On the ninth day of falling into the underworld, Zong Gu could already stand firm with Hongzi's support and barely walk a few steps.
On the tenth morning, after waking up, Zong Gu tried it and stood up by himself.
Taking a slow step, he didn't help anything, and walked a big circle around the broken walls that had been lying for several days.
Although it is slow, walking independently is no longer a problem.
"In two days, there will probably be no problem..."
When he returned to the broken wall, Hongzi, who woke up and couldn't see others, was crying.
"I'm still here."
"Woo...Songgu!"
"Sorry." Soya stood in front of her, "I want to see how far I can go."
She sobbed, "Is it okay?"
"Well, I can't walk fast."
"Why don't you wake me up?"
"I thought I would come back here before Hongzi woke up...sorry."
Wiping away the tears, Sonoya touched her cheek again: "What do you want to eat for breakfast?"
She glanced at him and said, "Fried salmon."
“No salmon.”
“Clam Flavored Soup.”
“No clams or miso.”
“Beef rice bowl.”
“No beef and rice.”
"It's fine except steamed buns."
"Hongzi is a little picky about food."
“…You really hate it.”
He brought two steamed buns for breakfast. After eating them, Zong Gu continued his rehabilitation training, and Hongzi was with him.
She was extremely happy to see his steps smoothly.
After walking around this area, Zong Gu looked at another ruin not far away and said, "Let's go there."
"sure."
The two of them came empty-handed, and there was nothing to clean up, so they left as soon as they were gone.
On the way past, Hongzi asked, "Where did these broken walls and ruins in the underworld come from?"
"I don't know either. Maybe it was because of the gods' actions when they created Huangquan, but then they felt unpleasant and destroyed the things they had created." Zong Gu guessed.
"The god is really willful... so is the one who escaped from the underworld." Hongzi said, and looked around again, "I will not be heard by Lord Yin Xie, that I will say bad things."
"I hope she can hear..."
When he walked to the ruins, Zong Gu was just a little gasping.
"Can you leave again?"
"Um."
"Then let's go to the next ruin."
"Wait a little."
Zong Gu signaled her to wait in the ruins for a while, and then stood by the broken wall to wait.
When the spirits were coming and going, he carefully selected them with his eyes for a while before talking to one of them and asking about the direction of the Huangquan Hall.
"Huangquan Hall? I remember it's here." The middle-aged man pointed his spirit in a direction.
"Thanks."
After he left, Zong Gu found another spirit body to confirm, just like when he asked for directions for the first time.
He called Hongzi to set off after receiving the same reply and reminding not to get too close.
"Why do you have to ask twice? Do the spirits in the underworld like to lie?" she asked.
"Lying is just one aspect. For many strange reasons, the spirits here often say things they cannot understand."
Zong Gu thought about it and said, "You can treat this place as a super-large mental hospital, but normal people, mild, moderate and severe patients are all mixed together. If you don't observe carefully, it will be difficult to distinguish."
"What's even more troublesome is that some of the patients are also strongly aggressive and like to eat other patients..."
Therefore, when he is still unable to resist, he needs to be extremely careful and cautious.
Hongzi looked at him and found that after he recovered, the calmness he had in the past also came back. "Song Gu has been wandering in such a place for two years, has he become a 'doctor'?"
"You can only be considered half an intern."
“So humble.”
He looked forward, "After all, the place I walked by is probably less than one percent of the entire Huangquan."
Walking towards the Huangquan Hall, Zong Gu walked slowly and didn't walk much farther away for a long time.
Hongzi was not in a hurry, followed by, relaxed and enjoyed the long-lost outing for several days.
"The man just said that he would walk here for about a day. At our speed, it would probably not arrive until tomorrow."
"Yeah. Do you want to have a rest?"
"Not yet."
Zong Gu turned his head to look at her, "If you are tired, you can only ask Hongzi to carry me on your back."
"I can't carry it!"
"Didn't Hongzi walk so far on me before? I miss the feeling of that time."
"I don't miss it at all..."
Hongzi curled his lips, "The days when Zong Gu was unconscious were probably the most desperate time in my life. I don't know what to do or where to go, so I can only carry Zong Gu and keep going numbly.
Let's go...ah, I can't carry it."
She made a little effort, and Soya just hugged her from behind without oppressing her.
"Thank you, Hongzi."
“…”
She raised her hand to his arm, leaned back a little, turned her eyes for a while, and then said, "Zonggu is so heavy, my waist is still sore."
"I'll give you a massage when I'm resting later."
"Is it just a massage? My legs are a little sore."
“There will be a fee if you have more.”
She turned to look at him, "How to bill?"
"Ten thousand yen..." Soya stared at her lips, "No, just kiss."
“…”
Hongzi lowered her head and raised it again, his kiss fell.
“Um…”
She closed her eyes, tiptoed toes, hooked his neck, because she was inexperienced, confused and panicked, and finally she passedably under his guidance.
After kissing for a short while, he separated for a while, looking at her and licking his lips.
Hongzi opened her mouth slightly, the corners of her lips were wet, and she was still confused and still feeling unsatisfied, so she came back again.
“Do it again…”
The two kissed for a while before they separated and continued to move forward.
"For me, this is the first kiss." Hongzi walked in front, her ears still a little red.
"My first kiss with Zong Gu." She added.
Sonoya took her hand and said, "Can you count with Kirino?"
"Of course." Hongzi turned her head and smiled at him, "That was a friendly kiss."
Sonoya didn't want to ruin her mood, she just smiled.
After walking for a long time, Hongzi paused suddenly and subconsciously wanted to hide behind Zonggu.
"fine……"
He comforted him, and was also a little surprised.
There was another ruin not far ahead, and in front of the ruins, a Huangquan army stood alone, holding a long halberd, as if guarding something.
This was the first time Hongzi saw such a non-human spirit, tall and large, and holding a weapon, and was startled.
There was no sign of the Yellow Spring Hall here, and Zong Gu didn't understand why it appeared here, so he asked Hongzi to wait in place, "I'll go over and take a look."
"What kind of spirit is that..."
"Yellow Spring Army." Zong Gu walked over, "If you have good luck, it will be my 'food'."
“Hey…”
Walking straight to the standing Huangquan Army, it did not react at all.
Zong Gu looked at the ruins behind it again, which was no different from any ruins he passed by. There was nothing. It seemed that it was not guarding it, but seemed to be waiting for him here.
After walking around it, I still didn't find anything. Zong Gu raised his hand, "Then I'm not polite."
After absorbing this Huangquan Army, he should be able to recover a lot of energy for him.
But before his palm fell, he suddenly had other ideas.
【Squat down.】
The Huangquan Army, which was ten feet tall, immediately squatted down obediently.
The divine power in his body was dormant, and Zong Gu was not sure whether the Huangquan Army would follow his instructions, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
"ah."
Hongzi looked behind, confused and worried about the sudden action of the tall spirit body, and then saw Zong Gu climbing onto its shoulders.
【past.】
Huangquan Army stood up and stepped towards Hongzi.
“…”
She immediately took two steps back.
"Don't be afraid." Soya smiled at her, "I'm controlling it."
“Eh?”
In a daze, Huangquan Jun had already walked in front of him and then squatted down again.
“…”
Hongzi took a breath, and the Huangquan Army in front of him was more like a ball of cold blue light, without any substance, but was bound by the ancient armor on his body and became a human form.
"Come on." Soya greeted, "Sit on your shoulders and you won't fall."
"Is it okay..." Looking at the shoulder armor that seemed to be floating out of thin air, she still grabbed his hand.
"It seems that there is no problem at the moment. Next, we have to rely on it to send us to the Huangquan Hall."
Stepping on his breastplate, Hongzi climbed onto the right shoulder of Huangquan Jun, and then held its head tightly... or helmet.
【Go to Huangquan Hall.】
Zong Gu issued an order, and the Huangquan Army under him stood up again, turned around and walked forward with great strides. Hongzi was tense and slowly relaxed after a while.
The Huangquan Army seemed to be unfast, but each step was longer, and the actual speed was still much faster than the two of them walking by themselves.
"Why does it listen to Sonoya?" After finding that it would not fall, Hongzi began to care about other issues.
Zong Gu held the other half of the helmet, "It was probably because of the divine power of the Eight Thunder Gods on me."
Hongzi thought for a moment, "Can it let it send Zong Gu and me and Huangquan?"
“…”
Zong Gu was stunned, then shook his head again.
"Only in very special circumstances, the Huangquan Army will act with the Huangquan Daughter. The former is responsible for eliminating the spirits and repairing the torn limit gap. The latter can open the passage and go to the world to capture the spirits that escaped from the Huangquan.
.In other words, without the daughter of Huangquan, under normal circumstances, the Huangquan Army could not leave Huangquan... and after returning to Huangquan, I have not seen a daughter of Huangquan yet."
What's more, even though he had divine power, he was still opened by the daughter of Huangquan and threw it into the flower. Zong Gu did not think that the daughter of Huangquan would obey his instructions and then open the flower and let him out.
"All right."
Hongzi didn't hold much hope, and looked down for a while.
"No footsteps at all..."
Carrying two people on their shoulders, the dark blue spirit body floated and walked, as if he was outside the sky.
The Huangquan Army was tireless and rushed all the way. After a few hours, Zong Gu was excited to see the tall shadows in the distance.
"Is that the Yellow Spring Hall?"
Hongzi also looked over there and noticed the dense array of Huangquan Army in front of the hall. "Many Huangquan Army... are like the Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor."
"They are not burial objects, they are all moving."
"Yeah……"
After moving forward for a while, when he arrived in front of the Huangquan Army's array, Zong Gu issued a stop order.
"Are we going in?"
"No, I have to confirm whether they will attack Hongzi first."
“Eh?!”
"They are guarding here to prevent outsiders from entering the Yellow Spring Hall."
Asking Huangquanjun to put himself and Hongzi down, Zong Gu grabbed her and slowly approached the array.
When they reached a certain distance, the closest Huangquan army raised their long halberds in unison.
“…”
Zong Gu was sweating coldly and immediately pulled Hongzi back two steps, while the Huangquan Army still looked like he was waiting for the battle.
He quickly recovered his calmness and tried to give instructions to them.
【Don't attack her.】
And the Huangquan Army really put away its weapons.
"This should mean not letting me in?" Hongzi was also shocked. All she could see was that she retreated, and then Huang Quanjun put away his weapons.
"It's okay."
Zong Gu asked her to wait on the spot, then walked to a Huangquan army alone and raised his hand to press it on it.
As soon as the thoughts were in his mind, the tall Huangquan army instantly turned into the purest Huangquan power and poured into his body.
Feeling the power that became abundant in his body again, Zong Gu clenched his fists.
"If I had known to chase Dalei, I would have let a team of Huangquan Army follow me..."
When he walked back to Hongzi, his steps became much lighter.
"Let's go in."
The two sat on the shoulders of the Huangquan Army again and walked towards the Huangquan Hall behind the array.
Under Zong Gu's instructions, no Huangquan Army raised its weapons again, but it still reacted to Hongzi's intrusion.
The Huangquan Army on both sides held a long halberd in his hand and slowly turned his head as she went deeper, as if he was staring at her. There was no sign of her face under the ancient helmet, only a ball of blue and transparent light, which made Hongzi creepy and pinched her
Tighten the hand of Soya.
After walking through for a while, from one side of the array to the other side, the Huangquan Army under him stopped actively and let him command him, and he would not move forward any more.
And the hall is already in front of you.
Zong Gu understood that the next path was only possible.
"Is this the Yellow Spring Hall..."
Hongzi looked up at the majestic temple in front of her, which was hundreds of meters high and more than a thousand meters in height. Even though she watched her walk along the way, she still felt shocked when she came in front of her.
"In reality, Japan will definitely not be able to create such a temple..."
The giant stone pillar in front of the hall was beyond my sight, and a small groove on it was a little wider than her body. The entire temple was natural and filled with the breath of ancient times.
"Are we going in?" Hongzi looked at Zonggu again.
"If you can get in," Zong Gu also looked in vain for a while, then grabbed her hand and stepped onto the wide square in front of the hall.
He didn't know how to leave the Huangquan, so he could only make as many attempts as possible, and the first thing he thought of was the Huangquan Hall that had not been entered.
The square is wide, and it takes a lot of time to walk to the temple. Hongzi looked back and soon began to miss the "car" just now.
"Is such a wide square used for ceremonies?"
"Then someone must hold a ceremony," said Zong Gu, "It might be like this before the Huangquansi was killed."
"What did the underworld look like at that time?"
"Only Master Yin Xie, who is beautiful, knows."
Through the square, under the temple, there is a long staircase.
Looking up, Hongzi didn't really want to climb up, but she was worried about what she would encounter when she stayed alone, so she had to follow him.
She thought of a certain clip in the myth.
"When you pass through such a large square, you have to climb hundreds of steps. No wonder Lord Yin Xie Naqi is impatient when he comes to Huangquan to chase Lord Yin Xie Namei."
“…”
If the teacher comes to save him at this time, he will probably not be happy if he only hears her mentioning Yin Xie Naqi and the old things back then. Zong Gu hurriedly turned around and reminded Hongzi not to talk nonsense.
"Be careful that something ran out of the temple and ate you."
She quickly followed and hugged his arm.
"Don't scare me..."
After climbing for a while, I finally reached the top of the steps.
Hongzi was panting and didn't want to say a word. Perhaps because he "eat raw" a Huangquan Jun, Zong Gu felt that it was okay.
"Hongzi is waiting for me here." Let her sit down on the steps, Zong Gu walked alone to the tall palace gate and looked up.
The two hall doors made of materials were tightly closed. He raised his hand and touched them. His fingertips were cold, and his hand felt inexplicably familiar.
"I don't know if I can push it away."
Pressing on the door, Zong Gu tried to use some force, and with a dull sound, the hall gate actually opened a gap.
"It's really open..."
【“It’s really open…”】
Without warning, some fragments of memory suddenly appeared in his mind, as if he had been here a long time ago, and said the same thing in the face of these two high doors.
【“Don’t you go in and take a look?”
"May I?"
"certainly."】
“…”
Zong Gu was shocked and asked, let go of his hand holding the palace gate, and the fragments in his mind also disappeared without a trace.
"The teacher's voice... the teacher has brought me here?"
He had no impression of this.
Is it a childhood or his illusion?
Zong Gu raised his hand and pressed it on the door again, but the clips just now did not appear again. Not only that, he soon couldn't remember what he had just remembered.
"What's going on..."
Standing in a daze for a while, Zong Gu was awakened by Hongzi's voice.
"Zonggu——"
She sat on the steps and looked back at him: "Can't you open it?"
“…”
Zong Gu came to his senses, looked at her, and pushed the palace gate again.
It seemed that something was blocking inside, so he could only open a gap. He tried it and squeezed into half of his body at most.
Maybe Hongzi can get in...
Through the crack in the door, looking at the dark hall, the thought came out and was extinguished by Zong Gu himself.
Killed and destroyed, and the Orange Emperor destroyed this place before leaving Huangquan, and there should be nothing left inside...
Thinking of this, Zong Gu retreated and half of his body squeezed in, watching the palace gate slowly close and close again.
“…”
Looking at the closed door of the hall, someone closed his eyes on the deepest platform in the hall.