guile fairy

Chapter 80 Scarecrow

A-lin raised his hand and pointed forward, "Go straight ahead. There is a big cave. I saw it outside the cave. It was inside the cave and didn't come out at the time."

Now that they knew the location, the group of people walked much faster, and within a short time they saw the cave that A Lin was talking about.

The cave looks very big. At the entrance of the cave, someone specially used a big red rope knot to surround the entrance. There is also a bell hanging in the middle of the red rope knot. Standing at the edge of the cave entrance, you can even faintly feel it. There were gusts of cold wind blowing out of it.

Arin pointed to a point ahead, close to the cave, and said, "I encountered it there last time when I was picking mushrooms. It never came out at that time. It just stood at the entrance of the cave and looked at me."

Probably because they were relatively close at the time, A-Lin clearly remembered what happened at that time. The only thing he couldn't quite remember was A-Hong Gong's appearance.

Fu Zhaozhao stepped forward and studied the red knot, feeling a little strange.

"This thing looks like it was hung here specifically to prevent the contents from escaping." As she spoke, she also shook the bell.

The bell made a crisp sound, and the noisy birds around suddenly became quiet, and even the small insects in the grass stopped calling.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of something climbing came from the cave.

Arin's face was pale. She seemed to have heard something. She pointed at the opening of the hole and said, "There is something crawling out inside."

Fu Zhaozhao also heard it and deliberately moved closer to the entrance of the cave, as if he wanted to see what would come out of it.

Along with the rustling sound of crawling, the three people present finally saw what Duke Ahong looked like who lived in the cave.

The general appearance is indeed what A Lin said. He is very tall, has a bald head and is wearing a red hexagram. He looks like a monk, but a scary version of a monk.

Its face was gray, with only the whites of its eyeballs remaining. Although it was tall, its limbs were extremely slender, as if it could break the opponent's bones with just a twist.

"Hoo...!"

Ahong Gong opened his mouth and roared at the crowd, but Fu Zhaozhao found that someone had cut off the man's tongue, leaving only a blood stain.

Seeing that the people outside were ignoring him, Ahong Gong came forward and raised his hand to hold the red knot, as if he wanted to say something to everyone. However, the moment he touched it, bursts of white smoke came out of his hand, which frightened him. Back away.

Ahong Gong could not get out of the cave, but everyone outside the cave had no intention of going in.

Gong Ya studied the other person from a certain distance. The more he looked at him, the more he frowned. He muttered, "That's not right. This is different from what we checked before."

Fu Zhaozhao asked: "What's the difference?"

Gong Ya scratched his head and said: "Although it looks scary, it is not the same as the legendary mountain god. Have you ever seen any mountain god who would be trapped here?"

"I suspect someone did this on purpose, and the legendary Duke Ahong is missing a leg. It's obviously not missing." Gong Ya said, pointing in the direction of the cave.

Fu Zhaozhao straightened his hand and said, "Look carefully, a foot is really missing, it's just blocked by the clothes on his body."

Gong Ya took a closer look and found that this was really the case.

Because the Dahong Gua is worn on the opponent's skinny body, it looks extra large, and it looks like it is dragging. You can't tell it at all if you don't look carefully.

Gong Ya touched his head, "If it is really A Honggong, then it won't be the one causing the trouble. Do we still need to continue investigating?"

Fu Zhaozhao shook his head: "It can't do it at all." Then she looked at A Lin and saw that her face was pale, so she asked: "The thing that your village said about A Hong Gong's rebellion before is really such a thing, or is it true? Is it just a rumor?" A Lin said with a white face: "It is true. The family who lives next door to me has not appeared since they entered the mountain. Then the people in the village said that they must have done something. , angered Duke Ahong, and Duke Ahong asked them to stay with him forever."

"Besides this incident, are there any other similar things that happened?"

A Lin thought for a while, then nodded slowly and said: "Before you guys came, there were people in the village who went up the mountain every now and then, and then they were never seen again..."

"That's wrong." Alin seemed to have remembered something, his face became paler, and he continued intermittently: "Drow didn't disappear after going up the mountain, he was... he disappeared after going to find the clan leader..."

At this point, she seemed to realize something, and instantly turned to look at the other two people, opened her mouth, but didn't say what she wanted to say.

She didn't need to say anything, Fu Zhaozhao and the other two knew what she meant.

"Then it seems that this matter has something to do with your clan leader." Fu Zhaozhao rubbed his chin and said: "How old is your clan leader? Why do I always look like he is dying when I look at him?"

Every time I see the other person, there is always a feeling that the other person is on the verge of death, but it is a miracle that he can recover again when he turns around.

Alin's lips moved, "I...I don't know. I once asked my grandma how old the patriarch was, but my grandma didn't know either. She just said that when my grandma was young, the patriarch was already like this. .”

"So no one knows how long the patriarch has lived. All we know is that until now, he is the senior one in the village."

Just as A Lin finished speaking, a bell suddenly rang.

Fu Zhaozhao looked reflexively and saw that the red rope knot that was originally hanging firmly in the middle of the cave fell down. The bell sound just now was the sound made by the red rope knot falling and hitting the ground.

At this moment, Gong Ya, who was standing next to the red rope knot, looked at his hands in horror.

"I'm not... I just touched it lightly."

Facing the gazes of the other two people, Gong Ya quickly explained, but his tone became increasingly weak: "It was really just a light touch."

When he was listening to the two of them chatting just now, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be some scripture engraved on the red rope knot. Out of curiosity, he reached out and poked it.

At this moment, the red knot just fell off like a piece of porcelain.

This is not the point.

The point is that the freed Ahong Gong is like a wild horse that has escaped the reins, disappearing along the outer wall of the cave.

Unexpectedly, the other party did not come toward them after leaving the cave. Instead, they climbed on all fours and ran down the mountain.

But after a while, the screams of men seemed to be heard in the distance.

Apparently he met Mr. Ahong who ran out of the cave.

There was a sudden silence.

Gong Ya asked cautiously: "Are we still chasing him?" However, no one paid attention to him.

Fu Zhaozhao picked up the booklet that had just fallen from A Honggong's body and patted the dust on it, revealing the earthy yellow cover.

(End of this chapter)