treacherous world

After Zhan Zhao and the others arrived at Xiaoyao Island, they told Gongsun Zhao Pu and the others about Yueliuli and Yuexing Map.It happened that Jiang Ping was also there, and everyone studied the mystery together.

"Yue Liuli?" Gong Gong tapped his chin lightly with his fingers, as if he was searching his memory for relevant information.

Everyone waited patiently, hoping that Gongsun's profound knowledge contained even a little bit of clues about Yue Liuli... let alone, there really were!

Seeing Gongsun pat his head lightly, he said, "Yue Liuli, Yuanyang Pu, Blood Jade, Soul Bead."

Zhao Pu slapped the table, "Rhymes!"

Everyone looked at him helplessly.

Gongsun told Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "This poem is about several great yin treasures."

"Yin Treasure?" Zhan Zhao once heard that it had something to do with the Soul Orb, he immediately raised his spirits, thinking that it must not be related to Zhan Hao again, although he was very worried about him, but he was really a "lingering soul".

"Baby from the underworld?" Zhao Pu interpreted it literally, and Gongsun nodded, "You can say that."

After hearing this, Bai Yutang was slightly puzzled, "Is the baby still divided into the underworld and the underworld?"

"These things, how should I put them, all originated from legends, and they seem to have the meaning of attracting souls and bringing disasters." Gongsun shook his head with a little regret, "I don't know very well, I need to find some more classics to study. "He usually puts his mind on medical books, and he really doesn't know much about it.

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, then looked at Bai Yutang, "Why don't you go back and ask your teacher?"

Just as Bai Yutang nodded in agreement, he saw the fourth son smiling and looking at the two of them.

The two looked at each other, both a little puzzled - what is the little guy happy about?

I only heard the fourth son quietly say, "Go back~"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback for a moment, Bai Yutang gave a low cough, Zhan Zhao was embarrassed...Unknowingly, he regarded Zhakong Island as his home.

"Ahem, do you want to go see those reefs first?" Zhao Pu asked, and appropriately relieved Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's embarrassment, the two quickly nodded in agreement, and followed everyone to the back mountain.At this time, the scene in the back mountain was a bit weird. I saw a large number of cats gathered on the beach, but... the reef did not appear.

"Today's water level is not normal." Jiang Ping also followed, "It seems to be a big ebb tide, which is a bit abnormal. The water level dropped a lot in the morning, then rose a little at noon, and it all came back at night.

"These cats..." Zhan Zhao suddenly stared at the cats standing on the shore.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yutang asked him, "What did they say?"

Zhan Zhao laughed dryly, "No, have you noticed that they seem very anxious."

Everyone looked at the group of cats, and saw that they were indeed a little frizzy, and some of them still had fluffy hair on their tails. They seemed to be angry with someone, and seemed to be afraid.

"Cat cat." When the fourth son saw a tiger-striped kitten beside him, he wanted to reach out to hug it, but the cat made a "meow", as if frightened, and left a scar on the fourth son's hand. A red claw mark rushed out with a sting, still staring at the sea fiercely, and then... the group of cats began to meow.

A large group of cats meowed and meowed one after another, and they were serious and scary.

The fourth son pursed his mouth, Zhan Zhao knelt down to look at his hand, and saw a scar on his chubby little hand.

Bai Yutang was carrying golden sore medicine, so he also came over to take out the medicine.

The fourth son hurriedly withdrew his hands, "No need, the cat can find where to use the golden sore medicine."

"Will it leave a scar?" Zhan Zhao was a little worried, Bai Yutang also leaned over to take a closer look, Xiao Liang stood behind and couldn't squeeze in, anxious.

Gongsun and Zhao Pu looked at the harmony between the two young and old, and suddenly felt a sense of confusion. Do you want to recognize the two godfathers?

Just thinking about it, I felt the ground tremble slightly...

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, thinking it was an illusion at first, but before they all came back to their senses... the whole island began to shake violently.

"Oops!" Jiang Ping shouted.

Zhao Pu also said, "It's an earthquake, everyone looked at the surrounding trees!"

Everyone quickly looked around, to beware of being injured by the fallen tree, Jiang Ping shouted, "Run to the island, don't get too close to the coast, there will be big waves coming!"

Everyone turned their heads immediately, Zhan Zhao picked up the fourth son, Bai Yutang picked up Xiao Liang, Zhao Pu grabbed Gongsun, and rushed towards the island...

The shaking lasted only for a moment, and soon subsided.

The houses on the island did not collapse, and the other shadow guards also ran out, Jiang Ping comforted, "The earthquake was not too severe, luckily."

Everyone checked each other and found that none of them were injured, and they were relieved.The next step is to get to know the situation of the islands. Zhao Pu is worried about the Empress Dowager in Songjiang Mansion, but the situation at sea is unknown. Just as he is thinking, Gongsun is pulling him to board the boat, "Come on, let's go and see the Empress Dowager." concubine!"

Zhao Pu was stunned for a moment, leaned over and said in a low voice, "Stay, you should call me your mother."

Gongsun blushed.

It just so happened that Bai Yutang gave Zhan Zhao a hand, "Come on, Mao'er, go see if elder brother and sister-in-law are alright."

Zhan Zhao nodded instinctively, but hearing these words together with Gongsun Zhao Pu's words just now, he felt a bit awkward.At this moment, Zhan Zhao was still holding the fourth son, but the little guy narrowed his eyes again.

Afterwards, everyone didn't care too much, boarded the boat and rushed to Xingkong Island and Songjiang Mansion.

When we arrived at the ferry, we found that the water level seemed to have dropped a lot, but the situation was urgent, so we ordered the boat to sail.All the way to the empty island, I saw that the damage was not serious.For safety reasons, everyone on the island went to the shore to take refuge.

Seeing that everyone was fine, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to find Lao Li first.

Gongsun and Zhao Pu continued to sail to Songjiang Mansion. Although the fourth son wanted to stay, but Grandma Huang's safety was more important, so he went to Songjiang Mansion with the adults.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang ran to the yard to find Li Laokuan, and saw him shivering behind a fire wrapped in a blanket, muttering, "It's not good, it's not good!" Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao were a little puzzled , took a step, only to smell a strange smell.

Bai Yutang is the one who likes to be clean the most, so he took a step back in shock, Zhan Zhao's nose was sharp, and he also sensed something was wrong, looking at Li Laokuang in bewilderment.

"Fifth Master." At this time, Hou Bai Fu ran out, holding an incense burner in his hand, and explained to Bai Yutang, "Just now..."

"Don't say it!"

Pear Old Crazy jumped up and roared.

Zhan Zhao pinched his nose and looked at him, then asked suspiciously, "Old man, during the earthquake, wouldn't you be in the latrine..."

"No!" The old man shouted red-faced, and looking at Bai Fu covering his mouth and nodding, both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang understood.

Bai Yutang stepped back subconsciously, as if he didn't want to get closer, and Zhan Zhao also looked up at the sky.

The old man squinted his eyes and stretched out his finger to Bai Yutang, "It's all you, you little bastard insisted on bringing me to this empty island, the sea will not be peaceful these days, you are going to kill my old man!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, the old man really knew something!

"The sea is not peaceful?" Bai Yutang frowned, "What do you know?"

The old man grimaced, "The demons are rampant, can there be peace?"

"Old man." Zhan Zhao asked him, "Do you know about Yue Liuli?"

The old man was stunned, turned his face, "I don't know!"

Bai Yutang knew from his expression that he must be lying again, and asked him, "Hey, do you know? Don't tell me I won't give you a drink."

The old man pursed his mouth, stretched out his hand impatiently and pointed at Zhan Zhao, "Here, the distance is far away, and it is close in front of us."

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were taken aback, and looked at each other, somewhat inexplicably.

"What did you say?" Bai Yutang had never heard of Zhan Zhao's relationship with Yue before, what does this old man mean?

Li Laofeng looked at Zhan Zhao, clicked his tongue twice, "The secret must not be revealed."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were so angry that they couldn't speak. They were so well behaved and their curiosity was aroused, but he suddenly stopped talking. Why are they so wicked?

Just as he was about to ask, the old man rolled over with his arms around the quilt, ready to go to bed and stop talking!Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang still wanted to ask more questions, but they saw Jiang Ping rushing in in a hurry. When he got to the two of them, he grabbed one with each hand and ran out quickly.

"What's the matter, fourth brother?" Both of them were puzzled.

Jiang Ping was so out of breath from running that he couldn't speak. He took the two of them to the beach and saw a lot of people gathered. At first they thought something happened and they were a little nervous.

But after a closer look, it was found that it was not. Everyone looked up and looked into the distance, with more doubts in their expressions.

Bai Yutang saw Jiang Ping pointing to the distance and said to the two, "Look over there, look quickly!"

The two looked in the direction of his fingers, and saw that the island in the distance had completely risen like a high mountain, surrounded by mist, and vaguely, it seemed that a mountain gate could still be seen standing in the middle. Could it be an illusion too?

At the same time, I saw a large fleet of ships coming up on the sea, the lights on the ships were brightly lit, it should be that a large number of ships were coming out of the ferry of Songjiang Mansion, and were rushing to a distant place.

Zhan Zhao frowned, "What kind of boat is this?"

Bai Yutang sneered, "It's best not to make me guess right."

Everyone looked at each other and frowned—don't be those Jianghu people in Songjiang Mansion!

At this time, I saw a small boat sailing towards Xingkong Island quickly, Han Zhang and Xu Qing went to pick it up, it was Zhe Ying.

"Toffees, are they all right? What happened to those boats?" Zhan Zhao knew that he and Zhao Pu returned to Songjiang Mansion, so he caught up with him and asked.

Zhe Ying shook his head, "Concubine Tai and the others are all well. It is said that even the Songjiang Mansion felt little tremors, but those people in the rivers and lakes saw the island that popped up, and they all said that it was the appearance of the demon city, so they all sailed to the treasure house. Stealing treasure! There are a lot of obstacles from the officials, but they can't be stopped."

"Ridiculous!" Lu Fang stomped his foot. "Now the situation on the water is unclear, and it's dark. These people have no experience in sailing. It's taboo to sail at a time like this. Don't they want to live?"

"Brother, these people just want money and don't want their lives!" Xu Qing curled his lips, "Let them go, people die for money!"

Bai Yutang has always been relatively indifferent to all these things. As long as his relatives and friends don't die, he doesn't care about it. Seeing that the sky is almost dawn, he grabs the worried Zhan Zhao beside him, "Go and rest for a while?"

Zhan Zhao pointed to the surface of the sea, "Where are those people?"

"Let them go." Han Zhang also said, "I'm more curious about the island that popped up suddenly."

Because of his words, everyone looked up at the small island in the distance.At this time, a dense fog rose again in front of him, and the fog made the entire sea surface hazy.And those big boats carrying people from the rivers and lakes sailed into the thick fog, and the outlines could no longer be seen clearly, leaving only a few faint spots of light from the lanterns.After a while, those lights disappeared... A strong wind blew across the sea, and the fog gradually dispersed.

Look again... I saw that all the boats on the sea had disappeared, and there were only dots of white light from the moonlight on the dark sea, and there were no boats and lights.

"Is it too far away to see... or is it gone?" Zhan Zhao has no experience in sailing at sea, and seeing a change, he asked Jiang Ping.

Jiang Ping concentrated for a while, shook his head and said in a low voice, "It's gone! It must have encountered an undercurrent or a vortex."

"So many boats together?" Everyone was horrified.

At this time, those people on the shore of Songjiang Mansion who hadn't had time to board the boat were already in a cold sweat, and many brothers and sisters who were on the boat also cried one after another, and there was chaos for a while.

The residents of Songjiang Mansion were woken up in the middle of the night, complaining that those Jiang Hu people were making troubles and annoying people.

Although there was a certain danger, Lu Fang still sent two ships to wander in the offshore waters, hoping to salvage the people on the ship in distress.But the strange thing is that those boats and the people on board seemed to be swallowed alive by the sea, and not even a ghost was seen.

There is no sound on the sea, only the lonely island squatting on the sea.At this time, it has changed from an island to a hill, from unclear to ferocious, blocking the only passage from the far sea to the near sea, surrounded by dense reefs, making people a little daunted by looking at the sea.

……

After everyone's tossing, the sky gradually brightened, and the island became clearer.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang reached the top of the back mountain, and looked out into the distance from a high position.

"There is really a stone gate in front of the island." Zhan Zhao pointed to a gate with strange carvings in front of the island, and it seemed that there was a stone dragon entrenched in it for Bai Yutang to see.Both of them have excellent eyesight and can see clearly, so they can't help but feel suspicious—in other words, this is an island where people lived and people used to live?What is the image of this mountain gate, which dynasty?never seen...

Just as he was thinking, he saw Gongsun Yamashita waving to the two of them.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went down the mountain quickly, and saw Gongsun holding a lot of files, as if he had just arrived on the island.

"Sir." Zhan Zhao asked, "Is there any clue?"

Gongsun shook his head, "Zhao Pu took Yingweimen to the sea to search for people in a boat to see if there were any survivors. I found a lot of files, which were the geography of Songjiang's dynasties. It happened that you also helped me find them. See if there is any record about that island. I suspect that it was originally a sea tomb, or a sea city, with many traps. Someone touched the trap, so it came up from the deep seabed province. The drop in the sea level may be caused by It, and the shock last night is not like an earthquake, but more like the shock caused by it coming up from the ground!"

"Someone touched the mechanism?" Zhan Zhao sighed, "What dynasty can create such a wonderful thing? The whole island can rise and fall freely on the sea."

"It's probably been a few years. The legend of the demon city may also be an important clue, by the way... and Yue Liuli!" Gongsun said, leading the two to the study.He saw that there were files as high as a hill piled up in the study room, and Xiao Sizi and Xiao Liang were helping to search for them.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other and put their hands on their foreheads, thinking - do you want to read a book? !It's better to follow Zhao Pu to save people, but they can't swim, so they can only make trouble for others.

Everyone sat down and looked through the files, Bai Yutang suddenly remembered what Li Laoman said yesterday, and asked Gongsun, "My master said that Zhan Zhao is the moon, what do you think?"

"Ah?" Gongsun also made him confused, and looked up at Zhan Zhao.

"No, the old man just pointed at me when he was talking about Yue Liuli, and said 'far away in the sky and close in front of your eyes'!" Zhan Zhao corrected, "Last time he mentioned that when entering the demon city, first look for it. moon."

Gongsun tilted his head to look at Zhan Zhao, studying what relationship he had with Yue Liuli.

Zhan Zhao felt uncomfortable being stared at, so he had to look down at the file, while Bai Yutang beside him looked directly into his collar.

"What are you looking at?" Zhan Zhao pressed his collar, looked at Bai Yutang with a smile, "Young Master Bai, don't look at anything wrong."

Bai Yutang looked ugly, and said, "Who's looking at what, do you have a moon-shaped jade pendant or the jade pendant you've worn since childhood?"

Zhan Zhao blinked and shook his head, "I'm the poorest, I don't have any treasures on me."

Bai Yutang was helpless.

"Sir." At this time, Xiao Liang walked over with a file in his hand, and asked Gongsun, "It says that there is a large tomb nearby, but it doesn't say it's a sea tomb, and there's more... It seems that this was originally a tomb. Not the sea!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang surrounded them, and Gongsun took Xiao Liang's file, and saw that it was a fragment from the later Han Dynasty, and there were only rough records on it.It is said that a wealthy family lived here during the Han Dynasty. After his concubine died, a large tomb was built by the sea.Later, wars broke out, and because they were afraid that those strong men would rob his wife's tomb to make a living, the big family built a sea pond, diverted water to build a bank, and submerged the entire tomb in the water.

"Yeah." Gongsun rubbed his chin, "It does look a bit similar, but..."

"It's just that an ordinary family, even if it's well-off, has such financial resources to build such a large ancient tomb?" Zhan Zhao continued Gongsun's words, "In addition..."

"Besides, judging by the specifications, this large tomb is not qualified for ordinary people to use!" Bai Yutang answered Zhan Zhao's words.

The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, always feeling that there was something interesting but it seemed that something was missing.

Just as he was about to continue searching, he heard Bai Fu yelling outside and ran in, shouting, "Mr. Gongsun, Mr. Gongsun!"

Everyone looked out.

Seeing Bai Fu stumbling in, "It's amazing, there are so many dead people floating on the beach in the back mountain!"

Everyone was stunned.

"Ah!" Bai Yutang came to understand, "Could it be that those crew members who died yesterday were swept away by the undercurrent?"

"Let's go!" Gongsun hurriedly picked up the medicine box and asked Bai Fu to lead the way. Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also followed, hoping to find some who were still alive so that they could ask what happened last night.