Strange Records of Xijing

Zhao Shimin forced a smile and said, "What are you talking about?"

Facing him, Pei Jingxing lost his patience for a long time: "You, a person who has lived in Xijing for a long time, how could you know the way to Devil City? Tell me! Have you leaked our purpose this time!"

Zhao Shimin's face turned red all of a sudden, and he said falteringly: "You...you have nothing to prove, so why do you say that I leaked the news!"

"Zhao Shimin!" This time it was Gao Zekai's turn to speak, "Why did these looting barbarians bring you to Devil City? What did you tell them!"

Zhao Shimin had been abused like a dog by those rude looters these past two days. He didn't have a camel for him to mount, so he could only step on the hot sand all day long, grunting and following the looters.Those looters didn't take much precautions against Zhao Shimin, and Zhao Shimin himself didn't dare to run away—following this group of looters, it is true that life would be worse than death, but if he left the group of looters, he wouldn't even have basic drinking water. And the food was gone.

In the unfamiliar desert, there is boundless yellow sand in all directions, Zhao Shimin dare not take this risk.

The mental and physical torture for the past few days made Zhao Shimin's spirit extremely tense, and now facing the accusations from Pei Jingxing and Gao Zekai, he, a big man, actually burst into tears.

"You don't come to look for me, what can I do? I have no choice but to tell those barbarians that there is a treasure hidden by the deposed prince in the devil city. Only I know the way to get in, so they promised not to kill me."

Gao Zekai was both angry and funny: "You are right. That night, you were clearly the one keeping watch, but you..."

"Enough." At this time, Pei Jingxing suddenly interrupted Gao Zekai, "I finally found the Holy Land, there is no need to quarrel over these things."

Gao Zekai was rather dissatisfied, and said loudly: "Pei Street Envoy, you..."

Pei Jingxing interrupted Gao Zekai again: "Don't forget, the prince in Xijing can't wait."

Only then did Gao Zekai compromise.

"Su Yan, what are you thinking?"

When the three of them were arguing just now, Pei Jingxing noticed Su Yan's thoughtful look.While Gao Zekai was still angry and Zhao Shimin was still sobbing, Pei Jing walked up to Su Yan and asked him in a low voice.

"That stone," Su Yan replied, "That stone is very strange, and there is a sudden evil energy on it."

After Su Yan lost his eyesight, he became more and more sensitive to evil spirits.Although he couldn't see the situation at that time, the sudden evil spirit kept him puzzled.

"Have you ever encountered such a situation?"

"No," Pei Jingxing's mouth twitched twice as he was in the Holy Land, recalling the past, "At that time we were eager to find a place to avoid the wind and sand, and we didn't encounter such a strange thing."

For a while, Su Yan couldn't think of a proper reason to explain this matter, so he asked instead: "Aren't you afraid that Gao Zekai will get angry when you interrupted twice?"

Is this caring about him?

Pei Jingxing felt a little happy inexplicably, and patiently explained to Su Yan: "When I questioned Zhao Shimin at the beginning, I actually wanted to find out whether those looters knew about the Holy Land. If you figure this out, if you continue to argue, it will be harmless. benefit. Now that we are in a dangerous situation, and there is a lot of mistrust between us, we can no longer spoil things because of these personal grievances."

Su Yan nodded: "I understand."

Then, he patted his waist seemingly unintentionally: "I will protect you."

Pei Jingxing smiled, and reached out to rub Su Yan's head: "You are younger than me, so you still protect me? This time, I just want to find Zhu Baotoad and restore your eyesight."

While the two were talking, Gao Zekai over there had recovered his usual calmness, his expression was uncertain, as if he had also thought of this.

But he has been coaxed since he was a child, and he has no experience of Pei Jingxing in the military camp and Jinwu Guard, so even if he knew this, he would not do the same thing as Pei Jingxing.

"Let's go."

Compared to four years ago, Pei Jingxing had to look at it more carefully this time.

This so-called holy place has been abandoned for a long time. Along the way, there are many empty stone houses, many of which have collapsed, and there is no sign of life at all.

This holy place is huge, Gao Zekai only felt that he had been walking for about a stick of incense, and he was still walking on the criss-crossing roads in the holy place, without any clue.

"Mr. Pei, do you look familiar?"

Pei Jingxing kept holding his dragon-headed and tiger-toothed spear, and when he heard Gao Zekai's question, he shook his head: "I don't know, I don't have any impressions anymore. I just remember that we were caught in a storm, we ran into here by mistake, and walked away again. Into a huge temple-like place. Then we split up to find water, and I ended up falling in a hole and lost contact with the others."

"What about Mr. Zhao?"

As soon as Zhao Shimin came in, he was trembling all over. He shrank his neck and looked back and forth vigilantly along the way. He was suddenly called by Gao Zekai, and he subconsciously jumped to the side. Only later did he realize that it was Gao Zekai who was asking him, and he was reluctantly relieved. , replied: "At that time we... We were suddenly attacked by a group of bats. A secret passage, countless bats rushed over at that time, we had no choice but to escape into that secret passage.”

This is a clue.

The temples back then were not difficult to find, especially for this kind of holy place with great religious significance for a certain tribe, the temple was often built in the center, higher than everything in the holy place, to show the greatness and transcendence of God.

But the complexity of the Holy Land was far beyond everyone's expectations. Even Pei Jingxing and Zhao Shimin had been here four years ago, and they were also confused by the intricate roads.The temple was clearly close at hand, but everyone was blocked by the huge collapsed stone in front of them, and had to detour several times.It wasn't until the moon climbed overhead that the group of people finally walked to the deserted temple.

Pei Jingxing took a few steps forward, raised his hand holding the torch, waved it back and forth a few times, nodded, turned around and said to the three people behind him, "This is it."

After walking for nearly two hours, and with the tossing and tossing along the way, everyone was already exhausted.Pei Jingxing had just confirmed that Zhao Shimin didn't know where the strength came from, and ran into the temple first in three steps.

"what!"

Before the other three could enter, Zhao Shimin's screams came from the temple.

Pei Jingxing flicked the dragon-headed tiger-tooth spear in his hand, Gao Zekai also drew out the mahogany sword he was carrying, and Su Yan listened attentively to the movement around him, and touched the dagger at his waist with one hand.

"There are...there are dead people!" Zhao Shimin rushed out from the inside, hid behind Gao Zekai, trembling, "There...there are...several dead people inside!"

Pei Jingxing glanced at him and said, "I'll go in and have a look."

The temple has been abandoned for many years, and the ground has long been covered with a thick layer of dust. Except for Zhao Shimin's footprints running in and out, there are no other traces.

Pei Jingxing soon saw that the so-called "dead person" in Zhao Shimin's eyes was not so much a dead person as a skeleton.With a rough glance, you can see several skeletons fallen in the temple. These skeletons are piled up together, and they still have the armor they wore when they were alive. It seems that they have encountered some disaster and were forced to a corner in a hurry.

It's all here, Pei Jingxing naturally doesn't shy away from these things, he walked over quickly, picked up part of the armor, wiped off the dust on it, and saw the original mark on the armor.

This mark was very familiar to Pei Jingxing. Four years ago, they wore this armor and set off from the barracks in high spirits. In the end, only five of them came back disheartened.

Thinking of what Zhao Shimin said earlier, Pei Jingxing guessed that most of these people were killed by those vampire bats. A burst of sadness filled his heart. He put down his armor carefully, turned around and walked to the entrance of the temple, and said, "Come in, don't you?" Danger."

"Those dead people?" Gao Zekai was a little worried, "Could it be that someone got there first?"

"Those are the Crown Prince Wei who died here four years ago. They are all bones." While speaking, Pei Jingxing glanced at Zhao Shimin, who turned paler and paler.

Gao Zekai and Su Yan didn't have such psychological burden as him, here Pei Jingxing had already come down the steps to lead Su Yan, and there Gao Zekai urged Zhao Shimin to enter the temple with them again.

"I... I'll let it go, I'll be outside, guarding you outside." Zhao Shimin stammered and refused, "I don't know if those barbarians have come in, in case they sneak attack in the middle of the night, I... I'm on guard outside, and I can still warn the police."

Gao Zekai, who had experienced the previous experience, did not believe Zhao Shimin's words this time.But now that he has arrived at the Holy Land, Zhao Shimin's role is not that great.Because of this, Gao Zekai didn't say anything more this time, but nodded his head: "If you think it's too cold at night or you're sleepy, just come in."

When Gao Zekai entered the temple, he saw Su Yan standing at the side, while Pei Jingxing bent down to lay out the skeletons one by one, arranged the armor one by one, and placed them beside the skeletons.

"Pei Street Envoy, death cannot be brought back to life," Gao Zekai walked up to Pei Jingxing and whispered, "Now Pei Street Envoy has done his best."

Pei Jingxing did not speak. After he arranged the skeletons, Su Yan walked over and said, "There is no resentment on these skeletons. They should have re-entered the cycle and reincarnated."

Pei Jingxing nodded: "Thank you."

What he is thanking, no one knows.

A night without dreams.

Gao Zekai didn't wake up until the sun shone through the cracks in the temple's dome.

Opening his eyes suddenly, he realized that he was in an unfamiliar environment. Gao Zekai was startled, subconsciously touched the gourd tied around his waist, found that the gourd was still there, and he was relieved.

"Are you awake?" Pei Jingxing walked in from outside the temple, and threw a piece of dry food to Gao Zekai, "The entrance has been found, we will set off later."

Gao Zekai took a bite, it was hard and bitter, and he ate it dryly in his mouth, it tasted like chewing wax.

"Where are Su Yan and Zhao Shimin?"

"Zhao Shimin dare not come in, Su Yan is practicing outside." While speaking, Pei Jingxing threw another bag of water to Gao Zekai.

Mixed with clear water, Gao Zekai reluctantly swallowed the dry food in his mouth: "Compared with Su Daoyou, I am really ashamed."

Pei Jingxing didn't bother to pay attention to his nonsense, and when he saw Gao Zekai got up, he turned around and went out, beckoning Su Yan and Zhao Shimin to unload the supplies from the camel and get ready to enter the secret passage.