Chapter 49: The Aftermath
Chapter 49
Qi Liyun thought that Lin Anyan was injured, and hurriedly wanted to go forward to check, but saw Situ Xiao, who was sitting on the side, put a finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture.
Situ Xiao stood up against the wall, and limped to the entrance of the cave with Qi Liyun.
With the light outside the cave, Qi Liyun found that Situ Xiao's legs were also wrapped in strips of cloth, unlike himself, the strips of cloth had already been soaked in blood and lost their primary color, and even blood oozed out from time to time, as if the wound had not completely stopped bleeding.
Qi Liyun remembered that last night, in order to save herself, Situ Xiao sacrificed his life to hit the horse monkey, but was nailed to the thigh with a reflexive knife, she couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Strategist, your leg?"
Situ Xiao shook his head and smiled helplessly: "It's really old, I almost folded here." I'm fine, and so is Lin Anyan. I checked his pulse, and the two internal forces in his body didn't know why, although they were still fighting, they seemed to have signs of coordination, and they no longer hurt him. ”
As he spoke, Situ Xiao leaned against the wall and asked with some doubts: "What happened last night?" I fainted from excessive blood loss, but I vaguely saw that someone seemed to have shot the horse monkey at once, and what happened behind me is not clear. ”
Qi Liyun told the story of how Lin Anyan saved himself last night, how he killed the group of bandits, and how he broke through the horse monkey with one blow.
After hearing this, Situ Xiao first nodded, and then shook his head with a "tsk", as if there was a lot of confusion.
"I've only heard of some high-ranking monks who can be transformed into gas, such as the Shaolin Temple's secret book, the King of Fudong, which is the highest state of gasification, but that gas should not be golden, and it is unheard of to be able to turn into a sword. ”
Qi Liyun also responded: "When Lin Anyan walked out last night, he was covered in golden light, I only felt that the abundant internal force in this cave was not like ordinary people, and it was unprecedented, I am afraid that the Eight Heavens are only low and not high." ”
Situ Xiao looked at the cave, and said helplessly: "Let's do this first, let his internal strength be high, if he doesn't know martial arts moves, he can't carve a knife, and everything will wait until Taibai Mountain." ”
For some reason, Qi Liyun suddenly remembered what Lin Anyan said to her when she stayed in Youzhou City that night.
Qi Liyun asked cautiously: "Strategist, you asked us to go to the Lin family to steal stones, and now you have personally escorted Lin Anyan to Taibai Mountain, why are you so concerned about this kid?"
Situ Xiao didn't expect Qi Liyun to suddenly ask, and he couldn't help but be stunned, but he quickly reacted and said softly: "Actually, strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with Lin Anyan. ”
Situ Xiao pointed to the northern sky and said: "Do you remember the story I told you about the treasure of the Northern Qi Dynasty when I was a child? That's not a legend, the Lin family's town house stone is the key to open the door to the treasure, and I suspect that Lin Anyan is going to Taibai Mountain to find the master surnamed Li, I'm afraid it is also related to the treasure." ”
Qi Liyun didn't miss his expression, but asked slowly: "With money, can we return to the country?"
Situ Xiao shook his head, "Money is only the first step, even the easiest step, there are countless difficulties and obstacles behind, but without money, we don't even have the opportunity to touch those difficulties and obstacles." ”
Qi Liyun didn't ask anything more, and Situ Xiao naturally wouldn't say more. The father and daughter of the master and apprentice watched the rain blankly at the entrance of the cave.
Lin Anyan felt as if something liquid had flowed into his throat, and he hurriedly drank it.
But after two sips, the liquid stopped flowing.
Lin Anyan opened his eyes suspiciously, but saw Qi Liyun half-kneeling beside him, looking at him gently.
Lin Anyan's sudden awakening startled Qi Liyun, she hurriedly took a few steps back, her eyes dodging.
"You..... You're awake, and I'm about to feed you some water. ”
Lin Anyan sat up slowly, moved a little, and felt that after sleep adjustment, his body was no longer tired.
He stretched and asked, "Didn't we run out of water?"
Qi Liyun pointed to the outside of the cave and said, "It's been raining for a long time, so I picked up some with leaves." ”
Lin Anyan showed a look of regret on his face, and said in a low tone: "It's a pity." ”
"What a pity?"
Lin Anyan looked at Qi Liyun, who was puzzled, and suddenly smiled evilly: "It's a pity that it wasn't picked up with the mouth of our Qi beauties, I said why is this water not sweet at all." ”
Qi Liyun blushed instantly by Lin Anyan's sudden teasing, she threw the big leaf in her hand on Lin Anyan's face, and said angrily: "Forget it if you are thirsty." ”
Situ Xiao heard the noise in the cave, and also limped in and asked, "Young Master Lin, thank you for saving your life, how are you feeling now?"
Lin Anyan shook his head, "It doesn't feel good." ”
He slowly explained in Qi Liyun's worried gaze: "There is nothing wrong with the body, but I feel that the internal force is very strange, although it is ten thousand times more full than before, it cannot be called at all. ”
Situ Xiao thought for a while and said: "I'm afraid this is the normal situation, there are two internal forces in your body now fighting each other, and it is not reasonable to be able to use them as flexibly as last night." But I'm seriously injured now, and I can't help you, and when I recover my internal strength, I can try to help you recuperate, and you don't have to worry too much, just be fine. ”
Lin Anyan knew very well what Situ Xiao said, it would be good to survive in this wilderness, and he didn't dare to ask too much for it now.
After some repairs, the three of them left the cave in the afternoon, and finally walked back to the temple in the evening.
When Qi Liyun saw the wooden stakes in the temple, he seemed to remember what the horse monkey said, so he folded his hands and bowed to the wooden stakes, praying in his heart that the group of monks who died could be reincarnated as soon as possible.
Lin Anyan didn't believe in any religion since he was a child, and if he had to talk about it, he would have some awe of Emperor Shenwu on Qingyun Mountain at most, but he had never understood Buddhism.
I saw him walk into the temple's Buddha Hall, look around, and don't care at all about the golden Buddha that was already covered with spider silk.
Qi Liyun was a little annoyed by his rude behavior, and couldn't help but scold: "You don't die in a big disaster, why are you still going around here if you don't hurry up and thank the Buddha?"
Lin Anyan seemed to be rummaging through the cabinets to find something, and when he heard this, he didn't look back, but said lightly: "The Buddha can really save people, and he should save the monks in this temple first, he won't save his own people, why should I thank him?"
Lin Anyan's words were rude but reasonable, and Qi Liyun had no way to refute them, so he could only sulk at himself.
Situ Xiao seemed to understand what Lin Anyan was going to do, so he pointed to the golden-bodied Buddha and said, "Lin Gongzi, the belly of the Buddha seems to be a little strange, you can climb up and take a look." ”
Lin Anyan looked in the direction pointed by Situ Xiao, and by the afterglow of the setting sun, he saw that there seemed to be an inconspicuous crack on the round belly of the big Buddha statue.
He casually picked up the plates that had already been empty on the offering table, stepped on the offering table and climbed to the edge of the Buddha, and when he got closer, it turned out that the crack was actually a mark of being cut with a sharp weapon.
Lin Anyan pressed the crack hard, and the belly of the Big Buddha was actually buckled down, leaking out a two-foot-wide garden hole.
Lin Anyan reached into the cave and groped for a long time, then suddenly whistled, and then took out something from the hole and threw it to Situ Xiao.
Situ Xiao took a look and saw that it was his white-haired feather fan.
"That's right, that's where the bandits hid their stolen goods. ”
Saying that, Lin Anyan continued to reach out to dig out the hole, his jade pendant and Qi Liyun's bracelet, and the luggage of the three people had been taken out one by one.
At last he pulled out a dozen silver tickets, the same ones he had given to the horse monkey at that time.
Lin Anyan raised his eyebrows and asked to order it, and after ordering it for a long time, he was surprised to find that not only was there no less silver ticket, but there were tens of thousands more.
"It seems that this group of bandits has surplus food in the storehouse, and it has been confiscated and confiscated. ”
As he spoke, Lin Anyan was satisfied and put the thick pile of silver tickets into his bag.
Just as he was about to put the Buddha's belly back, a burst of red light came into his eyes.
Lin Anyan reached in again with some confusion and flipped through it, and finally touched a cylindrical object in the very corner.
When I took it out, it turned out to be a book bound by cotton thread and rope, and there was a small silver bottle in the book.
Lin Anyan took out the bottle and found that the bottle was actually made of sterling silver, with a gossamer-like pattern outlined with extremely difficult carving techniques, and the top of the bottle was also inlaid with a Western Regions ruby the size of a fingernail.
From ancient times to the present, the road to the Western Regions has always been firmly in the hands of the northern regime, after the Liang conquered the Northern Qi Dynasty, it took more than ten years to open up the road connecting the Western Regions, this kind of ruby is the last two or three years to appear in the Liang, can no longer be described as valuable, completely priceless.
Lin Anyan pulled out the cork and found that it contained half a bottle of transparent liquid, which smelled of grass and a faint smell of earth.
He threw the bottle into Situ Xiao's hand and asked, "Great Military Master, see if it's this thing." ”
Situ Xiao looked at it for a long time, nodded with some surprise, and said, "It should be right." ”
Qi Liyun didn't know what the two were talking about, so he had to come forward to check, but he heard Situ Xiao explain: "This bottle should be the legendary Qi Cartilage Scatter, which is almost exactly the same as what is described in the book." With this bottle of things, maybe you can prepare an antidote without going to Xishu. ”
Lin Anyan looked at the book in his hand again, the book cover had been yellowed, it seemed to be a very old object, and when he opened the cover, he saw five big characters: fixed Luohan boxing.
Lin Anyan was overjoyed, on the way back, Situ Xiao had already told him about the power of this fixed Arhat boxing, it is said that when practiced to the extreme, it can take root under the feet, the wind does not shake the thunder, and the fist is violent, enough to destroy all the body.
After getting these two treasures, Lin Anyan was overjoyed, and immediately packed it into his bag, ready to practice well in the future.
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The Great Liang Palace is located in the center of Jingbei City, the Imperial Palace was repaired once after the Great War 20 years ago, built solemnly, ordinary people as long as they are a little closer to a hundred steps, their knees will involuntarily sore and weak, many people pass by, just glance curiously, and can't help kneeling.
Everything in the palace is so mysterious, but the least known thing is the back garden.
A white-haired eunuch is walking briskly through the jungle in the back garden at the moment, looking at the costumes, this eunuch should be at least at the level of a general manager.
Behind the eunuch, followed by a pair of men and women in black.
After half an hour of walking through the wooded back garden, the three of them finally reached their destination, next to a small pond.
Around the pond, there were at least thirty ironclad guards and countless handmaidens, all of whom gathered around the pond, or rather, around the old man who was fishing by the pond.
The eunuch knelt on the ground, lowered his head and said softly: "Buckle the emperor, the people from Siqi Villa have arrived." ”