Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

"My lord, do you really believe that there is a technique of bringing the dead back to life?" "Just try." "In this way, the son and mother must have a very deep relationship." He didn't answer for a long time, and he seemed to be in a great dilemma: "I don't know." Hongyu turned her head and looked at Baili Tusu's complete profile.This sharp-edged face with straight eyebrows looks sharp because of the long-term cold expression. From this angle, it looks a bit like "that person"... But if you carefully distinguish it, it is not difficult to find traces of immaturity and childishness. Everyone is always deceived by his mature appearance, forgetting that he is actually a year younger than Fang Lansheng, and he is just a young boy who has just grown up.

Baili Tusu looked at the swimming fish on the bottom of the sea for a while, his eyelashes gradually lowered, casting a soft shadow under his eyes. "When I was young, my mother was very strict with me, and she was always busy with things, and she would not be as meticulous as other mothers. At first, I thought that I was not good enough, so I worked very hard to learn what she taught. spells, just to get a compliment. But later I found out that even if other children were naughty and got into trouble, their mothers still treated them just as well, sleeping with them and mending their torn clothes. My mother, sometimes He passed by a few steps away, but he didn't bother to look at me."

The sea water is like a flowing time tunnel, rolling in fragments of memories. "I don't know what to do to get her attention... to get her love. There were even times when I resented her... Later, when I grew up, I realized that many things may not be what they seem. " Baili Tusu turned to Hongyu, and said word by word: "I want my mother to come back to life...I really want to, me and her...There are still too many things to say, too many things to ask..." He turned his face back, closed his eyes, fluttered his eyelashes, and slowly calmed down. "Young Master Baili, perhaps, you like your relatives more than you think." Hongyu also turned her head and continued to look at the cold crystal curtain wall, "Human feelings are really good, persistent, blazing... no A dead thing like this, no matter how beautiful it is, is cold and hard. Even if many times, the feelings of mortals are completely unreasonable and foolish in the eyes of those who have become immortals, so what? It is not heartless to be too forgetful..."

Lunbo Zhou traveled eastward like this for a few days, Yin Qianshang finally got up from the bed, and picked up the wine jar he had been thinking about day and night.Everyone celebrated on the deck for Yin Qianshang's recovery. Just as Xiang Tianxiao raised a bowl of wine to toast, the boat suddenly shook violently. Everyone was unprepared and staggered a bit. It didn't land on Yin Qianshang's robe.Yin Qianshang's facial features were all wrinkled together, "My uncle has been struggling for a few days, and it's just right for me to get seasick! You just welcome me like this..."

The shaking didn't stop, but became more and more violent, and the water flow that could be seen outside the crystal barrier became turbulent, stirring up countless white bubbles. "No, this shaking is far beyond the normal influence of the ocean current..." Xiang Tianxiao was about to run to the front steering wheel, when Yanmei's eager voice came: "Brother, it's bad!" Xiangling was a little frightened and squatted down. Fang Lansheng protected her with one hand and muttered, "Is this going to capsize? No, the boat is already in the water. Can it capsize like this?"

The rest of the people followed and ran to the rudder wheel, and saw that the hardwood hooped iron rudder wheel, which was half a person's height, was spinning at high speed as if pulled by some strange force. All kinds of compass instruments bounce around like crazy. Yanmei's voice trembled slightly: "Brother! There is a force in the sea! It's like a vortex, I'm afraid it will suck the wave boat in!" Xiang Tianxiao had already pounced on the rudder wheel, but there was nothing he could do about it. The force of the rudder wheel being turned was too great to be resisted by manpower. He spat the pipe aside viciously: "Grandma's! It's not stable at all. Can't stop!"

Hongyu and Baili Tusu looked at the turbulent and crazy water flow behind the crystal, and felt that the water flow was getting darker and darker, almost turning into thick black... At this time, an indescribable force bound Lunbo Zhou, and they were immediately drawn into the unknown darkness. Fang Lansheng was awakened by a burst of thunder. When he woke up, there was no one around him. He was lying on a piece of granite ground, surrounded by broken walls, and there was boundless darkness in the distance. Another bolt of lightning struck not far from Fang Lansheng, making him jump up in fright.Looking up, I can't tell whether it is the sky or the sea above my head. If it is the sky, there are dark clouds in the sky, forming a sea of ​​ink;

What the hell kind of place is this... Fang Lansheng took a few steps, looked around in a daze, couldn't help but panic, and shouted into the distance: "Hey! Is anyone there?!" Don't say a response, not even an echo. His questioning voice was like a grain of sand sinking into the ocean, being swallowed quietly without a sound. Frustration, fear, and not being able to see his friends made him more overwhelmed.Just as he was hesitating and anxious, he heard a faint click. "Who?!" No one else appeared, and there was no answer. There was a dead silence, only the rumble of thunder shaking the earth in the distance.

He almost thought that what he had just heard was a hallucination. click. Definitely not an illusion! Fang Lansheng took out the beads vigilantly, and couldn't help but change his face. The light of the beads became dim, showing that something ominous was approaching.He couldn't help shouting: "Come out, Master Ben! Don't hide!" Click, click. Sometimes what you can't see is even more frightening. Click, click, click... Fang Lansheng had already judged the direction of the person, opened his posture, and waited with bated breath. A strong smell of decay gradually filled the air.Fang Lansheng can conclude that it is definitely not a living thing!

Sure enough, a walking corpse with a vague face appeared behind the broken wall not far away, walking towards Fang Lansheng with stiff legs and feet, neither a human nor a ghost. Fang Lansheng didn't wait for the walking corpse to get close, so he punched it with all his strength, and the wind of the fist swept the walking corpse, and the walking corpse immediately turned into a pile of ashes, like sand that had been weathered for too long. . Gathering up all the energy in his body, it was useless at this moment. Fang Lansheng couldn't help shouting, "Ah! People! What the hell is this place?!"

Shouting is useless, it didn't take long for Fang Lansheng to figure it out, so he might as well save his energy and walk around to see if he can find a companion.There are occasional walking corpses everywhere, but it is easy to deal with, just be careful of the thunder that falls from the sky. There are collapsed palace beams and columns everywhere, and some of the suspended platforms are scattered and some are continuous.Some stones are floating in the air, and it is not known what kind of force controls this space.Fang Lansheng walked for a long time, but the surrounding scenery didn't change much. He almost thought he was lost in this space, when he suddenly heard a familiar call: "Ah..." This voice is clearly Xiangling!Fang Lansheng was overjoyed, followed the sound, turned left twice, and jumped to the next platform. In the corner, it was indeed Xiangling sitting kneeling, holding his head and sobbing. "Xiangling, don't be afraid! I'm coming!" Xiangling raised her wet face and looked this way, her timid expression turned into joy little by little: "Stupid...Guogua!" Fang Lansheng grabbed Xiangling's body and looked up and down. He didn't see any wounds, so he was relieved: "Are you all right? Where is the monster?" Xiangling was still sobbing a little: "Woo... what monster?" Fang Lansheng made a gesture: "It's the kind that looks like a mummy..." Xiangling nodded: "Oh, yes, there are... already, have been beaten to ashes by Xiangling..." At this moment, there was a burst of thunder from the sky, and Xiangling uttered the same scream as before: "Yayi" and suddenly retracted into Fang Lansheng's arms. Fang Lansheng blushed and heartbeat, hugging is not right, not hugging seems wrong, so she kept looking for something to say: "So you are afraid of thunder? Don't be afraid, it's nothing, it's just a sound, just like firecrackers..." "Idiot... Firecrackers are firecrackers, thunder is thunder, what's the difference! Foxes are afraid of thunder... After Xiangling wakes up, you are not there, and the sky keeps thundering and lightning, so scary! Woooooo..." Fang Lansheng scratched the back of his ears: "Let's leave here first, I see thunder in the distance is not as frequent as here." "Xiangling...Xiangling was so frightened that she couldn't move anymore..." "I can't walk..." Fang Lansheng blushed even more, "Then I... hug, hug you?" Xiangling stopped whimpering, and took a look from his arms, very puzzled. Fang Lansheng hurriedly waved his hands: "It's nothing! You can't move, I'll sit with you for a while, I'll leave later..." Dark clouds covered the sky, and the stone walls were dark. Under the light of the occasional falling lightning, some dilapidated buildings could be seen floating in the air in the distance, like an empty city that was destroyed by the power of lightning and forgotten here. The two sat diagonally, Fang Lansheng scratched his ears and cheeks for a long time, and choked out a few words: "Xiangling, don't be afraid, this voice just sounds scary, but it's nothing. Besides, no matter what time, as long as I'm here, I will protect you !" Xiangling really didn't cry this time, staring at Fang Lansheng with wet almond eyes, he thought his face had suddenly turned into a wooden face. "Stupid." "Ah?" That's how people are, it's fine to give him any nickname, and he won't resist when he screams. "Why are you being so nice to me?" Fang Lansheng's mouth seemed to be mixed with rice cakes: "I...well, at...yes, didn't you save my life when I was in Leisure Villa? Otherwise, I would have died long ago..." Xiangling shook her head, and the bells on her bun were tinkling indiscriminately: "That's nothing... You saved me too, when you were in the Tengxian Cave... Idiot, why are you pulling your hair so desperately?" "I..." Fang Lansheng blushed, and suddenly roared, "And I like you!" This sound almost completely overwhelmed a burst of thunder, Xiangling didn't care about being afraid anymore, and stared at him blankly. Anyway, Fang Lansheng was willing to go all out, and Fang Lansheng simply said: "Xiangling, I like you... I have liked you since the first time I saw you. But I don't know how to tell you, I am afraid that you will hate me ..." Xiangling digested it slowly, feeling a little inadvertent joy in her heart: "The idiot said he likes me..." But after thinking about it for a long time, she suddenly remembered what was wrong, "But... I like brother Tu Su ..." At this moment, Fang Lansheng wished that a thunderbolt would strike him on the head, Baili Tusu...what's so good about your wooden face?I don't understand why Xiangling is so focused on you! After adjusting his breathing several times, Fang Lansheng turned his head to face Xiangling, trying to show a flawless smile: "It's okay. You like yours, and I like mine! The world is peaceful, and there is no war!" "I'm sorry... I said I like Brother Tusu, you must feel sad, right?" Xiangling thought hard, tears fell down, "Just like when I saw Brother Tusu and Qingxue being very happy together, I would also be secretly sad... Once, in private...I talked about this with Sister Hongyu, and Sister Hongyu asked me to think about what true love is... But Xiangling thought about it for a long time, but still didn't understand... ...Is it because Xiangling is too stupid to be likable at all?" "How could it be? You are kind and cute, with a charming smile and beautiful eyes. There are too many people who like you, like, like me..." Xiangling seemed to feel her heart skip a beat every time she heard this phrase of liking, but she couldn't explain why, and she couldn't help but feel a little guilty when she recalled all the things she had done in the past. "Stupid, you are so kind. You are the best among all the people. You even make buns for me, but I still... thank you!" Xiangling stood up as if she had made up her mind suddenly, and stretched out her hand to pull Fang Lansheng, "Let's go!" "Are you not afraid? Thunder..." Xiangling clenched her fists: "Xiangling has to be brave! If you're too timid, you can't like Brother Tusu... It's just thunder, Xiangling is not afraid..." Coincidentally, a bolt of lightning cut through the black cloud and struck the edge of a rock, stirring up a piece of lime debris. Xiangling screamed and fell back to the ground. Seeing Fang Lansheng's embarrassing expression, she couldn't help blushing: "This, this time is not counted..." Luan Bozhou was involved in this sea of ​​thunderclouds. Fortunately, everyone was safe and sound. Under A Xiang's search, they gradually gathered around.But the bad thing is that no matter how solid the wood is, it can't withstand such a toss. It was a mighty and beautiful ship just now, and in an instant, only the splintered planks and broken masts remained. Xiang Tianxiao squatted in front of the remains of the Lunbo boat, cursing with a mournful face: "Grandma's! It's a good Lunbo boat with only a few broken planks left! My brothers have worked hard for four years!" Yanmei grinned in pain, but still pressed Xiang Tianxiao's shoulder, "Brother, stop talking..." Xiang Tianxiao bounced up from the ground like a grasshopper: "Don't tell me! His grandma is a bear! It's only been a few days since I went to sea?! Where did a big black vortex appear?!" Hongyu and Baili Tusu walked over together, "Boss Xiang, the Lunbo boat is a beloved thing of your brothers, and now it is destroyed, it really hurts... This happened because of us, and we are deeply sorry, but... ...Listen to my advice, don't get distracted by sadness and anger, for the present plan, you have to figure out the various things here, and think about leaving." "Investigate ahead first, then make plans." Baili Tusu said. Xiang Tian laughed twice, as if wanting to vomit out the depression in his chest: "Don't worry! I understand the truth! I just need to vent it, otherwise the resentment will be buried in my heart, and I won't get sick!" Yin Qianshang patted Xiang Tian and smiled, "Boss Xiang, don't be sad, a man can afford it and let it go! When you find a way to get out of danger, are you afraid of asking for a few boats? Isn't it the same as buying wine? Qianjinsan Come back all the time!" Xiang Tianxiao finally showed a smile: "Brother Qianshang is right! I am the one who can't let go of me! At worst, I will build five or six more of them in the future!" Yanmei also laughed, and proudly opened his posture: "Don't say five or six ships, even ten or eight ships, I will build them together with my brother!" "Haha, good brother! Let's go! I've been tossing in the wind and rain at sea, what happened? I don't believe I'll be sleepy this time!" As they walked forward, they speculated where they were. After passing through the ruins that fell into the first place, the road ahead continued to be smoother. At a fork in the road, Baili Tusu stopped to check the direction, looked at the endless sky and said, "This place is probably a gap in space." After thinking for a while, Hongyu understood Baili Tusu's intention, nodded and said, "It is indeed possible. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why I was in danger in the sea, but came to a place where there is not even a drop of seawater." Everyone else looked blank, Hongyu explained: "In places that we can't see, spaces overlap with each other, and there are many gaps between each other. These places are not restricted by the rules of a certain space, full of Special power. As we often say, the caves and blessed places have supernatural powers. There are lightning and thunder, and there is no sun or moon. I guess it is a gap between different time and space, and the black vortex in the sea... Maybe it is because We are encountering a gap accidentally opened by the turmoil of space power." Xiang Tianxiao dropped his pipe on the Lunbo boat, and now his mouth was flustered, wishing to take a couple of sips with his finger in his mouth: "To put it bluntly! It's really unlucky for us! It's so hard to run into this!" Fang Lansheng looked around for a while, and felt that this statement made sense, "But how can we get out? Go back to the space we were in before..." Baili Tusu had no countermeasures for a while: "Right now, I can only look around to see if there are any clues." Thunder roared, as if a figure was reflected on the stone wall.Fang Lansheng spotted it by accident, and pointed it out to everyone: "Wow! Look! Is there someone over there?!" It was a very faint figure, so faint that it was almost transparent, and soon disappeared. Others didn't see it, only Feng Qingxue said, "I seem to have seen it too..." Everyone looked at the place Fang Lansheng pointed out just now, and after a while, they saw a figure gradually became clear again, it was the back of a woman, walking towards a fork in the road on their left. Judging whether a woman is beautiful just by looking at her back sounds very unreliable, but the girl's posture and demeanor make people sure that she must be a peerless beauty. Yin Qianshang sipped his teeth: "Hasn't there...hell?!" Fang Lansheng looked down at the Buddhist bead: "The Buddhist bead doesn't respond. She is not a ghost walking corpse, but an ordinary person." "This is clearly a dead city, so how could there be living people haunting it?" Hongyu looked at Baili Tusu, waiting for him to make a decision. "In any case, follow up and have a look." The flickering shadow seemed to be unaware of their existence, and walked briskly across the stone steps.They followed behind silently, walked for an unknown amount of time, passed through countless fork roads, and the front suddenly became brighter. Although this place is also in ruins, you can vaguely distinguish the courtyard that used to be a palace, with scattered flower beds and flowing water cups. You can also vaguely imagine the prosperous appearance in those days, but now there are only gravel and scorched earth. There was a thunder in the sky, and the half-collapsed pavilion next to it was faintly glowing with white light at this moment, and the white light became more and more intense. In the light, the ruins seemed to glow with new life, and the former palace buildings emerged vividly, showing a dreamy scene. The grass and trees were deep in spring, and the woman I saw just now and a young man in white were standing somewhere in the grass and talking, with gentle expressions on each other. The young woman has picturesque eyebrows and a gentle tone of voice: "Today, my husband invited me to meet here, don't you want to enjoy an outing?" The young man turned his back all the time, and couldn't see his face, but he had long hair and white clothes, and he was handsome and polite. One could imagine that he was also a handsome and polite young man: "Why not? The spring scenery of Penglai is different every year. Let's see it together with Xunfang." It’s a great joy in the world.” The young woman grinned: "We obviously live in the same room, and we still leave a book to meet..." "The spring day is fine. Let's make an appointment with Qing. Xunfang...don't you like it?" The woman stared at the man with love in her eyes: "I like it, I like it very much." The voice of the young man in white is also full of happiness and satisfaction: "I have been the happiest time in my life since I got married. Although... I don't know if this life is long or short..." The young woman snuggled into the man's arms and said comfortingly: "Husband... don't think about those things anymore, at least for now, we are together, I feel very happy." There was a burst of lightning and thunder, and the illusion was broken here. The grass, trees and beauties had disappeared, and the surroundings returned to the appearance of broken stones and broken tiles.But the few people who saw it were also full of embarrassment, Xiangtian smiled and touched the mustache on the chin and said: "Grandma's! My daughter-in-law hasn't married yet! Don't you feel troubled after seeing this!" Yanmei said with a smirk: "Brother, obviously you don't want it! The sisters and sisters of those guys in the shipyard can't wait..." Xiang Tian smiled and called his face: "Okay! Those tigress, it's not annoying enough to marry back home!" Hongyu pondered: "I don't know why we can see all kinds of illusions, and who made us see them." Fang Lansheng said: "Although those just now are all fake, but those two are really talented and beautiful, much more pleasing to the eye than the monsters in this place..." Only Yin Qianshang turned around and looked at all directions of Thunder Cloud Sea, as if he was thinking about something. Whenever there are frequent lightning strikes along the way, illusions will appear again, most of which are the man and woman, who are so affectionate and affectionate, which is admirable. Until a picture made Baili Tusu stunned in place. The young man played the piano for his beloved wife, and what he played was exactly the song played by the prince Changqin that repeatedly appeared in Baili Tusu's dreams. The young woman was immersed in the music, intoxicated: "Husband, what song is this? It's so beautiful, looking at the mountains and rivers, far away and calm, but I've never seen you play it before." The young man in white is still sitting on his back, pressing his fingers on the strings: "This song has a special meaning to me...but I can't explain it clearly..." The young woman's sigh was inaudible: "My husband is willing to play me a special song, I am very happy. But you... always have a lot of things on your mind, and sometimes Xun Fang doesn't know how to make you really happy... …My husband has gone through all kinds of things in the past, it is too late for Xunfang to be with you... But, in the days to come, I will always be with you, I just hope you don't think about those sad and sad things..." The young man in white cupped the woman's face: "Why did Xunfang say that? Living with you is already the happiest thing for me." The woman's palms clasped his hands: "Then...husband, please remember that as long as you still like Xunfang, as long as Xunfang is still alive in this world, she will always be by your side and never leave." After the thunder, the illusion is born, and after the thunder, the illusion is extinguished. Repeatedly, it is an illusion. Fang Lansheng couldn't help thinking about the previous experience: "I'm afraid that, like Zixian Villa last time, it will cause people to see illusions, and then they will harm people..." Xiangling shook her head: "Xiangling doesn't think that's the case, she doesn't feel like a bad person..." Yin Qianshang interjected at this time: "In my opinion, we have just fallen into the 'Illusory City of Reminiscence'. All things have animism, people can remember things, why can't grass, trees and stones work? There is thunder and lightning here, and the power must be turbulent." Very soon, it is impossible to tell when the broken stones will be drawn out of their spiritual power, and they will reproduce what they saw before..." Baili Tusu thought about it and said: "The ruined walls and ruins I saw along the way are quite similar to the scene in the illusion. One is broken and the other is intact. The two are quite similar." Hongyu thought of something again: "In the previous illusion, I heard those two people mention 'Penglai'. I don't know if it is one of the ten continents and three islands. If it is Penglai, I don't know why it has changed to this..." She I tried to imagine the possible scenarios, but I felt creepy, "Things in the space are out of order, the pavilions and the land are torn apart, the sun and the moon are gone, and only the thunder is heard in the sky. How much power can it do? That is simply the power of gods and demons." .” Fang Lansheng said helplessly: "No matter where it is, after walking for so long, I still haven't found a way to leave here... It's really frustrating." Yin Qianshang touched his nose: "Actually, it's not impossible to go out." This sentence attracted everyone's attention. "Brother Yin, do you have a solution?!" "The way, it's not foolproof..." Yin Qianshang took two steps back, "I just thought, since this is a space gap and the power is so distorted, the exit to other spaces is likely to be very different. The sky is thundering so fiercely, so we will go to the place where there is no thunder, maybe we can find anything.” Fang Lansheng gave him a contemptuous look: "I've been talking about it for a long time, so this is the way? This place is scary, how can we see where there is no thunder at a glance, and we will starve to death on the way before we get there..." "Well... let's go east." "Why?" Yin Qianshang said in an indescribable but unreliable tone: "Hehe, on the way here, I used magic to calculate, and when I went to the east, there was a sign of vitality..." "Raw chicken? I'm still familiar with ducks... I said, don't show your charlatan tricks... Now it's time to talk about serious business."