I couldn't help but glared at An Ran: The Palace of Punishment has run out of ammunition and food, and it has reached its limit to exert the last strength. Who can pursue it anymore
An Ran shrank her neck and stopped talking.
I reached out and patted the punishment hall disciple on the shoulder: "See you later."
Until I stepped onto the wall of the Fourth City, the disciples of the Hall of Punishment were still standing there waving to me from afar.
At that moment, I didn't know how to respond
The world of martial arts may be so wonderful. In just one day, Xingdian and I turned from life-and-death enemies into comrades-in-arms.
Are you talking about righteousness or responsibility
I don't feel this way, maybe it's just for a moment of emotion. Yes, I was so moved by that moment that I risked my life. Perhaps, I am becoming more and more like a Jianghu person.
Ye Xun walked behind me and whispered: "What are your plans after leaving the city?"
"Let's talk about it when we can go out!" I turned around and asked, "Have any of you heard of Qin Siyue? Think about it carefully."
Si Ruo shook his head blankly, but Tao Xiyu said: "I have some impression of this person, but it was so long ago that I didn't think of Qin Siyue."
Tao Xiyu explained: "Qin Siyue was mentioned in the classics of Wugui Sect. She is one of the three great ancestors of Kong Dao. But I think they cannot be the same person."
"Kong Dao has a third patriarch?" An Ran and I couldn't help but look at each other, but Ye Xun nodded: "Kong Dao does have three founders, but there are very few people who worship the third patriarch. There are really many Kong Dao. No one knows that there is another Patriarch."
There are generally two ancestors in the thief business. One is the Oriental sculpture that stole the Queen Mother's flat peach, and the Liangshan hero Shiqian. The last heyday of Kong Dao was in Shanghai in the old society. At that time, Kong Dao still maintained the tradition of worshiping the ancestors. After the founding of New China, although thieves still existed, organizations like Kong Dao had disappeared.
This unofficial history is well documented, but I have never heard of a third ancestor of Kong Dao.
Tao Xiyu explained: "Qin Siyue is also known as the woman in red. Legend has it that she sneaked into the Qin Palace three times to steal the elixir of immortality. Qin Shihuang once sent a large number of masters to hunt down Qin Siyue, but they failed, so she was killed by Kong Dao Zun. As the Patriarch. Only women in Kongdao worship Qin Siyue."
"Legend has it that every time Qin Siyue makes a move, she will leave a moon mark on the scene. The shape of the moon just corresponds to the bright moon of that day. Because she first appeared in the Qin Dynasty, the people in the air gave her the honorific title Qin Si. moon."
I nodded and said: "The time is roughly right. But..."
Ye Xun said: "The legend I heard is earlier than that. It is said that Qin Siyue appeared before the Qin Dynasty. She made several attempts to steal the elixir of immortality. According to legend, she was the only one who sneaked into West Kunlun. Because she called herself Qin, someone named her Qin Siyue."
I wondered: "What does the surname Qin have to do with Siyue?"
Ye Xundao: "Legend has it that her purpose in finding the elixir of immortality is to fly to the moon, and fly to the moon like Chang'e."
I turned to look at Ye Xun: "How do you know?"
Ye Xundao: "It's written like this in my master's classics. I don't know exactly what's going on."
"Fly to the moon, live forever?" I repeated it several times before speeding up my pace and heading straight into the depths of the city.
After I crossed the fourth city, I could see the full scope of the fifth city. The fifth city is more like a fence than a city wall. Judging from the width of the city wall, its original function was only for temporary use. To stop Jiuying and truly besiege Jiuying, it is actually the fourth city.
An Ran looked at the not-so-wide city wall and said, "Tell me, why did the Mohist family and Gongshu build five consecutive city walls in the first place? Aren't the first three cities enough?"
An Ran's words reminded me that the two outer cities were clearly for external defense, the third city in the middle was for both internal and external considerations, and the two inner cities were used to suppress Jiu Ying. Could it be that someone had attacked the government city before
I suppressed this idea forcibly, and climbed to the top of the city along the gap opened by Jiuying in the fifth city. Below that was a naturally formed deep pit. Although it was still daytime, looking down from the top of the city, there was It was pitch black, and only the roof of a building could be vaguely seen, and beyond that was an area shrouded in darkness.
"Ye Xun and I will go down first, and the rest of us will stay behind. If something goes wrong, rescue us immediately." I said hello to Tao Xiyu, and each of us took out ropes from our backpacks and slowly walked along the edge of the sinkhole. Towards the bottom of the pit.
When I clearly felt that I was still some distance away from the bottom of the pit, the rope had already reached the end. I shined my flashlight twice to signal Ye Xun not to continue downward, and then I shined the flashlight towards the bottom of the pit.
The first thing I saw was the clear water flowing slowly around the tiankeng. The source of the water seemed to be at the bottom of the building in the center of the tiankeng. I roughly estimated my height from the ground, which was only about five or six meters away. .
Although jumping from here won't hurt me, who knows what's hidden under the water
Back then, the Yanshi lineage, who were accustomed to using sophisticated mechanisms, occupied the Tiankeng. Who knows if there might be some mechanism hidden in the seemingly shallow water
I moved the flashlight slightly to see the width of the stream, but I saw a woman with bare feet and disheveled hair standing across the stream. She was wearing a red dress, but her hands and feet were exposed outside the dress, but her hands and feet were frighteningly white. The strangest thing was What was noticeable was that water was dripping from the tips of the woman's hair, as if she had just climbed out of the stream.
Man in red
I couldn't help but take a breath: Isn't that the man in red who tricked us into the maze of traps
Although I have never seen the true face of the person in red, I remember her figure. There may be people with similar figures in the world, but they are not exactly similar.
Is she really dead
I said at the beginning: This person will definitely be buried in the city. It was just a sentence I added temporarily. Unexpectedly, that sentence turned into a curse!
When I subconsciously shined the flashlight on the other person's face, the person in red suddenly raised her head. The moment my eyes met with hers, the other person opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue.
As soon as the bright red tip of the other person's tongue was exposed outside the lips, a petal-like gap opened at the tip of the tongue, and then the whole tongue exploded layer by layer until it turned into a flower that was stuck in the other person's mouth. The cracking like a blooming flower stopped, and the bright red blood fell straight to the ground from the corner of the person's mouth, instantly dyeing her clothes a little redder.
At the moment when I was stunned, the person in red suddenly raised her head, pointed at my chest, and then made a strange noise from her mouth. It sounded like she was about to say something, but she was blocked in her mouth. But her tongue made it impossible for her to utter any human words.
Was she poisoned
I remember that before I entered Heizhugou, the disciples of the Hall of Punishment were poisoned by a poison similar to that of Miao Ton Sheng Hua. How could something that should have appeared outside the government city suddenly appear in the city
My mind was racing and I shined the flashlight into the water again. This time I actually saw more than ten red flowers in full bloom in the water. Each petal was as big as a basketball and looked like it was floating on the water. But there was no red flower swaying with the waves. Is there anyone under the petals
A chill suddenly rose in my heart, but suddenly there was a crisp sound like a bell on the shore. The man in red who was standing on the shore suddenly turned around and walked step by step towards the depths of the sinkhole. .
At this time, Ye Xun, who was hanging on the rope, also slid to the same height as me: "Did you see clearly?"
"Yeah!" I nodded slightly: "We can't go into the water, we have to find a way to swim across."
Ye Xun followed my flashlight, raised his thumb and gestured: "The water surface is about five meters, so it won't be a problem to swing across. I'll go first."
Without waiting for my objection, Ye Xun grabbed the rope with both hands and kicked his feet towards the wall. According to the strength of Ye Xun's kick, he could swing himself several meters away and jump in the air at a similar distance. It was not difficult to land on the opposite side.
However, the moment Ye Xun kicked the wall away with his feet, the dark rock wall fell apart under his feet, and the soles of Ye Xun's feet immediately stepped two inches into the wall.
"No!" When I reached out and grabbed Ye Xun's body and pulled him towards me, a pair of pale palms suddenly stretched out from the exploded rock wall and went straight to Ye Xun's ankles to grab him fiercely.
When Ye Xun retracted his feet in the air, there was a crisp sound of gold and iron colliding from his palms held together in the air.
organ
My first reaction was that there was a mechanism on the wall.
Before I could fully react, there was an explosion of cracking stone skin coming from the rock wall of the sinkhole, and countless machine operators came out of the wall in a chaotic manner.
There was a slight shock under my feet that were propped up on the rock wall.
When I went to pull Ye Xun just now, I also used my feet to support the wall and supported myself on the wall. If I tried to move my feet away, I would hit the rock wall with Ye Xun. Who knows, Ye Xun and I Can flesh and blood block the iron mechanism
At the critical moment, Ye Xun suddenly shouted sharply: "Let go!"
I subconsciously let go of my hand, and my whole body fell into the stream together with Ye Xun.
From the moment the stream reached my head, I felt a mouthful of salty stream water like human blood being poured into my mouth.
broken! There must be poison in the stream.
My heart suddenly felt cold, and I stood up from the stream based on instinct.
Before I could stand completely, I felt a chill in my heart - only then did I see clearly that the red flowers in the water were actually human heads.
There were at least a dozen corpses sitting cross-legged in the stream. The corpses were soaked in the stream from the shoulders down. Only the human heads with blooming petals were exposed. Blood-red flowers started from their necks and broke their skulls. They grew in the center of the heads. When he came out, his skull was forcibly propped up like broken flower pots hanging on the shoulders of the corpse.