Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 13 The Gate of Hell!
Deducing the life door is really exhausting. Li Canghai has never felt so tired. Now he admires those metaphysicists. Deducing such a huge amount of information is simply a group of non-human beings.

"How could there be Qimen Dunjia in this forest? What was that ghost before, and where did it go?"

Li Canghai pinched the center of his brows vigorously, the more he thought about it, the more he had a headache, many things floated in his mind like a fog, and he soon fell asleep.

After an unknown amount of time, he was woken up by Di Qing, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was almost sunset.

Li Canghai hurriedly cleared his head. While counting the time in his mind, he asked Di Qing to prepare the torch.

When the sun set over the treetops, Li Canghai knew that the time had come, so he hurriedly dragged Di Qing to the east.

After observation during the day, he speculated that the Qimen Dunjia was laid out with an outer square and an inner circle, which is contrary to the traditional theory of "the sky is round and the place is round".

This made him make a bold guess that if he wanted to leave this formation, he had to go in the opposite direction.

The odd door is hidden under the six appearances, lying among the three wonders, following the yin when encountering the yang, and walking by the odd when encountering the odd, so that there is a glimmer of life.

The night was gloomy, and the whole forest was covered with fog again.

Holding torches in their hands, the two walked carefully through the thick fog. The situation was much more complicated than what Li Canghai had speculated. It was difficult to tell the direction in the dense fog. If they made a slight mistake, they might get lost in the map again.

After walking for nearly an hour, I don't know how many times I turned around, and the surrounding graves gradually disappeared.

But what they saw in front of them made them feel confused.

This is a relatively open and open area. The entire area is shrouded in thick fog, and only some buildings can be vaguely seen standing in the depths.

"Where is this place? It's so cold." Di Qing asked tremblingly, rubbing her face.

Li Canghai shook his head, he didn't know where it was.

"The atmosphere here is gloomy, let's be careful."

Li Canghai burned the torch more vigorously, fixed his position slightly, and walked forward with Di Qing.

The two walked about twenty feet, and suddenly found that there was a cliff tens of feet wide in front of them!

The cliff was shrouded in thick fog, and the depth was bottomless. The wind roared in the cliff, and the deep voice was like countless night ghosts wailing, which made people shudder.

"Li Canghai, there is a stone tablet here."

At this moment, Di Qing suddenly found a stone tablet standing on the edge of the cliff, and hurriedly called Li Canghai to look at it.

Li Canghai walked over quickly. The stone tablet was about ten feet high, and the surface of the tablet was covered with thick moss, which looked extremely mottled.

After removing the moss, Li Canghai took a torch and shone it on it, his face immediately turned pale.

Di Qing felt strange, so she hurried over to take a look, and she saw a few big characters on the stele:

gate of hell!
The blood on Di Qing's face faded instantly, and she stood on the spot as if petrified.

"Ghost... the door is closed, have we come to the underworld?" Di Qing was obviously frightened, trembling.

Li Canghai also broke out in a cold sweat, but he quickly calmed down.

He has never believed in the existence of ghosts and gods, so he took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "We can only move forward. I don't believe in the existence of ghosts and gods in this world."

"But... what if this place is really the underworld?"

Li Canghai took Di Qing's hand, and said in a deep voice, "If it's really a hell, I will accompany you to die together."

It was strange to say that after Di Qing's hand was held by Li Canghai, her disturbed heart quickly calmed down.

Behind the stele is a stone bridge that is only about ten feet wide. The stone bridge is hidden in the thick fog and leads directly to the opposite cliff.

Li Canghai patted the back of Di Qing's hand, and then led her up the stone bridge.

I don't know if it's a psychological reason, but when they walked on the stone bridge, they could always feel that there were countless ghosts wandering around them, and occasionally they could hear some mournful ghost cries.

Di Qing was already afraid of ghosts, so she simply closed her eyes and let Li Canghai drag her forward.

Li Canghai was calm on the surface, but sweat was dripping from his forehead.

This stone bridge is narrow and hidden in the dense fog, if there is a slight mistake, it will fall into the cliff, but it will be smashed to pieces.

It took them half an hour to walk over a distance of about twenty feet.

Li Canghai was about to collapse, he and Di Qing took a short rest before continuing to walk inside.

This is a square full of red Bana flowers.

The blood-red flowers of the other shore are connected together, like a sea of ​​blood, so red that it makes people dizzy.

Passing through the square is half a cliff, on which are carved countless hideous ghosts and gods.

On the straight line of the cliff facing the stone bridge, there was a dark cave. The two looked at each other and walked in.

The cave is more than ten feet long. In the dark and oppressive cave, there are strange and gloomy statues of ghosts and gods everywhere.

Walking out of the cave, the eyes suddenly opened up, and there was a magnificent group of palaces in front of the eyes.

There is a clear river in front of the palace complex, and the river flows slowly.

The two sides of the bank are full of Bana flowers, and a road paved with yellow soil meanders in the bloody sea of ​​Bana flowers.

The surrounding fog is gloomy, and the colors of red, yellow and black form a strong visual impact, directly hitting people's hearts.

"Look, there is a stone bridge over there!" Di Qing was also deeply shocked by what she saw, forgetting her fear.

Li Canghai looked in the direction Di Qing pointed, and there was indeed a stone bridge over the river.

The two came to the stone bridge, stood on the stone bridge and looked down. The clear river was like a smooth mirror, reflecting the figures of the two.

I don't know why all kinds of his past emerged on the river, as if playing a movie.

At that moment, the two of them seemed to be in a daze, they leaned out half of their bodies, and they were about to fall into the bottom of the river at any moment.

At this moment, a white shadow suddenly flashed across the river.

The white shadow with disheveled hair stretched out its claws and grabbed at the two of them.

"Ghost!"

Li Canghai yelled and woke up suddenly. He was shocked to find that he and Di Qing were about to jump from the bridge into the river in a strange posture.

He glanced at the river, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Countless strange fish appeared in the originally clear river.

Those fish looked like humans but not humans, with scales all over their bodies and a fish tail.

Li Canghai instantly understood that these were the legendary 'mirages'.

'Mirage' is a kind of mermaid. Unlike mermaids, mirage is good at confusing people's hearts.

Li Canghai suddenly realized that what he had seen just now was confused by this 'phantom'. He hurriedly grabbed Di Qing who was about to jump into the river, and shouted: "Miss Qing, wake up!"

Di Qing's cheeks were flushed, she didn't know what she saw, she showed a rare shy look, but her eyes were still empty and lifeless.

The mirages below, with their barbed fangs, raised their heads, waiting for their prey to drop.

At that moment, Li Canghai actually saw the treachery in the eyes of those mirages, which made him shudder, and thought to himself, could these monsters have become spirits?
Thinking of this, Li Canghai didn't have time to think too much, they were confused by the mirage's eyes.He directly turned Di Qing's head to the side, and then kissed her, using his body to separate their eyes from each other.

(End of this chapter)