Chapter 17 Strange insects give birth to evil deeds
Huo Xing'an waited in the village for two days, but did not see Qian'er come back. He didn't know where she had gone, and he wondered if she would go to the Mongolian camp on her own to find a way to take advantage of it, but she said she would wait, and besides, her injuries were just right, and it was unlikely that she would go hastily.
He waited helplessly, but Qian'er was "the yellow crane is gone".
A few days later, Huo Xingan had no choice but to lead the horse and leave the village. He walked a little west. Along the way, his eyes floated with the face of Erjuba from time to time, and the more he thought about it, the more he hated, and he couldn't help but go north again.
He again came to the vicinity of the Mongol camp. This time he did not rush in recklessly, but watched from a distance on the mountain. He had never fought against Boshuaba, but seeing that the Taixu vajra pestle that Qian'er received was really powerful, Qian'er said that he was not Boshuaba's opponent, and he was even more unsure.
Huo Xing'an thought of many ways, such as sneaking into the camp tent and secretly attacking with a sleeve wind knife, or disguised as a Mongolian soldier to sneak attack while he was unprepared. However, he had seen the Liaodong Eagle King in Kong Buyi, and knew that the Liaodong Eagle King was under the orders of Boshuba, so Boshuba must also have the antidote of golden toad powder. And Joe pretending to be a Mongolian soldier, he didn't think it was a good way to do it.
He wandered around the Mongol garrison for several days, unsure of what to do.
One day, while drinking horses by a river to the west, he noticed several men carrying something past him.
As soon as he saw that thing, he exclaimed in his heart: Isn't that the big altar of the altar man? Could it be that Tan Weng is still alive?
So he quietly followed the men.
After a while, he saw the men carrying the jar into a cave. The cave was at the bottom of a hill, and it was more of a hillock, or a small dirt slope, than a hill.
He hid his horse behind the slope, and he prostrated himself in the grass, slowly approaching the cave.
When he was about to climb near the entrance of the cave, he saw the men who had just carried the altar coming out of the cave. I only heard one of them say, "That man is dying, and I don't know what the national teacher wants him to do." ”
Another person said, "I heard that the national teacher wants to use those injured people to test medicine. ”
After they were far away, Huo Xingan crawled out of the grass and came to the entrance of the cave lightly. He peeked in and saw two men walking back and forth in the cave, and he hurriedly shrank down to the wall of the cave.
He slipped back into the grass and waited for his chance. After a long time, he saw two men in white carrying a bulging cloth bag and walking towards the other side of the river, and he hurriedly slipped into the cave.
The entrance to the cave was very large, and the cave was even bigger, and after walking a short distance, he came to a spacious cave hall. The cave hall is round, the dome is high, and the whole cave is like a huge pot on the ground, and torches are burning around the cave walls. He hid behind a rock and observed the situation in the cave. The big jar of the altar was placed not far from the entrance of the cave, and there was a row of cages next to it, and there were all kinds of things moving in the cages, and he took a closer look, and found that some were small snakes with brocade bellies, some were huge scorpions, some were spotted lizards, and more did not know what insects and beasts were, and only saw a little ghostly eyes.
In the middle of the cave, the ground is covered with white and black crushed sand, paved with a huge yin-yang pattern. Three men in white are arranging utensils. One person placed a large porcelain plate on the ground, and the other held a large, round fruit on the plate, which was green and smooth, with a little black spot on the skin. Then a man placed a wooden shelf on top of the plate, and on that shelf there was a small cage in which two golden bugs were crawling around. When they had set the utensils in order, a man lit the velvet and began to burn the fruit with fire, and soon the fruit came with a pungent smoke.
After the two insects in the cage were smoked, they seemed to jump up excitedly and made a "yaa" sound. Seeing this, a person immediately flicked the middle of the cage, and a partition fell, separating the two insects. The smoke of the fruit slowly drifted away, but the two insects still kept jumping around, and seemed to be very manic, and they shook the cage with great force. After a while, one of them said, "Almost." ”
So the other two men went to the other side of the hole, opened an iron fence on the ground, and dragged a man up. Huo Xing'an was taken aback, he didn't notice that there was a dungeon on the other side of the cave.
The man had long hair, described as haggard, unsteady, staggering, and looked in a trance, as if he had taken ecstasy, and was supported by two people before he walked to the shelf. After standing still, the two men took off all the clothes from the man.
Huo Xingan looked at them in surprise, not knowing what to dojo.
A person suddenly shouted: "National teacher, get ready!"
As soon as the voice fell, a person jumped out of the big jar, and Huo Xingan almost screamed when he saw it. The man who jumped out of the jar was none other than Bojuba. Bojuba was naked, but there was something small and unknown all around his body, and it was very terrifying to be black and dense. He walked up behind the equally naked man and stretched out his arms.
A man took a clip and took one of the restless golden bugs in the cage and fed it to Boshuaba's mouth, which he chewed a few times. The man took another worm and fed it to the naked man in front of Boljupa.
Bojuba trembled. "Get out. He commanded.
Several people said yes, left one after another, and went out of the cave.
Looking at this strange scene, Huo Xing'an didn't dare to come out, he didn't know what demon skills Boshuba was practicing, or what spells he was doing.
The naked man in front of Boshua seemed to suddenly have a spirit, his body trembled, and a trace of heat came out of his body, and as the heat rose more and more, he danced with his hands, and at this time Bosheba was tightly attached to the man's back, moving with the man's figure. Huo Xing'an saw them sucking together like magnets, doing the same action, and both of them were steaming. The action seemed to be a set of punches, and it seemed to be done randomly.
The two people who were glued together moved like this, and for about half an hour, I saw that Bojuba's whole body was getting redder and redder, and the man's whole body was getting whiter and whiter. Gradually, there was no more heat coming out of the man's body, and the whole person fell to the ground like a sucked dry mummy. And Bo Shuba's muscles were vigorous, and he let out a low cry, and all the tiny wriggling things on his body ejected out and fell to the ground, and those things had also turned white. He threw out his arms and laughed wildly, laughter echoing through the cave like a whirlwind.
Huo Xing said with peace of mind, what kind of strange exercise is this? It seems that Bo Shuba has gained power from it.
He regretted that he hadn't stepped forward to give him a sword just now, he had such a thought just now, but he was shocked by this scene, and with the hiding place facing Bo Shuba, he was not sure if he would be able to hit it with one blow. However, he also thought that Tan Weng had gone mad when he was practicing that poisonous evil art, and if I had been disturbed by this demonic skill practiced by Bo Shupa, would he have gone mad too? He regretted his indecision.
Bojuba put on his clothes and walked out. Several men went into the cave, cleaned up the ground, and dragged the dying man back to the dungeon.
Several people extinguished the torches on the cave wall one by one, and Huo Xing'an curled up as much as possible into the stone cracks of the cave wall.
The cave suddenly became dark, and only the light at the entrance could be seen. Huo Xing'an came out from behind the hiding stones, and saw a few people guarding there outside the entrance of the cave, knowing that he couldn't get out for a while.
He slowly reached the location of the dungeon and called softly, "Altar Weng." ”
There seemed to be a faint answer from underground. He touched the iron fence on the ground, five in a row, and when he touched the last one, he heard a wheezing sound below. "Is it the altar?" he asked.
"Brother Huo Xian!"
Huo Xing'an finally heard the familiar voice again, and he couldn't help but feel excited. However, the voice was not as loud and thick as before, and it sounded hoarse and weak.
"Tan Weng, I didn't expect you to be alive!"
"They thought I was going to die, and I thought I was going to die, but I wasn't dead. ”
"I want to get you out!"
"How did you find here?"
"I found it out by accident. Huo Xingan tugged on the iron fence and found that there was a lock.
"The lid is so strong that you have to have a key. ”
Huo Xingan pulled out his short sword and tried it, but the lock and railing were extremely hard, and he didn't know what it was forged for, and he couldn't cut it at all. He wanted to find a stone to smash, but he was worried that the sound would attract the guards. He looked at the entrance of the cave, wondering if Bojuba was outside.
"I'll figure it out. Huo Xing'an leaned on the iron fence and asked Tan Weng, "When did they lock you up here?" ”
"It's been many days, and I can't remember exactly. ”
"I just saw Bojuba doing a very strange kung fu. Oh, and you may not know it, but Boljuba is the national teacher of Mongolia. Huo Xing'an said.
"I know, Master Sha Poll told me. ”
"Sand Porphyr?"
"Next to me is Gen Sha Po Lu, the Master of the Pura Tantra. Tan Weng said, "In the past few days, Na Bo Shuba doesn't know what kind of kung fu he is practicing, and he drags a person out from here every other day, and when he comes back, he will not be able to do it, and he will die if he doesn't live for a day." ”
Huo Xing'an was shocked.
Tanwen leaned over the bars and called out "Master Sha Porke": "It's almost your turn." ”
An old voice in the dungeon next to me responded, "I still have the leader of the Trumchi Sea Gang next to me." ”
"Then you'll have two more days to live. "Tan Weng said.
The sand porphyrium mage also approached the prison fence and said, "This Huo hero, there must be a way to save us from it." ”
Huo Xingan saw that they entrusted all their hopes to himself, and suddenly felt that the responsibility was like a mountain. He said, "I must be thinking of getting you out." This old-timer, how did you get caught by Bojuba?"
Gen-la said, "The Boljupa sent people to steal the Bharana, the spiritual tree of our temple, which is a sacred object specially prepared by Shiva for the holy monks who practice. I chased all the way, but they besieged me and locked up here. He sighed, "The spirit tree has suddenly bloomed, and Bojuba must be for the divine fruit." ”
Huo Xing'an remembered the huge green fruit just now, so he described the appearance of the fruit to him, and asked him if it was the divine fruit he was talking about. Master Sha Polan said, "Exactly, that fruit is the fruit of the Spirit Tree Brana." Brahmana blooms only once in fifty years, but Bushuaba dug up the entire tree. ”
"Is there anything strange about this fruit?" Huo Xing'an asked.
"It is said that I can achieve the practice of a holy monk, and this is the first time in my life that I have seen it. ”
"I saw them burn a fruit, and ...... There are also two bugs on it. ”
"Bugs?" Tan Weng hurriedly asked him, "What kind of bugs?"
Huo Xingan recounted the scene he had just seen.
"I see. "Tan Weng said.
Huo Xing'an asked him: "Do you know what kind of doorway it is?"
Tan Weng said: "That Brana is a kind of tree in the Western Regions, called Jiao Huanhua, which only blooms once in decades, and is very rare. And those two insects are like the legendary poisonous insects in the desert, the male is called the desire fairy, the female is called death, and some people call them a hundred years together, I have heard people say since I was a child, it is extremely difficult to find, and it is rare for him to find them. ”
"What's the use of these two things?"
"The two insects are supposed to be a male and a female, and when the fruit is burned by fire, the smoked male and female insects will be excited, and the mating time will last for several days, and then the female will die. ”
Huo Xing thought with peace of mind, it can really be described as a desire to die.
Tan Weng continued: "But if they are separated after being smoked, and they are not allowed to intersect, they will go berserk. If you eat them at this time, if one person eats the male worm and the other person eats the female worm, then the person who eats the female worm will attach to the person who eats the male worm, as you just saw, the two people will be delirious, and the person who eats the female worm will involuntarily exert his work, and the person who eats the male worm will follow his body and move with him, absorbing all the power of that person, and then the person's internal force will be sucked out, and the skill will be completely lost, and it will not be long before he dies of exhaustion. However, those who eat male worms will have a great increase in their strength. ”
Huo Xingan couldn't help but be shocked. "So, what if both male and female were eaten by the same person?"
"Then this person will be on fire and will collide with each other and die. Tan Weng said, "Jiao. Huanhua and Centennial Together, it is really a perfect match." This flower and this worm, ordinary people may not be able to get one of them in their lifetime, but Bojuba has made it all, it is really miraculous and lucky. ”
Master Sha Polan sighed, "Heavenly sin, heavenly evil!"
Tan Weng said: "I think, the old Dao of Hongdaomen just now may not live for a day." ”
Hearing the name of Hongdaomen, Huo Xing'an's heart moved: "That Hongdaomen's predecessor is a Kongzi?" Qian'er told him that the Kongzi fell into Boshuba's hands.
Master Sha Polan said, "Exactly. ”
Seeing that the long-standing Kongzi on the rivers and lakes was sucked away in this way, and sucked into half death, Huo Xingan was stunned.
Master Sha Polan said: "The day before yesterday, he was the head of the Taishan faction. Huo Xing'an remembered the cloth bag that the two people carried out before diving into the cave.
The mage said: "There was also a head before, I don't know which sect it was, and when he died, his eyes were full of insects. Huo Xing'an listened to it with a creepy face.
Tan Weng said: "Bo Shuba skillfully took the skills of these masters, and they are extremely poisonous. If you keep going like this, I don't know how good you have to practice......"
"What if we destroy those flowers?" Huo Xing'an pondered, "Or, what if I go and let the rest of the worms go?"
Master Sha Polan said: "That Huo Hero is immeasurably meritorious. ”
"In Xia Huo Xing'an, he is not a hero, he just wants to try his best to help the two. He thought, if I don't get the lock and key for a while, I can destroy the demon flower or the poisonous insect first, and let them be killed more slowly, right?
Tan Weng said: "I don't know what that thing is, I think it may be something that helps to practice this evil skill...... Hey, the kung fu I used to practice was evil enough, and this Bojuba is even more evil than me. ”
Huo Xing thought with peace of mind, if the evil skill of Boshuba became more and more powerful, it would be even more difficult to deal with.
"I don't know where the flowers and insects are, so I'm going to look for them. Huo Xing'an said.
Tan Weng said: "Brother Huo Xian thinks it's best to open this iron door first, and we can help you when we go out." ”
Master Sha Porchen said, "You are so weak, how can you help?"
"Well," said Tan Weng with a sigh, "there must have been medicine in the food we fed, and even the Void Commander was weakened like that in the end...... I'm also weak now. ”
"Yukongzi has been refusing to eat since then, thinking that he is going to commit suicide on a hunger strike. "Master Sha Polan said.
Huo Xing'an thought of the trick of the human-faced demon flower, and wondered if Bo Shuba had also used the same method. "Don't worry, I'll figure it out. ”
Huo Xing'an left the dungeon and quietly touched the entrance of the cave, he wanted to catch a Bo Shuba's subordinate to get the key, but he didn't know which one of his subordinates had the key, and he didn't know how those people were fists and feet.
He hesitated for a long time, but returned to the cave, determined to wait for his chance.
He stayed until dusk, when he saw one of the guards come in the cave with a torch, and hurriedly hid.
The guard was carrying a food box, apparently to deliver food to the people in the dungeon. Huo Xingan felt that the opportunity had come, so he wanted to knock this person unconscious. Just as he reached behind the man, he noticed that several more people had entered the hole, and hurriedly retreated to his hiding place.
Walking into the cave was Boshuba, and the one next to him was actually the Liaodong Eagle King. Several of his men accompanied him with torches.
I only heard that Liaodong Eagle King said to Bo Shuba: "I heard that the national teacher has been gradually making miraculous achievements in the past few days, congratulations to the national teacher!"
Boshu Bahaha smiled and said, "I am blessed with the care of God to get these strange things." ”
Bo Shuba walked to the row of cages where insects and beasts were kept, and asked the Liaodong Eagle King, "What happened to Ling Lang's injury?"
Liaodong Eagle King said: "After taking the medicine made by the lizard sent by the national teacher, it seems to be getting better day by day, but I scratched it too hard before, and my face was almost half rotten." Daily borneol, rosin, snake molt, wild ginseng, tea powder, etc. are constantly applied to stop some itching. ”
Bojuba nodded, pointed to a cage and said, "You can use it here." ”
"Thank you, National Teacher!"
Huo Xingan couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Kong Buyi died too early, it seemed that the poisonous powder was really terrible.
They walked towards the dungeon as they spoke. When he reached the dungeon of Tanweng, Bojuba glanced down: "The Great Khan was going to break his body into pieces, but I asked to come and keep him first." ”
Liaodong Eagle King said: "This altar Weng has some methods. He said to him, "Tan Weng, I didn't expect you and I to meet here after a farewell." Hey, I heard me earlier, and returned to the Great Khan, how can you suffer so much?"
"Phew, Eagle thief, Dead eagle thief, Eagle thief whose whole family was buried!" said the altar man in the dungeon.
The Liaodong Eagle King snorted: "It's a pity that your life is short, what's the use of your scolding?"
"I am happy to be born, happy to die, happy to scold, what can you do to me?" Tan Weng shouted hoarsely.
Bo Shupa said: "Tan Weng is arrogant and admirable, even if you become a dry bone in the future, I also respect you." He laughed.
The Eagle King of Liaodong also laughed and said, "Don't worry, you and I will know each other, and I will bury you." ”
Huo Xing said with peace of mind, these two smug wicked people! He clenched his fists.
After Bo Shuba and the others left, Huo Xingan touched Tan Weng and said to him: "Tan Weng, I didn't find a chance, I'll go out first, and then find a way." ”
"Brother Huo Xian, be careful!"
Huo Xingan nodded.
Huo Xing'an slipped out of the hole, found his horse, and watched from the distance on the hillside. When it was dark, he saw two guards pitching their tents not far from the hillside, and two dogs on a leash in their holes.
He waited until the camp in the distance became dark and silent, and then quietly turned the hillside. Estimating that the guards had been asleep for a long time, he rushed into the guards' tents, quickly knocked the two unconscious, and found the keys on them. When they came to the mouth of the cave, two dogs barked and rushed at him, and he used stones to shut them up.
He lit a torch with velvet and went into the cave.
Huo Xing'an opened the dungeon and pulled the altar up first. The altar Weng was overjoyed and praised repeatedly. Huo Xing'an opened the dungeon of the Sand Porphyr Mage and the head of the Xiaohai Gang again. The leader of the Xiaohai Gang had unkempt hair, and it seemed that he had been imprisoned for a long time, so he hugged Huo Xingan and called him "Engong".
When Huo Xingan opened the prison door of Yukongzi, he found Yukongzi leaning in the corner motionless, and there was no response to calling his name. Master Sha Polan sighed and said, "He's on the verge of death."
Huo Xingan had no choice but to gently close the door of the prison that controlled the void. He checked the other dungeons, but no one was seen again. He turned his head to look at the three people sitting on the ground, knowing that they were weak and that it would be very difficult for them to get out on their own. So, he picked up the leader of the Howling Sea and carried him all the way out of the cave to the edge of the bushes, and then he carried the sand porphyr out again. He asked how the two of them were, and Master Sha Lu said, "There are Laohuo heroes, we can do it ourselves." The leader of the Xiaohai Gang also said: "Huo Shaoxia, don't worry, let's go." There will be a period later!" He hugged Huo Xing'an and slowly crawled along the bushes.
Seeing them disappear into the darkness, Huo Xing'an turned around and returned to the cave. The last time he hugged the altar was to ride away with the altar man. When he entered the cave, he found that Tanong had crawled to the other side of the cave, and was holding a torch to inspect the row of cages, and there was a snake in the cages that spat out snake letters to Tanweng.
"Tan Weng!" Huo Xing'an called out to him, "Let's go quickly." ”
"Brother Huo Xian," Tan Weng swept the dozen or so cages in front of him and said, "The poisonous insect of Boshuba should be here." ”
Huo Xing thought with peace of mind, Tan Weng has always been kind to poisons, and of course he was interested in seeing these strange beasts and insects. He looked at the cage and said, "It doesn't seem like there's any bug like that." And he lifted him up.
Suddenly he noticed something, he pointed to a curtain hanging on the wall and said, "Look at what's behind it?"
Huo Xing'an stepped forward and lifted the curtain, only to see a hole recessed in the wall, and there was a large box with gold and silver horns in the wall hole. He and Tan Weng glanced at each other, and Tan Weng smiled: "This box should be it." ”
Huo Xing'an took down the box and opened the lid to see that there were seven or eight golden insects crawling inside, which were the insects used by Boshuba when he practiced. Huo Xing'an nodded. The altar man held the box in his arms as if he had found a treasure. "Altar Weng, this thing is ominous, let's throw it away. "I thought to myself, could it be that you also want to follow the example of Nabojuba and suck the power of others?
Tan Weng said: "Maybe this worm has another miraculous effect, I want to study it carefully." ”
Seeing that he had a deep addiction to drugs, Huo Xingan no longer dissuaded him. He took the torch, took the altar on his back, and walked out. The altar man hugged the box tightly.
Walking more than ten steps outside the cave, Huo Xingan remembered that he should extinguish the torch. Just as they were about to extinguish the torches, a dark figure approached them from the tent.