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Chen Duo didn't comment and said softly, "Okay."
Liao Zhong made faces at Hu Xiuwu again, and the scar on his face twitched like an earthworm: "You little bastard, you better take good care of Duo'er for me."
"Okay, okay, it won't take long. We'll meet at the city gate in the evening."
Hu Bayi dragged Liao Zhong away, not allowing him to continue speaking, and at the same time turned around and secretly winked at Hu Xiuwu.
Brother, I helped you pull Liao Zhong away, you take care of yourself.
Hu Xiuwu:······
Hu Xiuwu looked at Chen Duo, who had no expression on her face. Now it was his turn to be a little confused. He had never been alone with a little girl before. If it was Wang Ye or Atong who was here, he would be more relaxed:
Hu Xiuwu didn't know what to say: "Well, which way do you want to go?"
Chen Duo was stunned by Hu Xiuwu's question. Her delicate face was full of confusion and her eyes were blank.
"I want to go there?"
Hu Xiuwu said as a matter of course: "Yes, I have never been here, so of course you choose the direction."
"I'll choose the direction."
Muttering to herself, she repeated Hu Xiuwu's words. There was a glimmer of light in Chen Duo's eyes, which were originally as dead as water. She stood there for a moment and looked at the road in the Eluohai city in front of her.
Chen Duo hesitated for a long time and couldn't make a decision. Her originally cold and indifferent face turned red, and she looked a bit like a cute elf as a girl of her age should.
Hu Xiuwu did not urge her, but stood beside Chen Duo with his hands in his pockets, patiently waiting for her to make a decision.
His elder brother was the protagonist of this operation, and he was just forced to come here by his elder brother. He didn't care which path he took.
And he was not stupid. Wu Dechang even commented that he was very spiritual and intelligent, so he could naturally see it. It was just a simple choice of direction, but for some reason, it seemed to be very important to Chen Duo.
Although he didn't know why, Hu Xiuwu was not one of Quan Xing's crazy people, so he was naturally willing to help them.
A thin layer of sweat appeared on Chen Duo's forehead. It seemed that she was not deciding on a path, but making a difficult decision that would determine her life.
Finally, Chen Duo timidly stretched out a hand, pointed to a road, and asked Hu Xiuwu:
"We go this way!?"
Her tone was not firm, and she waited for Hu Xiuwu's response timidly and cautiously. Although it was not visible on her face, deep down in her heart, Chen Duo was expecting Hu Xiuwu, who was the same kind as her, to agree with her decision.
Liao Zhong had already rejected her choice. If Hu Xiuwu rejected her again this time, she would probably return to the state she was in the Medicine Fairy Society.
She, who has already seen the light, will probably suffer even more.
Fortunately, Hu Xiuwu responded to her: "Okay, let's take this road."
While Chen Duo was trying to make a decision, the beeping sound on the monitor on Liao Zhong's wrist that monitored Chen Duo's emotions never stopped. At the moment when Hu Xiuwu responded to her, the beeping sound almost reached the value when Chen Duo made her first cry.
Liao Zhong hesitated for a moment after looking at the numbers on the watch. The four of them were carrying communicators, so he could hear clearly the conversation between Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo.
At this moment he realized what he had been doing wrong.
He gave Chen Duo the best life he could give her, but he also had the arrogance of a patriarch. He only wanted to plan Chen Duo's future path and only gave her orders instead of communicating with her and giving her a choice.
Liao Zhong felt quite remorseful in his heart. If Hu Xiuwu hadn't accidentally enlightened him today, he didn't know how long he would have continued to make mistakes.
But this is not entirely Liao Zhong's fault. He also has his own helplessness. Due to Chen Duo's own special circumstances, Liao Zhong is unable to satisfy many of her choices.
After thinking it over again, Liao Zhong decided to temporarily turn off the alarm on his watch, letting Chen Duo enjoy his first choice today.
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Chen Duo is enjoying her first shopping trip. In her eyes, this is no longer an ordinary task, but a trip that belongs to her.
Even though the object was just a deserted ghost town, she still felt satisfied.
Hu Xiuwu stayed beside her quietly. Originally, Hu Xiuwu felt a little restrained when being with Chen Duo, and he didn't know how to get along with her. However, when walking with Chen Duo in the deserted Eluohai City, Hu Xiuwu suddenly relaxed.
Being restrained represents caring. Hu Xiuwu cares about Chen Duo because he regards her as a companion; being relaxed is also because Hu Xiuwu regards Chen Duo as a companion, and it is natural to be more relaxed when getting along with real companions.
Hu Xiuwu, who was enjoying the moonlight and the exotic scenery of Eluohai City, suddenly stopped and his face changed. He felt that the formation set up by Li Chungang in the Ghost Tomb suddenly rotated on its own.
The orbital ring on the armillary sphere was spinning wildly, and countless runes on the eight-sided rune walls were gathering and dispersing, and the entire formation was about to enter a state of overload.
The Tang tomb, which is the core of the ghost tomb, has undergone such great changes, and the Zhou tombs surrounding it have naturally also undergone new changes.
The strange formation of the Zhou Tomb, the Hanging Soul Ladder, changed along with the formation of the Tang Tomb, and continued to expand into the void, causing the area of the ghost tomb to continue to expand.
Hu Xiuwu spread out his palms, and in his palms, the runes symbolizing the Ghost Tomb emitted an unprecedented light, like a newborn sun.
As the runes of the Ghost Tomb became brighter and brighter, the buildings and streets around Hu Xiuwu that belonged to the Eluohai City began to become blurry, from blue light to high definition, from high definition to standard definition, and finally simply became a mosaic of color blocks.
The changes in the two occurred so close in time that it is hard not to doubt the relationship between them.
When the Eluohai City had become like an abstract painting and its original appearance was completely unrecognizable, the Ghost Tomb spontaneously opened its entrance, and an extremely strong suction force was emitted from the entrance, trying to pull Hu Xiuwu into the Ghost Tomb.
Just as Hu Xiuwu was about to be sucked into the ghost tomb, Chen Duo suddenly grabbed Hu Xiuwu's arm and tried to hold him back, but ended up disappearing on the spot along with Hu Xiuwu.
Chapter 103 Zhong Shan
After Hu Xiuwu was sucked into the Ghost Tomb, he did not panic but felt like he was back home. He stepped into the center of the Ghost Tomb with ease and tried to stabilize the situation in the Ghost Tomb.
What he didn't expect was that Chen Duo was also sucked in with him. While Hu Xiuwu was checking the changes in the ghost tomb, he asked Chen Duo helplessly:
"Why did you suddenly rush over here?"
Chen Duo remained calm in this situation. Although she didn't know what happened, she still protected Hu Xiuwu and said calmly and straightforwardly:
"This is the first time someone agrees with my choice. You are very important to me."
"I will protect you."
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This should be my line, right?
Hu Xiuwu always felt that something was wrong, but he soon stopped thinking about it.
The expansion of the Ghost Tomb was much faster than he had imagined, and with his current strength he was no longer able to control the entire Ghost Tomb.
However, he found that although the runes on the Ghost Tomb were flickering and changing endlessly, the armillary sphere at the center of the formation was also spinning rapidly, making people worry that it would explode in the next second.
But in fact, all these changes are not disordered and chaotic, but quite organized, as if they are running certain programs that have long been engraved inside them.
There is no need to think about it. Li Chunfeng, it must be him again. Who else except him can come up with such a thing?
Li Chunfeng, can you please tell us all your plans at once?
It's very difficult for me to deal with you scaring me like this.
Although Hu Xiuwu was very dissatisfied with Li Chunfeng's actions, he felt a lot more relaxed after discovering this incident. At least it proved that the situation in the Ghost Tomb was not an abnormality, but was planned.
The Ghost Tomb did not stop its actions just because of Hu Xiuwu's poor performance, but continued to expand in all directions. This expansion was not just a one-dimensional expansion, but an all-round one.
For every ten feet it extends in all directions, the ghost tomb will rise three feet upwards and the ground will thicken three inches downwards.
The ghost tomb expanded very quickly. In the blink of an eye, even though Hu Xiuwu was in the center of the ghost tomb, he could hardly see the whole picture of the ghost tomb at a glance with the armillary sphere.
While Hu Xiuwu was checking the situation in the ghost tomb, Chen Duo stood quietly beside him without complaining or being curious.
Boom!
The runes that were constantly changing on the eight-sided rune wall suddenly stopped for a moment, as if the ghost tomb had finally ended the change.
Hu Xiuwu used the formation to check the current situation of the Ghost Tomb. It was completely different from its previous gloomy and dark appearance. Instead, it became majestic and grand, just like the view of the world during the Tang Dynasty, and turned into the shape of the universe.
The body of heaven and earth is shaped like a bird's egg, with the sky surrounding the earth like a shell surrounding the yolk; it revolves around it without end, and its shape is complete, so it is called the Hun Tian.
Although the place where Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo were standing was square like a chessboard, it was actually a piece of land as white as an egg yolk.
The sky is like a dome and the earth is like a bird's egg. The dome is a thousand feet high and the bird's egg is ten miles long.
What Hu Xiuwu is most curious about now is where does the energy for the expansion of the Ghost Mound come from? The Ghost Mound is now like a small world. Even the earth energy in the immortal cave of King Xian is not enough to support such a big movement.
After the Ghost Tomb stabilized its shape, the runes began a new round of changes, this time even more intense than the previous ones.
疵！
There was a sound like tearing cloth coming from outside the Ghost Mound. The Ghost Mound shook violently, like a huge ship that had taken up its anchor and was about to sail to the sea.
But the behavior of Ghost Tomb seemed to have disturbed some existence hidden in the darkness.
There was no sound, no change of color,
However, deep in the souls of Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo, an inexplicable trembling fear emerged, and their bodies became stiff and unable to move as if they were possessed by a ghost.
It is a fear hidden deep in the blood, a natural fear like fire, a dangerous intuition that countless ancestors have exchanged their lives for future generations.
It reminded Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo that what appeared before them was a natural disaster that humans could not match.
The Ghost Tomb shook violently, like a giant ship in the middle of a storm. No matter how big it was, it was of no use.
However, the Ghost Tomb, or Li Chunfeng, had anticipated this long ago. The formation in the Ghost Tomb's Tang Tomb changed again, urging the Ghost Tomb to dive deeper, away from the source of fear and closer to the mortal world.
As the ghost tomb moved, Hu Xiuwu finally saw the scene outside the ghost tomb through the formation.
It was a dying world. There were no sun, moon, or nebulas in the sky. There were only cracks like the ice cracks on a lake in winter. A large number of Dap ghost insects lived in the sky and on the earth. The faint fluorescence on their body surface was the only light source in this world.
There is not a single bit of green on the ground in this world, only bare mountains and hills. There are no real living creatures on the earth, only various monsters emitting death and yin energy.
The monster flying in the sky looked like a horse but had a head as ferocious as a dragon. Between its shoulder bones grew a pair of bat wings. Its black fur was tightly attached to its skeleton, and every bone was clearly visible. On the ground floated undead with unclear faces and tattered cloaks.
Where there should have been lakes and the sea, there are now only wriggling black tides. Upon closer inspection, they are actually snake tides composed of countless black snakes.
That is the other kind of servant of the snake god mentioned by Liao Zhong, Jingjian Agama.
After seeing the Pure Vision Agama and the Dapu ghost insect, and combining it with the origin of the Zhuchen Pearl, Hu Xiuwu already knew where this place was.
This is the imaginary space mentioned by Shirley Yang, and it is also the Zhongshan Mountain recorded in ancient books.
It is said that there is a dark country without sun in the northwest of the sky, and there is a dragon holding a candle to illuminate it.
Since the Classic of Mountains and Seas believes that the snake god is Zhulong, and Zhulong is the god of Zhongshan, then this place must be Zhongshan!
I didn’t expect that the legendary Zhongshan Mountain was not a real mountain, but a world of its own, with such a strange and harsh environment.
I didn't expect that the snake god actually came from outer space, but why did he come to this world and how did he die? What's the matter with the Jingjue Ghost Cave?
Hu Xiuwu was pondering these secrets. He felt that he had touched upon the greatest secret of the world. Suddenly, he felt relaxed and his body was no longer subconsciously tense. It seemed that the Ghost Tomb had escaped from the scope of the Zhongshan Realm.
Hu Xiuwu immersed his mind in the armillary sphere in the Tang tomb, checking the current location of the ghost tomb. Unexpectedly, he got an answer that was both reasonable and unexpected.
interior!