Chapter 851

Prince Prince Anshun left the mansion surrounded by a group of subordinates and headed to Lan Qiao Yi's mansion.

The place Li Li Banfeng chose was very suitable; if it had been anywhere else, Prince Prince Anshun might not have dared to go.

Going to Lan Qiao Yi's mansion was not a problem; for one, it could prove that Lan Qiao Yi was still alive, which was beneficial for Prince Prince Anshun to temporarily stabilize the other cabinet members.

Secondly, Lan Qiao Yi's mansion was also staffed by his own men, so if a situation arose, he would have a way to deal with it.

Arriving at the study, Prince Prince Anshun dismissed all his subordinates. After waiting for more than ten minutes, Li Li Banfeng slowly appeared in the study.

"Greetings, Your Highness the Prince!" Prince Prince Anshun bowed deeply.

"Your Highness, there is no need for such formalities." Li Li Banfeng gave a symbolic gesture of support.

The two sat down, and the Prince asked: "Since Your Highness has called me here, I will not beat around the bush. My current situation is indeed not good. I wonder what means Your Highness might have to help me?"

Li Li Banfeng said: "The means to help you is to make you Emperor. First, tell me, how much capital do you have?"

The Prince frankly stated: "I don't have much capital. I'm afraid I can't become Emperor. I would be content if I could control the cabinet like Lord Lan Qiao."

This sentence revealed a key piece of information: Lan Qiao Yi was indeed gone.

Li Li Banfeng asked again: "Why can't you become Emperor? Aren't you also of the legitimate royal line?"

The Prince gave a bitter smile: "The royal family also has branches. My branch is the most ostracized. Don't think too much about this matter."

Li Li Banfeng looked worried: "It's not that easy to control the cabinet. Do the cabinet members listen to you?"

The Prince lowered his head and remained silent; it was very clear that he could not suppress the cabinet members.

Li Li Banfeng said: "If you don't have enough manpower, you must at least have some material resources."

The Prince raised his head, his expression slightly dignified: "There are so many first-class blades in Chaoge, and all these blades are under my command."

Li Li Banfeng showed a hint of admiration and smiled: "With such assets, you might as well move directly into the Imperial Palace. Anyone who disagrees, just kill them."

The Prince's face darkened: "Li Qi, I came to find you because you are the head of Puluo Continent. I don't want to fight with Puluo Continent anymore. If I can control the cabinet, our two sides can be on good terms in the future. This is a serious discussion; I didn't ask you to come here to mock me."

Li Li Banfeng also put away his smile: "Shunzi, I want to help you because I think you still have some strength. When I ask you about your capital, you'd better answer truthfully. Don't use these irrelevant things to fool me."

Prince Prince Anshun said: "What capital do you want to ask about exactly?"

Li Li Banfeng said: "Internally, you must have the Imperial Seal, right? Otherwise, you can't even issue a single decree!

Externally, you must have the Great Totem, right? Without troops, how can you stabilize the imperial court?"

Prince Prince Anshun lowered his head and said: "I don't have either of these two things. Both Imperial Seals were stolen by He He Haiqin, and I have no idea where the Great Totem is."

Li Li Banfeng stood up to leave: "Shunzi, this is where you are wrong. If there were no Great Totem, you would have died at Santoucha long ago. Now you tell me you don't know where the Great Totem is—isn't this a bit insincere?"

Prince Prince Anshun hurriedly stopped Li Li Banfeng: "I know the location of the Great Totem, but I don't have the method to control it!"

Li Li Banfeng smiled: "That sounds a bit more like it. The usage of the Great Totem can be studied slowly. You must have the Imperial Seal. Back then, the Imperial Seal that Lan Qiao Yi had was made for him by Duan Duan Tielu. Can you find Duan Duan Tielu? Just have him make another one for you."

Prince Prince Anshun said: "I know Duan Duan Tielu's whereabouts, but I don't know if he is willing to help me."

Li Li Banfeng said: "Duan Duan Tielu is certainly not willing to help you. He is such a suspicious person; Lan Qiao Yi didn't know how many means he had to use to make him interested.

We have to think of a way together for this matter. After all, he is a person from Puluo Continent. If he still wants to profit in Puluo Continent, he certainly can't bypass me.

If I make things convenient for him, he will naturally take care of you."

Prince Prince Anshun nodded: "I trust you. If both of these things can be done, I am willing to sign a contract with you. As long as I am still in office,

the Shang Kingdom will absolutely not attack Puluo Continent."

Li Li Banfeng shook his head: "Shunzi, the price you offered is too low. I helped you accomplish such a big thing; is it just to ensure peace?"

"Then what do you want?"

Li Li Banfeng said: "I think Dingye City is a good place; it will be my fief in the future."

Prince Prince Anshun first frowned tightly, then slowly relaxed: "I agree to this matter."

"I like singing and dancing. Moyi is a city of singing and dancing; I also want to keep it as a fief."

Moyi is the capital of singing and dancing, and half of the singing and dancing houses in the Shang Kingdom are in Moyi.

Prince Prince Anshun gritted his teeth and said: "I agree to this matter as well."

Li Li Banfeng took out the contract paper and wrote the contract: "Since you agreed, put your handprint on it."

Prince Prince Anshun pressed his handprint.

Li Li Banfeng put away the contract: "First tell me the location of the Great Totem. Don't lie; we have an agreement in the contract."

Prince Prince Anshun said: "The location of the Great Totem is in the capital of the previous dynasty, Zhen. The location of Zhen cannot be described in words, and it cannot be drawn on a map, but I remember where that place is.

Let's pick a suitable day, and I will personally take the Prince to Zhen. I wonder what the Prince thinks?"

Li Li Banfeng pondered for a moment and said: "Once I set a date, we will set off."

Prince Prince Anshun nodded: "I will listen to the Prince."

The two sides settled the matter and left Lan Qiao Yi's mansion one after another.

Returning to the Prince's mansion, Prince Prince Anshun moved his shoulders and asked his right hand: "Did you remove the hook?"

The right hand replied: "I removed it as soon as I left Lan Qiao Yi's mansion."

Prince Prince Anshun smiled, removed his right hand, and placed it on the ground.

The right hand transformed into an attendant, standing respectfully to one side.

This right hand was a first-class blade, possessing the characteristics of both a nightmare cultivator and a martial cultivator. Just now, Prince Prince Anshun pressed a blood handprint on the contract, and he used this hand.

"Li Qi wants to find out the whereabouts of the Great Totem and Duan Duan Tielu from me," Prince Prince Anshun sneered, "He wants to get such a big bargain with just these few lies; he underestimates me too much."

The attendant said from the side: "Your Highness, why didn't you kill him just now?"

There were many first-class blades in Lan Qiao Yi's mansion, and Prince Prince Anshun also had many blades and subordinates; it wasn't impossible to kill Li Qi.

But Prince Prince Anshun didn't want to take the risk. After all, he couldn't say things like "I was very close to Li Qi just now" in front of the blades. Moreover, he did have other ideas when he went to meet Li Qi: "By using Li Qi's reputation, we can accomplish many things. Many people in the imperial court are very afraid of Li Qi; it's a good opportunity to use this to properly beat them down.

As for the things he mentioned, the Imperial Seal and the Great Totem, these two things are indeed true. Using his name might really get things done."

In Tianyi City, Ayu listened carefully and said to Li Li Banfeng: "He said he wants to use your name to get things done both inside and outside."

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "Let him do it well. Won't this hook be discovered?"

Ayu shook her head: "He doesn't have that ability. This hook has a total of three layers of shells. Being able to find the first layer of shells is already considered his good fortune." Li Li Banfeng knew that Prince Prince Anshun was not so easy to fool. He invited Prince Prince Anshun out without intending to directly ask for the whereabouts of the Great Totem and Duan Duan Tielu; he just wanted to hang the hook first.

In the study, Li Li Banfeng and the Heavenly Maiden shielded Ayu together to hang the hook on Prince Prince Anshun. To ensure the safety of the hook, Ayu also made three layers of shells outside the hook.

Li Li Banfeng used multiple methods to gather information with all his might: Zuo Anna, Yuan Yuan Miaoping, Luo Su Lijun, Pineapple, Ayu—it just depended on which path would have clues first.

On the way back to Puluo Continent, Li Li Banfeng asked Ayu: "Where is Zhen, the capital of the previous dynasty?"

Ayu shook her head: "Zhen is a legendary territory. I've only heard the name; I don't know where that place is."

Li Li Banfeng thought for a while: "Let me find an opportunity to go to the Outer Continent; perhaps there will be clues there."

Ayu did not suggest doing so: "If you are going to the Dark Star Bureau to find clues, then there is no need to go. The Dark Star Bureau's information about Zhen is pitifully small.

Rather than going to the Outer Continent, it is better to go find Zhou Zhou Badou. In Puluo Continent, only he has some concepts about history, and he has also collected many books about the Xia Dynasty..."

Ayu paused, her thoughts seeming to be disturbed.

Pineapple stepped forward and asked: "Senior, is there a response?"

"The hook received something!" Ayu looked at Li Li Banfeng.

I really didn't expect that Li Li Banfeng contacted Prince Prince Anshun last, but he was the first to receive news from him.

Ayu repeated Prince Prince Anshun's words word for word:

"What Lan Qiao Yi gave you, I will give you double—you don't need to worry about those things; I have already told Li Qi—I tell you, if you want to return to Puluo Continent, Li Qi must nod. He is the head of the house; you have no other way to go. It's useless for you to say those things to those people; those old guys all listen to Li Qi now..."

"You don't need to worry about the benefits from Li Qi's side; I will give them. I want the Imperial Seal now. Your benefits are right in front of you. As long as you make the Imperial Seal for me, from now on, no matter in the Great Shang or Puluo Continent, no one will trouble you in the future. The Great Shang has me to take care of you,

and Puluo Continent has Li Qi to take care of you. You can live wherever you want. The agreement you had with the Peddler no longer counts. Now Li Qi is in charge. I tell you the truth, Li Qi listens to me. If you are unwilling to cooperate with me, don't even think about Li Qi's side. If you go to Puluo Continent, he will definitely take your life—"

The communication was interrupted, and Ayu relayed everything she heard to Li Li Banfeng.

Yuan Yuan Miaoping scolded Prince Prince Anshun: "This bird-man is really shameless. Our Sect Master listens to him? What is he thinking? He blew the cow into the sky!"

Li Li Banfeng didn't care how much Prince Prince Anshun bragged; he cared about why Ayu only repeated Prince Prince Anshun's words: "What about Duan Duan Tielu? What did he say?"

Ayu remained silent for a long time, and the Heavenly Maiden explained for Ayu: "There is no need to repeat Duan Duan Tielu's side; one can guess the general idea."

"Guess what general idea?" Li Li Banfeng was anxious, "Can't you just say it directly?"

Ayu shook her head: "I didn't hear it."

Li Li Banfeng was stunned: "What do you mean you didn't hear it?"

"I didn't hear anything!" Ayu shook her head repeatedly, "I didn't even hear Duan Duan Tielu's voice."

Li Li Banfeng was stunned: "That can't be, right? Was his voice encrypted?"

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Ba Ba Suan said from the side: "Even if it's encrypted, don't be afraid. Even if it's just a piece of noise, we have a way to crack it!"

Ayu used the Nightmare Cultivator technique, homotype reproduction.

She reproduced the sound she just heard completely, including the background sound.

The sound of Prince Prince Anshun drinking tea, the sound of slapping the table, and the sound of pacing back and forth could all be heard clearly.

Ba Ba Suan asked: "Where is Duan Duan Tielu's encrypted voice?"

Pineapple was also a top-tier Nightmare Cultivator. After listening for a long time, he whispered: "The voice on the other side really can't be heard."

The Heavenly Maiden speculated: "I guess this Prince is bluffing. He can't contact Duan Duan Tielu at all. He said these things just to test us."

Yuan Yuan Miaoping said: "You mean, he saw the hook that Sister Ayu hung? That's why he acted for us to see?"

The Heavenly Maiden didn't speak.

Ayu shook her head repeatedly: "He couldn't have seen it. He doesn't have that ability. Duan Duan Tielu replied just now; I sensed that he replied,

but I couldn't hear it.

I don't know what kind of means this is. Duan Duan Tielu definitely doesn't have this ability; he can't escape my ears, it's just that I was careless just now!"

Ayu reproduced the conversation just now again, listening to it repeatedly dozens of times.

Li Li Banfeng felt that Ayu's condition was not right: "Sister, that's enough. We can study it slowly in the future."

The Heavenly Maiden stopped Ayu directly: "No need to be so serious. This is not a big deal. If you can't hear it, you can't hear it. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future—"

"Get away!" Ayu pushed the Heavenly Maiden away, her eyes beginning to fill with blood.

Others didn't understand why Ayu was so persistent, but the Heavenly Maiden knew.

Being able to sense that the other party is speaking, but not hearing a single sound—this situation was the first time it had appeared for Ayu.

After another ten minutes, Ayu fell to the ground with a thud and couldn't get up.

The Heavenly Maiden supported Ayu and said to Li Li Banfeng: "Take her back to the mansion; she is injured!"

Li Li Banfeng returned to the Leaving Suishenju and used the Liankuo Hong Lian Dongfang to bring Ayu back to the mansion in Hulu Village.

Ba Ba Suan didn't understand: "Is this your obsession as Nightmare Cultivators? Once you can't hear something, you have to torture yourself like this?"

Pineapple shook his head: "This is not Ayu's obsession; this is her obsession. This person is the strongest Nightmare Cultivator in the world. If she loses to Duan Duan Tielu, it proves that the entire Dao Sect has lost to Duan Duan Tielu."

Li Li Banfeng put Ayu back in the mansion and took this opportunity to ask his wife about the Imperial Seal.

The Heavenly Maiden stayed behind to take care of Ayu. A laugh of an old man came from the mansion: "A thing like a House Spirit should stay in the mansion. Running around for no reason is the result."

The old woman upstairs sighed and said: "This matter shouldn't be blamed on Ayu, right? It was the Master who called her out."

The old man gloated: "I didn't say who to blame for this matter. I just want to give her a reminder: no matter how big the matter is in the future, it's best to stay at home. A House Spirit always wandering outside—what does this look like!"

"Shut up!" The Heavenly Maiden suddenly spoke.

The old man was stunned: "What kind of thing are you? You won't even let me speak?"

Whoosh~

A breeze blew by, the Heavenly Maiden's hair floated up, and a cold, murderous aura permeated the entire room.

"What do you want to do?" The old man became nervous, but he didn't back down.

The woman next door said: "Everyone be careful, she is a very powerful Residential Cultivator. Beware of her taking over the nest."

"You dare!" The old man gritted his teeth, "We'll fight you to the death!"

The Heavenly Maiden said slowly: "I don't want to fight with you, nor do I want to talk to you much. I have an agreement with Li Qi. During the period when the agreement is valid, I will not occupy his mansion."

The ten House Spirits listened quietly to the Heavenly Maiden, and were also ready to fight a fierce battle with her at any time.

The Heavenly Maiden indeed didn't intend to go to war with them: "You only have this one House Spirit. Your Master is not a person willing to guard the home. If the House Spirit has any mishaps, you won't be able to live your days in the future. Bring out all your skills and let Ayu recover as soon as possible. She used her techniques too ruthlessly; perhaps she has already injured her soul."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan followed Li Li Banfeng back to the Leaving Suishenju and pushed out the Dark Bridge Cannon.

Seeing the Dark Bridge Cannon, Ayi was overjoyed: "Sister, this thing is made well. Isn't this an enlarged Imperial Seal?"

Qiu Qiu Luoye was stunned: "What connection does this thing have with the Imperial Seal? They look worlds apart!"

Ayi said impatiently: "If I don't say you have a long nose and short knowledge, go home and cook. Don't add to the chaos here."

Qiu Qiu Luoye left in a huff. Zhao Zhao Xiaowan started the Dark Bridge Cannon and said to Ayi: "This thing is not quite the same as the Imperial Seal. You'll know once you see it."

Although there was no boundary line in front, the Dark Bridge Cannon still built a dark bridge. Zhao Zhao Xiaowan took out two Imperial Seals and handed them to Li Li Banfeng.

After about two seconds, the Imperial Seal lit up.

Li Li Banfeng was stunned: "What is the reason for this?"

According to Li Li Banfeng's understanding, the Imperial Seal would only light up when it encountered an entrance or exit of a road.

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan explained: "The reason is that the Imperial Seal discovered a road."

"Discovered a road? Isn't it the entrance to a road?" Li Li Banfeng was puzzled.

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan said: "I also thought at first that the Imperial Seal could sense the entrance, but there are too many entrances, all strange and varied, and there is no way to distinguish them. The reason why the Imperial Seal can distinguish every entrance is because it recognizes the road, because these entrances are all connected to the same road."

Li Li Banfeng was still pondering the theory, and Ayi had already started: "Zhao Xiaowan, let me try!"

She changed to a different place and started the Dark Bridge Cannon again.

After the dark bridge appeared, the Imperial Seal lit up again after two seconds.

Just assume the Imperial Seal recognizes the road, but Li Li Banfeng still didn't quite understand: "The dark bridge is a road we built temporarily. Does the Imperial Seal recognize even this?"

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan shook her head repeatedly and said: "My dear husband, the bridge is built temporarily, but the road is not built temporarily. I have said this many times,

but you just don't take it to heart.

This road has existed for a long time. Just like what was said in the lesson plan of Professor Yu Yu Yaoming of the Wormhole, wormholes have always existed. What we found is just the method to enter and exit the wormhole.

Although I made the Dark Bridge Cannon, I have never been able to figure out which road the dark bridge is built on. Now that I think about it, it seems I can figure it out."

Li Li Banfeng was very surprised. The things Yu Yu Yaoming hadn't studied clearly in half his life, his wife had studied clearly?

Just as he wanted to ask for the truth, Ayi stopped Zhao Zhao Xiaowan: "Sister, I have also studied this matter for many years. We can't talk about it here.

Some things cannot be heard by others. Let's go inside and talk."

Li Li Banfeng put away the Dark Bridge Cannon and followed Ayi and his wife into the room.

His wife hung the blueprints of the Dark Bridge Cannon and the Imperial Seal on the wall: "Do you think these two pictures look very similar?"

Ayi said: "I don't need to look at the pictures. Just looking at the real objects makes me feel they are similar. Leave these pictures for your man to look at."

Li Li Banfeng rolled his eyes at Ayi. He stared at the blueprints seriously; the blueprints were quite good-looking!

"Actually, the principle here is very simple," his wife pointed to the two blueprints respectively, "There is only one road, but there are many entrances and exits,

just like the highways in the Outer Continent.

These entrances and exits are fixed. If you want to open the entrances and exits, you must have the key to open the door. The Imperial Seal is this key."

Li Li Banfeng thought for a moment and said: "Without a key, is there no way to get on the road?"

His wife shook her head and said: "Without a key, there are other ways. For example, building a bridge from the outside and forcibly getting on the road. This is the Dark Bridge Cannon."

Ayi stared at the Dark Bridge Cannon for a long time. She was still pondering her wife's words.

Li Li Banfeng didn't quite understand: "Wife, are you saying that the road from the Inner Continent to Santoucha and the road from the Inner Continent to Jianrengang are the same one?"

His wife nodded and said: "They are all the same road. The Imperial Seal has a special response to this road, so it will light up near the exit and entrance."

"That can't be..." Li Li Banfeng recalled the Heavenly Maiden's explanation of the road, "Between different regions, there are different roads connecting them. I can understand this point. You say different regions are connected by the same road—this is what I can't understand."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan could understand Li Li Banfeng's mood: "Some things here cannot be thought about rigidly. You have to rely on calculation, rely on a large amount of deduction and experimentation. Some things might be what you can't understand yet, husband."

Li Li Banfeng said angrily: "What kind of talk is this? Do you look down on me? I have been to university!"

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan hurriedly persuaded: "I am worried that I am clumsy with words and can't explain it clearly to you. When I organize the deduction process another day, you will understand as soon as you see it."

Li Li Banfeng was not sure if he could understand the deduction process: "Wife, didn't you say there are experiments? Do an experiment for me to see."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan said: "This is easy. Husband, no matter where you move the Dark Bridge Cannon, as long as you can create a dark bridge, the Imperial Seal will have a response. This proves that the dark bridge is connected to the same road every time."

Li Li Banfeng shook his head and said: "The process of starting the Dark Bridge Cannon is accompanied by intense electromagnetic induction. Perhaps it is because of the electromagnetic induction that the Imperial Seal glows."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan pursed her lips, her nose trembled for a moment, and she nodded: "What you said also makes sense, husband."

Li Li Banfeng said angrily: "Why, looking down on me again?"

"Husband, you misunderstood. How could I—"

Ayi said from the side: "Brother, stop talking. Even I look down on you. Do you think the Imperial Seal is a light bulb? Do you think such a simple thing, Zhao Xiaowan wouldn't have thought of it?"

Li Li Banfeng looked at Zhao Zhao Xiaowan and said: "Wife, did you think of it?"

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan lowered her head and said: "Before you said it, I certainly wouldn't have thought of it."

Ayi was angry: "You protect him so much? Don't you know that a doting mother spoils her child? If my mother wasn't too doting on me, could she have become my sister?"

Li Li Banfeng stopped talking. Compared to these two, he was indeed an outsider in this matter.

Ayi stared at the two blueprints and pondered for a long time.

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan said: "I just deduced a theory. There are many things that still need to be verified. It is only right for you to raise some questions, husband."

Ayi pinched her chin: "I do have an excellent experiment, but I don't know if I should do it. If I do it, the capital for settling down will be handed over to you. But if I don't do it, I really feel a bit itchy in my heart."

Li Li Banfeng persuaded: "Then do it. It's so uncomfortable to be so itchy."

Ayi looked at Li Li Banfeng and said: "Shall we do it now?"

Li Li Banfeng nodded and said: "Then what are we waiting for?"

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan said: "Then I will watch carefully—"

Ayi deliberated repeatedly and took Zhao Zhao Xiaowan and Li Li Banfeng to a mountain cave.

This mountain was on the edge of the gourd's belly. Li Li Banfeng had lived in Hulu Village for a period of time, but he was still very unfamiliar with this mountain.

The cave was very narrow with many forks. The two followed Ayi for more than half an hour and finally arrived at a more spacious place.

The so-called spacious place was only about five or six square meters. Ayi opened a secret door from the stone wall. There were three valves inside the secret door. She closed two of the valves.

The moment the valve was closed, Li Li Banfeng felt a sense of danger: "Sister, what are you doing?"

Ayi looked back at Li Li Banfeng and Zhao Zhao Xiaowan: "The gourd is usually under cover. From the head of the village to the end of the village, it is covered with hundreds of layers of curtains, just so that others cannot perceive it. Brother, can you understand this?"

Li Li Banfeng nodded and said: "Of course I understand. It's invisibility and shielding!"

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan praised: "Well said, husband!"

Ayi pointed to the third valve: "If this valve is closed again, the curtain will be lifted, and Hulu Village will be exposed.

Brother, you understand what I mean."

Li Li Banfeng nodded and said: "I understand. You don't have to always ask me."

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan explained: "Ayi, he is afraid that I won't understand."

Ayi put her right hand on the valve: "Hulu Village was made by me. The Peddler helped, and the old train helped. It is because they helped that some things have become complicated.

For so many years, Hulu Village has been traveling in secrecy, but what exactly is secrecy? To be honest, I don't know either."

This time Li Li Banfeng didn't understand: "You don't know what secrecy is, yet you can control Hulu Village to travel in secrecy?"

Ayi nodded: "This is the same principle as people from the Outer Continent. Many of them can use computers to make programs, but they don't actually know how computers run through electricity and magnetism.

Now, I want to figure things out!"

While speaking, Ayi began to slowly turn the valve: "I can only close the valve for two seconds, otherwise Hulu Village might be exposed."

Li Li Banfeng understood Ayi's meaning, and he took out the Imperial Seal.

Ayi flipped her wrist, and the valve was completely closed.

Li Li Banfeng lowered his head and looked at the Imperial Seal.

The Imperial Seal didn't react at first. After nearly a second, it began to emit a faint light.

After nearly another second, the Imperial Seal gradually lit up.

Li Li Banfeng was very surprised.

Ayi was also very surprised.

She immediately closed the valve, and the light of the Imperial Seal dissipated immediately.

Zhao Zhao Xiaowan whispered: "So Hulu Village is also on this road."

PS: Besides Hulu Village, what else is on the road?