Woohoo——
Under the cover of night, the train whistle sounded across the deserted station platform.
The master and servant carried their luggage and stepped off the train. They looked at the [梢州] sign hanging on the ceiling of the platform and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Song Shaoyuan still stayed in Luzhou, immersed in the painful memories brought by the dream tapir. Ji Linglang also expressed that he was very tired and would rather return to Chang'an directly. So the only people who took this train back to Luzhou were the master and the servant.
After leaving the station, they rented a carriage and rode back to Zhenzhou City. They were amazed at the changes in Zhenzhou along the way.
The once dusty roads have been replaced by gravel roads, flagstones and even cement pavements.
On both sides of the official road built by the government, there are talisman lamps. Through the light of the talisman lamps, you can vaguely see the continuous workshops built by the river.
"Master, look."
Chai Chai pointed to the road ahead, covered his mouth and snickered.
Li Ang looked forward along her fingers and saw a four-foot-tall stone statue standing beside the road, depicting a resolute-faced young man holding a medicine box in his left hand and a scalpel in his right hand.
Under the statue, there is also a large paragraph of praise and praise engraved on it.
"Depend on."
Li Ang raised his hands to cover his eyes, feeling an inexplicable sense of shame.
He had received a letter from Shad, saying that the folks in Zhenzhou had erected a statue for him, but he didn't expect the statue to be so tall and conspicuous - why don't you build a tall statue like this?
"It looks quite similar."
Chai Chai rested his hand on the window of the carriage and said with a smile, "Especially the knife in his hand."
"It doesn't look like that. Standing on the roadside with a knife, people who don't know think it's a robbery."
Li Ang muttered to himself, looking at the Zhenzhou City Gate getting closer and closer, feeling inexplicably a little shy about his hometown.
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It was late at night, and the master and servant walked through the deserted streets and stood in front of the security hall.
Li Ang took the key from Chai Chai, opened the slightly rusty door lock, and pushed the door open.
There had been no wind for several years, so the air in the room was dull and there was a thick layer of dust on the floor and table.
Li Ang took out a few dust-sweeping charms from his arms and used his telekinesis to stick them to every corner of the room.
The dust immediately flew up and gathered around the dust-sweeping charm, forming a huge dust ball and clearing the air.
"Huh huh huh~"
Chai Chai hummed his own melody and happily placed the package on the table. He first lit the kerosene lamp in the room, then found a broom and dustpan from the corner of the room, swept the dust balls into the dustpan, and then took more
Use the dust sweeping charm to clean other rooms.
Li Ang sat in the living room for a while. Four years later, the Security Hall was still the same as in his memory.
In the corner of the wooden table, there are traces that he dug out with his fingernails due to his playfulness as a child;
The medicinal materials hanging on the beams of the roof still exude a faint medicinal fragrance - but four years have passed, and they must have passed their shelf life.
Li Ang looked at his hometown with nostalgia, and after a while, he opened the package.
There are many things in the bag, including a charm plate that needs to be carried with you, a glow crossbow, a few academy books, a change of clothes, and a metal toothpick.
This and the toothpick are Dragon Meteor. Ever since it penetrated the bronze box a few days ago, Dragon Meteor has gained a new ability - it can grow larger or smaller by injecting spiritual power.
The smallest one can be reduced to the size of a toothpick. The largest one, with Li Ang's current spiritual power, which is close to the intermediate level at the beginning of the Patrol Cloud Realm, can reach 20 meters in length. The total length of the spear itself will also increase accordingly. Mo Si must be liberated.
Only by strengthening your body can you barely lift it up.
I don’t know if this is the awakening of a potential function that I already had, or a special consequence of killing the Dream Tapir - I guess I won’t know the answer until I return to the academy.
"Considering that this new ability is particularly sensitive to the input of spiritual power, it is better not to put Dragon Fall in your ears and cosplay as Teacher Six. Otherwise, if you get excited one day and accidentally inject spiritual power to make the spear suddenly grow longer, then there will be
It’s fun”
Li Ang complained silently in his heart.
The game with the dream tapir in the spiritual world not only brought this harvest, but also
Li Ang experienced the feeling of Mo Silk's substantial evolution, and his control over Mo Silk was once again improved. The control range, accuracy, and strength were all improved.
If he were allowed to climb Liyuan again now, it would be much smoother.
"ah!"
Chai Chai exclaimed from upstairs, and Li Ang picked up the Glow Crossbow and Dragon Meteor without hesitation, and came upstairs driven by his telekinesis.
"What's wrong?"
He drifted to a stop outside the bedroom door, and saw Chai Chai looking at him with tears in his eyes, holding an obviously smaller pink skirt in his hand, "I can't put it on anymore."
"How can I still wear it?"
Li Ang relaxed his arm holding the glow crossbow and rolled his eyes, "How old are you?"
"What a pity. My wife sewed this dress for me. I used to like it very much."
Chai Chai thought to herself, turning her skirt over and over to look at it.
"If you really like it, take it back to Chang'an and ask the tailor to help you make the same one."
"Well no, I want to do it myself."
Chai Chai sat on the edge of the bed, put her skirt on her knees, and studied the stitches and wiring carefully.
Li Ang stepped forward and couldn't help but rub Chai Chai's hair, which felt so good. Amid the latter's protest, he placed the glow crossbow on the table, opened the bedroom window, and looked down.
It had been left unattended for too long, and the flowers and plants in the courtyard downstairs had long since withered, and the grape vines had dried up and turned into wood. Only a few tenacious green vines were still attached to the walls.
When I was a child, the courtyard seemed very spacious and vast, but now it seems that it is only a small area.
And that well.
Li Ang turned his attention to the well. The top of the wellhead, which was made of bricks and stones, was still covered with the thick stone slab he had put there.
There are still a few withered yellow leaves left on the stone slab.
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It was late at night, and Chai Chai was lying on the bed beside him, fast asleep, with his flawless white thighs exposed outside the quilt that was too small.
Li Ang got up quietly, gently tucked Chai Chai into bed, then walked to the bedroom window, opened it and jumped down.
He circulated the sea of energy, released his mind power, moved the manhole cover stone away, placed it on the courtyard floor, and stepped to the front of the well.
The walls of the well are as smooth as ever, and the bottom of the well is rippling with microwaves, reflecting the moonlight. It looks extremely normal, no different from wells in other places.
"."
After a long silence, Li Ang called in his heart: "Are you there?"
"exist."
Mosi's delay-free communication capability allowed Lu Yunan's voice, thousands of miles away in the Black Mountains in the north, to be accurately conveyed, "What's wrong?"
"I'm home, my home in Zhenzhou."
Through Mo Si, Li Ang had a brief and quick conversation about the recent situation, including the two illusions he had seen due to the influence of the Dream Tapir.
Lu Yunan quietly listened to Li Ang's story, and sighed sadly when she heard that Jin Wusuan was dead.
"Even though nothing can be changed, I still risk my life for revenge. I don't know if I am brave and fearless, or stupid and selfish.
Of course, I don’t have the position to comment.”
Lu Yunan laughed at herself. She was like this, bound by her long-cherished wish for revenge.
"Anyway."
She changed the subject and asked: "You are still a little doubtful, are you in a dream tapir dreamland?"
"Um"
Li Ang said: "Even if the dream tapir invades my brain and allows me to imagine and construct my own dreams,
But it’s too real.”
Lu Yunan rubbed his chin, "Why don't you find a top and spin it on the table to see if it keeps spinning?"
“Inception, right?”
Li Ang rolled his eyes and asked, "Can you give me some useful suggestions?"
“useful advice”
Lu Yunan rolled his eyes, and the next second, Li Ang's face turned red - he felt some kind of soft touch.
"What are you doing?!"
"Hey, are you shy?"
Lu Yunan took out the mobile phone made of silk from her tight bra, lay on her side on the bed like a female gangster, propped up her chin and said with a grin: "How old are you from two lifetimes together? Why are you still following this guy?"
Just like a young child. You and your maid get along day and night, don't you do nothing?"
"roll roll roll."
Li Ang waved his hand, feeling speechless for this fellow time traveler and one-way childhood sweetheart - at the beginning, Lu Yunan was still an image of a female literary youth who would discuss literature, movies, and art with him.
Now he is revealing his true nature more and more.
"Hmm hey hey hey hahahaha."
Lu Yunan laughed for a while before reluctantly stopping, "Isn't that what you asked for? According to the rule [dreams cannot construct things beyond cognition], you should have encountered the error [dll files are missing in dreams] and woke up naturally just now.
If you are really uneasy, try flying."
"Flying?"
"In the first dream, didn't you also suddenly wake up after arriving in space?"
Lu Yunan said: "Use ink silk to build a space shuttle, fly out of the surface of the planet, go to the deep space of the universe, and observe the stars.
Assuming that you are still in the dream dream made up by Dream Tapir, as long as you continue to expand the scope of the dream and force Dream Tapir to fill in more and more content, it will never be able to support it."
".That's true."
Li Ang scratched his hair. The problem was that the sky was filled with violent and high-speed flowing winds. Even Mo Si could not withstand it. "Stop talking about this, I'm going to go down the well and take a look."
"Well, please be safe."
Li Ang stepped forward, released his mind power, and lifted himself up to slowly sink into the well.
The stone bricks on the well wall were extremely smooth, and the air was filled with moist water vapor. Li Ang hovered above the water and carefully scanned every corner of the well with his spiritual sense, but found nothing unusual.
how come?
Not sure whether he should be happy or sorry, Li Ang thought for a moment, released Mo Si, and let Mo Si drill into the wall and bottom of the well.
The well in the courtyard is about fifteen meters deep, and its water source comes from the infiltration of underground aquifers.
The ink threads penetrated the stone bricks and penetrated into the soil, drilling in all directions like tree roots.
Thirty meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters.
The ink threads, which had never noticed any abnormalities, stopped. Li Ang pursed his lips tightly, turned his palms, gathered the ink threads, and dug downwards along the direction of the water vapor.
Two hundred meters, three hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters
Boom!
Far below the sea level, deep underground where no one has ever reached, the sound of violent water suddenly came.
The slender ink thread at the front was accidentally caught in the water flow and almost broke.
Li Ang opened his eyes suddenly, controlled the ink silk to shrink, and broke away from the water flow.
This is an underground river that stretches for an unknown number of miles. The current is turbulent and rapid, rushing towards the southwest.
Jiuyou?
Li Ang instantly thought of the legendary Jiuyou, which has water systems all over the world, and even the underground river in Chang'an Ghost City is a small part of it.
Although the Jiuyou water system is widely distributed, there is one stream located directly under the well of the old house in Zhenzhou.
Is this too much of a coincidence? Could it be that the real reason why he awakened the memory of another world was because he drank the well water containing the water of Jiuyou?
With a solemn expression, Li Ang controlled the ink silk to absorb metal from the surrounding rock formations, creating a half-meter-long streamlined submarine shell with a propeller at the rear.
He poured a small amount of ink into the submarine, turned it on, and sank into the underground river.
The current in the underground river was rapid, and the submarine bumped against the bottom of the river dozens of times before it slowly stabilized its center of gravity and sailed at a constant speed.
The more he explored, the more shocked Li Ang was. The depth and vastness of Jiuyou far exceeded the surface water system, and the depth reached three thousand meters. It did not stop after four thousand meters and continued to sink!
This is already deeper than the bottom of the sea. Where on earth is this water going to go? There is no real end to all water flows in the legend. Let’s go to the ruins.
Just like Li Yuan, the Nine Nether Dark River has something special that can reduce the mysterious connection between Li Ang and Mo Si.
Moreover, the submarine fell too far and was separated by thick rock formations. He had to concentrate all his attention to contact Mo Si and expend more spiritual energy to control the propeller blades and direction.
His mind was running out faster and faster, Li Ang suddenly raised his hand to cover his right eye - a thread of ink uncontrollably came out from under his eyelid, swinging slightly unconsciously.
At the same time, early morning cockcrows could also be heard in the alleys on the surface.
I can't go on any longer,
Sensing Li Ang's mental fatigue and relaxation,
After experiencing the battle with Dream Tapir, Mo Si, who had become much docile, became agitated again and tried to erode Li Ang's brain.
"Stop!"
Li Ang clenched his fists, and the silk tentacles entangled in his cervical vertebrae received the order and were unwilling to stop restlessly. The silk tentacles that drilled out of the socket of his right eye also slowly retracted.
"call"
Finally returning to normal, Li Ang breathed a sigh of relief and ordered Mo Si in the Nine Nether Dark River to float up, destroy the submarine, transform into an excavator form, and dig upward.
After digging out the surface, he transformed into a flying bird and returned to Zhenzhou.
This is not the end.
Li Ang looked at the scene where the submarine fragments were finally washed away by the current, his eyes flickered, and he put the exploration of Jiuyou on his agenda.
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Wow——
The underground river flows and remains unchanged forever.
The lightless and dark environment makes it difficult for plants to survive.
The rapid flow rate, combined with the hot geothermal steam that spewed out from time to time, caused some tenacious ancient fish, such as salamanders, to become extinct here.
Clang clang clang!
A piece of metal fragment kept colliding with the rocks at the bottom of the river, falling down the cliff with the current, and smashed into a huge rock.
This is an underground cave with a sudden open space. The dome of the cave is inlaid with hundreds of luminous pearls, like a lineage of stars, emitting a cold light, illuminating the cave.
It also reflects a magnificent palace.
Halls, halls, cloisters, bedrooms, and bathrooms are all available. There is even a piece of farmland on the edge of the palace where some crops are grown.
In the largest palace, a girl wearing a light yellow dress sat on a chair and read a book quietly.
If Lu Yunan were here, he would definitely recognize instantly that the girl was the one who recruited her to join Zhaoming seven years ago.
Gudong Gudong
Not far from the girl, where the bed should have been, there was a pool.
In the pool, the viscous scarlet liquid was churning, with bubbles rising, and a shriveled and thin human body with its skin stripped off floated to the surface.
Jiacheng closed the book and smiled at the existence in the pool that everyone in Zhaoming called "Youqiong": "You're awake."
"Um."
You Qiong nodded calmly, then suddenly noticed something and raised his palm.
Buzz——
In the corner of the cave, the fragment of the submarine lying on the huge rock instantly crossed a long distance and appeared out of thin air in the bloody palm.
You Qiong looked at the metal fragment expressionlessly, thoughtfully.
This chapter has been completed!