Chapter Forty-Seven: Choosing a Fork in the Road
At the end of this road, there is a huge circular space, and on the inner wall of its arc, there are more than ten stone gates of the same width and narrowness, and the roads inside the doors are deep and dark, and it is really impossible to see which is the exit.
The three of them came to the center of the round room, looked around, and saw that there were roads in all directions, and the passage they entered was also one of them. It's like a big road, it's a junction, and it's surrounded by countless branches.
Kitazin counted the number of doors, eighteen in all. sighed: "Oh my God, there are so many roads, which one should we take?" ”
Jing Wu grinned and said: "You see, there are a total of eighteen doors here, which seem to be like it, corresponding to eighteen layers of hell." ”
When Bei Ran heard this, his face changed in an instant, and he said in panic: "No, you...... Don't scare me. ”
Ji Changkong glared at Jingwu and said to Beiran: "Don't listen to his nonsense. There are traces of people walking along every road here, and the exit must be between them, and it is only a matter of time before they are found. ”
Bei Ran was relieved and followed them to check the traces on each road. However, after looking around, he couldn't tell which one led to the exit, and his eyes drooped and became depressed.
Jingwu quietly moved behind Ji Changkong, stabbed him with his elbow, and whispered, "Why don't you try?" ”
Ji Changkong didn't say anything, just glanced at him. Although it was a look, Keigo also knew what he was worried about, and said, "When casting the spell, the aura is hidden, and she can't see it." ”
Ji Changkong thought about it, and finally compromised, and said, "Okay." ”
He lifted the hem of his clothes, sat cross-legged on the ground, flipped the piano in his hand, stroked the very thin strings, and plucked them lightly. With each stroke he made, a sound struck from the strings, and the fish floated through every door, and it took a long time for it to come back from a very deep place.
At this time, piano sound exploration is an excellent method. Relying on the profound cultivation of the person who plays the piano, playing with internal strength, and with extraordinary hearing, you can judge from it what the situation is at the end of each road.
After the song, Ji Changkong put down the piano and listened carefully to the echoes from each channel. Unexpectedly, the sound of the piano penetrated every door, and the sound of folding back from it was the same, which had never happened before. It seems that the entire dungeon has a barrier to isolate spells, so that conventional tricks don't work here.
Now, I can only barely try that method. Ji Changkong's brows tightened, and he resumed his grip on the piano, speeding up in his hands.
The previous slow and gentle tone has completely changed its tone, and at this moment, the sound of the piano is like an arrow, and ten thousand arrows are fired in unison. One after the other came from his strings, leaping towards the eighteen surrounding gates with a sharp roar.
Bei Dye couldn't see anything, and in front of Keigo's eyes, a fine blue web of light woven by the sound of the piano was constantly unfolding, overwhelmingly spreading to more than a dozen roads, like spiders catching flies, and not letting go of a trace of aftersound.
Keigo's mind was completely drawn by the vision, before this, he had never seen such a fantastic and shocking landscape, and he couldn't help but mutter: "Heaven and earth ...... net"
Kitazan asked him, "What kind of net?" ”
Keigo immediately came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "Oh, it's nothing. He turned to look at Ji Changkong, who was still playing the piano and casting the net in front of him, and there was a little worry on his face.
This net of heaven and earth is a supreme method of cultivating the qin, and if it is not for talent, it is impossible to cultivate to this level. Even if you are lucky enough to come into contact with it, only 1 in 10,000 people can correctly understand the essentials. There are only a handful of people like him who can make this trick handy, looking at the Six Realms.
Therefore, if someone can cultivate this method, they will definitely be admired by the Six Realms.
But the only downside to this formula is that it takes a lot of mana. Each time it is used, the mana loss to the caster is extremely large. If it was usual, Jing Wu would definitely not worry about Ji Changkong, with his cultivation, this bit of wear and tear would not be a problem at all.
But now the situation is very different, in this claustrophobic underground palace, there are formations everywhere, not only to isolate spells, but also to suppress people's cultivation. Just after fighting with the ghosts, he found that both of them could only use less than three layers of mana, and now that they were consumed like this, I was really afraid that his body would not be able to bear it.
After hesitating for a moment, Jingwu couldn't help but speak, and said, "Forget it, let's choose one at random and resign ourselves to fate." ”
At this moment, Ji Changkong took back the piano, stood up from the ground, and said, "There is, this way." ”
He dragged Kitayame into one of the doors, and Keigo followed.
After they left, the remaining seventeen doors in the round closed automatically.
The three of them walked in the dark graveyard, and they couldn't see the road at all, and they walked very slowly to avoid encountering any traps.
Ji Changkong pulled Bei Ran tightly, for fear that she would be lost if she was not careful. He had lost her once when he was on the street, and now he must not let that happen again. Not only now, but in the future!
Because he really didn't dare to think about what would happen to him if one day Beiran was really like those ghosts, lying lifeless in a coffin.
Could he be crazy, or ......
Bei Ran was pulled forward by Ji Changkong, and although it was pitch black all around, the temperature from his palm made her feel more at ease than ever.
Not long after walking, the sound of ghosts chasing after the empty tomb came again, and Jingwu chirped: "It's really ghostly." ”
Ji Changkong said: "Let's hurry up." Then he pulled Bei Dye and accelerated the speed of progress.
A ghost in white rushed out from behind them, and after seeing a few people in front of them, he shouted backwards, "They're here, chase after them!" ”
Ji Changkong's eyes squinted, and a spell was thrown out, killing the talking ghost with one blow. However, the words of the little ghost were spread, and in the blink of an eye, a large group of white-clothed ghosts followed, chasing and attacking them.
Ji Changkong protected Bei Ran in front of him, and pulled her to gallop while dodging, and said, "Run!" ”
Keigo walked at the end, constantly hitting the little ghosts who caught up, and only after hitting the wave in front of him did he run after them.
The ghosts chased after them closely, and the three of them panicked and ran into a corner, and when the curve was over, they were dumbfounded again.
This time, they were presented with a three-way intersection, but this time the road did not look exactly the same as before, but was different.
First of all, there are red silk scarves hanging above the crossings of each road, one, two, and three respectively. Secondly, a road, the walls of the road are full of red candles, and there is light everywhere, which is unusually bright; A road spilled blood, and the corpse hung above the head, which was eerie and terrifying; A red carpet is spread on the ground, sprinkled with red flowers, which is particularly luxurious.
Beiran said: "Which way shall we go?" ”
Ji Changkong closed his eyes and meditated, thinking back to the information he had heard from the sound of the piano before. But before he could determine the general situation, a group of red-clothed ghosts rushed out of each of the three roads in front of him, waving the white bone stick in his hand, and wanted to hit them.
Looking at the rear again, the group of white-clothed ghosts still followed persistently. At this time, the three of them were besieged by groups of ghosts, with tigers and leopards in front and jackals in the back. Jingwu also said: "Forward or backward?" ”
Ji Changkong looked at all four roads, including the way back from the original road, and finally said in his heart: "Go forward, this way." So he took the two of them up the red-carpeted road.
Confronting the ghosts in front of him, Ji Changkong rushed in front of him alone and cleared the barricades. Keigo walked last, always on the lookout for the imps rushing up from behind. Bei Ran was in the middle, holding a Tigger, and made up for Ji Changkong's defeat of the ghost who was knocked down by him.
The trio worked together on a road covered with flowers and red carpets.
The road was full of flowers, but their mood was like a great enemy.
For this path, in fact, Ji Changkong is not sure whether it is correct or not. When he chose it, he was also making a bet with himself that if he walked this way, he would either get closer and closer to the exit, or he would go deep into the lair of the Red Ghost King.