The strange story of Huai'an Inn

Hearing the voice, Zhu Helan took a step back calmly, and said to Chongliu, "Liu'er, maybe we shouldn't continue. I'm afraid there is something difficult to deal with underneath."

Chong Liu also stared nervously at the direction of the sound.

Even though he wanted to know how many secrets Master had hidden here, he came in in a hurry after all and was not well prepared, so he nodded.The two turned around without hesitation, and walked quickly in the direction they had come and gone.Running all the way was like running for their lives, because an indescribable sense of oppression was rapidly approaching them behind them.

The road when we came here was long and tortuous, and Chongliu was worried that he would get lost.But the shopkeeper seems to be familiar with the terrain in this cave, knowing where to turn, where to avoid protruding rocks, and where to climb with hands and feet.The invisible oppression behind you did not let them go easily, the subtle hot wind blows on the back of your neck, as if an invisible person is blowing air behind your ears.

"Master...is there something following us?" Chong Liu asked softly uneasily.

Zhu Helan paused slightly, then suddenly turned around and grabbed Chong Liu's hand, "Follow me closely, it won't be able to catch up."

Chong Liu felt as if he was being dragged and ran wildly, but the ground that should have been rough was much smoother now, but the darkness around him was getting thicker, as if there was nothing but the small piece of ground in front of him illuminated by the pearl light. It couldn't be illuminated, and the surroundings were empty.

He suddenly realized that the moment the shopkeeper took his hand, he had unknowingly led him into a shortcut.

"Didn't you say that there are strange things in the underground, and you might get lost if you take a shortcut?"

"I already know the path I have traveled by myself. As long as I am careful, I will not go wrong." Zhu Helan said quietly, "In case that thing follows us to find the exit."

The shopkeeper's palms were also a little sweaty, and he was obviously not as calm as he looked on the surface.Did he know what was at the end of the tunnel after reading those writings from the Sinnarites?

Suddenly, Zhu Helan stopped in his tracks and listened carefully.

There was a strange tremor in the air, as if... There was also the rumbling sound of metal rubbing against each other.The inexplicable anxiety and bewilderment tightened little by little like claws on the spirit.

This seems to be a sign that the dog is coming?

It seems that the dog has followed them...

"Throw the beads away, the farther the better." Zhu Helan said in a low voice, throwing the beads away first.The firefly-like light source in the darkness turned into a bouncing ball of light, which made a crisp sound before rolling away to a certain place, like a small lamp suspended in the darkness, which was inadvertently extinguished.

"But how do we find the way!" At this moment, in the sea of ​​darkness where you can't reach your fingers, there is only one light in Chong Liu's hand, and he really can't let go.

Zhu Helan tightly grasped his hand, "You can find it without eyes. Hold my hand tightly and don't let go. Don't talk or make a sound."

Although Chong Liu had no idea, he never doubted what the shopkeeper said.He threw his heart out and imitated Zhu Helan by throwing the beads.The darkness suddenly squeezed over like a thick and malicious curtain, depriving him of all vision.

Their footsteps didn't stop, and they even got faster.He couldn't see anything, and he didn't know where he was going. The only thing he could feel was the hand of the shopkeeper tightly clutching him.

Feeling lost...

As time passed, even that hand gradually became suspicious.Because he couldn't hear the sound or see the person, how could he be sure that it was the shopkeeper's hand?

If not... then where is he being dragged?

The irrational fear seemed to be forced into Chong Liu's mind by some kind of force, filling his mind with chaotic images.His hands were itching more and more, as if something was protruding from his fingertips.But he thought it was an illusion and ignored it.

Zhu Helan was holding onto Chong Liu's hand, concentrating on finding a way to avoid the dog, but suddenly felt something wrapped around his wrist.

Thin, soft, and somewhat sticky.It's a tentacle.

His heart trembled suddenly, and he groped with his fingers a little, only to find that...the beard seemed to extend from the finger of the hand he was holding...

Is the distortion accelerating in this abnormally dark and terrifying environment?

He should have said something to stabilize Chongliu's mood, but because of some reason that Zhu Helan didn't want to think about it, he didn't speak, pretending that he didn't feel anything and continued on.Because of the loss of vision, the touch on the wrist is more clear.

The tentacle climbed up his arm along his wrist, and the itchy touch made goose bumps appear on his skin.

Zhu Helan had to use all her willpower to suppress the agitation in her heart.

However, another tentacle wrapped around his arm and spread all the way to his shoulder.

Zhu Helan's breath was slightly flustered, and he said in a low voice, "Liu'er..."

"Ok?"

"You distract me like this."

Chong Liu frowned in confusion, "What did I do?"

The tentacles on the arm also tightened a little in confusion.

Zhu Helan couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "If you are afraid, think about Xiaohuai, think about your childhood, think about anything that can make you happy."

Chong Liu still didn't understand how he distracted Zhu Helan, but being able to hear the shopkeeper's voice still made him feel at ease.As Zhu Helan said, he began to recall all the happy things that made his memory vivid. He remembered the time when Xiaohuai was given blood transfusion and lay side by side with the shopkeeper in the arms of the pagoda tree. He remembered that the shopkeeper quietly handed him a bag of fried candies. When Master took him to the market for the first time when he was a child, he remembered sitting on the rocks by the sea eating raw oysters and listening to Master telling him stories about the outside world... The fear in his heart quickly faded away.

Zhu Helan felt the tentacles wrapped around his arm gradually loosen, and retracted them.He breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still a little disappointed.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up.Stepping out of the darkness, they found that they had returned to the cave where the glowing blue pool was located.Chong Liu let out a long breath, propped his knees on one hand, "Mother, there is such a big secret in my family, I don't even know it at all..."

After finishing speaking, when he looked up, he saw the shopkeeper smiling at him with bent eyes, and the smile was a little doting.

Chong Liu looked along the shopkeeper's line of sight inexplicably, but saw that he was still holding the shopkeeper's hand tightly...

Chong Liu hurriedly let go, but found that the skin on the tip of his finger became a little strange.

A little bluish and bluish, and...why does it seem a little transparent?

"If you don't want the distortion to continue to happen, you can drink some tea. But if you want to learn to control your foul smell, ignore it, and carefully experience the feeling that your hand transmits to you, and experience what you want to perceive. What." Zhu Helan said, cupping Chongliu's hand, looking left and right as if admiring, with bright eyes, "Look, isn't it beautiful?"

A burst of heat surged up on Chong Liu's face, and he withdrew his hand embarrassedly and hid it behind his back.

"Let's go back quickly. See if Master wakes up."

The two hurriedly went to a few night pearls and returned to the door of the room where the master lived. When they opened the door, they saw that the master seemed to be the same as before, his eyes were closed, and there was no trace of life except for a few invisible breaths.

"Master?"

no respond.

It seems that he hasn't woken up yet.

Chong Liu sat down along the wall a little discouraged.Zhu Helan visited the room one by one with Ye Mingzhu, and then went to the wall to carefully observe Mr. Gou Chen's distorted form.

"Boss, what do the words you saw in the tunnel say?" Chong Liu asked.

Zhu Helan roughly narrated the story he read, which was not far from what Chong Liu had guessed from the murals, except that the Shuozi who enslaved the Sina people had a name-Xinglao clan.The ancient race, which has long since disappeared from the world, probably descended from other stars.People in the prehistoric period were very afraid of them, just because they had some weapons with huge energy that people could not understand.

And those irregular-shaped monsters domesticated by the Xinglao clan really made Zhu Helan afraid.They are called Yuandrills, and they were produced and cultivated by the Xinglao Clan using a method that no one knew about.No one knows exactly how many kinds of these huge and terrifying monsters the Xinglao Clan created to help them build magnificent and developed city-states underground and under the sea.

The terrifying appearance of these monsters is enough to scare most people who are not strong enough to be dumb, and completely lose the ability to save themselves and resist.It is said that they did not have self-awareness at the beginning, but beyond the expectations of the Xing Lao clan, they formed a unique consciousness in the process of continuous aggregation and dispersion, even between two different groups of abyss mandrills. Generate some sort of functional awareness resonance.So soon, their consciousness evolved to an extremely complex level, and they possessed the wisdom enough to deceive the Xinglao people.

So the Yuandrill's rebellion happened later, which led to the destruction of the entire underground palace.

"If the description is correct, there is a pond in the depths of the underground palace. Yuandrill and the Xinglao crystal, the greatest weapon of the Xinglao tribe, were probably made from there." Zhu Helan put his hands in his hands, thinking about what he saw The information said, "At that time, the Xinglao clan was fighting for the territory of the sea with the water ghost. The Xinglao clan, who had been forced to retreat steadily, relied on the crystal to draw with the water ghost, but they didn't expect to come back and find that their home was gone. "

"The pool? Isn't it the one we saw?"

"Not in terms of location, but... I think there may be some connection between the two. Your master's choice to live here may also have something to do with the things hidden in the underground palace."

Pools, crystals, pieces of meat that look like defective products, and songs heard in the tunnel...

Chong Liu only felt that he was one head and two big, and couldn't understand anything.

The most important thing is that he still has no idea how Master became like this.

Suddenly, there was a violent shaking and a huge roar.This time, it was not from the ground, but from outside the cave.

Chong Liu's expression changed suddenly, he got up from the ground and rushed towards the entrance of the cave.Zhu Helan also hurriedly followed.

When they passed through the outermost cave and squeezed out of the narrow gap, both of them were stunned.

The stone forests that originally stood outside the entrance of the cave like eternal guards guarding the cave are collapsing one after another.It was as if being pushed down one after another by an invisible giant hand in the air, hitting the sea with monstrous waves, immediately drenching Chong Liu and Zhu Helan into drowned chickens.

When the last stone pillar collapsed and shattered into a ruined wall between the beach and the waves, Chongliu finally saw that the opposite side of the stone forest was densely covered with officers and soldiers and... the Daluo faction alchemists in purple?

what's the situation? !

Chong Liu took a few steps forward, only to see an extremely graceful figure in a lotus-colored long gown also coming out.He squinted his eyes to take a closer look, and couldn't help muttering, "Boss, big trouble is coming."

The person in taupe-colored clothes was none other than Xu Hanke who couldn't get along with them no matter what.