The small black dots formed a straight line, drilled out of the soil pores, and moved all the way in the direction of Qi Chen, neither fast nor slow, just like a few ants.
Qi Chen didn't expect an ant to crawl out from under the root of the tree. He was stunned for a while, and he forgot to react for a while. He just watched the ants in a row moving their feet and crawling over in small pieces. .
At first, he didn't take this row of ants to heart. He just thought that it must be the same as the locust flower he just saw. Although it was moving, it was just moving at the same frequency and rhythm in this illusory space. A cycle, repeated, tireless.
So he didn't even call the dragon teeth, just looked at the ants so quietly, looking at where they were going to crawl as if in a daze, and he would repeat it every time.
But the next second, he frowned—
Because he saw that the line of ants was still a short distance away from his feet, the lead ant moved its tentacles and turned in a direction, causing the ant team behind it to bend a corner, let Qi Chen's shoes open, and head towards the ants. Crawled aside.
Qi Chen: "..."
For a moment, he didn't realize what was going on, but it was only for a moment.
Before waiting for the row of ants to climb away, Qi Chen didn't lift his head and grabbed the person next to him. Look here! There are ants moving, this time it seems to be really moving!"
In the end, Long Ya's reaction was neither surprised nor surprised, but grabbed Qi Chen's claws and pinched him down, and said in disgust, "Ehhh—let go! What are you doing with my pants! Are you disabled, can't lift it? High point?! Where can I pull it easily?! If I drag it, I will chop your claws! It's not too hard to pull it! Pull it down for me - let me see what ants..."
He grabbed Qi Chen's claws, which he ripped loosely, and looked like he was too lazy to squat down. He stood directly behind Qi Chen and bent down, looking down at the thin black line on the ground over Qi Chen's head.
Qi Chen felt that he had touched Long Ya's calf on his back, and knew that he was behind him, so he looked up at Long Ya and said, "Look, these ants are really moving, they were moving away from my feet just now. When there is still a little distance, change the route and bypass me. If it is repeated like the woman in white, or the flower string just now, it will not be affected by me, an outsider, right?"
"Well." Long Ya's eyes moved, and he glanced at Qi Chen, who was looking up, and rarely agreed: "This fart makes sense."
After speaking, he turned his eyes to the ants in a line, wanting to see if it was really like what Qi Chen said.
I saw that line of ants circled around the two of them. I don't know if they didn't find anything to move, or they just came out to inspect, and they were arranged in a straight line, and they got in through the gap between the two bluestone slabs. Soon it disappeared.
Qi Chen looked at the gap in the bluestone slab, then raised his face to look at Longya, and looked back and forth twice, as if waiting for Longya to draw a final conclusion.
Long Ya watched for a moment, then directly raised his foot and kicked Qi Chen lightly with his toes: "Don't be silly, tell me where this ant crawled out from."
"..." Qi Chen stood up expressionlessly, patted his buttocks, patted off the ashes on Long Ya's foot, and tapped the spot next to the tree root with his toes: "Here, on the muddy ground next to the tree root. Isn't there a few small black holes, crawling out from here."
Long Ya glanced down, without saying a word, he turned his wrist, and the round knife boy appeared again, and was about to turn somersault into a short knife in the air, when he heard Long Ya lift his lips and say: "Don't be busy, don't need a knife, change it. Shovel, let's dig."
Daotong froze in midair and almost fell back to the ground.
Not afraid of the master being fierce, but only afraid that the master is brainless.
A good knife boy turns people into shovels across races, which is simply unreasonable. Daotong gave his master a quick glance, and in time for Longya, he found that it had turned over quickly and dog-legged in front of Longya's eyes. According to the master's request, it turned into a shovel with a slightly strange shape - a knife with a short knife. The handle, attached to the shovel head, looks like the product of a hybrid of technology, and it's ugly and nondescript.
Long Ya glanced at the short-handled shovel in disgust, rolled his eyes to the sky, and then reverently held the handle of the shovel with the hand that was used to gripping knives, and then threw it into the soil under his feet.
The shovel maintained the thin blade of a short knife that slashed iron like mud, but the position was changed to the side under the shovel. With such a throw from the dragon tooth, it cut directly into the soil and inserted it deeply, and then the dragon tooth moved his finger. , the golden light flowed on the handle of the shovel that was released, and the whole shovel digged up the mud automatically. The speed was so fast that Qi Chen's eyes were blinded, and after a while, a pile of mud was piled up.
In order to facilitate the inspection, the shovel that the knife boy turned into even lifted the half of the bluestone slab that was close to the root of the tree. Starting from the root of the tree and ending at the crack where the ants disappeared, he dug a one-and-a-half meter square. A pit that's a foot deep. Long Ya stood with Qi Chen in his arms and stood in the pit, frowning and staring at the bottom of the pit.
Qi Chen didn't know what he was looking for, but his intuition told him that the place where Longya directed the shovel to dig was right, there was indeed a bit of...
As soon as this intuition came up, I heard the iron ball moving at the bottom of the pit hit something, and made a sharp friction sound, neither like the sound of hitting a stone, nor like it hit a broken bone or what the sound of an instrument...
Qi Chen couldn't hear what it was hitting, but felt that the place where the shovel moved at the bottom of the pit seemed to flash for a while, and it disappeared in an instant.
Is it a reflection of something? Generally, it is either glass or gold and jade that can reflect sunlight... But that light is not very similar.
But the dragon tooth on the side seemed to care, and when he heard the movement, he raised his hand, and the shovel in the pit immediately stopped in the air, did not fall any more, but changed back to the knife boy in the air Appearance, rolled to the edge of the pit, shaking the almost invisible dust and mud on his body, and spit out the smell of dust in his mouth.
Of course, as a demon knife boy, even if it turns into a shovel to dig into the soil, the shovel surface is the same as the original blade, it should be neither blood nor mud, and all the dust should slide off completely when it is lifted. , there is no trace left, it is so pooh-pooh, purely out of psychological effect.
Qi Chen didn't know it at first, but seeing that it had short arms and short legs, he simply reached out and picked it up, wanting to pat it for him, but as soon as he got it, he was rudely carried away by Longya, and he took the knife boy back and said. : "It has a fart ashes on it, you still truth it!"
After taking the knife boy, Long Ya reluctantly bent his knees and squatted down, looking at the place where the light flashed in the pit just now, not afraid of getting dirty, he raised his hand and used his fingers to poke the piece of soft soil.
Qi Chen looked at it and squatted down, just about to stretch out his hand to help him sweep away the piece of mud, to see what was buried under that layer of loose mud, but just as his fingers were about to touch the place , was lifted by the back of Longya's hand and directly blocked.
"What?" Qi Chen didn't quite understand the meaning of his actions, "Don't you look at what's underneath?"
Long Ya directly pressed his hand and asked him to withdraw his claws. He said without raising his eyelids, "Don't touch it with your claws if it's none of your business."
Qi Chen was squatting beside him at this moment, so he didn't see his eyes at that moment, only saw him stand up with no expression, and then lifted his foot, the ground of the whole small courtyard shook violently, and the bottom of the pit shook. A layer of loose dust and mud was directly shaken by the movement of his foot, and scattered to the side very cooperatively, revealing what was under the thin layer of mud.
Qi Chen frowned after only one glance at that thing.
Because he was not unfamiliar with the things covered under that thin layer of mud. To be precise, he could be considered familiar - whether it was the old lady's incident or the Lao Yuan incident, he had encountered this thing.
Once on the construction site, once in a deep cave at the bottom of the river...
"Why are there four paper talismans like this again?" Qi Chen stared at the ground for a while and couldn't help asking.
In this way, something with a bit of mystery, it is rare to appear once, it can barely be said to be a coincidence when it appears twice, and it appears three times... If you don't think there is a problem, it is stupid!
Qi Chen's brain is not lacking, of course he doesn't think so, he almost immediately carefully searched in his mind the scene of seeing this talisman two times before—
For the first time on the construction site, this talisman weighed in four directions, east, west, northwest, and formed a circle, and the skeleton of the old lady's son was surrounded by it. Longya ripped off the talisman at that time. A group of resentful leather figurines were brought out. They were killed by Longya with one move, and a row of heads was cut off.
The second time was in the deep cave at the bottom of the river. The talisman was buried under the putrefaction of countless soldiers' flesh and blood. It was still in the four directions of the south, east, and northwest, one on each side, forming a circle, but There was nothing specially placed in the circle, it was empty. Qi Chen thought that this talisman was not uncommon in the ghost-filled world that Longya and the others knew, especially when Longya solved it so easily last time, he mistakenly It is not uncommon to think that it is a common trick, so it will be encountered one after another. So much so that he was careless for a while and took off the talisman paper directly following the example of Longya.
Facts have proved that picking the talisman paper did help him escape from the hole, but it also activated the soul energy of thousands of soldiers.
The consequences, no matter how you look at it, are much more serious than the first time.
So what about this time
Qi Chen looked at the talisman paper that was still in a circle on the south, south, and northwest sides, and said to Longya, "What exactly is this? Just rip it off?"
Unexpectedly, Long Ya looked at the bottom of the pit and didn't answer his question immediately, but just sneered with a gloomy expression on his face.