Volume 1 The Butterfly That Can't Fly Through the Sea Chapter 38 Digging Your Own Grave
May 24.
It was Wei Lai's birthday, and it was also the time he agreed with Luo Xiangwu to go to the Guanshan Lance Temple.
There are more and more people gathered in Wupan City, and the deterrent power brought by the banner of the Great Yan Imperial Court alone is gradually not enough to curb the minds of these jackals.
Luo Xiangwu knows very well that this is just the beginning, the real bigwigs are still on the way to come, once they arrive, the situation in Wupan City is likely to be completely out of control, he is a little anxious, during which he urged Wei Lai several times, but Wei Lai was shirked on the grounds of physical discomfort, and as soon as it was dark today, he led many of his subordinates early, dressed in civilian clothes, avoiding the eyes and ears of others, and came to Wei Lai's old house.
The door of the main house was closed, and more than ten strong men stood solemnly in the courtyard, Liu Jiejie had never seen such a battle, and he had already hidden in the firewood room, carefully observing this group of uninvited guests through the crack in the door.
Luo Xiangwu calculated the time, and it was already time. Wei Lai still didn't show any signs of going out, Luo Xiangwu's brows furrowed, and Liang Guan, who was still wrapped in a strap on his hand beside him, stepped forward with great eyesight, and whispered in Luo Xiangwu's ear: "My lord, do you want me to urge that kid." β
Luo Xiangwu glanced at him, and then nodded.
Liang Guan has his own abacus in his heart, and the two small banners under Luo Xiangwu, Jin Guanyan and Xiang Hui, are dead, so he will become a strong contender for the two vacated positions. He got Luo Xiangwu's approval and wanted to behave well, so he strode to the door of Wei Lai's room, straightened his waist, and stretched out one hand to knock on the door.
But before the outstretched hand fell, the door that had been closed for several days was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and Liang Guan was caught off guard by the door and hit the bridge of his nose, and he was dizzy for a while.
And then Wei Lai, who stepped out of the door, didn't look at Liang Guan, and walked straight to Luo Xiangwu.
He looked up at Cangyu Wei General Qi, who was a full head taller than him, and said, "Let's go." β
......
It was dark.
After following the path out of Wupan City, there was no light to be found. In order to ensure that they would not attract the followers of those people in the rivers and lakes, Luo Xiangwu and his party did not even light a torch.
The woods where the temple is located are four or five miles away from Wupan City, and the collapse caused by the appearance of the Guanshan lance that day covered a radius of twenty miles, and it was indeed a fantasy for such a large realm to rely on such a small number of people in Luo Xiangwu's hands to accurately find the location of the temple.
Wei Lai walked very slowly, and Luo Xiangwu urged him several times, but Wei Lai perfunctory on the grounds that it was dark and he couldn't recognize the way. Luo Xiangwu could keenly sense that there were some jackals secretly following around, those who were also unable to find the location of the temple, and Wei Lai's stop-and-go could help Luo Xiangwu dispel the suspicions of those who were tailing. Luo Xiangwu was not worried that only Wei Lai, who was a heavy player in the Wuyang Realm, would be able to play some tricks, so he let it go.
Wei Lai walked around in the forest, and an hour passed quickly. When the time came, the "jackals" behind them seemed to think that this group of people were also trying their luck in this collapsed dense forest, and after following them for a while, they stopped following.
It's a good thing to get rid of those annoying guys, but Wei Lai's wandering around like a headless fly for an hour also made Luo Xiangwu's patience faintly visible.
Liang Guan, whose right arm was tied with a white cloth and his nostrils were stuffed with cotton to stop bleeding, relied on his excellent eyesight, observed words and looks, and saw Luo Xiangwu's thoughts, he already had a deep sense of disgust towards Wei Lai, who cut his right arm and smashed the bridge of his nose, how could he not take this opportunity to play at this time?
"Boss, I'm going to mention this kid. Liang Guan said this, and then strode forward, opening his mouth to scold Wei Lai.
But at this time, Wei Lai, who had his back to him, suddenly stopped, stood in place, stomped his feet without looking back, and said, "This is it." β
Liang Guan was stunned for a moment, and he would come back to his senses, but Luo Xiangwu, who was behind him, stepped forward violently, and Liang Guan, who was still stunned, was pushed to the side by Luo Xiangwu, and his already weak body was in a trance for a while, and finally he inevitably fell to the ground, stained with mud.
Of course, Luo Xiangwu, who was bent on thinking about the inheritance of the temple, didn't have the heart to care about Liang Guan's life or death, he stared at Wei Lai and asked, "Are you sure?"
Wei Lai turned his head, glanced at Liang Guan with an embarrassed look without a trace, his face showed a look of shame, he scratched the back of his head in distress, and said, "Well, I remember wrong, it should still be some ahead." β
The look on Luo Xiangwu's face froze, and the joy that had just been swept away was all dispersed in that moment, he looked at Wei Lai, who looked innocent, and then looked at Liang Guan, who stood up in embarrassment, and he understood the grievances at a glance. He said with a gloomy face: "I don't have that time, and I don't have the patience to mess around with you, this is the first and last time, if you play me again, I don't want the temple of Guan Shanli, but you, what the end is, you have to weigh it yourself." β
Wei Lai didn't seem to hear the threat in Luo Xiangwu's words, he nodded with a smile on his face, and said, "Don't worry, it won't be wrong next time." β
......
The sky was getting darker and darker, and the sporadic light that was still faintly visible was now obscured behind the clouds.
Luo Xiangwu, who was shuttling through the ruins of broken branches and rocks everywhere, looked up at the sky, the clouds were very low, and there was a faint thunder snake and an electric python passing through the dark clouds of black pressure - it seemed that it was about to rain.
He looked at Wei Lai who was leading the way in front of him again, and his brows couldn't help but furrow again. As they went deeper and deeper, the sky became darker and darker, but the boy in front of him lost his previous hesitation, and almost instinctively took every step, like a ghost in a barren mountain, and there were no longer those gods and Buddhas that made him afraid. This made him feel a little uneasy in his heart, but he couldn't grasp the source of this unease.
About a quarter of an hour passed, Wei Lai, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped in front of a relatively flat terrain, he turned his head to look at Luo Xiangwu and the others behind him, and said, "This is it, that's right." β
Wei Lai's words were like a dose of fierce medicine piercing Luo Xiangwu's heart, and the uneasiness that had just surged in his heart was dispelled by Wei Lai's simple words. He walked up to Wei Lai and asked in a deep voice, "There won't be a problem this time, right?"
Wei Lai smiled and said, "Nine out of ten are stable." β
Then he crouched down, picked up a branch, and broke it off on the ground before it was inserted into the ground. After dozens of breaths, Wei Lai planted a full eighteen branches on the ground, which was exactly the same number as the number of Cangyu guards brought by Luo Xiangwu. Wei Lai counted the numbers matter-of-factly, and after making sure that there was no difference, he threw away the remaining branches in his hand, clapped his hands and said, "Just right, eighteen people, one person digs one, and there must be three feet of digging ground." β
"Then what are you doing?!" Liang Guan on the side obviously hated Wei Lai to the extreme, as soon as Wei Lai said this, he took over the conversation and asked in an unkind tone.
Wei Lai shrugged his shoulders, covered his chest, and said with an innocent face: "Of course I want to help, but if I am injured, I can only see your hard work." β
"You!" Wei Lai's attitude suddenly ignited the long-suppressed anger in Liang Guan's heart, his eyes widened, and he took a step forward, and he was about to scold.
But Luo Xiangwu stretched out his hand to stop Liang Guan, who was full of anger, he looked at Wei Lai with deep eyes, and whispered: "Just according to his wishes, it is important to obtain the temple inheritance first." β
Liang Guan was stunned, and heard the voice of Luo Xiangwu's words, the anger in his heart eased slightly, and he glanced at Wei Lai again, his eyes could be described as fierce, but he quickly reined in this abnormality and stepped aside.
Seeing this, Luo Xiangwu looked up at the sky. The black clouds on the dome are getting lower and lower, and the thunder snake and electric python that flash from time to time are becoming more and more frequent.
"Be quick, if it rains heavily, digging the temple will be more troublesome, so be sure to finish it before then. He quickly gave an order, and many armor soldiers behind him, including Liang Guan, naturally did not disobey him, nodded yes one after another, and then took out the tools they had already prepared and got busy.
......
Digging the temple wasn't too difficult for the well-trained Cang Yuwei.
In other words, such work is somewhat overkill for them.
Of course, this has to be except for Liang Guan, whose right arm injury has not healed, he can only use his left arm, and he has to be careful not to involve his own wounds, this digging thing is still quite difficult for him to do. What's more, that Wei Lai still intended to sit not far from him, humming a little song leisurely. Such a gap made the anger accumulated in Liang Guan's heart have a tendency to burn more and more.
He secretly thought in his heart that once he obtained the temple inheritance, he must let this hateful creature taste the bitterness, and this was the biggest motivation for him to continue digging.
The so-called digging three feet into the ground is certainly not a difficult task for the most elite troops of the Great Yan Dynasty. Don't say three feet, it's only been half an hour, and Luo Xiangwu has already led many Cangyu guards to dig to a depth of seven feet away. Most of the people's bodies were covered with mud and sand, and their expressions were indescribably embarrassed, but they still didn't see the so-called temple they had been thinking about for a long time.
Liang Guan waved another hoe with anger.
Boom.
The hoe seemed to meet some blunt object, making a muffled sound. Liang Guan's heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly waved his hoe again and again, and even lay on the ground in spite of his injuries in the back, and cut the soil with his hands. But as he lifted the thing out of the dirt with joy, the joy on his face froze suddenlyβit wasn't some stone that made a temple, or something that would prove the temple's existence.
It was just the bones of a giant boar-like creature.
The collapse of the temple had occurred ten days earlier, and Wei had come to this place, so even if the boar had died from the collapse that day, ten days would not be enough for a corpse to rot to the bone.
Liang Guan, who had thought about this clearly, suddenly had a raging fire in his eyes, and he threw the thing in front of Luo Xiangwu, who was still digging with his head on the side, and roared loudly: "Boss!
Luo Xiangwu looked at the skull that rolled down at his feet, he was stunned for a moment, and then he also figured out the key, his face suddenly became gloomy, so he looked up at the boy sitting on the stone pile outside the pit, and said coldly: "I think, I need an explanation." β
The surrounding Cang Yuwei also felt the anger that they were trying to suppress in their adults' tones, and they also stopped, raised their heads and looked at Wei Lai with cold eyes.
Wei Lai simply stood up, he walked to the large excavated mound, squatted down, looked at Luo Xiangwu condescendingly, and asked with a puzzled face: "What do you mean by this, what do you mean by this, and what do you need to explain to your lord?"
"Didn't you say you'd see it if you dig three feet into the ground? This is already seven feet, what am I looking for?" Luo Xiangwu asked through gritted teeth.
"Oh?" Wei Lai's face showed a sudden realization, "It turns out that the adult asked about this." β
He stood up, and his eyes suddenly became cold: "My lord is so clumsy, you are taking a closer look, isn't this excavation pit just ......?"
Rumble!
Suddenly a thunderclap sounded above the dome, and a purple electric python several feet in size cut through the night.
The side of the young man's face was illuminated by the purple lightning thunder, the corners of his mouth were raised, and his dark eyes reflected the thunder light, igniting a purple flame.
He whispered, "Isn't it the grave where the bones of the adults are buried?"
Rumble!
Another thunderclap.
Rain.
Finally got down.