Chapter 23: Into the Maze (Part 2)
After a while, the two stones disappeared again.
Xiao Nan relieved himself and pulled Lan Xi into the formation. Although he is still not sure, time has not allowed.
At this time, every minute is a race against death.
Before long, there was a slight sound of footsteps. Venerable Qinglong and several black-clothed people groped and walked into this place.
"Hey, the deity thinks highly of you. Why don't you keep running?" the Blue Dragon Venerable, who was wearing a dragon head mask, looked at the two of them and sneered.
"I really didn't expect that under the small Xiao Bamboo Courtyard, there was such a deep secret passage. β
"Who are you ....... and why are you chasing and killing us?" Lan Xi stretched out his hand to protect Xiao Nan and asked a few people vigilantly.
"Hmph, naΓ―ve! Xiao Jiu is guilty of his crimes, and he can't live in death. If you cooperate obediently, you can avoid the pain of flesh and skin!" Qinglong took a step forward, his fierce eyes flashing.
Lan Xi's face turned pale in an instant, and he snorted: "You, what nonsense are you talking about? He is not dead, he will not die! You lie to people!"
"Haha, if he is alive, why doesn't he come back?" Venerable Qinglong looked up and sneered, "Say!Before Xiao Jiu left, did he leave any last words or clues?"
"What clues, I don't know what you're talking about!" Lan Xi pulled Xiao Nan, couldn't help but take a step back, and scolded sharply.
"You are so reckless and reckless, chasing and killing your fellow clan, aren't you afraid of guarding the elders and punishing the clan rules?"
"Guardian Elder?clan rules?haha, I'm afraid you don't know, every year during the Youyuan Festival, the guardian elders will go out for a few days!" Qinglong slowly approached, an invisible coercion enveloping the cave, "As for the clan rules, they are formulated for the weak!"
Lan Xi took a step back in fear, his jade hand sweating, and he held Xiao Nan's little hand tightly.
She was still about to be scolded, and suddenly felt her little hand grab her, and gently patted the back of her hand twice, signaling "Mother rest assured".
Xiao Nan took a step forward and said calmly: "I don't care who you are, and I don't want to know what you're looking for, I just want to tell you one thing." You still have a chance to survive if you retreat now, or ...... I will sleep here for a long time. β
"Joke!hahaha!" Venerable Qinglong and the group of people in black laughed loudly, "Alarmist! Don't delay time, no one will come to save you!"
He grabbed it with one palm, enlarged it in mid-air, turned into a big hand of Wu Yuan, and went straight to Lanxi and Xiao Nan.
At the same time, the two men in black quickly moved forward, one on the left and one on the right, blocking the retreat on both sides.
"Since that's the case, then fight to the death with me!" Xiao Nan was not afraid, grabbed Lan Xi's palm, and did not dodge, but closed his eyes and said in his mouth: "Three, two, one!"
When he finished counting the last number, the two of them suddenly disappeared into the dark cavern.
The thick palm of Wu Yuan's hand grasped the empty place, shaking the ground and causing rocks to fly. The two black-clothed men on both sides wiped their eyes and looked at each other.
"Forty-nine, you try. Qinglong frowned and withdrew his hand, his voice was a little gloomy, suppressing his emotions.
He hurried forward to check, but found no clues.
The man in black, who had the magical power of "smelling incense", sniffed around, and finally shook his head: "Venerable, the smell is broken, and my subordinates can't track it." β
Seeing this, the thin old man sat down cross-legged and turned on his "listening" magic power with all his might.
But I saw a pair of ears trembling, like radar, carefully listening to and receiving all kinds of signals in the cave.
"Dumb, can you get something?" After a while, the thin old man opened his eyes, and the Qinglong Venerable couldn't help but ask in a loud voice.
It's a pity that the thin old man named "Dumb" shook his head slowly, not hearing any clues.
He is a mute, but the basic bobblehead posture is sure everyone can understand.
At this time, the Qinglong Venerable and the group of black-clothed people understood that the situation was serious. They actually lost people in front of them! It's a great shame!
The two men in black went deep into the cave and quickly returned, "The cave is bottomless, I don't know where it leads, and there is no trace of them in front of me. β
"Damn!" Qinglong was furious, and pressed his palm against the stone wall, shaking the cave and trembling, "En? No, this cave is strange!"
He knew the power of his palm, and if he pressed it on an ordinary stone wall, he would have smashed out a deep pit of several feet.
But the stone wall only shook a little, dropping some gravel and dirt, but other than that, it was unscathed.
"Honorable ...... Oh no, Venerable, we don't have the right number of people!" said a man in black with a sudden trembling voice.
Venerable Qinglong and everyone were shocked when they heard this, and hurriedly looked around. Sure enough, counting the dumb people, there are only six people left!
The other five men in black don't know when they've disappeared!
Qinglong's face turned iron-blue, and he couldn't see it hidden under the dragon's head mask.
He couldn't imagine that someone could quietly rob someone under the nose of a top master like him.
"Let's retreat!" Venerable Qinglong didn't dare to be careless, and retreated in the direction when he led everyone back and forth. Several people cultivated profoundly, and their feet were extremely fast, and they quickly ran out several miles away.
"Hmm, hmm...... Squeak, squeak......" suddenly sounded behind him.
Everyone noticed that something was wrong, and immediately stopped looking, only to see that in the darkness, the mute was pointing to a shallow palm print, and they were terrified.
It turned out that among the people, the mute was the oldest, but the cultivation was the lowest, and he wanted to rest against the wall, but he happened to find this strange place.
Qinglong stepped forward to take a closer look, turned out his palm, and instantly understood that this was the palm print that Fang had just pressed by himself.
In other words, a few people rushed backwards for several miles, and they were actually standing still!
The other people naturally wanted to understand the reason, and they were all pale and a little afraid.
Although they are dead soldiers and are not afraid of death, they are living people after all, and they are inevitably frightened by strange and inexplicable things with human emotions.
"Honorable ...... Venerable, our numbers are still not right!"
The man in black seemed to be particularly sensitive to numbers, and was once again the first to notice the anomaly.
Everyone hurriedly investigated, and now there were only five people in total, and one person was missing for no reason.
"Trick the deity, the deity has killed countless people in his life, how can he be frightened by your little tricks!" "The Qinglong Venerable suddenly snorted coldly and asked the dumb one, "Dumb one, can you hear anything abnormal......?"
Everyone was shocked in their hearts, and hurriedly looked over, but saw that the mute who was still talking to a few people disappeared out of thin air, leaving no trace!
"Forty-nine?" Venerable Qinglong grimly faced, motioning for the black-clothed man codenamed Forty-Nine to check.
Sijiu stepped forward, touched his nose and sniffed the smell carefully, "Venerable, the breath is broken, just like Fang Cai, it disappeared out of thin air, and it seems that he has gone to another space." β
"Is it a formation to isolate space?" Venerable Qinglong's eyes sparkled, and he looked in all directions, but he couldn't see any clues.
The other three subconsciously looked around, only to feel that the cave was damp and cold, as if an unknown existence was watching them.
They unconsciously approached the Blue Dragon Venerable, forming a circle back to back, forming horns with each other, cautious and vigilant.
"Step, step, step ......"
At this moment, a strange sound suddenly came from the distance, like a person dragging his footsteps, rubbing on the ground.