Chapter 53 Heavenly Soldiers
At this moment, I can't describe the feeling in my heart.
Pain? Disgust? Or other emotions? In short, I only felt a bone-broken chill that freezes the whole person's heart and blood.
I no longer want to recall everything that follows. Lu Su was neat and took a knife in the voice of the messenger's fear. After the messenger died completely, his blood turned black very quickly. The black blood was poured into the frozen ice where I was. Soon, the things that tightly wrapped around my legs really dissipated.
I climbed out of the ice cave, and Lu Su said, "It's not time to withdraw." Next to the ice cave, the messenger's incomplete body and the head without much flesh. I just took a look and felt that I would never forget this scene in my life.
During the entire escape process, my brain almost stopped thinking. My subconscious mind told me that I should be calmer and clear my thoughts at this moment, but the reality is that I can't think about anything. While walking, Lu Su explained. When he heard the screams and gunshots above, he thought I was injured. Originally, Lu Su planned to come to rescue alone, but Tofu had to come together and said, "Old Chen is not a soft persimmon. What can hurt him is definitely not a good person. I will go with you."
Speaking of this, Lu Su turned his head and smiled at me, saying, "You have a good brother. No matter when, he will not give up on you." His words may have been to comfort me, but in fact they did have some effect. Tofu's little heart was originally fragile, and he was shocked by the scene just now. After Lu Su said this, I finally calmed down, patted Tofu on the shoulder, and comforted him, saying, "Don't think about it, the messenger is a dead person, and we do this... to help it get rid of it."
Of course, I know whether this is the case.
I knew very well how much that messenger wanted to survive.
I finally understood that people will obey morality in a comfortable environment, and when people are placed in an extreme environment, they are no different from wild animals. In the face of absolute survival, the shackles of morality are vulnerable.
Because we had the marks left before, we did not go any wrong way. We ran away very quickly. When we poked our heads out of the ice cave, we slid down along the rope that had been fixed in advance. Jizi and others were waiting below. When they saw me coming out, Jizi immediately stepped forward nervously and asked, "Where is Mr. Wu?"
Tofu responded, "It's not Wu Shui, he is not in there."
Feng Gui, who was on the other hand, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is that?"
Tofu was silent for a moment, not knowing whether it was cold or what, his face was pale and blue. The three of us didn't want to recall the messenger anymore, and it was not something worthy of sharing. So I continued: "A dead person I don't know may be Zhao Erye."
Feng Guishou seemed a little suspicious of this statement. He looked at me deeply without asking any more. Then, he pointed to the dense spider-web-shaped ice cave in front of us and said, "During the time you left, I took someone to explore the nearby ice cave, and I found something interesting." Then, he walked towards one of the ice caves, and Tofu followed, while Lu Su was surrounded by others and asked about our experience in the ice cave.
He still seemed calm and composed. Everything that had just happened did not affect him. I suddenly thought of a sentence: Water waves are without traces.
Lu Su is like a deep pool, with a calm surface, making people feel gentle and calm, but deep inside, anything can be swallowed without leaving a trace. The mute man is like the scimitar he used, strange, cold and sharp.
Feng Guishou took me to an ice cave, looked in, pointed at the edge of the ice cave, and said, "Look, there is a mark here." I then stuck my head in, and found that there was a mark about one centimeter deep on the ice wall.
Since it is difficult to leave traces on the black ice wall, just like before me, the mark left is as simple as possible. The mark left in the ice cave is directly a vertical line, while the arc left here is.
Feng Guishou continued: "We didn't have time to check the above area, but in the following area, we found a total of six marking ice caves.
Six items?
I asked, “Did the mark be left by the same person?”
Feng Guishou nodded.
In this way, the person who left the mark must have spent a long time investigating these ice caves. So in the end, why left the mark in these six ice caves? Does this mean danger or safety?
Who left this mark?
Is it Chen Ci or Old Man Zhao who are the people?
Where did the mute go again?
I said, "Have you ever seen these six ice caves again?"
Feng Guishou nodded and said that he had been in there. There were marks all the way inside, but he didn't dare to go too deep and retreated again. He was about to wait for us to come back and make an idea together.
At this time, I thought of the heavenly soldiers in Lu Su's mouth, and the red people, would there be any other ice caves?
Will they come out of the ice cave to attack us?
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this place was very dangerous. At this time, Lu Su also came to us. After watching it, his brows couldn't help but frown. I asked him about the heavenly soldiers, and Lu Su gave such an explanation.
The heavenly soldiers originated from the corpse refining technique in the western Hunan area. We have been in the Yin-Yang Village, so we naturally know that the saying of corpse driving in Xiangxi is not groundless. Lu Su said that the corpse being driven is actually "practice". Refining corpse is actually a technique to change the corpse and control the corpse. The corpse refining in the corpse driving in Xiangxi can only be said to be at the entry level.
The real origin of the corpse refining technique is no longer reliable, but it was developed in the western Hunan area. In traditional sense, it is divided into: walking, puppet, mourning, evacuation, earth, and sky, called walking, puppet, mourning, evacuation, and heavenly soldiers. The highest level of corpse refining is called.
The reason why Lu Su thought that what we encountered was the heavenly soldiers was based on my description, plus the runes on the heavenly soldiers at that time. In fact, those runes were proof that the corpse had been refined.
These heavenly soldiers stationed in these ice caves are undoubtedly Puzhen’s masterpieces.
In this way, I have encountered the marching soldiers, which is what I saw in the monstrosity inn in Yin-Yang Liubu Village. They are already very powerful, but they are only the lowest-level marturing soldiers. So how powerful are the heavenly soldiers?
Lu Su explained in a deep voice: "The heavenly soldiers are inseparable from swords and guns, and are not invaded by water and fire, and are immortal and will act according to the will of the corpse refiners. However, the heavenly soldiers are not so easy to refine, so there should be not many."
I was secretly surprised and said, "Is there any way to deal with them? Can we only escape when we see them?"
Lu Su smiled and said, "Otherwise? Now you should know what those messengers are for." My thoughts changed and I felt anger in my heart. Could it be that Old Man Zhao had known about the situation here? That's why he got some messengers in in advance and used the ability of messengers to regenerate continuously to hold back those heavenly soldiers?
This method is really cruel.
Immediately afterwards, I felt something was wrong again. How did Old Man Zhao learn about the situation in the Xuanbing Tomb?
After thinking about it, I asked this question. Tofu thought for a while and said, "Is it related to that map? Mr. Zhao is the last person to see Chen Ci. He may have hidden something from us."
Tofu's speculation is not impossible, but both Mute and Lu Su have investigated Old Man Zhao. I thought their investigation was thorough enough. Could it be that there is anything else they don't know? Suddenly, I remembered the three people who died in hot spring lakes, and our undisciplined team. I suddenly felt a buzzing sound in my mind and I understood it in an instant.
...The one who knows that there are heavenly soldiers here is not only Old Man Zhao, but also the mute!
Of course, the mute’s information is probably found out from Old Man Zhao. But the mute’s real purpose of forming this seemingly meaningless team is... at critical moments, use them as shields!
I looked at Lu Su's smiling eyes and said coldly: "Do you know about this?"
Lu Su said: "What's the matter?"
I said, "Don't pretend to be stupid, it's about the heavenly soldiers."
Lu Su smiled and said, "If I knew, would I let you in alone? Will you still take the risk to save you? I only understood the moment I saw the Heavenly Soldier. Wu Shui is... cruel and unfathomable."
Tofu now figured out the reason for the matter. We also discussed that when the mute digging mushrooms, they had to hire some good men. How could they recruit some unreasonable individual customers? Now, Tofu is single-celled, and has turned around. He shivered and said, "Old Chen, the mute takes you in because he treats you as a relative and takes me in... Could it be for... Damn, that bastard!"
Immediately afterwards, Tofu said angrily: "If I had known, he would have strangled him to death when he fainted." After thinking about it, I guess it was because of me, so I said: "It's okay not to strangle him to death. He should be tied up and interrogated."
Chapter completed!