Many people think that people don't make stupid collectively, but in fact, under the inducement of some external factors, people will always gather together and fall into madness for an illusory and unrealistic goal. Such examples abound, but they appear in a different form each time.

Now, the entire Temple of Torture is in a gambler's mentality, not only do they have to gamble, but almost everyone believes that this gamble will bring unprecedented benefits to the Temple.

After these thoughts passed through my mind, I suddenly felt chills all over my body—no matter how crazy the upper echelons of the Torture Hall were, no matter how much they believed that the Torture Hall would win, they should not have said such things in front of a group of low-level disciples.

The reason why they can be so unscrupulous is not because of absolute trust in the disciples in front of them, but because they are ready to kill them.

Tao Siyu couldn't help but look at the three pillars of Qingxiang on the table, and quietly made a downward gesture to me. She probably meant to ask me if I should quickly destroy Qingxiang and break out of the encirclement.

I shook my head at her and told her, "Don't act rashly." If those elders wanted to extinguish their mouths immediately, they didn't need to use things like poisonous incense, they must have another purpose by placing the three-pillar green incense.

Seeing that he couldn't convince everyone, Elder Wang could only sigh and continue: "In the past three days, we have sent three groups of disciples successively, but they have all lost contact with each other about two thousand meters deep into Shimen Pass. ”

Someone said, "The radio doesn't work either?"

"No, I can't. Elder Wang shook his head and said, "We set up a military radio station, but there is no signal. We could only use signal flares to guide them to break out, and in the end, we finally led some of our disciples to break through the stone gate. ”

The white-faced elder asked rhetorically, "Didn't these disciples bring back any useful news?"

"Nope. Elder Wang said, "After those disciples came out of the stone gate, they couldn't speak, and even their five fingers were swollen to the point where they couldn't be retracted, and they couldn't provide any useful information at all. ”

As Elder Wang spoke, he pulled out the corpse's arm from under a piece of cloth. The muscles of the man, starting from the forearm to the shoulder, have all atrophied, at first glance it looks like a firewood stick wrapped in a layer of human skin, but the palm of the hand is several times larger, the whole palm is almost round, and the five fingers are tightly pressed together and difficult to separate.

The white-faced elder looked at it for a long time before saying, "Elder Yu, you are good at using poison, come and see what is going on." ”

An Torture Hall elder stepped forward and looked at it for a while before shaking his head and said, "On the surface, it looks like I have been poisoned, but I can't tell what kind of poison is causing the injury. ”

The white-faced elder said, "Could it be a master of poison in Shu?"

The places rich in poisonous insects in China are mainly distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan and Xiangxi, and there has been no shortage of poison masters in Shu, and Sichuan Tangmen is the overlord of the poisonous road.

Elder Yu said: "The Shu poison Dao is represented by the Tang Sect, and the Tang Sect has always been good at using death poison, and I think this person's injuries are like raw poison." ”

I remember that the "Vientiane Sutra" recorded the difference between dead poison and raw poison. The so-called dead poison is made into poisons such as powder or medicine, which can be used to quench the secret weapon, or it can be directly poisoned. The Tang Sect is a sect that makes good use of death poison.

Raw poison is a living poison, and the caster kills people by controlling poisonous insects, which is often referred to as Gu poison in the rivers and lakes.

People who are good at poisoning, the way of poisoning seems to be fanciful and impossible to verify, but if you think about it carefully, you can always find some clues, or, directly see through the other party's methods. People who make good use of poison, the poisoning method is the real unpredictable and traceless. Even if many people die, they don't know where or because they were poisoned.

Someone said in a deep voice: "Great Elder, you say, could it be that the Demon Sect has already brought someone over?" The only one in the rivers and lakes today who can have some friendship with the Gu Master of Miao Jiang is the Demon Gate, except for them, I can't think of anyone who can persuade the Gu Master to leave Miao Jiang. ”

The pale-faced elder shook his head and said, "Impossible. Our people have already taken action against the Demon Gate, and now the Demon Gate is too busy to take care of itself, and will not send people to Miao Jiang to move the rescue troops. Moreover, even if the Miao Jiang Gu Master was willing to help the Demon Gate, he would still ask for a huge amount of compensation, and the Demon Gate could not afford to pay this price now. ”

After the man who spoke nodded, the white-faced elder said, "What's the matter with these people's tongues?"

Elder Wang pulled out a dagger from his body and pried open the teeth of a corpse, and the man's mouth slowly pushed out a flower-like thing with a red body.

The white-faced elder couldn't help but exclaim, "This is the tongue?"

"That's right!" Elder Wang didn't seem to dare to look at the strange-shaped tongue in the corpse's mouth, and subconsciously leaned sideways.

I couldn't help but gasp when I saw the man's tongue clearly. The man's tongue was like a nine-petaled lotus flower, divided into three layers from bottom to top, each layer with petal-like cracks, and the broken flesh skin was connected at the root, and the layers supported each other, extending to the tip of the tongue like a red flower blooming from the man's mouth. But the man's face was as black as ink, and his flesh and blood were dry, and if it weren't for his facial features, anyone who looked at it would think that it was a lump of black soil used to raise flowers.

Someone exclaimed: "Could this be the lost poison of the Tang Sect, a wonderful mouth?"

"No!" Elder Yu shook his head and said, "People who have been hit by the 'Wonderful Mouth Flowers' will vomit blood incessantly, and the so-called flowers are the blood flowers that people spit out, not the flowers of the tongue." ”

The white-faced elder waved his hand to stop the other party: "Then what about the blood on these corpses?"

Elder Wang said, "When those people came out, they were more or less wounded. Those people's wounds were bleeding all the time, and they were ......"

Elder Wang hesitated for a moment before saying, "Moreover, I think the blood they shed seems to be a little excessive. I doubt it...... It is suspected that there is some poison hidden in Shimenguan, and the blood on the deceased's body will produce a toxin that paralyzes people's nerves, and those who smell it will more or less appear to be drunk or weak in their limbs. ”

The white-faced elder said in a deep voice, "So what?"

Elder Wang glanced at us slightly, and the other party immediately stood up in understanding: "When you carried the corpse just now, did you look like you were drunk?"

Before I could speak, the man who led me in pointed at me and said, "He! He's shaking the stretcher all the time, and if I hadn't slapped him, he would have thrown the body on the ground." ”

I wanted to go up and tear his mouth, but it was too late to say anything.

The white-faced elder said kindly, "Come over and show me." ”

I suddenly "clicked" in my heart. If I go over, maybe the other party will recognize me at a glance, but if I don't go over, will I be able to run again?

I had no choice but to walk up to the other person. The white-faced elder grabbed my wrist and pressed it on the pulse gate for a moment before saying, "Elder Yu, come and have a look." ”

Elder Yu took my other hand and tested my pulse before saying, "Raise your head and let me see." ”

A cold sweat suddenly broke out on my forehead - not only were my two hands clasped by the Torture Hall Elders, but they also held down the veins, and if I moved the slightest, they would immediately lock my veins.

No matter how powerful a master is, once he is locked in the vein, he will be half of his body powerless to be slaughtered, not to mention, their cultivation is still above me. However, if I don't look up, the other party will see the flaw.

While I was hesitating, the white-faced elder had already spoken in a gentle voice, "Young man, don't be nervous, don't be afraid. You are all carefully cultivated disciples of the Torture Palace, and you are also the future pillars of the Torture Palace, we can only love you, and we will not be harsh. ”

The white-faced elder obviously spoke in a good way, but Elder Yu forcibly lifted my chin: "Stick out your tongue and look at it...... Keep your eyes open ......"

I've heard that doctors only look at the location of the lesion and don't look at anything else. Fortunately, the elder is such a typical doctor, and after seeing my tongue, he said: "Judging from his physical signs, he should have some symptoms of mild poisoning, although the toxins in his body have not been completely removed, but they are not life-threatening." Elder Wang's Awakening Incense was still somewhat useful. As for the ...... As for whether it can restrain the poison in Shimen Pass, it will only be known after verification. ”

I had just breathed a sigh of relief when Elder Yu suddenly turned his head and asked, "Why do I seem to have seen you somewhere?" Which branch are you from, and who is Shangfeng?"

I was shocked again: Oh no, I've been recognized!

Before I could speak, both hands tightened at the same time—after the two elders had tightened my veins together, the white-faced elder said in a deep voice, "You raise your head and show me." ”

My heart suddenly felt half cold again. When a person is nervous, the heartbeat will unconsciously and suddenly accelerate, and the frequency of the pulse will naturally change. The fingers of the two of them never left my veins, and naturally my sudden shock aroused my suspicions.

The white-faced elder said in a deep voice, "Why don't you look up, raise your head and show me!"

I knew that I couldn't hide, so instead of being exposed by the other party, I should hold my head up and tell them, "Wang Huan is here." My mood slowly calmed down, and I slowly raised my head.

I had just looked at the white-faced elder when I suddenly heard someone outside the command post exclaiming, "An Ran, why are you here?"

"Wife, are you okay?" An Ran's voice suddenly sounded outside the door, and the woman who had broken An Ran's identity suddenly shouted: "Who is your scum's wife?" Come on, come on, that traitor to An Ran is here...... Come on...... Catch this traitor......"

Between the woman's sharp shouts, An Ran's exclamation followed: "Brother Ye Xun, don't do it!"

The two elders who clasped my wrist looked at me for a moment and then let go of my palm, and at the same time turned their heads to look out the door.