Chapter 148: Raise the stakes
When the temple door closed, Chai Shien clearly felt that he was isolated in another world, he turned around and looked behind him, and began to worry about the two people outside. After all, if that black cloak wasn't here, then Jin Hui and Hu Xiu would be more dangerous than themselves.
"Anyone?" Chai Shien reassured himself with a useless opening remark, and no one responded as he expected. Although it seems that this place is desolate everywhere, there is a hidden murderous motive, so that Chai Shien does not dare to act rashly.
He stooped down to gather all the stones, bricks, or weights he could pick up under his feet, fastened the hem of his robe, and took one and threw it down to the ground directly in front of him.
The stone hit the ground with a slight crashing sound, shook twice and then stopped. Chai Shien exhaled, walked to the place where the stone had fallen, and bent down to pick it up. Although this thing is inconspicuous and worthless, it is the most important thing for Chai Shien to save his life here.
Dropping a stone and taking a step forward, Chai Shien soon came to the side of the incense burner, and when he threw the stone, the stone could not fall to the ground, and it would disappear in mid-air. Chai Shien believes that the sixty-seven missing people are only missing because they approached here after entering the ruined temple.
Chai Shien stretched out his hand and tried to feel the scent near the incense burner. He found that a very powerful attraction floated in the air, and that anything within a foot of it would disappear. Chai Shien didn't know what kind of power it was, but he knew that if he wanted to find the whereabouts of those people and Liao Shui, he would have to disappear from here like them!
The wind blew dark clouds to block the light overhead, making the ruined temple look a little more forested. Chai Shien pulled out the Sea-Breaking Sword with his backhand and held it in front of him, took a deep breath and jumped forward. He thought his feet would hang in the air like the stones, and then his eyes went dark and he went somewhere else.
But soon, Chai Shien was disappointed. His feet landed firmly on the ground, and Chai Shien was still standing in the broken temple, "What's going on, why am I still here?" Chai Shien was very puzzled, could it be that he guessed wrong?
In a hurry, Chai Shien unconsciously looked left and right, and was suddenly stunned. The incense burner that had been poured on the ground was gone! The ground was empty, except for an imprint that was a circle larger than the incense burner to prove that there had been such a thing. Chai Shien suddenly realized that this incense burner was the crux of their disappearance!
He once heard Liao Shui say that the most clever formation is not to add a lot of spiritual power, let alone the position of the formation eye and the arrangement of the formation, but to use a subtle object as an introduction, so that people can unconsciously enter the magic circle, and now it seems that the incense burner plays the role of the introduction.
To Chai Shien's chagrin, his self-pretentious cleverness obviously alarmed the other party, the incense burner disappeared, and he was afraid that there would be no way to find those people and Liao Shui again. Thinking of this, Chai Shien couldn't help but clench his fists and shouted, "I have already thought about the decision you asked me to make, if you want to know, show up immediately!"
The breeze slid gently across the treetops, and the last few yellow leaves could not withstand the shaking and fell one after another. Chai Shien's eyes flickered, and when he looked again, there was already a person standing under the tree, that person was seven feet tall, and the whole person was covered in a black cloak, it was the person he was looking for!
"You're finally willing to show up!" Chai Shien turned to face the man, "Where is my senior sister, and where are the sixty-seven people you kidnapped now?
The man sneered lowly, "Why did you attack them? Originally, this was just a matter between me and your Fog Palace, as long as you made a choice, they didn't have to suffer this sin. But in order to force me to show up, you insist on involving them, there is no way, in order to protect myself, I can only do this!"
"You killed them?" Chai Shien's heart was cold, that was a full sixty-seven lives, plus their parents, wives and children, there were hundreds of people, Chai Shien's eyes suddenly darkened, and he almost fell.
"No, they're still alive!" Black Cloak seemed pleased with Chai Shien's reaction, "I'm not a demon who kills, so why should I hurt their lives?" I'm not going to get my hands dirty!"
Hearing that those people were still alive, Chai Shien could finally breathe a sigh of relief. But then, Black Cloak said to him, "However, with these people, the game between us will have to be played differently. Chai Shien suddenly became vigilant, but he didn't dare to act rashly, "What are you going to do?"
"Sixty-seven against two, this time, what do you want to choose?" Black Cloak smirked, "You and your senior sister, or those innocent people." I've been cornered by you, and I'm going to give up until I get some good. This time, I'll only give you three hours, and after dark, you have to come back here and give me an explanation, or tomorrow morning, you'll see their corpses!"
"Impossible, this is impossible!" Chai Shien shouted angrily, "Senior Sister and those people are not wrong, if you say wrong, only me will do wrong, what do you want to do, just come to me!"
However, the man under the tree was gone, and no one responded to Chai Shien. The temple gate behind him collapsed, and Jin Hui, who was sitting on the steps, turned back with Hu Xiu in shock. The two stood up and looked at Chai Shien and his empty back, and the disappointment in their eyes could not be concealed.
"What the hell is going on, are you okay?" Jin Hui saw Chai Shien's dejected look, his heart sank, but he didn't want to complain about him, so he had to comfort, "Life and death are fate, this is also their fate, don't be too sad!"
Hu Xiu stared at Chai Shien directly, he pinned all his hopes on him, but of the sixty-seven people, Chai Shien didn't bring back one, which made him collapse in an instant. Hu Xiu rushed to Chai Shien, grabbed him by the collar with one hand, and clenched his fist tightly with the other hand and hit him in the face.
"Why didn't you rescue them, why didn't you rescue them!" Hu Xiu's fists hit Chai Shien in the face one after another, and Chai Shien did not dodge at all, let alone fight back. Soon, blood was pouring from his mouth and nose, and his cheeks were swollen high. Jin Hui couldn't stand it, pulled Hu Xiu away, and scolded, "What are you doing here, what do you have to say!"