Pick up the Dragon

Peng Yu took a heavy breath: "I was terrified at the time. I could only hear the voice in all directions, but I couldn't see how many there were. I stayed where I was and didn't dare to move until Brother Ding broke the window and came in to rescue me. Let’s go, I realized that the entire inn is full of their Gu worms.”

"It was raining that day, and the business of the inn was good. There were a lot of people staying in the inn to shelter from the rain. It was because of this that we stayed here. Thinking of so many people, they would always have scruples? Who would have thought that they would block us? I can't describe the horror of releasing insects indiscriminately."

Li Yi couldn't help but interjected: "All the people in the inn are dead?"

Peng Yu: "They are all dead. There are about [-] men, women and children. Their bodies are lying on the ground. The caravan is also dead. In the end, only me, brother Ding and two other brothers escaped. Those two One of the brothers was bitten and died before running far."

His brows were tightly knit together, and the blood on his face faded a bit, as if he needed all the strength of his whole body to grab this bloody past from the depths of his memory, and he spit it out word by word through gritted teeth.

He calmed down his emotions a little, and said as plainly as possible: "Brother Ding is clever, and when he left, he took the caravan's medicine package with him. There is a detoxification pill made by the Peng family in it, although it is not very effective against those voodoo , but in the end it can play some role.”

"The three of us ran all the way, they were chasing all the way, I don't know how far we ran, the last brother died, brother Ding and I were both injured, and there was only one detoxification pill left, no matter what Whoever eats it may not be able to last until dawn."

He cast his eyes on the river and lowered his voice slightly: "Of course, you can still see me now, and you know whose belly the last medicine went into. We finally escaped from the Chu territory and sent out a signal flare to attract the nearest The Peng family guards, I was saved, but brother Dan Ding was seriously injured by poison, so he still..."

"I don't remember much about what happened afterwards. I only know that I was sent to Jirentang, and I was able to save my life. The caravan number 'Ding Wei', except for the leader, the other brothers didn't even have bones I can stay. From then on, I ordered all the Peng family caravans that passed through the range of the Wu clan to divert and detour, and I didn’t dare to go half a step further, so Ding Wei’s caravan was vacant, and it hasn’t been filled until now.”

Li Yi gave him a complicated look, not knowing how to comfort him.

Peng Yu: "I don't know how to make up for the mistakes I made, so I had to comfort their relatives, those in the caravan, and those in the inn. Then I went to sue the officials, trying to get them an explanation, but I almost did everything I could. I told them over and over again, they took the money and promised me that they would investigate, but every time I asked people to inquire, they always said 'they have sent people out', 'the traces have been found', and if you ask again, they will prevaricate you and say don't worry, In the end, they simply excused themselves by saying that the forest is full of poisonous substances, and they couldn’t get in, and they couldn’t catch anyone.”

"What can I do?" He smiled wryly. "The dead are gone, and I can't let the living take risks for them. This matter was finally let go. It has been three years since it came and went, who still remembers it?" .”

Qian Yue has been watching him worriedly from the sidelines, and finally couldn't help interjecting: "Master..."

Peng Yu waved his hand to indicate that he was fine: "After that, I didn't recover for a long time. After I recovered from my injury, I stayed in Peng's house and didn't want to go out. Don't mention things like going south... If it wasn't for you Come, I think I shall never set foot in the South again in my life."

He stretched out his hand and pointed forward: "This is very close to their territory. If you look at those mountains, there are probably their footprints."

Li Yi looked at him for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand to grab his fingers, only to feel that the temperature of the fingertips was as cold as the water of the Lijiang River in winter. Or just say one sentence: "I am here."

Peng Yu was slightly taken aback, and then the corners of his mouth curled up a bit: "Are you trying to comfort me? Thank you."

Li Yi let go of his hand in embarrassment, turned away his eyes and coughed lightly, and got back to the topic: "So can you recall that those Gu worms three years ago and the one you saw in the water last night may be the same kind?" ?”

His question seemed to have stumped Peng Yu, who thought for a while before he hesitated and said, "I'm not sure... If I remember correctly, the Gu worms they manipulated before can fly, otherwise it would be impossible to chase them all the way. for so long."

Li Yi asked suspiciously: "I don't know? You were bitten by that bug before, how could you not know what it looks like? You can always roughly..."

"Wait, wait," Peng Yu suddenly interrupted him, "When did I say I was bitten by a Gu insect? It was the snake Gu that bit me and Brother Ding, not the insect Gu."

"Snake Gu?"

Peng Yu nodded and said, "They used Gu insects flying in the sky to intercept us, and then released snakes to bite us, as well as poisonous things like centipedes, scorpions and spiders. When they chased us, it was usually at night, I really didn't see the flying insects clearly. What do insects look like?"

"Able to enter the water, ascend to the sky, escape from the ground..." Li Yi said slowly, "Their Gu skills are really powerful."

"Who said no, otherwise..."

Peng Yu's voice stopped abruptly, and when he looked up, he saw the surface of the river suddenly opened up in front of him - the sky is clear today, the river surface is as level as a mirror, and the peaks will be reflected in the water tomorrow, and it is impossible to tell which is real and which is reflection.

"Are we... are we here?" He involuntarily lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of breaking the picturesque scenery.

Li Yi nodded and stood up: "It should be here."

"There's not a single boat around here." Peng Yu looked around, "Although it's a vision and it's winter, it's too deserted, right?"

Not only was there no boat, there was no one, and there was no other sound except the sound of the boat breaking through the water.

At this time, Hongdou suddenly struggled, flopped twice on his knees, and let out a thin cry.

Peng Yu cast a questioning look, and Li Yi understood it at a glance, and explained: "It said it felt the position of Suzaku Ling."

"So fast?"

Peng Yu thought that this was too smooth, right?They just arrived and found Suzaku Ling?

It seems that in order to fulfill a small wish of Master Peng, a sudden change occurred in the next moment——

The Wupeng boat shook abruptly, and stopped just like that, drifting in the middle of the river without going to the village or back. Peng Yu subconsciously supported the side of the boat to maintain balance, and suddenly felt a vibration coming into his palm, very subtle, like Something was scratching the planks of the bottom of the boat.

This movement should not be too familiar, Peng Yu's hairs all exploded in an instant, and as expected, the sound that he would never forget in his dreams chased after him like a shadow, densely ringing at the bottom of the boat!

Peng Yu said in his heart that he was really afraid of something, and he jumped up like a conditioned reflex, and immediately moved away from the side of the boat.Li Yi squeezed his wrist to calm him down, leaned over and looked out of the boat, and sure enough, he saw countless dark shadows gathering from all directions, quickly approaching the boat they were on!

He stared at those black shadows for three seconds, and suddenly raised his hand to attract a thunder. The purple-white thunder split the water surface like a slash, and with a "boom", large white waves exploded in the river, and the water splashed half of the people. How high, those black unknown creatures were blown up into the sky, and then smashed back into the water.

The boat was also damaged by the waves, and it swung for a long distance, wobbling in the river, as if it was in danger.Peng Yu was almost thrown into the water by him to feed the fish, he frantically stabilized himself, and shouted in shock: "I said, can you be gentle!"

Li Yi turned a deaf ear to it, and stretched out his hand quickly to grab it, intercepted an unknown creature from mid-air, glanced at it, turned around and handed it to Peng Yu.

Poor Young Master Peng's little heart was still thrashing left and right in the shock just now, and if he was frightened even more, three souls and seven souls almost flew out of Tianling Gai.His pupils constricted violently, and he felt that he was about to get stuck in his throat, and his scalp was numb all the way to his heels.

Li Yi stepped forward and patted him on the back without changing his face: "Don't be dizzy, take a closer look, what is this?"

Peng Yu rolled his eyes, pulled his soul that was about to fly back to his body, slowly exhaled the stale air stuck in his chest, his legs became weak, and he sat down on his buttocks.

Li Yi also squatted down with him, Peng Yu raised his eyes and saw a small black worm in his hand, about an inch long, with a round head and tail, shaped like an olive pit, and slender down on its legs. The whole worm was motionless, and [-]% of it was completely dead.

Peng Yu opened his eyes slightly, and then raised his hand to block his arm: "You don't think it's disgusting!"

Li Yi looked at him inexplicably, and flipped the dead insects back into the water, and a dense layer of insect corpses had already floated on the surface of the water.Peng Yu had goosebumps all over his body, and he quickly asked him to drive the boat far away, his whole body was trembling and he had no grace to speak of.

Li Yi sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "What's so scary about this bug that it scares you like this?"

Peng Yu hurriedly pulled off his claws, and said tremblingly, "If you hear thousands of insects crawling when you are blind, would you be afraid too? And you...don't you feel sick?"

"I think it's much cuter than those bugs with the same hair. The soft-bodied bugs are really disgusting when they crawl on your hands." Li Yi said frankly, "And don't worry, although the bugs bite more painful, they are not poisonous. It can even be used as medicine, and it is said to be delicious—Jiuyuan, do you want to try it?"

Jiu Yuan looked at his own Dragon King very puzzled, not knowing when it gave him the illusion that he likes to eat bugs.

Hearing these words, Peng Yu felt nauseous, and almost vomited on the spot, so he couldn't help it: "So what kind of insect is this?"

"Dragon lice."

"……'dragon'?"

Li Yi's eyes became a little strange: "Although it's called dragon lice, it has nothing to do with dragons. Our dragons are very clean, and we don't grow lice on our bodies, let alone the offspring of dragons and lice—I don't quite understand." Why do you humans give it such a name?"

Peng Yu: "..."

Li Yi added: "This worm is good at swimming and flying, so it should match the kind of worm you mentioned. However, it is very unusual for dragon lice to appear in such a concentration and attack ships actively. I am more inclined to think that they are human. control……"

Peng Yu has recovered from the previous panic, and at this moment he quickly understood what he meant - there is a distance range for controlling Gu insects, and this range will not be too large. Now that the Gu insects are here, the Gu master must also be there. Nearby!

The hairs all over his body exploded, Li Yi reacted faster than him, he gave Jiu Yuan a wink, and the latter immediately turned into a dragon and flew out.But at this moment, Hongdou suddenly let out a loud and long cry for some reason, flapped his wings and flew crookedly into the air!

"red beans!"

Peng Yu uttered a cry of panic, worried that the little Suzaku, which was not flying well, would accidentally fall into the water, and hurriedly asked Li Yi to urge the boat to follow, only to see Hongdou flapping its wings vigorously and flying forward, a long His tail feathers dragged behind him, drawing a graceful red shadow in the air.

As if it had been guided by something, it left everyone behind regardless. Li Yi urged the boat to go faster, only to hear it sing clearly, and a red light suddenly flashed not far ahead.

Peng Yu took a closer look, and saw that the red light was nothing else, but a piece of Suzaku feather!

He silently sweated for little Suzaku, afraid that something would come out to hinder it at this juncture. Fortunately, there was nothing, but the stone in his heart hadn't landed yet, and the weird scene that followed made him breathe again. Throat——

The red bean ran straight through the Suzaku feathers!

Peng Yu's eyes widened suddenly, it was unbelievable, Hongdou was obviously more confused than him, he called out twice in doubt, then turned his head around to reach Suzaku Ling again - still passed through without any hindrance!

It didn't seem to believe this evil, and tried again and again, but all failed without exception. The floating Suzaku feather seemed to be just a phantom, stopping in midair without embarrassment, no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't touch a single bit.

Hongdou finally wailed, and reluctantly flew back to Peng Yu's shoulder. At this time, Jiuyuan also landed on the boat and turned into a human form: "My lord, there is nothing nearby."

Li Yi nodded. He didn't seem to be surprised by this result. He just looked up at Suzaku Ling in the sky, and said in a raving voice: "It's really strange, how could it appear in the sky? The more hidden the holy thing is, the better. Is there such a clear display for people to see?"

Peng Yu's neck was sore, and for a moment his attention was all attracted by the sudden appearance of Suzaku Ling, and he completely forgot about the bug.He stretched out his hand to comfort the frustrated red bean, and then rubbed the sleeping soybean: "Do you think this thing is fake? Maybe Suzaku Ling is not around at all, and someone deliberately made it for us to see?"

Hongdou wailed twice, as if very dissatisfied with his questioning.

"It's unlikely," Li Yi said, "First of all, if it's fake, your eyes should be able to see it immediately, unless it was deliberately made by the God of Suzaku. The Qi of Fire was bred again, its induction should be correct, Suzaku Ling must be nearby."

"That……"

Li Yi raised his hand to interrupt him, suddenly remembered something, and said: "A section of the Lijiang River with a picturesque reflection...why is this section?"

Something seemed to flash through his mind, and he quickly grabbed the tail with his eyes and hands. Following this line of thought, he lowered his head to look at the reflection in the water, and then paused slightly, his eyes suddenly became dark.