The woman was shocked to the core and couldn't retreat. It was too late...
Her entire head was engulfed by Lao Gong's mouth!
Lao Gong's head detached from Si Yan, who stumbled back two steps, her composure slightly disrupted by her pale expression.
"Did you kill her?"
The woman's hands hung limply by her sides, frozen in place.
Lao Gong's head slowly submerged into the woman's body.
Suddenly, the woman's eyes twinkled as she licked her lips.
"Iceberg miss, you've said it wrong, this is a crossing."
"This place, who doesn't have a few lives on their hands? The one who invited you for tea earlier, the elder of your family from Si Gu Shan Mountain had him crossed over. Let me Lao Gong, do a good deed for the heavens and correct the ways of the world!"
"There was no such thing in the first place. Who made her stay in the wrong place?"
Lao Gong is indeed, quite eloquent in his speech.
But in this place, kindness isn't needed.
"Yan'er Sister." I whispered a sentence.
Si Yan's lips twitched slightly. She didn't speak anymore.
Lao Gong reached out and rubbed his face.
"Feeling weak and lifeless, he won't live long. Wait... that's not right..."
"That's it...," Lao Gong seemed to have an enlightened expression.
"What's wrong, Lao Gong?" I asked.
Lao Gong only explained to us that the woman had already died, and what he swallowed earlier was not a living soul, but a ghost. The sick ghost should have counterattacked her, taking over the woman's body as a means to return to life.
I slightly frowned and nodded, showing that I understood.
This at the Tian Shou Taoist Temple shouldn't be an isolated case.
The final power of the Daoists at Tian Shou Taoist Temple is Daoist arts combined with ghosts they carry with them.
It's quite normal for such misguided Daoists to raise ghosts through means and then be counterattacked by them.
The ghost raised by Wang Shi before was terrifying enough.
If not careful, he could easily be counterattacked.
Lao Gong stepped into the room.
I and Si Yan followed him into the room.
The room was filled with jars of medicine. It seemed that the woman had been very sick before.
At first glance, there didn't seem to be anything special.
Lao Gong took the compass from Si Yan's hand and looked at it for a while before suddenly pointing to a spot under the corner of the south wall and saying, "Master, dig a hole and take a look."
I took a deep breath and drew out a bronze sword. I squatted down, prying up the surface gray bricks and digging down.
I quickly dug out a hole about half a meter deep.
The bronze sword hit the bottom, and there wasn't mud, it was very hard.
After digging through the soil, what I saw was a perfectly flat stone.
"Zhe zhe."
Lao Gong pursed his lips.
"What is this?" Si Yan slightly looked puzzled.
"It's not the stone at the top of the tomb, but the corridor. This spot shows the strongest reaction; there must be a lot of good things underneath. We have to go and take a look."
Lao Gong's eyeballs twitched suddenly, and he emerged from the woman's body.
His head fell suddenly on the stone board and vanished!
Two minutes later, Lao Gong's head returned, his eyes wide with excitement, yet tinged with a trace of fear.
"There are so many bones... rather eerie..."
"I saw a ghost... snacking on bones. However, as soon as it saw me, it ran away! Shit, such a ghost is very terrifying. It's quite beautiful."
Lao Gong was almost spitting out his saliva.
He returned to the woman's corpse, his voice became much weaker:"There must be a place and a way that can directly enter the lower area. That's the tomb passage. All those dead people have gone there and were eaten by ghosts."
"Using ghosts to guard the tomb, the interior of the tomb will not be simple," Lao Gong became more and more excited. He spoke with certainty.
"Master, I'll go look for it. You and the Ice Princess can go rest. If I find anything, I'll come find you!"
I nodded. After so long, I still trust Lao Gong relatively well.
Lao Gong squatted down and pushed the soil back, covering the bricks again.
After that, the two of us and the ghost left the room and closed the door.
Lao Gong stared at the compass and walked forward again.
Si Yan and I returned to the place where we lived earlier.
Opening the door, there was nothing unusual inside the room; the wooden box had not been touched by anyone.
"Wouldn't it be... that we went slightly wrong? We're supposed to find a way. Why did Lao Gong..."
Si Yan seemed somewhat hesitant.
"Trust him, it's okay. Using the compass is about finding a way, and once we discover a problem, he definitely needs to figure it out."
"But..." Si Yan whispered: "What if we disturb the tomb that Lao Gong mentioned, causing chaos at Tianshou Daoist Temple?"
I was silent for a moment before answering: "If that were the case, it might not be a bad thing. The chaos at Tianshou Daoist Temple would draw all attention here, and then we can quickly go up the mountain. We're bound to take Qin Yi away."
"Qin Yi?" Si Yan was startled.
"The childhood sweetheart of Sun Zhuo." My eyes had a complicated expression.
Before Si Yan could question, I explained. I had lived with the Sun family for a year, and at that time, Sun Zhuo was paralyzed and could only sit in a wheelchair.
Qin Yi lived on the sixth floor and often visited Sun Zhuo. Sometimes, she would even push him out for a stroll.
The two of them had a very good relationship.
And even, Qin Yi brought me a lot of snacks and was very kind to me, like an older sister.
But just a few days before the Sun family attacked me, people from Qin Yi's family came to visit and scolded Sun DaHai and Sun Zhuo severely. Their meaning was that Sun Zhuo was a disabled person and there was no way he could be with Qin Yi. They told Sun Zhuo not to pursue Qin Yi, starting from that day, they couldn't have any connection with each other.
Otherwise, Qin Yi's dad would go to prison for a few years even if he had to do it just to make sure Sun Zhuo is not only paralyzed in his lower body!
As I spoke, my eyes carried a mix of sarcasm and melancholy.
"At that time, Sun Zhuo said a sentence. He said that he would definitely get up, and even though, he wouldn't be an ordinary person. An ordinary person could definitely give Qin Yi something unexpected. Moreover, he would be able to make the Qin family prosperous."
"Haha, the Qin family sneered at him. Back then, I didn't know that I was the stepping stone for Sun Zhuo to stand up and step into an extraordinary life."
At this point, I slightly closed my eyes.
Thinking about the past, more or less, there were some ripples in my heart.
"Sun Zhuo celebrated Qin Yi's birthday, and I participated in it. I knew her age and could calculate her birth date, so when we reach the inner observation area, Lao Gong will be able to figure out where she is."
After opening my eyes, my gaze became colder and more ruthless.
"So... Does Qin Yi know what Sun Zhuo did to you?" Si Yan hesitated slightly before saying: "In fact, you've mentioned some things, and I can infer a general idea, but I still don't know the whole truth."
"She should not know, she is still a very kind person. If she knew what Sun Zhuo had done, it would be very painful for her. Sun Zhuo, for his own sake, would go to any length. I didn't expect that he still had a pure heart and a soft spot," I said, shaking my head.
Si Yan didn't say anything, and seemed to be silent.
The atmosphere in the room became stagnant.
Suddenly, the sound of knocking on the door entered our ears.
