs, how could he casually spy on other people's secrets with curiosity.
Ding Yixi didn't seem to be playing, so he didn't say anything anymore.
After talking to the waiter, Cheng Xiwu and Ding Yixi discussed for a while, and decided to go out to see if there was any chance to leave Hongyu Villa directly, not wanting to cause unnecessary trouble to the little waiter, so they each took their luggage and slipped through the back door to a small forest in the village.
Unexpectedly, just after taking a few steps, he saw Cheng Xiwu's eyes glaze over, and he turned around and said, "Brother Ding, it seems that they may have found our whereabouts and followed us!"
"How come?" Ding Yixi was taken aback, he didn't expect that such a remote place could be found by them. So the two of them hurriedly quickened their pace, and their luck shuttled through the woods, Cheng Xiwu's spiritual sense was different from ordinary people, like a radar, even if listening to Cheng Xiwu's narration, these search people were very densely distributed, but they were able to sneak through their defensive gaps.
After walking in the woods for a short time, the trees became more and more scarce, there were more and more gravel, and Cheng Xiwu's steps were also a little messy, Ding Yixi patted Cheng Xiwu who was walking in front and said, "What's wrong, I feel like you're a little tired?"
"Hmph, it seems that I was careless, there must be people among these people who are more similar to my spiritual sense, no matter how we move, they can immediately change course and follow the way we came. Besides······" Cheng Xiwu stopped and looked around, "There are fewer and fewer trees here, and there are only gravel left that is not enough to hide, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to hide after a while." ”
"You're late, look, they're coming!" only to hear the roar of cars behind him, dusty, Ding Yixi's heart sank, and sighed: "Do these guys also have the same spiritual sense as you?"
Cheng Xiwu was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Ding Yixi, Ding Yixi didn't expect him to suddenly look at himself, quickly stopped, and asked, "What are you looking at, hurry up!"
Cheng Xiwu was not in a hurry, approached Ding Yixi in a few steps, and touched him around, Ding Yixi's face turned red, and he hurriedly lined up with his hands: "What do you mean, you guy, if you don't agree with each other, you will move your hands and feet!"
"What nonsense!" Cheng Xiwu glared at Ding Yixi, opened Ding Yixi's neckline, and found an undetectable black spot, which was attached to his clothes like paint.
"I see. Cheng Xiwu flicked his hand, and the spot fell, Ding Yixi glanced back, covered his mouth and said, "No, there is still a transmitter, when was it installed on me?"
"No, this is not a transmitter, but a special substance, they dissolve this substance in water, can be splashed on others at will, unaware, and can exist for a long time, this substance can release a special spiritual power, this spiritual power can be tracked by means of monitoring. ”
"They must have splashed it directly at us when they ran away just now, and it's so troublesome to get a drop!"
Cheng Xiwu looked at the back and sighed, there were already many people surrounding him from all directions, so he patted Ding Yixi's shoulder and said, "Hurry up!"
The two of them looked around, and the front was already in the area behind the village, and a cliff could be seen in front, but the group of people behind chased here, and the two had to go to the cliff.
In the car behind, the group also saw the two people who fled in front, and one of them had a bright eye, but they also saw that they had found the black spot of tracking, and snorted: "Fortunately, we have seen their figures, so we don't need to use this soul chasing sand to track them anymore." ”
"But ······" A man holding an iron rod next to him looked embarrassed, "This is the direction in which they fled······ It seems to be a forbidden place!"
"It's okay, don't you see our round-up formation? The young master has commanded, these two people have excellent skills and extremely strong spells, even if they catch them, they may not be able to defeat them, if necessary, they can be driven into the forbidden land for long-term planning!"
"What?" the man next to him frowned when he heard this, "But this forbidden place······ Since the owner of the village can enter and exit calmly, none of the people who enter by mistake or with bad intentions can come out!"
"I said that they were driven to the forbidden place, and they walked in on their own, and they had nothing to do with us. I heard that there is no entry or exit in this forbidden place, and maybe they will become dead people who shut up when they enter. ”
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