Ask Sword

woo woo——

Under the night, the whistle of the train rang through the empty station platform.

The master and servant walked off the train carrying their luggage, and looked at the sign of [洢州] hanging on the platform ceiling, and couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

Song Shaoyuan still stayed in Luzhou, immersed in the painful memories brought by the nightmare. Ji Linglang also expressed that he was very tired and would rather return to Chang'an directly. So there were only two masters and servants who took this train back to Weizhou.

After leaving the station, they rented a carriage, and the two returned to Weizhou City, marveling at the changes in Weizhou along the way.

The once dusty roads have been replaced by gravel roads, stone roads and even cement roads.

On both sides of the official road built by the public, there are talisman lamps. With the light of the talisman lights, one can vaguely see the continuous workshops built by the river.

Look, young master.

Chai Chai pointed to the front of the road, covered his mouth and laughed.

Li Ang looked forward along her fingers, and saw a four-foot-tall stone statue standing beside the road, depicting a resolute young man with a medicine box in his left hand and a scalpel in his right.

Below the statue, there is also a large section of praise and praise written on it.

Depend on.

Li Ang raised his hand to cover his eyes, feeling an inexplicable sense of shame.

He had received a letter from Shad, saying that the folks in Weizhou had erected a statue for him, but he didn't expect that the statue would be so tall and so conspicuous-you just built a Gundam like this.

It's pretty similar.

Chai Chai put his hand on the carriage window and said with a smile, Especially the knife in his hand.

Where does it look like? Standing on the side of the road with a knife, those who don't know it think it's robbery.

Li Ang was thinking about it, looking at the getting closer and closer to the city gate of Weizhou, feeling a little timid about being close to his hometown.

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It was late at night, and the master and servant walked through the deserted street and stood in front of the security hall.

Li Ang took the key from Chai Chai, unlocked the slightly rusty lock, and pushed open the door.

There has been no wind for several years, the air in the house is dull, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated on the floor and table.

Li Ang took out a few dust-sweeping talismans from his arms, and pasted the talismans to every corner of the room with his thoughts.

The dust immediately floated up and gathered around the dust sweeping talisman, forming a huge dust ball, clearing the air.

Humph~

Chai Chai hummed his own melody, put the package on the table in a happy mood, first lit the kerosene lamp in the room, then found a broom and dustpan from the corner of the room, swept the dust balls into the dustpan, and then took more to clean other rooms.

Li Ang sat in the living room for a while. Four years later, the Baoan Hall was still the same as in memory.

In the corner of the wooden table, there are traces dug out with his fingernails when he was fond of playing when he was a child;

The medicinal herbs hanging on the beams of the roof still exude a faint medicinal fragrance - it's just that four years have passed, and the expiration date must have passed.

Li Ang looked at his hometown nostalgicly, and opened the package after a while.

There are a lot of things in the bag, the talisman plate, the glow crossbow, a few school books, a change of clothes, and a metal toothpick that need to be carried with you.

This toothpick is Long Yun. Ever since he pierced through the bronze box a few days ago, Long Yun has a new ability—injecting spiritual power, he can become bigger or smaller.

The smallest can be reduced to the size of a toothpick, and the largest, with Li Ang's current total amount of spiritual power at the initial level of the Cloud Patrol Realm close to the middle level, can reach 20 meters long, and the total amount of the spear itself will also increase accordingly. Only by strengthening the body can I barely lift it up.

I don't know if this is a potential function that was already awakened, or a special consequence of killing the nightmare-it is estimated that I will not know the answer until I return to the school.

Considering that this new ability is extremely sensitive to the input of spiritual power, it is better not to put Long Yun in the ears of cosplay teacher Six. have fun

Li Ang complained silently in his heart.

The game with the nightmare in the spiritual world not only brought this harvest,

Li Ang experienced the great evolution of Mosi, and his control over Mosi improved again. The control range, precision, and strength have all been improved.

If he were allowed to climb Liyuan again now, it would definitely go much smoother.

ah!

Chai Chai exclaimed from upstairs, and Li Ang picked up the Glowing Crossbow and Long Yun without hesitation, and came upstairs, driven by his thoughts.

What's wrong?

He drifted and stopped outside the bedroom door, only to see Chai Chai looking at him with teary eyes, holding a pink skirt that was obviously smaller in his hand, I can't wear the clothes.

How can you still wear it?

Li Ang relaxed his arm holding the glow crossbow, and rolled his eyes, How old are you?

It's a pity, this dress was sewn for me by my wife, I used to like it very much

Chai Chai murmured brokenly, looking at the skirt over and over again.

If you really like it, bring it back to Chang'an, and let the tailor help you make a similar one.

Well, no, I'll do it myself.

Chai Chai sat on the edge of the bed, put the skirt on her knees, and carefully studied the stitches and threads.

Li Ang stepped forward, couldn't help but rubbed Chai Chai's hair that felt good to the touch, and amidst the latter's coquettish protest, he put the glow crossbow on the table, opened the bedroom window, and looked down.

It has been left unattended for too long, and the flowers and plants in the downstairs courtyard have long since withered, and the vines have also dried up and become woody, leaving only some tenacious green vines still attached to the wall.

When I was young, the courtyard felt very spacious and vast, but now it seems that it is only a small piece.

And that well.

Li Ang turned his gaze to the well. The top of the wellhead made of bricks and stones is still covered with the thick stone slabs he put up at the beginning.

A few withered and yellow leaves remained on the slate.

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It was late at night, and Chai Chai was lying on the bed beside him, sleeping soundly, not knowing that his white and flawless thighs were exposed outside the smaller quilt.

Li Ang got up quietly, gently helped Chai Chai tuck the corner of the quilt, then walked to the bedroom window, opened the window and jumped down.

He circulated the sea of ​​energy, released his thoughts, removed the slabs of the manhole cover, put them on the ground in the courtyard, and stepped to the front of the well.

The walls of the well are as smooth as ever, and the bottom of the well is rippling, reflecting the moonlight. It looks very normal, just like the wells in other places.

.

After a long silence, Li Ang called out in his heart: Are you there?

exist.

Mosi's no-delay communication ability allowed Lu Yunan's voice, thousands of miles away, to be accurately conveyed, What's the matter?

I'm home, Jizhou's home.

Through Mosi, Li Ang briefly and quickly talked about the recent situation, including the two hallucinations he saw under the influence of the nightmare.

Lu Yunan quietly listened to Li Ang's narration, and when she heard that Jin Wusuan was dead, she sighed.

I don't know if I should be brave and fearless, or stupid and selfish, even though I can't change anything.

Of course, I have no position to judge.

Lu Yunan laughed at herself, she herself was like this, her life was bound by the long-cherished wish of revenge.

Anyway.

She changed the subject and asked: You still have some doubts, are you in a dreamland?

Um

Li Ang said: Even if it might be a nightmare that invaded my brain and let me imagine and construct dreams,

But also too real.

Lu Yunan rubbed her chin, Why don't you find a spinning top and turn it on the table to see if it keeps spinning?

Inception, right?

Li Ang rolled his eyes, Can you give me some useful advice?

helpful advice

Lu Yunan rolled his eyes, and in the next second, Li Ang's face turned red—he felt a soft touch.

Hey, what are you doing?!

Oh, are you shy?

Lu Yunan took the mobile phone made of moss out of her tight corset, lay on the bed like a hooligan, propped her chin and grinned and said, How old are you in two lifetimes? It's the same as a young girl. You and your servant girl get along day and night, so it's not like you didn't do anything, right?

roll roll roll.

Li Ang waved his hand, feeling speechless for this fellow traveler and one-way childhood sweetheart—at the beginning, Lu Yunan was still an image of a female literary youth, and would discuss literature, movies, and art with him,

Now it's getting more and more exposed.

Hmph heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.

Lu Yunan laughed for a long time before he stopped, Didn't you ask for it? According to the rules of [dreams cannot construct things beyond cognition], you should have encountered the error [Dreams lack dll files] just now, and you should wake up naturally.

If you are really uneasy, try flying into the sky.

Flying?

In the first dream, didn't you wake up suddenly after reaching space?

Lu Yunan said: Use moss to build a space shuttle, fly off the surface of the planet, come to the deep space of the universe, and observe the stars.

Assuming that you are still in the dream made up by the nightmare, as long as you continue to expand the scope of the dream and force the nightmare to fill in more and more content, it will always be unable to support it.

.That's true.

Li Ang scratched his hair. The problem is that the sky is full of high-speed violent winds, and even Mosi can hardly bear it. Let's not talk about that, I'm going to go down the well to have a look.

Well, be careful.

Li Ang stepped forward, released his mind power, and lifted himself up to slowly sink into the well.

The stone bricks on the wall of the well were exceptionally smooth, and the air was filled with moist water vapor. Li Ang hovered above the water surface, carefully scanning every corner of the well with his spiritual sense, but found nothing unusual.

how come?

Not knowing whether to be lucky or regretful, Li Ang thought for a moment, released Mosi, and let Mosi drill into the wall and bottom of the well.

The well in the courtyard is about fifteen meters deep, and its water source comes from the infiltration of the underground aquifer.

Mosi passed through the stone bricks, drilled into the soil layer, and drilled in all directions like tree roots.

Thirty meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters.

Mosi, who hadn't noticed any abnormality, stopped. Li Ang pursed his lips tightly, turned his palm, gathered the mosi, and dug down along the direction of the water vapor.

Two hundred meters, three hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters

Boom!

Far below the sea level, in the extremely deep underground that no one has ever reached, there is a sudden sound of violent water flow.

The slender ink filament at the front was accidentally caught by the water flow and almost broke.

Li Ang opened his eyes suddenly, controlled the ink silk to shrink, and escaped from the water flow.

This is an underground underground river that stretches for an unknown number of miles. The current is turbulent and rushing towards the southwest.

Jiuyou?

Li Ang instantly thought of the legendary Jiuyou, where water systems spread all over the world, and even the underground river in Chang'an Ghost City is a small part of it.

Although the Jiuyou water system is widely distributed, there is a water flow, which is located directly under the well of the old house in Weizhou.

Is this too much of a coincidence? Could it be that the real reason for his awakening of the memory of the other world is that he drank the well water containing the water of the Nine Serenities?

With a solemn expression, Li Ang controlled Mosi to absorb metal from the surrounding rock formations, creating a half-meter-long streamlined submarine shell with a propeller at the rear.

He poured a small amount of moss into the interior of the submarine, turned on the submarine, and sank into the dark river.

The current of the underground river was turbulent, and the submarine bumped into the bottom of the river dozens of times before it slowly stabilized its center of gravity and sailed at a constant speed.

The more he explored, the more astonished Li Ang became. The depth and breadth of Jiuyou far exceeds the surface water system, and it does not stop after reaching a depth of 3,000 meters or 4,000 meters, and continues to sink!

This is already deeper than the bottom of the sea. Where is the water going? There will never really be the end of all the water in the legend, let's go back to the ruins

Just like Li Yuan, Jiuyou Dark River has something unique, which can reduce the connection between Li Ang and Mosi,

Moreover, the submarine fell too far, and through the thick rock formation, he had to concentrate on contacting Mosi, and spent more aura to control the propeller blades and control the direction.

Concentration was getting faster and faster, Li Ang suddenly raised his hand to cover his right eye - a moss thread uncontrollably drilled out from under the eyelid, and swayed unconsciously.

At the same time, in the alleys on the surface, there was also the sound of cock crowing in the morning.

Can't go on anymore,

Sensing Li Ang's fatigue and relaxation,

After experiencing the Nightmare Tapir battle, Mosi, who had become much more docile, became agitated again, testing and eroding Li Ang's brain.

Stop!

Li Ang clenched his fists, and Mosi, who was entrenched in the cervical spine, was a little unwilling to stop agitating after receiving the order. The ink silk tentacles that drilled out of the socket of the right eye were also slowly retracted.

call

Finally back to normal, Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered Mosi in the Nine Nether River to float up, destroy the submarine, change into an excavator form, and dig upwards.

After digging out the surface, he turned into a bird and returned to Weizhou.

This is not the end.

Li Ang looked at the scene where the fragments of the submarine were finally washed away by the current, his eyes flickered, and he put the search for Jiuyou on his agenda.

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Wow——

The dark river flows, unchanged from ancient times.

The dull and dark environment makes it difficult for plants to survive.

The rapid flow rate, coupled with the hot geothermal steam gushing out from time to time, made some ancient fish and salamanders with tenacious vitality extinct here.

Clang, clang!

A metal fragment kept colliding with the rocks at the bottom of the river, fell down the cliff with the current, and hit a huge rock.

This is an underground cave with a suddenly wide open space. The dome of the cave is inlaid with hundreds of night pearls, like the pedigree of stars, emitting a cold light, illuminating the cave.

It also reflects a magnificent palace.

Halls, halls, cloisters, bedrooms, and bathrooms are all available, and even at the edge of the palace, a piece of farmland is cultivated and some crops are planted.

In the largest palace, a girl in a light yellow dress was sitting on a chair, quietly reading a book.

If Lu Yunan were here, he would have instantly recognized that the girl was the Cymbidium spinosa who recruited her to join Zhaoming seven years ago.

Gudong Gudong

Not far from the girl, there should be a bed, but there is a pool.

In the pool, the viscous scarlet liquid was churning, and with the bubbles rising up, a shriveled and skinny human body floated to the surface of the water.

Alsophila closes the book, and smiles at the existence in the pool, which is called You Qiong by everyone in Zhaoming: You are awake.

Um.

You Qiong nodded calmly, suddenly noticed something, and raised his palm.

Hum——

In the corner of the cave, the fragment of the submarine lying on the huge rock, spanned a long distance in an instant, and appeared out of thin air in the bloody palm.

You Qiong looked at the piece of metal blankly, thoughtfully.