Endless route

Chapter 407 17. Iron coffin and linen

Ji Dao hurriedly walked out of the command room, led the ghost corpse into the rain curtain, stepped on the rain-soaked blue bricks, and walked to the side of the courtyard under the eyes of the Yin soldiers holding torches.

Ripples appeared in the shallow puddles.

The firelight reflected on the ground of Guyun Villa.

The group of people went straight to the wing where Hanxian was stored. The Taoist guarding the wing immediately unlocked the door and pushed open the door.

A jade lantern is placed on the table.

Wisps of cold immortals dance around the white light.

"Take up the umbrella and let's go."

Ji Dao took the lead, walked into the side room, picked up the jade lantern, and distributed the fragrant sand to avoid Hanxian to everyone. Then he looked back at the door and waved his hand to ask the Yin soldiers behind him to hold an umbrella.

There are two rows of Yin soldiers outside the door.

Qi Qi opened the oil paper umbrella.

Oil-paper umbrellas were connected two by two to create a corridor composed of umbrellas. The black umbrellas had no shine on them, and raindrops splashed everywhere without leaking at all, but they were not held up for Ji Dao and others.

That was for Han Xian.

Hanxian does not like rain and cannot wade through water. At this moment, it is pouring heavily in Wuhaixianzhou. The raindrops are large and fast. It is harmless to humans, but it may cause Hanxian to suffer.

The Hanxian is too small and may be knocked to the ground by raindrops, but he may not die, but it will be troublesome anyway...

Therefore, the display of these two teams of Yin soldiers holding umbrellas was specially created for Han Xian, and only Han Xian could match it.

"Master Tao, be careful all the way."

Zhang Ergou and the little Taoist priest were at the door of the command room, watching Ji Dao walk into the umbrella corridor carrying a jade lantern. Han Xian Miao followed behind him, and also got into the gloomy team of Yin soldiers.

This is serious.

Immortal magic is no joke.

"Protect the Immortal Master, especially you Zhang Ergou. If you feel something is wrong with your body, you can't cause trouble even if you kill yourself."

Ji Dao turned around and warned.

"Don't worry, Taoist Master, even ten of me can't hurt the Immortal Master." Zhang Ergou defended himself with an aggrieved tone.

The main reason why he can stay in the command room in a possessed body is that he is the evil soldier of the immortal master. If the immortal master wants to kill him, he only needs to say a soft word.

You can even give orders.

Let him not harm others.

This kind of order seems illusory, but in fact it is very real. Even if he is taken away by a ghost, he must abide by it.

"Be vigilant."

Jidao didn't say much, turned around and led the team towards the outside of the courtyard, along the winding corridor built on the mountainside, and quickly headed towards the underground lake of the cave. Behind him, the Yin Soldier Parachute Gallery stretched for more than ten meters.

The fairy light is misty under the umbrella gallery.

Han Xian, who was more than ten meters away, followed suit.

From the window of the command room, Niya kept staring at Ji Dao and others, witnessing this strange and bizarre scene, watching the Yin soldiers who walked in unison like puppets escort Han Xian forward.

Until the team disappears from sight.

Nia's thoughts wandered and she looked back.

This is how the Sea Guard Supervisor Xian Si mobilized ghosts and ghosts in this way. The dark soldiers wearing sea guard official uniforms and black oil-paper umbrellas walked into the darkness of the corridor and quietly escaped into the rainy night.

Only the lantern shines.

And the fairy light is lingering.

This group of people is already weird, and there are ghosts and ghosts surrounding the umbrella, as if the jade lantern is a soul-calling bead, leading a fairy ghost dragon, shuttling in the corridor of the cottage under the rain curtain.

View from the monitoring screen.

It's even more weird and terrifying.

It is similar to the soul-calling in ancient oriental novels. No matter from which angle you look at it, there is an ancient oriental fairy charm.

"Keep an eye on the screen and keep monitoring."

Zheng Yun reminded a few people to keep an eye on him.

Every angle on the screen, from the movements of the five non-human heat sources to the first-person status of the Yin soldiers, all require dedicated personnel to track them to ensure that abnormalities are quickly detected.

There were many people inside and outside the command room.

But apart from the Yin soldiers, there are not many people who have the brains to make the distinction. Zhang Ergou and the others also have to share some of the burden.

"Master Dao and the others have arrived."

Zhang Ergou looked at the underground lake monitor and said.

Ji Dao and his party have walked into the brightly lit cave and arrived near the cliff. At their feet are five ancient ships.

They need to get Han Xian down.

This step doesn't take long.

Han Xian is very capable of trekking through dangerous places. He could cross the canyon with just a chain. Now he only needs a rope to climb this kind of cliff, which is faster than Ji Dao and others.

"As long as Han Xian arrives."

"What else is scary here?"

The little Taoist priest raised his head and raised his head and asked in a low voice.

Since they worshiped in the Heavenly Palace, they have never seen the Han Immortal suffer once. Whenever the Han Immortal appears, they are bound to be invincible. No living creature can last more than a few breaths.

There will be some trouble if you are underwater.

However, the ancient ship floats on the water, and the locations of several non-human heat sources are also very far away from the water. Han Xian can float in the ancient ship and kill any living creature.

This is the confidence in Hanxian.

The heat source means that the opponent is a living creature, a thing with flesh and blood. How can it survive the attack of Han Xian?

"Don't underestimate the enemy."

Zheng Yun took a deep breath and said.

The more I see, the more I understand what is the restraint relationship between the methods of gods and ghosts. Han Xian is by no means invincible, and he is also helpless when facing other immortal arts.

For example, Qili Guimeng.

That kind of magic is invisible and impermanent, and it can control people's minds without the gods knowing it. Even the cold immortal can't use it.

There are many similar situations.

Among the many immortal arts seen in the strange dreams of the ancient battlefield, at least half of them were unable to be restrained by the Han Immortal, and could even be used to kill the Han Immortal in turn, such as the Immortal Jade Figurines.

When several people are talking.

Ji Dao and others have already started to descend along the rope. The ghost general Xianshi jumped off the cliff first, and Ji Dao led Han Xian with a lantern and slowly descended to the deck of the ancient ship along the rope.

The moment he stepped on the deck.

Ji Dao led the team to the center of gravity of the cabin.

Zheng Yun gave Ji Dao directions through the intercom, asking them to quickly go to the location of the first non-human heat source. Not long after, Ji Dao had seen the ghost soldiers.

Ji Dao also wore a sports camera, which could transmit his first-person perspective to the screen in the command room.

"Let the ghost soldiers in first."

"You wait in the distance."

"If something goes wrong, take action."

Zheng Yun ordered Ji Dao and others.

At the same time, he looked at the first-person perspective of the ghost soldiers and asked them to start to open the wooden door of the cabin.

The wooden door was tightly closed.

There were some grooves on it.

Several ghost soldiers pressed the grooves and pushed the wooden door open together. With a creaking noise, the wooden door was pushed open a gap, and the environment inside the cabin could be seen.

The searchlight immediately followed.

It illuminated the internal situation.

The cabin was dark and silent, without any sound or movement. Everything was covered in a layer of shadows, and only the outlines of items on the floor could be seen dimly.

"Still no abnormality."

When Zheng Yun was about to ask, Nia took the initiative to answer. The non-human heat source on the thermal imaging did not move, still lying in the "shell".

"It really seems that it can't move?"

Zhang Ergou stared at the thermal imaging outline. This thing seemed to have no perception ability. It didn't even know that the ghost soldiers opened the door to come in. There was no reaction at all, like a dead object.

"Enter."

Zheng Yun raised his hand and ordered.

The ghost soldiers increased their strength to push the wooden door open completely, carrying searchlights and breaking into it, standing in the cabin in person.

The perspective suddenly became clear.

The environment was in full view.

A large number of sundries were piled on the cabin floor, including simple weapons such as ancient swords and wooden sticks, bottles and jars on the floor, some wooden boards, and many bent ironware.

There was no doubt that Zhou Jiu did it.

Only Zhou Jiu could tie the sword to the stick in ancient times. No one else could do this.

This means.

Zhou Jiu had indeed been here.

Looking up and observing carefully, in addition to the traces left by Zhou Jiu, the most conspicuous thing was a plain and inconspicuous box placed in the center of the cabin.

It was not a solid wooden box.

It was an iron box similar to a coffin, without any copper bolts that could be pulled. It was a whole from head to tail, and even the gap could not be seen. The surface was a thick layer of iron.

It turned out to be an iron coffin.

There was no pattern carving.

It seemed to be specially made by the Ghost Suppression Department.

The ghost soldiers surrounded the iron box and observed it.

Just halfway around, they found that the back of the iron box was pried open by someone, and a rectangular hole appeared that was just big enough to put an arm in. The iron sheet on the edge was sharp and hideous.

"This was made by Zhou Jiu."

Zhang Ergou exclaimed.

There must be a connection between this hideous hole and the bent ironware on the ground. Zhou Jiu used ironware to pry the iron coffin, and dug a hole in it over the past decade.

"Enlarge the hole."

Zheng Yun frowned and said to Nia.

Nia quickly took action to enlarge the details of the picture and adjust the brightness and contrast to make the picture clearer.

The hole was not formed recently, and the bent ironware next to it was also very old. The rust on it can prove all this. The thick rust must have accumulated for at least one or two hundred years.

This hole was not dug out in the past eighteen years, but appeared eighteen years ago. Even when Zhou Jiu was the head of the village, it had already been dug out by the ancients.

It fits the clues obtained before.

This iron coffin may be the source of the evil spirit.

When Zhou Jiu was the head of the village, he had already discovered the ancient ship in the cave in the back mountain. He explored the ancient ship several times, found the iron coffin deep underground and touched it.

When he found the hole.

The moment he touched the living creature in the coffin.

He was possessed by some strange evil spirit, his face suddenly turned deadly, and his mind gradually became stupid.

"Go closer to the cave entrance and take a look."

Zheng Yun took a deep breath and ordered the ghost soldier.

Any speculation at this moment is meaningless. Only by seeing it with your own eyes can you know what the living thing in the coffin is.

The ghost soldier did not hesitate.

He immediately possessed the camera and pointed it at the cave entrance, followed by a searchlight, filling the rectangular cave entrance.

The picture was immediately presented.

But the content was extremely strange.

The first thing that came into view was a layer of black "linen", which was exactly the same as the dripping linen hanging on the ship's tower, as if "covering" the living thing in the coffin.

"Is it really a shroud?"

Zhang Ergou exclaimed.

He had touched this kind of linen with his own hands. Not only did he pull it up from the bottom of the well, but he also opened it with his hands and searched inside for a long time. Finally, he found that there was only a lot of black water in the linen.

"Not necessarily."

Zheng Yun's eyes changed.

There is a difference between the linen outside and the linen inside the coffin. The linen outside is very cold, the same as the ambient temperature, but the linen in the picture is obviously warm.

The key here is.

What does the living creature in the coffin rely on for longevity.

Any longevity requires food. The ghosts of the Hades Pavilion have countless insects to eat, the immortal fairy Li Huawan has sea monsters to eat, and even the Yin ghost figurines in the deep sea floating city have ghost algae to eat.

Previously, the black hair stone coffins in the ancient city of Nanze and the long-lived people in the coffins also had a complete set of ecosystems to provide for them.

But this iron coffin in front of me.

But there is no support system in sight.

There are no living creatures near the iron coffin, no algae plants can be seen, and there is no source of nutrients. So what does the living creature in the iron coffin rely on to survive to this moment?

Is there something abnormal about the base of the iron coffin? The feeding device is hidden in the base? At this moment, they did not dare to lift the iron coffin rashly, and could only make guesses based on the clues in front of them.

That can only be related to this linen cloth.

Earlier, Zheng Yun and others had speculated that Zhou Jiu might have become a slave of Master Shan, and that a large amount of mountain goods were needed to 'sacrifice' Master Shan, but they did not know the specific method of sacrifice.

Is there a possibility.

Is this linen a way to offer sacrifices?

Is it also a means of supporting living creatures?

In addition to bottles and jars filled with black water, there are also a large number of beast bones on the ground in the boathouse hung with linen.

What's the connection between the two?

"Master Immortal, how is the situation?"

Ji Dao asked quickly while listening to the discussion.

He was only a few dozen meters away from the cabin where the heat source was located. A group of people were squatting in the narrow corridor. From ghost generals to immortal corpses, as well as cold immortals, they were all waiting quietly.

"Send me a photo to show you."

Zheng Yun couldn't figure out what was going on inside the iron coffin, so he asked Jidao to take out his tablet and send him a photo.

It doesn’t matter if it takes some time.

The key is not to act rashly.

What can be determined at this moment is that the source of evil spirits in the entire village, as well as the legend of Master Shan, are all related to the living creature in the iron coffin, and this thing is extremely dangerous.

Perhaps the linen cloth was the shroud.

Wrap the living things layer by layer.

But at the moment, they don't have enough clues to determine the identity of the living creature, and they don't dare to open the coffin or lift the linen cloth.

"Master Immortal, I have never heard of this thing. This linen cloth is so dark that I can't see any details clearly."

Ji Dao had no clue after seeing the photo.

The iron coffin, the broken hole, the linen cloth, there are only these few clues at the moment, who can deduce the truth?

"If this linen cloth is the same as the linen cloth in the ship building above, it means that Zhou Jiu reached into the iron coffin and grabbed those linen cloths directly from inside."

"And Zhou Jiu's limbs are intact, and his hands and feet are sound, which means that he will not be cut off if he reaches in."

Zhang Ergou spoke tentatively.

At least these clues can prove that the iron coffin has the ability to charm people, but it cannot physically destroy the enemy.

Otherwise, when Zhou Jiu reaches in for the first time, his hand will be cut off by the living thing in the coffin.

"It makes sense, Master Xian. Why don't you let the Yin soldiers try it, reach in and grab a handful, and see how it goes?" Jidao was somewhat moved and suggested.

"Yes, but you have to retreat to a safe distance." Zheng Yun nodded in agreement. The Yin soldiers can be lost, but Ji Dao and others can't get into trouble. Then he said to Zhang Ergou:

"Go to the secret realm and bring a cutting machine."

"If you can't study it carefully from the outside, let all the Ji Dao ghosts exit the ancient ship, and let the Yin soldiers use cutting machines to disassemble the iron coffin to see directly what is hidden inside the iron coffin."

Hear this.

Everyone was silent.

Master Xian is really quick and resolute. If he wants to do it, he will do it directly and use a cutting machine to cut it forcefully.

Zheng Yun did not explain.

As long as there are other ways, he is unwilling to do it rashly. Even if he wants to cut the iron coffin, he must be fully prepared, and even plan to abandon the entire mountain stronghold and the valley.