Not long after, I saw Xu You and his men slowly groping towards this side from a distance.
Although the fire at the foot of the mountain has stopped, the thick smoke after the flames is still filling the mountain. The stone tablet I erected on the hillside is like a ghost floating in the mist, cold and gloomy, looking down on all living beings, and occasionally bursting out from under the stone tablet. Mars added a bit of ferocity to it for nothing.
Xu You stopped before he even got close to the stone tablet: "One side can record the events of eternity... What does this mean? What does this mean... "
Xu You suddenly turned around: "You guys, get up here."
"No..." As soon as a tourist said "no", the corpse of the general standing behind him raised his knife and chopped off his head to the ground.
Xu You said sternly: "Whoever dares not to listen is a role model. Now, get up here."
When a few tourists walked towards the top of the mountain tremblingly, I asked Si Ruo in a low voice, "What formation did you set up?"
"Killing formation." Si Ruo lowered his voice and said, "I used the golden elixir hidden in the grass over there to set up the formation. If they don't walk into the formation, they can't see where the formation is. By the time they see it clearly, it will be too late. .”
When I was about to speak, Si Ruo asked in a low voice: "Do you think I shouldn't kill innocent people indiscriminately? You are a detective, and I am a demon witch. I don't care about this."
Just when I didn't know what to say, several screams suddenly came from the hillside. The few people who had just gone up the mountain rolled down the hillside one after another before they could get close to the stone monument.
Xu You picked up a corpse and shouted again: "Cover their faces and let them hold their breath and walk up the mountain."
Several corpse soldiers tore off their clothes one after another and entangled the mouths and noses of the remaining tourists. Xu You raised his hand and shouted angrily: "Bend your bow and set an arrow. If anyone dares to tear off the cloth, I will shoot him to death."
The corpse soldier fully drew the bow string and aimed it at the tourist's back in an instant. The few remaining people ran desperately up the hillside. They had to run. Even without the threat of bows and arrows, they couldn't hold on for long without being able to breathe.
Before several people could rush through the area with sparks, they fell to the ground again. Only this time did I notice the soles of their feet. Some people's feet seemed to have swelled several times in an instant, and the uppers of their shoes had been stretched quite a bit.
I understood that Si Ruo not only used elixirs to set up the formation, but also threw part of the elixirs into the fire. The toxicity naturally emitted by the elixirs after being burned by the fire was the most deadly killer.
Xu You's face couldn't help but turn livid: "My friends who are exploring the magic hand, isn't it time for you to take action?"
Tao Xiaoyao took a step forward and said, "What if I say 'no'?"
"That's death!" As Xu You raised his hand, Tao Xiaoyao suddenly made a gesture. Xu You, who was standing opposite Tao Xiaoyao, immediately took three steps back, "Are you also from the Dan sect?"
Tao Xiaoyao hugged his shoulders and said, "What do you think? Do you think you can really succeed in all your tricks? If I hadn't helped you secretly a few times, you would have been exposed by Wang Huan on the day you distributed the leaflets."
Xu You sneered: "Why can't I see that you are helping me?"
Tao Xiaoyao said: "You gave that person named Xiaomei a potent poison. If she died directly in front of Wang Huan, Wang Huan would immediately suspect that you were not a detective. At that time, it would be difficult for you to leave. "
"If I hadn't suppressed your poison, controlled the other person's speech, and deceived Wang Huan, do you think he would have let you leave easily?"
Tao Xiaoyao took a step forward and said: "It's not that Wang Huan didn't doubt you when you were pretending to be Li Qingyang, but I deliberately let Xue Yulu go and diverted Wang Huan's attention. Otherwise, you think he wouldn't take action against you." Are you testing?"
Xu You unconsciously took two steps back before saying forcefully: "I can still handle it even without you."
"Really?" Tao Xiaoyao said, "Then why didn't I see that you could handle the Faceless Girl? When you sent Wang Huan into the cauldron formation in front of her, the Faceless Girl didn't react at all, because of her ultimate goal He also wants to go to the ninth heaven, so naturally he will not stop Wang Huan from exploring the way. But... "
Tao Xiaoyao changed the subject and said: "You have touched the bottom line of the Faceless Girl by refusing to save Wang Huan. Do you really think that you can force the Faceless Girl away with just the few pills in your hand?" Without me helping you behind the scenes, you would be a dead person now."
Xu You said coldly: "So what? I am now..."
Tao Xiaoyao didn't wait for the other party to finish his words before asking: "You want to say that just because you control two groups of corpse soldiers, you can let me slaughter you? Why don't you look back?"
When Xu You turned his head, the corpse soldiers behind him had been divided into two teams. The Tang Army, which was a bit more powerful, quickly moved towards Tao Xiaoyao's side.
Tao Xiaoyao said coldly: "To tell you the truth, I can also use the methods you use to control the corpse soldiers. After all, we are from the same school."
Although Ruan Dalong and Xue Yulu who were standing far away did not speak, they leaned closely together and put on a defensive posture. Guo Yang, who was a little further away from them, was forced back to his original position by the corpse soldiers before he could get closer to them.
Neither Xu You nor Tao Xiaoyao took a second look at them. Xu You stared at Tao Xiaoyao closely and said, "What do you want?"
Tao Xiaoyao said: "Join forces first, then fight the pill."
Xu You squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "I want to fight for elixir now."
"You are a bit stupid." Tao Xiaoyao shook his head and said, "Are you sure that the people blocking our path are from Dan Island? I think it is more like Wang Huan's handiwork."
When I heard this, I couldn't help but be slightly surprised. I am not afraid of Xu You because he is only good at planning, but not good at close combat. It can be seen from his performance outside the tripod formation that he is very lacking in quick wits. Once things go beyond his original expectations, he will not be able to cope with it.
I deliberately arranged a maze between the third and fourth floors of Dan Island in order to force Xu You and make him chaotic, so that I could have a chance to capture him alive.
Xu You is also a Danshi. Although he can't make people live forever, I don't believe that he can't even practice medicine to treat burns.
But the appearance of the Little Peach Demon disrupted my plan. I had known for a long time that there was another Danshi hiding in the team, and I had always regarded that person as Xue Yulu. From the beginning to the end, she was the only one who came close to me when we were at the corpse dump.
At that time, my long knife had been unsheathed, and she could do some tricks on my knife.
But I never thought that the hidden Danshi would be Tao Xiaoyao.
While my mind was spinning rapidly, Xu You had already asked: "Wang Huan should have died in the fire. How could he run in front of us to make arrangements?"
Tao Xiaoyao said: "Don't underestimate Wang Huan. He is not a person who can be manipulated by others. With his character, I am afraid that he had already thought of using the tripod formation to escape before he entered the formation. If he had not died in In the cauldron formation, he is the one setting up the layout here.”
Oops!
When I entered the cauldron formation, I walked too fast, and I didn't expect that it aroused Tao Xiaoyao's suspicion.
Xu You argued: "That's nonsense. These people obviously died from erysipelas, and Wang Huan doesn't know how to use elixirs at all."
"Just because he doesn't know how to use elixirs, I suspect that Wang Huan is setting up the formation." Tao Xiaoyao said, "Take a good look at the body yourself."
When Xu You looked down at the corpse, I also looked at the corpse. The first batch of dead bodies had begun to decay rapidly, but the second batch of corpses remained in their original state.
I didn't see anything, but Tao Xiaoyao said: "If the people on Dan Island arranged this killing array, would they put two hedging elixirs together?"
"If the person who went up just now was not an ordinary person, but an internal expert, he could have taken advantage of the moment when the two poisons collided and used his internal strength to suppress the medicinal properties. At that time, they might not have died."
I couldn't help but look at Si Ruo, whose eyes were also filled with helplessness. Si Ruo didn't know how to use poison, so he put the elixir in the wrong place.
Xu You finally surrendered and said, "Then let me ask you, what should we do now?"
Tao Xiaoyao stretched out her hand and pointed at Ruan Dalong and Xue Yulu: "Let the two of them go up. They are the same detectives as Wang Huan, so it is perfect for them to explore the way. I don't believe that Wang Huan will frame his fellow sect."
Xu You looked at the other party coldly and said, "You two go up."
Just as Xue Yulu was about to speak, General Xi put a long knife on Guo Yang's neck. Xu You said coldly: "If you don't want to see your companions being stabbed by my sword, you'd better go up quickly."
After Ruan Dalong and Xue Yulu looked at each other for a while, they reluctantly put away their weapons and walked towards the hillside together.
I frowned twice in a row, then lowered my voice and said to Si Ruo, "Look here, I'll go to the mountain to have a look."
Si Ruo whispered: "Can I ignore the life and death of the two of them?"
"You're alive, that's the most important thing!" I said this and quickly exited the mountain.
I kept lying in the grass without raising my head, so my speed was naturally much slower than before. I only moved more than a hundred meters when I heard Xue Yulu shouting at the top of her lungs: "Wang Huan, is it you? Are you setting up the formation? If Brother Ruan is in trouble... Come out if it's you!"
"Brother Ruan didn't feel sorry for you, he even saved you!"
When Xue Yulu's cry came over, I suddenly quickened my pace and rushed towards the hillside like lightning.
I speeded up just to break the situation and had no intention of escaping reality.
I am not a hero, let alone a saint. I may not kill innocent people indiscriminately, but I am not willing to die generously for people who have nothing to do with me.
I can risk my life for love and righteousness, and I can risk my life for a moment of emotion. However, for a person I have no good feelings for, I risk exposing Si Ruo and go back to risk my life, even putting myself in a dilemma. I definitely won't do it.
I don't have that kind of righteousness.
As I quickened my pace several times, I finally saw a city wall running across the hillside. This wall with no end in sight on both sides is the third floor of Dan Island. The place I was looking for finally arrived.
Should I break in or not