【Xue Xiao】Desolate City Crossing

This was the first time he took the initiative to kiss someone. In the pain and helplessness, he pressed the back of Xue Yang's head with one hand and grabbed Xue Yang's wrist with the other, not allowing the other party to refuse, and kissed firmly jerky, clumsily and firmly.

If Xue Yang is destined to be a demon, then let's go to hell together.

He is willing to accompany him.

Xue Yang struggled in disbelief, but failed to break free. Instead, his back pressed against the wall, unable to hide anymore.

The dagger fell to the ground with a clang, and all the vicious words and killing intent gradually melted into this kiss, and he suddenly realized how exaggerated he had just said.

But Xiao Xingchen actually accepted all of this.

Xiao Xingchen actually accepted him like this?

As if to eliminate the doubts and uncertainties in his heart, the person who was kissing him moved closer, covering his heart with his hand.

Through the white clothes, Xue Yang felt Xiao Xingchen's heart under his chest beating like a drum of war, and the fiery temperature and tremors were transmitted from the palm of his hand to his spiritual body, causing a resonance.

After a while, Xiao Xingchen stopped when he felt that Xue Yang had calmed down and stopped talking nonsense, hooked his neck and pressed against his forehead, "A Yang, I know... I have yours. Memories, I know how much you suffered in this dungeon."

Xiao Xingchen hugged Xue Yang tightly, trying to soothe his pain: "No matter what kind of past and future you have, I am willing to face it together with you, don't try to force me away and mess around by yourself, okay? ?”

Xue Yang lay on Xiao Xingchen's shoulders, soaking his white clothes, just like the day when he was 12 years old holding another child and crying bitterly.

But everything is different, he is no longer a weak child trapped in a dungeon, and he is no longer alone and helpless and can only survive by fighting on his own.

Finally someone in this world came to save him.

Xiao Xingchen, Xiao Xingchen.

He repeatedly called out this name in his heart, his Xiao Xingchen, his Taoist priest, the warmest comfort that nothing in the world can replace.As long as they hug each other tightly like this, those old pains will go away, the black hole that devours everything in the body will disappear, and the greedy and cruel beast will be quiet.

When he calmed down a bit, a gentle voice rang in his ears: "A Yang, let's rescue those children together, this time we will succeed."

"Okay." He nodded in agreement.

It will work, and the inability of the 12-year-old will not be repeated, because he is not alone now.

This stone room is similar to the one where he was imprisoned, but there is one difference—the high window is not facing the outside, but facing the hall of the dungeon. They checked more than 20 stone rooms one by one, and each of them was like this.

The children in the hall gathered in a corner, staring at them as they walked around, secretly heaving a sigh of relief.The man with the broken arm in black is not as scary as before, and the young man in white is even more gentle like a spring breeze. Even if there is a bloodstain on the white sleeve, it can't change his gentle temperament. When he greets, the children all overcome their fear and timidity. timidly surrounded the past.

Everyone didn't dare to make noise, but stood in three rows according to the usual rules of the dungeon, and answered his questions.It's a pity that the children don't know anything except telling Xiao Xingchen what they do every day, and it's even more impossible to know whether there are other exits from the dungeon.

"Shi Wusheng paid more attention to secrecy than before when he built the dungeon." After inspecting the last stone room, Xue Yang thought for a while, "There are so many people here, there should be a transom anyway."

Hearing this, Xiao Xingchen closed his eyes, paced back and forth in the dungeon, finally stopped at one place, opened his eyes and pointed to the top of his head and said, "Here, there are traces of the magical barrier."

Any spell or enchantment will leave traces where the spell is performed, that is, the place where the spiritual flow first spread, and people with advanced spiritual power will know it immediately.

Xiao Xingchen flipped his white clothes and jumped up, and his palm touched the stone wall above. Sure enough, the touch in his hands was not the real stone wall, but elastic resistance.He stopped in mid-air, mobilized his spiritual power, centered on his palm, wisps of brilliance spread and surged, and dense twisted lines appeared on the "stone wall" above the dungeon. After the brilliance dissipated, the original tight fake stone wall disappeared, revealing On the upper level, there is a top grid composed of real stone bricks interlaced horizontally and vertically.

On the ground of the dungeon, five areas illuminated by external light appeared in the four corners and the center of the hall respectively.

Xiao Xingchen fell back to the ground and was right in the middle of the hall. A beam of light passed through the air-permeable grid from above and just shone on him. In the dark dungeon, the white clothes looked even more white and dazzling, like a god. Only, more than 20 children were stunned, and they believed that this person was here to save them.

"Sure enough, there are illusions and sound-proof barriers here." Xiao Xingchen motioned Xue Yang to look up. The source of the light was a circular transom connected to the ground a foot above the grid. I can go out!"

Xue Yang was happy for a moment, but then faintly worried.This exit seems to be too easy to find.Illusion is not an unpopular and remote spell, and monks with more sophisticated spells can use it and solve it.There are many traps on the way to the dungeon, and such a long corridor can be blocked in advance. Apart from a layer of illusion to cover up the eyes, this transom may have other secrets.

"Don't move around, let me see."

This time it was Xue Yang who jumped up and hung himself on the net-shaped ceiling to examine carefully.Each grid can only allow one hand to pass through. He touched all the nearby grids and found nothing abnormal, so he fell back to the ground and nodded to Xiao Xingchen.

Xiao Xingchen counted the number of children, there were 23 in total, both male and female, most of them were about eight or nine years old, and the oldest was only in his early ten years old.

"I'll take all of you there later, don't run around after you go out, and wait for us at the same place, you know?"

None of the children liked this dungeon. Thinking that they could finally get out, their eyes shone with eagerness, and they all nodded in agreement, suppressing surprise and whispering to each other. Some of them stayed in the dungeon for too long and couldn't believe this day What happened, there was some sluggish non-response.

Under the gaze of more than 20 pairs of eyes, Xiao Xingchen manipulated Jiang disaster to chop towards the grid directly below the transom. Unexpectedly, the grid, which he thought would be as hard as iron, split open in three or four strokes.

Xue Yang still suspected that there was something wrong with the transom, so he didn't dare to be careless. He had been carefully watching the movement in the dungeon. After the grid was broken, he quickly picked up a piece of broken grid that had fallen to the ground and checked it. He saw a square stone section, following the direction of the grid. There are small circular holes interspersed, much like some kind of mechanism.

Just when he was doubting, there were a few soft clicks from the walls around the dungeon. The sound was so soft that Xue Yang couldn't confirm whether he really heard it. Then, a louder sound verified his suspicion.

Behind the walls around the dungeon, in what seemed to be a very far distance, something like a gate rumbled open, and immediately after, the rumble was replaced by another "cracking" sound.

Xiao Xingchen and Xue Yang's expression changed, "No! It's the lake water pouring in!"

The One Night Spring Breeze Building is facing the lake, so the dungeon is naturally not far from the lake.Presumably this is Shi Wusheng's arrangement: he would rather destroy the entire dungeon and let everyone die than expose the dungeon to the outside world.

Just finished speaking, countless cracks suddenly appeared on the wall of the dungeon, and lake water poured in from all directions, crashing into dozens of water outlets on the wall. They rushed in, and the children clustered together in panic, casting help-seeking gazes at the two people who broke into the dungeon.

"You go up first!"

The two said to each other in unison.

Xue Yang resolutely pushed the two children into Xiao Xingchen's arms while coaxing him: "Xiao Xingchen, I am a ghost, and I will be fine if I am submerged in water. Go up quickly, and I will throw the children up one by one. , you catch it!"

More and more water flooded in, Xiao Xingchen knew that he couldn't delay time, crossed his hands, and printed heavily on the ground, spreading out a layer of wind shield, covering Xue Yang and more than 20 children, the water surface inside and outside the shield Suddenly there is a difference in height, the outside is high, and the inside is low.

"Although it can't be stopped completely, it can last a little longer." Xiao Xingchen looked at Xue Yang one last time full of worry and reluctance, and picked up a child in one hand.

"Ayang, you must come up! I'll wait for you outside!"

After finishing speaking, Xiao Xingchen lifted his feet into the air and jumped out of the transom.It was only when I went outside that I could see clearly that the so-called transom was a dry well in the forest, surrounded by overgrown weeds, and it would not attract attention even if people saw it on weekdays. .

"Follow Daoist!" Xue Yang's voice came from the well. Xiao Xingchen had just put down the two children and stood still when another child followed him and was thrown out of the dry well.

The two cooperated tacitly, throwing and catching, judging by this speed, there shouldn't be any problems, and they would definitely be able to rescue all the children before the dungeon was completely submerged.

When Xue Yang, who was underground, thought the same way, someone among the children suddenly screamed. Looking up, there was a kind of thin vine, climbing along the child's body, from the soles of the feet to the legs.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Xue Yang cut off the vine with the dagger, raised his hand and threw the young child onto it first.

Xiao Xingchen was startled when he heard the screams from the ground, he caught the seventh child who was thrown up, and when he saw the green thin vine hanging on the child, he broke out in a cold sweat instantly.

It's a ghost!A kind of aquatic plant thinner than chopsticks. The round stem is covered with tiny tentacle-like flat leaves. It is a strange thing between plants and animals. It grows at the bottom of the water and will entangle all creatures that come across it, making them stay in the water. Soak until it rots and becomes its own nourishment.Although one of these thin aquatic plants is easy to tear off, it grows fast and moves flexibly. If you don't pay attention, it will spread all over your body. People who are entangled often exhaust themselves in constant struggle and eventually drown.

The children were still thrown up one by one, but the speed was obviously much slower. Every child who came up was covered with severed ghost radishes, and the bicolor ghost radishes withered instantly under the afternoon sun.

And underground, in the water below Xue Yang's knees, this entangled vine was growing wildly.They appeared from unknown corners, filled the dungeon densely, and swam like water snakes in the water, surrounding Xue Yang and the remaining dozen or so children.The breeze shield that Xiao Xingchen hastily left behind was able to block it for a while at first, but it was difficult to maintain under the double attacks of Shui Bo and Guiluo, and finally disappeared.

The older children had some skills. Although they were scared to death, driven by the desire to survive, they swiftly tore off the vines on their bodies. The younger children who had not received enough training screamed out of fear , only writhing and flapping indiscriminately, and two even threw themselves at Xue Yang's feet, unable to do anything but hug his legs tightly.

In the dungeon, apart from the splashing sound of the lake water pouring in, there were the cries of children one after another, creating chaos.

Xue Yang yelled angrily: "Don't cry! Everyone who can move comes to me!!!" This roar was so powerful that it overwhelmed the sound of rushing water and noisy crying, and the panicked children were startled, and obediently Go around the man in black.

He only had one hand, and he didn't care about the rough tactics. He directly lifted the young child who was hugging his leg from the water by the collar, threw it up, and continued to give priority to the young and short child from the ghost flower. Rescue them from the fire and throw them up one by one.The children quickly reached a tacit agreement with him. Whenever he picked up a certain person, the other children would tear off the grass wrapped around that person's body in a hurry, so that Xue Yang could move faster.

When there were seven or eight children left in the dungeon, Xue Yang discovered an even worse situation.The water that poured into the dungeon was not only mixed with ghost radish, but also the powder of dementor incense.Part of the green powder was floating on the water, and part had melted in the water.

The reason why I knew that the powder was Dementor Incense was because several of the remaining children suddenly began to stand unsteadily and felt nauseous.

The incense of the soul can make the soul of the living person leave the body because it can't bear its smoke, and the damage to the soul can be seen.

Xue Yang was even worse. He was a ghost. When he touched the lake water mixed with dementor incense powder, his spirit body felt a burst of scorching heat, as if he was not immersed in the winter lake water, but in boiling water that was getting hotter and hotter.

He endured from the beginning to the end, cut off the crazy climbing ghosts, and threw the children one by one to the exit, completing what he failed to accomplish when he was 12 years old.

Five left, four, three, two, one.

Finally, the last child was also thrown up. At this time, the lake water was up to his waist and approached his chest. Xue Yang wanted to jump out of the water, but because he had not changed his position, his legs and feet were already wrapped in thick layers. Luo, her body seemed to be stuck in a swamp, and she couldn't get out of the water no matter what.

The ghost radishes entangled his body tightly, and the rapidly pouring lake water formed a vortex. I don't know which ghost radiance moved, Xue Yang slipped, and the lake water covered his head.

The lake water containing the powder of dementing incense actually made his ghost body feel as if it was suffocating.

Shi Wusheng was really thoughtful, he flooded the dungeon, entangled his body, and the last step was to destroy his soul, so that no evil spirits and ghosts would seek revenge on him.

If ordinary ghosts were soaked in this kind of water, they would probably dissipate immediately.Xue Yang saw some places on his hands that looked like skin was peeling off. He had no blood, only a faint white aura emanating from the peeling skin.

That was a sign that the spirit body was dissipating.You must go out as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

While Xue Yang was suffocating in pain, he still had to deal with the crazy climbing ghost on his body.He originally wanted to use his mouth to tear off the silk thread of the Soul-Binding Curse around his wrist. In this way, the ghost plant would not be able to entangle him without its entity, but once it lost its entity, it would completely become a ghost form, and it might appear in such water. more serious consequences.

The blue light on his body went out, and he knew that Xiao Xingchen was summoning him outside with a spirit summoning technique, but he didn't know whether it was because of Guiluo or the incense, Xue Yang was always submerged in the water, unable to respond to the summons.

The water level in the dungeon is getting higher and higher, and the feeling of suffocation and being burned all over the body is getting stronger and stronger.

The author has something to say: the first kiss is a crisis