Chapter 42: Zhang Erlang
The sun is over.
The thick red sunset faded from the towering walls, sloping cornices, and scaly green tiles of the Dionysian Temple.
Li Changan climbed the long steps and looked back.
But I saw that the twilight covered the four poles, the waning moon was high above the clouds, and the lights in the city were scarce.
The long street in front of the temple is empty and uninhabited, and there are only a few small boats on the waterway, which is cold and lonely when you enter the eye.
unimaginable.
Just a few days ago, in the same place, what kind of tourists are weaving, painting boats are dotted like long streets, how to light thousands of lights, like stars.
Comparing the two compartments, I can't help but feel a dream.
Li Changan took a deep breath, smelled the coldness, smelled the aroma of wine, smelled a little faint demonic energy, and the smell of Zhang Tong......
The demon trace is hard to find, but Zhang Tong is easy to find.
In Zhang's house, everyone realized that Zhang Tong had been kidnapped by monsters, so Li Changan hurriedly sacrificed Chong Longyu and followed his residual smell all the way.
Cross the long street, cross the small bridge, pass through the cold alley, and stop abruptly in front of the Dionysian Temple.
No doubt.
Zhang Tong and the monsters are in the temple!
Merely......
"No, you can't. ”
An old man led a group of Ding Zhuang to block the gate.
He looked arrogant, his flabby skin drooped at the corners of his mouth, and he said nothing about the stubbornness of this person.
"Sunset locks, this is a rule that has been handed down for a hundred years. ”
"He's?" the Taoist priest asked.
"Temple wishes. ”
The official next to him explained in a low voice.
The prosperity of Xiaoshui depends on the prosperity of the wine industry, and the prosperity of the wine industry lies in the temple of Dionysus. Such a place that affects the livelihood of the whole city will naturally not be handed over to a simple god. So the old man said that it was a temple celebration, but in fact he was an agent elected by the liquor store.
Therefore, the status is quite respected. Bo Ziyu didn't dare to be rude to him, but persuaded him bitterly.
But the old man didn't believe it at all.
"Monsters, where the Divine Court is located, how can any monster dare to trespass?"
Impatiently, he flicked his wide sleeves.
"Even if it's the one that is inside, I have to wait for the kiln to open tomorrow and then catch it. ”
"Quickly retreat. ”
"Don't say a few little catches, even if your county lord is in person, don't want to let the old man break the rules!"
The Ding Zhuang behind him all sneered and watched, and the officials were in a commotion, but no one dared to step forward.
This is the head.
A man silently squeezed out of the crowd and strode straight to Miaozhu, he hung one arm, it was Zhang Shaonan who came with the team.
Miaozhu frowned coldly: "You ......"
Swish!
Only half a word was spit out.
A short knife was firmly attached to his neck.
"Open or not?!"
This sudden change made the noisy officials suddenly quiet, but they all watched coldly, but Ding Zhuang began to shout and scold, but no one dared to act rashly.
Only the old temple was left to congratulate the face and not change its color: "Erzier dares." ”
"Don't dare?"
Zhang Shaonan slid the blade with his face, and scraped the "rustle" on the old skin of Miaozhu's neck.
"My brother can have today, all because of the same advance and retreat, life and death together. Now my eldest brother is in danger of being caught in the mouth of a demon. You actually asked me if I dared to kill an old dog in my way?"
Miao Zhu did not squint, sneered and reprimanded.
"You fools who dare to offend the gods, is my Dionysian temple a place to hide filth?!"
"Disciples!"
Behind him, Ding Zhuang agreed with a bang.
"In. ”
"Open the door ......"
Miaozhu's face shook up.
"Let them check. ”
............
before entering the temple.
Bo Ziyu's first sentence was.
"Dao Chief?"
Li Changan shook his head.
It's not that Chong Longyu is not helpful, but the air in this wine god cellar is like being pickled in wine, it is extremely mellow, and taking a deep breath is like drinking half a glass of wine, which makes people smoky and drunk, where else can you tell what demons and monsters?
Bo Ziyu sighed, but Zhang Shaonan had already raised his eyebrows, gritted his teeth and said, "Then go check one by one!"
When the catchers heard this, they looked at each other, no one opened their mouths, and even someone in the corner quietly laughed a few times.
Don't look at the temple, the body of the Dionysian kiln is just a huge deep well. In fact, there are corridors on the walls of each floor, and the corridors are connected to the storage room, like a beehive and anthill buried deep underground.
The corridors are intricate, and there are countless storage rooms.
If you go to check them one by one, I'm afraid that when you find them, Zhang Tong's bones will be cold.
Again.
Each of these vaults has its own owner.
Breaking into the temple of Dionysian is just to offend the temple blessings, and to open all the hiding rooms next to each other is afraid that it will offend the magnates of the whole city. Even if there is Bo Ziyu's class, the people under him will inevitably be hanged up.
Who is willing to do such a heartless business? So they don't take Zhang Shaonan's words seriously.
It's the old temple that Zhu has lingering palpitations about Zhang Shaonan's anxious reckless man.
He coughed twice and pretended to mention it.
"The demon woman you are talking about, but the Gu Tian clan?"
Everyone's eyes brushed over, and the old man Shi Shiran raised his hand.
The old man remembered that the Gu family had a storage room in the cellar, which had not yet changed hands due to the rules of the temple. ”
Bo Ziyu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked.
"Which one?"
"The years are deep, there are thousands of hiding rooms, where does the old man remember ......"
Zhang Shaonan silently took out a knife.
The old man's face shook.
"But I can look it up. ”
............
The lowest level of the Dionysian kiln.
The lights are clustered, illuminating the stone room.
Under the command of Lao Miaozhu, the urging of Bo Ziyu and the forced gaze of Zhang Shaonan, several bookstores sweated profusely and checked the book records.
Li Changan stood alone in front of the statue of Dionysus and looked carefully.
Seeing that the posture of the idol is still free, but the half-drunk and half-awake face is divided by shadows and lights, revealing a different meaning.
The Taoist priest's mind moved.
The probe tapped his hand lightly on the idol.
"Exorcism. ”
Something seemed to be waking up slowly.
The Taoist priest prayed sincerely: "The god of wine is above, and Li Chang'an, a disciple of Shangjingmen, is respectful." Today, Xiaoshui has demons as a disaster, turning into demons, poisoning and good faith. Beg for an oracle to cure demons. ”
Can be half ringed after.
No response at all.
The Taoist priest shook his head.
See, this god does not protect the world.
"Found it!"
A shout suddenly rang out from the other side of the stone chamber.
Bo Ziyu hurriedly ran over with a bookseller, but when he saw the Taoist priest's actions, he couldn't help but wonder: "What is the Taoist doing?"
"Nothing. ”
Could it be that the gods you worship are not spiritual?
Li Changan withdrew his hand.
"Where?"
The clerk wiped the sweat from his head and pointed to a deep and dark passage in the corner.
............
The Dionysian kiln is quite bizarre.
Although the various storage rooms are buried deep underground, the air does not appear damp and turbid, but rather warm and fresh, but the smell of wine is too strong, and it is intoxicating.
A group of people walked along the road with open fire, and after two corners, they arrived at the door of the Tibetan room at the end.
The air here is different from other places, revealing a slight staleness, and I think the storage room inside has been abandoned for a long time. However, the lock was opened, and the dust on the floor left traces, indicating that someone had recently opened the door to the storehouse.
Li Changan leaned over the crack in the door and sniffed carefully.
The demonic spirit is unscrupulous and stirs into the aroma of wine.
You've come to the right place!
He nodded at Bo Ziyu, and the two of them pushed the door together.
But the iron door did not move, as if something was behind the door.
Bo Ziyu hurriedly called all the officials.
All in one.
Boom!
After a muffled sound, the iron door was slammed open a three-finger-wide gap.
Through the gap, you can see the debris piled up behind the door, the dim light of the fire in the hiding room, and the two figures of the shadows flickering.
"The witch is behind the door. Bo Ziyu greeted loudly, "Everyone work together." ”
Everyone echoed.
Just listen.
Boom.
Boom.
Syllable!
With a deafening sound, the door burst open.
The crowd poured into the storehouse.
But the next moment, it was like hitting a dam blocking the sea, and they all stopped in their tracks.
The storage room is empty and dark.
Seven or eight torches in the hands of the group came in, not only did not make the room suddenly bright, but instead bred many chaotic shadows and swayed around, making the surroundings more gloomy.
And the Gu Tian clan, who was suspected to be the Tai Sui Demon, was standing in the depths of the hiding room, standing in the staggered light and darkness.
Her clothes were scattered, revealing a large area of white skin, which seemed to shine in the dimness, adding seven points of charm and eight points of style.
If you want to put aside your weekdays, even the old master who is full of benevolence and morality will probably can't help but stuff her eyes into her clothes.
But right now, none of the men present looked at her, as if the ten thousand styles were just waiting for leisure. Even as she scratched her head, all eyes passed over her without hesitation, focusing on the darker places behind her.
Just because there, there is another Gu Tian clan.
The Gu Tian clan leaned against the wall with his eyes closed. Her upper body is dignified and neat, and her face is very different from usual, without powder.
However, the lower half of her body was wrapped in a large, milky white unknown tissue, or rather, this strange tissue grew from her body, forming a huge tumor that occupied half of the wall, and spread towards the walls, floors, and ceilings on all sides.
Even, it almost spread to everyone's feet, like a heavy white blanket.
There are also many protrusions growing on the large tumor that is the main body, and if you look closely, it is actually a variety of human limbs. There was a place on the edge where half of the human body had grown, and the face on the human body was exactly the same as Gu Tian's.
For no reason, Li Changan gave birth to enlightenment.
The Gu Tian clan with his eyes closed is the main body, the huge nodule under his body is the rhizome born after the demon transformation, the limbs growing on the nodule are branches and leaves, and the Gu Tian clan that appeared in front of everyone at the beginning is a ripe fruit.
Sure enough, it's a demon!
"Dao Chief?"
Bo Ziyu's voice was a little dry.
After all, the opponent is a monster, and no matter how proud he is in advance, he will inevitably be apprehensive when it comes to the end. He didn't back down, but instinctively wanted to ask the "experts" for some experience.
But what kind of experience can a Taoist priest have? The only word "reckless" is the word.
Tai Sui is rare, let alone Tai Sui Demon.
What is this monster capable of, and where will he know?
Bo Ziyu was also a reckless man, he didn't get a response from the Taoist priest, scratched his head, and actually stepped forward boldly, pulled out a knife, and tentatively poked the fungus blanket under his feet.
But it's just so light.
The fungus carpet that covered almost the entire chamber trembled, as if the whole chamber was shaking.
Immediately followed.
Those corners, ceilings, crockpots...... The fungus blanket on suddenly shrank back.
Silent.
It's like ice melting.
In the meantime.
"Poof. ”
But the fungus blanket faded, and an object that had been wrapped and hidden in the ceiling fell off and fell apart.
Everyone looked over and took a cool breath.
It was a shriveled male corpse, as if it had been sucked flesh and blood, leaving only a layer of withered human skin for the skeleton, which could vaguely be recognized as it was before birth.
Shocked.
The sound of "fluttering" continued.
One after another, corpses fell.
There are sharp-eyed officials among the officials.
"Isn't that the sixth finger of Wang Liuzhi who opened a small gambling market in the north of the city?"
"The brother next to him seems to be Gu Cheng, the thief mother, didn't he go to Xiu Mu?"
A few days ago, his little daughter-in-law was crying and complaining, saying that this guy couldn't get along with a wild woman, how could he be a ghost?!"
At first, the officials were still screaming, but gradually, the corpses fell more and more, and the sound became quieter and quieter.
It was as if there was an inexplicable cold and complacent corpse, spreading from the monster at the end of the hiding room, freezing the words, freezing the heartbeat, and making the hiding room a dead silence.
And at this time.
"Plop. ”
A heartbeat sounded from the depths of the room.
After all the fungus blankets were recovered, the already huge white tumor swelled several times, and now it really beats like a heart.
With each jump, the tumor shrinks by one point, and the limbs growing on it are squeezed out by one point.
After dozens of rapid beats.
The tumor retracted back to its original size, but dozens of Gu Tian's ...... were "squeezed" out of the body
No.
It would be more appropriate to say "monster".
Perhaps it was an emergency measure, these newly-born Gu Tian clan had grown out of the body one by one in addition to the part that had grown before, some of them had seven or eight hands and feet of different sizes under the waist, some of them were still on the upper body under the upper body, and some of them were full of sharp mouths......
They staggered, crawled, and jumped around in front of the mother, which began to grow new monsters.
......
Bo Ziyu swallowed.
"What?" Zhang Shaonan sneered, "I'm afraid." ”
"Afraid?" Bo Ziyu's eyes widened, "I'm afraid of death, Naigong shouldn't be so bad!"
He shouted hello.
"Brothers, slaughter this monster and go back with a lot of reward!"
But the embarrassing thing is that there is no response behind him.
He turned his head to see that the back of his butt was empty, and he was alone Li Changan stretched out his hand at him and pointed to the door.
The brothers have long since retracted!
Hiding at the door and probing his brain, he saw the eyes of his own team leader who wanted to eat people, and laughed one by one, muttering something like "if you have money, you have to spend your life", "eat on an errand".
Leaving Bo Ziyu aside, he almost had a myocardial infarction.
Zhang Shaonan looked at the other side for a while, and suddenly spoke: "Does Daoist Li have the means to suppress this demon?"
"Yes. Li Changan nodded, "You need to get close." ”
The Taoist priest himself is a wild man, he has the skill of killing, but he has no method of suppression, but he can't stand up to having an accomplice from a famous and decent family. Although Feng Chong said that his Taoism was not high, he had a lot of means with him. This time, the Taoist priest was given a demon suppression talisman.
"Thin squad leader. ”
"What?"
"Do you have the courage to step forward and open a way for Daochang Li?"
Bo Ziyu was still embarrassed: "How dare you!"
The voice landed.
Zhang Shaonan suddenly laughed out loud.
"Where is the eldest brother?
Carrying a whistle stick, he went straight to the demons.