Chapter 74: Someone Chased Us to Silence
Qiao Guiqiao desperately needed the antidote in my hands. There are two kinds of poison on his body, and the poison on the spine on the tail of the red scorpion is not the poison of the fire scorpion.
Therefore, Ye Fengniang, the man in black and Qiao Guiqiao showed two different symptoms of poisoning.
First they lose their ability to move and speak, and then dark patches and red spots appear on their skin.
Toxins enter the body by inhalation and take effect more slowly than when they are injected directly into the ears or brain.
Ye Fengniang fell to the ground and slowly closed her eyes.
Qiao Guiqiao also threw himself on the table, he closed his eyes, and he couldn't hold on for a while.
I didn't plan to save him, because I wasn't interested in the mirror, he either didn't know the whereabouts of the mirror, or he was hiding, and as long as he died, the clue would be broken anyway.
Others want to find it, like looking for a needle in a haystack, depending on who has a relationship with the treasure mirror.
The deceased, Ye Fengniang, and Qiao Guiqiao just formed a triangular relationship, they died together, and the tasks of stealing, chasing and killing, and searching for mirrors were over.
I held my breath and escaped, and the little toxin I inhaled was easily healed with my ability.
The lobby fell into a silent atmosphere, and from time to time the wind blew in, and when the poisonous gas was blown away, I asked the proprietress and Xiao Er to come down and clean up their things.
I opened the hallway door to the backyard and was about to go to the kitchen to ask Mr. Zhang to come out, Yun Zhou was very obedient, staring intently at the cook cooking.
The cook was complaining, he was begging Manager Zhang to persuade Yunzhou, don't stare at him like this, under such a 'sharp' gaze, he has already fried two dishes, cut his hands three times, put six more spoons of salt, and is about to stop cooking.
Manager Zhang said helplessly: "He only listens to his daughter-in-law, and others don't move him." ”
There was indeed a smell of burnt paste in the kitchen, and the cook saw me as if he had seen a relative, and ran to the door with a garlic clove, wanting to shake my hand.
I took a half step back and glanced at his hand, which he immediately put the garlic clove in his apron pocket, but instead of reaching out, he asked me to take Yunzhou out of the kitchen.
The proprietress and Xiao Er came over to get brooms and other cleaning tools.
The proprietress instructed the cook to cook a few more good dishes, and everyone has experienced a lot today, and she invited everyone to be shocked.
After she finished speaking, she went to the wine cellar to get good wine, and Xiao Er took a big broom to sweep the yard and clean up the red scorpion on the ground in the lobby.
This thing is poisonous, and if you want to burn it, you have to wait until the weather clears to take it to a place far away from the inn to burn it.
The proprietress couldn't wait, so she told Xiao Er to find a place on the hillside to dig a pit, dig a deeper one, and bury them.
But before that, Xiao Er first transported the corpses in the lobby to the ice cellar for storage.
Then he used the cart to transport the corpse and then the red scorpion, and he put on his cloak and went out.
The proprietress cleaned the lobby floor by herself, washing it repeatedly until she was at ease.
The washed-out lobby, the tables and chairs that were rearranged and covered with floral cloths to cover the scars, it was as if the previous life-and-death struggle had never happened.
Once again, the guests all went downstairs and the cook brought the food to the table, each with a jar of wine provided by the owner.
The proprietress picked up her glass and said a few words, nothing more than words to appease everyone.
The residents were also scared and needed a few drinks to suppress their fright.
They almost lost their lives today, which is equivalent to picking up a life, how can they not celebrate?
The meal lasted until ten o'clock in the evening, and the people who were too strong to drink fell asleep on the beds, some people took advantage of the fact that they could walk back to the upstairs room to rest, and some people drank a lot of wine, and they were still full of energy.
By the time all the guests had rested, the cook was exhausted and paralyzed, and fell asleep in the kitchen directly against the bowl rack.
Yun Zhou and the three of them were the first to go back to the room to rest, and they withdrew without drinking after eating.
The proprietress showed off her skills tonight, and she was not drunk with a thousand cups.
drank until no one drank with her anymore, and she still looked slightly drunk.
After I returned to the room in Yunzhou, I came to the outside of the inn, Ye Fengniang missed, Qiao Guiqiao also folded, did the employers of both of them already know that they were dead?
If the real target of both employers is Baojing, they will definitely send another group of people.
The heavy rain that has been going on for many days has turned into a drizzle tonight, and it doesn't matter if I don't have an umbrella.
The proprietress asked Xiao Er to clean up the lobby, and she leaned against the door and looked up at me.
I sat on the wooden post where the sign hung in her inn, and I sat in such a place, with good balance and the level of an acrobat.
"Thank you today, Dr. Ann." The proprietress leaned against the door, she drank her head, red from her neck to her face, but her eyes were clear, and there was no trace of drunkenness.
"You can't owe a debt of favors, so if the boss wants to thank her, give the money."
"Okay, I'll give it to you right away, and everyone will go their separate ways tomorrow." She turned back to the lobby and headed to her room.
This is a smart man, who knows that it will be difficult to live a peaceful life if he continues to stay here, and plans to leave.
The proprietress took off three gold ingots, she didn't say why it was three, but I understand, she, Xiao Er, the cook, three people, three lives, three gold ingots.
I took it and put it away, and she went back to pack her things, and also asked Xiao Er and the cook to pack their luggage.
The next morning, the sky cleared, the air after the rain was fresh, and the smell of grass and trees surrounded the inn.
The hostess announced at breakfast that she was closing, and the stays here were all temporary stays, and there were no long-term guests.
As soon as the mountain road is restored, everyone will leave.
Since they want to be completely separated, and they have experienced the danger of life and death, the atmosphere in the inn is unprecedentedly harmonious, and there is a contradiction between each other, and they all laugh at it.
Two days later, the mountain road will be passed, and those who should go south will go south, and those who should go north will go north.
The guests in the inn, as well as the hostess and her two buddies, also left home with their luggage.
Although the proprietress is reluctant to give up the 'real estate' of the inn, she is more worried about her own life, and she has to give it up.
Not long after we left, smoke rose from the direction of the inn, and it seemed to be on fire.
The three of them went to the south, she had relatives by the sea, and she was going to join them.
I looked at the mountain road that had just been restored, and asked Mr. Zhang to carry Yuenanxiang on his back, and we left the main road and walked to the mountain path.
Manager Zhang asked, "Why do we want to go over the mountain?" ”
I looked in the direction where the smoke was rising and said, "I'm afraid there will be pursuers." ”
He asked no more questions, and when we climbed to the top of the hill, we could see the location of the inn, which had burned down and was a pile of ruins.
There was a group of people in black light armor, walking quickly towards the winding mountain 'gong' road.
I knew that they were doing good light work, so I told Mr. Zhang to stop them and find a place to hide.
They hid in the woods, and I fell into the grass on the edge of the cliff.
Below the cliff is the mountain road, the team of black-armored people walk to the mountain road, every time they meet a passerby, they will press the shoulders of the people to see what the parents look like.
Apparently they were looking for someone, but they didn't know who to look for.
If my hunch was correct, they must be looking for someone in the inn.
The four of us were the last to leave, because the proprietress said that she couldn't take the food from the kitchen, and whoever wanted to take it could take it.
The other guests were troublesome, and Manager Zhang considered that there were no snacks on the road of Yunzhou and Yuenanxiang, so he had to order these ingredients and go to the back kitchen for processing.
He fried peanuts, melon seeds, and some dried fruits, and the rice and corn popped into popcorn.
At this moment, he took out these snacks and distributed them to Yunzhou and Yuenanxiang.
I lay on my stomach in the grass and stared at the black-armored men below, and they chased them all the way forward, and at their speed, they could catch up as long as the occupants in front of me stopped to rest.
When they walked over, Mr. Zhang whispered to me, "Who is it?" Picking up the stars and fishing for the moon? ”
I shook my head: "No, it seems to be the escort of some country." ”
Manager Zhang wondered: "Didn't the proprietress leave a book to explain everything?" The dead and the murderer are all in the ice cellar, don't they believe it? ”
I looked at their distant background, retracted my gaze and looked at Manager Zhang and asked:
"Have you heard, the Quadrangular Mirror?"
"Naturally, I have heard that it is the treasure of Yaoyuetai Town, Liu Yanyan went down the mountain this time, so he smuggled it out and handed it over to the emperor of the Rainy Heaven Palace." Mr. Zhang replied.
Qunfang Pavilion was occupied by the Heavenly Palace, and it was not surprising for him to know this.
I asked again, "Do you know the function of the Quartet Treasure Mirror?" ”
"This ...... Not very clear. Manager Zhang shook his head: "It is said that it can help people and increase their skills." ”
"There are immortal medicines in the Medicine Immortal Valley that can help people increase their skills, and if you eat them for several years in a row, the effect is also good."
"Do you know what it's really for?"
"It's scary to say it, it's better not to say it."
"Alas, you mention it, but you don't make it clear, what? Do you still have to pay me to listen to the rest of the story? ”
"That's right, the content behind is paid content, but Mr. Zhang is an insider, I can give you a thorough explanation, the Quartet Treasure Mirror is not able to help people practice, it is an evil mirror, it can capture people's souls, and the people who are dementored can't die, but they will become ...... Similar to him. "I snorted at Yunzhou.
"Oh? Yun Gongzi was captured by the evil mirror? ”
"Your divergent thinking is strong enough, I said almost, in fact, there is still a difference, Yunzhou can speak, and can think simply, but the person whose soul has been taken away can't, it's just a walking corpse."
"What's the difference between that and killing him?"
"There is a difference, there are people who cannot die, who can neither die nor live well."
"To make people become such a method, not only with the treasure mirror, but also with other means to achieve the effect."
"Yes, but the soul taken away by the treasure mirror can't come back, which is equivalent to being incurable, terminally ill, and insolvable."
Mr. Zhang reluctantly accepted my explanation, and I really didn't tell him all the secrets of the treasure mirror.
Soul dementoring is just one of the functions of the Quartet Treasure Mirror.
It is known as the Quartet Treasure Mirror, and its greatest function is to capture the qi of the Quartet, I don't quite understand what qi, it may be the qi of feng shui, anyway, it is good luck or something.
The Quartet, that is, this continent, the good fortune of the entire continent has been sucked away by it, and you can imagine what the scene of the Four Nations was like at that time.
Therefore, it is not the treasure of Yaoyue Tower, it is an evil thing that was suppressed in Yaoyue Immortal Mountain by the masters a long, long time ago.
Liu Yanyan didn't know why, destroyed the seal, took it out, and handed it over to the emperor of the Rainy Heaven Palace.
Are they trying to join forces to destroy the continent?
In ancient books a long time ago, this thing was called an evil thing, and in the past 100 years, it has been passed down as a treasure, saying that those who get the treasure mirror can win the world.
Ou Yong and the others desperately tried to snatch this treasure mirror from Liu Yanyan's hand, they must have heard this statement and believed in it.
Controlling the entire continent, martial arts people all thought, let alone the monarchs of the four countries, and those secret forces hidden in the corners.
The employers of Xingxingluoyuelou and Qiao Guiqiao only sent them, probably because they were afraid that the movement would be too big and attract the attention of others.
It's not time yet for a large-scale scuffle because of the treasure mirror.
However, it may not be long before it arrives.
"Manager Zhang, do you know how to read feng shui?" An idea popped into me.
"No, it won't." Manager Zhang replied without hesitation.
"Alas~" I sighed deeply, looked at the mountains on all sides, and thought that maybe I could find a suitable mountain and occupy the mountain as the king?
"What is the doctor worried about?" Mr. Zhang sighed when he saw me, and he looked nervous.
"The world is going to be chaotic, we have to plan early."
"No more farming?"
"Plant, you have to plant, if we don't plant, we will all starve to death."
"So serious?"
"Uh-huh."
Yun Zhou didn't know if he understood the word 'starvation', put the peanuts that he put in his mouth back into the snack bag, tightened his pockets, and tied them back to his waist.
We walked over the mountain, which took a long time, but fortunately we were not in a hurry, and when we were tired, we stopped to rest, eat and drink.
When it was dark, they set up camp in the mountains, and no wild beast dared to approach the camp with me.
After walking for a day, I heard someone shouting on the mountain road, saying that a dead person had been found.
I asked Mr. Zhang to stay on the mountain, and I went down to check and saw that five people had died on the mountain road.
They still had their baggage, and I recognized them at a glance as guests of the inn.
Killed with a knife, the murderer's method is the same, and the shape of the wound is the same depth.
Blood stained the road red, and other passers-by all stopped to watch, some ran to report to the official, others waited here, some protected the scene, and some just watched the excitement.
I walked forward, walked a few miles, and found several more bodies.
Don't look any further, the guests who come out of the inn, as long as they come to the north, will definitely be caught up by that group of people and killed.
The same is true for those who go south.
I turned back to the mountain, and now we can't go down.
The black-armored people looked at the faces of passers-by one by one, indicating that they had information about the appearance of the guests.
Who gave them the information?
Whoever it was, it was best known to the four of us in the inn, because none of the other guests were on the road with their children.
I temporarily changed my route and decided not to go north, but to the west, to the border of the Kushuang Country.
There were at least acquaintances over there, and thanks to Mr. Zhang, who made the surplus food from the inn into snacks and took them on the road, we kept walking through the mountains, not daring to go to a place where there were people to stay or eat, and we relied on these foods to hold on for several days.
When the people in the inn were chatting with Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang said that we were going to the north and returning to our hometown to farm.
If there are 'traitors' among the guests, it is likely that the Blackarmor Man already knows that the four of us are going to the north, and will look all the way, and he will not be at ease if he misses us.
Detour to the country of Jiushuang, we can still go to the north, but the road is not easy to walk, there is no avenue, it is all dangerous mountain roads.
But no matter how dangerous the mountain road is, there is no terrible human being with a knife looking for you everywhere and ready to hack you to death.
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