20. The fifth person in the tomb

The patriarch, Jin Laosan, and the golden retriever rat rotated a few times in the "frozen wormhole", but it was a leisurely past decades.

Also that night, they returned to the Yang Realm on the shore of Bibo Lake.

Just when the moon and stars were scarce, the patriarch was awakened by the night wind, he slowly got up, stretched his bones, he inserted the long sword into the scabbard, looked at the sleeping Jin Laosan beside him, and kicked him with his foot.

At this time, the golden retriever also slowly climbed up, and the moonlight was thick, illuminating the outline of their faces very clearly.

The patriarch was taken aback and shouted, "Zhou Gongnan? You've finally escaped with us, it's okay, it's okay. As he spoke, he turned around and asked anxiously, "Why don't you see the golden retriever, where is the golden retriever?" ”

"I'm the Golden Retriever, don't you know me?" The golden retriever stepped forward, trying to make the patriarch see clearly.

The patriarch looked Zhou Gongnan up and down for a moment, shook his head and said: "Don't talk nonsense, you are Zhou Gongnan, the golden retriever rat is a big mouse, not what you look like, the golden retriever rat rescued you and me, we have to thank him, treat others like brothers, look for him quickly, don't let him be drowned in the water." ”

Listening to the patriarch's words, Jin Laosan looked around seriously......

The golden retriever was anxious and said: "I am really a golden retriever, my soul entered Zhou Gongnan's body and obtained his true body, if there is no real body of him, standing in front of you is a lonely ghost, a light shadow, you can see but can't touch it, it will scare you." ”

The patriarch let out a thoughtful "oh", and after a while, he nodded, only then did he believe the words of the golden retriever, and said, "Follow me in the future, you will be my brother Zhou Gongnan." ”

The golden retriever thought to himself, although he escaped from the netherworld with the power of the patriarch, he wanted to say something grateful to the patriarch, but then he thought that his personal relationship with him was still shallow, and he really didn't fully know his temperament. I have to let him respect me for three points first......

I saw the golden retriever laugh and said: "If you don't dislike it, even if you treat me as Zhou Gongnan, but you still call me the golden retriever, this name sounds pleasant to me." ”

As he spoke, the golden retriever laughed twice, and he raised his head to look at his hometown, where the bleak mountains stretched endlessly.

The patriarch turned his head to look at Jin Laosan, laughed heartily twice, and said, "We are up to you, as long as the three of us brothers are sincerely united, we will be able to do something great." ”

The patriarch held out his hand......

The hands of the three of them were tightly knit together, and their shadows swayed in the moonlight, looking very eerie.

The patriarch and Jin Laosan suddenly felt as if their backs had been hit by a few pieces of ice, first a heart-piercing coldness, and then a pain like a knife, their bodies were already uncontrollable, rolling and wailing on the ground, and the blood vessels in their bodies emerged from their skin, turning dark green, which was very strange in the cold light.

Jin Laosan suffered internal injuries again, and the pain in his back was even worse, only to hear him cry out in horror: "I finally escaped, I don't want to die, I don't want to die......"

The golden retriever was startled, took two steps back, and exclaimed, "The arrow wound on your back has attacked, you can't struggle like this anymore, the blood vessels will burst." ”

The two listened to the words of the golden retriever, endured the pain and did not dare to move again, they did not dare to resist with luck, people with the foundation of internal force know that qi follows the blood, if it is luck, the blood vessels will burst in an instant, it is really a life.

The two of them curled up on the ground, taking deep breaths to regulate their breathing, but the beads of sweat on their bodies had already penetrated their clothes.

After half a burnt of incense, the pain on the two of them was greatly reduced, and the bulging blood vessels gradually returned to their original state, and the two sat cross-legged before trying to breathe.

I saw that both of them spit out a dark blue mist from their mouths, and the mist instantly froze in the air, turning into ice and falling to the ground.

After half a burnt of incense, the pain in the two of them was gone.

The true qi in the patriarch and Jin Laosan's bodies had been depleted by half, and their bodies were very weak, and after a few more breaths, the vitality in their bodies gradually recovered.

The patriarch was still apprehensive, and said in horror: "This arrow is so powerful, I can't survive or die." As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the golden retriever sitting next to him and asked, "Do you have any way to crack it?" ”

The golden retriever groaned for a moment, shook his head, and said: "This is the arrow of the earth demon, it is the most yin thing, every full moon night, if you come into contact with the moonlight, the arrow wound on your body will inevitably attack, but at the beginning, the time is not long, as the years increase, if the arrow wound can not be cured, I am afraid that you will ......"

The golden retriever's face sank slightly, and he let out a long sigh.

The patriarch eagerly asked, "What are you afraid of us?" Aren't you a cheerful person, and you still talk to us, and treat us as brothers? ”

The golden retriever said: "If the sword wounds on your body cannot be healed, you will all become half-orcs in the future, and you will eventually be controlled by the demon world." ”

"Ah......h

The patriarch and Jin Laosan exclaimed in unison, their hearts were half cold, but the patriarch refused to give up, and asked again: "Is there really no way to crack it, I know you must have a way?" ”

Jin Laosan responded and said: "You have been in the underworld for so long, there will be some ways to do it, we can't sit still!" ”

The golden retriever thought for a moment before slowly replying: "It's not that there is no way, I'm afraid that you really don't want to take this risk, if we don't return to the netherworld together, then our previous efforts will be in vain." ”

The patriarch said loudly: "Even if I go to hell again, there will never be a day to turn over, as long as I can heal the arrow wounds on our bodies, I will give it a try, say quickly?" ”

The golden retriever replied, "You don't have a sword wound on your body, but your soul was shot by a green arrow, and the arrow wound needs to be healed with the Four Flavors True Fire......

The patriarch was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Where to find the Four Flavors True Fire?" ”

The golden retriever thought to himself, now that he has finally escaped from the underworld, and now he is going to break through the gates of hell again, what kind of thing is this, if he returns to the netherworld, he will definitely be tortured by that group of guys, but now if he doesn't follow the patriarch, where else can he go, hundreds of years have passed, and the family has long since returned to the earth, even if there are descendants, who will still recognize you? Besides, they treated me well, and I was able to escape from them, and the patriarch also needed a helper......

Thinking of this, the golden retriever looked at the patriarch and said: "There is a volcano on Ice Demon Island, where there are four flavors of true fire, the so-called four flavors of true fire are the net lamp, the golden lamp, the silver lamp, and the cover lamp, the ice demon island volcano is the gate to the underworld, across the vast sea, it will take a few days if the boat ride is smooth, and there are trolls in the sea." ”

The patriarch looked at the full moon, thinking about the pain before and what the golden retriever said, and after a while, he sighed and said, "The matter has come to this, so what else is there to say......

As he spoke, he suddenly heard a loud laugh from the grass, which sounded terrible, and spread from near and far, and several birds flew out of the grass and flew across the shore of the lake.

The patriarch, Jin Laosan, and the golden retriever were all taken aback, and when they looked at the sound, the grass was low, but there was no human figure......

The patriarch clenched his sword tightly and shouted, "Who is Your Excellency, can you show up?" His shouting startled a flock of birds again.

I heard a "whirring", and a man flashed out of the moonlight, and the man limped slowly and approached.

The patriarch looked at it, and it was the Hantou Xiaoer from the Donglang Mountain Wooden House who stepped forward, and the Hantou Xiaoer was still smiling, but his right foot was obviously half shortened, and it was tightly wrapped in a ball of coarse cloth.

The patriarch shouted, "Are you still alive? I thought I burned you to death that day, but I didn't expect you to have a long life. ”

The little second man smiled slightly, and replied: "Yes, you don't die, how can I be willing to die, I have been looking for you so hard, this search is a few years, and I finally see you!" ”

The patriarch raised his long sword and pointed at the little second, and shouted: "I don't want to talk to you too much, tell me quickly, who are you and why are you here?" ”

Hantou Xiaoer stopped, and a few cold lights on the blade shot into his eyes, and he twisted his head to the right to avoid those cold lights.

Jin Laosan stepped forward and interjected: "Count you as fast that day, otherwise you will be killed with a knife." ”

Hantou Xiaoer said coldly: "Do you really want me to die sooner?" The fire in the Donglang Mountain wooden house was set by you......"

Before he finished speaking, the long sword in the patriarch's hand had pierced straight in.

Although Han Tou Xiaoer said that he was limping when he walked, he was also very agile in his movements, and he saw that the tip of the sword had touched his clothes and was about to stab into his body, only to see him turn to the right side and avoid the stabbing sword.

At the place where the cold light rose and fell, the patriarch swung his sword and slashed down to the right, and in a hurry, Hantou Xiaoer's face sank, and he took a few steps back, and he had retreated to the water's edge.

The long sword in the patriarch's hand waved it again, and the golden retriever was so happy to see it that he clapped his hands and shouted, "Kill him, kill him......"

There was no way to retreat, and he hurriedly said: "Tuoba Hushan died unjustly!" ”

The patriarch was taken aback, withdrew the long sword in his hand, stopped, and said, "You...... You...... What nonsense? ”

Hantou Xiaoer squinted at the patriarch, and saw that the patriarch's expression was a little unnatural, and even a little panicked, not as fierce as before, he smiled in his heart: "I also said that he has nothing to fear, it turns out that he has grasped his weakness." ”

After a moment, the little second sneered: "Hmph, Tuoba Hushan's death is all because of you, don't try to deny it." ”

The patriarch was shocked, how did he know about this? At this time, the scenes that happened in the ancient tomb of the South Gate flashed in the patriarch's mind one by one.

I saw that the patriarch nodded, suddenly "oh", and shouted: "It turns out that the woman in red in the ancient tomb said that the other person is you, I thought she was a gossip to confuse the public, it turns out that you have been following us, and I only hate that I didn't kill you with a sword earlier, hum...... I can't let you go tonight. He turned his head and glanced at Jin Laosan.

Jin Laosan picked up the long sword and walked over, and the golden retriever picked up a dead branch on the ground and followed closely.

The three of them have formed a situation of encirclement against Hantou Xiaoer, and a vicious battle is imminent.

Hantou Xiaoer took two steps back, his feet were already submerged in the water, he turned his head to look at the blue wave lake behind him, the full moon in the lake was shaking, and there was an undercurrent surging in the water.

The patriarch shouted: "Let you be buried at the bottom of the lake tonight, you will not be lonely with the bright moon as your company." As he spoke, the long sword in his hand flickered and stabbed at the little er.

Hantou Xiaoer was anxious and shouted: "If you kill me, Tuoba Hu Xian will not let you go easily." ”

The patriarch's heart trembled slightly, thinking to himself, this person has a certain background, he really underestimated him on Donglang Mountain that day, no matter who he is, ask clearly first.

Only a clear sound of "dang" was heard, and the patriarch inserted the long sword into the ground, supported the hilt of the sword with his right palm, and raised his left hand backwards, signaling Jin Laosan and the golden retriever to stop stepping forward.

The patriarch arched his hand and asked: "Your Excellency is really not a happy person, you are dying and selling with us rough people, who are you, how can you have anything to do with Tuoba Hu Xian?" ”

Hantou Xiaoer was a little proud, he walked out of the lake, limped to the boulder by the lake and sat down, the patriarch asked in surprise: "Oh, you ran fast on Donglang Mountain that day, but the four of us brothers couldn't hold you, why are your feet lame now?" Aren't you tired of still pestering us, if you want to follow us, we still think you're dragging us down? ”

Jin Laosan and the golden retriever laughed.

The patriarch turned his head to look at the golden retriever and Jin Laosan, and said, "Don't make fun of people, people may have a hard time, I asked him seriously." ”

The golden retriever replied, "We're laughing very seriously......"

As he spoke, the three of them looked at each other and laughed again.

At this time, the full moon was already in the west, and the night wind blew the surface of the lake, tearing the bright moon in the water into pieces.

Hantou Xiaoer looked at the three of them smiling maliciously, his face was bloodless, his heart was very unhappy, but he was actually helpless, he remembered the incident of escaping death in the sour pool when he followed the four of them in the ancient tomb of the South Gate that night.

Just when Hantou Xiaoer was wading through the pool of sour water, the sour water suddenly soared, fortunately he practiced a light skill, his right foot stepped on the stone pier lightly, and flew up, who would have thought that the sour water hit like a wave, and the sole of his right foot was wet through, and the sole of his right foot instantly turned into blood, but there was no pain, if he got up slowly, the whole person was soaked in sour water......

Xiaoer smiled bitterly: "You don't need to know who I am, I am ordered by Tuoba Hu Xian, let me wait for you here......"

Before he finished speaking, the patriarch interjected and said, "Did Tuoba Hu Immortal send you to spy on us?" ”

The little second man smiled gloomily: "It's best not to inquire about what shouldn't be asked, Hu Xian is the most jealous and suspicious person, just do your thing, Hu Xian said that he will no longer pursue the death of Tuoba Hu Shan......"

The patriarch's face sank slightly, and he said in his heart: "This Tuoba Hu Immortal is too suspicious, and he actually sent these two goods to monitor us, but I didn't expect that everything was still under their control, and now I was hit by the poisonous arrows of that group of demonic beasts, alas...... If the general's life is not affected, he will have to go to Ice Demon Island to heal the arrow wound. ”

Although the little second man looks naΓ―ve, he is also quite clever, he saw the patriarch's thoughts, took out a delicate small box from his pocket, and when he opened the box, he saw three shriveled monster insects lying in the box.

Hantou Xiaoer handed the small box to the patriarch and said, "The elder said, this is the only way to temporarily control your arrow wounds, take it down, one for each of you." ”

The patriarch took the box and looked inside, and couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body, and said in horror: "This thing is so scary, the body is full of feet, who knows what it is, take it back, we have received the elder's wishes, but we are not blessed to accept this thing." ”

The patriarch handed the small box back to Xiao Er.

The golden retriever took the box from the patriarch's hand, he looked at the contents of the box, and couldn't help but tremble in his heart, and cried out in a lost voice: "God...... Centipede...... Pede, this is a centipede! ”

The little boy laughed and said, "Do you know this thing too?" Finally one of you knows something. ”

The golden retriever thought to himself, if the patriarch took this centipede and healed the arrow wound on his body, wouldn't he have to go to Ice Demon Island? But how can the patriarch easily believe that if the patriarch is not good, he will say that I am too selfish, so it is better to do the opposite......

The golden retriever smiled and said, "This thing is a rare thing, it comes from thunder and lightning, but it is extremely vicious, if its saliva gets on the skin, the skin hurts as if it was burned by fire, and then it will produce a big pustule, and the pustule will soon spread to the whole body, if it bites it......"

At this point, the golden retriever snorted twice, with a yin smile on his face, he looked at the patriarch, and said: "Although the heavenly centipede is a pure yang poison, it can resist the yin poison in the body, and the underworld is most afraid of this thing, but the yin and yang qi is glued, and the immortal can't save it, so let's not take this risk......" As he spoke, he raised his hand and wanted to throw the small box into the water.

The little second man took a step forward and snatched the small box from the golden retriever's hand.

The golden retriever suddenly felt a light breeze sweeping around him, and before he could react, his hands were empty.

The little second man took the small box in his hand and said angrily: "You are also a reckless man, this is handed over to me by the elders, and I was ruined by you casually, how can I explain to the elders, if you don't listen to the dissuasion and insist on breaking into the Ice Demon Island, I will never stop you, I'm afraid that you will be buried in the sea before you see the island." ”

The patriarch asked the golden retriever, "Can the centipede really resist the arrow wounds in my body this day?" ”

The golden retriever was overjoyed, but he didn't show it, only to see him frown, and replied: "If you can, you can ......."

The patriarch was anxious and asked, "What are you afraid of?" Say it! ”

The golden retriever said slowly: "I'm afraid that the patriarch won't dare to take this risk." ”

The patriarch said, "We have all broken through the gates of hell, what else can we not risk it?" ”

At this time, Hantou Xiaoer took out a heavenly centipede from the box and said, "The elder expected that you would not believe it, so he prepared an extra one and let me take it in person." ”

Xiaoer patted his chest, spread his hands, and said with a smile: "Look, I've already eaten one, can there be anything?" ”

"I believe you for the time being...... this time" The patriarch stepped forward and took the box, and after he took a centipede, he handed the box to Jin Laosan.

Jin Laosan took the other one, and both of them felt that the centipede seemed to come to life at the entrance, and the feet of the whole body crawled forward, slowly crawling down the esophagus, and disappeared in the stomach.

The bodies of the patriarch and Jin Laosan were no different, and they seemed to have a little more spirit.

Hantou Xiaoer said with a smile: "The arrow wound in your body is no longer a big problem, Tuoba Hu Xian said, as long as you bring back the baby you chased and killed ten years ago, so that you can enjoy endless glory and wealth, now that the baby has grown up, he is in the Lingshan Ancient Tomb, if you can't bring back others, just bring his head, go, Tuoba Hu Xian will send someone to pick you up." ”

As he spoke, Hantou Xiaoer beckoned to the sky, and a white carrier pigeon flew over from nowhere, fluttering its wings and landing on Hantou Xiaoer's right palm.

After chanting a few words to the white pigeon, he raised his hands, and the pigeon took off into the air and flew to the west.

The patriarch and the three of them were dumbfounded......

Xiaoer smiled slightly, limped back a few steps, and disappeared into the moonlight with a "whew", and the three of them stood in place for a long time as if they had entered a dream.

The full moon had sunk into the mountain, revealing only half of its face, and the morning star in the east was unusually bright. A gust of wind blew, rustling everywhere, and the three of them couldn't help but shiver.