Chapter 31: Long time no see
Maggots...... Is it? Yu Youwei looked at the body of this monster, it really didn't look like a snake, and he couldn't help but feel a little disgusted when he thought that maggots could grow so big.
Looking around, Yu Youwei began to wonder if these moving stone pillars could also be related to maggots, thinking that Zhang Chongzhi had just climbed over a stone pillar, Yu Youwei couldn't help but look back at Zhang Chongzhi, he seemed to think of the stone pillars as well, and his face turned a little pale.
"Those people may have done something wrong, but after they walked out, many more people also fell into a coma, did you do the same?" Yu You asked with a slight courage, she only had one thought at this time: she was here, and she wanted to ask for as much information as possible.
The monster's body trembled and let out a laugh, and its laughter caused the entire tomb to vibrate, and the three faces spoke together, "What is the pity of men dying, their life force can be used as our food, it is a blessing for these men." β
"It's over, you estimate that this trip is more auspicious!" Yu You straightened his back slightly nervously, approached Zhang Chongzhi, and whispered.
"It looks like it's impossible to get out of the way." Zhang Chongzhi handed Yu Youwei a grenade that he didn't know when he took out, "Wait a minute, I'll count to three, and we'll throw it together." β
Yu Youwei didn't dare to make too many movements, so he could only grope for the lines on the grenade, "What is this?" Just throw it away? β
"The grenade, I asked someone to assemble it myself, pull the outer ring apart, and then throw it as far as I can." The bulge of Zhang Chongzhi's gas mask just touched Yu Youwei's ear, "Are you ready?" β
"Hmm!" Yu Youwei didn't know if he could escape, but the two of them with bare hands had no other way.
"One, two, three!"
Zhang Zhongzhi counted to three, and the two of them pulled down the pull ring on the grenade together and threw the grenade at the monster.
"Ahββ!h The monster roared angrily and swept the sarcophagus towards Zhang Chongzhi and Yu Youwei with its tail.
"Run!" Zhang Chongzhi pulled Yu You and ran forward with his head slightly stuffy, he didn't know how many stone caves he had passed through, and he didn't know how far he had run, but it was still a stone cave as far as his eyes could see.
Yu Youwei felt a terrible pain in her chest and a pain in her eardrums, but she didn't dare to stop or look back until something suddenly appeared under her feet and tripped her up.
Although Yu Youwei let go of Zhang Chongzhi's hand when he fell, Zhang Chongzhi was still stumbled by the sudden disappearance of the force, and simply squatted down, "We've been running for so long, I don't know if we're spinning in place." β
Yu Youwei was about to hold Zhang Chongzhi's outstretched hand, when he saw that behind Zhang Chongzhi, a strange snake more than one person tall was leaning out of Zhang Chongzhi's head, Yu Youwei hurriedly retracted his hand, rubbed back a few steps, and hesitated to remind Zhang Chongzhi at this time that he would not be shocked by the strange snake.
But the keen Zhang Chongzhi had already seen the abnormality from Yu Youwei's movements, and without waiting for Yu Youwei to remind him, he turned around and faced the strange snake.
The head of the strange snake was less than half a meter away from Zhang Chongzhi, and he clearly saw the true body of this strange snake, this was indeed not a snake, there was no obvious head, the whole body was reddish-brown flesh, and there were two small eyes on the left and right sides that were completely disproportionate to the body, and it looked very disgusting.
The snake didn't wait for him to make any moves, and slammed into him, and then he lost consciousness.
From Yu Youwei's point of view, he could only see that Zhang Chongzhi was hit by a strange snake, and the strange snake was gone, and Zhang Chongzhi fainted to the ground.
"Zhang Chongzhi, what's wrong with you, wake up Zhang Chongzhi!" Yu You crawled over with both hands and feet, helped Zhang Chongzhi up, took off his gas mask, and gently patted him in the face.
Countless female voices and sharp and weird voices mixed together and reached Yu Youwei's ears, "Women will always be confused by men, spare your life today, take this cheap man back and wait for death!" β
With that, a gust of wind and sand from nowhere sent Yu Youwei and Zhang Chongzhi to the three passages they had just walked into the tomb.
Yu Youwei looked at Zhang Chongzhi, who was still unconscious, gritted his teeth, carried him on his back, tied the bodies of the two with a climbing rope and fixed them, and then turned around and climbed out of the cave.
When two people climb in separately, although it is also difficult, the two people encourage each other and do not feel unbearable. And now, Yu Youwei knows that Zhang Chongzhi may be in the same situation as the group of tomb robbers in Boyan County, if he can't find a solution, he will also age rapidly. Can he accept such a proud person? Yu Youwei didn't know, but recalled what Zhang Chongzhi said when they decided to go to the tomb: The small Hongya County can't keep my Zhang Chongzhi's life.
It wasn't until the tears fell to her hands that Yu Youwei realized that she didn't know when the tears were shed, if it weren't for her unknowingly proposing to go to the tomb, Zhang Chongzhi probably wouldn't have taken the initiative to go to the tomb. She just thought that she would encounter some kind of creature or bacteria in the ancient tomb, and she could help those people by collecting them, but she didn't expect that there would be such a terrible monster in the tomb.
Thinking about it, Yu Youwei hated fate again, she never felt that she was a very unfortunate person, even if she was disliked by her relatives when she grew up, she only regarded it as God's tempering of herself, so that she could have the ability to catch the next good luck. But why in the end, it is necessary to let a person who is not capable of solving it encounter so many strange things.
With a breath of anger, Yu Youwei actually carried Zhang Chongzhi out of the tomb.
When Yu Youwei poked her head out of the robbery hole in the tomb and saw the moon in the sky at a glance, she took Zhang Chongzhi outside with great difficulty, untied the rope that bound the two, and lay on the ground exhausted.
If it weren't for Zhang Chongzhi's unconscious now, all this would have been very beautiful.
Bright moonlight, pleasant insect chirping, and a cool breeze at night with the scent of flowers and plants. Yu Youwei looked at the embarrassed Zhang Chongzhi beside her, leaned over and turned Zhang Chongzhi over, letting him lie on his back like herself, she needed to rest for a while before she could take Zhang Chongzhi back, before that, she hoped that Zhang Chongzhi could also feel the peace of this moment, whether he was conscious or not.
I don't know what to think, she stretched out her hands and opened Zhang Chongzhi's eyelids, "Look, the moon is particularly bright today, I don't know if it's because we are now in the junction of urban and rural areas, and the air is better." β
As she spoke, Yu Youwei shed tears again, she actually didn't blame herself too much, Zhang Chongzhi is such a proud person, if she is not willing, how can she persuade her, but she never thought that the consequences of going to the grave would be so serious.
After almost resting, Yu Youwei took out the car keys from Zhang Chongzhi's pocket, carried him to the car with difficulty, and drove the car directly to Hongya Town Hospital.
The doctor in the town hospital seems to have experience in treating this disease, and did a few examinations for Zhang Chongzhi, and the attending physician found Yu Youwei, "You are a family member of the patient, we also encountered two cases of this symptom not long ago, and we couldn't find the cause here, and then they transferred to the county hospital, and I heard that they didn't find a solution, and there is a trend of increasing numbers, and the advice we can give now is to go to a big hospital, if you have the conditions, you can choose to go abroad for treatment, the sooner the better." β
The doctor is very good at observing people, Zhang Chongzhi does not have a cheap thing on his body, and he looks either rich or expensive, so the doctor will put forward the suggestion of going abroad for treatment.
But Yu Youwei knew that it had nothing to do with where he was treated, only by solving the monster in the tomb could Zhang Chongzhi have a chance of surviving, she sent Zhang Chongzhi to the hospital, just wanted the hospital to infuse him with some nutrient solution to maintain his life as much as possible, and it was best to wait until she thought of a way.
Back at the hotel, Yu Youwei didn't even change his clothes, just sat on the windowsill of the bay window, buried his head in his knees, and his brain went blank.
Just when Yu You was in a daze, a knock on the door sounded rhythmically.
Yu Youwei didn't want to pay attention to it, and the person who would come to knock on the door was nothing more than the hotel staff asking if he wanted to clean it, but the person outside the door seemed to have no common sense, and he kept knocking when he saw that no one opened the door.
Yu Youwei had no choice but to remove himself from the windowsill and drag his tired body to open the door.
Outside the door stood a familiar and strange personβWei Ran.
Yu You was slightly startled and didn't know what to say for a while, after not seeing him for a while, Wei Ran seemed to be more mature than when he first met, no longer a young appearance with a bullying face, but a little colder, and he didn't wear a Taoist robe stupidly like the first time he went down the mountain, but he was wearing a regular clothes, and the texture visible to the naked eye was better than all the clothes Yu Youwei bought for him.
Without waiting for Yu You to speak, Wei Ran could only speak first, "Can you let me in?" As he spoke, he pointed to Yu Youwei's room.
Yu Youwei realized that he was so surprised to see Wei Ran here that he forgot to let Wei Ran in first, "Oh, of course." β
Following behind Wei Ran, Yu Youwei still had a very unreal feeling, when she was most helpless, Wei Ran fell from the sky like last time, she couldn't believe that such a good thing would happen to her.
Wei Ran looked at Yu Youwei, he tried to see what was different about this woman, why did the master think that she was the one who was chosen by the ancient divine beast, and what the master said to him before leaving, "If this girl is really the daughter of the chosen one, she will definitely appear, if she really shows her uncontrollable power, you must kill her first, and you must not let the Bifang Divine Bird be resurrected successfully, if it succeeds, there will be no peace in the land of Shenzhou." β
With the master's entrustment and the direction given, Wei Ran came here, and sure enough, he saw Yu Youwei.
This woman was different from the last time they met, her eyes were deeply worried, and even a little blank, Wei Ran couldn't help but ask, "What's going on?" β
Yu Youwei also had a stomach of questions to ask, she wanted to ask why Wei Ran was here, why she knocked on her door, was it specifically to find her, or was it just a coincidence, but now, she wanted to talk so much, she couldn't bear Zhang Chongzhi, who was traveling together, to become like this.
After listening to Yu Youwei's account without changing his face, he entered Wei Ran's questioning session, "You mean that the goal of that group of tomb robbers is to obtain the evil spirit sealed by the bronze mirror, but they didn't expect that the evil spirit has already got rid of the seal of the bronze mirror and cultivated into a monster with the body of a maggot?" β
"It's not one monster, it's a lot of monsters." Yu Youwei corrected.
Wei Ran smiled, "Actually, there is only one, but it is made of many unjust souls, so naturally it can also separate itself." β
Yu Youwei nodded, "I only saw it hit Zhang Chongyi, and the evil spirit was gone, and Zhang Chongzhi also fainted, I don't know if the person who fainted at first was attacked by it in the same way." β
"Take me to meet that person, and I'll see if there's anything I can do to save him."
"Really?" Yu Youwei couldn't believe it, she originally thought that she couldn't think of any way, so she could only enter the ancient tomb again by herself to fight for her life, but Wei Ran knocked on her door like falling from the sky, and asked her to take him to see Zhang Chongzhi.
"Of course." Wei Ran glanced at Yu Youwei strangely, as if she had asked an incredible question.
"Oh, yes, yes, you Taoist priests are all committed to saving the common people, right, my colleagues and I are also members of the common people." Yu Youwei was in a good mood, although he didn't know if Wei Ran could save Zhang Chongzhi, but when he came, Yu Youwei had hope.
Zhang Chongzhi, who was in a coma, was very quiet, and without the blessing of those noble manners on weekdays, he seemed much softer.
Wei Ran pasted a piece of rune paper to the side of Zhang Chongzhi's ear, and after a while, the rune paper turned into a black smoke and disappeared.
Yu You asked anxiously, "How is it?" β
Wei Ran frowned tightly and shook his head, "His soul is wrapped in a resentful spirit, and I can't release his soul without harming his soul. β
Yu You slumped slightly on the chair next to him, "Then what should I do, is there a solution?" β
"Yes." Wei Ran stared at Zhang Chongzhi's eyebrows, "I'll go to the tomb with you again to get rid of that evil spirit." β
Before Yu Youwei could be happy, he became worried, "But that evil spirit said that it only kills men, and you are also a man, will it be bad for you?" β
"Everyone has their own fate, and if I really can't beat it, that's my fate." Wei Ran lowered his eyes and said lightly.