Wan didn't show any expression of shock or fear as he looked at the dark and silent underground labyrinth. The place where he stood should be a fork in the underground labyrinth, and there were lighted, dimly lit torches on the underground stone wall. Walking forward in the direction of the torch, you can see the tree roots entwined on the wall and in the ground. These tree roots will occasionally wriggle like snakes, and they should be on guard for something.
This is a place where people with poor mental endurance will be frightened and faint or feel sick when they see it. However, Dr. Wan's acceptance was obviously very good. He even took out a silver scalpel from his pocket while walking, and with a flash of light in the darkness, a tiny root branch appeared in his hand.
The tree root seemed to have sensed something, and moved uneasily, but maybe its root system is too developed, and many roots will be damaged every day, so even Dr. Wan used a knife to scratch the experimental materials along the way, these trees Gen didn't come over to attack him or something. It can be said that Dr. Wan's method of extracting experimental materials is at its peak.
And the farther you go, the brighter the torch lights will be. On the way, Wanmei also saw many circular passages that allow these tree roots to enter. After a little thought, he knew that this must be the same as the well in Feng Mengmeng's house. It looked like a well on the surface, but in fact it was just a sinful passage that could easily reach any family in the village with these tree roots.
Coupled with the scent of flowers that can make people drowsy, it directly explains why Uncle Li and Meiren Liu disappeared for no reason.
However, Xu Shuai probably wasn't the one who moved these tree roots, he was probably knocked out by Feng Jiao and the others because he was too ugly and thrown into captivity. Wan didn't think this way, the front suddenly opened up—
This should be the central hall of the underground labyrinth. The black and blue bricks were laid neatly on the ground, surrounded by nine huge burning oil lamps on one side. All the roots of the trees are regularly circumventing the two sides, encroaching on them from the previous labyrinth passage, and in the center, there are two huge, cocoon-like tree roots, in front of them are A pond in the shape of a phoenix flower.
At this moment, Mo Yang, who was dragged all the way here, was lying in the phoenix flower-shaped pool, looking very much like a Sleeping Beauty.
Wan didn't click his tongue.
He walked step by step to the side of the phoenix flower-shaped pool, and looked down at the guy who pretended to be asleep: "Do you need me to bow your head and kiss you awake?"
Then someone who should have been stunned suddenly opened those upturned phoenix eyes, and his eyes were full of disgust: "Don't bother me anymore. I was dragged all the way and got covered in mud. Can't you let me wash it?"
As he said that, he jumped out of this beautiful clear water pool very deftly, and he took off his sleeping pajamas casually, and when he turned his head, he saw someone squinting his eyes and looking him up and down, raising his eyebrows: "What's the matter? Is he taller than you?"
Then he snatched the pink pig head backpack with a mocking face, took out another set of clothes card from it, and slapped himself directly, and a well-dressed president appeared again.
Wan did not smile: "It's not bad." But the flexibility should be able to be exercised.
"Well, this should be the most ulterior and real 'forbidden place' in Fenghuang Village. Liu Meiren and Uncle Li must have been dragged here. Let's look around and find them. If we're lucky, they said Maybe not yet... hiss!!"
Mo Yang was looking at the vast underground palace while talking, and when his eyes swept over the roots of the two huge phoenix trees behind him, his expression changed suddenly.
When he was dragged over, his back was facing two tree roots, so he didn't see the cocoon-like thing on the tree roots. Ordinary silkworm cocoons can't make him show even a little bit of shock, but the "silkworm cocoons" on the two tree roots are not wrapped in cute silkworm babies. Mo Yang told these two people three days ago We're talking.
"...God, what's going on with the two of them? Have they been eaten? Are they still alive?"
Aren't the two people wrapped in the huge cocoon the missing Liu Meiren and Uncle Li? But the state of the two of them is different. Uncle Li's entire body has been embedded in the tree trunk now, leaving only one face outside, but it looks like it should be completely swallowed up soon.
On the other hand, Liu Meiren's lower body has been completely submerged in the tree trunk, and it still exists from the waist up. The expression on her face seemed to be very painful and terrified, but she couldn't open her eyes no matter what.
"Don't tell me that I will be like them in the future." Mo Yang was disgusted enough.
Wan Mei said: "Obviously after that Uncle Li disappears, it will be your turn. From this point of view, compared to the ugly being thrown in the captivity, sometimes the ugly ones who survive are worse than the ugly ones."
Shengshi Meiyan Yang Heigu immediately blackened his face.
"That's not right. Shouldn't they give me a little more special treatment? I'm so good-looking."
Mo Yang's tone was particularly righteous.
Wan Mei didn't say anything, but suddenly a hoarse voice said, "Of course you are different."
The two of Mo Yang turned around in an instant, and saw a hunched man standing next to a very familiar beauty.
"Feng Bing." Mo Yang called out the beauty's name.
Feng Bing nodded coldly: "I really didn't expect the two of you to find this place in advance. It seems that you have some skills, but you are also too impulsive. If it wasn't because the demon tree was digesting food and was in a semi-sleep state, in your When you step into this hall, you will be entangled and strangled by countless tree roots. The male tree is about to be digested, so you'd better leave here quickly."
Mo Yang looked at Feng Bing but didn't have any intention of moving his footsteps: "What are you two doing? We left here, and you are waiting here for Xiongshu to wake up?" He looked at the crooked, ugly and old man: "Also, you were the one who threw stones at me twice before? What do you want to do by reminding me like that?"
The man looked at Mo Yang and was silent for a moment: "I just think that your face will definitely be used as a sacrifice for these two trees, and I don't want to make these two trees and Feng Zhao stronger."
"Also, my intuition tells me that you may be able to help us destroy these two demon trees."
Mo Yang: "Demon tree? Isn't this the sacred tree that represents the unchanging love between the general and the beauty for thousands of years?"
Feng Bing suddenly sneered. And that man patted Feng Bing's hand reassuringly, and he shook his head: "Is there anything in this world that remains unchanged for a thousand years? The sea can be turned into a mulberry field, let alone just two trees?"
"Besides, the love that remains unchanged for thousands of years? That's nothing more than one betrayal after another."
Mo Yang could hear the smell of dog blood from the man's tone. "Oh? Is it possible that I guessed it right? That beauty's sister really killed her and became the queen instead? Then the priests and villagers in your village were afraid that the emperor and queen would blame them if they found out that the phoenix flower tree had withered and died, so they used This method of using people as bait to grow trees?"
"Tsk, after a thousand years, how many people will these two trees eat?"
The ugly man coughed twice, and looked at Mo Yang with strange eyes: "Although these guesses of yours are not completely correct, they are not too far off."
"Actually... it was not Beauty's younger sister who betrayed her first, but Beauty."
Mo Yang: "???" I really didn't expect this turning point. Wait, let me think about it, and then his face became very strange: "Don't tell me that the beauty is the holy girl selected by your village or something, and she is going to marry the priest?"
Feng Bing's eyes flickered slightly. The man coughed again. "Yes, that beauty's name is Huang Huang, and she is a maid in the village. She has a marriage contract with Priest Zhao. But that woman has defected to the general for the sake of glory and wealth, regardless of her marriage contract with the priest. You treat her as a marriage contract with the general. Was it love at first sight? No, she just wanted to be the mother of the world because of the ability of the maid and saw that the general is the fate of the emperor to rule the world."
"If she said bluntly that she wanted to be rich and prosperous, Priest Zhao would not let her go. At most, she would take back her power as a handmaid. But she didn't want to give up anything, and even encouraged the general to plant with her at the entrance of the village. Two phoenix trees, with these two phoenix trees as a boundary, the villagers in the village are not allowed to leave. Violators will be killed without mercy."
The man sneered at this point, "This kind of woman... deserves to be killed by her own sister in the end."
Mo Yang: "..." So the love drama that was thought to be earth-shattering is actually a conspiracy drama for the sake of prosperity and wealth? "In this case, the beauty is to blame. But how did these two trees become like this? It can't be the beauty's resentment that made them demonized, right? Since these two trees were planted by the beauty and the general, The villagers don't like it, why don't you just cut them down or burn them? And your captive place, it doesn't look like a good place at first sight, can you explain it to us?"
The man opened his mouth, and when he made up his mind to speak, a chuckle suddenly sounded. Then, from behind the two giant trees, a person slowly walked out.
It was Feng Zhao.
The moment the man and Feng Bing saw Feng Zhao, their expressions changed drastically. Presumably, they had never thought that Feng Zhao, a village priest, would appear here. Feng Bing subconsciously turned her head to look at the way she came from, but found in despair that all the roads had been blocked by dense tree roots and branches.
"Although Uncle Ling is an insider, he is not in good health when he is old. Let me talk about the specific things. Since you want to hear, A Quan, I am willing to talk about it."
Feng Zhao was still dressed in the gorgeous red long-distance runner. He lightly patted the roots of the two giant trees beside him, and then those roots automatically twisted into a seat, allowing Feng Zhao to sit down.
Feng Zhao rested his chin there, as if he was recalling something from a long time ago.
"Huanghuang is a very cute girl, because she is the most beautiful one in the village, so she was chosen as my wife very early on."
"Naturally, I like her very much, after all, she is innocent and romantic."
"It's just that other people's praise gradually made her feel that beautiful appearance is everything, and she can be forgiven for everything she does. It also gradually made her dissatisfied with this small mountain village, and she wanted to see the bustling world outside. So she followed General, I'm not surprised. I'm even willing to let her go, after all, she's also mine."
Mo Yang looked at Feng Zhao, and the beast roared in his heart. So this guy is an old goblin who has lived for more than a thousand years? !
"Then why did you design her? She is also a handmaiden, so she must have special powers, right? Ordinary people should not be able to kill her easily, unless it is a close relative she does not suspect."
Feng Zhao chuckled lightly: "A Quan is really smart."
"As I said, I am willing to let her leave. As long as she passes on the power of the handmaid's bloodline to his sister, or other qualified girls in the village, she can leave."
"But the hearts of the people are always insufficient. If she doesn't have the power of a maid, how can she help the general ascend to the throne and prove that she is indispensable? So she asked the general to send people to surround the entire village. Whoever steps out One step away from the village, let those soldiers kill without mercy."
Feng Zhao's voice gradually cooled down. "Even, she was afraid that I would retaliate after she left, so she poisoned me and stole the most precious Phoenix Ring from Phoenix Village. This is her fault."
"So you let her sister kill her?"
Feng Zhao smiled: "Betrayers will always be punished." He turned his eyes to Feng Bing and Uncle Ling: "Are you right?"
At this time, Feng Bing couldn't help but stepped forward and scolded Feng Zhao angrily: "Huanghuang betrayed you and the village, she deserved to be punished and killed! But you turned the phoenix tree into a demon tree in order to save your life. The killings continue to provide you with nourishment, and even control the entire village, so you are not afraid of being punished by God?!"
Feng Zhao seemed to have heard some funny joke.
"Uncle Ling, it seems that you haven't told Bing'er the truth."
The man named Uncle Ling froze for a moment, and then Feng Zhao said to Feng Bing: "Bing'er, listen clearly. It's not that I want to turn the phoenix tree into a demon tree to continue life, but the people in the village Beg me to turn the phoenix tree into a demon tree to continue life."
Feng Bing's face turned pale in an instant: "Impossible! What nonsense are you talking about!!"
Feng Zhao didn't take it seriously: "It's not very interesting to live, especially when facing some stupid and ugly people. After I die, there will always be a next priest, but your ancestors At that time, the village chief and the villagers believed that no one was more powerful than me. Only I could make the village prosperous forever. So, they begged me on their knees to let me fulfill their wishes."
"At that time, there were many wars. Seeing that I was born and raised in this place, they killed all the soldiers guarding the village one after another as sacrifices and nourishment, so I will do it conveniently."
"Is it just lack of people's hearts?"
Feng Zhao stroked the two giant trees next to him: "When there is peace, one longs for food and clothing, and when there is food and clothing, one hopes for wealth. A golden phoenix flew out of Fenghuang Village, which gave Fenghuang Village a hundred years of wealth and honor. After enjoying this kind of wealth and After the glory, how can you be willing to lose it again?"
"That's why, almost every hundred years, Fenghuang Village will produce a peerless beauty, who will shine on the whole family."
Feng Zhao looked at Feng Bing who couldn't accept it with some irony, and asked with a smile: "Then how do you think that peerless beauty who can fascinate even emperors can appear in Fenghuang Village from generation to generation?"
"This is a bloody glory piled up with blood and human lives."
"Do not!!"
"You're lying!! The village chief and grandparents are not such people!!"
"Our village, our village produces beauties because of the beautiful mountains and rivers, absolutely not, not..."
Feng Zhao snorted lightly. "Then why are you moving quietly?"
"Because you know very well that the villagers will not agree to destroy these two demon trees and stop killing people."
"Without these phoenix flowers nourished with life, and those phoenix flower juices made with vitality, look, what will this village be like?"
Feng Bing closed her eyes in great pain, but Feng Zhao smiled more contemptuously: "Give up, you can't change anything. This is their own choice."
When his voice fell, the tree roots blocking the exit had quietly spread out. At some time, the villagers of Fenghuang Village had already stood there in unison. They walked quietly, with madness in their eyes, Undisguised malice.
Mo Yang frowned, and just about to speak, a loud noise resounded in the huge underground palace.
In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains shook.
Mo Yang: "???!"