Led by Yao Changtian, a group of people from Kaifeng left Black Wind City, went around Black Wind Forest, passed through a sparse forest, and arrived at the ruins of an ancient city.

The city is large in scale, but it has been completely abandoned. Due to the year-round wind and sun, only some ruins are left in the city, and half of the city has been buried by yellow sand.

Walking into the ruins, you can see many dead trees scattered here and there.

This is a rare phoenix perch in the Western Regions. Every autumn and winter, the Dead Leaf City is filled with burnt yellow dead leaves, hence its name.

According to historical records, Kuye City was destroyed during the War of the Four Gods, but by the time the war spread here, it was already an empty city. There were more than 400,000 permanent residents in Kuye City, and at that time,

There are about two million residents of the Western Regions under the protection of He Wanfeng's army. All of them were safely transferred, and most of these people are now distributed in large families throughout the Central Plains and the Western Regions.

The White Ghost King first found the boundary monument at the gate of Dry Leaf City, then counted the steps according to the direction, and then found a black gourd-shaped stone marker in a piece of yellow sand.

Yao Changtian pointed and said, "The Commander's Mansion is at this location."

Everyone is curious - what next?

The Demon King raised his hand and flicked his sleeves... A strong wind passed by, and large pieces of yellow sand were blown away by the wind, revealing a flat foundation on the ground.

This is a square black stone foundation, the material is very similar to the stone of Guijia Mountain.

The Demon King tilted his head towards Yao Changtian and motioned for him to open it.

Yao Changtian had no choice but to walk up to the stone foundation, and after roughly looking for his bearings, the old man stepped on the ground... Following his movements, the ground trembled a few times, and patchy textures appeared on the stone foundation.

After a while, the entire foundation sank downwards, steps appeared, and there was an entrance in the middle below.

The demon king led everyone down.

This crypt was underneath He Wanfeng's handsome mansion.

Yao Changtian said that this crypt was not built by He Wanfeng, but that he found it according to legends and was the ruins of an ancient building. He Wanfeng built the Commander's Mansion on the basis of this crypt, and then built the Dead Leaf Mansion.

city.

"Is this a relic of an ancient battlefield?" Gongsun asked, "Is it an armory or something like that?"

The demon king smiled and praised Gongsun for his erudition.

Sure enough, there were a large number of weapons piled in the crypt, probably because they were too old and almost all of them had decayed.

In addition, this is probably a temporary shelter. There is a place to store water and food. The design is quite exquisite, and the place where food is stored is very dry.

Zhao Pu found that some of the remaining grain was not spoiled, and a large number of seeds were also preserved.

"He Wanfeng probably used a large number of this type of crypts to hide people, so that so many people could be transferred safely and unscathed during the war." Both Zhao Pu and He Yihang thought this place was quite good and could be reserved as a place.

It will be used later, and there should be more than one such bunker in the entire Western Region.

Everyone followed the demon king and walked forward along the corridor of the crypt, going around and around, and finally came to a stone wall.

There are a bunch of strange patterns carved on the stone wall.

This should be a thousand-pound gate with no lock or mechanism. There are only four small concave holes under the boulder, close to the ground.

Yao Changtian squatted down and stretched out his hand...

Only then did everyone discover that four fingers could fit into the four holes.

Just when he was wondering what to do, the White Ghost King raised his hand...

With a harsh sound, the entire lock gate was lifted up.

Everyone nodded silently - it was opened with brute force... Inexplicably, this mechanism is very suitable for the feeling of the White Ghost King...

After lifting the thousand-jin gate above the head, the mechanism above was triggered, the boulder rose by itself, and the stone door opened.

"What should we do if we shut it down later?" Zhan Zhao asked curiously.

Yao Changtian patted the dust on his hands and made a pulling motion.

Everyone was speechless - so simple and crude!

Behind the stone door is a very small room, only big enough for about three people to enter, like a shaft.

There are holes on the wall, and there is a box in each hole. There are symbols engraved at the entrance of the holes.

The Demon King searched for it, selected a triangular symbol, and pointed it at Yao Changtian, as if asking for his opinion.

Yao Changtian shrugged - I guess so.

The Demon King reached out and took down the box.

When the box was taken out, a letter came out and fell to the ground.

Zhan Zhao picked it up and saw that there was only one word on the envelope - wind, and the signature was a leaf.

Everyone stared at the word "wind", so is this letter addressed to Feng Tianchang, the White Ghost King back then?

Zhan Zhao handed the letter to the White Ghost King.

Yao Changtian didn't seem interested and pouted at the Demon King.

Zhan Zhao handed the letter to the Silver Demon King again.

The Demon King took the letter and opened it to read.

The first paragraph of the letter is He Wanfeng teasing the White Ghost King. The general meaning is - the Silver Demon King is too unkind to let you live for so long and suffer a lot, right? Although you deserve it.

The White Ghost King curled his lips, folded his arms and looked aside - so angry!

The second paragraph is when He Wanfeng asked Yao Changtian why he went to the desperate situation? Should he not go to those three ghost places? After all, the two soy saucers almost didn't make it.

Tianzun and Yin Hou both glanced at the letter - the man's mouth was still as broken as ever.

Everyone looked at He Wanfeng making fun of several martial saints in his words, and felt that this serious man was quite naughty.

The third paragraph is more serious.

He Wanfeng said that he had identified the location of the Death Hill and Stone Valley and drew a map, but the map was taken away by He Qin. Only by finding He Qin could he find the location of the third desperate situation.

"Who is He Qin?" Everyone looked at Yao Changtian.

Yao Changtian thought for a while, "Oh... one of his book boys."

Everyone looked at He Yihang again.

He Yihang has only had contact with the Zhuang family since he was a child, and has never had contact with the He family. Besides...how old is this book boy?

At the end of the letter, He Wanfeng drew a triangle with a fallen leaf outside.

Zhan Zhao pointed to the wooden box that the Demon King had just taken out from the wall.

There is a pattern like this on the box.

Bai Yutang opened the box.

There are also some things in the box.

There was a silver locket, which looked like it was worn by a child, and a small cloth shoe, which looked like it was worn by a child. There were also some odds and ends, a piece of bark, a bag of soil, and a piece that looked like jade.

The white stone of jade... In addition, there is a scroll with a dragon pattern.

Zhan Zhao reached out and took out the dragon pattern scroll, and was a little stunned.

Why is there a case file kept here? And this case file looks very old, it must be the style of the previous dynasty...

Zhan Zhao opened the case file... and found that it was a missing case recorded on it.

The case occurred in the previous dynasty, about forty years ago.

At that time, an old man named He Qin went to the Yamen to report the case. The old man said that his grandson went to play at his uncle's house in Baiya Mountain and disappeared mysteriously in front of the house around noon. At that time, a servant in the house who was chopping firewood saw the child following him.

An old man with white hair and a single eye walked away together. When he chased him out, the child and the old man were gone. After that, the whole family searched for seven days and seven nights, but still could not find the child. They suspected that he had been abducted. The old man who finally reported the crime

He Qin took a purple-gold nanmu box into the mountain forest and stretched it out... and never came out. The grandfather and grandson were missing. And the government added a line under the unsolved case label - Baiya Mountain, One-Eyed Mountain Monster.

Zhan Zhao summarized the case: "He Qin was He Wanfeng's school boy. He Qin's grandson disappeared in the mountains. After seven days of searching, there was no result. Finally, He Qin secretly took the map and ran into the mountains, where he also disappeared.

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"Then if we want to find a map... maybe we have to find He Qin who disappeared forty years ago first?" Zhao Pu asked his master how old He Qin was.

Yao Changtian had a look of disgust on his face, as if he found it troublesome.

"The one-eyed mountain monster of Baiya Mountain..." He Yihang and Zhao Pu looked at each other, with somewhat complicated expressions on their faces.

"Which one is Baiya Mountain?"

Zhan Zhao asked.

Everyone came out of the crypt, and Zhao Pu pointed to the northwest.

There are a series of mountains in the northwest, among which the tallest one has a particularly steep mountain on the sunny side of the mountain, which appears gray-white under the sunlight.

"That one is Baiya Mountain." Zhao Pu introduced. "The peaks of this mountain are relatively steep, but the slopes are very gentle and have dense vegetation. There are many villages in it and many mountain people live there."

"What boundary does that area belong to?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"There are many martial arts people from the Central Plains in the mountains. In the past, if something happened, they would come to the Yamen here to report to the officials. But then they gradually became their own business, and now it is an area where no one cares... The terrain of the mountains and forests is complex, and the situation inside is also very complicated.

complex……"

Zhan Zhao asked, "So it is an independent kingdom?"
To be continued...