Datang Demon Sealing Record: True Demon Tribulation

023, thief's den

There are 15 prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Shule Governor's Office, such as Damanzhou, Yaojian Prefecture, Yandu Prefecture, Jinzhou and so on.

There are Buddhist temples all over the place, sometimes there are seven or eight Buddhist temples in a small town, incense is flourishing, and there are several Taoist temples.

One of the Taoist temples was built on a cliff, where there is a natural cave, and legend has it that after Lao Tzu arrived here, he stayed in the cave for several years to teach and educate.

Later, Taoism spread to the west, and Taoists built a Taoist temple there, and there are five big characters engraved on the cliff of "Lao Tzu Hua Hu Yan".

Guo Hua asked about the Holy Fire Shinrikyo again, and Shule already knew something, which was roughly the same as the news obtained from Guo Hua's private visit.

Those who worship the true god of the fire in order to deceive people into the Church by trickery, and those who refuse to convert are punished by killing.

In addition to killing people and setting fires, they often secretly destroyed Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, causing pagan believers to lose their faith.

The situation was urgent, and the king of Shule rearranged the guide to lead Guo Hua and the two to make secret visits, and the original guide in Khotan sent a team of cavalry to escort them back.

At the same time, the king of Shule also mobilized the intelligence system of the Shule Governor's Mansion to inquire about the news of the suspicious camel caravan.

Everything was arranged, Guo Hua took out the letters, hair, and clothes of his senior brother Hui Lin, and handed them to King Shule, using hair and clothes as a means of returning home.

King Shule was very moved. The current King of Shule, who was originally a cousin of Huilin's layman, had many intersections when he was young, although he was thousands of miles away, decades of time, and the love of the blood is unbreakable.

Under the guidance of the guide, Guo Hua and Dugu Huan inspected several avenues and paths that could cross the green mountains, and indeed as King Shule said, each road was strictly guarded, coupled with the restrictions of natural hazards everywhere, it was almost impossible to transport 30,000 taels of gold to Dashi without knowing it.

The two concluded that they must have been hiding in the Shule area, waiting for an opportunity.

Two days passed, and there was not a single useful clue.

The guide believed that those people probably did not enter the city after arriving in Shule, but hid in a valley somewhere, and after settling down, they sent a small number of people into the city to buy some food or something.

The local people firmly believe in Buddhism, rarely go into the mountains to hunt and kill, the mountains are rich in water and grass, there are a lot of wild game and wild fruits, even if they have two or three hundred people, they can find a remote place to hide, do not have frequent contact with people.

The guide's words make a lot of sense.

After two days of turning, they also found that the area around Shule and Green Mountains was like a paradise outside the Saiwai, full of grasslands, dense forests, lakes, and many places where few people visited.

Seeing that Guo Yu and the two nodded in approval, the guide was happy to offer a plan, saying that if they could not be found in the city, they would go to the wild to find them, if there was really such a big camel team hiding in the mountains, they would definitely be able to find it.

"Try your luck with those old shepherds, who are all over the green mountains. ”

In a place called Golden State, there was an old shepherd who provided a valuable clue.

He didn't see anyone suspicious, but he saw something terrible.

In a valley, there were more than a dozen dead wolves. He had never seen anything like this in his life, and he was terrified.

Wolves are cruel and cunning, and with a dozen wolves together, it is simply impossible for any animal to defeat them.

All of them died at once, and they must have been the work of demons.

The guide asked him about the specific situation, but the old man couldn't tell why, the dead wolves were seen yesterday, and he was so frightened that he dared to look closer, and ran home after driving the livestock.

"It stinks, there is a foul smell, it must have been dead for many days, and the corpses of some eagles, crows, and wild dogs, all of which are also dead, have fallen to the ground. ”

Guo Hua immediately thought of poisoning.

The wolves were poisoned, and the eagles, crows, and wild dogs were poisoned again after eating wolf meat.

It is likely that those wolves also ate "poisonous meat" and died.

A master of using poison, that "old friend" has reappeared.

It's just a roadside code for Guo Yu and them.

After inquiring about the location of the wolf corpse, Guo Hao instructed the guide to bring two more dogs and gallop straight towards the valley.

The Green Ridge is a high mountain plateau landform, with an average altitude of more than 4,500 meters, and the main peaks in the territory are more than 6,000 meters.

The valleys and plains are intertwined, and many small flat valleys are hidden in the middle of high mountain ranges.

The destination was a valley full of thatched, occasionally with a few willow trees and patches of sea buckthorn, grass and horses' bellies, beating horses through them, and occasionally startling a few snowcocks.

There was a vulture hanging from a birch tree, which looked like it had swooped down from the sky, the top branches were crushed, and the vulture's wings and body were pulled out of shape.

When approaching the bottom of the tree, an eerie foul odor can be smelled. This thing loves to eat carrion, and eighty percent of it also eats "poisonous meat", and not long after it flew up, it died and fell.

The rancid smell in front was even worse, and the guide got off the horse and pulled out a few young grasses with yellow flowers, kneaded them and wrapped them in a cloth to cover their mouths and noses, and a sweet medicinal fragrance rushed into their noses, which was much more comfortable.

The three of them continued on their way, and more and more animals died.

These beasts are different from humans, they have hairy feathers on their bodies, and they cannot be judged by the color of their skin, whether they have been poisoned in the same way as before.

But the stench must have been poisoned.

The wolf corpses were found, but not a dozen, but more than thirty.

The shepherd did not look closely and ran away.

For the people living on the Biansai plateau, such a sight is truly terrifying.

Guo Yu and the three of them searched all the places where the wolf corpse was located and found the corpse of a yak.

Judging by the tooth marks on the yak, the wolves first died after eating its flesh.

The skin of the yak was peeled off by the wolves, revealing purple-black flesh. It's rotten and smelly, and it's disgusting.

If it weren't for the guide's method, I'm afraid both of them would have to vomit.

It was the man who poisoned him.

Why poison a yak? Is it to poison this pack of wolves?

Isn't it better to have these wolf packs than that person?

Wouldn't it be better for him to have only one man, and to lure the wolves into fighting the camel drivers and the merchant swordsmen, and for him to hide in the shadows and reap the benefits of the fishermen?

Could it be that something else has gone wrong?

Or is it that the person who used the poison has already succeeded, killed all the people in the caravan, and faced the wolves alone, so he came up with this plan?

It doesn't look like a large group of people have been stationed here, Guo Hua and Dugu Huan analyzed the situation here as they walked.

This valley is remote and isolated, and there are many suspicious things about the poisonous corpse of a yak alone.

The guide kept staring at the stream.

It is said that it is a stream, which is also three or five meters wide, clear to the bottom, and three or four feet deep by eye.

"There's something wrong with this water. The guide glanced upstream and said to the two.

"The river water is clear, doesn't it look weird?" Guo Wei responded.

"It's too wide," the guide explained, "and usually the stream flows down from the mountains, and it is all small ditches and ditches, which slowly merge into a river, and the river is so large that there must be a long section ahead." ”

From where the three of them stood, they could see the source of the river, and under a cliff, the mountains and rivers flowed down the stone wall to form a clear pool.

The shore is lined with lush willows and sea buckthorn.

The three men left their horses where they were and walked to the bottom of the cliff.

The pool is shallow, but quiet and wide, with a gentle smoke on the water.

Guo Xuan seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly swept up.

The guide's eyes chased Guo Hua's figure, and in a trance, he saw a pair of huge wings, which appeared behind Guo Hua, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The old man rubbed his eyes vigorously, and repeatedly confirmed that Guo Hua really had no wings behind him, and then he was relieved.

It must have been the dead vulture just now, the soul of the soul, so there was a hallucination, and when I went back, I had to ask the monks in the temple to do a good French ceremony.

The old man muttered a few words in a low voice, and when he looked at it again, Guo Hua was already on the rock wall, climbing quickly like a gecko.

Guo Yu jumped again, and disappeared from the rock wall out of thin air.

The old guide was startled, what happened today? Could it be that Guo Yu became a vulture demon who was not taken away by the dead vulture?

Dugu Huan moved his steps back and forth, and also found clues.

The two jumped into Qingtan and waded in the direction where Guo Yu had disappeared.

It turned out that this cliff was not a whole mountain, and there was a valley path behind it that could accommodate three or four horses in parallel.

It's just that the mountain is broken on both sides, like a sharp blade, and the texture and color of the rock layer at the rift valley are exactly the same.

Guo Hua beckoned the two to follow quietly and not to speak. The three of them waded cautiously forward.

Beneath his feet was knee-deep water, icy and bitter, but the bottom of the stream was gentle, smooth with large rocks and fine gravel, and the water flowed gently.

On both sides of the gorge are cliffs dozens of zhang high, and the space is cramped, which makes people breathless, and their hearts are cold.

The gap curves and takes on an irregular "S" shape.

A few steps away from a turn, a terrible eagle whistle sounded, and a vulture flapped its wings and flew high.

With the roar of the eagle, the three crossbow arrows had already arrived.

Dugu Huan protected the old guide, Guo Hua flew up lightly, stepped on the knife-like rock wall, volleyed forward, caught three crossbow arrows one after another, and turned his hand to shoot at the enemy in the shadows.

This time, the old guide really saw that Guo Hua not only had the shadow of a huge golden wing behind him, but the whole person was wrapped in a layer of golden light, like the Buddhist protector god Garuda Tianzun.

Shule is a Buddha country, and the people of Shule have been familiar with Buddhist scriptures and stories since childhood, and they recognize the appearance of this Garuda Tianzun.

The old man knelt into the water, twisted the Bodhi in his hand, and chanted the scriptures in the direction of Guo Hua.

The other party made a large basket of rattan on the cliff around the corner, and there were three men guarding it.

They are in a position that is advantageous, condescending, and shooting from a distance. However, they were hung from the cliff and lost their flexibility.

When you meet a master of light skills, you can only catch it with your hands tied. What's more, it's a person like Guo Hua who is close to God and Buddha.

Guo Yu sealed their acupuncture points and brought them below.

These three people have high noses and deep eyes, and their hair is curly, and they look like big stone people.

Dugu Huan used some tricks slightly, and the three of them bared their teeth and screamed in pain, and immediately told the truth.

They understand Tang and communicate easily.

They are indeed Dashi people, Holy Fire Truth Cultists, who were assigned by the Great Elder of the Sect a few months ago to infiltrate the Tang Dynasty and respond outside Yangguan to help the caravan of Boss Lu, a merchant from the Four Seas, transport a batch of goods.

"Do you know Lu Donglai?" asked Guo Yu.

The three of them shook their heads, "I know the big boss Lu Jinshan, and the boss Lu Jinshan is an old friend of the great elder." ”

A thought flashed through Guo Hua's head, how many Lu Jinshan are there in this world?

"The steward of the caravan, is it Lu Jinshan?"

"No, it's Lu Jinshan's younger brother, Lu Jinhai, Lu Jinshan's big boss, who hasn't run a business in person for many years. ”

Guo Yu and the three of them are happy, it seems that they have really found the right place now.