Chapter 30: Underground hunt

As night fell, Li Jinglong suggested: "Wait here and wait." So he set up a bonfire and turned over some dry food for Hongjun to eat. Hongjun had no appetite for a day, he was lingering, and lay down after drinking some water.
"It's hard work." Li Jinglong said, "This case initially believes that there is indeed a demon. After that, I will take you to have a fun."
Hongjun lay on the meadow, looking sideways at Li Jinglong and asked, "I'm sleeping like this every day on the way down to Changan. I get used to it. But how do you see it?"
Li Jinglong thought thoughtfully: "A bodyguard suddenly killed everyone in the caravan, just on the last day before arriving in Chang'an, and finally committed suicide. Don't you think this is unreasonable?"
Hong Jun said, "But the monster did not personally start killing people. What is he doing here?"
Li Jinglong replied: "Maybe this is the key clue."
Hong Jun thought hard, but now he couldn't figure it out, but Li Jinglong said: "After going back to discuss with them, maybe there will be a clearer conclusion. Think happy, where do you like to play?"
"I'm not going to Pingkang Li." Hong Jun said casually.
"I stopped you last time, was it boring?" Li Jinglong said lightly.
Hong Jun did not know why, and suddenly remembered what the carp demon said yesterday. Following Li Jinglong, he knows how to eat and how to play, and there are so many new things every day. It has always been like this, as if life has come alive.
Li Jinglong: "?"
Hong Jun suddenly pointed to the stars in the autumn night sky and said, "Long history, look at the stars, how beautiful they are."
Li Jinglong hummed, and simply lay down, the two looked at the stars together.
"I don't like Qin Wu." Li Jinglong said, "Are you a little jealous?"
When Hong Jun was asked, his heart suddenly jumped violently for no reason, embarrassingly said: "No ... there!"
"Look, I'm worried about him." Li Jinglong said seriously, "Isn't it a taste in my heart?"
Hong Jun immediately turned around and lay on his side, not speaking.
Li Jinglong also said: "I was a good friend with him. I just couldn't bear to see him fall to the present ..." He looked at the starry sky and said fascinatingly, "Although you haven't met you for less than a month, you can talk and behave Obviously from the Xian family. Being human is more crystal clear, is it comparable to people in the world? "
When Hong Jun heard Li Jinglong praised himself so much, he suddenly turned around, turned around, looked at him, and said, "Is it? You praise me so happy!"
Li Jinglong said: "Just treat me as a coax."
Hong Jun was a little sleepy and confused: "Sometimes when I watch Du Hanqing and Xiao Wu, I can't help but think, if I wasn't in Yao ... I grew up in my house. Maybe compared to them Say, I ’ll do even worse. So I ’m taking advantage of it, it ’s just that I ’m doing well. "
"That's not enough." Li Jinglong said, "Everyone has their own nature, and some people don't even bother to do many things even if they are ruined all their lives. You said that day, you like long history ..."
Hong Jun "huh" sounded, heavy eyelids, tiredness hit, he did not hear what Li Jinglong said behind, Li Jinglong was very surprised, how to sleep when you sleep? He reached out and shook Hongjun and called him, and he had no choice but to answer.
The bonfire went out and the world fell into darkness.
Hong Jun suddenly woke up in the darkness, and yelled again, feeling that he was covered with clothes, but he was still struggling. Li Jinglong, who was next to him, immediately reached out and held him.
Li Jinglong didn't know when he moved over, and he lay side by side with him, covered with his robe, and they were next to each other.
"Are you dreaming again?" Li Jinglong asked with concern. "Why do you always have nightmares?"
Hong Jun gasped lightly and said, "Dreaming about the monster killing ... killing."
He dreamed that the corpse he saw in the daytime shivered behind the stone, and a group of black shadows came out with fog, reached out his hand, and the blood on the ground flew into a living worm, and finally towards his hand Keep gathering.
"Don't be afraid." Li Jinglong whispered, "Are you sensitive to resentment? I want to ask you today."
Hong Jun hummed and felt a strong heartbeat coming from Li Jinglong ’s male body. There was a faint dim light in his heart, which made him very yearning. He leaned a little past and was disturbed by nightmares. 'S soul gradually settled down and fell asleep again.
In the early morning of the next day, nothing happened when I woke up. Li Jinglong made another round of inspection, carrying Hong Jun, spurring his horse back to Chang'an City. When they arrived at the Exorcism Division, the three of them were lying in the main hall and sleeping in their clothes, apparently checking Zongjuan all night.
"A new case came last night." Artest said sleepily, "homicide, monster. There are witnesses."
Li Jinglong pondered for a moment, and then said: "Let's put this case first and listen to our investigation results, Hong Jun, let me tell you this time."
"Ah?" Hong Jun had already forgotten almost, and said, "I had two bowls of stewed goose noodles yesterday ..."
"Oh, you guys!" Artest said angrily, "We are exhausted in Exorcism Division, you go out to eat delicious food?"
Li Jinglong really got darker and darker, and said angrily: "Say the topic!"
Hong Jun detailed the passage through his memory. When he said that he vomited, everyone joined the carp demon and said the same thing: "Deserve it!" Finally, Pingheliang was mentioned, everyone was frowning. Interrogatively. This time for Li Jinglong's answer, he explained the causes and consequences in a very orderly way, and said to Zhao Hongjun, "Did you forget something?"
Hong Jun didn't remember. Morrigan said first: "The first three piles are not necessarily monsters, but the last one must be strange."
"You counted Qin Wu in." Li Jinglong said.
"Did these four cases always have something in common?" Artest murmured.
"The common ground is that Dali Temple can't be broken?" Qiu Yongsi said.
Everyone: "..."
Qiu Yongsi waved his hand and said, "It's about blood."
Hong Jun: "Yes."
"Except for the doctor who escaped from the city, the clue is broken." Li Jinglong said in a deep voice, "The remaining cases, no matter the crime scene or the means of committing crimes, are extremely fierce.
"This does not constitute a similarity." Mo Rigen frowned, "homicides are always bloody."
Li Jinglong also said: "The murderers lost their senses at a certain moment."
Qiu Yongsi: "When people are angry, they will do impulsive things, when they are driven by demons ..."
"Heart Demon." Li Jinglong directly pointed out the word Qiu Yongsi said.
Everyone was silent again,
"Only Qin Wu is like this?" Hong Jun said, "After all, we haven't seen any other murderers."
Li Jinglong reminded: "That suicide bodyguard."
Hong Jun immediately remembered that the suicide man's expression was the clue he had found himself.
"You have to go to the blacksmith who killed the wife." Mo Rigen said, "If it's similar to Qin Wu, there might be a problem."
"Should the blacksmith's neighbor know him on weekdays?" Artest asked.
"There is in the file, it is an honest man." Li Jinglong motioned to Altay to see for himself.
When the topic revolved around the blacksmith, Hong Jun suddenly remembered, took out the half-moon-shaped piece of iron found at the blacksmith's house, and said, "I always feel this ..."
"Wait!" Qiu Yongsi immediately leaned over, leaned over quickly, held it in his hand, and he was short of breath.
"What magic weapon is this?" Hong Jun asked. When he saw this piece of iron, he felt as if there was a faint fascination on it, but he couldn't tell where it came from. Among the five, Qiu Yongsi is the most versatile, knowing the sword of wisdom and perhaps the origin of this thing.
"This is not a magic weapon." Qiu Yongsi murmured, "This is a scale ..."
In the afternoon of the following day, the jailer took the exorcists and Lian Hao from Dali Temple to the deepest part of the prison.
"Everyone has tried it and confessed it. I only mentioned that when I started killing someone, I was evil." Lian Hao let the jailer open the prison door with the key and let them in.
The murderer was hiding in a dark corner. It was a blacksmith in his fifties. He was shy and shy, his shawl spread out, and his mouth was full of mutters, and he was unconscious.
Li Jinglong lightly touched him, and the blacksmith instantly screamed and shouted, "Ghost! Ghost!"
Morrigan knelt on one knee and went to the blacksmith to observe his look.
"What did you see?" Mo Zhigen asked. "Don't be afraid, tell us."
The blacksmith couldn't help trembling, the facial features cramped, his throat rattled, and nothing was explained. Li Jinglong frowned, Zhao Hongjun glanced at each other, both of them did not express their hearts, and they both remembered the bodyguard who slaughtered the entire caravan, the expression of his death.
"Ghosts, ghosts ..." The blacksmith just tossed and said.
When the people left the cell, Hong Jun casually glanced and found Qin Wu in another cell. Qin Wu, dressed in a prison uniform, shackled and shackled, fell asleep on the ground covered with straw.
The iron chain sounded, the jailer opened the lock, and Hong Jun went in to wake Qin Wu. Qin Wu suddenly became a startled bird and grabbed Hong Jun's wrist fiercely.
"Save me ... save me ..." Qin Wu shivered, "I shouldn't do that ... I'm wrong ..."
Hong Jun frowned: "Xiao Wu, you tell me, what happened?"
Qin Wu's eyes were full of panic, and he was almost crying, saying, "I don't know ... I don't know ... There is a shadow, always following me ... I don't want to do it ... Save me ..."
Everyone outside the jail door looked awkward.
"Be clear." Li Jinglong entered the cell and knelt in front of Qin Wu, looking at his expression.
Qin Wuzhan tremblingly said: "After killing them, a shadow came in ..."
Hong Jun was shocked, but Li Jinglong asked: "What does the shadow look like?"
Qin Wu shook his head and begged: "I don't know, without looking carefully, I fled, and I dare not stay any longer ..."
That night, Qin Wu, after the family of the Bladed Enemy, had not recovered from the bloodthirsty madness, but felt that the wind was swept up everywhere, and the blood was like life, gathering on the ground as a worm and crawling around. In a flash, shock and madness were replaced by fear, so he stumbled and fled all the way with his sword.
"It's an illusion," Lian Hao frowned. "Many murderers are a little unconscious after committing crimes, but calmly few."
Hong Jun remembered the calm Qin Wu he saw that day, and after the murder, he panicked in front of him. He was just a judge, which made him unable to match the two before and after.
That night, as soon as a picture of Qiuyue Lang was taken, the people stopped in front of the Jiuqu Bridge, and all remained silent.
Hongjun flipped the dragon scale between his fingers, from his index finger to his to his ring finger, and back to his index finger.
"Don't cut your hands." Mo Zhigen reminded.
"One-stop?" Li Jinglong said, "who instigated the blacksmith and Qin Wu to kill, what is the reason and motive?"
"It must be related to some kind of evil art," Qiu Yongsi analyzed. "Although this one is a dragon scale in Hongjun's hand, the dragon has nine sons, which are different. It is very unlikely that it is a real dragon."
"Well." Hong Jun said, "Dragon scales and phoenix feathers are all very powerful spirit spirits. This may be the scales of the dragon family, but it will never be a real dragon."
At that time, the sound of water came from the Jiuqu River, and the carp demon crawled up from the water. He replied: "The river is muddy, and nothing can be seen. But there is indeed something crawling on the innermost edge of Jinchi Lake. The traces of the past have squeezed a lot of prisms on the edge of the lake. "
All aquariums, even if they practice into real dragons, often need water, and those with low roads, such as carp demon, etc., often need to soak in the pool. Li Jinglong really guessed, as there are aquatic demon clan, then in the Chang'an waterway, there will definitely be traces.
"Separately probe all the waterways." Li Jinglong said, "If you find an anomaly, report it at any time."
The crowd split their heads to all corners of Chang'an. Near Chang’an, since the Western Zhou Dynasty, the country of
Hao Jing
has been adopted since the Han Dynasty. There is a saying that
eight rivers around Chang’an
. The Jinghe and Weihe Rivers have passed through the ancient city for thousands of years. It is nearly one foot deep.
If there are aquatic monsters distributed, most of the canals, rivers, and fences will leave traces of movement. Hongjun and the carp demon went all the way through the Lishui Bridge to the west. There was already a curfew in the quiet city, and there was only one person and one demon talking in the dark alley.
"Some monsters are born dragons, but some monsters have to practice for thousands of years to become a dragon." Carp demon said, "How unfair are you to say?"
Hongjun held the five-colored divine light in his hand, illuminating the surroundings, and said to the carp demon: "I think carp is unfair, and the dragon family is obviously not close to each other, and jumping into the dragon gate will become a dragon."
"I want to be beautiful." The carp demon replied, "The villain's books are lying to you, you know? You have to accumulate merit, accumulate merit, and then go to the dragon gate to become a dragon."
"Hush." ​​Hongjun stood outside a waterway in the west of the city, holding the five-colored divine light inwards. The sound of water dropped one drop at a time, and the carp demon quickly hid behind Hongjun.
In the darkness, there was silence all around, and Lishui turned to the ground, flowed out of the city, and flowed into the moat outside Chang'an City. However, here is the East Changan Wall built by Qin Qiong when Li Shimin was in power. It was built according to a hill. When the dry water flowed back into the city, it was injected into Chang'an and the water level rose. During the floods, the water in the city was drained to the Weihe River and sparse to the Qinchuan Plain. It was a water conservancy project that irrigated the city.
After Wu Zetian moved to Luoyang, the place was deserted for a long time, and now it is in disrepair, and the Ministry of Industry is not taking care of it. Even the underground water channel is full of silt, surrounded by a thick iron fence, and under the fence, there is something looming in the light. .
The carp demon ran to pick it up, Hong Jun was surprised and said: "It's another piece! How come it looks different?"
Hong Jun compared the two scales side by side, only to see a dark gray and another blue-blue, with obvious differences.
"More than one." Hong Jun said in a deep voice.
Hongjun tried to pick up the iron fence. But the fence weighed two kilograms, and he was not strong enough. He had to take out the flying knife, cut off one of them, hold the broken fence in his hand, and enter the waterway sideways.
"Hong Jun, don't act rashly, the flying knives are not uniform, I'll call them over and talk again!" Said the carp demon.
Hong Jun couldn't help crying: "You too look at me too."
Although Hongjun bumped along the way, he still had some strength. However, the companions of the Exorcism Division were not enough. The carp demon turned to inform his companion, and Hong Jun walked slowly in the dark waterway.
The tunnel was wide and deep, and the sound of dripping water continued. There were no fingers on all sides of the tunnel. A gust of wind blew at the end, and then there was a "squeak--" sound, as if someone was pushing a wooden door.
"Who!" Hong Jun was startled.
Hearing no response, Hong Jun stood alone in the darkness, and snapped a crisp snap with a snap. The spell was shining brightly, showing the shape of a phoenix flying wings, bursting into a real flame, turning into dozens of meteors, and shot separately towards the two walls of the tunnel. The sound of being ignited kept ringing, the torches inserted in the walls of the cave lit up one by one, and the light in the tunnel was restored.
With another "squeak--", Hong Jun walked slowly along the sound, turned a corner, and found that it was an extremely spacious underground space, where many abandoned warships were thrown, and the river was gurgling, A stream of water fell from a height and poured onto a decaying waterwheel sheet. The waterwheel made a noise every half turn.
Hong Jun was about to turn around, but suddenly a hand was pressed on his shoulder. A voice murmured in his ear: "Hi, bah, monkey, bi ..."
Hong Jun suddenly exploded Mao, almost cut off the hand of Artest with a flying knife. When turning around, Artest immediately signaled him to mute. The carp demon found Artest nearby, and the others had not yet come.
"What exactly does this sentence mean?" Hong Jun was terrified enough.
"Persian" Hello Hongjun baby "." Artest smiled with a pinch of the folding fan of jewelry.
"You added it yourself later." Hong Jun said blankly, and threw another dragon scale to Artest. Artest motioned him to look on the ground, and then the fan waved, and a few flames burst out of the ring and flew away, illuminating the quiet river beach.
Footprints of a group of people appeared on the beach, and the two looked at it for a moment, then looked up together, looking at the calm pool water.
"Maybe hiding in the water." Artest whispered, "Gamble?"
Hong Jun whispered: "I think this monster may not be at home."
Artemi's eyebrows raised the meaning from where he learned, Hong Jun whispered: "The murders happened at night for a few days, didn't you?"
"Smart." Artest smiled, followed by no signs, and a fan waved in his hand, which stirred up the water of the underground river!
"Wow!" Hong Jun was busy, ‘I just guessed it! "
The power of the hurricane fan in Artest's hands was fully opened, and all the water in the river channel was rolled into a huge vortex in the loud noise, and then collapsed again with a clatter. The walls of the cave were all cascading waterfalls.
"Baby guessed right, and she wasn't at home." Artai casually said, "Let's search for each one? Do you choose first?"
Hong Jun then turned around and began to investigate along the sides of the cave wall with Artest. At that time, the decaying wood warship was in full swing. He carefully stepped over the deck of a ship.
"Atai!" Said Hong Jun. "Come and see this?"
Artest leaped past the bows of several ships and landed beside Hongjun. Hongjun found a magic circle engraved on the deck, with a copper plate in the center of the circle, then It is a strange drop of bright red liquid, which is constantly creeping.
The two looked at each other and then looked up.
"Like a temporary altar." Artest frowned, "Is it for sacrifice? What does this circle mean?"
"Why haven't they come yet?" Hong Jun said.
Artest always felt a little wrong and said, "Take the things and leave."
Artest signaled Hong Jun to pick up the copper plate, and took out a very small glazed bottle from his arms, pulled out the stopper, and faced the drop of blood, and then the drop of blood seemed to be alive, "Woo" sounded As a film. Head over to the two of them!
"Be careful!" Artest shouted.
Hong Jun hadn't recovered yet, and Artest instantly shook the folding fan, the wind blew out, and sent the two out of the circle separately. But the next moment, the drop of blood shot into the river water, and the river instantly turned into a red blood, rumbling towards the two!
Hongjun shouted: "What is this?"
Artest shouted: "Leave here! Go for help!"
Immediately after Artest made all his efforts, he waved the fan to send Hongjun out of the sky, and a figure appeared at the entrance of the cave in an instant, blocking Hongjun's way!
The sea came over the sky, Hong Jun was in the air, and he saw a figure rushing towards him, and the cloak flew behind him, showing a hideous face. Jixian's face was full of horizontal flesh, opened his fangs, opened his claws, and pounced on Chao Hongjun!
"Atai--!"
Hongjun shouted, Artest had been drawn in by the blood that had gathered into the waves, and then Hongjun's left and right hand flying knives came out together, and two flying knives strangled the eye claws! Jiusi opened his mouth, and his eyes blinked like bronze bells, but Hongjun was not afraid and was shocked.
The five-color rushed out of the light moment, and slammed the eyebrows hard. Unexpectedly, the eyebrows couldn't help this young man. He had a light heart against the enemy before, and was immediately rushed out of the air. The mast fell into the sea of ​​blood!
Hongjun ’s five-color divine light was originally the most powerful defensive magic weapon in the world. Feisha fiery fire mysterious ice thunder, can almost resist all things, guarding heavily and not attacking heavily. A monster can still do it.
"Atai!" Hong Jun shouted.
The hurricane rolled up, the blood waves receded on both sides, the ice bursts, and there were fires and lightning. Obviously, Atai, who was involved in the blood sea, is struggling hard. The sea of ​​blood is in a shapeless form, all of which are waves. The hurricane fan can't be sealed in front of him, but he can't live in the bow of the ship. The waves rushed, almost knocked down again!
The sea of ​​blood keeps rising, Artest is panting, and the abandoned ship that has landed is almost disintegrated, becoming an island in the sea of ​​blood.
When it was said that sooner or later, Hong Jun shot the hook rope, and he wrapped around the top of the cave, ran fast with one hand, grabbed the hook rope, ran around the wall of the ring-shaped cave, stepped sideways, and then turned around and opened his arms towards Ah Tai Lingkong fluttered and shouted: "Catch--!"
Crazy blood sea rushed towards Artest from all directions, Artest roared, a whirl of the spot, a violent wind broke out, rolled the wave wall that swallowed him into a vortex, and then a head and foot flip, waving a dragon towards the ship Roll up to the top of the cave with the power of the recoil.
The ship collapsed under this impulsive force, Hong Jun threw himself from the air, grasped Artest with one hand, Artest turned again, and the wind rushed back, sending the two to the entrance like an arrow off the string!
The sea of ​​blood swallowed all the space, rushed up the wall of the cave, turned around and dashed towards the two of them! Hong Jun shook his left hand, the five colors of light rose flatly, forming a wall, and the blood sea crashed against the wall, but it was impossible to pass through!
Artest couldn't breathe, Hongjun flipped his hands, and then pushed the five-color gods forward, Artest shouted, "Good!"
The blood sea was pushed back constantly by Hong Jun, and the terrifying tsunami collapsed, so it was carried by the ground. Then an ugly monster appeared from the water and slammed into the barrier of the five-color light!
Ji Can finally showed up, but still broke through the super magic weapon that could not make Hong Jun. Looking at this scene, the entire huge cave seemed to turn into a glazed fish tank. A light barrier that was several feet long and wide blocked the blood-stained river that weighed more than ten thousand pounds. There was a monster with a terrifying appearance. Attacking the barrier crazy!
"How long can it last?" Artest asked.
"Spell words ... It should be no problem until tomorrow morning." Hong Jun said, "It's just sore hands."
"I said to withdraw from you," Artest said. "Then I turned around and ran. I said to stop, then stop, and then use Faber to block it."
"Okay." Hong Jun replied, "Be careful."
At that time, Jixi rushed towards the five-color light again, hitting the light barrier, and then the five-color light shone brightly, rebounding it out.
"Withdraw!" Artest snorted.
Hong Jun withdrew the five-colored divine light, and the blood Hai suddenly roared like a landslide, then Artest spread his arms, flew back, and shouted, "Run!"
Hongjun ran away and turned around. When Artest jumped back, he stretched his hands, a ring of fire exploded in his left hand ring, and a fan in his right hand. The fireball swarmed toward the sea of ​​blood!
It happened that at that moment, Ji Can rushed to the tide of the bleeding sea, screamed and rushed towards the two, and Artest shouted again: "Stop!"
When Hong Jun looked back, he saw that Jiusi opened his blood basin with a big mouth, but what was waiting for him was the surging dozens of fireballs. All of a sudden, the fireballs made a lot of noises, and they all filled his mouth!
Hong Jun bowed and pressed his hands with one of his hands, the five-color light barrier raised again.
"Beng" made a muffled sound, as if someone hit the wall with one head, the fireball swallowed by the eyeball exploded in the abdomen, the explosive power blasted the abdomen into a blood hole, and then bumped on the five-color light, knocking the sea of ​​blood It was muddled and flew out behind the barrier.
Hong Jun: "Ha ha ha ha--"
He just thought the scene was very funny, and Artest gasped: "Withdraw."
Hongjun pressed the five-colored divine light with both hands to seal the tunnel and block the turbulent blood sea. Jade eye had nowhere to go. It was strange to say that the blood sea gradually calmed down.
The two stepped back a few steps, the color of the blood sea gradually receded, and the bright red seemed to be alive, shrinking continuously in the water. Hong Jun thought of the creeping blood on the plate when he first saw it, and tried to remove the light barrier. The sewage "wowed" and dissipated.
On the wet ground, a bright red blood was slowly twisting. Ji Can was bombarded through his abdomen, and he no longer knew where he had fled.
Hong Jun frowned and looked at Artest.