(11)
When I first woke up, my eyes were dry and astringent, and everything I saw was cloudy and unclear.
Just relying on intuition, Li Ke came to Qingyue Hall in a hurry. There was no one in the courtyard, and the waterside was not as relaxed and lively as it was yesterday.
The central door of the medical center opened wide, and everyone gathered here.
All the white curtains used for blocking were removed, leaving only a low table and a tea set in the back room - the exquisite doll-like woman was sitting there calmly drinking tea.
The bright morning light shines on the side and behind, and the background is so bright that people have to look at her.
Tianxuanzi used puppet-like movements to repeat the movements of drinking tea in a very regular and traceable manner. The disciples stood neatly on both sides, everyone was silent, and their expressions were more serious than ever before.
Li Keyong did not dare to go in to pay his respects immediately. He knelt down outside the door and begged to see him, saying, "Disciple Li Keyong, come here to apologize!"
"What are you doing kneeling there? Come in..." After saying that, Tianxuanzi took a sip of the tea cup, put it back in the same position, and continued: "Are you still trying to delay time and make excuses for yourself? Hurry up. Tell me everything you saw and heard last night!"
"Yes!" Li Keyong stooped to the door and walked a few steps, then knelt down and said, "I stayed here until dawn last night and never left my post without permission. I really don't know why the witch disappeared out of thin air."
Tianxuanzi asked: "Is this really true?"
"Not a single lie!"
Before he finished speaking, two disciples on both sides came out and knelt down together with Li Keyong, pleading: "We are willing to guarantee with our lives that what senior brother just said was not a lie!"
Tianxuanzi repeated the actions of drinking tea just now, with a calm demeanor that remained unchanged at all, and said: "You all stand up first and explain in detail who was here last night."
Li Keyong: "Only one disciple who brought tea came."
"Disciples who deliver tea?" Tianxuanzi asked everyone, "Did you send tea here last night?"
No one answered.
Li Keyong lowered his head and waited for instructions. Unexpectedly, Tian Xuanzi crushed the tea cup in his hand and threw it on the table: "Such a small trick!"
"Uncle Master, calm down!" Li Keyong trembled all over after hearing this and lowered his head.
"Li Keyong, come with me." Tian Xuanzi bandaged the wound on his hand a little, then took the other person to the cubicle, turned the mechanism behind the bookshelf, and a depression appeared on the ground, and then slowly exposed a section downwards The spiral staircase is illuminated by candlelight along the way.
The short doll's steps were also very small. Li Keyong had to be careful when following behind, especially in such a small space - he could touch the walls on both sides with a little stretch of his hand, so as not to accidentally touch it. As for my respected uncle, he usually waits for the other person to walk down a certain distance before slowly catching up.
"Actually, I'm afraid."
Li Keyong was still feeling horrified. The scene of the other party crushing the teacup with his bare hands just now was still vivid in his mind. Even a rough guy like him would find it difficult to do such a thing.
The distance to the left and right of the stairs gradually widened, and they were almost at the end.
There is something else going on underneath the Qingyue Hall.
The most conspicuous among them are the various "boxes" neatly stacked in rows and columns. All along the way here are transparent boxes.
"Brown, medicinal wine?" Li Keyong muttered accidentally, and Tian Xuanzi immediately responded: "This is the liver of a living person."
"Uh!" Li Keyong suddenly felt a little nauseous. He took a few steps back and looked around, sighing: "Are these things all from living people..."
Tianxuanzi didn't want to say more, so she asked Li Keyong to rush to her side and said, "This has nothing to do with you. Come and see if this woman is the Taoist priest who came to deliver tea last night?"
Li Keyong saw a row of cells in front, and there was probably an interrogation room in front of it, because there was a strong smell of blood coming from there.
"Who is this girl?" Li Keyong saw that she was not wearing Taoist clothing and was not impressed at all.
"You guys, please kill me, I won't say anything!" the woman in the cage yelled.
Tianxuanzi squatted in front of the woman and gently comforted her: "From the time I found out that she had no signs of 'fetal movement' until now, she has only said this sentence."
"Is she the one who came to deliver tea last night?" Li Keyong looked at the person inside. She was twice smaller than Murong Yan and much more capable. She obviously had experience in martial arts. He suddenly realized: "Isn't she the one who left?" Li Keyong dragged his tall body and knelt in front of the little doll again, begging for mercy.
"Uncle Tianxuan, I was really just negligent! Give me one day, I will be able to find out the whereabouts of the witch from this woman, and bring the witch back within three days. If I break my promise, I will do whatever I want! Please, You must never report this matter to the Heavenly Master..."
Tianxuanzi tilted his head expressionlessly and said grimly: "So, are you willing to give up your heart, liver, spleen and stomach?"
"What?" He was stunned.
Tianxuanzi stood up and touched Li Keyong's head, as if he were soothing a pet dog: "This woman is still of some use to me, you don't have to torture her. As for the whereabouts of the witch, you don't have to worry, she is definitely still there now." In Jinyang, the premise is that I must tell the truth to the Heavenly Master immediately."
"Uncle Tianxuan." Li Keyong shed tears of despair.
"Li Keyong, do you still remember why you joined Taiping Dao?" Tianxuanzi suddenly said: "Everyone comes to Taiping Dao for different reasons. I can tell you that I came here just for those 'boxes' outside. At this point, I need more 'boxes' to know how to save more patients and how to refine the elixir of 'immortality'."
"What about you?" She squatted in front of Li Keyong and wiped his tears, "Look at me."
"Um."
"Did you let her go on purpose?" There was a smile on the little doll's lips. She was obviously very curious about this matter: "Your eyes tell me that you care about her very much. Do you still remember that you followed Taoist Tianji?" How long have you been thinking about killing the witch?"
"Kill, witch..."
Li Keyong recalled the memory of sneaking into the Holy Land and fighting Bai Feng under the sacred tree, where his master died.
Tianxuanzi repeated the question just now: "Did you let her go on purpose?"
"No...I, maybe..."
"Ha." Tianxuanzi stood up and said, "As long as you remember why you came to Taiping Road, Tianshi will not blame you."
Today is the last day of the competition. As usual, the grand ceremony to exorcise evil spirits and send off gods will be performed again. Various strange people wearing masks of gods and ghosts, neat and solemn drum music, and the majesty of the emperor's arrival are all things that ordinary people rarely encounter in their lives. Of course, the most special thing is the two warriors who fight in the final battle.
"The blind swordsman Yu Hengzi versus the broken-arm swordsman Fu Wentao, the competition begins!"
