Well of Mystery

"Tsk, I have encountered a troublesome character."

Jiang Chenglu looked at the severely deformed iron bar, and then at the monster standing still in front of him, showing a rare "brain-wracking" expression.

But this embarrassment only existed for a few seconds. He decisively walked towards the ping-pong table, grabbed the little wine bottle left, took a sip of the wine, and took out the lighter that burned the weed just now.

The wine mist sprayed from the mouth turned into a flame under the ignition of the lighter, and rushed towards the monster trapped in the magic circle.Although Weird took two steps back, he was still on fire, and the tattered clothes fell down one after another with a stench, and it also fell to the ground.

"Dust to dust, dust to dust."

Seeing that the crisis was resolved, Jiang Chenglu muttered these two sentences and prepared to go up and check carefully.But just as he stepped across the magic circle, he saw the strange corpse jump up again, and quickly grabbed his neck.

"Prick its throat!"

Recalling the death conditions of the corpses in the elevator, Bai Xiuqi shouted loudly on the second floor.

Jiang Chenglu was still holding the bent iron bar just now in his hand, and immediately stabbed it down the throat of the strange corpse.But the iron bar rolled up abruptly again.

"I'll go! This guy is invulnerable!" Even Bai Xiuqi could see it now.

Jiang Chenglu couldn't remember how long it had been since he was threatened by someone strangling his neck. At this moment, he felt more fresh than scared rather than scared.He was stunned for a few seconds before he came back to his senses, and began to reach into his pocket, fumbling for something.

But he didn't touch anything.

"noob!"

Jiang Chenglu turned around and shouted at Bai Xiuqi: "Throw over my thread with copper coins!"

Bai Xiuqi also raised her voice and asked back, "Where is it?"

"In the pocket of the pants I wore last night!"

Bai Xiuqi hurriedly turned back to the house, found the pair of trousers that had been casually thrown on the stool, and took out from the pocket the red rope tied with copper coins that Jiang Chenglu often used.

However, the magic circle is in the middle of the yard, and it is still far away from the east building where Bai Xiuqi is. Bai Xiuqi thought to himself that he did not have the monster-level arm strength of Jiang Chenglu, so he gave up the idea of ​​throwing things directly there, and turned towards the stairs. run away.

When he got down to the first floor, he took another look at the corpses lying on the ground in disorder, as well as the elevator car emitting a faint cold air.Suddenly, something caught his attention.

"……noob!"

Jiang Chenglu, whose neck was firmly gripped by the strange corpse, made intermittent sounds.In his original plan, it was only a matter of minutes to ask Bai Xiuqi to bring the rope, but now at least two or three minutes have passed, not to mention the rope, even Bai Xiuqi himself has disappeared.

Could this guy be scared and hide?

Jiang Chenglu smiled wryly, of course he would not really believe this assumption.Although Bai Xiuqi is calm-headed and rarely acts impulsively when encountering major events; but he will never make that kind of flirtatious behavior of "flying separately when a disaster is imminent".

Besides, this little situation can't be considered a "big disaster".

Just as he was thinking of this, he finally heard a series of footsteps running towards this side in a distance, accompanied by Bai Xiuqi's panting shout.

"rope!"

Jiang Chenglu immediately stretched out his hand in the direction of the sound, and in the next second he felt something firmly pressed in his palm.

The rope has arrived, and this also means that Bai Xiuqi has also stepped into the magic circle...

not good!

Jiang Chenglu's heart skipped a beat.

But it was too late, the strange corpse had already let go of the hands pinching his neck, turned around and rushed towards the seemingly unarmed Bai Xiuqi!

Perhaps it was too late to react, but Bai Xiuqi did not evade.In the next moment, the strange corpse had already rushed in front of him, stabbing his eyes with bloody red nails.

How to do? !

Even Jiang Chenglu's mind went blank, but Bai Xiuqi finally made a move - he took a step to the right, and then shook off a piece of cloth tightly held in his right hand.

"This is--!"

Jiang Cheng was surprised and happy, because at this moment, the thing that Bai Xiuqi shook out of his hand, although old, dirty, and even a little rotten, was a genuine cassock that could not be mistaken.

Where did this thing come from? !

Jiang Chenglu couldn't help asking questions, but saw that Bai Xiuqi had already covered the strange corpse with a cassock.

"Why are you still standing there!" He yelled at Jiang Chenglu.

Jiang Chenglu quickly shut his mouth, waved the rope with copper coins, and successfully strangled the strange corpse's neck.One circle, two circles and three circles, and then close tightly.

Although separated by the cassock, Bai Xiuqi could still see that the strange corpse was struggling hard with its mouth open.However, with the dual functions of the cassock and the rope, all its efforts are just stubborn resistance.

Soon, Jiang Chenglu neatly packed it up and stepped on it.

"Are you OK?"

Jiang Chenglu held Bai Xiuqi's shoulders and looked him up and down until he confirmed that there was no wound on his body. Then he breathed a sigh of relief, "Where did you get that broken cassock?"

"It's in the elevator car." Bai Xiuqi replied, "If I'm not mistaken, this thing was originally wrapped on the iron cabinet, and you accidentally took it off just now."

When he said this, Jiang Chenglu really remembered his inadvertent action just now, and immediately scratched his head in embarrassment.

"It's still a great painter, you should observe carefully, but then again, don't do such a dangerous action in the future. Do you know that you just now..."

"Of course I have a sense of proportion." Bai Xiuqi thought he was nagging, and interrupted him: "By the way, what kind of weird thing is this?"

"It's a bit like a zombie, but it's invulnerable to weapons and guns, and it can't even be burned. No matter how you say it, it should have a thousand years of Taoism. It should be called '魃'."

"魃?" Bai Xiuqi repeated the title, and felt that it was not quite right: "But I saw that this thing was clearly wearing a shirt and trousers. Even if it was not a modern person, it would definitely not be able to escape from the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. How could there be a thousand years of Taoism?" ?”

"This is also something I can't figure out." Jiang Chenglu nodded: "Is there someone who is so bored and changed clothes for Ba?"

Speaking of which, he was still in the mood to grin: "So, Xiaobai, you see, there are many things in this apartment that even I don't know. Thinking about it, I feel a little excited..."

"What's so exciting about this!" Bai Xiuqi tried not to ridicule this strange state of mind, and instead asked, "What should we do with it now?"

"I will lock this guy in the basement first, and find time to slowly figure out its ins and outs."

As he said that, Jiang Chenglu had already picked up the strange corpse with ease, and after thinking for a while, he turned his head and told Bai Xiuqi: "If you have time, please help me clean up the mess here."

As he spoke, he pointed to the green grass on the ground that was still braving small flames with his chin.

Bai Xiuqi had been curious for a long time, so he hurriedly asked what was the mystery of the grass.Jiang Chenglu replied that this is the keel grass in "Shan Hai Jing", which is said to have been transformed from the keel left by the ancient dragon after its death.Keelgrass is rich in oil, and its vitality is extremely tenacious. It can be said that it is the standard "wild fire is inexhaustible, and spring breeze blows and regenerates".

Of course, apart from these basic characteristics, the most striking effect of Dragon Bone Grass has been learned by Bai Xiuqi just now.Wearing this kind of grass has a certain immunity to magical powers.However, once a person with cultivation base mistakenly swallows the ashes of this grass, it can paralyze the mind for a short time, and damage the cultivation base in severe cases. It can be said to be a poisonous plant.

"However, dragon bone ashes are insoluble in water and have an easily identifiable smell, so unless it is mixed into wine, the possibility of ingesting it by mistake is very small." Jiang Chenglu finally made a note.

"Dragon ashes...wine?"

Bai Xiuqi's eyelids twitched suddenly. Isn't this what he held in his mouth in his dream that day, tricking Jiang Chenglu into swallowing it?

Once again, dreams and reality are connected.Although Bai Xiuqi no longer felt weird, he still kept this discovery silently in his heart.

Leaving Bai Xiuqi behind to "clean up the aftermath", Jiang Chenglu ran to the basement with the strange corpse alone, found a private room, and handcuffed the hands and feet of the strange corpse with the strong iron chains in the room beforehand.

Under the illumination of the lamp, the strange corpse gradually stopped its needless struggle and became like a real corpse again.Jiang Chenglu took out chalk and re-drawn spells around it and on the door, then clapped his hands in relief, locked the door and returned to the ground.

Bai Xiuqi moved faster than him. He had already poured out the embers of fire in the yard with the dirty water from the fountain, and now he was squatting beside the iron cabinet, wondering what he was studying.

Jiang Chenglu walked over to join in the fun, only to find that Bai Xiuqi was holding an old-fashioned yellowed envelope with no letterhead or signature on it, and no more information could be seen.

"It should have fallen out of that guy."

Bai Xiuqi looked back at Jiang Chenglu, and pointed to the dark brown blood stains left on the envelope.Of course, this should all be the blood of those poor police officers.

The letter was not sealed, but was glued together by dried blood.Bai Xiuqi frowned and barely separated a little, and used his index and middle fingers to pinch a stack of tattered letter paper.

"Ba can also read and write?" Jiang Chenglu muttered, "That's not how Hong Kong zombie movies are played."

As he spoke, he took the letter paper from Bai Xiuqi's hand, opened a corner, and exclaimed, "Isn't it? Japanese!"

When Bai Xiuqi heard it, he quickly moved his head closer, and sure enough, he saw a line of incomprehensible foreign characters written on the yellow and brittle paper, which was [-]% Japanese.

"...Japanese elves?"

"It's been said that this guy can't be Ba..."

Jiang Chenglu muttered and opened the letter a little more, but unfortunately most of the content was covered with blood, and it shattered into powder after a little exposure.

Bai Xiuqi looked anxiously at the side: "You don't move. I'll find someone who can understand Japanese, and let him read it tomorrow..."

He hadn't finished speaking when Jiang Chenglu exerted a little force with his fingers, and the letter was snapped into two pieces crisply, and what was originally wrapped in the letter paper fell out with a "snap".

Bai Xiuqi picked it up and saw it was a map and an old photo.