Xie Jingwen rolled up his sleeves, revealing a red mark as thin as a silk thread: "The marriage thread is in my hand, so Wu Zhao must be talking nonsense."
Sun Xiaomei said sternly: "Test it for me!"
The sorcerer who was guarding near Dongbao forcibly pulled up Dongbao's arm and tore open his sleeves: "There is no marriage thread on your hand."
"Impossible!" Xie Jingwen screamed as the red thread wrapped around his hand suddenly emitted a layer of blood-colored smoke. Xie Jingwen suddenly felt as if he was burned by fire. He screamed and shook his hands repeatedly, trying his best to shake the blood mist away from his body.
Just a few seconds later, the red line on Xie Jingwen's wrist disappeared with the flying blood mist, leaving only a circle of dark mark as if it had been burned by fire.
Xie Jingwen covered his wound and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Master's Wife, don't believe him! It must be Wu Zhao who killed Dong Bao and deliberately made up this story to deceive us!"
Sun Xiaomei remained silent for a while, as if she couldn't make up her mind.
Gu Piaoran sneered at this time: "Sun Yifan has been a hero for half his life, how could he be so blind as to accept such a useless disciple?"
"What did you say?" Xie Jingwen shouted something subconsciously, then he realized that the person he was shouting at was Gu Piaoran. He immediately lost his arrogance and timidly shrank his head and hid aside.
Gu Piaoran just sneered and turned his head away, as if he didn't want to even look at the other person again.
Sun Xiaomei said in a deep voice: "Wu Zhao, besides what you just said, what other evidence do you have?"
I continued, "The second thing that struck me as strange was the coffins hanging above the cave."
"At first glance, those things looked like blood food hanging in the air for the Gu worm to eat. The strange Gu worm opened a gap on the top of the cave and ate the living people in the coffins along the way, crawling deeper into the secret realm. All my doubts were focused on those coffins and the so-called worm path."
Sun Xiaomei frowned slightly and said, "Go on."
I continued, "After discovering the hanging coffin, most people will quickly find the suspended compartment, and naturally come up with a guess that several years ago, someone used the hanging coffin to lure a strange poisonous insect deep into the secret realm, so they can find the poisonous insect by following the hole, right?"
Sun Xiaomei said bluntly: "If I were in your place, I would think the same way. Is there anything wrong with that?"
I raised a finger and said, "Although I haven't seen many poisonous insects, I have seen many insects that parasitize trees. Even if an insect digs a hole to move forward, it will only dig holes in a linear pattern. Unless it wants to build a nest, it will not dig holes in a large area. Is it necessary for that kind of poisonous insect to dig through most of the hole top?"
Xie Jingwen said coldly: "Have you ever seen termites? Termites are enough..."
"Shut up! Don't embarrass me there!" Sun Xiaomei was so angry that her face turned blue.
As we all know, termites can eat wood on a large scale because they forage and reproduce in groups. If the insects eating the caves were really poisonous insects that survived like termites, they would have spread uncontrollably throughout the Miao area.
Can such a poisonous insect be called a divine poison
Sun Xiaomei sternly rebuked, "Xie Jingwen, I know you want to get rid of Wu Zhao as soon as possible, but now is not the time to fight over grudges. If you want to be the best, you should look further ahead."
Xie Jingwen bowed his head and said aggrievedly: "Yes, Master's wife, Jingwen knows he was wrong."
Sun Xiaomei seemed to soften her heart, and said in a slow tone: "It's not that I don't want you to speak, but I don't want you to refute just for the sake of refutation."
"Yes!" Xie Jingwen seemed extremely respectful, but his secretly clenched fist did not escape my eyes.
Perhaps from the perspective of an outsider, one would think that Xie Jingwen's behavior was extremely stupid, even childish to the extent of a three-year-old child. However, no one can deny that a person's character determines everything. Some people, even if they know that there are dangers everywhere around them and that they should unite against external forces, will first think about how to resolve personal grudges. Even if they have foreseen the terrible consequences of their own narrow-mindedness, they will still instinctively choose to ignore it until they resolve the "unhappiness" in their hearts.
This kind of thing has been repeated in history, but there are still people who keep repeating it. Just like the unofficial history says: The last emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Shouxu, was besieged by the Mongolian army in Guide, and his favorite minister Pucha Guannu killed Shizhan Nvlu, the garrison commander of Guide, on the grounds that Shizhan Nvlu had hidden noodle sauce and prevented the emperor from eating noodles with soybean sauce. The reason was not because of the jars of noodle sauce, but because Pucha Guannu looked down on Shizhan Nvlu from the beginning.
Of course, this is just a legend. The real reason for the infighting among the powerful officials around King Aizong of Jin would not be as exaggerated as the unofficial history says, but this story also reveals the bad roots of some people.
Xie Jingwen happens to be such a person. If he were in charge of the Xuanjing Division, even if I was not at a disadvantage, he would still try his best to kill me first.
Fortunately, Sun Xiaomei was not as short-sighted as Xie Jingwen, so she gave me a chance to survive. Sun Xiaomei said again: "Go on."
I said again: "I had the same idea at first, and kept searching from the compartment forward. Later, ghosts and gods appeared, and I had to run away all the way. Finally, I fell into a tunnel and slid all the way down from there."
"If I'm not mistaken, that partition and tunnel were left there intentionally by someone. His purpose was to make us fall into the pool at the location he had planned."
When Sun Xiaomei and the others looked into the pool at the same time, some of them couldn't help but shudder. Xie Jingwen said, "I don't believe it! According to what you said, there should be no other way to enter this space except the corridor above. Then how did we get in?"
I looked at Xie Jingwen and said, "Can you guarantee that no one has come in here before?"
Xie Jingwen asked back: "What do you mean?"
Sun Xiaomei turned around and pointed at a sorcerer and said, "Huo Jia, go to the place where we just came in and take a look. Be sure to be careful!"
"Yes!" the latter agreed and ran back quickly.
Sun Xiaomei said: "I now believe your words a little. However, I still don't believe that Dongbao is the magic Gu."
"When I said Dongbao was a divine Gu, I was just exaggerating. If I didn't say that, Madam Sun would not give me a chance to speak. However, I still feel that Dongbao's origins are not simple." Although I admitted that I was lying, my eyes glanced at Gu Piaoran intentionally or unintentionally.
Gu Piaoran really took over my words: "I have also tested Dong Bao on the road, and there should be no problem with her identity. I am sure that she is the niece of the Great Witch Dong Tian, and also one of the heirs chosen by Dong Tian. Under Dong Tian's teaching, she is definitely not a divine Gu. As for whether it is the divine Gu that leads to..."
Gu Piaoran also frowned: "This is indeed hard to say! The reason why many sects give Saint Sons and Saint Daughters unparalleled status and power is that they need them to make sacrifices at critical moments. Who can tell whether Dong Bao is a person specially used for the sacrifice of the divine Gu."
"This..." Sun Xiaomei couldn't help but frowned.
While we were all silent, the sorcerer named Huo Jia came back quickly and said, "Madam, there are traces of explosions at the place where we came in just now. Someone must have blown it up by force in the past..."
Before Huo Jia finished speaking, I smelled a pungent sour smell. When I looked over to where the sour smell came from, I found that several bubbles as big as washbasins had emerged from the pool. The sour smell was the smell of the bubbles bursting.
Sun Xiaomei's expression suddenly changed: "What's going on?"
Gu Piaoran's expression also turned ugly: "You guys hide in higher places!"
Gu Piaoran was obviously shouting at the sorcerers standing on the platform. But the platform was only a foot above the water surface. Even if they wanted to hide, where could they hide
After a short moment, the entire pool suddenly boiled up as if under some kind of force, hundreds of bubbles rolled up in the pool, and the originally clear water was instantly dyed into a yellowish brown color. The strong sour smell rushed into my nostrils, and I felt a sharp pain in my nasal cavity as if it was burned by fire.
The sorcerers had just taken a few steps back when their feet were submerged by the surging water. Several people fell into the water one after another while screaming: "Help..."
I watched as a warlock from the Xuan Jing Division struggled twice in the water, and then suddenly sank into the water like a piece of cooked meat. The bright red blood quickly spread in all directions along with the surging bubbles.
"The water is poisonous! Put on a mask quickly!" Sun Xiaomei took out a gas mask from her backpack and put it on her face.
Xiao Baitang and I didn’t have such complete equipment, so we could only cover our noses with our hands and back away.
I originally wanted to take advantage of the chaos to leave the cave, but after just a few steps, I was stopped by Xie Jingwen and his men: "Don't move, stand in front!"
As soon as my palm touched Luosha's hilt, more than a dozen Xuanjingsi warlocks' powerful crossbows were pointed at my vital points at the same time, forcing Xiao Baitang and I to retreat back to the water's edge.
At this moment, a sorcerer suddenly exclaimed: "Look in the water!"
When I turned my head subconsciously to look at the water, the surging bubbles had already pushed a pile of bloody clothes to the surface. The next moment, the things that surged out of the water turned into white skeletons - those warlocks were all dissolved by the water, and only a few bones were left? A layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on my forehead.
Xie Jingwen shouted angrily, "Stand still! Anyone who dares to move will be shot to death!"
I am now less than a foot away from the water, and the surging water has begun to surge towards the shore. It won’t be long before the water covers my feet...
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