The two stayed in the bath center until two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, then drove a rented car to find Zhinu Bathhouse.
There is no location for Zhinu Bathhouse in the navigation, so you have to find the industrial park first. It's not far away, nearly half an hour's drive.
The industrial park is very large, with three gates in the east, north and south. There is a large forest outside the west wall, and the Weaver Girl's Bathhouse must be among them.
Jiang Jinjiu drove to look for him and found that the developer was more cunning than rumored.
A community was built on both sides of the road outside the east gate, and the woods became an artificial greening area supporting the community. An artificial lake was dug and a small square was opened, and even the most impressive households were eliminated. Moreover, an asphalt road was laid for the Zhinu Bath House, and neither the water nor the electricity was cut off. What else can be said.
But before they reached their destination, Qin Xuan asked Jiang Jinjiu to stop the car.
He was very puzzled. Qinxuan got out of the car and said, "I feel the aura inside is very strange. Leave the car here, unless it breaks down and you will pay for it."
Jiang Jinjiu got out of the car and said, "What do you mean, are there monsters there?"
"Just stare in front of you for a while and see how you feel."
Jiang Jinjiu followed his words and opened his eyes wide to concentrate. Following the neat tree trunks, his sight gradually climbed up, and the top of the tree became farther and higher. If the horizon was not still straight, he would have thought there was a mountain ahead.
And at the end of the road, there is an arch!
Jiang Jinjiu looked carefully and found that the arch was made up of trees on both sides of the road with overly long branches connected. However, no matter how he looked, he always felt that the fog was hazy under the arch, making it impossible to see clearly what the end looked like.
He suddenly heard his own breathing, and then realized that the forest was unusually quiet.
He murmured, "I feel, I feel isolated, isolated from the outside world."
"Tsk!" Qin Xuan glanced at him and said, "You are thinking too much. The sun is very strong now, and there is nothing above that you can notice."
Jiang Jinjiu smiled bitterly and thought to himself, "Then why don't you ask me to watch it?"
Qin Xuan stamped his feet on the ground and said, "The weird aura I'm talking about comes from the surface of the earth. With your little eyes, I can't see anything while standing. You lie down on the ground and take a look."
Jiang Jinjiu was doubtful, but he didn't want to get his clothes dirty, so he half-crouched on the ground.
Only a moment later, he noticed a black gas coming from under the tree arch, like the tentacles of an octopus swinging. However, within five seconds, the tentacles disappeared like evaporation.
Dazzled? He couldn't believe it for a moment.
But about three minutes later, the tentacles appeared again, twitching their tentacles as if waving to him.
Cold sweat broke out on Jiang Jinjiu's back. He quickly stood up and told Qin Xuan what he saw.
Qin Xuan smiled coldly and said, "What you see is not what you really see. Think about it carefully. Based on realistic logic, can you see the whole thing clearly at this distance?"
Jiang Jinjiu looked towards the tree arch and estimated that the distance was more than a hundred meters away. That way you can only see the outlines and colors of things, and the details are all blurred.
"Yeah, I shouldn't be able to see clearly from such a distance. How could this happen?"
"This is the phenomenon of brain filling. It's like you and I know each other. You can't see me clearly when I'm far away, but because you remember my appearance, your brain completes the picture. Just now you saw the black air, because you were far away. It’s not clear, and you have a preconceived notion that this place is weird, so you unconsciously made up the picture.”
"It seems true. Don't fool me."
"Haha, are you interested? But... this also means that this place is limited. There should be something in the bathhouse that affects the surrounding environment. Let's go and meet it." Qinxuan said, taking out his satchel from the car. About to leave.
"Wait for me."
Jiang Jinjiu hurriedly opened the trunk, took out the box, and was fully equipped. He didn't forget to test whether the lanyard binding the black porcelain bottle was strong enough.
Qin Xuan mocked, "Is it necessary to be so afraid of death?"
"What if!? I catch up with you and have a divine weapon. It's going to be like last time. At least I have my master to protect you this time."
"You! You don't believe in my strength!?"
"Believe it! How can I not believe it? I have no confidence in myself."
"Huh!" Qin Xuan obviously didn't believe what he said and left angrily.
Jiang Jinjiu followed him with a playful smile, but he clearly saw that Qin Xuan was just walking forward quickly and couldn't catch up on foot, and fell further and further behind! Even if you speed up to a walking pace, you can only maintain a distance of two or three meters. He couldn't help but start running, and he didn't catch up until he reached the tree arch.
Qin Xuan observed the tree arch, and Jiang Jinjiu gasped, "You're walking too fast."
"Haha, this is called the Shukuchi Technique. How can a three-legged cat like you be able to catch up with it?"
"Shuchijutsu?"
"It's just a trick. Your eyes see me walking, but in fact my feet are sticking to the ground and I'm jumping forward, just as fast as I'm running."
"I did a - go -" Jiang Jinjiu marveled again and again, thinking that this was much more powerful than Mike's moonwalk.
Qin Xuan suddenly took out two cardboard talismans the size of playing cards from his body. They had golden characters on the purple bottom and shot them out with his hand, nailing them to the grass on both sides of the road. Then he took out a lipstick, drew an equilateral triangle made of runes on the ground, and placed an ancient coin in the center.
Jiang Jinjiu couldn't help but ask, "What is Qin Xuan doing?"
"I'm not sure, but if we really have to go through this door and enter Huanyin Mansion, we will be in big trouble if we are not prepared. I have set up a mark now to give us a good escape route."
"Huan Yin Mansion? What the hell?"
"Well... you understand it this way. The Weaver Girl Bathhouse is a house. Don't worry about ownership. The tall and dense trees in this circle are the walls, and the tree arches become the wall gates. This almost closed environment isolates the house from the outside world. Gradually form an independent space. The rules of space and time in the house are different from those in the outside world. Time may slow down or speed up. The space may jump to a fantasy house in another city. When you go out, you will be in In another city.”
"Isn't that too exaggerated! Time and space jump!?"
"Hey, I'm just saying it's possible. The conditions for the formation of that kind of peculiar Phantom Mansion are very high, how can you encounter it casually? I think this is an ordinary Phantom Mansion, but you can't be careless. The Phantom Mansion is like It’s a maze, if you’re not careful you’ll be trapped and unable to get out.”
"It's such a big place, how can it trap people?"
"What do you know? Huanyin Mansion Huanyin Mansion, it has the word "phantom", which means that it is usually illusory, and it will only become real under certain times or conditions. After entering, people must come out before it becomes illusory, otherwise they will It will lead it into an illusory space. If you want to come out at that time, you have to wait for it to reconnect with the real world."
"Oh! I understand, it's like an alien space in a science fiction movie."
"Well... just take it as such. Let's go and check out the spot first. It's still early to leave the door." After Qin Xuan said this, he suddenly gave Jiang Jinjiu an incomprehensible smile and stepped into the tree arch.
Jiang Jinjiu was stunned and thought to himself, "No wonder she was only carrying a leather bag and what she said was so mysterious. She was teasing her again."
At this time, I was carrying more than 30 kilograms of equipment on my whole body. After walking around like this for a few hours, I was exhausted before I knew it. But if he took it off, it would make her laugh even more. After thinking about it again, he decided to keep wearing it.
Stepping into the tree arch, he felt nothing at first. But halfway through the journey, I felt more and more like I was going downhill, and my steps accelerated unconsciously. The fifty or sixty meters passed in a blink of an eye, and even the idea of observing the tree arch disappeared.
Jiang Jinjiu recalled the way he walked with his head bowed under the tree arch, like a walking corpse, and he felt like he was being attracted by some force.
The Phantom Mansion... is so weird without opening the door. What will happen if you enter the door?
Jiang Jinjiu couldn't imagine it, so he couldn't help but become nervous and looked up.
