across mountains and seas

While Jing Lan and Liu Xi concentrated on cracking the stone gate, Youyou followed the secret path in the inner layer of the cave to the outside of the cave.The handsome servants brought chairs and tea, and waited for Youyou to sit down and have a rest.

Youyou untied the pipe, and the young man came forward, added some tobacco and lit the fire.

She took a sip, exhaled a smoke ring, and let out a long breath of relief.

"What happened to Jing's ship?" Youyou asked the middle-aged man standing beside him.

The middle-aged man replied earnestly: "My lord, the water ghosts have all entered the sea, and they will surely scuttle the ship and cut off their way of life."

"Where is the bronze gate?" Youyou asked again.

The middle-aged man continued to answer: "Those Jing's guards are still smashing the door, even if they give them ten days and a half a month, they won't be able to break it open."

"Keep an eye on these people." After Youyou finished speaking, she took another drag on her cigarette, and gave the boy on the right a wink with her squinting eyes.

The servant waved his hand, leading all the servants back ten steps respectfully.

The middle-aged man bowed his hands and stepped back.

Youyou put the pipe aside, took out a sheepskin picture from her bosom, laid it on her knees and unfolded it slowly - the waves are choppy, and the spiral castle stands like a fairy island of Penglai in the depths of the blue sea.

"Sea Dragon City..." Youyou murmured softly, looking up at the distant black East China Sea.

The place where she was sitting used to be the highest star-seeking building in Sea Dragon City.

Although he didn't see the grand scene of Sea Dragon City passed down by his ancestors, as long as Youyou closed his eyes, he could imagine the prosperity of Sea Dragon City from the sheepskin portrait.

Youyou chuckled meaningfully, lightly scratched her fingernails coated with begonia flower juice, and a hole opened on the edge of the sheepskin figure.

She lowered her head and carefully tore off the upper layer of the sheepskin map, revealing the lower layer of the underground palace drawing.

The map of the underground palace only shows part of the topographical map of the underground palace - [Xiantoumen], [Broken Shadow Road], [Relief Gallery], [Town Tomb Coffin].Yes, the drawings stopped abruptly here, and nothing was drawn behind.

Because, three years ago, Jing Xiaohai only came to the [Town Tomb Coffin].

The faint smile on the corner of her mouth was intriguing, she prepared a surprise for Liu Xi and Jing Lan, and hoped that they would give her a surprise in return.

She put the two layers of sheepskin together again, put it carefully in her arms, and called out with a side face: "Go to two people, keep an eye on Liu Xi and Jing Lan, if necessary, help me if you can, I think the two of them can Live a little longer, at least help me open a few trap doors."

"Yes, my lord." The servant nodded respectfully

Youyou suddenly frowned, and said distressedly: "Go to a few people and help Azao collect a corpse. It took me so many years of money for this girl, and I must not leave it here for ants and spiders to eat."

"Yes!"

The boys divided the tasks among each other and went to work separately.

Youyou sighed softly, "Azao, I hope you didn't die in vain."

Besides, Jing Lan and Liu Xi checked repeatedly for a long time in front of the Pisces stone gate. There was no knocker on the gate, and there were no protruding or concave traps around it.

Jing Lan and Liu Xi finally looked up at the Pisces on the stone gate by coincidence. The mechanism to open the stone gate can only be here.

"I'll try it."

As soon as Jing Lan finished speaking, she jumped up and tapped Pisces with her gaze.

Pisces was motionless, and Shimen was also motionless.

Liu Xi listened to the stone door for a while, but there was no abnormal sound inside.

"Could it be that the Pisces is spinning?" Jing Lan took a closer look at Pisces' eyes, only the eyes were sunken.However, there is no place to step on here, and she can't do it by herself if she wants to stab the sword into Pisces' eyes accurately.

"Alan, you stab the top one, I'll stab the bottom one, and try to turn it down together." Liu Xi pulled out Jingyue, "I'll count to three, let's go up together."

Jing Lan nodded, and pulled Ning Guang out of the scabbard.

"One"

"two"

"three!"

The two jumped up at the same time, piercing Pisces' eyes with a knife and a sword, and forced Pisces to turn half an arc by virtue of the momentum of the fall.

"Giggle!"

The sound of locomotives suddenly sounded inside the stone door, and then the stone door was slowly separated from the middle by about the width of a body.

A pungent rancid smell came from inside.

Liu Xi covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves, but saw Jing Lan walking towards the nearest stone lamp, "Ah Lan?"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Jing Lan only felt the pain of the tiger's stuttering, and forcibly cut off the stone lamp and the stone seat on the wall with condensed light.

With some difficulty, she picked up the stone lamp, walked to the middle of the stone door, held her breath, put down the stone lamp, and squeezed between the stone doors.

"I'd like to see, how did you break my back this time?" Jing Lan explained casually, covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve, and glanced inside under the dim light of the stone lamp.

The stone walls inside all have a tinge of cyan fluorescence, as if carved out of luminous stone, the deeper the cyan, the brighter it is.

There are many inscriptions engraved on the stone wall. It is far away here, and Jing Lan can't tell what is written on it.Broken coffin boards were scattered on the ground, and it seemed that people had been inside, and they even searched inside.

Since the coffin board is open, the corpse or murderous thing inside the coffin should be outside.

If this Hailong Mausoleum was the tomb of the Ye family's royal family more than 200 years ago, the corpses or murderous objects in the coffin should have decayed long ago.

Jing Lan subconsciously glanced at the flame of the stone lantern placed between the stone gate, the flame was still there and did not intend to go out.

The airflow in this tomb is smooth, so it is not a suitable place to store corpses.

No matter what, the rancid smell could not come from the corpses or murderous objects in the coffin.In other words, there should be other corpses in this coffin, and those corpses should have died in it in recent years.

Jing Lan's heart palpitated inexplicably, and suddenly her heart felt cold.

Please, please don't be your father.

Jing Lan prayed silently in her heart, her expression became extremely solemn.

Liu Xi fanned the rancid smell from the crack of the door with his sleeve, "Why don't you go in later?"

"No, I can bear it." Jing Lan rubbed her nose, held Ning Guang and slipped through the crack of the door first, took only one step forward, and then stayed where she was in shock.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that her expression was wrong, Liu Xi quickly got in and followed Jing Lan's line of sight.

I saw a man and a beast deadlocked on the dragon-carved stone wall facing the head of the coffin—the man who had been dead for a long time hung his head, his chest was pierced by the dragon's claws, his hands clasped the broken spear point, and stabbed squarely. It entered the brain of the giant beast in front of him.

There was an iron chain around the giant beast's neck, and the other end of the iron chain was wrapped around the bronze feet of the coffin. It seemed that the giant beast forcibly dragged the heavy bronze giant coffin and pushed the man against the stone wall.

Although I didn't see with my own eyes how fierce the man and beast fought at that time, judging from the mess of the tomb, it must be that this person bound the giant beast with iron chains, but I didn't expect the power of the giant beast to be so huge. Only one man and one beast died together.

Jing Lan didn't answer Liu Xi's words, her face was even uglier than before, and even her body began to tremble.

"Alan?" Liu Xi approached her worriedly, and just about to poke her forehead, but Jing Lan brushed her away with her backhand.

Seeing Jing Lan walking quickly to the side of the half-tilted huge bronze coffin as if in a nightmare, the moment she pulled up the iron chain, tears fell down.

"No... no... no..." She muttered frantically to herself, this iron chain was always brought by her father every time he searched for mines.

Jing Xiaohai has forged many artifacts in his life. The one he is most proud of is not the silver gun [Chasing Soul] he made for himself, but this cold iron chain that he has spent ten years quenching to forge.

Light as a willow, hard to break with a sharp knife, hard to rot in water, hard to melt in fire.

When she was a child, Jing Lan liked the cold iron chain of her father the most, and often begged her father for the cold iron chain.She still remembered that her father once said that when Jing Lan performed the coronation ceremony, he would give her this cold iron chain as a gift.

She has been looking forward to the arrival of the coronation ceremony, but she doesn't want her father to disappear suddenly.

She wholeheartedly wanted to find her father back, but she didn't want to find a trace with great difficulty, but it was the result she was most afraid of and the last thing she wanted.

The cold iron chain is here, the broken gun is in his hand, and the man who is crushed to death on the embossed dragon claw is not her father Jing Xiaohai, who is it?

Tears trickled down, Jing Lan wanted to exhale several times, but in the end she was so choked up that she couldn't make a sound.

Liu Xi glanced at Jing Lan, and quickly approached the male corpse—the clothes on the lower body were covered with black blood, but the Jing's emblem on the belt was clearly visible.

Liu Xi quickly realized something, she approached Jing Lan, squatted down, and softly called, "A Lan."

"That's...that's dad..." Jing Lan said hoarsely, her tears kept flowing like a flood that had opened its gates.

Liu Xi stretched out her arms to embrace Jing Lan, and Jing Lan subconsciously wanted to push her away.

"I don't want you to hug..."

"To shut up."

Liu Xi shouted in a hoarse voice, folded her arms, and hugged her even tighter, "Cry, just cry, after crying, we will take my father-in-law home together."

After hearing the word "go home", Jing Lan only felt sore in her heart. She was just a 16-year-old girl who could have lived innocently and carefreely. It was easy to find his father, but there was a separation between yin and yang.

She has no mother, no elder brother, and now no father.

At such a time, the one who comforted her was Liuxi, the confidante in her previous life who troubled her.

Emotions surged, and I felt a strong smell of blood welling up in my throat.

Jing Lan clenched her teeth tightly, how could she cry so presumptuously in Liu Xi's arms?

She tugged on Liu Xi's back a few times, trying to tear Liu Xi away, but Liu Xi's embrace was warm and gentle. After struggling a few times, she finally grabbed Liu Xi's back and buried her head in Liu Xi's arms Weeping loudly.

"Ugh..."

Liu Xi gently stroked Jing Lan's trembling back, and hugged her quietly.

Presumably, Jing Lan didn't want her to say those comforting words.

This girl was willing to let her hug her and let her accompany her quietly. To Liu Xi, this was already a great tolerance.

Liu Xi lowered her head quietly, looking at Jing Lan's red eyes from crying, a trace of distress quietly wrapped her heart.

She turned her face slightly, and gently pressed against Jing Lan's forehead, Liu Xi looked at Jing Xiaohai who had died for a long time on the dragon wall, her eyes were firm, as if she had made up her mind.

In this life, she should treat Ah Lan better.

The author has something to say: update the text~ I am busy with work~ I can finally update it~ Cuties, where are you?

The change is actually mutual, not only the sister-in-law is changing, but the little five is also changing, anyway, there will be a two-way arrow one day~