The moment coldness flashed in Ye Xun's eyes, I gently pressed his arm, pointed at the warrior and made a gesture of covering his mouth. The latter put down his gun with understanding, but I took out two arrows from his quiver. He held an arrow in his hand.
The actions between the two of us only took a few seconds. The samurai who was exploring the path walked up to the stone pillar. Ye Xun took advantage of the other person's head to grab the man's neck and forcefully dragged him behind the stone pillar.
As soon as the man was controlled by Ye Xun, there was a cry from outside: "Why is the man gone? Great witch, what should we do?"
Cold sweat broke out on Long Mei's forehead: "Wait a moment, wait a moment and see."
From the moment I saw Long Mei behind the stone pillar, I guessed that the Nine Palace Demon Sealing Array could not only seal evil spirits, but also use the stone pillars to seal off independent spaces one after another. People standing outside could not see the things in the space. Otherwise, Ye Xun would not lean on the pillar and aim the crossbow without restraint.
I took advantage of the moment when Long Mei outside was at a loss and didn't dare to act rashly. I held the two crossbow arrows in my hands like chopsticks, clamped the Gu insect that came out of the crack in the stone, and pointed at Ye Xun. Pointing to the person's lips.
Although that Gu insect looked very much like a summer cicada, its two front legs were different from ordinary cicadas. Instead, they looked a bit like the blade arms of a mantis. Not only were they extremely sharp, but they also carried unimaginable strength. The moment I clamped the Gu insect with the arrow, the latter's front feet were sharpened to the arrow shaft. The sound of iron scraping against metal suddenly arose, and the two arrows also vibrated several times in my hand. Almost escaped.
I made a "hurry up" gesture to Ye Xun. Ye Xun pinched the man's neck with one hand and forcibly opened the man's mouth with the other hand. I stuffed the Gu worm into his mouth while the other person looked at him in horror.
Ye Xun took advantage of the situation to pull the person up, and slapped the person's shoulders with both hands at the same time. As the person staggered backwards, he grabbed his own throat with both hands and fell out of the space several steps in a row.
"Quickly..." As soon as Long Mei shouted the word "quickly", the man sat down on the ground, with blood pouring from his mouth and raised his hand to point at the stone pillar in front of us.
He wanted to say that Ye Xun and I were hiding behind the formation, but Long Mei misunderstood what he meant: "There are Gu insects behind the pillar, be careful. Let me take a look..."
Long Mei just said two words, and a ball of blood burst out from the man's throat from the inside out - the Gu worm I had just stuffed into the man's mouth forcibly tore open the man's throat and came out. By then, a pair of cicada wings had grown. The blood droplets stirred up by the wing membrane were like mist covering the insect's body. The Gu insect, which was only the size of an ordinary cicada, glowed with golden light from the blood mist under the light of the fire.
"Golden Cicada Gu!" Long Mei exclaimed while covering her mouth, taking two steps back, "Hurry and grab it, don't let it attract your companions."
The expressions of the Miao Jiang Gu Masters who were surrounding the Golden Cicada Gu suddenly changed. They all took off their coats and gathered in the direction of the Golden Cicada Gu. Together, they waved their clothes to cover the Golden Cicada that was flapping its wings in the air.
After several coats fell on Jin Chan from all directions, he buckled it to the ground. Several people pressed their coats together at the same time, and there was a continuous sound of cotton being torn apart by insect feet under the clothes. The front legs of the Gu insect, like sharp knives, instantly pierced the cotton coat on the ground and paddled away. .
The Gu Master standing outside didn't wait for the Golden Cicada Gu to scratch his clothes, and at the same time grabbed the powder from his body and sprinkled it on Jin Chan's back through his clothes.
The medicinal powder fell, and the Golden Cicada Gu, which had been struggling just now, suddenly became quiet, and the Gu masters surrounding the Golden Cicada Gu also breathed a sigh of relief. One of the Gu Masters smiled and said: "This golden cicada Gu is mine."
"Nonsense!" someone immediately retorted, "According to the rules, whoever contributes the most gets the Gu. Why should I give you the Golden Cicada Gu?"
The man's face darkened: "There are so many opportunities in the secret realm, why do you have to compete with me for a golden cicada Gu. Next time..."
"I want the golden cicada Gu this time! It's yours next time." The other party refused to give in.
"That's enough!" Long Mei said with an ashen face, "When is it now that you are still arguing over a Gu insect? You know..."
Before Long Mei finished speaking, there was a sudden stabbing sound on the ground, like a sharp knife cutting through cotton cloth. The Gu worm that had been dormant just now jumped up and flew towards the throat of one of them.
A warrior standing next to the man slashed at the flying golden cicada from the air without waiting for the Gu insect to approach.
"Don't hurt the divine Gu..." Before the Gu master who was clamoring to take down the golden cicada could stop him, the long knife in the samurai's hand collided with the golden cicada in the air and made a crisp sound.
No one expected that the Gu insect, which was only two inches long, was not cut into two pieces by the long sword. Instead, it turned half a circle around the blade and stood on the blade, looking up at the pale-faced Miao warrior.
Just as the latter was about to abandon his sword and retreat, the Gu Master shouted sternly: "Don't move! Don't move..."
The moment the warrior barely held up his long sword and looked at the Gu Master, the golden cicada lying on the sword suddenly vibrated its wings and let out a cry like a cicada. With the sound of the Gu insect's voice, Long Mei's face changed drastically: "The Golden Cicada Gu is going to riot, leave quickly!"
"Great witch, where are we going?" Everyone panicked for a moment. They have been trapped in the Nine Palaces Formation, with stone pillars in all directions. If they are not careful, they will lose their way. Where will they go at this time
When Long Mei was at a loss, the sound of the stone skin exploding could be heard one after another from the stone pillars around me. The larvae of the golden cicada Gu broke out one after another, lying on the stones and taking off their cicada clothes.
I waved slightly to Ye Xun, who took a step back and kicked the stone pillar in front of him. The pillar with a diameter of almost one foot suddenly broke under his feet and fell in front of the Miao troops. Ye Xun himself took advantage of the broken stone pillar and the dust and smoke to hide beside me.
Although the golden cicada Gu larvae hidden in the stone pillars have broken out of the stone, there is still a short period of time before they completely take off their cicada clothes and fly into the sky, which is enough for Ye Xun and I to put on a good show to scare the snake away.
As soon as Long Mei saw the densely packed golden cicada larvae, she was so frightened that she panicked. Not caring that she was still in the magic circle, she turned around and rushed between the two stone pillars and disappeared.
"Chase!" Ye Xun pulled me gently and rushed into the maze first. I followed Ye Xun and ran for a few steps when I heard screams behind me - the golden cicada poison had been activated. The Miao troops who had no time to escape were surrounded by the poison insects. It was only a matter of time before the entire army was annihilated.
I quickly followed Ye Xun and rushed out for a few hundred meters, only to see Long Mei sitting down next to a stone pillar. Dark red blood was dripping from her body, and she seemed to have lost her voice.
After Ye Xun and I looked at each other, we walked around Long Mei. Ye Xun stretched out his hand and touched the other person's neck: "The person is already dead. A fatal knife wound on the heart. Not only did she not resist before she died, but she seemed to be the one who approached her intentionally."
Ye Xun reached out and pushed away the blood-stained clothes on Long Mei's chest: "The murderer used a knife, and he turned the blade after taking action, directly breaking Long Mei's heart."
I looked at the bloody footprints on the ground, and a set of images emerged in my mind: Long Mei's first reaction when she saw the murderer was not to be wary, but to want to reach out and hug him. Just when she opened her arms and wanted to throw herself into his arms. At the same moment, the murderer stabbed him in the chest with a knife. Not only did the opponent strike like lightning, he even turned the handle of the knife.
From Long Mei's unclosed eyes, you can see how heartbroken she was at the moment of being killed. When the other party pulled out the bayonet, Long Mei did not die on the spot. She even took two steps back, as if She had to take another look at the murderer's appearance, because she didn't believe that the murderer would kill her until her death, but the last thing she saw was a face that made her despair, because that face was too familiar to her.
It is precisely because of this that there are tears on Long Mei's face. Before she died, she shed tears and looked in the direction where the murderer left.
I stood up and said, "It was a miscalculation."
My original intention was to separate Long Mei's men and capture Long Mei alone. But I didn't expect that I succeeded in the first step, but when I took the second step, I was beaten one step ahead.
Ye Xun looked at me and said: "The opponent is more powerful than we thought. Activate the secret. If you don't move her, she might be in danger."
"Isn't it too early to move Anzi now?" I hesitated, "I believe Anzi is more powerful than we thought. Let's go back first."
Ye Xun nodded slightly, then took me around the area controlled by the golden cicada Gu and returned to the place where Li Binning was hiding. As soon as the two of us reached Li Binning's vicinity, we reached for our weapons at the same time.
Big Er is not here, and there is only Li Binning on the ground. Something must have happened here.
Big Er likes to be a bit naughty, but he will definitely carry out Ye Xun's instructions to the letter. The poison in Li Binning's body has not yet been released, and Big Er will not leave her here.
When Ye Xun and I walked towards Li Binning step by step, the latter's body suddenly jumped up from the ground, flipped several times in the air, and his hands stretched out five-fingered steel claws and grabbed Ye Xun and me at the same time. .
Ye Xun took advantage of the situation and took a step away, but in an instant I drew my sword out of its sheath and charged towards my opponent. When Mie Tian's sharp blade penetrated the claw shadows in the sky and stabbed the opponent's chest, the man's hands clasped the long knife at the same time. The ten steel claws instantly jammed the blade of my knife and pulled it outward.
When the two of us were in a stalemate, I suddenly grabbed the handle of the knife and turned it outwards. Si Chi Mie Tian turned into a golden beam of light in my hand. The opponent's steel claw completely shattered in an instant. As the blade rotated in the direction it bounced to the ground, I pushed the handle of the blade.
Mie Tian's blade pierced out of her chest without the other party's defense, and went straight through her back.
The other party held the back of the knife with his hand and struggled and said: "If you want the truth, go to the Golden Snake Palace quickly."
When I was slightly startled, the man fell limply to the ground.