Realistic Longevity

"Cheng Chuhua—"

Tang Ran called Cheng Chuhua's name, but he couldn't stop him. He could only chase after him while watching helplessly as he ran into the study room at the right corner of the corridor, leaving behind a wave of disturbed ripples.

The two chased after each other, and when they pushed the door, they moved a little louder, and the clear sound echoed in the room.

But Cheng Chuhua, who was standing among the piles of waste paper all over the floor, turned a deaf ear, staring blankly at a blank scroll on the wall in front of him, and murmured, "I've been here before."

Tang Ran, who was about to say a few words to him, swallowed back the words with aggrieved feelings, so choked that he almost forgot how to speak: "What did you say?"

"I said I've been here before." Cheng Chuhua repeated, "This is Prince Zhao's Mansion of the Wei Dynasty."

The historical information revealed in these words, not to mention that the nine-year compulsory education was not taught, is that Tang Ran, a walking special department database, has never been heard of, so he and Zhuang Shuai had to stare blankly at him, waiting for him to explain.

Before Cheng Chuhua met with them, he told Zhang Fang, the deputy head of the Chuhuai City Branch, a story about Lei Jie. As soon as Bi An said it, he immediately reacted.

"Is it the Prince Zhao's Mansion that was destroyed by the thunder calamity you mentioned earlier?"

"That's right." Cheng Chuhua nodded, his eyes still firmly fixed on the blank scroll, "The layout of this water mansion is almost exactly the same as that of Prince Zhao's mansion, especially the vestibule we saw when we came in. That's where I worked, but Missing a laurel tree. I should have remembered!"

Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai looked at each other, and they were confused.

"No, what Wei Dynasty, what Prince Zhao's Mansion? We don't understand, can you explain clearly?" Zhuang Shuai looked confused.

It was only then that Cheng Chuhua pulled away from the inexplicable excitement, remembering that he and Tang Ran had never heard the story, so he turned his eyes away, and beckoned them to sit down in the space between the balls of paper, with bright eyes and complex expressions.

"About Water Mansion... No, I have a history about Prince Zhao's Mansion. I told Vice Minister Zhang Fang before, but I didn't tell the whole story." Cheng Chuhua said lightly, "Let me start from the beginning."

Hearing this, Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai rubbed against him, and Bi An also jumped from Zhuang Shuai's shoulder to his lap and sat upright, waiting to hear the story.

The story is still the same story, it still happened in June of 231 AD, and the location is also only one garden away from the Zhaowang Mansion.

The vestibules of King Zhao's Mansion, Garden and Water Mansion are almost exactly the same, even the winding angles of the roads are exactly the same, only the plants in the garden are different.The vestibule of the Water Mansion is dominated by aquatic plants such as coral and aquatic plants, the most of which are the blue flowers that Cheng Chuhua has seen on the shore.And the garden of Prince Zhao's Mansion is almost full of the kind of golden osmanthus that makes Cheng Chuhua's hair stand on end. They are slightly similar to osmanthus trees, but they don't have a bit of fairy air that is clear from the dust, but have a bit of a cold feeling.

During the two days when Cheng Chuhua worked in Prince Zhao's Mansion, he spent all his food and daily life in the garden. In the middle of the afternoon, he and several other people were sent to clean up the study room. They said that King Zhao had not returned and the mansion was short of manpower, so they were asked to help clean it. , wages are calculated separately.

Cheng Chuhua was very short of money at the time, and when he heard that the wages were calculated separately, he followed without thinking.

"I entered the study, and what I saw was what you see now."

Cheng Chuhua pushed open the door, and the dust was blown up by the wind, fluctuating in the afternoon sun.

The study room was empty and silent, desks, bookshelves, antique ornaments and other utensils hadn't been filled in yet, a little heavier steps would arouse echoes.The strange thing is that there are many balls of paper scattered on the ground, both new and old, but when they are unfolded, they are completely blank.Not only that, but there was a framed scroll hanging on the wall facing the door, but it was empty with no strokes on it.

"Sweep the floor, clear the useless waste paper and old things out of the door, and someone will come and take them away later. Then put a layer of vermilion paint on the pillars, window frames, and door frames, and don't worry about the rest." The person who brought them over said. , turned around and left.

"At that time, I hadn't discovered many strange things in Prince Zhao's Mansion. I honestly cleaned and painted with other people. Just when I was cleaning to the bottom of the wall near the painting scroll, a strange thing happened in the study. .”

Cheng Chuhua took the broom along the corner of the wall and picked up the dust little by little. When he got to the section under the painting scroll, he suddenly heard a few falling sounds from behind him. Looking back, he saw the people who came with him Shushua collapsed to the ground without warning.

The study room became quiet for an instant, and time seemed to freeze for it, frozen in a strange dead silence.

Cheng Chuhua's hands trembled, and he almost shook off the broom. He looked around blankly, not knowing whether to call someone loudly or simply leave.

But he only struggled for a moment, and the strong premonition of crisis made him instinctively throw down the broom and run towards the gate.Just as he was one step away from the door, the door suddenly slammed shut.

Cheng Chuhua froze in place.

At this time, he heard a ticking sound behind him, like the soft sound of water hitting bricks and stones.

The voice was clear and erratic, far and near, everywhere.At the same time, the piercing chill leaked out from the cracks in the brick wall, penetrated into his internal organs along the pores, and almost froze the coldness of the soul.

Cheng Chuhua turned around slowly with his neck stiff, and what he saw was the blank painting scroll.

In the middle of the snow-white rice paper, a moist dark red was rendered at some point, and the color gradually darkened and spread, and the dark red liquid dripped down, forming a pool of water under the scroll.

Not only the paintings, but the beams and tiles above the head were also dyed dark. The blood-like liquid hit the ground drop by drop, seeping and converging along the cracks in the masonry, paving the floor with a layer of deep red in a short while.

A strong smell of blood wafted up, and Cheng Chuhua stood on the only clean place, staring at the painting involuntarily for some reason, his legs were inexplicably weak.

His premonition never let him down, and soon, a pale and slender hand slowly protruded from the center of the pool of blood in the painting.

"That should be the most beautiful hand I've ever seen in my life. I can't tell whether it belongs to a man or a woman. The muscles and bones are full, the knuckles are slender, and the five nails are pink like petals. They are as delicate as works of art. —if it hadn't appeared at that time, I would never be stingy with my praise."

"What happened next?" Zhuang Shuai couldn't help asking.

"later……"

Cheng Chuhua looked at the hand stretching out the painting scroll like a demon, from the palm to the wrist, then to the forearm, the upper arm, and the shoulder.Just when he thought that a person was about to walk out of the painting, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed, the blood on the roof and the floor faded, the hands in the scroll quietly shattered, and the fainted people also disappeared, as if they had never existed .

Immediately afterwards, the door of the study room was kicked open, a young man in Taoist robe hurried in, knocked Cheng Chuhua out with a whisk, and the door closed.

"Later I went back to work in the garden, and those people who went to clean the study with me never came back, and no one mentioned them again." Cheng Chuhua had a look of lingering fear, "I have been in Zhaowang Mansion for the past two days. There are too many strange things in the experience, including the fact that the people in the west city did not care about the missing relatives and friends, and they also showed a strong sense of weirdness. It's just that I am low-level and dare not explore, and the royal family has no reason to Troubling me about the study is enough to make me grateful to Dade, how dare I think about it again."

Tang Ran struggled for a while, then said hesitantly: "In history... there is no such person as King Zhao. In the history books of the Wei Dynasty that I have read, there is no record about King Zhao's Mansion, including the Lei Jie and the State Teacher you mentioned, and the State Teacher. There are no disciples of the master."

Zhuang Shuai swallowed, and quietly wrapped his clothes tightly: "Isn't it? So evil?"

Cheng Chuhua glanced at him, and didn't say that he had experienced anything more evil.

Among the few people, only Qu An, who came out of the age of mythology, didn't pay attention to the story itself, but noticed another detail.

"The layout of the Water Mansion is exactly the same as that of Prince Zhao's Mansion?" it asked.

Cheng Chuhua nodded: "Yes, the garden, the study, and the corridor leading to the study are exactly the same in the places I walked through."

Bi An nodded lightly: "Do you remember the map you found in the wing room?"

All the people present were smart people. When they heard this, they immediately followed his words and thought about the past.

Tang Ran took out the glasses that he hadn't worn for a while and put them on. The gold wire beside the frame swayed with the water, showing a wise luster: "The layout of a certain place pointed to by the map is the same as that of Chuhuai City. No, it should be reversed. It’s because the layout of Chuhuai City is the same as that place.”

"So, the Chuhuai City branch... No, what the Yun family is doing now, the first national teacher of Wei Dynasty and his disciples have already done it once?" Zhuang Shuai speculated.

"It is reasonable to suspect that they followed Wei Chao's example, and they originally mastered something to avoid thunder." Cheng Chuhua didn't dare to speak too much, but no matter how he thought about it, he felt that this guess was correct.

Tang Ran looked at him: "Humanity is luck."

"Ha, it's gone now." Zhuang Shuai gloated, "What they did was definitely not a good thing. We have to thank Yun Shuxia for using the trick of asking the gods to return the luck of humanity to the way of heaven. Once the defense is broken, we just don't care about it." , and their work can’t be done.”

"But in this way, the descendants of the Yun family will be lost to everyone." Tang Ran frowned slightly, "Based on the experience I have dealt with him a few times, he must have a backhand."

"Of course he has backhands, otherwise it's not good to go to ask the gods, and he has to ask the gods in the ruins of the Jixia Academy." Cheng Chuhua answered subconsciously, and only realized what Tang Ran said after the answer, and asked strangely: "What are you talking about?" How many times has he dealt with?"

Tang Ran grinned: "Yeah, I found out that the person with the special ability I want to catch is in his hands, so I asked him to meet a few times, but the chats were not pleasant... Well, I am unilaterally unhappy."

He refused to think about his mood after those few encounters, he was about to have a heart attack just thinking about it.

Cheng Chuhua lowered his head and snickered, and after a few laughs, he returned to seriousness: "Let's get down to business. I don't know what the state teachers of the Wei Dynasty are doing, but their ending is certain. I think we will follow Shuluo's legacy." Following the route on the map, in addition to understanding the purpose of the Yun family, you can also destroy their layout."

"Very likely." Tang Ran nodded in agreement, "We have to hurry up, I'm worried that after losing the luck of humanity, the Yun family will jump the wall and plan ahead."

"Then let's go, don't sit still, it's better to talk while looking." Zhuang Shuai quickly stood up, making a gesture to go out of the study.

He wanted to leave this study for a long time.

For some reason, after listening to the stories Cheng Chuhua told, Zhuang Shuai could always feel a faint chill lingering around his body, making him restless.

Looking at his back, Cheng Chuhua suddenly frowned: "Wait—"

On the other side, Tang Ran also sensed something was wrong, and immediately said: "Don't move—"

Before the words were finished, the door of the study room slammed shut.At the same time, the sound of dripping water came from the direction of the blank scroll.

Everything was the same as what Cheng Chuhua had just said.

Zhuang Shuai froze in front of the door, a gust of cold air rushed from the soles of his feet to the Tianling Gai, making him shiver.

Cheng Chuhua, Tang Ran, and Bi An suddenly turned their heads to look at the scroll, but what they saw was not blood, but a large mass of ink.

At the same time, the alarm bells rang in the hearts of the two people and the cat, and in the next second, countless balls of black color exploded around them, and a huge will that seemed to be invincible suddenly descended.

The invisible force that kept them breathing and talking normally in the water collapsed in an instant, and the terrifying water pressure hit them so fast that it was too late to react.Under this pressure, the blue water mansion cracked inch by inch, starting from the vestibule, spreading to the corridors, wing rooms, ancient buildings and other buildings, crumbling and about to collapse.

An earth-shattering loud noise, like a thunder from ancient times, made everyone's heads buzzing.After the loud noise, the ultimate silence overturned, and the water mansion was on the verge of being broken.

At this moment, another sentence rang in Cheng Chuhua's ear.

"Tell him, I'm just missing, and I will go back to find him one day..."