The bone boat went down the river, and there were skeletons crawling out of the river along the way. As far as the eye could see, the entire river bed was filled with these miserable white bones.
Fortunately, the strength of the skeletons in the river is not too weak. The defensive array on the bone boat can block their attacks, so they won't be in a hurry.
The skeletons attacked persistently, and Ning Yuzhou needed to strengthen the defense from time to time.
The boat sailed for about several hours, and finally stopped at a pier.
The full moon is still high in the sky, showing no sign of falling westward.
Under the moonlight, they saw the situation on the pier, which was still a simple pier made of bones, and there were a few skeleton soldiers guarding with bone guns on the pier. They stood there quietly, their eye sockets were black, without any breath of life, as if they were a skeleton.
The four jumped off the bone boat, and Ning Yuzhou put the bone boat away.
When they stood at the pier, the black eyeholes of the skeleton soldiers lit up with bloody red light, and they moved instantly, pointing at them with bone guns in uniform, the two rows of teeth opened and closed, making a rattling sound, As if speaking to them.
It's a pity that no one present could understand what they meant.
The four remained silent and did not act rashly.
Not long after, those skeleton soldiers put away their bone guns, and then returned to their posts. The bloody red light in their eyes quickly disappeared, and they turned into lifeless skeletons again.
Although the four were puzzled, they knew that these skeleton soldiers had no intention of attacking.
Are the skeletons in the river different from those on land
After thinking about it, they turned their heads and glanced at the river surface, and found that the skeletons in the river had disappeared, as if they had sunk to the bottom of the river, and the river surface returned to calm, only a pale full moon was faintly reflected on the river surface.
Wen Qiao and the others took a tentative step forward, saying that the skeleton soldiers passed them and left without any response.
Nothing happened until they left the pier, and they were not stopped by the skeleton soldiers.
"What's going on?" Pei Qiyu asked in a low voice, "Their behavior just now should be a routine inspection?"
It's as if there is a ruler in this place. These skeleton soldiers are stationed on the pier. As long as someone goes ashore, they will come to check routinely. If there is no problem, they will let them leave.
Ning Yuzhou looked ahead, and suddenly said: "Look, there is a skeleton cart over there."
The others turned their heads and saw that not far from the pier, there was a road paved with white bones, and a car was parked by the side of the road.
The shape of this cart has the characteristics of Huanguzhen, and it is also made of bones. The cart is pulled by a monster—a monster with only bones.
There was a miserable white skeleton sitting on the shaft of the car. When they approached, the skeleton's eyes lit up red, and its teeth were chattering, as if asking them if they should get on the car.
The four of them didn't say much, and got into the carriage directly.
There was a rattling sound, and the bone car was running on the bone road.
On both sides of the Bone Road is a desolate mountainous area, with undulating hills, gray-brown in color, and occasionally some bones half-buried in the soil can be seen. Will turn into powder.
Looking forward, it is the bone road winding among the mountains, with no end in sight.
"Where is it going to take us?" Su Molan asked worriedly.
"It's a pity that we can't understand it." Wen Qiao said with a look of regret, if he could communicate with these skeletons, he would save a lot of trouble.
Pei Qiyu felt that Wen Qiao's words were simply whimsical, how could a person communicate with a skeleton? In the final analysis, these skeletons are actually another species. They are obviously dead people, but they can survive in the form of skeletons.
Psu Xing and Wen Gungun are still tightly attached to Wen Qiao's body, this place is so weird that every beast and weapon are a little scared.
Pleiades said tremblingly: "Sister Wen, will it send us to a place with many skeletons? Will those skeletons attack us like the ones in the river?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as it finished speaking, the driving skeleton turned its head to look over, the bloody red light in its eyes flashed slightly, and its teeth opened and closed, making a rattling sound.
The four were silent at the same time.
Pleiades was even more frightened, "It, it can understand our words?"
This reaction, on the other hand, meant that he understood, and then turned his head to tell them something, probably to defend himself or something.
The four of them didn't answer Pleiades, they just looked at the skeleton, its teeth clucked for a while, then turned their heads again and continued driving.
Because of its reaction, Pleiades didn't dare to speak, and cautiously stared at the surroundings. This timid appearance made people speechless.
Pei Qiyu said: "Aren't you an artifact? Why are you still afraid?"
"Who said that there is no need to be afraid of divine weapons?" Psu Xing retorted him, especially straightforward, "Qi Ling also has seven emotions and six desires, and is also greedy for life and afraid of death. This place is so strange, I'm afraid it's normal?"
Su Molan hurriedly said: "It's okay, we're all together, don't be afraid."
Su Xing snorted at Pei Qiyu, flew to Su Molan, put his arms around her shoulders and said, "Lanlan is the best, the devil seed is not good at all..."
Pei Qiyu sneered, he didn't need a puny Qi Ling to comment on it.
While speaking, the speed of the bone car suddenly slowed down.
Everyone looked up and found a city at the end of the bone road. The city wall is extremely high, and it is still made of white bones. There are three eye-catching blood-red characters on the city wall: Dugufu.
It is obviously an incomprehensible text, but as long as you see it, you will understand its meaning.
Pei Qiyu's reaction was extremely quick, "Dugu Mansion? Does it mean that the Thirteen Mansions of Dry Bone mean that this place is composed of thirteen mansions?"
Therefore, they came to the Dugu Mansion in the Thirteenth Mansion of Dry Bones by mistake.
The bone chariot stopped in front of the city gate, and the skeleton driving it jumped off the shaft and motioned for them to get off.
The four of them got out of the car one by one, and when they were about to walk towards the gate of the city after gathering their minds, suddenly the skeleton stretched out a pale bone hand to block their way, the two rows of teeth moved rapidly, and there was a clucking sound. sounded.
The four of them were a little puzzled at first, but soon understood what it meant.
This is for the fare.
"Is Lingshi okay?" Su Molan asked in confusion, they didn't expect to have to pay the fare to ride a car in this place.
Pei Qiyu took out a spirit stone and handed it to the skeleton, but it waved its hand, indicating that it would not accept it, and giggled at them.
Then Pei Qiyu took out elixir, spiritual weapon, talisman and other things, which were quite valuable in the eyes of practitioners, but the skeleton waved his hand and did not accept it.
Pei Qiyu frowned, "I don't want any of these, so what do you charge?" As soon as he finished asking, he realized that he had asked a stupid question.
Maybe because they thought they were going to take the overlord car, the skeleton pointed at them with one hand and cursed with one hand on his hip, and the sound of clucking and clucking was endless.
Although I don't understand it, it's quite unpleasant to be pointed at and scolded by someone.
Especially when there were many skeletons around who were about to enter the city, they all stopped to watch them, who were being scolded for riding the overlord car, this scene was really embarrassing.
Wen Qiao quickly reached out to stop it, saying that they were not going to take the Bawang car, but were looking for a suitable fare for it.
She took out a food box from her storage bag, and handed it over, "Can this pay for the fare?"
The skeleton reached out to take it. After opening the food box, it saw the wine and food in the food box. It was finally satisfied, put it away, and drove away.
Su Molan and Pei Qiyu were a little confused, and couldn't help but ask Wen Qiao: "These skeletons are not human, what do they want with that food and drink?"
"The food and drink are from Huangu Town, the ones we packed away in the restaurant last time." Wen Qiao replied, "Since this place is inextricably linked to Huangu Town, I think the things from Huangu Town It should be usable here, so I gave it."
It turns out that the things in Huangu Town really work.
Ning Yuzhou looked at the bone cart leaving, and said thoughtfully: "Ms. Hua told us not to eat any food in Huangu Town. It seems that this has something to do with here."
"If you don't eat it, you will be confused with the Thirteen House of Dry Bones, right?" Su Xing asked in a low voice, looking very worried.
"It's also possible." Pei Qiyu looked at it maliciously, "I still have a box of wine and food packed from Huangu Town, do you want to eat it?"
Pleiades glared at him, thinking that this monster is really annoying, and always wants to cheat it!
After settling the fare, they looked at Wat Bone Mansion.
"You have to pay the fare for the car, so you don't have to pay the entrance fee when you go to the city?" Su Molan said with some confusion, "Do you still use the food and drink in Huangu Town?"
The quantity of wine and food is limited, and they also ordered it casually when they went to the restaurant to inquire about the news. Under the influence of Wen Qiao, they did not throw it away, but packed it away and threw it in the storage bag.
Ning Yuzhou said: "Look at the skeletons that entered the city."
Everyone looked at the skeletons queuing up to enter the city. These skeletons were like ordinary civilians, queuing up to enter the city safely.
There are tall skeleton soldiers guarding the gate of the city, and each skeleton soldier is holding a bone gun. The bloody red light in their eye sockets is obviously stronger than that of the surrounding skeletons, and their strength is also stronger.
When they came here, they vaguely understood that the strength of these skeletons was related to the bloody red light in their eye sockets. The more bloody the light, the stronger the strength of the skeletons. There is no doubt that the bloody red light in the eyes of these skeleton soldiers guarding the city is the strongest among the skeletons they have encountered, and their strength should also be the strongest.
Every skeleton queuing up to enter the city will tear off a piece of bone and give it to the soldiers defending the city. Some are a little finger bone, some are a toe bone, or a rib...
Wen Qiao and the others looked a little dumb.
"Husband, don't we have to tear a bone before we can enter the city?" Wen Qiao frowned.
Both Su Molan and Pei Qiyu felt uncomfortable and panicked. They were not skeletons, flesh and blood news, only a pile of bones remained, and tearing off a bone was nothing. Moreover, they really don't want to use their own bones for the entry fee, which is too weird.
Ning Yuzhou said: "Why don't you replace it with other bones." As he spoke, he flipped his hand, and several bones appeared in his hand.
Wen Qiao and the others all recognized that these were demon bones, the scraps left over when he used them to refine the bone boat.
"Okay, I'll try it out."
Without further ado, Pei Qiyu took out a bone and ran over to line up.
Su Molan was a little worried that those skeleton soldiers would stop him, so she stared intently.
The skeletons in front of Pei Qiyu moved forward, and soon when they reached Pei Qiyu, Su Molan and Wen Qiao almost held their breath and were ready to fight.
Pei Qiyu handed over the demon bone in his hand to the skeleton soldier.
The skeleton soldier picked up the demon bone, looked at Pei Qiyu with bloody red eyes, and his two rows of teeth clucked.
Pei Qiyu looked calm and let them see.
The clucking sound rang out for a while, but the soldier still accepted the demon bone and let Pei Qiyu pass by.
"Oh, it's fine." Su Molan said happily.
After discovering that demon bones were also available, the three of Ning Yuzhou each held a demon bone and followed them to line up. When they were in line, the teeth of the skeleton soldier who had received the demon bone clucked again, making everyone feel tired from hearing it.
Fortunately, they passed without a hitch.
The four of them walked into the Ferry Bone Mansion, but what caught their eyes was not a city, but an endless mountain of bones. The bone mountain formed by the miserable white bones stretches as far as the eye can see, as if this is a world formed by all kinds of bones.
The four of them stood there in a daze.
Then they saw a few skeleton soldiers coming in carrying the entry fee—bones. The skeleton soldiers walked up to a bone mountain without even looking at them, and dumped the pile of bones on the bone mountain with a bang. When it was finished, a skeleton soldier bent down to pick up some bones, and then casually threw them further away from the bone mountain.
The four of them keenly noticed that four of those bones were the entrance fees they had just paid—the demon bones.
Inexplicably, there is an illusion of being disgusted by skeletons.
"Look at these bones, the quality is not good, so you can't be a member of Bone Mountain." Pei Qiyu said pretendingly.
Su Molan looked at him, hesitated to speak.
Wen Qiao agreed and said: "Young Master Pei is right, you look at those bones in the distance, and the quality is really not very good." The monster bones they handed in just now are actually just five or six-level monster bones, and the quality is really not good. excellent.
Su Molan was speechless, how did these two find out that the quality of these bones was not good? They are obviously bones.
Ning Yuzhou smiled, and said, "Let's go in and have a look, there should be something we need in this Dugu Mansion."
What they need is naturally a fairy artifact!
The group of people suddenly cheered up, and their eyes fell on the bone mountain again, and at the same time, they also paid attention to the skeletons that entered the Bone Mansion.
I saw that some of these skeletons climbed directly to the bone mountain, trekking to the distance, and some entered some caves in the bone mountain. But what caught their attention the most was the tall bone mountain closest to the gate of the city. There was a tens of feet high cave in the belly of the bone mountain, and many skeletons went there.
"Let's go and have a look." Ning Yuzhou said.
The others naturally had no objections, so they walked towards the cave.
Standing in front of the cave, Wen Qiao looked inside and found that it was very dark inside, probably because the moonlight could not shine into the cave. There are many skeletons in the cave, but because the cave is very wide, it is not crowded.
The four of them walked inside along with the surrounding skeletons.
The light is getting darker and darker, but the impact is not too great. In addition to cultivators can see things in the dark, but also because of the bloody red light in the eye sockets of the surrounding bone monsters, so many skeletons gather together, the red light is also bright, Creates a faint light source.
Along the way, they finally understood what the cave was.
This is a city where skeletons live, and there are many bone houses. The appearance of these bone houses is very similar to Huangu Town. Anyway, in the eyes of normal people, they are all houses made of bones, and there is no difference.
Skeletons are like normal humans. They inhabit and live here, and even fight with each other. The bones are scattered, and it will take some time to restore the skeleton. Wen Qiao and the others noticed that as long as the bloody red light in the eyes of these skeletons does not go out, they will not die, and the bones can be reunited even if they are scattered.
They walked among these skeletons as if they were one of them. The concept of the living and the dead is very light, and no skeleton treats them as aliens—Wen Qiao suspects that the five senses of these skeletons have degenerated, and they have not noticed the relationship between them and them at all. is different.
So fine.
The four of them didn't waste time, and after roughly understanding the situation here, they moved forward at a faster speed.
They walked through the long bone hole, and when the moonlight reappeared, they had already walked out of the long tunnel-like bone hole, and there was still a bone mountain in front of them.
The three of them took out their flying swords and flew over the bone mountain.