Mystery

"Big Bird?" Wu Xie was puzzled.How could there be such a creature as a bird in such a place?

But he remembered the rift that the fat man said, there are still other channels directly connected to the outside world. "You said the big bird... how big is it?"

"One person is tall," said the fat man, "this is still very impressive, and others have not had time to see clearly."

"It seems that it should not be far from the destination..." After saying this, the two of them prepared to rest, and soon fell asleep.Wu Xie was worried that he would sleep unconsciously for several days, but the tiredness finally defeated him.

What a rare peace.

I don't know if it was a dream or reality, but Wu Xie seemed to hear a long cry similar to that of an eagle.

The fat man fell into a light sleep and woke up suddenly.He didn't want to disturb Wu Xie's rest, so he walked a distance to the right by himself.The bird call was actually very real to the fat man's ears. He knew that the big bird could not fly that far by itself, and there was only one possibility—someone brought it here.

Fatty didn't dare to go any further after walking only a few tens of meters.He turned around and trotted back to Wu Xie's place, feeling more and more uneasy in his heart.

He leaned against the stone wall, and hid the Ye Mingzhu that Wu Xie gave him under his clothes.The faint light disappeared, and the surrounding area seemed to be covered with thick ink, and it was pitch black.

"knock--"

The sound of the stones falling to the ground made Fatty start running desperately.Not far away, the light of the night pearl suddenly became brighter.Only tens of meters, only a dozen steps, but it is like thousands of miles.That kind of anxiety was something he had never experienced before. He held the sword in his hand and slashed at a person's back.

Eh, wait a minute...

Fatty realized something was wrong, he quickly dodged to the side, made an emergency stop in mid-air, and fell heavily to the ground.

"Little brother, you're going to scare people to death in the middle of the night."

Zhang Qiling's body was covered with blood, and the bloodstains on his face were dense and frightening.His clothes were already soaked in blood, and the dark red color was even more frightening under the dim light.

Wu Xie was awakened by the noise, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Zhang Qiling covered in blood, and was so frightened that he almost pulled out his dagger.After thinking about it like this, he realized that his dagger was in the bronze tree, so he had to ask the fat man to borrow a crude half-length dagger.

Wu Xie thought he was seriously injured, but after a closer look, he found that there seemed to be nothing wrong with him, and the blood on his body was stained from other places.

"You... what's going on here?" Wu Xie was worried that some people in the army were killed by him, but considering that he hadn't harmed himself since he came back, it should be unnecessary to worry.

"There are not many of you left," he threw a package to Wu Xie, "another team has come in."

The fat man winked at Wu Xie and asked him to ask more questions.Wu Xie frowned and looked at him, thinking that he and Zhang Qiling were not familiar with each other, so it was lucky that he hadn't silenced him.And it's called a package, but it's several times the size of a normal package, so I don't know what's inside.

"Inside is what you have left."

"This..." Wu Xie opened the package, and inside were their weapons, each with tiny and delicate marks, "Could it be that you..."

"I don't know where they went." The blood on his body was too thick to wipe off. "When I got there, there was only blood and no corpses."

"Where?!" Wu Xie remembered that there were still people in the team, and his nerves tensed up.

Zhang Qiling didn't answer.Wu Xie carefully rummaged through the package and found the dagger she had left at the bronze tree, only to realize that they had made a big circle and returned to the bronze tree.

Wu Xie looked into Zhang Qiling's eyes, and the deep pool was completely hidden under the darkness. "Then why are you..." He always felt a little stuttered when he asked.Here, bloodshed is the order of the day, but with almost annihilated so quickly, no one can be very calm.

"You didn't understand what I meant," Zhang Qiling's low tone always made people feel that nothing had anything to do with him, "There are no corpses because they were eaten..."

"The blood is dripping down."

"Oh, well, needless to say, I think Xiaotian's IQ has been affected after entering your Zhang family's territory," the fat man told him to stop, and explained to Wu Xie himself, "It seems that the man-eating thing is quite big. "

"You'd better leave quickly," Zhang Qiling turned and walked slowly into the distance, "otherwise I will kill you sooner or later."

"Zhang... Qiling..." Wu Xie's voice was very low, "I'd better call you 'little brother'. If you don't tell us where the exit is, how can we get out? A gentleman..."

"Didn't you already find out?"

"The implication is that I am not a gentleman," the fat man joked about him, not afraid of his anger. "It seems that he really doesn't look like a fair lady..."

"Don't talk..." Zhang Qiling's figure disappeared into the darkness again, and Wu Xie's voice became cold, "He still wants to kill us after all, but he doesn't need to rely on his hands."

The fat man nodded affirmatively: "I understand what you mean. He wanted to say that the rift was the exit. But he clearly knew that just the two of us couldn't deal with those big birds..."

"It's not his fault," Wu Xie sighed, "After all, we are the ones who violated them."

"But don't worry, old rules." Fatty and Wu Xie sat on the ground.Without the bonfire, I was a little unaccustomed to it. Wu Xie put a few beads in the middle, but was amused by his actions and laughed.

"Hey, I was gloomy just now, but now I'm happy first." The fat man pretended to look at him with contempt.Wu Xie held back her laughter, and couldn't help feeling that she hadn't been as relaxed as she is now for a long time.

After a moment of silence, the fat man said, "One, he didn't kill you from the beginning, and he knew your identity, maybe because you are valuable. Now he may have found a way to use you."

Wu Xie nodded slightly, telling him to continue talking without stopping.

"Second, he knows that someone has reached the rift. There is actually something we are looking for near the rift. He told us so that we can find it, but he doesn't necessarily want to help us. He may use us to achieve it. some purpose of his."

"It's true, we don't have time to chat." Wu Xie directly denied.He knew that Fatty would always put what he thought was the most likely last.

"Cough... Let's get straight to the point... Three, he still needs to use you. But I think his current actions seem to be trying to use you to draw something out.

Four, like we said before, he doesn't need to get rid of you himself.Because he thinks we can't go out at all.

Fifth, coercion and temptation will definitely not work, he can only rely on time to know our purpose. "

"It's still the same after all, I don't think it's very reliable," Wu Xie raised his forehead, "People's hearts are really unpredictable than ghosts and gods."

"Shh...don't talk..." Fatty suddenly became mysterious.Wu Xie shut up immediately, but heard a small voice.The sound stopped immediately with their silence, but they still caught a tail.

This voice came from the stone behind them.

This stone is part of the stone wall, tall and hard.This sound is the sound of knocking, as if knocking on an empty shell, not far behind the stone wall.

Wu Xie was puzzled and nervous.In order not to startle the snake, he and Fatty each found a flaw in the stone wall with only a touch of light.After looking carefully, they discovered that there was a narrow gap not far from them, just enough for one person to pass through.It escaped their eyes under the cover of the blackish stone wall and the blind spot of light.

Wu Xie's footsteps made no sound.He leaned in slowly, readying his weapon.

The knocking sound inside stopped and turned into a rustling sound instead.Just as Wu Xie was about to react, a fire suddenly flashed inside.

"Oh, little third master, long time no see."

"Master... No... It's you? Blind man?!"

"What, are you still one of us?" The fat man stared blankly at the man.His eyes were wrapped with black brocade silk, and his clothes were also black, but they were much tattered.He had a ruffian smile on his face.The fat man didn't know if it was his own psychological effect. Although he was blindfolded, he still seemed to be able to see them, and his eyes kept moving with them.

"Yes," Wu Xie said without showing any sense of familiarity, "I'm also a master."

He, the black blind man, has a deep research on ancient legends and funeral rites. He is one of Wu Xie's staff advisers, and he is usually called "Master" casually.

The clothes on his body were also stained with a lot of blood, and the cuffs and necklines were already torn.The black brocade belt is intact, presumably he has not suffered too serious injuries.

"Why are you here?" Wu Xie wondered, "You are not among the candidates this time."

The black blind man stood up slowly holding the charred torch, supported his waist and legs, and cried out the pain, but the smile on his face never faded: "We are here to support."

"According to your speed, I guess you followed us as soon as we left. This support is a bit too coincidental." Although the fat man felt doubtful, seeing that Wu Xie seemed to trust the blind man, he didn't mind. Well, let's take further action.

The three of them each found a corner to sit down in this relatively wide space, spreading out to help detect changes in the outside world.

"Do you know what's going on here?" Wu Xie noticed the bloodstain all over the place, which was long and thin and broke halfway. It had been a while.

"I know." The blind man symbolically touched the place where the underground traces were located. "In my opinion, it was left by a guy wearing Tibetan clothes mixed with Han Chinese."

"What?" The fat man almost cursed, "Are you really blind?"

The blind man laughed and shook his head slightly.Wu Xie told Fatty not to get too excited, and explained to him in the coming day.

The black-blind man recalled what he saw: "I think that man is very skilled, and he seems to know everything about this place, but he is still injured, but it doesn't seem to be serious. At that time, I was still taking refuge here, and he broke in suddenly. I bandaged it briefly, and accidentally dropped a luminous pearl here. I hid it very well, and he was in a hurry, as if he didn't notice me." Then, the blind man took out the luminous pearl he had picked up and handed it to Wu Xie.Just as Wu Xie was about to take it, the blind man withdrew his hand and spoke slowly:

"Did you see what's on this bead?"

Before Wu Xie could answer, he himself said: "On each bead, there is a tiny scorpion pattern."

Upon hearing this, Wu Xie took out the Ye Mingzhu on her body and carefully searched for that little clue.Sure enough, there is a delicate scorpion pattern, and it is not difficult to find that pattern when the outside world is brighter.

The blind man looked at the Ye Mingzhu in Wu Xie's hand, his expression became a little complicated, but it was fleeting.

"Looking at you like that, you should understand something." Wu Xie asked the blind man to tell them about this family.

"To be honest, the Zhang family used to be very famous. Many people know about their affairs, but in their eyes, they are all trivial matters." They are all things that cannot be ignored... The story is too long, so let's make a long story short and just talk about this place."

"The place where they are currently hiding is said to be near Changbai Mountain. This should be the place where they once lived..."

"There must be their reasons for choosing such a hidden place..."