across mountains and seas

Jing Lan sensed Liu Xi's approach, and thought she wanted to walk in front of her, but after standing beside her, Liu Xi slowed down.

What does she mean, needless to say, Jing Lan understands.

What's the point of forcibly walking side by side if you're not a fellow traveler?

She subconsciously quickened her pace, and Liu Xi followed suit.

Troubled woman!

Jing Lan stopped suddenly, and before she could speak, Liu Xi pointed to the front and said, "What do you think is that?"

There are few people here, and many places have become spiders' nests, and the end of this stone path is the same.

The black iron fence is covered with spider webs, and hundreds of spiders are hiding in the corners of the webs, quietly waiting for their prey to touch the webs and have a delicious meal.

It was pitch black inside the black iron fence. I don't know what was locked inside?

Liu Xi raised her eyes and glanced at the spiders crawling on the corner of the web, but they were just ordinary little spiders, she wasn't afraid of them.She suddenly drew out the knife, and with a few strokes, the spider web on the black iron fence was scratched in a large area.

The spiders that sensed the movement crawled out, and Liuxi's knife was like lightning, and the dozens that crawled in the front were quickly cut in two.

Spiders are also afraid of evil, as long as you are more vicious than it, it will not come again.

Soon, the spiders disappeared completely on the black iron fence.

Liu Xi put away Jingyue, moved closer to the black iron fence, stretched out her hand to Jing Lan and said, "Huozhezi."

Jing Lan didn't take out the fire folder, she glanced up and down the black iron fence with the faint light, and reminded: "In case there are any living things inside..."

"No matter what it is, you have to look at it to know." After Liu Xi said lightly, he looked around, "This black iron fence is either closed for something, or it is the exit of this stone road." There is no other way to go, if you want to go out, you can only try.

Jing Lan took out the fire pocket and blew it on again, "I'll see, get out of the way." After all, Liu Xi was the injured, and if the things inside were really disturbed, Jing Lan was confident that she could retreat faster than Liu Xi.

Liu Xi raised her eyebrows slightly, she pursed her lips and smiled, and took half a step back.

I saw Jing Lan looking at the black iron fence with a fire pocket. This black iron was not ordinary black iron, it was refined from a thousand-year-old ore at the bottom of the East China Sea.This kind of black iron is dense and not easy to crack. It is too heavy to cast soldiers. It is generally used to cast artillery bodies or animal cages.

Fire and medicine are not broken, nor are sharp knives.

Liu Xi also knew how powerful this kind of black iron was, so at the moment her attention was all on the stone walls on the left and right sides of the black iron fence.Since it is a portal, there should be a mechanism to control the opening and closing. Even if it has been in disrepair for years, as long as you find the location of the mechanism and work hard to repair it, it should be able to open.

After inspecting the black iron fence, Jing Lan emboldened herself, holding a torch in her right hand, passed through the iron bars of the fence, and shone inside.

The light and shadow engulfed the darkness inch by inch, and the first thing that appeared on the floor was a dusty animal claw——

"Squeak!"

The black iron fence trembled suddenly, and there was a harsh sound of rubbing gold and stone.

Jing Lan was shocked, and for a moment she couldn't hold the fire pocket firmly, and withdrew her hand hastily.

The fire fold fell to the ground, and the light and shadow illuminated the entire beast claw, which was ferocious and terrifying.

Panic and annoyed, Jing Lan glared at Liu Xi who was beside her, "What did you touch?"

"Ah Lan, don't be afraid." Liu Xi suppressed a smile, she just found the mechanism to open the door, this mechanism has not been moved for many years, that's why there is such a piercing sound.

"bass!"

The black iron fence suddenly retracted into the stone hole in the floor unexpectedly.

Jing Lan took a step back, and was pulled behind by Liu Xi.

Judging from the cobwebs on the black iron fence, it has not been opened for at least decades.How can the beasts in the world survive without eating for decades?

She was even more worried about what else was there besides this beast in the stone room?

Liu Xi leaned forward slightly, picked up the fire folder on the ground, and retreated to the left wall of the stone room. She wanted to look for it. Is there anything like candles here?

Jing Lan regained her composure, she stared at the beast claw, and couldn't take her attention away from the beast claw for a while.

Suddenly, the wall lamp on the left wall was lit by Liu Xi.

Not to mention Jing Lan, even Liu Xi couldn't help but took a step back, her vest almost stuck to the stone wall.

There is indeed a beast here, but it is not a real beast, it is a gigantic beast about one foot long and eight feet high.The giant beast is very similar to a unicorn, with black scales all over its body, and the scales shimmer slightly under the shadow of the lamp, which is clearly the luster only of metal.

"How can there be a mechanism beast here?" Jing Lan was stunned.

The Jing family is in An Donghai, and since she can remember, she has never seen anyone from the Jing family researching this, and her father has never mentioned anything about mechanism beasts.

Liu Xi originally wanted to ask this question, but Jing Lan asked her first, so she probably didn't know it.

Liu Xi blew out the fire folder and handed it to Jing Lan, "The mechanism beast is the most difficult to build. Even if it can be made, how to control it is also difficult." She said, approaching the mechanism beast, and the scabbard lightly touched it. Touch the black scales of the organ beast.

"bass!"

The black scales stood up suddenly, as if it had angered the mechanism beast.The edges of the black scales are as thin as a cicada's wings, and if they stand up and rub against something, it is like being cut by a thousand blades. Such a mechanism beast is undoubtedly very lethal.

Liu Xi was shocked and was about to draw his sword, but the organ beast didn't make any further moves.She calmed herself down, caressed a black scale with her fingertips, and suddenly twisted her brows, "No...how could..." She seemed to have discovered something she couldn't believe, and flicked the black scale with her fingers. A piece of black scales.

The buzzing of the black scales was a sound that Liu Xi had heard countless times.

She shook her head violently, and pulled Jingyue out of the scabbard.

"Om-"

She flicked Jingyue's blade, and the sound made by the blade was exactly the same as that of Heishin.

Jing Lan knew what Liu Xi was shocked about, and she was equally shocked.

As a descendant of the Jing family, I don't know that there is such a place in Haicheng, and that there are mechanism beasts made by the ancestors here, that's all.

But the casting technique used for the black scales of this mechanism beast is not Dongjing's technique.

"Xishan Thin Blade Technique." Liu Xi also used this trick when creating Jingyue, so even if the blade of Jingyue is as thin as a cicada's wing, it can cut iron like mud, and ordinary blades can be broken with one slash.

It is common for this kind of military casting technique to appear in Xishan, but it is the most impossible thing in the world to appear in Haicheng.

In the past 100 years, there has never been any intersection between East Sea View and West Mountain Willow.

Since there is no intersection, how could Xishan's soldier-casting technique appear here?

Liu Xi was puzzled, Jing Lan looked at Liu Xi in a daze, and then at the mechanism beast.

Looking back on the opportunity to come here today, it was the inner ghost who launched a mechanism that even Jing Lan didn't know about and fell here.The inner ghost knows the mechanism, and eight or nine out of ten also know that there is a mechanism beast below.

In the past month, Jing Lan spent many nights alone in the stone room on the bamboo slips, if the inner ghost wanted to attack, he could do so every night.Unexpectedly, he chose Liu Xi to come tonight, which shows that the inner ghost just wants Liu Xi and Jing Lan to discover this place together.

What is he planning?

Many Liu Xi from Xishan Liu family know the existence of organ beasts, so what's the point?

"If this mechanism beast is on the battlefield, it will be a sharp weapon for killing people." Liu Xi looked at the giant beast calmly, "I think Wei Jianbai must have come here for this."

With the help of this organ beast, it is like adding wings to a tiger.

The Jing family has always avoided the world, making such a murderous weapon is quite different from the family tradition of being indifferent to fame and fortune.

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, Jing Lan would never have believed that Donghai would build such a mechanism beast.

"Alan."

"what?"

Liu Xi looked at her fixedly, "What kind of person is Eunuch?"

Jing Lan replied seriously: "Daddy is obsessed with making weapons, and he has never said a word about mechanical beasts."

"What about grandpa?" Liu Xi asked again.

Jing Lan was startled, "I don't know."

"I don't know?" Liu Xi became even more curious.In her previous life, when she investigated the Jing family, she knew that Jing Xiaohai went missing at sea, and that Mr. Jing died suddenly. No one knew what the cause of Mr. Jing's death was.

"Daddy said that grandpa died of a serious illness." This is the only thing Jing Lan knows, and she only knows so much about grandpa's life that people in the world know.

Grandpa Jing'an can be said to be the most mediocre patriarch of the entire Dongjing family, so that people in the Jianghu couldn't think of any serious events when they mentioned him.If there is one thing to say, it is that Jing An married a fierce foreign woman and gave birth to a martial arts prodigy. At the age of 14, he defeated the tenth swordsman in Jianghu, and the swordsman committed suicide in shame.

Of course, Jing Xiaohai was not the child of this foreign lady, he was the son of a maidservant whom Jing An later married.

Maybe it was because the heavens were jealous of talents, so this martial arts prodigy died when he became obsessed while practicing kung fu. That night, this foreign lady couldn't stand the stimulation, and died of extreme injuries.

It was Jing Xiaohai's turn to succeed the Patriarch.

Almost everyone in Jianghu knew about these old things, so it was not a secret.

Even Jing Lan didn't know about it, and I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to find out anything in Haicheng.

"The most urgent thing is to go out first." Liu Xi could only let go of the doubts in his heart for a while, and searched around the stone wall, but he didn't see any place that could be used as a trap.Maybe there is an exit on the other side of the stone wall?

Liu Xi took down the lamp on the stone wall, walked around the mechanism beast, and just took a step, when he felt something kicked under his feet, he almost staggered and fell to the ground.

She lowered her head and looked at her feet. It was a corpse with remnants of clothes that had been bitten by spiders until only bones remained. But even so, there was a sharp knife inserted into the sternum of this corpse. Judging from the direction of the penetration, it seemed to be the heart.

Jing Lan heard the sound and took a closer look.

Looking at the skeleton of this white bone, it is obviously a man's skeleton with all the teeth, not an old man.

Liu Xi squatted down, the lamp shone down along the bone's head, and saw a familiar emblem on the bone's tattered belt.

A "willow" character wrapped in bright red manzhushahua.

If it weren't for the lineage of the head of the Liu family, there would be no such emblem.

If this person is a member of the Xishan Liu family, he must be the one who built the organ beast scales.But why did he die here, and why did he help Jing's build this mechanism beast?

Without waiting for Jing Lan to ask her, Liu Xi told her truthfully, "Liu Qing is the only son of the Liu family..." She no longer called his father, because there is no father in the world as ruthless as him.

"If you don't want to say it, you don't need to say it." Jing Lan didn't mean to remind her of the unpleasant past.

Liu Xi shook her head, "Concealment will only make the origin of this mechanism beast more confusing. I am now a member of the Jing family, so I don't have anything to say about those things, whether I can say it."

Jing Lan opened her mouth, but finally chose to remain silent.

"Grandpa's generation was two brothers. Grandpa was outstanding at swordsmanship, and everyone in the world respected him. The younger brother loved literature and disliked martial arts. Both of them died in Baiye City." Liu Xi recalled the generations of the Liu family. One can stand against this corpse.

strange?

Not only Jing Lan was surprised, but Liu Xi was also surprised.

At this moment, a drop of blood dripped from the top of the stone room, impartially, just brushed Liu Xi's forehead, and drew a bright red line of blood on her forehead.

Jing Lan's heart trembled suddenly, she drew her sword out of its sheath, and swiped upwards.

The author has something to say: More text~ The story continues to go on, and one day the truth will be revealed.

PS: If you think this story is more brain-intensive, you can read the alternative fast-travel story "Why Doesn't Her Majesty Dote on Me" by my old partner Ending Dance. The heroine is forced to become the King of the Sea. Whose fault is it?