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"master!"

I straightened up screaming, and when I opened my eyes, I found that I was in a strange place.Suppressing the emotion of being terrified by the nightmare, I raised my eyes and took a closer look at the place where I was.

This is a corridor, about five feet wide, and no more than nine or ten feet high, all made of grayish-yellow earth and stones that have been ground slightly smooth.Behind me seemed to be the entrance of the corridor, which was sealed by the falling stone wall.At intervals of seven or eight feet on both sides of the corridor, tiger-headed lamp holders were set up seven feet above the ground, and corner oil lamps were lit, extending to unknown depths inside.

Under the dim yellow light, I noticed that there were fine ink lines on the walls on both sides of the corridor, as if something was painted on it. My curiosity made me want to stand up and take a look at it immediately. However, I couldn’t come up with any idea. I had no choice but to hold back my thoughts and secretly lucked out to recover.

When I opened my eyes again, I felt much better, and the unabated flow of inspiration made me almost doubt how long I had been in a coma.

Where's Mu Qing? Where's Lin Xilin?

where will they be

When I think about it, my heart becomes anxious.

I stood up and suddenly felt a slight pain in the veins on the left side of my neck.I raised my hand to touch it tentatively, and found that the place where I touched was even more painful. With a wave of my right hand, I took out a water mirror, only to find that there was a bloodstain there, like a sword wound.When I had an idea, I felt the residual breath of the Dragon Soul Sword on it.

This surprised me deeply, and what I still remember is that I was stimulated by the biting charm under the water, which caused my mind to be confused and finally passed out.When I got here, I didn't realize it.However, after this exploration, the aura left by Lin Xilin was found in this corridor.

If so...then...

I thought of who it was, and the surprise dissipated, but I felt a little more relaxed.

Lin Xilin didn't succeed, no matter what the purpose and thought was, I was already very happy.

I calmed down and walked towards the corridor, only to find that the walls of the endless corridor are covered with fine lines. If you look carefully, you can clearly see that it is a series of murals that can be connected together.

The murals are simple lines, mountains, rocks, vegetation, flying insects and animals follow the contours, filled with dark colored soil, jumping clearly and distinctly on the smooth loess-colored wall.

I looked along the mural all the way, and my heart became more and more shocked. Those simple lines portrayed a picture of the gods and beasts ruling the world discussed in Fangwuzhi.

Why does such a place exist under Ji Dynasty Capital County?

I was amazed by myself when I suddenly heard soft footsteps in the depths of the corridor.

I was surprised when I heard the footsteps, but after hearing a few steps, my heart calmed down.

I hold my breath.

The man's moon-white clothes swayed slightly with his light steps, and finally fell into my eyes.

He is completely immersed in the images of the murals. He seems to think that the horn oil lamp is not bright enough. He holds a rhino horn lamp in his right hand, and moves along the picture as far as he can see, so that he can see more clearly under the closer light.

The violin case on his back was missing, making him look even thinner and thinner.

My heart felt as if a very light feather floated over my heart, floated up lazily...and then fell...

"It seems that this is not Wuxiang Academy?" I couldn't help it, and opened my mouth first, "We meet again."

"There is nothing wrong, if there is no luck, I am afraid that it will be difficult to see it in a lifetime." He seemed to have found out where I was, without any surprise, and his flat and natural tone seemed to be treating a friend who has been with me for many years.

"Why are you here?" After all, I couldn't bear it anymore.

"You are here, why can't I be here?" He turned around while speaking, his words were as gentle as ever.

A fox face.

To be exact, a fox mask was stuck on his face.

It's exactly the same as the one on my face.

I subconsciously took a step back and wondered, "Why...you have..."

"Ordinary people are always good at learning, imitating, and then deriving and creating things to a higher level." He raised his hand and took off the mask, revealing that warm and jade-like face.

"The incident on the North and South Streets has caused a lot of trouble in the city." He raised his eyebrows with a smile, looked at the fox mask in his hand, with a slightly optimistic expression in his eyes, "Do you know that Yecheng is full of horrible people on the streets?" Have you ever seen such a fox mask, the same clothes as yours, and even the hair color is dyed silver with plant juice?"

"Really?" The images of those people I saw when I first saw Yecheng suddenly came to my mind, thinking that so many people were like me, I felt somewhat awkward.I really couldn't figure out why mortals would have these strange gestures, so I snorted slightly, "Even if it is, it has nothing to do with me."

"Then if someone took the opportunity to do something, wouldn't they think it was you, so you don't mind?" He shook the mask in his hand, his eyes were like water, and the light of the candle in his hand was lightly shining in his eyes.

"Who the hell are you?" I held up the Dragon Soul Sword and pointed at him emotionlessly, my words filled with coldness.

"Don't worry, I don't have a graceful figure like yours." He turned his eyes to me, flicked up and down, and smiled lightly.Originally a gentle person, he suddenly became frivolous.

My face became hot, and I shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about! If you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for being ruthless."

"Relentless and sentimental are all feelings, so there is no need to distinguish them clearly." He put the mask behind him, raised his slightly restrained jaw, and looked at me with a straight face, "Since you have come to this world, you have to be calm in your face and mind." Don't mess up your mood because of some words from others."

I froze for a moment, staring at him blankly.

The way he said these words suddenly resembled a master.

I was confused for a while, and shook my head, trying to get rid of this feeling of confusion. When I looked up again, I saw him turn sideways again, focusing on the mural.

"My name is Qin Shihuan, and I am the headmaster of Wuxiang Academy. I like to travel and see the wonders of the world. I have traveled here recently, so I stayed here for a few days. I never thought about the North and South Streets. I stayed for a period of time to discuss Taoism. While discussing Taoism, I stumbled across the entrance of this place in the imperial city, and I went down the road, and I was lucky enough to see this ancient landscape."

I listened to his eloquence, thought a little, and asked softly, "Wuxiang Academy?"

"En." He responded, "Have you seen this mural?"

"I haven't finished watching." I just felt that he suddenly had a very remote breath, which made me unable to figure out what he was thinking, and I didn't dare to act rashly for a while.

"Do you feel something?"

"I read the descriptions on the murals in a book." I said this, and there were complex emotions in his eyes when he turned around.

"Come here." He rolled his eyes and returned to the mural again.

I suddenly felt aggrieved, this person is simply too clueless.He walked over quickly, trying to figure out what he wanted to do.

"Look here." Sensing my standing still, Qin Shihuan brought the rhino horn lamp close to where he was pointing so that I could see more clearly.

I didn't understand, but seeing his serious appearance, I had no choice but to look over.

It was a baby in human form, placed on a tall stone platform, surrounded by countless gods and beasts kneeling, as if performing extremely respectful etiquette to the baby.

Looking down, the baby grew up gradually under the care of the beast, and when it got the appearance of a human being two or three years old, the baby sat on the strange animal-shaped back of the dragon head and beast body flying in the wind, patting happily. palm.

At this time, the peaceful scene suddenly changed, and many humans appeared, carrying longbows and holding spears.Some people rode horses on the ground, while some stood against the wind in the air, looking ready to attack.

Then, the dragon-headed beast was stabbed by humans and fell to the ground, soaked in blood, struggling on its own, while the baby was carried away by humans.

The picture changed again, and the baby gradually grew up in the human land, with loose hair, almost like an ape.There are also three human children who grew up together, and the four play and play, and are intimate.

Further down, one of the three human children, a man and a woman, cuddled together, and in one place, an ape with disheveled hair hid behind a tree and watched them.

The ape rushed out, its figure changed, and finally it turned into a graceful young girl. During her transformation, she was met by another man among the three children with a surprised face.

The scenes that followed gradually became brutal.

The transformed girl seemed to be very talented, and she stood out in the cruel battle. No matter how dangerous it was, even the powerful soul beast on the other side, she was able to kill without fear, as usual.She and her three human children led mankind step by step to glory and prosperity, and finally planned and completed the battle of trapped beasts, and the only remaining beasts disappeared.Humans ate the flesh left by the beasts, and showed off the bones as trophies.When the remaining power of the beast was discovered, the bone of the beast became a magic weapon in the hands of humans again.

So much for the murals.

When I saw this, the uncontrollable surprise was fully revealed through my slightly bullied heart.

The descriptions of the rule and overthrow of the beasts in Fangwuzhi are very simple, far less realistic than the vivid pictures on the corridor wall.

In addition to being surprised, I was even a little scared.

"Who is she?" I looked at Qin Shihuan and panted.

"The books in Wuxiang Academy don't describe these, and I don't know." Qin Shihuan shook his head lightly, "The world of mortals is probably even more difficult. The fairyland where I live."

"You are a fairy?

"Do not."

I repeatedly asked about his identity, but he denied it sincerely, which made me feel frustrated that no one else would be able to tell unless he told it himself.Immediately felt that he was extremely annoying.

"It's a pity." He suddenly whispered, looking at the mural with regret.

"how?"

"It's a pity that such a wonderful person, I'm afraid it's hard to end well." He raised his hand and put on the mask again, tidying up his clothes.

"There is no record on the mural, why do you judge?"

"Mortals are greedy. This kind of greed keeps them alive, and it will also make them perish." He sighed and walked away. "I've been here long enough, I'm going out now, what about you?"

When he said this, I suddenly remembered about Mu Qing, but the place where I woke up behind me was sealed, so I had to follow him forward, "I don't know how I got here, but I have something important to do Do, follow you, can I go out?"

"I'm not sure if there will be a mystic pointing at me with a sword when I go out. If you are not afraid, just follow along." His words were light and flat, but I still heard his teasing meaning.

"Why do you always like to talk around corners?" I hated his way of speaking more and more.

"Words are for those who care."

He clings to the lamp and walks ahead, I am a few steps behind him, with a vigilance, I contrasted, "Then what about those who don't care?"

"If you have no intention, then you have nothing to say."

His words gave me a chill in my heart, and I thought it had nothing to do with him after all, so I stopped talking.

After about half a cup of tea, he stopped in front of a wooden door embedded in the stone wall of the corridor, raised his hand and opened the door, "Huh?"

The sound of surprise he made was very small, but it was enough for me to hear it clearly in this quiet corridor.

"What's the matter?" I stepped forward a few steps and stood side by side with him. In the light of the rhinoceros horn lamp, I saw a stone step descending behind the dark door, and I didn't know where it was going.

"This ladder is supposed to go up." He turned his head and looked at me, the deep pupils under the fox mask gleamed with a little rhino horn light. "Maybe I made a mistake, but are you still willing to follow me?"

"My name is Aning." I suddenly remembered that I hadn't told him my name yet.

"Okay, Miss Ning." He walked out first, but this time his pace was much faster.

We were on the right side when we arrived at the wooden door, this time he walked quickly to the corridor on the left side of the wooden door.

After a cup of tea, we came to another door, but this door was open, and there were still stone steps going down inside.

At this moment, I almost immediately suspected that we had circled back to the original place.

Qin Shihuan stopped for a while without speaking, and suddenly raised his hand to touch the passage beside the wooden door, but he retreated as soon as he touched it, and then quickly took off his mask, and threw it against the wall.It can be seen that the mask did not make the sound of hitting and falling as expected, but seemed to be stuck to the wall of the corridor, and gradually melted inside as if being swallowed by something, leaving no shadow behind.

"..." I pulled out the Dragon Soul Sword and wanted to stab it to see what it was, but at this moment, Qin Shihuan reached out and stopped me.

"It was my carelessness. There is such a place under the imperial city. I should have thought of something wrong."

He turned around, with a gentle face that had never been severe before, "I'm sorry, Miss Ning, I'm tired of getting involved. Some bone charms in this tunnel were sealed inside, and they were probably specially sealed and bred to preserve the tunnel. , someone should be feeding regularly, otherwise these murals would not be preserved so clearly. If you destroy the tunnel rashly, it will not only destroy this rare mural, but also give the Bone Charm an opportunity. The person deliberately left this secret passage, my idea is, you might as well use the plan."

"It's me who should say I'm sorry. I chased Ming Lao Qi from the moat to come here. He took Mu Qing away, and Lin Xilin came down with me. He also disappeared in this corridor." I paused Suddenly, with an apologetic tone, "It should be aimed at me."

A look of disbelief flashed in Qin Shihuan's eyes, he stared at me for a few breaths, and then said, "No matter what, you and I are stuck in this place together, so let's find a way to get out together."

"Follow the plan." I said my decision.

He nodded, turned around, and walked ahead first.

"Wait!" I'm afraid I won't have time to ask some questions, I need to seize some opportunities, "If you can go out, can you promise me something?"

"Friendship in adversity is a matter of course." Qin Shihuan landed on the stone steps and looked up at me because he was ahead of him.

I caught the sincerity in his eyes, and couldn't help but smile, "Take me to Wuxiang Academy."

He glanced at me calmly, Qin Shihuan Fangfu expected that I would make such a request, turned around, held on to the lamp, illuminated the stone steps under his feet, and walked down again.

I followed up with the corners of my lips curled up, and then I heard a low voice from the front of me, "You're so cunning."

I heard it clearly, and I pursed my lips and laughed hard, and I felt more and more in my heart that he was a person who likes to play tricks.