Li Kang had been watching everyone's scrambling expressions expressionlessly, and then suddenly said: "Everyone, please be quiet. Why don't you follow the instructions of the mountain people and visit Witch Longge to see if the witch can give you some tips? She is like this
The patron saint of the mountains, Miss Su Lun will be under her protection as long as she is still in the mountains."
His voice was not high. Jiang Guang waved his hand suddenly, creating a strong wind: "Xiao Li, what do you know, you idiot? We martial arts practitioners never kneel down to worship witches or gods, right Mr. Feng?"
Compared with the tall, thin and rough Jiang brothers, Li Kang looked weak and helpless, like a small tree lacking nutrition.
This was the second time he mentioned the name of "Longe Witch". Last night, he said that Su Lun had gone to visit the witch in person, but was turned away and not allowed to see her.
"Yes, brother is right. Whoever practices martial arts has the final say. Whoever has the best martial arts skills has the final say. Drawing talismans to catch ghosts and so on are all deceptive tricks. They are like bullock carts on two different roads and we can't go together at all. Mr. Feng
, you give an order, within three months, we must find this person, and see him alive, and see his body after death!" Jiang Ming's words are resounding, but what I want is people, and the three-month deadline has already been met.
It drove me crazy to kill people.
Li Kang straightened up and wanted to argue: "The mountain people all say that Witch Longge is in the ravine on the left front. It's not troublesome to go there once. It's easier than inviting bandits."
"Haha, you dare to say that we Xianyang heroes are bandits?" Jiang Guang grabbed Li Kang with his backhand and raised his arm, lifting Li Kang in the air. People who practice foreign hard skills have excellent arm strength, and they can easily lift one or two hundred kilograms of objects.
It's difficult. Li Kang's body is so soft, like a cooked noodle, resting on Jiang Guang's hand.
There were obvious flaws on the tip of his right elbow, under his right ribs, and on his legs. I could make him surrender by throwing my wallet, but I didn't want to take action right away. I wanted to see how long this rabble could go on.
"Put me down, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about the people in Xiangling Village." Li Kang knew that it was useless to struggle, so he simply remained motionless.
"It's easier to put you down. You have to shout three times 'Witch Longge is a **' and promise not to mention her name in front of the heroes of Xianyang in the future. Do you understand?" Jiang Guang laughed loudly, as if he was raising a child.
Like a stone lock, his right arm was raised and then sunk, then sunk and then raised.
He is really too reckless, and he cannot curse the gods when he sees the truth - he dares to speak rudely to the Longge witch who is a sincere believer of the locals. He meets a witchcraft master with super spiritual energy and hears his name being called.
There will be telepathy immediately, and you can even kill him in a few minutes.
He respects God as if he is God, and if he opens his mouth to throw dirty water on the gods and witches like him, I'm afraid there will be no good end.
Li Kang remained silent, and the Ba family brothers hid far away, showing no intention of acting bravely.
Jiang Ming echoed: "Scream, scream, scream, scream!"
Li Zun'er held his hand on the door frame and shouted: "A gentleman talks but does not use his hands. Brothers of the Jiang family, I am here to apologize to you for the dog. Let him down quickly."
The ancients said that a scholar is useless. No matter how euphemistic he said it, his son was lifted in the air and there was nothing he could do.
A gust of extremely cold wind suddenly blew over, and the Spring Festival couplets stuck randomly on the door of the courtyard began to stir, making a strange "chi la chi la" sound.
"Put him down, put him down quickly!" I just had time to remind him, Jiang Guang had already shouted "Ouch", covered his lower abdomen with his left hand, and involuntarily knelt forward, hitting his knees heavily on the bluestone floor.
Li Kang fell to the ground and rolled out, hurriedly got up, his eyes widened in horror, and he looked around.
I could feel a murderous intention spreading slowly, passing through the gate and heading towards Jiang Guang.
With a "crack" sound, Ba Kun took off the single-barrel shotgun on his shoulder with his backhand, pulled the bolt and loaded the gun, but he didn't know who to aim at. Jiang Ming hid faster than anyone else. He turned on his heels and jumped towards the east room, almost killing him.
Li Zun'er knocked him down, and the two people immediately closed the door with a "clang" in a panic, followed by the clatter of the latch and the lock.
The sky has been gloomy all the time, the time is about four o'clock in the afternoon, and it will soon enter the dusk. The tactical knife hidden in my left wrist flicked into my palm as my mind changed. Although Jiang Guang said something
It's rude, but he doesn't deserve to die. If his life is in danger, I can't just die without saving him.
There were no more people in the yard, but Jiang Guang's neck seemed to be suddenly tightened, his tongue stuck out abruptly, his eyes rolled up, and there was a gurgling sound in his throat.
"Friend, please be merciful, he is unintentional, don't behave like a rough man -" I slowly raised my right arm, feeling that the murderous aura completely enveloped Jiang Guang, as if he wanted to swallow him whole. My hand
The knife inside had reached its limit of endurance and strength, and was about to be shot out in the next second. However, the murderous aura suddenly retreated, climbed over the stone wall, and disappeared without a trace.
I jumped to the stone wall and looked to the southwest. From the mountain col in the distance, there was faint blue smoke rising, mixing with the mist.
Li Kang was the first to run to me. He was too short. He immediately climbed up the wall and pointed to where the smoke came from: "Mr. Feng, Witch Longge must have been here. She hates being slandered behind others' backs the most, and it must be her.
"
Jiang Guang fell down slumped, holding his neck with both hands, coughing hard, tears and mucus flowing from his nose, and he was extremely embarrassed.
I hesitated for a few seconds and decided to catch up to the mountain col. I visually estimated that the distance between the two places would be about two kilometers. If I speed up, I can return smoothly before dark.
In this kind of wild land, the most knowledgeable people are only the so-called "wizards". In recent years, many international criminals who have been chased in the city and have nowhere to hide will always choose a deserted place to hide in seclusion.
Open ubiquitous online pursuits. With the experience and methods of such people, it is normal for ignorant aborigines to regard them as gods and wizards.
When jumping off the wall, Li Kang once shouted: "Mr. Feng, do you want me to accompany you?"
I waved my hand behind my back and rejected his kindness. It was impossible for a character like him to help me. I really doubt where Suellen and Schiller found such a group of rabble, let alone adventure.
Self-protection is tough enough.
Halfway through the journey, I had already begun to think about inviting a few martial arts masters from Xi'an with high salaries. Maybe Chongqing and Chengdu are also hidden dragons and crouching tigers. In short, I can't put the heavy responsibility on these ordinary people.
There was no road under my feet. Fortunately, it was winter, the leaves had fallen, and my line of sight was straight, so I wouldn't lose my way.
From the Concubine Hall to the mountain col, the vertical drop is nearly 30 meters, so when I crossed a clear stream and looked back again, the Concubine Hall was already high up in the distance. The stream was not frozen, and there was a trace of moisture. From the front,
A row of stone houses flows sideways, heading north, lost in the endless rocks and wilderness.
The smoke was rising from the stone roof. I quickly stepped onto the open space in front of the hut and politely raised my hand towards the dark room: "Is anyone there? A stranger has come to see Witch Longge, can he come in?"
No one answered. There was only a black curtain hanging at the door of the stone house, and two white words were written on the stone wall on the left. The handwriting was messy, and it should be two overlapping characters for "heart".
I lowered my hands and waited quietly.
"Who is it?" came a low, hoarse voice from behind the door curtain.
"I am Feng, from the expedition team from the Concubine Palace. I am a little confused and want to ask Witch Longge for advice." I held my hand towards the door curtain and bowed.
"What's going on?" A gust of wind blew by, lifting the door curtain, and I vaguely saw a low stone platform in the middle of the room.
"My friend Su Lun went into the mountains three days ago and suddenly disappeared. Please give me some advice, how can I find her back?" I took a few steps forward and approached the door.
"Okay, wait a minute..." The door curtain rolled up and was placed on the wooden stick above the door. At the same time, a faint fragrance floated out. I slowly gathered my inner strength, concentrated on vigilance, and walked in slowly, fearing that
I fell into the opponent's plot. In this remote and remote area, there are everyone, and anything can happen.
In front of the stone platform, there is a one-meter-square gray-brown sand table, with wooden sticks of varying lengths inserted into the four corners. Three gray incense burners are burning in the black incense burner on the side of the sand table, emitting a smell similar to Longzang incense. In the room
There was no lamp on, and the light was extremely dim.
"Your friend is trapped in Fifteen Ridges."
A thin black shadow suddenly fell on the dark roof. She was wrapped from head to toe in a huge black cloak. The fat hood hanging from her forehead covered her entire face. She lifted a slender dry branch.
, pointing to a mound with dense branches in the sand table.
I have seen the detailed military map of this place, but there is no place name "Fifteen Ridges". There is even no place named "Ling" within a radius of 100 kilometers. Looking closely at the trend of the sand table, the high and low distribution is not the Concubine Hall at all.
The terrain of the area.
"Master, where is Fifteen Ridges? Isn't it in this mountain forest?"
"You are very smart and you guessed it right." She tapped the mound with a branch.
If the content depicted on the sand table is not the terrain here, it would be like looking at a map of the Americas to explore Africa.
"Where is Fifteen Ridges?" She raised her left hand, palm upward, and a black spider suddenly slid down from the air, holding a slender hairspring, and fell into her palm. It was slender and pointed towards me with its claws and teeth.
"This question requires you to pay a small price, hehehehe..." She laughed weirdly. The spider had tiny white spots on its back, a bit like the "Ghost-faced Spider" in Nepal, which is in the snow-capped mountains.
This unique poison is known as the "death killer" of Nepalese people together with the "red snake".
"What price?" I held my breath, lest there be something strange hidden in the aroma.
"Do you love that girl very much? I can feel your heart, you are constantly thinking about her, and you are willing to pay any price, even your life, to save her." She smiled strangely and allowed the spider to crawl onto the back of her dry, dark hand.
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I didn't continue, and watched the spider open its mouth and bite a shriveled blood vessel on the back of her hand. This kind of scene is often seen in the community of Gu practitioners in the Miao border of China. All the skilled Gu practitioners know that only through sacrifice
Only by feeding the poisonous insects with your own blood can you communicate with each other and make the poisonous insects completely obey your orders.
"To find her, you need the help of these children, so you must sacrifice your own efforts to feed them and become their friends. In many places, when humans cannot reach them, you must rely on these little guys, because they are everywhere
.Do you dare?”
The spider was sucking her blood, and its body slowly expanded. The white spots on her back became larger and larger, and gradually stretched into countless white human faces, with complete facial features and lifelike features.
This is the Grimace Spider, a poisonous insect that seals its throat when it sees blood. If Longge feeds it with her own blood, under the convection state of the blood, she herself will become a terrifying "poisonous person". Only in this way can Longge feed it with her own blood.
Will not be poisoned.
"Don't you dare?" She sneered.
The sky is getting darker, and the outlines of distant mountains and nearby trees have begun to become blurry.
"I dare, but you have to tell me, where is Fifteen Ridges?" I responded with a sneer. I have seen many people pretending to be ghosts, and a small grimace spider will not make me shrink back in fear.
"That's somewhere in the arms of..." She added a very vague word in the middle. It wasn't Chinese or Sichuan-Tibetan dialect. It should be some kind of special noun.
"What? In the arms of what?" I have a good grasp of common languages around the world, but what she said is not among them.
"You can think of... as the 'god'. Fifteen Ridges is a certain point in the embrace of the god. Since it is the place of the god, it will not appear on the map. Humans cannot reach that place——"
I promptly retorted to her: "People can't reach it. Where is my friend? How did she get there?"
No matter how weird things are, I can accept them calmly, as long as the thing itself can be explained by "reasons and principles".
Witch Longge raised her left hand wordlessly, and the spider bounced back into the darkness with a whooshing sound.
"There are some places that only the dead can reach, such as the underworld under the Nine Springs. Fifteen Ridges is not the underworld, but it is more terrifying than the underworld. Have you ever seen forty million poisonous snakes entwined together? Right there, four thousand
Ten thousand or more, the ability of that kind of animal to live and reproduce is endless -" She slapped the mounds in the sand table one by one with the branches in her hand.
"Master, please give me some advice on how to find her? I can satisfy any of your requirements."
I couldn't help but get anxious. The place Su Lun was going to was called the "Ladder to Heaven", and Witch Longe said she was at the "God of Heaven". I really didn't want to go on talking so evasively. I just wanted to make sure where she was going.
Which point on the earth she went to, and then organized people to rescue her back.
"There is a group of people who are also looking for her, and they are also in a hurry. There is one person among them who is as strong as a tiger, as cunning as a snake, flying like an eagle, and hiding like a rat. He is very powerful. Maybe he will be the next chosen by the gods.
, do you know him?" Longge's branch pointed to a mound in the upper right corner of the sand table and murmured to himself.
I tried my best to control my emotions and shook my head silently.
"There is an iron ring embedded in his skull, and there are some kind of steel brackets in his arms, legs, and even ribs. You really don't recognize it? But your name has been lingering in his mind. He is eager to see you.
Come to you, why?" Longge put aside the branch, found a bowl from the darkness, brought it to his mouth and took two big gulps.
I just thought of a person's name, and Longge suddenly shouted: "You know him, you lied!" Her ability, which is similar to "mind reading," is very sensitive. As long as there is a slight fluctuation in my thoughts, I will immediately feel it.
get.
"Yes, I know him."
After getting used to the neon-lit nights in the city, I suddenly came to this dark jungle night. I felt a burst of tightness in my chest and was very uncomfortable. The mist floating in the mountain forest was wet, and it seemed that every time I inhaled the air,
It's putting an extra burden on your respiratory organs.
"What are you looking for?" Long Ge lifted the black cloth on his head and stared at me with a strange sense of excitement.
"I can actually tell you a lot of... news..." She straightened her body, stretched her arms slowly, and performed a stretching movement similar to yoga balancing.
"How much are you willing to pay for that girl?" She leaned over and pulled out all the branches on the sand table, opened her palms, and smoothed the sand again.
She casually pulled out a black wire cage from the darkness, which contained more than a dozen ferocious crawling golden centipedes. The largest one was larger than a table knife. Suddenly seeing the light, these ferocious poisonous insects shuddered.
It raised its black head and its strong legs and feet kept waving.
"These little guys have been hungry for three days. If you can feed them, you may get the answer you want..."
"It is not difficult to donate blood to raise poisonous insects, but I need to get the information I want first. If you are a real Longge witch, why don't you dare to take off your hood and let me see your