Chapter 21: A sudden change? The first clues are revealed!
The entrance to Longxue is right in front of you!
Qian Deren was in a trance and staggered forward. The surprise came so suddenly that he felt as if he was walking on clouds and it was unreal.
"You..." He suddenly turned around, took out a gun and pointed it at Old Man Lin, "How do you know the entrance to this cave? Have you been in there?"
Ten meters away in the bushes, Lin Xiaobai's vines silently wrapped around a branch. She lowered her voice: "Bet fifty cents, the old fox is about to start acting."
Tang Jingmo's mental power covered the cave, and his Adam's apple rolled slightly: "In three seconds, he will touch the gun on his back."
Sure enough, Old Man Lin rubbed his hands and took a half step back, with a simple and honest wrinkle on his face: "When I was young, I got lost while cutting wood and came across this cave..."
He shuddered deliberately, "It was cold and windy inside, I didn't dare to go in."
Qian Deren's fingers loosened from the gun handle, but his eyes were still staring at the other party like a venomous snake. Suddenly, a "gulp" sound came from deep in the cave, startling several men and raising their guns.
"What are you afraid of!" Qian Deren kicked his trembling subordinates, but quietly pushed Old Man Lin half a step forward, "Old Lin, you go ahead and lead the way. Don't worry, as long as we find something, you will get a share."
Lin Xiaobai narrowed his eyes, his pupils like a scope, tightly locking onto Old Man Lin.
Beads of sweat oozed out of Old Man Lin's neck, and his right hand was reaching towards his lower back at a strange angle - there was a gun stuck there.
"Do you want to remind them that there is really something in the cave?" The vines on her fingertips wrapped around Tang Jingmo's wrist.
"Wait." He held her down. "There's a flash at three o'clock."
At the same time, they saw half of a bronze metal pipe exposed under a stone that Old Man Lin seemed to have stepped on accidentally.
"Infrared sensor?" Lin Xiaobai gasped. "Where would such a thing come from in the 1970s?"
Before he could finish his words, a scream suddenly erupted from the cave.
One of Qian Deren's men was scratching his face frantically, with earthworm-like lines protruding under his skin. Old Man Lin took the opportunity to pounce on the side wall and press down a protruding rock.
“Boom!”
A stone door fell from the sky, trapping Qian Deren and his frantic men in the cave. Old Man Lin turned and tried to run, but was entangled by vines around his ankles and fell to the ground.
"Excellent." Tang Jingmo walked out from the shadows, his military boots crushing Lin Laohan's hand that was reaching for his gun. "You used this trick to kill your companions back then, and you want to do it again today?"
Lin Xiaobai jumped off the rock lightly, playing with the keychain he had taken from Qian Deren with his fingertips: "If Director Qian knew that you deliberately led him to trigger the nerve gas device left by the devils..."
Qian Deren's heart-wrenching roar came from the cave: "Lin Youfu! I fuck your ancestors——"
Old Man Lin looked ashen, and suddenly he bit his collar with a fierce grin. Tang Jingmo grabbed his chin like lightning, and with a "click" he broke his jaw.
“Forget about it,” Lin Xiaobai squatted down, and the vine deftly rolled out the poison sac in his back teeth, “Your son is still in our hands.”
Deep in the cave, Qian Deren's howl gradually turned into an inhuman roar. Tang Jingmo frowned and looked at the shaking stone door. He suddenly pulled Lin Xiaobai behind him and said, "Stand back! The door is--"
"Bang!"
The steel door panel was torn apart like a piece of paper, and what emerged was a mechanical claw covered with dragon scales.
Xiao Bai's face condensed. Several vines instantly wrapped around the mechanical claw, and Tang Jingmo's mental power followed suit.
The two of them cooperated well and twisted the claw hard, turning it into ashes.
“Hahaha——” Old Man Lin suddenly laughed crazily, veins popping out of his neck, and his skinny fingers pointed at the broken stone door. “It’s done! As expected, they want a blood sacrifice before they open the door! The dragon claw appears, so the dragon treasure must be nearby!”
Before the laughter died down, a bloody shadow suddenly jumped out from behind the broken stone door.
Qian Deren's face covered with pustules looked as hideous as a ghost in the dim light. He bit Old Man Lin's neck, his Adam's apple rolled wildly, and blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.
"Help...save me..." Old Man Lin stretched out his trembling hand towards Lin Xiaobai, while his other hand reached for the pistol at his waist.
"careful!"
"Bang!"
The sound of gunfire and vines breaking through the air rang out at the same time.
Lin Xiaobai's green vines lashed Old Man Lin's pistol like a whip, and Tang Jingmo's bullet accurately pierced Qian Deren's shoulder blade.
He staggered and opened his mouth, revealing his half-rotten face.
His pupils expanded into strange vertical lines, but he was still laughing loudly: "Old man Li... I found the dragon's xue..." Dirty blood spurted out from between his teeth, "I sent Lin Youfu... to accompany you!"
Lin Xiaobai's pupils shrank slightly. Old Man Li? Qian Deren is... a descendant of Li Suanzi?
"Stand back!" Tang Jingmo suddenly jumped down from the rock wall and protected her behind him.
Qian Deren's skin began to crack, and countless bronze filaments emerged from the wounds, crawling towards Old Man Lin as if they had life.
Old Man Lin retreated frantically, but hit the cold rock wall. He looked at Lin Xiaobai desperately: "Girl! Don't you want to know your biological parents——"
“Whoosh!”
A bronze thread suddenly pierced his throat. Old Man Lin's last words turned into blood foam, and his finger still pointed at Xiao Bai.
Qian Deren's body fell to the ground with a loud bang, but the bronze filaments gathered into a small snake-like metal creature, which raised its head and "looked" at Lin Xiaobai.
Tang Jingmo aimed his gun steadily at the thing's "head" and whispered, "Back off slowly, don't provoke it."
Lin Xiaobai took a step forward, and the vines coiled around his palm like a blade: "You're looking for death!"
The small metal snake emitted a high-frequency buzzing sound towards Xiaobai's wrist.
After the humming sound, a loud noise of machinery was heard from deep in the cave. Blue lights lit up on the rock wall one after another, forming a light path leading to the center of the earth.
“Another entrance…”
Lin Xiaobai stared at the dark blue light path, a hint of murderous intent flashed in her eyes. She suddenly sneered, and the vines on her fingertips tightened unconsciously, as if trying to grasp a truth that was about to break through the ground.
"The elevator." She glanced at Tang Jingmo with a cold smile on her lips. "What they found back then was not the dragon's blood, but the elevator at the entrance of the alien base."
Tang Jingmo thought of the yellowed photo in the military district archives - the "dragon shadow" photographed by the puppet army under Longtou Cliff in 1943. The blurred outline was exactly the same as the light path in front of him.
"Sure enough..." He whispered, his voice as cold as iron, "Xiaobai, I want to seal this place."
"That's exactly what I meant!"
At this moment, the little metal snake seemed to sense the danger and suddenly shot up, heading straight for Lin Xiaobai's face!
"Just in time!" A cold light flashed in her eyes, and the vines strangled him like lightning - but at the moment of contact, the metal and the vines vaporized at the same time and dissipated into a wisp of green smoke!
"Xiaobai!" Tang Jingmo grabbed her wrist, squeezing her knuckles until they turned white.
Lin Xiaobai seemed not to have heard his warning, staring at his palm.
There, a mark was slowly emerging, so clear that it was blinding.
S01
There was a flash of golden light, and the numbers disappeared again.
The air froze for a moment.
Tang Jingmo tightened his grip, his voice as deep as a rock: "We will figure everything out."
Lin Xiaobai shrugged indifferently and patted him, "Get out of the way, and get down to business first."
The two worked together again, vines sprang up, and spiritual power covered the area.
"boom!"
With a muffled sound, the original hole disappeared completely.
Old Man Lin will be buried forever with the dragon blood he had been longing for. The cycle of cause and effect begins and ends here.
As for the bloody man tied at his feet—
"Qian Deren is still alive. Didn't you say he should be tried? I left him with a breath."
After a pause, Xiao Bai added: "——Isn't that kind enough?"
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