Chapter 19: Undercurrents (2)
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After a few days, these Jianghu guests gradually got used to life under this huge fireball, after nightfall, although the light of the fireball still illuminated the surrounding radius for dozens of miles as bright as day, but the people who should sleep can still sleep soundly, the whole place is quiet during the day, and only the low rumble driven by the flame circulation on the huge fireball can be faintly heard. And probably because of this fireball, all the birds and beasts in the woods have run away, and it seems that there are no insects left, which makes the silence after night a little strangely quiet.
More than ten miles away from this huge fireball, at the edge of this sparse wood, the movement on the grass finally seemed to have some life, but it did not mean that there were birds and beasts here, since the abnormal birth of the volcano this day, the birds and beasts in this vicinity and the insects have run away, and the people sent out to hunt by the Raiders of the Lost Ark have to go dozens of miles away to find beasts to hunt. The movement here comes from the occasional sound of horses' hooves.
The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and three quacks on horseback came out of the shadows of the trees on one side. These are three people with different dresses and a large age gap, the youngest is just a ten-year-old boy, with two short swords and other weapons around his waist, and the oldest one is a man in his forties, who looks like he hasn't slept for four or five days, but he doesn't see a weapon on his body, plus another strong man in his thirties who carries an iron rod on his back, these three people ride horses and walk side by side, looking around from time to time while walking. And although these three people are dressed in different ages, they all look a little tired, even the most energetic teenager is a little absent-minded, and the middle-aged man who is already unenergetic is even more unbearable, as if he can fall asleep on a horse at any time.
"No, let's stop and rest for a while. The middle-aged man staggered on his horse and finally couldn't bear it, stopped his horse, and almost fell headlong in a crooked way.
"The surname Xiong, this trip is still a long way off. The young man looked a little dissatisfied, glaring at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man sat on the ground and refused to get up. Shaking his head and saying, "No matter, I can't do it anymore, I want to rest and rest, I really can't hold it anymore." ”
The young man's waist straightened, and he looked at the middle-aged man angrily: "Why are you so sloppy? It's either and pee, or you don't have the energy to shirk. Stopping and stopping all the way, how can the tasks assigned by the three alliance masters be so perfunctory?"
The middle-aged man glanced at the young man with drooping eyelids, and replied in a dying tone: "Three alliance masters, just talk about the second leader of your scattered shadow club." Make it so serious, boy, it's a pity that you don't go to Yongzhou to join the army but follow the Scattered Shadow Society to be a thief. ”
"What did you say surnamed Xiong, who is the thief?" the young man slammed his hands on the two short swords at his waist. looked at the middle-aged man roaring.
"Anyway, it's not my surname Xiong. My surname Xiong kills people and robs money and women, but he is only a robber, not a thief. The middle-aged man said lazily.
The sturdy man, who had not spoken, waved his hands at the two of them at this time, and said in a deep voice, "Okay, you two can stop a little." Tonight is the last night of our shift. Do you still want to do something about this little thing and try the whip of the Law Enforcement Hall?"
"Hmph. It was this last night that I endured this fight. The boy angrily withdrew his hand from the dagger.
The strong man said to the middle-aged man again: "Xiong Guangning, you can hold on for a while." When you finish patrolling this section, no one will pay attention to you when you go back to sleep casually. If we are delayed by the people behind us here, it is okay to report you as a lone thief with no sect, we will be reprimanded, and if we don't do well, we will be punished. ”
"In a place where this kind of bird doesn't lay eggs, there is a bird that is good to patrol, so many people have patrolled these nights, but have you caught a ghost?" The middle-aged man named Xiong Guangning got up from the ground slowly, and his mouth was still muttering, and suddenly he turned around again. Run in the shade of the woods not far away. "No, I'm going to. Wait, I can't help it. ”
The strong man and the young man were about to speak to stop it, but the middle-aged man had already rushed into the shadows, pulled open his pants and squatted down, making a small noise. The young man turned his head with a look of extreme disgust, and the stout man shook his head and looked away. After a long while, just after the two of them urged, Xiong Guangning came over with his pants. Slowly climbed onto the horse, and then the three of them rode together towards another place.
The sound of horses' hooves faded away. When it was gone, and the place was about to regain the lifeless silence it had before, two figures emerged silently from the woods. A slender woman in white, a young Taoist priest with casual clothes and unkempt hair. It's Xiao Natsu and Mingyue who came out for a walk.
"Daoist Xia, it's not much fun to walk with you. Why do you keep sneaking around and watching those people?"
Mingyue frowned, shook her head, and her black hair moved with the wind. The distant firelight stained everything around her red, yellow, and yellow, but when it shone on her, there was a hint of moonlight, a small pout, and a pair of thin eyebrows that were gently wrinkled as if they could hook the hearts of onlookers.
But Xiao Xia didn't seem to notice the beautiful scenery around him at all, instead his eyes shimmered, with a strange smile on his face, he looked intently at something on the ground in front of him, and walked over quickly, squatted down, tilted his head and looked carefully.
If anyone else were to see this scene at this time, they would only come to the conclusion that the young man was a madman at all. Because he put aside the beautiful woman around him and ran over and squatted down to look at it carefully, what was a puddle of half-thin and half-dry stool pulled out by the man surnamed Xiong just now, and he also looked very carefully, very carefully, very attentively, and even simply lay down, and the look on his face was simply a little eyebrows dancing. In this way, it seemed logical that even if he pounced on it immediately and ate it next.
It's a good thing he didn't really do that. He just took out a piece of rune paper from his waist and shook it casually, and the rune paper suddenly became as hard and straight as a blade, and then he carefully reached for the rune paper knife and plunged it into the ground, picking up the mass of stool along with the dirt below.
In the pit of the dirt that was raised, a stone tablet was lying quietly inside. This stone plaque is no more than the size of a palm, gray and white in color, the texture looks very delicate, and there are many vague lines engraved on it.
After carefully looking at it for a moment, Xiao Xia was very satisfied and put the stool in his hand back with the soil. Then he straightened up, took a few steps back, took a deep breath, shook his head and said, "It's so smelly, it's disgusting, what does this surnamed Xiong eat?"
"If you think it's disgusting, why do you want to look at it like that?, I wonder when you became so fond of that," Mingyue just didn't understand.
"Because even if it's disgusting, it's disgusting. Natsu smiled. He looked satisfied and proud, but also a little surprised. "The inheritance of the Kunlun sect is really not simple. It's just that the people of the lower three courtyards can actually make such a big formation to complete this magic array in these ten days, it seems that there are many Kunlun sect disciples who have quietly infiltrated this treasure capture alliance, and the idea of those people daring to fight the Vermilion Bird Spirit Fire is not completely unreasonable."
Those three people just now were the men sent by the Raiders of the Lost Ark to patrol the night. Indeed, as the Shi Dao people said to Tang Chengcheng before, they were able to gather so many people to come together. It is not a reckless person with a hot head, more than 2,000 people are actually arranged in an orderly manner, each performing its own duties, some are responsible for hunting and foraging everywhere, and some are patrolling and probing. Even he sent disciples to patrol around at night, which was quite a bit of a military trip. It's just that this is not a real military after all, and all kinds of people who are mixed together are mixed, each with different intentions, although they can still act as one on the surface, they all have their own means behind the scenes. The middle-aged man named Xiong Guangning was clearly a person from the Kunlun faction, and he secretly arranged the formation when he patrolled around.
The spells of the Kunlun faction are not circulated much in the rivers and lakes, and Xiao Xia doesn't know much about it, but he can still guess some clues from Liang Hongtao's words that have slipped through his mouth. I came out at night to take a sneak peek, and sure enough, these interesting things appeared.
But what to do now and then, Xiao Xia is still a little uncertain. At a time when the undercurrents are raging and it is clear that they have not yet been fully exposed, it is obviously wisest to sit quietly and watch. Xiao Xia wasn't even sure if the Shi Dao people were really unaware of the actions of these Kunlun sect people, and if they were still preparing a follow-up that he didn't know.
"Daoist Xia, what are you talking about? You've finished reading everything you're going to see, now let's go for a walk." I know there's a stream over there. Let's go catch fish and play. ”
is still the most carefree girl in Mingyue, and she doesn't waste half of her mind on this confusing and complicated situation at the moment. Holding Xiao Xia's hand, he was about to walk over there. But suddenly her brow furrowed, and she turned her head to look into the depths of the woods, and whispered, "Who is coming over there?" ”
"Let's hide and see. Xiao Xia hurriedly pulled Mingyue, who was unhappy, towards the place where she was hiding just now.
It didn't take long for a rush of footsteps to come from the direction that Mingyue noticed, and then a person walking quickly walked out of the woods, the fire shone on this person's face, and Xiao Xia, who was hiding in the shadows and watching quietly, was startled, because this person was a person from the Early Yang Dao.
The people of Chuyang Dao walked very fast, and they didn't hide it, they just strode towards the woods with their heads buried in stride, and Xiao Xia could vaguely see him frowning, as if he was thinking about something, and it seemed to be a headache. What is a little strange is that because of the light behind him, Xiao Xia can't see the eyes of the Chuyang Daoist clearly, but for some reason, the sluggish scene of the Chuyang Daoist he saw in the hut before suddenly resurfaced.
Walking out of the woods, the footsteps of the people of Chuyang Dao did not stop, but walked farther away, Xiao Xia was thinking about how to chase after him, when suddenly a sound of horses' hooves came from another direction, and someone was shouting from a distance: "Who is the person in front, stop!"
It was the Night Patrol Team of the Raiders of the Lost Ark, but instead of the three people who had passed before, the other four people came galloping from other directions. The routes of these people patrolling around are staggered and connected, and outside the woods is an unsheltered grassland, and it is almost inevitable that the people of the Chuyang Dao will walk out with such a swagger.
However, when the four people on patrol rode their horses and ran to the front, they also recognized this Chuyang Daoist who often followed closely by their alliance leader, and his nervous expression also relaxed, and asked, "It turned out to be the Chuyang Dao Chief, I don't know where Chang Xingse is going in a hurry so late?"
The Chuyang Daoist pointed in the direction he was moving and said to those people, "I have some changes in the Heavenly Fire Sect's Mountain Protection Array, and it seems that the Earth Spirit Qi over there has some signs of instability, and I am about to go over and take a closer look." ”
Although the Chuyang Daoist was not one of the several alliance leaders, his position in the Treasure Raider Alliance was somewhat pivotal, and the one who took the lead said, "Why don't we send the Dao Master over." If there is something, you can also help the Taoist to contribute. ”
"No need. "Chuyang Daoist waved his hand. "Anyway, it's not far ahead, and I have to sit still and feel it carefully when I get to the place, and if someone is around, I will be distracted. You go out to watch the night. Leave me alone. ”
The back of the Chuyang Daoist had already gone away, and the four people who had patrolled were also gone, Xiao Xia came out of his hiding place, took out a talisman in his hand and pasted it on his body, and his figure gradually became transparent.
"Daoist Xia. Are you going to follow that person again?" Mingyue also stepped out of the shadows. Pouted. "It's not fun to follow other people around all the time and peek quietly. ”
"Well, this time I'm sure it's going to be fun. Xiao Xia looked at the back of the Chuyang Daoist who was almost invisible. smiled as if he had picked up a silver ticket of 10,000 taels for nothing.
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When it was dozens of miles away from the Heavenly Volcano, the fireball that enveloped the entire Heavenly Volcano didn't look so huge, just like a big torch in the distance, and the light coming from it was not so bright, and it could only illuminate the figure of the Chuyang Daoist from behind as a long black shadow.
I walked briskly for nearly an hour. After leaving the woods under the Heavenly Volcano for more than twenty miles, the Chuyang Daoist seemed to have finally found the place he was looking for, sat down cross-legged on a mound, closed his eyes, sat up, and began to quietly probe and sense the flow of the spiritual qi under the ground as he said. There was silence all around, and from here there were finally some insect chirps, chirping from time to time, and the breeze blowing from the grassland. It really sets off the Chuyang Dao people who sit quietly with their eyes closed to a bit of fairy wind bones.
I don't know how long it took, but the insects suddenly disappeared again, and there was a dead silence around them. Then, in the dead silence, there was a sound of footsteps, and a figure walked briskly from a distance.
When it's still far away. This figure didn't look strange, but when it came to the vicinity of the mound, it was obvious that it was actually an extremely fat figure, nearly nine feet tall. The waist circumference also looked at least seven or eight feet, like a huge well-fed bear. But the figure's movements as he walked did not seem bulky. This person was walking in the direction of the Heavenly Volcano, and his appearance was faintly visible by the distant firelight, which was a tall fat man with a face full of flesh and wearing a leather armor.
Walking closer, the fat man's weight that seemed to be more than 300 catties shook the ground slightly, but the Chuyang Daoist who closed his eyes and meditated didn't notice it at all, and he didn't mean to open his eyes at all. But the fat man walked straight towards the Chuyang Daoist, until he walked behind the Chuyang Daoist, and only then did he stand when he was almost next to the Chuyang Daoist, and looked at the Chuyang Daoist who was meditating on the ground with a pair of bull's eyes.
But the people of the Chuyang Dao were still completely unconscious, as if they didn't know that there was a behemoth standing behind them that looked very dangerous, or they still sat cross-legged and motionless, and the expression on their faces was also quiet. A gust of wind blew, blowing the sleeve robe on his body loudly, and it looked like it was quite a bit of a fairy wind bone, about to go away with the wind.
The Chuyang Daoist didn't move, but the big fat man standing behind him squatted down and opened his mouth.
The fat man's mouth was very big, and he could fit it into a big fist after opening it, but the fat man was not satisfied, and continued to stretch the mouth open, and even the sides of his lips were pulled apart, and there was a click in the jawbone, and he actually broke free of the jaw joint, and finally opened the mouth to a somewhat unbelievable point, like a snake about to eat. Then the fat man buried his head again, and swallowed the head of the Chuyang Daoist under him in one bite with this incredibly large mouth.
It seems a little wrong to say that it is swallowed whole, after all, no matter how fat this fat man is, no matter how big his mouth is, he is still a person after all, and it is impossible to really swallow another person, but at least the head and neck of the Chuyang Dao people are completely stuffed into the fat man's mouth, and the fat man's already fat face is even bigger, and even the neck has doubled because of the stuffed into the heads of some Chuyang Dao people. The body, which was already a little fat and alien, now looks even more strange and a little unhuman.
Even so, the Chuyang Daoist still didn't mean to wake up, although his head and face had been completely swallowed into the fat man's mouth, but the posture of the rest of his body, hands and feet had not changed by more than half a point, and he still sat cross-legged.
The sound of whining and gurgling sounded from the fat man's chest and abdomen, as well as from his mouth and throat, it sounded as if he was rinsing his mouth, and the head and face of the Chuyang Daoist were all contained in the fat man's mouth, aside from the strange shapes of these two people, this appearance was simply that the fat man used his mouth as a container and washed the hair of the Chuyang Daoist with saliva.
After a little half a cup of tea, the fat man spit out the head of the Chuyang Daoist from his mouth. Except for some saliva and other things on his head and face, the appearance of the Chuyang Daoist didn't seem to have changed in the slightest from before, and his chest was also rising and falling slightly, and it seemed that he had been immersed in that luck meditation all the time. Then the Chuyang Daoist opened his eyes, stood up, got up and walked in the direction he came. As when he came, he was still striding like that, the only difference was that the frowning brow had been relaxed, as if the matter that had been whirling around his mind had been resolved. This is facing the light, and you can see that his eyes are very energetic.
From beginning to end, the Chuyang Daoist didn't look at the big fat man behind him, and he didn't even seem to feel the existence of this monster who had swallowed his head in his mouth at all, he really just came here to meditate and feel what kind of earth spirit qi he was talking about.
And the monster-like fat man didn't pay attention to the Chuyang Dao man anymore, and turned around and walked quickly in the direction he came. This strange and inexplicable scene was all born in a dead silence, without a single word or sound.
At this moment, there was a slight snort in a small area of grass not far from the hill, and several grasses were inexplicably squeezed and broken, as if they had been trampled by an invisible foot.
This was originally a very slight sound, and even in the dead silence of the surrounding environment, it should not be able to reach a distance of several feet, but the big fat man who had walked out of dozens of zhang suddenly turned around, and looked at the place where the sound came out in a daze with a pair of dull big eyes.
The place where the sound came out looked as if there was nothing, and there was grass all around him, but when the fat man saw it, he suddenly rushed there with a degree of dexterity that was not at all commensurate with the huge body, and the huge body brought a gust of wind, and almost in the blink of an eye, he had rushed there, and his hands had drawn two large knives from behind him, and slashed at the grass that seemed to be nothing.
There was a loud bang, weeds and dirt flew everywhere, and two vague figures that seemed to appear out of thin air jumped away from both sides, flashing the fat man's blow.
"Don't come here unharmed, the big boss hasn't seen you for more than ten days, how did you learn the trick of swallowing people's heads alive?" The slightly wolf-like figure rolled on the ground and stood up, greeting the fat man with great interest and cheerfulness.
The fat man did not answer. There was no expression on the fat face that was overflowing with flesh, and the blood on the cracked lips was slowly flowing down, soaking half of the face into blood red, like a fat zombie that had just sucked blood under the reflection of the firelight, and a pair of dull convex fish eyes looked at the two figures that gradually became clear.
In the distance towards the Heavenly Volcano, although the sound was heard in the silence, the Chuyang Daoist who was walking quickly did not even look back, and on his indifferent face, a pair of shining eyes just looked at the huge fireball in the distance, as if there was nothing else in this world. (To be continued.) Please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster!