Mr. Gu said: "Don't worry, sir, this floor is the safest place in the entire prison. Even if there is chaos outside, nothing will happen here."
"Because there is an evil demon here that needs me and Ma Biao to suppress it. If there is chaos here, the entire Xingu City will be over."
I became interested as soon as I heard this: "Tell me, what's going on?"
Mr. Gu eloquently said: "Back then, Ma Biao and I were indeed attracted to Xingu City by a ray of cloud."
According to legend, when a heavy treasure is born, there must be a vision, and the siege of the city by cloud lines is also one of the visions of the treasure. As a member of the thieves, I naturally would not miss this opportunity. I led my men to Xingu City to find out what was going on.
At that time, people in the Jianghu near Xinggu City also took notice, and no less than two hundred masters from all walks of life quietly entered the city.
After we sneaked into Xingu City, we found that we had fallen into a trap. On the third day I arrived in Xingu City, the crows began to occupy the city.
At that time, the crows that flew into the city did not take over the entire Xingu City as rumored, but chose the places where we, the Jianghu people, were hiding.
In just three days, more than twenty people in the Jianghu died. We knew there was something fishy about this matter, but we could only dispose of the bodies quietly.
When I heard this, I interrupted Mr. Gu: "How did those Jianghu people die?"
"They died with the crows." Ma Biao added: "I still remember that there were a lot of crows in the yard where I and a few brothers were hiding. I counted them carefully and found that those crows were just right for us. Number of people.”
"I specifically told my brothers not to touch those things. There might be something fishy in them."
"We don't touch those old birds, they come to touch me! That morning, I saw an old bird falling from the eaves, landing in the yard and flopping. One of my brothers also fell to the ground and struggled for his life. They looked exactly like the old birds. After a while, both the birds and the birds were exhausted."
Mr. Gu also said: "Ma Biao is right. At that time, every crow seemed to correspond to a charlatan. As long as the crow dies, the charlatan will die with him."
"The worst thing is that we still don't know which crow corresponds to us. Even if I want to protect the crow and rush out of the city to find another way, I don't dare to do it easily."
"Before we could figure out a way, Xingu City started arresting Jianghu people all over the city. In terms of skills and weapons, those people in Xingu City are no match for us."
"On the day of the arrest in Xingu City, all the crows flew into the prison. We had no choice but to follow him in. As a result, once we entered, we could not get out."
I was about to ask what happened when Mr. Gu stood up and said, "Master Ye, come with me and have a look! Once you see it, you will understand."
I followed Mr. Gu to the depths of the cell, but there were only four strong men guarding a noose rack. There was not even a cell nearby. At first glance, it looked like an empty hall, with no appearance of a cell. ?
Mr. Gu walked over and nodded to the guards. Then they leaned down and pushed the wooden frame. The sound of the machine turning was instantly heard on the wall of the hall.
Judging from the direction of the sound, this hall is full of mechanisms. The noose that the men were pushing was also something that was put on later. It happened to be stuck on a node of a certain mechanism, replacing the original position of the mechanism and becoming something similar to a key.
Not long after, the wall in front of me slowly opened like a door. I used the firelight from the door to see the scene clearly, and I couldn't help but be stunned for a while.
There was a bronze tree several meters high standing in the secret door of the cell. On hundreds of branches as sharp as swords, there was either a pierced crow or a blackened corpse hanging. .
Mr. Gu specially reminded: "Sir, look carefully at the corpse. There is something special about it."
After I saw the body clearly, I took another breath. The heads of those corpses were wide at the back and narrow at the front, with their mouths protruding outward. At first glance, they looked like enlarged bird heads. The soles of the feet hanging in the air have been shrunk into a ball, but the toes have been extended a few inches, looking like a pair of curled-up bird claws.
I looked at Master Gu in shock: "What's going on?"
Mr. Gu sighed and said: "On the day we were imprisoned, we had already communicated with each other using secret codes, and we were ready to break out of prison together at the right time."
"Unexpectedly, the crows that originally landed in the prison yard actually flew into the prison in a swarm. When Ma Biao and I saw something bad, we asked our men to block the jailer, and the two of us chased them all the way down."
"I watched helplessly as the crow hit the bronze tree like crazy, and then it was penetrated by the branch and hung on the tree."
"Ma Biao and I are both people who have learned secret arts. From the moment the crow hit the tree, we knew that we were here."
"At that time, I clearly felt like something had been stabbed in my heart, and it seemed like half of the energy and blood in my body had been lost in that moment."
"After the two of us knew we had been fooled, we immediately returned to the yard where we were exposed, but we were still a step too late. All the jailers outside were dead, including the warden."
"Our people said that the jailers didn't need to be beaten at all, and they died after being punched or kicked. The jailers who were holding guns couldn't even fire the guns, so they just held the guns and watched them rush towards them. Cut yourself to death.”
"I was so angry at the time. This was obviously a trap. What could we do if we took down the inside of the prison? There were people guarding the outside with guns. We could get out with just the dozen guns we grabbed. What?"
"Besides, those crows are all nailed to the trees. Even if we are allowed to escape, we don't dare to risk our lives to test whether we can escape from this prison?"
"In the end, it was Ma Biao who came up with the idea to pretend that we had killed all these jailers and use the prison to negotiate terms with people outside, saving his own life first."
"Later, the terms between us were negotiated, and the compound was used as the boundary. We listened to the prison for everything in the compound. When we returned to the cell, we took care of the things inside ourselves. We promised not to escape from the prison, and they could not Cut off our food. If prisoners come in from now on, the outsiders will take half of any benefits, and we will settle down like this."
"It didn't take long before we discovered that the ancient bronze tree would eat one of us every once in a while."
"Over the years, we have been thinking of ways to fight against the ancient bronze tree. However, no matter what we think of, we can't stop the ancient tree from killing people. We can only slowly waste it here. This time has lasted for more than ten years. !”
