Hou Sheng looked at the cave and listened for a while. He pulled out a rope from his cuff, put it on Liu Xiaolou's waist, tied the rope buckle, wrapped the other end of the rope around his wrist, and said, "You go down first."
Liu Xiaolou felt the faint spiritual power fluctuations coming from the rope, and said displeasedly: "Deacon Hou, this is what happened, you still don't trust me?"
Hou Sheng's expression remained unchanged: "What if you collude with them and set an ambush in the cave? I have to guard against it. If this is the case, you will be the first to die."
Liu Xiaolou sighed, shook his head, and climbed down the rock wall.
Hou Sheng also followed, holding the rope in one hand and digging into the rock wall with two fingers, just to the right of Liu Xiaolou.
The entrance to the cave is an irregular long strip, but it is actually a crack on the rock wall. There are many such cracks in Shahukou, and most of them are located above and below the water surface. They should be washed by the river.
"Go in." Hou Sheng shook the rope, as if he was holding a dog.
After Liu Xiaolou stooped down and entered, he found that the inside was slightly more spacious and divided into two parts: inside and outside. The outer room is less than ten feet deep, and there is an extinguished bonfire in the corner; the other side of the cave turns a diagonal corner, and after entering, there is the inner cave, which is also less than ten feet deep, and there are hay against the rock wall. There is nothing else but a "bed" made out of it.
This cave is very closed, and the river wind cannot blow in, which perfectly meets the requirements for activating the blurred incense. Several cracks that leak air are directly blocked with gravel, which should be Wei Hongqing's handiwork.
Hou Sheng fell at the entrance of the cave and drove a piece of talisman paper into the cave. The piece of paper was burned to ashes in the cave. After waiting for a moment, he carefully entered the cave. He came to the bonfire, reached into the embers, and muttered: "Yesterday's."
Liu Xiaolou asked curiously: "Can this be seen?"
Hou Sheng remained calm and shook the rope again, signaling Liu Xiaolou to enter the inner cave.
The two of them entered one after another, and Hou Sheng ordered: "Lift up the straw couch."
Liu Xiaolou did as he was told, Hou Sheng leaned over to check, and then said: "Newly made."
He looked around the cave again, and then said, "Let's get started. What tokens can we leave behind?"
Liu Xiaolou asked angrily: "Deacon Hou doesn't suspect that I have colluded with his wife?"
Hou Sheng urged: "Hurry up."
Liu Xiaolou reached out and asked for the array plate, and Hou Sheng replied: "I'll give it to you if I leave a token."
Liu Xiaolou, who had compromised many times in a row, was unwilling to compromise: "Deacon Hou, if you don't return the formation plate to me, I won't leave a token."
Hou Sheng said nonchalantly: "Actually, when you get here, it doesn't matter whether you leave a token or not. If you don't, I will kill you and wait for them here."
Liu Xiaolou looked at Hou Sheng steadily and asked, "Actually, Deacon Hou didn't intend to let me live, did he? In that case, please take action, Deacon Hou."
Hou Sheng touched his nose: "What I planned is not your turn to worry about. Your life and death are only in my thoughts, but you can bet once on whether I will spare you and give you a reward. . Of course you don’t have to bet. I’ll count three. If you still don’t stay, then go feed the fish in the river. Three...two..."
"I bet...I bet..." Liu Xiaolou took a deep breath, pulled out the Sanxuan Sword, and carved words on the cave wall.
Hou Sheng didn't take Liu Xiaolou's action of drawing his sword seriously. A low-level casual cultivator on the third level of Qi Refining drew his sword without any threat. He just watched Liu Xiaolou finish carving the four words "October 5th" on the cave wall, and let the stone chips from the cave wall fall to the ground.
"The fifth day of October? Today? Is this the signal you promised? Where to meet? Right here?"
"Of course we don't meet here, Deacon Hou. I left a message today, but the appointment is not today, and it is not here. When and where will we meet... Deacon Hou, please return the array plate to me. I will leave a message on the willow tree above to let you know, and of course, I will also ask Deacon Hou to wait half an hour before going out."
"Bonfire and straw couch..."
"It's not theirs, it's the fire I made. Before I went to Jietian Lotus Pavilion to leave you a letter, I came here myself and stayed for one night. I didn't wait for Mr. Xingde and Zhou Qiniang."
Hou Sheng suddenly smiled: "It seems that you are not willing to bet, or maybe you lost the bet. After you die, I will wait here for three days. If I don't see Mr. Xing De, I will be fooled by you." , Hou Mou admitted his failure. I checked Xing Dejun, you are not the only clue, the worst thing is to try again. Your body will stay here, this cave is your burial place, this line you carved, Let it be your tombstone..."
Before he could finish speaking, Liu Xiaolou said first, "Deacon Hou, why did you investigate the case privately? Why didn't you report it to your Qingyu Sect? What do you want from Mr. Xing De?"
Hou Sheng was stunned for a moment, then a smile appeared on his lips: "Sure enough, I have a delicate mind, but it's a pity..."
The rope tied around Liu Xiaolou's waist suddenly surged with spiritual power. The rope tightened tighter and tighter, making Liu Xiaolou breathless. No matter how much he resisted with his true energy, it was of no avail.
Hou Sheng said slowly: "Are you asking this question because I didn't summon help? One last word for you, don't think about some things blindly. Even if you really think about something, don't tell it, otherwise it will dead person's."
Liu Xiaolou's eyes were so tight that they bulged out, and he said with difficulty: "I said...I said...cough cough cough..."
The rope suddenly came loose, and he finally breathed out, lying on the ground coughing loudly.
"Tell me, this is your last chance." Hou Sheng sat on the straw couch and stared at Liu Xiaolou, who was curled up on the ground.
Liu Xiaolou said in a hoarse voice: "Seven...seven days...every seven days...I will come and see you..."
Xing Dejun smiled and tightened the rope again. This time he no longer held back his hand. The rope tightened so much that Liu Xiaolou's internal organs were bulging out and foam kept coming from the corners of his mouth.
Liu Xiaolou took a sip while crawling out of the cave.
Hou Sheng did not stop him, and looked at Liu Xiaolou who was crawling out of the cave in a joking way: "You keep asking me, how come one person dares to come and take Xing Dejun and his wife? This deacon can tell you, based on this This Li Di San Yuan Rope. This rope is a good treasure. You died under the Li Di San Yuan Rope today. You deserved to die, and you will be treated the same as those big thieves and strongmen that I took care of..."
Liu Xiaolou was still crawling out and reached the outer cave. He was holding on to the stone wall at the entrance of the cave and was about to roll down into the river.
Hou Sheng felt a little excited at the moment for some reason, and unknowingly wanted to say a few more words: "Although your cultivation is shallow, your foundation is solid... But this rope is like a blood leech, how can it be so easy to break free?"
Seeing that Liu Xiaolou was about to climb out of the cave and fall into the river, he laughed again: "Don't try too hard, you can't run away, I will hang you here like a spider web..."
He laughed so hard that his face turned red, his mouth was dry with excitement, he couldn't help but lick his lips, his heart was beating wildly, and a picture appeared in his mind: there seemed to be a woman wearing only a gauze, holding a pipa in her arms, and being tied up by a rope from the ground. It turned into a spider flower and hung on the stone wall. Seeing it made his mouth go dry, he shook his body and sat down again.
At the same time, Liu Xiaolou was strangled by the rope and his tongue stuck out. He finally rolled out and rolled to the bottom of the river.
