Tick tock!
Tick tock!
The sound of water drops came from the end of the passage, and the sound was getting closer and closer.
Cheng Yan quickly pulled the leaves of the Lingfu grass and stuffed one into each hand: "No matter what happens later, don't make any sound!"
Just as Lingfucao took them into hiding, a man wrapped in a black cloak appeared in the passage.
He was holding a wooden barrel in his hand, which was badly corroded, and the scarlet liquid inside was dripping to the ground.
He saw several corpses randomly placed beside the passage, and heard hoarse roars.
This man's vocal cords seemed to have been severely damaged. Cheng Yan couldn't hear what he was saying even if he was close!
The man threw the barrel aside, waved his sleeves, and the lights on both sides of the passage lit up.
One of them happened to be next to Lin Jialuo, and the scorching flame almost burned his hair.
Lin Jialuo kept Cheng Yan's words in mind and held his breath and did not dare to move.
The light of candles illuminated the passage.
This person immediately checked the ground.
Oops!
Several people's hearts skipped a beat. They had just dodged in a hurry and didn't pay attention to the traces left on the ground.
Cheng Yan took Ji Qiuyu's hand and walked quickly in the direction from which the cloaked man came.
Ji Qiuyu moved the leaves of Lingfu grass, and the others felt the move and moved over.
boom!
The cloaked man struck hard in the direction where their previous footprints disappeared, and one side of the passage suddenly collapsed.
Lin Jialuo's scalp suddenly felt numb. Just now, just now, he was standing there!
He was almost turned into a pulp!
Several people quickened their pace, but suddenly stopped again.
There was a wheezing sound inside.
A huge black shadow gradually enlarged in the light and shadow.
It's a ghost beast!
Looking at this figure, it looked very much like the big ghost beast they encountered before.
The ghost beast came close to the wall, its huge head almost grazing Cheng Yuan's cheek.
Cheng Yan held his breath. The sound of its breathing was so close that it made Cheng Yan's hair fly.
What made her uncomfortable was that this ghost beast didn't know what it had eaten, and its breath had a foul smell.
After enduring for nearly ten breaths, the ghost beast finally moved away and rushed towards the man.
The man waved to the ghost beast and pointed at several corpses on the ground.
This time the hoarse voice clearly said the word 'eat'.
The ghost beast was a little impatient and roared at the man.
The man took a few steps back and let out a heartbreaking cough.
The ghost beast seemed to be worried, spinning in circles anxiously. When the man stopped coughing, it ducked down and cradled the man's head.
"Eat!" The man still said the same thing.
This time, the ghost beast did not hesitate and swallowed all three corpses one at a time.
The man patted the ghost shadow beast on the head, was lifted up by the ghost shadow beast and thrown into the back, and whizzed away in the blink of an eye.
He left in the direction from which Cheng Yuan and the others came.
…
A gust of wind blew by, and Cheng Yuan and others appeared, retching in the corner.
"That ghost shadow beast ate so many corpses, it stinks to death. Ugh——"
Cheng Yuan asked Lingfucao to fan himself vigorously, and then the turbid air on his body completely dissipated.
"It seems that those foundation-building monks were all killed by this person, and he kept the corpses to feed the ghost beasts." Yu Zimao drank a few sips of water to calm down his mood.
"Are we still going in?" Lin Jialuo pointed into the passage, "It might be that person's lair."
Ji Qiuyu nodded: "If we go out now, we might bump into that person... There may be other exits inside."
Following the scarlet color flowing from the man's barrel, the group quickened their pace and entered.
At the end of this passage is a stone room. Judging from the layout inside, it is the resting place for Ren Bao Pavilion's waiter or shopkeeper.
A stone collapse, a few tables.
Other than that, it's empty.
"It's true that even the obsidian inlaid on the wall has been stripped away."
Lin Jialuo walked around quickly and found nothing.
Cheng Yan had been mentally prepared for a long time. She stared at the compass in her hand and saw that the compass needle shook slightly, and then pointed in the direction behind the stone bed.
It also happens to be the end of Scarlet disappearing.
Cheng Yan approached the stone bed and found that a small blind formation had been set up there.
"This is easy, let me do it." Ji Qiuyu stepped forward, flicked his fingers, and played a magic talisman, but the formation was broken in an instant.
A door appeared on the white wall behind the original stone bed.
Several people worked together to push it away, and suddenly a strong suction force came from inside, sucking all the people in.
…
"Master, where is this place?"
Yanchu looked at everything around him.
The carved railings, painted columns, and furnishings inside all resemble the alchemy room of a southern alchemist.
"The alchemy room once opened by Ren Bao Pavilion in Baisha Castle."
What Yan Qing said was exactly as she guessed.
The table was piled with bottles and cans. When Yanchu approached, he was scolded.
"Don't touch those!"
"Master, what's inside?"
"The poison elixir refined by the old poisoner." Yan Chushu opened a secret room with familiarity, and the light shone in, allowing Yan Chu to see clearly the scenery inside.
This is an extremely spacious torture room, with various torture instruments hanging on the four walls.
Under the wall was a ditch filled with dried blood.
In the center of the torture chamber is a huge statue.
The statue is covered with vines, making it difficult to see its true appearance.
"Don't be stupid, keep up."
Yan Qing strode forward, came to the bottom of the statue, took out a hammer from the base, and struck three times on the protruding part of the statue's base.
A dry 'click' sound came from the center of the statue, the statue rotated, and a passage appeared.
At the same time, Cheng Yuan and others were stunned by the huge sound, and they fell over.
After three beeps, the space they were in rotated rapidly and stopped after half a quarter of an hour.
"Where is this?" As soon as Yu Zimao spoke, Ji Qiuyu covered his mouth.
"Don't make a sound."
Cheng Yan pointed above them.
They were in an extremely small space that could barely accommodate them sitting cross-legged.
There was a thick layer of scarlet grease floating in the sky, and light could be vaguely seen coming through from the top.
There were footsteps above.
Then Cheng Yan heard a familiar voice.
"Master, who is she?"
It's Yanchu!
Cheng Yan and Ji Qiuyu looked at each other.
In the secret room above the four people, there was a woman tied to a shelf. She was in a mess, with injuries all over her body, and her figure was as thin as skin and bones.
Yan Qing sneered and raised his hand, a gust of wind blew away the woman's hair.
"Sure enough, it's a shameful life. It's been so long and he's still not dead."
When Yanchu saw the woman's appearance clearly, he took two steps back in shock.
"Aunt Lan?"
The woman's head, which had been lowered, slowly raised, and one of her empty eyes was covered with dried blood. The other intact eye saw Yan Chu, and its pupils trembled sharply.
