Under night, the train whistle sounded across the deserted station platform.
The master and servant carried their luggage and stepped off the train. They looked at the [梢州] sign hanging on the ceiling of the platform and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Song Shaoyuan still stayed in Luzhou, immersed in the painful memories brought by the dream tapir. Ji Linglang also expressed that he was very tired and would rather return to Chang'an directly. So the only people who took this train back to Luzhou were the master and the servant.<
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After leaving the station, they rented a carriage and rode back to Zhenzhou City. They were amazed at the changes in Zhenzhou along the way.
The once dusty roads have been replaced by gravel roads, flagstone roads and even cement roads.
On both sides of the official road built by the government, there are talisman lamps. Through the light of the talisman lamps, you can vaguely see the continuous workshops built by the river.
"Master, look."
Chai Chai pointed to the road ahead, covered his mouth and snickered.
Li Ang looked forward along her fingers and saw a four-foot-tall stone statue standing beside the road, depicting a resolute-faced young man holding a medicine box in his left hand and a scalpel in his right hand.
Under the statue, there is also a large paragraph of praise and praise engraved on it.
"Fuck."
Li Ang raised his hands to cover his eyes, feeling an inexplicable sense of shame.
He had received a letter from Shad, saying that the folks in Zhenzhou had erected a statue for him, but he didn't expect the statue to be so tall and conspicuous - why don't you build a tall statue like this?
"It looks quite similar."
Chai Chai put his hand on the window of the carriage and said with a smile: "Especially the knife in his hand."
"It doesn't look like that. Standing on the roadside with a knife, people who don't know think it's a robbery."
Li Ang muttered to himself, looking at the Zhenzhou City Gate getting closer and closer, feeling inexplicably a little shy about being close to home.
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It was late at night, and the master and servant walked through the deserted streets and stood in front of the security hall.
Li Ang took the key from Chai Chai, opened the slightly rusty door lock, and pushed the door open.
There has been no wind for several years, and the air in the room is dull. There is a thick layer of dust on the floor and on the table.
Li Ang took out a few dust-sweeping charms from his arms and used his telekinesis to stick them to every corner of the room.
The dust immediately flew up and gathered around the dust-sweeping charm, forming a huge dust ball and clearing the air.
"Hmph hum~"
Chai Chai hummed his own melody and put the package on the table happily. He first lit the kerosene lamp in the room, then found a broom and dustpan from the corner of the room, swept the dust balls into the dustpan, and then took more
Use the dust sweeping charm to clean other rooms.
Li Ang sat in the living room for a while. Four years later, the security hall is still the same as in memory.
In the corner of the wooden table, there are traces that he dug out with his fingernails due to his playfulness as a child;
The medicinal materials hanging on the roof beams still exude a faint medicinal fragrance - but four years have passed, and they must have passed their shelf life.
Li Ang looked at his hometown with nostalgia, and after a while, he opened the package.
There are many things in the bag, including a charm plate that needs to be carried with you, a glow crossbow, a few academy books, a change of clothes, and a metal toothpick.
This and the toothpick are Dragon Meteor. Ever since it penetrated the bronze box a few days ago, Dragon Meteor has gained a new ability - it can become larger or smaller by injecting spiritual power.
The smallest one can be reduced to the size of a toothpick. The largest one, with Li Ang's current spiritual power, which is close to the intermediate level at the beginning of the Patrol Cloud Realm, can reach 20 meters in length. The total length of the spear itself will also increase accordingly. Mo Si must be liberated.
Only by strengthening your body can you barely lift it up.
I don’t know if this is the awakening of the inherent potential function, or the special consequences of killing the dream tapir - I guess I will have to return to the academy to know the answer.
"Considering that this new ability is particularly sensitive to the input of spiritual power, it is better not to put Dragon Fall in your ears and cosplay as Teacher Six. Otherwise, if you get excited one day and accidentally inject spiritual power to make the spear suddenly grow longer, then there will be
It’s fun”
Li Ang complained silently in his heart.
The game with the dream tapir in the spiritual world not only brought this harvest,
Li Ang experienced the feeling of Mo Silk's substantial evolution, and his control over Mo Silk improved again. The control range, accuracy, and strength were all improved.
If he were allowed to climb Liyuan again now, it would definitely be much smoother.
"Yeah!"
Chai Chai exclaimed from upstairs. Without hesitation, Li Ang picked up the Glow Crossbow and Dragon Meteor, and came upstairs driven by his telekinesis.
"What's wrong?"
He drifted to a stop outside the bedroom door, and saw Chai Chai looking at him with tears in his eyes, holding an obviously smaller pink skirt in his hand, "I can't put it on anymore."
"How can I still wear it?"
Li Ang relaxed his arm holding the glow crossbow and rolled his eyes, "How old are you?"
"What a pity, my wife sewed this dress for me. I used to like it very much"
Chai Chai thought to herself, turning her skirt over and over to look at it.
"If you really like it, take it back to Chang'an and ask the tailor to help you make the same one."
"Well no, I want to do it myself."
Chai Chai sat by the bed, put her skirt on her knees, and carefully studied the stitches and wiring.
Li Ang stepped forward and couldn't help but rub Chai Chai's hair, which felt so good. Amid the latter's protest, he placed the glow crossbow on the table, opened the bedroom window, and looked down.
No one has taken care of it for too long. The flowers and plants in the courtyard downstairs have long since withered, and the grape vines have dried up and turned into wood. Only a few tenacious green vines are still attached to the wall.
When I was a child, the courtyard seemed very spacious and vast, but now it seems that it is only a small area.
And the well.
Li Ang turned his attention to the well. The top of the wellhead made of bricks and stones was still covered with the thick stone slab he had put there.
There are still a few withered yellow leaves left on the stone slab.
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It was late at night, and Chai Chai was lying on the bed beside her, fast asleep, with her flawless white thighs exposed outside the quilt that was too small.
Li Ang got up quietly, gently tucked Chai Chai into bed, then walked to the bedroom window, opened it and jumped down.
He circulated his Qi sea, released his mind power, moved the manhole cover stone away, placed it on the courtyard floor, and stepped to the front of the well.
The walls of the well are as smooth as ever, and the bottom of the well is rippling with microwaves, reflecting the moonlight. It looks extremely normal, no different from wells in other places.
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After a long silence, Li Ang called in his heart: "Are you there?"
"In."
Mosi's delay-free communication capability allows Lu Yunan's voice, thousands of miles away in the Black Mountains in the north, to be accurately conveyed, "What's wrong?"
"I'm home, my home in Zhenzhou."
Through Mo Si, Li Ang had a brief and quick conversation about the recent situation, including the two illusions he had seen due to the influence of the Dream Tapir.
Lu Yunan quietly listened to Li Ang's story, and sighed sadly when she heard that Jin Wusuan was dead.
"Even though nothing can be changed, I still risk my life for revenge. I don't know if I am brave and fearless, or stupid and selfish.
Of course, I don’t have the position to comment.”
Lu Yunan laughed at herself. She was not like this, bound by her long-cherished wish for revenge.
"Anyway."
She changed the topic and asked: "You still have some doubts, are you in a dream tapir dreamland?"
"Yeah"
Li Ang said: "Even if the dream tapir invades my brain and allows me to imagine and construct my own dreams,
But it’s too real.”
Lu Yunan rubbed her chin, "Why don't you find a top and spin it on the table to see if it keeps spinning?"
"Inception, right?"
Li Ang rolled his eyes, "Can you give me some useful suggestions?"
"Useful advice"
Lu Yunan rolled her eyes, and the next second, Li Ang's face turned red - he felt some kind of soft touch.
"Why are you feeding me?!"
"Hey, are you shy?"
Lu Yunan took out the mobile phone made of silk from her tight bra, lay on her side on the bed like a female gangster, propped up her chin and said with a grin: "How old are you from two lifetimes together? Why are you still following this guy?"
Just like a young child. You and your maid get along day and night, don't you do nothing, right?"
"Rolling, rolling, rolling."
Li Ang waved his hand, feeling speechless for this fellow time traveler and one-way childhood sweetheart - at the beginning, Lu Yunan was still an image of a female literary youth, who would discuss literature, movies, and art with him.
Now I am revealing my true nature more and more.
"Hmm hey hey hey hahahaha."
Lu Yunan laughed for a while before reluctantly stopping, "Isn't that what you asked for? According to the rule [Dreams cannot construct things beyond cognition], you should have encountered the error [Dream is missing dll file] just now and woke up naturally. If you are really uneasy, try flying."
"Flying?"
"In the first dream, didn't you also wake up suddenly after arriving in space?"
Lu Yunan said: "Use ink silk to build a space shuttle, fly out of the surface of the planet, go to the deep space of the universe, and observe the stars.
Assuming you are still in the dream made up by Dream Tapir, as long as you continue to expand the scope of the dream and force Dream Tapir to fill in more and more content, it will never be able to support it."
".That's true."
Li Ang scratched his hair. The problem was that the sky was filled with violent and high-speed flowing winds. Even Mo Si could not withstand it. "Stop talking about this, I'm going to go down the well and take a look."
"Well, pay attention to safety."
Li Ang stepped forward, released his mind power, and lifted himself up to slowly sink into the well.
The stone bricks on the well wall were extremely smooth, and the air was filled with moist water vapor. Li Ang hovered above the water and carefully scanned every corner of the well with his spiritual sense, but found nothing unusual.
How?
Not sure whether he should be happy or sorry, Li Ang thought for a moment, released Mo Si, and let Mo Si drill into the wall and bottom of the well.
The well in the courtyard is about fifteen meters deep, and its water source comes from the infiltration of underground aquifers.
The ink thread passes through the stone bricks and penetrates into the soil, drilling in all directions like tree roots.
Thirty meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters.
The ink threads, which had never noticed any abnormalities, stopped. Li Ang pursed his lips tightly, turned his palms, gathered the ink threads, and dug downwards along the direction of the water vapor.
Two hundred meters, three hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters
Boom!
Far below the sea level, deep underground where no one has ever reached, the sound of violent water suddenly sounded.
The slender ink thread at the front was accidentally caught in the water flow and almost broke.
Li Ang opened his eyes suddenly, controlled the ink silk to shrink, and broke away from the water flow.
This is an underground river that stretches for an unknown number of miles. The current is turbulent and rapid, rushing towards the southwest.
Jiuyou?
Li Ang instantly thought of the legendary Jiuyou, which has water systems all over the world, and even the underground river in Chang'an Ghost City is a small part of it.
Although the Jiuyou water system is widely distributed, there is one stream located directly under the well of the old house in Zhenzhou.
Is this too much of a coincidence? Could it be that the real reason why I awakened my memory of another world is because I drank the well water containing the water of the Nine Netherworlds?
With a solemn expression, Li Ang controlled the ink silk to absorb metal from the surrounding rock formations, creating a half-meter-long streamlined submarine shell with a propeller at the rear.
He poured a small amount of ink into the submarine, turned on the submarine, and sank into the underground river.
The current in the underground river was rapid, and the submarine bumped against the bottom of the river dozens of times before it slowly stabilized its center of gravity and sailed at a constant speed.
The more he explored, the more shocked Li Ang was. The depth and vastness of Jiuyou far exceeded the surface water system, and the depth reached three thousand meters. It did not stop after four thousand meters and continued to sink!
This is already deeper than the bottom of the sea. Where on earth is this water going to go? There is no real end to all water flows in the legend, let’s go back to the ruins
Just like Li Yuan, the Nine Nether Dark River has something special that can reduce the mysterious connection between Li Ang and Mo Si.
Moreover, the submarine fell too far and was separated by thick rock formations. He had to concentrate all his attention to contact Mo Si and use more spiritual energy to control the propeller blades and direction.
His mind was running out faster and faster, and Li Ang suddenly raised his hand to cover his right eye - a thread of ink uncontrollably came out from under his eyelid, swinging slightly unconsciously.
At the same time, early morning cockcrows could also be heard in the alleys on the surface.
Can't go on any longer,
Sensing Li Ang's fatigue and relaxation,
After experiencing the battle with Dream Tapir, Mo Si, who had become much docile, became agitated again and tried to erode Li Ang's brain.
"Stop!"
Li Ang clenched his fists, and the silk tentacles entangled in his cervical vertebrae received the order and were unwilling to stop restlessly. The silk tentacles that drilled out of the orbit of his right eye also slowly retracted.
"Call"
Finally returning to normal, Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief and ordered Mo Si in the Nine Nether Dark River to float up, destroy the submarine, transform into an excavator form, and dig upward.
After digging out the surface, he transformed into a flying bird and returned to Zhenzhou.
This is not the end.
Li Ang looked at the scene where the fragments of the submarine were finally washed away by the current, his eyes flickered, and he put the exploration of Jiuyou on his agenda.
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Wow——
The underground river flows and remains unchanged forever.
The lightless and dark environment makes it difficult for plants to survive.
The rapid flow rate, coupled with the scalding geothermal steam that gushes out from time to time, has caused some tenacious ancient fishes, such as salamanders, to become extinct here.
Dang Dang Dang!
A piece of metal fragment kept colliding with the rocks at the bottom of the river, falling down the cliff with the current, and smashed into a huge rock.
This is an underground cave with a sudden open space. The dome of the cave is inlaid with hundreds of luminous pearls, like a lineage of stars, emitting a cold light and illuminating the cave.
It also reflects a magnificent palace.
Halls, halls, cloisters, bedrooms, and bathrooms are all available. There is even a piece of farmland growing some crops on the edge of the palace.
In the largest palace, a girl wearing a light yellow dress sat on a chair and read a book quietly.
If Lu Yunan were here, he would definitely recognize instantly that the girl was the one who recruited her to join Zhaoming seven years ago.
Gudonggudong
Not far from the girl, where the bed should have been, there was a pool.
In the pool, the viscous scarlet liquid was churning, accompanied by rising bubbles, and a shriveled and thin human body with its skin stripped off floated to the surface.
Jiacheng closed the book and smiled at the existence in the pool, which everyone in Zhaoming called "Netherworld", "You're awake."
"Yeah."
You Qiong nodded calmly, then suddenly noticed something and raised his palm.
Buzz——
In the corner of the cave, the fragment of the submarine lying on the huge rock instantly spanned a long distance and appeared out of thin air in the bloody palm.
You Qiong looked at the metal fragment expressionlessly, thoughtfully.