Chapter 194: The Secret of the Deserted Village
There was not a single villager to be found in the dead deserted village, and it was as if all the people here had suddenly disappeared.
Almost every household here has a shrine in their home, and the wooden plaque enshrined in the shrine has long been missing.
The village at night is like a ghost village, and Zhou Fan almost turned around the village with the courage of his masters.
He didn't find the whereabouts of the Right Dharma Protector or the ASEAN Lord and the others, and the group of Spirit Forbidden Masters who came with them didn't see the corpses.
There were only a few bodies that he had burned outside the temple earlier, and there were no missing tour groups or the bodies of the police officers who came to investigate.
Zhou Fan, who returned to the temple again, smelled the harsh smell of blood coming from the hall.
He immediately flew into the hall, and only then did he see Zhang Yuanhua, who was on guard against the enemy.
I saw that Zhang Yuanhua's face was pale at this moment, and he looked like he was consuming a lot.
He was covered in blood, and his shoulders and arms had deep claw marks that could be seen in the bones, and Zhao Zhuang didn't seem to be much better, at this moment, it was a new injury and an old injury, and he almost didn't lose his life.
At the feet of the two of them, there were many corpses of beasts and tanuki lying at this moment.
"You're finally back!"
After Zhang Yuanhua saw Zhou Fan come back, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief and said.
He sat down on the ground, immediately took out the medicine powder to stop the bleeding, and then closed his eyes to breathe.
Zhao Zhuang also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said hello to Zhou Fan, and immediately crossed his knees on the spot to heal his injuries.
"Roar!"
Before Zhou Fan could ask, a hoarse beast roar came from the hall.
When Zhou Fan heard the reputation, he found that it was actually a black panther, it had some injuries on its body, and it was obvious that he had fought with Zhang Yuanhua and them before.
Zhang Yuanhua is a powerhouse in the Spirit King Realm, and ordinary beasts and demon beasts are not his opponents.
Before, he was still wondering, those beasts that died beside them didn't seem to be strong, even if Zhang Yuanhua and the two had not recovered from their injuries, they shouldn't have been beaten so badly.
Now I finally know the culprit, it turns out to be the powerful panther in front of me.
"Roar!"
The black panther roared, and instantly turned into an afterimage and pounced on Zhou Fan.
It also seemed to feel the threatening aura from Zhou Fan, so it almost used all its strength to pounce.
"Bang!"
There was a loud bang, and a deep claw mark appeared in the place where Zhou Fan had been standing.
"Woohoo!"
At this moment, countless vines suddenly appeared, instantly entangled the black panther who could not dodge.
"Roar!"
The panther's sharp teeth snapped at the vine in the blink of an eye, and its sharp claws tore through the vine and broke free.
Its speed was extremely fast, and it was already close to Zhou Fan in a moment of galloping and jumping and dodging.
Zhou Fan did not incarnate into the state of a tree man, so he easily avoided the panther's attack when he dodged and retreated.
"Sonorous!"
"Bang Bang!"
"Roar......
Zhou Fan, who avoided the panther several times, finally used the white sword.
He relied on the white sword, and his speed was not slower than that of the black panther, and even a few points faster, so he quickly suppressed the black panther.
When the roaring panther realizes that it is no match for her, it tries to escape.
It's just that Zhou Fan was willing to let it go, almost chasing and intercepting it to prevent it from escaping.
As the battle continued, the panther's physical strength gradually became a little overwhelmed.
Its speed is not as good as Zhou Fan's, and its defense cannot be compared to it.
Zhou Fan actually wanted to kill it not difficult, the reason why he deliberately exhausted the panther's physical strength was because it was still useful for him to keep the panther.
"Bang!"
After another cup of tea, the panther finally couldn't support the coma under the penetration of the scent of Bauhinia and Orchid.
After Zhou Fan saw that the panther was completely unconscious, he took out the medicine powder to stop the bleeding from its wound, but he didn't want it to bleed too much and die.
He began to hide things on the black panther, and after being busy for a while, he walked towards Zhang Yuanhua and Zhao Zhuang in the distance.
After a period of healing, the two finally recovered.
Although the injuries did not heal so quickly, the two were able to move their limbs simply without being affected.
"What were you doing there?"
"You don't have any thoughts about the Panther, do you?"
Zhang Yuanhua looked at Zhou Fan, who was full of blood, and wondered if he had a special hobby for beasts.
"If you have that time to talk nonsense, don't hurry up and restore your combat strength."
Zhou Fan stepped forward directly, pulled Zhang Yuanhua's clothes and wiped his hands.
Before the other party could get angry, he took out dozens of forbidden stones and handed them to the two of them.
Zhao Zhuang unceremoniously took away more than a dozen forbidden stones to absorb the forbidden qi that recovered the loss, and Zhang Yuanhua, whose cheeks twitched, finally chose to be soft.
In this way, the three of them practiced cross-legged in the hall for a while.
When it was dark, the three of them left the temple.
I don't know how long it took, but the bloodied panther woke up quietly.
It was still extremely weak, and its legs trembled a little when it stood up.
The awakened panther immediately looked around, and only after finding that there were no other creatures in the main hall did it sniff and come to the idol.
I saw it raise its eyes vigilantly, and jumped directly onto the statue after finding that no outsiders were present.
Its leopard's tail struck the half-clasped fingers of the female idol, and as the idol's fingers snapped together, the idol suddenly trembled violently.
"Click!"
"Click!"
There was a sound of a mechanism, and the idol turned.
Soon, the idol turned sideways to reveal a hole, and the panther had jumped off the idol and rushed into the hole and disappeared without a trace.
"Boom!"
"Boom ......"
As the idol slowly closed with a rumbling sound, three successive figures rushed into the cave in an instant.
"Bang!"
With a shudder, the slowly moving idol returned to its original form, and the exposed hole was re-blocked.
The black panther was sniffing the scent in the pitch-black cavern, unaware that three silent black shadows had been following it far behind.
The damp and rancid smell of the cavern was so strong that the panther didn't like it, so it didn't stop and ran at breakneck speed.
"Why don't we hurry up?"
"This cave may have a fork in the road!"
Just a while after the panther left, Zhang Yuanhua's voice suddenly sounded.
"No hurry! It can't run! ”
Zhou Fan didn't care, and didn't seem to be worried about the black panther running away.
"It stinks in here!"
"Let's get out of here!"
Just as Zhou Fan's words fell, Zhao Zhuang pinched his nose and urged.
"Let's go, let's go! I can't stand the smell either! ”
Zhang Yuanhua also pinched his nose, looking like he was about to be smoked.
Seeing this, Zhou Fan didn't talk nonsense, and immediately flew into the cave with the two of them.
He didn't want the panther to smell them, so he didn't get too close to it.
Fortunately, the black panther seemed to be in a hurry and kept moving extremely fast, and he didn't notice the three Zhou Fan who were following behind.
At the end of the long and narrow cave is a series of corridors, which extend in all directions, like a labyrinth, if you accidentally go wrong, you may completely get lost here and eventually starve to death in the corridor.
The unpleasant smell came from the smell of corpses emanating from the corridors.
Walking through the dense labyrinth of corridors, the panther relied on his sense of smell to discern the direction for a long time before finally getting out of the corridor.
There is an exit outside the corridor, and another panther is guarding the exit.
"Roar!"
The black panther guarding the exit smelled an unusual smell and immediately roared to warn the villagers in the deep canyon to be on guard.
However, when it saw that it was its partner who had returned, it regained its momentum and continued to nap on its stomach.
The returning panther let out a low roar, and after waiting in place for a while, an old man in a straw hat approached the panther with a group of villagers with swords in their hands.
Before he could ask, a sword light suddenly flew out of the cave.
"Bang!"
"Whew!"
At the same time, there was a loud bang, and the small fried pieces inside the bloodstained black panther skin suddenly exploded.
It was blown off and crashed into another panther.
"If you want to do it! I promise none of you want to live today! ”
Before the old man in the straw hat ordered the villagers to make a move with the two black panthers, Zhou Fan's cold voice sounded, and several bombs had already been taken out.
Not only him, but Zhao Zhuang and Zhang Yuanhua also almost had more than a dozen bomb grenades.
If they were all thrown away, it was estimated that at least half of the old man and the villagers behind him would die, and it was also possible that they would be wiped out directly.
"Stop!"
The old man in the straw hat was not without cultivation, he was the village chief of Jiang Village, and his forbidden qi cultivation also had the level of a high-level spirit forbidden master.
Although the other villagers have no cultivation, they all have good skills.
At least ordinary force is not comparable to technology, and the strongest in Jiang Village are the two black panther guardian beasts.
"Who are you?"
"What do you want to do?"
The old village chief asked in a deep voice!
Zhou Fan, who was standing in the air, saw that the old man was willing to talk, and couldn't help but slowly fall from the air and put away the white sword.
"Roar!"
"Roar, roar, roar!"
At this time, the male black panther stationed in the distance roared, and was about to pounce on Zhou Fan and the three of them, but they were repelled by the old village chief.
"I want to ask something and find someone! I don't want to conflict with you! ”
Zhou Fan said bluntly, although he could see that the old village chief and others hiding at the bottom of the deep mountain canyon had a problem, he didn't want to explore other people's privacy.
"Who are you looking for?"
The old village chief glanced at Zhou Fan and the three of them a few times, and saw that the three of them didn't seem to be here to find fault, so he asked vigilantly.
"The tourist team disappeared when they came to your deserted village, and the police team that came behind them has not been heard from again."
"There are hundreds of spirit forbidden masters in the team that came at the end, with your cultivation, they will definitely be helpless, I want to know where they went?"
Zhou Fan asked several questions in a row, which made the villagers behind the old village chief all vigilant, and they all showed hostility towards Zhou Fan and the three of them.
"My brother asked me so many questions, do you have the patience to listen to the whole story?"
"Listen to it!"
Since the old village chief wanted to talk about it in detail, Zhou Fan naturally would not object.
Anyway, he is not in a hurry for a while, with the strength of the old village chief and others, even if he rushes up, he is not the opponent of the right protector and others.
So Zhou Fan wanted to hear what was going on here.
"Our Jiang Village is isolated from the world, and we don't want to come into contact with the outside world, and we don't welcome people from the outside world."
"Some time ago, there was a team of more than a dozen people who claimed to have come to the mountains to play and got lost."
"I was going to drive them away, but there were people in the villagers who objected to taking them in, who had ......"
The old village chief began to tell Zhou Fan and the three about what happened, and told the three of them that Jiang Village was kind enough to take in those outsiders, but those outsiders were not only not grateful, but also remembered the bronze utensils and various jade in the village.
Even in the tourist team, a woman with a decent appearance began to take the initiative to hook up with the villagers, provoking the villagers to cause conflicts, so that they could take advantage of the chaos to steal all kinds of items.
Later, the old village chief discovered the intentions of the outsiders and drove them all out of the village.
It's just that the hearts of the people are not enough to swallow the elephants, and those people did not leave, but secretly poisoned the villagers, trying to destroy the whole village, so that they could get all the treasures without knowing it.
It's a pity that they missed the two black panthers, and the old village chief has always let the two black panthers secretly stare at them.
After discovering the intentions of the outsiders, the enraged old village chief issued a kill order, leaving all the greedy people behind.
Later, a group of police officers arrived and began to raid the village.
The old village chief didn't want to cause trouble, so he could only scare the police officers by manipulating the wooden signs.
The officers were eventually scared away, only to bring in a large crowd a few days later.
When they searched Jiang Village, they also took a fancy to various items in the village and began to secretly take them away.
In the end, the old village chief couldn't bear it anymore, so he ordered the two black panthers to take advantage of the night.
Later, they hid in a secret passage behind the statue.
During this time, several waves of people arrived, but basically the old village chief secretly manipulated the wooden cards, and cooperated with the two swift black panthers to kill them one by one.
The last group of people and horses were too strong, even if it was two black panthers, they were not opponents, so the old village chief did not dare to act rashly, and planned to hide in the secret passage canyon for a while, and then take the villagers out after the wind passed.