Chapter 5: The Shadow in the Ruins
At this time, Mu Chen, who was rushing to the Fu tribe with all his might, did not know what to do, and in the middle of the rapid journey, he muttered to himself: "It's close! There is still time for a stick of incense, Sister Hongzhao! You must not have anything to do!"
For this cousin, who is four years older, Mu Chen has had a strange affection for him since he was a child, and even he has not noticed it.
Girls are precocious, especially in southern Xinjiang. It is normal to marry a wife at the age of fifteen or sixteen.
When Hong Zhao was twelve years old, his beauty spread throughout the seventy-two tribes, and there was an endless stream of people who came to get engaged. It was also since then that Mu Chen was shocked by his sister Hongzhao.
Mu Chen stood on top of a towering giant tree and looked out, and a mile away, the outlines of the Fu tribes were already clearly visible.
"This ......" Mu Chen gasped. I saw that the flames of the Nafu tribes were full of smoke, and with Mu Chen's current eyesight, he couldn't see a trace of people.
"Sister Hongzhao, wait for me!" Mu Chen took out the seven-inch tooth wrapped in cowhide from his arms, held it tightly in his hand, jumped off the branch, and cautiously sneaked towards the Fu tribe.
All the way to the entrance of the Fu tribes, Mu Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
At the gate of the clan, two ten-zhang clan doors made of cypress wood were broken into more than a dozen pieces and lay quietly on the ground, as if telling the strength of the thieves last night.
Xin Luo's residence was in the center of the tribe, but the familiar road had been blocked by a dozen fallen houses, and Mu Chen had to find his way through the dark cracks in the ruins in front of him if he wanted to get there.
Mu Chen looked at the gap in front of him, a trace of uneasiness flashed in his heart, and his intuition told him that there seemed to be something under the ruins, and at this time, the shadows that he could not see were waiting for him to enter the ruins.
A red face flashed in his mind, and Mu Chen's uneasiness was immediately forgotten by him. For his sister Hongzhao, what is the dark crack in front of him!
After Mu Chen entered the crack, he found that there was a cave inside, and it was not as narrow and dark as he had guessed when he saw it outside.
The sunlight above the thief sky is always so pervasive, and through the small gaps, the light of the sun still faintly illuminates the path under the ruins.
Mu Chen walked forward for about a dozen steps, and suddenly stopped. He looked around alarmedly, for he seemed to hear footsteps that didn't belong to him. Although it was very slight, since the meridians around his body were opened by that force in the heavenly coffin last night, Mu Chen found that his sense of hearing, vision, and smell had improved several times!
In this ruin, there seems to be someone else besides Mu Chen...... Or something.
"Who's there, come out!" Mu Chen said with his backhand on his chest and said.
There was silence for a few breaths, and no one or anything else responded to him.
Mu Chen took a deep breath and silently continued to move forward. After about half a cup of tea, Mu Chen finally found the exit to the ruins.
When he was about to step out of the exit, Mu Chen stopped again. Turning his head suddenly, a dark figure disappeared from the corner he had walked before.
Mu Chen frowned, thinking about whether to find the thing in the ruins first and solve it, after all, he would have to return from here the same way after finding his sister Hongzhao.
"That's it, let's find Sister Hongzhao first!" After thinking about it, Mu Chen still decided to look for his sister Hongzhao first, and then come back to find trouble with the things in the ruins.
Looking at the streets that he was familiar with when he was a child, but there were no people he was familiar with when he was a child on the road, Mu Chen was silent all the way and continued to move towards the mansion where Hong Zhao lived.
Coming to the familiar mansion, Mu Chen's eyes couldn't help but turn red, this dilapidated mansion is no longer what he remembers, the wall has collapsed several times, and a few pines and cypresses in the front yard of the mansion look so depressed at this time.
In the atrium, blood stains were everywhere, but there was not a single corpse.
Passing through the front hall, Mu Chen hurried to the backyard in three steps and two steps. The backyard is still as quiet as I remember, and the trees in the courtyard are still so lush that they block most of the sunlight.
Mu Chen bypassed the few trees that required four or five people to hug, and the wine cellar in the backyard was not far away.
When he came to the cellar, the scene in the backyard seemed to be a little different from what he remembered. Mu Chen clearly remembered that the wine cellar where he and his sister Hongzhao had avoided cats when they were children should have two wooden doors covered with creepers.
And the wine cellar in front of me, no. Some were just fragments of door panels that had fallen to the ground and the remains of creepers that had broken into sections on the ground.
"Sister Hongzhao......" Mu Chen's voice trembled a little, he was afraid that he would see the picture he didn't want to see after he went in.
"That's right! There is a secret compartment in the wine cellar! Sister Hongzhao must be there!" Mu Chen suddenly thought, and kept repeating these words in his mouth.
Bang—— at this moment there was a sound of a wine jar breaking in the cellar.
"Sister Hongzhao!" Mu Chen didn't think about it, and rushed into the dark and cold wine cellar!
But what caught Mu Chen's eyes was not the familiar figure in his memory, but a distorted purple face, with a bloody mouth, attacking Mu Chen!
Facing the big mouth of blood half a foot away from him, Mu Chen returned to normal from a state of being a little distracted, and in a panic, Mu Chen stubbornly resisted the jaw of the person who came, making it difficult for the big mouth of the blood basin to go any further, and at the same time, he did not forget to observe the situation in the wine cellar.
The wine cellar is not big, and Mu Chen's gaze has only been three breaths, and there is no other party here except for the purple-faced stranger in front of him.
Mu Chen was slightly relieved, and the jaw of the purple-faced strange man was a slap in the muscles, and the strange man ate it, and even took a few steps back and hit the wine cabinet behind him, and the fine wine on the cabinet was knocked to the ground, making a sound of the wine jar breaking.
"Roar——" The strange man let out a roar of rage, ignoring the misplaced jaw, and attacked Mu Chen again.
In an uproar—— another row of wine cabinets fell to the ground, and the strange man was hit on the back of the neck by Mu Chen, and the strange man's head did not fall under the blow of the Great Martial Artist of the I Ching Realm, but just drooped to the side at an incredible angle, and the scene in front of him was so weird!
"What a hard physique, where did this weirdo come from!" Mu Chen said to himself.
Most of the wine cabinets in the wine cellar were knocked down when the purple-faced strange man was repelled by Mu Chen again and again, and the strange man folded his hands in half at this time, and his kneecaps were even hit by Mu Chen's two heavy legs, and he actually stumbled towards Mu Chen again!
Mu Chen felt annoyed in his heart, took out the seven-inch tooth taken from the clan ancestral hall from his arms, and was just about to leave a hole in the strange man's body, which made him jaw-dropping.
The purple-faced strange man changed his previous style of not being afraid of death and injury, and actually screamed and ran away from the door, and his severely deformed lower limbs made him fall heavily when he passed the threshold, this scene was quite different from the weird appearance before, and it was very funny, which really made Mu Chen feel speechless for a while.
"That's right, Sister Hongzhao!" Mu Chen said as he looked at the background of the strange man's departure, and suddenly patted his head.
As soon as the words fell, he came to a wine jar as big as a water tank, and after moving it away, a dark grid appeared under the original position of the wine jar, and Mu Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Mu Chen opened the door of the dark grid, slowly descended the wooden ladder under the dark grid, and finally saw the familiar face sleeping soundly on the edge of the wall, Mu Chen was finally relieved at this time.