Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1293 Entering the Underworld

"The Great Wilderness Book: Fire Movement" says: In the dark land, the beasts of all generations cannot see the light and cannot see things. Ten days after the earthquake, the earth was split apart. The blind beasts were trapped by the light and were panic-stricken, not knowing where to go. The beasts were poor and died, and their bodies accumulated into phosphorus bones, which they gnawed when they saw the light. When they were strong, they could turn day into night and stop the light of the stars and the moon. In the darkness, only the phosphorus bone magic lamp was left, which moved slowly, so it was called the floating lantern.

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Lou Lingzhu showed a badge to the gang members guarding the gate, indicating that he wanted to meet the chief and deputy chief of the mountain gang. As expected, the gang members recognized the badge and immediately went in to pass on the message.

Within a moment, a scream was heard from inside.

"What's wrong?" Lou Lingzhu asked immediately.

"Deputy Chief..."

"Let me go in and take a look." Lou Lingzhu pushed the gang members at the door aside without saying a word, and Lu Ning and Wen Rong followed her into the yard.

The door of a house was opened, and several gang members were gathered at the door with obvious panic on their faces. Lou Lingzhu walked in with a very imposing look, and these gang members subconsciously moved aside.

Then, Lu Ning saw a blood-stained person lying in the room. Although this scene seemed familiar, she could see that the chest of the person on the ground was still rising and falling slightly. Seeing this, Lou Lingzhu frowned slightly, took a step forward, and planned to squat down to check on the person.

"Wait a minute!"

Lu Ning's demonic eyes caught a glimpse of a light blue color on the man's body. She immediately opened her mouth to warn him, but at the same time, a white snake-like thing suddenly emerged from the bleeding wound on her abdomen and rushed straight to Lou Lingzhu's face!

Unexpectedly, Lou Lingzhu was not panicked at all. She waved her sleeves and there was a sound of metal collision. The white snake was actually waved aside by her.

"It is indeed a demon." Lou Lingzhu took out a long board that looked like jade but had a metallic texture from his sleeve and picked up the wilted white snake on the ground. However, Lu Ning could see that it was not a white snake at all, but a bunch of white silk threads twisted into a rope.

"Water demon." Lu Ning said, "Be careful, there isn't much demon color on it, it's probably just a stump."

"This man is still alive." Wen Rong had already squatted down beside the man to check on him. There was a bloody hole in his abdomen. It was not serious enough to be fatal, but he was probably close to death due to the blood loss. Wen Rong took out the fish gut thread and needle from his bag and quickly sutured the wound. From Lu Ning's point of view, his technique was not very professional, but it was very fast.

"It just stops the bleeding temporarily! You need to find a doctor!" Wen Rong said.

Immediately, several gang members ran out, while Lou Lingzhu and Lu Ning began to observe the surrounding situation.

"The tables and chairs were knocked over, and there were signs of a fight..." Lu Ning looked around the messy room, "Why didn't anyone hear it?"

"The power of demons." Lou Lingzhu judged, "This deputy chief leader probably knows that he might be killed, but he is powerless to escape the demons' clutches due to his poor martial arts. So, whether he is connected with the demons or not, we can only ask him after he wakes up."

"Yeah, I don't know how the fight started." Lu Ning said, "And he probably won't wake up for a while."

"Where is your leader?" Lou Lingzhu asked the few gang members who stayed behind.

"The chief and the leaders of the other three gangs went out to drink." A member of the Mountain Gang replied, "The deputy chief doesn't like drinking. He said he was tired and stayed in the house for a nap. But the house became like this and we didn't hear anything!"

"The voice-swallowing demon is not uncommon in the records of history." Lou Lingzhu said, "Did your deputy chief leader tell you anything? Whatever it is, tell me."

"Uh... the deputy chief really didn't want us to disturb him."

"But the deputy chief also told us that he has something to do in the afternoon and needs to be called at 15:00."

"One quarter after 3 p.m., it can be considered that this is the time he originally scheduled." Lu Ning found some traces, but these traces were still very faint and disappeared before Lu Ning could track them.

"In that case, this person should not be one of the assassins, but an insider. He had probably guessed the threat of the action before and hoped to escape, but he was attacked by demons unexpectedly." Lou Lingzhu put the captured white silk rope into a black bamboo tube and then carefully put it into his backpack.

"Why do you collect these weird things?" Wen Rong asked.

"Demons are also one of the worries of the world. The books that record demons in the past, except for the "Dream Records of Mountains and Seas" which can be used as an index of the origins and habits of demons, the rest of the records are from unofficial history and legends, and most of them are not detailed. If there is a chance, I would like to compile a book, like the Demon Suppression Bureau, to record the demons in the world." Lou Lingzhu said, "Of course, I am still young and lack experience, so I need to accumulate."

"This is very dangerous. Not to mention that you will definitely encounter monsters during the recording process, just the monster characteristics revealed in your book are enough to make some monsters regard you as a thorn in their eyes." Lu Ning said.

"If I was afraid of difficulties and hesitated to move forward, I wouldn't have to enter Zhixing Valley." Lou Lingzhu said.

"Well, it seems that you are somewhat prepared. Let's-"

Just as he was talking about this, someone suddenly strode in.

"I heard the injured person is here!"

Wen Rong was frightened by the sound of thunder, and Lu Ning and Lou Lingzhu were also attracted to it.

The man who came was a burly man over seven feet tall, with broad shoulders and a thick waist, dressed in coarse cloth, like a farmer. Behind him were several gang members who had just hurried out to ask for a doctor.

"Are you a doctor?" Lou Lingzhu asked.

"That's right! I'm Zhao Yuqiao, a disciple of the Qihuang Sect. Please make way for me so I can see the condition of the wound!"

Under his loud voice, Lu Ning and the others subconsciously made way. Zhao Yuqiao took out a wooden box from the backpack on his back and opened it. Inside were polished silver knives, needles, porcelain bottles and other things.

Zhao Yuqiao picked out a blue porcelain bottle and glanced at the wound on the deputy chief's abdomen: "Who sewed it?"

Wen Rong raised her hand nervously.

"Girl, did you practice your stitching skills on piglets at home?"

"My family... I have never raised pigs..."

"No, your stitches are too rough. Although it has stopped the bleeding..." Zhao Yuqiao picked up a pair of silver scissors and slowly unstitched Wen Rong's stitches, and sprinkled the medicine powder in the porcelain bottle next to the wound.

"Won't the blood wash away the powder?" asked Lou Lingzhu.

"Yes, so you have to sew it up quickly." Zhao Yuqiao's movements were incredibly agile, and the wound he sewed looked pleasing to the eyes even to an outsider like Lu Ning - this was hardly a medical technology that could appear in this era. After Zhao Yuqiao quickly treated the wound, he poured some pink powder from another red porcelain bottle, mixed it with the water prepared in a bottle of wooden box, shook it vigorously, took out a silver needle connected to a tube made of some unknown animal intestine, connected the tube to the mouth of the bottle, and then connected a small airbag-like thing.

Lu Ning's eyes widened.

The suture just now could be said to be a sign of this person's natural talent, but the things he took out now were too outrageous. If she guessed correctly, these were probably dried plasma and blood transfusion devices - the latter might be made, but the former was impossible to be successfully prepared in this era.

"Hey, this guy is really lucky." Zhao Yuqiao said with a smile while using the device to transfuse blood to the deputy chief leader, "If he had been discovered a moment later, this amount of bleeding would have killed him. Oh, this pulse shows that there is an evil spirit entering his body. I take back what I said before. This is an old unlucky guy."

"Um... Doctor Zhao..." a gang member spoke somewhat awkwardly.

"Oh, don't mention the reward. The Qihuang Sect treats patients and won't charge for new diseases. This guy's injury happens to be very new. Haha, what's his name? I can name this disease after him!"

"It's just that the body has an abnormal reaction after being attacked by a demon." Lou Lingzhu said, "This is not an ordinary disease."

"That's not necessarily true, young lady." Zhao Yuqiao grinned and said, "For us, any abnormality in the human body is a disease. No matter what the cause of the abnormality is, it can be treated and can be studied to be cured."

After a moment of silence, Lou Lingzhu nodded and said, "I appreciate your teaching. You, the disciple of Qihuang Sect, really have the heart to help the world."

"Thank you for your praise. Saving the world is just a grand wish. No matter how great the wish is, it must be put into practice." Zhao Yuqiao pulled out the needle, took out another box and threw the used equipment into it. "Now, who can tell me what's going on?"

"Can the deputy chief still wake up?" asked a member of the mountain gang.

"Yes, but it will be later. He just needs to have a fever and then get over it. People who practice martial arts should not be that fragile, but a serious illness is inevitable." Zhao Yuqiao said.

"A demon attacked him." Lu Ning said.

Zhao Yuqiao nodded: "Then it's better to find a few more people to watch over him. The demon didn't kill him, so he probably has some other purpose. I don't know if the demon can sense that you didn't get tricked. It's quite dangerous... How come you run into so many problems just to celebrate a birthday?"

"It has already happened, and we need to find a way to solve it." Lu Ning said, "We have found some clues now, but unfortunately they are cut off by the deputy chief. We also need to find an assassin and find out which demons are connected with these southern Xinjiang assassins."

"Tsk, even if I find it, I may not be able to get anything good out of it... I'm only here to save people, but I can't just ignore it when I hear about this kind of thing." Zhao Yuqiao stroked his beard, "Tell me, how can I help?"

"If I may——"

Lu Ning's words suddenly stopped. She had been using her demon eyes to observe the surrounding situation, and just now, a red color suddenly came through the wall from outside the yard. Although the speed was not fast, it brought with it a vague sense of oppression.

"demon!"

Lou Lingzhu shouted immediately, and then everyone was surrounded by darkness.

Lu Ning's vision was also completely obscured by the darkness. She knew that Niying's demon eye was not omnipotent, so she did not have too many regrets. She just drew out the sword and was carefully alert to any movement around her.

Several screams were heard in the darkness, and everyone held their breath at the same time, not making any sound.

Then, a huge voice in the darkness shouted, "Who are you?"

A ray of fire flashed past not far in front of Lu Ning's eyes. She couldn't see the specific appearance of the fire, but she could see that the flame collided with something, and then Zhao Yuqiao let out a muffled groan.

"Doctor Zhao, don't provoke it." Lou Lingzhu reminded, "We can't see anything, but this monster may not be able to do it."

"Ah."

In the darkness, a sound like bones colliding was heard.

The only flame that was still on was hovering in the air, but apart from the flame itself, nothing around was illuminated. Neither the demon's body nor Zhao Yuqiao, who had just exchanged a move with the demon, could be seen at all.

Lu Ning knew that her mental method, which had not yet been broken through, might not be of any use at this time, so she bent her fingers and hooked the "Giant Knuckles" on her arm.

Of the three special effects granted by the Giant Knuckles, the cold breath is almost a passive special effect, while the other two are actively triggered. Lu Ning stared at the flame and triggered "Dishonorable Murder".

Suddenly, a bloody smell that seemed to come from ancient times surged up from Lu Ning's mouth, and the desire to kill emerged on her arms. The hatred and desire that the Giant King had for killing his relatives turned into a weapon with actual damage, and it descended into this world the moment Lu Ning lightly waved her hand.

Although she could clearly feel such a strong murderous intent, it fell upon the world silently. Lu Ning only saw the flames flicker for a moment, and then, it disappeared.

"Oh! The pressure is gone!" Zhao Yuqiao exclaimed, "But why can't I see anything? Where is the demon?"

"Doctor Zhao, please be careful." Lou Lingzhu reminded, "Everyone, the magic has not dissipated, which proves that the demon is not dead. We must find a way to leave this dark area and make plans. I wonder if you remember the way to leave the yard?"

"Where is the deputy chief?" Lu Ning asked.

"Beside me! I carried him on my back!" Zhao Yuqiao replied, "Are there any of the brothers over there still alive?"

"Yes..." said a weak voice.

"Then let's go out, and if the fire appears again, we'll give it another hard blow!"

Another one? Lu Ning was somewhat skeptical whether she could kill the demon with another one. "Dishonorable Murder" did hit the target, but the effect was not as good as expected. She did not have the ability to suppress the demon purely by strength like Ning Ke did, or even kill Niying with one sword.

And she also felt that "Dishonorable Murder" used her hatred and murderous intent as energy to activate, and although the consumption was small, it was not endless. If it was the cynical her before, maybe she could use it a few more times, but now she could feel a limit.

"I found the door!" a gang member shouted and took a step out of the door.

Then he saw a smiling man standing outside the door. He had the face of a deputy chief.