Pick up the Dragon

When Peng Yu saw that face, he froze slightly, then opened his eyes in disbelief, and took a light breath.

It really couldn't be considered a human face anymore, the person's appearance was swollen and distorted, his eyes were dull and stiff, his exposed skin was all iron blue, and even the dark purple blood vessels were faintly visible, which was even more apparent when he was beaten by the shimmering light of the dragon fire. Weird and ugly.

If it wasn't for him being able to move, Peng Yu would have suspected that it was a corpse.

He stared at that "person" for a long time, and finally asked uncertainly: "Xiao...Xiao Yang?"

The puppet naturally couldn't pay attention to him, but Qian Yue heard the sound and looked over suspiciously: "Master?"

Peng Yu didn't answer any more, just pursed his lips tightly, and stared straight at the puppet—the puppet seemed to be younger than the others, and also slightly thinner. Make a hole.

He closed his eyes forcefully, and clenched his teeth. He couldn't tell what it was like for a moment, as if a hole had been opened, and sour water leaked in. Tears were turbulent in his chest cavity, and he couldn't let them out. stay home.

Yang Dao, the youngest member of Ding Wei's caravan, is one year younger than Peng Yu, a boy who likes to daydream.His real name was not Yang Dao, but he ran away from home behind his back behind his parents' backs, and secretly changed his name because of his lofty ambition of "striving the world with love and hatred."

As a result, young Lang Yuan didn't know the dangers of the world, and lost his way within three days after he left. He was rescued by a caravan led by Ding Er when he was hungry and thirsty.

Looking at the distorted face, Peng Yu didn't know how he could identify the soul that escaped from the unrecognizable body. He still remembered the long talk between the young man and Brother Ding, talking about his lofty ambitions with eloquence. Appearance - The young man has a good kung fu, making the "swallow fly" who can hold the moon with one hand. He is often taught by Brother Ding that there are nails growing under his buttocks. Swing back and forth, learn a vivid bird song, and add a touch of vitality to the boring business road.

But now this lively and lifelike boy has become a puppet with green face and fangs, and the light swallow has turned into a clumsy domestic chicken. Peng Yu almost looked away hastily, only to feel that the past is still vivid in his memory, and it is not time that can whitewash the peace .

The three of them moved to the next tree, and Jiuyuan activated the spell to condense the water vapor in the forest into ice, temporarily freezing the puppet in it, and then tried to summon dragon fire to burn this evil creature that was neither human nor ghost, but the result was Peng Yu grabbed his arm: "Wait, don't... don't burn it."

Jiu Yuan returned a questioning look, but Peng Yu dodged his eyes and made a poor excuse for himself: "Don't set the forest on fire, we won't be able to escape that way."

Long Weiwei thought about it carefully, and felt that what he said was reasonable, so he retracted his palm and compromised neatly.

At this time, there was a strange tremor among the bushes not far away, Peng Yu raised his eyes and saw a black shadow flying out, followed by a white shadow, shouting: "Qianyue!"

Hearing the sound, Qianyue moved, the knife in his hand "choked", a ray of silver light was meeting the flying black shadow, the opponent couldn't dodge and hastily parried, who would have expected that the knife was as powerful as a mountain, and it actually split open to parry, hitting his shoulder fiercely. Leaving a bloody mouth!

The man was obviously in pain, and let out an uncontrollable muffled groan, which reached Peng Yu's ears. The latter turned his head suddenly, and saw the thin and delicate figure outlined by the black shadow, who was only twelve or thirteen girl!

The moment Peng Yu saw her, the blood on his face faded completely, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head, and the blood in his body rushed back to his heart as if boiling, his chest was terribly hot, but his limbs were cold .

"It's you..." He gritted his teeth tightly, and every word seemed to be forced out from between his teeth, "It's you who made them like this?"

The black-clothed girl turned her head when she heard the sound, and there was a strange sound coming from behind her, and it was too late to hide, a white light suddenly swept towards her, stretching into a thin thread, binding her firmly in it!

"Be careful!" Li Yi appeared out of nowhere, and suddenly saw a puppet's head protruding from behind Qianyue, raised his hand and knocked it flying, "Go back to the tree! Don't touch those puppets, they are all covered with blood. poison!"

Qian Yue followed the sound and walked away, jumped back to Peng Yu's side, Li Yi followed closely, grasping in the air with five fingers, the thin thread on the girl in black suddenly tightened, pulled out a thread and lifted her up in the air, not far or near hanging from a tree.

"Let me go!" She yelled angrily, struggling to struggle, "Who are you guys! What's the purpose of breaking in!"

"I want to ask you this." Li Yi landed next to Peng Yu, stretched out his hand and lightly clasped his shoulder, and felt that the man's back was straight, "Who are you? Xiangxiang, isn’t this the way of hospitality?”

Hearing the words, the other party sneered: "Guess? Pooh! You Han people with ulterior motives, you want to drive us to extinction all day long, and you still want us to treat each other with courtesy? Go to hell!"

"Drive you all to death? Who drove you all to death!" Peng Yu was provoked by her words, and suddenly shouted, "We kindly gave you a ride, just because I said something extra, you are going to drive our entire caravan Cut grass and roots? Even at the expense of innocent passers-by? Why do you pretend to be innocent and pitiful? I think you deserve to be squeezed out! Take it upon yourself!"

The witch girl was slightly taken aback, turned her head to see his face, and suddenly understood: "It's you? You didn't die, what a fate! Your caravan will risk their lives to protect you. You don’t know how to cherish a life, and you dare to find trouble? I think they really died in vain, and I’m not worth it for them!”

Peng Yu's face turned pale, and he trembled uncontrollably. He was about to fight back when Li Yi gently grabbed his wrist. The latter pressed his wrist bone to signal him to keep quiet, and said to the girl, : "Remove your puppet."

The other party smiled sarcastically, and that expression was particularly discordant on her childish little face: "If you want me to withdraw, I will withdraw? You treat me as..."

"Your puppets can't do anything to us, and Gu worms can't get close to us. Haven't you found it yet?" Li Yi forcefully interrupted her voice, "I think it must be difficult for you to refine these puppets. Every time you destroy one, it will be very harmful to you. It’s a great loss—it must be hard to be alone, right? It must be very hard to use these forbidden techniques secretly, isn’t it?”

His words somehow hit the other person's sore spot, and she yelled hysterically after a pause: "Shut up! What do you know! I'm for the Witch Clan, you bloody Han people deserve to die!"

As she was speaking, she suddenly began to mutter something, but before she could say a single command, she was interrupted by a sharp whistle, and the command was forced to be interrupted. When she wanted to continue angrily, she heard the man in white speak again.

Li Yi wrapped her fingertips around a piece of hair that came from her at some point, and made an inconspicuous stroke with her right hand: "I'm not good at controlling puppets, but it's more than enough to control people. Be honest and be good." Obedient, or should I make you obedient?"

The witch girl closed her mouth with grief and indignation, as if she knew she was no match for them, she finally withdrew the puppet unwillingly, and fell silent under the banging tree.

Peng Yu glanced down quickly, except for the puppet frozen by Jiuyuan, the rest of the puppets retreated in unison, and soon submerged Yang Dao's figure, and could not be found.

He looked back slightly disappointed, and slightly turned his wrist back to shake Li Yi's hand.

Li Yi let him go without any trace, and continued to "interrogate" the witch girl: "The people who died on the Lijiang River are all your fault?"

The girl was tied up and her arrogance remained undiminished. She raised her chin: "Those people deserve to die. You Han people don't have a good thing. It's their honor to be able to sacrifice to our sacred things alive."

"Your clan's sacred object?" Li Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, "You said that Suzaku Ling is your clan's sacred object?"

There was a smug look on the girl's face: "The Suzaku is the totem of our clan, and the feathers of the Vermilion Bird have blessed our clan from ancient times to the present, so they are naturally a sacred object of our clan."

"Your remarks are really interesting." Li Yi seemed to have heard some funny joke, clasped his temple with one hand, and laughed softly, "If someone loses money on your property, you can think that the money is yours. Is it right? You used this money to start a big business from scratch, and you still want to brag to others that God favored you? Do all of you Wu people think this way?"

The girl's face turned blue and red, and she was about to open her mouth to refute, when suddenly she saw a red bird flying down from a high place, folded its wings and landed on Peng Yu's shoulder, lovingly pecking at his hair.

Her pupils shrank suddenly, she could hardly believe her eyes, her lips trembled violently: "You..."

Li Yi raised her hand and put her on the ground, but the white thread that tied her was still untied: "Take us to Suzaku Ling, what is not yours is not yours anyway, if you are really in awe of your totem, you will not would use it to do such outrageous things."

The girl lowered her head, glanced at the puppets who were waiting quietly and the Gu worms who did not dare to approach, bit her lower lip hard, and said for a while: "Okay, I can take you to find them, but you have to promise me that you will leave immediately after you get the things." Here, the farther you go, the better, never come back!"

Li Yi slightly raised the corner of his mouth, and didn't know if he believed her sudden change of attitude: "Don't worry, not everyone likes to come to the dense forest ravaged by poisonous miasma without incident - lead the way."

The girl snorted and walked further into the woods. The four of them also jumped down from the tree to follow her, and then there was a rustling sound behind them, and the puppets came up not too far away.

Peng Yu glanced at the girl in front of him, the Gu worms flying in the sky and crawling on the ground, and the puppets chasing after him, thinking that this is no way to lead the way, it is clearly "encircled from all sides", he couldn't help but suck his teeth, and said softly Said: "Why do I feel that this situation is not good..."

Li Yi glanced at him with a half-smile, and whispered in his ear, "It's okay, just let her play tricks and see through without revealing."

Peng Yu returned an inexplicable look, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the Dragon King's gourd, so he shut up politely and didn't say anything more.

The road at night was extremely difficult, but fortunately, there was a cluster of dragon fire chasing the witch girl closely, so she didn't lose her.A few people went from late night to dawn, and when the sky was about to dawn, their vision suddenly became clear, and several forest huts appeared in front of them.

Before Peng Yu could take a closer look, the red beans on his shoulders suddenly jumped up, raised their necks, and spread their wings to fly into the air.

Seeing the direction it was going in, the girl's complexion changed abruptly, and she couldn't help shouting: "Stop! Don't go there!"

Her voice failed to stop Hongdou, but instead woke everyone up. Li Yi flew towards the direction where Hongdou was flying like a gust of wind, causing the girl to shout angrily: "Come back to me!"

The group of four ignored her and chased after Hongdou one after another. The girl was left at the end for a while, and the eyes that looked at the backs of the several people became bitter, her palm-sized face was pale, and her black eyes The eyes got bigger and bigger, and the dim light and shadow at dawn hit her face. From a certain angle, she didn't look so human.

She gritted her teeth fiercely, muttered something, and finally gave the command that was repeatedly interrupted, and the puppet army behind her creaked into action again, like a well-trained phalanx, heading towards the place where a few people disappeared. direction to catch up.At the same time, countless Gu worms flew out from the forest and gathered from all directions. At that moment, I couldn't count how many there were, but I could only see the dark clouds covering the sky and turning the bright sky back into darkness.

Finally, a smug expression could not be restrained on her face, and the corners of her mouth curled up frivolously, like the tail of a scorpion.She was still tied with a funny white thread, but the whole person was striding forward unhurriedly.

When Peng Yu caught up with Hongdou, what he saw almost knocked him in place.

Not far away in the open place is a large pot that can fit two people. Something is cooking in the pot, emitting an unspeakable stench, and it seems to have a hint of sweetness.A tattered puppet next to it was holding a huge iron spoon, stirring in the pot with unchanging movements, and the other puppet didn't even have a leg, only half of its body stuck on the ground, with one arm Holding a cattail fan, he worked tirelessly to fan the fire under the pot.

A section of crimson feathers could be vaguely seen in the flames, but Peng Yu didn't notice it for a while, because he couldn't move his eyes away when he touched the two puppets, his eyes became hot, and he almost shed tears.

Li Yi suddenly noticed his strangeness, turned his head to look, but caught a look of astonishment on Qian Yuechu's calm face, and then covered his mouth with his hand.

He made up his mind, and didn't dare to speak out to provoke someone, suddenly felt something, turned around and saw the witch girl slowly following her, raised her chin, and looked at him provocatively.

Li Yi frowned, and was hesitating whether to simply shut her mouth, when she saw that she had turned to Peng Yu's back, and said with a kind of pleasure in her voice, as if revenge: "Did you recognize it? I have to admit, The people in the Peng family caravan are all copper-headed and iron-boned, and they are really good materials for refining puppets. Without them, my puppets may have to wait for a few more years to succeed."

There were a few tattered puppets missing arms and legs in the distance, and she looked at them regretfully: "It's a pity that no matter how strong it is, it can only last for three years, and there is only a small and complete little monkey left. If there are not enough puppets I'm still not willing to use him - he is much more flexible than other puppets."

Peng Yu slowly clenched his fists, his back was straightened, and a ridge protruded slightly from his thin clothes, like a blade.

The girl seemed to sense his restrained emotions from a distance, and she couldn't help but smile even more heartily, with a regretful and sympathetic expression on her face, so her expression became particularly distorted: "Those boatmen are considered to be physically strong, but after all, they are stronger than your businessmen." The team is short of people-the quality is insufficient, so it can only be made up by quantity."

She tilted her head slightly, licked the small canine teeth sticking out of the corners of her mouth, and turned her eyes around Qianyue's face: "I haven't tried refining a female puppet yet, so I'm very curious. Why don't you give me this chance?"

As soon as she said this, everyone except Peng Yu frowned. The former turned around suddenly, his face was as calm as water, but his eyes were staring at her. It was carved with a knife.

When the girl saw him, she felt a "thump" in her heart for no reason. She took a step back and saw the other person walking towards her step by step. The steps seemed to be as calm as his own, and she didn't even make too much noise on the ground. .

Peng Yu slowly stood still in front of her, condescendingly looking down at the girl who was less than his shoulders, then bent slightly, put one arm on her shoulder, and looked at her at the same level.

He stared into the other person's eyes, and said softly, "You've grown so big, no one has taught you a lesson, right? You've lived in the forest for a long time, and you've been with wild beasts for a long time, and you've become as wild as they are, and you're as good as poison Over time, it becomes as poisonous as they are—do you remember being a 'human'?"

The girl frowned, and her tone made her very unhappy. She tried to break free from his hands with a twist of her shoulders, but the opponent's hand was surprisingly strong, and she hardly moved at all.

"It doesn't matter if you don't remember," Peng Yu suddenly smiled amiably, with a very peaceful tone, "I can help you remember."

As he spoke, he suddenly raised a hand, and slapped the other party's pretty face.