Late at night, Exorcist.
"Long history—"
"Long history?"
Hong Jun and Artest quickly returned to the Exorcism Division, but they did not see the carp demon and the rest.
"Where are people?" Hong Jun asked in surprise.
Hanging in Hong Jun's hand was the liquid droplet covered with five-color divine light, frowning in silence.
The two were waiting in the Exorcist Division. Li Jinglong, Mo Rigen, and Qiu Yongsi had not returned, and the carp demon who had gone to inform them was also gone.
"Go out and look for it." Artest replied.
At this time, the two of them realized what was going on, and went back to the Jiuqu Bridge where they parted ways, and searched along the river, but at dawn, they found nothing. When he returned to the Exorcist Division, Hong Jun couldn't bear it anymore and went to bed first, Artest was still waiting, and it was noon when he woke up again.
"None came back." Artest murmured, "There was more than one trap last night."
Hong Jun panicked completely: "All three of them were ambushed by monsters?!"
"It's very possible." Artest mused, "This sorcery can hardly even be dealt with by us."
Hong Jun frowned deeply, holding up the five-color divine light in his hand, and the blood drop found in the secret passage last night was locked in the divine light. The blood drop is still changing shape.
"Oops." Hong Jun said, "I have to look for it, what should I do?"
"Don't be nervous." Artest replied, "Does Chang Shi have a boss? Go see his boss?"
"Yang Guozhong." Hong Jun replied, "I don't know if he is the demon king yet, what if it is the demon king next to the emperor?"
"Go and try him." Artai had an idea, "If he is, he will definitely lead us into the trap, just in time to save people."
Hong Jun and Artest went to the prime minister's mansion, but the answer he got was: You Xiangguo went to Kansai, not in Chang'an. When the two were together, Hong Jun wanted to ask Dali Temple for help, but Artest felt that it was inappropriate to drag mortals in. After all, what they couldn't solve would only harm mortals, and it didn't make much sense.
Coming out of the Xiangguo Mansion, Artest and Hong Jun were in the same boat.
"What should I do?" Hong Jun asked again.
Artest: "..."
The two looked at each other for a moment, Artest said: "Look again, as long as you find one of the traps, maybe there is a solution."
"Look separately?" Hong Jun said.
The two made a pact that no matter what they found, they should not do it lightly, and they had to bring the news back to the Exorcist Division to discuss it before discussing it. And no matter what he got or not, he had to go back to the Exorcist Department before the evening drum.
Hong Jun searched along the river for the third time, but also found nothing.
Time passed slowly. In the afternoon, Hongjun passed Chang'an West Street. In the noisy market, pedestrians came and went, but he felt a vague sense of fear—as if in broad daylight, in the noisy market, there were countless pairs of eyes. , is watching his every move.
And all his actions are under the control of the enemy. Thinking of this, Hong Jun felt a strong sense of insecurity in his heart, and subconsciously walked to the Exorcist Division, as if the only place where Fudo Myoko was enshrined was the safest.
"A Tai? Chang Shi? Are you back?" Hong Jun pushed open the door and shouted.
Artest has not returned, and the three of Li Jinglong have disappeared for nearly eight hours.
Even Zhao Zilong is gone—Hong Jun has never been as flustered as he is now, and Li Jinglong still doesn't know how to spell...the monsters were burned to death before, and if the monster king retaliates, the consequences will be unimaginable.
What to do - Hong Jun is going crazy, he is walking around in the courtyard, which is completely beyond his ability. No no no, calm down, Hong Jun let out a deep breath.
If there is a long history, what will you do? Finding people aimlessly is not an option... Hong Jun forced himself to calm down first. As the sun was setting, he sat cross-legged in front of the desk and began to organize his thoughts.
"First of all, they must have been taken away." Hong Jun said to himself, "There is no other reason."
Under the premise that Li Jinglong, Mo Zhigen, and Qiu Yongsi have all stepped into the same trap that they encountered, they do not have the five-color divine light body protection, and they are likely to fail to deal with this wriggling blood. Suppose Li Jinglong used a sword, Mo Zhigen used nail-headed seven arrows, and Qiu Yongsi used that inexplicable painting spell, all of them were defeated, and they were ambushed by monsters like Yazi who were ambushing, injured, captured or killed …
Thinking of this, Hong Jun shivered and forced himself not to think so. If Li Jinglong was here, what would he say
"Is there any reason for the demon king to kill them?" Hong Jun gestured with both hands, asked himself, and then imitated Li Jinglong's tone, and replied: "The demon king will not kill them so easily, he wants revenge, and wipes out everyone."
This doesn't seem to constitute a reason for "not killing", but Hong Jun basically convinced himself that Li Jinglong should not be killed as soon as he is caught.
"Because I haven't been caught yet." Hong Jun said, "It's a variable, um."
In this way, he could barely convince himself, and asked himself: "Then where were they taken? Will the injured Yazi know...?"
Yazi is injured, maybe he will go to the Demon King! Hong Jun immediately jumped up and rushed out like a gust of wind, but remembered that Artest hadn't come back.
it's dark.
Hong Jun stood at the door for a while, and his intuition told him that the twilight drum had passed, and the only possibility of not seeing anyone was that Artest was also taken away.
Hongjun: "..."
He turned his head and looked around, realizing that he was alone now.
"No way." Hong Jun said to himself, strange to say, in this dark night, the feeling of being watched during the day has been reduced instead. It was as if the night made the demon clan concealed and became their best protection, but it also kept Hongjun in the dark.
He climbed up to the tallest building in Jinchengfang with a few steps and looked at the whole city. Every house in Chang'an City was lit up, two red lanterns were hung high, the moon was covered by dark clouds, and the sound of music and laughter could be heard from afar in the city.
He carefully returned to the Jiuqu Bridge, walked along the river, and came to the tunnel yesterday. The underground space was quiet, and the walls were still dripping water.
Under the illumination of the five-color divine light, Hong Jun dived into the water without taking off his clothes, and the surrounding area was ruined by a fight yesterday.
Sure enough, a spacious dark passage appeared at the bottom of the water. He swam along the dark passage all the way.
This is already the moat outside the city, and the footprints go out along the way, a little blood is accompanied by the overwhelmed grass, and a few scales have fallen from the tree.
Hong Jun's heart beat violently, and he shook out a throwing knife in his hand, following the footprints and bloodstains all the way. However, the rest of the people were not there. If there were other monsters, it was hard to say whether he could defeat them.
The footprints stopped before reaching a mountain wall and disappeared.
Hong Jun: "???"
Gone? He looked around, how could this be possible
The moon rises from clouds and haze, illuminating the earth leisurely, and the mountain and rock walls present a black and reflective color. Holding the handle of the flying knife upside down, Hong Jun leaned forward and wanted to knock on the mountain wall, but the mountain wall was empty. Before he could speak, Hong Jun fell "into" the mountain wall without a sound!
This mountain wall is a blindfold!
The moment he fell in, he almost yelled, but he was afraid that an ambush would be alarmed, so he held back desperately. There was another tunnel behind the mountain wall, which was tens of feet deep. Hong Jun had no time to open the five-colored light, so he had to stagger. Staggering, he rolled all the way down the small tunnel, bringing up countless sand and sand, and finally fell into a hole in the mountainside.
"It hurts..." Hong Jun whispered.
There was a red light shining in the cave, coming from a bright red magic circle engraved on the ground, Yazi's footprints and blood were dragged here before they really disappeared.
Hong Jun turned his head to look at the magic circle on the ground, which was exactly the same as what he saw in Yazi's hiding place that day.
An empty copper plate was placed in the center of the circle.
What kind of spell is this? Where did Yazi go? Hong Jun carefully recalled the "trap" that Artest called out last night. Maybe it was not a trap, but Yazi just rushed back when the two of them discovered the magic circle. They happened to trigger the self-protection of the blood droplets on the eyes.
The blood drop should be placed in the copper plate, as long as the plate is not allowed to leave the magic circle, it will not be attacked? Hong Jun is not afraid of it, after all, his five-color divine light can be blocked by anything.
He untied the drop of blood he had obtained last night and let it fall back into the copper plate.
"It looks like a medium." Hong Jun scratched his head, his brows were deeply furrowed, and the injured Jai Zi escaped here, what did it represent? There is no other way, that is, it is teleported away by the spell.
"Then this magic circle..." Hong Jun looked down for a moment, knelt down on one knee, and stood next to the last footprint of Yazi, which happened to be a mysterious symbol. He put his hand on the symbol, trying to infuse mana.
The brightness of the magic circle increased, and then the blood droplets in the center of the copper plate sprayed out even smaller droplets, which crackled like fireworks and exploded in all directions.
Hong Jun strengthened his mana, and the range of the blood droplets sprayed out became larger. After a while, it became like a fountain, and the copper plate spewed out with a crackling sound, and fell into the magic circle. The magic circle was immediately activated, and the light was bright !
Hongjun: "!"
Hong Jun didn't have time to react, the magic circle burst into bright light in an instant, and with a buzzing sound, it engulfed him in the light!
Immediately afterwards there was another "buzz", Hong Jun felt that he was suddenly suspended in the air, and his body fell uncontrollably. He was used to not screaming when faced with shock. He turned around suddenly in the air, shook out the throwing knife in his hand, and prepared to To cope with emergencies.
However, the moment he turned around, he was taken aback.
He saw himself!
A boy who was exactly like him flew towards him with an evil smile on the corner of his mouth, also holding three throwing knives in his hand!
Hongjun: "..."
How is this going? !
Hong Jun and his own mirror image collided fiercely in the air, and immediately raised his knife to block, but the boy turned into dark red blood drops and scattered in all directions with a "shua" sound. With one hand, he plucked the peacock feathers from Hongjun's waist—
Hong Jun roared angrily: "Who are you!"
"Hong Jun!" Li Jinglong's voice roared.
Immediately afterwards, Hong Jun threw out the flying knife, but suddenly bumped into his own five-color divine light, and all the flying knives scattered in mid-air were entangled in the liquid and snatched away.
There was red in front of his eyes, and the sea of blood was getting closer and closer, Hong Jun fell into a sea of red with a "bang"!
"Hong Jun!"
"The fourth one." Madam Guoguo said with a smile.
Hong Jun panted fiercely, struggling in the sea of blood, looked up at the top of the cave, where there was a shining magic circle, and he understood in an instant—this is the last trap!
He wanted to use spells to summon raging fire, but a sea of blood rushed in quickly around him, extremely sticky, wrapped him tightly, and then roared, Yazi rushed down from the shore.
Li Jinglong yelled, "Stop!"
Hong Jun had just released the flame spell, but Jai Zi bit his shoulder. He was dripping with blood and screamed in pain. Then he was thrown into the air and flew to the shore. When he was still struggling, all the strength in his body was suddenly drained. His mana disappeared without a trace with a "shua".
Mrs. Guo Guo stood in front of Hong Jun, murmured a mantra, her bloodless lips parted slightly, and Hong Jun's body shone with light, which was continuously sucked into Mrs. Guo's mouth.
"Stop...stop!" Li Jinglong was tied up in an iron cage in the cave, and kept hitting the iron cage with his shoulders, yelling at Mrs. Guoguo, "You suck me! Don't touch him!"
Hong Jun couldn't stop rolling on the ground, his whole body was covered in the sticky blood, unable to struggle. The mana was continuously sucked in by Mrs. Guo Guo, and Mrs. Guo Guo was extremely happy. It was the first time in her life that she absorbed such pure mana. Under the nourishment of this mana, her whole body couldn't stop trembling, and even her face deformed accordingly. , showing a ferocious fox demon face.
When Hong Jun raised his eyes and saw the face of Mrs. Guo Guo's fox demon, Mrs. Guo Guo's eyes were empty in front of this extreme pleasure, and her throat made a horrible noise.
"Go to hell... you, monster!" Hong Jun gritted his teeth, and then exhausted all his strength to wave a three-flavored real fire.
The flame exploded and hit Mrs. Guo Guo's chest. Mrs. Guo Guo let out a scream and fell backwards. The three monsters guarding behind rushed over immediately, pressed Hong Jun to the ground, grabbed his head, and clawed at him. Pounding hard, Hong Jun hit his head on the ground with a muffled "boom", his head was bleeding, and then he passed out.