Chapter 1694: A difficult opponent

The stench at the bottom of the pit was even stronger, enough to make ordinary people faint directly, but Bai Bai Ziqi seemed not to feel it, and walked forward quickly.

Just as the subordinates observed, the tunnel connected to the stone room looked very new, and it was still sandy to the touch, looking like it had been expanded recently.

On the day of the Yao Palace coup, did He Xiao and others escape through this tunnel and leave the Yongquan Shanzhuang under Zhao Song's nose? Then, he saw a big fish head.

Really big, the mouth is wide and flat.

Bai Bai Ziqi took a small bottle from his bosom and dripped two drops of liquid on the fish corpse.

The colorless liquid turned dark blue all of a sudden.

"It is undoubtedly a demon puppet." The bottle contained a special potion made by the Tiangong, which would change color when it touched divine blood. Using this method to identify demon puppets was more reliable than eyesight.

There seemed to be a hook stuck in the fish mouth. He pulled it out and saw that it was half a short pestle.

He learned from his conversation with Qingyang earlier that Qingyang was more inclined to believe that this giant fish was Cao Wendao's demon puppet.

Why did He Xiao move the enemy's demon puppet corpse in? Transporting such a big guy in and out of the Yongquan Shanzhuang was difficult to hide from others, but Zhao Song's subordinates didn't know. Either He Xiao used some storage magic weapon to quietly bring goods, or he took advantage of the few people here on the night of the palace change to transport the fish corpse in directly.

If it was the latter, things would be interesting.

Bai Bai Ziqi checked the fish corpse and soon found familiar tooth marks: wide, flat, straight.

Similar tooth marks were also found on the fish bones by Taoxi earlier.

Something was feeding on this giant fish.

Bai Bai Ziqi associated it again, and the ground near the earth cellar of the Apricot Forest Terrace also had countless scratches.

That was not made by human hands or weapons.

There were also missing palace guards, the feeling of being watched...

Bai Bai Ziqi murmured: "Sure enough, the illusion array was left for that thing!"

With so many doubts strung together, it would be strange if he couldn't figure it out!

The illusion array at the Apricot Forest Terrace was not prepared for him or the palace guards, but to mislead the monster that ate the fish, so that it could only smell the scent but couldn't find this big fish, so there were scratches all over the ground there, and the monster was irritable.

Now, the secret room under the stable has been opened by Bai Bai Ziqi. He doesn't need to return to the Apricot Forest Terrace to know that the illusion array there must have disappeared.

The monster can follow the scent and find it.

His heart moved, and he felt that one person seemed to be missing from the team.

It was only thirty or forty steps from the Apricot Forest Terrace to the stable, but the Yao palace guard who led them just now didn't seem to follow? When following the Tiangong guests, he instinctively followed behind. Bai Bai Ziqi and his entourage wouldn't look at him more.

When checking clues in the stable, Bai Bai Ziqi looked around, and didn't seem to see him.

But he really had no sense of existence, and even Bai Bai Ziqi didn't feel anything strange.

Now that I think about it, hmm, when did this person disappear? "Go up first..."

Before he finished speaking, a loud bang came from above the pit, followed by a few shouts, a scream, and the clanging sound of drawing weapons.

The attendant shouted angrily: "Enemy attack! That ghost thing is out!"

Bai Bai Ziqi returned the same way and rushed to the ground in three steps, but saw a layer of red light lit up outside the stable, but it flickered at a high frequency, which was very conspicuous in the dark.

That is a sign that the Trap Red Array is activated but not fully activated. This defensive array needs to embed array runes into the ground to take effect. Once a strong enemy attacks, in addition to the defense and escape restriction provided by the array itself, it can also summon three sturdy earth puppets and three agile wood puppets to resist the enemy, called array spirits, which can give the owner more time to react and defend.

But now no puppets came out, and something hit the red light cover desperately, one hit harder than the other, one hit faster than the other. After hitting less than two or three times, the Trap Red Array was broken. The attendant bore the brunt, and fought with it for a few rounds.

A follower was frightened and retreated, just retreating behind the pillar of the stable. Bai Seventeen saw it and said sternly: "Come out, don't stand there..."

That was just the blind spot of their array and rescue!

Before the words fell, a shadow emerged from behind the pillar.

It stuck to the back of the follower, silently, naturally as if it had stood there from the beginning.

The follower saw something wrong from the eyes cast by others, and didn't dare to look back and ran forward.

However, it was too late.

As soon as he moved, the shadow behind him was faster than him.

When Bai Bai Ziqi jumped up from the tunnel, he happened to see this shadow flash five feet away, still holding the follower. The latter's protective magic weapon exploded, and four blood holes were pierced in his chest, as if pierced by a pitchfork.

The speed of the shadow was so fast that it was difficult for ordinary people's naked eyes to capture, but Bai Bai Ziqi still saw clearly that it was taller than ordinary people, wearing a gray robe, covering its face, and its cold gray skin was covered with small cracks.

This is not a human, because it also has a tail behind it.

The Tiangong guards surrounded the tunnel entrance, facing a great enemy. The attendant reported: "Du Shi, as soon as you went down, it attacked us. I don't know why, a rune plate was not embedded well, the array spirit was not summoned, and it broke the array and grabbed Yuan Dong!"

Bai Bai Ziqi's expression moved.

The rune plates were all good, and they were checked yesterday.

At this time, a White Guard on the side of the stable called: "A rune plate is missing! It was dug out!"

When the White Guards set up the array earlier, this monster had already understood what they were going to do and secretly dug out a plate.

Even if it is not a human, it is also very cunning and can think.

The defense ability of the Trap Red Array is average—the temporarily arranged array, the effect is mostly not as good as the fixed array, so array spirits were added as a supplementary means, but it didn't take effect.

This trip to track the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds, he brought all good hands. Everyone knew early on that they were being followed and peeped all the way, and had already increased their vigilance. Under such circumstances, the opponent could still succeed in a sneak attack! And the monster grabbed Yuan Dong.

Yuan Dong was not surnamed Bai, and was not a guard he brought out, but followed from the Miaozhantian Temple today, and had not been polished with the White Guards. He Xiao had already left, and Bai Bai Ziqi didn't think there would be any danger in the suburban trip, so he brought him by his side.

This person is a special existence, not high in cultivation but very useful—

He is the skin of the Heavenly God, so he needs to be properly protected.

Bai Bai Ziqi encountered an attack on the way back to the city from Xiaotao Shanzhuang. Although he repelled Lingshan's attack, he also paid a considerable price, and the combat power of the team was damaged, so he requested reinforcements from Miaozhantian.

This was one of the aids Miaozhantian sent to Bai Bai Ziqi, and others were still preparing in the Temple.

The monster in front of him probably sensed that Yuan Dong was the weakest among the crowd, so he prioritized picking soft persimmons, but ruined Bai Bai Ziqi's major event.

Now Yuan Dong was grabbed in its hand, its sharp claws pierced from the back heart, pierced through and then lifted up, blood flowed along the trembling body to the ground, drop by drop.

Even if it is snatched back, it is hard to save.

Bai Bai Ziqi looked at the suddenly appearing monster, trying to communicate: "Who are you, can you understand human language?"

As a result, the feedback it gave him was to lift Yuan Dong and sniff, as if determining whether this thing could be eaten, and then swallowed it! Everyone who saw this scene was horrified, because the monster's eating appearance was particularly strange, actually splitting a vertical seam from the center of the face, and then getting bigger and bigger, until it covered the whole face.

It turned out that it had no eyes or nose, and the whole face was such a big mouth. The sharp and staggered white teeth made Bai Bai Ziqi think of piranhas.

Now he knows how the strange tooth marks on the giant fish bones came from.

And this thing swallowed an adult in two breaths, swallowing it raw without chewing.

No wonder the palace guards of the second shift disappeared, and the palace guard who led them just now also disappeared inexplicably. This thing eats people without spitting bones!

Bai Bai Ziqi said to the attendant: "Put your hand down, let me see."

The attendant let go, tore off his clothes, and everyone saw two blood holes in his forearm, which were probably pierced by the monster's claws. And the skin near the wound showed a strange dead gray color, looking unlike flesh and blood.

Bai Bai Ziqi was still holding half a broken pestle, and reached out and tapped it twice.

Clang, clang, it was the sound of metal and stone hitting.

Divine art! Bai Bai Ziqi's face turned solemn, and without saying a word, he raised the pestle and knocked on the attendant's shoulder! With a click, the attendant's left arm was broken at the shoulder!

Blood sprayed out, he screamed in pain, almost fainting.

But everyone saw the shoulder blood was bright red, and instead breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the toxicity didn't pass the shoulder.

"Bandage and stop the bleeding for him." Bai Bai Ziqi ordered his subordinates facing the monster, and looked at the ground again. The broken arm dropped by the attendant soon turned into ash.

If he hadn't made a decisive decision, the attendant's petrification would have spread to the body, which would have been troublesome.

He also noticed that although the monster had no eyes, as soon as he stretched out the pestle, the monster's face followed.

To verify, Bai Bai Ziqi shook the broken pestle left and right a few times, and the monster's head also followed and shook slightly.

It was very concerned about this broken pestle.

Sure enough, the things He Xiao left in the tunnel were not useless! "Form an array, don't let it escape!"

A quarter of an hour later.

The vicinity of the stable finally returned to calm.

The guards were all panting, slowly putting away their weapons.

Bai Bai Ziqi held a small-mouthed glass bottle with a round belly in his hand. The bottle was transparent, and the demon puppet was trapped inside!

It was very unconvinced, repeatedly hitting the bottle, but it just couldn't get out.

The bottle mouth was blocked by a brown fruit, which looked like a large hazelnut, and several golden symbols were engraved on the hard shell. If Dong Rui were here, he would interpret these words as Heavenly Demon secret language.

Every time it hit, the golden symbol would jump.

One bottle and one plug trapped this Ashimona who came and went without a trace. Of course, Bai Bai Ziqi didn't know its name. Bai Seventeen came over and whispered: "Xiao Er is not going to make it."

Bai Er is the attendant.

Bai Bai Ziqi walked to his side, seeing that his breath had stopped, but his eyes were still open, so he sighed and gently closed his eyes for him.