I took deep breaths while driving, trying to adjust my suppressed emotions in this way.
However, no matter how hard I tried, the nightmare-like feeling of depression was always trapped in my heart.
I gave up, no longer made those useless attempts, but released all the long-suppressed emotions in my heart at my feet.
In an instant, I stepped on the accelerator to the limit, and the speed of the car soared to 210 miles.
Due to the high speed, the off-road vehicle began to tremble a little. The body of the vehicle swayed back and forth on the dirt road that was not flat, and the people in the vehicle also tossed around.
Lu Zhicheng even screamed from time to time, and even Xiao Niya, who had been silent, started shouting.
Not long after, our car stopped in front of a brick house that looked like a ruin, amidst Lu Zhicheng's directions as if he were killing a pig.
After the car parked, Lu Zhicheng was the first to rush out of the car and vomited wildly while leaning on the wall by the roadside. His posture seemed like he was going to vomit out all the New Year's Eve dinner that he had eaten on New Year's Eve last year.
Hua Muling and I got out of the car, holding our waists and looking intently at the dilapidated tile-roofed house in front of us.
After a long time, when Lu Zhicheng had almost vomited, I grabbed this kid in front of me and asked, "Don't tell me, kid, is this the Wanfu Tower you said?"
When Lu Zhicheng was vomiting, I grabbed him violently. He took a breath for a long time, then reluctantly shook his head and said: "No... no... this is not Wanfu Tower, this is just... it's just... The real entrance to Moro City..."
I couldn't help being shocked when I heard this, grabbed Lu Zhicheng's collar and said, "What did you say? This is the entrance to Moro City? Then where we were before..."
Lu Zhicheng didn't let me finish what I said. He reluctantly wiped the vomit on his mouth and said, "Brother Hu Tian, I never said that Moro City is on the ground, right?"
Hearing what Lu Zhicheng said, I couldn't help but be stunned.
"Indeed, this guy Lu Zhicheng has never said where the Moro City is." I thought to myself: "Since it is not on the ground, could it be that this Moro City is like a ghost market in the capital, hidden somewhere underground? A land where the light is everywhere? Just make peace with it now that you have come. There is no time to think about it too much. If you continue to delay like this, that boy Dali Bear will probably be done with it..."
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but turn my head to look at Lu Zhicheng and asked: "How to get into Moro City?"
Lu Zhicheng said slowly: "It's easy to get in, but..."
Hua Muling asked from the side: "Just what?"
Lu Zhicheng hesitated for a while and said, "I just need this..."
As he spoke, Lu Zhicheng took something out of his jacket pocket and handed it to me.
I took it and took a look and found that the thing turned out to be a piece of tortoise shell the size of a palm.
I saw that this tortoise shell was very old, very light and thin, and the whole showed a light dark brown color. It was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. There were two lines of strange words engraved on it, which looked like tadpoles or someone. A weird symbol.
After seeing this tortoise shell piece, Hua Muling and I almost said in unison: "Ghost money!"
Lu Zhicheng was obviously a little surprised when Hua Muling and I called out the name of this thing. He swallowed and said, "That's right! It's ghost money!"
I took the ghost money and looked at Lu Zhicheng and asked, "Why do you want this thing in Moro City?"
Lu Zhicheng said: "You don't know. This Moro City is a very special place. There is an underground river going down from this place. I don't know who told it. Everyone doesn't care what the damn river is called. . And there is a ferryman on Naihe. If you want to go to Naihe, you have to take his boat, otherwise you can’t even think about going there."
I looked at Lu Zhicheng and asked, "Isn't it just a river? Is it so mysterious? If you can't cross it without taking that guy's boat, why can't you swim across it yourself?"
Lu Zhicheng shook his head and said: "No! I heard that someone had the same idea as you a long time ago, but..."
I asked, "But what happened in the end?"
Lu Zhicheng said: "In the end, I never saw those people again. I didn't see them alive or dead, but I didn't see their bodies!"
I frowned and said, "Is this really so evil? Then how can we get the ferryman to take us across the river?"
At this point, I weighed the ghost money in my hand and said, "Use this thing?"
Lu Zhicheng nodded and said: "That's right! As the saying goes, money can make ghosts go around. The ferryman always only recognizes money and not people, except for dead people of course. And I only have two ghost coins at most, so..."
Hua Muling didn't wait for Lu Zhicheng to finish what he said and continued: "So, we still need three ghost coins to enter Moro City safely?"
Lu Zhicheng nodded and said, "Yes! You are right!"
Hua Muling looked into Lu Zhicheng's eyes, and a chill made Lu Zhicheng take two steps back. After a while, Hua Muling then asked: "But you didn't want our lives at first. Instead, you wanted to bring us into Moro City alive. If that's the case, how will you deal with the remaining ghost money? As far as I know, this thing is very scarce..."
Hua Muling did not finish her words, but in the middle of her words, she deliberately prolonged the ending.
Hua Muling was waiting for Lu Zhicheng to give him a reasonable answer.
Lu Zhicheng is a smart man, so he naturally understands that Hua Muling is waiting for his answer.
He knows better when to tell the truth and when to tell lies.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Lu Zhicheng to sigh and said slowly: "Actually, according to the original plan, someone will meet me at the previous location. I will hand you over to that person and he will take you into the real Moro City. …”
I looked at Lu Zhicheng and asked, "Someone is picking you up? Who is that person?"
Lu Zhicheng pursed his lips and said, "He...he is dead."
I asked in surprise: "You mean, the idiot who died on the way just now was the one who was supposed to pick you up?"
Lu Zhicheng nodded and said, "That's right! He was the one who was originally going to come over to pick me up, but..."
I interjected and said, "However, you suddenly realized that everything seemed to be beyond your expectations. That's why you stayed in the car and didn't move just now, right?"
Lu Zhicheng nodded noncommittally and said, "That's right! So, now I have no way to bring you into Moro City. Unless..."
I looked at Lu Zhicheng and said, "Unless we got some ghost money, right?"
After saying that, I couldn't answer Lu Zhicheng, so I reached out and took out three pieces of ghost money from my coat pocket, and waved them in front of Lu Zhicheng's eyes. After seeing Lu Zhicheng's extremely incredible expression, I continued: "Now you can lead the way. ?"
Lu Zhicheng asked in disbelief: "Where did you get this damn money?"
I said, "Ask what you should ask and don't ask what you shouldn't. Don't you understand this?"
After saying that, I handed the ghost money to Hua Muling, and after sorting out the equipment and supplies in the car, I picked up Xiong Ming and followed Lu Zhicheng into the dilapidated tile-roofed house. .
The tile-roofed house looks small from the outside, but is actually surprisingly big.
After I opened the door and walked into the house, I discovered that it was as big as half a basketball court.
But the strange thing is that there are no furnishings in such a large room, except for a shrine placed in the middle of the room.
I took a look and found that what was enshrined above the temple was actually the three-headed and six-armed statue I had seen frequently recently.
I wanted to ask Lu Zhicheng what kind of gods were enshrined on this shrine, but before I could speak, there was a sudden shaking under my feet, and then the ground not far in front of me began to gradually sink.
As the rumbling sound faded away, a staircase extending downward appeared in front of all of us.
Seeing the steps appear, Lu Zhicheng waved his hand towards us and said, "Let's go! The Naihe is right below."
After saying that, Lu Zhicheng took the lead and walked down the steps.
After Hua Muling and I looked at each other, we no longer hesitated and followed Lu Zhicheng all the way down.
The steps extend all the way down, wide and narrow, with no end in sight for a long time.
The flickering lights on both sides of the staircase wall barely allowed us to see the path under our feet clearly, so that we wouldn't accidentally step on the ground and roll down the stairs, ending up with a "disabled body and strong mind".
A group of us walked downward for about twenty minutes in such a relatively claustrophobic environment.
None of us spoke. It seemed that everyone, including Xiao Niya, had their own thoughts in their hearts.
I don't know what they are thinking, but at this moment, I vaguely feel that something is not right about this place.
But as for what exactly was wrong, I couldn't tell for a while. It felt like you had been to a place in a dream, but when you woke up you couldn't remember where that place was.
And when one day, you actually go to that place, you will feel an indescribable sense of familiarity.
To put it more clearly, it feels a bit like an illusion of brain memory, or some kind of memory overlaps in my brain.
I looked at the "déjà vu" stairs in front of me and shook my head vigorously, trying to figure out the problem, but no matter how hard I tried to concentrate, there was no effect at all.
After a long time, my head inevitably hurt, so I subconsciously tapped my temple twice with the heel of my right hand.
But at this moment, all the lights that were originally on on both sides of the stairs and passage suddenly went out.
Darkness surrounded me almost instantly.
I was shocked and hurriedly reached behind my back to take out the flashlight in my backpack. But what I didn't expect was that just when my hand touched the backpack, I was suddenly tangled in something cold and slippery.
