【Xue Xiao】Desolate City Crossing

Chapter 53 Dungeon Terror

The blue light on his body went out, and he knew that Xiao Xingchen was summoning him outside with a spirit summoning technique, but he didn't know whether it was because of Guiluo or the incense, Xue Yang was always submerged in the water, unable to respond to the summons.

The water level in the dungeon is getting higher and higher, and the feeling of suffocation and being burned all over the body is getting stronger and stronger.

"Ayang!!!"

Xiao Xingchen's hoarse and exhausted call came from above his head.Looking up, the water has completely submerged the dungeon, rising to a position close to the exit of the transom.The light from the transom became distorted and distant, and there was a faint shaking figure in the middle.

It was Xiao Xingchen.

Can be seen but cannot be touched.

The power in the spirit body is draining.

Could it be that there is no escape from this dungeon after all?There are more and more ghost flowers wrapped around Xue Yang's body.

The calls above his head were louder than the loud ones. Xue Yang could imagine Xiao Xingchen's anxious appearance on the top just by the sound alone. In his life, no one had ever cared about him like this.

No, I promised the head of the aisle that he would definitely go up, but the head of the hall is still waiting for him outside!

With a sudden strength that he didn't know where it came from, Xue Yang swung the dagger again, cutting off the roots of the ghost radishes that were entangled with him. The light was getting closer and closer, and finally, with a "crash", the body broke through the water.

Xiao Xingchen let go of the silk thread of the soul-binding curse, then grabbed Xue Yang's arm, and carried him out of the well completely.

"It hurts..." Xue Yang was drenched all over, covered with a thick layer of ghost rose, and lay down limply in Xiao Xingchen's arms.

"Where does it hurt?"

Under the sunlight in the afternoon, the faint aura on Xue Yang's skin was hard to discern with the naked eye. Xiao Xingchen anxiously tore off the ghost vine and checked it up and down, but he couldn't see the wound. It was extremely painful.

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Xiao Xingchen took off his outer robe and covered Xue Yang's head tightly, motioned for the children to follow him, carried Xue Yang on his back and ran quickly to a place where the sun could not shine.

"How? Would it be better to be here?"

Xue Yang finally relaxed his body a little, and nodded while wrinkling his facial features. Xiao Xingchen picked out a luxuriant arborvitae tree and put Xue Yang under the shade.

It turned out that Xue Yang's spiritual body was temporarily weakened by the erosion of the incense, and he could not see the sun like an ordinary ghost.Fortunately, it was not soaked for a long time. If it was longer, the consequences would be disastrous.

There happened to be a wound on Xiao Xingchen's arm. He cast a curse of nourishing the soul with blood, and handed the wound to Xue Yang's lips. Xue Yang wanted to refuse, but his body was weak and his consciousness was blurred, so he could only lie flat and let Xiao Xingchen The blood gurgles in the mouth.

The wound on the arm was caused by Xue Yang's mistake when the two had a dispute in the dungeon.

"Okay... I'll just take a rest." Xue Yang only took a few sips, and after regaining some strength, he pushed Xiao Xingchen's arm away and turned his head aside.

Xiao Xingchen saw that his complexion had indeed recovered a bit, his eyes were no longer as distracted as it was a moment ago, and finally felt relieved, he took out a candy from his bag, peeled off the wrapper and put it in Xue Yang's mouth, suppressing the smell of blood .

Xue Yang tried his best to sit up straight, leaned against the thick tree trunk, and stared at Xiao Xingchen for a long time, "Since we met, the Taoist priest has saved me many times, right?"

"Yeah, why do you always suffer from disasters, which makes people worry."

Xue Yang smiled: "Maybe it's retribution."

Xiao Xingchen's eyes darkened for a moment, but he still said firmly: "Now that you have changed your past, no matter what danger you encounter, as long as I am here, I will do my best to save you."

Xue Yang felt that this sentence was really sweet and astringent, making people have mixed tastes.It's not so easy to change the past, Xiao Xingchen saved him so many times, I'm afraid he was under a lot of pressure.

Xiao Xingchen lit several fires and asked the children to dry their clothes. He asked them in detail where their families were and whether they had parents.After doing this, he came back and asked Xue Yang, who had calmed down a bit: "This Shi Wusheng, what is he trying to do by abducting so many children and making them kill each other with spirit picking?"

"Refining Human Pill," Xue Yang said calmly again: "Collect the spiritual energy of a hundred soul boys, and your own Golden Pill can be refined into a human pill. If you gather three of these human pills, no matter whether you are a human or a ghost, you can become a demon after taking it." The power he possessed at that time, I am afraid that no one in the Immortal Sect can beat him."

"There is such a strange technique?!" Xiao Xingchen was surprised and angry, "Then to make three human pills, three hundred children with spiritual roots are needed?"

"The actual need is much more than this number, because the spirit picking technique is risky. At least half of the people who use this technique will die suddenly before the golden elixir is refined. I don't know how many secret dungeons like this have been built by Shi Wusheng. , For example, the one that imprisoned me was far away from here."

Xiao Xingchen's heart was heavy and cold when he heard it: "No wonder Shi Wusheng wants to make huge profits from the dementing incense. He builds dungeons, raises prisoners, and enlists others to work for him. He really needs a lot of money." He stared at Xue Yang. Suddenly realized, "Master Ying, that is, Shi Wusheng is looking for you secretly, is it because your golden core has already..."

"No, I don't have more than a hundred people, I'm short of three." Thinking that he had almost become a stepping stone for Shi Wusheng to gain power and become a demon, Xue Yanghan was filled with hatred, his eyes were as sharp as a knife's edge, "However, Shi Wusheng must still be the same when looking for me The reason is that human pills are not easy to practice, if he can find me, he can save a lot of effort, after all, I only need to gather three more people, and the golden pill can be refined into a human pill."

Xiao Xingchen put a hand on Xue Yang's shoulder to express his comfort, and asked, "Then how did you escape from the dungeon?"

"After I bloodbathed the dungeon once, Shi Wusheng didn't dare to lock me up with others. For the next three years, in such a big dungeon, most of the time, besides me, there were guards on shifts and a few people who accompanied me to practice martial arts. Shi Wusheng At that time, things were not as comprehensive as they are now, and the dungeon mechanism was not so complicated. After he went mad and died, the guards controlled by the Gu worms ended their lifespan for one year, and died one after another. In the end, there was no one left. I am alone, in the The dungeon is running out of water and food, and I have to pry almost every stone to crack the mechanism and escape from the dungeon. When I cracked the secret room of the Spring Wind Tower today, I found that the mechanism settings are really familiar, so I suspect that there is also a dungeon here .”

Xiao Xingchen listened, and there was also a picture of a young man struggling to escape from a dark dungeon in despair and hunger in his spiritual consciousness. He felt how this person had been so troubled since he was young. With more than 20 pairs of eyes staring at him, he had to temporarily suppress the impulse.

"Becoming a demon by sorcery will definitely bring disaster to the world. This matter cannot be stopped by the few of us. I have to explain to Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji that the four major families should work together to search for missing children and check for possible dungeons. and try to catch Shi Wusheng and make him fall to death." Xiao Xingchen thought for a while, then murmured worriedly, "But where else would there be a dungeon? Chunfeng Building is because the accounts are abnormal, and you know the agency, so it just so happened Found it, but what about other places? It doesn’t necessarily mean that where there is a stronghold of the house-robbing gang, there is a dungeon, right?”

Xue Yang had expected that Xiao Xingchen would have such an attitude, and he had already thought about the rest of the matter: "In a duel against Cailing, you must have a person with comparable spiritual power and force. Sometimes a dungeon cannot meet such conditions. The soul boy imprisoned in several dungeons will be transported back and forth, the Taoist priest, don't forget, we still have one person in our hands who has not been tried."

Xiao Xingchen understood: "Boss Chunfeng Lou."

"Yes. This dungeon is connected to the secret room of Chunfeng Tower, which is the evidence that he assisted Shi Wusheng. I don't believe that he knows nothing about Shi Wusheng's other actions."

Xue Yang made up his mind to torture Boss Yan himself, but his interrogation process was bloody and brutal, and Xiao Xingchen couldn't let Xiao Xingchen watch it on the sidelines, so as not to be tied up, so he pointed to the more than 20 children who were warming up on the side, "The Taoist priest wants to take What should they do? I'm afraid there won't be so many people living in Liu Cuoxin's house."

Xiao Xingchen said: "There is a fairy gate belonging to the Nie family stationed here. I heard that it is the Li family. The scale is not small. I will take these children to explain the situation, see if they can be resettled, and help them find their relatives." At this point, he sighed: "As I asked just now, there are more than a dozen of these children who have no relatives. If the fairy sect here is reliable, it would be best to take them in as apprentices."

These words were exactly what Xue Yang wanted. As the sun got lower and lower, the ghost Xue Yang regained more vitality. He stood up while leaning on the tree trunk: "Mr. Li has to make arrangements if he can't. Since he is stationed here, it is up to him to take care of these trivial matters." Their responsibilities. I am most annoyed to deal with those fairy sects. This matter has to be handled by the Taoist priest himself. I will go back and interrogate the surname Yan."

Xiao Xingchen knew that Xue Yang couldn't wait to find out Shi Wusheng's whereabouts, and that he was really not good at interrogating, so he agreed without hesitation.

After separating from Xue Yang, Xiao Xingchen took 23 children to the Li family of Xianmen. As soon as they reported their names, Liu came to him wrongly, saying that Xue Yang was worried that Taoist priest Xiao Xingchen would not be able to handle things alone. She is quite famous here to help.

Since it was Xue Yang's order and what he did was a righteous thing, Liu Cuoxin naturally did his best.She has opened a Xuanmen pawn shop in Hebi for many years, and she has had many contacts with monks, and there are also acquaintances in the Li family of Xianmen. She led the way, and the negotiation went smoothly.The facts revealed by Xiao Xingchen, even though they were unimaginable, Li accepted them all. On the one hand, he sent people to Chunfeng Building to arrest people related to the house-robbing gang in a low-key manner. Arrange accommodation.

Suddenly changing the environment, the children inevitably panicked, and some of them grabbed Xiao Xingchen's clothes and refused to let go.Xiao Xingchen and Liu Cuoxin were so busy until it was completely dark, seeing the children settled down after dinner, having a place to stay and someone to take care of them, they earnestly told them to leave at ease.

Returning to Liu's house from the local fairy gate, the lights inside and outside the yard have been lit.As soon as the two entered the courtyard, they heard inhuman screams from the wing where Boss Yan was being held, interspersed with Xue Yang's stern shouts and the sound of iron chains hitting.

A servant came out to greet them with a lantern, Xiao Xingchen asked, "How long has the interrogation been?"

The servant was trembling, and said in a trembling voice: "Mr. Xue started the interrogation as soon as he came back, and it has been, it has been nearly two hours!"

It is really important to ask about Shi Wusheng's whereabouts, so it is not easy to interrupt, but the scream is really scary, and it is impossible to imagine what kind of torture the screamer is suffering. Xiao Xingchen and Liu Cuoxin stopped in the courtyard , No one spoke, and the shrill screams from the wing room seemed even more abrupt.

Xiao Xingchen said nervously, "Young Master Liu, are you afraid when you see Xue Yang like this?"

Liu Cuo wringed his hands and paced back and forth in the courtyard echoing with screams, and finally gathered his mind and gritted his teeth: "That Boss Yan has done a lot of evil, besides killing Yuzhu, buying and selling human bodies, he also killed the children imprisoned in the dungeon. Even if this person is hacked into pieces, he will not be wronged if he aids the evildoer!"

As if they heard their conversation, the screams in the wing room suddenly stopped, the door opened with a slam, and the torturer walked out with a strong smell of blood, his face was red with blood, his gloomy expression was mixed with violence, and under the darkness of night, his facial features were half It was half-dark, with a cold and evil look in his eyes, which was really terrifying.

Facing the questioning gazes of the two people in the upper court, Xue Yang said indifferently, "The one surnamed Yan is dead."

Xiao Xingchen didn't say a word, looking at the blood on Xue Yang's body.

Liu Cuoxin knew that Xiao Xingchen and Xue Yang were investigating an important case, so it was inconvenient to interfere, so he backed off and said, "You talk, I'll tell my family to boil water so that Mr. Xue can wash it."

Xue Yang didn't ask Shi Wusheng where he was, he was frustrated, and he didn't want to stand in front of Xiao Xingchen covered in blood, so he didn't say anything, went back to his room, lit a lamp, and spread a blood-stained sheet on the table. map.The above is what Boss Yan told me, other locations that may have dungeons.Next, as long as people are sent to investigate, they will definitely find clues. At that time, they will torture other dungeon managers and follow the clues to steal more dungeons.

But his purpose is to find Shi Wusheng.After this person committed suicide in Lanling and escaped from the body of Duoshe, he fled in the form of a ghost, and there is no trace of him so far. I don't know how long it will take to find him.

While meditating, the door was pushed open, Xiao Xingchen put a clean new clothes on the bed in the house, added a few pieces of charcoal to the stove for heating, let the stove burn red, and then brought in a steaming The huge wooden basin of hot air was placed on the stool, and the door was closed behind his back.