Chapter 24(1/2)
"City of Galan--"
He Zhizhou was really bored when walking on the road, so he read the power of attorney briefly and asked from the bottom of his heart: "Is there really a city built at the bottom of the lake?"
His unreliable master has never been seen, and his disciples have become helpless left-behind children.
When the other elders saw this, they felt unbearable and often helped to help openly and secretly. This time, Tian Xianzi accepted the entrustment to go down the mountain and asked him to come and see the world.
He clearly had to say a few words when he saw He Zhizhou, but among all Li Wangsheng's disciples, Tian Xianzi liked him the most. The textbook-level knife-like mouth and heart are nothing more than that.
At this time, he walked in the woods with Ningning, Zheng Weiqi and Pei Ji. The untrimmed trunks were densely packed with shadows.
Ning Ning played with the sword spike in her hand and continued with quite playful words: "It seems that the entire city was flooded three hundred years ago."
She thought for a while and said, "What I care more about is why ordinary people can breathe freely after entering?"
According to the rules of the Xuanxu Sword Sect, after the disciple enters the Golden Pill stage, he can be allowed to go down the mountain to experience and subdue demons.
Now that the demons have disappeared, there are still many monsters in the world who have caused trouble. They may do whatever they want, or live in a corner to recuperate, and occasionally make some troubles, which makes people really uneasy.
For example, the city of Galan where they are about to enter.
The city of Galan sank to the bottom of the water a hundred years ago, and has disappeared from now on, with nowhere to be found.
A few days ago, a woodcutter passed by this place and fell into a lake. He thought he had died, but he thought that after falling in the cold lake for a moment, his body suddenly became lighter and he no longer felt like he was wrapped in water.
It turned out that under the lake, there was an ancient city standing out of thin air.
An invisible barrier separates the ancient city from the lake, making the city and land no different. Even if he is at the bottom of the lake, he can breathe freely without any obstacles.
The woodcutter was shocked and even frightened, he burst into a flying desire to survive. While he had a small body left in the lake, he hurriedly swam back with his hands and feet and ground.
After falling into the water, others tried their best to escape from the water. They were probably the first to run into the water with a ferocious face like him.
In short, the woodcutter finally got ashore with his dog, and after returning home, he described this incredible experience to his wife and children.
However, before the story could spread among neighbors, something even stranger happened.
——The people in the city became extremely abnormal one after another, as if they could not think about walking corpses, who could do nothing but attack others without discrimination.
When the Taoist priest was invited to take a look, he found that the three souls had lost seven souls, and the soul was secretly stolen at some point.
"There must be a monster hiding under the water."
Zheng Weiqi calmly analyzed: "It will not be discovered by anyone, but can go to the city outside the forest at any time to get the soul of a man. It can be said that it will kill two birds with one stone."
He Zhizhou nodded and blew the rainbow farts: "I am worthy of being my senior sister! I heard that Senior Sister Zheng has descended on the mountain for many years to eliminate demons, and must have accumulated a lot of experience."
Zheng Weiqi glanced at him with a faint expression.
She is of a natural style, with her eyebrows and eyes as elegant as a distant mountain. Now that she wears men's clothing, she looks a bit cool and heroic, so elegant that she can't let go of her eyes.
However, in the next moment, the beauty twitched: "Damn it. If it weren't for evading the school's courses, who would have been willing to leave the master's sect and run around? Is it my problem to take care of his mother all day long! Is it my fault to see those elders?
...What a pretty girl, why did she open her mouth?
Zheng Weiqi is a poor student, or a kind of despicable scum who doesn't even have a slight loss. She is equivalent to a middle-aged and elderly college entrance examination candidate who has been defeated repeatedly for several years and has been defeated repeatedly for many years.
This heroic spirit resonated with He Zhizhou, who was also a poor student. After hearing this, he sighed seriously: "It is definitely not our problem! As we all know, the reason why I am so sleepy when I was studying is because the school is where the dream begins."
"Science!"
Ning Ning nodded: "One section is longer than six sections, and the remaining power can be dragged on. All the children who have been there cried."
Zheng Weiqi empathized with it: "One person's carnival, the loneliness of a group of people."
He Zhizhou tacitly followed the formation: "I gave me a dream and a gift to me to wake up quickly. When my eyes were closed and I opened, the day passed."
Seeing that the demon-removal was entrusted to become a poor student exchange meeting, Pei Ji looked at the group beside him expressionlessly, and subconsciously pursed his lips.
Then he accidentally bumped into Ningning's sight and his throat moved slightly.
"What are you nervous?"
Ning Ning smiled: "I won't make things difficult for my junior brother to answer the conversation. I have heard that you were the leader in the school before."
The original owner and Pei Ji joined the master in the same year, but the disciples of the internal and external sects did not attend classes together. The reason why they knew that he had good grades was because they only mentioned a few words in the novel.
The number of outer sects is very diverse and brings together all kinds of religions from all over the world. It is not easy for Pei Ji to be the first in the written test every year among so many people.
He was stunned when he heard this, and he opened his eyes slightly. His long eyelashes trembled slightly in the sun, covering up a dark spot in his eyes: "It's not as good as the junior sister."
Chengying started to whine again: "How did she know your achievements back then? I won't be paying attention to Ningning from then on-"
Pei Ji felt a little restless: "Quiet."
However, Chengying ignored him at all. Hearing this, he felt like he had finally seen his 80-year-old father who had been married to his daughter. He smiled and said, "Don't be shy, let's just talk about the matter."
"Young junior brother is so powerful!"
Zheng Weiqi's eyes shone and her words were shocking: "Junior brother, saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda! You don't know, Senior sister, I broke my head when I was young, and half of my head stopped growing. This maldeveloped little brain really cannot accommodate the mountains of books and seas of books, so it's better to--"
The more she spoke, the more excited she became, and the smile on her face became deeper: "It's better to dress up as a man and answer the questions on my behalf! It's no problem to see my junior brother sinking fish and falling fish and geese and keeping the moon and shy flowers. It's absolutely not a problem to deceive those old antiques!"
He Zhizhou was tired and was drinking water, but when he heard it, he sprayed it out. When she finished the last sentence, she choked all the water in her throat and kept coughing.
Ning Ning handed him a sympathetic look. Before he could speak, he heard Zheng Weiqi screaming: "We are here!"
When I looked up again, I saw an extremely wide lake.
This lake is called "Tianhe". It is said that even if you fly in the distant air with your sword, you can see its shadow with your head down. The lake surface is very clear and wide. When you look from a distance during the day, it looks like a deep crack embedded in the horizon.
The surroundings were calm and there were few ripples on the lake. Looking around, it looked like a huge round mirror. The sun fell into the water, breaking into fine silver-white light, like a monster constantly cruising and changing, swaying around.
Just looking at this scene, you can never imagine the surging tides under the lake and the ghosts of the ancient city.
As the senior sister with the highest seniority, Zheng Weiqi naturally assumed the responsibility of command: "Put a water-avoiding technique and let's go into the water together."
Everyone did as they did, Ningning's expression remained unchanged, and her heart was as clear as a mirror.
She had read the original work and naturally understood what would happen underwater.
Zheng Weiqi guessed most of the time correctly. There were indeed monsters living under the water, but it was not one, but a group.
Jialan City was once a place where demons gathered. Due to the fierce flood, it was caught off guard. The reason why it was able to form a barrier underwater was entirely due to the young city lord who used all his cultivation and protected the entire city with spiritual energy.
Later, the young city lord fainted exhausted. Affected by the collision of spiritual power, the monsters in the city also fell asleep. In recent years, they gradually woke up, so they thought about finding a way to wake him up.
This method is naturally to seize the souls of humans in the city and provide spiritual power to breed.
Exploring the ancient city of the demon clan and stopping the snatching of souls at first glance, it sounds ordinary, but it does not seem like a very difficult task.
However, Ningning knew that this commission was destined to be not simple.
After doing the water-avoiding technique, the four of them went down to Tianhe Lake.
The Water Avoidance Art can form a transparent bubble in the water, wrapping the monk's body, so that the clothes will not be wet and can also breathe easily.
The underwater scene was clear and blue, with waves flying past the fish incredibly close to each other, the sun shadows poured down, the wind was flying on the water, the silence was all over the top and bottom, and the soles of the feet were dark in the deep pool.
Like the gloomy and hollow eyes of a giant beast.
Suddenly, Zheng Weiqi's voice transmission sounded in her ears, which was different from her calm and calm tone before, full of panic and surprised: "No, what came from the bottom of the lake...is it a whirlpool?!"
The scene was really not so beautiful, Ning Ning could only lower her eyes and glance at her quickly.
It seemed like the giant beasts on the soles of their feet were dormant for a long time, and finally opened their eyes impatiently. The water foam gathered into circles of snow-white circles, attacking them with lightning speed.
A low roar sounded in his ears, and Ningning tightly held the star mark sword around her waist.
This commission is destined not to be simple.
Because they will be forcibly dispersed by the vortex from the beginning, and then they have to face the murderous intent of the entire city with their own strength.
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Thanks to the spiritual energy protecting the body and the water-avoiding technique to protect life, Ningning will not drown or be knocked out by the huge waves.
The whirlpool came towards her with a wave, which accelerated her arrival at the bottom of the lake. In a short while, she came to the vast barrier shrouded in the city.
This formation also imposes a trick. If you only observe in the water, you will not see any shadow of the city of Galan. Only by coming to the barrier in person can you see the scene of the old city hiding in the lake.
When you pass through the barrier, the bubbles surrounding your body will crack.
At the same time, the ancient city of Galan, which had been sleeping for hundreds of years, finally slowly lifted the veil of mystery.
It is difficult to see the shadow of the sun at the bottom of the lake. The barrier itself seems to replace the function of sunlight and emit a lustrous white luster.
The mist is everywhere, the waves are overflowing, and the rippling water above the barrier hides the streets and houses, like thousands of broken glass jades, suddenly appearing like a dream, I don’t know what tonight.
There are many buildings in the ancient city, and the eternal lights embellish the dazzling river like the starry sky. The sky steps are watery, the blue tiles and white walls, and the trees beside the streets have stopped growing, drying into hunched branches, and the dark shadows are reflected on the wall, reminding her of the rugged knuckles with fangs and claws.
The formation has a certain buffering effect. When Ningning slowly lands, the toes collided with the ground without any slight sound.
The original book describes the experience of the protagonist Pei Ji, but she did not focus on others. While she was alert to the crisis hidden in the dark, she raised her head and admired the scene in the city of Galan with a little surprise.
Everything maintained its appearance a hundred years ago. No one was seen around, just like a ghost town where no one had ever set foot. Ningning looked around, and without any warning, suddenly heard a shrill call for help: "Help! Young Master!"
——Young Master?
This voice was not calling her, it was very likely that it was one of the two men who came with her. Pei Ji shouldn't have encountered her in the early stage, so it could only be-
Ning Ning's heart moved and walked around looking for the female voice. Sure enough, he saw He Zhizhou's familiar figure not far away.
He seemed to be fascinated by the world of flowers, and there was still a stunning look in his eyes. But in a place very close to the young man, there were two people they had never met.
The woman who asked for help was very charming. She was held hostage by a man and pressed her knife against her neck. She cried so hard that she was filled with rain. She was miserable and miserable. She cried and shouted, "Young Master, save me!"
The middle-aged man behind her was fierce and vicious, with empty eyes like two inferior black stones.
He acted clumsyly, as if only a small part of his reason was left. He spoke vaguely, and it was difficult to tell the content clearly: "Don't... come here! Otherwise, I will kill her!"
This situation reminded Ning Ning immediately of the appearance of the person who was sucked in the nearby city.
Unconscious, murderous intent, very aggressive to anyone, but...
To be continued...