Hailing barren city

The hospital security found the old man's body and also found the scene of the accident on the VIP floor.However, what puzzled them was: the old man actually died of a heart attack at around nine o'clock, how could he take the elevator to the twelfth floor with two scalpels in hand?

They questioned Ling Li, and heard him repeat the experience, still in disbelief, until the hospital finally checked the surveillance video in the corridor, and it turned out to be an obviously stiff corpse, walking slowly in the corridor.

Everyone was terrified, but luckily the old man had no children, the body was still sent back to the mortuary, and Hailing City was responsible for the cremation, so this matter came to an end for the time being.

When the incident subsides, the sky is bright.Ling Li remembered that if the east fence was not broken, he immediately left the hospital and rushed back to Hailing.After entering the city gate, he didn't even change the car, and asked someone to drive to the back door of Cuiying Pavilion.

Pushing the door open, he heard a commotion coming from the room where Tao Rujiu was staying.Ling Li ran over in a hurry, and saw a group of people crowded at the door, saying that they wanted to carry Tao Rujiu's body out, but only Hua Kai and Qi Maoxian blocked the door, trying to prevent others from entering.

"Stop it!" Ling Li shouted loudly.

When everyone turned around and saw who it was, they immediately gave way.Lingli walked to the door, Huakai seemed to see a savior, weeping with joy.

"What's going on here?" Ling Li frowned and asked. "What are you doing with the stretcher?"

Sun Zhendao, who was standing in the front, immediately replied: "Reporter Tao unfortunately passed away. We have contacted his uncle and will send his body to the funeral home today. But Qin Huakai blocked the door and refused to let him in. Let's go in."

Ling Li's heart moved, he knew that Huakai must have his reasons for doing so, he quickly lowered his head and asked, "Huakai, what are you talking about?"

Hua Kai hurriedly wiped the tears from her eyes, and gestured: (Although Tao Tao's soul was separated from the body, it was stored in a clay pot by the cat fairy. If the soul can be sent back to the body within seven days, it will come back to life. Otherwise... is really dead.)

Ling Li was surprised and delighted and said, "Then why didn't you tell me yesterday!"

Qi Maoxian interrupted at this time: "The soul was found last night, didn't Dongli Bupo tell you!"

At this moment, Ling Li could no longer listen to other words, and just wanted to go into the house to see Tao Rujiu as soon as possible.

He looked around at the people around him, and said to his secretary Han Fei: "Go and talk to Tao Rujiu's uncle on the phone, and tell him that Tao Rujiu still has hope of being rescued. In short, hold him down first, and let the others go first, everyone." No need to carry it out."

The crowd gradually dispersed as promised, and Huakai let Lingli into the room.

The front and rear windows of the dark room were covered with thick towel blankets.Tao Rujiu lay on the bed.It was still the same dress that night in the woods.He closed his eyes, no expression on his face.Ling Li approached slowly, and saw an oil lamp behind his feet, and the clay pot containing the soul by his head.

"You can watch him." Qi Maoxian said from the side, "but don't let the lamp at your feet go out."

He nodded sharply in a trance, then squatted down in front of the bed.

Under the dim light, the young man seemed to be sleeping deeply, but his complexion was paler than usual, his beautiful eyelashes drooped, his lips that had lost blood color were pursed, and his bangs were messily spread on his forehead.Ling Li reached out his hand to tidy him up, but when he brushed away his messy hair, he saw that there was still a patch of black ash on his forehead, so he gently rubbed it with his fingertips, and after a long time, he realized that it turned out to be a blood clot, which happened to fall from the steps that day. caused when coming down.

Thinking of that night, Tao Rujiu was tied up in the rain, begging to explain to him, but he was kicked hard in the lower body by himself; thinking of that night, Tao Rujiu was struggling on the bed, crying silently, Bleeding, but he was ridiculed and ridiculed by himself; and that day, the young man was wearing torn and muddy clothes, and was swaying step by step as he walked up the steps under his ruthless driving.

Then, fall.

Ling Li carefully retracted his hands, knelt down on the ground, and buried his head in his folded arms.After being silent for nearly a quarter of an hour, Qi Maoxian suddenly asked behind him: "Do you want to make amends?"

"Atonement?"

Ling Li raised his head and asked, "Can he forgive me after making atonement?"

Qi Maoxian replied very simply: "It's not that easy, but it's better than being in debt all the time."

The man smiled wryly and nodded.

Although Tao Rujiu's soul has been found back, but to put it back into the body, it still needs the blessing of an expert mana.At this point, Dongli Bupo, who is also a ghost, obviously can't help much, and in terms of Qi Maoxian's current shape and ability, it is not enough to be fully competent.

The only solution is to transform Qi Maoxian back into a human form, and this requires fierce help.

He handed over Tao Rujiu's body to Huakai to take care of him, and asked the troupe to pay more attention.One person and one cat left the Cuiying Pavilion and walked towards the Thousand Buddha District.

"I was originally a Daoist who practiced true Taoism in Xiyao during Zhou Wu's time."

While walking, Qi Maoxian said: "Empress Wu prospered Buddhism and suppressed local Taoism. Many of my fellow practitioners have been imprisoned one after another. I had no choice but to escape into the mountains, but accidentally practiced the magic that seals up the body and separates the soul. Keep most of the magic power in the body to keep the body from decaying, for specifics, you will know after reading it."

Just as he was talking, he had already arrived at the gate of the Thousand Buddha District.Maoxian led Ling Li along the main road, walked for about five minutes, and turned into a small alley on the right, the innermost one was a locked moon gate.A few spider webs formed in front of the door, and the ferns had grown nearly half a foot.Ling Li and Qi Maoxian climbed over the wall, inside was a small concrete courtyard, with a neat brick house with white walls in the middle.

"You wait a moment."

Qi Maoxian made Ling Li stand in front of the house, while he jumped onto the window sill.The glass on the top of the window had fallen off long ago, exposing two wide iron bars inside.The cat fairy squeezed his fluffy body into the railing, then lightly jumped to the ground and walked to the door.The paw pawed lightly on the door for a while, and then opened the door.

Ling Li entered the door and found that it turned out to be an old tool room, with shovels, brooms, rusty washbasins and other items piled up in disorder.In the corner were half-mixed construction materials that had become petrified, and a few yellowed newspapers beside them seemed to be publications from the early 90s.Everything seemed to come to a sudden halt in the middle of construction.

"During the Anti-Japanese War, there was an air-raid shelter dug by the militia below."

Qi Maoxian said: "The digging is not big, but it is very close to the place where my body is stored. In the 70s, the villagers expanded from the original base. I was afraid that my body would be discovered, so I used some methods at that time. Let them think it was haunted, and stopped the project. However, in the early 90s, the Ling family bought the land and planned to build an underground palace for the air-raid shelter. I dare not build it anymore, the forest of steles is above the air-raid shelter.”

When this incident happened in the Thousand Buddha District, Ling Li was still overseas, but he had heard about those strange things.He didn't expect to hear the answer many years later, and he couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional. Following Qi Maoxian's instructions, he took a shovel and walked towards the inner room.

Compared with the chaos outside, the inner room is obviously much more empty. In the center of the ground, there is a one-meter-square hole, which has been half-sealed with cement.A circle of joss sticks was erected around, and if you look carefully, there are incense ash and black traces of burned tinfoil everywhere on the ground.

Qimao Xian said: "The entrance in the Zhou and Tang Dynasties has already been sealed, we will go down here now. The air-raid shelter and my soil residence are only separated by a few tens of centimeters of soil."

Nodding sharply, it was only then that he understood the function of the shovel.He took out the flashlight he had prepared in advance from his pocket, and followed Qimaoxian into the underground palace.

There are 27 concrete steps, sinking a little bit into the ground, steep and damp, with a taste of old-fashioned buildings.It is said to be an air-raid shelter, but it is actually a simple underground corridor.Just use horizontal and vertical wooden shelves to support the large frame, and special mesh materials are used to cover the soil layer on the walls.However, the smell of damp and damp, which is unique to the soil, has been permeating the rammed road for more than ten years.The smell of rotten wood mixed with it makes people feel uneasy.

Holding a shovel in one hand and a flashlight in the other, Ling Li walked through the winding tunnel.Every ten meters in the air-raid shelter, there will be a slightly larger hall, perhaps other exits, but they are completely sealed off.The further you go in, the lower the temperature. Fortunately, it is not difficult to breathe.

Ling Li considered himself a person with a clear sense of direction, but after wandering around in this tunnel for a while, he couldn't tell the difference between east, west, north, and south.Fortunately, the one who led the way was Qi Maoxian, who could perceive it very clearly without even needing vision.

The two of them walked underground for about fifteen minutes before they saw the end of the rammed road—a two-meter-high earth wall with a few incense candles stuck in the corner.

"On the other side of this wall is my soil dwelling, now you knock it open with a shovel." Qi Maoxian ordered.

He took a sharp look at the earth wall in front of him, it was thick and solid, where was there any sign of looseness?However, thinking of Tao Rujiu who was lying in Cuiying Pavilion, he immediately raised the shovel.

Facts have proved that exercise in the gym is completely different from real physical labor.Although the wound on the left shoulder last night was properly bandaged, the wound was still torn when the right arm moved the whole body.

He grinned in the darkness in pain, but he still didn't stop his movements.Qi Maoxian stood beside him with a flashlight in his mouth, and saw blood seeping from the man's shirt.

Ling Li was indeed quite clever, after he noticed that the wound on his shoulder was cracked, he only dug hard at a point in the middle and lower part of the earth wall.Slowly he took out the washbasin-sized hole, and there was indeed a dark space behind it.The man leaned over to measure the thickness of the earth wall, then straightened up, and kicked the walls around the earth hole with his feet.After doing this for about ten times, the hole in the wall expanded to nearly one meter square.

Qi Maoxian jumped in first, bent sharply and followed behind.

The back of the wall turned out to be a cave.Ling Li took a flashlight and looked up and down, and found that the soil cave was about four meters high and about ten meters wide.The ground is paved with bluestone, and there are traces of wooden structure on the wall, but the wood has decayed over time.In the center of the cave is a half-foot-high bluestone platform, on which a gray-black sarcophagus is placed.

"Help me open the sarcophagus, my real body is inside." Qi Maoxian ordered.

He took a sharp look at the stone coffin lid, at least it weighed nearly a hundred kilograms.He put his right shoulder against the edge of the coffin lid, pushed open a narrow gap, and then wedged the shovel in, trying to use his strength to pry the coffin lid open.

Unexpectedly, before he could exert any force, he was stopped by Qimao Fairy sternly.

"There's still an inner coffin in there!" Maoxian dropped the flashlight and shouted anxiously, "I'll keep it and it's still useful! Don't break it!"

After hearing what he said, Ling Li asked angrily: "Isn't it just a coffin! How much damage can a shovel do? Even if it is broken, it can be made of gold and you will be compensated. I don't have much strength left now, don't make trouble anymore. "

After finishing speaking, regardless of Qi Maoxian's sharp objection, he still wedged it down with a shovel, and then used his strength to push the coffin lid desperately.

With a dull grinding sound, the stone coffin lid was slowly removed, and the shovel penetrated into the coffin bit by bit as the gap widened, and finally hit the inner coffin heavily.

"Kalala lala lala..."

A series of crisp sounds immediately appeared in the darkness, and Li Li felt that the shovel seemed to have cracked a thin layer of ice, and the cracks quickly split along the tip of the shovel to both sides.He hurriedly stopped, but it was already too late.

Something seemed to disintegrate inside the sarcophagus, a bit like the disintegration of tempered glass—a large piece of glass that looks hard, but as long as there is a gap, it will all shatter into small pieces.But tempered glass is obviously not easily broken by the strike of a shovel.

"Qimaoxian..." Ling Li asked with some doubts, "What is your inner coffin made of?"

But suddenly there was a dead silence behind him, only the sound of the flashlight rolling on the ground.

In the small earth cave, the dim light flickered, and the claustrophobic dark room was filled with a damp musty smell.Ling Li turned his head back slowly, and saw a white tail that disappeared into the hole in the wall in a flash.

"Hey……!"

Ling Li was startled, not understanding why Maoxian ran away suddenly, and was about to turn around to ask, but suddenly heard a louder noise from the sarcophagus beside him.Before he could move, the heavy sarcophagus was kicked up high. If he hadn't dodged sharply and in time, it might have already fallen on him.

The man was shocked and almost forgot the purpose of coming here.He quickly rolled on the ground, picked up the flashlight and shone at the fully opened sarcophagus.

He saw countless pieces of ice flying out of the sarcophagus like falling snow, quickly forming a layer of hoarfrost around the sarcophagus.And amidst the pervasive cold air, Ling Li saw a plain white cloth shoe with a thin sole, arrogantly lifted in mid-air.

Immediately afterwards, a figure in white clothes slowly sat up from the coffin bed.

"The water spirit coffin I found with great difficulty, has been preserved for thousands of years, and it was destroyed by you with a shovel like this!!!"

Ling Li heard the man gritted his teeth and said, the familiar voice made him suddenly understand something, and hastily shone the flashlight on the man.

This is a man with stern features, like a character who just walked out of a costume movie.A head of long hair was casually tied in a knot at the back of the head, and tied with a jade stick.Even under the yellowish light, this person still looks cold, with the raised eyebrows and tight lips, giving people a surprisingly consistent and serious impression.

Ling Li watched him slowly walk out of the coffin.

"Qi... a cat fairy?" he asked.

The serious man glanced at him, and replied: "Since I have escaped from the cat body, how can there be such a thing as a cat fairy, calling me Qilin soul?"

After finishing speaking, seeing Ling Li's surprised expression, he explained: "When you broke the inner coffin, my soul had already returned to my body. From now on, I will appear as my body, and I hope you can do some things in Hailing City. and layout."

Ling Li quickly returned to his senses, nodded and agreed.Now that the goal has been achieved, there is no need to stay in this cave. The stuffy air and musty smell made him uncomfortable, and the wounds all over his body finally ached after he relaxed mentally.

Tao Rujiu would wake up after a while.

Thinking of this, he felt a little joy in his heart, and was about to go back to the air-raid shelter from the small cave, but suddenly Qilin Po grabbed his wrist.

"Do you know how much this water spirit coffin is worth?" Qilin Po asked.

Ling Li looked down at the pile of strange ice crystals that were gradually melting, raised his eyebrows and said, "Maybe the company's cold storage can help you make a few similar ones."

"You are thinking too simply, aggressively." Qi Lin Po narrowed his eyes, "I will always write down this account, just wait and see."

Ling Li is obviously not often provoked and questioned by others, but recently Dongli Bupo played him in the palm of his hand as an ancestor; It challenged his endurance to a certain extent.

It's just that it's really not the right time to start a fight with him now.

So Ling Li put his hands on his forehead, trying to suppress the anger in his heart, and replied: "Okay, as I said, I can also pay you the gold ones!"

However, Qi Linpo didn't seem to care about the man's promise at all, and walked out of the small hole ahead of him in three steps and five steps, and at the same time urged: "What are you waiting for? If you don't go back soon, the lamp behind Tao Rujiu's feet might be something." It will go out in time."

Hearing these words, Ling Li took a deep breath and followed after gritted his teeth.