Seeing this, Shen Luo also raised his glass: "Thank you, senior brother." After saying that, he drank heavily in front of him.
"Okay, okay." Senior Brother Liu raised his head as he spoke and took a swig.
In this way, everyone began to drink and eat meat together, laughing and chatting from time to time. The scene was extremely cheerful.
Because everyone was familiar with each other after this gathering, and in the days that followed, they would get together to drink and eat meat from time to time.
Until one day.
"Something bad has happened. Hong Tao seems to have disappeared. I just went to the cave to look for him and found no one answered."
"So I asked Senior Brother Qin to break down the door and found that the cave had not been popular for a long time." Qi Li came to Senior Brother Liu's cave with a panicked expression and said to Shen Luo and Senior Brother Liu inside.
"What, no way!" Shen Luo said unexpectedly.
"Junior Brother Qi, don't panic. Think first. Did Junior Brother Hong leave a message for you before he disappeared?" Senior Brother Liu said calmly.
Qi Li held his chin in his hand, thought for a while and said, "Leave a message? It seems not."
"Is it possible that senior brother had something important to do and left in a hurry without telling us."
"Impossible. I know Hong Tao best. If something happens to him, there's no way he won't tell me. I think he might have had an accident, so he didn't show up at this gathering." Qi Li looked worried. road.
Qin An frowned when he heard this, glanced at everyone, and asked: "Did you ever hear him say anything strange at the last party?"
Everyone shook their heads.
"Do you think it's possible that something went wrong when he was inspecting the magic cave?" Qi Li thought about it.
As soon as he said this, everyone looked at him and felt that what he said made sense. After all, they had only been to his cave and not the cave he patrolled.
…
After a while, everyone came to the cave that Hong Tao had visited before. As soon as they arrived here, they separated and started searching.
Shen Luo didn't just stare at the spot, but started to search with everyone. Just when he had searched a cave and found nothing, he heard Senior Brother Qi from behind shouting: "I found him. it's here."
Hearing this, he rushed over immediately, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh.
A few feet away from the entrance of the cave, I saw a person sitting cross-legged motionless. This person was none other than the missing senior brother Hong Tao.
Shen Luo looked at Senior Brother Hong in front of him. His face was pale and bloodless, and his body was covered with dense purple-red spots.
The spots were exactly what the corpse spots showed, indicating that Senior Brother Hong had been dead for some time.
"You see, there are cracks in the demon-controlling ring on Hong Taoist's wrist. It must be that when he was inspecting the demon cave, the bracelet became abnormal and caused the demonic energy to enter the body, causing him to go crazy and die." Brother Liu looked at the jade ring in Hong Tao's hand. He shook his head and said.
"Then do we need to report it to the sect?" Qin An asked uncertainly.
"Sigh, it's useless to report it. It's just that a disciple in the Qi Refining Stage died. In fact, there was a disciple before Junior Brother Hong who also disappeared suddenly, and his body has not been found yet." Senior Brother Liu sighed.
"Didn't anyone come to look for her when she disappeared last time?" Shen Luo was surprised when he heard this.
"How is it possible to find this? The demonic energy in this cave is much stronger than where we are now. Even the demon-control ring cannot resist it." Senior Brother Liu explained.
After everyone heard what Senior Brother Liu said about the causes and consequences, they all felt sorry for Hong Tao.
"As Senior Brother Hong's best friend during his lifetime, I cannot leave him here. I want to take his body up and let him rest in peace." Senior Brother Qi said with a sad face.
With this bad news, everyone was no longer in the party mood and dispersed in twos and threes.
After returning to the cave, Shen Luo sat on the bed, looking at the demon ring in his hand. He was very surprised. Ever since he returned to the cave, he has been thinking about what Senior Brother Liu just said in his mind. He felt that this matter was too strange. .
It's a bit incredible that a perfectly intact magic weapon can be cracked and broken.
If it is because the demonic energy is too strong, then it can be said that the power of the demon control ring cannot block it.
But they were just looking outside the cave and didn't go deep inside. Logically speaking, there should be no problem.
"Could it be..." He thought for a moment and thought of something.
Qi Li, who had left the crypt before, buried Senior Brother Hong's body well and left, while Senior Brother Liu quietly walked out of here without anyone noticing.
After he walked out of the cave, he walked in one direction for a while.
He stopped at a place and looked around.
"Whoosh!" With a sound, a black afterimage appeared in front of him. Senior Brother Liu looked overjoyed when he saw the black afterimage and walked up.
"Fellow Tao Dao, I have already done this for you. I wonder if the reward you mentioned can be given to me now." Senior Brother Liu said.
After hearing what Senior Brother Liu said, the man threw a cloth bag to him.
Senior Brother Liu took the cloth bag in his hand and opened it expectantly. After taking a look at it, his face turned dark instantly: "Fellow Tao Tao, what do you mean? I took the risk to help you do this, so you can Do you want to give me such a small reward?"
"Huh? I've given you enough, why aren't you satisfied?"
"It's not just dissatisfaction, it's normal dissatisfaction. I helped you kill that man and avenged a bloody vengeance for you. Is this how you repay me?" Senior Brother Liu looked angry and shouted sternly.
"Haha, if it weren't for my status that prevents me from taking action directly, do you think I need a waste like you?"
"you!"
"I'm really bullying you too much. It seems that if I don't teach you a lesson, you don't know how powerful I am!" Senior Brother Liu shouted violently, quickly changed the magic formula in his hand, and unleashed a magical power.
"Hmph, you are not overestimating your own abilities!"
The man flicked his sleeves and faced Brother Liu's magical power. A faint electric light flashed on his fingers, and a seemingly slender electric wire shot out from his fingertips.
And at the next moment, with a thunderbolt, the magical power exerted by Senior Brother Liu was defeated, and a blow fell on Senior Brother Liu.
Senior Brother Liu was hit by this arc of electricity, and he flew backwards and fell heavily to the ground. After that, he said "Wow." and vomited a large mouthful of blood from his mouth.
Senior Brother Liu, who was seriously injured by a blow, looked at the man in shock, his eyes full of horror, and he quickly begged for mercy: "Misunderstanding, this is all a misunderstanding, fellow Taoist, please don't get angry, I was just joking."
"Oh? Are you kidding me?" the man said with a half-smile.
Seeing that the other party was laughing and having fun, Senior Brother Liu immediately said: "Of course it is, fellow Taoist, please don't do anything. It's all a misunderstanding."
