Chapter 2: Lost (2)

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At dawn, the Extinguishing Monk finally returned. (To read the latest chapter of this book, please visit the Wรจn Aishang Novel Network biquge.info) Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Relieved, because the angry monk could still find a way back, only half relieved, because the angry monk still didn't find a way out.

A day ago, when they stood on top of the ruins of Lanlin Temple and looked into the distance, the stretching and tall Wuqi Mountain Range in the distance was still faintly visible, and it seemed that they could only walk there in half a day. It's just that after they walked for almost a whole day, when they realized that something was wrong, they climbed to the top of the tree and looked again, whether it was Wuqi Mountain or Lanlin Temple, they all disappeared into the light fog that filled at some point. Through this layer of fog, the afterglow of the setting sun behind them could still be faintly seen, indicating that their direction was not wrong, but the mountain that should have appeared in front of them was never seen, and it was still a tree as far as the eye could see.

There was originally a thousand-year-old tree demon entrenched in this area of Lanlin Temple, which was eliminated by the monks of the Taoist Sect and the Buddhist Sect twenty years ago. This is a well-known story in the rivers and lakes of Qingzhou, but no one expected that the tree demon still left a maze, and they are undoubtedly trapped in this maze now.

"Twenty years ago, the Kunlun Sect Baiyun Flue Leader and my Chixia Master joined forces to fight with this thousand-year-old tree demon for three days and three nights before destroying the old demon's primordial spirit, but I didn't expect that the old demon used to protect himself was still left behind, fortunately, the tree demon body died early, and this maze probably only had a wreckage left. The poor monk checked every line and section last night with Guanyin's insight**, although the whole forest has a faint demonic aura, but there is no sign of fluctuations. We walked all day without the slightest danger. It seems that the wreckage of the maze is only trapping us, but it is not hurting. โ€

Just like Zhu Bajie needs to be called Bajie, the angry monk looks very angry. A pair of thick eyebrows like fire, wrinkled as if they had never been unfolded in their lives, a pair of bloodshot eyes, and the green tendons on their foreheads that beat from time to time, as if they were ready to rise up in anger at any time and tear and crush the person in front of them into pulp. The voice was also hoarse, holding back I don't know how much resentment. Just looking at it, this is a demon that took five hundred years to crawl out of the eighteen layers of hell one by one and stand in front of the enemy.

But no one dared to doubt the cultivation of the angry monk because of this appearance. As one of the eight great protectors of the Pure Land Monastery, this appearance is the proof that his Great Virtue Vajra Wrath Dharma Appearance has been cultivated to an extremely high and profound realm. If it weren't for the fact that the Pure Land Zen Monastery happened to hold a ** meeting in Qingzhou, and the angry monk happened to pass by Luoshui City, and heard that there were demons near Luoshui City and took the initiative to come forward, the Luoshui Gang would not be able to move him even if he paid more money.

Li Yutang, Hu Qian, the Yunzhou man surnamed Huang, and Xiao Xia are now all sitting next to the angry monk. The Bai Shao Gang leader was not saved, and the three major protectors of the Luoshui Gang and the master of a dry incense who came with him had already turned into fragments, and everyone naturally faintly thought that cultivation was the highest and the most famous anger extinguishing monk as the leader.

"Although this maze is not dangerous, it's a pity that the poor monk is quite unfamiliar with the formation, and he has no clue how to break out of the formation, I don't know if you have a high opinion?"

Li Yutang suddenly spoke: "This maze should have been deliberately done by someone to trap us. โ€

"Oh, what did Li Daxia say about this?" The angry monk raised his eyebrows, and his flame-like eyebrows seemed to burn upwards with a bang.

"The remnants of the ownerless remnants left over thirty years ago can be left to this day, but we have encountered it, how can there be such a coincidence? Not to mention that the two predecessors of Baiyun Flue and Chixia will definitely not leave such an obvious bane, and this is not a place where people are inhabited, and occasionally there are business travelers and people in the rivers and lakes passing by, if there is this maze and harming people, how can there be no news in the past thirty years?"

Li Daxia's words are also reasonable. The angry monk nodded. He looked angry and his voice was angry, but his words were actually very polite. "But if so, who did it, and what did it want?"

"Naturally, it is a vain attempt to do the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches in the back. Li Yutang seemed to be very sure, and pointed at the white-clothed girl lying on the rock in the distance. "Naturally, it's the demon. โ€

In the distance, the girl in white was still lying on the rock as she had done last night, her posture had not changed, but she had closed her eyes and seemed to be asleep. Even so, several people here were very careful, unwilling to let her hear the conversation between them, and deliberately left her at a distance, but they didn't seem to be at ease, and they didn't dare to go too far, and none of them completely took their eyes off her.

"Although I didn't save the young gang leader, but I captured this demon alive, and the old gang leader Bai could barely explain it. And even if the demon slaughtered the body of the divine soul and sold it as a material for making zuรฒ magic tools and mechanisms, it was worth at least a few hundred taels of gold, and this living one, if it met someone who knew the goods, it was worth at least two or three thousand taels of gold. And two or three thousand taels of gold are on the rivers and lakes of Qingzhou, and there are not one thousand but eight hundred who are willing to carry their heads to rob them. "Regarding the situation on the rivers and lakes of Qingzhou, Li Yutang, the hero of Qingzhou, is undoubtedly very clear, and he is very sure of the temptation of these two or three thousand taels of gold.

"And there are more benefits than these two or three thousand taels of gold" Glancing at the white-clothed girl in the distance, Li Yutang's Adam's apple moved, and he slowly said hard: "It's the credit that we have successfully captured that demon alive this time." With the cultivation of that demon, he did such a tragic thing that hurt the heavens and harmed the people, but he was captured alive by us, and this year's demon extermination order must also be recorded. As long as our name is on the Demon Eradication Order, we will be recognized by the righteous path of the world as a great chivalrous man, a great hero! This is a benefit that cannot be bought by ten taels of gold!"

The so-called Demon Extermination Order, several major sects once a year to evaluate the world's ten states should be the most deserved to kill the top ten demons, the most dazzling ten righteous anecdotes, carved on the front and back of a token, and then sent to Longhu Mountain, please the head of the world's Taoist Zhang Tianshi to make a decision, it is called the Demon Extermination Order, and then spread around the world.

The names of the ten demons on the front of the token attracted attention because of the rewards awarded by several major sects, and the names of the ten righteous path anecdotes on the back of the red eyes were the same.

Leaving his name on that token, not only into the eyes of Zhang Tianshi, the leader of the Daomen, but also with this token is famous all over the world, no one knows it, and it is regarded as a role model idol by countless heroes in the world Some people will think that it doesn't matter, it's not a big deal, you can't change it for food, you can't change it for wearing, and there will be no more meat on your body, but some people will feel that this is more enjoyable than what you eat and what you wear. For example, Li Yutang is. In the eyes of this Qingzhou hero, being able to leave his name on that wooden card is the biggest benefit, and the most valuable benefit is ten times more valuable than the two or three thousand taels of gold.

Worth ten times the benefits, there will naturally be ten times more people willing to take risks with their heads raised. So speaking of which, the expression on the face of this Qingzhou hero is very complicated, suddenly excited on one side, worried on the other, suddenly longing on the top, and anxious on the bottom.

Seeing him like this, Xiao Xia couldn't help but smile again: "Li Daxia has long had a fixed mind, and he is like watching the fire. Sure enough, it's insightful. โ€

Li Yutang glared at him, and the green tendons in his hands were jumping again. Although he didn't quite understand what the kid was laughing at, he knew very well that it would definitely not be a compliment, and he could feel a different smell in it. It smells like.

What Li Daxia said, I'm afraid it's unlikely. โ€

Hu Qian spoke. The voice swayed out of her slightly larger helmet, with a bit of buzzing echoes, but it was very clear and calm: "Can follow us all the way without being noticed, and can also lead us into the maze unconsciously, looking at the rivers and lakes of Qingzhou, there are only three or four people who can do it, and these three or four people are all famous grandmasters, and they will never try to do such a thing in person." โ€

Li Yutang snorted coldly: "What about the Grandmaster's Famous Residence? People die for money, with such a great benefit, they will inevitably not be moved." โ€

"I don't mean that they won't be tempted, but that even if they do, they won't do it themselves. It's not their way of doing things. is like the big boss of Drunken Immortal Residence, even if you want to make money, you don't need to go to the door to solicit customers in person. Hu Qian smiled, even though her facial features were not very clear under the cover of the helmet, she could feel that she was smiling sharply.

This sentence seems to be true. Li Yutang furrowed his eyebrows fiercely, and frowned for a long time before he asked in a sullen voice: "Then what does Lord Hu Xiang think, what is going on with this maze?"

Hu Qian was silent for a while, her eyes looming under the cover of the helmet, and she seemed to think about it before she spoke: "Maybe it's just a coincidence." โ€

"Coincidentally?"

"Bai Yunyan and Chixia, the two seniors, were both injured and tired after the battle, but they just destroyed this Dryad Maze casually, and they didn't have time to check it carefully, which is not surprising. And now, maybe it's because of the timing of the day, maybe we accidentally touched the forbidden eye of this maze somewhere, or maybe it's other reasons, it happened to make this remnant array work again. โ€

"Hahahaha, it's ridiculous!" this time it was Li Yutang's turn to laugh. "I have heard for a long time that Shenjitang has carefully studied the equipment and organs, and what is particular is that it is a meticulous and meticulous matter, and there is no ambiguity. Now this forest is clearly and strange, and Lord Hu Xiang doesn't peel off the cocoon and analyze it carefully, but he comes to a coincidence to solve the problem?"

Hu Qian didn't care, just smiled coldly and said lightly: "The world is far from being as simple and clear as a machine, and we are not saints and Buddhas, so naturally it is impossible to see everything clearly, and we can only guess according to the existing situation." Now that we don't have a clue, can we analyze what kind of name is coming? By chance, there are many things that seem to be coincidental and accidental, so what's so strange about us encountering this now?"

"Amitabha. Although what Hu Xiang said is also reasonable, one qiฤ“ has its own fate. But we are trapped here and now, and we should try to find a way out. The angry monk pronounced a Buddha name, nodded to Hu Qian, and suddenly turned his head to look at the Yunzhou Dahan again, and asked, "Then Huang Shizhu has anything to say?"

Although he had been sitting here with Xiao Xia and them, the big man of Yunzhou didn't seem to care about the other people around him, he suddenly looked at the girl in white in the distance in a daze, suddenly looked left and right, and there was a grunt sound in his throat from time to time, sometimes looking at it to stand up, he tried to sit still, like a hysteria patient who was completely immersed in his own world.

"Say, what? I don't know what you're talking about. The big man opened his mouth and smiled, stretched his waist, patted his chest, and there was some blood oozing under the bandage, he didn't care at all, he was still laughing, but there was no trace of ease and kindness in that expression, as if it was just a twitching muscle that happened to piece together the facial features into a shape that seemed to smile.

"Let's go. You have to get out quickly, what are you doing sitting here?" as if he had only come to his senses after being asked by the angry monk, he stood up abruptly and glared at the others. I don't know when, the whites of those big copper bell eyes are full of bloodshots.

Li Yutang snorted coldly, as if he was very disdainful, but his body couldn't help but move to the side. Hu Qian glanced at it coldly, while the angry monk smiled. He was really smiling, but the expression on his face was already filled with anger and looked very awkward, as if he had to boil a pot of molten iron into a pot of syrup.

In fact, he is right, since he can't understand the reality of this maze, it's useless to sit here, it's better to keep going. Xiao Xia, who had not spoken all this time, suddenly spoke.

Li Yutang glared at him, gritted his teeth and said in a muffled voice: "Ignorant boy, are you also crazy? Now you don't even have a clue, where to go?"

Xiao Xia smiled and said, "It just so happens that I have a stupid method here, which is specially used when I have no clue." โ€

"Oh?" Everyone looked at him with different expressions, Li Yutang didn't believe it, Hu Qian was a little surprised, and the angry monk was as angry as ever.

"Actually, it's very simple, as long as we leave marks and mark the location wherever we go, even if we make a mistake, we can always find out the direction slowly by walking more and marking more. โ€

Li Yutang sneered disdainfully, and said, "Now that we are trapped in the demon array, and we are not ordinary lost, what is the use of a stupid method like you that you would use as long as you are a person?"

Xiao Xia was not angry, and continued: "This forest itself is not too big, but it still can't go out, I think it may be that the fog in this demon array not only obscures the tall things of the Lanlin Temple of Wuqi Mountain, but also distorts and changes the position of the sun and moon in the sky, so that we have been wrong about the real direction and spinning in place." Naturally, this maze is not only left by monsters, but there may also be other strange changes, such as the trees that will also change and move, tempting us to go the wrong way. But the Master of Extinguishing Wrath also said that this demon array is just a wreckage, and the changes are limited, as long as you make marks along the way, it is easy to see the changes in this formation. โ€

The angry monk snorted and nodded angrily: "Yes, yes, what Xia Xiaoshi said is very true." โ€

"It's a stupid idea. Hu Qian's voice was cold, but the expression under the helmet seemed to be a smile. "But it's good to be stupid. โ€

"Well, you're finally of some use. Li Yutang also had to nod and admit it, raised his hand and waved, and pointed. "Then the mark on the road shall be made by you, little boy. โ€

So they went on their way again. The sleeping girl in white is carried by Hu Qian's trap beast and follows her. And Xiao Xia is in charge of implementing his stupid method, marking along the way.

I have to admit that this is really boring. During the whole day's journey, all but trees were neither tall nor short, neither thick nor thin, and the squeaking sound on the joints of the two trap beasts in my ears was also unchanged, and it resounded in the same rhythm for the whole day. To do the same thing for a day in such an unchanging environment, Xiao Xia feels that if you don't become a madman, you have to be a fool.

Fortunately, no matter how boring or unlucky things are, he can always find something that is less boring and less unlucky. At the beginning, he honestly scratched a mark on the tree, and then he found that it was better to write a word casually, and then he found that writing was not as good as writing poetry, for example, first there was a word on each of the five trees, which added up to 'the bright moonlight in front of the bed', and then dozens of steps away was another five trees 'someone diapered on the crotch', and finally he simply drew a picture, suddenly drawing a pig's head, and suddenly drawing a fat dog.

"The sword is the king of a hundred soldiers. Those who practice swords are regarded as the sustenance of flesh and soul, so there is a reason why the sword is in the sword, and the person is lost in the sword. You ignorant boy has been so foolish all the way, you just make a mark and make a mark, and to spoil this Rainbow Shadow Sword like this is simply an insult to the people who practice swords all over the world!"

When Xiao Xia began to draw turtles, Li Yutang finally couldn't look at it anymore, and roared at Xiao Xia with a sand voice.

Along the way for most of the day, it is definitely not just Xiao Xia who feels bored, Li Yutang is very boring, but the hero can't carry a sword to scribble everywhere, and he can't do something that other heroes can't do, so he can only speak, from the time he was twelve years old when he went through all kinds of hardships and overcame all difficulties and finally worshiped the mysterious master as a teacher, to how to risk the danger to go deep into the tiger's den in the first few months, and unite the heroes of the thirteen chain docks to eradicate the wonderful stories of the water bandits who have been entrenched in the dark clouds for decades, and he has long been dry and smokyใ€‚ If it weren't for the fact that this turtle had a pair of sword eyebrows that were exactly the same as his, he would never have bothered to speak.

Xiao Xia shook his wrist, the long sword in his hand buzzed, and he was like a rainbow, and he was very satisfied with the turtle that had just been completed, sighed very satisfied, and said with a smile: "I heard that this rainbow shadow was originally a birthday gift that Baiqilou was preparing to give to Lord Zhoumu, but it was the old Dharma protector who spent five thousand taels of silver, and also took two Qingqi people from Yihong Mansion, which was exchanged for it from the hands of the treasurer of Baiqilou Mengda." I've never used such an expensive sword in my life, and I can't help but want to compare it when I hold it in my hand. โ€

Li Yutang's sword eyebrows were furrowed as if they were about to jump up from his forehead and stab out. At this time, the angry monk who was walking in the front suddenly raised his hand, stopped, and said, "Okay, it's about the same time for today." โ€

"Master, we can continue for the next paragraph. In fact, Li Yutang wanted to stop and rest for a long time, but he is a hero, he can't say he is tired if others don't say he is tired, and when others say it, he has to say that he is not tired.

"No, that's all I have to do today. The Angry Monk shook his head. "Then please ask Lord Huang, Lord Hu Xiang, Master Li Daxia, and Master Xia Xiao to rest here for a while. The poor monk turned back to see if the signs had changed. โ€

After saying this, the angry monk turned around and walked back on the way he came. He didn't seem to walk fast, but disappeared into the woods in just a few blinks of an eye. Although his Divine Foot Pass is still far from being cultivated to the legendary shrinkage of the ground, it is far better to use it for travel than ordinary light body kung fu.

Hu Qian snapped her fingers, and the two trap beasts behind her stopped, leaned over, and put down the sleeping girl in white on it. Xiao Xia also stretched, took out the water bladder and took a sip, ready to rest here.

"What are you stopping for? Let's go~! We're going to go back quickly!"

The voice of the Yunzhou Dahan came, and it turned out that he did not stop, but kept moving forward.

"Don't stop! Let's go!" The big man of Yunzhou walked back quickly, staring at the three people who stopped with a pair of bloodshot eyes.

Li Yutang and Hu Qian were silent, and they didn't even glance at the Yunzhou Han, and they didn't know whether they didn't want to look at it or didn't dare to look at it. Xiao Xia opened his mouth and explained to him: "The Master of Fury Extinguishing told us to wait here first, and he will go back first to see the marks we have made along the way, and see what this maze is."

"What to see, I can't see anything, how can I get out if I don't go? Hurry up, go quickly!" The Yunzhou man looked very anxious, the expression on his face was no longer distinguishable because of the continuous twitching of his muscles, the huge nose wings were agitating and snorting and panting, and the bloodshot in his eyes was so much that he could barely see the whites of his eyes, as if they were two blood cells with a little black, turning around in his eye sockets.

When he set out this morning, he walked like everyone else, but by now his feet were half-bent, his waist was hunched, and his hands seemed to be longer than they had been in the morning, and from time to time he was propping up and planing on the ground. From the outside, he has become more and more like a beast than a man. And it's good that he can still speak and understand what others are saying.

Li Yutang frowned, and couldn't help but whisper: "If you want to go, go alone, let's wait here"

"Get out of here~!I didn't ask you~!"

A deafening roar suddenly exploded from the mouth of the Yunzhou big man. The huge sound and spitting stars were mixed together and hit Li Yutang's head and face head-on, making his face pale, and he could barely stand on his feet even after taking a few steps back.

With a bang, the Qingzhou hero, who had regained his footing, had already drawn his sword in his hand. But although his face was so red that he was almost dripping blood, and the green tendons on his hands burst out, he wanted to crush the hilt of the sword that was carefully made of agarwood ancient sandalwood in his hand, but he still stood in place and did not dare to rush forward.

With that roar just now, the big mouth of the Yunzhou big man opened almost to the edge of his ears, and the fishy smell emanating from his mouth was so thick that it seemed that ten people had just chewed it raw and ate it. A mouthful of white teeth is very conspicuous in the red and piercing mouth, especially the four canine teeth are very thick and sharp, like four horned sharp knives.

No matter how you look at it, this is no longer a human mouth.

Hu Qian stood still, and this roar didn't seem to frighten her, but the two trap beasts that stopped not far away creaked around.

Looking at Li Yutang who drew his sword and the two machine beasts that turned around, the Yunzhou Dahan smiled. Maybe it was a smile, maybe it was something else, but his mouth was grinning, and his bright red tongue was sticking out, licking from the left side of his face over the bridge of his nose, almost to his own eyelid, and then sweeping over most of his right cheek, before finally retracting it under his chin.

"Okay, Brother Huang, aren't you hungry after walking for half a day? Xiao Xia asked suddenly.

"Hungry?" the Yunzhou man was stunned, as if he suddenly remembered this after being reminded, and suddenly shouted in realization. "That's right. I'm hungry! I'm hungry!"

"It just so happens that I have a piece of jerky here, please eat it. Xiao Xia took out a palm-sized oil paper bag from his arms and handed it to the Yunzhou man. The Yunzhou big man grabbed it, threw it directly in his mouth without looking at it, and nodded again and again while chewing and said that it was still better meat or meat.

The fragrance of a few wisps of cured meat wafting from the mouth of the Yunzhou big man made Li Yutang feel that his cheeks were cramping. I didn't expect that kid to still have such a thing on his body, but he gave it to this monster to eat, but it made this monster temporarily stable...... I don't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or scold this kid, which makes the expression on Li Daxia's face look very strange, and he can only glare at Xiao Xia.

Then took Xiao Xia's two packets of dry food and threw them together in his mouth to chew and swallow, and then poured a skin bag of water, the Yunzhou man looked a little satisfied, patted his belly, sat down and stretched. Although these foods do not seem to be much, they are very firm and dry, and after the lower belly swells with water, it can rise a little bit, and finally can barely feed him. As for the Qingzhou hero and the incense master of the Shenji Hall next to him, he seemed to have forgotten all of them, and he didn't even look at them again.

Li Yutang snorted, and finally regained a little of the demeanor that a hero should have, put the sword back into the scabbard, turned around and walked to a big tree in the distance, sat down and closed his eyes to rest.

Hu Qian also went to sit down under another tree. She sat more like she had taken her position and collapsed, the armor on her body clattering with a muffled sound, and then she let out a long sigh and gasp. This armor may not be heavy, but it will never be light, of course, this armor can also be taken off and carried by the trap beast, but Hu Qian did not. In fact, since the beginning of their acquaintance, Xiao Xia has never seen her take off this armor, not even the helmet, this set of armor of the Divine Machine Hall seems to have grown on her.

"You seem to have a lot of dry food in the table. Hu Qian asked suddenly.

"I used to walk in the sea of grass in the northern wilderness of Yongzhou for more than a month, eating insects, grass roots, and shoes. โ€

Looking at the Yunzhou man who had just burped over there, Xiao Xia took out a bag of dry food from his arms and smiled bitterly. "Unfortunately, that's all there is to it. โ€

Carefully opening the last packet of dry food, Xiao Xia pulled the lower half of it into his mouth and chewed it slowly, chewing carefully and enjoying it, as if this was the most delicious thing in the world. After swallowing slowly, he took another sip of water and rinsed his mouth to make sure that the last bit of residue in his mouth was not wasted, and then took the remaining half and made a gesture to Hu Qian: "Does Hu Xiang eat the main thing?"

"Keep it for yourself. Hu Qian snorted coldly, took out a vial from his waist, poured out a marching pill and swallowed it. Although this kind of medicinal refinement gadget can't be eaten, it can also make people starve to death all the time. Glancing at the Yunzhou man who was already lying down in the distance, she suddenly asked, "Why do you want to give him dry food?"

"If he doesn't give him food, he might have to eat people. Xiao Xia sighed and replied.

"I've been waiting for him to eat people. Hu Qian's voice was cold. "Can't you see that?"

Xiao Xia was silent for a long time, and he slowly spoke: "Without him, we would have died a long time ago." โ€

"Yes, without him, we would all have died. But he became like this, not for us. Hu Qian's words were very organized and clear, just like the mechanism on her armor, which was very efficient and cold. "You should be a smart person, and you won't do useless things. โ€

Xiao Xia thought for a moment and said, "If I said that it was because he invited me to dinner once before, so I will return it to him now, do you believe it or not?"

"I don't believe it. โ€

Xiao Xia sighed: "But that's really it. โ€

Hu Qian snorted, ignored him, buried his head, and seemed to close his eyes and start to rest.

Xiao Xia shook his head slightly, looked at Hu Qian, then turned his head to look at the Yunzhou man who was asleep in the distance, shook his head, and said to himself: "Sometimes, being smart is not a good thing. โ€

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