Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 165
Seeing this scene, the sword in Yuniang's hand was about to be pulled out. Although Gong Liangyi didn't move, his eyes were full of vigilance.

The young woman was already shivering from the cold, she didn't even look at the three of them, she kept moving closer to the fire, her face was frightened and her lips trembled.

"They're chasing me! I'm not going back! Don't go back! Ah—!"

She didn't seem to notice Zhang Yuqing and the three of them in the ancestral hall. After making a fuss for a while, she calmed down again.

The torrential rain continued to fall, and as the night deepened, the surrounding damp and cold became heavier.

The fire was crackling, and the smoke poured out along the broken corner of the ancestral hall.

After a long silence, the woman slowly raised her head and looked at everyone in the room through her messy hair.

Gong Liangyi seemed to think that the woman was not in danger, so he continued to rest his eyes with his eyes closed.

Yu Niang's hand was still firmly grasping the hilt of the sword without letting go.

The woman finally cast her gaze on Zhang Yuqing, hesitated for a moment, then got up and came to Zhang Yuqing's side: "Excuse me. Is there anything to eat?"

Zhang Yuqing touched his body, there was still some dry food, he took it out and handed it to the woman.

The woman started to gobble up the dry food, as if she hadn't eaten for a long time. When she choked because of eating too fast, Zhang Yuqing reached out and patted her on the back, and took some cups from the altar table to catch some rainwater for her. she drinks.

After eating the dry food, the woman finally regained some energy.

The ancestral hall quickly became quiet again. The woman shivered in a corner, not knowing whether it was from fear or the cold.

The sound of the rain outside gradually diminished, and the torrential rain also became pattering.

The rainwater leaking from the roof spread to the vicinity of Zhang Yuqing. He had to move his position, and at the same time, he hoped that he could see a good weather at dawn.

The woman began to cry in the corner, her voice mournful and mournful.

The long night passed very slowly, and this night was destined to be restless.

A rush of footsteps began to sound in the rainy night. There seemed to be a lot of people coming, and they kept coming towards the ancestral hall.

The woman who had been quiet suddenly let out a terrified scream: "They are coming! It's them! Help me, help me!"

She quickly dodged towards Zhang Yuqing.

"Bang!"

The gate of the ancestral hall was pushed open from the outside, followed by a group of people pouring in.

These people were wearing bamboo hats and coir raincoats for shelter from the rain. The clothes inside looked like ordinary villagers. The only difference was that their faces were all pale, a kind of sickly pale.

The leader was a young man. He took off the bamboo hat on his head and scanned around the ancestral hall. Finally, he focused his gaze on Zhang Yuqing: "She is my wife."

And the woman shrank behind Zhang Yuqing, tightly grabbing Zhang Yuqing's clothes: "Don't come here! Don't come here!"

The man took a step forward and continued to say to Zhang Yuqing: "My wife is suffering from hysteria and has gone crazy. She ran out of the house in the middle of the night, and we also searched for her in the middle of the night. Now I want to take her back, please don't stop me. "

Gong Liangyi's eyes opened at some point, as if he was deep in thought.

And Yu Niang also clenched the long sword tightly again.

Hearing this, Zhang Yuqing turned half sideways to let out the woman.

Several villagers walked out from behind the young man, stretched out and grabbed the woman.

The woman panicked, and she held Zhang Yuqing's clothes firmly: "Please! Please don't let them take me away! They will eat me! Please!"

A villager suddenly caught a glimpse of the package on the ground, his eyes began to flash with greed, his mouth opened slightly, and he stretched out his hand and quickly grabbed the package.

"Put it down!" Gong Liangyi said coldly, "It's mine."

Seeing the package, the expressions of the villagers in the ancestral hall became weird.

All their gazes were attracted by the package, and their breathing became short of breath.

A villager licked his lips and said, "We pay for it."

Gong Liangyi replied coldly, "You can't afford it."

All the villagers stepped forward together, their eyes became fierce.

Yu Niang stood up from the ground suddenly, and the long sword in her hand was out of its sheath.

The young man in the lead suddenly said, "Forget it, let's go."

After these people left, the sound of the pattering rain outside became less and less, and it was almost inaudible in the back.

At this moment, Gong Liangyi suddenly opened his eyes and stood up from the corner.

He glanced slowly and sternly at Zhang Yuqing and Yuniang who were resting with their eyes closed for a while, then opened the gate of the ancestral hall and walked into the wet and cold rainy night.

The ancestral hall seems to have returned to calm.

After a while, Yu Niang also opened her eyes.

She stared at Zhang Yuqing who was sleeping soundly opposite with her beautiful eyes, as if she was waiting for something.

However, after a while, Zhang Yuqing still did not move at all.

Doubt and impatience flashed in Yu Niang's eyes, and finally she also got up, as light as a white cat, and left the ancestral hall.

After both of them left, Zhang Yuqing sat up suddenly: "Interesting."

The group of villagers who came in before had a gloomy aura on them.

The breath was very close to evil, but it smelled like a living person.

It gave Zhang Yuqing the feeling that it was the time when the evil spirit entered the body, but it had not been eroded by the evil spirit and turned into evil spirits.

Even an ordinary warrior like Yuniang noticed something was wrong with the villagers, and it was impossible for Gong Liangyi, who was a child of a noble family, not to notice.

However, Gong Liangyi did not move or respond, which made Zhang Yuqing curious.

He secretly guessed that there were only two possibilities for Gong Liangyi to do this.

One is to not want to be nosy, and the other is to put a long line to catch big fish.

In Zhang Yuqing's view, the second point is the most likely.

Gong Liangyi exuded a mystery all over his body. He clearly had the power of inheritance, but he still cultivated internal power.

The status is noble, but he still pretends to be a warrior to join the gang, deliberately let the gang of villagers go, but secretly follows them.

This made Zhang Yuqing feel that the temperaments of Gong Liangyi and Yuniang were similar to a certain extent.It is a kind of temperament that can only be possessed by people who are constantly exploring and peeping into various secrets.

Yu Niang is cautious, while Gong Liangyi seems to have a slight indifference to everything.

I don't care about being traced, I don't care about being discovered, I don't care about being suspicious.

Zhang Yuqing didn't know whether it was because of his boldness.

Zhang Yuqing expected Gong Liangyi to leave, but Zhang Yuqing was a little surprised that Yuniang also left.

But he was relieved, undercover intelligence officers like Yuniang were naturally curious about secrets.

Although Yu Niang is good at patience and camouflage, when the villagers are about to go far and difficult to track, Yu Niang finally can't hold back.

Zhang Yuqing himself was also full of curiosity about the villagers.

There are so many villagers, but all of them have been infiltrated by the evil spirit, and the evil spirit has eroded them very slowly, which is very different from other situations that Zhang Yuqing has encountered.

That's why Zhang Yuqing didn't rush to save the young woman.

Something is wrong with this village.

However, when he encountered such a thing, the first thing he thought of was not how to escape, but he was full of prying eyes for the reasons behind it.

Zhang Yuqing got up and walked slowly following the faint smell in his nose.

The drizzle is hard to see in the dark night, but it is everywhere.

Zhang Yuqing didn't know the art of tracking, and he didn't know where the villagers went after they left towards the north, and he couldn't be sure of following Gong Liangyi and Yuniang without being discovered.

But Zhang Yuqing was not in a hurry, he walked slowly into the forest and headed in a specific direction.

Yuniang's arm was injured and had been smeared with medicine.

Whether it was the bloody smell of wounds or the smell of medicine, they all slowly wandered in the cold air.

Now Zhang Yuqing's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, he only needs to follow the smell of Yuniang's body to find Yuniang, and then find Gongliangyi and the villagers.

After traveling through the mountains and forests for a while, the clothes that had just been dried in the ancestral hall were soaked again, and even the hair was dripping with water.

Zhang Yuqing still walked in a leisurely and leisurely manner.

As we go deeper into the mountains, the ancestral halls and villages have gradually disappeared.

After crossing two ridges, a muddy path began to appear in front of us.

With a road, there is a clear destination.The path winds up the mountainside and leads to the back of a big mountain.

Zhang Yuqing walked for a while, and a boundary marker appeared on the side of the road, with the three characters "Shanyin Village" on it.

"It seems that the destination is not far away."

He continued walking along the mountain road, only hoping to arrive sooner, otherwise it would be dawn after another two hours.

When going around the mountainside along the mountain road, the shadows and outlines of some buildings appeared faintly in the depression.

The thick blood followed, and Zhang Yuqing followed the blood to find the bodies of two villagers in the grass beside the mountain road.

There was still some heat left on the body, but it had already rotted very badly.

"There is no trace of evil spirit in the body. It seems that it was done by Gong Liangyi."

The two corpses may be secret sentries, or they may be missing villagers, but they were dealt with conveniently.

Leaving the corpse, Zhang Yuqing slowly approached the village.

He began to become cautious, leaving the road and entering the lush grass.Because the smell on Yu Niang's body is already very clear, not far away.

In this deep mountain, the weeds grow very luxuriantly, and the leaves and stems left by the raindrops are almost as tall as a person.

Zhang Yuqing continued to shuttle along the grass, not approaching Yuniang, but gradually moving away, to a place with a wide view.

Pushing aside the weeds in front of him, Zhang Yuqing looked towards Yuniang's position in the distance.

After searching carefully, Zhang Yuqing finally saw Yuniang hiding in a tree canopy in the distance, and her eyes were looking in another direction.

Zhang Yuqing followed Yuniang's line of sight and found Gong Liangyi who was standing farther away behind a boulder.

Gong Liangyi observed the village quietly, holding a piece of crystal round jade in his hand, emitting a faint blue light.And at his feet, also lay a highly decomposed corpse.

Women's cries kept coming out of the village, and Zhang Yuqing could tell that it was the voice of the woman from before.

What is strange is that, apart from the woman's cry for help, there is no other sound in the village, and it is lifeless.

"Ding Ling Ling Ling."

The crisp copper bell rang suddenly in this silent night.

The copper bell rang intermittently, as if wandering in the village.

Following the ringing of the bell, many wandering figures began to appear in the gloomy village.

At this moment, the woman's cry became more and more shrill.

The copper bell began to shift, gradually leaving the village and heading towards the mountain on the other side of the village.

The figures left the village following the sound of the copper bell, and the woman's screams also disappeared.

In the gloomy village, it became more and more dead silent.

At this time, Gong Liangyi moved.

I saw that he put away the round jade, did not move on, but turned his head and left.

Zhang Yuqing originally thought that Gong Liangyi was just taking a detour, but after a while, he realized that he was actually returning the same way, and disappeared into the dense night after a short time.

"What's going on here?" Zhang Yuqing couldn't help but be full of doubts, "Is there something that makes him afraid? Or has he already got what he wants?"

Apart from Zhang Yuqing who was also puzzled, there was also Yuniang who was hiding in the canopy of the tree.

She stared at Gong Liangyi leaving in surprise with her beautiful eyes, and then looked back at the mountain behind the village, as if hesitating.

Zhang Yuqing hoped that Yuniang would also leave with Gong Liangyi.

However, Yuniang jumped off the big tree nimbly, and even flew towards the mountain behind the village.

Zhang Yuqing snorted coldly: "This woman is not afraid of death."

Yu Niang is naturally not stupid. People like her have always relied on intelligence to get paid. When encountering any confidential matters, they try to profit from them, regardless of their own lives.

Zhang Yuqing didn't know what confidence Yuniang had in doing this, but that's fine, let her find the way for him.

Not long after Yuniang left, Zhang Yuqing also walked out of the grass and followed Yuniang closely.

The two of them, one in front of the other, moved quickly along the forest surrounding the village, towards the mountain where the ringing of the bell disappeared.

Yuniang was not in Zhang Yuqing's sight, but her scent ensured that Zhang Yuqing would not be lost.

After a long journey, Zhang Yuqing finally arrived at his destination.

The mountain is steep and precipitous, and it is difficult for ordinary people to climb.

Just above this steep mountain wall, there is a two-foot-wide gap. This kind of fault caused by the movement of the mountain forms a strange scene.

Both the footprints of the villagers and the smell of Yu Niang have entered this dark and straight gap.

Zhang Yuqing hesitated for a moment, then followed suit.

Moving forward in the dark tunnel, a strong sense of pressure and oppression rushed towards both sides.

I don't know how long I have been walking in the darkness, and my sight suddenly opens.

It turned out to be a valley surrounded by steep mountain walls.

The valley is hotter and humid than the outside, and the plants here are also extraordinarily plump and dense, showing a dark dark green in the dark.

The terrain at the exit of the tunnel is high and the line of sight is wide.Looking around, one can faintly see the gloomy figure of a towering cliff behind the mist in the valley.

Zhang Yuqing only felt that he was in a crater, but the difference was that the place was full of fat plants.

The valley is full of luxuriant forests, and in the middle of the forest there is a faint fire beating, it seems that there are buildings in this forest.

"It seems... very wrong here!"

Zhang Yuqing raised his head, and saw the mountain wall piercing into the sky from all sides of his line of sight, but he could not see the starry sky, only the slowly wriggling mist of mountains in his eyes.

The uncanny workmanship of nature, coupled with this strange aura, made Zhang Yuqing also start to hesitate: "Should we continue to investigate further?"

(End of this chapter)