The Lost City of Alien Beasts

Chapter 496 White Crane Shrine
"What?" Gao Yang asked proactively.

"Turn around." Qing Ling said.

"Oh."

Gao Yang slowly adjusted his body in the water and turned around. Behind him was the thick screen that separated the men's and women's areas.

"Look at the screen." Qing Ling reminded.

Gao Yang looked up and saw a Ukiyo-e style landscape painting on the screen.

The main object in the painting is a red torii gate standing on a steep hillside. Through the torii gate, you can see Yushan Mountain not far away.

The whole painting has a vast field of vision, is remote and quiet, and reveals a bit of solemnity and solemnity.

"Where is this?" Gao Yang asked.

"I don't know." Qing Ling shook his head: "It should be a mountain near Yushan Mountain. Is this a shrine?"

"Although there is only one torii, it should still count." Gao Yang said.

"We haven't been here today." Qing Ling said.

Gao Yang was startled and immediately understood what Qing Ling meant.

Then, he remembered what the tour guide said today.

——"The Torii is a unique building here, representing the entrance to the Divine Realm. Passing through the Torii, you will reach the Divine Realm. The Divine Realm and the Torii are only one step away..."

Just as Gao Yangang flashed back to these words, there was a sudden sound of the door being pulled behind him.

"Pull—"

The proprietress opened the wooden door and held a wooden basin with bath towels in it. She said in less than standard Licheng dialect: "The bath towels are ready for you."

The proprietress looked at Qing Ling in the hot spring and found that her posture was a bit stiff with her hands in the water, and the water on her chest was still bubbling.

"it is good."

Qing Ling stretched out a hand from the water, pointed at the screen and asked, "Where is this?"

"Oh, this is the White Crane Shrine in Xishan." The proprietress explained with a smile:

"Haha, you have to climb a mountain for half an hour to get here. The mountain road is muddy and difficult to walk. There are not many tourists at this time of year. It is beautiful to go here to see Yushan Mountain in winter."

"What god is worshiped at Hakusuru Shrine?"

"There are different opinions. Some say it is a white crane that has transformed into an immortal and has been guarding Xishan for generations. Others say it is a giant white bird that looks like a phoenix, but no one has ever seen it. My grandma said she saw it once. , and she also made a wish to give birth to my mother in the coming year, haha, everyone thinks she made it up..."

"I got it." Qing Ling ended the conversation after getting the clue she wanted.

"Okay, I won't disturb you anymore." The proprietress put down the small tub with the bath towels, walked out slowly with small steps, and closed the wooden door.

"Whoa!"

Gao Yang's head popped up from under the hot spring pool next to Qing Ling. Fortunately, he could hold his breath well, otherwise he would have drowned.

"Ahem!" Gao Yang coughed: "Qingling, you just..."

"I'm afraid of being discovered." Qing Ling said.

"I understand the truth." Gao Yang said a little innocently, "But have you forgotten that I can teleport?" I can just go back to the men's area opposite.

Qing Ling was stunned and thought Gao Yang was right. She said coldly: "I move faster."

Gao Yang rolled his eyes in his heart: What's wrong with learning? Just be as tough-talking as your sister.

"How's it going? Do you have any clues?" Officer Huang was very anxious on the other side of the screen.

"Yes, Xishan White Crane Shrine is probably the altar of White Phoenix. Let's set off immediately!" Gao Yang said.

"Whoa-"

Qing Ling was a very active person. She stood up from the hot spring in front of Gao Yang and turned around to get dressed.

"what!"

Unexpectedly, Gao Yang yelled [teleport] and returned to the men's hot spring area.

Officer Huang and Tengu wrapped themselves in bath towels, stood up to leave, and found that Gao Yang had teleported back.He looked flustered, his heartbeat was racing, his face was flushed, and he was slightly distracted, as if he had suffered some huge spiritual shock.

"What's wrong with you?" Officer Huang asked.

"No, it's nothing, let's go!" Gao Yang said.

……

The group put on casual clothes, quietly left the hot spring hotel and headed towards Xishan near Yushan Mountain.

I have to say that it is very convenient to travel with Tengu [Flying]. The four of us arrived on the muddy mountain road in about 5 minutes, which originally took at least half an hour.

Xishan is not high, and is dwarfed by Yushan Mountain. Viewed from a high place, it looks like a big umbrella holding a small umbrella next to it.

The four people landed on the top of the mountain. At their feet was an empty and muddy flat land, the size of a football field. It was surrounded by dense woods on three sides, and only one side was a steep hillside, like a small cliff.

On the edge of the cliff, there is a red torii gate less than three meters tall.

After the four people landed, they walked towards the torii. Through the door of the torii, they could see the Jade Fan Mountain behind, as well as the beautiful night sky and the bright moon.

It's almost early morning, the mountains are quiet, and the night wind is howling.

The four people looked at a lonely and ancient torii gate, feeling an indescribable sense of sadness.

"That's it." Gao Yang said.

"I didn't see the altar." Qing Ling held two swords in his hands.

"Me too." Tengu put his hands in his pockets and narrowed his eyes.

"Can you feel anything? A special energy field or something?" Gao Yang continued to ask.

Officer Huang shook his head, quickly stepped forward, reached out and touched the red pillar of the lower torii gate, then passed through the torii gate, walking around nearby, testing for several minutes, but nothing was triggered.

He sighed in frustration.

When he came all the way, he was in a more urgent mood than anyone else, but deep down he felt that things were going too smoothly. How could he succeed so easily?

Gao Yang didn't think so. For some reason, his intuition should be here.

"Don't worry, let's look for it again..." Before Gao Yang finished speaking, his cell phone rang.

……

5 minutes ago.

Leaving the city, heading north to the funeral parlor and special autopsy room.

This is a dark and simple square secret room. In the center of the secret room is a rectangular altar made of black gold. On the altar lies the body of Emond. He was not wearing any clothes and was only covered with a piece of white cloth.

Qilin, Qinglong and Suzaku stood aside.

Suzaku was closest to Edmond's body, and she reached out to hold Edmund's cold, stiff hand.

Three seconds later, Suzaku said with conviction: "The energy has almost dissipated, and I can interrogate the corpse."

Qilin nodded slightly, his eyes under the lenses were calm and deep: "How much time do you have."

Suzaku shook his head unoptimistically: "30 seconds, 45 seconds at most."

Qinglong sighed, obviously dissatisfied with this situation: "I'm afraid we'll never run out of questions."

"You have to make a choice, let me ask." Qilin said.

Suzaku nodded: "Okay, hold my hand."

Qilin stepped forward and took Suzaku's other hand.

Before starting, Suzaku gave a final reminder: "Remember, if the other party doesn't know, he will just stay silent. You don't have to wait, just change the question immediately. Also, the corpse can only answer questions he knows, but there is no guarantee that the answer will be objective. Correct, because the information the corpse knew before death may be one-sided or even wrong.”

"Understood." Qilin had no doubts.

Suzaku took a deep breath and held Emond's hand tightly with his other hand.

She closed her eyes, mobilized the energy in her body, and whispered: "Equal exchange."

(End of this chapter)