Xiao Chengqian stood behind me and naturally refused to pass by. However, he was no longer as domineering as before and was just silent. If it had been in the past, he would have cursed.
Tao Bo stood behind Lu Shan. In addition to his usual shyness, he was also a little scared. Lu Shan subconsciously protected Tao Bo.
However, the old Taoist was very indifferent. He just closed his eyes slightly and waved his hand. The other Taoist priests on the carriage jumped out and walked straight over. It seemed that they wanted to take Xiao Chengqian and Tao Bo away by force.
Are you about to take action? I subconsciously wanted to take action, but for a moment I was confused. What kind of technique should I use? I don't know what techniques I should use to suppress these people. This is the first time I am so unsure of my skills.
However, there was no need for me to be confused at all. The old man sitting on the carriage just waved his hand, and the sky where we were was suddenly turbulent, and it was about to accumulate into thick dark clouds...
Instant thunder technique? I thought of my master, and I realized how insignificant my resistance was, but it was impossible to let Xiao Chengqian and Tao Bo be taken away like this... I gritted my teeth and decided to use secret techniques to fight... . . Just like last time, use your soul to inspire the power of heaven and earth!
"Xiao Chengqian, I won't hurt him. As for him, he will join you soon, because he is just a more interesting sacrifice." Looking at my hand gestures, the old man said something again.
At this time, the dark clouds in the sky had taken shape, and lightning flashed across... The thunder technique was triggered but not fired. I was very surprised why this old man wanted to explain to me, but then he immediately cleared up my doubts: "There is no eye in fighting. I don’t want to harm such an excellent sacrifice, so you should just wait and be sacrificed..."
How could I wait with peace of mind, but his next words completely shattered my will.
"If you want to meet your master."
Master! Master... I immediately stopped the movements of the hand gestures, and my eyes went blank for an instant. The word "meet" was like the heaviest hammer hitting my chest, which shattered it. All the precautions went straight to the softest part of my heart... Then all kinds of emotions were triggered, but my body was so stiff that I could no longer move.
"I'll go with him." Xiao Chengqian suddenly stood up from behind me and walked towards the Taoist priests.
Only then did I wake up and suddenly grabbed Xiao Chengqian's arm. How could brothers who share life and death give up? Even meeting the master couldn't be a reason. I said, "No, no matter how difficult it is, I won't betray you even if I die."
Xiao Chengqian turned around and smiled at me and said, "That's not what I meant, but my intuition is that he won't hurt me. Besides... there is a feeling telling me that I should go with him."
I was silent, but my hand did not let go. No matter what the circumstances, I could not give up anyone around me, anyone!
"It's true, Chengyi! If you are really for me." Xiao Chengqian was very calm, but his eyes were sincere and firm.
My feelings at the moment were chaotic, and my usually excellent spiritual sense could not predict anything... Everything was like chaos, and I was so confused that I could not see clearly what was ahead, but the old man on the carriage just said unhurriedly: " I don’t need to cheat on the sacrifice.”
Xiao Chengqian broke away my hand with a little force, patted my shoulder, took out his cherished box of cigars from his pocket, stuffed it into me, and said: "If you can't moisturize it, the taste will definitely not be as good as the cigars that have been carefully cared for." , but when you meet Mr. Jiang, give him one and let him evaluate whether it is better than cigarettes. Believe me, you can meet Mr. Jiang, and I will definitely be safe."
I squeezed the cigar in my hand tightly, my knuckles turned white, then took a long breath and put the cigar into my pocket. Trust and trust. At this time, we can only give each other trust and trust. Then I looked at Xiao Chengqian’s heavy nods. He shook his head.
Xiao Chengqian strode towards the old man, shouting: "Is it okay if I go? But don't let that child go."
"Forget it, it's just a sacrifice, no need to bring it with you." The old Taoist seemed to pay a little attention to Xiao Chengqian's words, and he inexplicably agreed to Xiao Chengqian's request. I saw Lu Shan breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked over to The person beside me seemed to want to explain something to me.
Xiao Chengqian was pulled into the car by the Taoist priests. It seemed that he wanted to wave to me gracefully, but it must be the pressure from the Taoists that made him very uncomfortable. In the end, he just shook his hand very slightly and said, Don't worry and didn't say anything, you could only watch his mouth move.
"You are not as talented as him." The old Taoist said something to Xiao Chengqian inexplicably. Xiao Chengqian suddenly shrank his body. It seemed that he was a little afraid of the pressure of the old Taoist's words, but the next moment he relaxed again. It seemed that the old Taoist had deliberately held back. His own aura... Xiao Chengqian suddenly said loudly: "Yes, I lost to him before, and I always wanted to win back."
The old Taoist was indifferent and didn't say anything. Perhaps in his eyes, winning or losing as a sacrifice like us was like a fight between ants.
The carriage turned slowly, and then moved forward slowly. The people wearing bamboo hats began to walk towards us. I waited without feeling... I just stared at the carriage that was slowly moving away, and my heart was full of All kinds of questions, worries and confusions.
"Aren't you familiar with me? Haha..." The old man didn't look back, but inexplicably turned around slightly and pointed at me, and then smiled so weirdly that I stood on the spot, why did I Are you familiar with him
It's a pity that apart from these words, he didn't leave a single word at all. In the morning light, the group of people just walked away in silence, and Xiao Chengqian didn't turn his head to look at us. A few more glances at this time would be afraid of increasing the number of us. Worry, this should be what he is thinking, right
"Follow us." The few people wearing bamboo hats walked up to us silently while we were in a daze, and said coldly, "Follow us." This was what the leader said.
Ruyue gently pulled my arm. Perhaps the inexplicable thing just now made her instinctively afraid. After all, the pressure brought by the old man is indescribable, and it will make people feel an invisible fear.
Holding my arm, Ruyue seemed to have some courage. She looked at these people in bamboo hats and asked, "Where are you taking us?"
"Of course it's the place where the sacrifices should go." One of the men in bamboo hats said lightly.
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Behind the mountain range that looks like the south, it turns out that there is really a valley, sandwiched between two mountains. It looks like a sliver of sky when you first enter it, but there is a small trail between the two mountains.
We walked silently behind these people in bamboo hats, and the road that originally looked like a trail became wider and wider as we walked, and the distance between the two mountains gradually became longer... At this time, it no longer looked like a road. Instead, it feels like walking on a plain that is gradually opening up.
What's strange to me is that the veteran group only set out less than ten minutes before us. We walked on the road but never saw them. Where did they go
Unfortunately, there is no answer to this question... Lu Shan has been walking beside me, wanting to explain something to me, but because he is taboo about those cloaked people... he still didn't say anything, but my senior brothers and sisters , and Tao Bai and Hui Gen'er were completely relaxed, chatting and laughing all the way, as if they were traveling to a new place again.
Just because Brother Chengqing, who had been playing with the copper coins in his hand, said: "Xiao Chengqian, be safe."
They feel at ease. Sometimes, Brother Chengqing’s divination skills are more reliable than my spiritual sense. It’s just a simple test of good or bad luck. Even for people around me, it’s not a big deal. After all, Xiao Chengqian and our The relationship needs to be more distant.
In this atmosphere, we walked all the way until we reached a very open place surrounded by low hillsides. The group of people in bamboo hats finally stopped.
A village finally appeared in front of us, a typical village in the northwest. Except for a few brick houses that seemed a bit out of place, almost all the houses were cave dwellings built under the slopes of low mountains. So is this a holy village?
It looks very ordinary, but there is an indescribable smell of time... The so-called holy village, we are finally here.