The strange story of Huai'an Inn

The tunnel was deep and narrow, unable to accommodate all the horses brought by Xu Hanke, so about half of the officers and soldiers and alchemists of the Daluo faction were left outside to guard the outer cave.

The tunnel, which had not been peeped by outsiders for many years, was suddenly noisy.The light of the torch illuminates the dark underground veins, dispelling a lot of eerie feeling.In order to find the underground palace, Xu Hanke brought enough tools, and the soldiers passed the slightly steep and dangerous places first, and pulled the ropes before letting him and Liu Sheng pass.

The people and horses moved slowly, and it took Zhu Helan and Guan Zhongliu two or three times slower than before to reach the place where he and Liu'er saw the mural.

Xu Hanke ordered someone to hold a torch, and he and Wusheng carefully looked at the murals and the last inscription left by the Sinarians.Zhu Helan tilted her head slightly, as if listening to a sound that no one else could perceive in the void.

"It seems that this is indeed the entrance of the underground palace." Daoist Wusheng lightly touched the mural that has passed through the millennium with his fingers, "According to the customs of the Xinglao clan, Yuantang should be located in the center of the underground city."

Zhu Helan said, "After seeing the mural, are you sure you want to continue?"

Liu Sheng said, "Why can't we continue?"

"You have also seen that the Xinglao clan used the source soup to create not only crystals, but also this thing." He said, pointing to those irregularly shaped figures that seemed to be very large, "This thing... The people of Sinna call it 'the swollen', and we didn't even give it a name. Because no one ever saw them and left alive."

Wu Sheng said, "Do you think they are still here?"

"It's hard to say." Zhu Helan leaned on the rock wall and spread her hands, "They have nowhere else to go, do they?"

Xu Hanke and Liu Sheng immediately turned their attention to Wu Sheng.Wusheng Daoist raised his jaw slightly arrogantly, "The swelling has no consciousness, it's just a mess of filthy creatures gathered. I have my own way to deal with it."

Zhu Helan couldn't help laughing, as if he had heard some funny joke, "Evil swellings are unconscious? How do you know this? If they are unconscious, how do you know to destroy the underground palace while the Xinglao clan is not around?"

"That was controlled by the slaves of Cinna."

"If the people of Xinar had this kind of ability, they wouldn't have been enslaved by the Xinglao clan for so long. What's more, you should be afraid of more than just bad swelling. Who knows what else will be attracted to a place with such a strong filth? "

Master Wusheng sneered, "If you want to get the treasure, you have to take some risks. If you stop on the basis of guesswork, it's just a coward making excuses. Zhu Helan, don't forget that you are under my control now. You just need to follow my orders and lead the way, and you don’t need to say anything else.”

Zhu Helan looked at him quietly, but she didn't look angry, but sighed with some regret, and said in a low voice, "Okay, I only have one request. After entering...don't act rashly. Otherwise, it may lead to catastrophe .”

The group continued to walk deep into the tunnel.The rocks around the cave are carved into rings that spread inwards, like a spiral that is constantly falling towards the center of the earth, sucking people into the abyss. If you look at it for a long time, you will feel dizzy and difficult to distinguish the direction.Xu Hanke asked everyone not to look around, but only to look at their feet, so as to avoid vomiting and other symptoms due to dizziness.

Occasionally, deep scratches can be seen on the smooth stone surface, and there are large areas of corroded traces, which are vaguely sinister.

A soldier asked quietly, "How long is this hole?"

"Who knows... I heard it wasn't dug out by people..."

"Could there be ghosts..."

"I heard that there are not only ghosts... but also monsters... Did you see those things in the pool before?"

"It's disgusting... It's like someone's body has been torn into pieces..."

"I really want to go home..."

Zhu Helan quietly listened to the low-pitched conversations of those officers and soldiers, and a trace of pity rose in her heart.

These soldiers probably don't know that they are being led to death by Xu Hanke...and that death will be in extreme fear and incomprehensible abnormality.

When the time comes... shall we try to save them?

Suddenly, the entrance of the cave was divided into three in front, and the people and horses had to stop.Xu Hanke stood on the fork in the road and looked around, then turned his head to signal Zhu Helan to lead the way.

Zhu Helan said, "I don't know, I've never been here before."

Master Wusheng stared at him coldly, "I advise you to cooperate well. Don't forget, the waiter you care about is still somewhere underground here."

Zhu Helan sighed, stepped forward and carefully looked at the three holes.He squatted down, put his palms on the ground, and closed his eyes.

A perception unimaginable to ordinary people extends out and enters three caves at the same time.The one on the right will come to an end soon. It may be a dead end or it may have collapsed and been buried.The middle one gradually felt more and more foul smell, and a creepy intuition told him that there was a trap there.Only the one on the left is relatively smooth within the range of his perception, and although there is a faint and elusive foul smell, it is already the best choice.

"This way." He said, and entered the left passage first.

Not long after walking, the space suddenly became empty.A narrow and steep staircase spreads deep along the mountain wall.

An officer and soldier failed to stand still, and the torch fell into the darkness of the abyss.Everyone watched the light of the fire getting smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared completely. They all swallowed silently and became more and more nervous.

Xu Hanke poked his head and looked, but saw that the steps were huge and steep, and there was a strange slope on each step, which didn't look like it was built by people.This way, if one is not careful, he will fall into the abyss and be smashed to pieces.

"Mr. Zhu, please go first." Xu Hanke made a polite "please" gesture.

Zhu Helan rolled her eyes and realized that this action was a bit like Liu'er.

Now that his ability is blocked, he is no different from an ordinary person, and he can only grab those strange bumps on the wall and move down one step at a time.Behind Zhu Helan, Xu Hanke, Liu Sheng, Wusheng Zhenren also followed with a group of officers and soldiers and a few alchemist disciples. Everyone held their breath and took every step with fear. easy.

A young officer and soldier was walking while leaning on the wall, and suddenly his hands were empty.His fingertips were suddenly wet and soft, as if he had been licked by a tongue.

He was startled, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, but saw some transparent mucus sticking to his fingers.Looking up again, he saw a hole in the stone wall.Something quickly retracted into the hole.He frowned and moved closer to the hole.

However, in the small dark hole, one eye suddenly opened.

The officer and soldier screamed in fright, slipped and fell backwards.A mucus-like flesh-colored thing suddenly shot out from the hole, and it caught the officer and soldier in an instant. Hearing a scream, the officer and soldier was forcefully pulled to the wall.

Everyone was shocked and rushed to pull him.But those flesh-like and extremely fluid things stuck to his body were extremely tough and powerful. They just felt that they were wrestling on the same mountain, like a mayfly defending a tree in vain.The officer and soldier were already stuck to the wall, but they were still being pulled forward.He screamed in pain, Xu Hanke and Liu Sheng were flustered and shocked.

Zhu Helan immediately said to Wusheng Daoist, "Undo the spell for me, I can save him!"

However, Wusheng Daoist ignored it, but directly opened his palm, and a spell flew over.Zhu Helan was shocked, just because activating Dao Qi here was like lighting an open fire in a forest surrounded by enemies. All the filthy creatures could feel their invasion and immediately regarded them as a threat.

But it was too late to stop it.

The spell sticking to the mass of flesh wrapped around the soldier really triggered the reaction of the filthy creature, but it was not the reaction that the alchemists thought would happen.There was a painful and sharp but increasingly angry roar from something inside the wall, but it did not let go of the poor officer.

But he heard a scalp-numbing sound of bones snapping from the officer's body, and the screaming stopped abruptly.

In the next moment, the body of the officer and soldier was actually sucked into the hole.His body was squeezed, blood spurted from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and his eyeballs popped out.In the end, he abruptly disappeared into the small hole.The blood, viscera, and eyeballs gushing out from the broken body all flowed along the wall to the ground. The two closest officers and soldiers were splashed all over, and one of them vomited directly.

Master Wusheng suddenly formed a seal with one hand and recited the mantra, a bright and clear light rippled from his fingertips, spreading along the stone wall like water ripples.But I saw water patterns passing by, illuminating countless densely packed holes on the high rock wall, which was somewhat similar to the scene I saw in the cave with the pool before.

Now they know that there are indeed things hidden in that hole... Moreover, these things are being attracted by the pure Dao Qi emitted by Wusheng Daoist.

Zhu Helan looked at the alchemists solemnly and said loudly, "Hurry up, cover everyone with the Heavenly Dance Formation! Those who can control the sword take as many people as possible and go first!"

All the alchemists looked at each other but didn't move, they just looked at the real Wusheng.Just as they hesitated, an ominous buzzing and vibration began to come from behind the stone wall.Immediately after that, many things began to emerge from the densely packed holes, some seemed to be in the form of people, but they were not very stable, others were completely invisible lumps of flesh, or like flowing liquid, or even Some looked like strange mollusk fish in the deep sea, crawling down the rock wall in various twisted and strange ways.

Xu Hanke's face turned pale with fright. Although Liu Sheng stood in front of him with his sword, his hands were already trembling.The dense group of monsters on the high place is like a huge white wave of death, pressing down on them.

Master Wusheng finally ordered, "Everyone who can fly with a sword will bring one or two people first! The rest will follow me!"

The alchemists finally started to act in panic.Xu Hanke and Liu Sheng were the first to be taken away by a disciple who seemed to have a good cultivation level, and a small half of the officers and soldiers were also taken away.But Yujian flying can only be done by alchemists who have cultivated to the level of clarity. Alchemists are chosen one out of ten, not to mention that there are many more ordinary officers and soldiers than alchemists.

However, he saw Wusheng Daoist whirling around his body, and the long sword on his back issued bursts of dragon chant.Pure white light bloomed from under his feet, like an anemone with thousands of petals stretching out, and then closing upwards to form a huge lotus bud.And all the remaining alchemists also formed seals with their hands and kept reciting the formula for protecting the formation, and the light of the silver lotus bud became clearer, shining brightly in the dark.

The wave of monsters that were approaching in the sky stopped at the edge of the range illuminated by the light, making weird sounds that were close to human children singing ballads, but those songs were like parody imitations, upside down, and the tones were twisted and twisted.

Those fragmentary and meaningless strange sounds echoed in the abyss like a nightmare for a long time.The rest of the officers and soldiers who were not taken away were all trembling with fright, almost unable to hold their weapons and torches.

Zhu Helan was not taken away, perhaps because Wusheng Daoist wanted to watch him in case he took the opportunity to make trouble?

It's ridiculous that his abilities are sealed to death now, and the real Wusheng still fears him so much.

"This formation can only be blocked for a moment, and your disciples are not strong enough to protect you for too long." Zhu Helan warned, "You know I can help."

Master Wusheng didn't appreciate it, "Hmph, the ghosts will believe you if you are willing to help. If you hadn't led us on this road, where would there be such dangers?"

Obviously this road is the safest, but what made the matter worse is that this respected real person did not listen to his warning and acted arbitrarily.But people are always unwilling to face their own mistakes, but to impose regret and remorse on another person.Only when we attribute all our hatred to others can we face our ideal self.

After living for so many years, Zhu Helan was no longer surprised, so he stopped talking.

I saw the warm light in the eyes of Wusheng Daoist, and the air around Yinlian began to be twisted and squeezed.When Zhu Helan saw it, he knew that he had to use the secret technique that only alchemists of the Daluo faction who had reached the realm of Tianhua were able to use: Miaokongdun.

The so-called Miaokongdun is an upgraded version of the shortcut.After all, even if you take a shortcut, you still need to travel the world for a while.But Miaokongtun twisted it again on the basis of the already distorted dirty time and space, in order to achieve the effect of teleportation.It's just that this method not only consumes a lot of physical and mental energy, but also has great risks.A slight mistake will lead to unfathomable and terrifying consequences.

Some people completely disappeared after using Miao Kongdun, and some people appeared, but not in a complete state.

There are so many people using Miaokongtun together... It can be seen that Wusheng Daoist is quite confident in his Taoism...

Zhu Helan only hopes that she will not be short of arms or legs...

If he really lacked arms and legs, would Liu'er despise him?He thought bitterly.

Just when Miaokongtun was about to open, Zhu Helan saw an abnormal situation at the bottom of the abyss.Under the pitch-black abyss, something seemed to move.

What... an extremely huge thing...

At two o'clock three o'clock, something dark green lit up and spread rapidly in all directions in a spiral shape.They seem to be slowly rising and falling, breathing...

Then, the squeeze and shift of space blurred his vision, and he could only hope that the place they moved to was not right next to that thing...