Chapter 7: Exploring the Homestead
"Daoist Lu Fang, don't you know, this place is indeed a private house, but it is the private residence of Lord Acropolis County. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Now that the county magistrate has been evacuated in a hurry, there is no one living here. ”
When Lu Fang heard this, he was even more puzzled: "Even so, what do you mean by bringing us here, could it be that the rat demon's lair is near here?"
"Don't say that you can't do it, even I, who is a subordinate, couldn't believe it when I first heard the news. Qin Lan sighed with emotion: "According to the soldier who sent back the information, they were chasing around here when they suddenly encountered an attack by a swarm of rats. ”
After that, Qin Lan jumped off his horse, slowly walked to an open space, and bent down to observe carefully: "Well, it should be here, Dao Chief, you see, there are still some undried blood stains here, obviously where the reconnaissance team was attacked!"
Before Lu Fang could speak, Yun Xuan came to his side first, gently dipped some soil from the ground, put it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it. A disgusting fishy smell came in, and he couldn't help but frown.
Turning his head to look at his master, Yun Xuan nodded calmly, indicating that there was no problem. Then he continued to look down, following the bloodstains until he reached a wall, where they were completely gone.
Obviously, if this clue is followed, then the place where the rats left is the prefectural mansion inside the wall.
However, all this seemed too simple and clear, so easy to find the other party's lair? Yun Xuan secretly doubted in his heart, if the other party was really a cultivated rat demon, his wisdom should be no less than that of ordinary people.
Qin Lan on the side narrowed his eyes slightly, originally he hadn't paid attention to this witch kid before, but now it seems that he has lost his eyes.
Regardless of the cultivation of this witch boy for the time being, the other party's keen observation and good mind are definitely not simple. Qin Lan had heard that all the Wu people were the darlings of the heavens, and they not only had a magical divination technique, but also possessed shocking resourcefulness. If it weren't for the scarcity of the Wu people, they would have been able to dominate the world a long time ago!
With a light cough, Qin Lan didn't take the initiative to communicate with Yun Xuan, but said calmly: "Dao Chief, let's prepare to enter now, as long as we search this vicinity, I believe there should be clues." ”
Lu Fang bowed slightly, but his eyes looked into the courtyard. He could feel that there was indeed a faint demonic aura wafting here, and although the aura was very weak, it was always good to check it out.
Several soldiers who received the order strode forward and forcibly broke through the courtyard gate, leaving 300 people to guard outside, while the remaining 200 people followed Qin Lan into the courtyard to search.
Since this is a suburban courtyard, its area is very large, and there are four houses in the front yard, and the decoration of the rooms should be where the prefectural commander himself lives. In the backyard, there are dozens of simple houses, apparently the residences of the people in the courtyard.
Under Qin Lan's command, all the soldiers were divided into many groups and assigned to search various places, and once there was anything suspicious, they had to come back and report.
Of course, Lu Fang and the others are extremely special in these searches, and they will definitely not be like those ordinary soldiers, like headless flies. Under the leadership of Lu Fang, Yun Xuan and the others went straight to the backyard.
As he was walking, Lu Xiangyu suddenly approached and said to Yun Xuan with a smile: "You see those people are so stupid, obviously there are people from our Daomen, and they are still looking around, isn't this a pure waste of time?"
Yun Xuan said: "This is not strange, our Daomen's exercises are special, and we can distinguish the fluctuations of the surrounding aura, so we can follow the demon qi to find the other party's lair." And although these soldiers also have a lot of cultivators, they are all people from the martial arts, so naturally they will not know this. ”
As soon as he heard this, Lu Xiangyu suddenly became angry: "I think that my Dao Sect was a famous demon subduing faction, who doesn't know my Dao Sect's demon subduing skills? Hmph, you look at now, we have only been in hiding for a few years, and these people don't know us!"
Yun Xuan smiled bitterly, he naturally knew what Lu Xiangyu said, but it was a long time ago.
Since more than ten years ago, the Yellow Kingdom in the north of the Yan Kingdom was wiped out by the Wu Clan, and the Taoism, as the first major sect in the Yellow Kingdom, has also been dealt a heavy blow. In the end, he had to raise the door and flee, and temporarily lived on Liantian Peak at the junction of Yan and Huang Kingdom.
It was precisely because of such a blow that many masters of the Taoist sect died in that war, leaving only a small number of cultivators. After that, the people in the Dao Sect rarely appeared in the world again, so that the world almost forgot about this Taoist who cultivated the three great families!
Soon, Lu Yi came to stand in front of a house, which on the surface seemed to be a storage warehouse. And that demonic aura is also gradually dissipating here.
After Lu Fang hesitated slightly, he pinched the trick with one hand and recited silently, only to see a faint water curtain appear in front of everyone, protecting them in it. This move, which is the most basic of the water spells, is used to defend against incoming attacks.
However, the realms of Yun Xuan and Lu Fang were very different, although they were the same spell, their protective strength was also very different.
With a squeak, Lu Fang slowly pushed open the wooden door in front of him, and what was met was not the attack of the rat demon, but a pungent rancid smell.
Lu Xiangyu and Ji Tianyue, the two girls, where could they stand such a stinky smell, and they almost couldn't help but vomit. Yun Xuan reminded: "Everyone hold your breath and work inside." ”
Sure enough, after he reminded them, everyone reacted, no longer breathed through their mouths and noses, and turned into a shallow and calm state. This technique is very similar to the Turtle Breath technique, but the Taoists are more sophisticated, and can continue to move freely while holding their breath.
Yun Xuan's mouth and nose were tightly closed, but his eyes were quickly looking around the room, and his eyes were in a mess, and there were vegetables and rice noodles piled up indiscriminately, but these vegetables were no longer fresh, but only roots and leaves were left to be eaten by insects.
However, these were not the source of the stench, and on one of the wooden shelves in the room, there were blackened pieces of flesh, but at this time they were surrounded by large swarms of flies, crawling around on them, and it was extremely disgusting.
Lu Fang naturally couldn't stand this harsh environment, and threw the culprit out of the door with a wave of his hand, and at the same time, the majestic true qi shook out, blowing away all the stench in the room.
Yun Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and began to observe carefully. Since there were no more demonic fluctuations here, they could only rely on intuition to find out, and he still had some confidence at this point.
Squatting on the ground and taking a closer look, Yun Xuan was surprised to find that there were no traces of rats crawling here, if it was really as Qin Lan's subordinates said, then it was only less than a day, how could it be possible to cover up all the traces?
Unless...... Unless this rat demon has reached the realm where it can fly out of thin air, how did he come here without leaving a trace?
Yun Xuan, who couldn't figure out the reason, looked at other places unwillingly. But I don't know if the county magistrate is too afraid of mice, or the rat demon is too good at hiding, and after looking for a long time, not to mention some mouse traces, I didn't even find a mouse hole!
"Master, I can't find anything, what should I do?"
Lu Fang frowned, how did he know that he would encounter a rat demon wreaking havoc on this trip, otherwise as long as he brought out a few demon subduing magic weapons from the door, how could such a rat demon not be found.
At this moment, a soldier from Qin Lan suddenly ran over and shouted with a frightened face: "It's not good, Dao Chief, it's not good!"
"What's wrong, what's going on?"
"Yes...... It was the general who had captured him by a rat monster. ”
"What?" Lu Fang didn't understand for a while: "General Qin Lan was captured by the rat demon?
The soldier was out of breath and could not say anything, so he pointed his fingers and led the crowd away. didn't run far, Yun Xuan and the others were taken to the door of a room in the front yard, and the door was already crowded with a group of soldiers, all looking at the door with frightened expressions.
Lu Fang let out a deep sigh, and immediately bounced the person in front of him, making way for an enterable path. When I walked in the door, I saw that it was a beautifully furnished bedroom, and in the innermost bed, there was a shocking hole.
Outside the hole, several corpses lay horizontally and vertically, all cut in two, blood splattering the walls of the room.
Judging from everyone's sight, Qin Lan should have been arrested from here. Lu Fang stepped forward a few steps and looked down from the entrance of the cave, but found that he couldn't see anything clearly, only pitch black.
"Whose room is this, and why is there a hole under the bed?"
A soldier stood up and said tremblingly: "Dao, Dao Chief, this is the room of the county commander." Just now, just now, the general had to come in to check on himself, but before he had been inside, he heard a few screams from inside, and we rushed in to take a look, and found a rat the size of an ordinary person, and caught the general in the hole. ”
Yun Xuan listened as he took steps under his feet, ready to get closer to see the situation. But suddenly someone grabbed him, at first he thought it was Lu Xiangyu who was going to stop him, but when he turned his head, he found that it was Ji Tianyang's sister, Ji Tianyue.
Looking at her trembling expression, Yun Xuan asked suspiciously, "You, what's wrong with you?"
For this girl with a soft personality, Yun Xuan had never crossed paths before, let alone said a few words, so he didn't know how to speak.
Ji Tianyue lowered her head in a panic, and pointed timidly ahead: "Aren't you, aren't you also fainting blood, why do you want to go forward completely?"
Yun Xuan suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, it turned out that this girl was pulling her because she was afraid of the bloody scene. However, although Lu Xiangyu didn't lie before, he was afraid of blood when he was a child, and although he was still a little unaccustomed to it, he was still able to endure it.
However, when the two paused like this, they fell behind the last of the five. Originally, Yun Xuan was going to take a look in the room, but Ji Tianyue was so scared that he couldn't walk around anymore, so he could only try to block her side and not let her see these bloody scenes.
Lu Fang's eyes froze, and he instructed the soldiers outside the door: "This rat demon is cruel, you are not its opponent, don't follow it again." Just leave it to us later, and we will definitely save General Qin Lan as much as possible!"