Chapter 042
"Xin Erniang!" Cheng Hui shouted.
Xin Erniang lowered her head and showed no reaction.
Cheng Hui's heart skipped a beat. Were they too late? Had Xin Erniang already been in trouble?
He raised his hand and gave her a gentle push, and Xin Erniang fell softly to the ground, staring blankly at the ceiling. If it weren't for the slight rise and fall of her chest, anyone would have thought she was dead.
"This..." Cheng Hui's scalp suddenly felt numb. The wound on his arm was so deep, but Xin Er Niang didn't seem to feel any pain. Instead, she had a strange smile on her face.
Master Xuan Tan frowned, took a step forward, and a Buddhist bead in his hand exploded: "Why don't you wake up!"
A golden light fell on Xin Erniang's brow. She blinked, then gasped: "Ah... It hurts! It hurts so much!"
She got up from the ground and was stunned when she saw the deep knife wound on her arm.
"What's going on?"
She vaguely remembered that she was lamenting for the poor Xie Wan just a second ago. How could it suddenly become like this?
"How did you get here? Where is Xie Wanren?" she asked anxiously.
"Did you bring the medicine?" Cheng Hui asked.
"Ah? I brought it..." Xin Erniang took out a small bottle from her bosom. Cheng Hui tore off a piece of his clothes, sprinkled the medicine on the window, and bandaged her up.
"You still have the mind to care about Xie Wan. If we had come a little later, you would have died." Cheng Hui complained while bandaging the wound.
Xin Erniang frowned. She was not stupid. She tried hard to recall and remembered that she lost consciousness after praying for Xie Wan.
Her expression suddenly changed: "That Xie Wan..."
"You guessed right." Cheng Hui exerted force with his hands and tied a beautiful bow.
"Hiss..." Xin Erniang took a breath and glared at Cheng Hui.
Cheng Hui said angrily, "What are you looking at? You're not well-trained yet you dare to come out and cheat people? You're lucky to have run into us, otherwise, do you think you can get out alive?"
Suddenly exposed by Cheng Hui, Xin Erniang felt guilty: "You...what nonsense are you talking about? What kind of fraud...don't talk nonsense!"
"Do you really think everyone else is stupid? Your Xin family is so confident that they'd just throw a junior like you, who has no experience in the martial arts world, out here to train? Without even a leader?"
Xin Erniang didn't say anything, her eyes wandering around.
Cheng Hui couldn't help but nag at this. At first glance, Xin Erniang looked a bit cool and handsome like a beautiful woman in men's clothing, but after spending so much time with her, it was clear that she was just a naive little girl. Her martial arts skills were not bad, but they were not great either. The most important thing was that she lacked sufficient experience in the martial arts world.
To use modern terms, it means the lack of social beatings.
Ordinary people would at most lose some money if they suffered a loss, but demon hunters were walking on the edge of life and death, and could lose their lives if they were not careful. Even if the Hedong Xin family was full of talented people, they would not let an inexperienced girl come out like this, so Cheng Hui speculated that there was an 80% chance that this fake Xin Er Niang had sneaked out.
"I'm sorry..." After being completely exposed, Xin Erniang immediately wilted. She still had wounds on her hands and her face looked very pale due to excessive blood loss. At this moment, she looked a bit pitiful.
If it were an ordinary man, he might feel a little sympathy, but unfortunately the three men at the scene were not ordinary.
Ye Qi was the boss of the Demon Suppression Division and had seen so much that this little trick wouldn't work. Master Xuan Tan was a highly accomplished monk, and beauty meant nothing to him.
Not to mention Cheng Hui, he is a straight man who only cares about right and wrong regardless of gender. Therefore, these people accepted her apology well and showed relieved expressions as if "you just need to correct it in the future."
Xin Erniang:......
Fortunately, Xin Erniang was not the kind of person who would make trouble. She did not get angry or anything after being exposed. Her little trick just now was at most a little girl acting coquettishly. Afterwards, she honestly confessed her whole story.
She was indeed a descendant of the Hedong Xin family, but her name was not Xin Er Niang, but Xin Shi Shi Niang.
Cheng Hui: ...
From second to fourteenth, what a huge gap...
After saying her name, Xin Shisinian felt even more embarrassed when she saw that Ye Qi and Master Xuan Tan both had expressions that said "as expected".
Cheng Hui actually didn’t care much whether she was Er Niang or Shisiniang. He was not familiar with either of them anyway. He was just a little curious about why Xin Er Niang had provoked him when they were in the inn.
After he finished asking, Xin Erniang blushed and stammered a few words to explain. Cheng Hui then realized that Xin Erniang had been tricked out of her house by someone who was her good friend. The excuse she used was that he had deceived her feelings and abandoned her. Xin Shisiniang, a little girl with little strength, had a warm heart. After hearing this, she immediately decided to stand up for her good friend.
Now that she thinks about it, her provocative behavior was actually guided by her good friend's rhetoric. After all, a bystander sees more clearly. After the incident was over, looking back, she realized that everything was wrong.
"That stinky girl Bai Jiajia, I thought she was my good friend!" Xin Shisiniang cursed with gritted teeth.
Cheng Hui patted her shoulder helplessly: "Be careful in the future, be careful of fire, theft and best friends."
Xin Shisiniang chewed on it for a moment and immediately felt that this sentence made perfect sense, and she immediately made it her motto. From then on, she was never deceived by those who deliberately became her friends with ulterior motives.
After treating Shisiniang's wounds, they began looking for the exit of the cave.
Fortunately, without the influence of Xie Wan, the reserve evil god, Master Xuan Tan easily calculated the location here and found the possible exit.
The few of them tried again separately, and sure enough, they found a hidden passage in the corner of one of the passages.
With a flash of Ye Qi's knife, the rock wall blocking the passage was cut into several pieces, and suddenly a burst of ghostly howling screams came from the dark cave behind.
"We've dealt with Xie Wan, but there are still other people up there. Apart from anything else, we have to be careful of Meng Lang and Madam Xie, as well as the large number of evil creatures." Ye Qi reminded.
The others nodded in agreement, and Ye Qi took the initiative to walk in front, and soon they encountered their first group of enemies.
There was no light in the cave, thanks to the two corpse oil lamps that a few people took before leaving. The materials used in these things were a bit disgusting, but there was no way to care about that at this time.
The monsters in the cave are different from the evil creatures on the ground. Those on the surface are mainly ghosts, and most of them have no actual form, while those underground are like all kinds of strange animals that were pinched together by a pair of big hands, kneaded and torn into many small pieces, and each monster is a small piece.
Cheng Hui followed the light of the corpse oil lamp and saw several twisted monsters. He immediately felt that he had suffered mental damage. If this were a game, he would definitely have been hung with a debuff with a continuously decreasing sanity value.
These monsters can cause great harm to people just by their appearance... Tsk, it's really an eyesore.
Ye Qi and Master Xuan Tan took the initiative to stand in front, while Cheng Hui and Shisiniang stood in the back row to provide output.
Thanks to the limited width of the cave, they were able to avoid being besieged. Relying on the bowl in Master Xuan Tan's hand, they successfully resisted several waves of attacks.
This time, Ye Qi and Master Xuan Tan were extremely careful, fearing that they would be ambushed again. Ye Qi had been seriously injured before. If Xie Wan had not had extremely strict requirements for sacrifice, Ye Qi would not have survived until now.
"Can you still hold on?" Aqiu asked.
"Yes, no problem!" Cheng Hui replied while panting.
After fighting for such a long time, he discovered another advantage of having a zombie body, which is that he has abundant physical strength.
Even though he used to exercise regularly and had abdominal muscles and a mermaid line, if he were in the same position now, he would have collapsed from exhaustion.
Aqiu could also see that Cheng Hui was in good condition. Although he was breathing heavily, the frequency was not fast. It was just that the panting sound made him feel itchy, and some inappropriate thoughts kept popping up in his mind.
Silently suppressing those thoughts, Lin Qingqiu knew very well that now was not the time to think about those things.
He observed carefully and said: "Ah Hui, these monsters are almost dead."
After being reminded by him, Cheng Hui took a closer look and found that the number of subsequent monsters had indeed decreased significantly. It seemed that they should have all been dealt with by them. Even if there were still some, there would only be a few scattered here and there.
He quickly told the others the good news. The other three were also very happy and cheered up to eliminate all the remaining monsters.
The last monster let out a scream and was cut into two pieces by Ye Qi's sword.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. At the moment they relaxed, a black shadow suddenly emerged from the fallen corpses on the ground and pounced towards Ye Qi.
"Be careful!" Shisiniang exclaimed.
"Just in time!" Ye Qi's eyes lit up. His hand, which was about to put away the knife, suddenly turned around, and the knife light slashed towards the black shadow from a very strange angle.
Master Xuan Tan also cooperated very well and raised the bowl. Under the illumination of the golden light, the speed of the black shadow suddenly became extremely slow, and it could not avoid Ye Qi's knife at all.
A silver light flashed, and Ye Qi's long sword pierced into the black shadow's body fiercely, and the black shadow let out a shrill howl.
A large number of ghosts with strange shapes once again poured out from the end of the passage. The dense number of them had obviously been lying in ambush, waiting for their master to seriously injure the two leaders, and then they could rush forward and kill everyone.
"You..." A black shadow fell from the sky, condensing into a weak figure in mid-air. It was none other than Madam Xie who had disappeared earlier. "How did you know..."
Ye Qi sneered: "Do you think I would not be on guard after being attacked by you once?"
Mrs. Xie was filled with hatred and screamed, "Kill them."
The ghosts also screamed and rushed forward regardless of the losses.
Ye Qi chopped off Madam Xie's head with a knife. Fearing that she was not dead, he threw the body to Master Xuan Tan.
Xuan Tan put Madam Xie into the bowl. The headless corpse still struggled desperately, but was finally completely suppressed.
Without Madam Xie's control, the ghosts went completely crazy. While their attack power increased greatly, they also lost their previous unity. Some ghosts even rushed forward while devouring the weaker ghosts.
Cheng Hui's mind moved. Isn't this irrational thing that doesn't know how to retreat the best living target?
Thinking of the bead he swallowed and the increased cultivation, he became eager to make a move.
"Wait a moment, let me do it!" He took a step forward, opened his mouth, and spit out a flame the size of a fingernail. Under the strange gazes of everyone, he slowly flew towards the ghosts.
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