Realistic Longevity

Walking along the stone ladder to the bottom of the pit, unexpectedly, there is no horrible scene of corpses strewn across the field, only a alchemy furnace, a stone table, and a few bamboo slips, all covered with a thick layer of dust.

Looking from the outside to the bottom, it is dark, but the pit is actually not deep, about 30 meters, as if it was formed naturally, and there is no trace of artificial excavation on the rugged stone walls and stone steps.Of course, it is not ruled out that they have existed for a long time, and the possibility that the traces have been smoothed out.

Entering the pit, the three of them consciously separated.

Zhuang Shuai guarded the surroundings, Tang Ran walked towards the alchemy furnace, Cheng Chuhua and Bi An first looked at the stone case and the bamboo slips on it.

The stone case is very ordinary, and there are no patterns engraved on it. The bamboo slips are also ordinary bamboo slips, but they are well preserved, and the hemp ropes tied with bamboo pieces have not decayed or broken, so they should not exist for a long time.

Cheng Chuhua picked up a volume and unfolded it. After a cursory look, it was all about mermaids.

Myths and legends from all over the world, sporadic records in unofficial histories, and strange settings in story books, almost all of them are included in it, and there are more versions than Cheng Chuhua has heard.

One of them was circled by cinnabar, and it wrote about the legend that Cheng Chuhua told Zhuang Shuai earlier that mermaid flesh can make people live forever.

Cheng Chuhua opened the second volume again, which recorded a method of refining a kind of elixir.

Baiyu Changsheng Pill, if you take it, you will live forever.There are many materials for refining this pill, but the main ingredient is only one, which is the flesh and blood of sharks.

Cheng Chuhua's face turned cold, and he threw the second volume aside, took a deep breath, and after a few minutes of mental construction, he opened the last volume of bamboo slips, and what he saw were the familiar characters of Dayue.

——The mermaid clan originated from the ancient mythology period and ended in the last years of the Dayue Dynasty.His royal family was gone, and his people fell into the hands of Emperor Yue Li, who took his flesh and blood to make alchemy, in order to obtain the immortal's 12 lifespan.

The beginning of this scroll of bamboo slips made Cheng Chuhua's hair stand on end.

On the other side, Tang Ran approached the alchemy furnace, reached out and wiped off the dust on the surface, revealing the patterned relief underneath.

This alchemy furnace is made of bronze, ten meters high and more than twenty meters wide, and its size is extremely large.It is a hexagonal alchemy furnace unique to the Dayue Dynasty. It is placed on the ground and uses the power of the earth to make alchemy, which is different from the suspended furnaces of other dynasties.The alchemy furnace is engraved with patterns such as four spirits, eight trigrams, and nine palaces, as well as reliefs of immortals ascending to the sky. The overall beauty and dignity is more like a work of art than alchemy, and it can be called a national treasure.

The lid of the alchemy furnace was sealed with white ruby ​​wax. Judging from the fit of the gap, it should have been opened, and then it was sealed back in the same way, but some traces of misplacement were still left.

Tang Ran jumped onto the top of the alchemy stove, hugged the lid with both hands and exerted force, the ruby ​​wax that sealed the lid instantly shattered, and the lid was lifted off.

A faint aroma escaped from the alchemy furnace, heavy and stale, reminding Tang Ran of decayed old furniture.He moved the cover to the side, and looked in through the edge, and saw a circle of candlestick-like stone depressions inside the alchemy furnace. There were twenty stone depressions, half of which were empty, and the remaining half held blue candlesticks. The elixir is round and clear, crystal clear like jade.

Tang Ran took out the gloves from his pocket, put them on, and stretched out his hand towards one of the elixirs. Just as he was about to touch them, Cheng Chuhua's stopping words suddenly sounded: "Don't touch!"

His hands froze in mid-air.

Zhuang Shuai was also taken aback by Cheng Chuhua's sudden words: "What, what's wrong?"

Cheng Chuhua had just finished reading the bamboo slips, and his expression was cold. Although he was not targeting Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai, his indifferent glance still made them feel scared.

"Don't touch that furnace of pills, get off from the furnace." Cheng Chuhua expressed his meaning as concisely as possible, but his tone was flat and indifferent.

Before this moment, Cheng Chuhua's "wisdom of the elderly" had saved them many times, which made the two of them have absolute trust in Cheng Chuhua's judgment.

So Tang Ran put the lid back, jumped off the alchemy stove, and retreated to Cheng Chuhua's side: "What's the matter? What did you see on the bamboo slips?"

Zhuang Shuai also trotted over quickly, surrounded him with Tang Ran on the left and right.

"Look." Cheng Chuhua unfolded the bamboo slips.

Zhuang Shuai couldn't understand Dayue's characters, but Tang Ran could. He only glanced at it briefly, and broke out in a cold sweat.

——The mermaid clan originated from the ancient mythology period and ended in the last years of the Dayue Dynasty.His royal family was gone, and his people fell into the hands of Emperor Yue Li, who took his flesh and blood to make alchemy, in order to obtain the immortal's 12 lifespan.

——Emperor Yueli died at the hands of the enemy army before the pill was completed, and the Great Yue Dynasty was destroyed.The Bronze Pill Stove of Emperor Lie was scattered among the world, and its whereabouts are unknown.

——In the early days of the Wei Dynasty, the national teacher in the Jianghuai generation found and lost this furnace, and found that the elixir in the furnace was not fully functional.Also obtained a secret method of refining medicine, which can be used to refine Baiyu Changsheng Pill.Report these two to Emperor Wei, and give them a chance to continue to refine this pill in order to obtain longevity.

——The Wei Dynasty fell, and the alchemy furnace passed through the hands of generations of people from different dynasties. In 1776, it fell into the hands of the head of the Yun family, and asked me to take the alchemy for testing.

——Taking Baiyu Changsheng Pill can give you longevity, and you must inherit its cause and effect.

——In 1861 AD, the Yun family went to Shuifu and slaughtered all the survivors of the mermaids.

——I will die from the backlash of cause and effect. When I am dying, I hide the remaining elixir under the Shanhaiguan Pass and block it with Liu Ren Wu.

After reading the bamboo slips, Tang Ran's expression darkened: "What's in there... the White Jade Longevity Pill, made from the flesh and blood of sharks?"

"Not only the flesh and blood of the mermaids, but also a western city from the Wei Dynasty period, as well as the remnants of the mermaids in the water mansion." Cheng Chuhua rolled up the bamboo slips, his face so calm that it was almost indifferent, but his fingers were trembling slightly, "Emperor Yue Li, Wei Chao The national teacher and the Yun family all participated in the refining process of the elixir, and none of the former two ended well, if the Yun family hadn't been blessed with human luck and the peace of heaven, how could they have survived to this day."

"What did the bamboo slips say?" Zhuang Shuai didn't know anything and could only look at the two anxiously.

Tang Ran recounted the content of the bamboo slips to him, and his expression changed immediately after hearing it: "The Yun family is so insignificant?"

Cheng Chuhua stuffed the three scrolls of bamboo slips into his backpack: "Shuai Zhuang, I found that your mouth seems to have been opened, and the two guesses you said are correct."

"What, what?" Zhuang Shuai didn't react for a while.

"You said that the blue flowers are the Bana flowers of the Mermaid race. You are right. After the death of the Mermaids and the survivors of the Water Mansion, both places were full of that kind of flowers, not much different from the Bana flowers. In the second sentence, you mentioned the water spirits in the Water Mansion, and suspected that they might be transformed by the remnants of the merman souls. This sentence is also correct. There was indeed a remnant family of merman living there, and there might be a royal family of merman. killed."

After Cheng Chuhua finished speaking, he couldn't help but smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

Zhuang Shuai couldn't help laughing: "I hope what I said is wrong."

"Now I know why the people behind the scenes destroyed the first six secret realms, and I also know why the Yun family didn't chase after Shanhaiguan." Tang Ran sat down cross-legged, heaved a sigh of relief, but there was uncontrollable anger in his eyes, "Yi Shui Mansion By way of analogy, the six secret realms probably hide all the causes and consequences and clues leading to Shanhaiguan, and Shanhaiguan hides secrets that they dare not open or touch. Based on the karma of the mermaid clan that they are carrying , coupled with the loss of the protection of human destiny, I am afraid that once they enter here, the aura of heaven here will smash them into ashes."

"I also probably know why Shu Luo died." Cheng Chuhua sat down next to him, his back arched wearily, "He has the map in his hand, which means that he has found out the truth, or at least part of it , so he chose to join the Chuhuai City branch, and was silenced again."

They both sat down, and Zhuang Shuai had no choice but to follow suit: "Hey, do you think that Yun Shuxia knew about this? If he knew, with his absolutely fair character, would he do something to the Yun family?" order what?"

"He has already done it." Bi An's golden eyes were as cold as frozen ice, "The fate of humanity has been lost, and the Yun family will have to pay the price sooner or later. Yun Shuluo died once, and Yun Shuxia has the fate of returning to humanity." You can escape a catastrophe because of your merits, but the disciples of the Yun family next to you are destined to be implicated in this matter."

Cheng Chuhua added: "Not only that, he may have brought back a few remnants of the disciples from the ruins of the Jixia Academy. If they are attached to the Yun family's children, they are outsiders who bear the status of the Yun family and have nothing to do with this matter." It doesn't matter, once the Yun family pays the price, they can start over in the name of the Yun family. Such a calculation is worthy of you, Yun Shuxia."

Tang Ran closed his eyes, and had a new understanding of Yun Shuxia's coldness and city power.

"Then what should we do now?" Zhuang Shuai asked, "Although many details are missing, we already know what we need to know. We have also found out the truth about the Chuhuai City branch being struck by lightning. It's time to go out. ?”

Tang Ran nodded: "After going out, ask the headquarters to take over Shanhaiguan and protect it."

"Oh, I already contacted Shanhaiguan before I entered." Zhuang Shuai shook his phone and said solemnly, "I was worried that the Yun family would destroy Shanhaiguan like before, so I sent an email to the headquarters before entering. At this time they It should have reached the Yujiao River, maybe the blockade has been drawn."

Tang Ran didn't expect his thinking to be so flexible, and he was surprised for a while before saying: "It's ok, you, I didn't pay attention to this."

Hearing Zhuang Shuai's words, Cheng Chuhua also breathed a sigh of relief: "Then let's go, I'm tired after working for so long, I have to go out and have a good meal, and rest for two more days."

Tang Ran knew that he was uncomfortable, so he hugged his shoulders and walked out slowly.

Seeing this, Bi An jumped into Zhuang Shuai's arms, one person and one cat deliberately lagging behind by two steps and followed behind.

"Master Bi An, you don't know, before we met Cheng Chuhua, Brother Tang was the most difficult person in the special department." Zhuang Shuai said with emotion to Bi An through sound transmission.

With his two front paws in his mouth, Bi An excitedly asked through sound transmission: "Tell me."

……

On both sides of the Yujiao River, the special headquarters dispatched 28 people from the law enforcement department overnight to block the Yujiao River on the grounds of municipal construction.

Maybe it was also God's will. After the Yun family knew that Cheng Chuhua and the three had entered Shanhaiguan, they immediately sent people to guard and silence them, but because they were a step late, they ran into the hands of the law enforcement department.

People from the Law Enforcement Department face the darkest dark side of the metaphysics world day in and day out, the per capita cyber mental illness, the kind of hard-core punks who can lead the psychiatrist astray when doing psychological counseling, and those few Yun family members fall into their hands. Suffered.

Anyway, when the Yun family's large force arrived, they were already brainwashed into being the law enforcement officials' poisonous widows. The scene at that time was very cyberpunk.

Those who came to the Yun family were Yun Shenmeng, the current head of the Chuhuai City Branch, and more than a dozen members of the Yun family who were of his generation, including many well-known writers, historians, and senior figures in the metaphysics world.But even though their status is not low, when facing the members of the Law Enforcement Department, their imposing manner is naturally a little lower.

There is always a difference between normal people and mental illness.

Faced with such a battle, the Law Enforcement Department was also aggressive and only asked one person to deal with it, and that person was Cheng Yu, the deputy director and mascot of the Law Enforcement Department.

He was dressed in a blue uniform, and he looked very young. Although his appearance was not handsome, he was also elegant and quiet, without any aggressiveness. Unlike other people in the law enforcement department, who almost wrote "I am mentally ill" On the face, people dare not approach.

"Cheng Yu, you're here too?" Yun Chenmeng's face changed slightly when he saw the person coming, and his years of cultivating energy were almost ruined.

Cheng Yu seldom goes out to work, because he is the only person in the law enforcement department who has no combat effectiveness. He is usually responsible for coordinating work and is a logistics staff.

But once the logistician is out of the field, it means that the task is very important, so important that he must come forward to suppress the field, let the gang of cyberpsychopaths in the law enforcement department go all out to protect him, and ensure the absolute success of the task.

"The outside world says that I am the only one in the Law Enforcement Department who can communicate well. Our minister thinks this makes sense, so of course I have to come." Cheng Yu smiled, but it made the Yun family members present feel chills, especially when they heard After his next sentence, his face turned pale, "Minister Yun, you know what's under the Yujiao River, right? What a coincidence, people from our special department went down to explore, and I know it too."

Yun Chenmeng tried her best to maintain her superficial composure: "So what? It's just an old thing, it's all over."

"How did it pass?" Cheng Yu smiled and said, "You know, after the silence of the heavens, do those who committed heinous crimes finally pay any price?"

Yun Chenmeng smiled slightly: "Do we need to know?"

"Of course." Cheng Yu nodded with a smile, "The way of heaven is silent, but the rules are still in operation. The rules are just and ruthless, just like the sun rises and the moon sets, and the stars move. They never do one more step, nor do less. They don't favor anyone. No one is wronged. Rewarding the good and punishing the evil is the reason for the maintenance of the heaven and the earth. In addition, the rules for how to deal with the evil are also different from the way of heaven. The way of heaven often uses thunder to punish crimes, but the rules are often silent punishments , I can sum it up in one sentence, that is, treat the person in the same way as the person."

Yun Chenmeng's expression remained unchanged: "Really? So what?"

Under his pretendingly calm gaze, Cheng Yu finally withdrew his smile and said expressionlessly: "You destroy the survivors of the mermaids and cut off their inheritance, and what awaits you will naturally end up destroying the clan. Minister Yun, you Yun Family, There will be no next generation."

Yun Chenmeng could no longer maintain her superficial calm, her face changed dramatically.

Cheng Yu raised the corner of his mouth coldly, cast an indifferent look, and turned back to his colleagues in the law enforcement department.

The members of the Yun family stood dumbfounded by the river, as if they had solidified into sculptures.

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