Chapter Ninety-Five: The Wooden Man Really Becomes a Puppet
Nangong Yue and Zhuo Yun's mother and apprentice hurried slowly, and finally saw the Shipai Village Post Station located on the edge of the barren mountain and remote forest the next day. Zhuo Yun suddenly reined in his horse and said to her mother, "Mother, let's dress like this, and we will enter the village later—I'm afraid that those people in the village will avoid it." ”
"Oh, so what should you think?"
"This ...... I don't think it'......" Zhuo Yun leaned into Nangong Yue's ear and whispered something like this......
"Well, that's it." So they turned their horses and went out into a dense forest.
After the second watch, this lonely little mountain village was completely quiet early...... Zhuo Yun and Nangong Yue changed into night clothes in the forest, and quietly entered Shipai Village on foot. There are only twenty or thirty families in this small village, and most of them are poor, and there is a kind of decay at a glance.
Suddenly, they noticed a thin figure hurrying past the alley in front of them! Nangong Yue immediately made a look at Zhuo Yun - the two of them immediately separated and outflanked the night walker......
Under an old locust tree, the man was sneakily crouching on the ground - as if he was digging something out of the dirt? Zhuo Yun's figure flickered, and he instantly approached that person with a light step, and put a dagger on the back of his neck!
The cold feeling made the man shudder, and he trembled and stammered, "Who is it?" Dare to talk to you Yang Xiaoye...... Open...... This kind of joke? ”
Hearing this, Zhuo Yun raised his right foot and kicked him down, scolding: "Return Master Yang? Open your dog's eyes and see clearly - I'm your aunt! ”
Yang Xiaoguo lay on his back on the ground, begging for mercy in panic......
"You're Yang Xiaoguo, right? My aunt and grandmother ask you: Where is your brother Yang Daguo now? Take me to his house right away! ”
"You're looking for my brother, aren't you?" Yang Xiaoguo felt that this request was too abrupt, because of his wood-like brother - but no one had ever taken the initiative to find him. At that moment, he scratched the back of his head, thought for a while, and then said, "By the way, I haven't seen my brother for a few days, and I don't know if he's still at home......
"Less nonsense, hurry!" After all, Zhuo Yun had been in all corners of the rivers and lakes before, and he really had a very domineering aura when he launched ruthlessly!
"Yes, yes, woman, please come with me." Yang Xiaoguo could see that the woman in front of him had a fierce temperament, so he had to pick up his tail and didn't dare to provoke her at all.
Yang Daguo lived on the side of the village near the hill, with only two thatched huts and a small courtyard barely fenced off with stones. Zhuo Yun followed Yang Xiaoguo to the door, and intuitively knew that Nangong Yue had also arrived—but she didn't show up directly.
As soon as he stepped into the courtyard gate, Zhuo Yun found at a glance that under the grape trellis in the corner of the courtyard, there was a person standing straight! She glanced at Yang Xiaoguo and asked, "That person is your brother, right?" ”
Yang Xiaoguo was reminded by her, only to find that his brother Yang Daguo hadn't gone into the house to sleep at this time, and he was standing straight and straight - standing alone in the cold wind! He was slightly surprised, so he shouted, "Brother, what are you doing?" ”
Who knows how loudly he shouted, that "Yang Daguo" just didn't say a word, just stared at his younger brother in a daze...... Isn't that a strange thing? Zhuo Yun, a veteran of the rivers and lakes, immediately felt that the situation in front of him was indeed weird, but what was the answer?
She immediately pressed the hilt of her sword and slowly pressed forward, thinking that she must take a closer look! Under the bleak moonlight, that "Yang Daguo" didn't make any movement or a trace of expression - it was like a terracotta figurine, a puppet, and he didn't move!
Zhuo Yun, who was approaching "him", was about to reach out to probe his snort, but he was suddenly startled, and hurriedly jumped backwards! At the same time, Yang Xiaoguo, who had also approached, also saw the situation in front of him clearly, and immediately covered his face with his hands and wept......
At this moment, Nangong Yue, who had been standing on the wall and watching, quickly flew to Yang Xiaoguo's side, and shot like lightning - hitting his dumb acupoint at once, so as not to attract other villagers with his cry. Nangong Yue asked Zhuo Yun in a low voice, "Yun'er, what's wrong?" ”
Zhuo Yun pointed at the straight, stiff "Yang Daguo" and said, "Mother, he has been dead for a long time. ”
It turned out that Yang Daguo, who had been out of breath for some time, was actually tied to death with a thin rope on the bamboo pole that supported the grape trellis! His head and body had long been separated, but there was not a drop of blood in the sword cut on his neck—this was obviously the wound left by the "Soul Eater" magic sword!
However, the "Soul Erosion" that has already absorbed the toxin of the Stygian Grass still needs to rely on its blade to take people's lives, doesn't this also show that at least at that time, Yang Daguo was carrying Lei Pimu on his body? In other words, before He Ba Gumu went to Yuanjue Temple, he had indeed deposited those two treasures here in Yang Daguo.
So, where are they now? Has it been snatched away by the murderer who killed Yang Daguo?
"Mother, you say-why did that murderer elaborate such a mystery?"
"Not good! This is obviously for the sake of - please enter the urn! Yun'er, evacuate quickly! Nangong Yue suddenly realized that the situation was not good, but before she could finish her words, from the deep darkness behind the house, two silver needles had already flown over!
Nangong Yue is also a master who is used to flying needles, and at the moment she heard the sound and identified the position, while her figure flashed slightly, she flicked her fingers - she returned the other party with a "blue sea golden needle"! Zhuo Yun's kung fu is not as advanced as her master, when she heard the sound of the hidden weapon flying, she immediately used a trick "Iron Plate Bridge", stereotyped but safe to dodge the sneak attack of the silver needle!
However, Yang Xiaoguo did not have the same way as them, he could neither hear the sound of the hidden weapon in time, nor did he have the kung fu to deal with it - without dodging or dodging, he was impartially shot in the buttocks. Faced with the sudden attack of a strong enemy, Zhuo Yun didn't have any extra effort to pay attention to this second-rate man, so he had no choice but to raise his foot and kick him to a relatively safe corner......
When she looked back, she found that Nangong Yue had already climbed over the wall and went out to meet the enemy by herself. At this time, the sneak attacker hiding in the shadows thought that the time had come, and couldn't wait to send several silver needles in succession - all of them were intended to shoot at the vital point of Nangong Yue!
Nangong Yuejiao snorted: "Good come!" With a wave of his left hand, he grabbed all the silver needles that were shooting at him, and at the same time, he raised his right hand - the three gold needles were divided into three ways: upper, middle and lower, and shot them in the direction where the silver needles came from!