Hailing barren city

Qilin Po and Ling Li left Cuiying Pavilion early in the morning and rushed towards the Netherworld Palace.

The depressed underground palace is in a mess, and the buildings in the park have long been destroyed by ghosts and turned into ruins. The park took advantage of the opportunity to hang a construction warning sign at the entrance, and a new construction plan is already in preparation.Ling Li and Qilin Po climbed over the wall with ropes and emergency lamps on their backs, and found the entrance of the underground palace by memory.

The clean and spacious concrete steps of the past are gone, replaced by a yellow mud path less than two meters wide, slowly sinking into a gap in the ground.Bright glass shards and yellow and white dilapidated skeletons are scattered all over the place, sometimes mixed with paper money and props rushed from other places. If you see these at night, you really feel like you have been in hell.

Immortal Qimao walked in front, searching for the hostility hidden in the environment while walking. It seems that after the three ghosts were subdued, the underground water temporarily returned to its original place.

They entered the first floor of the underground palace.

It should be expected, the scene inside the underground palace is like a huge slaughterhouse.A large number of waxy, silicone and resin dummies are staggering on the ground, and the remains of severed limbs are scattered in any visible range.Even in some low-lying places, the stagnant water has not receded, the broken head and bare legs and feet are soaked in the water, the film on the surface is bulging and white, like a floating corpse.

Although the scene in front of him was weird, it was actually not dangerous.At most it was the pungent smell of rotting leaves and rats.

Without too much lingering or sighing, Qiling and Ling quickly found the entrance to the second floor, pushed aside the crumbling corridor wall, and also stepped on countless broken limbs to find the bronze door leading to the third floor.

It is said to be a bronze door, but in fact it has become a black hole after Wang Baihu's collision. Below it is an underground cave that is invisible to the fingers.

He took out the rope in the backpack sharply, and tied a fireproof tie tied to his side.Then they walked into the black hole one after another with Qi Linpo.

Under the golden light, there is a steep slope inside the cave entrance, which is completely formed naturally by rocks.They walked down the ramp slowly for five steps, and in front of them was a hand-poured concrete platform.A dilapidated wall half a person's height stood above it, which was the shadow wall that was once broken by the ghost water.

The two stood on the platform and looked down.The cave was deep in the north-south direction, and about ten meters below their feet was an underground river that was flowing calmly. On both sides of the river bank were about three meters wide, and they were all rough black rocks.

"Let's walk along the river bank now. The specific direction is..." Qilin Po said as he calmed down and sensed the direction of the stagnation of hostility.After a while, he pointed to the south very clearly and said, "This way."

Following his intuition, the two walked on the rugged rocks. Although the cave was deep and winding, fortunately there were not many side branches and main streams. After walking for about half an hour, the terrain suddenly sank.

The river bank gradually shrank, and finally when only one person was allowed to move forward, a rock taller than one person suddenly appeared in front of them.

"There are words on the rock..." Ling Li held up the lamp to get closer and wanted to take a closer look, but Qi Lin Po had already climbed up the rock two or three times, held the lamp and looked at it from a distance, and said: "This is it."

Then Ling Li also climbed up the rock.A row of waist-high bluestone railings appeared in front of my eyes.He lit up the lamp, and the railing was slowly laid down from the middle of the rock wall, and there seemed to be traces of artificially excavated steps below.

"This should be part of the Sea God Temple in ancient times." Qilin Po said with certainty.

The two of them stepped over the railing, and suddenly felt that their feet became level, and it turned out that they had already stepped on a large bluestone slab.

"The railings and steps are born from the cave wall." Ling Li raised the lamp to illuminate the distance, "It seems that this place should be an entrance in ancient times."

Qi Lin Po nodded and said: "Just now we found it along the river, and the real entrance should be here. It's just that later generations were sealed off for various reasons. It will be forgotten after a long time. According to the direction we walked According to time speculation, this place is no longer in Hailing City.

Ling Li didn't care about these things, and only urged: "Since we've arrived in front of the temple, then quickly find Dongli's grave and settle the matter."

As he spoke, he raised the emergency lights in different directions, and soon a blue-black masonry road appeared in front of him, and Qilin Po didn't bother to argue with him, and walked straight forward along the bluestone road.

At this time, the underground river was still flowing at their feet, but its width had shrunk to about half of its original size, and the water flow had become even more turbulent. The silent cave was filled with waves beating against the embankment and whimpering whirlpools.

The end of Qingshi Road was still pitch black.Only when the light is occasionally strafed, will the faint light be reflected.

It turned out to be an ancient Sea God Temple built in a cave.

The scale of the Sea God Temple in front of me is basically equivalent to the small and medium-sized temples in modern scenic spots.Qilin Po and Ling Li walked along the bluestone road for about 100 meters, and there were three bluestone archways in front of them, all of which were about three meters high.A high wall was built behind it, covering most of the whole view of the temple.

The two walked through the archway, the main gate of the temple was open, and there was another shadow wall inside, but it was bare and without any decorations. Although it had been abandoned for hundreds of years, it was still bright. The light is reflected from it.

"That's interesting."

Ling Li held up the lamp and shone it, the bright light hit the screen wall directly, then reflected off immediately, and landed on the seven rusted bronze mirrors on the inner side of the temple gate, emitting a dim halo.

They moved forward a few more steps, and then found a copper incense stand covered with thick ash in front of the screen wall.So Ling Li quickly realized that in ancient times, people put bright candles on this incense stand, and then used the delicate reflection principle of light to illuminate the entire temple gate.

"The wisdom of ancient people is by no means inferior to your modern people." Qi Maoxian turned around and said to him, "And sometimes, we know how to use cleverness better. Instead of blindly trying to change the world arbitrarily."

"Perhaps." Ling Li replied, "But since you breathe the modern air, you can't say that you are an ancient person. Among the people who want to change the world domineeringly, you also have a part of your power."

As the two argued, they had already bypassed the screen wall while speaking.The Sea God Temple is indeed not that big. Behind the screen wall is a three-story incense burner, and there are two wind lamps for making fire on the left and right.And less than twenty steps in front of you is the main hall of the mountain temple.

Other than that, there is no other way.

Qiling and Ling entered the main hall and looked around with a lamp.The pavilion is about as high as a two-story building and is basically a wooden structure.Strings of banners hang down from the tangled roof beams. Because of the lack of sunlight for many years, they still maintain bright colors, but they are entangled with large groups of spider silk and dust.A few apricot-yellow futons were scattered on the bluestone floor, and they scattered into a gray piece with a light kick.

Ling Li raised his head and looked towards the center of the hall, where there was a clay sculpture standing in the center of the incomplete blue curtain.The golden fish-scale armor, the silver sea eagle mask──exactly what the Eastern Fence looks like.

"What are we going to do now?" He asked Qi Linpo, "Take off the mask of this statue?"

Qi Lin Po shook his head and said, "This is just an ordinary clay sculpture. What we have to deal with is a corpse that is not broken."

"Corpse?" Ling Li looked around again, but did not see any aisles leading to other places.Instead, his eyes fell on a smaller clay sculpture beside Dongli Bupo.

With silver hair and silver robe, he looks like the famous Baizi of Dongli's family.

He stared blankly at the white "Son of God", but Qi Lingpo had searched the entire hall during this period of time, and finally tore off a curtain full of spells on the wall, revealing a door Locked little door.

"Go here."

He only kicked lightly, and the rotten wooden door immediately fell down, and even the whole hall seemed to shake tremblingly twice.Qi Lin Po and Ling Li hurried out of the hall, only to find that they were in a stone maze.

It is said that it is a maze, but it is not necessarily true.It's just some artificial steps and houses, almost squeezed together because of the small space, leaving only a narrow corridor in the center, with twists and turns, which looks like a western maze.

"This should be the place where the temple wished them to live in the past." Qi Linpo explained, "It is really not easy to live in this dark underground."

Ling Li still followed behind him, and the two walked slowly towards the depths of the "maze" along the gradually ascending steps.

Less than one meter to the left and right are all kinds of ancient houses with wooden structures, and the thin window paper pasted together has almost formed a yellow-black hard piece and inserted on the window lattice.Looking in from the outside, the furnishings in the house are fairly complete.It can be seen that some rooms are kitchens, some are dojos, some are lottery-solving rooms, some are bedrooms for temple blessings, and there are even several rooms for storing spiritual tablets. From the outside, there are several rows of wooden shelves, and the scattered offerings are not clear. Unowned tablet of first and last name.

At this moment, Ling Li remembered that there is also a corridor similar to this one in the underground palace, but unlike the prop scenic spot in Hailing City, everything here is completely real.Each spiritual position represents a life that once existed.These are the permanent residents in the Sea God Temple, right?

He frowned sharply and tried hard to adapt to this strange feeling, but another question came to his mind.

"Since this is the Sea God Temple, why was it abandoned? A temple in a cave with a special style like this should be considered a rare sight in Hailing City."

Qi Linpo replied: "Hai Ridge was originally just a promontory, and it became the current island after some changes. And this Sea God Temple was abandoned around that time, perhaps because the local people thought that Sea God was no longer satisfied with This small temple, so a new one was built elsewhere."

Saying this, they had climbed up the steps to about two floors high, and looking behind, only the dark roof of the main hall of the Sea God Temple could be seen.

"How long do we have to go?" Ling Li asked Qi Linpo, "Are you sure that the tomb where Dongli Bubao is located is in the Sea God Temple?"

Qilin Po nodded, but before he could speak, a gleam of light suddenly appeared in the darkness in the distance.A male voice came faintly.

"Qilin Soul...Qilin Soul...sharp..."

After recognizing whose voice it was, he turned sharply.