The Taoist priest frowned and said, "Brother Xu Ye... please elaborate."
Xu Ye thanked Qin Yin who took the initiative to help him, walked among the people and began to tell, "After we separated, Ye Bai woke up not long after, and after waking up, he hurriedly prepared to find a way to leave. Wangcheng, after I reminded that we still need to look for other people, Ye Bai started to lead the way, taking me to where he said the others were hiding, but in fact, Ye Bai's eyes were already a little abnormal at that time..."
"What kind of abnormal method?" Lao Luo asked.
Xu Ye raised his eyes and recalled, "On weekdays, Brother Ye Bai is always smiling, gentle and reliable, but at that time...Ye Bai's eyes didn't look like him anymore, as if he was a different person."
Lao Luo nodded, "What happens next?"
"Under his guidance, I crossed a jungle and saw a white building among the trees. Ye Bai told me that they were hiding in that building. When I walked to a pool of water, I suddenly felt a pain in the back of my neck. , fainted, and when I woke up, I was already in the Prison of the Dead."
Xu Ye paused for a moment. Seeing that everyone had no doubts, he continued, "I saw them here. Just as I was wondering, Ye Bai suddenly appeared at the door. Without a word, with a gloomy face, he closed the door. We I have tried my best to open this door, but this prison is absorbing our spiritual energy. People are dying one by one, and only..."
Jasmine responded dully, "You and Qiaoqiao are the only ones left..."
"Qiao Qiao," Xu Ye knelt down on one knee next to Qiao Nian, "Is Qiao Nian okay?"
Lao Luo said, "It's not life-threatening."
After hearing the story, Luo Jiu still shook his head in disbelief, "I don't believe it... How could Brother Ye Bai become like this? What does he want? Ye Bai is definitely not like this..."
"Nine," Xu Ye said softly, "people will change. You have not seen many evil people. From now on... you will understand."
Luo Jiu glanced at Lao Luo.
"Not all of Rao's ideas can be understood by you," Lao Luo said to Luo Jiu, "but this matter is indeed suspicious and requires in-depth investigation."
Luo Jiu nodded heavily, "Just wait until Qiao Nian wakes up. Qiao Nian knows the whole process. Even if something goes wrong with Ye Bai, she can tell us the cause of the matter."
Jasmine and Xu also lifted Qiao Nian's unconscious body. The fool hooked his hands at the two of them, and before they could react, he picked up Qiao Nian and carried her on his back.
"Then do you know the location of the leader here, Wen Buluo?" Maple Sugar asked Xu Ye.
Xu Ye slowly shook his head, "Wenbro... I have never heard of this name."
Lao Luo patted his son's shoulder twice and said, "Let's go to the other side and have a look."
A large group of people rushed to the prison cell opposite. The people locked up here must be members of the guard.
Or maybe, it was Wembrow himself.
The door actually opened a crack, and when I looked in through the crack, it was pitch black inside.
Tick tick tick, there is a faint sound of water dripping.
"squeak--"
Lao Luo opened the door, and a faint light shone into the prison cell at the same time.
This prison cell is different. There seems to be a recess in the center of the room.
The room was empty, not a single soul in sight.
The few people took two more steps inside. Suddenly, Luo Jiu's extremely weak flashlight went out.
"Click! Click!..."
After pulling the button up and down several times, Luo Jiu said depressedly, "The battery is out."
"I, I, I, I still have this," Qin Yin rustled and blindly rummaged through his backpack, "My last inventory, this one will be gone if it runs out of power. This is my protective flashlight, super bright. Look..."
"Click!"
"ah!--"
It's really brilliant.
Lan didn't know whether he should cover his eyes or ears. Qin Yin's scream rang in his ears. For a moment, Lan felt that the whole world was quiet, but it soon became noisy again.
"what is that?!"
"What?" Lan patted his ears and said loudly, "What are you?"
The people around him were already running toward the end of the flashlight light.
"There!" Qin Yin shook the flashlight and trembled, "What is that? Oh my God, I saw a skull..."
The flashlight pointed directly at the sunken ground. It was a pool. The pool was filled with black liquid. In the center of the liquid, a snow-white skull was half exposed in the water.
Lan understood Qin Yin all of a sudden. When he opened his eyes, he saw this thing. The impact was indeed extraordinary.
"This is the uniform of the guard," the Taoist priest pointed to the uniform of the guard that vaguely emerged from the surface of the black water. "Then he should be the one who absorbs the spiritual tide."
Luo Jiu poked his head into the pool, "There are no gems, it's not Wenbro, it seems like it's just an ordinary guard."
"He..." Lan asked, "Is he also reshaping his body?"
As soon as he finished asking, Qin Yin covered her eyes and took Lan aside to avoid him.
"Children should stop looking at these things..."
"I've seen skeletons many times, Sister Yin."
"..."
Is this what a child should say?
"He is indeed reshaping his body," Lao Luo squatted by the pool, "but - he is already dead."
"Dead?!" Luo Jiu's eyes widened.
"died."
Lao Luo held on, stretched out his hand to clasp the front of the skull, and pulled it out with a little force. The skull appeared completely in front of their eyes. Thick black water slid down along the bones. The center of the clavicle on both sides below the skull was impressive. A wooden stick stuck in it.
Luo Jiu's face instantly turned gray.
"This is half a banner..." Luo Jiu said to himself, "This is Brother Ye Bai's banner..."
Xu Ye was shocked. Just as he was thinking of something, he choked on his breath and coughed violently.
Jasmine patted Xu Ye on the back and asked, "What do you mean? Ye Bai also killed the guards?"
Luo Jiusi stared at the half of the flag and remained silent.
While Qin Yin was watching the excitement, Lan quickly ran to the pool and frowned at the skeleton in Lao Luo's hand.
"Can skeletons be stabbed to death by sticks?" Lan asked Xiang Lao Luo.
Lao Luo gave Lan a look of approval but said nothing.
"The flag is a magical weapon, not an ordinary stick," Luo Jiu's voice could almost only be heard by himself, "It is a magical weapon from the fifth watch..."
Ye Bai's betrayal seemed to have a reason.
He wanted power and other spiritual tides, so he led his companions into the Prison of the Dead and killed the guards who were supposed to enjoy these spiritual tides.
Lan had never met Ye Bai, so he didn't have any big feelings. But seeing Luo Jiu's appearance of a collapsed outlook on things, he guessed that this matter really didn't match Ye Bai's character.
Qiao Nian had no intention of waking up, and they returned to the tunnel. Luo Jiu pulled off the flag from the skeleton, held it in his hand and looked at it with a complicated expression.
Still, Wemblow was nowhere to be found.
There is no end to this tunnel. Do we need to knock on every door to determine the location of Wenbro?
Is this idea of solving problems by elimination really correct?
