Chapter 197: Suspicion
The flying centipede, which had three pairs of wings, was finally defeated by the golden rooster and hid under the deep valley.
But before it fled, it took a man from the crack in the stone.
At a quick glance, I saw that the person was Liu Xiaojiao, who had disappeared in the temple.
As the golden rooster and the flying centipede left, the entire mountain top was quiet for a moment, only the roaring sound of the mountain wind whistling, and the mess all over the ground, indicating the intensity of the battle just now.
I was anxious, but seeing the mist under the valley, I didn't know how deep it was, and I didn't have wings, so I couldn't chase it down at all, and it was useless to be anxious.
I patted my head and secretly scolded myself for being confused, why didn't I take a closer look around when I was fighting the golden rooster and the flying centipede just now?
If he had been more careful at that time, he might have been able to find Liu Xiaojiao who was in a coma and save her.
After standing on the top of the mountain for a long time, I didn't see the flying centipede coming up again, and the clouds and mist under the valley did not dissipate with the passage of time, but gathered more and more densely.
The clouds and mist are drifting, the poisonous gas is gathering, the grass and trees are deep, and the place below is where the poison is hibernating.
I can't spend any more time here, the longer it lasts, the more dangerous Liu Xiaojiao becomes.
Although we often quarreled, in the past two days, the two supported each other, and found that she was not without merit. It's sometimes inexplicable, but overall it's pretty good.
"There should be ropes inside the temple!"
As soon as I thought of this, I hurriedly rushed down the mountain, and when I went down the mountain, I remembered something, what about the little red snake?
When the golden rooster and the flying centipede were fighting just now, it had been lying dormant and watching the battle in the dark, looking like it would attack at any time. But in the end, I didn't see it appear, I don't know where it went at the moment?
I haven't seen it until now, so could it be that it followed the injured flying centipede down to the bottom of the deep valley?
The little red snake was seriously injured in the Heavenly Secret Realm before, but I saved it and made it my own fate Gu, so that it could survive.
But it has been dormant in my body for more than half a month, and although the injury has improved, it cannot be completely healed.
Maybe Liu Xiaojiao is right, what the little red snake needs is to nourish poison with poison. I think that the Gu King of the Gu Clan, isn't it also cultivated in this way?
The little red snake saw that the flying centipede was injured, and it would not let go of this rare opportunity, if it devoured the flying centipede...... It's going to be even better.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but think of the mini two-headed little white dragon I saw in the secret realm of heaven, in the underwater cave at the bottom of the big tree, maybe one day the little red snake can evolve into that?
With the little red snake following, when Liu Xiaojiao is in danger, it shouldn't be able to die without help, right?
I thought to myself, and the people had already rushed into the temple without delay, and went into the temple premises to look for ropes to climb down the cliff.
I searched almost the entire temple, and finally I found a bundle of hemp rope under the old woman's bed, and I don't know how she could hide such a bundle of hemp rope under her bed.
I don't have time to think about it that much now? With the hemp rope, he rushed out of the temple.
As I went out, I glanced at the big red coffin that I had lifted the lid and had not yet covered.
This glance only makes my scalp tingle.
Inside the coffin, the old woman's body was still lying inside, but in addition to the corpse, I found many small shadows crawling inside.
If you look closely, the little things that crawl are all centipede larvae.
"By the way, those sticky things before must have been eggs laid by flying centipedes, which were laid with the help of the old woman's corpse, and now these eggs hatch and become larvae."
Inside the coffin, dense centipede larvae are crawling, some have crawled out of it, a rough look, not to mention the thousands?
On top of that, the larvae are feeding on the rotting corpse of the old woman......
I saw that I was so angry, there are so many centipedes, if I let them go, I'm afraid it will be a scourge. Immediately lifted the lid and submerged the coffin lid.
Then I dragged the coffin out of the room, out of the temple gate, and dragged it to a separate dilapidated house next to the temple.
When I was looking for the rope before, I saw a small jar of kerosene in the old woman's room, took it out and poured it on the coffin.
That's right, I was going to burn the centipede larvae in the coffin along with the old woman's body.
As for why it was dragged here, it was because I was afraid that when the coffin was burned, the fire would be too fierce, and even the temple would be burned with the fire.
Arson to the temple is a big crime, and I don't dare to mess around.
"Tianyan, what are you doing?"
Just as I took out the lighter and was about to light it, a woman's voice suddenly came from behind me, causing the lighter in my hand to tremble and fall to the ground.
I wondered in my heart, in this temple, except for myself and Liu Xiaojiao, there is no one else at all?
Now that Liu Xiaojiao has been kidnapped by the flying centipede, it stands to reason that she should be the only one who is right......
This voice sounded very familiar to me, and when I turned to look at the visitor, I was a little confused.
Who do I see?
The person who appeared behind him turned out to be Liu Xiaojiao, who had just been kidnapped by the flying centipede!
Can...... How is this possible? Just now I saw the flying centipede rushing into the deep valley with her, how did she escape?
"You ......"
I looked at Liu Xiaojiao in front of me and stopped talking, and I didn't know what to say for a while.
Liu Xiaojiao walked into the dilapidated house, her body was stained with rain, and as before, she was wearing only a wrap on her upper body, and her pants were still on her body.
I looked closely, and saw that she had not been hurt at all, except for the fact that her face looked pale, and her legs were bandaged.
This is simply impossible, just now the flying centipede and the golden rooster fought, even if he stood more than ten meters to watch, he was dizzy by the poisonous gas. And she was so close, and in the end she was captured by the flying centipede under the deep valley, how could she not even have anything to do?
Unless the person in front of him is not Liu Xiaojiao who was captured by the flying centipede just now......
It's just that...... How could there be two Liu Xiaojiao on this centipede ridge?
"What's wrong with you? Look at people with this kind of eyes? ”
In front of me, Liu Xiaojiao looked at me with a strange look on her face, and then her eyes skimmed over me, and when she saw the big red coffin behind me, she was surprised and said, "This is ...... What you told me last night about the coffin you saw in the old woman's room? Do you want to burn it? ”
I looked at Liu Xiaojiao, looked at her speech and demeanor, and almost in a short period of time, I thought of many things.
Hearing the latter's question, I nodded quietly and explained, "I listened to you last night and thought about it all night. This morning I went to the old woman's room again, lifted the lid of the coffin and looked, guess what I saw? ”
"Did you see the old woman guarding the temple lying in the coffin?" Liu Xiaojiao asked suspiciously.
"Not bad!"
I nodded, "In addition to the old woman's body, I saw something strange. ”
"What's that?"
"There are eggs laid by centipedes in the coffin, and there is a wound on the back of the old woman, and I suspect that the old woman we saw when we first arrived at Xilu Temple last night had her body controlled by a monster. In fact, the real old woman died a few days ago! ”
"Huh!? Is the real granny dead? Was it the monster that took control of her corpse? How is this possible? Liu Xiaojiao's face showed shock and disbelief.
"Believe it or not, that's exactly what it is. Now that the centipede eggs in the coffin have hatched into larvae, I dragged it out of the room and planned to burn it with fire. ”
After I finished speaking, I secretly observed Liu Xiaojiao's face in front of me.
I saw that the panic on her face did not subside, and she trembled: "Then what are you waiting for?" Burn it down, and then we'll get out of here, this temple is so wicked, I don't want to stay any longer. ”
"Good!"
I didn't expect this Liu Xiaojiao in front of me to say so simply, so I answered, picked up the lighter from the ground in front of her, and then lit the coffin poured with kerosene.
During this process, I secretly watched Liu Xiaojiao's face again and found that the latter's expression was not strange.
"Tianyan, let's go, go down the mountain to find the second master and Sister Xiaoying, this place is too terrible." Looking at the raging fire burning in front of me, Liu Xiaojiao hid behind me and said.
"Good!"
I clicked, and the two of them ignored the burning red coffin and walked out of Xilu Temple in the drizzle.
Out of the temple, Liu Xiaojiao looked at me and suddenly asked strangely, "What are you doing with this bundle of rope?" ”
It turned out that after I found the rope under the bed just now, I kept hanging it on my body, and when Liu Xiaojiao asked, I didn't know how to answer for a while.
There was silence for a while, and then I explained, "Don't you remember how I pulled you up from under the passage?" We're on the mountain now, and we have a rope to carry with us, maybe it's useful! This is called taking precautions before they happen. If you accidentally fall into a deep pit, I can also pull you up with a rope, right? ”
Liu Xiaojiao rolled her eyes and snorted: "It's really a dog's mouth that can't spit out ivory, why is your mouth so stinky?" ”
I spread my hands, and the two of them went down to Xilu Temple and walked into the pine forest before.
Because of the heavy fog in the forest, the visibility was only three or four meters, and it was difficult to make out the direction for a while.
However, if we want to go down the mountain, the road is naturally inclined down, and as long as we go low, we will definitely be able to leave Centipede Ridge.
As I walked, I looked around, and the fog of the pine forest was so thick that it seemed to be cut off from the outside.
"What are you looking at?" Liu Xiaojiao asked me next to her.
"Nothing, just a little weird." I said.
"Strange?"
"Yes, as soon as you enter this pine forest, you remember the scene when I climbed out of the passage before, I wanted to find the long vine to pull you up and meet Satsuki."
"What? Are you afraid of running into her again? ”
"It's not this one, it's just that when I met her before, she said that she wanted to play hide and seek with me, but after such a long time, she never appeared, it's really strange!" I shook my head.
"Maybe she's just joking with you, maybe she's out of here?"
"This is impossible, if Xiaoyue was changed by Xiaoling, how could she leave so easily before she found her murderer?"
I frowned and pondered: "Maybe I misunderstood her meaning before, she said to play hide and seek, meaning that she wanted to hide, I came to look for her, not for her." ”
"If my guess is correct, where do you say she's hiding now?"