"Are you really okay?"
"We may have problems," the Taoist priest said, "but no matter what, you can't leave a few of them behind."
"...Are you worried that you are trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain?" Xia Hua's voice was serious.
"It's possible," the Taoist priest said, "Jiutian and I will take care of things here, and Muyuan will also..."
"It'll be ready soon," Li Muyuan said, shaking the orange liquid in the test tube, "Ten minutes."
"Okay," the Taoist priest said, "Master Xiahua, you must also pay attention to safety."
"You really don't need me to take action? I can send a snake detective to help you."
"That's it, if..."
The Taoist priest's voice stopped abruptly.
At the same time, the movements of three people came to an abrupt halt.
The same seriousness slowly appeared on the faces of the three people.
"What if?" Xia Hua on the other end of the phone also noticed something was wrong, "Taoist Priest? Jiutian? What happened?"
"He's here," the Taoist Master said quickly in a breathy voice, "Master Xiahua, I'm going to die first."
The phone was hung up and silence returned.
There was only the faint sound of electricity and the hissing of reagents undergoing chemical reactions in the test tubes.
In this silence, a voice emerged that did not belong here.
Rustling... rustling...
There was a sound of familiar footsteps in the corridor outside the door.
Luo Jiutian recognized it almost immediately.
"I've heard this sound before," Luo Jiutian said, "This is the sound of footsteps we heard when we were on the road..."
The Taoist priest nodded, "This footsteps is very distinctive."
Slow, long, as if it has its own echo...
"What should we do?" Luo Jiutian had no idea and looked at the Taoist Priest.
The Taoist priest turned back to look at Li Muyuan.
Li Muyuan understood what they wanted to ask. He stretched out five fingers and said in a low voice, "There are still five minutes."
"We have to hold on here for at least five minutes," the Taoist priest said. "When Muyuan prepares the medicine, we will escape through the window."
Luo Jiutian said "Yes" resolutely. The tacit understanding between them was self-evident. The two of them ran to the table beside them almost at the same time, picked up the iron table and moved it towards the door.
The heavy iron door is firmly stuck on the door. As long as the thing outside is not some strange beast, it will take at least a few minutes to open the door.
As soon as the table was moved, the handle on the door clicked a few times. The Taoist priest and Luo Jiutian stepped back cautiously, staring at the door intently.
After ringing twice, the handle stopped.
The footsteps outside the door also stopped.
Outside the door, it is completely unknown.
Inside the door, they were trembling with fear.
The silence outside the door lasted for a long time, but they all knew that the thing had not left.
Luo Jiutian swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Suddenly, a black shadow appeared outside the small window on the door. The small window was made of frosted glass. The three of them couldn't see clearly what the thing looked like. They could only make out that it was a black thing.
At the same time, rustling sounds spread under the door.
The Taoist priest looked down and was shocked.
"Jiutian, step back!" The Taoist leader pulled Luo Jiutian behind him and pointed his other hand at the bottom of the door, "Look!"
There was only a thin invisible gap under the snow-white metal door, and countless black hairs squeezed in through the gap. The black hair was like thick black ink, instantly covering the space under the iron table.
"What is this?!" Luo Jiutian jumped away, "It's all hair!"
"Muyuan, how much longer!" The Taoist shouted as he rushed to the window.
"One minute, just a little more than a minute will be enough!..." Li Muyuan stared at the test tube in front of him and said.
"good!"
The Taoist priest rushed to the window, grabbed the window handle, and pushed down hard.
The window handle didn't move at all.
"what happened……"
"Taoist Priest, what's wrong? Is the window broken?" Luo Jiutian also ran over and grabbed another window, "Look at this...it's strange, it can't be opened at all...Ah! Taoist Priest, be careful!"
With Luo Jiutian's shout, the black ink was like a huge black net, covering the window in front of the two of them. The black hair crackled against the glass, making an almost metallic sound. The sound of touching.
"Okay, the medicine is ready!" Li Muyuan held the jar in his hand and ran to the two of them. He raised his head and saw the scene outside the window. He was so shocked that he almost dropped the bottle in his hand, "What is this?!"
"It should be something we encountered on the way here," the Taoist leader led the two of them back to the center of the room, "I'm afraid this is its true appearance."
"That black dumpling?" Luo Jiutian said in disbelief, "So... that's actually a ball of hair?"
Black hair was still spreading into the laboratory, and the three of them were forced to stand on the table.
"Because we don't know what this thing is, it's best not to touch these hairs easily," the Taoist priest said. "We can only guess what this thing is afraid of."
The Taoist priest pinched a talisman with his backhand, and the talisman suddenly turned into a ball of orange flames, burning on his fingertips. The Taoist priest threw out the ball of fire, and the tongue of fire instantly rolled into the black hair on the ground. .
The black hair suddenly burst into flames.
However, those hair strands did not show any intention of shrinking, but instead accelerated their speed of climbing on the ground. Some hair strands had already discovered their presence and entangled themselves along the corners of the table.
The black smoke from the burning black hair enveloped the entire room, and all three of them choked and coughed.
"Taoist Master, no... cough cough cough... no..." Luo Jiutian covered his mouth and nose with one hand and called out Panlongchi with the other hand, "We have to put out the fire... put out the fire... otherwise we will First...choked to death first..."
"Jiutian, you can't use your water dragon! Cough cough cough..." Li Muyuan grabbed Luo Jiutian's arm and shouted, "Your Qianyuan Dragon is born by absorbing all the liquid around it. Almost all the liquid in this room is They are chemical agents. If they are mixed together, they will produce toxic gases, and we will die faster!..."
"What should we do?" Luo Jiutian squatted down with Panlongchi between his arms, looking extremely embarrassed, "Taoist Priest, don't you have a water talisman? Use it quickly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the Taoist priest's water talisman shot out. The water talisman hit the spot where the fire was the most intense. A crystal blue water ball smashed into the fire. The water and fire collided, and blazing white smoke arose. Finally, before the three people were smoked to death, the white smoke drove away the black smoke and rescued the three dying people.
But... it was rescued, but not completely rescued.
For those hair strands, the fire just now seemed to be just a small episode. Soon, they continued their footsteps and entangled the three of them.
(End of chapter)
