Chapter 31: The Palace in the Mountains
That day, Tang Yichuan and the others ate exceptionally fragrant, and those meals made several people feel as if even the best restaurant they had ever eaten was not as good as the old lady's cooking.
This made Tang Yichuan have a strange feeling, I always felt that there was something unusual about this very ordinary old lady, it was not easy for an elderly man to be able to cook, it was really rare to be able to make dishes so delicious, and he was not a chef, as if he had known everyone's appetite in advance, and almost every dish was made according to people's appetites.
Tang Yichuan's taste is also different, Tang Yichuan's taste is light, Nalan Ning likes to eat slightly spicy, fox likes to eat fishy, Chu Yan likes to eat raw, but everyone is absolutely delicious after eating.
Even Tingting was surprised that her grandmother's cooking was so delicious that it made people feel incredible.
Tingting praised her grandmother's delicious food while eating, and she couldn't stop eating.
After dinner, Chu Yan and Tingting were in charge of washing the dishes, and Tang Yichuan was pulled by the old lady again.
The old lady began to ask Tang Yichuan and the others not to go to the back mountain, no matter when they wanted, because when she heard Tingting say that she was going to the back mountain during the day tomorrow, she was very worried.
"No, we're not going." Tang Yichuan didn't tell the truth, he just comforted the old lady in front of him with lies.
"I really can't go, even if you go, you can't let our family Tingting go to the back mountain." The old lady suddenly stood up, and there was a fierce aura on her body, as if if Tang Yichuan said that she wanted to take Tingting with her, she would be able to fight Tang Yichuan desperately immediately.
Tang Yichuan nodded again and again, promising in every possible way that he would not let Tingting go to the back mountain.
That night, Tang Yichuan slept in that room. He hadn't encountered such a situation for many years, he was half-asleep in his dream but couldn't wake up, let alone use the power of the Yin Yang Tree, and the feeling of suffocation followed him for a real night.
It wasn't until after dawn the next day that Chu Yan sensed something wrong and rushed into Tang Yichuan's room. It was only then that Tang Yichuan woke up from his sleep.
Tang Yichuan was covered in cold sweat, and his shouting voice in his dream was hoarse, but no one heard it, and he didn't even see what was pressing the bed against him.
"How are you?" After Chu Yan rushed into Tang Yichuan's room, he saw a black shadow flying out of the window, but when he chased to the window, he found that the black shadow had disappeared, and turned around and asked Tang Yichuan how he was.
Tang Yichuan breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head and said that he had nothing to do, but was only slightly frightened, after all, he was already as powerful as he was now. Although the Demon Emperor's ability was not completely emanated, it was also strong enough to command a hundred ghosts, but he was actually pressed by the ghosts.
This kind of thing would not have happened to him a few years ago, unless he met an extremely powerful ghost and he was very weak, otherwise, the general ghost was not willing to get close to him at all, and getting close to him was simply asking for trouble for himself.
"What was it just now. Did you see it clearly? Tang Yichuan asked Chu Yan.
"I don't know what it is, it's like a ghost. But it doesn't seem to belong to the six realms. Chu Yan said that the situation was a bit like herself, neither a human, nor a ghost, nor a demon.
"There are ghosts in this place." Tang Yichuan said, "Could it be that there are ghosts in the back mountains?" ”
can't be sure what it is, Tang Yichuan has to act as if nothing happened.
Nice weather outside. Tang Yichuan and the others planned to go directly to the back mountain to have a look, find the place where Yu Yingying often goes, and go to Yu Yingying to save her.
Because the old lady told her a thousand words and instructions, Tang Yichuan did not bring Tingting over. Even if Tingting was very persistent, Tang Yichuan didn't bring anyone over, in the end, Tingting was just an ordinary girl, and they couldn't take care of her if she was in danger with her.
"Then you must rescue Yingying." Tingting said to Tang Yichuan, "I'll wait for you here, you have to be careful." ”
"Okay."
Tang Yichuan and the others were just about to leave, but Tingting stopped them again, "Hey, what if, I mean just in case, what if you don't know what to do, there are really ghosts on the mountain, and you are also trapped?" ”
"Within three days, if we don't come down, you're going to call this person." Tang Yichuan directly gave Qiao Ze's business card to Tingting.
"He's an exorcist like you?" Tingting put away her business card, "Then I know, you guys be careful, you must come back quickly." ”
Tang Yichuan and the others were not in their mother-in-law, so they immediately took their things and went to the back mountain, there are continuous mountains, and there is a mountain that looks slightly smaller among the mountains, as if it is surrounded by many high mountains, that place is the place that Tingting said Yu Yingying often goes, they need to go to that mountain, and then look for Yu Yingying.
It is not easy to climb the mountain, especially walking around the mountain, people who are inexperienced and unfamiliar will always get lost, and they have no guide, so they can only rely on Nalan Ning's ability to find the way.
Fortunately, after Nalan Ning crossed into this world, her ability to sense space did not disappear, but became more powerful, and when climbing the mountain, Nalan Ning led the way very smoothly.
When they climbed to two or three o'clock in the afternoon, they were already at the foot of the target mountain, this mountain seemed to be only a little bit far away, and after really arriving at this place, they would feel that this mountain was also very large, and the trees on the mountain were very lush, it was very difficult to walk, and they couldn't see the appearance of a road, and they could only run around on the three by instinct.
The more you go inside, the more you feel a deep and terrifying feeling, the trees are very old, covering the sky and the sun, shrouding the whole mountain forest into a dark world.
There are still a lot of spirits in the forest, but they are all newly cultivated spirits, and they are not too powerful, and they will not make trouble with people, and they will run away when they see people.
There are a few trees full of weird insects, and when they pass by, they fall down in a flutter, which is a situation that makes people shudder, Nalan Ning is scared enough, Chu Yan is very bold, isn't it an insect. When I saw it, I dared to step on two feet.
It was at this time that Chu Yan's image of the goddess in Tang Yichuan's heart was completely destroyed, leaving only the terrifying image of Chu Yan stepping on a ball of green insects, this woman was more terrifying than a ghost.
The demonic aura gradually began to become stronger, and it was the kind of fishy smell that Tingting had said.
They walked up for a while, and after walking for a long time, the breath began to gradually become more and more intense.
I don't know how long later. Tang Yichuan suddenly stopped, "It's the most intense place, it's around here." ”
"Look for it." The fox said.
Then several people split up and began to look for the source of this demonic energy, the demonic energy was obviously very heavy, but several people searched for a long time and didn't seem to find the source, until Nalan Ning's loud cry came, "Here, it's here!" ”
Several people followed the sound to find Nalan Ning, who was standing at the entrance of a cave. It was a diagonal opening into the ground, it was very dark inside, and it kept bubbling outward, it looked like a hole made by artificiality, and there were some tools behind the trees on the edge of the hole.
"I think it's inside." Nalan Ning closed her eyes, and the entire underground structure came to her mind, and she went through this passage, which seemed to be a situation in all directions.
"How?" Tang Yichuan asked.
"It's like a tomb. A large tomb with a special structure. It's like a palace. Nalan Ning felt it for a moment and said, "I can't feel the source of the demonic energy for the time being, it seems that there is a thick demonic energy everywhere, and I can't sense it at all where it comes from, I need to go down to see it to be sure." ”
"Let's go down then." Tang Yichuan said without hesitation.
The fox took on the form of the main body and was the first to enter the cave. When he entered, he made sure that there was no danger inside, and Tang Yichuan and the others followed the fox in one after another.
The slope was long, and they slid down like a slide, and finally landed in a small walkway. This passage is very narrow, and adults like Tang Yichuan, who are not very big, also need to crawl and walk when they enter, but the fox who turned into the main body and Murong Qingshu, who was only the size of a child, entered very easily.
The fox opened the way in front of them, jumped all the way forward, ran easily for a long time, and then came back to tell the others what was going on in front of them, and how they could get out.
After crawling for more than half an hour, several people were so tired that they couldn't breathe, and the fox said, "It's almost the end, and you can go out soon." ”
As soon as they heard the fox's words, the fighting spirit of several people burned again, and continued to climb forward with their stiff backs, the stone slabs in this passage were relatively rough, and when they climbed up like this, their knees were already worn out, and several people were in pain.
Nalan Ning's knees in her skirt were even more miserable, they were all red and swollen, Tang Yichuan stopped and took off his head and tied Nalan Ning to his knees, Nalan Ning was better.
Finally went out, and as soon as several people came out of this suffocating hole, they all gasped rapidly and rested well.
After the fox turned around, he found a few candlesticks, and lit all the candlesticks on the wall, and the originally dark place suddenly lit up, and there were flames burning directly to the top floor, and when he looked up, a huge fire dragon was formed on the top floor.
The fire dragon burned vigorously, but no sparks fell, the fire dragon was a fire dragon with hands and feet, and its appearance was extremely strange, it was a human snake mentioned in the information.
This kind of human snake can eat people, and it can also transform into a human form, which is quite weird.
"This place can't be a palace for this thing, right?" The fox glanced up.
"I don't know. It's still quite possible. Tang Yichuan said, "According to Tingting, he also saw something like a human snake, but she mistakenly thought it was a dragon." Dragons are unlikely to have this kind of dampness and fishy smell, and eighty percent of them are human snakes. I also saw a lot of human snakes in Yu Yingying's dead home. ”
"But people and snakes eat people very casually, and it is impossible to have much purpose when they meet people to eat." Murong Qingshu said, "According to Yu Yingying's situation, she doesn't look like she was eaten by a human snake, but like she was entangled by a human snake." ”
"Yes, moreover, Tingting also mentioned that Yu Yingying she saw seemed to be pregnant." Tang Yichuan said.
"What do you mean-" Chu Yan had goosebumps all over his body and looked at Tang Yichuan.
"Yes, maybe Yu Yingying is being used as a container for incubating children." Tang Yichuan thought of this, and his body was also fried, and his scalp was numb for a while, this human snake was so weird, he speculated about this situation. It's not impossible. After all, human snakes are half human and half snakes, and there may be human genes that make it impossible for people to conceive children and have children.
Nalan Ning nodded: "In this way, you can say why Yu Yingying said that she was so miserable in the past." But the question is, why is it her, is it because she has always been here that she was found by the snake? I think people have children with human snakes and demons. It shouldn't be that simple. So the human snake was only looking for Yu Yingying, not anyone else. There are so many little girls in this village, and the human snake has never been found at all. ”
"It's a little strange, this can only be determined after we find Yu Yingying or the human snake - who! Come out! Tang Yichuan suddenly turned his head and looked into the passage just now.
Suddenly, something rolled out of it, Tingting fell to the ground with a heavy thud, covered her face and said, "I'm sorry, I'm still here." ”
"......" Everyone looked at Tingting.
"Your grandma is going to be angry." Tang Yichuan said, "She is very worried about you. ”
"I know. So I just happened to sneak out. Tingting got up from the ground and slapped the dust on her body, and when she looked up and saw the fire dragon, she let out an exclamation sound, which was surprised at first, and then the tone of the surprise voice fell, turning into a frightened and frightened sound.
"It's it, it's this, it's it, that's what I see!" Tingting's body trembled a little. She said with a violent tremor, and when she looked at the fire dragon, she was terrified beyond imagination. It was as if the fire dragon had eaten her from a distance, rather than standing at the window and seeing her from afar.
Seeing that Tingting's feelings were getting more and more wrong, and even convulsed, Tang Yichuan hurriedly went over and suppressed Tingting and grabbed her hands.
The rest of the people came up to help.
"Sober up, Tingting. Calm down, that's not true. Tang Yichuan comforted Tingting from time to time.
"Whew-" Tingting gasped, trying to calm her breath, and slowly the horror in her eyes began to disappear, and her body did not continue to twitch.
Tang Yichuan let go of Tingting. Several people looked at Tingting with each other, and Tingting's reaction was too intense.
"I, I'm out of shape." Tingting trembled slightly, "I don't know why, I think it's terrifying here, and this snake is also terrifying." ”
"Snakes? You mean snakes? ”
"Snake, yes, how could I think it's a snake, isn't it a dragon......" Tingting didn't have the courage to look up, but thought with some distress, she thought it was a dragon before, but now it was a snake that blurted out of her mouth, it would never be like this under normal circumstances, what are you crazy about?
Just now, too, the inexplicable fear, the kind of fear that went straight to her heart, made her can't help but want to escape from here, as if she had a feeling of suffocation as soon as she came in.
"Why don't you go out first?" Tang Yichuan felt that Tingting's love was not quite right, and something might happen if she went inside.
Although the fear in her heart was very deep, Tingting shook her head firmly, "No, I can't go out, I feel a little restless at the thought that Yingying may be inside, even if this place is really scary, this is Longtan Tiger's Den, I have to go in and break in." ”
Tingting seems to be very persistent about Yingying's affairs, as if she is very worried about Yu Yingying, Tang Yichuan and the others can't help persuading Tingting, after all, Tingting is in this situation, and she even came to this place by herself.
After resting for a while, the few people continued to walk forward, according to what Nalan Ning said, there seemed to be a big palace going forward.
Walking all the way forward, this place is full of sculptures and murals of human snakes, those human snakes stand upright with human legs, and their bodies are all snake bodies, but there are also two human arms, some human snakes are still eating weapons in their hands, and some are carved scenes of human snakes grabbing people to eat people, which looks very weird and terrifying.
The passage is very long, after walking for a while, there are several forks in the road, Nalan Ning has a strong sense of space, you can see the entire floor plan here when you close your eyes, and you can choose the right road at once, so it becomes very simple to go inside along the road, and it is a light thing to choose a road all the way.
After walking for a while, Tang Yichuan heard a voice talking in front of him.
I remembered that I saw the driving tools left by humans on it, and probably guessed that there were probably a few tomb robbers inside.
It sounded like the three of them were arguing about something, and the noisy sound suddenly stopped when Tang Yichuan and the others approached.
Then three men with five big and three thick appeared in front of Tang Yichuan and the others, and the three people looked at Tang Yichuan and asked with a somewhat hideous expression: "Who are you?" ”
Looking Tang Yichuan up and down a few times, he should have felt that this combination was very weird. There were foxes, there were people, there were women, and there were children.
"It has nothing to do with you, we have a different purpose than yours, so please borrow it." Tang Yichuan said.
"Borrowed? Let you go in and steal our stuff? This is where we first discovered. You came with us and tried to get things before us, but you can't do that. One of the men said loudly, and he walked towards Tang Yichuan, "Who are you?" Report your name. ”
"You don't know you when it comes out, it's not inverted, but we're not interested here, we're looking for people, if you don't agree with us going ahead, you go ahead. Shall we follow you? ”
"Let's open the way in the front, and you guys pick up the leaks in the back, it's a good idea, did your mother teach you to get something for nothing?" The man snorted, "No! ”
Chu Yan said: "This doesn't work, that doesn't work, so what do you want?" ”
"Well, you're pretty little girl. It's quite a big temper. It's not good, just let him open the way in front! The man pointed at Tang Yichuan. looked at Chu Yan and the others again, probably thinking that it was not much fun to be women and children, so Tang Yichuan seemed to be able to summon it.
Tang Yichuan also has no opinion, this person looks fierce and vicious, and it is very troublesome.
It's just that when Tang Yichuan passed by the other two people and planned to continue walking, he suddenly stopped. He turned his head and glanced at a person who had not spoken, the face of the person who had been speaking was handsome, but his skin was a little pale, like a very sick person, Tang Yichuan asked in a low voice. "Did this friend of yours just leave your sight?"
The man was stunned for a moment, nodded subconsciously, and in the next second, Tang Yichuan suddenly turned around, and a dagger flew out of his wrist, directly stabbing the person standing behind him, and the moment he was pierced, a scarlet snake letter was spit out of the man's mouth.
"What are you doing!" The person who summoned Tang Yichuan just now was shocked and wanted to make a move towards Tang Yichuan, but when he saw Tang Yichuan kill his partner first, he immediately took out a gun and pointed it at Tang Yichuan's head.
"See for yourself what this thing is." Tang Yichuan glanced at the thing on the ground, and gradually the person turned into a snake, and there was a huge humanoid thing on the belly of this snake, as if a person had just been swallowed.
"Snake, what's going on, how did the second child become a snake!" The man was taken aback.
Tang Yichuan pulled out the sword in the thin stick in his hand, and with a slight pick, the abdomen of the snake was cut open, and a whole person flowed out of it, which turned out to be the person who was stabbed by Tang Yichuan just now, but he was wrapped in a layer of white mucous membrane and died completely.
"Dick!" The man screamed in grief, "How can this be! ”
"This is a youkai?" The pale-faced person's face turned even paler, and his body seemed to be trembling, "Boss, it's too evil, the second child has only left us for a while, how can this be!" ”
"There are a lot of snakes here, and that's how they eat people, one bite of Huluntun, or one bite and one bite and eat." Tang Yichuan said, "You two are lucky that you haven't been eaten yet." Why, if you don't know anything, you come and do no preparations? You don't look like novices, aren't you too reckless? ”
The boss did realize that he was too reckless and killed his brother, so he didn't refute Tang Yichuan's words, nor did he shout at Tang Yichuan anymore, just looked at Tang Yichuan and said, "How do you know?" ”
"If I didn't know, I wouldn't have come here. I advise you to get out of here, this is not where you should be. Tang Yichuan said and walked forward directly, "Don't thank me for saving your lives, when you leave, if you hear laughter, you won't run away." (To be continued......)