Chapter 154 You Will Know Sooner or Later
Gordon saw the emperor's dilemma and stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, no matter what happens later, I will protect you. Even if it costs my life, I will let you go first!"
The emperor felt relieved when he saw the determined look on Gordon's face.
He patted Gordon's shoulder and said, "When we get back, you will serve me from the throne room."
At this time, Wen Ling had already opened the door of the cellar and walked in first.
The emperor gritted his teeth and followed.
As soon as I entered the cellar, it was pitch black in front of me. After pushing open the door, it became bright in front of me.
The walls were lit with candles, and a statue of a deity was enshrined in the front.
The inky black wooden statue wore the same robe and still had no facial features.
In front of it is an incense altar with burnt incense sticks inside.
Judging from the ashes in the incense altar, it has been worshipped here for at least two or three months.
There is a night-shining pearl on each side of the incense altar. The fist-sized night-shining pearls are obviously worth a fortune at first glance.
An ordinary fourth-rank official in the Imperial Observatory had a monthly salary of only thirty or forty taels, but a night pearl was worth at least a thousand taels and was in short supply.
Either they are willing to spend money, or they have other sources of gray income, and the latter is more likely.
The entire cellar was extremely cold, with the temperature at least seven or eight degrees lower than outside.
The wooden statue exudes a mysterious luster under the candlelight.
When the emperor saw the statue, he couldn't help but shudder.
The emperor said: "Why do I feel so uncomfortable when I see this statue? I feel repulsed and don't want to get close to it. I feel like it is an evil thing!"
Wen Ling: "Because you are the emperor, the true dragon emperor, the aura on your body naturally restrains these evil creatures."
As she spoke, she stared at the statue and walked towards it step by step.
The statue clearly had no face, but Wen Ling could feel that it was looking at her.
Just as Wen Ling was about to reach there, a black figure suddenly rushed out from the statue and headed straight towards Wen Ling's face.
Wen Ling was already prepared. He slightly leaned to the side and avoided the attack of the black shadow.
She didn't want to give in, and swung out a golden chain and tied it around the figure.
The black shadow was only tied up for a moment, but quickly broke free and turned back to attack Wen Ling.
Just when Wen Ling was ready to fight it, the black shadow made another feint and turned around and ran away.
When it passed by the emperor, it paused for a moment and then shot a black mist towards him.
Then he went out of the cellar without looking back.
Just this black fog can easily take someone's life.
What was faster than the black fog was Gordon's reaction. The moment the black fog hit him, Gordon flew in front of the emperor.
The emperor subconsciously supported Gordon's shoulders. He still held the amulet that Wen Ling had just given him.
The moment the black fog hit Gordon, Gordon flew out, and the amulet in the emperor's hand turned into ashes.
"Small stool!" the emperor exclaimed.
Wen Ling also hurried to Gordon's side to check.
Gordon touched his sore butt and stood up with a grin on his face: "It's okay, Your Majesty, I'm fine, it's just that my butt hurts a little bit."
Wen Ling was relieved to see that Gordon was really fine, and saw that the amulet was working on him.
Wen Ling quickly ordered: "Since everything is alright, I'll leave the follow-up matters here to you. I just put a tracking charm on the black shadow. I'll chase it and see where its lair is this time."
The emperor asked worriedly: "Can you do it alone? Didn't you fall into a coma for half a month last time you fought it?"
Wen Ling: "It should be possible. I just fought with it. It must have been seriously injured last time and has not recovered yet. If no one holds me back, I should be able to fight it to a draw, or it may not be able to beat me."
After Wen Ling finished speaking, she started chasing after the black shadow. Her speed was as fast as the black shadow's just now.
It was too late for the emperor to say anything.
He had to stay and tell the people outside that there was a tablet of the evil god in the cellar.
There are still a lot of messes to be solved, including putting Lin Qingxuan in jail and giving Zhang Tianshi justice.
Then let more people know how harmful this evil god is.
He also wanted to find officials from the Ministry of Justice to draft a specific law, which would require that anyone who privately worshipped this kind of wooden statue would be thrown into prison if discovered, regardless of whether they had made bad deeds by making wishes to the statue or not.
As an emperor, there is only so much he can do in the battle between good and evil.
On the other side, Wen Ling chased the evil god all the way to Beishan.
Beishan, which is where the royal hunting grounds were.
It’s just that Beishan is very big. It’s not very high, but it covers a large area.
Beishan Mountain spans the borders of Beijing and Tongzhou, with one side facing Beijing and the other facing Tongzhou.
The places that Wen Ling had been to during the royal hunting expedition were only in the capital.
This time she chased the black shadow all the way to the other side of the North Mountain.
Finally, the black shadow disappeared into a stone wall.
Wen Ling knocked on the stone wall with his hand and the sound sounded hollow.
She tried pushing it and found that the stone wall was very solid and had no cracks or openings. It was completely integrated into the mountain.
Unless it explodes, there is no way to get in.
Wen Ling thought for a moment and shouted inside: "Hey, Lord of the World, aren't you very powerful? You fought with me last time, why are you hiding now? Are you afraid to come out?"
She tried to force the man out by provoking him.
She was not afraid of alerting the enemy. She had already caught up with him. If she didn't force him to come out to meet her now, he would definitely leave in advance when she came to find him next time.
There was no movement from inside the stone wall, and I thought this method of provoking was too low-level and would not work.
Suddenly, a man's voice came from inside the stone wall.
He called Wen Ling by her name as soon as he opened his mouth: "Wen Ling, don't worry. I have been waiting for you in this world for a thousand years just to meet you. Now is not the right time. When I succeed, I will meet you."
Wen Ling frowned: "You have waited for me for a thousand years in this world? What does that mean?"
"You don't have to play dumb with me. Others don't know where you come from, but I do."
As he spoke, the man chuckled twice: "Ling'er, I know you better than you think, or rather, I know you better than you know yourself. You have forgotten many things, but I remember them all?"
"What's the matter? Don't be so mysterious. Since you know everything, why don't you tell me and let me hear it to see if it's true." Wen Ling was not fooled and continued to question.
She wasn't fooled, and the man inside wouldn't be fooled either.
He chuckled again: "You don't have to use this method to provoke me. You will know when the time comes."
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