Chapter Twenty-Three—The Dry Well

Early the next morning, Chi Muyan went to the house left by the old village chief of Zhulin Village to dig out two books that had been smoked and changed color, and then returned to his residence and tore off the covers of the first and last pages of the two books.

Hong Jiu'er and Hong Shiyan didn't understand what he was doing, so they asked, "What are you tossing this morning?"

Chi Muyan smiled mysteriously, and reglued the last page torn from one book to another book that he tore off the first page, so that both the first page and the last page of the book became yellowed and white paper without words, and Chi Muyan took another brush and wrote the four big characters 'Hongmen Cheats' on the cover of the book in imitation of Master Hong's handwriting.

After writing it, he raised his head and smiled evilly at the two, "I'm making the Hongmen cheats." ”

After Chi Muyan finished speaking, he picked up the self-made Hongmen cheats book and carefully checked whether the adhesive part of the cover was sticky, then put it away with satisfaction, and returned Zhao Meng's album to Hong Jiu'er, "You should keep this yourself, it's a pity if it falls into Yin Mo's hands." ”

Hong Jiu'er hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand to take the album, and at this time there was a sudden commotion outside the house, and a bamboo forest guard ran to the front of the bamboo house to report: "Master Chi, it's not good! Today, when the villagers were working, they found that there were a few monsters like yesterday crawling out of the dry well in the north of the village, you should go and take a look!"

Hearing Zhu Linwei's words, the faces of the three people in the house changed at the same time, and they quickly put away the things in their hands, and rushed to the dry well in the north of the village with the Zhu Linwei.

Zhu Linwei hurried away with the three of them, and at the same time told the three of them how the monster was found in the dry well.

The dry well in the north of Zhulin Village was originally a well used by the villagers to irrigate their fields, but it suddenly dried up for some unknown reason after the winter last year. Now that spring has begun, the farmers in the village began to be busy with spring planting, this morning there are villagers in the field passing by the dry well, suddenly heard a scream from the bottom of the well, the villagers thought that someone accidentally fell into the dry well, was about to go down along the thick rope that used to hang the bucket to check, who knew that before going down to see a monster with horns climbing the thick rope climbed out of the well.

While speaking, a group of four people had already come to the edge of the dry well, and several bamboo guards were holding spears to force back the three monsters that crawled out of the well, but there was still a monster crawling out of the well, Chi Muyan saw this and hurriedly raised his staff, and after a dazzling white light flashed, the four monsters also turned into powder.

Chi Muyan and the others waited vigilantly at the mouth of the well for a while, and seeing that there were no more monsters crawling out of the dry well, Chi Muyan asked a few bamboo guards to guard at the mouth of the well first, and he took Hong Jiu'er and Hong Shiyan down the dry well.

The three of them carefully followed the thick rope to the bottom of the well slowly, Chi Muyan climbed at the bottom of the thick rope, grasping the thick rope with one hand, while holding the staff with the other hand to illuminate the other two, the three of them went down to the bottom of the well after a while.

Chi Muyan was the first to land, and first used the light from the tip of the staff to shine around the wall of the well, and found that there was a road at the bottom of the well that seemed to have just been dug up, and he didn't know where it led.

At this time, Hong Jiu'er and Hong Shiyan also climbed down one after another, and when they saw the road on the wall of the well, Hong Shiyan sighed: "No wonder the villagers said that the well was dry, and it turned out to be such a big hole, so the water in the well flowed away." ”

Chi Muyan shook his head, "No, Zhu Linwei didn't say that there was a hole in the well just now, which means that they don't know the situation at the bottom of the well, and you can see that the soil piled up next to this road is very new, as if it was dug up recently." ”

Hong Jiu'er walked over and grabbed a handful of dirt beside the road, looked at it, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, nodded and confirmed: "It is indeed newly dug up." ”

Hong Shi was puzzled, "Then who dug this up?"

Chi Muyan glanced into the corridor, "Then you can only know if you go in and take a look." ”

So Chi Muyan walked in the front and illuminated with a staff, Hong Jiu'er was in the middle, Hong Shiyan walked at the end, and the three of them entered the Yongdao in such a formation.

Because Chi Muyan was only fifteen years old, his body had not yet fully grown, and Hong Jiu'er was originally a petite spirit clan, so the two of them walked freely in the corridor, but Hong Shiyan, who followed at the end, was often stuck by the raised rocks on the cave wall because of his huge body, so he had to bend down and walk slowly sideways, gradually distancing himself from the two people walking in front.

After walking for a while, Hong Shiyan watched the distance between him and the two in front of him getting farther and farther, and finally couldn't help shouting to the two: "Eh, you wait for me, you two are comfortable in this little hole, but I'm going to be stuck!"

Chi Muyan turned his head to look at Hong Shiyan, who was stuck by the stone wall and shook his body and squeezed in hard, and said with a smile: "Who told you to grow such a big lump, no, you can lie down and crawl away?"

Hong Shiyan said angrily: "Crawl and walk, you treat me as a snake...... Speaking of this, Hong Shiyan's expression suddenly changed from anger to horror, "Snake!"

Chi Muyan and Hong Jiu'er reacted instantly when they saw the sudden change in his expression, and then immediately turned around, only to see a giant snake with black scales all over his body swallowing a bright red snake letter swimming towards them at a very fast speed.

The body of this black-scaled giant snake was half the thickness of this corridor, and after Snake Xin sensed the movement of the living creature, it immediately opened its huge snake mouth, revealing two sharp fangs, and rushed towards the three of them.

Chi Muyan flexibly supported the snake's upper jaw with his hand, turned over and jumped on the snake's head, and pressed the snake's mouth back closed, Hong Jiu'er also followed his example and jumped up with his hand, although the giant snake's mouth had been suppressed and could not be opened again, but it had no intention of stopping at all, and rushed towards Hong Shiyan with its head.

Hong Shiyan saw the black snake crashing towards him, and he couldn't dodge, so he had to take out his giant axe and slow down the force of the impact in front of him, but although the black snake did hit Hong Shiyan, the force was much lighter than expected, and he only pushed Hong Shiyan backwards a little distance, and he fell to the ground with a bang, unable to move anymore.

Hong Shiyan also felt very strange, put away the giant axe and squatted to look at the black snake carefully, it stands to reason that according to the speed of the black snake rushed over and hit him, he should have been hit back at least a few feet, and the hand holding the giant axe would also be numb, but now the black snake not only didn't hit him well, but knocked himself unconscious?

Chi Muyan and Hong Jiu'er also discovered this strangeness at the same time, and jumped off the snake body to check the black snake together. At this time, the three of them saw the appearance of the black snake at the same time, it turned out that this was a black python unique to the Black Forest, usually very docile, and it was a psychic beast that was often domesticated into a mount, but I don't know why it was lost in this dry well.

At this time, the black python's body suddenly changed, a lot of white foam spit out from its mouth, the black scales on its body slowly turned blue, and there was a strange ghostly light, and the snake's body began to twitch constantly.

Hong Shiyan saw such a strange change in the black python in front of him, and asked Chi Muyan beside him in surprise, "Isn't this the black python in the Black Forest?

Chi Muyan scraped off some attachments with the same glow on the snake's head with his hand, broke the snake's mouth and looked inside, then turned around and raised the powder in his hand to the other two, "This is the pollen of the phantom grass, this should be the poisoning caused by this black python swallowing a large amount of phantom grass by mistake." ”

Hong Jiu'er and Hong Shiyan were startled at the same time, and Hong Jiu'er asked aloud: "Phantom Grass, why is there Phantom Grass here? Isn't that something that only exists in the desert region?"

Chi Muyan frowned and shook his head, "I found that Zhao Meng also has a large number of phantom grass in that cave, and even processing tools, I don't know who and for what purpose transported so many phantom grasses to the Royal Dragon Forest area, but I am afraid that there is a storage of phantom grass in the depths of this cave, and this giant python just broke in by mistake." ”

Hong Jiu'er looked at the black python that was already motionless on the ground, touched the python's head with pity, and asked Chi Muyan: "Isn't there anything that can resolve the toxicity of the phantom grass?"

Chi Muyan shook his head and sighed, "A small amount of phantom grass venom can also be dissolved with other medicines, but this black python's body has begun to change color, which means that it has swallowed a fatal amount." ”

So the three of them quietly guarded the black python until it swallowed its last breath, and then Chi Muyan raised his staff and burned the black python's body with a raging fire, and the three of them continued to move towards the depths of the cave.

After walking for a while, the corridor gradually opened up, and Chi Muyan was surprised to find that this place was actually several times larger than the cave where he found Zhao Meng, and the cave was still piled up with the same cloth bags as before, and the surroundings were filled with the strange fragrance of phantom grass.

Hong Shiyan took a few steps closer, picked up the giant axe and split a few cloth bags, and the flowers of the Phantom Grass rolled out, he looked at Chi Muyan and asked, "There are so many Phantom Grasses here, and there are that kind of red monsters, could it be that the people of the Dark Guild are doing something ghostly?"

Chi Muyan circled around the inner wall of the cave, thought for a while, frowned and replied: "I'm afraid it's not that simple, but no matter what, we have to burn these poisonous weeds before making plans, and we have to check all the cave wells in the Yulonglin area." ”

After saying that, the three of them took action, Hong Shiyan and Hong Jiu'er went to block the snake cave found by Chi Muyan in the cave, to prevent any black python from accidentally breaking into here in the future, even if the phantom grass was burned, but with the huge size of the black python, if it crawled out of the dry well, it would also bring panic to the villagers of the bamboo forest.

After the two of them blocked the hole, Chi Muyan asked them to retreat into the Yongdao first, and he also walked to the entrance of the Yongdao, raised his staff to summon a flame dragon, and burned all the phantom grass in the cave.

The three of them walked out of the road, climbed up the dry well along the thick rope again, and the bamboo guards guarding the mouth of the well were anxious, seeing that the three people who entered the dry well had not returned for a long time, and looked at the black smoke coming out of the well twice, which was already a little messy, and saw that the three of them finally climbed out of the well, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask about the situation in the well.

Chi Muyan briefly explained the situation, only saying that there was a phantom grass inside, but he didn't say that the number of phantom grasses was so huge, and then asked Zhu Linwei if there were any other caves near here, or if something strange happened.

The head of the guard of the bamboo forest guard thought for a while, and told them that a large pit had collapsed two days ago in a tomb in the crematorial hill east of the dry well, and no one dared to enter it until now, and suggested that they go there to find out.