Add some practice: start with a lucid dream

"Come up." The old man stood firmly on the ground, and his voice was much louder than before.

Chen Ze took his time and stared at the dark path for a while, confirming that there was nothing unusual before following him.

thump.

Covering the wooden board back casually, Chen Ze clapped his hands, stood up straight and stretched his muscles.

It looked like the same cell here, but the only iron door fence was blocked by a pile of broken furniture, clothes and other debris, almost completely blocking the outside of the door.

"Hello." The ceiling is high enough, but the old man is still hunched over, unable to even stand firmly.

After he finished speaking, he stared at Chen Ze, with beads of sweat even appearing on his forehead.

Chen Ze looked at the other party in a daze, saying nothing.

Until the old man's breathing gradually became faster and his body swayed slightly, until a glimmer of light flashed on Chen Ze's hand.

Chen Zecai responded,

"Hello."

Yuan Qi has been able to seep out of the body a little, and it seems that his body is gradually adapting to the environment.

"Huh!" The old man breathed a sigh of relief, but his fists were still clenched.

"Palace Yuye Liquor?"

Chen Ze's face twitched, and even the light flowing in his palms was instantly shattered.

"."

"One hundred and eighty cups?"

"A gathering of heroes." Chen Ze said again.

"Carrot is having a meeting." The old man answered.

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man's tense body relaxed. He closed his eyes and exhaled and slowly straightened up, revealing the sharp knife hidden in his arms.

Chen Ze also calmly dispersed the Yuan Qi quietly gathering at his feet.

"Don't be surprised." The old man put down the sharp knife casually and explained with excitement,

"I'm just in case. After all, this is the first time I've met a fellow countryman in so many years."

Then the old man talked to himself for a while, finally expressing his emotions about meeting his old friend in a foreign country, and then he caught Chen Ze sitting cross-legged and asked,

"What's your last name?"

"Chen Ze." Chen Ze doesn't like to gossip.

The old man was also a good person and immediately answered,

"My surname is Zhu, and my name is Zhu Liankui."

Chen Ze opened his eyes.

"Do you know me?" Zhu Liankui asked, but he was not surprised.

Chen Ze looked sideways and saw that the other person's expression was filled with pride, and his eyebrows also stretched, waiting for him to answer and return the favor with humility.

"I don't know." Chen Ze said decisively.

The old man's expression froze, then he adjusted his expression and asked a series of key questions.

"How did you get in?"

"Do you know where this is?"

"I'm a little dizzy." Chen Ze deliberately put his hand on his forehead, preparing to trick the other party into saying something.

"A bit... eh, I can't remember clearly."

Zhu Liankui narrowed his eyes and stroked the messy sparse white hair on his forehead. He was not angry at all.

"Here. Alas, that's all. It's a long story."

Chen Ze secretly cursed an old fox and had no choice but to say,

"The old man also came in from this world?"

The bad old man, whose eyes had not been focused just now, heard this and immediately smiled and said,

"It seems that I recognized my fellow countryman correctly, old man."

"Where were you swallowed?"

swallow?

Chen Ze had doubts in his heart, but his face remained calm and he said bluntly,

"I came in on my own initiative."

"Oh." Zhu Liankui just thought that Chen Ze was still deceiving him, so he simply told himself his life without beating around the bush.

The old man was indeed a living person who lived in the same era and in the same world as Chen Ze, and he was very old, even older than he looked.

The old man claims to have been born during the Xianfeng period (1851-1861), and is a descendant of Maoshan magic. Not to mention the ups and downs over the years, he was swallowed by a space crack while pursuing secrets in the Qinling Mountains a few years ago. After waking up, he was trapped in this prison. inside.

"I'm afraid this place is the same as it has been since ancient times." The old man looked solemn and his voice lowered involuntarily.

"It's related to the whereabouts of those gods."

"Yeah." Chen Ze nodded,

"This place is called Tianwaitian. All the gods that have not been seen before are living here."

"Don't be scared, it's such a secret." The old man was stunned mid-sentence before he realized what Chen Ze was saying.

"what?"

"You mean, what is this place called?"

Chen Ze patiently told the old man the origin and story of Tianwaitian.

After finishing speaking, the old man was as sluggish as a sculpture. After a while, he patted his thigh and exclaimed,

"I said those turtles in Xuanhu Palace are trying to trick me!"

"I bet they have been covering up all these years!"

"I guess that Wang Lin is one of theirs. He miscalculated. He's not very good at it."

Zhu Liankui did not question Chen Ze's statement because all the mysteries he had investigated for many years came from this. Once confirmed, he naturally understood that what the other party said was true.

When Chen Ze listened to the old man's emotion, his confidence increased from 70% to 10%.

Zhu Liankui was the one who followed Wang Lin when he visited and repaired the ink fountain, leaving a deep impression on all the descendants of Wang Lingguan's clones. He also made a deal with the snake to borrow scales in an unsuccessful attempt to take away the "Huang" ancient sword. The mysterious "Zhu Liankui" people".

Being a master is a lot higher for ordinary people, but it is nothing to Chen Ze who later joined the Hidden Immortal Society and directly set foot in the realm of immortals.

Therefore, after learning about this person from the doctor, he didn't pay much attention to it, but unexpectedly, he met here.

Zhu Liankui is a talented and strange person among the people. He travels all over the world. He disappeared after going deep into the Qinling Mountains a few years ago.

Of course, if Chen Ze contacted the cause and effect, he would know that Zhu Liankui entered the Qinling Mountains in order to search for the "earth" treasure in the black and yellow of heaven and earth.

The "earth" is carried by the body of the red pine nut. It is said that it goes deep into the Qinling Mountains, but the actual meaning is that it passes through the entrance of this hub and plunges into the outer world.

Therefore, Chen Ze originally thought that Zhu Liankui, an "expert" with little experience, could not cause much trouble, so he might have left quietly in despair.

But I didn't expect that I would actually enter this outer world!

By accident, the old man found the right place.

This also subverted Chen Ze's inherent impression.

Not to mention other key points, Tianwaitian at the entrance of Qinling Mountains actually actively devours human beings in this world? !

You must know that whether it is from the words of Maitreya Buddha or Chen Ze's personal efforts, the hub entrance of Qinling Mountains is absolutely indestructible.

If it hadn't been for the help of immortals like Chi Songzi or Chen Ze, there wouldn't even be a crack open.

But times have changed, and it was almost ten years ago that Zhu Liankui was swallowed up. At that time, not to mention that the doctor was still working as a monk, Chen Ze was even studying hard in the ivory tower and waiting for the society to beat him.

Unable to verify.

Therefore, Chen Ze did not fully believe Zhu Liankui's reservations.

"Little friend." Zhu Liankui came back to his senses while rubbing his sore thigh.

"You were tricked into this by Xuanhu Palace too, right?"

"These grandsons don't know what kind of trouble they are causing outside!"

"I came in on my own initiative." Chen Ze still did not change his words.

The old man narrowed his eyes again and looked Chen Ze up and down several times.

"Then Xuanhu Palace is willing to let you in?"

"There is no Xuanhu Palace outside." Chen Ze shook his head.

"How is that possible!" Zhu Liankui's back stiffened and he almost jumped.

"The power of Xuanhu Palace is so great that it can cover the sky with one hand. Are you serious?"

"Of course it's true." Chen Ze nodded.

"Hey." The old man was unhappy and looked at Chen Ze with dissatisfaction on his face.

"You young man, you should have made enough jokes."

"I have been in poverty for hundreds of years and almost survived, but I found out that behind the Xuanhu Palace is a god named 'Chijiang Ziyu'."

"Chijiang Ziyu is a substitute." Chen Ze was extremely honest,

"The real name is Chisongzi, and there is more than one god behind Xuanhu Palace." Hearing his determination, the old man's eyes gradually became suspicious, and he stretched out his hand to stroke his white beard.

"Xuanhu Palace is finished." Chen Ze had no choice but to add,

"I did it with my own hands."

This time the old man pulled out one of his beards and gritted his teeth in pain.

Over and over again, Zhu Liankui felt that he was patient enough, but unexpectedly, this young man's magic tricks seemed to be inaccurate.

"." After the silence, Chen Ze took the initiative to change the topic,

"Quotes aside, you also said that we are fellow villagers, so you brought me here to reminisce about old times?"

"I think you're here to reminisce." The old man sat down again angrily.

"We are trapped here and of course we have to find a way out."

"Get out?" Chen Ze tapped his knuckles on his knees.

"Where to go?"

Chen Ze has just made it clear to the old man the nature of Tianwaitian.

The old man choked immediately, and then continued without changing his expression,

"At least get out of this prison first."

Of course he knew that with his little three-legged cat cultivation, it would be impossible to truly leave Tianwaitian.

"This prison has kept me trapped until now."

The old man had a look of vicissitudes of life,

"I tried everything I could to get out of here."

"I thought you were quite free." Chen Ze pointed at the tunnel with his finger.

"Did you dig it?"

Zhu Liankui nodded: "This prison has no boundaries, and it is impossible to get out by ordinary methods."

As Chen Ze listened, he glanced past the skinny Zhu Liankui and then scanned the empty room, thoughtfully.

The old man thought to himself: "After listening to what you said, I finally understand."

"Since this place is different from the real world, then this cage may be fake."

"I have been exploring here for so many years, and I have finally come up with some rules."

Chen Ze turned sideways and faced the old man to show that he was listening attentively.

"First." Zhu Liankui raised a finger.

"The operation here follows a certain pattern. Only by cracking this pattern can we escape."

Chen Ze's eyebrows moved slightly.

"Second." The old man paused, then continued in a hoarse voice,

"There's no one alive here."

No one alive?

"To be precise." Zhu Liankui pointed at Chen Ze and patted himself again,

"Except for you and me, there is no other living person."

"Those prisoners." Chen Ze questioned aloud.

"It's all fake." The old man's face was not red at all.

"I don't know exactly what happened. Anyway, after so many years, I finally figured it out."

"At first, I thought they were the indigenous people here, and I just wanted to communicate with them."

"But it just can't be done."

Looking at Chen Ze's still disbelieving look, Zhu Liankui simply spread his hands.

"If you don't believe me, go and catch someone."

"Be careful not to let anyone see it."

Just do it.

Chen Ze immediately dived back into the underground ditch. He was not in a hurry to arrest anyone, but instead explored along the passage.

As a result, if you didn't explore, you wouldn't know that this attempt was completely contradictory to the route he had secretly memorized during his first pass.

The ditch changes, changes silently.

And just like a ghost hitting a wall, there is no boundary at all, and it has truly become an underground maze with no solution.

It didn't look like an illusion, and Chen Ze didn't notice the illusion.

It seemed that forceful escape was not feasible, so Chen Ze listened to the snoring and picked a cell connected to a ditch, grabbed the sleeping hapless guy and dragged him down the ditch and brought him back.

Miraculously, this time he brought someone with him to climb the ditch. Chen Ze walked blindly, and not long after, the familiar blind spot reappeared in front of him.

Above is the "secret base" where Zhu Liankui is located.

inside the room.

thump.

Chen Ze threw the unfortunate guy from his shoulder to the ground, raising a huge cloud of dust.

"Cough, cough!" Zhu Liankui coughed non-stop. His physical condition seemed to be worse than it looked.

"Ouch." The unlucky man on the ground also woke up by rubbing his butt, and screamed when he saw the two of them,

"what!"

Then he straightened up immediately, straightened his knees, stretched out his arms and bowed his head.

"Lord, spare your life!"

"You two gentlemen, please spare your lives!"

"The little one just stole a few bags of rice just to make ends meet, and they were all rotten!"

It's hard to believe that this uncle looked disheveled and had no flesh on his arms and legs. He roared loudly and banged his head.

Chen Ze looked at it for a long time, listened for a long time, and touched it for a long time.

I really can’t recognize it.

The environmental laws here are completely different from those in the real world. Chen Ze's body is still adapting, and his senses are basically the same as those of an ordinary person.

But as time went by, the strangeness of this man naturally became apparent.

Those two sentences came back and forth in his mouth, and when I asked him, he answered incorrectly. I kicked him, yelled twice in pain, and then kowtowed to beg for mercy.

Like an artificial retard.

"Everyone here is like this." Zhu Liankui came up with a clear look on his face.

"I even doubt that they are some high-tech robots."

Robot? Chen Ze touched his chin and thought of the similarly mentally retarded [Yellow Eyebrow Slough] for no reason.

Then he suddenly passed by Zhu Liankui and picked up the sharp knife leaning against the wall.

"What are you going to do?"

Before Zhu Liankui finished speaking, he saw Chen Ze striding over. He grabbed the man's hair with his left hand and pulled it up to raise his head. Before the man could cry out in pain, the sharp knife in his right hand stabbed him.

The sharp knife was inserted up to the hilt, hitting the man's heart.

The unspoken exclamation of "ho" turned into a groan. The victim seemed to be pressed down by a thousand kilograms of weight, with veins all over his body exposed, twitching and falling softly to the ground.

puff.

Chen Ze then pulled out the sharp bone-picking knife, and blood poured on his body like a fountain.

The smell is right, the feel is right, and the amount of bleeding is the same as normal people.

Chen Ze suddenly turned around and saw that Zhu Liankui had quietly stepped back several steps.

"Wait a moment." He met Chen Ze's gaze stiffly,

"You'll understand soon enough."

Chen Ze thought that he was idle, so he was going to cut the man open to see what was inside.

He had just taken off his clothes and before the "Y" on the corpse's chest was finished, the peculiar smell filling his nose suddenly became lighter.

"Ok?"

Chen Ze stopped and watched as the bright red splattered all over his body gradually faded away, and together with the peculiar smell, it slowly disappeared as if it had evaporated.

Looking back, the corpse on the ground has become almost transparent, until it disappears in the blink of an eye like a phantom, leaving no trace. (End of chapter)