Rent Affair

Chapter 20 Illusion
I hugged Xiaoying and jumped down, my body couldn't help falling down, Xiaoying held my hand tighter, buried her head in my arms, but fell for a second or two, but still couldn't see the bottom, I My heart couldn't help tightening, and I became even more nervous. At first, I thought it was just a small abyss from an illusion, but after falling for several seconds, I still didn't see the bottom, which made people panic.

After falling for a few more seconds, the hot air in her body surged again, and a picture flashed before her eyes. In this picture, Xiaoying stood alone facing the abyss. When she got closer, she saw that her face was full of tears, and her eyes were red. However, she opened and closed her mouth as if she was saying something, but she couldn't hear the sound, suddenly she turned around and jumped into the abyss, I yelled "no", the rolling hot air in my body Out of the air hole in an instant, I saw the successive waves of air rushing towards the rock wall. There was a loud sound of rock cracking, and the broken stones splashed everywhere. Before I knew it, Xiaoying and I were stagnant in this void.

"Did you jump over the cliff?" I asked Xiaoying.

Xiaoying nodded, and at this time I also understood why she said that I can jump, she understands the memories in my mind, she knows that when I jump off a cliff, those images will be aroused in my mind, but why she refuses tell me?Why do I have to use this method to uncover the things hidden in my mind?
Xiaoying smiled faintly, the smile was very light, but it was like a snow lotus blooming on the wild Gobi snow field, "Only in this way will you remember it clearly!" After she finished speaking, she stopped talking and turned her head away.

"Let me remember it clearly?" I thought to myself, and before I knew it, the two of us had fallen to the bottom of the abyss. Because of the layers of air waves protecting our bodies, there was not much sense of impact.

Xiaoying let go of her hand and jumped down from my arms, telling me not to think too much, I will remember everything that should be remembered, and she will never allow things that should not be remembered to appear in my mind.

Having said that, how can I not think about it, since I met that fox demon, strange things have happened to me one after another, anyone would think about it.

Xiaoying ignored me, and used the Dao Talisman to create another huge fireball. We are now in an open space, a huge stone gate is closed right in front of us, and we can faintly smell blood from the stone gate. It spread out from the gap, and the top of the head is the crack of the abyss. Xiaoying and I focused our eyes on the stone gate at the same time, and took a closer look. This stone gate is made of marble, the whole body is as smooth as jade, There are some totems carved on it, but these totems are not dragons, phoenixes, unicorns and other auspicious beasts used by ancient emperors and generals, but snakes. There are some discrepancies in the ones seen in the mountain forest, but the relief work is exquisite, and the snake is carved so lifelike, as if there is such a thing in this world.

I have never seen such a big stone gate, I was curious and wanted to see if I could push the stone gate open, Xiaoying saw me stretching out my hand, grabbed my hand hurriedly, and shouted, "Do you know what this is? bump!"

Seeing that her brows were tightly frowned and her face was solemn, she knew she was joking, so she hurriedly asked if there was anything else to say about this stone door?
Xiaoying shook her head, saying that she didn't know why this door stood here, but she must be a huge ancient tomb behind this door.

"Ancient tomb?" First there was an illusion, and now there is an ancient tomb. Is this evil cheating?

Xiaoying said that although she didn't know whether this ancient tomb was created by evil spirits or not, there were mechanisms in the ancient tombs to prevent people from being robbed, and the stone gate in front of us is the tomb gate of this ancient tomb , as long as I push the stone door just a little bit, whether it is quicksand or crossbow arrows, it will kill us both.

Hearing what Xiaoying said, I couldn't help but gasped, and squeezed cold sweat on my palms, but this burst of bloody smell must have come from behind this stone gate, breaking through this stone gate will probably break this illusion , but this stone gate alone is difficult to break into.

At the moment, the two of them had no countermeasures, and stood silently in front of the stone gate. I stared at the snake carved in relief on the stone gate. I vaguely felt that the snake was quite familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere before, but I couldn’t remember it for a while. .

"Otherwise... let's find a rock and throw it at a distance to see if it will trigger the mechanism!" Xiaoying said hesitantly, it seems that she has no other choice, she doesn't even dare to say this method to herself Make sure it works.

"This method won't work!" I replied, "When a stone hits this stone gate that is hundreds of times larger than me, the stone gate will even tremble, and there is no way to get out of the trap!"

"Then find a bigger stone, that's okay, right?" I shook my head and said, "There are no such big stones at the bottom of the abyss. Far, if the mechanism is just a hidden weapon like a crossbow, you can hide and save your life, but if it is quicksand, I am afraid that you will be obliterated by the quicksand before you run away!"

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, you can't waste time here, can you?" Xiaoying paced back and forth anxiously, complaining, "If senior brother is here, he's well-informed, maybe he can do something !"

"Chen Changan..."

My first burst of tearing pain, this time there was a book in front of my eyes. It was very gentle, as if worried that the book would be damaged if you were not paying attention. The pages of the book were flipped a few pages in that hand, and finally stopped on a yellowed page. Only a snake was drawn on this page. , the shape of this snake is the same as that on the stone gate, except that the black pustules on the top of the head are a bit bigger, as if there is another snake head, the hand closes the book, and the picture goes up along the hand, Chen Chang An smiled, that smile was ghostly and sinister.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing my painful face, Xiaoying asked hurriedly.

I relieved the headache that was gradually getting lighter, thinking that this matter had something to do with Chen Changan, he asked me and Xiaoying to subdue the evil spirits, and the snake totem on the stone gate in front of me was the same as him in the picture It's the same thing, and the evil spirit in Qingniu Village must have an inseparable connection with Chen Chang'an...

"Push this stone door open!" I gritted my teeth and forced myself to endure the unabated pain.

"No! What if it's..." Xiaoying refused, and I knew what she was worried about.

"Believe me, I won't let you get hurt!" I looked at Xiaoying, who was silent for a long time, hesitated a little, then nodded, raised her hand and pushed the stone door with all her strength.

"Boom..."

The gap between the two stone gates is getting bigger and bigger, and a dazzling light is projected from the gap, making it difficult for people to look directly. , the two stone gates in front of me blurred and disappeared out of thin air. One step away is Qingniu Baigu Mountain, and less than a few feet away is an underground river rushing.

phantom?Was everything that happened just now an illusion?I touched my clothes, they were dry, there was no sign of being soaked in water, my heart trembled, we almost lost our lives standing in front of this mountain of green cattle and white bones?

Seeing my surprise, Xiaoying said softly, "Those are not illusions but the future!" She paused and bowed towards the mountain of green cattle and white bones, quite respectfully, "There is no evil spirit in this cave, but a prophet .”

"Prophet?" There are many rumors about the prophet, saying that he can predict what will happen in the future, but why did this prophet kill so many green cattle?I asked.

Xiaoying shook her head and said that she didn't know too well, since the Prophet would not let her know so much, it's better not to know, otherwise the Prophet will blame her, and even the gods will not be able to save her.

"Then will the cave be destroyed? What if the prophet asks those people outside to bury him with him?" The prophet killed all the green cattle in Qingniu Village, leaving no trace of flesh and blood. I always feel that the prophet's intentions are evil .

Xiaoying spread her hands, shrugged her shoulders, and looked indifferent, "Those people outside lost their lives because they asked for it. We can't afford to offend the Prophet. It's better to take care of yourself!"

Hearing this, I felt that the little image in front of me was a different person. Before entering the cave, she would rather die than destroy the cave, so as not to let it kill another person, but how could she say such a thing?
"Who are you?" I asked coldly, clenched my hands into fists.

The little shadow in front of me laughed twice, and the voice was shrill, "Guess who I am?" Her face turned ferocious, cracks appeared on her delicate oval face, she took a step forward, and clamped my throat tightly with one hand , "Originally, I wanted to use the group of people outside to replenish my energy, but now I have a good one delivered to my door!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she bared her fangs, the tip of the fangs shone with spots of cold light, and it bit into my neck in an instant, I felt chills all over my body, and the blood flow was disguised as a small shadow by the person in front of me. Being sucked by the ghosts, the things in front of me became illusory and misty, and gradually blurred.

"Let him go!"

On the verge of death, I heard Xiaoying roar, the monster paused for a while, but sucked harder and harder.

Seeing that the monster could not be deterred at all, Xiaoying yelled, "You trash, you can't even protect your own woman!"

The shout came to my ears, and I saw Xiaoying lying in a big red coffin, and I was also in this picture. In the picture, I was kneeling in front of the coffin, with a blank expression on my face, while an old Taoist priest beside me glared Looking at me, the hot air in my body rose suddenly, the monster seemed to notice something strange, and hurriedly loosened my neck, but it was too late.

"If you suck my blood, you will pay with your life!"

The monster retreated again and again in fright, and asked in a panic, "Who the hell are you?"

"Your grandpa!"

I let out a rage, and punched out with a hand covered in air, and an air burst came out. Before the fist arrived, the air explosion hit her chest with a crackling sound, and the monster staggered backwards, plopped and sat down on the ground. land.

Since this monster can transform into a snake totem that reminds me of the image in my mind, she must know something about this snake totem. I approached her and asked her coldly if she knew about Chen Changan.

The monster's eyes dodged, and he opened and closed his mouth, showing some scruples.

"Just tell me, and I can spare you!"

"Really?" Seeing the vitality, the monster asked back.

I answered.

"Chen Changan is..."

The monster had just uttered a few words, when suddenly there was a cloudy wind, and the underground river rose up and flooded the river bank. When the monster saw the rising wind, it knelt down and kowtowed, terrified, and murmured, "I was wrong, I don't dare anymore..."

Before the words were finished, a green ox rib flew out from the mountain of white bones behind him at some point, pierced through the heart of the monster, and the monster turned into a wisp of black smoke and drifted away.

(End of this chapter)