"Squeak..."

The full moon hung high in the sky, the moonlight sprinkled on the ancient house, the shadows of the trees were also swaying, and in the silent ancient house, the sound of the wooden door rubbing against the wood was intermittent, and it seemed that the whole empty courtyard had become a little more gloomy.

Xia Mingfeng stood outside the door of the wing room that disappeared before Ji Duyu, his divine sense covered the inside of the wing, he swept it several times and did not find anything abnormal, he walked into the house suspiciously, and saw the mixed footprints under his feet with the help of the moonlight, extending to all corners of the house, and his eyes carefully observed it, and found that there were more than one person's footprints, as if the footprints of several people coincided.

"These footprints... No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like Ji Duyu's footprints, could it be a few people who disappeared before?" Xia Mingfeng muttered to himself in his heart, and instantly thought of the people who sneaked in as mentioned by the little second brother before, his eyes swept around the room, and he went directly to the desk and bookshelves and began to grope around.

The paper, ink, pen and inkstone on the table did not let go, but there was no movement, turned around and groped for the bookshelf behind him, twisted the books and antiques placed on the place, and touched it all the way, suddenly touched an antique, and before he could see what it was, he heard a slight clicking sound under his feet.

Xia Mingfeng stared in front of him, and did not see the imaginary bookshelf open to both sides, but his feet were empty, and the whole person fell down towards the mouth-shaped hole with a whoosh, and the hole was tightly less than two people wide, and the afterglow above his head disappeared instantly, and the blue brick floor above his head closed again.

"Who!" Ji Duyu hadn't gone far, still looking at the underground cave, when he heard a thud behind him, and when he heard the sound, it seemed that someone had fallen again, and hurriedly put away the fire in his hand, and the whole person disappeared in the darkness, and asked coldly.

"It's me!" Xia Mingfeng couldn't fly when he landed in the air, and before he could make other reactions, the whole person had already fallen heavily to the ground, and suddenly heard Ji Duyu's voice, and hurriedly shouted, and then took out a night pearl from the Qiankun bag, and the whole space instantly became bright.

"You're here too, and you fell from there?" Although Ji Duyu's words seemed to be caring, there was a joke in his tone, as if he was really laughing at Xia Mingfeng.

"Come on, it's not because of you, or I'll come down?" Although Xia Mingfeng complained, he didn't get angry, but his eyes scanned the surroundings, looking at the two stiff corpses, I don't know how long they have been parked, but it seems that they should have died not long ago.

Xia Mingfeng walked out of the mouth-shaped passage, the light emitted by the night pearl instantly illuminated half of the dark space, the walls of the surrounding karst caves, the edges and corners were extremely distinct, and the appearance was completely artificially excavated, Ji Duyu also came over at this moment, looking at the night pearl in his hand, his eyes flashed a bright light, and said to him: "Fortunately, you have this thing, otherwise how long will I turn in this huge cave with a small flame!"

"What is this place?"

"Don't ask me, I just came down not long before you came in. ”

Xia Mingfeng nodded, looked at the walls of the cave around him, and slowly walked towards the depths of the cave, Ji Duyu followed closely beside him, and the ground under his feet was also trimmed, not at all like the ground in the cave in the mountain, but like the ground.

Along the cave all the way deep, the whole cave is like a huge passage, the inside is empty, there is no end at all, a full hour walked, the bright light of the night pearl reflected on a table of stone walls, has come to an end.

Xia Mingfeng frowned and looked at the wall in front of him, touched the palm of his hand and didn't sense anything else, the same was true of Ji Duyu on the side, he looked down and found that the soil under his feet was a little different, as if it had been turned out, while the other ground was very flat, so he said suspiciously: "Look at the soil on the ground, will there be a mechanism?"

After that, Ji Duyu began to grope towards the surrounding rock walls, and Xia Mingfeng also saw the slag that had been turned out with the sound of her painting, and began to look around.

Half an hour passed, and the stone wall in front of them had been touched back and forth several times, but nothing was found. However, the two of them were unwilling, they glanced at the protruding rocks on both sides and touched them, and tried several times but it still didn't work, with some disappointment on their faces, Ji Duyu shook his head and said, "Strange, is it really a wall?"

"I don't know, maybe, right?" Xia Mingfeng also said in a tone of uncertainty, frowning and thinking about how to get out, when he heard Ji Duyu say again: "By the way, you try to wipe your blood on the wall." ”

"My blood?" Xia Mingfeng looked at her in confusion.

"Well, you can try, just shed a little blood, what if we have to find the way?" Ji Duyu looked at him with a reluctant look, and continued to explain: "I remember that some formations require bloodlines to open, you can try it." ”

Xia Mingfeng nodded, and did not hesitate, with a slight force on his fingers, a drop of viscous purple-red blood gushed out from his fingertips, and fell on the stone wall with a thud.

"There is a door!" Xia Mingfeng muttered to himself in his heart, and his face instantly became pleasantly surprised.

Rumble... Rumble... rumble

The ground shook suddenly, the rock wall in front of him seemed to be pulled by someone, the whole rock wall slowly rose upward, the light of the night pearl instantly rushed into the gap under the rock wall, Xia Mingfeng and Ji Duyu were a little farther away from the wall, lowered their heads and looked at the gap that was still getting bigger along the light, it was still empty inside, and when looking forward, the bright light was too far away to illuminate the depths.

The rock wall slowly rose with the dust on the ground, and the whole cloud of dust in front of it floated in the air, until the whole rock wall was raised, and the dust dissipated.

Xia Mingfeng and Ji Duyu walked inside, relying on the light of the night pearl, the entire stone cave was illuminated very clearly, the stone cave in front of them was like a huge secret room, with high long platforms on both sides, and a futon was slowed down on it, and the middle position was like a big bed.

The futons on both sides add up to nearly forty people, and then go deeper, three futons are placed on a high platform, and on the rock wall behind the high platform, there is also a stone statue of Dayu controlling the water.

"This should be the place where the elders and ancestors of the branch cultivate. ”

"Why are they all gone, and how can so many people not move at all?"

"I don't know..."

Xia Mingfeng shook his head, saying that he didn't know, after scanning his eyes for a long time, he felt that there was something wrong in his heart, the ash layer on this high seat was like no one had sat on it for decades, if the people in the branch had disappeared half a year ago, how could there be so many thick ash layers? But what was the matter with the dust that was turned out of the rock wall just now?

"Don't you think it's a little strange?" Ji Duyu also frowned at this time, and after sweeping around, he looked at Xia Mingfeng on the side and said with some doubts, only to see him nod, and both of them raised their doubts.

Ji Duyu knows a lot more than Xia Mingfeng, because the two families are also brothers, a few years ago, I heard the elders of the family mention that several seniors of the Xia family have left one after another, I don't know where to go, but I didn't expect that there were so many left...