Chapter 39. Stripping and cocooning
Luo Xuan was secretly surprised, the word "missing" was by no means simple to say from Gu Mingjun's mouth, he didn't say "Hua'er is gone", "Hua'er is gone", but "Hua'er is missing", which shows that he has done his best to check the whereabouts of the fetal god Hua Ge with the eyes of the sky, but he is at a loss, so he is so anxious.
At the same time, it also shows that their group is in real trouble.
Luo Xuan hugged the barefoot Nie Xiaofeng and followed Gu Mingjun to the front of the women's wing in the opposite corridor, and before he entered the room, he heard a series of screams of lilac dancing shadows coming from inside.
As the head of all the immortals in the one hundred and seven heavens, the Lilac Dance Shadow has always been gentle and elegant, and it is strange that it will make such a sound. When I entered the room, I saw that the windows on all sides of the room were all closed, and the long cotton curtains hung from the eaves to the base of the wall, and no light could penetrate a single light. On the women's bed, Qianyou was tightly wrapping his arms around Lilac Dance's body.
Lilac Dance Shadow struggled desperately, crisscrossing green tendon lines on his fair skin, the former Kunlun Realm Immortal Wan was wearing a cloak, tilting his head and roaring, when he saw the three of him coming in, his eyes suddenly widened, and a mouthful of snow-white pointed fangs burst out with a "poof".
Nie Xiaofeng was taken aback, and jumped down from Luo Xuan's arm to go over to check, but was dragged by Gu Mingjun and Luo Xuan at the same time. Luo Xuan stepped to the table, picked up the wooden barrel bowl that was tumbling on the round table, touched the edge of the bowl with his fingertips, sniffed it, frowned:
"The supper they ate last night was mixed with foreign blood. ”
"Different blood, what different blood?" Nie Xiaofeng, Gu Mingjun and Qianyou asked in unison, Luo Xuan twisted the remaining soup off his fingers, and his frowning eyebrows never relaxed.
The smell of blood was unheard of for him, he had never seen it before, just a sniff made him inexplicably have an illusion of hunger and thirst, and he wanted to drink something strongly, and this smell of blood was filled with a strange smell of corrosion and fishiness, and the blood age was very ancient.
If the blood could tell him something, then the owner of this rotten blood must not have seen the light of day for a long, long time, and must not be a living creature.
"Did you do anything unusual when you got back to your room last night?"
Luo Xuan knew that he couldn't find anything out of it with his eyes of the sky, so he simply asked Nie Xiaofeng, who was in the same room as Hua Ge and Lilac Dance.
"After I came back with Hua'er last night, Xiao Er came to deliver supper, Hua'er and Wuying ate, I drank too much beer and couldn't eat, so I went to bed first, and then I couldn't stand Hua'er's snoring, so I came to you... In your room. ”
Nie Xiaofeng lowered his head, his voice getting quieter and quieter.
As soon as the words fell, Gu Mingjun, the god of hunger, turned around and rushed downstairs into the backyard, and in a hurry, he even forgot to cast a spell.
The shopkeeper with short blond hair was in the backyard stable, holding a large iron to pry loose the horses' feed, and the lone traveler who had stayed in the stable last night had already left early in the morning. Seeing Gu Mingjun rushing in full swing, Xiao Er thought he had something to order, so he hurriedly put down his work, wiped his hands on his clothes, and said:
"Guest, what do you have... Ahh
Gu Mingjun picked up the shopkeeper from the stable like a squirrel, and said angrily:
"Demon! Say, where did the beautiful girl in the women's room on the third floor last night go to you?!"
The shopkeeper's legs hung in the air and kicked violently, and a fluffy brown tail suddenly emerged from his waist and thighs, and he couldn't catch his breath:
"Divine Monarch... What do you say? What a pretty girl?"
The proprietress of the black shop also chased after her at this time, stopped Gu Mingjun and said:
"Oh, stop this guest, the shop is a serious business, and we don't have to do this kind of thing!"
Seeing that the proprietress was not surprised at all when she saw the guy's tail, Gu Mingjun's eyes widened angrily, and he almost lifted the proprietress up:
"You dare to raise a monster as a buddy, will you not know Hua'er's identity? Tell me, what kind of monster did you mix in your diet, and where did you tie her up?"
Luo Xuan and Nie Xiaofeng hurried downstairs, Luo Xuan pulled Gu Mingjun over, handed it to Nie Xiaofeng to look at, and brought the soup bowl forward to show the proprietress and said:
"Shopkeeper, this bowl of pumpkin porridge was indeed brought upstairs by your guy last night, and then one of our girls disappeared, and the other girl also had a strange illness after eating this porridge. I'm sure everyone was kept in the dark, and if it was really you, the two of you would have run away in the morning. ”
The proprietress and the guy who fell to the ground nodded again and again, and Luo Xuan continued:
"You're a well-informed shop, can you help us smell it, where does this smell come from?"
The proprietress sniffed at the soup bowl, and her face was really shocked, and said:
"You said there's another girl who is sick, take me to see it!"
The group led the proprietress back upstairs, and Qianyou had cast a spell to build a golden light barrier in front of Lilac Dance's bed, trapping her in it. When the proprietress entered the house, every time Lilac Dance Shadow saw a living person appear, she would rub her face tightly against the divine power barrier, her eyes cracked, and her expression was very hungry.
Seeing this, the proprietress covered her eyes and took a step back, turned around and left, but this time it was Qianyou who took the lead in casting a spell to intercept her, and said sharply:
"You know what's going on, why don't you say it?!"
The proprietress sighed, looked at the dark room, and said:
"Come down with me, and I will tell you everything I know. Since this happened, I have no choice but to notify everyone and close the shop as soon as possible. ”
Everyone followed the proprietress down to the hall, and saw that the men in the store were all active, and within a quarter of an hour, all the customers in the store were woken up and gathered in the lobby.
The proprietress refunded everyone's rent separately, apologized again and again and asked everyone to leave quickly, the Meijian students who had just woken up looked at each other and shouted loudly, and the gray-robed old assistant looked at the solemn expression of the proprietress, and led the students away without saying a word.
After a while, the entire black shop was empty, and only Luo Xuan and his party were still guarding the hall, and the proprietress turned around and said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, your friends, it should have been taken away by the evil clansmen of the late faction, and the strange smell in this soup bowl, if I remember well, is the smell of the rotten blood of the blood ancestor Cain himself. ”
"But according to that auxiliary master, the Blood Ancestor Cain has lived in the depths of the earth for many years, how could his blood escape to the Meijian Continent?" Luo Xuan wondered.
The proprietress shook her head and said, "I don't know what's going on inside, but I remember the smell of Cain's blood clearly." This matter has to start from the source. The Blood Ancestor Cain and his Late Evil Clansmen were the first group of demons to appear on the Meijian Continent, almost the same year as this land. There are a total of 50 states and regions in the United States, and now these 50 states and regions have gradually divided into a coalition of north and south, each led by a governor. Among them, the governor in charge of the northern faction, Wo Shengdun, advocated the expulsion of the blood ancestor Cain and the Late Evil clan from the Meijian Continent, while the governors of the southern states hoped to use the power of the Late Evil faction to end the civil war between the north and the south on the mainland. ”
When Cain discovered the intentions of the Nanbu magistrate, he sent an envoy from the evil clan to the Nanbu magistrate to recruit him, and used the entire Meijian Continent as a bait to lure the Nanbu magistrate to drink his blood and become a puppet of the blood roots. At the same time, Cain is also planning to use the power of the blood moon to uncover the curse of the vampire's invisible sunlight, so that all the late faction evils can gain the ability to walk freely and hunt under the sun. ”
"At that time, the magistrate of Nanbu, who controlled half of the country and military power, and felt that he could be used against the evil clan of the late faction, was the most ideal blood-root puppet of the Blood Demon Cain. But it was at that time that I personally smelled the rotten blood of the blood ancestor Cain, and that smell, as long as people smell it, they will never forget it for the rest of their lives. ”
Speaking of this, everyone suddenly had an epiphany, and they were taken aback, and said in unison:
"You are the chief county magistrate of the Southern Sect Prefectures?!"
The proprietress laughed embarrassedly, took off the horse coat skirt on her body, peeled off the two plump pumpkins on her chest, and faded into a velvet suit, revealing a distinct male posture.
This is the weakness of human beings, who are not close enough to the devil to experience the dangers of the devil. It wasn't until the messenger of the Evil Clan of the Late Sect brought the blood of the Blood Demon Ancestor to me, and until the smell of fishy despair pierced all my senses in one fell swoop, that I knew that I could never be his puppet, and that humans should never think that they could use the devil to achieve their goals. Dealing with an American continent for this eternal punishment is not worth it for anyone. ”
"So I excused myself to say goodbye to my subordinates, and escaped from the underground tunnel of the Southern Eagle Fortress alone, and since then I have been incognito, not daring to ask about the affairs of the north and the south, and opened this inn in the wilderness near Shengdun City, thinking that I used to be on the same page with the Northern Alliance, but after experiencing the invitation of the bloody puppet of the Blood Ancestor Cain, I felt that Shengdun City and the north were a correct place, a safe place. ”
"Because I changed my mind on the spot, abandoned the city and fled, and the evil of the late faction was enraged, and sucked the southern fortress dry overnight. I betrayed all my friends and brethren, and I no longer had the shame to see anyone, so I disguised myself as I am, and along the way I only dared to hire animal spirits who were not of my race as clerks and associates, because animals have always been simpler than humans, and they will neither inquire about my past nor doubt my future. As long as they are fed, sheltered, and clothed, they will follow me loyally. ”
The magistrate of Nanbu said, patting the head of the short-haired red-gold boy who was squatting beside him, and the man curled up his feet and sat upright on the ground, his tan raccoon tail sweeping across the board.
"In this way, Hua'er must have been captured by Blood Ancestor Cain!But what did Blood Ancestor do when he caught Hua'er? And Wuying, how could she become this terminally ill strange appearance?" Nie Xiaofeng exclaimed in surprise.
The magistrate of Nanbu continued, "Any living creature who drinks Cain's blood, even a drop, will first fall into a deep coma, and when he wakes up, he will become a blood addict and become a member of the bloodless and unhappy Evening faction. The girl upstairs drank the rotten blood of the Blood Ancestor Cain, so her desire and strength would surpass that of all the creatures who were sucked by the Blood Ancestor and transformed into the Late Evil Clan, especially on the night when the blood moon was full. I'm sorry to tell you the bad news ... As it stands, another friend of yours must have turned into a bloodthirsty late faction ... ”
Gu Mingjun shook his head and said no: "Impossible, Hua'er will never become a late faction." ”
Seeing that he was so determined, the magistrate of Nanbu wanted to comfort him, but Gu Mingjun waved his hand and said, "You don't understand." Turning around and walking to the side with Luo Xuan, the two discussed in a low voice.
Although the position of the fetal god Huage is not obtained through normal means, it is ultimately born as a god body, and it is an existence that is inviolable to all things. The gods are at the top of the creation, and they will not be easily subdued by the creatures of the lower realms such as monsters and blood demons.
However, the strange thing is that the fetal god Hua Ge is really gone, and there is no obvious trace of a struggle at the scene, which shows that when Hua Ge was taken away, it was a period when he drank demon blood, fell into a coma, and was powerless to resist.
In this way, didn't this first sinner of the ancients, the Blood Ancestor Cain, who was cursed and punished by the gods, have the power to surpass the gods, so that the fetal god Hua Ge, who could easily take away tens of millions of people's spirit yuan in the Ding Boiling Demon Capital, was powerless to parry?
After Luo Xuan and Gu Mingjun finished talking in their minds, they decided to explore the tiger's den first, and Luo Xuan asked the magistrate of Nanbu:
"Does the shopkeeper know where the Blood Demon's lair is?"
The magistrate of Nanbu nodded, stretched out his hand to grab a long hemp rope hanging from the head of the huge rhinoceros hanging from the hall above the hall, and dragged the cow's head specimen on the ceiling to the crowd one by one.
Luo Xuan, Gu Mingjun, and Qianyou looked at it, and they all corrected their brows, it turned out that the leather handscroll painted with Qianmo traffic taken out by the magistrate of Nanbu was using the bloody skin of the young man.
The magistrate of Nanbu pointed to a red dot in the center of the picture, and his fingers slid all the way to the bottom of the dot, a huge reddish-brown space painted with blood, and said to everyone:
"This place, called the 'Cave of the Blood Ancestors', is said to be the masterpiece of the first rebellion of the Blood Ancestor Cain. In the fables of ancient times, the blood ancestor Cain has been hiding in a strange underground cave since he betrayed the gods, the cave is haunted, has countless entrances on the continent, and the cave body is huge, can devour the entire army and state, I don't know how many bones and blood of the people of the continent have been buried in it, so it is called the 'Blood Ancestor Cave'. ”
"The Blood Ancestral Cave is deep underground, and it has not seen sunlight since its birth, and it is said that there are millions of attached caves and inner caves hidden inside, and the mountains are covered with obstacles, and the bottom is not visible. After I escaped alone that day, in order to force me to show up, the evil clan of the late sent the evil clan to shovel the Southern Eagle Fort to the ground, sucked my compatriots out of the city in batches to show me, and hung their corpses on the weapons they used before their deaths, and inserted them outside the fortress several times. At that time, the entire Southern Eagle Fort became a hell on earth, and I really didn't have the courage to submit, so they took my family and took them into the Blood Ancestral Cave, and painted an entrance to the ancestral cave on the body of one of my brothers, and stuck him outside the city along with the others. ”
"I hid alone in the barren haystacks piled up outside the city, and waited until all the Evening Sect evils were gone, and then I dared to turn back and take this map to the Blood Ancestral Cave from my brother. I thought that one day I would go to the Blood Cave to avenge my army and family, but the more the days passed, the more I realized that the manpower is limited, the catastrophe is unstoppable, and people are not the opponents of the Blood Clan at all... ”
"Your family was taken captive by Cain, and you, as the governor of Nanbu, didn't even save them, but hid in this hotel as a shrunken turtle?
When Nie Xiaofeng heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt him with an angry shout.
The shopkeeper leaned weakly against the two dilapidated doors of the black shop, smiled bitterly in a low voice, and shook his head again and again:
"I know that everyone laughs at me for being cowardly and incompetent, and I am as bold as a mouse, and I dare not even save my own daughter. But if you had seen with your own eyes how the Late Sect slaughtered the city, and how the corpses of your compatriots and relatives were planted in the pointed fence and roasted in the fire, you would not be so determined. Believe me, we are human and we all have the same weaknesses. ”
As soon as Nie Xiaofeng heard that this person could even be indifferent to his daughter being caught in the blood cave, the emotion in his eyes suddenly changed from anger to deep contempt, and even the raccoon guy in the hall looked up at the shopkeeper in surprise, got on all fours, slowly paced to a corner and squatted down, licking his palms.
Seeing that the people and beasts in the hall were all staring at him with extreme contempt, the shopkeeper stepped forward and took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind, and said to everyone:
"Cain, the blood demon, doesn't arrest people for no reason, two of you drank the blood porridge, but only one of you was taken away, which shows that Cain wanted the girl who was taken away. Tomorrow night is the full moon of blood, the most important day in the history of the Late Evil Clan, and your friend was arrested mostly because she has one of the three bloods, and I don't know much about the details. My brother's Pitu, I will leave it to you now, and on the occasion of the full moon, Cain will definitely hold a full moon blood ceremony in the Cave of the Blood Ancestors, and your friends will definitely be there at that time. I see that a few of you don't look like ordinary humans, it seems that all of you have some immortal-like abilities, maybe you can really end the curse on the Meijian Continent over the years. If I could have been more heroic, I would have personally led you to the Blood Ancestral Cave, but I couldn't change my instinct to fear the Blood Clan, just like every creature in this world couldn't change its nature. I'm sorry. I, Meng Gao, the former county magistrate of Meijian Nanbu, wish a few horses success!"
Luo Xuan's heart moved, and he had a premonition that he was going to commit suicide, and he was just about to step forward to stop him, but his cuffs tightened, but he saw Nie Xiaofeng frowning and grabbed himself tightly.
Sure enough, Meng Gao took out a shooting fire anchor from under the mahogany long table, swallowed the sharp anchor head into his mouth, and pulled the bow machine with a "bang", and the hot blood suddenly splashed all over the four stacked walls of the black shop.
But I saw that the four black shop guys standing at the staircase and the corner made different animal calls at the same time, and they jumped out of their clothes and ran around, revolving back and forth mournfully around the corpse of the shopkeeper with a cracked liver and brain.
Nie Xiaofeng picked up the human skin map from the table, looked at each other with Luo Xuan, Gu Mingjun, and Qianyou, and pushed open the two bloody doors.
Outside the stack, on the boundless wilderness, the sun that should have been on duty in the sky has been obscured by layers of dark clouds, and half of the light and shadow have disappeared, and a huge blood-red moon that seems to be flowing hangs high in the sky, overlooking the entire Meijian Continent with a mournful look.