Walking through the ghost market, Feng Linwen held a jade pendant in his hand and ran quickly deeper into the city.
Suddenly, it was like a certain barrier had been passed through.
Everything in front of me became real again.
Empty, lonely, and desolate.
The carved stone statues and some strange animal carvings guarding the tombstones looked particularly ferocious in the darkness.
Behind you, you can still hear some vague noises, sometimes mixed with some abnormal fluctuations.
Feng Linwen didn't care.
Not far ahead, there was a faint light.
Although it is very faint, it is the real smell of fireworks.
Feng Linwen's steps were a little faster.
As I got closer, I saw several old people sitting in front of the bonfire. Everyone was staring at the fire in front of them, with empty and numb expressions, like a group of dead bodies.
What was roasting on the campfire was a piece of meat ripped from an unknown animal.
The hot grease continued to drip into the fire, exuding an alluring but somewhat pungent fragrance.
Feng Lin's sudden intrusion seemed to break the tranquility under the bonfire. Under the swaying light of the fire, a shadow was reflected, which was used to prove that Feng Linyi was a living person and not a lost ghost.
But the old people stared at the bonfire intently, as if they were in a trance.
No one looked at Feng Linyi, and no one cared about him, as if he was a ball of air.
"Everyone! Seniors!" Feng Linwen greeted politely.
Although these old people look weirder than dead people, it can be known from their continued breathing that they are indeed alive.
"Senior! I'm Sima Liang. I'm here on the orders of the emperor. I ask all seniors to be considerate." Feng Linye shouted again, and the empty darkness swallowed up his figure in the cold night like water, as if he was not there at this time. Instead, he was exiled to some lonely nothingness and loneliness.
The old people still didn't react at all.
They seem to have lost the ability to speak in the long years of boredom.
"You are all loyal ministers who are loyal to me, Da Li. Now that the royal family is in danger, do you want to sit back and ignore it? Even if your master has been buried here, they will definitely hope that you will not pay attention to the current danger to the royal family. Just sit back and ignore it." Feng Linwen continued to sing a one-man show.
These old guys are the goals he must strive for.
Without their participation, no matter how much political advantage Feng Linyi gained through his use of power and tactics, it would still be a castle on the beach. It would fall down when the wind blows before the waves come.
"No need to shout! Their ears are deaf, their eyes are blind, and their tongues have been cut out. They are all wooden people who have no cultivation, but can't say anything and can't see anything. "A voice suddenly came from under the stone tablet on the side.
Feng Linwen followed the sound and looked over carefully, only to find an old turtle with a black shell suppressed under a slightly broken stone tablet.
"Is this Ba Xia?" Feng Linwen was stunned for a moment.
Ba Xia is a mythical beast in the legend of the immortal civilization. He is the sixth son of the nine sons of the dragon, the long auspicious beast of the scale insect. He looks like a turtle and likes to carry heavy loads. He is also the turtle under the monument.
But upon closer inspection, the turtle has no scales or horns.
There is no dragon head or whiskers...it just looks like an old turtle.
"Don't look at it, I'm just an ordinary turtle monster. When Emperor Jing was here, he was very happy with his achievements, and all the officials followed him. So someone found me, planted antlers on my head, and then put fish scales on me , I must pretend to be a tyrant and come to support the tomb that Emperor Jing is building."
"Although some experts saw something fishy back then, they didn't reveal it. Instead, they locked me up here and pretended to be a turtle pretending to be a dragon... I was imprisoned for more than a hundred years, but for me, it was... It doesn't matter, it only takes a few sleeps." The old turtle said very calmly.
Feng Linwen looked at the ink-black turtle shell in a daze. He opened his eyes and looked at it, smiling without saying a word.
"Senior Turtle, I think there should be a way to communicate with these seniors!" Feng Linwen said to the old turtle.
The old turtle lay down in the grass, shook his head and said: "How is this possible? I am just a turtle, not a sacred beast. These old eunuchs are the living dead who were buried with them. In order to make them willing to stay here to guard the tomb, in their I don’t know how many cruel methods have been used on them. Unless you want to steal the treasure in the mausoleum and trigger the mechanism, otherwise they are just a bunch of wood, and you are completely out of their eyes."
Feng Linwen walked over and circled around the old turtle.
Under his eyes, he could indeed see circles of chains connected to the earth's veins, and also locked the old turtle, making him unable to move.
It was as if the stone tablet was really holding him down.
"No! You lied to me!" Feng Linwen said with certainty.
"Haha! Young man, it's so interesting. If you have any ideas, tell me! Let me taste it, taste it!" The old turtle said very calmly without any panic.
Feng Linwen said: "First of all...it's not that someone disguised you as a hegemon, but you took the initiative to find this job yourself. The purpose is to absorb the remnants of the dragons from the emperors of the past dynasties in the imperial mausoleum of the Dali Dynasty. Qi, extravagantly hoping to use it to transform into a dragon and shed the body of a turtle."
"And now that you have achieved part of your goal, the shackles that suppress you have become your constraints. So you want to lie to me, help you unlock your shackles, and give you your freedom."
Feng Linwen's tone was very firm, and he seemed to have found very reliable evidence to prove his conclusion.
The old turtle looked at Feng Linhu, as if he couldn't figure out his details, and he didn't know whether he had any definite information.
Finally, his eyes changed, and he said in a rather sinister tone: "Are you Huang Jingfei's disciple? That old cow nose is really shameless. It was clearly him who disguised me as a mythical beast in order to obtain the emperor's reward and be regarded as the national master. . It was also he who bound me here, suffering every day... But he didn't expect that I would absorb the remaining dragon energy here and transform."
"He is shameless. He actually left behind the classics and blamed all these conspiracies on me..."
Feng Linwen looked at the old turtle speechlessly.
This...did he misunderstand something?
Or are the creatures who have been lonely for a long time more imaginative and think more?
Feng Linwen just followed some ideas and said this casually, and made up his mind to cheat. If there were dates but no dates, it would be a double blow.
Unexpectedly, this old turtle actually made up all the reasons for him, and even brought up a former 'master' Huang Jingfei.
"It's good that you know. Master once left some backdoors in you. If you don't want to suffer, tell me clearly what happened to these old eunuchs. Otherwise...don't blame me, Sima Liang, for ignoring you as a senior and having sex with me." We have friendship with our master, but we are so cruel!" Feng Linwen changed the topic and continued according to the old turtle's words.
Unexpectedly, the old turtle suddenly laughed loudly again, the laughter was sharp and really weird.
"Hahaha! Where did Huang Jingfei come from! The one who detained me here was Emperor Jing himself. Boy! You want to lie to me... it's ten thousand years too early!"
