Chapter 41: Horror of the Corpse
"Where the hell does this lead?"
Pang Shaoyuan followed behind Zhang Tao and walked in this long dark passage for half an hour, and the fire fold in his hand had already burned out.
All that remained was a black eye, as if the secret passage would never end.
After waiting for a long time, he didn't hear a response, and couldn't help but whisper: "Brother Zhang, are you still there?" ”
"Well, I'm ahead of you!"
Hearing this, Zhang Tao walked in front and immediately stopped his pace, waiting for the other party to catch up with him.
For this stupid big man's behavior of following him regardless of the danger, he felt a warm current in his heart, and he was touched by the other party.
"Brother Pang, the future is unknown, there may be danger, you better go back!" He persuaded.
"It's dangerous, I'm going to follow you!"
Pang Shaoyuan shook his head, and said angrily: "Master I once said that people must be righteous in the rivers and lakes, and they can't leave their friends when they encounter danger!" ”
After a pause, he continued: "Brother Zhang, you are the first person I came to Tianwu Town to invite me to drink and gamble!" ”
"You're my good brother!"
Pang Shaoyuan solemnly explained: "Good brother, you have to be righteous!" ”
"Good brother, be angry!"
Hearing this, Zhang Tao turned around, nodded with emotion, and said seriously: "In the future, we will be good brothers, and we will share blessings and hardships!" ”
"Brother Zhang, your eyes..."
Pang Shaoyuan's voice froze, looking at the gray and white light spots in the darkness, he was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to understand something, and said in surprise: "You may be the yin and yang eyes that my master said?" ”
"Brother Pang, your master knows so much!"
Zhang Tao sighed heartily, just saving him the need to explain, otherwise he would have shirked this question to the ancestral secret technique.
"That is, my master is the Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect, and he is the oldest, so of course he knows a lot!"
Hearing the words praising his master in his ear, Pang Shaoyuan held his head high, revealing a proud posture.
"......" Zhang Tao glanced at him more and did not speak.
"Brother Zhang, how long do we have to go, will the demon who escaped have already left?"
After walking for another quarter of an hour, Pang Shaoyuan's patience was about to run out, and he asked him uncertainly, "If you go on like this, it's not a head!" ”
"This secret path is just one way, and it stands to reason that the demon girl shouldn't leave..."
Zhang Tao was secretly worried, his eyes were contemplative, staring at the ground where the passage was trampled on, this was obviously a trace of someone running from here not long ago, but he didn't see Feng Niang's escape, and disappeared as if he had seen a ghost.
Could it be that there is still a mechanism in this secret passage?
After a moment of silence, he spoke: "Walk forward for half an hour, and if we have not reached the end, we will return here." ”
"Okay, I don't have an opinion!" Pang Shaoyuan nodded silently.
......
A hundred meters away from Zhang Tao and the others is in a secret underground secret room.
Feng Niang was sitting on the stone bench with a dirty face, dressing up in front of the bronze mirror and arranging her messy bun.
In front of her stood an old man standing with his hands in his hands and his back to her, and if Zhang Tao was here, he would definitely recognize the identity of the other party.
The other party is the old fox Xu Jin of the county who defected to the government.
"Feng'er, what's the plan?" Xu Jin asked in a deep voice.
The candle flame in the secret room flickered, and Feng Niang Miaoman's figure was reflected on the wall, which looked extremely charming and moving.
"Daddy, the plan is half completed, and the one who came is not a Sky Surveyor, but a hot-tempered hairy boy." She played with her hair and explained helplessly.
"Huh? What's going on? ”
Hearing her words, Xu Jin's voice sank, she turned around with a serious face, and looked at her daughter Xu Fengniang with burning eyes, waiting for the other party to give a suitable explanation.
Seeing this, Xu Fengniang's eyes flashed with a vicious gaze, and she slowly told the things in the Quartet Gambling House.
"It's Zhang Tao's dog mongrel again!"
After learning the details, Xu Jin was furious, and a grim color appeared on the old man's face, and he roared angrily: "Sooner or later, the old man will refine him into a blood slave who is worse than death!" ”
After venting the evil fire accumulated in his heart, he regained his composure and said, "As for the bait that is dead, it will die, so don't mind at all..."
"Although it attracted a Zhang Tao, it was also an unexpected joy, but it was a pity that the Sky Survey Guard... Otherwise, you can catch them all! ”
After a pause, he said again: "I hope that the bait in the other two places can complete the task, and don't disappoint the old man and the envoy!" ”
"Daddy, you said that we will lead the Sky Survey Guard to that place, will it affect the outcome of the plan?"
Hearing this, Xu Fengniang's willow eyebrows frowned slightly, her face was solemn, and she asked hesitantly: "If it affects the hall master's plan, I'm afraid we will be worse than ......dead after we go back."
"It's okay, the plan to wipe out the Sky Survey Guardian is arranged by the envoy, and it has nothing to do with us, even if the trap fails, it is the responsibility of the envoy!"
The corners of Xu Jin's mouth rose, a sneer appeared, and he said: "What's more, there is no time for the Dao to open in that place, as long as you go in, you will die and live, and you can't come out alive at all." ”
"It's a pity that that hateful hairy boy can't die by my hands!"
After getting a positive answer, a trace of regret flashed on Xu Fengniang's delicate face, as if Zhang Tao did not die in her palm, which was a great regret.
......
County government office.
Lin Bufan was sitting on the Taishi chair, his brows furrowed slightly, looking at the two Sky Survey Guards who only came back below, and he couldn't help but feel a little inappropriate in his heart.
"Lord Qianhu, Zhao Baihu and Luo Baihu, when they were chasing and killing the remnants of the Demon Gate, they discovered a hidden secret way out of the city, so let me wait to come back and report the news first!"
The two Sky Surveyors who knelt on one knee below said in unison.
"Have they entered the secret passage and pursued the remnant of the escape?" Lin Bufan looked at the two of them without sadness or joy.
The two Sky Surveyors glanced at each other, hesitated for a moment, and replied, "Uh... Yes, Lord Hyaknohe, they are chasing the enemy! ”
"Stupid! A secret passage with unknown circumstances, how can they pursue it in danger, don't they know the truth of the poor Kou Mo chasing? ”
Lin Bufan waved his sleeves, his tone was a little annoyed, and said, "What if there is an ambush in the secret passage?" ”
"Humph!"
He snorted coldly, his face was cloudy, as if whispering into the air: "It's been an hour, how is the situation on Zhang Tao's side?" ”
"Back to the Thousand Households, Zhang Tao also entered the secret passage... With him was a disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect! ”
As soon as the words fell, a hoarse voice sounded in a shadow of the government hall.
"Hey... What a bunch of hot-headed and reckless reckless guys! ”
Lin Bufan sighed, shook his head, showed helplessness, and said, "Have you ever found out Su Cailiang's whereabouts?" ”
"Su Cailiang, the right envoy of the Bloody Clothes Hall, is not in the city, according to the information of the secret agent, he is in a village less than ten miles away from Wuling Mountain at this time, and his specific movements are unknown." The shadows continue to make sounds.
"Could it be that he is also here for the treasure of Wuling Mountain?"
After thinking for a long time, Lin Bufan stood up and said to the two Sky Survey Guards in the lobby: "Gather all the people and go to the secret passage with me to investigate the situation." ”
"Whoa!"
After a stick of incense.
Lin Bufan looked at the sixteen remaining subordinates in front of him, and said with gloomy eyes: "We have brothers who don't know whether they live or die, should we go looking for them?" ”
"Don't abandon! Don't give up! ”
All the Sky Survey Guards roared in unison, and the deafening sound soared into the sky.
"Good!"
Lin Bufan waved his arms, turned over his horse, and waved the long whip in his hand to gallop towards the southeast of the city.
And the southeast direction is the direction in which Luo Ren of the Hundred Households of the Demon Slaying Hall is carrying out the task.
Obviously, in Lin Bufan's heart, the safety of the demon slaying cousins is more important.
......
"Brother Zhang, do you smell any strange smell?"
Walking in the dark and silent corridor, Pang Shaoyuan's nose fluttered, and he smelled a strange smell in the turbid air, and his face was ugly: "It seems to be the smell of a corpse rotting..."
"Well, there are dried blood stains on the walls and floors of the passage."
Zhang Tao's expression was solemn, his fists were clenched, and he walked forward cautiously at any time, saying, "I feel that the exit is not far away." ”
He saw the darkness as if it were nothing, and could see everything in the passage clearly.
As we went deeper, the stench wafting through the air became thicker and thicker, and the dry ground began to become damp, as if walking into a quagmire, and the movement was restricted, and the speed of walking became slower.
"Where have we been, what the hell is this viscous liquid under our feet?"
Pang Shaoyuan pinched his nose, and his dull voice echoed in the dead silence.
"These should be corpse oil or corpse fluids..."
Zhang Tao saw clearly, and found a large amount of tangled hair and a small amount of unrotten flesh in the disgusting and viscous liquid under his feet.
After seeing these things clearly, his abdomen churned, and if it weren't for his strong willpower, he would have vomited incessantly.
"Clams? What? ”
Pang Shaoyuan was taken aback, so frightened that he couldn't stop retreating backwards.
But when he lifted his feet and stepped back, he found that his body could not move, as if there was an impregnable wall behind him, hindering his movement.
When he landed, his face changed greatly, and his voice trembled: "Brother Zhang, is there a wall behind me?" ”
"No walls?"
Hearing this, Zhang Tao stopped, turned around and glanced back, and found that there was a black hole behind the other party, and there was no wall at all.
After hesitating for a moment, he instantly noticed the other party's strange expression, and asked with concern: "What's wrong with you, your face is so embarrassed, is it because you are not feeling well?" ”
"It's not that I'm not feeling well, it's that I can't go back... There is no way back. Pang Shaoyuan replied with a slight cry.
"What?"
Hearing his words, Zhang Tao was stunned for a moment, did not react in time to what he said, when he tried to take a step back, he was shocked, and suddenly found that he could not retreat, and as soon as he retreated, he felt that there was a wall blocking his way.
"What's going on?"
He looked around with a solemn gaze, and through the Eye of the Netherworld, he didn't notice anything unusual, as if there was an invisible barrier behind him blocking the way back.
"Brother Zhang, did we encounter the legendary ghost hitting the wall?"
Seeing this, Pang Shaoyuan was a little unbelieving, and clenched the nine-tooth serial machete and slashed out heavily behind him, but received a huge backlash and ejected him dozens of feet.
Poof!
Uncontrollable, he fell to the ground, soaked in the foul-smelling and sticky corpse water, which made him dizzy and almost unable to hold the knife in his hand.
"Are you alright?"
Zhang Tao strode forward, reached out and grabbed his arm, and pulled him up from the disgusting corpse water, but he could force but found that he did not move, as if the other party was growing with the earth under his feet.
"Huh? Brother Pang, why are you so heavy, I can't even pull it..."He wondered.
"Brother Zhang, pull me up, I can't move, I feel something in the water entangled me..."
At this time, Pang Shaoyuan's panicked voice sounded in Zhang Tao's ears, and then the strong and vigorous qi and blood power in his body was rapidly declining.
"It's not good, there's something wrong with this corpse water, it's sucking the yang energy in your body!"
Hearing his words, Zhang Tao followed the prestige and saw that the other party's body was emitting a massive amount of scorching white aura, like a mist like a glow, quickly integrating into the liquid under him.
Seeing this scene, he still dared to hesitate, even if he exerted all his strength, and even used the mixed yuan true qi in the hundreds of limbs, he could pull the other party up from the shallow corpse water that was not above his ankles.
"Whew... Thank you for saving my life! ”
Pang Shaoyuan was out of breath, leaning against the wall of the corridor to recover his strength, and the foul smell was emitted all over his body, which made Zhang Tao frown when he saw it.
"But with three breaths, the power of qi and blood in your body will be lost by thirty percent!"
Zhang Tao was keenly aware of the changes in the other party's body, and found that this stupid big man's cheeks were bloodless, and he looked overindulgent.
"What the hell is this?"
Immediately, he was shocked to find a phenomenon, the fluid under their feet seemed to have risen a lot, from the ankles to the calves.
"Oops, we need to get out of here quickly, there's something wrong with the corpse water under our feet, it can suck the yang energy of our body..."
After carefully examining the condition of his body, Zhang Tao was horrified to find that the qi and blood in his body were slowly declining, and if they could not stop it in time, they were afraid that the power of qi and blood would be exhausted, dissolve into this pool of corpse water, and become a part of it.