However, Li Luo felt that the phrase "time is running out" meant something else, and it was not the usual kind of "time is running out" for people who are terminally ill.
"Just behind this door?"
"good."
"Is this where Senior Ren arrived?"
Ren Zhong thought for a while, shook his head and replied: "I didn't come down with you that time. I don't know if what they saw was what was behind the stone gate."
Li Luo was silent for a moment and said, "Have you been here before?"
"Nature has come."
"Lead the way."
Ren Zhong smiled and said harmoniously: "Okay, Your Majesty, please." After saying that, Ren Zhong pushed open the stone door and walked in with an open mind.
As soon as the stone door opened, a wisp of cold light flashed past, like a veil of clouds and mist, lightly brushing over the edges of the rocks and slowly drifting into the distance. Li Luo's breath was stagnant, and after a slight hesitation, he followed Ren Zhong
Stepped into this stone door.
Before coming in, Li Luo guessed what secrets were hidden behind the stone door. Even if it was bizarre and unbelievable, Li Luo was prepared. But when he saw the situation behind the stone door, Li Luo still gasped.
tone.
The cold light behind the stone gate is still there, a little deserted, but you can see the surrounding situation clearly without the help of firelight. The cold light comes one after another, some fast, some slow, chasing each other from high to low, and from low to high, like a line
A swimming fish, and just three feet away, there was a living three-foot-large fish curiously looking at Li Luo and Ren Zhong through the wall, and then it swung its tail and disappeared away.
This wall is actually a piece of rare ice stone that is completely transparent, and those cold lights are just the few rays of light cast by the ripples of the water. This stone chamber is not elsewhere, but at the bottom of the Mirror Pool.
"At the bottom of the mirror pool?"
"Yes, I was even more surprised than the prince when I first came here. I never thought that there could be such a perfect piece of ice crystal in the world. The creation of heaven and earth is indeed beyond the reach of human beings." Ren Zhong said with emotion.
Li Luo put away his surprise and said in a deep voice: "Indeed, but if it's just a strange sight, you don't have to spend so much effort to bring me here."
"Of course." Ren Zhong smiled softly and lit up a few oil lamps in the stone room with ease. In an instant, the entire stone room lit up. Ren Zhong turned to look at Li Luo and said slowly: "This is what I want.
Something for the prince to see."
Ren Zhong stepped aside a few steps and revealed what was behind him. In the center of the stone room was a round stone table with a radius of five feet. There were no pens, inks, paper, inkstones, teacups, and wine cups on it. Instead, there were hundreds of stone statues of different sizes.
There are birds and animals, as well as fish and gophers, and most of them are individual dolls, seemingly haphazardly placed on the stone table.
The stone carvings were covered with dust and could not be clearly seen, but they seemed to be expressive and the carving skills were much better than those of the two stone statues when they came in. Li Luo frowned and stared at these stone carvings intently, not knowing.
Why, when he saw these dolls, Li Luo felt extremely uncomfortable and irritated, as if he had wisps of evil thoughts, making Li Luo smash these stone dolls. Li Luo took a deep breath,
I suppressed the distracting thoughts in my mind, took a step forward, and took a few more glances. Suddenly, invisible threads seemed to grow between the stone sculptures placed in front of me, connecting them like a spider web.
, there are still chaos, but there seems to be some pattern hidden in these chaos, which makes Li Luo feel inexplicably palpable. It seems that there are countless clues, but it is extremely difficult to grasp one.
Ren Zhong walked to Li Luo calmly, stood side by side with Li Luo with his hands behind his back, and also cast his eyes on the stone table. The two of them looked like old friends they had not seen for many years, how could they still look like they had during the cold exchange just now?
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There is a stone chair on each side of the stone table. It is no longer a miniature sculpture. It is more than enough for one person to sit down. The stone chair was covered with dust. Li Luo gently swept away the dust. It was just an ordinary stone chair. There was nothing surprising about it.
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There was a fog in Li Luo's mind, as if some idea kept appearing and disappearing, but when he wanted to catch it, he always missed it. Li Luo raised his head and looked at Ren Zhong, a little puzzled, and asked in a deep voice: "
that's all?"
"That's it." Ren Zhong replied calmly, his voice calm, but with a little more meaning. He seemed a little disappointed, but also a little relieved.
"Is this what Senior Ren wants me to see?"
"Maybe, maybe not."
Li Luo nodded and said: "Yes, regardless of whether this is what Senior Ren wants me to see, these are the things you want me to see."
"What the prince said is absolutely true."
"Now that I've seen it, what should I do?"
"You just saw it, it doesn't matter."
"Is that so?"
"Yes." Ren Zhong replied firmly.
After spending so much effort, he did not hesitate to abandon the stalemate battle situation in Beifu and go south to Zhangzhou, but in the end, there was no result. Li Luo didn't think much about whether this was the place where Ren Yuanshan told Ren Zhong to take him before he died.
, if it is difficult to tell whether Ren Zhong is true or false, then Ren Yuanshan's words are equally dispensable. However, Li Luo had an idea in his mind, Ren Yuanshan said that, and it was Ren Yuanshan here.
Ren Yuanshan wanted Li Luo to see the place, but he didn’t know whether what Li Luo saw now was the same scene Ren Yuanshan saw back then.
Li Luo twisted a doll and blew the dust off it. The doll was only bigger than the palm of his hand and heavy to hold. He couldn't tell what it was made of. It was ice cold, and he didn't know whether it was because of the cold bottom of the pond.
It's cool and the texture is just like that.
Li Luo stared at the doll in his hand carefully. The clothes and accessories were carved lifelike, but the face was blurry. Except for the bun, there was no mouth, nose, eyebrows, nothing.
"You are not responsible." Li Luo said calmly.
Ren Zhong also picked up a stone sculpture of an animal, blew away the dust, and replied firmly: "If I said yes, the prince would not believe it."
"Since you can use Ren Zhong and Tan Yuan's names, I believe there must be someone named Tan Yuan in the Tan family, and Senior Ren must have a son named Ren Zhong. Where are they now?"
"Is this important to the prince? Aren't the secrets here more important to the prince?"
"It's very important. If they are already dead, and they still die in your hands, then I will definitely kill you to avenge them." Looking at Ren Zhong's surprised expression, Li Luo took a breath and continued, "
Compared with the secrets here, avenging them is what I can do."
"Ren Zhong is the son of Ren Yuanshan. Ren Yuanshan obeys the prince. It is reasonable for the prince to avenge the Ren family. But what does this have to do with Tan Yuan?"