A glance at the spring breeze

Ruan Lan suddenly felt that she was as light as a swallow, and her toes stepped over the purple bamboos like a dragonfly touching water, making a soft "da da" sound.The shattered hair on the forehead was blown away by the oncoming wind, and the clothes flew backwards with the wind.

In fact, Ruan Lan didn't know where she was at all.The scenery on both sides changed rapidly due to his speed, and he didn't have time to look around, only knowing that he had to run forward desperately.

After a while, he felt that the breath in his chest was unstable and his steps were disordered.After all, he is a beginner, and it was only because of a momentary stimulation that he was motivated to use lightness skills. After flying for a long time, the disadvantages of not solid basic skills will be exposed.

Compared to Ruan Lan's inability to do what he wanted, Yin Jian in the rear walked steadily and flew freely.Ruan Lan could hear the person behind him flying faster and faster, getting closer to him.

It seems that he is about to catch up with him!

No, never stop.

With great difficulty, he ducked down to escape a crooked bamboo pole, and then realized... something was wrong here.

The white mist above the purple bamboo forest gradually became cloudy, the light suddenly dimmed, and the thick black mist above the head blocked the sunlight, and the farthest thing could only be seen about five feet away.

As the white mist turned black, the surrounding smell began to become unbearable. Ruan Lan could smell a bit of rancid smell in the air, as well as the smell of something burnt.

However, if he wanted to stop at this moment, it was already too late.

With the sound of "bang", Ruan Lan didn't see where she hit at all, but only knew that her right leg seemed to be kicked, and the thing he kicked fell from the air with a "crash".

Because of this surprise, Ruan Lan's breath was completely disturbed.Because of the lack of Qi and internal strength support, the technique of swift movement was suddenly interrupted.Ruan Lan felt the floating air around her suddenly disappear, her body sank suddenly, and she just fell straight down from mid-air!

It was pitch black underneath, seemingly bottomless.

—I don’t know where it will fall?

At this moment, an arm passed through his arm and wrapped around his waist, and the whole person was tightly hugged in his arms.

The two were close to each other, and Yin Jian grabbed his arm with the other hand, and his lips touched his neck, and his breath exuded warm heat in the neck.

The man whispered in his ear, "I caught you."

Yin rolled his arms around him, and Feng Xu went down.

The two landed steadily.

As soon as Ruan Lan stood firm, she pushed Yin Xian away and took a step back.

"You..." He dodged his eyes for a moment, and his tone was obviously lonely and uneasy, "...how did your majesty come here... I remember that your majesty should be preparing to go to Mount Tai now, he shouldn't be here... ..."

Yin Jian shook his head: "It's not Mount Tai."

"Not Tarzan? Then..."

"It has been changed. It has been changed to Mount Song." Yin Jian grabbed Ruan Lan who was hiding away, looked at him and said, "Mount Song is farther away from the capital."

Ruan Lan was stunned.

So why go to Songshan?

Ruan Lan couldn't shake off his hand, and couldn't help feeling irritable, and finally asked the question she wanted to ask the most: "You... how do you know I'm here?"

Yin Jian answered honestly: "The dark guards found you first. I was afraid of making trouble, so I didn't let them bother you before I came."

It's the secret guard again... After knowing the truth, Ruan Lan was very discouraged.It is good that the royal guards are all over the country, but only the imperial city can be called dense. The farther away from the imperial city, the rarer the dark guards are. In southern Anhui, almost every town has only two or three.

Before, he and Qi Mo rushed to southern Anhui day and night. They were afraid of being discovered by the pursuers on the way, so they didn't follow the official route. They avoided the searching guards and lively crowds, for fear of leaking the slightest trace.

Unexpectedly, he was finally discovered by the dark guard.

Ruan Lan closed her eyes and sighed.

Yin Jian didn't know that Ruan Lan didn't want to see him, so he had no choice but to say: "We'll talk about these things later, let's think about how to get out first."

This sentence immediately brought Ruan Lan back to her senses.

He looked around, only to realize that the two of them had been trapped in an... empty house?

With the faint yellow light of the fire here, Ruan Lan could see clearly that in front of her was a patch of red walls and green tiles, enclosing this piece of land high up. There are endless pavilions and pavilions.If it wasn't for the darkness above and the eerie feeling of solitude on the ground all the time, Ruan Lan would almost have thought that this place was the back garden of some well-known scholarly family.

However, under this layer of black mist...is it really a house?

Ruan Lan couldn't believe it.

He looked up at the place where the two of them fell, and saw that the sky above was pitch black, and the sunlight seemed to be completely blocked out.

I really don't know where it is.

By the way, he remembered that he kicked something just now, and that thing should have landed near here.

Ruan Lan turned her head and found that Yin Jian beside her was gone. Yin Jian had already gone to another place, and was squatting on the ground about four or five feet away, frowning, inspecting a pile of white things.

"Your Majesty, what are you looking at..."

In the middle of speaking, Ruan Lan was stunned.

When he got closer, he saw clearly that what Yin Xian was fiddled with... was a dense pile of white bones!

Ruan Lan looked around, except for the red walls, green tiles and rockery pavilion, there was only this pile of bones left.

Could it be that what he kicked off just now was a white skeleton hanging in the air? !

Ruan Lan couldn't help sweating coldly.

"There is something wrong with these bones." Yin Jian stood up, pointed to the pile of bones and said to him.

Needless to say... of course there are problems.

and many more……

wrong.

Only then did Ruan Lan understand what Yin Jian meant by "there is a problem".

According to common sense, if something loosely connected like a skeleton falls from a high altitude, it will definitely fall apart when it hits the ground, instead of gathering together after landing like it is now.

Could it be that……

Yin Jian continued: "Actually, when we landed, I paid attention to them. At the beginning, these bones were not gathered in a pile like this, but scattered on the ground. But in a blink of an eye...they gathered together In one place."

"Your Majesty means..." Ruan Lan was startled, and said, "They have mutual induction?"

Yin Xian nodded: "It's not so much a feeling, it's better to say that they are one and want to get together again."

Ruan Lan looked at the pile of bones, and suddenly found something strange again.

Why... it has no head?

If these bones were originally one body, then there should also be heads in this pile.At first glance, ribs, vertebrae, finger bones, etc. are all there, but the head that should be there is not!

Ruan Lan asked, "Could it be that this is a headless corpse?"

Yin Jian obviously noticed this a long time ago, and there was no surprise on his face: "Maybe, maybe not." He turned his head and looked at a high wall in front of him: "I just threw a stone outside. , did not hear the landing sound, so I guess..."

Ruan Lan continued: "Is there a cliff outside the wall?"

"Ah."

Ruan Lan thought with lingering fear, if the place where they landed just now was a little bit off...would they have fallen off the cliff now and were smashed to pieces?

Yin Jian grabbed his arm: "Let's go forward first. Stopping here is not an option."

So the two abandoned the pile of bones and walked side by side towards the rockery stone bridge. When crossing the stone bridge, Ruan Lan glanced at the river under the bridge.

The river water was chaotic, exuding a pungent smell of corruption, and the surface of the water was glowing with a faint green light.Suddenly, the calm water surface was bubbling and bubbling, as if something was exhaling in the water.

Ruan Lan took a closer look and saw a white skull slowly emerging from the water, with a pair of black eyes covered with wriggling maggots. Looking from Ruan Lan's direction, those eyes seemed to be staring at him without moving...

Ruan Lan was so frightened that she almost couldn't stand still, Yin Jian who was beside her hurriedly covered his eyes with her hands, and said, "Don't look, this river water will confuse people's eyes."

After being reminded by Yin Jian, Ruan Lan couldn't help but glanced at the river again. Sure enough, there was no shadow of a skeleton on the water.

There are oil lamps on the stone bridge, so that the two can barely see the road under their feet.It's just that the light of the fire is weak and doesn't shine far away.

Ruan Lan looked at the oil lamps on both sides, frowned and said, "No..."

Yin Jian asked, "What's wrong?"

"This oil lamp is not an ordinary oil lamp."

Yin Jian glanced at the candle lamp on the left: "That's right, this is an ever-burning lamp. It is made of oil from captured whales. After it is lit, it will not go out in the tomb, and it will burn for thousands of years."

"It's true that this lamp is almost only placed in the tombs of emperors and nobles. Why is it here..." Even he, a scholar who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, can't help but feel a chill on his back now.

"I don't know..."

The two got off the stone bridge and continued to walk forward.When passing the rockery, the already dim light suddenly became dimmer.Seeing that the rockery was about to be finished, but it seemed that they could not reach the end no matter what, Ruan Lan asked in surprise: "What's going on?"

But no one answered.

Ruan Lan turned her head and saw that Yin Jian was nowhere to be seen!

Looking around the rockery, he was the only one left now!

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Holy shit I love this episode so much!