Chapter 35: Ghost Town
A dark whirlpool suddenly appeared on top of an ancient pavilion in the imperial city, and when this whirlpool appeared, the yin qi in the imperial city skyrocketed, and Jiang Lili only felt that he was in the embrace of yin qi.
Obviously, it should be the imperial city of the national capital with the most yang energy, but now it is full of yin and cold winds. And above this imperial city, a huge city void sits, and a few lonely ghosts can be seen roaming around the city in the distance.
Jiang Lili looked at the green whirlpool, turned his head and glanced at Cheng Rus, "Shall we go in at this time?"
Cheng Ru shook his head, "Then Mao Zijin and Miao Xiaomei must go in first, we are just to ask for directions anyway, and there will be no problem for a while." ”
Jiang Lili nodded, and saw several figures jumping quickly above the imperial city in the darkness, and slammed into the green whirlpool.
Jiang Lili licked her lips and looked at Lu Zeren, "Come, tell me, you provide us with the map, what do you need us to do for you?"
Lu Zeren was a little stunned, "Actually, I don't know what I need you to do for me." ”
"Then what kind of cooperation are you talking about for us?"
Lu Zeren said with a smile: "Because I am weak alone, I am afraid of encountering any strong enemies in this ghost city, so I will just have a companion with the two of you, and I can take care of each other, and I will not hinder you." ”
"That's barely acceptable," Cheng said, "Tell me what your plan is?"
Lu Zeren was stunned, "Actually, I don't have any plans. ”
Cheng Ru looked incredulous, "You don't have a plan? Didn't you come here specifically for this ghost town? If you don't have a plan, you dare to risk your life?"
Lu Zeren sighed, "There is really no plan, the arithmetic of the Contempt Kingdom just calculated that the reason why my Chen Guo's luck was damaged should be to be able to find the answer in that ghost city, but no one knows the specific location at all." There's nothing to hide at this time, I actually stole a map from the palace to escape, and if I had to say a plan, it would only be able to respond immediately. ”
Jiang Lili asked again, "What about your map?"
Lu Zeren hesitated for a moment, then took out a roll of bamboo slips from his arms, spread them out, and could cut them on top of the bamboo slips to roughly depict the road and buildings.
Jiang Lili frowned, "What is this? What can you see from such a bad map?"
Lu Zeren said: "This bamboo slip is something left over from hundreds of years ago, and I only found it when I looked through it at random in the collection. The text on this is the ancient dialect of Chen Guo, which says the son of "Ghost Mansion", so the above thing should not be fake. ”
Jiang Lili took a closer look, then wiped his eyes, "I'm too lazy to look at this thing, I have a headache when I see it." It's done, let's go, take one step at a time. I don't need anything in this ghost town anyway. ”
When he was about to walk towards the whirlpool, Cheng Ru retreated in his heart, and he said: "Hey, Jiang Lili, you see that I can't help much in there, or I won't go, and I won't be able to wait for you to come back?"
Jiang Lili looked at Cheng Ruis with great disdain, "That's what you do?"
Cheng Ru rubbed his hands stupidly and didn't reply.
"Whatever you want," Jiang Lili threw down a sentence, "But I want to remind you, then Liu Mao must not enter this ghost town, maybe... ”
Cheng Ru's eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly followed Jiang Lili's footsteps, "Joke, where am I Cheng Ru the kind of person who has no backbone?
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As he walked in front of the pavilion, Cheng Ru looked at the green whirlpool, and felt a little palpitating, "Jiang Lili? Could it be that the two of us just enter this whirlpool? What if this whirlpool is not a ghost town? Then aren't we done playing?"
Lu Zeren said in a deep voice: "It shouldn't be like this, just a few people have walked in from this whirlpool, if there is a problem... “
"Even if there's a problem, we can't see it. Jiang Lili thought about it and summoned Wu Zhou's house.
As soon as Wu Zhou came out, he found that the surrounding environment was very different, and he turned his head to look at this green whirlpool, with some surprise in his eyes.
"This?," Lu Zeren was even more surprised.
"You have some eyesight. Jiang Lili replied to Lu Zeren and then asked Wu Zhou, "Was this what you looked like when you entered that ghost town with your family before?"
Wu Zhou nodded, "That's right, that's exactly what it looks like." ”
Jiang Lili put his mind at ease, and when he was about to step into this whirlpool, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the retreat on Cheng Ru is face, so he grabbed Cheng Ru and kicked him into the whirlpool, and then walked in.
I didn't feel anything abnormal in my body through the whirlpool, I just felt that the surroundings were cold, and my eyes were dark, and when I opened my eyes again, I found that I was already in this ghost town!
Jiang Lili shook his head and turned his head to look at his surroundings.
The cold sunlight fell straight down the middle of the street, but the buildings next to the street were silent in darkness. Scattered small shops are covered with dust, broken screens, old wall tiles, tables with missing legs still standing in front of the shops, and stoves that have long since run out of fuel are still burning coldly. The whole world was enveloped in a rotten and strange aura.
There were no pedestrians on the streets, or there shouldn't have been people here. And some are shadows shuttling through the silence and loneliness that the sun can't shine through.
Jiang Lili was just about to shout such a name, but he only felt a chill behind him, and after jumping forward suddenly, he felt a gust of wind blowing behind him, and felt the coolness behind him closer.
His pupils shrank, Jiang Lili violently pulled out the Tiger Knife behind him, and without looking back, he slashed out towards his back in a daze, "Swallow Ghosts!"
A chill cooler than the rest of the city swept through, and a terrible scream came from behind him. Turning his head again, he saw a gray figure shaking wildly in the air, and then turned into a puff of green smoke and drifted away.
Wu Zhou stopped behind Jiang Lili, "Your sword technique is really unusual!"
Jiang Lili took the Tiger Soul Knife back into its scabbard, "You don't talk about these things, why didn't you see Cheng Ru and them?"
Wu Zhou's face became solemn, and he said: "Originally, my master and I came outside the gate of this ghost city after passing through the green whirlpool, and we need to pass through the city gate to really enter this ghost city. Now I don't know why I entered this ghost city directly, and I have some memories of this place, this is not near the city gate, or even a thousand or two steps away from the city gate. Cheng Ru and others are afraid that it is because of this reason that they have not met you. ”
"You said you came outside the gates after passing through the whirlpool, and how did you stay with me?"
Wu Zhou smiled: "I'm different from you, I'm not a living person, I'm a ghost! This ghost city is naturally able to make ghost cultivators pass through at will, so I can go wherever I want after passing through that green whirlpool." As for being with you, it's because I was at the gate of the city when I saw you flying this way. ”
Jiang Lili frowned, and kicked open a bench with two broken legs, only to find that the bench still landed safely on the ground after a few turns in the air, so he scolded this ghost place.
"It's a ghost place. Wu Zhou made a pun behind Jiang Lili.
Jiang Lili suddenly turned his head to look at Wu Zhou, "By the way, you said that you are a ghost so that you can come and go in this ghost city at will, and how did your family enter this ghost city at that time?"
Wu Zhou replied: "There are two ways for a living person to enter a ghost town, that is, to smear a kind of juice on himself
liquid, this juice can make the living lock their vitality in the skin, without the slightest breath of the living, so they can enter the ghost town in confusion. It's just that I don't know the name of this juice, and it's something that my family used to casually mention to me. ”
"What about the other way?"
"I don't know the other way, my family said that there are two ways, but they only told me one... Wu Zhou raised his head suddenly, "I remember the last time I entered the ghost town with my family, he didn't apply that kind of juice, but took a little child, pumped half of the child's blood and sprinkled it on the city gate, and then the city gate opened. ”
Jiang Lili seemed to have found the key, "Do you remember what is the name of that child, or what characteristics did he have at that time?"
"He?" Wu Zhou was stunned, and after trying his best to recall, he hesitated and replied: "It seems that the child is from a poor family, and the clothes on his body are all torn. Besides, I don't remember anything. ”
"Needless to say, I know who that kid is," Jiang Lili thought of the face of the handyman Xiao Er in the Longfeng Teahouse, "I didn't expect that handyman to be a little strange!"
"What?" Wu Zhou didn't know what was going on.
"Nothing. At this time, suddenly another ghost creature rushed towards this side, Jiang Lili slashed over with a move to devour the ghost, and the ghost screamed and turned into a puff of green smoke, "What else is abnormal in this place?"
"Compared to ten years ago, it is very abnormal, and the most thing is that the number of ghosts in this ghost town is one level less, originally when you enter this ghost town, there will be countless ghosts attracted by the yang energy on your body and keep rushing to this side, but now we have been here for so long, only two ghosts have launched an attack on you. At the end, Wu Zhou stretched out his hand to the side, and then looked at the throat of a gray soul in his hand, "Now it's three." ”
Jiang Lili felt a little headache, too lazy to think about such a thing, thinking that she didn't come here to figure out the abnormality here, why did Lao Tzu care so much? After asking about the news of the underworld, he left!
After figuring out the relationship between primary and secondary, Jiang Lili looked at the gray soul in Wu Zhou's hand, "Hey, do you have any news from the underworld?"
The soul grinned.
Wu Zhou felt a little funny, "This is just the lowest remnant soul, just made of resentment after death, anger, can't even be called a ghost, only moved by the instinct in the body, there is no wisdom at all, where can it answer your words?"
"And who should we ask?"
"I definitely have to go to the center of this ghost city!" Wu Zhou replied: "The center of this ghost town has the strongest yin qi, so the strength of the ghost things entrenched in the center of the ghost city will also be higher, maybe you can meet a ghost cultivator who has been to the underworld, maybe there is news of the underworld!"
Jiang Lili pursed his lips, turned his head to look at the narrow and dark street, looked up at the sky again, and said hatefully: "I knew that I should have snatched the map from Lu Zeren's hand!
Wu Zhou asked softly, "Map, what map?"
"A map of a ghost town!"
"What do you want that thing for?"
Jiang Lili was extremely impatient, "Where do you tell me to go without a map? Headless flies are bumping around?! The road in this ghost town is like a labyrinth, and I can only walk to the center of the city in the year of the monkey?"
Saying that, Jiang Lili kicked over a small stall next to him again, turned his head and snatched the gray soul from Wu Zhou's hand, "Tell me, which way goes to the center of the ghost town?
It wasn't until Jiang Lili finally vented his temper that Wu Zhou dared to cautiously remind, "Actually, I know the way, have you forgotten? ”
Jiang Lili pinched the gray soul's face and slowly turned his head to stare at Wu Zhou.
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