Chapter 191: Strange Town (2nd Update)
Ling Jing sped up and returned to the previous inn, retrieved his luggage from the room, and looked at the empty wing, there seemed to be a trace of ripples in the air, and the fragrance on his body had not dissipated.
He sighed slightly, and his eyes fell back to the bed in the wing, some messy bedding seemed to remind him of his previous pleasure, but by this time the beautiful woman was long gone.
Ling Jing stood in the room for a long time, and finally jumped out of the window, without alarming anyone in the inn, and after coming out, he went south without stopping.
The Songshan faction almost spared no effort to send many masters out in order to wipe out the Hengshan lineage this time, and the previous ambush on the mountain road was only the first wave of offensives, and then the continuous tentative attacks were the real killing moves.
"It should be twenty-eight shops below." Ling Jing galloped through the woods on the side, because the speed was so fast, leaving a long trail of afterimages in the air.
He had seen that the disciples of the Hengshan Sect were all very tired, and many of them had been hit by hidden weapons, and their injuries also needed to be taken care of. It is expected that they will definitely stop for a moment to recuperate, and after dealing with the injured, they will continue on their way, so it should not be difficult to catch up with them.
Ling Jing's figure gradually disappeared in the jungle.
In the twenty-eight-shop town, the Hengshan faction and his party saw that this huge town was actually dark, and none of the two rows of houses on both sides of the road were lit.
The streets were deserted, with occasional night breezes blowing, and a few pieces of yellow paper floating in the air in the light of a slight whistling sound, which seemed to be used to commemorate the dead.
Although the disciples of the Hengshan Sect were all monks, they couldn't help but feel a little uneasy when they saw these yellow papers floating in the air, and Yihe said: "Uncle Shi, the customs of this Fujian people are really strange, everyone went to bed so early. ”
All the disciples whispered, and they all felt that this quiet and unusual town was really strange, the scale of these twenty-eight shops was actually not small, but why couldn't they even see a candle flame.
Dingjing Shitai frowned slightly, looked up, in the faint moonlight, only to see at the entrance of the town, a wooden sign with "Twenty-eight Shops" written on one side hung crookedly on the big wooden door in the middle of the road, the corners were tattered, and it seemed that it could fall down at any time. Blown by the wind, it creaked.
She felt more and more inappropriate in her heart, and said, "Don't mess up, let's find an inn to stay in first." ”
The Hengshan faction and the nunnery in Wulin all communicate with each other, but there is no nunnery in the twenty-eighth shop, so you can't go to the place order, so you have to find an inn to stay. What is inconvenient is that the laity are quite taboo about nuns, thinking that they are unlucky to see them, and they often provoke more idleness, but fortunately, the female nuns are used to it and never care.
But seeing that every shop is on the door panel, the twenty-eight shops say that it is not big, it is not small, and there are one or two hundred shops, but at a glance, it is a dead town.
In the middle of the night, a piece of moonlight swayed down, and everyone turned a corner on the street, and saw a white cloth sign in front of an inn, with four big characters written "Xian'an Inn", but the door was closed, and there was no sound at all.
The female disciple Zheng Cao immediately stepped forward and knocked on the door, this Zheng Cao is a lay disciple, with a round face often smiling, able to speak well, and very likable. Whenever there is anything to deal with people along the way, she always comes out, so that others will not refuse when they see the nun.
Zheng Cao knocked on the door a few times, stopped for a moment, knocked a few more times, and after a long time, but no one answered the door, Zheng Cao shouted: "Uncle shopkeeper, please open the door." "Her voice is clear, and she is a person who practices martial arts, and her voice can reach far away, so she should hear it from several courtyards.
But no one in the inn agreed, the situation was obviously very abrupt, Yihe stepped forward, listened to the door panel, the store was silent, turned his head and said, "Uncle, there is no one in the store." ”
Ding Jing Shi faintly felt that something was wrong, seeing that the shop was very new, and the door panels were also very clean, it was definitely not the appearance of closing the business and not doing it, and said: "Look at the past, there should be more than one inn in this town." ”
Walking forward through dozens of stores, there is another "Nan'an Inn", Zheng Cao stepped forward and patted the door, it was exactly the same, and still no one answered.
Zheng Cao turned around and said, "Yi and Senior Sister, how about we go in and take a look?" ”
Yihe's surname was impatient, and after entering this strange town, he already felt unwell, and immediately said, "Okay! The two of them jumped over the wall, and the two of them landed one after another.
I only heard Zheng Cao shouting inside: "Is there anyone in the store?" Without hearing anyone's answer, the two drew their swords out of their sheaths, walked into the living room side by side, and then looked at the back kitchen, stables, and guest rooms, and found that there was no one left, but there was no dust on the table and chairs, and even the tea in a teapot on the table was still slightly warm, and it was obvious that the owner of this place had not been away for long.
Zheng Cao opened the door, let Dingjing Shitai and others come in, and told the situation, everyone was amazed, Dingjing Shitai said: "You seven people in a team, go to all parts of the town to have a look, and inquire about the reason." The seven were not to be separated, and the whistle was to be sounded as soon as there was a trace of the enemy. ”
The disciples agreed, and they quickly walked out, and only Dingjing Shitai was left in the guest hall.
At the beginning, I heard the sound of the footsteps of the disciples, and then it was silent, and the twenty-eight shops in the town, it was so quiet that people only felt creepy, a huge town, the voices of people were silent, and even the sound of chickens and dogs barking could not be heard, which was really unusual.
Master Dingjing suddenly became worried, and thought to herself, "Could it be that the Demon Sect has laid some kind of poisonous trap?" The female disciples don't have much experience in the rivers and lakes, so don't fall for tricks and wipe out the Demon Sect. When I walked to the door, I saw the figure in the northeast corner shaking, and a few people jumped into the house in the west, all of whom were disciples of this sect, so I was a little settled in my heart.
After a while, all the disciples reported in droves, and they all said that there was no one in the town, and Yihe reported back: "Don't say that there is no one, not even a single animal." ”
Yi Qing said: "It seems that not long after everyone in the town left, many of the boxes in the house were opened, and everyone took away all the valuable things. ”
Master Dingjing nodded, sat down at the table and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and asked, "What do you think?" ”
Seeing that all the senior sisters and sisters bowed their heads and were silent, Yihe sighed and said, "The disciple guesses that it was the Demon Sect demon who dispersed the townspeople, and they will soon attack in a big way. ”
"Not bad!" Master Dingjing frowned slightly, and said with a straight face: "This time the demon sect demon is going to fight with us with a gun, that's very good, are you afraid?" ”
All the disciples said in unison: "Subduing demons and destroying demons is the duty of my Buddhist disciples. ”
Master Dingjing felt a little happy in her heart, and said, "Let's stay in this inn and cook a full meal." First, try to see if there is any poison in the water, rice, and vegetables. "When the Hengshan faction had a meal, they were not allowed to speak, but this time everyone pricked up their ears and listened to the sounds outside, and after the first batch of people ate, the disciples who went out to replace the guards outside came in to eat.
Yi Qing suddenly thought of a plan, his eyes lit up, and he said: "Uncle Shi, let's go and light the lamps and candles in many houses, so that the enemy will not know where we are." ”
After thinking about it slightly, Master Dingjing felt that this plan was good, and immediately said: "This suspicious plan is very good, the seven of you go and light the lamp." She looked out of the gate, and saw that the lights were shining from the windows of many shops on the west side of the street, and after a while, there were lights shining through the windows of many shops on the east side.
The lights on the street were everywhere, but there was no sound, and as soon as Master Dingjing raised his head, he saw the moon in the sky, and prayed silently in his heart: "Bodhisattva bless, let the disciples of the Hengshan Sect be able to retreat this time." If the disciple Dingjing can return to Heng Mountain, he will worship the Buddha with the green lantern and never use the sword again. "She dominated the rivers and lakes in the past, and made a lot of vigorous deeds, but last night's battle on Xianxia Ridge, the situation was so dangerous, if it wasn't for the help of the masters, I was afraid that the disciples would be killed and injured.
At this moment, I still have lingering palpitations, and what I am worried about is that if she is alone, the situation will be ten times more terrifying, and she will not take it to heart, and pray silently: "Great mercy and great compassion, save the suffering and save the Guanyin Bodhisattva, if all the people of Hengshan have to suffer this time, only let the disciple Dingjing be responsible for this disaster, and all kinds of killing karma will be borne by the disciple alone." ”
At this moment, I suddenly heard a woman's voice shouting from the northeast corner: "Help, help!" In the silence, the sharp voice was particularly poignant.
Master Dingjing was slightly startled, listening to the voice was not a disciple of this sect, staring at the northeast corner, he didn't see any movement, and saw Yiqing and the other seven disciples running towards the northeast corner, and went to inspect it.
But after a long time, he never saw Yiqing and other returns, and his heart became more and more uneasy.
Ling Jing actually didn't arrive at the twenty-eighth shop later than the people of the Hengshan faction, although he had delayed dozens of miles when he returned to the inn to pick up his luggage before, but with his light skills, it was still very easy to catch up with the Hengshan faction's brigade.
After entering the town, he saw that the town was empty, not far from what he expected, and his heart was not so surprising.
But seeing that the disciples of the Hengshan Sect were cautiously probing in the town, he hid aside and secretly protected the left and right.
Although he had long known that the Songshan faction would set a trap here again and wait for the Hengshan faction to enter the urn, it was not easy to investigate them one by one.
So he has been hiding in the shadows, as long as the people of the Songshan faction show their feet slightly, he can take advantage of the situation to kill these people.
In the dark night, the terrible woman's cry was naturally heard in his ears, and before Yiqing and the others could leave, he had already disappeared in place, following the direction of the sound, and chased it to the northeast corner.
Ling Jing's figure only swept through the dark corners of the dark alleys of the house as much as possible, and the sound of his footsteps was almost none, and it didn't take long for him to fall into a small courtyard, and the four houses in the courtyard were revealed under the scanning of the system, and the woman's cry before came from the opposite room. (To be continued.) )