Pick up the Dragon

Peng Yu waited for a long time but still didn't get the next sentence. He couldn't help but cast a questioning look at him, but the other party ignored him as if refusing to accept it, so he could only ask with a straight eyebrow: "Why...why?"

Li Yi didn't know what was wrong with him, so he walked to the bow of the boat and looked at the river, and sighed: "It's really a great handwriting."

Peng Yu scratched his heart like scratching his lungs, thinking that it's okay to let go of your fart, and put his arms across his chest: "So what did you see?"

Li Yi only uttered two words softly: "Reflection."

Peng Yu was baffled, his two long eyebrows were almost connected together, he really wanted to lift this guy upside down and control the words in his stomach.He looked at the water surface patiently: "What happened to the reflection?"

"Look carefully."

Peng Yu and Hongdou, who were squatting on their shoulders, lowered their heads together, only to see the peaks reflected in the river like a mirror: "There is nothing wrong... wait, hiss... why don't we have a reflection?"

Li Yi glanced at him meaningfully, and Peng Yu felt that the hairs on his knees were beginning to stand up again, and his spine shivered for no reason: "What do you mean? Is it my eyesight or... I'm dead? Come out to reflect?"

The boat stopped quietly in the middle of the river, and Peng Yu stared at the river in bewilderment. The scenery in the distance was all normal, except that the boat they were in was like a sudden "outsider", and there was no reflection of the boat in the water. There is only a very vague shadow, which is out of tune with the surrounding scenery.

Peng Yu bit the tip of his tongue, and instantly realized that he had said something stupid—even if he really died and turned into a ghost, the reflection of the boat should still be there, it is already a dead thing, there is no reason to "die" once.

Suddenly a bold idea popped up in his mind, but this idea was like a fantasy, he couldn't believe it for a while, so he didn't say it.

However, the next moment Li Wei turned this "Arabian Nights" into "true evidence". He flicked his fingers and suddenly the wind passed through the border, smashing the "mirror" on the river's surface.

Peng Yu's eyes widened suddenly - as the mirror shattered, the peaks on both sides of the strait, Dangkong Mingri and even Suzaku Ling all shook violently and disappeared without a trace!

He held his breath and watched intently for a while, until the turbulent water waves on the river gradually subsided into a mirror, and the disappearing mountain sun reappeared, stabilized a little bit, and returned to the original state, as if nothing had happened.

"This..." He couldn't help swallowing his saliva, even if he didn't want to admit it, he had to digest the fact, "So we... are actually in the water? Everything is upside down? The things under the water are real , what we see now... are all reflections?"

Li Yi nodded.

"How is it possible?" Peng Yu was full of disbelief, and even jumped twice on the spot, "Doesn't that mean that we are now head down? How come I don't feel it at all? It won't fall? And how did we get in? of?"

Li Yi pressed his shoulders hard, and gave a conclusive answer to his series of questions: "It's not so much in the water, it's better to say that it's in the enchantment. A enchantment made of 'reflection' should be Suzaku. God’s handwriting—the existence of the enchantment naturally makes you go astray silently, if you can feel it, then this god is too useless.”

Peng Yu couldn't help but suck his teeth: "Are they all so idle? Here is a barrier, there is a barrier..."

As he spoke, he looked into the water, pointed to a red light on the surface of the water, facing the "Suzaku Ling" in mid-air across the water: "Do you think that is Suzaku Ling? So that is the real one?"

"Maybe," Li Yi said, "I'm not in a hurry, I'm more concerned about where those people who got lost in the barrier are now."

After he reminded Peng Yu, he remembered this - before Jinyu said that the boat passengers who came here for boating disappeared for no reason, and no one was alive or dead. Now it seems that they should be trapped by the "reflection" enchantment, but now they can see everything on the river. , without the shadow of other ships, where did these people go?

Not in the enchantment, nor back to reality, could it be that these people just evaporated out of thin air?

"The appearance of this enchantment is conditional," Li Yi unconsciously pinched the pulp of his index finger with the tip of his thumb, as if he was thinking seriously, "It doesn't work on cloudy days, rainy days, foggy days, windy days, or at night. On a sunny day, when the river is as flat as a mirror, it is possible to achieve the effect of confusing the real with the fake—we were lucky today, and we caught up as soon as we arrived.”

Peng Yu said in his heart that he didn't know whether it was good luck, or a disguised "reciprocation".

Li Yi glanced at Hongdou inexplicably: "Based on my understanding of the Suzaku God, this god often does not do his job properly - he fights with the dragons every now and then when he is alive, and indoctrinates future generations after his death, encouraging the Suzaku to continue to challenge the dragons to fight for the sky. It can be seen from this. He makes an enchantment, and from time to time, he invites people who happen to come in to admire and show off, and he can do this kind of thing."

Peng Yu: "..."

Why does this sound so awkward?The Dragon King and the Liangzi of the Suzaku Clan seem to have a good relationship?

The red bean on his shoulder heard the words slandering the Suzaku God, and immediately opened his mouth to call out, but a certain dragon eye quickly pinched his beak, and unreasonably strangled his protest in the cradle.

Hongdou couldn't make a sound, so she had to flap her wings helplessly, her dark eyes were wet, and she seemed to be about to cry.

The Dragon King cast a sympathetic glance at it, as if to say, "I'll hold you back until your cultivation level catches up with mine," and continued what he said just now: "But he will never do anything that hurts people's lives at will, and besides, This enchantment has existed for 2000 years, and it has been safe and sound before, why did something happen suddenly today?"

Peng Yu fell silent, but Qian Yue suddenly interjected, "I think it might have something to do with those bugs...or the people who manipulate them."

Li Yi nodded to agree with her thoughts: "Let's go further."

The boat circled in the middle of the river, but finally failed to find any new clues. Hongdou stretched her neck long and stared straight at Suzaku Ling "in the water", as if eager to "recover the lost property" quickly.Peng Yu was not idle at this point, thinking that since this place is the enchantment of the Suzaku God, it must have the same weakness as the enchantment of the Qinglong God, and it can be broken.

But his eyes were sore from staring, and he couldn't find where this "weakness" was, so he couldn't help questioning himself: Could it be that Qiankun's eyes are out of order?

Having been with the Dragon King for a long time, I always have to worry about "failure" if there is any disagreement.

"There is no trace left..." Li Yi rubbed his chin, and said to himself, "This Suzaku plume is so bright in color, it really doesn't look like it is close to divine power, could it be..."

The red beans suddenly fluttered again.

"You said the 'life sacrifice' can temporarily make up for Suzaku Ling's supernatural power?" His eyes changed slightly, "So these people are probably dead? They were used for the life sacrifice of Suzaku Ling, and there is not even a scum left?"

Red Dou nodded his head.

"What's the purpose?" Li Yi said again, "What's the use of offering sacrifices to Suzaku Ling? If it's the witches who play tricks on it, let alone whether they can discover the existence of Suzaku Ling, even if they get it, they can take it away." What to do? Surely it’s not kindness to add divine power to it so we can take it away?”

Hong Dou looked at him rather embarrassed, as if he felt that this problem was beyond the scope of his own ability to solve it, so he shook his head.

Peng Yu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Since we can't find those people, why don't we get down to business first? Let's take Suzaku Ling away first, and things will change later."

Li Yi thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's fine."

So Peng Yu spread his hands: "So how do we get out? I just searched for a long time, but I didn't find any weakness..."

Li Yi seemed to be absent-minded, stretched out his hand and pointed down, interrupting him directly: "Jump."

Peng Yu didn't realize the connotation of this "jump", and was confused for a while: "What?"

"If you dive into the water, you can get out naturally."

Peng Yu lowered his head and glanced at the surface of the river. The shadow cast by the group of dragon lice was still lingering on him, and he couldn't help shaking, with goosebumps crawling up several layers: "What? You let me jump into the river? Wait Wait, I don't really want to imitate Quzi..."

"It's not this river that Qu Zi jumped. This enchantment is based on the 'mirror'. The surface of the river is the key, and naturally it is also a flaw." Li Yi silently rolled his eyes at him, seeing his disheveled appearance, suddenly thought to himself move.

He paused for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "I understand—this river is the exit of the barrier. Although the Suzaku God often causes troubles, he will not trap people to death. He will definitely give various reminders to those who stray into the barrier. Guide them to find the exit. This place is true and false, and those literati with rich imaginations must retreat, and they will definitely regard this as an adventure, or write poems and odes, and there will be no big troubles."

"But the witch clan acted as a hindrance, scaring the boat passengers with Gu insects, so that they would not dare to jump into the river, so they could only be trapped in the barrier forever, and then force them out of the barrier when it was late at night or when there was no one around, and sacrificed to Suzaku Ling. Without anyone noticing, without leaving any traces, outsiders can only think that they are missing, but no one knows that they are dead!"

"As for the swimmers, they are fine, because no matter what they are in the water, without the 'shelter' of the 'boat', they can always escape from the barrier by mistake."

When Peng Yu heard this, he understood completely—the root of the problem is not the river or the boat, but the fear in people's hearts. If those people can ignore the bugs and jump into the river in time, there is a high possibility that they will go back safe and sound.

The Witch Clan is invincible by taking advantage of this point—the best way to keep the prey falling into the trap is not to plant poisonous arrows around the trap, but to create an illusion of peace and tranquility to let them relax their vigilance, even if If this prey escapes, they will definitely not chase it, so as not to disturb other prey, so that the water can flow for a long time.

Although this "fine water" is still broken.

Peng Yu couldn't help frowning, and clenched his fingers tightly—is it "luck" and "fear" that killed those people, if they can't overcome these two points...

"Okay," Li Wei said, "it's meaningless to stay any longer, let's go quickly."

As he spoke, he gave Jiuyuan a wink, and the latter quickly understood, jumped into the river, made a "plop", and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Peng Yu's scalp went numb, Qian Yue looked at him and then at Li Yi, and said softly, "Then young master, I'll wait for you outside too."

Peng Yu: "..."

Unrelated people retreated one after another, Young Master Peng swallowed hard, shrank his neck and said, "That... I don't know how to water..."

Li Yi completely ignored his clumsy excuse, sighed silently, and pushed himself on the side of the boat with one hand——and jumped down too!

"……Hey!"

Peng Yu wanted to cry without tears, thinking that this group of people was too unjust, he was on the verge of "jumping" and "not jumping", finally he gritted his teeth and stomped his foot, took a deep breath and put one foot in place. out the side of the ship.

But at this moment, a pair of dragon horns suddenly appeared where Li Yi disappeared, followed by the dragon's head and body. He glanced contemptuously at Young Master Peng whose legs were weak: "Come on my back."

Weeping with joy, Peng Yu hurriedly climbed up the dragon's back with red and yellow beans and hugged him tightly. Then he felt him sinking suddenly, and subconsciously closed his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the dragon shook him slightly, and he felt that his feet had stepped on the ground again. When he opened his eyes, he suddenly found that he was back on the boat again. His clothes were not wet at all, as if he hadn't jumped into the water at all!

He stared at Jiuyuan and Qianyue dumbfounded, feeling as if he was dreaming, and then looked at the distant peaks, still unable to tell which was real and which was a reflection, so he asked very confidently: "Where are we? ...are you back yet?"

Bailong didn't answer, just breathed lightly on the river, the shadow of the river was shattered, this time it was the reflection in the water that disappeared.

Peng Yu's heart finally fell back to his stomach, and when he raised his head again, he saw a red light in the sky not far away: "Suzakuling! This time it's real!"

Qian Yue looked at him suspiciously: "Master, where are you?"

Jiu Yuan patted her forehead lightly, and the reclusive Suzaku Ling appeared in her eyes - she looked at the other party in surprise, and found that this guy didn't seem to realize that there was anything wrong with this overly intimate gesture.

Hongdou let out a cheerful cry, and flew towards Suzaku Ling. Li Yi landed beside Peng Yu in human form, and stepped on the boat to "flicker".

Peng Yu rolled up his sleeves: "It's a bit hot...is it because of Suzaku Ling? It's still so far away."

Li Yi didn't answer his words, but twitched the corner of his mouth with a half-smile, and said softly: "It's really hanging in the sky so clearly, the Suzaku God is really different... You Yuzu really don't like to get wet ah."

The last sentence he said was to Hongdou, but Hongdou had already flown away and did not hear him.

Peng Yu looked at him suspiciously, Li Yi nodded as he answered his question just now, and looked around for a week: "I'm afraid that Gu Master has already run away, Jiuyuan didn't catch him before, probably because of the enchantment— ——If we can react earlier, maybe we can catch people and ask them clearly, and see what they are trying to do with those people's lives sacrificed to Suzaku Ling."

The red bean flew around Suzaku's feathers twice, that part of the feathers seemed to have received some kind of call, the red light fluctuated violently a few times, and then flew into its tail in a flash.It was full of light, raised its head and screamed loudly, and then jumped in front of Li Yi, chirping and whining a few times.

Li Wei's gaze suddenly became a little strange: "You said that this piece of Suzaku Ling absorbed seventeen lives, but Jin Yu said that dozens of small boats disappeared here. Killed half a person?"