Chapter 9: The Useless Stone

Why was Hodan so angry when he saw him?

Zhang Feiyang just wanted to ask clearly, but Huo Dan's face became even more gloomy.

He looked Zhang Feiyang up and down and asked coldly, "What are you doing here? Aren't you in the laundry department? I don't want to see you." Go back!"

Seeing that he was leaving, Zhang Feiyang was stunned, and felt even more confused, so he hurriedly chased after him, blocked in front of him, bowed, and said what he meant: "Senior Brother Huo." I want to ......"

But Hodan looked irritable, as if he would feel uncomfortable when he heard him say a word, glared at him fiercely, stepped forward, and pushed his big hand on his chest.

Zhang Feiyang was unexpected, and he took three steps back in a row, even though his body had recovered, he almost fell.

It can be seen that Hodan's strength is indeed no longer comparable to mortals.

But seeing that Huo Dan finished pushing people, strode away, and in a blink of an eye, he had walked out a hundred steps, like a gust of wind, Zhang Feiyang was taken aback, and quickly changed his walk to run, and chased after him, explaining the meaning: "Senior Brother Huo." I don't know where I've offended you, if I'm doing something wrong. Please say it. I can change it. I'm here to ask you to do me a favor. ”

Huo Dan finally stopped, looked back at Zhang Feiyang deeply, and the disgust in his eyes did not disappear: "Last time you entered the mountain gate, I already helped you." Still not satisfied? Do you want me to help you again? Who do you think you are? My master?"

This sentence came from beginning to end, Zhang Feiyang didn't know how to take it, so he could only remain silent.

As if seeing Zhang Feiyang's predicament, Huo Dan suddenly smiled coldly, nodded, and said, "You want to know why I'm angry, right? I hate it when people come to me. It was always me who went to find others, and no one else came to me. Only the senior brother of the inner gate can come to me. Do you know what you're doing wrong?"

Zhang Feiyang was speechless, and said in his heart: "But the only person I can rely on now is you." If I don't come to you for help, keep me at risk of the killer hiding in the shadows. Are you going to come here and save my life?"

Shaking his head slightly, the more Zhang Feiyang thought about it, the more depressed he became, and he didn't know what to do.

At this moment, Hodan withdrew his gaze, and had already entered the wooden house where he lived, and with a bang, closed the door, lit the oil lamp, and left a long shadow on the window.

Thinking that Huo Dan's face at this time must still be ugly compared to just now, Zhang Feiyang couldn't help but be disheartened, and was about to turn around and leave, returning to the laundry department, and then thinking of another way.

Suddenly, there was a faint sound of a door opening in the distance.

"Squeak!"

It was the voice coming from the remote hut.

Zhang Feiyang took a closer look, and saw that the little hand that had been white stretched out from it, followed, and a beautiful side face was poked out from behind, with sideburns neatly combed on the cheeks, it turned out to be a female senior sister, but her clothes were a little messy.

Seeing that the female senior sister's face still had a faint flush, when she came out of it, she looked around, looking cautious, as if she was worried about being seen by others, Zhang Feiyang quickly hid behind a wooden house in the distance, only poked out one eye, held her breath, and watched.

After a while, the female senior sister's turning head stopped, smiled slightly, patted her chest lightly, got out of it, closed the door, and then swaggered towards the area where the corpse department hut gathered.

Zhang Feiyang followed the wall and made a circle, not daring to let her find out.

When the female senior sister left, he relaxed, and when he looked back at the remote hut, he had already raised a strong curiosity in his heart, quietly touched it, opened the door, and looked inside.

Unfortunately, it was pitch black inside.

At this time, the time had passed the evening, and it was darker, and it was almost impossible to see the five fingers outside, let alone the inside of the hut.

Zhang Feiyang didn't wear an oil lamp, so he had to stand at the door, waiting silently, letting his eyes gradually adapt to the darkness.

I don't know how long it took, but I felt that I could vaguely see some simple arrangements inside, there were a lot of rectangular tables in this room, and there seemed to be something on them, there was an obvious sense of concave and convex, Zhang Feiyang tried to enter it.

The oil lamp was placed in the southeast corner of the cottage hall, Zhang Feiyang snapped with a flint, and after lighting it, he was afraid that the light would be too strong and attract the attention of the outside, so he found a square wooden chair with four corners, covered it, and then took off the cover chair to make a simple lantern that was one size larger, and the light was much dimmer, so he dared to continue to approach and approach the nearest rectangular table.

As soon as he got closer, a pale and stiff face appeared in front of him, attracting all of Zhang Feiyang's attention.

At the same time, because of the dim light, the relationship could only be seen clearly in the area illuminated by the lantern, and the hideous expression retained on this pale and stiff face was also clearly lost to Zhang Feiyang's mind in an instant.

Although Zhang Feiyang has seen countless dead people, in his wandering career of more than ten years, in fact, it is not strange to look at a corpse head-on, but in such a depressed and dim and nervous situation, and so close to notice the corpse, Rao is psychological quality is excellent, but also frightened in his heart, trembling, a cold sweat on his back.

Zhang Feiyang stumbled under his feet, his hands were loose, and he almost knocked over the oil lamp, causing a fire.

Fortunately, after the assassination, during the period of illness, he has been having nightmares, and his mental adjustment ability has made a qualitative leap, even if he was frightened at first sight, but only a moment later, he has regained his composure and composure, took a deep breath, regained his footing, put the oil lamp closer, and continued to observe the face of the corpse.

The best way to deal with fear is to face it.

This is the cruel experience that Zhang Feiyang has gained in the past ten years of wandering, and ordinary people can't learn it.

Therefore, he just stayed for a moment longer, and then looked at the hideous death of the corpse, not only did he no longer feel frightened, but he also felt a little pity for the other party.

It was on the chest of this corpse that Zhang Feiyang found a terrible blood hole, the size of a big watermelon, and the heart inside was hollowed out, which was really miserable.

Zhang Feiyang stretched out his hand to help the deceased close his eyes, and then continued to observe in the room with a lantern.

After a cup of tea, he had seen all the corpses in the room, but he couldn't help but shake his head again in disappointment.

It turned out that this was just an ordinary room, and there was nothing more unusual about the room where the corpses of the disciples of this sect were temporarily kept, although the senior brothers and sisters on the corpses were still wearing clothes, but there were no good things left in the clothes, they were all some broken stones, like gravel by the river, the light was dim, uneven, and sharp edges and corners, I don't know what they were.

Zhang Feiyang sighed and prepared to go out.

When he arrived at the door, he thought that he didn't get anything from this trip, but he just came over and was inexplicably scolded by Hodan, and inadvertently entered here, scaring these corpses into a cold sweat, Zhang Feiyang couldn't help but laugh, shook his head with self-deprecation, and the disappointment in his heart was even more difficult to dissipate.

But at this moment, he suddenly paused, as if suddenly thinking of something, stopped, and then, turning back to the first corpse, he reached out and put the broken stone he had just returned in his hand and played with it.

After a while, Zhang Feiyang smiled slightly: "That's right." These stones may seem of little use, but my stove may be able to make them useful. This was the case with the earliest waste medicine residues, and the same was true with the later strips of red cloth. I wonder what will become of these broken stones when they are burned in the furnace?"

He began to honestly go to the clothes of the other corpses, and continued to collect the stones, and put them all in his sack, before leaving the hut and walking with great interest to the entrance of the corpse carrying department.

The two senior brothers, who were still chatting and drinking outside, saw Zhang Feiyang's excited face, remembered how anxious he was during the day, and laughed and chatted with him.

"Huh, the little junior brother of the laundry department, are you going back? Have you found Senior Brother Huo?"

Zhang Feiyang nodded.

"Little junior brother, can you go back alone? Do you want us to send you off? It's already so late. Are you going to get lost?"

Zhang Feiyang was about to refuse, but after thinking about it, he hadn't figured out who the killer was, if he really went back like this now, in case the matter of his coming here during the day had already been known to the killer, then the other party might really follow him, and on the way, when no one was around, he would carry out another assassination.

Compared with the last encounter, even if he was on guard this time, Zhang Feiyang didn't feel that he was sure enough to escape under that subordinate now, and now that someone is willing to give him a ride and be a free bodyguard, it would naturally be better.

Zhang Feiyang smiled and nodded, bowed respectfully, and thanked, "Okay." Then it will bother the two senior brothers. ”

The two actually meant to ridicule the two, but they didn't expect Zhang Feiyang to take it seriously, and they couldn't say anything about the surprise.

But seeing that Zhang Feiyang, the little junior brother, saluted and thanked him again, they naturally didn't want to lose face in front of the little junior brother, smiled awkwardly, and reluctantly took Zhang Feiyang and left the corpse transportation department.

After Zhang Feiyang returned to the laundry department safely, he was full of gratitude to them and sincerely thanked them.

The two shook their heads and waved their hands, saying don't mind, and left with red faces.

Looking at their proud and satisfied backs when they left, Zhang Feiyang smiled slightly, and wanted to go out to take out the garbage and use the stove to try the broken stones brought back, but he felt a strong tiredness, thought about it, and still didn't force himself, went back to the hut, and rested early.

This night, Zhang Feiyang slept soundly and sweetly, he had never been so relaxed, as if everyone was about to float.

But what he didn't know was that just when he was asleep, at this time, in the residence of the leader of the Alchemy Department who was living in the middle of the mountain of the Fire Fox Sect, there was a disciple of the Corpse Transporting Department, kneeling in front of Xiang Dong, trembling, not daring to speak loudly, lowering his head, and being so nervous that he didn't even dare to come out.

I only heard him say in a voice that only mosquitoes meowed, "Senior brother." Not really. I confirmed. There have been no deaths in the laundry department lately. The disciples of our sect are all healthy. Even the most dangerous herb collection department did not have any fatalities. Can I go back?"

Xiang Dong's face was gloomy as water, and he asked, "So, Zhang Feiyang from the laundry department is still alive and well?"

"Of course. Brother. It's just that I heard he was sick. What's the matter? Senior brother, don't you dislike that guy named Zhang Feiyang, why do you pay so much attention to him?" the man asked suspiciously.

Xiang Dong's ugly face suddenly converged, smiled slightly, patted him lightly on the shoulder, pulled him up from the ground, and said, "You know too much." ”

What does that mean?

The disciple hadn't figured out what was going on.

Suddenly, Xiang Dong took advantage of the moment when he looked stunned, and he didn't know where to take out a dagger, and with a pop, it pierced his chest.

At this time, his complexion returned to the gloom he had just now, and with a poof, when he pulled out the dagger, the junior brother had already rolled his eyes and died of exhaustion.

Xiang Dong took out a white cloth, wiped off the bloodstains, and after putting away the dagger, he suddenly closed his eyes and exercised, waited in place for half a stick of incense, and when he opened his eyes again, he raised a kick and slammed it, as if he had kicked a small pebble, and the corpse of the junior brother who kicked it, with a whoosh, flew straight out two or three feet away, rushed out of the house, drew an arc in the air, and finally fell heavily into the valley, making a dull loud noise.

Xiang Dongcai smiled with satisfaction, walked out a few steps, and closed the door.

But when he sat back in his chair, his face was even more ugly than before, and he said to himself and frowned: "Why? Zhang Feiyang was obviously stabbed twice by me that night. You should be dead. How could he still be alive?"