Chapter 253

Why is this Three-eyes like a lingering ghost, always bumping into him?

The next moment, Lin Shu began to look forward to Three-eyes having some accident in this Daoist temple.

But soon, Lin Shu felt a sense of guilt rise in his heart because of this thought.

He was pure-hearted in his bones, feeling that Three-eyes was indeed hateful, but his crimes didn't deserve death, and he shouldn't curse him like this.

Immediately after, all distracting thoughts were excluded from Lin Shu's mind.

Because he suddenly realized one thing, which was that with Three-eyes' ability, it was impossible for him to flip over in a place like this.

Ahead, Zhao Yi withdrew his gaze and ran into the Daoist temple.

Lin Shu lowered his head and recorded it in his notebook.

Brother Bin had once teased that Three-eyes was their own external logistics captain.

But that was because they had Brother Xiaoyuan, who could always suppress him. No matter what, he was a figure who could not be underestimated.

Just now there were five people, two men and three women. The old configuration was Three-eyes, Xu Ming, and Sun Yan.

Xu Ming's severed arm had recovered; he didn't know what method was used. Sun Yan was on the beast-taming route, and he couldn't see any changes.

The other two women should be new additions. Although he had only seen their backs before, the similarity of their backs was extremely high, and he suspected they were twins.

Three-eyes seemed very good at handling women.

Lin Shu didn't understand why so many girls liked Three-eyes, who was so effeminate.

It seemed he could only record these.

If it were another team, Lin Shu might really get close to observe, or even follow them into the Daoist temple, but facing Three-eyes, Lin Shu felt that if he did so, there was a high probability he would be discovered by the other party.

Oh, there was one more point: the slit on Three-eyes' forehead was gone.

Lin Shu felt this point should be recorded emphatically. Last time when they parted in Lijiang, Three-eyes said he wanted to make a bold attempt to transfer the life-and-death door slit to his heart.

He should have succeeded.

Now he could not only open the life-and-death door slit but also maintain his physical state.

This guy had skills, and his skills were very profound, only he was forced to choose one of two before, which made him look embarrassed.

Now, he was an opponent with developed limbs and a very complicated brain.

Lin Shu couldn't help but sigh in his heart: He really should have found an opportunity to kill him back then.

What surprised A-You was that he didn't feel any guilt in his heart this time.

Master: "Because your thought is an acknowledgment and praise for him."

Lin Shu: "I don't like this guy."

Master: "You must distinguish between public and private."

Lin Shu: "Do you think there is a possibility of cooperation between our two sides this time?"

Master: "That depends on whether the harvest goal of this wave is huge enough."

Lin Shu: "It can only be decided by Brother Xiaoyuan."

Master: "That's right, so you must hide your identity well and don't let him know we are here too."

Continue to hide, continue to wait.

Suddenly, Lin Shu saw Zhao Yi running out covered in blood, and then with a "plop," he fell to the ground.

Two Daoists chased out, approaching him with swords.

Lin Shu froze for a moment, thinking: Did an accident really happen?

Master: "He is pretending, wanting to attract you to take the bait."

Lin Shu lowered his head. Under the scan of his vertical pupils, layers of invisible waves appeared on the ground in front of him, and the source was the position where Three-eyes was lying.

"Indeed, he is probing my position."

Lin Shu no longer hesitated and chose to leave directly.

Zhao Yi, who was lying face down, raised his head, first looked at the direction where Lin Shu had hidden before, and then stood up while clapping his hands.

Those two Daoists who "chased" out were standing there with pale faces at this moment, having long since lost any sign of life.

Zhao Yi waved his palm, and the two Daoists fell backward, motionless.

Sun Yan walked to Zhao Yi's side. A colorful python was wrapped around her neck, its belly bulging, lazily spitting out its tongue.

The bird in the sky was summoned, circled down, and landed on Sun Yan's wrist.

Previously in the sky, this bird looked very normal, but after looking closely, one could find that the bird's eyes were filled with dead white, and its neck was repaired with gold thread, as if it were a repair made after it was originally broken.

Sun Yan: "What a waste."

As eyes for the team to keep watch, the result was that others had touched so close, but it was completely unaware.

Zhao Yi: "It's already dead, what's the use of you scolding it?"

Sun Yan: "I have always treated it as still alive."

"Deceiving yourself, it's meaningless." Zhao Yi reached out and touched the python's belly, "It seems it's very full."

Sun Yan: "Yes, it will take at least three days to digest."

"No problem, there's still time." Zhao Yi flicked the invitation in his hand: "The Demon-Sealing Assembly is still five days away."

Sun Yan: "I'm worried that if I let it continue to swallow, I won't be able to control it."

"No matter, what it fears is not you, it only fears me."

Zhao Yi scratched the python's chin. The snake's eyes revealed rich malice. Zhao Yi didn't care about this, but instead smiled.

A pair of twin sisters walked out, and behind them, the fire began to rise.

Zhao Yi: "Is it handled?"

Liang Yan: "Handled."

Liang Li: "There are really many remains below. Just looking at the surface, it's really hard to see that this Daoist temple had committed so many sins."

Zhao Yi: "Therefore, the river water pushed us over."

Liang Yan: "Don't we need to chase after and help Xu Ming immediately?"

Zhao Yi: "No need, that guy has malice toward me, but no killing intent."

The concealment of the Bai He Guarding Zhenjun was impeccable, but the emotional changes Lin Shu produced after discovering Zhao Yi made Zhao Yi sense it.

The life-and-death door slit was just this mysterious, possessing extremely keen perception.

Zhao Yi: "When I got this invitation, I was thinking that this time I'm afraid other teams would also come to walk this wave together. Now it can almost be confirmed.

That guy should be someone sent by a team to observe other teams.

Let Xu Ming have a simple encounter with him, just to test each other's strength."

Liang Li: "Other teams, that means competitors?"

Liang Yan: "Shouldn't we take this opportunity to eliminate competitors?"

The two sisters had a strong tone, but Zhao Yi was not disgusted, because he knew that this pair of sisters had the confidence to say this.

If it weren't for his good luck in tricking them into a bet and winning, they wouldn't have followed him to walk the river.

Zhao Yi patiently explained:

"We are definitely the fastest batch of teams, but since that team can send someone to scout the situation now, it proves that they completed the first stage goal and got the invitation faster than us.

Isn't such an opponent worthy of cautious treatment?"

The two sisters nodded upon hearing this.

Zhao Yi licked his lips and whistled.

Liang Yan handed a cigarette to his mouth, and Liang Li rubbed her fingertips to help him light it.

The elder sister asked: "Enjoying it?"

Zhao Yi nodded: "Of course, I am also a normal man."

The younger sister reminded: "You still have six times."

Ten times of lighting cigarettes was also the side condition of that bet.

Zhao Yi: "I will cherish it, but I won't be stingy."

Elder sister: "We won't marry one man. You, Zhao of Jiujiang, can only choose one of us to offer the betrothal gift."

Younger sister: "Have you considered it? Which one do you choose?"

Ten times of lighting cigarettes was the side condition Zhao Yi proposed, while marriage was the side condition the sisters proposed.

Zhao Yi: "Whoever lives to the end, I choose whichever."

Elder sister: "Good."

Younger sister: "What if both live?"

Zhao Yi: "Then play rock-paper-scissors or flip a coin."

Elder sister: "Actually, there is another method, which is that the two of us marry you."

Younger sister: "That's right."

Zhao Yi: "I, Zhao of Jiujiang, at least want some face. Behind closed doors, I can also call myself the Long Wang family. How could I let myself be a matrilocal son-in-law?

If this really succeeds in walking the river, what would I become, a Long Wang matrilocal son-in-law?"

The sisters stopped speaking.

"Hiss..." Zhao Yi seemed to think of someone, "Ha, who told you that your luck is bad? Not only did you get on the wrong car, but you also got on the slow car. Otherwise, there is someone who could provide such an opportunity."

Elder sister: "Who?"

Younger sister: "Which one?"

"Forget it, don't talk about him. You have no chance, you are too old."

The sisters looked at each other. They were in their prime, and they could still be disliked for being too old?

"Moreover, you can't compare to her."

Elder sister: "She refers to a woman? You are also interested in her?"

Younger sister: "There is a story."

Zhao Yi shrugged: "This story is too wonderful, almost making me get slapped to death in the first wave."

Because of a dream, the great elder in the family had the whimsical idea of trying to eat the Long Wang family's household, almost making the Zhao family of Jiujiang extinct first.

Elder sister: "Tell me."

Younger sister: "Love to listen."

"Embarrassing things, what's there to say? After this wave ends and we go back, let Old Man Tian tell you."

Zhao Yi blew out a smoke ring, flicked the cigarette in his hand, looked into the depths of the dense forest ahead, and continued:

"We'll go over after this cigarette is finished, giving them the time of one cigarette to fight."

Lin Shu was running. He noticed that someone was chasing him from behind.

"Master, how many people?"

"Just one, the others didn't follow. I suspect it was deliberately sent to test you."

"Test?"

Lin Shu stopped his footsteps, tapped his chin downward, and patterns immediately appeared on his body.

Then these patterns began to change, all turning black, covering his appearance and figure.

Master: "Are you sure you want to take action?"

Lin Shu: "According to Three-eyes' personality, this should indeed be a test, so I have to take it."

Master: "That person instructed you before leaving not to participate in taking action."

"That's because Brother Xiaoyuan didn't know Three-eyes was here too."

"Make up your own mind, I'm only responsible for helping you fight."

"Believe me, facing this Three-eyes, you only have to suppress him every step of the way for him to become obedient."

"Hmm, then beat him up."

Blood color appeared in the vertical pupils, and then cracked and dissipated. The aura of the Bai He Guarding Zhenjun was no longer hidden and was completely revealed.

Although he had been in close contact before, Lin Shu was not worried that his aura would be recognized by Xu Ming, because he had already turned from Guan Jiang Shou to Guarding Zhenjun.

For Xu Ming, the current him was completely unfamiliar, and he had absolutely never seen him before.

The facts were indeed so. Xu Ming stood in front of the target, perceiving the aura on the other party while revealing doubt.

He only felt that his knowledge was shallow and he couldn't judge the other party's origin, but he didn't know that the other True Monarchs were still being suppressed at the bottom of the sea, and the one in front of him was the only Guarding Zhenjun walking in the world.

No communication, no greetings, and no opening remarks.

Both sides were sent by their respective teams, without diplomatic rights.

Xu Ming spread his arms. The severed arm was connected with a wooden prosthetic limb, and with the injection of his strength, a green bud grew on the prosthetic limb, and vitality overflowed.

The current Xu Ming was even more powerful than before his arm was severed.

Lin Shu took out his double maces, his arms hanging low, placed on the sides of his body.

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

Both sides moved at the same time and collided together.

One wanted to probe the bottom, and the other wanted to show strength, so both sides almost used their full strength from the beginning.

"Bang." "Bang!" "Bang!"

After the double maces were swung three times continuously, Xu Ming fell into a disadvantage.

He was surprised to find that he was suppressed by the other party in the level of strength he was most confident in.

Upon the first encounter, he knew clearly that he was not the opponent of the one in front of him.

Therefore, Xu Ming also realistically turned to pure defense. One was to preserve himself as much as possible, and the other was to give the other party a better space to display and reveal.

Lin Shu did not disappoint Xu Ming. While the double maces continued to swing, his figure also flickered continuously, changing positions.

Under the moonlight, residual images had already appeared. To the naked eye, it looked like Lin Shu was launching attacks on Xu Ming from all directions.

Xu Ming used his wooden arm to block every time. The wooden arm shattered again and again, but it repaired itself again and again. The vitality seemed endless, overflowing continuously with high efficiency, going where it should go.

Lin Shu could only sigh in his heart that this guy was really able to take a beating, making him have a feeling of facing Runsheng.

The difference was that Runsheng was not just able to take a beating; Runsheng was more ferocious when beating people.

This guy was only half of Runsheng.

Master: "His legs are stuck in the soil. See what the situation is below."

Lin Shu slowed down the attack. The single mace no longer swung at Xu Ming, but smashed at the ground in front of Xu Ming.

"Boom!"

The mud exploded, and roots appeared inside. The source was at Xu Ming's feet. It turned out that he had been secretly using the roots extending from his feet to absorb the vitality of nearby plants for replenishment.

Even if Lin Shu's attack could make Xu Ming consume more than he replenished, it also greatly prolonged the time.

Lin Shu You chanted a spell, and clumps of gray, decaying black Qi overflowed from his body; part of it entered the ground, while the rest condensed onto his twin maces.

As the attack continued, Xu Ming found that his wooden arm actually began to turn black, and at the same time, the roots under his feet also began to wither, greatly reducing the speed of absorbing vitality from the vicinity.

The Master's means naturally would not be few. This kind of technique that cut off vitality was what He, who was once a Ghost King, was good at.

Sweat the size of beans kept appearing on Xu Ming's face. The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, making his heart no longer calm.

Fortunately, just at this moment, four auras were sensed approaching from behind, as if they were afraid that the two sides fighting here would not have time to take care of it. The bird in the sky even made a strange cry.

Master: "Their people are coming."

Lin Shu: "Leave?"

Master: "Seems to be missing something, not beautiful enough."

Lin Shu: "Then stab him?"

The Master did not respond, which was considered acquiescence.

Lin Shu deliberately scattered most of the force of this mace. Not much hit Xu Ming, but most of it fell around, rolling up fallen leaves and dust, obscuring the line of sight.

Immediately, Lin Shu took out two talisman needles and stabbed them into his own body.

The feeling of pain boiled instantly, and along with it, the divine power in his body also boiled.

"Bang!"

A powerful mace smashed out.

Xu Ming's defense was already riddled with holes under the invasion of the Master's technique. This blow, which was several times more powerful than before, completely collapsed all his defenses.

Lin Shu did not intend to kill him, but before leaving, he deliberately used a mace to poke a hole in the side of Xu Ming's head as he lay on the ground.

He could not kill him, but he had to leave evidence that he could kill him.

When Zhao Yi and the others arrived, the dust had just dissipated. Xu Ming lay on the ground extremely embarrassed, his limbs paralyzed and twitching, and blood kept overflowing from the corners of his mouth.

Zhao Yi did not expect that Xu Ming could not even hold on for the time of one cigarette.

The obvious hole deliberately poked on the side of Xu Ming's head was like a mockery and ridicule of him, Zhao Yi, and the entire team.

Liang Yan: "This is humiliation."

Liang Li: "Must pay it back."

Zhao Yi: "He didn't kill anyone."

Liang Yan: "We can also not kill him."

Liang Li: "And poke such a hole."

Purple marks appeared on the faces of the twin sisters, as if some power sealed in their bodies was unable to be restrained due to anger.

They were Zhao Yi's strongest trump card in his hands now.

It was precisely because of their joining that Zhao Yi completely changed his original two subordinates, Xu Ming and Sun Yan, into team support roles.

Zhao Yi believed that if he really let them take action, it would inevitably set off a huge wave effect.

But he was Zhao Yi after all, and reason always occupied the absolute upper hand.

Only to see him reach out his hand, gently patting his own side of the face.

"Slap!" "Slap!" "Slap!"

The two sisters looked at him in confusion.

"Skills are not as good as people. If you get beaten, you get beaten. It's deserved."

Saying this, Zhao Yi used his foot to step back the hole that was deliberately poked.

"The opposite side should be planning to form an alliance and cooperate with us."

Liang Yan: "Are you comforting yourself?"

Liang Li: "We won't laugh at you."

Zhao Yi held his forehead, carefully analyzing the residual battle aura and move traces at the scene, but he was always unable to judge the other party's identity, and even couldn't see which school's path it was.

It was normal that Xu Ming didn't recognize it, but he, Zhao Yi, was at least well-read in the family's collection. If he couldn't see it at all, the problem was big.

"Damn, could it be someone who suddenly popped out of some hidden sect?"

Liang Yan: "Hidden sects are not completely mysterious in the eyes of your Zhao family of Jiujiang. We are hidden families, but didn't you also come to the door and take us two away?"

Liang Li: "Unless they don't come out for a thousand years, they can eliminate the traces of existence. Hidden sects that don't come out for a thousand years... will exist, but not in the form of people, and naturally lose the qualification to walk the river."

Zhao Yi: "Who knows, maybe their house was flooded and isolated from the world, and they just climbed ashore recently."

Liang Yan: "Not funny."

Liang Li: "Very childish."

Zhao Yi hammered his forehead: "We sent people to probe the bottom, the other party directly demonstrated. This is laying the foundation for the next cooperation, and the purpose is to suppress us to obtain the initiative, or even leadership.

The other party must know me, know my background, and also have a little bit of fear of me."

Liang Yan: "Here we go again."

Liang Li: "Still trying to save your dignity."

Zhao Yi ignored the sisters' cold words, but murmured to himself: "Who exactly is it?"

There were very many people in the Jianghu who knew his name, and the prestige of Zhao Yi of Jiujiang had long been spread.

Not to mention the far ones, just the time in Lijiang when he held the broken jade and pitted and killed the snatchers while fleeing, he didn't know how many enemies he had made.

That guy surnamed Li, even when surrounded and attacked in the homestay, didn't report his family name, but instead let him shout out his name.

"Sigh, I really envy that guy surnamed Li for this point. Screening enemies and targets is simply straightforward."

Guesthouse.

Li Zhuiyuan had just finished reading the data of the three patients, as well as Wu Xin's first-person statement about the incident in his own tone.

The data of the three patients was nothing strange, and their family background was ordinary and clean.

Wu Xin's statement about the incident... was also quite ordinary.

If one really wanted to discuss the degree of bizarreness, in the eyes of old engineers, it wouldn't even rank in the front.

The cause was that during construction, the machine dug out black liquid. At first, everyone was pleasantly surprised, thinking it was a stroke of luck to dig out oil.

Although geological exploration was done before the project started, it was unlikely that oil could be dug out so shallowly without being discovered in advance.

But dreams, everyone likes to have them.

It was a pity that although the "oil" sprayed high, it only sprayed for a short while and stopped, and the black liquid sprayed out dissipated and disappeared at an extremely fast speed, as if it had completely evaporated.

Although everyone felt puzzled about this, they didn't really take it to heart. Not long after, they resumed construction until they started calling people to hand over work, and a response dislocation appeared. That was the three patients.

According to Wu Xin's speculation, it should be that when the "oil" erupted, these three people were closest and were almost drenched through by the black liquid, just like some kind of toxin, and they inhaled an excessive amount and had a reaction.

Li Zhuiyuan did not think so. For ordinary people, there was no such thing as a large or small amount of such special things, because even if it were just a few drops, ordinary people couldn't resist it.

Combined with the symptoms of the three patients, Li Zhuiyuan had a bold guess in his heart.

That was that all the construction workers who were splashed by the "oil" at that time actually underwent changes.

It was just that unlike the three who were hospitalized now, they had their original memories erased and implanted with another person's memories, and the reason why others were normal was because after their memories were erased, what was implanted was still their original memories.

This was the most extreme and worst situation, meaning that even if they didn't get sick and were like normal people, they were actually already marked.

This thinking of Li Zhuiyuan was a habit developed after walking through so many waves, spreading out all the clues, and first connecting the worst and least probable situations.

The young man decided that when Wu Xin came to pick him up to go to the hospital tomorrow, he had to give Wu Xin a detailed check to see if his memory had any traces of being renovated.

If his guess was right, then these construction workers could all become carriers for the existence at the deepest part of this wave to rise from the ashes, and finally, when he thought he had won, they would either give him a counterattack or simply slip away quietly.

Li Zhuiyuan got out of bed, went to the bathroom to splash his face, and when wiping with a towel, looked at himself in the mirror.

The ability to modify memories was not incomprehensible. The secret arts of the black-skinned book by Wei Zhengdao that he mastered could actually do it too.

But at the same time modifying several, dozens, hundreds, or even more... it was truly chilling.

What kind of existence could possess such terrifying consciousness manipulation ability?

Deep in Mount Qingcheng, in a deep valley that saw no daylight, two Daoists, one big and one small, were advancing.

"Master, the mountain has been very lively recently."

"Normal, when some things are born, they will cause this kind of heaven and earth anomaly."

"Is this a heaven and earth anomaly? Why is it different from the description I saw in the book?"

"An anomaly that appears by the will of the Heavenly Dao, if it's not a heaven and earth anomaly, what is it? People are also one of the manifestations of heaven and earth anomalies."

The master and apprentice walked to an ice-sealed black pool and stopped. The ice surface continuously emitted "crack, crack" sounds, and cracks and protrusions were continuously increasing, and the creepy aura was gradually revealed.

"Disciple, this place was discovered by chance when I fell into a rift when I was a child. After waiting for so many years, I finally waited for its awakening. Now, it is the common opportunity for me and you. Now, it is the common opportunity for me and you."

"But father..."

"Hmm?"

"Master, since the Heavenly Dao doesn't like it, are we acting against the sky by doing this?"

"Are you afraid?"

"I... am indeed afraid."

"Don't be afraid, because the one sleeping inside was once a person most recognized by the Heavenly Dao in an era."

"The person most recognized by the Heavenly Dao... who is it?"

"Come, disciple, bow and worship with me."

The little Daoist followed his master to bow. When he bowed down, he heard his master's pious voice in his ears:

"Pay respects to the Long Wang!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 254 =====