Thinking of this, Master Xuanming seemed to have understood something. Without saying anything, he directly took Wen He and Yi Fan out of the building, and then walked around the building, as if he had found something. After a while, he seemed to have found something and suddenly stopped.
He just said, "It really is a formation within a formation. And the person who created it is a veteran. He directly used some inconspicuous stones as the center of the formation."
Stones? Wen He was stunned, and subconsciously followed Master Xuanming's gaze. Sure enough, in the corner of the building, there were many fallen rocks of various shapes. It looked like the construction was not completed well, leaving behind fallen rocks.
But it is not the case. These fallen rocks are tightly stuck to the ground, and it is obvious that they were put there intentionally. They seem to be scattered, but in fact, they contain the rules of a formation.
"But if that's the case... Master Xuanming, these fallen rocks are firmly stuck to the ground and we can't move them. If we forcefully do that, it's going to cause a lot of noise in this open area in the middle of the night."
Yi Fan was not wrong. Wen He also felt that this method was not feasible, and...
"Master Xuanming, we can't destroy this formation within the formation, right? Zhang...those people just left not long ago. If we destroy this formation within the formation, we might be discovered. Then, I'm afraid we'll be in big trouble."
"Indeed, but there's no need to disturb the falling rocks here, nor to break the formation within the formation. There's another way to bypass this formation and find the entrance. Wen girl, do you know any formations that can consistently specify a location?" "A formation that can consistently specify a location? Master Xuanming, are you talking about a positioning formation? I know. Wait a moment, give me a minute."
Wen He responded and quickly drew out the positioning array symbol. Master Xuan Ming did not say anything and took the positioning symbol and moved back and forth among the fallen rocks. After a while, he finally stopped in front of a fallen rock and did not move. It must be that this fallen rock was undoubtedly the center of the array.
Master Xuanming simply pasted the drawn positioning symbol on it and started driving it. A guide path appeared, extending directly into the building, which seemed to be connected to certain positions in this training and education institute.
The next moment, Master Xuanming said, "This is the center of the outer formation. It will be directly connected to another center of the outer formation. The center of the inner formation will also be on this connected straight line. Let's go in and look for it. Maybe we can find the center."
However, although Master Xuanming's words sound nice, it is not easy to do. The reason is not because of anything else, but because there are too many items on this line that are likely to be used as the core of the formation. But this is the only way out. As long as we search through them one by one, we may be able to find them quickly and effectively.
The three of them discussed it and decided to split into two groups. Master Xuanming and Yi Fan would form one group. After all, one of them didn't know metaphysics, and the other had better physical strength. Wen He would search on his own.
To be honest, if it were any other time, Wen He would be a little scared and reluctant to group them like this. After all, there were too many strange things in this building. So when Master Xuan Ming proposed this grouping suggestion, Wen He subconsciously wanted to refuse. But she suddenly thought of the male voice that only she could hear. Maybe the other person could help her or give her clues, but it was not convenient to ask with other people around.
Thinking of this, Wen He gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement. The two of them then split into two groups and took action immediately. They agreed that if there was any movement, they must contact each other immediately.
The training center was eerily quiet at night, and Wen He couldn't help but think of the dense footprints of ghost babies he had seen before. After a long while, Wen He still felt that he couldn't recover. After a pause, he decided to stand where he was and shouted at the voice.
As soon as she shouted, the pleasant male voice immediately floated in her ears, saying, "I'm here."
But it was just this one voice that relieved Wen He's pressure a lot. She breathed a sigh of relief and dared to take another bold step, continuing to look for the item that might be her inner heart. While walking, in order to make her nerves less tense, Wen He tried to talk to the nice male voice, for example, why did you follow her to help her?
"Someone asked me to protect you, so I won't leave your side until it's safe to leave this room. Don't worry, I'll be fine with you here. This is just a simple trick."
Wow, so the owner of this voice is a very powerful master, is he at the super master level?
Wen He couldn't help but feel a little surprised. She always felt that she seemed to have received invisible help from many masters recently, such as the master with the jade token, and the master with super strength who helped them dispel all the evil spirits in one breath in the mountains, and now there was this nice voice that came from nowhere and said that he was entrusted by someone to protect her.
Although Wen He wanted to know who that person was, when she asked this question, the voice fell silent, as if it didn't want to tell her who that person was. Seeing this, Wen He asked some other questions, such as what she called the other person.
At this moment, the pleasant voice paused, as if thinking for a second. After a long while, it spoke again, "Just call me 'Yan'."
"Yan? Is that Master Yan?"
As Wen He said this, she subconsciously added the title of "Master". After all, in Wen He's opinion, most of the predecessors in the metaphysics world were more powerful than her. It would be too disrespectful not to call them "Master", let alone those who were helping her?
However, Wen He had just said this when that pleasant voice suddenly fell silent. She called out several times but no one answered. It was as if... a little angry? Angry? Yes, her old man never liked her calling him "old man". Whenever he heard her call him "old man", his brows would furrow tightly, his face looking unhappy. Only when she called him "handsome brother" would he become happy again.
Yes, this voice is so pleasant, and sounds so young. Perhaps it's a relatively young master. It doesn't seem strange that he doesn't like the title of "Master". After all, the title of "Master" does sound a bit old. So what should he call him? Wouldn't it be a bit impolite to call him "Yan"? Or maybe...
"Brother Yan...?"
"Hmm? I'm here."
Sure enough, it was just a matter of calling her by name. Now, that pleasant voice finally responded to her instead of being silent. Moreover, it sounded as if the voice had a bit of...
"Brother Yan, I feel like you seem a little happy...?"
"Happy? Ahem... No, you must have heard it wrong."
She hadn't heard it wrong. The tone of the voice just now had clearly risen a few degrees. Was it happiness or something else? She wasn't deaf. The voice was so close to her ear, how could she not even tell whether it was happy or not?
Wen He couldn't help muttering this in his heart, but as the voice's mood improved, Wen He's mood also improved.
After someone spoke to him, the training center was not as scary as it seemed at first. But it seemed that the target items were not difficult to find. Wen He searched almost every possible item in the classroom, but found nothing.
During this period, Wen He also met with Master Xuan Ming once, but still did not find any relevant results, so he had to go back and continue searching to see if there was anything he had missed.
Until Wen He passed by the same corridor three times, he suddenly saw something and stopped in front of a wall. He looked up and stared at the monthly ranking list of children on the wall, and his brows subconsciously frowned slightly.
Why did she feel that this monthly ranking list was getting weirder and weirder the more she looked at it? It seemed a little different from what she had seen at the beginning. The children there... were they the same ones who were there now? Why did she remember that the first place winner was a girl with pigtails, not the little girl who had long hair that fell to her shoulders instead of pigtails?
Suddenly, Wen He seemed to have thought of something. Gritting her teeth, she stood on tiptoe and took down the monthly honors board from the wall. After taking it down, Wen He discovered that there was another honors board below this monthly honors board. This was the honors board Wen He had seen before. She remembered correctly that the little girl ranked first did have pigtails.
The next moment, Wen He felt that something was different about this training center. It was still the same training center, but for some reason, unlike the sunny and childlike classrooms before, all the classrooms seemed to be filled with a dark and spooky aura, making people feel cold. What was this...
"You've found the center of the formation. What you saw before was just a trick of the formation within the formation. Now, this scene is the true appearance of this training center. Go to the back garden now, and you will probably find what you are looking for. Join the other two first."
The pleasant voice said this, and Wen He nodded in response. He took the card he found and walked towards Master Xuanming and Yi Fan.
At this moment, it seemed that Master Xuanming had also discovered something was wrong, and he and Yi Fan were rushing towards this direction. They quickly gathered together, and when they saw the honor list in Wen He's hand, they knew that the core of the formation had been found.
After roughly understanding the situation, they looked at each other and nodded. Then the three of them quickly held a few yellow protective talismans in their hands and quickly rushed to the back garden.
In fact, the slight change in the environment just now had already given Wen He and the others a bad premonition, but when they actually arrived there and saw the true full picture of the back garden, Wen He and the other two couldn't help but gasp.
That's right, the front half of the back garden was indeed a small garden with some children's toy facilities installed, just as they had seen before. But in the back half, where there was originally a fence blocking the small bushes and grass, it turned out to be a cemetery. It was a cemetery without a name, with only a simple earthen grave dug and a few stones on top.
They were densely packed, like small bumps rising one after another. Just a cursory glance revealed at least a hundred of these earthen tombs. What was even more horrifying was that these tombs were extremely small, definitely not the size for adults, not even for older children. They looked more like the tombs of infants...
All of a sudden, Wen He and the other two all remembered the densely packed baby footprints they had seen all over the floor.
"Master Xuanming, could it be that these are..."
"It's hard to say. I'd rather not," Master Xuanming sighed and said, "Have you noticed? These cemeteries are almost all new. If that's true, then how many lives must have been killed here..."
After hearing these words, Wen He and Yi Fan dared not say a word. After a while, Master Xuanming asked Yi Fan to take out the little yellow paper man again and called out Mr. Yi's name again.
This time, the little yellow paper man did not turn half a circle in the air and then stop moving like before. Instead, it flew directly over the densely packed tombs of babies, passed over the tombs, and went deeper into the back of the cemetery. Seeing this, Wen He and the other two looked at each other, and then followed the little yellow paper man in without hesitation.
Unlike what one might imagine, there was no wasteland behind the group of baby tombs. Instead, it was a slightly renovated place with a small house built. The little yellow talisman paper man entered the small house through the crack in the door, but the door of the small house was locked.
Yi Fan took a look and made a gesture to retreat. No one knew where he got the wire from, but he opened the lock with just two or three gentle movements. Wen He and Master Xuan Ming couldn't help but stare wide-eyed.
There was no way. Yi Fan was not an ordinary kid. This was the first time he had seen someone so skilled at picking locks. Yi Fan could feel both of their eyes on him, so he explained sheepishly, "My grandfather trained me to do this. When my grandmother was still around, she couldn't bear to see him so absorbed in the chess game, so she locked up all the locks. He then had me try to open them. After a while, I got the hang of it. It's quite fun."
"..." Well, this experience was just like when she was instigated by her old man to draw talismans. Wen He couldn't help but think with amusement, no wonder her old man could become good friends with Uncle Yi. The temperaments of these two people were really similar, except that one was a metaphysics fanatic and the other was a flag fanatic.
When the door of the small house was opened, the little yellow paper man was quickly found. He was stuck on a glass jar, and in the glass jar, there was a small, weak ball of light that was glowing faintly.
Seeing this, Yi Fan didn't know what he was thinking about. He immediately looked at Master Xuanming nervously and asked stutteringly, "Master Xuanming, could this small ball of light be, is..."
"Well, it seems to be correct, but it is trapped in the seal now. I will be able to recognize it when it is released."
As he spoke, Master Xuanming drew something on his palm with cinnabar, then placed his hand on the yellow sealing paper on the glass jar. He stretched out his hand and wiped it, and a puff of green smoke dissipated from Master Xuanming's hand. After a while, the yellow sealing paper became dim, as if something was suddenly invalidated.
After tearing off the yellow sealing paper and unscrewing the lid, the small ball of light floated out directly from the glass jar.
Then, it slowly changed into a human form, revealing the familiar face of Mr. Yi, but his soul seemed a little weak now, so he looked a little dazed.
Seeing this, Wen He squatted down and drew a concentration array on the ground. Under the effect of the concentration array, the somewhat scattered souls finally gathered together. Mr. Yi finally perked up a little and recognized the person in front of him. "Xiao Fanfan, it's you. Why are you here now? Aren't you going to the company for an internship with your father? Why are you here? No, this place is weird... Where is this?"
"Grandpa, it's me. Some special circumstances happened... But, Grandpa, do you really not remember anything at all? What happened at the resort?"
"I just remember that night I was studying the chessboard in my room, and then I heard a lot of children's voices. They seemed to be asking for help, so I asked them how to save them. Then... well, I don't remember anything else. The next time I opened my eyes, I saw you."
Seeing this situation, Yi Fan couldn't help but worry, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Master Xuanming inquiringly.
However, Master Xuanming was not surprised by this. It seemed that he had anticipated Mr. Yi's current situation.
"It's okay. It won't have any effect on Mr. Yi. It's just that when his soul returns to his body, he will be exhausted for a while. Judging from the current situation, I'm afraid that Mr. Yi inadvertently responded to the ghost babies' words, which is why they pulled him away. By the way, Yi Fan, where is the Xuanyu that I asked you to bring with you? Let Mr. Yi's soul enter it first to warm it up, and then guide it into the body after we return."
Yi Fan nodded and took out the black jade. Following Master Xuan Ming's recitation of something, Mr. Yi's soul temporarily resided in the black jade. After all this was done, Wen He subconsciously squatted down to erase the concentration formation below.
This was Wen He's habit. Basically, every time he left a place, he would wipe out the traces of the formation he had drawn. While wiping, Wen He seemed to suddenly discover something. He paused and suddenly swept the same place.
Wen He's unusual movement also caught the attention of the other two. They saw that there seemed to be a strange piece on the floor. They looked at each other and immediately came over to help pick it up. After studying it, they found that there was a piece of floor that was really a bit weird. They didn't know what they did to it. The next moment, they heard a few slight noises, and the wall behind Wen He suddenly became empty, revealing a staircase leading directly to the underground.
There is a secret passage in this room, and not just a secret passage. This time, Wen He carefully noticed the position of the lights above the secret passage of the stairs, and his brows suddenly furrowed.
"Master Xuanming, there's another seal here, but it doesn't seem to be connected to the formation within the formation. It's another sealing formation. It seems to be sealing something inside."
After hearing what Wen He said, Master Xuanming paid close attention to the situation below. Sure enough, not long after, Master Xuanming confirmed that there was a seal underneath and recognized what kind of seal it was.
"Indeed, this is another new seal, but it is harmless to us. It is a seal that seals away evil spirits. If I am not mistaken, this seal should have been placed by Elder Zhang. This is the formation that Elder Zhang is best at. Let's go down and take a look at the situation. Even though Elder Zhang is so nervous about this, maybe there is something hidden underneath..."
Master Xuanming's guess was correct. Elder Zhang really valued the things underground, or rather, he was afraid that the things inside would run out. All the arrangements of this formation were aimed at the things underground, and it was set up to be a formation that was easy to enter but difficult to exit. It didn't take much time for Master Xuanming to easily open a gap in the formation and lead Wen He and Yi Fan into the sealed formation.
However, just as they entered the sealing formation, a clear, young voice rang out, saying, "Hello, Uncle Xuanming. It's been a long time since I last saw you. How have you been lately?"
Almost subconsciously, everyone's eyes suddenly turned to the source of the voice. They saw a clean-cut young man about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a very warm smile. When he smiled slightly, a pair of cute little fangs were exposed. He looked particularly heartwarming, so warm that Wen He almost mistook him for a living person.
That's right, the young man in front of him with a warm and pure smile is not a living person. Not only does he not have any vitality, but he is also filled with an extremely thick aura of death. It can even be said that he is now in a complete state of death. He does not look like someone who has just died. Such a thick aura of death makes it seem like he has been dead for many years.
Master Xuanming, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but tremble at this moment. He stared at the young man in front of him with his eyes wide open, and a voice of disbelief came out of his throat: "You are... Xiaoxun? You are actually Xiaoxun. Weren't you eight years ago... No, that's not right. You shouldn't be here at this time. You should have returned to the cycle of reincarnation long ago. How could you be here? Did someone force you to stay? Elder Zhang...? Could it be that it was Elder Zhang who forced you to stay?! Bastard! Elder Zhang is really a bastard!
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