Chu Huai held the torch high, his toes lightly touched the ground, lightly shuttling between the dead trees, the black and crushed dead trees on both sides of his eyes quickly retreated, he always carefully avoided left and right, for fear that one carelessly, the torch in his hand would set the whole dead forest on fire.

He lifted his qi and used his light skills to the extreme, as for making him so fast that people could barely see him. Just now, for a moment, he felt as if he had bumped into someone, but when he looked back, there was only darkness behind him, so he had to say in that direction from a distance: "I'm sorry." ”

Regardless of whether the person heard it clearly or not, Chu Huai continued to move forward intently, only the people who were just passing by were local residents passing by.

It's more important to find the mandarin duck quickly.

Chu Huai continued to run forward, but after a long time, the area around the original dead forest gradually turned into a forest with dense branches and leaves.

At first, there were a few trees that were quite dense in the dead wood, and the number of dead trees became smaller and smaller, and then when I looked up again, through the dense foliage, I could faintly see the full moon hiding behind the clouds.

"What's this strange place?" Chu Huai also noticed that when Fang was in the dead forest, he couldn't see the full moon hanging in the sky at all, and now, even if the sky was almost covered by branches and leaves, he could still see a little moonlight leaking through the gaps.

Chu Huai's speed of progress slowed down, and finally stopped, he was a little disoriented, in this huge forest, where should he go? He clearly remembered that the tailor had said that he was indeed in the dead forest, but for some reason he had already walked through the whole dead forest, but he still did not see the so-called priest, and he had already entered the woods.

"I knew I should have asked him to draw me a map so I wouldn't get lost." Chu Huai can only continue to move forward now, it is better than spinning in place.

Compared with just now, Chu Huai slowed down his speed a lot, and he began to pay attention to the surrounding environment, for fear that if he was not careful, he would miss the figure of the mandarin duck.

The trees in front of Chu Huai's eyes gradually became thinner, and his vision slowly became broader. Walking further, a swarthy cave appeared in front of him.

How can there be caves in this place?

Chu Huai looked sideways, there was a faint flickering fire on the mountain wall, could it be that the mandarin ducks were locked up here by them? Why don't you even have a janitor? Are they a little too lax?

He extinguished the torch in his hand, and quietly moved towards the cave against the wall, and after walking for a long time, he did not see the few guards he imagined, could this be their trap?

The further he went, the more intense the firelight on the mountain wall became, and Chu Huai was gradually able to see the layout of the cave, in front of his eyes was a large black curtain, and on the curtain was a figure lying on his side, and he didn't know whether this person was asleep or awake, so he didn't move.

"Mandarin duck!" Chu Huai couldn't help but shout.

The figure on the curtain of "............" moved, and slowly sat up, the eerie voice echoing through the cave, sounding even more chilling.

But Chu Huai couldn't understand what he was talking about, but the only thing he was sure of was that he was not a mandarin duck, and what he said, since it was not the Central Plains dialect, then it would only be his own language in the Yushen Village.

"That...... I don't understand what you're saying. ”

"You are the Central Plains person that Xiao Er said? Didn't he lock you up? How did you get out on your own? What about the little two? ”

I don't know why, obviously he said the Central Plains dialect, and he could understand a single word, but how did he become incomprehensible after it was connected into a sentence?

"That...... I still don't understand what you're saying. ”

"Xiao Er didn't say that he was arrested by a woman, why did he become a man after he ran out?"

"You're the priest?"

"It's me, how?"

Chu Huai breathed a long sigh of relief, this person finally said something that he could understand.

"Where did you say that the Central Plains man arrested by Xiao Er was imprisoned?"

"Isn't that Central Plains man just a man dressed as a woman?"

Chu Huai felt for a moment that this priest didn't look very smart?

"No, it's not that I'm a man pretending to be a woman, I'm a man, and there's no need to pretend to be a woman, the person you arrested should be my apprentice, Mandarin Duck."

"So you get her back first?" The figure on the curtain moved again, and it looked like the man had stepped down from the bed, his shadow stretching over the top of the cave.

"Exactly."

"That's not good, she's a sacrifice that I bought back with a lot of money, how can I say that I will return it, if I don't have her, then how should our sacrifice ceremony continue, Lord Gu God will condemn my people."

"She can't be your sacrifice!"

"Are you going to swap her then?" The man lifted the curtain, and the person who walked in front of Chu Huai was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, his face was indifferent, and he was more mature than this age should have.

"Swap with her?"

"Yes, you will be our sacrifice in her place." The child looked up at Chu Huai's eyes, and through his eyes, Chu Huai saw an empty silence, lifeless, and not a little angry.

"I'm afraid this won't work, right? I save her, she will save me again, no, maybe she won't come to save me......"

"Look, you hesitated, in that case, why did you say so righteously that you wanted to save her?" The child walked behind Chu Huai, "People are so selfish, in the face of interests, they always choose themselves first, and they don't even know when they were betrayed, but sure enough, they are still obedient Gu worms, they can be easily manipulated, and they will not be betrayed, and they are willing to die for their masters." ”

"Forgive the evil! Say no more! Shu Shan's voice came into the cave, and the sound of the bell on the staff also reached Chu Huai's ears, "This is my guest, and I don't allow you to say such things to your guests." ”

"Master Forgiveness." Chu Huai was very surprised that he could meet Shushan here.

"I'm sorry, Lord Chu Gu, this is my brother, I frightened you." Shu Shan's figure soon appeared in the cave.

"No problem."

Shu Shan gave Chu Huai his most common smile and asked, "Is something wrong?" So you can find it here. ”

"Master Shu, you don't know, my apprentice is gone, and I just deduced from Brother Ling's words that she should have been kidnapped by a person named Xiao Er, saying that she was going to be used as a sacrifice." Chu Huai, who saw Shu Shan, was finally relieved, and the moment he was asked by Shu Xi, he almost didn't know how to refute it.

"Sacrifices?" Shu Shan's face instantly turned cold, looking at Shu Evil beside him, the faces of the two of them were indeed somewhat similar at the moment, "How many times have I told you that you are no longer allowed to use living people as sacrifices, why don't you listen?" ”

"It's always chickens, ducks and rabbits, when will we be able to refine the Seven Lives Gu? If the Seven Lives Gu completely disappeared from our hands, how should we explain to the ancestors of the Shu family? "Forgiveness is also the slightest fear of asking forgiveness.

And in the dead forest at this moment, the shopkeeper was holding on to a dead tree and panting, fortunately, fortunately, he hadn't found it here, he opened the lock on the small black house, and looked inside, the mandarin duck was lying quietly on the ground, he closed the door again, sat down against the door, and was almost about to go to the Hades Palace.

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