Chapter 173: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas

The old man is indeed cunning, but it is not only Wu Wei who is more cunning than him, He Xiaoyong has not shown up yet, Wu Wei has to re-evaluate He Xiaoyong in his heart, this guy who usually looks inconspicuous is actually a hidden master.

The old man stood in the shadow of the alley for a while, and then walked towards an alley to the east, Wu Wei was glad that he had not chosen which alley to hide in just now.

However, after the old man got into the alley, Wu Wei was a little entangled, whether he should continue to wait here, or quickly turn around and go to the east, and rush to the next street in front of the old man, the former may be able to catch He Xiaoyong's traces, and the latter will not lose the old man.

After such a hesitation, the figure of the old man had completely disappeared from Wu Wei's sight, Wu Wei sighed in his heart, gritted his teeth secretly, and decided to wait for He Xiaoyong to appear.

After a while, a figure finally appeared faintly in the alley where the old man walked out, in a vulgar phrase, this figure could be recognized even if it turned into ashes Wu Wei, and the long-awaited He Xiaoyong finally appeared.

He Xiaoyong observed at the mouth of the alley for a while, quickly walked through the silent street, and followed up the alley where the old man disappeared just now, Wu Wei noticed that He Xiaoyong was looking at the ground carefully with his head down, Wu Wei guessed that this guy should have put some kind of tracking drug on the old man, and Wu Wei's heart suddenly settled down a lot.

After He Xiaoyong's figure also disappeared, Wu Wei received Jiang Zhiqian's pigeon letter, Jiang Zhiqian had followed behind He Xiaoyong, Wu Wei was determined, and immediately turned around and ran along the alley. I want to get ahead of He Xiaoyong to the next street corner.

When everyone disappeared into the box, Yamashiro returned to the darkness. Compared to the city below, it's a little quieter and scary. Luo Yu's figure quietly appeared in the shadow of the street against the wall, the corners of his mouth were slightly curled, and after listening carefully for a while, he also turned around and disappeared in the deep alley.

He Xiaoyong used some kind of tracking medicine to stare at the old man who opened the shop, Wu Wei, Jiang Zhiqian, and Ren Hongtu stared at He Xiaoyong, and behind Jiang Zhiqian, Luo Yu used the sound argument technique to keep up closely, and this group of people with different intentions went farther and farther, and disappeared into the mountains and forests to the west after leaving the city.

After entering the mountain forest. Luo Yu immediately accelerated to approach Jiang Zhiqian, and after that, he even surpassed Jiang Zhiqian and included He Xiaoyong in the scope of his listening and argumentation skills, Luo Yu did this because he was worried that He Xiaoyong would not be able to keep up with the old man, after all, it was much more difficult to track in the mountains and forests.

However, He Xiaoyong's tracking ability is indeed very good, and he is very careful, the old man's several anti-tracking measures have not been able to find He Xiaoyong behind him.

In the dark mountain forest, this group of people stumbled for two hours. Finally, the old man, who had been going around for a long time, began to adjust his direction, and after crossing a ridge, he found a path. After speeding up his progress and walking for another hour, a small ruined temple appeared in front of the old man.

The old man stopped in front of the temple. After looking around for a while, he entered the small temple and disappeared.

After a while. He Xiaoyong, who was covering his face, quietly approached the small temple with the help of the surrounding trees, but he did not approach from the front. Instead, he went around in a circle, approached the small temple from behind, squatted at the base of the wall and listened carefully for a while, and found that there was no movement, He Xiaoyong slowly moved to a round window on the side, the window of the window was gone, only half of the frame was left, He Xiaoyong carefully and slowly straightened his waist and looked in.

The small temple is not big, although the light is not very good, but it is still a real temple at a glance, a tattered wooden frame that fell to the ground, an offering table with a missing leg, a mud bodhisattva without itself, and nothing else, but what about the old man!?

He Xiaoyong was taken aback, but he didn't act recklessly, but looked up in the direction of the roof beam, but still didn't find the figure of the old man, He Xiaoyong looked at it for a long time, and felt that there seemed to be no other place to hide a big living person except for the half of the mud Bodhisattva who could hide behind him.

After hesitating for a moment, He Xiaoyong quickly ran towards the temple gate, carefully observed for a while, and made sure that there was indeed no one in the small temple, He Xiaoyong touched in, and the old man was indeed gone.

However, He Xiaoyong was not in a hurry, he believed that the old man would not fly, and there was no other exit from the small temple, the old man had either entered a secret passage or entered the dungeon space, no matter which result, as long as he waited patiently here, the old man would have to come back.

Of course, there is also a possibility that there is another exit from the tunnel, but I am afraid that this exit will not be found for a while and a half, unless He Xiaoyong also enters the tunnel.

Regardless of whether he enters the tunnel or not, what he has to do now is to find out if there is zĂ i in the tunnel, if it is just a copy, He Xiaoyong does not have to worry.

He Xiaoyong squatted on the ground, and began to carefully look for the traces of the old man from the door, he didn't notice at all that in the bushes behind him, several figures were quietly approaching the small temple, and quietly surrounded the small temple.

Wu Wei was not in a hurry to get in, since He Xiaoyong had already entered the small temple, it meant that the old man was no longer in the small temple, Wu Wei quickly came to the same judgment as He Xiaoyong, the old man had a great chance of reappearing in the small temple, so as long as the way out of the small temple was blocked, a praying mantis and cicada catcher would be behind.

Of course, there is a small probability of the situation, that is, there is another exit from the tunnel, Wu Wei thought for a while, and quietly sent a pigeon letter to Ren Hongtu, asking him to look around to see if he could find any special place, Ren Hongtu didn't think much about it, and turned around and left directly, but Jiang Zhiqian, who didn't know why, took a deep look at where Wu Wei was hiding.

He Xiaoyong didn't know what was happening outside the small temple, he was excitedly looking for the old man's traces, he sprinkled a lot of money in front of and behind the old man's house, this elixir will emit a faint fluorescence when viewed with a special glasses, so that he can follow the old man in the complex mountain forest.

It's just that no matter how good the potion is, it will be gradually consumed, after walking such a long mountain road, there are very few potions left under the old man's shoes, and he must be observed very carefully to find those glowing potion powders, He Xiaoyong is almost lying on the ground, in order to find those faint glowing powders in the dust of the small temple.

It is precisely because of this that He Xiaoyong took a long time to determine the trace of the old man, his footsteps disappeared behind half of the mud bodhisattva, between the back of the mud bodhisattva and the wall, there is a space of about one and a half meters, and there is a pedestal piled up of stones under the mud bodhisattva, about one meter and four high.

He Xiaoyong couldn't be sure whether the secret passage was on the ground or on the pedestal, or on the wall behind it, of course, no matter where the entrance to the secret passage was, what was more important was how the secret passage opened.

He Xiaoyong hesitated for a moment, stretched out his head from behind the base of the mud bodhisattva and looked out of the temple gate, then carefully took out a lamp, and then wrapped the lamp with a piece of clothing, revealing only one direction, like a small flashlight.

Holding this modified small flashlight, He Xiaoyong carefully searched for the pedestal and the wall, and after that, he really found a trace for He Xiaoyong, thanks to the fact that no one has been here for a long time, so there is dust and cobwebs everywhere, and the system is very powerful to reproduce the desolate abandoned temple, and also leave the traces of the old man.

In the place where the mud Bodhisattva pedestal is close to the ground, there is obviously a trace, this trace seems to be someone rubbed on the ground with his foot, from the width of the trace, the purpose of this rubbing is to kick to a certain place on the pedestal, He Xiaoyong lay on the ground and carefully illuminated it with a small flashlight, and there were obvious traces of scratching on a certain stone on the pedestal.

He Xiaoyong quickly put away his smile, and now the question in front of him is whether to open this secret passage, opening the secret passage may alarm the old man in the secret passage, but if it is not opened, what if there is another exit from the secret passage?

After struggling for a while, He Xiaoyong finally gritted his teeth and stood up, carefully aimed at the stone, and kicked it gently.

No response!

He Xiaoyong pressed the stone with his toes, pushed forward hard, but still couldn't push, He Xiaoyong simply used the internal force, this time it finally moved, the stone silently sank inward, and then, the pedestal of the half-cut mud bodhisattva suddenly slid away from the height of the calf to one side silently, revealing a dark hole, He Xiaoyong was startled, after a while there was no movement, He Xiaoyong raised the lamp and illuminated, this is a stone step that extends downward, because there is a turn, so you can't see a deep place.

He Xiaoyong hesitated slightly, then raised his legs and walked towards the secret passage, and after his figure completely disappeared into the secret passage, the pedestal closed silently again, and it was restored to its original form, as if nothing had happened.

After a while, two more black shadows jumped in.

"Find the mechanism of the secret passage."

Wu Wei said in a low voice, a little anxious in his tone.

Jiang Zhiqian nodded, directly took out a lamp, and also followed He Xiaoyong's method, wrapped it in a piece of clothing, leaving only one direction to be transparent.

"Ah Wei, what did you let Lao Ren do?"

"I told him to go and see if there were any exits to the secret passages around, just in case."

"Oh, it's still thoughtful, that guy was behind the mud bodhisattva just now, and the mechanism must be over there."

"Yes, look carefully."

After a while, the two of them easily found the mechanism to open the secret passage from the traces on the ground, but Wu Wei was not in a hurry to open the mechanism, and after waiting for about ten minutes, Wu Wei kicked the mechanism hard and opened the door of the secret passage, and then Wu Wei sent a pigeon letter to Ren Hongtu, and the figures of the two also disappeared in the secret passage. (To be continued......)

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