Chapter 33: Ten Thousand Bats
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned for a moment, recognizing that this person was the beautiful young girl who had argued about the Mei fish during dinner, and now saw that she was still wearing that set of water green clothes, her skin was as snowy under the moonlight, and she was as clear and beautiful as a fairy.
The girl put the flower that she had just folded to the end of her nose, inhaled deeply, and an intoxicated expression appeared on her face, which was even more thrillingly beautiful. And that flower in front of her beautiful face, actually also seems to be more brilliant.
Just Zhang Xiaofan but from the depths of his heart, emerged a burst of nameless anger, frowned and said, "This flower is blooming well, why did you fold it?"
The green-clothed girl's bright eyes flowed, her eye waves like water swirling around Zhang Xiaofan's body, faintly saying, "I picked this flower, it is the flower's blessing; to be smelled by me, it is even more of the flower's destiny that has been cultivated in the three lifetimes. How would a layman like you know?"
Zhang Xiaofan froze for a moment, hearing such a ridiculous thing for the first time in his life, shaking his head and saying, "If this flower is folded by you, you will even lose your life, how can you be happy?"
The girl in green glanced at him and said, "You are not a flower, how do you know that it will not be happy?"
Zhang Xiaofan listened to this woman's words were very unreasonable, his heart was even more angry, said, "You are not a flower either, how do you know it will be happy, maybe this flower is in pain at this moment, ah! You see, there is water on the flower, it may be that the pain is crying out."
The girl in green obviously stayed for a moment, after a moment then puffed and laughed out, this time it is really like a hundred flowers blooming generally beautiful and compelling, almost let Zhang Xiaofan look dumbfounded.
"Tears of flowers? ⋯⋯Haha, flower tears, for the first time in my life, I heard a man say dewdrops as flower tears, laughing me to death..."
Zhang Xiaofan's face was red, nah can not say, but look at the girl laughed at the waist are bent, face burning, forced to say: "that, that and what?"
Don't want that young girl heard this look at him, laugh instead of louder, crisp laughter echoed in this quiet dark garden, adding a few points of warmth.
Zhang Xiaofan angry is not, want to say something but do not know how to open, looking at the woman joyful smile, gambling stomped his foot, turned around and walked away.
Did not walk two steps, suddenly heard behind the green girl collected laughter, but the tone of voice still with a few points of laughter, said: "Hey, you wait a minute."
Zhang Xiaofan originally came out tonight, in a good mood, but after running into this woman, his mood was very bad, at this moment, hearing her call out, his heart was again a burst of annoyance, he couldn't help but turn around and say, "I don't call out hello, who are you calling out?"
That young girl was stunned for a moment, the smile on her face immediately closed up, looking at Zhang Xiaofan's gaze as if also a few points cold, it seems that very few people have so contradicted her.
However, a moment later, she seemed to have thought of something, although she did not recover that bright smile just now, but her voice tone was still quite gentle, saying, "Oh, then what are you called?"
Zhang Xiaofan rushed to say: "I called..." choked for a moment, he grunted, said: "Why do I have to say to you?"
The green girl's face was solemn, looked as if some angry, but she looked at Zhang Xiaofan's negative expression, such as a betting boy in general, actually can not help but is "puff" a laugh out.
This laugh will be just a moment ago she sank down the face of the momentum completely dispersed, set against the sky moonlight, full of fragrance, this beautiful woman face is full of laughter, as if she knows that this is not very good, shaking his head was about to hold back, but still still laughed out.
As if, the naivety of a long time ago, in tonight and live again.
Moonlight like water, gently sprinkled on her shoulders and face, reflecting the beauty of the heart.
Zhang Xiaofan didn't know when, but he was mesmerized.
The young girl laughed for a while, and when she realized that Zhang Xiaofan was staring at her, she let out a cry, and actually didn't have the appearance of a normal girl's blush, but instead directly said, "Do I look good?"
Zhang Xiaofan was startled by her, like a thief was caught in general, a great sense of embarrassment, but in that young girl like water under the soft waves of the eyes, there is nowhere to run away from the feeling: "I... you... uh, you, good-looking!"
Words, Zhang Xiaofan himself first stunned for a moment, his heart floated an indescribable strange flavor, the girl did not seem to care, a faint smile on the face, said: "I think so, since childhood, who do not say I'm beautiful, you guys ah! Are all the same."
Listening to her tone of voice, small age, but seems to have gone through the vicissitudes of life in general. Zhang Xiaofan gas upward, was about to retort, but inadvertently looked, but saw her bright eyes and teeth, independent in the moonlight, vaguely familiar.
He immediately recalled the beautiful figure of his senior sister that he had seen with his own eyes on the Green Cloud Mountain, by the blue water pool, he suddenly lost interest and could no longer raise his spirits, and glanced at the green-clothed young girl again, sighed lowly, and without saying a word, he turned around and walked away.
"Hey." After walking a few steps, but then hearing a call from behind him, Zhang Xiaofan frowned and turned around, looking at the green-clothed maiden.
She narrowed her eyes slightly, and her moist-colored lips seemed to purse a bit tighter, as if she was thinking about something, but the atmosphere fell silent all of a sudden.
"What's your name?" She still asked this, her eyes reflecting his shadow.
Zhang Xiaofan, however, suddenly flinched, the anger he felt just now all dissipating in a moment, as if some anger towards this figure was undeserved.
He avoided that soft gaze, and with a bit of timidity that he himself was uneasy about, he said, "Zhang Xiaofan."
Then he quickly walked backward, rather like he was fleeing.
He walked with his head down in large strides, and had just reached a corner of that winding path when he suddenly realized that a black figure had appeared in front of him, and in this dark garden, it would have been really difficult to discover it if he hadn't come closer.
He was almost unable to recover his momentum, but fortunately his body's reaction was still quite sensitive, stopping right in front of that person. In the darkness, a pair of bright but quiet eyes appeared in front of him.
The two of them were too close to each other, Zhang Xiaofan was startled and hastily took a step back, only then could he see that this person was the masked woman who sat beside the green-clothed girl at dinner.
At this moment, she is still veiled, but the body has changed a black silk dress, in this night, almost like a ghost.
Zhang Xiaofan settled down, do not realize that there is still some breath, his nose vaguely smelled a fragrance, I do not know is the garden fragrance, or just close to the woman when⋯⋯.
His heart skipped a beat, and he felt that it was a mistake to come out tonight, so he said vaguely, "I'm sorry." He walked past the masked woman and headed for his own place.
From beginning to end, that masked woman did not say a word, just stood there quietly, watching this teenager in her eyes. After Zhang Xiaofan walked past her, she even slowly turned around and looked at his departing figure.
Only after a long time, when her silhouette almost merged with the darkness of this shadowy garden, did she turn around and walk towards the depths of the garden. Quickly, she saw the woman in green, still standing where she was, playing with a folded flower in her hand.
The girl in green looked up, not looking surprised, and smiled, "Aunt Yui, you're back."
The masked woman glanced at the flower in her hand, her veil flickered and she appeared to nod, saying, "Those four people are under the Green Cloud Sect." Her voice echoed in the middle of the garden, deep and drifting, although soft, it carried a point of ghostly aura, "The one leading the way is Qi Hao from the Longshou Peak lineage, the other three have not been seen before, they seem to be of the younger generation, I don't know their names."
The green-clothed girl smiled faintly and said, "I know one, the one who just passed by, is called Zhang Xiaofan, what an earthy name."
The masked woman glanced at her and faintly said, "Baguio, haven't seen you enjoying the flowers for a long time."
The green-clothed young girl, the young girl who was called Baguio, seemed stunned for a moment, and in the next moment, a smile reappeared on her pretty face as she said, "Yes! Aunt Yui, it's been a long time."
She picked up that flower and took another close look at it. Then, in the gaze of that masked woman, the green-clothed girl contained a smile, but her hands were clenched categorically, and she rubbed that beautiful flower into pieces.
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The next day, the four people of the Green Cloud Sect woke up, and after freshening up, Qi Hao gathered the four people and deliberated, "The Empty Mulberry Mountain is three thousand miles away in the east, and the journey is not close, so we'd better hurry up." The remaining three did not object, so they settled the bill and set off.
The owner of the Mountain and Sea Court really had respect for the Qing Yun Sect, and the originally expensive room rate was actually discounted by 50%, almost as much as an ordinary room rate.
Zhang Xiaofan watched as Qi Hao joked with the boss and settled the bill, but his eyes glanced around, but he didn't see the group of green-clothed girls from last night until they left.
The four of them airborne, the three thousand miles took ten days, during which, Zhang Xiaofan is naturally a great drag, but to the latter days, Zhang Xiaofan gradually familiar with the Dao, for the "burning stick" is also more familiar, actually also fly like a model, every day in the sky flying across the sky, that one stream in the blue sky and white clouds among the feelings The feeling of flying through the blue sky and white clouds made him excited for a few days.
This day finally arrived at the empty mulberry mountain, the people fall cloud, are eaten a shock, only to see within a hundred miles, a large mountain steep and high, but more rock less grass, the mountain is not see the people, a desolate.
At this time is nearly dusk, the sun sinking in the west, dizzy yellow sunset in the empty mulberry mountain, as if with a few points of depression, but also has a few points of horror.
The crowd landed at the foot of the mountain and put away their immortal swords and magic treasures. Qi Hao looked at the sky and said, "I don't think there are any lodgers here, why don't we immediately go up the mountain and look for the 'Ancient Cave of Ten Thousand Bats' while checking if there is a suitable place to rest for the night."
Zeng Shushu nodded and said, "Elder brother Qi has a point, let's go up the mountain now!" Zhang Xiaofan saw that Zeng Shushu had agreed and had no opinion himself, Lu Xueqi looked at the sky and said nothing, but was the first to walk towards the top of the mountain.
This empty mulberry mountain although not compared to the green cloud mountain Tongtian peak that high exaggerated, but also not low, coupled with the remote and treacherous, no road to find, four people from the foot of the mountain up, only to walk to the waist of the mountain, the sky will have been completely dark.
Four people walked to a platform above, Qi Hao called the crowd, from the pocket took out a small copper mirror, three people are recognized at once that this is the Qingyun Sect's most precious treasure, "hexagonal mirror", for a moment were frozen, do not know what Qi Hao want to do.
Only saw Qi Hao to the six mirror in the hands, mouth low chanting a few incantations, the original dark and lightless six mirror seems to have a sense, gradually light up, and then from the hands of Qi Hao floated up, stayed in the top of his head at the two feet, the light is gradually flourished, with yellowish halo illuminated around the four of them around the six feet of a circle of the ground, the protection of them in the center.
Only then did Qi Hao say, "Eight hundred years ago, the Empty Mulberry Mountain was a place where demonic sects and demons gathered, and I see that this mountain is desolate and weird, so I'm afraid that there are many mountain spirits and phantom monsters. The six mirrors function to protect the master, so we can also take precautions."
Zhang Xiaofan to that floating in the air six mirror looked, only to see that the small mirror does not seem to look amazing, but ancient and clumsy in the hidden Ruiqi, not to be underestimated.
At this time, the crowd suddenly heard a loud bang in the distance, followed by the sound of "splat splat splat".
The sound gradually dense, to the end not only more and more loud, is almost even the rhythm is not clear, only "rumbling" huge murmur echoed in the deserted mountains, in the distance, relying on the darkness of the six mirrors issued a little light, the crowd suddenly saw in the distance behind the mountain, Huo Ran up a black cloud, in the darkness of this even more bizarre! The sound of a loud boom was coming from there.
Everyone is changing color, Zeng Shushu eyeballs turn, suddenly lost his voice: "six mirrors!"
His words, the crowd has not yet reacted, that piece of black cloud in the air is more and more is huge, but has sensed what like, to move here, a moment later, as if from the black cloud in a piercing whistling, in an instant that piece of black cloud is actually turned over, to the four people, the only point of light in the night pounced over.
Instantly, the original starlight shining night sky dark, as if covered by what general.
The crowd only felt a fishy odor filling the surroundings in the twinkling of an eye, and Zhang Xiaofan and the others were all shocked. Only Qi Hao was still calm, but his face had also turned white as he snapped, "No need to move around, never leave the Sixth Mirror aperture range."
After a few moments, the whistling and rumbling sound has been close to the ear, reflecting the light of the six mirror, the crowd finally saw the black cloud, it is actually countless black bats, dense, and look at the body shape, more than twice as big as the bats we have seen in the past, each with a big mouth, in the midst of a black, the mouth scarlet, hideous and horrifying.
But the light yellow light emitted by the six mirrors, but at this time revealed the role, only to see all the bats were separated from the aperture outside, let them how to impact extrusion, the aperture is not moving at all.
On the contrary, in the aperture near, and light yellow light touching bats, black body issued "ZiZi" sound, a moment later will fall to the ground, struggling, see is not live.
Just this group of bats is too much, look around, even the night sky stars are covered, afraid that there are not millions of tens of millions.
Dead on the ground of those who are afraid that less than one millionth of them, but see countless bats before and after, rushed forward, the four were surrounded in the center, although temporarily nothing, but before and after the right and left are horrible blood bowl, the stench of a few want to make people nauseous.
However, the six mirror after all is the treasure of Taoism, in this countless vicious animal attack, there is not the slightest sign of vulnerability, the yellow circle of light seems thin, but it will stand like a mountain, do not need a moment, the bat bodies around the circle of light will be piled higher and higher.
At this moment, in the aperture around the sky also do not know how many black bats surrounded, where it is three layers outside three layers, I am afraid it is three hundred layers outside three hundred layers.
But the impact of these animals on the aperture seems to slowly slow down, seems to know the futility, will no longer do this useless thing. Only these bats seem to be unable to give up the delicious food in their mouths, still surrounded and refused to leave.
Zhang Xiaofan heart and soul turbulence, he has never seen such a vicious thing, until now is still a little nervous and afraid, he gasped from the periphery of the bats to retract his gaze, the corner of his eye, but saw standing beside Lu Xueqi's face is also pale.
As if at the same time, Lu Xueqi also sensed his gaze and looked towards Zhang Xiaofan. The gazes of the two met in the air.
Lu Xueqi suddenly turned her head, and her pale face seemed to whiten some more, but never looked back.
"Brush..."
Suddenly, all the bats shook their wings and flew up, and Zeng Shushu looked at them before he sighed in relief and said, "It's so hard to..."
The words did not finish, he could not continue, only to see the sky full of black clouds, countless bats flew to a high place, suddenly turned around, the front of a one like hail rushed down, hitting in the six mirrors on top of the aperture, but by the six mirrors aperture counter-attack back, and then rose up a cloud of blood and mist, under the yellowish light, pulverized and crumbled to the ground.
Tainted blood flowed horizontally, blood and gore, countless horrible blood flowers flashed in the night and then fell to the ground, but the later bats even seemed to be indifferent to the death of the front of the same kind of death, is still bumping non-stop.
Qing Yun Sect four people are all pale, looking at this world rare ferocious savage foreign objects.
Around the aperture, very quickly, a thick pile of bat corpses was piled up close to half a person's height.
Zhang Xiaofan suddenly realized that the clothes on his back were all wet with cold sweat.
This horrifying scene also did not know how long it had lasted, until the bat corpses outside the aperture were piled up to almost one person high, the bat swarm finally stopped this strong and ferocious attack, at this moment, even if it was the Hexagonal Treasure Mirror, the brightness of the aperture emanating from it was also dimmed by a few points, but it still flickered in the darkness of the night, and it stood tall.
The black clouds in the sky, surrounding this only light in the dark night, actually still refused to leave.
The four people didn't even dare to close their eyes for a moment, each holding their own immortal swords and magic treasures in their hands, not daring to slack off a bit.
These huge swarms of bats, however, seemed to no longer have any good methods, just surrounded and refused to leave, but also did not launch any more attacks.
It continued like this until dawn.
When the first ray of sunlight shone over from the sky, as if there was some call from the underworld, all the bats suddenly flew up, circled in the air for a moment, and then they all flew back towards the place where they flew out last night, coming fast and going even faster, in a matter of a few moments, the countless number of bats had already disappeared.
The four people of Qing Yun Sect slowly relaxed, but after a long time, Qi Hao didn't withdraw the six mirrors until he was completely sure that those bats wouldn't come out again.
The aperture dissipated.
With a muffled sound, the bat corpses, which were like small mountains around the four of them, suddenly poured in from all directions towards the center, drowning the four of them in this disgusting and horrible river.
Zhang Xiaofan's heart skipped a beat at that moment, almost thinking that he had stopped breathing, and at the same time, he even heard a scream coming from the person beside him, and a jade hand reached out and grabbed his arm tightly.
The force was so great that through his clothes, his nails sank into his flesh.
This pain drilled into his heart, he turned back and looked at this frightened and beautiful woman, her pale face in the sunrise with a trace of trepidation, causing an inexplicable pain in one's heart.
Suddenly, all the fear in his heart disappeared, even though he was still a little nervous, his attention was drawn to Lu Xueqi, as if he was in front of her, he was in no way able to have the feeling of cowering.
He took a step up and blocked in front of her.
Lu Xueqi's gasps slowly calmed down, she raised her head slightly, her lips moved lightly, and after taking a deep look at Zhang Xiaofan's face, she loosened her hands.
