Chapter Twenty-Three: In the Palace of Leaving the Soul

Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen were chasing with all their might, but they heard a noise behind them.

"What kind of person is this, dare to rob my wife?!" a shrill voice.

"It's my wife. "A hearty voice.

It turned out that the two people who were arguing before found out that Miss Qin was missing, and after making a fuss in the restaurant, they also chased them out with light skills.

In this way, there were three groups of people in a row, asking Junping in front, Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen in the center, and Lin Zhong and the two of them in the back of the palace, one followed one after another, and they all chased after the man in black.

Before they knew it, they had already left the town, and all five of them had burrowed into a chaotic and dense forest. This forest is unusual, and most of them are wild locust trees. There is no end to the locust forest like this, but it is extremely rare.

Ask Junping chased to the depths of the forest, and the man in black disappeared after turning around. When the four people followed, the five of them circled around here a few times, but found that there was no road in the forest at all, and they were afraid that it would not be easy to get out.

But Wen Junping said in a firm tone: "I chased that person to this vicinity, and he disappeared, presumably there is a passage to go elsewhere." ”

When Lin Chong and the others heard this, they spun around like flies, and after a lot of work, they didn't find any passage. The two of them simply stopped looking for it, plopped twice, and sat down on the ground.

"This hateful thief, watch your skin, don't let Lao Tzu hold you. Alas, poor Miss Qin......" muttered the mouse-like man. After he finished speaking, he shouted at Wei Qimu and the others, "Who are you three, are you also in love with Miss Qin?" he said and became vigilant again.

Huang Zhen shook her head helplessly when she heard this, this person actually counted her as a woman.

"Ask Junping next, who are the two?" asked Junping not to pay attention to the man's words, but instead reported to his family.

"Oh, it turned out that it was the 'gentleman on the eaves' who asked the door owner, disrespectful and disrespectful!" The mouse-like person jumped up when he heard it, "Heh, ask the door master to claim to be a thief, naturally not those obscene flower thieves." My name is Seed Forest, the seed of Hezhong [chóng]. His name is Lin Zhong [zhòng]. The implication of his words was that he was relieved to ask Junping, and after saying that, the pair of small eyes turned to stare at Wei Qimu.

"My name is Lin Zhong [chóng], the weight of the Nine Heavens. Lin Zhong corrected.

Wei Qimu felt the hostility from the planting forest, but he didn't want Huang Zhen to stare at him as if he was staring at him as if he was nothing, which made him have a little headache, so he had to speak: "Under Wei Qimu, uh...... Seeing that Miss Qin was taken away, she just wanted to do her best, and she didn't dare to think about it. ”

When Chonglin heard this, he eliminated his hostility and greeted him with a smile, but he looked more like a mouse.

But Huang Zhen looked like she didn't know anything and nothing had happened, just twisting her hair with her fingers on the side.

Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen didn't know the origin of these two, but they were clear when they asked Junping. The "shadowless rope" planting forest, and the "split mountain arrow" forest are heavy, but they are all first-class masters in the rivers and lakes.

Wen Junping carefully inspected the topography here, and under the feet of the five of them was one of the few open spaces, surrounded by grass and trees, including some locust trees, some willows, elms, etc. He looked carefully for a long time, locked his eyes on the locust tree, and finally saw the doorway, and said to everyone: "Everyone, please see, there are eight locust trees here, and they happen to face eight directions. I think this should be a natural 'Eight Gate Golden Lock Array'. Therefore, as long as you find the direction of the birth gate or the view gate and the door opening, you can find the passage. ”

Huang Zhen didn't understand the formation, and Wei Qimu only knew a little bit of fur, and neither of them could see the clues. As for planting forests and forest weight, I don't understand it even more.

Tan Lin hurriedly asked, "Then where is the door where I can enter?"

Wen Junping looked up at the bright moon in a semicircle on the night sky, with only a few stars scattered around. He briefly confirmed the direction and said, "This natural 'Eight Gate Golden Lock Array' is different from the ordinary, the direction of the Eight Gates will naturally change with the change of the day. Today is Renyin Day, the Shengmen should be in the southeast, the Jingmen is in the west, and the door is in the northeast. Let's go in through the door. ”

After that, he came to the locust tree in the northeast, pressed his palm against the trunk, and pushed it with internal force. Sure enough, the sound of "click" squirted, and between the locust tree and the trees behind it, a passage-like opening was cracked!

When Wei Qimu and the others saw it, they not only sighed at the magic of this formation and mechanism, but also admired the means of asking Junping. Wen Junping didn't say anything more, and took the lead into the passage. The other four mermaids rushed in, and the passage disappeared naturally.

I don't know how long I walked, but I asked Junping that something was wrong, and said to the other four: "Why do I think this passage is going down?"

Due to the abnormal feeling in the narrow passage, Wei Qimu and the four of them did not know whether the passage was leaning downward.

Fortunately, the passage finally came to an end, and when everyone came out of the passage, their vision was a little wider, but this day was darker than before.

In front of everyone's eyes was a mottled stone gate, which was two or three feet high, but only the lintel and the doorpost. Other than that, it was empty, and the front was gray and unclear. The five of them walked to the stone gate, and saw two lines written on both sides of the door:

After the maze array,

It's the Soul Leaver.

Wei Qimu secretly mused, "The Lost Trace Array is probably the previous 'Eight Gates Golden Lock Array', so what does this soul leaver mean?"

"No, there's something wrong with this place. Wen Junping quickly noticed the abnormality.

"What's wrong?" asked Tan Lin first. It's just that this sharp voice, in this open space, is particularly harsh.

"Why is there wind, but there is no wind?" Wei Qimu also noticed that something was wrong.

Yes, there's wind but no sound. Except for the voices of the five of them, there was no sound at all. Seeing the fallen leaves on the ground being swept up and falling by the wind, there was no sound, as if you were in a moving picture.

"It's not the right day either. Wen Junping raised his head again, "I could see clearly before that the night moon was only half round, but the night moon here is fully round, and there are many more stars." ”

Wei Qimu looked at the night sky and said: "Since ancient times, if the moon is bright, the stars will be scarce, but here is the moon and stars, which is indeed very strange. ”

Huang Zhen and the other three also looked up, and Xingyue was really different from before. At first, they only noticed that the night sky was dark, but they ignored the stars and moon.

"Then if the sky here is not the outside sky, is it another world?" asked Huang Zhen.

"It can't be a ghost domain, right?" Tan Lin suddenly became frightened.

Even Huang Zhen was scared when she said this, she was a descendant of the Yin and Yang family, and it was inevitable that she believed in ghosts and gods.

"If you're afraid, we might as well just turn back, just pity that Miss Qin. "Ask Junping in such an environment, but he still has the heart to joke with the forest.

Chong Lin was stirred by these words, and he really became brave, and kept shouting strong words such as "die for Miss Qin" and "go to the soup and fire".

Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen's hearts also relaxed. Ask Junping naturally not to believe in evil, Wei Qimu is not afraid to come. So the five of them passed through the stone gate and went inside.

This place is gray everywhere, and Rao is the eyesight of these people is much more than ordinary people, and they can only see three feet away.

The ground was dark dirt, and there were messy stones and fallen leaves, locust leaves. The locust tree is the wood of extreme shade, so there are very few places where the locust tree is forested - but here it is.

"What's behind you?" this is the voice of the forest, not as sharp as before, he said to Huang Zhen.

Huang Zhen didn't dare to look back, so she let out an "ah" in fright, and couldn't help but hug Wei Qimu's arm. Wei Qimu pressed her shoulder lightly, looked back, and saw that the back was empty, where was there?

"Hahaha...... I'm teasing you!" but he heard Tan Lin laugh out loud with his stomach in his hands, and it was unusually noisy under the silent night sky.

Wei Qimu was angry in his heart and was about to scold, but he was stopped by Wen Junping and signaled him to calm his anger first.

Asked Junping to stop messing around, but Huang Zhen was surprisingly lifeless, just quietly holding Wei Qimu's arm. Wei Qimu was worried that she was too frightened, and asked again and again, but Huang Zhen only shook her head lightly to show that she was fine.

Seeing that Huang Zhen was unharmed, he stopped paying attention to the matter, and he pointed forward and motioned for everyone to look. Following the direction of his finger, about three feet away, a stone bridge appeared there. There were some figures walking around on the bridge, and those people were dressed in ordinary clothes, all of them were rough and short brown, but they only walked back and forth on the bridge.

Until the five of them reached the end of the bridge, where was there any figure on the bridge? Under the bridge was a section of the river—because they could only see a section. The river was dark, and it seemed to be flowing, and because there was no sound, they were not sure.

Crossing the stone bridge, the field of vision is much wider, the attic on the flat ground is stacked, the garden is in pieces, it is like a magnificent palace. It's just that the tone here is still gray. Gray lanterns, gray flowers. When you look closely, there are craftsmen pruning in the garden, and people in the attic are busy, but there is still no sound.

Ask Junping and his party to walk into the garden, wanting to ask those craftsmen what kind of place this is. But the craftsmen did not hear or see it, and only pruned the flowers and plants by themselves.

Everyone was puzzled, "Are you deaf and dumb?" But even deaf and dumb people shouldn't be blind to us. ”

When he asked Junping to take a closer look at these people, he found that they were all glazed over, and their hands and feet were numb, like a living dead. He then commanded: "This place and the people here are strange, let us be careful." ”

Everyone nodded yes, and even the forest became very well-behaved. In this treacherous environment, he didn't dare to make a mistake.

The five of them went up the corridor, wanting to find Miss Qin as soon as possible. The cloisters were full of twists and turns, and along the way I met many people dressed as slaves, both men and women, but they were like the craftsmen, like dead corpses.

The five of them walked around in this row of attics for a long time, but there was still no trace of Miss Qin, and they couldn't ask again, so they became anxious: "I haven't found this for a long time, where can they hide Miss Qin?"

Wen Junping couldn't help frowning: "Not only is there no Miss Qin here, but there is also no man in black, presumably there is something else here." Why don't we split up and look for it, and after a stick of incense, we will still meet here. ”

So the five people were divided into three groups, Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen, planting the forest and Lin Chong, and asking Junping was still alone.

Huang Zhen was still scared, but fortunately, Wei Qimu showed no timidity, which made her feel a lot more peaceful. The two of them left the attic and went to the garden. There are not only flowers and plants, but also mountains and rocks, and a dozen or so corpse-like craftsmen are no different.

These flowers and plants Wei Qimu can't be named, although the appearance is very strange, but the color of the gray is not appreciated.

Passing through those grass and flower clusters and rockery, Wei Qimu and Huang Zhen saw a stone wall. The stone wall seems to be as big as an infinite and smooth mirror, and you can vaguely see the two of them reflected on it. Wei Qimu looked up, and the stone wall still appeared from time to time with the two seal characters of "elephant" and "swallow".

Although Wei Qimu recognized these two words, he didn't know what the beauty of this stone wall was, so he wanted to ask the "Miss Yan" around him. Wei Qimu turned his head, but there was no one around him, and he realized that Huang Zhen had disappeared without knowing when.