flapping wings

Qi Ping immediately leaned over, took the rag and looked at it in his hand. He looked at Mu Xiaoque solemnly, "The guy in the inn just happened to have a big piece of his sleeve torn."

Mu Xiaoque nodded, and the two looked up at the same time, not daring to imagine what would happen outside.

If the inn clerk who entertained them these few days is fake, it undoubtedly means that the lives of the guests in the entire inn are in the hands of those people, food, tea, and even the incense and candles in the house.

"It's not for the two of us," Qi Ping said sternly, with anger in his eyes, "We've lived here for several days, and if we wanted to do something, we would have done it already, so we don't have to wait so long, so they are here Who are you waiting for?"

"It's not scary to wait for someone to come, but it's scary if they wait for someone to leave." Seeing Qi Ping's confused expression for a moment, Mu Xiaoque looked at the pile of rotting corpses next to him, "What if Beishan is what they want to plot? Don't forget, Beishan is also in the rivers and lakes."

"You mean that some people are dissatisfied with their neutrality?" Qi Ping couldn't help feeling cold, and he felt that his hair was blown up.

Turning around in a circle, he still asked: "If their goal is Beishan, what will happen?"

"Everyone staying in the inn is in danger," Mu Xiaoque's words echoed lightly in the well, but hit Qi Ping's heart like a boulder.

His whole body trembled uncontrollably, and although his eyes were looking at Mu Xiaoque, they lost focus a little bit.

After a while, Qi Ping asked with a rough voice: "What if they are waiting for you to leave? It seems that you are the only master in the inn. If you leave, nothing will happen."

Yong'an City, Beishan Inn, early autumn, full moon

Xiao Bao sat on the bed and waited for Xiao Er to bring him bath water, holding his own water bag in his hand to taste the special product of Yong'an City - marinated plum water. The sweet and sour water entered his stomach, and his head suddenly cleared up a lot.

Boom boom boom!

There was a knock on the door, and he hurriedly opened the door to meet him, but he found that the waiter at the door was not here to deliver water. He saw that the waiter was holding a tray with several new candles in it.

"Excuse me, guest officer," Xiaoer bowed again and again, with an embarrassed smile on his face: "My villain, go in and change a candle, or if the nobleman gets up at night and bumps into each other this night, the little ones will be miserable."

Xiaobao looked next door to him, there was no light coming out of Mu Xiaoque's room, probably it was still blowing on the roof.

He hurriedly moved away, and said: "Brother, please don't forget to change the candles in my brothers' room."

"Hey," Xiao Er replied repeatedly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, even if the room is empty, the candles will be checked tonight."

Bottom of the well

"What if something happens to Xiaobao?" Qi Ping found a corner and sat down decadently, "How can I get out?"

Mu Xiaoque brushed off the mud sticking to her white clothes, then kicked off the wall of the well again and jumped up.

The rocks on it were tightly fastened so that not even a ray of light could come through. He stretched out his hand and pushed towards the boulder with all his strength, but because there was no support under him, he fell down again before the rock could move.

He glanced back at Qi Ping, only to see that the man was staring at him with anticipation in his eyes, Mu Xiaoque couldn't help but sigh: "No."

"What should we do? Xiaobao's master is still waiting for him to go back," Qi Ping covered his face: "We haven't sent him safely to Yunhe City yet."

Mu Xiaoque nodded, and then turned to say: "But sometimes there are so many helplessness and coincidences? And Xiaobao may not necessarily encounter accidents."

Qi Ping bumped his head against the wall of the well behind, and before he could speak, a rumbling sound suddenly sounded behind him.

The eyes of the two turned at the same time, and a dark corridor appeared behind Qi Ping.

He turned around and touched the place where his head bumped. There was indeed a small bump there. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't have noticed that it was a mechanism.

The oil in the oil lamps placed on both sides of the corridor had almost dried up, indicating that no one had been here for a long time. Qi Ping took out a fire pocket and tried to light the cotton wick.

At this moment, a moth waving its powder wings suddenly rushed over and hit the spark directly.

The colorful powder falls from the wings and dances in the air, which is very eye-catching under the cold light from the night pearl.

Mu Xiaoque slapped the fire bag off Qi Ping's hand with one hand, and dragged him to her side with the other.

In the darkness ahead, you can see pairs of shining eyes, blinking like stars in the night sky.

I don't know whether these things have found a suitable place to live or were put there deliberately. Of course, considering the various strange scenes here, the situation is not optimistic.

Mu Xiaoque dragged Qi Ping behind her, and walked forward with the Ye Mingzhu while keeping an eye on the surrounding situation. The ground was sticky and there was a disgusting stench in the air.

Suddenly, there was a fluttering sound, and a group of unknown creatures rushed towards them under the cover of darkness. When they got close, they realized that it was a group of bats.

Under the cold light, the huge black shadow formed by the wings was printed on the ground under the feet, adding a gloomy and weird atmosphere to this cave.

The eyes of these bats were bloodshot, and they looked bloodthirsty and ferocious, far from what they usually see, as if they could be crushed to death with one hand.

Mu Xiaoque slapped out her palm, and the moment the flaming energy in her palm swept over the bat, it burned up, followed by a scorched smell pouring into her nostrils.

Amidst the squeaking and screaming, the flames merged into one piece, and the entire scene in the corridor suddenly shone into the eyes of the two of them.

Qi Ping was so frightened that he jumped forward and hugged Mu Xiaoque tightly by the waist, only to see countless centipedes and centipedes lying on the stone walls around them.

At this time, these bugs were fleeing in all directions at an accelerated speed due to the scorching of the flames. During a series of collisions, the bugs piled up in groups, and their jointed legs danced in the air.

Immediately afterwards, like peeling wall skin, they fell to the ground one after another, twisting their bodies and quickly crawling towards the two of them.

Mu Xiaoque quickly kicked a centipede that had crawled to their feet and flew away.

The centipede hit the poisonous insects writhing together on the stone wall, and then smashed up. The liquid in the body immediately stuck to the stone wall and flowed down viscously.

There were more and more bugs crawling under their feet, Mu Xiaoque and Qi Ping could kick a bunch of them away with one kick.

At this moment, the powder was scattered in the air, and a large group of moths flew from behind the two of them, flew over their heads and plunged into the flames in front of them.

Qi Ping couldn't help but sneezed, then fell back dizzily.

Mu Xiaoque hugged him and retreated, retreating back into the darkness behind her again. Although the sound of limbs crawling on the stone wall could still be heard here, it was obviously much better than the chaos in front.

"Hey," Mu Xiaoque tapped Qi Ping's chest a few times, then shook Qi Ping who was in his arms, his eyes were blurred, "How do you feel?"

"Not very good," Qi Ping coughed, squeezed the space between his brows, and then put down his hands weakly: "I can't use any strength."

Mu Xiaoque touched Qi Ping's forehead, it was getting hotter and hotter.

He circulated his true qi into Qi Ping's body, trying to force out the toxin, but he might have been poisoned from the very beginning when he came in. He was frightened and used force for such a long time, and the toxin had already spread.

"Am I going to die?" Qi Ping exhaled hot air, a wry smile leaked from the corner of his mouth, he raised his hand to touch Mu Xiaoque's face with nostalgia, and suddenly said with a smile: "No one will bother you anymore."

Mu Xiaoque lowered her head and ignored him, she didn't know what she was thinking, she rubbed Qi Ping's hair with her fingertips, her brows were knit together.

Seeing his appearance, Qi Ping sighed slightly sadly, and said: "You have to protect yourself, and my body won't need to be moved out. I'm not so superstitious. As long as you remember that there was a man named Qi Ping's people have fought side by side with you."

"Shut up, why are you talking so much?" Mu Xiaoque frowned, "Anyone who wants to remember you all the time will be bored to death."

"Hmph!" Qi Ping turned his head and took a few weak breaths, "Whoever misses me in the future is not human!"

Mu Xiaoque put his hand into his bosom, took it out again after a while, squeezed his empty hand, suddenly raised his head and glared at Qi Ping angrily, and slapped him on the forehead, "Trash!"

Qi Ping's tears almost didn't come out, he pursed his mouth, and in frustration, his eyelids could no longer support them and slowly closed.

With a slap, another slap on the forehead, only to hear Mu Xiaoque say coldly: "Don't sleep!"

"I just sleep, I just sleep," Qi Ping cried weakly, "I just want to sleep..."

Mu Xiaoque gritted her teeth, took a deep breath, reached into her bosom again, and took out a small bottle carved from top-grade jade.

He poured out an oval-shaped brown pill from it, and the moment the medicinal fragrance scattered, the little bugs in the dark moved forward eagerly.

"Eat it," Mu Xiaoque put the medicine near Qi Ping's mouth, "You won't die after eating it."

Qi Ping looked up at him, and finally realized what this man was struggling with just now, he turned his face away stubbornly: "It's full of poisonous insects, it will definitely be more useful if you eat it."

"I have," Mu Xiaoque casually took out another porcelain bottle from her bosom, then poured out a pill, stuffed it into her mouth and chewed it, "Hurry up, take one for each of us."

"Thank you," Qi Ping opened his mouth to grab the medicine, a warm current flowed into his stomach, then his limbs, and then his muscles and bones, as if there were ten thousand gnats biting, it was painful and numb .

He rubbed his head against Mu Xiaoque's arms, gritted his teeth and said nothing.

After a while, Qi Ping finally let out a long breath with sweat all over his face: "Why do we take different medicines?"

"What do you think I can eat?" Mu Xiaoque looked at him angrily: "Jelly beans?"

"Why is your temper getting worse?" Qi Ping sat up, feeling a lot more relaxed in his muscles and bones. He stretched his waist, and the sound of creaking and rattling rang out in strings at the joints.

Mu Xiaoque stood up, without looking at Qi Ping, went to the front and slapped the worms on the wall.

The fire boiled all the way on the wall, and the twisted carcasses of poisonous insects fell to the ground with crackling crackles.

Under his round after round of attacks, the stone wall couldn't help trembling, making an overwhelmed creaking sound.

Qi Ping shrank his neck and went to Mu Xiaoque's side to test, "I will buy that medicine and return it to you."

After the wood sparrow vented, it left behind a burnt smell all over the place, and the remaining poisonous insects escaped from the center of the storm and hid in the crevices of the stone walls.

He turned his head to look at Qi Ping, and seeing Qi Ping's rejuvenated look, he sighed and said, "I can't even afford you if I sell you, poor ghost."

Seeing Qi Ping's grinning appearance, Mu Xiaoque felt relieved. He patted Qi Ping's head and sighed: "A living person, even a trash like you, is more valuable than a dead thing. I really don't understand how we have traveled all the way. What's the point of coming?"

"Do you want to express your feelings or scold me?" Qi Ping bumped his head against Mu Xiaoque's shoulder, and said with a smile, "I like you more and more, Xiaoqueer."

"I'm at least ten years older than you, and I've saved your dog's life many times." Mu Xiaoque tapped Qi Ping's forehead: "Can you stop talking nonsense to me?"

"Brother Mu?" Goosebumps arose on Mu Xiaoque's body, and his face couldn't help wrinkling, especially when the memory in his dream was brought back again, he quickly pushed Qi Ping away: "If you dare to scream again, I will give you my mouth!" Sew on!"

"The reaction was great." Qi Ping kicked away the bug crawling over by his feet, "Actually, I prefer to call you Que'er."

The two of them walked all the way in the corridor, the entire passage was full of poisonous insects, and there were also poisonous snakes entrenched on the ground that sneaked up secretly from time to time.

These snakes have colorful surfaces, and when Qi Ping stepped on them seven inches away, the snakes still tenaciously sprayed out a stream of venom, fell to the ground, and produced a layer of white smoke.

Turn right at the end of the entire corridor, leading to a spacious cave. Compared to the chaos in the corridor, this place is like a paradise. It is quiet and there is no sound, and all the poisonous insects have stopped in front of the cave.

Mu Xiaoque and Qi Ping looked at each other, and it was easy to see that compared to the environment in the corridor, this place should be more suitable for insects to live in, but at this time the inside is simply unbelievably clean.