Chapter 11: Dragon Scales

In the tent next to the city tower, the teenagers surrounded Ding Ruoyu in the middle, talking about something.

"You, the two of you, why did you suddenly become friends?"

Tian Bei was the first to cry out incredulously.

As the only woman among the dead soldiers in the army, Ding Ruoyu was also asked by this sudden question.

"What's good, we're just friends, don't talk nonsense!" She struggled to explain, desperate to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Looking around, Yu Feiqiong was still cowering in the corner. He looked up at her, no shame in his eyes.

I was obviously just next to each other at night, but I didn't expect to wake up and be held tightly in his arms...... Ding Ruoyu paused and complained that he always slept too hard.

"Good friends can hug and sleep together? Then I want it tonight too! Am I not also a good friend of yours? Tian Bei was dissatisfied, swaggering and opening his arms to hug her.

"Shut up!" The young man in the corner finally spoke, got up coldly, pulled Ding Ruoyu to his side and said, "She is mine." ”

When the teenagers saw his unhappy look, they also stopped and didn't dare to talk anymore.

On the watchtower, Nangong recalled the thousands of hooves driven by the army shuttle below, and there was a long wave of light flowing in his eyes.

The last city is over, and you can go back after you have conquered it, in exchange for an antidote. There wasn't much time left for recreation, and he had to fight quickly.

In the army, because of his presence, they only said that it was a good thing that a wizard was present on the battlefield, but they didn't know that he took a limited-date pill before leaving. If the antidote cannot be taken within the specified time, the poison will die immediately.

In the years after following the national teacher, his temperament has been sharpened to be particularly cold and resolute.

In the past few years, even he himself has lost count of the people who died at his hands.

Li Hong's two most trusted subordinates, he and Sleepless, one bright and one dark, have been sent out at this moment.

Thinking of this, Nangong Yi's cold heart actually worried about his unpredictable, cruel and ruthless master.

Now Lihong really didn't even bring a secret guard with him.

He came to the Imperial City Market alone, swaggering, and looking unscrupulous.

The face is covered with a special human skin mask that obscures its original appearance. He wore the kind of narrow-sleeved cloth that was most common when young people in the Western Regions traveled to the countryside, and at first glance he was no different from ordinary people.

It's just that his figure is too slender and straight, and his eyes are too sharp. These two traits that cannot be concealed make him stand out from the crowd, and no matter where he walks, he cannot fail to attract attention.

He went straight to a shady pharmacy that didn't do well.

"Yo, this lord, what kind of wind blew you here?" In the pharmacy, the shopkeeper in his thirties and forties came forward to greet him and invited him into the house.

"Excuse me." Li Hong smiled, turned into the shop, and whispered in a low voice when he rubbed shoulders with the shopkeeper, "Someone is chasing and killing, so as to cover up." ”

The shopkeeper understood, and still quipped: "Master, I am a pharmacy here, not a tea shop." ”

said, but really beckoned the guy to serve him tea.

The great master sat quietly against the wall, waiting for the opponent to attack.

Outside the small pharmacy, there were several men in black.

They are also waiting, both sides seem to be competing for patience, waiting for the moment to strike.

They all know it all too well. Lihong looks gentle and elegant like a scholar, but in fact it is unfathomable, and at this moment, he is controlled by the witch cult and has a strange poison in his body, and there is no combat power at all.

The men in black searched their minds for the impression of the man.

Since the current Wu Emperor ascended the throne, the great master has appeared in the Xiyan Kingdom for more than ten years, this person seems to be gentle as water, amiable and amiable, but he has a strong sense of purpose in dealing with people and things, and treats slaves and captives with extreme cruelty and even inhumanity, and it is almost impossible to predict his actions.

But no matter how ruthless he is, now that he has lost his combat power, he is not ready to be caught?

Lihong, who had lost his guard, suddenly fell into a predicament. In fact, he has long known that while the Xiyan Kingdom is undercover and hiding in the mansions of various political dignitaries, this mysterious country in the west is also gradually infiltrated and full of dangers.

But he is always so calm and fearless, as if he will always have countless backhands in the dark.

Today, he obviously did not take any precautions, and appeared alone in the crowded downtown area.

Several people looked at each other, and the national teacher wanted to wait, so they accompanied him to spend it. They are all professionally trained killers, and they don't believe that they can't fight this weak man.

Inside the house, the pharmacy shopkeeper and the shopkeeper had withdrawn from the narrow back door at the signal of the man in cloth. The men in black don't want their lives, let them escape.

In the small space, the atmosphere suddenly became cramped.

Without a drop of tea on the table, the man in cloth suddenly got up and broke down the door. At this moment, everyone moved!

They poured in through the window, intending to block the cloth-clothed man inside, but they didn't expect him to run out of the front door.

The gradually cold tea on the table eerily steamed out green vapor, and the man in black stepped forward and knocked over the teacup with a "snap", and the tea leaves splashed on the ground, bursting corrosive foam.

"Get out of here! That guy poisoned him, he can't stay here! One of them shouted with his sleeve over his nose, turned over and walked out of the pharmacy through the window.

The man in cloth was so agile as if he was still doing light work as if he was still doing light work, and he headed towards the outskirts of the city, and several men in black were in hot pursuit.

The men in black are gradually being taken to the outskirts of the city, but they don't care about the other party's tricks. For them, the more remote they are, the better they are to kill.

The forest is shrouded in fog, and the shadows of the swaying trees are full of mystery.

Lihong stopped, leaning against the trunk of a dead tree to catch his breath, watching the man in black quickly surround him in the middle.

The young man in cloth suddenly laughed, and the ordinary mask smiled so much that people felt like they were trembling.

"What is he laughing at? The girls chirped ......" The men in black wondered in their hearts, but this did not prevent them from shrinking their encirclement.

Li Hong suddenly spoke, uttering a short and strange syllable that no one could understand.

Then, in the dark places of the forest, it seemed to echo, and there was a sound of "sizzling".

The sound did not come from one direction, but seemed to be filled with this sound in all directions, which made people's hearts hairy.

"Your leader may not know that I just learned snake taming." He said softly, and the strange voices in all directions grew denser.

One of the leaders of the men in black looked like he said this, and immediately gestured to everyone to stop.

Some of his subordinates were noncommittal, and the leader said in a deep voice: "Withdraw!" ”

The man in black "whew" and dispersed.

The national teacher leaned quietly on the trunk of a dead tree, his face covered with a mask and no expression could be seen, but he quickly took out a small medicine bottle from his arms, poured out the liquid inside, and wiped it on himself several times.

Behind him, a thin piebald snake hung upside down from a branch, barely an inch away from wrapping around his neck.

Skirting the dead trees, he chose a remote forest path and walked deeper into the forest.

In the gloomy snake forest, there are poisonous snakes attracted by the smell of people from time to time, but every time they retreat when they are about to be entangled, as if they are afraid of each other.

The men in black didn't follow up on the snake forest, they didn't have that kind of anti-snake potion, and they didn't want to die in vain. But they did not give up easily, and while sending signals to contact their companions, they spread along the terrain, intending to catch turtles in an urn.

In the forest, tiny snakes are crowded together, squeezing the narrow road surface to the brim. Li Hong broke a long branch, smeared it with the potion, and drove the snakes slowly forward.

As the mountains get higher, the number of snakes decreases. The dense canopy thins out, and further on, it becomes a low thicket.

A little scarlet flower dotted among the gray-green thorns, as if stained with blood flowers, hideous and dazzling. Lihong walked around the thorn bushes, and soon came to a gap that he could climb over, and he swept into the clearing surrounded by the bushes with his thin branches, and continued to rush up the mountain.

The mountain walls also became steeper, and gray-green vines hung from the charred rocks. The man in the cloth took the vine and tested its sturdiness, then climbed up quickly. As the sky grew, he finally reached the top of the mountain. He didn't stop to rest and kept going.

There was a different scene at the top of the cliff.

The top of a bare mountain wall with dense vegetation. Piercing through a circle of huge evergreen trees, it can be seen that the middle of the mountain seems to have been hollowed out, and a large piece of the entire mountain is suddenly missing, forming a huge inverted funnel-like shape.

On the edge of the huge hollow, several long woven vines hang from them, allowing people to dive into. Lihong slid down the long vine into the cave, and the crisp sound of dripping water came from the empty mountain valley.

At the bottom of the cavity, the damp rocky surface is covered with thick moss. The stone platform at the bottom of the valley is jagged, ancient ferns grow sporadically, and huge herbaceous flowers spread out are scattered and magnificent.

In the center, directly facing the opening of the mountain, is a large natural depression, filled with rain, dew and rain from the sky. The stone pond is westward, pouring out a side stream, the flowing water is gradually widening, rushing to the west, and the long one does not know where to extend.

The insects chirp thinly, and they also make a "sizzling" sound like a poisonous snake in the outside world.

Without squinting, he walked northward until the space in front of him gradually narrowed, and finally was blocked by a curtain woven by vines hanging down from the mountain.

The emerald green curtain was densely crawled with a spider of the same color. The spider was about the size of a fingernail, and its whole body was turquoise, but each head had two blue spots that shimmered with a faint light, like a pair of mysterious eyes, and like a flickering phosphorus fire. Therefore, this spider is also called "ghost fire spider".

Behind the natural curtain, there is naturally a cave, and the ghost fire spider is also a blood-devouring poison. Li Hong suddenly took a few steps back, pulled out a dagger from his arms, lifted his sleeves, and made a cross on his arm. He tore off two hems, one dipped in blood from his arm, and the other tightly wrapped in blood. He took out another bottle of potion and rubbed a little on the bandage of the wound, which immediately covered up the faint smell of blood.

He bent down to pick up a piece of rubble, wrapped it in a blood-stained strip of cloth, and threw it so hard that it flew diagonally and slammed into the spider barrier with a "pop".

The valley is dangerous, there has been no visitor for a long time, and blood is the favorite delicacy of the ghost fire spider.

At this moment, fresh blood suddenly appeared, and the spiders on the green vine immediately rushed to the stones and strips of cloth like a tide. The huge barrier was cleared out of a corner of the clean area, and it was this fleeting opportunity that left Hong and waited.

He scurried forward, clearing the area where there were no spiders, and slid into it as fast as he could.

The strange vine was about three feet thick, and it was covered with countless dry bones, some of which were crushed into bone chips, and all of them were dyed the same green as they passed.

Passing through the spider barrier, there is a low stalactite forest in front of you. There are potholes under your feet, and you can take a puddle at a time. After that, he came to the final point of the valley to the north, in front of a tall stone platform.

The stone platform stands against the mountain, and there is a stone tablet in the middle, carved with complicated lines.

After groping through the lines for a long time, a rumbling sound finally sounded. He hurriedly jumped off the stone platform, and jumped inward along the gap that opened a little bit under the stage.

A violent metal crash sounded underground.