mtl008 Chapter 232: Snake Puppet
Chapter 232: Snake Puppet
Chapter 232 Serpent Puppet
Leaving the secret room, they entered another secret room, and then skillfully navigated through the winding, secret passages. The Star Gazing Taoist led Baili Ce to a fork in the road.
On the left, a dark and gloomy path, from which came intermittent, hoarse growls.
The one on the right was slightly brighter, but it exuded a deathly, chilling atmosphere.
"You may now choose a young lady."
"What does the Taoist priest want me to choose?"
Guan Xing casually pointed and said, "The one on the right has the answer you're looking for, but if you go there, you might get trapped inside."
Bai Li Ce moved his lips slightly, "What if I choose the left side?"
"If you encounter the severely injured Wang Qingyan, you will surely be able to avenge your enemy."
"But that's on the condition that you can deal with all the puppets he left in this stone chamber."
"Puppets? Didn't he take them all out with him?"
Guan Xing glanced at Bai Li Ce with considerable surprise, not expecting that she actually knew.
But thinking that she must have guessed, I didn't pay much attention. "The puppets I'm talking about are not the Gu King and Gu Guards."
"what is that?"
"A failed product born in the morning."
Chao Sheng was not originally a Gu, so when it first evolved the ability to control people's minds, it was actually difficult to use it on other people.
Even if it can be used as a Gu seed, it will cause great damage to a person's limbs and intelligence.
But Wang Qingyan didn't care. He tried again and again, failed again and again, repeating this process for countless years, until he finally achieved the flawless Chaosheng he has today.
"So that's how it is," Baili Ce chuckled, already having the answer in his heart.
At that moment, something could be vaguely seen crawling along the wall of the passage on the right.
"Master, could you please answer one more question for me?"
"Speaking"
"Is there an antidote for Chaosheng?"
After a moment of silence, he slowly shook his head.
And there wasn't a single word of explanation.
“…” Wang Qingyan really wasn’t lying to her.
Without further hesitation, Bai Li Ce stepped towards the passage on the left.
Guan Xing also moved to the right.
......
At first, she could still hear the hacking and screaming coming from behind the wall, but as the distance grew, she could only hear her own footsteps and breathing...
About fifteen minutes later.
"Plop, plop..." Whether it was stepping on moss or something else, Baili Ce's feet became increasingly sticky.
Gradually, my back started to feel cold.
Just like feeling someone following you while walking at night, Bai Lize's sixth sense was giving him a frantic warning... After walking a few more steps, even the breathing sounds in the air became more overlapping.
Bai Lize got goosebumps, but he refrained from turning around...
After forcing myself to move forward, the feeling of being closely followed didn't disappear; instead, it became stronger and stronger.
But the light in the passage grew dimmer and dimmer, until soon it was pitch black.
Bai Li Ce, who already had poor eyesight, watched herself walk step by step into the abyss and felt like dying... After stopping for a while to catch her breath, she still chose to continue.
The "thing" following behind her should have been there from the beginning, but after walking for so long, it hasn't made a move. It probably wants to see what she's up to.
And what if we turn around and scare each other, or what if we can't beat each other?
Therefore, it's best not to look back.
Thinking this, I groped my way for a while longer, when suddenly my footing gave way to nothing!
"Ah! Ouch!" A sound of rolling down from a height, a sound of lunging forward.
......
Using the flooded seawater, Wang Qingyan quickly found the entrance to the bottom tunnel.
"Cough cough..." After climbing up the stone platform from the tunnel and kicking away the snake-shaped puppet that was even more damaged than the damaged one, he finally managed to spit out the water that had gotten into his throat.
Follow the stone platform, taking eight steps followed by one, and five steps followed by two, and pass through the four corners.
Then, by touching several movable wall bricks in the manner of "seven on the left, six on the right, eight on the left, three on the top, six on the bottom," the wall will separate, revealing a long ladder.
Before long, several snarling puppets appeared on the long ladder.
"What about Wuming?"
The puppets looked at each other, shook their heads, and made a loud noise.
Hmm? Wang Qingyan frowned slightly and immediately retreated!
At the same time, he unleashed a burst of sword energy!
"Pfft!" The moment it struck the puppet at the same time as another sword aura, its flesh and blood exploded.
As the blood mist dissipated, Guan Xing stood atop the long ladder, sword in hand.
Beneath the long ladder, Wang Qingyan stood up straight, his eyes suddenly darkening.
"Clang!" In the instant the sparks flew, no trace of time could be seen in the old eyes of the stargazer.
Wang Qingyan smiled and said with a long-lost excitement, "Jiang Zhen, you really didn't die."
......
"Thump thump thump thump... Bang!" Baili Ce, like an invincible whirlwind, tumbled more than a dozen times, finally experiencing the lightning-fast dragon drill, and crashed directly into the wall and passed out.
In a daze, she also saw a human shape? A snake shape? The outline of something rolled down with her.
"..." He rolled down a slope several tens of meters long while holding her, and the snake-shaped puppet's entire body was almost deformed from the fall.
But he simply crawled over, gently bringing his sunken cheek close to hers, and felt her breath...
After confirming she was still breathing, the snake-like puppet nonchalantly twisted its broken limbs back into place with a "crack..."
If they really couldn't twist it back, they would tear off pieces of cloth from their clothes and tie them up.
Then, find the cleanest piece of cloth in your pocket and press it against the wound on her head.
What should have been fear and stench, however, when he vaguely felt the power above his head, Baili Ce felt inexplicably at ease.
Suddenly, she tried to open her eyes to see, but with a splitting headache, her entire body began to sink uncontrollably, and she could hear the gurgling sound of drowning...
"Girl? Girl? Girl, wake up..."
When she opened her eyes again, the scene had changed.
"This is?"
"Slow down, young lady."
Slowly sitting up, Baili Ce felt extremely dizzy and it took her a while to make out the man in front of her and the girl supporting her. "Who are you two?"
Seeing her wary expression, the man took a step back. "Don't worry, miss. I'm not a bad person. I just saw someone fall into the water while I was boating on the lake yesterday, and that's how I managed to save you. I changed your clothes for you last night."
Lake? She's not...
"Ugh..." The excruciating pain in his head instantly interrupted Bai Li Ce's train of thought.
"Is the young lady suffering from a headache?" Before Baili Ce could answer, the man turned and ordered outside, "Steward, quickly go and fetch Doctor Zhao."
"No need for that..." Bai Li Ce quickly stopped her, but as soon as she stood up, she had such a headache that she almost fell over.
"Miss, be careful!" Wancha quickly steadied her and explained, "This is the doctor who lives in the young master's residence. It's no trouble at all."
“Young master, you saved my life. I am already very grateful. No, no, no... I dare not trouble you any further. I will repay your life-saving grace in the future. But I have urgent business to attend to, so I will take my leave now.”
After saying that, he struggled to walk out.
Her intuition told her that she absolutely could not stay here!
result--
"Boom!"
The scene changed, and two days later it was time again.
Moreover, the fall caused her to hit her forehead, nearly disfiguring her. Dr. Zhao also diagnosed her with more than ten ailments, including cerebral hemorrhage, years of being beaten, irregular menstruation, and blood and qi deficiency.
In short, if she doesn't receive proper treatment soon, she won't live more than two days.
Upon hearing this, Baili Ce immediately berated Doctor Zhao as a quack, which enraged Doctor Zhao so much that he immediately performed a set of his family's traditional silver needle bloodletting, causing her to cry out in pain—
"I'm sorry! I was wrong! Grandpa, please spare me!"
Then it was time to say goodbye again.
However, the man who saved her always adhered to the principle of saving people to the end, and insisted on completely curing her before allowing her to leave.
"Why would I need your help?" Bai Li Ce, whose headache had subsided, immediately started arguing with him.
The man had never seen such an ungrateful and arrogant woman before, and his temper flared up immediately. "Does this place seem like a place you can just come and go as you please?"
"Otherwise what? What can you do?"
The man's face flushed with anger, but he didn't dare to actually do anything to her. "You, you..."
Haha, this person is obviously not very good at arguing!
Moreover, they are of extremely high quality!
How can you maintain your composure like this?
Bai Li Ce hadn't felt this good in a long time, so he quickly pressed his advantage (taking advantage of the situation), "I told you I didn't need your help, why don't you understand?"
"Besides, I have no money. If you treat me, how am I supposed to pay you back? Aren't you just making things difficult for me?"
"I've already said, I don't want you to pay me back!"
"Oh, oh, oh, what do you want from me if I don't take a bath? Do you want me to be as charming and cute as I am, loved by everyone, and well-mannered as I am?"
Just as Wan Cha was about to step forward to join in the scolding, her face flushed red, and she stomped her foot softly in rebuttal, "Oh dear, what nonsense are you talking about?"
After saying that, she covered her face shyly and hid to the side, not daring to look at Baili Ce again.
"Or is it because you're attracted to my lack of a butler? He's handsome, righteous, and has an otherworldly air about him?"
The steward, who was about to come in and throw Baili Ce out, immediately stopped and turned around before happily leading his men to guard the door.
"Or you're attracted to the stark contrast between me and that incredibly handsome Doctor Zhao outside."
The doctor, Zhao, who had just walked in, froze, his expression trembling, then a wide grin spread across his face, revealing a set of white teeth. "Oh, young lady, you're joking! I'm not that handsome!"
"..." The man turned his head and looked at the former with a dark expression.
Dr. Zhao coughed lightly twice, looked left and right, and walked out.
"But don't worry, I will definitely repay your life-saving grace when I have the chance."
Then, he clasped his hands in a fist and bowed, saying, "Farewell!"
Regardless of whether the man was angry or not, she walked straight out.
"The young lady has never even asked me my name or where I live. How can I repay her?"
Forehead......
She froze on the spot, then turned awkwardly to look at Dr. Zhao, "Dr. Jun, didn't I ask?"
"..." Doctor Jun didn't dare to answer.
Looking at the evening tea, "Miss, didn't I ask?"
The girl pouted and said coquettishly, "Hmph, no...no..."
Oh, this... she's not human.
"I am not the kind of person who seeks to repay kindness, but the young lady's actions are truly disheartening!" Even in his fury, the man's character remained frighteningly excellent.
His words were also very logical: "Repay me when you have the chance? That means you have no intention of repaying me at all!"
Although I was the one being scolded, I have to say that compared to... that other person, I can't remember, he was far more virtuous.
Therefore, "those who are destined to meet will meet again."
Shameless people enjoy the world first.
Freedom too!
And then she really left...
Unfortunately, even after leaving, she couldn't escape the scene.
For example, he tried various methods, including suicide, but none of them worked, and he almost starved to death on the street.
She experienced being tricked into going to a brothel by bad guys, only to be betrayed and sent to a brothel in return, earning five taels of silver with tears in her eyes.
She worked odd jobs at a restaurant, washing 300 pounds of dishes a day. She did it so cleanly and quickly that the boss praised her for having eight hands.
They would gamble at the casino, but give most of their winnings to the local thugs, who would then beat the casino thugs who came after them to death.
Being humiliated and sabotaged in business, all I spent was five pounds of melon seeds, two pounds of sugar, three bags of rice, and the privilege of having a stall at my doorstep. I managed to hire a lonely old man on the street and an old woman acting as a informant at the village entrance—the most formidable vendor—to chase and hurl insults at the other party for three days and three nights, while also providing unlimited night-scented rags...
In short, after realizing that he had been forcibly kept in this scene by some force, Baili Ce returned to his old business and built a large and powerful enterprise with immense wealth in just three years.
However, in order to avoid too much contact with the people here, she has always kept a low profile, so low that few people even know her name (pseudonym).
However, no matter how she tried to hide, she eventually learned the identity of her "savior" during a shocking treason case.
Xi Ze, courtesy name Hengyuan, is the eldest son of the Marquis's family.
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