Dai Er and Gu Ming jumped onto the statue's knees at the same time. At the same time, they stretched out their hands to grab the bow and pulled it hard twice, but it didn't move at all.
"Damn! In one piece? Could this entire statue be carved out of a single piece of stone?" Dai Er howled in frustration.
"Let me take a look." Upon hearing this, Chen Yuan also jumped up beside the two of them. His eyes were close to the bow and he observed carefully. His face was like a rag and he wiped it all over the bow arm, and then wiped it on Zhao Gongming's hand holding the bow. Rubbed the forearm again. After a while, he said: "This arm is made of clay." After saying that, he turned his hand and pulled out the dagger from his sleeve. They felt that the silver light in front of their eyes instantly intertwined into a net, and they heard several squeaking sounds in their ears, wrapped in the small statue of the statue. The thick mud shell on the arm peeled off like a wall, and fell to the ground with a few muffled sounds, but it did not crack. It can be seen that the person who made this disguise put a lot of effort into it, from selecting the clay to shaping it and then hardening it.
"What kind of secrets are you trying to hide with this painstaking disguise?" Chen Yuan looked at the peeling mud shell and said in a daze.
As soon as Chen Yuan finished speaking, Wang Yunshan, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly shot at Chen Yuan like an arrow. The three of them were all focused on the bow in Wu Caishen's hand. Even with Chen Yuan's skill, it was inevitable that he would be a little hasty in dealing with it. Being struck by Wang Yunshan's single palm on his vest, Chen Yuan slid three or four steps sideways and spit out a mouthful of blood.
"You! Hidden your strength!" Chen Yuan said in shock, suddenly unsteady on his feet and sat down on the ground.
"Hahahaha! Young man, what's the use of being arrogant?" Wang Yunshan laughed and asked: "What strength do I hide? When did you and I compete?"
"You have been showing weakness, making us mistakenly think that you are injured and unable to move, but you are actually waiting for an opportunity." Chen Yuan said.
"That's right, as long as they hit you hard, they won't be enough to watch." As he said that, he dodged, and a shadow flashed behind Dai Er who was rushing towards him. He also hit Dai Er with a "bang" palm. Two dozen people vomited blood, and now only Gu Ming was left uninjured.
"Young man, it's a good thing to be thoughtful, but don't be impatient, otherwise good things will turn into bad things." Wang Yunshan said with a smile.
"Yes, if I wasn't impatient, I should have dealt with you first." Chen Yuan sat cross-legged on the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and shouted again: "Xiao Ming!" Hearing this, Gu Ming could barely stop himself from attacking Wang Yunshan. Shape and force of the knife.
"It's useless, you can't defeat him." Chen Yuan said weakly, somewhat unwillingly.
"Damn! Shameless dog thief! A sneak attack! I can't handle it...cough, cough cough..." Dai Er also sat on the ground, his injuries were obviously more serious than Chen Yuan's, and he started coughing up blood before he finished speaking.
"Xiao Ming, Dai Er and I will fight hard to hold him down in a while. You must escape." Chen Yuan said.
"He can't escape." Wang Yunshan said.
"Are you underestimating his Qing Gong, or do you think I can't hold you back for a moment or three?" Chen Yuan said.
"That's not true. Although you are injured, I still dare not underestimate you." Wang Yunshan said.
"That means you overestimated that your injured foot was pierced by me. Can you catch up with Gu Ming?" Chen Yuan said.
"Of course we can't catch up." Wang Yunshan said.
"Then why can't he run away?" Chen Yuan asked.
"Because he won't run away." Wang Yunshan smiled sternly.
"Why wouldn't he?" Chen Yuan said.
Wang Yunshan still smiled arrogantly and walked slowly to Dai Er's side. Dai Er stood up suddenly and raised his fist to strike. Unfortunately, he was seriously injured and his wrist was easily grabbed by the other party. Then I heard Wang Yunshan say: "Because he dares to take one step, I will break one of his hands, and if he takes another step, I will crush one of his feet."
"Is this useful?" Chen Yuan asked.
"Of course it works." Wang Yunshan said.
"How could he not know that if he is controlled by you, he will die sooner or later?" Chen Yuan said.
"Of course he knows." Wang Yunshan smiled.
"Then he can leave in a big way." Chen Yuan said.
"No, because you young people are loyal! Knowing that if you stay, you will die together, he will not watch you die first. This is like a hero! Hahahaha!" Wang Yunshan laughed.
"You are really shameless!" Gu Ming gritted his teeth before Chen Yuan could speak. At the same time, his body moved, and the long knife that had just stopped struck Wang Yunshan's neck again.
Wang Yunshan advanced instead of retreating, turned slightly to one side, stepped towards the menacing Gu Ming, and raised his shoulder at an angle. As fast as Gu Ming came, he flew backwards. Wang Yunshan blocked Gu Ming from flying with one shoulder. The force was so strong that Gu Ming flew backwards, smashed half of the wooden door, and fell heavily into the yard. He sat up with difficulty, moved back, and leaned against the ruins. He opened his mouth wide and gasped for air. Blood came out along with the heavy breath. It looked like he was more seriously injured.
"Is this the useless snack of the Gu Gu family? Didn't I say that I am a hero and a good man?" Wang Yunshan mocked.
"You hid in a mouse hole all night like a mouse, deliberately pretending to be a coward to paralyze your grandfathers, and then carried out a sneak attack on your two grandfathers when they were not prepared. After that, you threatened the two grandfathers with hostages, so that your only remaining grandfather could not let go. Use your hands and feet. You are worthy of saying my father's name. You trash, your face is really thick. I thought your face was thick because I slapped it with the back of my knife, but I didn't expect it to be that thick in the first place." Chen Yuan Kazuoji had a look of astonishment on his face. He had never heard Gu Ming curse anyone before, or even heard Gu Ming say so many words. It was really... wonderful.
Unexpectedly, the excitement was not over yet, and I heard Gu Ming start again: "I don’t know which of the harmful exercises your wild father taught you. I feel disgusted when you touch me. Where did you hit me, right?" , chest. You have to get rid of bad luck quickly, otherwise you will die here first." After saying that, he untied the deerskin wine bag from his waist, took a big mouthful of wine, opened his chest, sprayed it on his chest, and wiped it anxiously with his sleeves. . The three people in the room kept staring at him dumbfounded. Wang Yunshan turned from astonishment to anger. His second ancestor, whom he regarded as a bug, actually despised him so much. He stared fiercely at Gu Ming, who was leaning on the ruins in the courtyard and still drinking wine.
"Can you turn your head away? Look at your ugly face, especially the pig's head that was swollen by my slap. It affects me too much when I drink! Where are you looking at me? Tell me that I cut it off and threw it away. You It's dirty just by looking at it." Gu Ming was still disgusted, but Wang Yunshan was slowly walking towards him.
"What a damn shame! I have to die in the hands of such a disgusting person, but the last thing before death is to drink. This is something worth smiling about." Gu Ming took another sip of wine and threw it away. wineskin.
Wang Yunshan was almost in front of Gu Ming when he heard again: "What's wrong, can't you walk? Can't you walk? Does your foot hurt when it was pierced by your uncle? Come here quickly, can the third uncle help you rub it? Haha." Ha ha."
"Laugh, the more you laugh, the faster I won't walk. I just want you to watch death approaching you slowly step by step, but you can't do anything. You can only be crushed by me like a maggot. My feet When it comes, you will be stepped on." After Wang Yunshan said this, he stood in front of the wine bag that Gu Ming threw away, and stepped on the wine bag with a bang, as if to let Gu Ming take a look at him. His head will explode like this in a while.
"What's going on with that statue's arm? What's the secret?" Gu Ming suddenly asked calmly, returning to his previous appearance, which made people suddenly uncomfortable.
"What? Are you scared? Are you dissatisfied with spitting feces?" Wang Yunshan asked with a smile.
"Why are the arms of the statue so thin?" Gu Ming still asked seriously, even frowning slightly, as if thinking.
"You might as well think about how you like to die. This is more important." Wang Yunshan said, but Gu Ming didn't seem to hear him. He suddenly stood up slowly, patted the dirt on his body, and said to Wang Yunshan: "Forget it, we'll see for ourselves later." After saying that, he ignored Wang Yunshan and walked past, entered the room and squatted in front of Chen Yuan, asking: "Are you okay, Brother Yuan?" Wang Yunshan looked like It was as if someone had been cast on him. Not only did he not move or speak, he didn't even say a word.
"What's going on! What are you two doing!" Dai Er shouted to Gu Ming in surprise, then looked at the courtyard: "Hey! That county magistrate! What are you doing? Aren't you going to kill someone? Why don't you move? Come on!" Seeing that Gu Ming was ignoring him, Dai Er shouted at Wang Yunshan who was standing still.
It's not that Wang Yunshan didn't want to move. When Gu Ming just stood up, he was already practicing his kung fu. When Gu Ming passed by him, he found helplessly that he couldn't move his kung fu. He wanted to slap Gu Ming to death, but he also knew that the slap would not be much stronger than that of a farmer who did not know martial arts. He slowly opened his chest in disbelief, looked at the slowly changing color and raised blood veins, turned around in panic, looked at Gu Ming in horror and asked: "When..."
"He was poisoned?" Chen Yuan said.
"Well, Yuan San." Gu Ming nodded.
"When? How did you win?" Dai Er was more confused than Wang Yunshan.
"You asked me about the poison you administered?" Gu Ming said to Dai Er with a smile.
"Oh! That's it." Chen Yuan suddenly became enlightened and laughed.
Dai Er was left confused. He looked at Wang Yunshan, who was stunned, and found that Wang Yunshan was also looking at him in confusion, as if asking: "Did you poison me? When did you do it? How did you do it?" Dai Er His eyes widened, and he innocently spread his hands to Wang Yunshan, saying that he didn't know either. Seeing the two of them muttering in a tacit understanding, Chen Yuan laughed angrily and said to Dai Er: "Okay, hurry up and adjust your breath and recover. The county magistrate is about to pass away, and it's all up to us in the future."
"What's going on? Why is this happening!" Wang Yunshan asked in a hoarse voice.
"You should just be a confused ghost and die inexplicably. You don't even know how you died. It's interesting to think about it." Chen Yuan said.
"Yeah, yeah, that's right, I'm worried about you." Dai Er said to Wang Yunshan.
"Don't...how did I die?" Wang Yunshan asked again.
"Want to know? I'll tell you what you want to know, do you have to tell me what I want to know?" Chen Yuan said.
Wang Yunshan was silent.
"What happened to the statue's arms?" Chen Yuan asked.
"I'd better be a fool..." Wang Yunshan heard this and had no intention of exchanging.
"It seems really important, so it's interesting." Chen Yuan said.
"Forget it, let me give you some tips. If you can think of something, think about it. If you can't figure it out, just be a fool." Chen Yuan said again, pointing at the deerskin wine bag at his feet. Gu Ming had thrown it away, and more than half of the wine inside had not been finished. It flowed out from the damaged area and soaked a large area of the ground.
"That? That's wine. He drank it himself..." Wang Yunshan was gibbering. Chen Yuan ignored him again and slowly stood up under Wang Yunshan's dull gaze. Most of his injuries had been dissipated by luck. Wang Yunshan could no longer stand still, and slowly knelt on the ground, staring at the deerskin wine bag in front of his knees. Suddenly his eyes widened: "It turns out!" As soon as he uttered these two words, the black blood vessels bulging on his chest were already along the edge. His neck stretched to his temples, his eyeballs bulged, and he fell to the ground with a "normal" sound.
"He finally became a wise man." Chen Yuan said.
"Yeah, there's nothing more useless than death than not knowing how to die." Gu Ming said with a smile.
"I feel more useless than dead right now." Dai Er said angrily.
"Sometimes I don't even know whether you are really a good person or just pretending to be a good person." Chen Yuan also laughed, "Sometimes you are horribly shrewd and thoughtful than your daughter's family, but sometimes you are really... ugh." Chen Yuan sighed and said nothing more.
"You dropped half a bottle of poison on the ground before you faked your death. Did you forget about it?" Gu Ming said.
"Oh! Yes, yes!" Dai Er suddenly realized and shouted, and then said again: "Huh? But..."
"After leaving it overnight, it is completely dry. But only the water has dried, and the poison is still in the soil." Gu Ming interrupted Dai Er, fearing that he would continue mumbling.
"So you were hit so far by him on purpose! Let me tell you, how can this old Bangzi be so powerful? I can't even hit you. You threw the wine bag there, which actually restored the poison!" Dai Er said in surprise, "You are really smart! No! A sinister person! A traitor!" Dai Er's face was full of excitement, and it could be seen that he was indeed praising others.
Gu Ming: "..."
"And his feet were pierced by you!" Dai Er looked at Chen Yuan, "So as soon as he stepped on the wet ground, the poison directly entered his blood vessels. Wine can promote blood circulation and is more effective than drinking it. ! You are also a great yin person!" Dai Er clicked his tongue in admiration, "Your kung fu is very high, and your yin moves are also fierce! If you want yang, you will have yang, and if you want yin, you will have yin. You are not afraid of anything! You are truly a perfect yin and yang person!"
Chen Yuan: "..."
"If you don't know how to praise others, then don't do it!" Gu Ming jumped over, slapped the back of Dai Er's neck with a clear sound, and said, "Recover quickly."
"If you dare to hit me, wait until I get up." Dai Er was fierce, he crossed his legs and began to exercise. After being quiet for less than a breath, he opened his eyes and asked again: "Well, if he doesn't come to you, won't the three of us all be together?" Is it over?"
Gu Ming rarely rolled his eyes and said, "I've ruined my image like a shrew and scolded him for nothing?"
"Haha! It's really rare." Chen Yuan recalled the scene where Gu Ming cursed the street just now and said with a smile, "You Qi repeatedly emphasized that you slapped his face into a pig's head, so he won't go over and beat you into a pig's head too. Strange."
"Then what if he is too lazy to pay attention to you? I won't let you go. You can scold him if you like. Anyway, you will die in my hands in a while." Dai Er said.
"If he doesn't get over, I will have to fight hard." Chen Yuan said, "With the injury I suffered just now, I might die together with him."
"Then what if he reacts too fiercely and flies over to kill you without landing?" Dai Er asked again.
"Why are you talking so much nonsense! Who doesn't have some life-saving trump cards? Are you still healing your wounds?" Gu Ming became anxious at this nagging question.
Dai Er curled his lips, remained silent for a moment, and said, "Just wait for me."
"Why is this statue's arm like this?" Dai Er was healing his wounds, while Chen Yuan and Gu Ming began to study the statue.
"I didn't try my best just now. I just wanted to see if Wang Yunshan would do anything on the statue before attacking us, so that he could solve the mystery for us." Chen Yuan said.
"I'm sorry, Brother Yuan." Gu Ming said.
"What are you talking about? It can be seen that this thing is very important. He probably won't let us know the secret." Chen Yuan stared at the arm of the statue and said.
"The exposed forearm is a bit too thin compared to the statue, as if a skeleton was molded first when the statue was sculpted." Gu Mingdao.
"If it's not made of plastic, it's a human skeleton." Chen Yuan said seriously.
"What?" Gu Ming was a little surprised, "Where are the green human bones?" After saying that, he bent the branch and knocked it twice, and said, "I feel like it is a stone."
"Have you seen the relic?" Chen Yuan asked.
"I haven't seen it, but I know it. After the eminent monk was cremated, there was something like a stone." Gu Mingdao.
"This is similar to a relic, but not." Chen Yuan said.
Gu Ming was silent, and Chen Yuan said again: "Smash this statue to pieces. There should be something inside."
"I'll do the work of dismantling things. I'm good at it." The two of them were about to move when they heard a voice coming from behind. Dai Er had finished adjusting his breath, and his injuries were almost healed. After Dai Er finished speaking, he looked at Gu Ming and said, "Wait until I finish my work." After saying that, he punched the base of the statue, causing cracks to crack upwards to the top of the statue. Dai Er still maintained the posture of punching, but the mud shells did not fall into pieces like he imagined, revealing his true body. Dai Er smiled coquettishly, a little annoyed, and launched a series of killing moves at the statue, finally peeling off the mud shell wrapped around it.
Sure enough, a complete skeleton appeared in front of the three people as the outer mud shell peeled off. Sitting cross-legged, his left hand rests on his knees casually with the palm of his hand facing up. His right arm stretches forward flatly, and his right hand is clenched into a fist, holding a bow tightly. After the mud shell covering the bow peeled off, there was actually a bow inside, tightly grasped by the skeleton.
The whole skeleton looks like white jade. If you knock off a small piece and show it to a jeweler, it will be recognized as jade. Only the right hand and half of the forearm holding the bow were dark green, like emerald, but not translucent. The bow arm held by this green hand is silver-white and extremely strong. Chen Yuan had seen many magical weapons made of different materials. His dagger was also made of a piece of meteorite iron, and it only left an invisible scratch on the bow arm, which was thinner than a hair. And the emerald-like clenched fist was even more terrifying. The "fish" were swimming around on it, leaving no scratches as thin as hair. "Is this a human skeleton?" Chen Yuan couldn't help but ask. He once suspected that the half of the green skeleton was spliced together, but the half of the forearm was clearly integrated with the entire skeleton, without any trace of splicing. Just like the bow arm and the hand bones that hold it, if half of the thumb and index finger were not missing, exposing the bow arm inside, Chen Yuan would basically say that this person was born with a bow on his hand, and the bow grew as he grew. Also growing up.
"Is this what Zhu Ning and Wang Yunshan want to protect?" Dai Er asked.
"You could say they were protecting this thing, but they would regularly dismantle the mud shell on the outside of the forearm, and then they would do whatever they did and paste it up again," Gu Ming said.
Chen Yuan didn't speak for a long time, frowning, lowering his head in thought. Gu Ming and Dai Er also began to remain silent, lowering their heads in thought.
After a while, Chen Yuan said again: "An elder told me before that if there is something you can't understand, just write down all the things you can't understand recently on paper and read them together. Sometimes On the contrary, I understand.”
Seeing that the two of them looked at him without any reaction, Chen Yuan said again: "We don't need to write it down. We can just talk about it ourselves. There are things we can't figure out."
"I don't understand why you are so good at martial arts at such a young age and have such a high level of intelligence. How did you become a hermaphrodite? Who taught you?" Dai Er asked immediately.
Chen Yuan: "..."
Gu Ming glared at Dai Er, cursed and said, "I don't understand the purpose of this statue and why it is here."
"What's the use? No one present except the dead knows." Chen Yuan said.
"Nonsense, Wang Yunshan and Yixiaotang are here. They are guarding this thing and cannot be here." Dai Er said.
"Is this where Yixiaotang and the others were first, or was this where the statue was first?" Gu Ming asked again.
"It doesn't matter who goes first and who comes last, in short they are guarding this statue here." Dai Er said.
"Who asked them to guard? Or why were they guarding?" Gu Ming wanted to break the casserole and ask the truth.
"Didn't Zhu Ning say that you two are the people his master wants to kill the most? His master is Wang Yunshan's master, isn't he? It was their master who asked them to stay here." Dai Er said.
"Who asked them to guard it, or who their master is, I don't know yet. Then why are they guarding it? Is there anything special about them?" Chen Yuan also muttered.
"I really can't figure it out, there are too many." Gu Ming said, "Second brother, isn't there anything you can't figure out?"
"I can't understand it anymore! I can't understand that some people would practice such evil practices and would harm nature and justice for this evil practice. I can't understand that in order to persist in doing evil for a long time, they would put so much effort into building such a lair. It’s even more unimaginable that there can really be such a heartless person who can do such a cruel thing to a weak woman and a child.” Dai Er said bitterly, and after speaking, he glanced at Wang Yunshan, who was completely dead, and he was very hopeful at this moment. He is still alive.
"That's right! What's special about them is that both he and Zhu Ning have practiced the Western Region Tong Lao Kung Fu." Chen Yuan suddenly clapped his hands and said, "But what does this have to do with guarding this statue? Is it possible that they have practiced this evil Kung Fu? Are people qualified to see this statue?" Chen Yuan murmured again, picking up his frowning eyebrows with his fingers, as if he could figure it out by just picking at it. He looked up at the two of them and said, "You guys continue chatting. If there is anything else you can't figure out, tell me."
"This thing is obviously very important to them, so why don't the demons from the Western Region move away?" Dai Er said.
"Why would a dignified county magistrate practice such evil skills? He is originally from the Western Regions?" Gu Ming said.
"Just keep it, it's not that good, it's missing half of the fingers." Dai Er said.
"Stop." Chen Yuan suddenly said slowly, causing the two of them to look at Chen Yuan at the same time.
"All the things we can't figure out now are only related to the statue and Wang Yunshan." Chen Yuan rolled his eyes, glanced at the two of them, and said: "The statue will be regularly cleared of mud shells below the forearms. , and then it will be restored to its original shape very carefully. The skeleton is two colors, and the dark green arm is indestructible, with two small fingers missing."
Chen Yuan paused, as if thinking about whether he had missed any doubts about the skeleton, and then said after a moment: "Wang Yunshan, the county magistrate here, guards the statue and practices evil skills." After speaking, he looked back and forth between the two of them. Is there anything to add.
"Yeah, almost." Dai Er said.
"Also, I think we were distracted by the skeleton." Gu Ming said, "Remember, we first discovered that there was something wrong with the bow. How could Zhao Gongming hold the bow? But since we discovered this statue There is a human skeleton inside, so we have never paid much attention to that bow." After Gu Ming finished speaking, he saw Chen Yuan nodding, and Chen Yuan continued: "Yes, he can obviously be a person who holds a bow. , such as Hou Yi, or he could sculpt any general, but he chose to sculpt the skeleton of Zhao Gongming."
Gu Ming smiled and said: "Perhaps it seems more reasonable to provide a God of Wealth in the casino, and it is strange that Houyi in the casino is not noticeable. But does he want to be discovered by others, or does he not want to be discovered."
Chen Yuan continued: "Yes, that bow is also very strange. My dagger can only leave scratches on it that are thinner than a hairline, and that's when I poured in my internal energy."
"This material alone is something I have never heard of." Gu Mingdao.
"The reason why my attention was diverted is because this dark green arm is more amazing than the bow arm. It is not metal, it is similar to jade, but after I poured my internal power, I couldn't even leave any traces of it." Chen Yuan said.
"What else is there?" Dai Er was the first to not believe it. "The arms of the bow are just gold and iron that have never been seen before. After all, there are all kinds of wonders in the world. How hard can a dead man's skeleton be?" After saying that, he flew up. The feet were on the dark green forearms, and the skeleton flew far away. After hitting the wall, it lay on the ground with a "thud". The three of them looked closer, and found that their postures had not changed. They were still lying down, with their legs crossed, their right hands facing the sky, and their bows held high. Dai Er jumped angrily, pulled the skeleton, and placed the arms raised high in the sky on the ground. With a "cang" sound, he pulled out the long knife from Gu Ming's back, raised it to the sky, poured 100% of his internal strength, and slammed the thick handle of the knife on the dark green forearm like an iron pestle. This time, let alone a human bone, even if ten tiger bones were stacked up, Dai Er was confident enough to smash them. However, the green arm actually crushed the stone slabs on the ground and sank into the ground. Dai Er dug it out and blew away the dust on it. It still looked like exquisite emerald, contrasting with Dai Er's equally green face.
