A glance at the spring breeze

Hearing such a strange voice, everyone silenced for a moment, and turned their heads to look at the other side of the secret passage together.

"Da da da da-"

This sudden sound was extremely strange, as if something had bounced on the wall and the ground, with some short but piercing friction sounds, and it was quickly attacking them from a very far away.

A distant and deep echo reverberated in everyone's ears, the surrounding air seemed to come alive, penetrated the clothing, and sent all the sounds in - caressing and circling on every inch of skin - could be heard The hairs all over his body stood up, and cold sweat dripped from his back.

Everyone held their breath and listened for a long time, and finally someone said tremblingly: "Is this the thing that attacked Mr. Ruan just now?"

Another person faltered: "It's not like, it's not like. When I saw that thing before, how could it be so creepy..."

The one who spoke first retorted: "Didn't you not see what he looked like before? We all only saw a black shadow vaguely."

"I... Your Majesty asked us to investigate the strange noise, maybe this is it."

Li Quanfeng held the fire folder in his hand, and walked two steps forward slowly. The fire light jumped on the wall, and the shadows of the people swayed and swayed. With the echo of "da da da", these reflections seemed to become bigger Much more terrifying.Looking at the eerie dark and bottomless corridor ahead, Li Quanfeng turned his head and asked in a low voice: "Master, do you know what makes this sound?"

"I don't know." Daoist Xuan Mo glanced at Ruan Lan, "But, I guess, Mr. Ruan may know."

Ruan Lan shook her head: "I did hear this voice before when I came last time, but I left before seeing it with my own eyes."

Li Quanfeng pondered for a moment, then said: "This secret passage must be sealed by some kind of spell, even if reinforcements come to rescue them, they probably won't be able to open this gate, Daoist, I wonder if what I'm saying is right?"

Taoist Xuan Mo replied: "Not bad."

Li Quanfeng asked Ruan Lan again: "My lord, what do you think?"

Ruan Lan said: "Since His Majesty ordered us to come here to investigate this matter, it is natural to go up and meet the things inside for a while to see what is causing the trouble."

"That's exactly what I mean." He turned his head and said to the rest of the people behind him, "Let's move forward immediately."

"Yes!"

Before the words fell, the distant voice sounded again: "Da da da da——"

It sounded closer to them.

"Be careful, don't be careless." Li Quanfeng reminded.

Everyone moved forward slowly, and the thing hidden deep in the corridor continued to rattle.After about half a stick of incense, Ruan Lan, Li Quanfeng and the others had gradually calmed down after listening to the sound that was approaching and amplifying repeatedly, and they were ready to find out.

At this moment, the torch in Li Quanfeng's hand suddenly went out.

The surroundings instantly became extremely dark, and I couldn't see anything in front of me.

"Da da da... pa da."

The strange noise over there was still ringing unscrupulously.At the same time, it seemed to stop heading towards them, coming to a slow stop on the other side.

Without the lighting of the fire, the surroundings were even more terrifyingly silent.

"What's going on?" Someone asked anxiously, "How did the fire pocket go out?"

Li Quanfeng blew on the torch several times, but it didn't help, and it didn't light up again.

Another person said: "Boss, is yours broken? I have it with me." He quickly took it out of his pocket and put it near his mouth, trying to blow it up.

However, it is still in vain.

"Oh? Is mine broken too?" The man's voice trembled, "Could it be...something in this secret passage did it?"

Daoist Xuan Mo coughed, noncommittal.

"Hey, why are you stepping on me?" someone asked.

Another person replied: "Brother Lin, I'm sorry, it's too, too dark, I accidentally stepped on it."

The guard called "Brother Lin" snorted and stopped talking.

The surroundings were suddenly quiet, and the strange voice did not resound, and all the fire pockets on everyone's bodies also failed.Faced with such a situation where they couldn't see their fingers, they naturally couldn't move forward, so they had to stand still and think of other ways.

Under the claustrophobic and dark environment, everyone seemed to become irritable. Even if they could only hear the sound of other people's breathing and swallowing saliva, it was extremely harsh and frightening.

At this time, for some reason, a gust of wind suddenly brushed past them.

Li Quanfeng spoke first: "Right now, what should we do?"

Daoist Xuan Mo seemed to have nothing to do with him, his tone was still gentle and gentle, and he couldn't hear the slightest anxiety or distress. He just said slowly: "Wait."

Li Quanfeng couldn't help suppressing: "Wait?"

The bodyguard who was called "Brother Lin" before was not as calm as Li Quanfeng. He was already faintly restless in his heart, but now he was provoked by Xuan Mo Daochang's casual tone, and immediately burst out: "Old Dao, what are you doing now?" No, are we going to sit here and wait for death?"

"Da da da da-"

Before Daoist Xuan Mo could answer, he heard the sound of "da da" in the distance again. At this time, everyone was shocked and shouted that it was not good!

Ruan Lan thought to herself: What's going on?

This voice - not from the other end of the secret passage, but from the direction they just walked.

Why did the voice change sides?

"Da da da da... pa da."

"Try again! Let's see if the fire can be ignited." Li Quanfeng shouted.

He couldn't see his fingers in front of his eyes, and his heart was even more anxious, Lin's dark guard raised the fire folder in his hand in a panic, and suddenly felt a pain in his foot.

"Why are you stepping on me again?" He said angrily.

"No, it's not me this time!" The guard who stepped on his foot before hastily took a step back.

He wondered: "Who is that? You are the only one next to me..."

Gradually, a familiar smell of blood wafted through the crowd...

The "foot" that stepped on him was still on his right boot, with such great strength that he couldn't retract his right foot at all.

In the next moment, Li Quanfeng finally ignited the torch in his hand.

"what!--"

When he saw clearly what it was that was stepping on his feet, Lin's hidden guard yelled loudly, his face turned pale yellow in fright, the shadow of that thing was reflected in his terrified eyes, his forehead was full of veins, as if Was scared out of my wits.

I saw that what stepped on the feet of Lin's dark guard was a pair of broken legs wrapped in black boots, the legs were covered with dried blood, and there was a neat and smooth cut on the skin of the thigh, from the inside out The flesh and bones that were dug out had lost the vitality of a living person, a piece of blood and flesh, and the smell of rust and blood floating in the air was sticky and sticky, which made people feel nauseous and retched when they smelled it——

Ruan Lan could clearly see that the shape of the black boots on the broken leg was exactly the same as those on the feet of other shadow guards.

——It was the leg of the dead guard just now.

"It...how could it move? It's been chopped off! How could it come here?!"

"This is, it's Brother Fang! Brother Fang turned into a ghost and came looking for us!"

Lin Anwei yelled, the bloodshot whites of his eyes protruded ferociously, and those suddenly enlarged eyes were full of shock and terror.

At this time, Daoist Xuan Mo suddenly said: "Master Li, go up and hold down this little brother's sword, and tie him up."

Li Quanfeng didn't have time to ask why. Hearing this, he immediately strode forward and slapped the sword on Lin Anwei's waist. Before he could react, he grabbed the opponent's hands.

At the same time, the pair of broken legs suddenly fell down, as if they had finally turned back into completely dead objects.Lin Anwei immediately shouted, struggled violently, and shouted heart-piercingly: "Let me go! Give me the sword!"

Li Quanfeng relied on his Kong Wu's powerful body, and was able to restrain Lin Anwei at first, but Lin Anwei became more and more ruthless. other side.Taking advantage of Li Quanfeng's hesitation to let go, Lin Anwei swung Li Quanfeng's hand away, quickly drew the sword behind Li Quanfeng, and then looked towards Ruan Lan with a pair of cold eyes.

Unprecedented anger burst out from his whole body, and he let go of his voice and shouted, "I'm going to kill you!"

Obviously those eyes were staring at Ruan Lan furiously, but Lin Anwei quickly raised the sword in his hand and slashed at his thigh.

For a moment, Ruan Lan seemed to read a strange message in those red, angry eyes.

The moment the sword was about to fall into his legs, the hidden guard let go of his hand, and the long sword smashed to the ground, making a "click, click, click" sound.

——It turned out that Li Quanfeng took advantage of his unpreparedness, jumped out from behind, and knocked him out with a punch.

"I remembered—I remembered." Ruan Lan suddenly said to herself, "Ah Shan..."

"Ah Shan?" Li Quanfeng put the fainted subordinate on the ground and put him on the ground, then raised his head and asked, "Master Ruan, what do you remember?"

"No." Ruan Lan shook her head quickly, as if she wanted to throw something out, "I seem to have forgotten again."

Looking at the pair of broken legs that appeared out of nowhere lying on the ground, and at the brother who was knocked unconscious by Mr. Li, the other three people led by Li Quanfeng felt an uncontrollable sense of desolation from the bottom of their hearts.

"Brother Lin, has he been possessed by a ghost?"

"Will we be next?"

"Can we still go out? What did His Majesty ask us to investigate?"

……

"Silence!" Li Quanfeng shouted, "Hurry up and take care of Brother Lin, I'll discuss countermeasures with Taoist Priest and Master Ruan."

Ruan Lan put her hand on her forehead, closed her eyes and tried to recall carefully, but found that she had forgotten nothing about what she remembered just now—by the way, what was it that she remembered just now?

"Master Ruan." Daoist Xuan Mo sized him up for a while, and then suddenly said, "Pin Dao has discovered that some of your lord's memories have been lost."

"What?" Ruan Lan raised her eyes, her eyes were as clear as water.

Daoist Xuan Mo said: "Is your lord carrying something on you? Take out everything on your body and have a look."

Although Ruan Lan was puzzled, she still followed suit. He didn't carry many things with him, except for a hand seal, a fire pocket, a small roll of gauze, and the pottery fish that Qi Wen sent. .

wait...what is this?

Ruan Lan took out another emerald jade hairpin from her bosom.

This pearl hairpin——

He didn't remember when he bought this hairpin for women, and if he bought it, he wouldn't just take it with him casually.

Taoist Xuan Mo directly took the jade hairpin, and suddenly dropped it to the ground.

The emerald jade on it, which was full of water, suddenly shattered.

At this moment, Ruan Lan's mind suddenly exploded - this jade hairpin is -

Ruan Lan remembered.

When he escaped from the palace that day, Shen Chunrong pointed out that he had given him a jade hairpin and a hat, and told him——

"This is the token of the exchange between the two of us and the princess. As long as you take the jade hairpin and change into my clothes, then you can mix with the troupe and leave with them. After you leave the palace, put on this hat. Then you can see the person sent by the princess to respond. In this way, the mission of the two of us is initially completed."

However, after leaving the palace, he forgot about this jade hairpin. Later, every time he saw this jade hairpin, he never doubted it. After seeing it, he would forget it in the blink of an eye, as if he had never found anything. The memory was completely erased from my mind.This jade hairpin seemed to have magical powers, and it followed him silently until now.

How can this happen?

It seems that Yuchai not only conceals Ruan Lan's memory of itself, but also suppresses the memory of Ah Shan's dream.

But he remembered now.

Ah Shan, who died for some reason, entrusted him with a dream, and he seemed to be able to see Ah Shan's entire short life in the dream.

Ruan Lan couldn't hide the regret in her tone, and she said to the Taoist priest and Li Quanfeng from memory: "Meng Qishan's legs were cut off by a traitor, and his upper body was buried under the soil outside the secret road, and his legs were separated by two people. Buried at the entrance and exit of secret passages."

Daoist Xuan Mo sighed: "From this point of view, this spell is quite vicious."

Everyone looked at Daoist Xuan Mo together.

Daoist Xuan Mo looked at the wall of the secret path on the left, and shook his head: "Cut off the legs, separate the body from the two places, and form a resentment that cannot be dissipated for a long time, and then use another method to revive this resentment, resentment Gathered into shape, into the body of a living man, to repeat the pain he suffered the moment before he died."

Ah Shan's pain before his death was that his legs were cut off.

Therefore, Guard Fang cut off his legs as soon as he was upper bodyed. If the unconscious Guard Lin hadn't been knocked out by Li Quanfeng, he would probably have suffered the same fate as Guard Fang.

"I always feel that the person he was going to kill just now was me, so why didn't he get on me?" Ruan Lan recalled Lin Anwei's angrily glaring eyes at him after being possessed just now, and said, "But I have no enmity with him." No complaints, why did he want to kill me?"

"Master Ruan, when you first came, he didn't touch you because he just woke up from his grievances and was too weak. This time, he didn't touch you because of the pottery fish in your hand."

"Tao Yu——" Ruan Lan looked at Tao Yu who looked very ordinary in front of her.This Tao Yu was Qi Wen's farewell gift to him and Yin Jian before leaving Qiumang Mountain. Didn't expect it to be useful for dispelling resentment?

Daoist Xuan Mo narrowed his eyes, and his voice became low: "This jade hairpin can indeed attract the resentment of the deceased, but it only makes the situation worse. It can only make the deceased resent the person who carried it even more, but it cannot make the deceased suffer for no reason. I have the idea of ​​resenting you. Then, why did I kill you, and why did this resentment wake up, Master Ruan, do you still remember what happened when you first came here?"

Ruan Lan lowered her eyes and paused for a moment.

Suddenly it dawned on me.

——When he first came, he used Ah Shan's face.

The author has something to say:

I don't know who else remembers this jade hairpin...