Volume 2 Jingcheng Treasure Hunt (1) Miscellaneous Things in the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 110 The Strange Inn, the Yellow Sparrow is behind?
Seeing Qi Yuan leave the Li Bamboo Garden with Qi Yue, who had finally returned to his soul,
Bai Yue looked curiously at Mu Yunyun, who was extremely silent on the side, and said, "What kind of relationship do you say the two of them have?"
Mu Yunyun squinted his narrow eyes, and there was a hint of a smile on the corner of his lips, and said, "What's your business? ”
"I'm not...... Hmph!" Bai Yue grimaced at Mu Yunyun with an arrogant expression, how could he still be half well-behaved by Bai Qin's side.
At the end, I have to beat a rake:
"Brother~ Look at this guy bullying me again!"
"What did you say?" Mu Yunyun snorted lightly, with a little interest in his eyes, but the movements of his hands were merciless. The first strike is stronger, and directly punch the top of the person's head.
It's just that what he didn't expect was that Bai Yue, a little kid, actually shot at the same time as him.
"It's really despicable," the two shouted in unison, but the movements on their bodies did not stop. After a few rounds, no one could help anyone.
"You've had enough. Bai Qin, who was watching from the sidelines, said coldly: "There is not much time left, without further ado, go back and prepare." Tomorrow, when the rooster crows, gather at the foot of Biqing Mountain and rob the Dharma field together!"
When the two heard this, they had no choice but to regain their momentum and fall to the ground.
On the second day, outside the Lijia rescue station.
It had only snowed heavily, and the thin branches that had only grown in the spring were the most overwhelmed at this time, and they almost broke off.
The trees are not particularly dense, but each tree is obviously some years old, one by one straight into the sky, the branches are intertwined and intertwined into a huge net, and the afterglow of the setting sun passes through this net, scattered all over the forest, and the scenery is not bad.
In the middle of the night, in the forest, where the faint sound of the wind could be heard in the distance, the sound of someone's feet stepping into the snow and pulling it up gradually sounded from a distance, and the frequency was very slow.
A sturdy white horse was rushing out of the dense deep forest, trying to crisscross the yellow sand and Gobi, the man on the horse tied his black hair neatly behind his head, his back was straight, his eyes were looking straight ahead, his lips were pursed, and his expression was cold.
Bai Qin and the others followed closely behind, and their group of eight people had been traveling on this small road full of yellow sand for more than four hours
At the beginning, the cries of wild beasts in the woods could be heard on the side of the road, and after two days of traveling, there were already faint traces of people on the road.
Qi Chuan, who was seriously injured and was almost tied into a mummy, nested in Ji Yuan's arms, looking at the red and brown horse in front of him.
The horse is sturdy, and next to the horse's carved saddle hangs an unscabbarded sword, the hilt of which is decorated with a purple gem.
The man on the horse was dressed as a Confucian student, his hair was snow-white, and his eyes were as shiny as those of the jewel.
The neighing of the two fast horses woke up the bright morning, the morning dew was slightly cool, the robe was gradually sticky, Bai Yue squinted and saw the inn in the mist from afar, which added to the quiet color between the lights and the lights.
"It's getting late, take a break?"
I don't know where the parchment map is stuffed for a long time, but I remember that the next town is far away. Looking at the sunset that was about to sink below the horizon, Bai Yue thought in his heart.
"Good. Qi Yuan nodded at him, and the two of them tied their horses and jumped into the inn lightly, judging from the current speed of travel, they could have arrived before the Li family was executed, and robbed the prison.
The sky gradually darkened, and several people were not in a hurry, and walked forward in a relaxed manner in the posture of a retired old man.
The town is not big, and it took less than two steps to find an inn. It's just that this inn looks like a dilapidated house, the wooden building seems to be blown by the wind and is about to collapse, and even the signboard of the inn is dirty and old, and the word inn behind it can only be vaguely recognized.
Ji Yuan led the horse and looked at the small dilapidated house with a frown. It seems that it is better to sleep in the open. Thinking of this, she finally raised her feet and left.
However, a quarter of an hour later, Ji Yuan still walked into this small inn that can only be described as dirty and messy.
The reason is very simple, in such a palm-sized town, there are not many people passing by, and this inn is the only one.
Even if he carried a thousand taels of silver in his arms, he could only be forced to give in for one night at this time.
Inside the counter sat a hunchbacked old woman, wearing a shabby jacket, collecting the soles of her shoes. Sensing that a guest was coming in, she raised her cloudy eyes and looked at Qi Yuan and the others.
"Staying in the hotel?" The old woman wiped her hands on her apron, and when she saw that Qi Yuan was silent, she lowered her head and made a record, and chatted with him without a match, "Where is this son going?"
Qi Yuan still didn't answer, he just looked at the disrepaired inn.
Perhaps it is because of the age, the paint on the capitals has peeled off, and the exposed wood parts also show some black and yellow colors, as if they have been smoked by oil smoke.
There are some cobwebs on the rafters, and it looks like they haven't been cleaned in a long time. There were some marks on the blackened walls that people were concerned about, and they seemed to be left behind by something that had been splashed on them. It is estimated that it is the blood stains left by the martial arts people who fought with weapons.
The ears are still the old man's nonsense without any theme. As people get older, they talk a lot, and Ji Yuan and the others didn't stop the old man from continuing to chatter.
"A few sons should be martial arts practitioners, but they are going to participate in the martial arts competition in the Qilin Mountain Range?"
Maybe it was because she saw the lonely goose with the handle of the knife exposed in Ji Yuan's baggage, so the old woman asked again.
"If you catch up, go and have a good time. Ji Yuan replied lightly, she put the silver on the counter, but looked at the old man's hand fixedly, "Is there only one old man in this store?"
"The guy who helped went home the other day to visit his family. The old woman took the money and pointed to the small wooden ladder in the corner, "Sons, your rooms are at the end of the second floor. ”
Qi Yuan said thank you, but he was not in a hurry to go upstairs, but sat on a small stool by the counter and chatted with the old man.
"This town is not big, and there is only this inn, why is it so depressed, is it just me who lives in a hotel?"
"It's not a trade route in the first place, and there are no places of interest around, so there will be customers anywhere. The old man was also full of helplessness about this situation, "It's already winter, and it is estimated that everyone outside is rushing home for the New Year." ”
"Isn't there a lot of people living in this town?"
At dusk just now, Bai Qin was wondering why there was no smoke in such a small town, and at this time it was completely dark, and the town was only lit up with lights.
"I would advise my son to leave early when it is dawn, here, haunted. ”
"Haunted?"
"yes, so everything that can be moved has been moved, and there are not a few families left. ”
"What does that ghost look like?"
"Everyone who has seen a ghost is dead. The old woman raised her head, looked at Qi Yuan and then at Qi Yue, and showed a weird smile: "If Miss hears something at night, just assume that you don't know." ”
After speaking, the old woman still bowed her head and did the work at hand. Qi Yuan watched the old woman's movements very seriously, and seemed to be more interested in the soles of her shoes than in the terrifying haunted legends.
"The old man is so old, but his hands are still very steady. ”
"Whoever makes perfect. ”
The old woman smiled, and her wrinkled face wrinkled even more when she smiled. Qi Yuan looked at it for a while before standing up, turning the wick on a little before turning around and going upstairs.
The old wooden staircase creaked as soon as it was trampled on, as if the planks would break with a little force. This house is really in disrepair, but I'm afraid there are not many people living in it at all.
Twisting the dust falling from the window lattice, Qi Yuan couldn't help but look at the old woman who was holding the soles of her shoes in the dim light.
The room seemed to have been closed for a long time, and when the door was opened, the smell of wood mildew almost made people feel off, Qi Yue covered his mouth and nose, opened the window, and the air circulated for a while, which was better.
At this moment, Qi Yuan was sitting by the window, boredly playing with the lonely geese that Ji Yuan gave them.
The window was open, and the bright moonlight shone in without hindrance, and fell on the scabbard of the silent goose, and the notches of the feathers shone brightly in the moonlight, like real white feathers. The knife came out of its sheath, with a slight sound, and the thin blade trembled.
A gust of wind passed, but it seemed a little unusual. Qi Yuan put the knife into its sheath and stood up. He stood by the window, looking out at the dark alley. With a chuckle, he froze his eager footsteps - Mu Yunyun had already followed the trajectory of the wind.
What the hell? Qi Yuan didn't think so.
That wind should be a person with extremely fast body skills, so fast that it is difficult for people to even capture the afterimage.
Soon after the eight of them returned to their rooms, another person also entered the inn, and the man talked to the old woman for a while before entering the next room.
The comer's movements are very light, this is not deliberate, it should be a long-term habit. The old woman of the inn let herself hear the noise and only pretended not to know, which was a hint and a threat.
But this is obviously lively to make up, how could those ghosts and elves miss it?
I thought they were living in a black shop, but I didn't expect to encounter such an interesting thing.
The whole inn was very silent, people hadn't gotten up yet, occasionally a person squinted and staggered up to go to the toilet, Xiao Er was dozing off with the tables and chairs in the hall, everything was reasonable and there was nothing suspicious.
"Xiaosi, Yingying, you two go to the firewood room, and I'll go to the kitchen. After Bai Qin, who had already tied his apron, explained his duties to a few people, he simply followed the shopkeeper and left.
As for Qi Yuan and Bai Yue, who he did not explain on the surface, he stayed outside this inn to observe the safety of the environment first.
The kitchen was already busy, the mist was steaming, the rice was fragrant, and it was mixed with the bloody smell of freshly slaughtered chickens, ducks and fish.
Only then did Bai Yue press his empty belly, and he was put on his shoulder. With a swing of his sword, a black shadow fell not far behind him.
"Dumb?!" Bai Yue put away the knife, pointed to a corner on the side, and said, "Why are you here?"
"Shaking your head, what do you mean by shaking your head?" Bai Yue said, "Didn't you meet him?
The black veil rippled up and down again. Another gust of wind blew overhead. I saw Qi Chuan fall beside him and shook his head. Bai Yue's eyebrows twisted.
"What about those brothers?" Seeing that the dumb man was probably thinking about how to tell him, Bai Yue waved his hand, "If we hide here and wait for the opportunity to act, not only will it be inconvenient to move, but it will be foolproof, so we might as well ......"
The three of them rushed to the hall, who knew that Xiao Er, who was still snoring in front of him, drooped his head and suddenly said: "Which way are the three of you from? It's so easy to come and go wherever you want!"
After that, the eyes were shining, and there was still the confused energy just now, not only that, upstairs and downstairs, dozens of people ran out of the courtyard, surrounding them.
Qi Yuan laughed, how can there be any suspicious person like this, this is a den of thieves at all. But after a battle, although there were many of them, their work was really mediocre, and they fell into a blockbuster after a while.
Suddenly, a creaking sound was heard, and a series of gears turned, and the crowd receded.
"Don't think it's that easy to get out. Xiao Er put it on a wooden handle and smiled weirdly.
"No! get out of here!" the three of them jumped to the door, only to hear a clang, and an iron fence fell, stirring up a cloud of dust.
Bai Yue hurriedly turned over and got up, and when he turned around, he saw Qi Yuan and the dumb man who were locked in and hurriedly shouted, "Stupid! Gritting his teeth, he ran out to find Ji Yuan and them for help.
The moment Qi Yuan fell, he slapped his palm on Bai Yue's back and sent her out. At this moment, I don't know what mechanism they opened, and neither of them dared to act rashly.
Suddenly, thorns burst out from under their feet, and the two jumped to the square table, but as soon as they jumped up, arrows were shot everywhere on the wall, making people have nothing to hide.
Qi Yuan's shoulders and arms were rubbed out of small holes, and the dumb man couldn't see where the injuries were due to his heavy black robe, but the holes up and down showed embarrassment.
Although now with the skills of the two of them, there is no need to worry about their lives, but in the long run, sooner or later they will be exhausted, and they will not be pierced into hedgehogs when the time comes! The dumb man also seemed to have a thought, and he turned over with a harrier and ran under the table, just hiding.
Only then did Qi Yuan notice that the mute man had been hiding under the heavy black robe for a long time, but he was not tall, and he couldn't imagine that his body was so light and thin.
But then he sighed, and a spear burst out in the center of the table under the table, seeing that the dumb man was about to be tied into a string of tenderloins, Qi Yuan Spirit Snake slipped forward like a hole, grabbing the long black sleeves that the dumb man stretched out.
It hurts, it hurts like a heart, the spear spun and ran over Qi Yuan's arm, but he still grabbed the dumb man tightly, almost gritted his teeth and threw him up from the bottom up, the dumb man retreated from the arrows flying in the air with his two knives and legs, and only then did he grasp the hanging lamp on the top and get out of danger.
He looked down and saw that Qi Yuan's left hand was already bloody and fleshy, he was lying on the table, but his right hand was wielding a ruler knife to struggling to block the arrows flying everywhere. The mute was so anxious that he looked left and right, but he still couldn't find a gap to save him.
"Don't worry, I can't die yet, you can take a good look at it above, if there is a way to break the formation. ”
Qi Yuan's voice seemed to be smiling, and the dumb man knew that he was comforting him, so he hurriedly collected his mind and looked around. Sure enough, in the corner of the hall, he saw a window with a light-colored corner of clothing, which was similar to the wall, and if he didn't look closely, he would have ignored it.
Qi Yuan saw a silver light slip overhead, and the person in the corner of the wall screamed, and the silver light quickly entered the dumb sleeve, as if it was an illusion.
Qi Yuan felt that it seemed to be a nine-section whip, but he didn't have the leisure to dig deeper at the moment. As the man fell, the thorns on the floor disappeared in a corner of the room.
It turned out that these people were all controlling these mechanisms in the secret compartment around the room, and Qi Yuan rolled and squatted on the safe ground, blood spilled all the way.
The mute fell to him to turn his palm to check. He gently blocked it, and said with a gentle smile: "I'm fine, help me take care of Qi Yue." ”
Fortunately, it didn't take long for them to hear scattered footsteps around the hall, as if they had changed formation. After a while, sharp knives and sharp weapons burst out of the walls on all sides.
"Brother Qi, are you okay?" The thick eyebrows that had just been tightened stretched out because of Qi Yue's throat outside the door.
"It's okay, the private soldiers from the Li family's rescue station have caught up. ”
Listening to Qi Yuan's calm reply, Qi Yue wiped the sweat on his head and breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could speak, Mu Yunyun, who was dressed in white and light armor beside him, poked out from the iron bar, and walked around the inn with a dark face, and said:
“...... It's a formation - heaven and earth. ”
They've been fighting the formation lately, bastard!
Hearing this shocking name, Qi Chuan hurriedly asked, "Is it difficult to crack it?"
Lin Shuxun smiled elegantly and extraordinarily, more and more like a scholar: "Actually, this Tiangang Earth Evil Array has only done enough on the surface, but that is also due to the limitations of the terrain and space here, so the essence of the Tiangang Earth Evil Array cannot be vividly displayed, if it is a real Tiangang Earth Evil Array, I am afraid." ”
He paused, "So it's easy to break." With that, he walked to the iron fence and shouted, "Yun Yun, you take three steps to the east and take three points underground!"
Mu Yunyun followed what he said, taking advantage of the moment when the edge on the ground was put away, he closed his eyes and went down the bucket, and squeaked, sure enough, the ground no longer appeared on the ground, he even felt the stinging sensation of pins on the soles of his feet, and his heart sank, and cold sweat slipped down with his sideburns.
"Then take three points from the west to the ground. Finally, he picked the eye in the middle of the upper beam, this array can be broken!" Qi Yuan and the dumb man glanced at each other, and a boom could be heard in an instant, and the iron fence was reopened.
The dumb man helped Qi Yue out, and before Qi Chuan, who was trapped outside, rushed forward to ask about the injury, the old voice in the secret room came from behind everyone:
"The remnants of the Li family...... Come on, live or die, arrest them all!"