They stood on the steps leading from the stone door. From this angle, Xia Zhaoyi could see the contents of the alchemy furnace even from his height.
It's just that it's too far away, and it's almost like a dark mass.
Shen Xu and the others also came in. Passing by the girl and boy who were stuck here, Shen Xu said as they walked: "Pull, pull, pull."
"What nonsense?" Shen Lie said immediately.
"Ignore him." Xia Zhaoyi said, always looking at the alchemy furnace over there, and the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger.
There are three small alchemy furnaces on each side of the alchemy furnace, a total of six. According to their ranking order, they are Xinjiashuqu. Inside, a small alchemy furnace stands against a pillar. This stone pillar is thicker than other stone pillars. And there are runes painted on it.
Shen Lie frowned because of her expression and looked towards the pillar.
"Ignore me?" Shen Xu stopped and looked at them, "Ah Li, you are wrong. Shen Lie and I are brothers. How come I become like an outsider?"
No one really paid attention to him, both of them were looking at the stone pillars in the distance.
"..."
Shen Xu pursed her lips and walked down the steps.
"Is there any danger?" Shen Lie looked away, looked at Shen Shu's back, and asked Xia Zhaoyi.
"It's not dangerous," Xia Zhaoyi said, "It's... a bad omen."
"Omen?"
"If I'm not wrong, the stone pillar was built in the later period, and there may be several corpses cast inside the stone pillar," Xia Zhaoyi said, looking at the stone pillar, "because of the runes and the Soul-Calming Curse."
"Soul-killing spell?"
Xia Zhaoyi lowered his head and nodded dully.
She didn't know how to describe this feeling. In the past, she had ignored the rumors about ghosts and gods. She only believed in bad luck.
But now, she can open her eyes and wake up as a dead person, so what qualifications does she have to deny the theory of ghosts and gods.
But, how to explain this to Shen Lie?
How to talk about ghosts and gods with such a clean young man?
Shen Shu, who had stopped in front of him and listened to their conversation with his ears perked up, waited for a while, but when the girl didn't speak again, he turned around.
"Ah Li, do you know the soul-killing spell?"
Xia Zhaoyi glanced at him and said "Yeah" without going against him again this time.
Shen Xu smiled and said: "But there are skeletons everywhere here, why are they found only in this place? Could it be that all those soul-soothing charms and soul-soothing charms were eaten by rats? Or, it's this one here." Do you want Li Gui to be more fierce?"
"Have you ever heard of the Faith of Holding Pillars?" Xia Zhaoyi said.
"nature."
"If I'm not wrong," Xia Zhaoyi looked at the pillar, "the owners of the corpses inside may have been stuffed alive. It's possible that they broke their trust with the owner of the stone chamber, so I just suffered such a vicious attack, and the owner of the stone chamber directly used this Xinjiashu song to make an alchemy furnace. This place is very evil and sycophantic."
"Xinjiashu song?" Shen Shu was curious, "What is that?"
"Read more books." Xia Zhaoyi said, without answering, and looked at the big alchemy furnace in the middle.
"..."
Being asked by a little girl to read more, Shen Shu didn't know whether to be angry or laughing.
"Then," Shen Xu said, "Ah Li, can I go there?"
"able."
"No mechanism?"
"Um."
"Then why are you holding on to Chihiko?"
Xia Zhaoyi lowered his head and found that he was still holding Shen Lie. He let go and said, "If you want to go, just go."
"Can Chihiko come?"
Xia Zhaoyi frowned and looked at him with some displeasure, thinking that this man seemed to be silent, so why did he talk endlessly.
Xia Zhaoyi stopped talking and stepped down the steps, but was immediately held by Shen Lie's wrist.
"Don't go." Shen Lie said.
Xia Zhaoyi raised her eyes. Because she had stepped down a flight of steps and there was a huge difference in height between the two of them, her eyes looked up and opened wide. The light on the wall fell in her eyes, which were as bright as ice. It's Xingzi.
"There's no need to go," Shen Lie said, "You wait here."
The look on Shen Xu's face became even weirder, and she looked at her younger brother: "Zhiyan, you..."
Shen Lie walked down the steps and said coldly: "Let me take a look."
Xia Zhaoyi stood on the steps, looking at the young man's arrogant back, raising her hand to lightly cover the wrist held by him, feeling an indescribable feeling.
He strode forward and went directly to the big alchemy furnace in the middle. With just one glance, his handsome face condensed, and then he became more serious.
"What is it?" Shen Shu followed curiously, then raised her eyebrows high.
Inside the alchemy furnace, there was a dark mass of several mummies hugging each other.
One of the mummies had its head tilted upwards, its mouth wide open, looking extremely hideous and frightened.
The water in the alchemy furnace has long been boiled dry, and there are many withered flowers around.
Shen Xu raised her hand to pick it up, but was stopped by Shen Lie.
At this time, Shen Xu didn't insist anymore. He looked at the flowers and said, "You are right, the scope should be shortened to within five years."
"Where are these corpses?" Shen Lie asked, "Can you tell when they were here?"
"It's difficult," Shen Xu stared at them and said, "It's possible, hundreds of years ago, and it's possible, within these five years."
Shen Lie nodded, looked away from the alchemy furnace, and looked up at the big pillar.
The stone pillar was round, and it took three of his arms to open up to embrace it. It was surrounded by the soul-soothing spells that Ali mentioned, which were carved directly on it.
"What?" Shen Xu noticed his gaze and looked up at the stone pillar, "Are you curious about what's inside?"
"Soul Spell," Shen Lie said softly, "Are these things useful?"
"If you believe it, there is it, if you don't believe it, there is nothing," Shen Shu said with a smile, "Besides, there may not be the body that the girl mentioned inside. How about we break it open?"
"If there is, what will happen after it is broken?" Shen Lie looked back at Shen Shu.
Shen Shu raised her eyebrows slightly again and looked at Shen Lie with a smile: "Zhiyan, you have changed."
In the past, Shen Lie would avoid these things and feel extremely disgusted when encountering them, but now he takes the initiative to ask about them.
"What will happen?" Shen Lie asked.
"What can we do," Shen Xu said, "If there is really something weird, release them and either turn them into 'evil ghosts', or find relief for them and send them to the afterlife."
"Afterlife..." Shen Lie repeated these two words very softly, lowered his eyes, and fell into thought.
"Huh?" Shen Xu looked at him.
"Rebirth," Shen Lie said, "I have seen these two words somewhere."
"What's wrong with you?" Shen Shu looked at him in surprise, "Zhiyan, are you stupid?"
"It's not those poems," Shen Lie said, "I had seen them somewhere before coming here."
"where?"
"Exactly the same sequence in the book."
Moreover, it’s not Miss Xia’s, it’s the books written by Ah Li.
where?
"What sequence?" Shen Xu didn't understand, "Zhiyan, please tell me something I can understand."
"The sequence of hidden clay sculpture heads," Shen Lie said, "I tore off the calligraphy and painting based on intuition, but it may not be my intuition, but because it seems familiar."
