Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan rushed out first when they heard the sound, and the scene they saw in front of them made them gasp.
In the open space outside the temple gate, there were more than a dozen corpses lying on the ground, all of them were soldiers of King Jingbei. They seemed to have been drained of flesh and blood, and lay withered on the ground, looking very scary.
"Who...who did this? So heartless..." Nangong Yue, who ran out later, saw this scene and shouted in surprise.
Su Qiqi looked back at Nangong Yue and said in a low voice: "It's probably people from the Ye You League who are coming. We have to be careful..." Nangong Yue nodded blankly and looked around.
Qin Chuan walked over and patted his shoulder, leaned close to his ear and said, "Brother Yue, let's go back to the temple first..." After that, he pulled Nangong Yue and Su Qiqi back to the temple.
As soon as the three of them walked to the entrance of the temple, they met King Jingbei, Nangong Yu, Commander Liao, the Xiao brothers and others. Everyone looked worried.
"Right now, the enemy is in the dark and we are in the open. The situation is very unfavorable to us..." Commander Liao looked at the scene outside the temple gate, sighed with a heavy face, and said quietly.
"Yes, hiding in the temple is not a long-term solution. We have to find a way to escape quickly..." Xiao Kai rubbed his injured arm and agreed in a low voice.
King Jingbei still frowned deeply and remained silent. Xiao Jie looked at him several times and wanted to say something but stopped.
Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan stood inside the door and observed for a while. Seeing that there was nothing strange outside the door, they looked at each other, then walked towards the body in the open space outside the temple door again, and examined it carefully.
Nangong Yu was worried about the safety of the two of them, so he came over with Nangong Yue and the Xiao brothers, and stood beside the two of them, watching what was going on around them.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?" Nangong Yu looked at Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan who were still busy and asked in a low voice.
Su Qiqi heard the sound, turned around and smiled bitterly at her second brother, shook her head and said: "The exact cause of death of these people has not yet been found... There are no obvious wounds on their body surfaces... It doesn't look like poisoning... It's a bit like By evil spells..." Qin Chuan also put down what he was doing and added: "Yes, it is a kind of evil spell that we have never seen before... In other words, these people seem to have been sucked dry of flesh and blood out of thin air..."
"Oh..." Nangong Yu sighed heavily again, staring at the messy corpse on the ground in a daze.
How did that happen? Is it possible that people from the Yeyou League are capable of sorcery? Nangongyue thought about it, and casually pushed aside a corpse. After taking a closer look, he screamed: "Brother, little sister, look at-"
Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan heard the sound and walked over quickly. They looked in the direction of Nangong Yue's finger and saw that the corpse next to his feet had undergone strange changes. At this moment, the corpse's abdomen and limbs were bulging, and The bulging area would move quickly, and then the skin would suddenly split, and several ugly-looking bugs would emerge.
Su Qiqi screamed in a low voice and jumped a few steps away, then cautiously moved a few steps forward, leaning forward slightly to look down at the ugly bugs.
Qin Chuan broke a branch from the roadside and gently fiddled with the weird insects crawling on the corpse.
"What, what is this? They can turn a living person into this..." Nangong Yue frowned at the bugs and murmured in disbelief.
"Brother Yue, you are only half right. Someone should have specially cultivated this kind of blood-sucking insect to harm people..." Qin Chuan picked up an insect from a branch and put it on the ground next to him to observe it carefully.
The insect lay motionless on the ground at first, and after a while it suddenly started crawling like a convulsion...
Seeing that the insect was about to crawl to Su Qiqi's feet, Qin Chuan suddenly poked the insect with a branch and cut it off.
Qin Chuan originally thought that the insect was killed by him, but as soon as he removed the branch, the insect's stumps automatically came together and came back to life.
Seeing this scene, Qin Chuan and others were shocked. I didn't expect this insect to be so tenacious. It seems that we have to find other ways to get rid of these bugs.
Everyone discussed for a while and decided to use fire. Xiao Kai volunteered to fetch firewood and a handful of firewood. Nangongyue stepped forward to help him light firewood together, then used branches to pick up the insects on the corpse one by one and threw them into the fire.
As a stench hit his face, there was a crackling sound in the fire. Everyone's hearts were raised again. Can't fire kill these bugs?
Su Qiqi looked at the fire curiously, and she almost fainted when she saw it. The bugs were burned black and black, but they didn't seem to be completely extinct. Instead, it transformed into something even more terrifying.
Qin Chuan and others also saw some clues and hurriedly went to King Jingbei for help.
After a while, Commander Liao was ordered to bring people to help. He carefully took out the fire dragon flag, pointed it at the corpses and alien insect swarms on the ground, and released poisonous fire.
In the raging poisonous fire, those creepy insects and corpses were quickly devoured by the flames and turned into ashes on the ground. Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief and slowly walked back to the temple.
As the sky gradually darkened, King Jingbei ordered his soldiers to light the oil lamps on the altar table. In the dim light and shadow, everyone simply ate some dry food to satisfy their hunger.
Although there was no new situation outside the temple, everyone still did not dare to relax. At the entrance of the temple, Commander Liao sent a few more soldiers to patrol. He and the Xiao brothers also walked around from time to time, paying close attention to the surrounding movements.
Su Qiqi, together with Qin Chuan, Nangong Yu, and Nangong Yue, inspected the security deployment in the temple in order to promptly adjust the defense strategy and strengthen the defense facilities in the temple.
The four people patrolled carefully from the front hall to the back hall, carefully inspected the doors, windows, and corridors everywhere, and arranged sufficient manpower and clever mechanisms to calmly deal with the Ye You League's surprise attack.
The night was getting darker and darker, and occasionally the wails of night birds could be heard in the distance, which sent shivers down Su Qiqi's spine. She subconsciously approached Qin Chuan and her two brothers, and the four of them gathered around a small fire to keep warm while thinking about ways to escape.
I don't know how much time passed, but when Su Qiqi was drowsy with her head hanging down, she was suddenly pulled up by Qin Chuan. She opened her sleepy eyes and saw many soldiers around her running towards the outside of the palace.
Seeing this scene, her heart tightened, and she suddenly looked outside the palace door, only to see Nangong Yu, Nangong Yue, Xiao brothers and others already fighting with the masters of the Yeyou League.
She suddenly woke up, whispered a few words to Qin Chuan, and then joined the battle together.
The battle lasted for nearly an hour. Under the power of the Fire Dragon Banner, Yeyou League's sneak attack finally failed. What makes Su Qiqi feel even more fortunate is that after this battle, the Ye You Alliance's vitality was severely damaged and will not pose a big threat to them for the time being.
For King Jingbei, although the trip to escort the Fire Dragon Banner had many twists and turns, it was finally a near miss. The only regret is that the leader of Yeyou Alliance and Mrs. Wu escaped. But after thinking about it, he felt relieved again. He took a deep look at the distant night sky and sighed heavily!
