Chapter Twenty-Three: The Chamber of Secrets
Changsheng finally made an awkward choice in his heart and made peace with Bai Zhi In the early morning of the second day, Cangming returned from Qianji Villa.
At that time, it was snowing again, and Shen Yan and Qiu Luo sat in the hall playing dice with Changsheng, who rarely stayed awake for a long time in a day.
Bai Zhi naturally sat next to them and watched them, although he still looked like a living person after changing his attitude from immortality, but familiar people could see that he was in a good mood.
Cangming returned with a snowstorm, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised to see such a white zhi. But he didn't ask much at all.
Changsheng was still very happy about his return, and looked up and said with a smile in his eyes: "Uncle Cangming, you are back." ”
"yes. Did Xiao Changsheng miss me?" Cangming squinted his eyes slightly and smiled, and stepped forward to touch the top of the little girl's head.
Changsheng also nodded timidly: "Yes, I can think about it." ”
Cangming sat down next to her, Qiuluo brought him tea, and couldn't help asking, "Sir, did this trip go well?"
Shen Yan also put away the dice and looked over.
Cangming said: "Smooth is also smooth." Gu Renyu only gave me a hint, saying that it was far away in the sky and close at hand. Miss Shen, what's the idea?"
"Huh?" Of course, Shen Yan had no clue. He cautiously asked, "Can't you make it clearer?"
Cangming laughed: "Diviner, the hexagram is not exhausted." ”
This means that it can't be more detailed.
Bai Zhi said at this time: "Far away in the sky, close in front of you...... Maybe the Jade of the Remnant Snow is within Miss Shen's reach. But before Miss Shen said that she had never seen the Jade of the Remnant Snow, I thought, maybe it was a spell that was cast to cover her eyes, so Miss Shen had seen it, but she didn't know that it was. ”
"However, no one in my family seems to use jade pendants. Shen Yan wrinkled his eyebrows and said, "You also know that jade on the other side of the continent is very precious, my father has always advocated simplicity, and most of the ornaments in the house are wood, gold and silver, etc., and there are few jade objects. Moreover, the Shen family's mansion has been burned to the ground, even if there is a ....... Now I'm afraid it's hard to find. ”
As soon as she said this, Bai Zhi and Cangming couldn't help but fall into silence.
But Changsheng looked very open: "If you can't find it, then forget it." I ......"
Before he finished speaking, Cangming had already interrupted: "Xiao Changsheng can rest assured. When I came back, I heard Su Yue say that in recent days, people from all walks of life have been coming here to find Miss Shen, which shows that the jade of remnant snow has indeed not been taken away by anyone. I can't find ....... I went to the Red Sun Imperial Capital. Having said that, Cangming still knew that since Gu Renyu had only given such a specious answer, Mu Yuan might not be able to get any accurate answers. Otherwise, now those people would not have come to Shen Yan one after another, but directly to find the Jade of Remnant Snow.
Bai Zhi thought that as a last resort, he could go to the Bliss Wasteland to retrieve the other half of his immortal soul.
The two have different thoughts, but they both have the same ambition to save immortality. On the contrary, she herself doesn't seem to care if she will be gone, and there will be no more chances for two reincarnations.
Shen Yan suddenly said at this time: "I remember, when I was a child, I saw my father go to a secret passage in the mountains and forests...... Perhaps, the Jade of the Remnant Snow will be placed there. ”
"Please also ask Miss Shen to lead the way. ”
Inevitably, there are many dreams at night, and no one in Bai Zhi and Cangming can care about the fact that it is night, so they directly opened their mouths and let Shen Yan lead the way immediately.
Changsheng and Qiuluo were originally going to be left in the courtyard, but Changsheng refused, and Qiuluo also took the opportunity to propose that they want to be together.
In the end, it became five people to act together and followed Shen Yan to the mountain forest where she secretly followed her father when she was a child.
The people on the ninth floor led by Su Yue were still in their original place and did not move. But before leaving, Cangming seemed to pass on a signal to him.
Although he accidentally saw his father go out to follow him when he was very young, Shen Yan did not forget the way to the mountain forest, but he is still familiar with it today. It was also because of this that it didn't take much time for their group to go to the mountain forest where Shen Baichuan had been after leaving Jiuyuan City.
However, it was difficult to find that secret passage.
After so many years, few people have visited here, and the vegetation has covered the terrain, and at first glance it is really difficult to see where the secret passage that Shen Baichuan once went to entered from.
Shen Yan only vaguely remembered the general direction, but he couldn't remember the details clearly.
Cangming and Bai Zhi had no choice but to let go of their senses and investigate the situation around them inch by inch. To their disappointment, they didn't find the entrance to the secret passage.
"Are you sure it's around here?"
Hearing Cangming ask, Shen Yan nodded, pointed to an ancient tree with a crooked neck and said, "I hid behind here back and saw my father disappear around here." ”
When she said this, Cangming stood up and asked, "Where were you standing at that time?"
Shen Yan also walked over and thought about it, and pointed to a place: "Here." ”
Cangming squatted down in that place and asked, "Do you remember that Shen Baichuan disappeared in that place?"
Shen Yan also squatted down beside him, and after carefully recalling for a long time, he raised his hand and pointed in a direction: "It seems to be there-"
Everyone looked in the direction she pointed, but they saw that it was a very flat clearing, and not even the vines and grass had grown, revealing the original form of the land.
Cangming said: "It seems to be different from what I guessed. "They always thought it should be a mountain road, but they didn't expect it to be underground.
However, with the divine senses of both him and Bai Zhi, there may be another mystery in it.
Cangming walked over and walked around the place pointed out by Shen Yan for a long time, but he didn't find anything wrong.
Bai Zhi suddenly said, "Someone is coming." ”
"Trouble. Cangming furrowed his brows, and suddenly threw out a few yellow-brown pills in his hand. After those pills were thrown out, they scattered, centering on them, silently exploding more than a hundred miles away, forming a circle of dark yellow fog.
"I should have asked Su Yue and them to come over before. "Even though the people who came here weren't very good characters for him, it was a bit of a waste of time to cook. Therefore, Cangming directly spread a circle of poisonous fog on the periphery, and as for whether the people outside were alive or dead, it was up to them to know whether they were interested or not.
It is imperative that the key is to find the entrance to the secret passage first.
Bai Zhi said at this time: "The treasure of the spirit will hide its traces. Did Brother Cangming come out with a broken dream book this time?"
"Broken Dream Book?" Cangming was slightly stunned, and then said, "Brother Bai means that maybe there is an enchantment to hide the entrance to the secret passage?"
"If there is no mistake in the place, this is the only possibility. Bai Zhi nodded slightly and said so.
Cangming took out a small scroll from his sleeve and unfolded it on the ground under his feet, saying, "If it's really an enchantment, it's a terrible thing. I can isolate you and me from the divine sense of the ...... at the same time."
As he spoke, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook a little.
The golden pattern suddenly appeared, and the diamond-shaped ripple-like symbol loomed in the circular pattern.
Seeing this, Bai Zhi quickly took Changsheng into his arms, and the latter exclaimed: "Sister Yan, Sister Qiuluo be careful-"
No matter how fast she spoke, she couldn't catch up with the speed at which the ground suddenly cracked, and Shen Yan and Qiuluo fell off guard.
Cangming originally wouldn't have any impact because of this accident, but seeing this, he also flew down and chased the two of them.
Bai Zhi thought about it, and jumped into the crack with Changsheng.
In place, between the golden pattern and the rippled symbol, the cracks in the earth gradually closed and returned to normal.
A brilliant green light flashed, illuminating the darkness in all directions.
Cangming grabbed Shen Yan with one hand and Qiu Luo with the other, and slowly fell to the ground with them, seeing the surrounding scene clearly through the bright green light.
It is an empty underground chamber, the ground and walls are very flat, but there is no sign of artificial excavation.
After Bai Zhi landed, he put down Changsheng and said, "It seems that this should be the place we are looking for." ”
Cangming nodded: "I just don't know, where the things we are looking for will be." ”
"There's nothing here......" Qiuluo couldn't help but say.
Cangming waved his hand, and the ball of light that was used for illumination suddenly split apart, scattered in various places, illuminating the entire secret room as bright as day.
In this way, the people were able to see the whole scene of this secret room.
Indeed, as Qiuluo said, there was nothing in the secret room. The only thing left was a number of scrolls hanging on the west wall.
Shen Yan couldn't help but freeze when he saw it. It's just that the flower scrolls hanging on the wall are all records of the time when she and her brother Shen Mo were born and before they were worth the door.
There are not many picture scrolls, and it can be seen that they are one a year. The person who painted it is obviously also full of emotion, and it makes people feel very warm just by looking at it. This shows who the person who painted it.
Looking at it, Shen Yan couldn't help but recall that when he hadn't encountered that catastrophe, his mother was gentle, and his father was strict but also loving. There is almost nothing that her brother will refuse her when she dotes on her.......
"Sister Yan, are you crying?" Changsheng raised his head and asked, and saw that Shen Yan finally couldn't hold back his tears.
Shen Yan raised her hand to wipe her tears, and she asked a little sluggishly, "Did I cry?"
Changsheng pursed his lips and didn't ask again, but handed her a handkerchief.
Qiuluo persuaded: "The deceased is like a husband, and the living are long." Yan: Don't be too sad. ”
Shen Yan wiped his tears indiscriminately, and said with red eyes: "I remember, when I was a child, an elder brother next door gave me a delicate jade lock. I don't know if there is any jade artifact, but this is indeed a jade ornament. The elder brother had told me many times to keep it properly, but when I was still young, my mother said it was too valuable, so she put it away and prepared to return it to him another day. However, before they could return it to him, the family quickly moved out of Jiuyuan and was never heard from again. ”
"Mother can only keep the delicate lock, I remember that when my father came here, he happened to hold the sandalwood box where my mother put the delicate lock. ”
When Shen Yan was talking, he was still looking around in the secret room, with a look of embarrassment in his eyes.
Bai Zhi suddenly swung out a sword qi and hit the wall on the east side directly.
There was a tooth-aching creak, and the wall shattered, revealing another passage hidden behind it.