Chapter Twenty-Four: The Fish Returns
The barbarian old man's face sank like water, and his hoarse voice seemed to come from hell: "Listening to the description of the two Great Chu people just now, this monster is most likely Jizong, and it should have been made a puppet by Wuha." ”
When the other three heard the name Wuha, a trace of hatred flashed in their eyes, but it was more fear.
The eyes of the old man of the barbarian tribe also seemed to be about to erupt with fire, "Wuha, this traitor, stole the secret blood beads of the sect, made his own junior brother a human puppet, and fled to Dachu, any one of which is enough for the crime of betrayal to death." ”
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After another stick of incense, the four barbarians got up and left the second floor of the teahouse. The old man of the barbarian walked to Yan Fang, Mo Sisi glanced at the table coldly, the two had been eavesdropping on the conversation of this group of barbarians before, presumably they had been discovered.
Seeing this, the rugged man in the beast robe who followed the old man made a subtle killing move. But it was stopped by an old man who didn't want to make trouble.
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Yan Fang and Mo Sisi looked at the back of this group of barbarians leaving the second floor, a little afraid, they had been paying attention to these people's every move just now, and they had also overheard some news, but they also noticed the faint killing intent.
Mo Sisi's little face turned pale, and he said to Yan Fang with palpitations: "Yan Fang, this group of barbarians is very strong, especially that old man, it is not something we can deal with at all. It seems to be connected to that monster."
Yan Fang nodded lightly when he heard this, and responded: "Well, this group and that monster are not something we can deal with, what we have to do now is to quickly tell the people of the Ping Barbarian Division what we know." ”
"Hmm. Mo Sisi replied.
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Not long after the group of barbarians left, Yan Fang and Mo Sisi also left the teahouse and rushed to the Pingban Division, which was similar in nature to the Demon Division, both of which were secret organizations established by the imperial court and had branches in various states.
The branch in Shangzhou is small in scale, and there are usually only two staff members working in a separate courtyard of the Shangzhou Prefecture Office.
But now it's an eventful time, and these two people alone can't cope with it. The general secretary of the Pingman Division also sent a few masters from Luoyang.
When Yan Fang and Mo Sisi arrived at this state yabei courtyard, the masters of one of the most mysterious organizations in Da Chu were discussing the case.
There were about six or seven people, led by a bald man in a white robe, although his appearance was mediocre, but there seemed to be a sea of stars hidden in his small eyes.
Yan Fang was a little surprised when he saw the jade pendant pinned to the bald man's waist, not because this jade pendant was precious, on the contrary, it was just the most ordinary white jade, the important thing was the symbolism of this jade pendant, which represented the identity of the disciple of Fuhu Mountain.
The bald man also noticed Yan Fang and Mo Sisi and the bronze waist plate on their waists that symbolized the identity of the disciples of the outer sect of Fuhu Mountain, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to meet junior brothers and sisters here, it seems that the two junior brothers and sisters should be new to the school." ”
The bald man's smile was very infectious, like a warm spring breeze, which suddenly narrowed the distance between him and Yan Fang.
"Well, we only joined the outer sect half a year ago, senior brother, you are a disciple of the inner gate, right?" Mo Sisi looked at the white-robed bald senior brother in front of him with some curiosity and asked.
"Well, my name is Yuhui, I have been practicing in the inner mountain for ten years, and I am also the three-clawed Pingban guard of the Ping Barbarian Division. The white-robed bald man named Yu Hui replied with a smile.
Yan Fang and Mo Sisi were taken aback when they heard this, they didn't expect that the bald senior brother in front of them was Senior Brother Yuhui, who was well-known in the entire Fuhu Mountain. It is said that this senior brother is one of the youngest of the Bitter Sea Realm in Uchiyama, so it is no wonder that these ordinary barbarian guards who usually have eyes above the top are faintly headed by him.
This Yuhui was busy with business, and he hadn't been back to the sect for a long time, so he chatted with Yan Fang and the two of them a little more, and asked about the recent situation of the sect.
After chatting, of course, he didn't forget to get down to business, and asked Yan Fang and Mo Sisi why they came here, and the two of them also truthfully told Senior Brother Yuhui what they heard about this case in the teahouse, including the conversation between the fat man in the brocade robe and the thin monkey scholar and the situation of the barbarians.
Even the long-standing fish frowned after listening to it, he has been in Shangzhou for four or five days, and he has a general understanding of this case, knowing that the monster who committed the murder is just a personal puppet, and there must be someone behind him secretly manipulating him, and now there are several barbarians who seem to be involved in this case. The muddy waters of this lake in Shangzhou are getting more and more turbid.
After Yuhui was silent for almost half a time, his brows furrowed slightly, as if he had a countermeasure in his heart, and turned to Yan Fang and Mo Sisi and said, "You two little guys are also living in this courtyard for the time being, act with us, and there will be people from other sects to help in two days." ”
"Hmm. Yan Fang and Mo Sisi agreed. It's naturally best to be able to act with a powerful inner brother.
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Although this courtyard is not very large, it is more than enough to accommodate more than a dozen people. Yan Fang and Mo Sisi stayed in this courtyard for three days. During this period, an old man with a sword on his back, a young man with a sword on his back, and a black-faced man wearing a red robe lived in.
The pair of back sword masters and apprentices came from the Shanghe Sword Sect. It is the largest cultivation sect in Shangzhou, and the red-robed and black-faced Taoist is the master of the Five Tours Concept, and he is a more famous loose cultivator in Shangzhou.
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Early this morning, Yu Hui, who had been staying in the study for the past two days, reappeared, gathered everyone together, and said: "In the past two days, our Demon Division has obtained the exact information about the monster and the person behind him, if you have no doubts, we will now set off to Yaque Ridge to solve this case completely." ”
The people in this courtyard are all here to get rid of the demons, and they all hope to solve this matter as soon as possible, and now there is a three-clawed Pingman Weiyu of the Pingban Division to lead the team, so naturally no one objected.
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A group of nine people immediately set off and rushed to Yaque Ridge.
This crow's ridge is located in the west of Shangzhou City, is the only way to pass through from Shangzhou to Pingcheng, if you can see a lot of merchants passing through here in normal times, but now because of this case, the past merchants are much less than usual, and occasionally see a few merchants are also groups of three or two.
After Yan Fang and his entourage arrived at a broken bridge at the foot of the mountain, they waited in place for a while, and in less than half a pillar of incense, a thin man wearing a one-clawed barbarian guard uniform came down from the cliff like a ghost, and said to the leading Yu Hui with his fists:
"My lord, three demon caves have been discovered, and a total of ten human puppets are hiding. As for the behind-the-scenes manipulators of these puppets, they also hid in one of the demon caves, and four suspicious barbarians were also found around the demon caves. ”
Everyone was secretly surprised when they heard this, they didn't expect that there were so many puppets hidden in this Crow's Bird Ridge. When the four suspicious barbarians were mentioned, the others didn't think much about it, but Yan Fang and Mo Sisi glanced at each other, secretly guessing that it should be the group of barbarians they met in the teahouse that day.
Yu Hui's face was as usual, and he said calmly: "Lu Wei, take us to the weakest demon cave first." ”
When the thin man named Lu Wei heard this, he immediately led everyone to a demon cave where only two puppets were hiding.
This demon cave is hidden in the deep mountains, and everyone climbed between the cliffs for nearly a stick of incense before they reached the location of this demon cave.
The dark cavern smelled of blood, and through the gray mist, two humanoid monsters could be seen lurking inside.
The red-robed and black-faced Lord of the Five Tours was the most jealous and hateful, and rushed in first.
After a while, a fire broke out in the cave.
The old man with the sword on his back twisted his goatee and smiled: "It's the Five Elements Divine Fire of the Five Tours Daoist." ”
As soon as the words fell, a moon-white-robed figure and a gray-robed figure rushed out of the cave. This was followed by the roar of the Five Tours Viewer: "Beast, where to run?"
Mo Sisi looked at the somewhat embarrassed moon-white-robed figure and was a little stunned, and said to Yan Fang on the side: "Yan Fang, that monster is so familiar, is it the one in the mountain temple?"
Yan Fang also recognized it, although the white-robed monster in front of him had a distorted face and a terrifying appearance, he could vaguely recognize from his eyebrows that it was the corpse lying behind the statue of the mountain god that day, and now it was actually made into a human puppet.
The originally light and breezy fish was also shocked after seeing the white-robed figure of the moon clearly, and said in a low voice: "It's Senior Brother Cao Fang." ”
Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, they didn't expect that the monster in front of them turned out to be a disciple of the inner sect of Fuhu Mountain. For a while, they were a little reluctant to attack the white-robed monster of this month, and instead besieged the gray-robed monster.
In the end, Yu Hui personally took action and fought against this former senior brother who had completely become a tool for killing.
Although this Cao Fang started earlier than Yuhui, he was only in the late stage of the Burning Lamp Realm before his death, and now he has lost his mind and fights only by instinct, although he has a solid human puppet body, he is not Yuhui's opponent:
I saw Yu Hui standing in mid-air, dodging dozens of sharp claw strikes from Cao Fang in a seemingly impossible way, and with the blessing of a huge black and white Tai Chi phantom, he blasted out a punch that shattered the void, knocking Cao Fang down from mid-air.
Cao Fang's seemingly sturdy puppet body slammed into the ground, smashing out a big hole.
The fish looked back at Cao Fang's cracked body, and his eyes showed a trace of unbearability, but he still took out the special Qiankun bag made by the Ping Barbarian Division from his arms, and put this Cao Fang and the gray-robed monster on the side that had been burned to charred by the divine fire of the Wuyou Dao people.
Just when everyone was relieved, suddenly a violent explosion sounded from not far away, and the thin man surnamed Lu looked in the direction where the explosion came from and shouted, "It's the direction where the other demon cave is located." ”
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