Well of Mystery

There is unbearable pain where the heart is lost.Bai Xiuqi felt like a fish thrown on the chopping board, gasping for breath, while slowly raising his head.

He saw a tall black figure standing less than a hundred steps away from him.The lightning flashed, illuminating his blood-colored eyes and cold face.

...It's that monster that looks like Jiang Chenglu!

What else does he want to do? !

Recalling the memory of being deeply in love but being betrayed, Bai Xiuqi felt sad and angry.He was trembling violently, his hands were clenched into fists, his nails were deeply sunk into his palms, he only hated himself for not being able to rush forward to fight him to the death.

"……It's you?"

The monster finally noticed his existence, and walked slowly towards this side with heavy steps.

"You are already dead!"

He looked down at Bai Xiuqi's ashen face: "I took your heart away, and it's here with me."

"so what?!"

Bai Xiuqi gritted his teeth and looked at him: "Now I can fight with you!"

"……Humph."

The monster let out a cold snort of contempt, and suddenly stretched out a palm with sharp claws, grabbing Bai Xiuqi's long hair.

"You are under their control."

He forced Bai Xiuqi to tilt his head back, and whispered against the cold earlobe: "It seems that I should cut off your stubborn head, swallow your body, and leave them no bones..."

"..."

The scalp was so painful that it was almost numb, Bai Xiuqi was forced to look at the monster's face - even though the distance was so close, he still couldn't see any difference in appearance between this monster and Jiang Chenglu.

So much alike, so much alike.Could it be Jiang Chenglu's twin brother...

Bai Xiuqi desperately searched for reasons in his mind.Immediately afterwards, he recalled Jiang Chenglu's golden-red eyes, expression and actions when he fought against the Tomb Slayer Beast.I shivered suddenly.

No... Don't deceive yourself anymore, this is not someone else, it is clearly Jiang Chenglu.

It's him...

The strong contrast was like the collision of hot and cold air, creating a chaotic storm in Bai Xiuqi's head.Those tender and beautiful memories in Xuanjing Apartment were shattered into pieces in the storm, sharply drawing deep marks.

Is it hate, love, or sadness?At this time, it is completely unclear.

"Could it be that... I will fall in love with you. It's because of you in this life. Have you eaten my heart..."

Bai Xiuqi murmured, feeling a bone-chilling chill rushing up from the soles of his feet.

And at this moment, several tomb-suppressing pottery beasts suddenly appeared in the darkness.While barking, he rushed towards this side.

The monster let go of Bai Xiuqi's shoulders, and Bai Xiuqi fell into the stagnant water on the ground again.He closed his eyes and opened them again, and found that he had returned to Xuanjing's apartment.

Unknowingly, the sky outside has brightened.It was already warm in the bedding.The first thing Bai Xiuqi did was to reach out and touch his chest—fortunately, the heart was still there.

Recalling the thrilling scene in the dream.Bai Xiuqi hurriedly took a deep breath, only to find a burnt smell floating in the air.

Was there a gas stove left in the kitchen last night? !

Before realizing the ridiculousness of this idea, Bai Xiuqi had already started to act.He threw off the quilt and rushed to the kitchen, the first thing he saw was the pan smoking black smoke on the gas stove.

Turn off the fire.Move the pot and pour the black dregs inside into the pool.

Although all these movements are done in one go, just wake up from sleep.Bai Xiuqi, who was not yet very bright, was still scalded severely.

Now he really woke up.

He turned on the tap water to rinse the scalded back of his hand, while turning his head to look at another stove—there was a large pot of rice on it.The boiling water in the pot had obviously been overflowing.The fire on the stove had been extinguished a long time ago. Fortunately, the switch was adjusted to the "low fire" stage, so that it would not cause a big mistake.

But Bai Xiuqi still became popular all of a sudden.

Is this attempted murder?How can anyone be so absent-minded!

He threw the stainless steel pot containing rice on the cooking table and made a muffled "boom".

Just at this time, Jiang Chenglu walked in from the outside with his hands crossed, and suddenly saw Bai Xiuqi standing in the kitchen, and was taken aback for a moment.

"Awake?" he asked.

Knowing that the atmosphere between the two of them was a bit tense, Bai Xiuqi suppressed the anger in his heart and asked him, "Where did you go just now?"

"I'm going to answer the phone." Jiang Chenglu took the phone out of his pocket and shook it: "Chu Chen called, saying that he had made an appointment with some old people to catch up, and asked me if I could make it through..."

Speaking of this, he finally found the red mark on the back of Bai Xiuqi's hand, and looked at the empty stove, and then he understood.

"I was in a hurry just now, and I forgot that the pot was still burning... Are you worried?"

"I'm fine." Bai Xiuqi still suppressed his anger and shook his head: "You have something to do, you should go first."

"Aren't you coming?"

Feeling that he had seized a good opportunity for the two to reconcile, Jiang Chenglu took the initiative to reach out his hand to Bai Xiuqi.

But to his surprise, Bai Xiuqi actually took a step back and dodged abruptly.

An awkward silence followed.

Although it was only for a short moment, in Bai Xiuqi's mind, two identical faces overlapped.The feeling of confusion and confusion made him instinctively want to escape.

After a while, he came back to his senses and reluctantly justified his behavior just now.

"Why should I go? I also have my own things to do."

"……All right."

Jiang Chenglu sighed, grabbed his coat and walked out without saying anything else.

Later that day, Bai Xiuqi re-made breakfast for one person.When it was almost finished, the fox decoration team came over and repaired the windows.When the decoration team left, he cleaned up the house and put the camellia that had been temporarily kept in the sink back into the vase.Then the daze started.

He could feel that the tomb-slayer beast kept in his Hutian world was still awake.It is playing and jumping on the grassland full of flowers, chasing the bees and butterflies that Bai Xiuqi specially fabricated for it.

If you ignore the hideous appearance.It is no different from ordinary large dogs.

Bai Xiuqi sighed, feeling that she still couldn't let go of her so-called curiosity.He took out his mobile phone and dialed Tao Chuan, asking him to investigate the origin of the tomb-slayer beast.About half an hour later, an unfamiliar number appeared on the screen of Bai Xiuqi's mobile phone. The person on the other end of the phone introduced himself as the committee clerk Ye Feng who visited late at night a few days ago.

"I heard that Mr. Bai is very interested in the matter of tomb-suppressing beasts, so I took the liberty to get your contact information from Tao Chuan. If it is convenient, Mr. Bai is willing to assist us in an investigation."

Although Ye Feng's tone sounded very respectful and polite.But Bai Xiuqi could still vaguely feel that the reason why he took the initiative to send out this invitation was not because he really valued his ability.Instead, he was looking forward to Jiang Chenglu's help because of this joint relationship.

So he also responded straight to the point: "Jiang Chenglu doesn't have much interest in this matter, and I don't want to involve him against his personal wishes. In other words, I only represent myself. Is that okay?"

Sure enough, the phone fell silent.After five or six seconds, Ye Feng's voice sounded again.

"Okay. Then, next, I will tell you what I have learned."

As Bai Xiuqi had learned before—the tomb-suppressing pottery beast is indeed an important cultural relic on the ghost ship on the Wandering Island.But what he didn't understand was that the arrangement of utensils on the ghost ship followed a natural rule: cultural relics from the same unearthed place would be placed in the same or adjacent cabins, and a book would be left in the cabin. Check the books.Take inventory when it is convenient to load and unload.

Based on this point, the members of the committee determined the place where this tomb-suppressing pottery beast was unearthed—it was Zhangtai Mausoleum located in Baiguan County of this province.

"Is it Tailing?"

Bai Xiuqi's heart skipped a beat, thinking of the young man in purple he met not long ago.

So he asked Ye Feng: "Then among the treasures stolen from the Tailing Mausoleum, is there a piece of white jade?"

"There is indeed white jade, and there is more than one piece. If it is harmless after inspection, it will probably be sent back to the local museum in Tailing." Ye Feng replied: "Why, this has something to do with the tomb-suppressing beast?"

"No, just asking casually." Bai Xiuqi thought for a while, but in the end he still didn't say anything about Su Zi, the ghost fairy.

Ye Feng didn't hesitate, and continued: "The committee members originally thought it was just an ordinary tomb-suppressing beast. At best, there might be warrior's bone powder mixed in the clay—it is true that many tyrants have done similar things. So that the ghosts of those samurai could be attached to the tomb-suppressing beast to guard the emperor's private house. However, when checking the cultural relics against the account books, someone found that there was no such artifact as the "tomb-suppressing beast" in the old Japanese account books."

"Maybe it's using another name?" Bai Xiuqi hypothesized: "Is the total number of cultural relics correct?"

"The total number is indeed one piece is not too many, and one piece is not enough. Some people think that it should be a mistake in naming, so they took out the cultural relics from the Tailing warehouse one by one, and excluded those that were worthy of the name. Sure enough, there is a strange name and no corresponding cultural relic can be found.”

"What name?" Bai Xiuqi asked.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the voice in the receiver suddenly became softer.

"Dragon Vein Nail." Ye Feng replied faintly, "It's a murder weapon to sever the emperor of the Zhang Dynasty."

The mighty pottery beast guarding the mausoleum is actually an extremely ominous feng shui weapon?

Bai Xiuqi admitted that he was surprised.

"Could it be that the Japanese made a mistake?" He thought of the most likely explanation.

"Probably not. At that time, Japan not only had many so-called experts in sinology, but also many foreigners who took refuge in Japan. I can only tell the truth about this tomb-slayer beast, or the Dragon Vein Nail. Today we know too little."

Having said that, Ye Feng paused for a moment.

"That's why we need a reliable person who can secretly enter Tailing to find out what happened there."

Hearing what he said, a strong thought suddenly jumped out of Bai Xiuqi's head.

"I want to go to Tailing!"

ps: The following plot involves a little common sense of ancient history.The Zhang Dynasty is a fictional dynasty, set in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.However, in terms of architecture, tomb structure, and other things, it is not completely written according to the configuration of the Spring and Autumn Period, but is a mixture of customs from the Han, Tang, and other dynasties.Please don’t mind~ In addition, in order to describe Zhangling Park and Zhangling Research Institute, I have done some interviews, so there may be some similarities with some institutions in reality, but it must be stated that all characters and character relationships are It is fictitious and has no connection with the actual organization! !