After hearing Bai Suhe's words, Lan Zui and Rong Shisan's hearts suddenly sank.They came in desperately, in addition to the previous reasons, but also because they had to find a place to replenish their drinking water.

Most of the wells in the above-ground stone city have collapsed or been filled with yellow sand, and half of the wells around the underground Changsheng City are missing.In order to consolidate their status, the city rulers in the ancient desert built water storage buildings near the administrative center or even in the mansion of the city lord.The absence of a well mouth outside made Lan Zui more convinced of this idea, but he didn't expect to break in with great difficulty, but what he got was a thunderbolt of bad news.It is estimated that the age is really too long, the sea has changed, the water veins under this city are not only sinking, but completely diverted.

"Let's talk about it later, let's go in and treat the wound first." Rong Shisan pulled up the people who were slumped on the ground.

This time, it was Mengzheng who led the way. It can be seen that Mengzheng is very familiar with the direction of this house, and should have searched it before.The place where they are located is a side courtyard, and the house is full of small single rooms in rows, which should be the place where servants live.Walking through two yards, through the corridor and a small garden full of rockery, into another courtyard, separated by a garden, the exterior of the house here is obviously much more exquisitely carved, obviously entering the main courtyard.

"come in."

Mengzheng walked directly into the East Wing, which should be the place where she and Bai Suhe were going to rest temporarily.The furniture in the house is complete, but they are all covered with a thick layer of dust. There are beddings placed on the inner and outer couches, which have been retting to slag, and the color and pattern are completely indistinguishable, and they collapse into ashes when touched.There are a few pieces of clothes piled up in the corner by the wall for people to sit on. They are Hufu women's clothes, which are similar to those worn by Mengzheng Bai Suhe. The strange thing is that although the color of those clothes has faded, they are still very firm. Rong Jiu touched them , and found that this is an extremely precious moss silk brocade, there are only a dozen pieces in the world, each of which is a priceless treasure, but Meng Zheng casually threw it on the ground, which made Rong Jiu very distressed.

"I found the clothes from the suitcase. They are clean. Don't go to the main room, there are corpses." Mengzheng said.

"Corpse?"

Rong Jiu was still wondering, but Rong Shisan was a little anxious, "Xiao Jiu, go find some furniture and start a fire."

The furniture in the room is mostly made of red sandalwood and ebony, and the workmanship is exquisite and exquisite. If you want to burn it, it will be like burning a red head.Rong Jiu was very entangled and reluctant to make a move, but seeing Rong Shisan's expression, he didn't dare to delay, so he chose a dressing table chair and split the chair legs off.

Rong Shisan threw a piece of solid fuel on the leg of the chair, and the flames shot up all over the place, illuminating the room transparently.Rong Shisan and Lan Zui didn't speak, they sat by the fire and began to tear their trouser legs.

In fact, the trouser legs don't need to be torn at all, they have already become rags.As soon as the strip of cloth was torn off, the three people next to him were taken aback.Everyone was in a terrible panic at the moment, so the trouser legs of the two people before were torn and the others didn't care.When the legs were exposed, they found that the upper half of Rong Shisan and Lan Zui's calves were covered with wounds, the wounds were black and swollen, and the black air had spread above the knees.

"What's going on!" Bai Suhe knew at the first sight that it was poisoned by a corpse, and the symptoms were exactly the same as Rong Shisan's symptoms after being bitten by a corpse leech.

"Scratched by the paws of those dead zongzi." Lan Zui hissed, and Rong Shisan pulled a piece of cloth and tied it above his knees, suddenly raised his head and said to Bai Suhe, "How did you come to this place?"

Bai Suhe immediately understood that these two people wanted to heal her injuries, and let her talk to distract her.

Seeing two palm-sized daggers with thin blades roasting on the fire, Bai Suhe shook her head, groaned and organized her words, and then told her and Mengzheng's experiences one by one.

At that time, after Bai Suhe and Mengzheng rolled down the pothole, they both passed out.

I don't know how long this dizziness lasted, it was Mengzheng who woke up first.Mengzheng opened her eyes, and there was only a bright light in front of her, which was the small light on her electronic watch, which had not been turned off.However, after being turned on for so long, the small light is almost out of power, and the brightness is a little weaker than before.

Mengzheng sat up to gather his composure, he yelled twice and Bai Suhe panicked when he didn't hear a response.He touched the person from head to toe in black, and he didn't feel any major wounds, so his heart calmed down a little. He guessed that Bai Suhe might be exhausted from using spells, and he had been carrying her for such a long distance, so he fell asleep .

After confirming that Bai Suhe was fine, Mengzheng always felt that something was wrong with the top of his head, so he looked up.From the place where she was, she could still see the sky through the falling slanted hole, and immediately outside the hole there were a few shadows with blue halos swaying back and forth with light spots.

Mengzheng was terrified at the time, thinking that those roots were chasing after them when they passed out, and immediately turned over to drag Bai Suhe.But after waiting for a while, looking up again, Mengzheng found that those roots were still dangling in that position, but there was no further move.

Mengzheng didn't understand why, but it's good if they don't come down, Mengzheng didn't care about it, and started to grope around, trying to find a relatively safe place to hide Bai Suhe.After all, with a few roots hanging from the top of his head, he felt uncomfortable no matter what.

After touching Mengzheng for a while, I found that they were in a place like a mezzanine. This place was very short, at most one meter high, and they could only crawl on all fours.The place where they fell was like a collapsed hole, one side was blocked by stones and soil, and although the other side was also scattered with small stones and layers of soil, it was still passable.After climbing out for a short distance, Mengzheng knew that this place must be man-made. After passing the area where rocks and soil were piled up, he could feel that the ground and the roof were all polished stone slabs. Although it was rough, there were heavy traces of man-made .

A little further away, Mengzheng touched a stone pillar with the thickness of a calf, which was placed between the floor and the top floor above. It should be a load-bearing column supporting the top floor.

After climbing out for a short distance, Mengzheng felt that this place should be safer, so he turned back and dragged Bai Suhe in again.There are still roots on the top of the stone slab, although Mengzheng is tired, he dare not sleep any more, sits dazed for a while, lifts Bai Suhe's waist back, and pulls off her pants.

Following Mengzheng, they climbed back to the place where they fell, and climbed up along the slope.

Those few root hairs seemed to be very excited when they sensed that Mengzheng had gone out, shaking more violently.Mengzheng climbed to the entrance of the cave, looked at it and gestured twice, then threw the small stone that was picked up from below and collected in his hand just now towards the root.

The roots didn't respond to the rocks at all, instead they moved closer together, but it seemed that they were not long enough, and they seemed to be afraid of something. They moved closer for a while and then immediately retracted. The fluorescence stretched and contracted, like an earthworm.

Mengzheng laughed suddenly, this time tore off a piece of cloth from the trouser leg, wrapped it with soil, and continued to smash it.

After hitting it twice and missed, and aiming at it the third time, Gensu immediately avoided it.

"Oh, so you're afraid of this." Mengzheng said to himself, climbed up two more steps, squeezed the soil in his hands and twisted it.

The soil here is very special, delicate and smooth, not as rough as ordinary soil, and feels a little like talcum powder.The bandage on Meng Zheng's wound had long been soaked in blood, and after twisting it hard a few times, the blood came out.This kind of soil without impurities is very docile, and it can be applied on the body when mixed with some liquid.Mengzheng was not in a hurry, and slowly painted his whole body, and then he climbed up from the entrance of the cave, and walked towards the root hair step by step.

After walking for three or four steps, Mengzheng found that the roots still couldn't come down, but the angle of shaking and bending became wider, as if very annoyed, Mengzheng felt relieved after being held back for a long time. The local dialect of Mengjia Village scolded a lot.

When Lan Zui heard this, he clicked his tongue: "I thought she would become smarter with Xia Ruoqing's memory, but she is still a fool."

Mengzheng was baking naan, and when she heard this, she glared at Lan Zui, but Lan Zui ignored her, and picked out a piece of meat with skin and a broken black nail inside with a knife on his expressionless face.

"It's born like that, there's nothing I can do about it." Bai Suhe also said indifferently, but her tone was teasing and running.

Bai Suhe actually woke up shortly after Meng Zheng left, and was looking for someone when she heard Meng Zheng shouting and dancing above.She poked her head out to see that Mengzheng was happy, and didn't bother to shout, she just leaned on the slope with her arms folded to watch the play.When Mengzheng finished cursing, his mouth was dry and he wanted to go back, he turned his head and saw Bai Suhe's face was half a smile, and he was stunned.

Now that we know the weakness of this root, the soil here must be taken away.Bai Suhe simply took off her top and wrapped two big bags on her back.According to the time, the two of them fell asleep for only half an hour, but their physical strength recovered slightly.There are artificial traces on the mezzanine, so there should be a way back to the city.Bai Suhe put a little fire bird in front of the light, and she and Mengzheng crawled inside bent over. After about an hour of crawling, they found the small gate leading to the city within the city surrounded by Kemutuo.

"Let me tell you, every time the two of you are together alone, your clothes will look like this and that. If you don't know what you're doing, you'll think you're doing something." Lan Zui snorted and said with a smile, after Bai Suhe finished speaking, her injuries were almost treated, The black blood flowed down the bloodletting hole to the ground, and there was a big puddle.

Bai Suhe knew that Lan Zui's talkativeness was distracting, she was considerate of her serious injury, and Quan pretended not to hear, and continued: "Judging from the location, the mezzanine where Mengzheng and I came out is above the hallway where you are walking, that mezzanine should be The Beiyan people took protective measures to prevent Kemutuo’s root system from growing randomly. I just saw the same kind of soil in the flower bed, and the Beiyan people may use this thing to control the growth of Kemutuo.”

"These people are really amazing. The place where you came out is the entrance and exit that Beiyan people used to go in and out for maintenance. It's also fortunate that you came out by yourself, otherwise we really don't know where to find you." Rong Shisan wrapped his legs , with cold sweat on his forehead, "By the way, what did you say about the dead body in the main house?"

"People commit suicide, nothing unusual. But we found something around him." Bai Suhe threw over a silk book, Lan Zui and Rong Shisan flipped through two pages, but couldn't understand a single word.

"It's Bei Yanwen, Mengzheng and I will try to translate, you guys go to rest. Are you okay?"

"Use glutinous rice to pull out the poison, let it be fate." Lan Zui returned the silk book to Bai Suhe, and said calmly, "I'll go to sleep if it's okay."

"Sister Lan, why don't you go to sleep after eating?" Rong Jiu handed the hot pancake to Lan Zui, but Lan Zui didn't take it.

"I'm disgusted by those things, I don't want to eat." Lan Zui waved his hand, picked up a piece of clothing, and turned into the inner room.

Rong Jiu held up the naan with a look of astonishment, and said, "Why do I feel that Sister Lan is in a bad mood? This is the first time she has seen zongzi?"

"Stupid boy, you've never been in a relationship." Rong Shisan snatched the naan from Rong Jiu's hand and bit it, "Have you never heard of the feeling of being close to home? Brother Huihui will find you a blind date!"

Rong Jiu was baffled, they were still in the city of longevity, what the hell was the feeling of being close to home?Seeing that Rong Shisan swallowed his portion in just a few mouthfuls, Rong Jiu came to his senses and rushed to grab it.

The two brothers huddled together by the fire, but Bai Suhe didn't stop them.Kanji was terribly frightened, and after drinking hot water, he fell asleep early, sobbing and hugging Reyimu.Mengzheng was afraid of being hurt by the fish pond, so he sat alone far away, holding a piece of fragrant paper the size of a palm in his hand, thoughtful.

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