The sky has completely darkened, but the streets in front of the White Pagoda Temple in Yanfu Square are still full of cars and horses.
Many well-dressed people came with their families and took advantage of the cool night to burn incense and pray for blessings in the Baita Temple. This was something Mu Qing and the others had not expected before.
He looked past the temple wall, and the lights and shadows were reflected in the night sky. A white spire was vaguely visible, and he said, "We have searched all over the area. The entrance should be inside the temple."
The shadow behind him shook slightly, and a voice sounded: "Just go in, why are you so cautious?"
Among the three, only Mu Qing was exploring the inner city at night for the second time. He looked back at Suzaku and said, "We are here to collect information, not to fight with them again."
Suzaku kept his mouth shut, and the three of them waited for another two-quarters of an hour, until the temple sent away the last pilgrim tonight, and the firelight in the night sky became much weaker, and then they flew into the temple without anyone noticing. among.
The white pagoda is at the back of the main hall. The three of them passed through the Buddhist hall where incense was offered and came under the white pagoda. The white pagoda was the boundary between them, and there were countless forest of steles behind them.
"This is actually a formation."
Zhuque asked Yin San to learn some methods of identifying the formation, raised his jaw and said: "This is a trapped formation. Judging from the traces on the stone tablet, I am afraid it has been there for a long time."
There are still words on the nearest stone tablet, which seems to record the origin of the White Pagoda Temple. Unfortunately, many of the words have been eroded by wind and rain. Mu Qing walked closer and could only barely recognize the first few words and read. Come out: "Set a white tower above, and suppress the Youyan below..."
Huaifenghua kept looking for something. Finally, her eyes lit up and she walked to the bottom of the white tower.
There was a dark hole at the edge of the base of the white tower. It was only big enough for a child to come in and out. Huaifenghua quickly found a rag on the edge of the hole and breathed a sigh of relief: "It should be that there is no access here, but If we want to reach the tunnel through here, I'm afraid it will cause a lot of noise."
When Mu Qing saw Huaifenghua using her sword to indicate the size of the hole, he looked at the two women and said, "I'll come as soon as I go."
Deep in the hinterland of the inner city, if you have a little more time, you might be able to save one more person later. Mu Qing used his physical skills to the limit and used his true energy to rush the prepared Mixiang into every house where someone was seen. .
This kind of intoxicating fragrance and poisonous scriptures has specific records. It will not make the poisoned person collapse immediately, but will reduce the five senses of the poisoned person and quickly produce a feeling of fatigue. It can be said that many details have been taken into consideration.
In less than half a stick of incense, Mu Qing was sure that everyone in the White Pagoda Temple, which occupies a large area, was tired and fell asleep.
When Mu Qing returned to the white tower, he saw the two women standing in front of the stone tablet between them and approached them.
Suzaku turned back to look at him with questioning eyes. Mu Qing nodded, her voice a little more ups and downs: "Then let's start, let me clear the way."
She said that she had always done things in a clean and neat style. When she walked to the hole at the base of the White Tower, she didn't even use a weapon. She made a sword finger with her right hand and activated her true energy, destroying the stones on the edge of the hole into tiny gravels.
When these gravels fell into the entrance of the cave, they fell into a very deep place. Suzaku's eyes lit up, "It looks like there is something going on. Hurry, before you go, pour the incense in."
Mu Qing listened carefully and didn't hear any foul play under the hole, but he still did as he was told.
With Suzaku, a powerful human being here, the hard jade base was as fragile as a tofu block. In less than ten breaths, the three of them successfully passed through the hole and entered the tunnel.
"It stinks."
As soon as the soles of his feet nearly touched the ground and he took the first step forward, Suzaku held his breath.
Mu Qing frowned. This secret passage was nothing compared to the secret passage under Mudleg Alley. The air did not flow. He even smelled the stench of defecation just now.
Huaifenghua said that before coming down, the three of them took the poison-clearing pill, held their breath, and quickly walked forward.
The three of them walked not far forward. The narrow passage that could only be passed by one person became wider. There were one or two bloody palm prints on the ground and walls.
These discoveries made the footsteps left behind by the silence become much thicker.
Mu Qing looked at the back of the woman walking in front. In order to draw too much attention, Suzaku also changed out of his usual red clothes. He wore a discreet black clothes covering his slender and tall figure. He walked in the front, but for no reason, he gave people A feeling of being defeated by a thousand armies and no one can stop it.
Mu Qing shook his head, thinking that it was not a problem for a woman to walk in the front after all. Just as the first fork appeared in front of him, he quickly stepped forward and said softly: "I have been there once, I will lead the way."
Zhuque did not respond to Mu Qing. After standing still, he looked towards the passage on the left without saying a word.
When Mu Qing stood side by side with her and looked forward, his expression suddenly changed. In the passage on the left, as far as the eye could see, there were densely packed clothes.
These clothes were large and small, and were covered with blood stains. Just looking at the clothes piled up to their waists, even though the two of them had held their breath, they both felt a strong smell of blood and a long-standing stench coming towards their faces. It made the two people's hearts sink.
"At least a few hundred people."
Huaifenghua's deliberately calm voice sounded.
She looked at the bloody clothes piled up in the passage, her face was pale, her eyebrows were trembling uncontrollably, and her bright eyes were full of anger ready to burst out.
For some reason, when she saw this scene in front of her, she couldn't help but think of the tragedy of annihilation eighteen years ago. She wondered if those bloody clothes were also piled up like this...
Suzaku shifted his gaze to look at the empty passage on the other side, and said without any emotion in his voice: "There is no other way, let's go this way first."
Mu Qing nodded and walked in the front first. After stepping into the passage on the right, he finally felt a lump in his chest and said firmly through gritted teeth: "He deserves to die!"
Suzaku said: "These bloody clothes alone can't explain anything. It's best for me to bump into him tonight. I will let you know what cruelty is."
After guessing that Bai Hao might have practiced the forbidden art Blood Demon Body, everyone has been thinking about a question.
Suzaku City is a large city with a population of over one million. Even if chaos has occurred frequently recently, the actual number of people who have died is less than two thousand. This is completely different from a battlefield where limbs and arms are flying and blood is flowing everywhere.
Where can Bai Hao collect the huge power of blood?
After discovering that the city defense army was arresting people recently, there were actually many reasons that could be explained. However, when facing these bloody clothes, the three of them couldn't help but think about how many people Bai Hao had killed so far in his practice?
How many unarmed people and children are there?
Mu Qing closed his eyes and tried his best to forget the image of bloody clothes piled up in his mind. After regaining his composure, he said, "These people should have been dead for a few days."
Suzaku asked: "Why only clothes?"
She actually came to a conclusion in her mind, but this conclusion made her very uncomfortable. She only hoped that one of Mu Qing and the others could refute her.
Mu Qing pursed his lips and shook his head without saying a word. He just quickened his pace. After walking through this long passage again, he paused and quickly gestured to the two women behind him.
Suzaku and Huaifenghua slowed their steps and moved quietly. When they got close to Mu Qing's back, they looked past his body and looked ahead.
What they saw was no longer a passage, but a huge underground space. What made the two women feel depressed was that in this huge underground space, there were actually people with secret numbness sitting paralyzed.
The two women just glanced at it for a moment, and then quickly looked back at the ground.
Just because everyone in this space is naked, not even a scarf.
Mu Qing leaned his back against the cave wall, and silently put the poison in his hand.
This time they visited again. The three of them had a clear goal and prepared a lot of drugs in a targeted manner to prevent this kind of situation.
After the drug filled the underground space in front of them, and after half a stick of incense, they heard a lot of thumps and falls to the ground, and then the three of them entered the hall.
Zhuque walked through the crowd without squinting, looking for a possible exit, while Huai Fenghua walked to the nearest man and stretched out her hand.
Soon, she retracted her hand, with some doubts in her eyes. She walked to the other person and explored the situation again. She looked at seven or eight people in succession. When Suzaku found an exit and the three of them walked into the passage again, she Then he revealed his discovery: "In addition to the intoxicating drugs we refined, there are also a lot of miscellaneous medicinal powers in their bodies."
Suzaku breathed a sigh of relief: "At least it's okay that they're not dead. But Bai Hao, this thief, is really disgusting. In order to prevent them from escaping, he actually took off all their clothes."
Mu Qing saw that Huaifenghua had been thinking with her eyebrows lowered. Thinking of the depressing atmosphere in the hall behind, he shook his head and said, "These are two groups of people."
"Huh? What's the difference?" Suzaku asked.
There are different concepts between men and women, which are also applicable to monks. Suzaku had not taken a serious look at them before, but only vaguely sensed that these people were still alive.
Just as Mu Qing was about to speak, Huaifenghua, who had been thinking about something, raised her head and said, "These people don't have any scars on their bodies. The pile of bloody clothes is indeed not theirs."
Mu Qing looked at Huaifenghua and asked, "Auntie, did you discover anything just now?"
Huaifenghua nodded and said in a low voice: "Their breath is slightly narrowed and they have no energy, but their bodies are full of powerful blood. Bai Hao refined them all into medicine men."
"Medicine Man?" Just hearing this name made Mu Qing have some associations in his mind.
Suzaku said: "When they become medicine people, their consciousness is already dead."
Huai Fenghua said: "Bai Hao, this beast, has lost his humanity. Even if these people return to life, they are already useless. I don't know the specific method of cultivating the blood demon body, but if you want to stimulate the blood of ordinary people, Either relying on huge stimulation or the power of medicine to make up for it. The owners of the blood-clothed clothes probably suffered extremely painful tortures during their lifetimes. But these people they see now, they no longer know what emotions are, and they just wait numbly. Someday it will be used as medicine."
Suzaku breathed out a heavy breath, his eyes were already on fire, and he thought quite aggrievedly that for these people, death may be a kind of relief, but this discovery gave someone as powerful as her a deep understanding. Feeling of powerlessness.
Huai Fenghua recalled the fragmentary content she had seen on the stone tablet before and said: "There is a vein of flame under the city lord's palace. The so-called "you flame" should be the fire from the center of the earth. I suspect that Bai Hao is using the fire from the center of the earth to smelt The essence and blood of these people.”
