fight for day

The further he walked, the more horrified Ye Zhuming was. The soil was not only planted with spiritual plants, but also raised strange beasts. They looked like wild cats with fluffy white tails. The sound is like a curse...

It's like a zoo, where rare spirit beasts are kept in cages, either in groups or alone, and when the fierce ones see them, they grin their teeth and want to rush up. When they touch the old wooden cage, the railing will explode with thunder and lightning. The spirit beast was forced to scream and retreat.

Finally they came to a clear water pool, where Lu Zhou saw many fish-like creatures swimming in it, shaped like ordinary carp, but with a pair of bird wings, a white head and red mouth, and a very flexible underwater figure.

This appearance... resembles the ray in Shan Hai Jing.

Besides Wen Yu, there are also monsters with a fish body and a snake head and six legs. Lu Zhou glanced at Ye Zhuming with some doubts, and Ye Zhuming answered in a low voice: "Wen Yu and Ran Yi."

"And Shizuku." Song Huairan said softly.

ghost?What the hell?Just wanted to ask.Lu Zhou was puzzled, Song Huairan raised his hand and pointed, and he saw a white turtle floating out of the water.

Moreover, as soon as the tortoise came out of the water, the surrounding temperature immediately dropped a lot, and Lu Zhou even shivered.

Song Huairan raised his head and looked at the high platform suspended above the pool.

This high platform looks like a square rising from the ground, with the rugged foundation below it, which is extremely bright. The light source of this strange place all comes from this.

Song Huairan closed his eyes and concentrated, and then opened them after a while, the color of his eyes changed from light amber to pure golden, and the color was even more straight than Ye Zhuming's hair.

He raised his head, pointing his toes, soared into the air, and leaped lightly to the high platform with a drop of nearly [-] meters.

"...Your brother can fly?" Lu Zhou was surprised.

Ye Zhuming said: "This is not flying."

He stretched out his arms around Lu Zhou's waist, held him tightly in his arms, raised his head and looked upwards, stepped on his feet, and jumped up holding Lu Zhou in the same way.

Lu Zhou was taken flying several times tonight, and he was used to it. Before he could stand still after landing, he felt a wave of heat rushing towards his face.

He frowned and turned his face away, raised his hand to block it, and heard Ye Zhuming's angry cursing voice.

Lu Zhou looked over helplessly, and when he saw the scene in front of him clearly, his pupils suddenly constricted.

The edge of this high platform is not regular and flat, it is barely a circle, the diameter of the circular platform is no less than [-] meters, the surface is paved with jade, and in the center is a very large bird carcass with only one foot bone. The skeleton is bright red, and the surrounding space is slightly distorted. Like a smoldering iron frame.

The heat wave on the high platform was probably emitted by the bird bone, but it was not the bone that made Lu Zhou look pale, but the mermaids hanging on the high platform under the dark sky, one after another!

The high platform is wide, and there are countless mermaids, but those floating nearby are all very small in size and appearance, and the biggest ones are no more than junior high school students. There are men and women, their fish tails are hanging, and each fish has There is an opening from the waist to the caudal fin, exposing pink and white flesh, and under the fire, the edge of the wound oozes white oil more or less quickly, and flows into the bamboo basket where the fish tail is hung. .

Song Huairan's expression was gloomy, he had already opened his eyes, but he didn't feel any pain on the mermaid.It stands to reason that these mermaids were cut alive to make oil, and then roasted by Bifang fire, how could they be so calm?

Apart from them, there are a dozen or so Rakshalings on the high platform. They are bare-chested, hairless on the top of their heads, and their front and back faces are exposed. Each Rakshaling is holding a long wooden pole with a hook in his hand, patrolling He knocked on the bamboo basket hanging from the tail fin of the mermaid, took off the almost overflowing one, poured it into the stone box he had seen in the Eight Pillar Array, and then hung the diabolo basket back.

These Raksha spirits had two faces and four eyes. When they came up, they saw three people, but everyone who saw them just froze for a moment, and then ignored the three people and continued to collect oil.

From Lu Zhou's point of view, it was like a low-level NPC programmed in game time, without even triggering actions.

"I'll take care of these things, you go save people." Ye Zhuming said to Song Huairan in a deep voice.

He held the saber by his side, his body shot out like an off-string arrow, and the black clothes were flying endlessly. After a while, the wind was buzzing, and when he came to a Rakshaling, he raised the saber with his hand, and the snow-colored blade swept out in the air. cold glow.

After an afterimage, the ground was littered with corpses of Rakshasa spirits.

At the same time as Ye Zhuming made a move, Song Huairan also held the bamboo sword, the tip of the sword slid on the ground quickly, and the light and shadow were like dragons and snakes churning.

As he danced his wrists, the red light on Bi Fang's corpse gradually dimmed, and the heat began to dissipate.

Song Huairan's expression was terrified, and he held a sword to form a seal.

"One decree, ten thousand formations return to their source!"

The piercing chill began to spread from the feet, layer after layer of complex formations floated from the high platform and rose into the air. Each formation was entangled with each other, and the exact geometry was almost innumerable.

The golden light in Song Huairan's eyes was shining, and he swept the bamboo sword with two fingers in the middle of the food, and the sword body immediately felt cold, he raised his hand and slashed horizontally: "Break!"

The dark yellow sword light pierced through the air like a tangible object, and slashed straight at the formation. Lu Zhou heard a loud bang above his head, and the mermaids floating above his head seemed to have suddenly lost their support and fell down together.

Lu Zhou hurriedly stepped forward to reach out his hands to catch them, but their falling trend was immediately stopped by a puff of bluish-white mist. Lu Zhou turned his head and saw that the mist was actually emanating from Song Huairan's palm.

With a stern look on his face, the little mermaids fell one by one to the edge of the water pool under the ground of the high platform.

It was also at this time that Lu Zhou discovered that there were hundreds of mermaids hanging here!

After Song Huairan sent the mermaid down, he grabbed Lu Zhou's shoulders and jumped down. Lu Zhou felt like he was falling from a building jumper, and landed smoothly after a strong sense of weightlessness.

His expression was a little distorted, Song Huairan glanced at him, and patted Lu Zhou's back comfortingly.

After patting twice perfunctorily, he turned his gaze to the mermaids lying on the ground, his brows furrowed, wondering how they could still sleep soundly and peacefully like this.

He squatted halfway, and pressed the neck of a boy mermaid who was less than ten years old. The little mermaid had a huge tail, but his upper body was extremely thin, and his ribs were clearly visible.

Song Huairan frowned and watched for a moment, then stretched out his hands to pinch the little mermaid's chin, forcing the mermaid to open its mouth, then stretched its index finger in to explore, paused, and found a pure white bead.

As soon as the white pearl was taken out, the little mermaid's calm expression broke instantly, and she let out a sharp and stern cry of pain, her little face wrinkled into a ball, tears streaming down her face.

"Mom, mom, woo woo, dad, help me, I'm in so much pain..."

The little boy's fish tail was trembling continuously, red and blue mixed blood flowed out from the horrible wound.

Song Huairan's face became even more ugly, and he raised his hand to caress the top of the little boy's head, a slight blue light flickered, the little boy's crying gradually weakened, tears were stained on his face, and he fell into a deep sleep.

At this moment, Ye Zhuming jumped down from the high platform, and seeing this scene, his face was also very ugly.

"Are these people changed?" he asked.

Song Huairan nodded.

Ye Zhuming cursed.

Lu Zhou also felt an unknown karma in his heart. They were originally investigating the disappearance of children. In the current situation, it was obvious that something ghostly captured the children, turned them into mermaids, and hung them in the Here their oil is refined and the mermaid ointment is extracted.

There are nearly 400 children here, and more than 200 children have been missing and died in the past six years. That is to say, at least [-] children have died due to such torture.

Ye Zhuming thought of the fragrant pills sold in Baiyu Temple, Song Huairan said they were made of mermaid meat drained of fat, and he clacked the handle of the knife with his hand.

"Fuck it!!" Ye Zhuming was furious, wishing he could tear the mastermind behind the scenes into pieces!

Song Huairan's face was calm, but his eyes were full of hatred. He handed the white pearl in his hand to Ye Zhuming: "These children have this thing in their mouths, and there are Dixiu, 蓂草, 猼池, 朏朏 and poppy flowers in it. There's something else I don't know how. This makes them hallucinate and not feel pain."

Ye Zhuming looked at the white bead the size of a peanut, and when he heard Song Huairan's description, he suddenly remembered another thing.

"When we were investigating a new drug, Tianzhu, we encountered several ingredients that could not be detected—"

Thinking about it, who would have thought that someone would use these legendary plants and beasts to make poison?

There is only one Song Huairan in the world, and no one else has the ability to see the mystery at a glance.

Ye Zhuming put the jade beads away, and will send them back to Ducheng and Tianzhu tomorrow for comparison.

Things surfaced little by little, and he had obviously made a major breakthrough, but for some reason, he felt a sense of palpitations that were about to come.

"Don't think about anything else, saving people is the most important thing." Song Huairan suddenly pressed Ye Zhuming's shoulder, and took out a Qiankun bag for him, "Brother, go to the east to find Zhizhu and Lai Muguo, who are next to each other. ;I'll go find Fushancao and Baizhu. The more the better, I'll heal their injuries first, and then refine the elixir to restore the body."

These children are in a daze, and they may not be clear about their current situation. If they wake up and see themselves like this, I don't know how much harm it will cause.

Ye Zhuming nodded in response, at this moment Lu Zhou quickly asked Song Huairan: "What should I do?"

Song Huairan glanced at him, raised the bamboo sword and drew a circle around Lu Zhou.

"Stay here and don't move around. No matter what happens, you can't step out of this circle. Wait for us to come back." He paused, "It won't be far, it will be soon, don't worry."

For a moment, Lu Zhou felt that he had become Tang Seng.

But Song Huairan is very reliable, saying that it will be very fast, and he will turn back in the blink of an eye. He is holding a gray cloth bag in his hand, which is not big, but when he picks up the corner of the bag and falls down, the inside is shattering. Countless plants fell and piled up into a small hill that was level with him.

... Forget it, there is nothing to doubt, my brother is a coward, and everything that happens to him is normal.

Hang Bi put away the bag, then took out a sapphire bowl like a magic trick, and handed it to Lu Zhou.

"Brother Zhou, please help me get some water."

Lu Zhou pointed to his feet, and then to the water pool: "Can I move?"

Song Huairan laughed, "Yes."

With a flick of his hand, the circle drawn for Lu Zhou disappeared.

Originally thought that this bowl would be as big as a pocket, but when I stretched it out into the pool, it was full without any abnormality.

When Lu Zhou came back with water, Song Huairan had already put white ginseng on the wounds of all the fish. After Lu Zhou handed him the water, Song Huairan took the white ginseng spikes into the bowl and shook them a few times.

The clear pool water instantly turns white, exuding a rich ginseng fragrance.

Song Huairan dipped his palm in water, and dropped a few drops on the mermaid's wound. The deep bony wound on the fish's tail immediately oozes out strands of dark brown dirty blood. The flesh and blood squirm, as if driven by an invisible zipper, and the wound heals in an instant.

Lu Zhou repeatedly claimed to be amazed, looking at the rows of mermaids, Song Huairan really didn't know how long he would have to do it alone, so he asked, can I do this?

Song Huairan nodded and handed the bowl to Lu Zhou.

"I'll prepare something for alchemy." Song Huairan took out a bronze tripod from his magic pocket, judging by its size and simple texture, it could be used as a treasure in the provincial museum.

Song Huairan had never studied the art of turning a human into a mermaid back into a human, but there was still time to sharpen his gun before the battle. He dug out this collection of strange spells and looked at it intently.

Lu Zhou didn't bother him, and poured ginseng water on the fish with all his heart, and the bowl of water was quickly exhausted. Seeing that Song Huairan's eyes were closed and he was deducing something with his fingers, Lu Zhou ran to the pool by himself, ready to scoop up another bowl.

Ran Yi had a great time swimming in the pool, Lu Zhou squatted down and poked them with a bowl a few times to drive them away, when he was about to scoop up water, he saw a phantom in the swaying water waves.

...Ye Xu? !

Lu Zhou thought he was dazzled, so he leaned over to take a closer look, and it turned out to be Ye Xu.

The girl in the water looked very anxious, she kept making gestures of driving away with her hands, and kept yelling something.

Lu Zhou narrowed his eyes and struggled to make out the flashing light, and read from his lips that Ye Xu was shouting "Go away" and "Go away".

Who is she talking to?

Lu Zhou was wondering, when he suddenly heard Ye Zhuming's urgent roar: "Lu Zhou! Come back!"

Just as he was about to turn his head, a pair of wet hands stretched out from the water and grabbed his shoulders firmly. Lu Zhou didn't even have time to make any resistance, and was dragged into the water with a plop.

Song Huairan opened his eyes suddenly, just in time to catch the Qiankun bag thrown by Ye Zhuming, his elder brother's eyes were shattered, he didn't even look at him, and plunged into the pool without hesitation.

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Lu Zhou: I said I was Tang Seng, just joking, why did I really have to arrange a plot where I was taken away?