Chapter 2(5)()

The sound of water was still close at hand. The two of them looked at it and saw a rock wall about ten feet high not far away. The hot spring water rushed down from above and poured into a large pool in front of them, as big as the deep pool you saw in dozens of afternoons.

Li Yuanfang looked around for a while, then suddenly took a breath of cold air and said, "Fortunately, I didn't come out of the water curtain just now."

"how?"

"Sir, look, is the entrance of the cave we just discovered just now?"

Di Renjie narrowed his eyes and looked hard. With the moonlight, he could indeed find a hole in the rock wall five or six meters high, behind the spring water.

He nodded and said, "Well, if we had come out of there at that time, we would have fallen into this deep pool. We would have either fallen to death or drown."

Li Yuanfang said: "Sir, it seems that we finally reached the bottom of this mountain spring. But what should we do now?"

"Well, let's look around first."

Looking around, except for the cliffs, hot spring waterfalls and deep pools in front, there are also high peaks on the other three sides. Under the moonlight, only the uneven ridges and the outlines of the trees can be seen, and the others cannot be distinguished. However, there are more than ten houses beside them, standing alone on this mountain basin.

Di Renjie said: "I didn't expect there would be someone here. It was getting late, you and I were exhausted, you were still injured and needed rest. It seemed that I was going to stay here for a night today."

As he said that, the two of them walked towards the closest house together. After walking a few steps, Li Yuanfang looked at Di Renjie suspiciously and said, "Sir, this must be not a home."

Di Renjie nodded: "Well, Yuan Fang, you have good eyesight, you miss the plaque on this door."

Li Yuanfang thought, "Old, lord, palace! Sir! This is a Taoist temple!"

"Oh? Haha, it seems that we have an indissoluble bond with the old Li sect today. Let's go and take a look."

The Laojun Palace was pitch black. When I opened the door, a turbid air came to my face. With the moonlight, I could see that the altar inside was covered with dust. The statues of the Daode Heavenly Lord, Yuanshi Heavenly Lord and Lingbao Heavenly Lord were also filthy, looking like they had been abandoned for a long time.

Di Renjie did not go in and signaled Li Yuanfang to the next house again. Soon, they turned around more than ten houses here. Except for the two main halls that house the statues of the three heavenly priests and the Jade Emperor, the rest seemed to be all the elixirs for Taoists to live in. The hole they crawled out was under the bed of one of the narrowest elixirs. These elixirs were not as dilapidated as those of the two main halls, and they were cleaned up. Strangely, any room was pitch black and there was no figure.

After walking around, the two returned to the open space in the middle. Di Renjie said to himself: "This place is so weird. It looks like a Taoist temple, but the main hall has been abandoned to this point, and the statues are arranged very rough and careless, as if they are slightly used to cover people's ears and ears. The elixir house for people to live in is very appropriate and meticulous, but there is no one. It's really strange. Also, the person who died on the road today is also dressed as a Taoist priest. Will it have anything to do with this place?"

Li Yuanfang asked: "Sir, do you want me to go around again? See if there are any other clues?"

Di Renjie heard his voice a little hoarse, and his face was pale because of the moonlight. He knew that he had lost a lot of blood. If he had to travel for another day, his body would be very tired. He said, "I can't see clearly at night, and I am also very tired. I'd better take a break first. After resting my energy, I will investigate tomorrow."

"Yes. Sir, I think these elixir rooms are pretty clean, so why don't we just choose one to stay in."

They picked a elixir room casually. Li Yuanfang found a branch and set up a fire in the middle of the room. The room suddenly became much warmer. Di Renjie and Yi lay on the couch, and then he felt that his whole body was exhausted. He wanted to sort out what happened during the day in his mind, but he was already drowsy and fell asleep unknowingly.

In the middle of the night, Di Renjie suddenly woke up. He could only hear the sound of water in his ears. He thought he had come to the cave under the spring again, but he felt something strange. He was shocked and suddenly woke up. He sat up, and a black cloak slipped off his body and picked it up. He didn't have to look at it and knew it was Li Yuanfang's cloak. It must have been covered by him while he was asleep. The sound of water in his ears became louder. Di Renjie listened and realized that it was the sound of rain. He sighed in his heart: It was such a heavy rain. The fire in the middle of the house was still on fire.

The flowers exuded a wave of warmth. Li Yuanfang sat by the door next to the fire, closed his eyes slightly, holding the Youlan Sword in his arms. Di Renjie looked at him for a while, picked up the cloak, and came to Li Yuanfang with his hands and feet, and put the cloak on his shoulders. Li Yuanfang opened his eyes and smiled slightly at Di Renjie, but banged his lips at him, indicating that he would not speak. Di Renjie was a little surprised, and hurriedly listened carefully. Sure enough, another subtle sound was heard in the torrential rain, sharp and very sad, as if it was a cry of a person, looming in the sound of rain.

After a night of heavy rain, the sky was clear and blue in the morning, which looked extremely refreshing. In the narrow dan room where they crawled out of the cave, Di Renjie carefully checked the footprints on the ground and said to Li Yuanfang: "Yuanfang, the footprints of the child we followed also appeared here. Unfortunately, we can't tell the difference between you and me now."

Li Yuanfang said: "Sir, it seems that the child has arrived here before us. So where will he be now? There is no trace outside the house."

Di Renjie said: "A heavy rain last night washed away all his footprints, so we can't know where he is going. However, the faint cry you and I heard last night was a little sharp, and it sounded like a child's voice."

Li Yuanfang nodded and pondered: "I don't know how this child is now. The crying sounded very sad."

Di Renjie patted him and said, "Now I don't care about this much, let's go somewhere else to take a look."

Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang walked around the houses around them again, and found no other clues. Back on the open space in front of the house, Di Renjie said to himself: "Every elixir room is neatly tidy and has not been covered with any dust. It means that people have been away for a short time and are in order when they leave, but why did they suddenly disappear together? What exactly happened here?"
Chapter completed!