Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

Yang Xueshi said sullenly, "How did you know I was coming here?"

Zhao Ran grinned and said: "Isn't Master Yang very interested in Ji Niang's husband straying into the forbidden area of ​​Dang Fishing Village? And how can a person like Master Yang give up his goal so easily."

As he spoke, he jumped down the stairs: "Follow up."

Yang Xueshi had no choice but to keep up, but still lowered his voice and said, "Don't ruin my business!"

"When did I mess up." Zhao Ran said.

The ladder was suspended on the cliff, and there were oil lamps embedded in the wall. The two of them walked down the ladder for a while, and the water mist evaporated.It can be vaguely discerned that this is a large karst cave with a dome, and the bottom of the cave is a lake with white mist.

The tide is already high at this moment, and the entrance is completely invisible in the cave. The dome is like an inverted edge of a pot, deeply hidden under the water surface.

"Look!" Yang Xueshi pointed to the top of the cave wall behind him.

Zhao Ran turned around and saw an open hole above the cave wall, and the starry sky outside was clearly visible. Although the end of the month and the middle of the day, the soft brilliance had leaked in from the hole, and the stagnant water mist on the lake seemed to be rolling. Ethereal, like a dream.

The two walked to the last floor of the stairs, and saw a small boat tied to the lake, and the white mist rolled past, revealing two people lying inside.

"It's Zhao Jing and Zhao Tianci." Yang Xueshi seemed slightly moved.

The two pulled the boat over, looked at the faces of the two people on the boat clearly and said, "It's Su Jing and Zhao Tianci."

Yang Xueshi sighed: "That's true, probably Su Jing doesn't want to be named Zhao anymore."

He glanced around and said, "But who brought them here? Let's take a boat and have a look."

"Get on a boat? If you really want to look for something like that, I advise you to stay on land."

Yang Xueshi raised his dark eyebrows: "Do you know what I'm looking for?"

Clearly said: "No wonder you don't know?"

Yang Xueshi's face changed several times before he asked, "I really don't know, but how do you know?"

Zhao Ran let out a laugh. The first mistake he made was to mistakenly think that Yin Li was intercepted from the tribute ship, but the man in black actually said from the beginning to the end that "there are soldiers from the army on a ship." sailor's ship".

Ji Niang's husband should have discovered something when he was fishing in the forbidden area. When he was at a loss, the man in black got the news from him, so they knew the location of Yinli a long time ago. The following is actually the buyer's message.

Zhao Ran approached him and said, "Tell me, what exactly did you find in the urn?"

Yang Xueshi pursed her thin lips: "How can I trust you!"

"Then let's exchange secrets." Zhao Ran pointed at the water hole and said, "Let me tell you, what you are looking for is Yin Li, who is a very powerful and lustful alien."

He glanced up and down at Yang Xueshi and said with a smile, "And you just fit her taste."

Yang Xueshi snorted, but remained silent for a while before saying: "This mural records a sentiment of General Taiyin, the king of the Western Zhou Dynasty."

"What did General Taiyin say?" Zhao Ran thought it was General Taiyin again.

"He said that there is a door in another world, open this door, and there is an ultimate secret hidden inside."

"What kind of ultimate secret?"

Yang Xueshi took a deep breath: "There is no explicit statement in the mural, General Taiyin just described that this door must be opened every 2000 years, otherwise this world can only survive for another [-] years, and all people will perish."

"He opened it?"

"He opened it during the time of King Zhou Cheng, counting it as 12 years of Chenghua, that is, this year, which is what he called the limit year."

"But Chinese New Year is coming soon." Zhao Ran blurted out.

Yang Xueshi glanced at him and said, "It's only the middle of the year now, where is the New Year coming soon?"

"Oh, I mean it's still half a year away." Zhao Ran said.

"So now we have to find the resurrected person."

"Rebirth?"

Yang Xueshi said: "General Taiyin divided the secret of the gate of another world into four and hid it in four people. Anyone who carries this secret will be resurrected from the dead. Only by gathering them can we find the person who opened the gate. method."

"What about the things in the urn?"

"They are all candidates. When one of the resurrected people really dies, the aliens in these urn coffins will automatically get that inheritance, and they will be resurrected from the dead to ensure that these secrets will always be passed on."

Zhao Ran thought to himself, then... is he a resurrected one?Or maybe Rong Xian is actually a resurrected person.

"It's a pity that those urn coffins were burned by the soldiers." Yang Xueshi sighed, "From a certain point of view, someone once went to the urn coffin to take away a resurrected alien, which shows that at least in the past, One of the resurrected ones has truly died."

"Not one, maybe two. Didn't Bi Jia also live?"

"But he hasn't been fully resurrected after all. Maybe the resurrected person is just in a bad situation and hasn't died completely."

"Then why did you come here? To find Yinli, could it be that Yinli...is one of the resurrected ones."

"General Taiyin did not leave a list of resurrected people at all, but there is a picture at the end of the mural. I found Dangyu Village according to the instructions of that picture." Yang Xueshi said, "I think this picture is consistent with what General Taiyin said. The content must be closely related."

Clearly said: "This picture was not drawn by General Taiyin. Where was the Fishing Village 500 years ago?"

Yang Xueshi said: "Of course I know, but I think that person will come to pick up the new resurrected, most likely one of the resurrected, and he left this picture maybe to leave a direction for the later resurrected. "

"But this matter is not something you can handle. Why do you want to destroy all the murals?"

Yang Xueshi said: "The resurrected ones are the eternal ones. General Taiyin once said in the murals that if you understand the secret of life, you can gain the power of life, immortality and power. I am afraid that even if these resurrected people can be found, they may not be able to live together. Open that door."

Clearly said: "There is no doubt that if I find a resurrected person, I will find a way to kill him first and snatch his inheritance. In this way, I will not only become a resurrected person, but also have the possibility of controlling the supreme power. Think about it, It’s all very attractive.”

Yang Xueshi's delicate brows almost twisted into a Sichuan character, Zhao Ran couldn't help sighing and said: "I'm joking, don't you know the difference between a joke and the truth?"

"Let's go." Yang Xueshi jumped onto the boat, "Even if this is a trap, we can only take risks."

Zhao Ran had no choice but to jump on board.

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The two got on the boat and rowed forward for a while, the corridor gradually narrowed, and the surface of the lake seemed to be sprinkled with a layer of white silver sand. It was clearly hidden in the cave, but it was like a lake of stars, reflecting the silver light of the cave.

The wind coming from nowhere gently blows away the depths of the white mist, and they saw a building suddenly protruding from the lake like a turtle shell.

There is a stone-carved pool in the center of the building, and a hole is also opened on one side, and the moon can already be seen at this time.

Standing in front of the pool was a man in black, with his back to the boat, he said, "You guys are here."

Yang Xueshi glanced at Zhaoran before he said, "Patriarch Zhao."

Zhao Yongbo turned his head slowly, and said coldly: "I know you will come, this ship is specially reserved for you."

Zhao Ran stared at the silver sand in the lake with fixed eyebrows, Yang Xueshi bowed slightly and said: "I am also very sorry about your son's matter, please express my condolences."

"It's a pity that there is no need..." Zhao Yongbo said.

Zhao Ran raised his head and said: "That's right, we don't need to regret it. Because the person who killed your son was yourself."

Yang Xueshi couldn't help but gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "Shut up."

Zhaoran continued: "Anyone in Dang Fishing Village who made the slightest mistake will have the gold paint removed from the door. Since then, they have no one to fish with, and they will not receive any assistance from the clan when they are born, old, sick, or dead. But in the past ten years, the government The officials have never admitted a criminal in Dangyu Village. Could it be said that as long as the people in Dangyu Village are punished slightly, they would rather endure hunger and starvation in this life than commit any more crimes? Isn't the power of the Zhao family's education comparable to saint?"

He looked at Zhao Yongbo and asked, "Actually, those sinners were cast here after being interrogated by the ancestral hall, right?"

Zhao Yongbo's face was still indifferent, expressionless.

"Because you have been using these villagers to feed the jellyfish Yinli behind you. This is why you always sail safely, while other ethnic groups suffer repeatedly, because Yinli is a water monster that only likes to suck human blood. And you too Bind Zhao Jing in the lake like this, and repeatedly poured his blood to feed Yinli. It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, but Zhao Jing escaped from here, but he was exhausted, although he escaped alive , but still died. You chased him out, and in a hurry, you couldn’t cover up his corpse, so you had to push him into a dry well first. Unfortunately, before you could find a suitable opportunity to dispose of Zhao Jing’s corpse, he Being discovered by someone...does it count as a reincarnation of heaven."

Zhao Ran took a deep breath, turned his head and said to Yang Xueshi: "Master Yang, that's why you have to thank me, otherwise you may not have understood the righteousness with Patriarch Zhao when you came here, and Patriarch Zhao was in a hurry to give you to Yinli Dinner is ready."

Yang Xueshi's face turned slightly blue, and he said: "Patriarch Zhao, the jellyfish Yinli you raise has a great relationship with the fate of the world. If you can let it go, the heavenly cycle will reincarnate, and there may be blessings."

Zhao Yongbo turned his head slowly, and said with his hands on his hands: "Your Majesty, the sacrifice is ready."

Zhaoran quietly pulled Yang Xueshi and prepared to retreat. Yang Xueshi was a little bit unwilling, but he had to take out the paddle and slide back with Zhaoran. They were just halfway through the row when they heard the sound of water behind them. A silver-haired girl emerged from the pool.

Yang Xueshi couldn't help turning his head to look at it, Zhao Ran hurriedly said: "Don't look at it, it's a jellyfish that can only eat people."

While paddling desperately, he thought in his heart that Yinli had already materialized at this time. He clearly remembered that when she was in Jianfeng Villa, she was still a transparent jellyfish except for her head.

Yinli looked up, and in those completely lifeless eyes, Zhaoran seemed to see a strange smile.

With a strong sense of crisis coming, Zhao Ran desperately paddled and shouted: "Quick, paddle to the stairs."

The water in the pool overflowed, and there were dense numbers of fang-toothed small silver fish in it. They hung from the pool to the surface of the water along the current, like a silver waterfall, chasing their boat like rolling silver waves.

Zhao Yongbo seemed to have known what would happen a long time ago. He stood on a high step at one end and waited until the silver waterfall stopped before he said: "Grandmother, we Zhao Yongbo serve you devoutly, why do you want to kill my son?" ! Why did you let Zhao Jing go?!"

Yinli was still standing there like a puppet, Zhao Yongbo's eyes were tearing and he said: "They are right, you are a monster, a man-eating monster!"

Zhaoran added in his heart: "You too."

Unexpectedly, after Zhao Yongbo finished speaking, he took a knife and flew down from the steps. Just as he rushed close to the pool, the silver waterfall that had stopped flowing suddenly surged out again, drowning Zhao Yongbo in an instant. In the blink of an eye, a white bone turned out of the water, and the silver wave pushed it twice, and the white bone turned into silver sand.

"Row quickly!" Zhao Ran felt his scalp go numb.

Yang Xueshi couldn't see what was going on behind him, but seeing Zhao Ran's expression, he knew that something was wrong. He understood Zhao Ran's temper a little bit. With such a frightened face, the situation behind him must be terrible.

"Jump!" Someone suddenly shouted.

Zhao Ran glanced sideways, and saw an old man with a high forehead stuck to the cave wall, and he blurted out: "Patriarch Dragon!"

Of course Patriarch Long couldn't figure out how an old woman would recognize him, but at this moment he didn't have time to ask carefully, he just waved his hand and said: "These are Yin Pomfrets, they will chase blood and Yang Qi, hold your breath and jump off the ship!"

"Jump off the boat." Zhaoran pulled Yang Xueshi and jumped off the boat, and the two of them leaned against Patriarch Long, and the three of them covered their noses with their hands and held their breath.

Those silver waves quickly submerged the boat, and in an instant, Zhao Tianci and Su Jing turned into bones, and in an instant, they turned into white sand.

Zhao Ran seemed to see two golden names, Zhao Tianci and Su Jing, blown away by the wind, leaving only blank copybooks.

He seemed to be sucked into a memory. Su Jing was sitting under a tree and flipping through a book. He walked over and said "Hello" and said with a smile, "Sir, why are you making up for it? Is it because you met me like this Students are under too much pressure?"

Su Jing didn't speak, but changed a book. He sat cross-legged on the side and said, "Actually, you don't have to mind too much, because I will undoubtedly become the richest person in the world. If there is no one, of course I am rich. Power, I have talent, wealth, power, and good looks are simply a gift from God, and normal people will feel pressure when they see it."

"You missed a word." Su Jing looked at him and said, "You are talented, rich, powerful, and good-looking, and you are still crazy!"

After Su Jing finished closing the book, he got up and left. He said behind his back unconvinced: "Hey, I will impress you sooner or later, and you will never forget it!"

"Oh!" Su Jingban turned his head, his eyes were half covered with long eyelashes, "Then let's talk about it when it is truly unforgettable."

He looked at the silver sand floating on the lake, and unconsciously opened his mouth halfway, wanting to say the word "ah".