Ten Mile Room

In the open space outside the Golden Palace Sacrificial Hall, Jiang Gezi finally watched a primitive drama.

Just outside the main hall of the Golden Palace dedicated to the ancestors, a bonfire piled up with large pieces of dry firewood was burning, and a group of savages in rags and with oil paint on their heads were dancing around the bonfire.

At first glance, Jiang Gezi almost thought that he had returned to the primitive society. After the bonfire was burned out, he could go hunting with a small slingshot.

It is really a powerful primitive dance. Although there are only a few dance steps, it fully demonstrates the essence of primitive people's foolish and bold self-hypnosis. They pray back and forth around the campfire, shouting to the sky and the earth, and are always ready Said to.

A monotonous melody rang out on the chords, and the warriors sang barefoot on the ground.The bonfire whizzed up, sparks scorched the darkness in the air, a burst of sparks and a puff of smoke moved Jiang Gezi so much that he had the desire to throw change in the circle.

This year, it's not easy for anyone!

The emperor's family has no food left!

Jump, jump!He just wanted to go to the underground palace to find the nightmare?I don't know what the meaning of the royal family's tossing like this is?

In fact, Jiang Gezi didn't know, and really didn't make any sense to him. The new emperor ascended the throne, and he prayed once in his life. Everyone came with the same meaning.

This program was made for Li Tuo, Jiang Gezi is a foreign prince, he really thinks highly of himself.

The little chubby who was missing a front tooth in his arms said to Jiang Gezi in a childish voice: "Grandmother Gudi told Gu that she wanted to steal Gu's pus?"

脓？

What pus?

Jiang Gezi picked up the little fat man and looked at it over and over again. Prince Jingdu is five years old, right?Has he stopped using diapers for a long time?

Or where is it broken?You just have a wound festering, I’m full, and I’m going to steal your pus?

The little fat man laughed straight at his torment, thinking that Jiang Gezi was teasing him.

"What kind of nonsense did that old witch teach you and steal your pus..."

Jiang Gezi muttered and teased the little fat man.

But there was a voice holding back a smile from beside him: "Gezi, you are lying to children again with nonsense."

Jiang Gezi heard the sound and looked, but saw that it was Lian Yanzi in a dusty and crumpled sacrificial robe.

It was rare to see him in a panic, so Jiang Gezi laughed too, and said, "Why are you so virtuous?"

Lian Yanzi spread her hands helplessly: "Hey, don't mention it, there are a group of old men and old ladies rolling around the door of the house all day long, one is easy to deal with, and that is the whole group, bullying me in shifts!

Now, my whole world is in chaos, I can't get out of the gate, I climbed over the wall.Are you still laughing?Let's finish the business first and then talk about other things. What Jing means is that you want to steal his family's dragon! "

dragon?

Jiang Gezi's head suddenly appeared in countless materials of the earth and China, with five claws exhaled, hooks between fingers, whalebone pricked up, eyes like judgments, calling the wind and rain, flying clouds and fog, or the Western deformity like a chicken with small wings. dragon.

The milk bun next to him nodded again and again, and pretended to be mature and said: "Wu Dayin is right, it is me~en~ Gu's pus! Father said there is pus, it is Gu's pus."

That's what it means.

Jiang Gezi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and stretched out his hand to pinch his cheek again: "Puls! Pus! I'll squeeze out any pus for you too. See how you're leaking. Don't talk anymore."

He casually tossed the little bun to his side, Tang Ling caught it and threw it again.

The palace people who followed Xiao Wang in the golden palace were all pale in fright. No one in the whole world has ruined the crown prince like this, and he is still the crown prince who is the number one.

The little fat man was very happy. He struggled out of the palace man's arms and wanted Jiang Gezi to do it again.

No one is used to his bad habits.

Lian Yanzi walked slowly in front of Jiang Gezi. He tied his hands in his fat gown, quietly watched the dance in front of him, and listened to the rhythm of the ancient chord.

Although the scene was chaotic, every word and syllable of his was clearly heard by Jiang Gezi, and only he could hear it.

He said: "In the past, I really didn't have a good impression of the Li family or the Li family."

Jiang Gezi looked at him curiously: "En?"

Lian Yanzi's expression was relieved and relieved, as if she had walked a long way and let go of a heavy burden with ease.

He said: "In the future, the Great Elder told me one thing."

Lian Yanzi tonight is actually very strange.

He used to be cold and cold, two parts alienated, seven parts mean and kneading together, but now he suddenly becomes negative.

Jiang Gezi looked at him with a smile, how could he not have noticed Lian Yanzi's change.

Jiang Gezi was also happy, no one likes to deal with a weapon that dehumanizes, oh, a machine.

Even if he is a money machine.

"Is that the big elder who loves to cry?"

"Correct!"

"This effect! How many pots of chicken soup did they give you?"

"Oh~ what are you talking about! The Great Elder didn't say anything, he just showed me a book of witchcraft internal records, do you still remember that when you first arrived in Zhongzhou, I told you that people drowned in the waters of the Golden Palace every year thing?"

"Well, there is such a thing."

Lian Yanzi looked at the little fat man beside him with a confused expression and said: "So, Mrs. Li is probably the stupidest fool in the world, and I can't find anyone who is more stupid than them. I don't even know what to use. What kind of vocabulary is used to evaluate this family..."

Jiang Gezi also looked at the little fat man. Hearing what Lian Yanzi said, some vague clues in his mind were connected together, and the final result came out of his head.

This time, he was also shocked.

"You mean? They've always known what's down there?"

"Yes! They know it, they have always known it. Every generation of emperors, every generation of elders of the shaman clan knows it. Since the founding emperor Li Jidao established his capital in Zhongzhou and built the Golden Palace in the land of nightmares, the whole Li family has It has become a town! The ones surnamed Li, the ones surnamed Lian... live here to inherit the blood of their ancestors, and those who hold power know it."

So, the ones surnamed Li and Lian are Taishan Shigan in the flesh?The stone lion in front of the house?The left and right door gods at the door?

The corners of Jiang Gezi's mouth twitched, he clicked his tongue, and said to Lian Yanzi in confusion, "But that guy didn't tell me anything?"

Yes, Yu Dongchi didn't mention a single word from the beginning to the end.

Lian Yanzi thought for a while before saying, "Maybe he thinks these things are trivial things to you, maybe he thinks it's only natural for Mrs. Li to keep herself here... Gezi, what should I do? I feel a little ashamed, those ancestors that I looked down upon and despised before, they..."

Lian Yanzi suddenly discovered that he had read so many books and learned so much knowledge, but he just couldn't find the right words to evaluate the Li family and his ancestors surnamed Lian.

They accepted their fate frankly, and lived in the Golden Palace from generation to generation, becoming physical bodies to guard the city, the country, and even the world.

He fell into deep thought, but Jiang Gezi suddenly stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder, and asked, "Wait, I seem to have heard an unpleasant word, you mean ~ life sacrifice?"

Lian Yan immediately understood what Jiang Gezi cared about, and he explained: "Oh, this life sacrifice is different from Danniang and the others. In short, the ancestors of the Li family seemed to have done some tricks here, and then... the Golden Palace The waters are not covered, and if any descendant of the Li family dies, it is bad luck! Anyway, compared to most interests, Li’s thoughts are definitely imperial thoughts, pigeons~ They are different from us, so I just admire it, like..."

He pinched the cheek of the little fat man next to him, and said with a smile: "It's like they sent this little fat man here tonight. This is probably Li Tuo's greatest sincerity to us. Huh...he took his son's life for granted. It's all stuck here."

Jiang Gezi looked at the little fat man, then left and right at the majestic Golden Palace.

He didn't even know what to say.

The prayers around him were still going on, and the bonfire was still burning... At this moment, he also felt that the Li family didn't seem so annoying anymore.

The bonfire dance continued until midnight. At the moment when Dongfang Dixing was the brightest, the bonfire suddenly went out, and the musicians withdrew.

The open space outside the Golden Palace Sacrificial Hall, like a full moon, was silently divided into two halves. In the middle of the ground, a downward white marble staircase more than three meters wide was exposed.

Lian Yanzi took the two old-fashioned portable lanterns from Chen Song, lit them, and handed Jiang Gezi one.

Prince Jing was struggling to get off the ground, but Lian Yanzi slowly walked in front of him, met his gaze, and said to him very softly: "Jing, can you wait for us here?"

Prince Jing struggled a few times, broke free from the embrace of the palace man and fell to the ground. After he stood still, he patted the little robe and tried his best to stretch out his fat arms to support his crown. Then he clasped his fists in both hands, looked up at Lian Yanzi and said: " The great witch calms down."

Even Yanzi shook his head with a smile, and gave the boy a hand and said: "The witch is not angry."

Pigeon is sloppy, and only thinks this guy is interesting, but he can tell at a glance that under the fat face of this little guy, there is a Li family's traditional sour face that is about [-]% to [-]% of someone's.

Otherwise, with the temperament of the pigeon, how could he hug him.

Prince Jing touched his injured face again, feeling sad, but he still emphasized rights: "Father said, it's Jing's pus, so don't be angry, big witch, pus can't be given to outsiders, it's Jing's."

Lian Yanzi could hear the overtones from this sentence. What Li Tuo meant was, son, that is your responsibility.

Unfortunately, this baby is too young, he probably doesn't understand what responsibility is.

Lian Yanzi explained to him kindly: "Wu Bunu, the capital is too small, then since your grandmother has been there once, no one else has set foot here..."

Before he finished speaking, Prince Jing raised his small head and puffed out his chest and said: "Jing is Li's family, how can the descendants of Ji Dao be afraid of danger!" Having said this, he confirmed his rights and said: " That's Jing's pus."

Seeing that they were entangled, Jiang Gezi rolled his eyes helplessly. If he explained it like this, they might not be able to go down next year.

Where can he find a beautiful pimple and squeeze out a "pus" for this little fat man?

He turned around and walked in front of Prince Jing, first took off his outer robe neatly, and then took off the six layers of inner clothing layer by layer, until finally only a set of clothes with thin skin visible was left, and turned it around to show Prince Jing After walking around, he said: "See! I don't have a pocket, so let's go down and see if there is your pus! I can't take it away, right?"

Lian Yanzi covered his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, he groaned and begged: "Gezi, he is just a child, what are you doing..."

However, before he finished his sentence, Prince Jing's serious and sharp answer came from beside him: "Then you go down!"

This time they don't have a big tongue.

Lian Yanzi slowly put down her hands, first looked at Jiang Gezi, who was spreading her hands, and then at Prince Jing, who was already relieved.

After a long time, he said helplessly: "So, in order to prevent me from stealing your dragon in my pocket, I have to take off my robe?"

Prince Jing nodded confidently and saluted with an uncompromising tone.

"The great witch calms down."

The big witch wasn't angry, of course he wouldn't be angry...hell.

In the cold underground passage, Lian Yanzi was barefoot and wearing long johns, swearing while walking.

"There isn't a single good thing surnamed Li!"

Jiang Gezi looked at his long underwear with some envy, and asked him, "Where did you get this?"

"what?"

"Is this what you're wearing?"

"This one, this one is specially offered by the palace, you want it too?"

Of course I want it. Every winter, Jiang Gezi misses his discounted Antarctica very much. As a person of taste, he only wears Antarctica.

They walked down while talking about long johns and autumn clothes.

It was an underground corridor from narrow to wide. The walls of the corridor were carved with white marble. Every ten meters along the way, there was a huge cast iron candlestick exposed on the outer edge of the wall.

The candle in the candlestick is still two-thirds long, judging by the speed at which the candle has been decayed by time, when Empress Yijin was in power, she probably came a lot, right?

She also came to squeeze pus?

Lian Yanzi lit the candle with the open flame in the lantern.

As the flames gathered, the stone carvings carved on the left and right walls of this corridor were revealed.

From those ancient handwriting, Jiang Gezi and the others can clearly distinguish that the stories of these reliefs are called "Ancient", "Illusive Sea", "Remote Hill", "Sin Realm", "Enlightenment", "Summer Witch", "Yongzhen"... …

And as they watched the scenes, Lian Yanzi said next to Jiang Gezi: "There are many legends recorded in the old palace books. I know these stories. Do you want to hear them?"

Anyway, walking was boring, so Jiang Gezi nodded and said, "Go ahead."

"It is said that a long time ago, the first human beings were equal to all things on the mainland. Although their lives were short, they were born with wisdom, could cry, and asked for something. They were the spirits of all things.

Later, in the east of the East Mountain of the Illusory Sea, there was a group of people from the tribe of Yaoqiu. They violated the original contract between humans and the mother of the earth, sneaked into the Illusory Sea, drank the water of the Illusory Sea, and doubled their lives and grew old.

The mother of the earth was angry and punished, closing the road leading to the fantasy sea. From then on, the fantasy sea only appeared in the dreamland. According to ancient legends, whether a person's soul is alive or dead, it has to pass through the fantasy sea to reach its destination.

Soon, human beings discovered that their descendants were born without any signs of life, as if they were dead.When they die, the land of Gael will no longer accept their bodies to return to the soil. The corpses are piled up like mountains and will not rot, and their bodies will be as immortal as iron and steel.

In this way, the human population decreased sharply, and the race was about to become extinct. Human beings prayed to heaven for atonement.

The tribe waiting to die in despair, while suffering prayers, atonement, and repentance, seeks a way to reproduce.

Later, a girl named Cha in Youxia's tribe claimed that she had a witch dream and got guidance.

Cha left the tribe with her luggage on her back. After 15 years, Cha returned to the tribe. She said that she went to the end of the world and met Yan and Miao. They were two dragons guarding the fantasy sea. She told the suffering of human beings and got Shenlong's sympathy.

Shenlong told Cha that the mother of the earth left three keys, and these three keys were kept by the three sisters of the Pei family respectively, and they lived on the three peaks on the top of the world..."

Probably because Lian Yanzi's ability to tell stories is really not strong, Jiang Gezi finally couldn't take it anymore, he stopped, waved his hand and said: "Stop talking, I know what happened later, these messy bullshit probably mean that we must overcome this The three goddesses were about to learn the peerless magical skills, so Shenlong brought tea to find the father of the earth to get the secret book, and finally opened up the two veins of Ren and Du, so tea became the ancestor of the war witch, and the father of the earth worried about tea coming out to fight, So they sent their favorite son to the world. Later, they finally gathered three keys and opened the door to heaven and hell. The world finally restored peace. Children and daughters, this is the ancestor of the Li family, and the other one lives in the waters in front of us...?"

"Uh, did you see that?"

"Hehe~ Those legends are half-baked, and they all mean this. In order to show their pure blood, the feudal class all call themselves the sons of heaven. They can always make up something, and you can see it? I don't even need to look. , oh, here we are..."

Their footsteps finally stopped in a small palace. The scale of this place was much smaller than the underground palace in Daughter Kingdom.

That is, one-third of the size of the subterranean royal city of Daughter Kingdom.

Although Lian Yanzi talked about Shenlong all the way, but seeing this, he was ashamed after all.

What a waste of time.

In the center of this palace, there is a small underground ditch made of finely crushed sapphire seeds.

Although it twists and turns and extends far away, the water surface in the pool is quiet and as peaceful as a mirror. Looking at it with the naked eye, the small ditch cannot be described with more beautiful, greater, and more mysterious words. It's so small, so narrow, let alone a dragon, even a whale's cub can't fit in it, and its widest part is less than two meters wide.

But it is very deep. Jiang Gezi can feel that the depth of this underground river is at least about 20 meters in the shallow part, and the depth may even reach 50 meters.

Lian Yanzi took a breath and explained a little embarrassedly: "Uh, it is indeed recorded in the book... You know, the legend is probably like that, right?"

Jiang Gezi laughed and shook his head.

"Hey, what have you been stimulated recently?"

"I don't know, maybe they were forced to be like this by those old men at the door."

It's just such a broken puddle, and there are still dragons living there.

Lian Yanzi was embarrassed and shameless. He just wanted to move forward, but Jiang Gezi grabbed his arm and said, "Don't go there, don't you feel it? There...maybe there is really a dragon living there."

Lian Yanzi stopped when he heard the words, he calmed down and felt it seriously, and then he felt something, made a few gestures with his hands neatly, and after setting up the forbidden curtain, he said: "Don't laugh at me, don't you mean the nightmare What? Let’s just forget about the Shenlong! But... the scale of this nightmare is really... really unexpected."

Jiang Gezi had a serious expression on his face, which even Yanzi couldn't see, he could only feel it slightly.

However, he could see, in that narrow underground river, one after another... big-eyed goldfish with fluttering tails.

Those densely packed goldfish from the waters of the game world swim around, looming in the water, and on their backs, they carry fragments of the lost temple that only the Jiang pigeon can see.

There are a lot of those pieces, and so are the goldfish.

They rise and fall together in the underground river. Occasionally, some nightmares will fall out of the fragments. As the goldfish swims and sinks, they disappear before they can be destroyed...

The game world still has barriers between the water area and reality, and the original force of these barriers comes from the formation of those seeds.

Until this moment, all the puzzles were solved in front of Jiang Gezi.

The lost temple, he had finally found it.

That person, the person who once created the world, somehow compressed those fragments to a size of no more than three centimeters each.

As we all know, the resistance of water is much greater than that of air. Therefore, whenever the nightmare on the back of the goldfish fluctuates, those goldfish will carry the debris into the water, relying on the water to relieve the damage of the nightmare phenomenon.

The nightmare was compressed, and its power could not rush out of the water.

This method is very good, but it is not perfect. That's why the waters of the Golden Palace are inexplicably tossed every year, and several descendants of the Li family will fall into the waters and die accidentally.

As for why they are descendants of the Li family?

That's easy too, in the former Golden Palace, only the descendants surnamed Li dared to play here freely, and if your child didn't die, someone else's would die.

Those goldfish were swimming freely, so after they sank to the bottom of the river, those nightmares would refresh back to the back of the goldfish from the upper waters... It took a process, but the process didn't take long.

Since the nightmare phenomenon is accidental, the death of Jin Gong is also accidental.

Jiang Gezi walked out of the forbidden curtain and walked to the side of the pool step by step. A step away from him, the smaller fragments finally perceived the main world.

In this way, the underground river in this water area began to churn like boiling water...

Five minutes later, Jiang Gezi, who looked like a soaked rat, opened his mouth to spit out a mouthful of water, which spurted out with the current, and a goldfish fell to the ground struggling and flopping.

This goldfish is not the kind of goldfish in the game world, it is a native goldfish in the underground river.

Lian Yanzi stooped to pick up the goldfish with a suppressed smile, and threw it into the pool.

They watched the fish go away together, and Jiang Gezi said, "Fuck the dragon, fuck the ancient legend."

Lian Yanzi was sitting on the edge of the pool. He picked the jade seeds on the edge of the pool, and said in a teasing tone: "These are the seeds. They are precious things sold by the gram in the jewelry store! The people outside are poor." Selling grandma's underwear..."

Jiang Gezi lowered his head and looked down at him: "That old woman was so poor that she didn't dare to destroy it. If I were you, I'd think about it first. When I go out later, that little fellow will ask you for a dragon, um, pus! How would you answer her?" ?”

Lian Yanzi thought about it seriously, and when he had no solution, he asked Jiang Gezi: "If it were you, how would you answer him?"

Jiang Gezi said bluntly, "No!"

"Hey! Destroying a person's childhood is a serious crime, not to mention..." Lian Yanzi soaked her feet in the Royal River, flipped the waves, and said in a gentle voice: "When I was young... those children are gone, and outsiders with malicious intentions will It is said that there are ten thousand years of bastards living under this river, but those old witches will tell us that those little friends have ascended to heaven, and Shenlong loves them so much, so he carried them on his back and went to the arms of Mother Earth. Be the happiest kid in the world."

Speaking of this, he turned his face to look at Jiang Gezi and said with a smile: "I know you don't believe it, and you don't even bother to believe it! But, that was the place I yearned for most in my childhood! Before I was 12 years old, whenever I was sad, I Just come to the Golden Palace, I sit on the edge of the water and pray that I can meet the dragon, hoping that it can carry me on its back and take me to the embrace of the Mother Earth, that would be the best."

Jiang Gezi stared at Lian Yanzi's face for a long time before he said, "You have changed!"

"no!"

"changed!"

"Well, even if I change, but, do you have a dragon? No matter what the real result is, pigeons, we must give those dead children a dream. No one can destroy this dream, even if it is the most real!"

We have to tell them that this world... has dragons.