After I was resurrected from the dead, I turned from an old man to a peerless beauty

The cold and pitch-black underground river is still flowing, and the water waves intertwine with dark sparkling lines, occasionally reflecting the thin and pale light of a few night pearls.

The red sandalwood coffin, which always seemed huge and imposing, was ups and downs in the river, like a swaying boat, but it looked a little small and lonely.

Occasionally, when the river turns and hits the artificial riverbed repaired by humans on both sides, the coffin will make a heavy sound, which sounds quite frightening.There is a thick darkness from top to bottom, left and right, and it is almost impossible to tell where this body is. Lin Mao and Chang Xiaoqing, who hide in the coffin and let their bodies rise and fall with the waves, are even more so. Lost my own direction in the constant rotation.

"Xiaoqing?"

Inside the coffin, Lin Maojiu couldn't wait and couldn't help calling the other party again.

After a while, I heard Chang Xiaoqing in the mezzanine sigh softly: "I know, I will be careful."

Lin Mao always felt that Chang Xiaoqing still had something to say, but since last night, the relationship between him and Chang Xiaoqing had been extremely awkward and blunt, so that even though he was puzzled at this time, he remained silent and did not ask any further questions.

In such a difficult atmosphere, the two were ups and downs, and as the coffin swayed all the way, after a while, there was a vague "chirp" sound from outside the coffin.

This is the unique wing-beating sound of the "lover bird", because it sounds just like a bird's cry, so this special Gu insect is named "lover bird".

Lin Mao's nerves suddenly tightened, and he quickly said, "We're here, Xiaoqing, hold your breath!"

Chang Xiaoqing gently tapped on the partition under the splint, indicating that she already knew.

Sure enough, the two hid in the coffin and felt the ups and downs of the water waves. It didn't take long before they realized that the speed of the water flow was slowing down.

At the same time, the voices from outside the coffin became more and more noisy. The humming of beasts, the vibration of insects' mouthparts, and the hissing of reptiles voicing letters all mixed together and overlapped.

Lin Mao had already held his breath at this time, but as long as he opened his eyes, he could see the hair-thin light projected into the coffin through the ventilation holes. The light was bright and dark, and the color was changing, which obviously came from some self-luminous Gu insects or beasts.

And with the help of the little bit of light, Lin Mao did not mistakenly saw the tiny scale powder slowly drifting in along the air vents. Those powders emitted tiny shimmers like fireflies in the dark, which looked quite beautiful, but Lin Mao Mao couldn't help but tense up.

Lin Mao heard Jin Lingzi's reminder before, and he had already planned in his heart, but he never thought that the scale powder of the lover bird can be so pervasive, even if it is on the red sandalwood coffin, it can be used for ventilation. The scale powder can still float in through the small hole like the breath hole.It can be seen that the concentration of scale powder outside the coffin must be quite terrifying.

But fortunately, this place where the lover birds live, the place where all the beasts, Gu, and insects intersect is not a checkpoint deliberately set by the old man Qianji, and the distance is not too far away. Even with such a slow flow rate, it can be passed smoothly within three breaths float by.

That is to say, Lin Mao only needs to hold his breath for three breaths to avoid this big trouble.

But the world is so wonderful in the first place, Lin Maoxiang thinks so, but the development of things is not as he hoped——

The coffin was halfway in the water, and all kinds of damp, hot, and frictional sounds outside the coffin could be heard vividly. At the very moment, the coffin they were in suddenly vibrated, and then it was lifted up high .

"Well--"

Surprised, Lin Mao held his breath and almost failed.

Fortunately, at this moment, there was a sudden warm feeling from behind, it turned out that Chang Xiaoqing transmitted the kung fu through the air, which protected his air pockets and kept his Qi veins uninterrupted, so that he would not inhale the scale powder.

But although the matter of holding one's breath has been resolved, the trouble outside the coffin will not go away for a long time.

Lin Mao was lying in the coffin, and could clearly hear the continuous sound of scales scraping from outside, and the coffin, which should have been extremely strong, made an overwhelmed "creaking" sound.

"Hiss..."

"hiss……"

It seemed that some kind of giant boa constrictor, or the sound of the lizard sticking out its tongue was very clear at this time, as if the monster in scales was close at hand.

Linked to the feeling of shaking and rising in the coffin at this time, Lin Mao couldn't help saying "broken" in his heart.

Although he had never seen the contents outside the coffin with his own eyes, upon hearing the "hissing" sound, the appearance and temperament of a special poisonous python naturally appeared in Lin Mao's mind, as if the information had been deeply rooted in it. As if buried somewhere in his body.

This kind of poisonous python is born in the dense forest deep in southern Xinjiang. Because of the bony spurs on its head, it looks like a dragon that has failed to transform into a dragon. Therefore, it is called "Seven Colored Jiao" by the natives of southern Xinjiang.But compared with the legendary Jiaolong, this colorful Jiaolong is not too cute: it has a violent personality, bloodthirsty nature, poisonous poison all over its body, and its size is so huge that it is almost uncommon. Seven or eight times the size of a boa constrictor.If you see it in the dense forest of southern border, nine times out of ten it will be a dead end.

But now, the creature that caught the coffin flowing down the river and entangled such a huge coffin with its body was naturally the colorful dragon.

Why did this rare poison inexplicably see a coffin in a river?

Lin Mao was also puzzled at first, but suddenly he thought of the coiled dragon wooden relief carved by skilled craftsmen outside his coffin.Suddenly there was a slight movement in his heart, and he connected the things together—could it be such unlucky luck?

Lin Mao almost wanted to cry out.

The Panlong engraved on the relief is also covered with scales, with teeth and claws, lifelike.At this time, the outside of the coffin must be covered with the scale powder of the lover bird. With the refraction of the waves of the underground river, the Panlong on the coffin, in the eyes of the colorful dragon, is not a beautiful, magnificent and unparalleled beauty snake?

That's why it jumped into the water so eagerly, coiled up the coffin in the middle of the river, and kept rubbing and begging for sex.

Suddenly, cold sweat broke out on Lin Mao's forehead.

The coffin was strangled by giant beasts like the Qicai Jiao, not to mention that after the coffin broke, he and Xiaoqing fell into the water and were stained with the scales of the lover bird. Jiao has been trapped here for a long time, but Lin Mao's breath-holding skills can't last that long...

For a moment, Lin Mao was very anxious.

The creaking of the coffin became louder, and the heavy breathing of the colorful dragon seemed to be getting closer.

Probably because of his anxiety, Lin Mao's heart beat fast, and the breath-holding skill that could last up to three breaths gradually became unbearable.

Seeing the scales stained on the coffin lid, Lin Mao was so anxious that his eyes turned black and his hands were involuntarily clenched on both sides of his body.

But at this moment, he only heard a light "click" sound from the flap at his feet, and a warm body crawled to his side as nimbly as a gecko.

Xiaoqing?

As soon as Chang Xiaoqing came to Lin Mao's side, Lin Mao's heart relaxed involuntarily, as if all problems could be solved as long as he was by his side.

The movable cover was just for Chang Xiaoqing and Ji Wuming to climb out of the mezzanine and hide in the coffin to surprise the old man Qianji after they arrived inside the palace, but they did not expect that it would be of great use in such a scene .

Lin Mao turned his face towards the direction where Chang Xiaoqing was crawling, but the light inside the coffin was dim, and Chang Xiaoqing's face was also wrapped in darkness.

But the aura on his body was as reassuring and warm as ever.

【Master. 】

Lin Mao heard a soft call, it was Chang Xiaoqing who spoke to him with a secret voice piercing his ears.

Lin Mao was waiting to reply, when he suddenly remembered that he was holding his breath, with his martial arts, it was really impossible for Chang Xiaoqing to be able to transmit sound while holding his breath like Chang Xiaoqing.

However, Chang Xiaoqing had already noticed Lin Mao's distress, and reached out a hand involuntarily, and grabbed Lin Mao firmly.

[Don't be afraid, I'm here, no matter what happens, as long as I'm here, I can protect you. 】

Chang Xiaoqing said that Lin Mao only felt that the hand he was holding her was as hot as a soldering iron.

And at this moment, Lin Mao suddenly felt his whole body was spinning, and the coffin was shaking like dice in a drawer on a gambling table.It's just that there are not two frightened people trapped in the dice like in the coffin. Lin Mao doesn't remember how many times he has been thrown against the coffin wall. The only thing he knows is that no matter how Tossing and rolling, Chang Xiaoqing always held him firmly in her arms, truly fulfilling her promise to protect Lin Mao no matter what happened.

As for the two people who were suddenly in danger, it was actually because the seven-colored dragon outside the coffin was already surging with energy and blood under the action of the scale powder, begging the "beautiful snake" in the river for a long time without any response, and has a violent nature The Qicai Jiao was furious immediately, rolled up the coffin and kept shaking it.

However, Qicaijiao's actions vented a lot of evil fire, but it made Lin Mao and Chang Xiaoqing suffer.

Among them, Chang Xiaoqing was fine, after all, with his advanced martial arts, he was not afraid of bumps and rolls.

But Lin Mao was already unable to hold his breath, and after all this tossing, he seemed to be completely unable to hold his breath.And at this moment, Chang Xiaoqing suddenly pulled him hard, and pressed his lips against him.

thumping—

It must be because the breath is held for too long, so the heartbeat is so fast.

At this moment, Lin Mao clearly felt his heart beating vigorously in his chest.

The dry and warm breath on Chang Xiaoqing's body, as well as his warm lips, obviously the scene and timing were completely different from the previous night, but Lin Mao was still in a trance for a moment.

It seemed that the kiss last night was never over from beginning to end, but he was still immersed in Chang Xiaoqing's kiss.

In the darkness, Lin Mao closed his eyes almost subconsciously.But Chang Xiaoqing didn't wantonly violate his lips and tongue as he thought.

A warm breath came from Chang Xiaoqing's mouth, entered Lin Mao's body, and continued Lin Mao's completely broken breath-holding skills.

Chang Xiaoqing was just helping him to breathe——

Lin Mao suddenly woke up from the trance atmosphere.

Before he had time to think about how bad his previous behavior was, the situation outside the coffin suddenly changed.

First, an extremely sharp whistle pierced the silent sound of water.

Then there are repeated "swish" sounds, which are the friction sounds made by countless fine scales crawling on rocks and soil.

And just after this whistle sounded, Lin Mao suddenly felt the coffin shake, and then his body was empty.

The coffin was thrown back into the water by the colorful dragon.

The rushing water of the river slapped against the outer wall of the coffin, but the sound was so rejoicing in Lin Mao's ears.

Because soon the two people in the coffin noticed that the red sandalwood coffin began to float down the water again.

And outside the coffin, the promiscuous sounds of all kinds of beasts also completely faded away, only the strange sound of the flute and the scraping sound of countless scales lingered--of course, the sound of the flute was not pleasant , you can hardly even connect it with music.

It sounded more like the weeping cry of some unknown little beast, even though Chang Xiaoqing and Lin Mao were not those beasts infected by the lover's bird scale powder, when they heard this sound, There will still be a sense of indescribable horror.

Lin Mao felt that Chang Xiaoqing's strength in hugging him seemed to be stronger, but he did not make any resistance.The two hugged each other tightly like this, and walked unsteadily in the rushing river for a long while.

Finally, Chang Xiaoqing finally let go of Lin Mao until the sound of the flute had faded away.

The scale powder remaining in the coffin has lost its previous brilliant luster, which shows that they finally passed the water area where the lover bird was.

Neither Lin Mao nor Chang Xiaoqing mentioned the strangeness of the previous breath—Lin Mao would never forget that he couldn't help hugging Chang Xiaoqing at that moment.

His fingertips were almost sinking into the solid muscles of Chang Xiaoqing's shoulder.

That is definitely not the behavior that a master and apprentice should have during normal breathing.

But even though the two of them never mentioned this matter, the aura emanating from Chang Xiaoqing beside him in the dark was much more relaxed and joyful than before.

One of the manifestations is that Chang Xiaoqing changed her previous silence and started chattering around Lin Mao instead.

"What's the matter with the sound of the flute? Master has a conclusion in mind?"

The voice was obviously still piercing through the ears with the secret voice, but it sounded infinitely tender and sweet.

Lin Mao knew that the two of them were in a difficult situation now, but he couldn't help but feel slightly hot because of the ambiguity in Chang Xiaoqing's words.

He drove Chang Xiaoqing back to the mezzanine, and after pondering for a moment, he said: "I'm afraid there is someone helping."

Lin Mao didn't say much, but his heart was clear.

He may have misidentified many things, but the scene in Wangyou Valley when he was young has always been unforgettable, so he will never misidentify where the extremely difficult flute sound came from.

Junior sister...

Are you here too?

Lin Mao asked softly in his heart.

At the beginning, Lin Zhong took the thunderbolt explosion as an opportunity for the two to separate, and Lin Mao gave any hope for the two to reunite.

But he didn't expect that it was he who helped him out of the predicament now.

That flute exorcising Gu is an undisclosed secret of the Southern Border Poison King's sect. Although it is extremely powerful, it will do more harm to the flute player.Lin Mao hardly dared to think about how much pain Yao Xianxian had suffered by using a bamboo flute to drive ten thousand snakes to drive away lover birds, and even force a giant like Qicai Jiao to let go of its prey.

He didn't know whether the sudden appearance of the little junior sister was because of the entrustment of the Chizheng mansion, or because he had heard the news and came to help?

All kinds of thoughts gathered in Lin Mao's heart, which disturbed him, but also made him feel a kind of warmth that could not be described in detail.

To have old friends from the Wangyou Valley period come to help, even if he died during this trip, he would not be considered lonely.

With a smile on the corner of Lin Mao's mouth, he couldn't help but gently touched the magic lamp in his arms, feeling at ease.

In such a mood, the coffin continued to swing along the water for a long distance, but the air vents lit up, and there were faint voices of people and soldiers.

"Hey, how did this coffin become like this?"

Lin Mao heard a low cry, and then the coffin seemed to touch something, shook slightly, and then stopped.

And the person who whispered was obviously an eunuch, his voice was high-pitched and sharp, full of fear.

I'm afraid this is the end of the underground river, the underground imperial city.

Lin Mao quickly held his breath, closed his eyes and lay down in the coffin, continuing to pretend to be dead.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the coffin to be carried out from the underground river. Someone even opened the coffin lid and looked at Lin Mao's "remains" carefully.

"Ouch, I was scared to death—fortunately, the corpse looks fine."

The eunuch from before patted his chest and muttered repeatedly.

"Eunuch Zhang, don't be surprised, I'm almost scared to death by you."

Another eunuch seemed to come over, glanced at Lin Mao and said softly.

The man who was called Eunuch Zhang replied angrily, "Tsk, if you handle this matter, aren't you afraid? Today is different from the past, if something goes wrong on the errand... the end will be too scary."

When it comes to making mistakes on errands, Eunuch Zhang seems to be taboo about something, and he didn't even elaborate on what the frightening end was.

Sure enough, when he heard Eunuch Zhang's words, the person next to him was speechless, and he continued after a while: "Forget it, forget it, I don't know what I'm thinking, let's just send a corpse in, let's take the road Can’t you? You have to take the waterway, look at this coffin, tsk, it’s good if it didn’t sink halfway.”

Eunuch Zhang replied with a bitter smile: "Forget it, what are you talking about, can you get to this place by road? Didn't you and I come in by boat at the beginning. Besides, I heard people tell me that there are actually people Look at it, after all there are so many immortals, insects and beasts, I am afraid that something might go wrong and the coffin will disappear."

Obviously, these two people have not yet been made into puppets, so they can still whisper together, everyone's voice is suppressed lightly and quickly, even if they stand a few steps away, they may not be able to hear what they are talking about.

However, as a "corpse", Lin Mao was right next to the two of them, and their questions and answers could be heard clearly.

When he heard that there were people looking at the coffin along the way, Lin Mao couldn't help being surprised.

First of all, he started to worry about the safety of his junior sister. After all, he drove the long snake like that, and the scene was not a big one.Secondly, I was worried about myself and Xiaoqing. Although I hid in the coffin and never saw anyone along the way, there were many hugging and secret voice piercing behaviors before. I don't know if it is possible to be noticed. .

In the end, he still had some doubts in his heart. According to what the two little eunuchs said, the underground river seems to be densely covered with all kinds of Gu insects and strange beasts as guards, but why did he and Chang Xiaoqing go all the way and met the lover bird? It's a little troublesome, but it's peaceful at other times?

Was it because he and Chang Xiaoqing had special physiques that those Gu worms and strange beasts never detected and stopped them?

Amidst such turbulent thoughts, Lin Mao felt his eyes darken, and the coffin lid was closed by the little eunuch.

"I've seen it. It's indeed a corpse. It doesn't look strange. Send it to the imperial city according to the order of your superiors?"

Lin Mao heard the little eunuch whispering outside the coffin.

With a thought in his mind, he got up quietly on an impulse, put his eyes on the air hole and looked out.

Only then did I realize that where I am now is a stone pier.

It's just that there are countless night pearls on the ground, walls and even the ceiling of the pier, and the slightly bluish light illuminates the whole world.

And the little eunuch was just as he had imagined, not very old - if the normal procedures were followed, he should be just a small handyman in the palace at this time.But Lin Mao glanced over, only to find that the other party was wearing the clothes of the eunuch in charge.

Looking at his friend, they are also about the same age, the two children are both pale and panic-stricken.

As for the "servants" they are ordering, they are all tall and powerful martial arts masters with a calm and majestic breath.

It's just that the pupils of these people are all pitch-black, without any semblance of aura, and one can tell at a glance that they are made into living puppets by unknown secret methods just like the subordinates of the water ghost head.

Lin Mao's heartbeat quickened slightly. He watched in silence as he was trapped in the coffin, and was picked up by those puppets. He walked towards the corridor on the other side of the pier step by step.

The layout of the corridor is weird, and there are almost exactly the same forks and secret doors everywhere. Obviously, if someone tries to enter the underground imperial city from the outside, they will suffer a lot just in this corridor.

Not to mention the lingering smell of blood that filled the entire corridor.

With the light of the same bright night pearl in the corridor, Lin Mao could clearly see the dark red stain under the corridor in the corner.

You don't need to think about it, but you know that something tragic happened here not long ago.