The Hunt Begins

In this moment, Jiang Luo was relieved - the blood of the female Poison Tail Scorpion had arrived.

The clock is approaching twenty-five minutes.

Jiang Luo deliberately counted the time faster, fearing that the subjective judgment of time was slower than the real time.

He better get away from Chi You in five minutes.

Jiang Luo's body was half out of the pool, and the sticky blood flowed slowly on his body. Probably because the blood of the female Poisonous Tail Scorpion had the effect of holding the soul and keeping the yin, the evil spirit's figure was more solid than ever, as if it already had a body.

In contrast, the sense of danger that evil spirits bring to people grows.

The evil spirit bent down, Jiang Luo leaned back even more, and his waist was pained by the sharp stones, making his foot on the evil spirit's waist and stomach almost slide down uncontrollably.

How do I get out of Chi You?

Jiang Luo calmed himself down and tried to think of a feasible solution as soon as possible.

The dark-haired youth's lips pursed, his black hair ghostly loose, his whole body taut in a beautiful arc.

Jiang Luo has only one golden rune on his body that can attack the evil spirits.

This golden rune can only be transformed into a dagger, or at most a mouse.

Damn.

One can only think of a way to trick the evil spirits.

It was necessary to divert the evil spirit's attention away from his stealing the blood of the female poisonous-tailed scorpion.

He must not let the evil spirits see his eagerness, he must not let the evil spirits know that he wanted to save the people, otherwise with the evil spirits' harshness and cruelty, they would only make Jiang Luo completely miss the time to save Lu Youyi like a cat playing with a mouse.

"The lost bride?" The dark-haired youth was in a disadvantageous position, but the corners of his mouth tugged up in mockery, looking at the evil spirit as if it were some kind of fool, "No. Don't you see that I've come here specifically to find you?"

Chi You raised an eyebrow and smiled lowly, "Looking for me?"

"Yeah, looking for you," Jiang Luo looked lazily at Chi You, "to see why the famous Chi You is playing a god-duke in such a small village in Sham Tu."

The dark-haired youth's smile contained pure charming malice, "By the way, let's see how we can make this divine male, flee with his tail between his legs like a dog."

Jiang Luo's current appearance has a deliberate attraction. It was as if a surly blooming flower had blossomed out of the sludge, emitting an extremely strong fragrance. The evil spirit was attracted to his look as he lowered his head, still smiling, and gracefully said, "Only looking at the current situation, it is fellow student Jiang who looks more like a dog that needs to wag its tail at me."

Jiang Luo's eyes flashed, and his face flashed with disgust.

The more unsettled he became, the more pleasurable the evil spirit decidedly became. Chi You's laughter rang out from low to high, and it only seemed eerie within the cavern.

The water trembled, and Jiang Luo glimpsed the huge ghost tattoo behind the evil spirit.

Chi You's body is undoubtedly as good as his face, and the gods seem to have favored him in their creation. He dresses tall, his proportions are almost perfect, and when he undresses, his tight, not exaggerated muscles cover his body, and every inch of his muscles undulate like the rhythm of a musical movement, which is extremely beautiful.

Even if it was too pale, even vaguely green, it only added a few more moments of strange, sickly beauty to him.

At this point, on Chi You's back, a twisted ghost tattoo spreads across almost his entire spine.

The ghost lines are pitch-black, as if hiding a bottomless evil, and on the pale and sturdy spine, the ugly and dangerous ghost lines make one feel chills all over one's body just by looking at them, and make Chi You's elegant and handsome face like a god's into a monster-like oddity, as if covered with a layer of demonic nature.

But after the horror of the first look, it is difficult to remove the eyes, the more you look at the heart, the more panic, the more panic the more control over their eyes, as if the soul is to be pulled out of this ghost pattern swallowed into the abdomen.

Jiang Luo forcibly withdrew his gaze.

He slid down again, Jiang Luo had stepped on Chi You's thigh, and he had to use the force of stepping on the evil spirit to keep from sliding into the pool.

In the original article, this ghost tattoo on Chi You's body was not mentioned at all within what he had read.

In the original book's preplot, there are three connected moles on Chi You's side waist, there are thousands of words describing Chi You's looks, figure, and wealth, how gentle and friendly Chi You's personality is, and how many followers he has ...... Even the not very useful Chi You once rescued a few wild cats and a few birds are written out. A few birds and finches have been written, just not anything really useful.

This ghost pattern, again.

Jiang Luo's brain hurts.

Chi You said ambiguously, "Maybe if you wag your tail and beg for mercy, I'll be willing to let you go."

Jiang Luo snorted, he understood Chi You, if he really conceded defeat, he was only afraid that the next second he would be killed by the evil spirits who found it uninteresting.

He swept the evil spirit's face provocatively with the ends of his eyes, "I'm in your hands now, so of course you can say whatever you want. Making me lower my voice? You might as well just kill me."

The tone of his voice was firm and his expression unyielding, as if even if he were to die in the next instant, he would not be the dog wagging its tail in the mouth of the evil spirit.

It easily stirs the desire of the onlooker to conquer.

The evil spirit rubbed his wrist, the thought of seeing the dark-haired youth's convincing admission of defeat rising suddenly, as swift and passionate as a dry fire. He laughed silently, if the dark-haired youth had really flattered him just to stay alive, he would have found it meaningless.

And now, his dull and uninteresting mood of a pool of stagnant water fluctuated, and the long-lost desire to conquer stirred, wrapped in a strong sense of amusement.

Such an indomitable appearance of the black-haired youth, who dared to provoke even in the face of death, had to be said to make Chi You even more impatient to crush the black-haired youth's upright personality.

Taking advantage of the evil spirit's inattention, Jiang Luo staged a violent lift of his upper body and pounced on the evil spirit's ear, biting it hard.

Wetly, he said grimly next to the evil spirit's ear, "If you will not kill me this time, then wait until I kill you. Let's see whether I become your dog or you become an obedient dog in my hands."

The evil spirit allowed him to bite off a piece of flesh from his ear, and the flesh turned to black mist when it left the evil spirit's body. The evil ghost slowly arched his back, his upper body pressed against the dark-haired youth, and smothered a laugh. The warlike nerves of excitement were completely ignited, and the ghostly patterns on the evil ghost's back trembled along with the shivering of its spine, as if it had come to life with all the excitement.

There is no other person who can make the evil spirits so pleasant that their flesh and blood boil like Jiang Luo, with every word, every look and expression.

It's almost thirty minutes.

Jiang Luo's breathing was heavy without a trace, he closed his eyes, if this method didn't work, then he had to violently break out.

The evil spirit, however, suddenly released him.

Jiang Luo opens his eyes and Chi You slowly backs away with a smile on his face.

Milky white blood and water against the evil spirit's waist and abdomen, the blood and water of the female poisonous-tailed scorpion was not water after all, and the evil spirit's waist and abdomen was still left with a blurred half of a shoe print.

"You have one hour," the evil spirit smiled idly, backing all the way to the other side of the pool, where he sat down calmly, "and in one hour, if you are caught by me, then ......"

His pale fingertips tapped the wall of the pool and his smile deepened, "Though I can't bear to part with you, I'll have to kill you then."

The evil spirit plays a little game with his prey.

The prey is given one hour to escape, and if after one hour, the prey does not succeed in escaping from the evil spirit, then the game, shall end with the death of the prey.

Jiang Luo, as the prey, did not hesitate to roll onto the shore from the pool, he turned back and took a deep look at the evil spirits and then turned to leave. Calmly, without a moment's surprise or hesitation, he disappeared.

The footsteps were far away, and the Evil Ghost looked into the deserted cavern, closing his eyes softly as he resumed humming in a good mood, his fingers tapping on the stone wall falling once a second, a countdown before death came.

As he closed his eyes, a small golden mouse slipped in silently, dragging the black robe of the God Duke, which had been thrown in the corner of the cave, and gently left through the crack.

Jiang Luo did not go.

He ducked near the pond, hiding his form as he saw the man in red escorting the dead ghost down the road ahead.

The man in red did not notice Jiang Luo as he grabbed Teng Bi and walked into the cave, "Master, I brought Teng Bi back."

The dead ghost's image was miserable, covered in blood, already like a lifeless dead man, all relying on the man in red to be dragged and brought inside the cave.

The man in red unceremoniously threw Teng Bi to the ground, Teng Bi fell to the ground, his ragged breathing was conspicuous in the quiet cave, his fingers, chipped out of his bones, moved, still struggling to grip his greatsword.

The man in red kicked his sword aside and said in a cold voice, "Teng Bi has gotten mixed up with two humans, and he wants to rebel against his master."

Aren't the dead ghost and the man in red the right and left guardians of the idol? Why would they call Chi You their master?

Jiang Luo stared.

Chi You was in a good mood, so good that even at this moment, the words he said still had a smile on them, "Teng Bi, is what Hua Li said true?"

Dead Ghost coughed up a mouthful of blood and said, "My name is Dead Ghost, not Teng Bi."

Chi You: "Hmm?"

Hua Li Li's voice was dripping with ice, "He's even forgotten all about who he is."

"Yeah?" The evil spirit spoke in rarefied tones, "Teng Bi, come here."

The Dead Ghost, however, gathered up his last strength and charged violently in the direction in which the great sword had been kicked away. But his stamina was overdrawn to the max, and his every move slowed to the point where a child could knock him down, and before he could take a single step, he was kicked by Hua Li into the stone wall of the cave.

The dead ghost fell off the stone wall into the corner, completely motionless.

Hua Li and Chi You, however, had calm expressions, and Hua Li left Teng Bi behind as he said, "Master, the idol is still in the hole in the ground, but I don't know which part of it it ran to."

Chi You: "Uh-huh."

Hua Li said somewhat nervously, "Teng Bi and I didn't realize that the idol would give birth to self-consciousness. After it gave birth to self-consciousness, it longed to become a living idol, and constantly drove us to find sacrifices for it. You hadn't come to Deep Earth Village yet, so Teng Bi and I felt that the stronger the idol was, the more suitable it would be to become your new body, so we didn't reveal our identities, and became the left and right protectors beside the idol, obeying its commands to help it grow."

Chi You said without a ripple, "Go on."

While he was so calm, beads of sweat slid down Hua Li's temples as he whispered, "However, we raised an evil god. After the idol's self-consciousness became stronger, it was able to compel the villagers to come and worship it on its own, and by the time we realized it, it was already on the verge of coming to life."

He paused and said more carefully, "Only one last sacrifice remains before it gives birth to a soul of its own."

Chi You laughed softly, "So, that's why you informed me to come and asked me to impersonate the Divine Lord?"

Hua Li immediately bowed his head and said, "Master, we know we are wrong."

Chi You said mirthfully, "When I show you a stone statue, you all make mistakes, and in the end, I need to step in and choose a sacrifice that can't bring the statue back to life. Hua Li, all these years of good times have relaxed you."

Hua Li didn't say anything, but his hands were shaking slightly. Chi You seemed to remember something and suddenly smothered a laugh, "Know why I chose that sacrifice?"

Hua Li was secretly relieved, "Why?"

Jiang Luo replied for Chi You: Because I am a man and my eight characters do not contain Yin.

Used his blood, it didn't help a bit.

The evil spirit didn't explain, and the muffled laughter was a lone sound. Hua Li misunderstands something, and he says thoughtfully, "Don't worry, master, I will kill the human and not make her a sacrifice to help resurrect the idol."

Chi You raised an eyebrow, "You're going to kill him?"

Hua Li nodded his head, his attitude not lacking in contempt, "Just a human, master, I'll get rid of her as soon as possible."

Chi You, however, said slowly, "Hua Li, you are going to get bitten on the ass if you underestimate him."

Hua Li, however, clearly didn't take Chi You's words to heart, and after saying goodbye to Chi You, Hua Li turned around and left the cave, always hateful and disdainful of humans.

Jiang Luo has left gently.

His face was expressionless as he flew back the way he came.

When Jiang Luo found Lu Youyi, he was twice as fast as when he went back, and when he found Lu Youyi, drenched in sweat, Lu Youyi was already unconscious with a layer of frost on his face and a blue face.

There's still time. Jiang Luo's body is covered in the blood of the female Poison Tail Scorpion, which is so viscous that it is completely absorbed by his clothes.

Jiang Luo kept wiping Lu Youyi's wounds with the cloth on his body until the blood turned from black to bright red and he felt his heart hit the ground.

Lu Youyi's face gradually returned to normal as he opened his eyes in a daze and weakly said, "Jiang, Jiang Luo."

Jiang Luo returned breathlessly, "You're finally awake."

Lu Youyi said in confusion, "I slept for a long time?"

"Fifty minutes," Jiang Luo exhaled a cloudy breath, scaring him, "Ten minutes later and you won't wake up."

Lu Youyi was instantly revived by the shock, he propped himself up on the ground and sat up, looking down at his wound, "What did I get bitten by?"

"Poison Tail Scorpion," Jiang Luo joked, "Awesome Lu Youyi, to be bitten by a Poison Tail Scorpion and still survive, you really have a great life."

Lu Youyi sucked in a mouthful of cool air and ended up choking on his own saliva, coughing violently, "Crap it's actually a Poison Tail Scorpion cough cough!"

Jiang Luo patted him on the back perfunctorily, and when he had stopped, asked, "Do you remember where you and the dead ghost fell from?"

Lu Youyi nodded his head.

Jiang Luo said, "Let's go, I'll get you out of there, you're not fit to stay underground in your current state, it's best to find a hospital and check if there are any toxins left."

Lu Youyi said somewhat hesitantly, "What about you ...... and the dead ghost."

Jiang Luo smiled, inexplicably with a cold flavor, "I'll do the rest."

Lu Youyi had just been detoxified and his limbs were still a bit weak, so Jiang Luo carried him on Yin Hu's back and brought him to the ground. There were people waiting on the ground, Wen Renlian and Ge Zhu pulled Lu Youyi up with all their might, and Kuang Zheng carried Lu Youyi on his back, ready to go to the staff.

Jiang Luo looked at a few of them fully equipped as if they were planning to go down the cave and raised an eyebrow, "Is this the intention to go all out?"

Ge Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, "Now that you're back, there's no need to strike."

Jiang Luo shook his head and reached out, "Give me a set of clothes and gear."

The crowd froze.

Zhuo Zhongqiu frowned, "Jiang Luo, first place or not is not that important, going back safely is the most important thing."

Jiang Luo laughed, he didn't think that once he got out of the hole in the ground, Chi You wouldn't come out to look for him in an hour.

No, it's been less than an hour.

What's more, if he is allowed to flee in a sorry state, even if he escapes, Jiang Luo will not be willing to do so.

When he insisted, the others had to give him what he wanted. Luckily, Kuang Zheng was so careful that before he received Wenren Lian's thousand paper cranes and rushed to the mountain, he thought of Jiang Luo's clothes and prepared three sets of clothes to bring to them.

Jiang Luo took the stuff and was about to go down the hole, Zhuo Zhongqiu took a deep breath and made a decisive decision, "Wait, I'll go with you."

Wenren even said, "We'll join you."

Jiang Luo sat on the edge of the cave and waved his hand lazily, "I have a bottom in my heart. In an hour, if I don't come back, you guys can go down to save me again."

He looked sideways at his companions and pressed two fingers to his lips, giving them a confident flying kiss, "Wait."

After saying that, he had jumped down the hole.

Sai Liaoer asked with a red face, "So what do we, do?"

Wenren Lian smiled bitterly, "Since he has said so, let's wait."

Otherwise, if they went down there rashly, they would probably interrupt Jiang Luo's plan and become a drag on him.

*

Underground.

Jiang Luo changed his clothes in a hidden corner.

Sticky and wet clothes with ethnic flavor are taken off, and work pants and hiking shoes are changed. Jiang Luo holds a cigarette in his mouth and lowers his head to fasten the waist rope, his stern side face flickering in the cigarette smoke.

He put the talisman paper away, and halfway through a cigarette, Jiang Luo rewrapped the black cloth around his right hand.

He glanced at the watch he had just put on.

Half an hour has passed.

Jiang Luo lifted his eyelids, extinguished his cigarette, and looked into the dark darkness.

The hunt is on.