Chapter 22: Violent Death
In order not to stitch up, I quickly waved my hand and changed the topic to ask Kong Ze: "We only scared the human face bamboo away, will they come back?" ”
Kong Ze leaned on the windowsill, glanced into the distance, and then replied: "They will not be our enemies in a short time, we can find the entrance to the underground palace after passing this area as soon as possible, time is enough, and when they come back to their senses and want to continue attacking us, we will not be here for a long time." ”
Hearing him say this, several of us were silently relieved. But then I thought about it, yes, he is not in this area anymore, but we still have to come back, we can't stay in the palace to retire, right? We didn't buy a royal pension insurance or anything. Then when we come back from the mission, Kong Ze will definitely not be waiting for us here, and we don't have a flame cannon, how should we go this way?
I don't want to say that, I just want to get some sleep right now, and accumulate energy to cope with the rest of the journey. I was really tired, although my feet hurt so much that I scratched my heart and liver, but the bed was covered with a very thick cushion, and the quilt was also warm, and after drinking a sip of the water handed over by Mo Yanchen, it didn't take long for me to fall asleep in a daze.
I don't know how long I slept, but I suddenly felt the pain in my feet deepen, and I was stunned and hurt so much that I broke out in a cold sweat. I opened my eyes to see what was going on with my feet.
When I opened my eyes, I was completely awake, but I saw Mo Ranchen kneeling on the edge of the bed on one knee, pressing my shoulders with two hands, and my two hands were also tied up and tied to the shelf at the head of the bed, unable to move at all.
When I turned my head again, I saw that Kong Xian, who was lying next to him, had also woken up, with a weird smile in his eyes, and the cold hairs on my back stood up.
"What are you going to do? You can't let me sleep peacefully...... Yes! ”
Before I could finish my sentence, I suddenly felt a sudden increase in pain in my foot, and I felt someone pressing my leg and doing something on my wound. It hurt so much that I couldn't help but scream.
"Little brother, we are also for your good, bear with it, bear with it! Hiss~ Lin Su, you take it easy, Lao Tzu looks at it and hurts. Liu Yang's voice came from my feet, I looked down, he pressed my legs, it seemed that he couldn't stand it anymore, and turned his head to the side.
Lin Su whispered resentfully: "Dayang, don't say it, my hands are shaking." ”
I swallowed my screams back by myself, gritted my teeth and glared at Kong Xian and said, "Won't your conscience hurt?" My repair ability is so strong, it will stop bleeding and scab by itself, don't toss me, are you uncomfortable? ”
"Oops." Liu Yang hurriedly rehabilitated and said: "Little brother, no matter how good your repair ability is, you can't withstand your repeated tosses!" Do you think we're willing to do it to you? It's like I'm bullying you a little girl. Don't you know, just after you fell asleep, the blood on your feet has not stopped, as if the blood has collapsed, it has soaked the mattress and started to drip blood on the ground. Thanks to the kid who helped us guard Kong Ze found the problem in time, otherwise we would have woken up after a few hours of sleep, and your corpse would be cold. ”
I really didn't expect it to be so serious, I really scared myself.
Kong Xian moved next to me, there was a touch of distress in his eyes, sighed, wiped the cold sweat off my forehead with his hand, and whispered, "Quickly sewn it up, don't move." ”
After he finished speaking, Lin Su's movements sped up a bit, and I didn't dare to scream, so I had to hum quietly. It is estimated that this has to be a criminal law at the same level as Ling Chi, and I really admire that I haven't fainted yet. The only thing I am glad for is that I can't see that miserable picture myself, otherwise it would really be a double torture of physical and psychological torture.
After nearly half an hour of torture, Lin Su finally gave up. It's late autumn now, the weather is getting cooler, and the temperature of about 10 degrees Celsius makes all of us sweat.
Liu Yang took a long breath and sighed: "Oh my mother, the sewing is finally finished, this is really a tribute to all the little nurses, it's really not an easy job." Lao Tzu can be regarded as a battle-hardened person, and he just watched Lin Su start his hand...... Little brother, it really hurts you, but it hurts in my heart! ”
"Forget it." Lin Su wiped the sweat from his forehead, glanced at Liu Yang from the corner of his eye, and said, "Who gave me the command just now, and the seam here is a little wider, and the seam there is a little deeper." He also said that in order to look good, it is best to sew out a string of flowers in English, so that there is no mainstream style. I don't think you're distressed at all. And not only is it not distressed, but it also doesn't hurt when you stand and talk! ”
Lin Su said this, when she sewed it for me, I heard it. Liu Yang is like a contract foreman, constantly chattering and directing. I was so in pain that I couldn't speak, and I couldn't move. Otherwise, I'd have to jump up and tear him in the mouth, and then pull out the whole family and scold him.
Seeing Lin Su's accusation against him, Liu Yang was still unconvinced, and struggled and said: "I'm Da Yang for the sake of my little brother, what do you think, how can you marry someone after leaving such an ugly scar on the girl's body?" You just sew her a fashionable tattoo, which is more artistic. ”
"Artistic?" I narrowed my eyes, gritted my teeth and scolded: "God has a sense of art, let me tell you about the big yang, feng shui takes turns, and when you need stitches, my sister will sew you a left green dragon and a right white tiger, so that you can experience what it means to be artistic." ”
After speaking, he turned his head, and found Kong Xian's playful expression, hooked a wicked smile, and said: "I think Dayang's suggestion is very good, do you want to stop working hard for Lin Su to repair it for you?" ”
"Shut up." I rolled over and glared at him, "The wound on your back is much worse than mine, I've finished sewing it now, and then it's your turn, I'll see how long you can laugh." ”
"Huh." He disagreed, "I don't like to die like you, the wound on my back has long since stopped." ”
Although what he said made me want to slap him, but when I heard that his wound had stopped bleeding, I was much more relieved, and I just hoped that his physical physique could be a little stronger, and he would not be infected.
After another three or four hours of rest, we ate some dry food and prepared to go.
The few people on Kong Ze's side basically didn't rest, and they didn't know whether they were keeping vigil with us or if they were afraid that we would sneak away. Kong himself lives in a guest room on the second floor, which is the one downstairs from us. When we just woke up, we vaguely heard some movement downstairs, like the sound of something hitting the wall, and I don't know if this guy is practicing iron sand palm with the wall.
A few of us walked downstairs with our bags on our backs and knocked on his door. Seven or eight men stood at his door, looking like they were asleep. Liu Yang shook his head and said in my ear: "The training of these people is still not in place, they can still sleep at vigil, and they are not afraid that their master will be taken away by wolves." ”
The men who were guarding us also felt that their brother was too disrespectful to get over his face, so they hurried over and kicked the people who were lying on the ground, telling them to hurry up, otherwise Kong Ze would come out later and be punished.
I saw that I knocked on the door twice but did not come out, so I increased the force and slapped hard, the two wooden doors were rattled, but fortunately the quality of the wood was good, otherwise this old antique door would have to break a hole by my palm.
"That's not right!" One of the men guarding us suddenly screamed, his voice very fast, as if something was frightened.
A few of us were startled and quickly turned back to see what was going on with him.
But I saw that the three people who were guarding us were all squatting on the ground, probing the breath of those companions lying on the ground, and then touching their pulses.
"What's going on?" I asked.
One of them trembled and said, "They all seem to be dead, all of them are dead......
After listening to him, Mo Ranchen hurriedly stepped forward to confirm, checked for three or five minutes before raising his head, nodded to us, and said with a puzzled face: "It is indeed dead, but I can't find a fatal injury, and I can't find out the cause of death, and it is the same situation as those fire pine nuts that we encountered when we first entered the ancient city." ”
"What?" I felt very incredible, how could such a good person die all at once? Moreover, Kong Ze and these people are not like us who have just arrived, they have lived here for more than 100 years, how can they not predict the danger here?
We were still in shock, and the three men hurried to the door of the room, fearing that their master would encounter the same situation.
After three or four slams, the two wooden doors fell completely. We rushed into the room, but it was too late, and Kong was lying on the bed, like the people outside, without any signs of life and no fatal cause.
In the face of dangerous and unknown situations, we are all a little panicked. But looking at these people in front of me, I suddenly remembered when we had just received the assignment and stayed in that hotel. At that time, some people played pranks to deliberately scare us, and they put the corpse of a black cat on the windowsill of Kong Xian, carved words in the wardrobe of our room, and sprayed skulls on Liu Yang's curtains. At that time, Liu Yang was suspicious of Mo Ranchen, so I chased Kong Xian out and asked Mo Ranchen about the situation in detail.
Now that I think about it, the deaths of these people are exactly the same as the deaths of the Mo family that Kong Xian told me at that time, they are all suddenly gone, and there is no cause of death to be checked.
As soon as Kong Ze died, our next road will be even more difficult, I thought that following him could directly find the entrance to the underground palace, saving us more than half of our energy, but now it seems that it is no fun.
"Let's get out of here." Lin Su shrank next to me and hugged my arm, "There must be something very dangerous here, if we continue to stay here, maybe something will go wrong." ”
What she said is not unreasonable, now we are in the open and the enemy in the dark, and if we stay for a second longer, our danger factor will increase.
"What are you going to do? Follow us on, or go back? "I asked Kong Ze's three subordinates, they are very depressed now, two of them are squatting in the corner and secretly wiping their tears, and one is also on the verge of collapse, after all, the people who died are people who have lived with them for so long, and they are gone if they say no, and no one feels good in their hearts.
"We're not leaving." One of them looked at me and replied, "We're going to get to the bottom of things here." His eyes were firm, and his tone revealed irrefutable stubbornness.
Seeing that they were so persistent, Liu Yang frowned and persuaded them with a sigh: "They are already dead, and you can't take your lives seriously!" Besides, if something really happens to you, then no one at home will know what's going on here, and you'll have to run over to find it, maybe something will happen. ”
The three people glanced at each other and felt that what Liu Yang said made sense, so they decided to go back and report to their families first, and then come over to find out the truth.
A few of us didn't have much curiosity about the truth, and as soon as they left, we quickly loaded our things and hit the road.
Along the way, we were all discussing this with each other, and we didn't have any more clues. Only Kong Xian remained silent, and he didn't know what he was pondering, while thinking that he would occasionally glance in the direction of the restaurant......
"Master Jin, do you have any ideas?" Seeing that Kong Xian was so focused, Liu Yang knew that he must have more conjectures in his heart than us.
Kong Xian shook his head and didn't give a definite answer, but said slowly: "I think Kong Ze and they may not be dead...... They just don't want to go any further. ”
"Not dead?" Liu Yang looked at him incredulously: "Master Jin, your guess is a bit mysterious, even Mo Ranchen has confirmed it, it can't be a fraud death." ”