Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 268
Kang Xu tried a few more times, and it took less than half an hour to walk out of the peach forest twice, but he couldn't get close to the house.

It seemed that the house was a mirage and didn't exist at all.

"Qimen Dunjia?" Kang Xu instantly understood the reason. This peach forest has been arranged like a Qimen Dunjia. If you can't find the real path, you can't enter at all.

However, this Qimen Dunjia is not complete. It seems that the people who set up the array didn't want to trap people in it, but just wanted to keep everyone away from this place.

Therefore, when he got lost in it, he would always turn out of Taolin inexplicably.

"There is a Qimen Dunjia in this little Nanhua temple. I want to see what secrets are hidden in that house." Kang Xu narrowed his eyes, and stood on a high place to carefully observe the entire forest. According to the layout, he quickly nodded with confidence.

"Originally only the four gates of 'Xiu', 'Sheng', 'Jing' and 'Scenery' were used out of the eight gates. It seems that the person who set up the formation has a very high attainment in formation!" Kang Xu rubbed his chin, Talking to himself, he praised, and then plunged into the peach forest.

As the saying goes, "everything is inseparable from its origin", all the Qimen Dunjia in the world are formed according to Yin Yang, Five Elements, and Bamen Dunjia.

This peach grove is full of a lot of 'confusion', 'confuse' and 'fear', compared to 'rest', 'scenery' and 'surprise' among the eight gates.

The peach forests are dense and the branches and leaves are luxuriant. Although the winding paths lead to secluded places, it feels a bit depressing when walking. In addition, it is difficult to find the direction when entering it, which will make people feel confused.

In the peach forest, there are rockeries at regular intervals. These rockeries have no obvious features in appearance, but each rockery has a seemingly obvious but inconspicuous protrusion.

The most peculiar thing is that these protrusions are very obvious at first glance, but they don't seem to exist when you look closely.

Kang Xu looked at those rockery, squinted his eyes slightly, but he saw through the reason at a glance.

The intruder walked in the dark and oppressive peach forest, but couldn't find a way out, so he was inevitably anxious.At this time, when I suddenly saw a rockery that suddenly opened up, my tense nerves would immediately relax, and I could see the protruding part subconsciously.

The seemingly raised parts on the rockery will appear extremely obvious, as if a person walking in the dark suddenly sees a little candlelight.

Even if the candlelight is weak, it is enough to attract people's attention, but when the candlelight is hidden in the raging fire, it is not easy to find the candlelight.

'Stop', 'scene' confusion, 'shock', people who stray into it will definitely feel inexplicable fear, this feeling of ghost hitting a wall, I believe that any normal person will never think about it again after experiencing it once experience the second time.

It was Kang Xu who was so stubborn in his bones that he took so much trouble to find clues and break through the formation.

Among the four gates, only the gate of life can be used for walking.

Looking at the entire peach forest, apart from the rockery and the peach forest, the most conspicuous and least obvious is the small pond hidden in the peach forest.

The pond is about a foot square, and there are lotus leaves the size of a washbasin floating in it. Several water lilies bloom quietly, and occasionally carp swimming under the lotus leaves can be seen.

Kang Xu looked at the carp swimming under the lotus leaves, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he had a way to break the formation.

"This pond is only a few feet in size, but there are fish living there, which shows that this pond is not stagnant water." Kang Xu thought carefully about the several ponds of similar size that he encountered along the way. But Kang Xu secretly guessed that these ponds should be connected to each other.

In order to verify what he thought, Kang Xu pulled out a few hairs from his head and gently put them in the pond.

I saw that the hair placed next to the lotus stem was quickly moved by the water flow, and because the hair was blocked by the lotus stem, it was washed out in a curved arc by the water flow.

Kang Xu looked at the hair in the water, and instantly understood the direction of the water flow. He looked up to the front left, and then limped over.

Water nourishes all things, and all things are based on it, so water is life.

There is a cloud in the ancient scriptures: When encountering wind, it will scatter, and when bounded by water, it will stop.Therefore, if you want to find out the door of life, there is only one way, follow the direction of the water flow, you can find the door of life.

Kang Xu used the same method along the way to find the direction of water flow in those ponds.

After a stick of incense, he turned around the last peach tree, and suddenly felt a bright light before him.

There is a slightly larger pond in front of you, and a wooden loft stands beside the pond, which complements the surrounding environment.

Standing in front of the attic, the afterglow of the setting sun happens to be sprinkled on the pond, forming a magnificent spectacle of the water pavilion.

Kang Xu hesitated for a while, and walked directly to the attic.

The attic is divided into upper and lower floors, and the surrounding area is very quiet.

Kang Xu knocked on the door, but no one responded, but the door was not locked.

After a little thought, Kang Xu opened the door and walked in.

The furnishings in the room were roughly similar to the one he woke up in, not much changed, except that there was a layer of dust on the table, and it seemed that no one had come to clean it for a long time.

Kang Xu leaned on a cane and looked around the room curiously. It seemed that this was an ordinary quiet room, and there didn't seem to be anything special about it.

Kang Xu shook his head, he didn't understand, since there is nothing special about this quiet room, why should we arrange a strange door in front of this attic?

But the more ordinary it is, the more curiosity it arouses in his heart, and his intuition tells him that this attic is not as simple as it appears on the surface.

He squinted his eyes, looked around, and carefully observed every corner of the room.

Suddenly, Kang Xu's gaze stayed on the ground.

This room has not been cleaned for a long time, and it has long been covered with dust, as is the wooden floor. A line of unclear footprints on the ground caught his attention.

Kang Xu walked over, half squatted down with difficulty, measured the length of the footprints with his fingers, and fell into deep thought.

There is also a light layer of dust in the footprints. This place is located on the pond, and there is not much dust in the first place. From this point, it can be seen that the footprints are at least three days old.

Kang Xu looked along the footprints, and found that the two rows of footprints on the left and right were somewhat different in depth, the row on the left seemed darker, and the row on the right was a bit shallow, so that the footprints on the right were almost invisible.

Kang Xu stared at the footprints on the ground, and suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu.

"Strange, why do you seem to have seen this footprint somewhere?" Kang Xu rubbed his nose, staring intently at the footprints on the ground, quickly searching for relevant information in his mind.

Suddenly, he patted his head violently, and finally remembered where he had seen this footprint.

When investigating the case of Tao Zhaoxue's murder, he found many footprints in the bamboo forest. At that time, those footprints provided him with many clues, so he speculated that Tao Zhaoxue was kidnapped.

(End of this chapter)