[Old Nine Gates] Homecoming

Yu Manli leaned against the stone wall, and the cold groundwater seeped into her clothes, but Yu Manli didn't feel it at all.

The compass was placed by her side, and the compass in Tianchi remained motionless.

The sound of water dripping through rocks was still heard from nowhere in the distance, as if someone deliberately did it.

With an idea, Yu Manli stuck one end of the gold nail on the stone wall and the other end to her ear: her hearing is different from that of ordinary people. She can use the gold nail to hear farther and weaker sounds than ordinary people, and can judge the sound that is coming from the stone wall. place of sound.

The sound of dripping water was amplified several times through the gold nails, and a tunnel completely emerged before Manli's eyes.

Generally speaking, the place where there are water droplets will not be in the depth of the cave, but at the exit of light.Yu Manli hesitated for a while, put away the compass and gold nails, and decided to move forward first.Being stuck in a tunnel is never an option.

Every time Yu Manli climbed a few steps, she would stop and listen again, and the voice gradually became louder as she walked forward.However, in front of a sealed cave, the sound of water droplets stopped abruptly, no matter how Manli adjusted the gold needle or replaced it with a silver needle, it was of no avail.

Yu Manli gritted her teeth, trying to calm herself down as much as possible.After a pause, she began to crawl back.As long as there is a way, there must be a way.And at this moment, the compass behind him suddenly made a huge buzzing sound, and the compass in Tianchi seemed to be shaking violently.

Yu Manli had no choice but to take out the compass, and as soon as she opened her backpack, she saw a fluorescent line in Tianchi, emitting a dim green light, and even the strong light from the searchlight above her head could not cover up this shallow light at all.More importantly, no matter how she turned, the line pointed to the direction of the sealed cave, and the compass in Tianchi no longer wobbled.

Yu Manli immediately understood that the tomb was just ahead.

But how to open it?

By the way, water.

Yu Manli put down the compass and straightened it so that the direction of the compass in Tianchi coincided with the fluorescent line, and then found the direction on the compass that represented water.Yu Manli turned her head subconsciously. Where the searchlight illuminated, there was a flash of white light.

She quickly crawled over and brushed the spot lightly with her hand, it turned out to be a piece of white jade.

Yu Manli was ruthless and took the jade down, but the stone wall fell down in one piece.Yu Manli was already prepared, so she slid to one side suddenly, just missed by a centimeter.

Looking into the cave again, the tomb she had been looking for for a long time finally appeared.Holding the white jade in her hand, Yu Manli walked in with a low body.

But the situation in the tomb was a bit beyond her expectation: it was a very small tomb with three coffins in one cave.The two coffins at the door are the gatekeepers, and the one inside is placed in the main position.

Yu Manli lit a candle and placed it in the position of "coffin keeper".The candle flickered slightly, then burned steadily.

So she bowed deeply, and then went directly to the main coffin inside.After bowing again, he inserted a silver nail through the gap in the coffin passage.After waiting for about a cup of tea, I took it out again, and seeing that the color was as usual, I pushed it on the coffin with a gold nail, and the coffin lid was opened——

A black corpse was lying in a coffin, with a square piece of white jade tied around its waist, and on top of the white jade was a pearl the size of a fish eye.

The black corpse coffin she had been looking for for so long was in front of her eyes, but Yu Manli was not as happy as she imagined.

In fact, jade produces blood, and there is another sentence after the waist is broken, "Pearls cry, the guard will return."

Yu Manli clasped her hands together and said in her heart: The white jade you have guarded for so long should rest in peace.Then he stabbed the gold nail into the black corpse's throat with his hand, the gold nail instantly turned red, seeing that the white jade around his waist was about to see blood, Yu Manli hurriedly hooked upwards with the silver nail, as soon as the jade left the body, the pearl buzzed immediately, and the black corpse In a blink of an eye, it turned into a bone.

Yu Manli sighed, and put the white jade, which was stained with some guard's blood, into the compass.

And there is already a piece of white jade in it.

However, at this moment, something unexpected happened. As soon as the previous white jade met the new white jade, it immediately emitted a dark gray light, as if resisting.Yu Manli had never heard of it, and it was impossible to see it.

Just as he was about to investigate, the candle at the keeper's place suddenly went out, and the entire tunnel shook. The two gatekeepers at the door opened the coffin by themselves, and the two black corpses jumped up, holding long knives, and chopped at Yu Manli's head. Come.

Yu Manli didn't have time to think, she jumped up and climbed to the top of the cave.The two black corpses immediately caught up.Taking advantage of this moment, Yu Manli pulled out two gold nails from her waist, one on the left and one on the right, and inserted them into the throat of the black corpse. The black corpse immediately turned into white bones and fell from the air.

Yu Manli had nothing to touch, and fell to the ground along with the bones.But she had just picked up the golden nail, and before she could breathe a sigh of relief, the guard who had turned into bones before suddenly turned back, still holding the golden nail stuck in his throat in his hand.

Gold spikes have always been used to seal off corpses, and Yu Manli never expected that corpses could hold gold spikes.In such a dazed moment, the guard had already walked in front of her holding the golden nail.Yu Manli dodged in a hurry, but the gold nail had already been inserted into her arm.

Her mind went blank for a moment, and she immediately fell to the ground—that voice had never told her what the consequences would be if a golden nail were inserted into someone's body.

She only felt that the golden nails seemed to be wandering around her body, her eyes were completely dark, and she couldn't hear any sound in her ears.For a moment she felt as if she were dead.

But Yu Manli woke up immediately. With her thoughts, she touched the silver nails on her body, and then she wanted to hook out the gold nails that were about to reach her throat.

She moves slowly, her whole body is cold, and she is not as capable as usual. She has nothing to rely on, only herself...

After an unknown amount of time, Yu Manli opened her eyes and found that the surroundings were bright.There is a small river not far away, and a fish is jumping out of the water, which is reflected in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Yu Manli moved her arms and legs. Although they were a little numb, they could still move.She struggled to stand up, feeling her body getting colder and colder.She touched the plum blossom nails on her body completely subconsciously, and found that the gold nails and silver nails were all there, only the rope was not there.Explain that everything that just happened is true.

However, at this time, I don't care about exploring what happened just now, the most urgent thing is to go back to the inn, and I must not be so cold anymore.

This was the first time she felt cold!

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Yu Manli wrapped her clothes tightly, and dutifully put the hat she didn't wear on her head.When I returned to the inn, I saw a police car parked at the door, and the shop was a little noisy.

As soon as Qi Tiezui saw Yu Manli, he hurried up to meet him: "That's right, you asked her, I just saw her with that handsome young man in the morning."

A handsome young man in a shirt came over, stood in front of Manli and asked, "Hello, I am Zhang Rishan from the Changsha Police Station. Today I received a report that a murder case occurred in the tea village this morning. It is understood that , you may be an insider, please cooperate with us to accept the investigation."

When Yu Manli heard his intermittent voice, she didn't have the mood or strength to answer him at all.And this falls in the eyes of outsiders, somewhat unwilling to cooperate.

Zhang Rishan was patient and repeated what he said just now.

Yu Manli frowned and stepped upstairs.

At this time, a hand was placed on her shoulder.Yu Manli didn't know where the strength came from, her right leg was solid, and she put her hands on this hand and threw the man to the ground with a sudden force.

The noisy inn was quiet for a moment, even the air was a little tense.A second later, Adjutant Zhang Rishan, known as Zhang Qishan's right-hand man, said angrily: "Someone dares to beat Buddha!"

When Yu Manli heard this, she turned her head and gave Zhang Rishan a cold look, then walked upstairs again.Zhang Rishan followed her and was about to arrest her, but Zhang Qishan stood up from the ground and stopped the "adjutant": "There is no rush."

Qi Tiezui also added in a low voice at the back: "Your Buddha has hit her twice, and she should have hit her once."

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Yu Manli went back to the house and closed the door, feeling that the sound outside was getting quieter.She lay on the bed, covering herself with whatever quilt she could find.But the cold seemed to come from the bones, and it had no effect from the outside.

Time passed slowly, and the heat on her body seemed to be slowly disappearing.Outside the window, a curtain full of stars was quietly hung.

Yu Manli looked at her watch: it's 8 o'clock.

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The autopsy report seemed to have some clues. Zhang Rishan rushed back to Changsha immediately after investigating at the inn.Before leaving, he did not forget to tell Qi Tiezui to take care of Buddha.

Qi Tiezui agreed with all his mouth, but Zhang Rishan was still worried: "You just take care of this mouth." Zhang Qishan said in his heart, people don't even take care of their mouths recently.

After Zhang Rishan left, Qi Tiezui and Zhang Qishan ate something casually.Qi Tiezui asked, "Do you want to give Yu Manli some?"

Zhang Qishan thought for a while: "She doesn't seem to be in the right state when she comes back today, let's forget about it. Let's see in the evening." With Yu Manli's personality, no matter what, if she really needs it, she will definitely speak up.

There is a small TV in Qi Tiezui's room, and a "pot" is set up outside, saying that it is for channel adjustment, but in fact he only watches three TVs in total: Today's Talk, News Network and Focus Interview.And a must-see every day, rain or shine.

It is said that men like to watch these TVs, and Buddha also has the habit of watching the news. The key is that Qi Tiezui's TV is too broken, the signal is not good and the sound is loud, and he has no sense of TV at all.

Today, it was so easy for Qi Tiezui to finish reading. Just as the Buddha was about to lie down, there were three knocks on the door.Zhang Qishan asked: "Who is it?"

"Yu Manli." The voice was not loud.

Zhang Qishan saw that Qi Tiezui was still immersed in the black heart just now and couldn't extricate himself, so he had to get out of bed and open the door.

However, as soon as the door was opened, Yu Manli fell limply into Zhang Qishan's arms.

Buddha's heart tightened, but his hands naturally supported Yu Manli's body.

Qi Tiezui, who didn't know the situation behind him: Hey, why are you still hugging me? !