Wanqingsi

Chapter 202 Dungeon
The soft sedan stopped at a remote palace, where the people don't know what to do, the guards are strict, there are no idlers like eunuchs and maids.When the guards outside the door saw the emperor, they knelt down and saluted. The emperor waved his hand and went in silently.There is no one in the room, and the furnishings are not special, that is, the general study layout. The only strange thing is that this room has only doors and no windows.After I went in with him, the guards closed the door, and the light in the hall dimmed. The emperor went straight to the ancient shelf, and turned a celadon vase in an inconspicuous corner, and the ancient shelf slid open silently. There was a dark opening in the wall behind the shelf.I was just a little surprised, and then calmed down. It is not a strange thing that there are tunnels in ancient palaces. I have seen too many on TV and novels.The emperor turned his head and glanced at me: "Come here!"

Stepping into the doorway, I found a dark passage, with thick candles burning on the walls on both sides, and the light was dim.The emperor touched somewhere on the wall, and the door opening was blocked by the Bogu rack that had just been moved back.I can't see clearly at all, and in this environment, it is no different from the night, so I quickly supported the wall with my hands to prevent falling.For just a moment, the emperor held his left hand in his palm, his palm was moist and warm, I was startled, and then I understood his kindness, so I let him hold it. In the dark, I couldn't see the emperor's expression clearly, I just heard He said in a low voice, "Are you afraid?"

"I'm not afraid." I smiled, I'm really not afraid, this man may have hurt my heart, but he never did anything to really hurt me, "The emperor is here."

He squeezed my hand slightly, and his voice could not hear any emotion: "Let's go, there are steps below, be careful."

I cautiously followed him down the steps. The steps were not long, but turned a few turns, presumably leading to the depths of the ground.When you stay in the dark for a while, your sight gradually adapts to the light in front of you, and you can distinguish the general scenery.After finally going down the steps, I walked through a section of passage. There were branch roads on the left and right. I didn’t know where it was leading to, but the emperor just pulled me forward. The guard in black armor, seeing the emperor, saluted respectfully, took out the key and opened the iron gate.

Inside the iron gate is a relatively spacious underground hall, the floor is covered with clean slate, and the walls are also hard stone walls. There are no candles in the hall, but more than ten candles are embedded on the ceiling and walls. A night pearl as big as a pigeon egg, so although there is no sunlight in this underground hall, the light is much brighter than that in the passage, just like daytime.As soon as he stepped into the hall, two men knelt down in front of the emperor, one was dressed as a warrior in green clothes, and the other was dressed in an official uniform: "See you, Your Majesty!"

"Get up!" The emperor didn't let go of my hand, and led me inside.Although it is deep in the ground, it does not feel damp, and the air is not stuffy. I think there must be vents in this underground hall.Nuo Da's basement hall has no extra decorations, only a huge iron cage in the middle, the cage's bars are all iron pipes as thick as a child's arm, one end is embedded in the ceiling, the other end is embedded in the ground, and there is a person lying in the cage, limbs They were all locked by thick iron chains. I was stunned. It turned out that the underground of the side hall was a dungeon.The emperor stopped when he was about two meters away from the iron cage, looked at the people in the cage and said, "The person you want to meet is there."

"General Ji?" I glanced at the emperor in surprise, and prepared to move forward to approach the cage.The emperor took my hand and dragged me back: "Just watch here."

"Why is General Ji locked up here?" I looked at the cage, and the person in the cage seemed to be asleep, without any reaction, "What's wrong with General Ji?"

The emperor looked at the people in the iron cage, and said calmly: "How is he today?" It was the two people in the room who asked, only to hear the man in official uniform hurriedly replied: "Back to the emperor, I use the soul-locking mirror The phalanx suppressed the evil spirits, put Ruanjinhuagong powder in the diet, and General Ji was still in a coma."

Only then did I see a big bronze mirror placed around the iron cage. Strange spells were written on the mirror with blood-red cinnabar. Looking over, I saw four similar bronze mirrors on the top of the surrounding walls. The bronze mirrors on the ground absorbed the light from the night pearl and refracted it to the bronze mirror on the top of the wall. The bronze mirror on the top of the wall reflected the beam of light. It hit straight into the iron cage and shone on Ji Jingyun's body, only then did I see that Ji Jingyun's body was covered with a layer of symbol-like light and shadow.

I looked up at the emperor, with endless doubts in my heart, even though I knew I would know the answer soon, I couldn't help urging: "Your Majesty?"

"Song Jianzheng, move the soul-locking mirror away for now!" The emperor ordered lightly, and led me a few steps away, further away from the iron cage.He has been holding my hand, the palm has been slightly sweaty.There is no hindrance to my vision here, I wanted to pull my hand out, but as soon as I moved, he grabbed it tightly, I couldn't break free in front of my subordinates, so I had no choice but to move.After a while, the emperor loosened his hand and slowly let go of mine.

At this time, Song Jianzheng stepped forward and slightly turned the copper mirror around the iron cage. The beam of light reflected by the bronze mirror no longer hit the bronze mirror on the top of the wall, and the spell covering Ji Jingyun disappeared.The person lying in the iron cage was motionless, and after a while, his body trembled slightly, it seemed that Ji Jingyun had woken up.The emperor must have had a purpose in pulling me so far away, I didn't dare to go any closer, so I had to observe Ji Jingyun's reaction carefully from a distance.The man in the cage sat up, I couldn't see his expression clearly, only his movements, he seemed to look around in a daze, then turned his head to our direction, jumped up suddenly, and threw himself at the iron fence, But the iron chains on his hands and feet restricted his movements. He seemed extremely angry, struggling desperately, and the iron chains rattled: "Kill you! I'm going to kill you! Kill you!"

His struggling posture is very weird, like a zombie walking straight. I was startled by his crazy and weird appearance, and I couldn't help but take two steps back. The emperor supported my back and said lightly: "Song Jianzheng, Didn’t you say that you have given him Soft Tendon Huagong Powder? How can he still move?”

"Returning to the emperor, I have indeed served him. It is said that it is impossible for General Ji to use his strength. I guess the evil spirit controlling the general is too powerful, so he can still control General Ji's weak body!" Song Jianzheng There was a hint of panic in his tone, "I am worried that if this continues, the phalanx of the soul-locking mirror will soon be unable to trap General Ji..."

"Return the soul-locking mirror to its place." The emperor said with a stern expression.Song Jianzheng received the order, and hurried to the front of the soul-locking mirror, aiming the soul-locking mirror at the bronze mirror on the wall. After the first bronze mirror returned to its place, the bronze mirror on the wall shot out a light talisman, hitting Ji Jing On Yun's body, Ji Jingyun let out a miserable cry, as if struck by a thunderbolt, his body was rigidly fixed on the ground, his whole body twitched violently, and his mouth was still screaming: "Kill you! Kill you..."

While screaming, the second beam of light talisman hit him again, and he screamed again, the voice was broken and shrill, as if he was suffering the death penalty.I covered my mouth, looked at General Ji in the cage in disbelief, and couldn't help but burst into tears.When the third beam of light talisman hit him, he could no longer swear, and his screams were much weaker. When the fourth beam of light talisman hit him, his stiff body could no longer move, even twitching. There was no more, and then, like a stone statue being pushed, it fell straight to the ground with a bang.

I was stunned by the strange scene in front of me, staring at Ji Jingyun who had fallen asleep again, speechless for a long while.I only heard the emperor say: "Look at him carefully." Then he turned to look at me, his tone was still indifferent: "Scared?"

I stared at him blankly, speechless, the emperor turned and walked towards the iron gate: "Let's go!"

I wiped my tears and followed him out of the cellar. The iron door was closed heavily behind me, and I heard the sound of the black-armored guard padlocking.The sight fell into the darkness again, the emperor stretched out his hand, and silently led me back to the original path. I was shocked by what I saw just now, and followed him out of the tunnel without a word, and returned to the study room to set up palace.

The emperor turned the vase mechanism to block the secret doorway, and instead of going out of the room, he sat on the soft couch in the room, raised his eyes and said, "Didn't you say you're not afraid?"

"The concubine is not afraid." I bit my lip and followed him, "It's just that I was too shocked. Your Majesty, was the assassin who assassinated you yesterday General Ji?"

"As you can see, he has completely lost his sanity, and his words and deeds are completely controlled by evil spirits." The emperor said solemnly.I stared at him blankly, and my heart was overwhelmed: "My elder brother, was it killed by General Ji?"

The emperor looked up at me, was silent for a moment, and then said: "He blocked Jingyun's Ice Soul Saber for me and saved my life. If it wasn't for him, it would not have been so easy to subdue Jingyun yesterday..."

My body swayed, and the emperor quickly stood up and supported me: "Sit down and talk."

He helped me to sit on the side of the soft couch, my internal organs were writhing violently, my eldest brother was really killed by General Ji, what can I do?Killing General Ji to avenge the eldest brother?He was obviously murdered by others, and he did something wrong while being insane, what can I do?
"General Ji assassinated the emperor because he was hit by the soul-drawing, right?" I calmed down my chaotic and complicated thoughts a little bit, and some doubts welled up in my heart. Is it the same? Even if General Ji is controlled by others, it is difficult for ordinary people to notice the abnormality. How could he have this kind of insane symptoms? Besides, the time for him to fall should not be long enough for the master to completely control him. What exactly is going on?"

"To deal with a strong-willed person at the second level, you really need someone to hypnotize you, and eat away his will step by step, until the master can completely control the victim." The emperor's face was gloomy, his eyes were cold, "I asked Song Jianzheng, if during the hypnosis process, the hypnotist speeds up the progress of the hypnosis with black magic, destroys the spirit of the subject in an inhuman way, makes him unable to bear it, becomes confused, and looks like madness, at this time he only remembers hypnosis The orders instilled in him by the former will no longer be sober, just like the soul-drawing of the third rank."

Song Jianzheng must be the Chief Supervisor of Sitiantai, and what he said should not be false.If the hypnotist is Saikamen, why did she let the second-rank soul-drawing technique, which took so much effort to succeed, be reduced to the third-rank soul-drawing technique?Isn't it more useful to control a puppet that looks like an ordinary person than to control a muddled and unconscious puppet?Why did she do this kind of thing that lost her wife and broke her army?Had her plans changed?What is the change?Forcing her to give up such a good move?Could it be that she sensed the crisis, so she ignored it, changed her plan, and fought hard?Her plan is so secretive, even I just guessed that she has something wrong, how could she have such a premonition?Could it be that I was scaring the snake away?I carefully recalled the situation when I went to Jifu to investigate that day, and suddenly remembered that Saikamen knocked over the medicine bowl in his hand when he heard Mr. Fu said that Ji Jingyun had a black face and must have touched something ominous. Recalling her expression at that time now, it is really weird. Could it be that it really alarmed her at that time?Thinking about it further, I feel that Mr. Ri Fu's performance was a bit too much that day. Why did he say that to General Ji in front of Sai Kamen?Even before going out, he made a special trip to tell Saikamen to pay attention to the words of General Ji’s face. He knew that we were going to investigate secretly, so he couldn’t scare the snake.Why did Mr. Fu do this?Could it be... There is some collusion between Mr. Fu and Saikamen? Could it be that he is the head-destroyer behind her?

I widened my eyes and broke out in a cold sweat from the thought that just came to me.

——2007, September, 5
I recommend two books from my friends, I think they are very good-looking:
Zeng Yue's "Really Stupid":
"Song of the Cave Immortal" by the Four Generals of the Demon Family:
(End of this chapter)