The sound of copper bells rang harshly in the underground palace. The dead man whose eyes were stabbed out and whose neck was cut had a Feng Shui master's Feng Shui bell hanging on his waist. The Feng Shui master walked towards the stone bridge along the tomb path.
"Is there anyone...is there anyone...help me, I can't see anything, ah, my eyes hurt..."
Looking at such a horrifying scene, the old Taoist priest subconsciously approached Jin An again.
"Little brother, the person who died was a member of the Tianshi Mansion. Look at the eyeball in his hand. Is it the gem that was taken away from this stone bridge?" the old Taoist priest said, trying his best to lower his voice.
In fact, it doesn’t need to be said by the old Taoist priest, Jin An has already noticed that there is something wrong with the dead man in front of him.
Before Jin An could speak, the dead man's hearing was sharp. Even though the old Taoist priest tried his best to lower his voice, he was still heard.
“My benefactor, help me!”
“Please help me, my benefactor...ah! My eyes hurt so much!”
The Feng Shui Master ran over with a happy face. As he ran, he shouted with joy. The fat tongue dyed strange blue in his mouth actually grew longer and longer, and in the blink of an eye it had already reached his neck.
That blue tongue is fat and big. It is really scary in this dark and dark underground palace. No one would like it to come near.
The Feng Shui master was in vain. Jin An took the old Taoist priest and the sharp sword and stepped aside. The Feng Shui master kept circling in place and refused to leave.
Jin An kicked his toes thoughtfully, and a stone flew out from under his feet and fell on the stone bridge. It bounced a few times. As expected, the Feng Shui master who had been wandering in place was attracted by the sound of the stone, like a blind man in Mohe.
Walking onto the stone bridge with shrill screams.
咚!
Another stone flew to the open space further away from the stone bridge. In this open underground palace, the sound spread far away.
The Feng Shui master walked farther and farther on the stone bridge with a shrill scream, and slowly walked across the stone bridge to the other side.
This is called disaster moving eastward.
Jin An wanted to see what or who it was that was sneaking behind them and refusing to show up.
Hearing the screams getting further and further away, until the Feng Shui master's back completely disappeared into the tomb passage on the other side of the stone bridge, the old Taoist breathed out a sigh of relief.
“Little brother, you are still very good at causing disasters by moving the water eastward.” The old Taoist priest said with a low smile and gave Jin An a thumbs up.
result.
They waited for a long time, but there was no movement from the morgue tower over there.
On the contrary, the screams moved away, gradually became blurred, and finally were completely inaudible.
“Could it be that the people following us also belong to the dirty things in the underground palace, so the two dead people didn’t fight when they met?” the old Taoist priest guessed in surprise.
“Zhi Jian, what do you think?” Jin An looked at Xi Jian.
The living man was sharpening his sword with a look of death. He lay down on the ground again and listened closely to the sounds coming from the ground. When he stood up again, he shook his head, indicating that he could no longer hear the sound.
The old Taoist priest's face tightened, and he said that he must be telling the truth. There are really dead people hiding in this underground palace. With so many of them going down to the underground palace, there are also other dead people who have always been in this underground palace.
Awakened by a disturbance?
To be honest, Jin An was also a little impatient with waiting.
You can’t keep doing this and waiting.
Don’t do anything serious.
Jin An: "Forget it, let's not worry about the dead or the living. Since they have refused to show up, let's catch up with Prince Xiao Ling and the others as soon as possible. We have just come down to the underground palace and have encountered so many things one after another, especially when there are
King Xiaoling, Monk Qianshi, and Daoyou Xu were protected by three masters, but they were unable to stop two people from dying. There are too many strange and dangerous places in this underground palace. The deeper you go into the underground palace, the greater the danger."
What Jin An said made sense, and the old Taoist priest would naturally not object, so the three of them continued on their way.
This time I couldn’t help but speed up my pace, wanting to catch up with the others as soon as possible.
After crossing the stone bridge, there was also a tomb passage. As soon as the three of them entered the tomb passage, they saw blood stains on the ground.
"Little brother, look, it's the blood that the Feng Shui master dripped on the ground along the way. The Feng Shui master came from the Tianshi Mansion. These blood stains are the best guideposts and can directly guide us to King Xiao Ling and the others."
The old Taoist priest said happily.
But before they had gone far, the blood stains on the ground suddenly turned into an underground rock crack, and they did not continue along the tomb passage.
Jin An squatted on the ground, holding a torch and carefully shining a light on the dust on the ground. The footprints on the ground were messy. People walked through the dust, leaving a large number of footprints, including shoe prints walking forward and shoe prints returning.
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Jin An, who was confused, carefully distinguished the number of footprints in the dust, and unexpectedly found that the number of returning footprints was almost the same as the number of forward footprints.
“Is this where everyone is going and coming back? There should be a dead end in front of the road or some danger, so these people have to go back the same way.”
Jin An stood up, moved his legs and feet that were numb from squatting, and came to the rock crack again. He held a torch and reached into the dark crack. In addition to blood stains, there were many messy footprints on the ground.
This gap is long, narrow, and crowded, and can only accommodate one person passing sideways. It is uneven under the feet, and there are no traces of artificial carving or polishing.
“It seems that after being blocked in the tomb passage, King Xiao Ling and others walked back again, and finally descended into the crevice of the rock.”
Jin An continued to think deeply and said: "Look at the stone walls of the tomb passage on both sides of the crack. There are obvious signs of cracking and falling. This gap should have been cracked by the earthquake along with the deep valley outside. There was originally no road here."
"However, Prince Xiao Ling and the others were able to enter here without leaving any traces of their return. This shows that this path that was later shaken out is not a dead end, but can lead to other places in the underground palace smoothly... This time, I will take charge of the sharp sword in front."
Behind the scenes, we will directly follow their footsteps and go down here."
Jin'an's torch illuminated the crack, and then illuminated the path behind them. They stayed where they were for so long, and the movement that had been following them did not appear again.
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The crack opened by the earthquake was really difficult to walk through. The three of them passed slowly sideways along the way. Sometimes when they encountered the narrowest place, they even had to inhale and retract their abdomen to pass.
You can imagine how difficult this road is to walk.
This road is very steep and not easy to walk at all. It is uneven underfoot and you can clearly feel that it is sloping downwards, leading deeper into the ground.
They just walked all the way up from the morgue tower, and not long after that, they walked down steeper all the way, and they had to always be prepared for the danger behind them, just like this in the darkness and the oppressive feeling of not daring to take a big breath.
, I don’t know how long we walked, but the team suddenly stopped. It was Xiajian who was walking in the front and suddenly stopped walking.
“Sharp sword, what’s wrong?”
Jin An, who was in charge of the rear of the palace, could not see the environment in front and could only whisper in the narrow crack.