Chapter 53: Think of a way
Early the next morning, the witch arrived as promised, and took Xie Bangui and the others to climb an unnamed mountain hundreds of miles away. β‘Literatureβ‘γ
The witch stood on the top of the peak and looked at Lin Bo, who was being stirred by the mountain wind at her feet, and said in a low voice: "Below is the entrance to the Ghost Gate Gorge, whether you can walk in depends on your cultivation and creation!" β
The tall fat man looked at Lin Hai below, and said with a proud smile: "We people have never seen any strong winds and waves, let's hurry up and lead the way!" β
"My friend probably hasn't suffered the loss of the witch sect, right?"
The shrine maiden sneered and bit her middle finger, and a little blood bead popped out of the air. The blood light was suddenly struck into a light mist by the swirling mountain wind. The surging leaf waves under the cliff also set off a silvery white in the fishy wind, Xie Bangui only felt that the blood-colored cold light was in front of him for three turns, and when he opened his eyes again, the branches and leaves had turned into countless hideous howling faces, more like the rising tide of sea water rushing towards the feet of the Chinese people.
"You dare to cheat!" Zhao Xin popped out the "sword in his hand" and pressed it against the witch's throat.
The witch stretched out two fingers, gently pushed his arm away, and said, "I said a long time ago that the road of atonement in the Ghost Gate Gorge is not something that anyone can walk. β
Xie Bangui didn't seem to hear the two people arguing, and suddenly took out the "ghost slashing blood droplets" from behind, raised his hand and swept away to the fierce ghosts surging under his feet, and after the blood droplets flew into the air, a row of jagged blades turned out from the edge, and rotated high under the traction of the iron cable, turning into a red light, sweeping through the soul with a chirping voice.
When the blood droplets flew back into Xie Bangui's hands again, the grass and trees under the cliff were broken eight zhang square, and the corpses and bones between the roots of the deciduous grass were stacked on top of each other.
In an instant, Lin Hai, which was piled up with corpses and bones like an ancient battlefield, slowly retreated into green in front of several people's eyes. It turned into a pebble-filled beach, and the inky black water rushed away a few feet away, surging into the valley in the distance.
Xie Bangui turned his head and said, "This is the true face of the entrance to the Ghost Gate Gorge, right?" β
"It could be, or maybe it wasn't? After all, I haven't been to the Ghost Gate Gorge. The witch looked at Xie Bangui with interest and said, "I now begin to believe that you can enter the Ghost Gate Gorge." There are really not many people who can easily break the illusion of the entrance. Good luck! β
"Promise your good words!" Xie Bangui waved goodbye to the witch.
The tall fat man took out a monocular and looked deeper into the valley. I saw that the sword peaks on both sides of the river were towering into the clouds, countless unjust souls were hovering and howling in mid-air with the yin wind, and the colorful strange python poked out of its body from the entrenched mountain cliff and swallowed a creature that looked like a human but not a human, like a beast and not a beast into its belly.
In the middle of the river, the water was inky black, and the monsters that looked like dragons were churning around, occasionally throwing out scales several feet long and slamming into the cliffs, and suddenly roaring upwards, sucking the creatures that fell on the mountain and the rocks that were the size of the millstone.
The tall fat man only looked at it twice, and immediately his hands were cold, and he was drenched in cold sweat, and he wanted to close his eyes, but he was afraid that some behemoth would suddenly come up from below and swallow him in one gulp.
The tall fat man's mountain-like body shrank smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a round ball of meat, moving back little by little. Stunned a group of people.
Zhao Jindao said with a smile: "Brother Qiu, what did you see, scared like this?" β
The tall fat man waved and said, "You didn't see it, of course you weren't afraid." See for yourself. β
Zhao Jindao took the glasses and looked at them twice, his face was as pale as paper with fright, he sat on the ground with his buttocks, and stammered: "This ...... Can this place be passed? β
Xie Bangui said lightly: "It should be possible!" β
"Brother, stop playing! Is that a place where people can walk? The tall fat man said with a sad face: "Let's go back!" β
Xie Bangui smiled: "It may take a little effort for us to go by ourselves, but it will be much more convenient if we add a soul car." You said yes, Lord Yuxian. β
"Humph!" A cold snort came from the woods behind Xie Bangui, and the soul hooking car, which was originally integrated with the woods, slowly retreated from its camouflage, showed its shadow, and drove towards Xie Bangui and the others.
Yu Xian lifted the curtain and said coldly: "Xie Bangui, you deliberately let Mei Xin'er pretend to return to the ghost with a puppet, which really caused me to run a lot of wrongful roads." β
Xie Bangui smiled and said, "Didn't you find it too?" And it's not much slower than me, you arrived in the middle of the night last night, right? Did you leave anything for that money-hungry little witch? β
"I think you're more greedy for money!" The shrine maiden snorted and walked farther and farther away in the woods. It seems that she didn't leave just now, and after being broken by Xie Bangui, she really left reluctantly.
"It's like everyone is in your calculations." Yu Xian said angrily: "Say, what is your purpose?" β
Xie Bangui shrugged his shoulders and said, "For the sake of money, and for the sake of saving my life, what other purpose can I have?" β
"Money, life?" Su Li'er sneered: "Just for the sake of money, you dragged your friends and six irrelevant people to such a dangerous place? I think you want them to die and make money for themselves, right? β
The tall fat man and Lao Qian didn't seem to hear what Yu Xian was saying at all, and they always stood behind Xie Bangui, looking at the soul hook car with a little vigilance.
The Five Elements guards retreated a few steps slightly, putting on a posture of not helping each other, but guarding both sides. It's not that Zhao Jindao and the Five Elements Guards want to turn their faces against Xie Bangui, but that they haven't experienced the test of life and death between them, and they can't completely trust each other.
Yu Xian reprimanded angrily: "Li'er is not allowed to talk nonsense, although I regard you as a sister, but you can't mess around with everything by your own temperament!" β
Yu Xian's words were extremely heavy, so frightened that Su Li'er's face turned pale, and she stood there with her mouth flat and holding back tears, not daring to speak anymore.
Yu Xian stepped forward and saluted deeply: "Yu Xian apologizes again for deceiving Brother Xie before, and at the same time, I also thank Brother Xie for thinking about Yu Xian everywhere regardless of his previous suspicions. β
Everyone was stunned, they couldn't figure out why Yu Xian had to apologize to Xie Bangui again and again, and even with gratitude. Only Xie Bangui nodded slightly to Yu Xian again.
Yu Xian took a deep breath and said, "In order to retrieve the skeleton box, I had to design for Brother Xie and you to take the box away. It also directly involved you in the dispute between the Immortal Mansion and the White Lotus Sect. At first, I thought that this battle would end with the scam of the secret box being exposed, but it wasn't until I found Mei Xin'er that I understood a lot of things. I also understood Brother Xie's good intentions. β
Xie Bangui said with a smile: "Although we have severely pit the White Lotus Sect once in Yinmeng County, it has not hurt the bones of the White Lotus Sect Qingzhou rudder at all, and the White Lotus Demon will not let us go easily." Whether it is for revenge or to verify the authenticity of the skeleton box, Qingzhou White Lotus will arrest us and torture us, and then break the corpse into thousands of pieces. I must lead them to Wu Shuangfeng's secret burial and catch them all. That's why I said that the purpose of this trip is to make money, but also to protect myself. β
The tall fat man also woke up and said, "You asked the girl to lure Yu Xian away, just so that she could swagger through the market and be targeted by the White Lotus Sect?" Take the opportunity to lure them to Xiangxi? β
"Yes!" Xie Bangui frowned and said, "Before I came to Xiangxi, I had overestimated the risk as much as possible, but I didn't expect things to change like they are now." If I had known that Wu Shuangfeng's remains were on the way to atonement, I would have dispelled the idea of treasure hunting early in the morning. Now......"
Yu Xian smiled bitterly: "Now we can only take a risk, even if we give up immediately, we will be intercepted and killed by Qingzhou White Lotus." With our current manpower, there is no possibility of breaking through at all! β
The tall fat man gritted his teeth and said, "Brother, I listen to you, what do you say?" β
"Take the car down the river, what else can I do!"
"Down to the river?" Everyone looked into the river in unison, their expressions of horror overflowing with words.
Yu Xian spoke first: "Brother Xie wants to cross the river with the help of the defense power of the soul car?" However, the best defense range of the Soul Hook Car is to expand to the size of three zhang, which can hold up to seven people, and we now have eleven people, and if we want to enter all of them, we have to sacrifice part of the defense power. How does Brother Xie plan to arrange it? β
Xie Bangui couldn't help frowning, and subconsciously set his eyes on Zhao Jindao's master and servant.
Although the tall fat man was afraid of death, he always stayed by Xie Bangui's side without hesitation, and this time he would never change. Not to mention the old money, this master who is full of rivers and lakes will follow the tall fat man at any time, even if he knows that he will be crushed.
The only variable is in Zhao Jindao's five guards, there is no tacit understanding between them and Xie Bangui, and there is even a faint trace of defense. Will they put their lives in the hands of Xie Bangui?
Sure enough, Zhao Xin opened his mouth and refused: "The young master is just a weak scholar, and he has no ability to protect himself when he enters this dangerous place, so we can't take the young master into danger." β
"Zhao Xin is right." Xie Bangui nodded and said, "That's it!" You descend from the back, first go deep into the hinterland of Xiangxi, wait until a month later, and then try to return to the Central Plains. I reckon a month is enough time for the dust to settle. β
The tall fat man also nodded and said, "Golden Dao, listen to Brother Xie's words, go back!" Don't be too sad if you can't see your brother after January. You can be happy when you see it. My brother has a fortune and invites you to drink flower wine. β
Zhao Jindao said with a smile: "Don't let me go, I've been very tight lately, and I don't even have any rouge money to go to Xiaoxiang Building, a great opportunity is just around the corner, how can I give up casually?" β
"Young Master!" Zhao Xin was so anxious that he stomped his feet again and again.
"Shut up, you have to listen to me for everything outside." Zhao Jindao pointed at a few guards and said, "Zhao Sen stays, and the rest of the people will go back to the Central Plains first according to Brother Xie!" β
"Young master, think twice!" The Five Elements Guards knelt down together.
Zhao Jindao shook his head and said, "I know your thoughts very well. In the same way, I know what I'm doing. Let's go back! There are some things I have to do. Not just for my friends, but also for myself. β
Zhao Jindao turned around, turned his back to the Five Elements Guard, and said, "Zhao Sen, if you want to come with me, you can get in the car with me, and if you don't want to, go back to the Central Plains with them." After Zhao Jindao finished speaking, he didn't care about the reaction of the Five Elements Guard, and raised his leg to get on the soul car.
Zhao Xin grabbed Zhao Sen and said, "Use your life to protect the young master." β
After Zhao Xin finished speaking, he turned to Xie Bangui and said, "Xie Bangui, I can tell you bluntly that I don't like you." For the sake of the young master, I won't bother with you for the time being. But if there is anything wrong with the young master, no matter whether you are a human or a ghost at that time, I will not spare you. β
Xie Bangui smiled faintly and beckoned Yu Xian and the others to board the soul car.
The sound of the staggered mechanism of the soul hooking car was in front of the eyes of the four guards, and it became several feet larger out of thin air, and the two wheels retracted into the car, and four steel plates fell on all sides of the car at the same time to wrap the entire body tightly. At the same time, the two wheels that were originally in the middle of the car slowly moved back to the rear of the car, and two more wheels fell at the front of the car to re-prop up the suspended body.