Chapter 104 Brother Xiong Xiong, stepped on a mouse
"It's a scream." A cold light flashed in Xiao Yufeng's eyes.
"And it's not far from us. It seems... it's coming from underground." Chu Xuanyi listened attentively and instantly locked onto a certain ground in a dark alley next to him.
At this moment, Ajiu, who had been lying quietly in Xiao Yu's arms, suddenly moved.
"Brother Xiongxiong..." She buried her little face in the crook of Xiao Yu's neck and said muffledly, "Someone is crying down there... crying so loudly, I'm so scared... my heart is about to break..."
Xiao Yu's heart trembled.
"Which direction?" he immediately asked in a deep voice.
Jiu stretched out his chubby little finger and pointed without hesitation towards the alley where the sound came from.
Chu Xuanyi's expression also grew serious. "Your Highness, I feel it. There's a faint but distinct surge of evil energy down there. It's the same source as the aura I sensed on the sand table earlier, from the abandoned land temple in the south of the city!"
He suddenly understood and clapped his hands, "I get it! The capital's underground drainage system is extensive. The Wugut people must be using these waterways, which we've never noticed, to freely move around and deploy evil spells right under our noses, eroding the formation nodes! What a clever plan!"
Now, all the clues are connected!
Why couldn't they find any trace of the Wugut tribe? Because they didn't take the Yangguan Road at all, but only this black and smelly single-plank bridge!
"Go down and take a look."
Xiao Yu didn't hesitate at all. Holding Ajiu in his arms, he quietly floated into the dark alley.
Chu Xuanyi followed closely behind, holding a whisk.
At the end of the alley, a heavy cast iron manhole cover fits tightly on the ground, blending in with the surrounding stone slabs. It cannot be seen unless you look carefully.
Xiao Yu gently put Ah Jiu down and let her stand against the wall. He gently reminded her, "Ah Jiu, be good and stand here without moving. It might smell a bit later."
"Yeah!" Jiu nodded vigorously.
Xiao Yu walked to the manhole cover and held the edge of the cover with one hand.
"boom--!"
A foul stench that had been accumulating for who knows how many years, a mixture of decay, fishy smell and mud, suddenly gushed out from the pitch-black cave entrance.
Chu Xuanyi was well prepared. He immediately made a hand gesture and an invisible breeze blew by, instantly forming a small barrier around the three of them, isolating the horrible stench outside.
But Ajiu's little nose was so sensitive that he could still smell a hint of the escaping scent at the moment before the barrier was formed.
Her little face instantly wrinkled into a bitter dumpling, and she pinched her nose hard with her little hands, protesting loudly in a muffled voice, "It stinks! It's a hundred times stinkier than those stinky places in the sandbox on the adult observatory! It smells like rotten eggs mixed with rotten fish and shrimp!"
Her words undoubtedly provided the two of them with the most accurate information.
——You’ve come to the right place!
"You go up there to provide support and keep an eye on Ah Jiu." Xiao Yu said to Chu Xuanyi, and without waiting for his answer, he jumped up.
Chu Xuanyi nodded and stood beside the well. He held Ajiu's little hand in one hand and held a few golden talismans in the other hand, looking alert.
After landing, Xiao Yu took only a moment to adjust to the darkness underground. He followed the direction of the remaining screams, and the increasingly strong evil aura and bloody smell in the air, and his figure flew away at lightning speed.
Not long after, he saw the strange red light at the corner ahead, as well as those familiar yet annoying figures huddled together.
At this moment, inside the waterway, Censor Qian was so frightened that he watched the hideous "evil ghost" rushing towards him.
Just when the poisoned dagger was about to pierce his forehead, a black shadow suddenly descended!
“Swish!”
An extremely fast cold light flashed by, and the Wugut cultist who was rushing towards him suddenly froze. A thin line of blood appeared at his throat, and then he fell straight back.
Another believer was horrified when he saw this and turned to run, but the black shadow followed him closely and knocked him to the ground with a clean and decisive blow.
The whole process was smooth and fast as lightning.
When Censor Qian and his two followers finally came to their senses from their extreme fear, what they saw was a tall man in black standing with his back to them next to the two "corpses", emitting a heart-pounding cold murderous aura.
Censor Qian was still in shock and was trying to keep his balance by holding onto the slippery wall.
At this moment, Xiao Yu slowly turned around.
With the help of the strange red rune light on the stone wall, Censor Qian saw the face of the person who came clearly.
A face as handsome as a god, yet as cold as ice.
Regent?!
Censor Qian’s eyes almost popped out of his head, he felt like he was struck by lightning, and his brain completely shut down.
Xiao Yu's eyes swept across Censor Qian's face coldly.
But at this moment, Ajiu's clear and slightly anxious voice came from the wellhead.
"Brother Xiong Xiong! Did you step on a mouse? Why aren't you moving?"
Soon after, Chu Xuanyi appeared at the mouth of the well. He brought Ah Jiu with him and floated down. "Your Highness, what's the situation?"
Xiao Yu finally came back to his senses, and his cold gaze was fixed on Censor Qian again.
"Censor Qian, I never knew when you developed the taste for understanding the people's sentiments to the point of digging into a stinking ditch."
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Censor Qian's tongue was tied, and his calves were shaking like sieves. "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Your Majesty is..."
"What is it?" Xiao Yu took a step forward, his powerful aura almost suffocating Censor Qian. "Are you investigating whether the King and the Imperial Preceptor were fighting crickets in the Imperial Preceptor's residence? Or are you trying to find out if we've been eating barbecue without the Emperor's knowledge?"
When Censor Qian heard this, he almost knelt down on the spot.
How...how did he know?! Did the prince plant spies in my house?!
Looking at Censor Qian's face, which turned from white to red, and then from red to blue, Xiao Yu snorted coldly, "Your thoughts are all written on your face. Censor Qian, I don't have time to argue with you about these trivial matters. But your stupidity today almost ruined my plan! I'm afraid your scream has alarmed all the scum in this waterway!"
Before he finished speaking, something strange happened!
The two Wugu tribe members who had been knocked to the ground by Xiao Yu suddenly bounced up from the ground with a "crackling" sound of bones dislocating! Their movements became more stiff and weird, and their eyes were lifeless, with only a crazy blood red.
At the same time, bursts of rustling footsteps were heard from several dark side roads around.
Black-robed figures, like evil spirits crawling out of hell, surged out from all directions and surrounded them.
"Hehehe...there's a road to heaven but you don't take it, there's no door to hell but you break in!"
The leading believer laughed unpleasantly, took out a black pottery jar from his arms and threw it to the ground!
"Bang!"
The pottery jar shattered, and a thick yellow-green fog with a pungent sour smell spread out instantly!
"It's poisonous fog! Everyone hold your breath!" Chu Xuanyi immediately reminded loudly, and at the same time threw out several "Clear Mind Talismans" and stuck them on Ajiu, Qian Yushi and others.
The talisman flashed with golden light, forming a thin light shield that isolated most of the poisonous fog.
But the poisonous fog seemed to have a confusing effect on the mind. After Qian Lin and Zhang San inhaled a little, they began to feel dizzy and all kinds of hallucinations appeared in front of their eyes. They held their heads and started talking nonsense.
"Don't come over! Don't come over! There are so many memorials... the memorials are alive! They are going to crush me to death!" Zhang San shouted in horror.
Although Censor Qian had talismans to protect him, he was still terrified. He clung to a stone pillar tightly, muttering, "A gentleman does not speak of strange things... A gentleman does not speak of strange things..."
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