49. [wanton] puppet
Dog barking?
They obviously saw the Xie family taking the innkeeper's big black dog towards the direction of the river embankment, so where did the dog barking come from?
Yongque held down the sword at his waist, his steps were slightly staggered, and Qin Slow, who was picked up by his side, silently compared his mouth to him - "It seems that the uninvited guests here tonight are not only the two of us."
He was noncommittal, except for the intermittent sound of dogs, there were at least two groups of people confronting each other on the other side of the grave.
Strangely, however, no third person was heard in the dead silence of the night, except for the terrible barking of the dog. It is said that cats and dogs are psychic, maybe the confrontation is not between people, but between ghosts and dogs?
Qin Chuan obviously thought of the same thing as him, his body trembled, and he shrank behind Yongque again, as she said, she was afraid of the dark and ghosts. Unfortunately, at this time and here, both are accounted for.
Yongque's eyebrows twitched, he didn't expect her to charge into battle and kill the enemy bravely, but he also showed three points of backbone to increase his prestige. didn't want to have a shadow on the other side, her own arrogance was three points shorter.
Sensing Yongque's disdainful eyes, Qin Chi took a step forward embarrassedly, and hurriedly gestured towards him with both handsβ"Overseer, aren't I afraid of dragging you back?" β
Yongque only felt that the thing in front of him that had no sincerity at the moment was really an eyesore.
The head of the paper figure rolled into the grass beside the road with the wind, and the moonlight was miserable, dark in the distance, and gray in the near. Qin Slow Night Vision was not very good, and he could barely see something else crooked in the grass. She only dared to see this, and she couldn't be sure that it was also an unburned paper figure, or some parts of a real person's body.
Yongque lifted the sword in front, she didn't dare to go too far from him for fear that she would be a burden, she followed for a while, and the person walking in front of her suddenly stopped, and she almost didn't hesitate for a moment to turn around and want to find a safe place to nest.
I don't want Yongque to just look back at her, and when I saw her hunched waist and shrinking her head, she couldn't help but have a layer of frost on her face, and there was a hint of crying and laughing in the frost. Qin Kuan couldn't see his crying or laughing, he could only see that his face was cold, and he hurriedly raised his hands to prove his innocence, saying that he didn't want to escape, but in case of a fight, he would be able to let go of his hands and feet.
Yongque glanced at her angrily, grabbed one of her hands and dragged it over, he was right, he couldn't let go of half a point.
The two of them tugged and pulled, and suddenly Qin slowly hummed softly and looked back. The place she looked at was a towering tree, very different from the dwarf and sparse plants around her, this tree grew so big and round that it took two or three people to hug it, and the canopy was lush and cloud-like like to cover a square area of about a zhang.
Qin slowly stared at the dense canopy, she pursed her lips and picked up a stone and handed it to Yongque, without pointing in the direction she was looking at, and in an instant, the stone flew out like lightning between Yongque's fingers.
The moment the stone fell into the canopy, the quiet branches and leaves suddenly trembled, and two black shadows fluttered their wings and soared straight into the sky. They were extremely fast, almost beyond the reach of the naked eye, but one of them was injured by Yongque after all, and flew slightly slowly. It was this moment of sluggishness that Yongque had ejected the second stone.
"Gah!"
With a cry of pain, the crow fell to the ground. Qin took three slow steps and two steps, and the two hind legs that caught it were lifted upside down, gritting his teeth and shaking vigorously. There was a soft sound of "ding", a small piece of silver fell on the ground, Yongque was about to bend down, Qin Que immediately grabbed his hand and shook his head, Yongque in turn wrote two words in her palm - "poisonous"?
Qin slowly nodded, and in the same way, he also wrote two words in his palm - "Liu Family".
The black crow was hit twice by Yongque, and was shaken by Qin Slow, his eyes were already white, and his legs were kicked.
Qin slowly threw it aside in disgust, took out a square handkerchief from his arms, and wanted to wrap the silver piece, but saw Yongque take out a delicate small silver box from his sleeve bag first, and pinched a stone at random with his fingertips, and the silver piece fell steadily into the silver box. The moment it fell, a blue and black aura quickly erupted inside the silver box.
What a poison!
After collecting the silver box, the two exchanged glances, each of which understood a thing or two, and then turned back and swept towards the grave.
Qin was slow and light, and after a few quick steps, his wrists tightened, and the trees and grass on both sides brushed backwards. She was dazzled and didn't dare to protest loudly, so she had to take advantage of the breath to pinch the mouth of the Yongque tiger.
Yongque snorted secretly, the little milk dog looked soft and weak, and it hurt a little to bite people, but then he slowed down his pace slightly, at least giving Qin the effort to breathe slowly.
After a few leaps, Yongque and Qin slowly and silently landed behind a towering dead wood, next to the dead wood was a family cemetery, and the three tombstones stood in a row, just blocking most of the two figures, and making them see the scene on the grave.
There is a white dog in the grave, it is it that barks wildly, Xu is after screaming strength, at this moment is spitting out a slightly shaking tongue lying on a half-collapsed tomb to rest, the head is still shaking left and right, it can be seen that the usual temperament is very lively.
But when they really saw the appearance of the dog, a chill suddenly rushed straight to the Tianling Gai, anyone who saw that kind of appearance would shudder, and it was also Yongque and Qin Slow who had seen a lot of various scenes and could still stand at this time.
The dog's body was prostrate on the tomb, with the back of its head facing them. And there was a hole-in-the-back hole in the back of his head, and most of his brain was gone, leaving a small part of the flesh and blood blurred and white in it. Ticking blood flowed down its neck and onto its fur, staining its snow-white fur with a flower color.
A white dog who has lost most of his head is still shaking his head and sticking out his tongue, taking advantage of the dark moon and high wind, the paper money is flying, and the background of the tomb seat can be described as weird.
Yongque couldn't help but look at Qin Slow, who was as timid as a mouse, but after the initial shock, Qin Slow looked at the dead white dog without blinking. She groped for Yongque's hand while watching, and slowly wrote, "It's not a ghost." β
He replied with the word of course.
Qin sighed slowly, and wrote another word: "Wait." β
Yongque glanced at the hand that was tightly clenched by her, and did not reply to her but did not pull it away.
In the wilderness, the corpse of a lonely dog, the two held their breath and waited for the unknown other.
At the beginning of April, there were not many mosquitoes and flies, but the foragers who came to seek the taste were endless, and the vultures hovering in the sky and the jackals running on the ground gathered around the white dog carcass in a short time.
It's been a long time since they've seen such a fresh corpse, each salivating, but they all want to have this delicacy to themselves, the heavens staring at the earth, and the earthly guarding the heavens.
It's really ridiculous, Yongque suddenly felt ridiculous, even in the world of beasts, he was doing every step of the way, calculating everywhere.
Finally, the jackal couldn't bear the hungry belly, and the leader of the group rushed forward with several companions, and the whirling vulture also swooped down without giving in at this moment, and the two were about to step on the moment of the white dog's corpse.
Suddenly, there was a scream, and the leading jackal fell to the ground, one of its front legs gone. The remaining vultures and jackals fled in fright, but they did not go far, still hoping to surround them to gauge the strength of their opponents.
The jackal, who was wounded and fell to the ground before he had time to escape, screamed again, and a bright dagger pierced its leg, and the person holding the dagger muttered in a trance: "It's not this, it's not that, it's not him and it's not her......"
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The dagger sharpened like clay, and the jackal's other leg was removed in an instant, and the speed was surprisingly fast enough to hold it.
"Something good!" Yongque and Qin Slow praised in their hearts.
After praising it, the two couldn't help but want to see what kind of person the dagger was, and after seeing the person clearly, they were both stunned, looked at each other, and confirmed their thoughts.
This person should be Xie Zuqi's precious child - Xie Mingliu, the young lady of the Xie family.
Xie Zuqi has no culture, and the name of this literary crepe is still something he came up with after racking his brains and rummaging through three hundred Tang poems, which was taken from the two Huang Liming Cuiliu.
His idea is very beautiful, and he wants to make his hard-won girl as weak and affectionate as a yellow bird, and have many children.
And at this moment, Xie Mingliu and Weak can't fight each other, her moves and styles are not from the number of martial arts, but purely rely on arm strength and wrist strength, barbaric and cruel but extremely stiff. After pulling out the dagger, she looked at the corpse of the jackal on the ground and seemed to be a little dazed, the broken spirit flag hunted in the wind, and she was like an ownerless soul isolated in one tomb after another.
Qin slowly stared at her eyes for a long time, and just wanted to write to Yongque, a few words suddenly fell quickly on the back of his hand-can't help himself?
I thought of going with her.
Xie Mingliu moved quickly with her gestures, but her eyes were scattered and obviously there was no master, or her breathing on her chest was staggered, otherwise she thought it was a walking corpse crawling out of the grave.
After he looked at it, Xie Mingliu began to look for suspicious characters around, but most of the perpetrators of this kind of evil method of manipulating people's minds were not far away, and once they were far away, they would not be able to give orders to the "puppets". Yongque: They don't know exactly what form this command is, it may be some kind of special sound or some kind of special thing.
As the night deepened, the wind slowed down, and at some point, there was a thin layer of white mist between them and Xie Mingliu. Probably soaked in the cold of the graveyard, the mist flows very slowly, like a layer of solidified milk fat gradually thickening from low to high.
Xie Mingliu's white dress loomed behind the mist, until Qin Slow's faint night vision alone could no longer be distinguished, and she intuitively felt that the atmosphere had become a little strange. wanted to pull Yongque's sleeve, but she was suddenly surprised when she stretched out her hand, Yongque disappeared when she didn't notice it!
At this moment, she heard a familiar crow cry again, rough and piercing, with an unstoppable momentum piercing through the vast fog and rushing straight towards it, so fast that Qin Slow could already hear its flapping wings in his ears.
The hairpin in her hand was raised in an instant, and it was clamped violently in an instant. She wanted to fight back, but the moment the hairpin stabbed her backhand, she changed her mind and let go of her fingers.
When the hairpin landed, Yongque had quickly written on her arm: "It's me." β
She hissed and snorted, twisting her hand aggrievedly to indicate that he had scratched it.
Her reaction fell in Yongque's eyes, from the beginning of wanting to stab the crow to finding him counterattacking to the hairpin landing, it was so coherent that it didn't seem like the reaction of a person with mediocre martial arts at all.
Without having time to think about it, he dragged Qin slowly towards the back of the grave, which was able to avoid the menacing crows.
And the black arrow shadow rushed straight forward as if he hadn't seen them. It had only rushed out about ten paces, and another shrill cry, this time with some pain, but soon its cry attracted its companions, and several black shadows flew from different directions, one after the other, rushing through the white mist like arrows.
The fan brought up by the wings went to the fog, and Qin Chu was slightly surprised, it turned out that less than a foot away from the tomb where they were hiding, Xie Mingliu was actually standing there with a bloody dagger in his hand! At this distance, she and Yongque have obviously been discovered.
But at this time, Xie Mingliu, who was wielding a dagger, rolled his eyes and was clearly in the process of being charged, which showed that Qin slowly exhaled slowly, and they may have been discovered since they came here......
Yongque's thoughts are the same as her, judging from the position where Xie Mingliu is standing, the other party intends to give them a surprise "surprise", and it can also be seen that the other party can only be an enemy rather than a friend.
Who is the other party, he chased him from the southwest to the vicinity of the capital, and used an unknown evil method to manipulate Miss Xie to run to the cemetery in the middle of the night, and killed without saying a word.
Yongque had a feeling from the time he saw the dog, a very uncomfortable and inexplicably familiar feeling, where had he seen a similar scene?
He pinched his eyebrows, he committed too many crimes of murder and arson, and he really couldn't remember it for a while. At this moment of letting go, Qin Slow's little head jumped up again, and he stared at Xie Mingliu with his mouth open and watched in amazement, looking at her and feeling strange: "Hey, the angle of her attack is very strange." β
Now that it has been discovered, there is no need to hide it, otherwise wouldn't it still be a monkey show for people?
Yongque listened to her words and looked at it, but after three or five moves, he found that Xie Mingliu made it brute force, but the angle of the stab was very persistent, and he stubbornly rushed towards the crows' heads, and it seemed that they had to cut off their heads.
Thinking of the dog's death, Qin Slow seemed to notice something, and sighed: "Overseer, you don't look like ......"
"It's a sacrifice."
Yongque took the words coldly, Qin slowly looked up when he heard the strangeness of his voice, and found that it was rare, Yongque changed a cold face, so cold that there was no temperature, and there was a hidden anger.
He smiled lightly, his eyes covered with ice: "A kind of ritual unique to the Shaoyi people in the southwest, where people believe that by eating human brains, they can get his soul and share his experience and knowledge. And eating the brains of boys and girls can give them a young and fresh life. β
Qin Que was dumbfounded, Rao is strange things she had seen countless things, and she had never seen such a vicious custom, Yongque asked, "Scared?" β
She swallowed her saliva, and Yongque continued: "They are loyal believers in this evil law from the commoners to the king, and under the bewitchment of the so-called high priest, the king eats the nobles chosen by God, the nobles eat the chosen commoners, and there are untouchables under the commoners, untouchables......
He looked at the crow that fell to the ground and splattered with blood: "I don't have to eat, and there are neighboring countries, right?" β
Although Xie Mingliu's shot was ruthless, the crows were numerous, sensitive and flexible, and they gradually gained the upper hand after a long fight.
And in the depths of the dead cemetery when the crow was about to peck Xie Mingliu's eyes, a piano sound sounded, and when the piano sounded, it was ethereal and close, and Yongque said: "It's not good! β
Xie Mingliu, who was already in decline, suddenly burst out when he heard this, his eyes were full of red silk, and he grabbed a crow with one hand and pulled out its head in an instant.
Yongque said that it was not good, but his body did not move, Qin slowly looked at the crows that had died tragically, covered his eyes and couldn't bear to witness, and shouted: "Poor and pitiful! β
"Why don't you help them, you say pitiful!!" An angry figure came out from diagonally behind, and the peach wood sword in his hand stabbed at Xie Mingliu's heart. The wooden sword skewed and stabbed her in the shoulder. She shouldn't know the pain, but her body suddenly froze in place and didn't move, and Xie Mingliu's face also showed a distorted look of pain.
"You're doing well!" Someone jumped to his feet, "She wants to kill you, and you still save her!" β
"It's not just her who wants to kill us, it's someone else." Qin slowly took the wooden hairpin into his arms and said slowly, "Besides, don't you also watch us die?" β
"......" came to the throat and said for a long time, "Big brother, you are too upright......"
Before he finished speaking, he was cut off by the bladeless sword that Yongque held around his neck: "Who are you, and who is he?" β
"You threaten me??" He said fiercely, "You know who I am......"
The Yongque sword pierced into a point, Qin Chu didn't persuade him to look at it with a smile, the young man had to be forced to swallow the breath full of his stomach, and said hatefully: "It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that the person ran away!" β