Chapter 67: Death in sight
The snow had long since stopped, and even the sound of the wind had eerily disappeared, but there was a creepy owl chirping suddenly in the dead night, but Qi Lu was indifferent, because there was nothing more important and urgent than survival.
The Demon Leader took out the Night Pearl again, and motioned for Qi Lu to come with him to the back of the statue. As soon as Qi Lu turned to the back, he saw the Demon Leader shining the Night Pearl on the right calf of the idol.
Qi Lu opened his eyes and couldn't help but be a little disappointed. "Where is the Book of God? I didn't see anything. ”
"If it were so obvious, the last time Hu Qingyun died here, we wouldn't have discovered its secret." The Devil's hand groped somewhere in his right leg, and in a moment he removed a stone face from the leg that showed some strange inscriptions.
Qi Lu was shocked, and hurriedly took the Night Pearl from the Demon Kui's hand and leaned closer to observe this notch, the seemingly messy carvings inside were indeed words written by Shen Li.
"Mr. Qi, what is it written about, is it the location of the exit of the illusion?"
"It's not." Qi Lu, who recognized the contents of the divine book, shook his head in disappointment.
"Huh?" The Demon Leader was also disappointed, and then asked unwillingly, "What is that about?" ”
"If you are afraid of the end, you will receive it with a book." While answering the Demon Leader, Qi Lu was also confused.
The Demon Kui frowned slightly, "This sentence seems to come from King Wen Zhou's last words, "Bao Xun." ”
Qi Lu nodded and frowned. Because the content of the original text is "I am afraid of the end of the Buddha's thoughts, and you will receive it with a book", but this divine book is missing a word Ru.
Did the god who carved the word miss a word, or did he do it on purpose? Before Qi Lu could figure it out, he heard a "click" sound behind him, and he hurriedly turned around to look, only to find that the ground not far in front of him had collapsed, revealing a hidden hole.
"It turns out that this sentence itself has no meaning, it is just a spell to open the exit!" The Demon Leader was overjoyed and hurried towards the entrance of the cave.
"Wait!" Qi Lu suddenly shouted, stopping the pace of the demon leader's advance.
The demon leader was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to ask Qi Lu why he wanted to stop him, he understood. If this wasn't the exit of the illusion, but the trap carefully set by the evil god, they wouldn't be able to recover!
The waning moon hid in the dark clouds, and there were only a few cold stars in the sky, and the two hesitated for a moment, then cautiously walked to the entrance of the cave and looked down.
At this time, the sky was fluttering, and the cold moonlight shone out from the thin dark clouds, and through this hazy moonlight, Qi Lu saw that the steps made of black stone under the cave were winding down, and at the end was a half-concealed vermilion wooden door, which was pitch black inside, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
"Do you want to go in and have a look, Mr. Qi?"
"Okay." However, Qi Lu also immediately reminded him: "Be careful, in case there is a mechanism." ”
The Demon Leader nodded silently, and took out a Night Pearl from his arms, and both of them held the Night Pearl, and went down the stone steps one after the other. Approaching the door, Qi Lu raised his foot and kicked open the wooden door, it made an unpleasant creaking sound, and some dust falling from the top almost blurred his vision.
Qi Lu didn't rush into the door, he checked the environment next to the door first, and until he confirmed that there were no traps and traps, he beckoned the demon leader to go in together.
The cellar was small in size, and contained only a bed, a table, and a few chairs, on which were a book, and a few bowls and cups made of jade. Other than that, there is nothing superfluous.
"Alas, this is a cave to hide, not an exit from the illusion!" The Demon Leader was disappointed.
Qi Lu was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously walked to the wooden table, and at the same time glanced at the demon leader. The Demon Leader suddenly came to his senses and searched along the cave wall, both hoping to find the exit to the illusion.
A thin layer of dust on the wooden table indicates that no one has been in the cellar for several days. When Qi Lu took the book on the table in his hand, he immediately understood who the owner of the cellar was.
This is the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" bound in this line, and the paper of the book is mottled and smooth, with a faint yellow. Qi Lu knew that this was not ordinary paper, it did not belong to the mortal world, but was made of the skin of He Luoyu.
He Luo fish has ten bodies and ten tails, and it is said that eating its flesh can cure carbuncles. But that's not the point, the point is that this fairy fish only lives in the rivers of Qian Ming Mountain, and it is Meng Huai's most beloved pet.
So when Qi Lu saw this book, he knew that this was Meng Huai's hiding place in the illusion, no wonder he couldn't find out his whereabouts, it turned out that he was hiding here!
Just as a light smile overflowed from Qi Lu's lips, he immediately became nervous, because at this time, he suddenly found that the Demon Leader was missing.
Oh no, I might have been fooled! Qi Lu was shocked, if this was a trap set by the Demon Leader using the cellar, and then tricking himself into trapping inside, it would be terrible!
Qi Lu hurriedly ran towards the outside of the cave, and before the person stepped on the stone steps, he heard a very terrible strange cry outside, his heart sank, and the person swept straight up like lightning.
When Qi Lu's feet fell into the wetland where the snow had not completely melted, he was surprised to find the Demon Leader lying face down on the ground, with a bowl-sized wound on his back, and blood spurting out of it like arrows.
Qi Lu hurriedly leaned over and hugged the demon leader in his arms, the blood in the wound was still spraying, and Qi Lu's frozen white face was immediately stained red with blood.
The Demon Leader had already swallowed, and the wound in his chest was right in the heart, with a broken blade stuck in it. Qi Lu tilted his head slightly to prevent the blood from spraying on his face again and blurring his vision.
When he pulled out the broken blade from the wound, his pupils contracted violently. This was a wooden sword with a faint blue light, and Qi Lu recognized it at a glance as the divine weapon forged from peach wood that Yi Hanchuan had used before his death. The sword had broken into several pieces when its owner died, but now it appeared on the corpse of the Demon Leader.
Could it be that Yi Hanchuan died and resurrected to kill the demon leader, or was he not dead at all? As soon as this thought popped into Qi Lu's mind, he immediately denied it, because he saw Yi Hanchuan die with his own eyes, and the body was broken into fourteen pieces by the murderer. Yi Hanchuan died so completely that it was impossible to be resurrected.
What shocked Qi Lu even more was that the murderer used this sword to kill the Demon Leader with a frontal move, and judging from the posture he maintained before he died, the Demon Leader had no chance to resist at all!
There can only be one explanation for such a situation, that is, the mana and speed of this sword have reached the point of shocking the world, so the demon leader died before he could fight back.
Who could this person be, he shouldn't be Hu Lei, he could only be the evil god who created illusions, and only he had this ability!
Thinking of this, Qi Lu couldn't help but feel extremely cold, and just when he was in a trance, he suddenly felt a scorching energy rushing towards his body, making him instinctively let go of the hand holding the corpse.
The Demon Leader's body fell back into the snow, his fatal wound not only bursting, but also burning from within, and in less than a moment, the monstrous flames enveloped his body and then spread upwards to his head.
Qi Lu's breathing suddenly stopped, and then he saw the Demon Leader's dead eyes, his eyes shining with a strange light in the night sky. But Qi Lu was not attracted by this demon light, he saw through it the last expression of the demon leader's eyes, which was a strange look of fear and surprise......
"Why is this happening?" A cold voice sounded in front of Qi Lu.
Qi Lu raised his head vigilantly, and what he saw was still a smiling face, but that smile made him shudder.
"Hu Lei!" As he spoke, the pendant around Qi Lu's neck had turned into a golden rainbow sword and appeared in his hand.
"What, after your Excellency killed the Demon Leader, you are ready to deal with me?" Hu Lei put away his smiling face and raised his serpentine sword.
"You, you killed the Demon Leader!"
"Hmph, Your Excellency will really beat you up." Hu Lei didn't panic at all, he still said in a cold voice: "As soon as I heard the screams of the Demon Boss brothers, I rushed over, and I saw that you were the only one at the scene. According to the human police, do you say that I am the most suspicious, or are you the one who is involved? ”
Qi Lutie's face was blue, he didn't expect that he would be commanded by Hu Lei.
"But I'm sure you're not the murderer." Hu Lei's voice suddenly softened, "I know Your Excellency too well, if a smart guy like you wants to kill someone, he will never use such low-level means, let alone stay at the scene of the crime and wait for someone to catch him." ”
Qi Lu asked back with a bad face: "Your companion is dead, and you still laugh, only a murderer can have such an expression." ”
"Really?" Hu Lei laughed again, "The Six Evils are just an organization put together by the master temporarily, although the Demon Leader is my companion, but this bastard has embarrassed me many times, and I have long been tired of him." Now that my companions are dead, why should I hide my feelings? ”
"You!" Qi Lu was extremely angry, and asked him again: "Don't you have a little pity?" ”
"Hehe, that's just a weak and useless emotion that humans have, and we demon clans don't need it at all."
Qi Lu didn't expect him to be such a ruthless person, for a moment, he was about to kill this monster with a sword, but he couldn't help it after all.
The flames on the corpse of the demon leader burned more and more, and this fire was as ruthless as Hu Lei, more chilling than death. Hu Lei watched the flames burn, and his eyes flashed with cruel pleasure.
When the demon leader's corpse was burned to ashes, a green light suddenly flashed from the residual fire, and before Qi Lu could react, Hu Lei had already snatched it into his hand quickly.
This is the sixth component of the key to open the Houyi Divine Bow, which was originally a turquoise inlaid on the Songwen Sword.
Qi Lu watched coldly as Hu Lei put the turquoise into his arms, and said sarcastically: "So many parts belong to you, it seems that you are the one who got the divine bow." ”
"Again, I'm going to use these things to lure out the murderer." Hu Lei replied duciously, and stared at Qi Lu's right hand with his eyes.
Qi Lu only remembered that he was holding the peach wood broken sword at this time, so he handed it to Hu Lei and said, "It was it that killed the demon leader." ”
"Boss's weapon? That's impossible! Hu Lei's eyes were suddenly shocked, "He is already dead, how can he come to kill the Demon Leader, even if it is a ghost to kill people, it will be beaten by the Demon Leader!" ”
"Don't say you don't believe it, I don't believe it myself." Qi Lu briefly stated the incident to Hu Lei.