Chapter 12: The Nine-Tailed Curse
"Awake? Do you know how much you talk in your dreams? Jialan's voice came from behind him, Fan Li turned around, and saw that Jialan was wiping her longbow, and there was only a lone wooden arrow left in her quiver, and she should have consumed a lot of wooden arrows during the time she was separated from her......
"Well, it's been a long time since I've had such a good night's sleep." Fan Li only felt that his whole body was soft, he had just recovered his strength, and he had to worry about the future, and he felt that the sky was dark when he thought about it. The ninth brother is dead, only they have entered the underground palace, Boss Jin either thinks they are dead, or they will definitely come to the door, so their livelihood has become a problem, will it be difficult for them to hide like rats in the second half of their lives?
Fan Li stood up, walked to the door of the warehouse, and patted the crossbow guarding the door. It seems that Chu Jianghe can't bear the fatigue after all, even though he is just sitting outside the tomb, a fat man is a fat man. After Kai crossbow left, Fan Li sat on the chair by the door, lit a cigarette, and then saw a figure holding a heavy object not far away, and looked closely at Chu Jianghe, who was holding a computer host. Fan Li laughed at himself, it turned out that he didn't guard the door for this thing, and he thought that Jiang He had also gone to sleep.
"Are we really going to stay here?" Fan Li looked at the computer host, and then looked at the display screen behind him.
"Then what can we do, we need an ID card to rent a house or something, it's too easy to be exposed, it's a blessing to be able to find such a hiding place, otherwise what else, flee abroad? We don't have that much money. ”
"But this is still a maze, Boss Jin knows that we are in a maze, and he will definitely not give up searching."
"That's exactly what it is. He's not going to focus on the lost city. Jialan's voice came, and she took the computer host in Chu Jianghe's arms with one hand. Like you said, we can only take one step at a time, and tomorrow I will go with you to your grandfather's place, and this matter must be explained to him. ”
"What!" Hearing this, Fan Liteng stood up. "Grandpa must not be allowed to know."
"Only your grandfather can save you." Jialan said unhurriedly. "You know better than I do, who else do you expect to help you at this time? If this continues, sooner or later everyone will be affected. ”
Jialan no longer waited for Fan Li's answer, and walked into the house with the main chassis, and after a while, Kai Crossbow answered a phone call and left the warehouse, and then Xiao Yun and Xiao Xiao also walked out of the warehouse, at this time Jialan pulled Fan Li into the warehouse, and sat cross-legged on the floor with only a layer of book paper, and Chu Jianghe next to him was debugging the computer.
"Think about what to say to your grandfather, he must have been surprised and happy to see us." Jialan snatched Fan Li's cigarette, took a puff of herself, and threw it out the door.
"Actually, after Brother Jiu was catapulted by the stone gate, I had a dream, in which I entered the temple and saw two statues like strange fish, and then a cloud of black smoke dragged me into the depths of the temple, and I saw four blackened skeletons, and then the stone dagger that my grandfather said."
"Four skeletons...... Your father ...... him."
"It's not sure yet, they all look the same, but one is more broken, if these are true, grandpa must have hidden something from us, I was about to go up the mountain and ask him about the old man, but how should I face him, this is a forbidden area in our family, and I promised grandpa a few years ago that he would no longer be engaged in the spirit thief industry."
"Grandpa was very strict with us, that's true, but he was also a reasonable person." Jialan stood up and picked up her broom. "I've booked a plane for tomorrow morning, think about what you're going to say."
The next day, Kai crossbow bought second-hand furniture, Xiao Yun and Xiao Xiao bought a lot of cups, Chu Jianghe took a lot of defective products from the ruins of the second-hand market, and made his own monitoring system, while Fan Li and Jialan boarded the flight to Jizhou with travel bags. After getting off the plane from Kyoto, it's another six-hour shuttle bus trip. Fan Li was nervous along the way, and after arriving at the destination, Fan Li looked at the village in front of him and was stunned.
Since Fan Yi disbanded the Fan family's team of spirit thieves, he returned to his hometown in Jizhou by himself and lived a reclusive life like a hidden Jiao on a low mountain. This low hill stands behind a village, which is very backward, and only a few years ago it was connected to the Internet, which can be regarded as a small step towards an advanced rural area.
Fan Li and Jialan made their way through the village towards the low mountain, passing by swarthy faces along the way. Although Fan Li and his grandfather were born to learn the art of stealing spirits, it was very hard, but because of congenital reasons, his skin was very white, even if he was tanned, after taking off a layer of dead skin, he became white again. And Jialan has a lot of tattoos on her skin, the left eagle and the right woodpecker, a dragon on her neck, and a toad on her thigh, all of which are very blinking. They attracted the attention of many people, and naturally saw the vigilance in the eyes of the villagers. These two people suddenly appeared with large bags and small bags, which inevitably made people feel that the comers were not good.
Before plunging headlong into the low mountain jungle, Fan Li took a deep breath. The low hill where my grandfather lived had no precious resources, so it was overgrown with weeds and wild trees, and no one developed or built roads. Fan Li and Jialan had to walk on mountain roads, sometimes potholes, sometimes wide and narrow, and they would accidentally break their feet.
I haven't seen my grandfather for a long time, and it's very rude to bring a weapon, so Jialan didn't bring a bow and arrows, which made her hands and feet more flexible, and she could jump in the mountains and rocks with confidence, while Fan Lixi could only squirm like a snail. They walked for three hours, such a rugged mountain road had already made Fan Li tired and kicked, yesterday suffered a lot of physical and psychological damage, early morning almost stuck to the ground to spread the blanket, let alone to walk such a mountain road, Fan Li only felt that his body was about to collapse.
Passing through the strange little trees, there was a brick and wood bungalow in front of me, the bungalow was not painted, there were three long benches outside, two wooden fences, on the bench sat a child about ten years old, and two wooden fences with chickens and sheep respectively. When the child saw Fan Li and Jialan, he turned around and ran into the room, and in less than a minute, a tough white-bearded old man walked out with a long beard and a smile.
"It's Tanuki and Lan'er."
Fan Li and Jialan walked forward quickly and knelt down together.
"Hello grandpa!"
"Oh, what age are you still kneeling, hurry up, hurry up, it's rare for the two of you to come to see me together, my old bones are also blessed." Fan Qi picked up Fan Li and Jialan and asked them to sit on a bench, and the child took out a pot of tea from the house.
"You two, are you reconciled?" Fan Qi looked at Fan Li, and then at Jialan, who sneered and nodded again and again.
"Reconciled, reconciled." Fan Lifu also immediately catered to him. "Grandpa, we came to see you this time." Fan Li took out a jar of famous tea, he didn't understand tea, these tea leaves were all selected by Jialan for him. He handed the jar of tea to the child, and he turned and ran back into the house with a quick turn.
"Alas, we haven't seen each other for several years, since you quit the rivers and lakes, my heart has been pounding, for fear that God will blame you, but fortunately, you are all fine, that is the blessing we cultivated in our previous life." Fan Yi took a sip of tea and patted his thigh. Fan Li looked at Jialan unnaturally, she took advantage of Fan Qi's look at the child to give Fan Li, and laughed with her grandfather.
"Grandpa, who is this kid?" Fan Li looked at the child hidden behind the door, only half of his face was exposed, and asked.
"The child under the village, no father and no mother, I saw that he was pitiful and took him in, when I was a child, my grandfather is old, and some things can only be done by the child."
Hearing these words, Fan Li nodded vigorously and didn't say anything.
At dinner, Fan Yi asked the child to go down the mountain and buy two roast chickens in the village, the boy had very good hands and feet, and it took less than two hours to go down the mountain and up the mountain. Fan Li and Jialan, who hadn't eaten a serious meal for almost a day, had already been hungry for roundworms, and almost nibbled on the roast chicken, which made the old man Fan Yi happy.
After dinner, Fan Yi fell asleep, and the old man arranged for two young men to sleep in another room. At midnight, Fan Li sat alone on the bench outside the door and looked at the moon, how could he have the mind to sleep, he also knew that although Jialan was lying on the kang, he did not feel sleepy. After about half an hour, Jialan also came out of the house, and the two walked towards a nearby forest. By the light of the moon, they saw the stream in the distance glowing with silver, like a fairy's silver hairpin.
"I really want to go back to the past, when we were carefree, and we were just forced to study by our grandfather every day, but there was no psychological pressure." Fan lit a cigarette and took a deep breath.
"He's so happy to see us, even if you're fine, you should come back and see." Jialan's hand rested on Fan's shoulder. "But I'm not complaining about you, I haven't seen my grandmother in a long time."
"Grandma lives in the mountains, but it's not something that ordinary people want to see." Fan Li smiled. "I'm worried about whether Grandpa will be hit if he finds out, and we have violated the big rules he set this time."
"Grandpa is a lion, representing domination and strength, your father is a mastiff, representing loyalty, and you are a fox, representing wisdom and unrestrainedness, I think grandpa would have been able to calculate it a long time ago, or my grandmother had already told him, after all, it is very rare to name a fox."
"Actually, I still have something to hide from you, I have seen more things in Youdu."
"Let's talk about it, we can't sleep anyway." Jialan squatted beside Fan Li.
"We were forced into the fork by the knights, and I saw a pale-faced man facing me, and I was dragged into the second tunnel as if I was being pulled by something. After entering the tunnel, I came to a temple of flames, and I saw a hundred-carat ruby next to the coffin, and I opened the coffin to find that it was a blackened corpse, much like the last black skeleton I saw, with this around its neck. Fan Lifu said as he took out the ruby key. I used it to open the mechanism underneath the ruby, and a Fang Tian Painting Halberd appeared, four meters long, and flames immediately burned around it. The flames were peculiar, they burned without oil, and they burned armor and weapons, and the most terrifying thing to me was that the skeleton sat up, and I was so frightened that I ran on and never looked back. ”
Jialan was silent for a while, and Fan Li thought she was shocked by her experience, but then she took out something from her bag, something shiny. Fan Li took it and saw that it was a black stone with a nine-tailed fox carved on it, and the notch was infused with white liquid.
"After we separated from the ninth brother, the knights behind chased after them, I shot three arrows at it, and it disappeared, and then when chasing Xiao Yun and them, I seemed to see some strange scorpions, they were all black, with huge chelae and terrifying mouths, that mouth is not like a normal scorpion's mouthparts, but a specialized chewing mouthpart that can tear flesh and blood, the group of scorpions saw my arrival and retreated, where they stayed before revealed an altar, and this thing was placed inside."
"What is this?" Fan Li looked at this thing carefully, as if it was familiar.
"That's the Nine-Tails Spell Spirit." A trembling voice came from behind, and the two looked together and found that Fan Yi was already standing behind him at some point.