As night fell, the palace was brightly lit, and the palace maid held a tray in her hands and walked hurriedly through the palace.
The hall was bustling with people, both familiar and unfamiliar, smiling warmly and exchanging pleasantries.
Anchang Hou and his sons stood neatly in the main hall.
When something happened at the hot spring village, Aunt Liu did not show up.
Of course, even if nothing happened at the hot spring village, Aunt Liu's status would not be suitable for her to appear at a saint's banquet.
She could only stay in the other courtyard of Anchanghou Mansion.
Yao Yao also squatted on the roof obediently, uncovered two gray tiles, held the midnight snack specially prepared for her by Leng Linjiang in her hand, and stared at the people in the room under the warm yellow light.
Doubts gradually arose in my heart.
Aunt Liu had been lying there since she had used Mu Shi, without even turning over, as if she was dead.
Yao Yao wiped the grease off his hands, quietly put the two pieces of gray tiles back into place, and then jumped into the yard lightly.
She opened the door and ducked into the house without making any noise.
Aunt Liu lay quietly on the bed, motionless and breathing steadily.
Everything looks normal.
But the weird feeling became more and more intense.
Yao Yao walked over gently and saw that Aunt Liu showed no signs of waking up. She stretched out two fingers and gently placed them on Aunt Liu's wrist and took a pulse.
Aunt Liu's pulse was stronger and more stable than when she just came back from the hot spring village.
How strange!
Yao Yao slowly sat down and stared at Aunt Liu's pale face.
She was secretly amazed.
The complexion is obviously the color of excessive blood loss, which can be seen from the pulse
Look, Aunt Liu’s energy and blood are abundant.
Her medical skills were not outstanding, and she could only detect some abnormalities. As for what was wrong and what the reason was, she did not have the ability to delve into it.
She subconsciously rubbed her toes and suddenly felt a strange sticky feeling on the soles of her shoes.
She lowered her head and saw that the blood on the soles of her shoes should have dried up in the hot spring village, but now they were still sticky. After standing in one place for a long time, there were actually little blood stains left on them. On blue bricks.
A few black ants crawled along the gaps between the blue bricks and onto the mottled blood, spinning around on top, as if they were licking something.
Yao Yao's eyes widened immediately. He had never heard that ants like to lick blood.
Has this ant mutated?
Vampire ants!
She endured her nausea, dipped her fingertips into some sticky blood, put it into her mouth and tasted it, and her expression suddenly changed.
Not disgusted, but frightened.
She never knew that blood could taste sweet and greasy.
Her heart skipped a beat, she stood up, flew across the yard, and ran out.
In Yuhua Mountain late at night, the silhouettes of the mountains are dark and undulating, like ghosts.
The insects chirping in the grass nest are low-pitched, high and low, sometimes distant and sometimes close, which makes people's hair stand on end.
"It's just a puddle of water, does it need so many people to stare at it?" A voice came from the high treetops.
"Isn't that right? It's still freezing to death by the water in the middle of the night." The pile of weeds under the tree moved, and a sneer came out.
"Sneeze, sneeze! sneeze!" A dark figure lying by the water sneezed several times in succession.
, making no secret of his complaints: "If I get frostbite, I must go to the commander to ask for medicine."
A gust of wind passed over the water, and a rustling sound came from the other side of the pool.
"I've been watching for most of the night, not to mention any human figures, not even a ghost." The voice from the other side of the pool was drifting, like a weak wind.
"If you see a ghost, you won't be so frightened that you will fall into the water and drown!" The voice in the tree sneered.
As the night got darker, the four people hiding in the dark gradually relaxed their minds.
The originally calm surface of the deep pool of clear water suddenly had a slight ripple, and the ripples rippled and expanded silently.
Blood-red bubbles bubbled in the depths of the pool, rolling to the surface in waves.
The blood-red color was mixed in the green pond water, quietly dyeing the entire pond red.
At the same time, the same strange phenomenon occurred in many pools in Yuhua Mountain.
The people watching around did not notice that the pond water was silently dyed red.
During the day, something shocking happened in the hot spring village of Anninghou Mansion, attracting many probing eyes.
After the spectators dispersed, everyone in the hot spring village was brought into the Internal Health Department, and the village suddenly became empty and silent.
There were no people or things worthy of attention in Zhuangzi, so the Department of Internal Security did not deliberately arrange for personnel to keep an eye on them.
Yao Yao flew across the night sky quickly and landed in the empty village.
Her goal was very clear and she went straight to the hot spring pool in the backyard.
She was like the wind, blowing silently from the front yard to the back yard.
Before she got close to the hot spring pool, she saw the vast red light leaking from the crack in the door.
These red lights are like deep clouds,
It was rolling behind the door, and wisps of it spilled out from the cracks in the door.
The whole village was quiet, and in the starless and moonless night, these wisps of red light looked strange and dazzling.
Looking at it makes one feel cold all over.
Yao Yao was extremely vigilant, leaning against the door, holding his breath and listening to the movement in the hot spring pool.
There was a very regular "gurgling" sound coming from behind the door, like a pot of boiling water being placed behind the door.
Yao Yao frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and finally made up his mind and opened the door.
The situation behind the door was still the same as when the Internal Security Department came to search.
But behind the empty door, the floor was filled with sticky, bright red blood, and the blood water was filled with the corpses of densely packed black ants.
Seeing this scene, Yao Yao shuddered and got goosebumps all over his body.
She walked around the screen and was surprised to find that the water in the hot spring pool had disappeared. She didn't know where it had flowed, and there were only some scattered water stains hanging on the wall of the pool.
This is a hot spring pool. As long as the underground spring does not dry up, the water in this pool is inexhaustible.
But now, Yao Yao raised his head and looked at the spring, which seemed to be blocked by something. Strangely, there was no water at all.
"Dingling, dinging, dinging..."
A clear ringtone suddenly came from the silent window. Yao Yao was suddenly startled and listened.
I saw the Xuan window was wide open, and a copper bell hung down from the window lattice, swaying in the breeze and making a crisp sound.
Four lifelike beasts are engraved on the copper bell.
In the dark night, the copper bell exudes a faint purple-gold light.
Yao Yao looked intently and saw that those purple-gold glimmers were those of the four strange beasts.
The eyes radiate.
With the sound of copper bells, the atmosphere in the room became weird, and there was a sweet smell in the air.
Yao Yao narrowed her eyes and her expression became particularly ugly. It was obvious that things had reached this stage and were no longer something she could handle.
She slowly stepped back and went out with a solemn expression, carefully cleaning away the traces of her presence and returning the door to its original ajar appearance.
Then he ran quickly towards the palace.
Shortly after Yao Yao left, there was a sudden "squeaking" sound in the hot spring pool.
Two pieces of white marble at the bottom of the pool fell heavily, revealing a dark abyss.
Two people jumped out of the hole.
One of the women walked under the window, fiddled with the tinkling copper bell, looked at the direction Yao Yao left, and let out a rough and unpleasant sneer: "Go and report to the young master, the fish has bitten the hook, you can close the net."
The man next to him claimed that he was tapping a piece of white marble on the wall of the pool. The two pieces of white marble at the bottom of the pool were lifted up and fit together perfectly. There was no abnormality visible from the outside.
After the man left, the woman took out a bright red long-necked porcelain bottle from her sleeve and poured countless scarlet pills into the dry pool.
There was a crisp sound of "crackling", and the bottom of the dry pool was covered with a layer of scarlet.
The woman seemed to slap the wall of the pool casually, and a stream of hot spring water spurted out from the spring above the hot spring pool, flowing into the pool with a "swishing" sound.
The clear hot spring water melted the scarlet pills, and instantly dyed them the same color as blood. The spring water also became viscous.
The pool was almost motionless.
The woman nodded with satisfaction, her strangely old face on the upper half and young on the lower half showed a contented look.
The main hall where the banquet was given was full of people. Han Changmu did not sit down, but stood solemnly and vigilantly, with a clear view of the situation in the hall.
"Sir, Yao Canjun is back. He said he has something urgent to report." He Zhenfu hurriedly walked to Han Changmu's side, his low voice mixed with anxiety.
Han Changmu raised his eyebrows suddenly: "Where is she? What did she say?"
"It's just outside." He Zhenfu glanced at the messy hall. The saint was coming soon. At this time, Han Changmu couldn't leave no matter what, but Yao Yaocang looked panicked just now, as if he was being chased by a ghost. She, he had never seen her lose her composure before, so he couldn't help but urged anxiously: "Yao Canjun didn't say anything happened, he just said it was urgent."
Han Changmu's heart moved. Yao Yao had never been so out of breath before. It seemed that the situation was indeed urgent.
He walked quickly outside.
"Sir," He Zhenfu hesitated: "Sir, saint..."
"It doesn't matter," Han Changmu interrupted He Zhenfu: "Leng Shaoyin is here, I'll go and come back."
As soon as he left the hall, Han Changmu saw Yao Yao standing in the darkness, with a look of anxiety and fear on his face. He hurried over and asked in a low voice: "What happened? Is there any movement from Aunt Liu?"
Yao Yao saluted: "To tell you my lord, it's not that Aunt Liu made any noise, it's because of her humble position that she discovered something was wrong with the hot spring village in the Marquis Anning Mansion."
Han Changmu said softly "Oh" and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why?"
What a? "
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