Chapter 53: Leaving the temple and returning home
"How long are you going to cry?"
The sudden sound of a woman's voice woke Jiang Chen up.
As soon as he turned his head, he saw Miss Gao lying on the altar, a pair of big bright eyes staring at him for a moment.
"Come and help me untie the chains, it's never too late to cry!" Miss Gao ordered.
Jiang Chen ignored her, sat for a moment, then leaned over, picked up Chiyang's body, turned around and walked out.
Miss Gao was startled, her body twisted violently a few times, and she pulled the chains and clanked: "Hey! Where are you going? Help me untie the chain, I'll go with you! Don't go, don't leave me behind......"
In the shouting, Jiang Chen's back still walked farther and farther until he could no longer see it.
Faced with the corpses of poisonous snakes and the smell of blood all over the room, Miss Gao's heart was filled with despair and fear, and she closed her eyes and began to cry.
It wasn't until she cried hoarsely that she felt that she no longer had any strength in her body, so she lay on the bed in despair, crying and waiting for death to come.
Remorse, unwillingness, sadness...... and the resentment towards Jiang Chen, which gradually became numb with time.
She now finally understands that after taking off that glamorous coat and losing the protection of her noble status, she is nothing, abandoned at will, and has no strength to resist, and in the end she can only turn into a dry bone, accompanied by poisonous snakes and corpses......
The cold stone chamber became a little warm, and she thought she was hallucinating, only to wake up from her numbness with ecstasy at the sound of unhurried footsteps approaching.
Jiang Chen went and returned. It's just that the body of Chiyang on his back is gone.
After he approached, Miss Gao couldn't help but complain: "Just to bury a dead person, you have been gone for so long?" ”
Jiang Chen frowned and said coldly: "If it is to bury you, it should not take long." ”
Miss Gao saw that his face was wrong, so she hurriedly changed her words: "Hey, when I didn't say it, don't be angry, come over and help me untie the chains." ”
Jiang Chen walked over and pulled the chains on her body, the blood and qi condensed in her hands, and with a little force, there was a crisp sound of "click", and the chain made of fine iron was pinched and broken by him.
This was the boiling bloodline that Chiyang left to Jiang Chen, allowing him to break through the second-order "molting" realm of the forging body and reach the third-order "Yi Jin" in just two incense sticks. But the thought of Chiyang's death made him unable to rejoice.
Miss Gao couldn't wait to climb down from the altar, and as soon as she lowered her head, she was taken aback, and hurriedly shouted at Jiang Chen angrily: "Scoundrel! Turn around! ”
Jiang Chen turned his back and heard Miss Gao call again: "Go find me some clothes!" ”
Her coat had been torn to shreds by the Piper's spell.
Jiang Chen pointed to the ground, where the piper's torn corpse was scattered all over the ground.
"Peel it yourself."
"I don't want to wear the clothes of the dead!" Miss Gao stomped her feet and shook her hands, very dissatisfied.
"Whatever you want." Jiang Chen walked out.
"Wait, bastard! Wait for me in a moment! Miss Gao hurriedly stripped her clothes from the corpse.
The bodies were torn apart, and their clothes were reduced to strips of rags. Miss Gao peeled off the largest of them, wrapped them around her body, and hurried to chase Jiang Chen's back.
She panted and caught up with Jiang Chen, and complained in her mouth: "You guy, you don't know how to pity fragrant and cherish jade at all!" Alas, Miss Ben has been in you for eight lifetimes......"
Jiang Chen ignored her, but Miss Gao's voice lingered in her ears like a fly, one moment saying that he had no manly demeanor, and the other time blaming him for walking too fast, which annoyed him.
The two walked forward for a distance, and a burly figure came into view, which was the seventh-order "Xuangang" puppet.
It was now a dead object, standing there stiffly, holding the green dragon sword in both hands to slash, although the movement had solidified, it still gave people a strong sense of oppression, as if a general was leading the charge of ten thousand armies.
"Who is this guy, he seems to be very powerful, why doesn't he move?" Miss Gao stepped forward and stretched out her hand to shake it in front of the puppet.
Jiang Chen saw that she looked ignorant and fearless, and said suspiciously: "Didn't you see it when you came?" ”
"No! I have a magic weapon to protect myself, so I keep running forward, and no one stops me. Then I ran into the flute guy, and he used a trick to tear up my clothes and tie me up while I was tidying up......"
The battle that came out of Miss Gao's mouth was as ridiculous as a child's fight, but Jiang Chen couldn't laugh.
He carefully looked at the appearance of this puppet, and faintly felt that this puppet was somewhat similar to the bull-headed giant ghost in Xue Mansion in Western Liao City, but the production method was more clever.
Jiang Chen's right hand reached out to the puppet's forehead, and his fingers pressed it, touching the depression of the helmet.
A cold, eerie feeling passed over him, reminding him of the scroll that the old horse-faced ghost had once lodged, and the two felt very similar. This made him suddenly suspicious, could this temple be related to the Green Hades Temple?
But after he threw out the scroll, he heard with his own ears that the old ghost of the horse face was slashed by the puppet, and the puppet showed no mercy at all, not like the performance of the same family......
Jiang Chen thought of one more thing, turned his head to stare at Miss Gao and said, "Why did you come to this place?" ”
Miss Gao, who was chattering just now, immediately quieted down and said, "This, actually...... It's a bit embarrassing to say. ”
She hesitated for a moment before she continued under Jiang Chen's forced gaze: "I made a bet with a sworn enemy in the Star Courtyard to see who would get the treasure in the temple first. We swore in front of the Fallen Soul Bell that we were not allowed to ask our family and classmates for help, and that we would recruit partners based on our own charm, and if anyone lost, we would shout three times in front of everyone in the Star Academy......"
"That's it?" Jiang Chen thought that his group had worked so hard to come here and lost countless people and companions, but it turned out that it was just because of the two little girls' play, and he suddenly felt ridiculous in his heart.
"What kind of expression do you have, look down on me, don't you? Let me tell you, this temple hides ancient treasures before the opening of the Yunmeng World, and every one of them can set off a bloody storm on the rivers and lakes! It's a pity that we are not blessed, and when we reach the first layer, we will die. Even Chiyang is folded here, it seems that no one in Western Liao City can enter the second layer......"
Miss Gao was a little depressed as she spoke, "Alas, let's go home early, I want to eat osmanthus cake......"
She thought of something again, her spirits perked up, and she laughed, "The little slut surnamed Lin definitely doesn't know how powerful this ghost place is, so she died here and was made into a puppet!" ”
The two walked out as they spoke.
Out of the temple gate, looking at the two-zhang high cliff, Jiang Chen stopped and turned his head to look at Miss Gao.
Miss Gao looked at the cliff and said nervously, "You, you don't want me to climb it by myself, do you?" ”
"You are also a third-order 'easy tendon' physique, so such a low cliff should be fine."
"No, no, no!" Miss Gao shook her head like a rattle, "What is Miss Ben's identity, how can she climb the cliff herself, and what kind of body can she become!" ”
"Do you want me to carry you up?"
"Yes, yes, you carry me up! I'll give you money, is 3,000 taels of silver enough? No, thirty thousand taels! As long as you send me back to Xiliao City safely, I will give you 30,000 taels! ”
"Too little!"
"Fifty thousand taels! Give a deposit of 10,000 taels first, and pay the rest back to West Liaocheng! ”
"The price is a bit sincere, but ...... I'm not happy! ”
"What else do you want? Do you want me to beg you? ”
Miss Gao said, seeing that Jiang Chen was unmoved, her small mouth flattened, her eyes began to redden, and she looked like she wanted to cry.
"I'm wrong, can I admit my mistake? I shouldn't have done that to you, but you also kicked me off the cliff, and we were even, what else are you going to do? I'm a lonely girl, can you bear to leave me alone, woo woo woo ......"
Listening to her cry, Jiang Chen sighed softly: "Do you know how much of a mistake you have committed?" ”
"I knew I was wrong, and I won't dare to do it again." Miss Gao wiped her eyes with one hand, and gently tugged at Jiang Chen's sleeve with the other, "Please forgive me, I will definitely change my ways, change my mind, and be a new person......"
"I hope you do what you say."
Miss Gao nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "I will definitely do it." A girl like me, who is loved and loved, will soon learn to be sensible. ”
She opened her fingers and peeked at Jiang Chen's face: "In this case, can you forgive me?" If you don't speak, I'll take you by default! ”
Seeing that Jiang Chen was silent, Miss Gao happily opened her arms, "Great, you carry me up!" ”
She unceremoniously threw herself on Jiang Chen's back.
But look at her face, where is the slightest tear stain?
Jiang Chen knew that she was just pretending to be pitiful, and he didn't bother to bother with her.
With the power of the third-order "Yi Tendon", Jiang Chen walked very easily even if he carried one person on his back, climbed the cliff, overcame thorns and thorns, and walked back along the route in his memory.