soul shifting

There are a few water lamps on the shore of the lake, and the maids are busy greeting guests at Lan Zhiting, and they don't have time to change the candles, they are all extinguished.

Shen An and Han Xiuyu docked in a boat and jumped up lightly.

There are no stone bricks on the shore of the North Lake, and the natural features of the lakeshore are preserved: soft and moist soil, upside-down willows, and young grass sprouts dotted here and there—it doesn’t look like there is a secret room.Is the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets buried under the earth?Can't.

"I can only find it in a stupid way. You go from east to west, and I knock from west to east, inch by inch," Shen An said to Han Xiuyu, "Hurry up, don't let anyone find out."

"Well, we will meet here later." Han Xiuyu ran to the east.

The two of them did what they said they would do. They pouted their buttocks and knocked on the ground with their hands and feet, shaking the mud all over the sky.The earth seemed to be solid under the sand, and Shen An knocked and hammered, but he still couldn't hear the hollow sound he was expecting.

A quarter of an hour later.

"Did you find it there?" Shen An asked Han Xiuyu, seeing a piece of mud sticking to the corner of his mouth, subconsciously reached out and wiped it...and wiped the mud all over his face.

"Pfft!" Shen An tensed desperately: "It wasn't intentional."

Han Xiuyu rubbed the back of his hand casually, and his face became more confused: "I didn't find it, where is Uncle Shen?"

"Me neither. Let's switch sides and try again."

"Ah."

Hard work pays off, and this time, Shen An finally discovered the clue.

There is a piece of land on the shore of the lake. Although it looks and feels like ordinary mud and sand, and there is no cavity sound when knocked, but other places will splash mud when knocked. Only this piece is particularly solid, like mud. They all seem to have grown up.

Shen An carefully touched along the edge of the land, and suddenly his fingertips became cold, and he touched a hidden lock.He pushed lightly, and there was a soft "click", and the whole piece of land was opened like a door, revealing a square stone platform.

"Found it!" Shen An waved to Han Xiuyu.

The two stood on the stone platform and slowly sank down to the ground. After descending more than ten meters, the stone platform stopped, and a tunnel entrance appeared in front of them.

The tunnel is circular, as smooth as a robber's hole, but not narrow.Shen An and Han Xiuyu walked in cautiously, the stone platform rose automatically behind them, and returned silently to the entrance of the secret room.

The tunnel is very long, extending towards Yushen Lake, and you can clearly hear the sound of the lake flowing inside.Several night pearls are irregularly inlaid on the top of the tunnel, and the light flickers on and off, looking hazy and mysterious; some places with strong water vapor grow moss, and the color is bright green.

At the end of the tunnel is a spacious hall, the roof is entirely made of glass, and the green lake is outside.Hundreds of pure fish floated above, and the bright silver light spilled into the hall, illuminating the secret room brightly.

Shen An took a closer look and found that those clean fish were tied to the glazed roof by fishing lines.Over the years, the fishing line and the fish mouth wound have grown together.

There was a curtain on the east side of the hall, embroidered with the portrait of Zeng Sixi, Shen An opened it, and behind it was a treasure chest, in which were scrolls, weapons, gems, and several bottles of elixir, which were packed in neatly shaped boxes. in an odd white porcelain vase.

Han Xiuyu came over to take a look, and reached out and took out a pendant necklace from the leftmost grid of the cabinet: "This is my necklace, which was snatched away by them."

Shen An leaned over to have a look, and the pendant was an oval-shaped amber, inside which was sealed a black scorpion with patterns branded on its back.

"It's very unique, who gave it to you?" Shen An asked.

"It's a relic left by my mother," Han Xiuyu said, "It's said that it can bring people back to life. I've had it with me since I was a child, and I haven't seen anything magical about it. I guess it's all nonsense. It should be an ordinary amulet. .”

The straw rope that tied the pendant was corroded by the moisture in the secret room, but it suddenly died and broke in two. The amber pendant fell head-first to the ground. Taking the previous step, he kicked it on the treasure chest.

"Hiss!" Shen An took a breath.In the blink of an eye, he was completely immersed in the severe pain of his big toe and didn't recover from it, so he didn't have any defense when his feet were empty.Shen An felt bad, he was too big and just kicked the trap, don't have some big iron thorns and fangs below to skewer the two of us into meat skewers.He scooped up Han Xiuyu with one hand, and hurriedly pulled out the chilly cicada with the other hand, spread out the blade at the top, trying to nail it into the wall like a dagger, but unfortunately the wall was too hard, so he tried several times without success.

The secret door closed above, and the surroundings were plunged into darkness. Shen An hugged Han Xiuyu and let herself be placed under him.After a short period of free fall, there was a loud "plop" and the two fell into the water.

The water was very shallow, Shen An felt his feet touched the bottom of the water, stepped on the ground hard and stood up, wiped off the water droplets on his face with a flick of his hand, and coughed crazily after taking half of his breath. "Damn!" He heard Han Xiuyu curse, and coughed wildly.

The stench in this hole has reached an earth-shattering level, and I can barely open my eyes, let alone breathe.Shen An led Han Xiuyu to grope around on the cave wall, trying to find a place where he could use his strength to go up quickly.

The wall of the cave seemed to be a whole big rock, without even a crack. The two of them couldn't find a point of support after groping for a long time, but miraculously, they were gradually able to breathe normally amidst the overwhelming stench.

"Human adaptability is really scary." Shen Anxin said.

The surface of the water is full of floating objects, and every time you move, you can touch a lot of them. Shen An touched it, and some of them couldn't be found out, and some seemed to be metal objects, but most of them were bones. I don't know what they were. Human or animal.Those things floated along the water, and went straight into his sleeves. Shen An pulled them out a few times at first, but then they went on and on, so he simply ignored them.

"Uncle Shen," Han Xiuyu squeezed Shen An's hand: "Why do I feel a little pain in my leg? Is there something wrong with the water?"

"Huh?" Shen An touched his leg, and when he felt it carefully, it was really hot. Maybe it was because he was older, his skin was rough and his flesh was thicker, so he was not as sensitive as Han Xiuyu.

"This water..." Shen An looked down on the water surface with a look of death on his face, and sniffed it carefully.

It stinks, it's so fucking stinky, but amidst the stench, Shen An's nose keenly picked up a hint of the pungent smell.

nitric acid.

Damn, this is a corpse cave.

"Come up, I'll carry you." Shen An squatted down: "There is nitric acid in this water."

"No, what should you do then?" Han Xiuyu said anxiously, "I'll carry you on my back!"

"I have rough skin and thick flesh, it's okay." Shen An directly pulled him onto his body and carried him on his back: "You have thin skin and tender flesh, you will have to expose your bones after soaking for a while!"

Han Xiuyu still struggled, Shen An patted the acupuncture points on his waist, and fixed his legs: "Don't make trouble, hurry up and find a place to go up." Han Xiuyu had to give up.

The two groped a total of three times, and confirmed that the entire cave wall was a complete rock. They probably found a big stone and dug a hole in the middle, without any edges and corners. way.

The size of the hole is very small, so it is not big, but if you want to climb up with your feet on both sides, you can't reach it by two feet.Shen An untied Han Xiuyu's acupuncture points: "Xiaoyu, we are back to back, stepping on the cave wall to climb up simultaneously, we should be able to go up if we cooperate."

"Okay, Uncle Shen call out the password."

The two climbed up with the chant of "One Two One Two". During this period, their balance became unstable several times and they almost fell off. Fortunately, the adjustment and adjustment were stable.

Finally climbing to the top of the cave, Shen An smashed the secret door at the entrance of the cave with one palm, turned up at the same time as Han Xiuyu, and returned to the secret room.

"Damn! I can finally catch my breath!" Shen An felt that she had never been so full of love for fresh air as at this moment.

A lot of messy things got into the sleeve, Shen An shook, and fell out a few pitted bones that had been soaked in nitric acid water and turned black.human bones.

Is Xiaoyu's uncle He Jie also in this cave?

……

"Go back," Shen An patted Han Xiuyu's shoulder: "The dinner party should be over soon, if you don't go for a while, there will be people outside."

"Yeah." Han Xiuyu nodded with a disappointed expression.

"You put this away," Shen An took out the amber pendant he caught just now from his arms: "Although Martial Uncle He was not found, it is not in vain to get back your mother's belongings, right? Shen An stroked Han Xiuyu's eyelashes: "Don't be frowning, just smile."

"Yeah." Han Xiuyu smiled slightly.

Outside the secret room, the moonlight was bright, and the water of Yushen Lake was smashed on the shore of the lake, splashing waves.The dinner party was still going on, and the lights on Lan Zhiting were brilliant, like a huge lantern between heaven and earth.

"You can sleep at my place today." Shen An led Han Xiuyu to his guest room: "Looking at their posture, it is estimated that they will make trouble all night, and you should not be found if you stay here at Beihu. Here There is a hot spring, which is very comfortable." Shen An pointed to the backyard: "Go and take a good bubble bath, so as not to bring a bad smell all over your body to cause suspicion tomorrow."

"Won't Uncle Shen come with you?" Han Xiuyu took the bathrobe behind the screen and said while changing it.

"You go first, I'll be here in a while."

"Okay, come quickly."

After Han Xiuyu went out, Shen An slumped on the bed, frowned, and carefully took off his pants.

His calf was red, swollen and yellow, densely packed with small corroded wounds, and blisters formed in several places, which made people want to curse the street when touched.

"Hiss..." Enduring the pain, Shen An washed the wound with clean water, then applied some cooling and analgesic ointment, and carefully wrapped it with a bandage.

"Uncle Shen, why haven't you come?" Han Xiuyu's voice came from the backyard.

"Immediately!" Shen An responded, got up and wanted to get a bathrobe from the cabinet, but accidentally rubbed the dirty clothes beside the bed.

There was a soft "paji", and a rusty iron box rolled out of the clothes and fell to the ground, probably because the sleeves were not cleaned just now.Shen An picked it up, and used a knife to pry open the sealed beeswax, and saw that there were a few small pieces of yellowed paper inside, which were well preserved and not soaked at all.Blood was used as ink on the paper, and it seemed to be something like a diary.

"I am He Jie, a disciple of the Xuanhong Sect. I leave this blood book and describe my findings in detail. This matter is important and concerns the safety of the world. I hope those who pick up this letter will read it patiently."

This... This is He Jie's last words!

The author has something to say: what the nitric acid-corroded wound looks like is made up, and I can’t find any pictures orz on the Internet