After coming down the mountain, I was pampered by two emperors!

Just as Shangguan Qing was about to leave, Mei Xichen grabbed her and said, "Qing'er, let's stop here today. I don't want you to take risks." Mei Xichen looked at Shangguan Qing with gentle and deep eyes. of.

"What?" Shangguan Qing looked at Mei Xichen's deep eyes and smiled lightly: "I know you are worried about my safety. You said that because I am here, you will not risk anything anymore, and I am the same. , because with you I won’t act recklessly.”

Mei Xichen felt that Shangguan Qing's tone of voice had become mature and charming at this time, and no longer had the childish temper he had just now.

"Okay, but you must follow me and never leave, you know?" Mei Xichen said and kissed Shangguan Qing's forehead gently.

"How should we find the entrance?" Mei Xichen looked at Shangguan Qing and asked.

"The flower just now has the effect of paralyzing people's nerves. Inhaling too much can cause people to lose consciousness. Didn't they go underground? Let's search along the underground water outlet. Wherever there is a smell, that's the underground passage they dug." Shangguan Qing is serious. 's analysis.

"Yes, I never thought that Qing'er is really smart." Mei Xichen smiled at her with fond eyes.

As they talked, the two came outside the palace and looked for the entrance to the underground waterway as they walked. Kyoto is a prosperous and lively city. The palace is located here, and the underground facilities are also designed in an orderly manner, but they have no drawings to follow and can only look for them one by one. But after all, Shangguan Qing is not a mortal, and her sense of smell is much stronger than that of Mei Xichen.

"Your Majesty, this way." Shangguan Qing pointed to an underground drainage well near the west gate of the city wall and said.

"This is it, I finally found it." As he said this, Shangguanqing knelt down and smelled it with his nose.

"Really? Why didn't I smell it?" Mei Xichen looked at Shangguan Qing with suspicion and said.

Ha ha. "Your nose is not working properly."

Mei Xichen used a dagger to pry open the cover. In fact, the cover was not big and was no different from other drainage wells. The two of them shrank and jumped directly.

Only then did I realize that it was spacious enough to accommodate one person walking around inside at a time.

"There really is something special here." Mei Xichen looked around in disbelief.

As he said that, Mei Xichen looked around, took out the fire fold from his arms, and the cave suddenly lit up. He took Shangguan Qing's hand and the two of them walked deep into the area one after the other.

"Qing'er, I just heard you tell me what the red dodder flower is called. You seem to know it very well? Tell me." Mei Xichen asked curiously.

"Yes, I know a little about this flower. It grows deep in the mountains south of Yagong. This flower lives by sucking fresh animal blood from its roots, so the locals also call it the devil's flower. Because its flowers are very showy and have a unique nerve-paralyzing fragrance, countless animals have been harmed.”

"But it stands to reason that this kind of flower is extremely difficult to survive without the growth environment it needs, so few people know about it, and no one will risk losing their lives to pick it. This kind of flower also has certain restrictions on the time of picking and use. It is required that it is effective only when picked, packaged and preserved during the midnight on a full moon night. Once the time has passed, it will have no effect."

"It is said that its petals can relieve pain, heal all physical injuries, and can make people stay young forever after being used as medicine. I have heard that, but I don't know if it is true. After all, I have never tried it." Shangguan Qing smiled.

"Oh, it looks like I'm going to pick one for the princess to try." Mei Xichen said jokingly.

"I don't want it, I don't need those." As soon as he finished speaking, Shangguan Qing covered his mouth with his hand. I thought to myself: "Oops, I said the wrong thing."

Mei Xichen seemed to only focus on looking forward and did not hear clearly what Shangguanqing just said, "What did you just say?"

"Um... No, it's nothing. It's too humid here. Let's be careful." Shangguan Qing changed the subject and put it off.

"If my guess is correct, we can keep walking until we reach the end and find the missing people." Shangguan Qing said with great certainty.

"Okay, let's speed up the pace." As she spoke, Mei Xichen held Shangguan Qing's hand tighter.

After walking for less than an hour, the entrance of the cave gradually opened up. Looking from a distance, a stone door blocked the way for the two of them.

Shangguan Qing looked around and whispered: "This should be the entrance to the tunnel. Let's be careful."

The two searched around the stone door and found a recessed lotus lantern on the right side of the door. Shangguanqing tried to twist it with his hands, and saw the stone door creaking open. At this moment, everything inside and outside the stone door was opened. Brighten up.

Mei Xichen held Shangguanqing's hand tightly, and the two slowly walked into the underground palace. They looked around and found nothing.

"Strange, is there a darkroom?" Mei Xichen said to herself in confusion.

"Look, there is a Bagua picture here." Shangguan Qing seemed to have discovered a new world again, and the two of them walked quickly towards the picture on the wall. The Bagua diagram was inlaid with two emeralds. Mei Xichen pressed it casually, and the door on the other floor was opened, and the two of them walked down the steps.

As she walked, Shangguan Qing felt that the place was extremely humid and smelled of rotting corpses, and the smell became stronger the further inside.

When the two of them reached the end of the stairs, there were no bright lights above. There was only a large square surrounded by iron in the center of the hall. This fence was more than two meters high. high.

The huge roots were twisting. Looking up, there is a huge bowl-shaped iron tool on the top. There are holes around the iron tool and it is filled with soil. These roots extend out to the ground through the holes.

Mei Xichen and Shangguan Qing were instantly shocked. Mei Xichen had never seen these things before and was a little stunned. Although Shangguan Qing had seen red dodder flowers before, he didn't know who could take this flower. Raised like a monster.

"Qing'er, listen, what's the sound?" Mei Xichen motioned to Shangguan Qing to listen carefully towards Tiewei, when she suddenly heard a faint cry for help. Just as Mei Xichen was about to go over, Shangguan Qing stopped him and quickly flew to the fence. At this time, Shangguan Qing was shocked. It was full of corpses and dying people.

I saw the stems wrapped around the bodies of living people, the tentacles wrapping them tightly and drilling into the bodies to suck people's blood. The dead were piled up like hills, layer upon layer.

Shangguan couldn't help but look at those people, guessing that the missing craftsman was here. But unfortunately, he didn't think of any countermeasures to save them, and besides, they were already dying.

Thinking of this, he jumped down, returned to Mei Xichen, and told Mei Xichen what he had just seen.