Lin Shanhai and his apprentice came after her. They stopped beside her and did not dare to speak after seeing her reaction. She grasped the edge of the monument, the skin on her fingers was pricked, and strands of red slowly flowed down the uneven sides of the monument.
Could it be that her mother was really killed? No way, what are they planning?
Looking at Mu Wan's trembling shoulders, Dai Luan cautiously stretched out her hand. Shanhai bent over and looked at the monument, feeling a sharp pain in the side of his head. I really don’t know if they were joking or if they seriously wanted to kill him. Either way, this method is disgusting. Dai Luan also saw that name and was absolutely disgusted.
Mu Wan's trembling was not caused by grief, but by anger.
There is a small pile of soil on one side. It must have been prepared for a while, and some weeds have already taken root and sprouted. It was probably obvious that the coffin was newly buried, with only a layer of soil lightly sprinkled on top. They quickly dug up the soil and looked at the ordinary coffin, speechless for a moment.
"Open it?" Dai Luan asked.
"Haha, there could be a ghost inside."
Mu Wan sneered and reached out to lift the coffin board. Shanhai quickly stopped her hand, and then gently tapped the coffin with his knuckles.
Of course, no one spoke or suddenly jumped out of the coffin. But Shan Hai still looked bad. He took a deep breath and said to them alertly:
"There's something in there."
"...Is there really someone lying down?"
Dai Luan took a step back, and Mu Wan stepped forward and extended his hand. At this moment, the coffin board suddenly trembled, as if something was about to jump out. The three of them were surprised for a moment at the same time, and then they thought that it was just someone who was pretending to be a ghost. But then, the wooden board trembled again, as if someone's hand was beating inside, responding to the mountains and the sea. The mountain and sea immediately pulled the two of them back, and at the next moment, the coffin board was suddenly knocked open, and several large snakes of different colors flew out from it, like bows and arrows suddenly unstringed, and like splashes of water.
Dai Luan suddenly drew his sword and cut off the thick snake with the force of drawing the sword. She aimed accurately, exactly seven inches of each snake. After they were broken, they scattered on the ground, still struggling and twisting, until they became completely quiet, and then emitted black smoke.
"It's a trap."
As soon as Shan Hai finished speaking, the snakes that had been lurking in the cemetery for some time crawled out from every corner, as if they were disturbed and angry. After a while, the chopped snakes on the ground suddenly started to jump again and became entangled together, like messy yarns of different colors entangled into a ball. After they slowly untied themselves, the snake segments were put together again, but some were not spliced to their original bodies, and the color contrast was very strange.
But they did come back to life and stared at them with cold and ferocious eyes.
"If you can't finish killing them, run away first!"
Shanhai pulled their sleeves and motioned them to run up the slope. Those snakes chased after them, with the clear purpose of coming after them. Compared to his peers and even disciples in the same period, Xi Yu was naturally very strong and he lasted long enough to face two opponents with no actual combat experience. But Gui Tan was not an ordinary sword, not to mention there were two of them, so Xi Yu was soon at a disadvantage. Obviously defeating them here was not Xi Yu's original intention. Those snakes must have been ambushing here long ago. And since they can listen to her, everything must be related to She Ji.
The hillside on this side is very steep, which does not mean that going up is as easy as Mu Wan rolling down. Xi Yu was repulsed by Gui Tan, jumped back a step, and smoothly drew his knife to knock down Mu Wan who was about to attack him. It was not that she was unprepared, she raised her umbrella to block the blow, and applied force to the raised stone with her feet. She actually kicked off the stone that was deeply embedded in it, leaving a big hole before rolling down. Shan Hai dodged the falling dirt and stones with one shoulder, raised his hand to throw up the fly whisk, Dai Luan stepped on his shoulder, then stepped on the end of the fly whisk, finally turned over and jumped on Mu Wan's umbrella, with a sword He drew away Xi Yu's sword.
Her sword flipped out from her shoulder, spun around in the air several times, and stuck directly on the slope. The blade also cut off a small section of her braid on the left side. The ponytail was no longer symmetrical and looked a little funny.
Xi Yu showed a panicked look for the first time, but it didn't last long. Her childlike confidence and ease are unsettling, as if something else is waiting for them later. But Dai Luan breathed a sigh of relief first. She turned around and saw Shan Hai standing upright in front of her, and felt an indescribable emotion.
"Oops... I thought I could beat you into a pile of snakes." Xi Yu seemed to feel regretful.
"You have no strength." Mu Wan glared at her, "I've been through worse ones. Do you want to try?"
Suddenly, a black snake snaked its way around Xi Yu's neck. It raised its front body and looked at them provocatively. But it looked nothing special compared to the group of snakes. But when it opened its mouth, what came out was not a letter, but words.
"Are you talking about some Onmyoji who was supposed to kill you?"
This voice was soft and soft, very similar to She Ji's, but it was not the same. But hearing that annoying tone, it must be him. Maybe the snake is just a stand-in.
"You guys really know everything." Shanhai looked at him, feeling a dull pain in his head.
"That's natural. However, we still know too little. We need that mirror... Did you bring it?"
"Wait a minute, what do you mean should have been killed?" Dai Luan walked up angrily, "Although you did let him kill many important people in Mu Wan, but he has no direct interest in her, so why should she be killed? !”
The snake twisted its head slightly and leaned forward. Dai Luan could almost imagine the annoying look of She Ji approaching with raised eyebrows. He said:
"Well... I did ask Shaoxia Tang to kill her. After all, that idiot Wu Yuangui is still thinking about his old relationship if he can't save everything. But that guy and Master Xianyue probably have other things to deal with, so it was delayed... What a pity. Still. OK, I didn’t pay the deposit.”
Mu Wan suddenly raised the hand holding the umbrella, as cleanly as if he had swung a knife. The snake wrapped around Xi Yu's shoulder was suddenly cut off, along with a section of her right half of hair.
Now it's symmetrical...maybe a little less so.
"Hey, hey, you guys are going too far, you are going too far!"
Xi Yu touched the short hair on both sides distressedly. The ponytail almost turned into horns.
"I've stayed for a long time, how can you keep me company?"
"...But growing hair is troublesome." Mo Liang, who had been silent all this time, whispered.
"I don't care!"
After that, Xi Yu waved his hand, and the snakes at the foot of the hillside suddenly sped up their movements, twisting and crawling along the steep slope like lightning bolts, which were overwhelming, spreading up like a stream flowing upstream. Mo Liang frowned, holding the hilt of the sword with one hand, brushing the sword's body with the other, and paused for a moment on the bone. But he didn't hesitate any more, and instead poured more power into the sword. The blade of the sword emits a bluish-white light, like a phosphorus fire burning slowly on the desolate bones in the dark night, lighting up the faded cold dusk.
"stop."
Chi Li suddenly pulled his hand off the sword and pushed him aside. Facing the swarm of snakes, Chi Li suddenly took out Yun Wai Jing from her arms. The last ray of the setting sun, which was about to be swallowed up by the distant mountains, fell into the mirror, like sparks falling into sawdust, lighting up everything instantly. The dazzling white light reflected out, rolling down the hillside like a torrent that broke a bank. Everyone covered their eyes, and the snakes touched by the light all let out shrill screams that were almost human-like, both men and women, as if countless wandering souls in the barren tomb were struck by some ancient and powerful scripture. Extraordinary.
They are like handfuls of dry straw, they burn quickly and burn out quickly. In an instant, the strange and terrifying snakes all over the slope turned into countless pitch black dust, and were annihilated in the dusk, under the mirror light, and in the continuous screams.
Xi Yu was finally calmed down. She stopped messing around and lost that powerful sense of self-confidence. Although panic did not appear on her face, the silent silence made her vaguely feel that she had lost some kind of bargaining chip.
On the contrary, the wanton shrill laughter sounded in the night, very loud.
"Hahahahahaha, hahahaha, my God, you found it, you really found it!" She Ji's original voice sounded a little hollow, and she didn't know where he was hiding, "As expected of Yun Waijing... Morning What's the point of getting that map? It really takes no effort at all. Thank you for sending it to my door. I really appreciate it - ugh."
The tone of the voice changed, and suddenly there was a hint of lamentation.
"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have kept that girl. I let her go home. She should have been used to threaten you or get rid of her... But it doesn't matter. There are two left."
"You bastard, get out of here!"
Mu Wan yelled at the sky. She knew that She Ji was talking about Xie Hualing. Shan Hai quickly grabbed her and asked her to calm down. Dai Luan and Mo Liang looked at each other, and at the same time looked at Xi Yu, who was a little lost. Noticing their gazes, Xi Yu suddenly turned around and was about to run away. The two looked at each other again and got up to chase him at the same time.
"Wait, A Yu!" Dai Luan shouted as he ran, "Xie Huayao! Where is A Ling's sister? In that big house, or somewhere else? Tell me! How is she?! "
Xi Yu's movements were too fast, and her figure quickly shrank in his field of vision, getting further and further away. Running along the ridge, she slipped into the dense forest. At this time, Mo Liang's speed suddenly surpassed Dai Luan's. He was holding the sword, and his whole body was surrounded by a soft white light. Wrapped in this light, his speed was astonishingly fast, as if the child's legs no longer belonged to him. Dai Luan was stunned for a moment and tried to speed up to catch up with them.
The sound disappeared, and Mu Wan was so angry that he stamped his feet on the spot. Shanhai took a breath and told her:
"Think again about what you just said."
"What are you thinking?!"
"Two people." Shan Hai said seriously, "He said two people."
Mu Wan fell silent, and she calmed down to think. Besides Xie Huayao, the other person is probably her mother. Her mother was still alive, which gave her some comfort. But then she became concerned.
"What if he is lying to us? This guy is so scheming that everything he tells is false."
Shanhai patted her shoulder, comforted her and said:
"If you think about it, they won't gain anything by killing her. If you're still uneasy, we'll go confront him."
Xiao didn't know when she was standing next to Chili. He crossed his arms and said to Mu Wan:
"Don't panic. Your mother and Xie Huayao are indeed alive and well. I can try to take you to see them. But Mo Liang and the others shouldn't chase them. We have to chase them back now."
Chili looked at the direction the children were leaving, then turned back and glanced at the cemetery down the mountain.
