"Don't touch me."

Xia Xiao slapped Ah Zhu on the hand, making her almost cry.

Covering his hands that looked like pig's trotters, Ah Zhu stomped his feet in anger.

"Just wait till you die!"

She felt that today was not worth it. She had suffered all the humiliation for a meal. Xia Xiao was drunk and staggered, walking very slowly. Ah Zhu wanted to help him go back quickly, but Xia Xiao refused to let her touch him. He was really a stubborn bull. No! It was a stinky stone in the toilet.

After kicking Xia Xiao on the butt and seeing him fall to the ground, Ah Zhu finally felt relieved.

"I don't care about you, I'll go back by myself!"

Ah Zhu snorted and walked forward angrily. But after a few steps, she stopped again because the street was too dark and she was afraid. She didn't know what kind of monsters and evil things would come out of those alleys. But Xia Xiao stood up slowly, his steps were still very slow and chaotic.

"Oh! Please, I want to sleep, please go faster!"

Ah Zhu scolded Xia Xiao, but the latter blushed and hesitated for a long time, and no one knew what he was saying. Ah Zhu had no choice but to scold him all the way until they reached the inn together.

"I really admire you. Why are you drinking so much? You are really sick."

When Ah Zhu closed the door and locked it, he was about to continue scolding, but Xia Xiao suddenly stopped being drunk, and regained his usual composure in the room with the curtains drawn. He patted his butt and clothes with his hands, shaking off the dust.

"you……"

Ah Zhu pointed at him, blinking his eyes in confusion, but Xia Xiao just fetched water to wash up, leaving a word of stupidity. Under the candlelight, Ah Zhu supported his waist with both hands, shouting who was stupid? And he raised his hands to ask for justice, but Xia Xiao must have a reason for doing these things. Although he can't drink a thousand cups without getting drunk, he has drunk fake wine several times in Longgang, so he can drink real wine.

"Someone is following us, so we have to act normal. If we want them to relax their guard against us, getting drunk is a good way. People who get drunk easily are not very cunning."

"Then why did you hit me?"

Xia Xiao shrugged, as if he was also planning it. But he simply didn't want Ah Zhu to touch him, and Ah Zhu was too stupid to cooperate at all, and even cursed all the way.

"My hand hurts."

Xia Xiao, who was about to lie down, heard Ah Zhu's aggrieved voice. Unable to bear it, he stood up, froze the water in the basin into an ice ball, wrapped it in a layer of cloth and handed it to her.

"You have a conscience."

Ah Zhu wrapped herself up like a dumpling, leaving only her hands outside. She didn't dare to sleep with ice cubes. It was late now, and Ah Zhu fell asleep quickly, but Xia Xiao didn't. He was thinking about the accuracy of the news he got. Qing Ye'er had no reason to lie to him, but could that tower really be the hiding place of that woman?

This method of searching is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and is somewhat unreliable, but the predecessors have found traces of her here, so even if they are very faint, there is a certain possibility.

Tonight passed quickly. The next day, Xia Xiao did not set out immediately. She thought Qing Ye'er would be waiting for her by the tower. He did not want to meet her again, so he stayed in the inn with Azhu for the whole day. It was not until that night that the two of them took their bags and flew into the sky.

Ju Mang carried Ah Zhu and flew to the sky above the palace with Xia Xiao, who spread his wings. The air was filled with the aura of a strong man. If Ah Zhu was not there and could not hide his aura, they would be beaten down quickly.

The petals in the palm of their hands still did not react. Xia Xiao and Shu Shuang descended to the palace again, and with the same result, they headed towards the tower beside the palace.

The tower is fat and wide, not very high, with only four floors, and is lower than the surrounding walls. This is why many people find it mysterious, because you can't see it at all. Even people who have lived in Yu Valley for decades don't know that there is a tower in the wall, and those who know about the tower don't know what is inside.

There is no door in the wall, and the only way out is to drop down from a great height. This alone has stopped countless people, leaving only one path for practitioners, as if it was done intentionally.

The outside of the tower is dilapidated, the skin is turned inside out, and a few pieces fall off from time to time. I don't know what the inside is like.

There was a dry meadow beside the tower and in the middle of the wall. It was unknown how long the dry grass had been dead. When Xia Xiao and Azhu stepped on it, it turned into powder. The powder swirled in circles in the wall with the night breeze and finally piled up in the corner, becoming very high.

Ju Mang, who had just landed, flew up to the top of the tower, clenched his claws, and looked around. He felt strange that the tower stood there without any guards or strong aura. Xia Xiao and Azhu had already walked into the tower.

"Stand behind me."

The backpack was thrown outside, Xia Xiao's left hand ignited a flame, becoming a moving torch, and in his right hand he held a bandaged machete, as if he could break the scabbard in the next moment, reveal the sharp edge, and kill everything in front of him. Ah Zhu was afraid of the dark, and he was powerless, so he could only hold Xia Xiao's clothes, looking around in panic.

He kicked the rusty iron lock aside. A clanging sound startled Ah Zhu and made her scream, but Xia Xiao just closed the door and said:

"Don't make a fuss."

Ah Zhu began to retreat, because even with the fire, he couldn't see anything around him.

"Can I go out? I'll wait for you outside."

"No, you have to follow me, just in case."

It was pitch black all around and the air was full of dust. Xia Xiao was able to hold his breath, but Azhu kept coughing.

"Cover your nose."

Ah Zhu was not stupid, so he knew it, but he had difficulty breathing with his nose covered. Such a big tower, but there was not even a window for ventilation. It was not an exaggeration to describe it as stingy! Moreover, the air was filled with a strong smell of rotten wood, as if it had been covered in dust for a long time, and it was a bit pungent.

With vitality in his eyes, Xia Xiao was able to see his surroundings clearly. There was nothing here, no tables or chairs, no brooms or dustpans leaning against the wall, only countless spider webs, as if it had been abandoned for hundreds of years. With such a good location, next to the palace, why not demolish it? It would be better to just build an observatory than to leave it like this.

Looking deeper, the ladder to the upper floor was broken, and the wood lay on the ground like broken bones. Xia Xiao did not choose to fly up, but threw the flame in his left hand into the air, turning it into a blazing sun. The flame made a faint burning sound, and Ah Zhu, who was under it, followed Xia Xiao to the side.

"What's wrong?"

“There is a reaction.”

Ah Zhu's eyes suddenly lit up, and the surprise was hard to conceal. On the palm of Xia Xiao's open left hand, a little black air lingered around the peach petals. Although it was very faint, the dark clouds in clear weather were always conspicuous. But this fluctuation was not enough to prove that the woman was here! But there was something attractive on the wall.

The peach petals were folded up, and Xia Xiao waved his left hand, and the shadow under his feet became shorter and shorter, and finally shrank to his feet. The flame outside the fist emitted firelight, which pushed away the fog on the wall, allowing Xia Xiao to see the things on it clearly. This is an ancient mural, twisted and curved, engraved with countless lines, like a profound and incomprehensible curse, which prevented the old tower from collapsing and could only suffer here.

Xia Xiao's palm touched the lines, and the almost cracked wall began to fall off at the touch, and it was no different from the outside of the tower.

The lines guided Xia Xiao's palms to stroke over them. Wherever his feet passed, broken wall skins piled up. They were in different colors, like a layer of sugar coating. When these things fell off, what was revealed was the true appearance of the tower.

“Is this tower about to collapse?”

Ah Zhu was watching from behind Xia Xiao, and was frightened by the gloom around him. Xia Xiao was also a little afraid, because he felt something strange, as if he was deceived or cheated by what he saw.

Normally, the exterior of the tower, which is exposed to the wind and sun, is more likely to peel off, even if there are walls around it. But the inside of this tower is no different from the outside. The real reason for the tower's peeling off is not natural reasons such as wind and sun, but the power inside the tower. Xia Xiao felt that there seemed to be a force wrapped around the tower, like some kind of seal, but was there a white snake under the tower, or a river monster?

Xia Xiao couldn't know more, but this wall, like the white prize area on a scratch card, had been torn open. But there was nothing underneath, like "Thank you for your patronage, keep up the good work."

“It shouldn’t be.”

Xia Xiao muttered to himself, thinking that there might be some mysterious things hidden under these fragile walls, but in the end, it was just a false hope. As soon as he entered the gate, there was only a small amount of wall left on the right wall. Xia Xiao punched the wall, and when it trembled slightly, all the wall fell to the ground. Ah Zhu was shocked and took two steps back and asked:

"With such a big commotion, aren't you afraid of being discovered?"

"Just run if you're discovered. I've already packed my luggage anyway."

"Isn't it time to pack for the purpose of changing inns?"

"I didn't say that."

Ah Zhu really wanted to curse, saying that Xia Xiao did not tell her before doing anything, which made her look like a fool. But even if her eyes were full of resentment, Xia Xiao had no time to pay attention to her now. He just raised his shoe and kicked the wall away.

The wall was dark, as if it was blackened by smoke, nothing special, and no fluctuations. Xia Xiao was a little disappointed, but he felt that these murals were not that simple. Although his research on murals only stopped at the teacher's classroom, the way these patterns were painted looked like talismans, like part of a talisman array.

"Go outside and have a look!"

Ah Zhu followed Xia Xiao, fearing that they would be left in the darkness, but before they could get forward, the rotten wooden door opened by itself, accompanied by an extremely horrifying sound of the door opening.

Amid the screams, Ah Zhu hid behind Xia Xiao, with hair all over her body standing up. Xia Xiao was not afraid at first, but was startled by Ah Zhu's scream. ? The scariest moment for a girl is when she acts like a spoiled child and doesn't get the response she wants, and when she is afraid and angry, her extremely long screams pierce people's hearts.