Novoland: Eagle Flag Chapter 2: Sword Eighteen

The lotus flowers in the pond under the moon have all withered, and the withered canopy hangs down on the lotus stalks, looking a bit depressed. Himeno's tiger teeth were stuck upside down in a weedy clearing, and the three children sat by the water with their legs dangling.

"When did Dead Face make an appointment with you? Why didn't you come?" Yu Ran got impatient.

"The time has passed. If he doesn't come, we will leave. It was supposed to be a one-on-one match. He always refused to accept me."

"Is the dead face weird recently? Looking at him, he seems to be starving to death."

"I don't know, but he's really strong." Ji Ye touched his elbow, "The last time I tried with him on the school grounds, I hurt my arm. In Nanhuai City, he is really the only one for me. opponent."

"This is really a ghost place!" Yu Ran looked at the desolate pond.

"Don't be so loud!" Ji Ye pressed her head down, "I don't know if anyone is still patrolling. This is Hualan Garden. The water in this pool is connected to the Phoenix Pool. It's very beautiful in summer. Now The lotus is gone. Wait for me for a while, and I will go to the shore to pick a lotus pod for you to eat. The lotus pod is the best one month before the first frost."

"Have you eaten a lot?"

"I eat half of the lotus pods in this pond," Ji Ye shrugged, "No one picks them anyway."

"Food! Every time you come to share our dates, and you don't know if there are lotus pods, come and give us a taste!" Yu Ran grabbed his ear, but Ji Ye dodged it.

"It's so easy to get there? When I change to a larger leather armor next time, maybe I can hide a few in the breastplate."

"I don't want it! I can't eat it because of the smell of your sweat. Then you and Asule will be separated."

"I've eaten it before." Lu Guichen said from the side.

"Have you eaten it too?"

"Didn't Ji Ye just say that he ate half of it?" Lu Guichen whispered, "I ate the other half..."

"Oh! I'm so bored, we don't have to be so sneaky, we haven't seen anyone passing by for a long time," Yu Ran finally couldn't help poking his head out from the shadow under the bridge, "Is this really true? Is it the Eastern Palace?"

"The East Palace looks like this," Lu Guichen said with a bitter face, "What do you think the East Palace looks like?"

"I heard from you, of course I thought it was covered with golden gauze, the palace was full of clouds and mist, fragrance was everywhere, and there were groups of beautiful court ladies! If I said earlier that this place is so remote, why not go to Fenghuang Catch shrimp over there!"

"Young Master Yu's palace is a bit similar to what you said, but the outside is different. I heard from Mr. Lu that this was originally the ancestral property of the Lord's family in Baili. Here, that’s why the Eastern Palace was built in this place to let the prince protect the ancestral property. There are allusions in many places, so it cannot be repaired easily.” Lu Guichen said.

"Then I'm going to visit Young Master Yu's bedroom!"

"This..." Lu Guichen was embarrassed.

"It's okay, I'll go to the arsenal to steal two pieces of armor from the imperial army in a while, and when Master Yu falls asleep, we'll peek through the gap in the wall of your garden, it's okay," Ji Ye waved his hand, "I Go pick two lotus pods first, don't come out first!"

He dodged out, looked around vigilantly, and walked up the arch bridge lightly. He knew that it was easiest to pick lotus pods in the shallow water across the bridge.

When he reached the top of the bridge, he froze suddenly.

He saw Youyin. You Yin was standing on the opposite side of the bridge, all in white, with a white belt tied on top of her head, the loose clothes were blown by the wind, as if they were wrapped on a bamboo pole. Quietly, You Yin didn't make a sound, just looked straight at Ji Ye. Ji Ye quietly shivered in his heart, for some reason, he felt a little sticky cold sweat all over his body.

"Yuyin, you're late!" he said loudly.

You Yin didn't answer, turned around and left.

"You Yin, what are you doing?" Ji Ye wanted to catch up, but he stopped because of an uncomfortable feeling in his heart.

You Yin turned his head back, with a sinister smile on his lips, he raised his right hand, "The God of Beichen, the Emperor of the Vault of Heaven; it shines brilliantly without beginning or end!"

Jimo seemed to be struck by a thunderbolt. He saw the wrench on You Yin's thumb, and he also understood what the wrench represented. It's just that he never thought that the sign of Tianzhu would fall into the hands of such a person.

"I know you have it too," came a faint low voice, "I saw you hanging it on a chain, we must have a decisive battle, you come with me."

He turned and left again.

After hearing the sound, Yu Ran and Lu Guichen followed up, and saw Ji Ye standing in the center of the bridge in a daze. Ji Ye suddenly turned around and went to the grass to pull out his canine teeth, and closely followed the shadowy figure in front of him. Yu Ran and Lu Guichen could only follow behind him. You Yin didn't walk fast, before reaching the turning point, he would even stay and wait for them for a while, but always kept a distance. The three of them followed him, only to realize that the terrain of the Eastern Palace was actually like a huge spider web, and many entrances and exits of the corridors had been abandoned for a long time, but at this time, You Yin found these passages without any effort, and took them to a unknown location. Lu Guichen gradually began to get lost, and he usually just went in and out of the two maple gardens.

You Yin stopped in front of the unlit palace gate, which was almost the center of the old palace, so lonely that there was no sound of frogs. He Yin stopped and looked back at the three of them coldly, his eyes seemed to reflect white light under the moonlight. He pushed open the door and walked straight in. Ji Ye and the three looked at each other and followed. Lu Guichen shivered as he passed by the gate of the main hall, and pointed to the high plaque: "Mei... Meilan Palace!"

Ji Ye followed his guidance and looked, and it really was the words "Meilan Palace". He had an extremely ominous premonition in his heart, feeling that something was wrong.

"Do you know the road just now?" He asked Lu Guichen.

"I don't know."

"You have been to Meilan Palace...I have been here too..." Ji Ye felt his scalp tingle, "But this road, why is it wrong?"

"How many Meilan Palaces are there in the East Palace?" Yu Ran leaned forward.

"Only one."

Yu Ran looked up at the sky silently, and a full moon hung high in the heart of the sky.

She murmured: "It's really like a paper moon..."

"We still don't want to follow him in. There seems to be something wrong with You Yin's appearance."

"It's hard to find a way out... This is 'An'," Yu Ran said in a low voice, "It's an illusion barrier, people around here are heavily illusioned, I heard that there is such a thing in Heluo before. Ability. Today’s moon shouldn’t be full. What we walked by and what we saw just now were all fake, we were just circling around the palace...the dead face tricked us in.”

Lu Guichen hurriedly turned around and pushed the door behind him, only to be surprised that the door couldn't be opened at all. It seemed that after they walked in, an erratic shadow quietly locked the door.

"The East Palace is really a haunted place!" Ji Ye clenched his teeth.

"Let's go and see," Yu Ran boldly said, "'An' isn't that scary, it's just that we can't tell the difference. Maybe he really arranged for someone to ambush us. He said that this person is the least trustworthy. of!"

The three walked back to back into this completely different Meilan Palace. Lu Guichen raised his head first, and there was no longer the golden gauze that Bailiyu hung between the rafters. He rubbed his eyes to try to see more clearly, but it was useless, everything was so real, the 'an' that Yu Ran said didn't seem to exist at all.

"He wants us to go down with him." Ji Ye found something in the deepest part of the palace.

Yu Ran and Lu Guichen followed and saw a square entrance suddenly opened on the ground of the turning stone.

The woman **** the loose hair on top of her head, and stuck the root with a silver hoop. She looked at her own face in the bronze mirror, calm and dazed. She washed off the rouge and powder makeup with water, leaving only a clean face, and the towering bun was changed into a straight bun, which made her face a little smaller and made her look younger. Such as when I was in Yasong fourteen years ago. She touched her face lightly, she didn't know if it was hallucination or time travel, all these years she always felt that she was actually very old in her heart and was about to be buried by the dust of Nanhuai City. But now that he has restored his old appearance, he is amazed at the youth he still retains.

She stood up, tucking the silver knife on the table into the belt of her black tunic. The elegant and elegant palace dress was left in the corner, and her soft armor that clings to her body without leaving any gaps outlines her figure, with a touch of enchantment, but she is as nimble as a cheetah. She flung open the door, breathing heavily in the moonlit air.

The air flowed in, like cold water rising from the throat, washing away all the dust.

She is standing on the threshold, and she is one last step away from leaving. She looked around the house she had lived in for more than ten years, like a snail's shell. The surroundings are so quiet that it seems that someone is talking in the darkness.

"Cat, go forward, don't look back..."

"Cat, don't look at me! There is no way here!"

"Cat, go back to the mountains and forget everything, you should be free!"

Standing on that threshold, she suddenly turned her head!

"Cat..."

All the scenes in front of me slowly blurred, as if the man's soul was still wandering around gently. Countless times, she felt that in the deepest night, someone stood by the bed and looked at her quietly, and she reached out to grab it, but her hand was empty. She was afraid of that kind of heart-wrenching loneliness, if she left, would that man's soul face the empty bed again and again, holding her hand again and again, with his hands still empty.

She wants to retreat back into this cabin and lock everything out again.

"Let's go, forget everything, you should be free." Another voice said in his ear, the black-clothed figure stood under the bright moon in the sky, and there was warmth in his lazy smile.

Her tears finally flowed down.

Gritting her teeth, she jumped out, opened her arms, and looked up at the starry sky!

Free at last!