The carriage moved along the rugged mountain road into the valley, crossed a shallow stream, and saw a relatively flat area at the foot of the mountain.
"This is it." The secret guard leading the way stopped.
Chu Yi couldn't help but frown. There was almost no trace of human activity here: "Are you sure this is here?"
"Yes." The secret guard nodded.
Mingruo could tell that this was indeed a camp. There were many herbs planted around it that the corpse voodoo didn't like, and they must have been transplanted from other places on purpose.
Mingruo and Si Haochen got off the carriage, and A Yuan had already emerged from the dense vines: "Master."
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Ha Yi would never have imagined that there was a cave beneath these natural vines.
"Is the situation very bad?" A Yuan usually likes to wear hibiscus skirts, but now she has changed to cotton skirts, because she is afraid of some danger before.
"Yes." A Yuan nodded, "Too much anger can easily attract poisonous people. Please go into the cave first and let me explain in detail."
"Okay." Mingruo nodded.
A Yuan asked people to hide the two carriages and the horses pulling them into a nearby cave, and then led Mingruo and his party into the cave covered with vines.
After everyone entered the cave, A Yuan silently recited a mantra. Many small insects gathered from the surroundings and 'combed' the messy vines at the entrance of the cave into order, leaving no trace of anyone passing through.
Those little insects sorted out the vines and dispersed. Shi Qi was dumbfounded: "A Yuan, you can actually control flying insects?"
"This is just the most basic control technique, nothing more than a small skill." A Yuan looked indifferent.
"A trivial skill? Can I learn it?" Fifteen felt that this 'skill' seemed very unpredictable.
"Only after you have mastered the natal Gu can you practice the control technique." A Yuan thought for a while and then said, "You are not of the witch clan blood and you are old, so you will definitely not be able to learn it..."
A row of black lines fell off Fifteen's head. Just say that he doesn't have the blood of the Wu clan. The 'older' part is too much! He will only turn eighteen next month. Could it be that seventeen is the end of his life?
"Whatever you want to control, just ask Lao Tie to help you. Why bother to practice hard." Mingruo directly gave Fifteen the solution.
"..." Fifteen scratched the back of his head. The boss despises himself for being lazy every day. When it comes to "not wanting to make progress", the Queen is the leader! (Linglong rolled her eyes: How can you compare with Mom?
This baby can win by lying down!)
Mingruo looked at the cave carefully. The space inside was quite large. There was a fire pit in the middle, and a dozen children of different ages were sitting around the fire pit. The eyes of the younger ones were mostly ignorant and ignorant of the world.
.The older ones only have fear and sadness.
"These children escaped death because their families hid them in cellars and dry wells." A Yuan saw her master looking at the children and whispered, "These are the only children who survived in the whole village."
Their expressions were so heart-wrenching that Mingruo couldn't bear to look any further and cast his gaze deep into the cave. It seemed to be connected to other caves.
"There are still some people there who are not only infected with corpse poison, but also controlled by manipulation spells. They cannot be released directly, so they have to be locked up here first." A Yuan shook her head, "The slave tried to wake them up, but the spell was cast on them.
It's a black witch who used forbidden magic that cannot be unlocked."
"Yes." Mingruo nodded. These poisonous people are just like the poisonous people in Qingniu Town. They can only hope to return to normal after killing the black witch.
"What exactly do the people behind the scenes want to do..." Mingruo said to himself.
As a saint of Xikang, A Yuan has a deeper understanding of black witches than Ming Youyou: "They should want to create a large number of dead soldiers in a short period of time. The poisonous people who have been infected by the manipulation spell are strong in combat and die-hard, but there are also
Disadvantages.
The body transformed by toxins will collapse in three to five years and can only be used for "quick combat". Before the black witch captured the witch palace, he brought an army of poisonous poisonous people... As long as he is scratched and bitten, he may become...
Only when we become poisonous people do we become so passive."
Mingruo's heart was ringing with alarm, and he asked Si Haochen with his eyes: Is the man behind the scenes trying to 'prey for the cicada while the oriole is behind'?
Si Haochen had already made this speculation, so he was not surprised and asked instead: "Where is Chu Chenzhou?"
"Master Chu found out that there is a small village with less than a hundred people in Qingniu Mountain, and felt it was a bit suspicious. He took people to check it out this morning and said he would be back before sunset." A Yuan quickly replied.
Mingruo looked outside the cave and saw that it was completely dark: "He didn't come back on time. Could something have happened?"
"My servant has already sent someone to take care of him. News will come back soon." A Yuan also felt that something was wrong and planned to check it out in person.
Si Haochen made a gesture and Chu Yi led the secret guards out to look for the person.
"Master, please come here and take a rest." A Yuan led Mingruo to a slightly recessed spot on the mountain wall.
Due to the stone wall barrier, a small space was naturally formed here. A simple table and a bed made of tree stumps were also set up here.
Mingruo sat down on the edge of the bed, and Ah Qiu took out a copper hanging basket from the baggage he carried with him: "My slave, go and boil some water."
"Okay." Mingruo nodded.
"Master, there is a small cave further inside. I will make a bamboo bed and put it there in a while. You can spend the night here tonight." A Yuan was a little regretful. If she had known that the master would come, she would have tidied up the cave better.
Better. Now, I really feel wronged to my master.
"No, I and my wife will go to the carriage to rest later." The cave is in such a mess that my wife cannot rest well here.
"Then slave girl, go clean it up." A Yuan thought about putting more herbs in the cave where the carriage is parked, so as to prevent poisonous people from disturbing the master's rest.
"Just do whatever you want." They want to enter the space anyway, so it doesn't matter if it's a little messy outside.
"The slave will take care of it." A Yuan had just walked out of the big cave and saw Chu Yi flying toward the cave with a man on his shoulders.
It wasn't until they came closer that A Yuan saw clearly the person Chu Yi was carrying: "Chu...Master Chu!?"
"Master Chu was bitten by a poisonous person, do you think it can be cured..." Chu Yi put the person down.
"This..." A Yuan was startled and quickly stepped forward to check Chu Chenzhou's condition.
There was a hideous wound on Chu Chenzhou's forearm. It looked like a piece of flesh had been torn off by a wild beast. However, the area around the wound had turned black, and anyone could tell that it was poisoned.
A Yuan discovered that the upper part of Chu Chenzhou's wound was strangled with the torn off hem of his clothes to prevent the corpse poison from entering the internal organs along the blood vessels.
Seeing that Chu Chenzhou's face was like gold paper, Mingruo quickly asked someone to carry him over. By strangling the upper part of the wound, it was indeed possible to prevent the spread of corpse poison as much as possible. But after strangling for a long time, the blood supply to the arm was insufficient, and it was completely disabled.
