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Chapter 176 Check the card
The second bang sounded in Wen Yilan's ears, and endless despair came over her. She felt her head buzzing as if it had exploded, and then there was only a sharp tinnitus and a blankness.

Time seemed to have frozen.

At this moment, Wen Yilan didn't know why, but he suddenly thought of his childhood.

She had heard the sound of the clappers at midnight countless times since she was a child. Her most vivid memory was when she lived with her parents in a house near the street.

The walls of the house were made of bamboo fences covered with mud, and the sound insulation was very poor. Every time the night watchman passed by the street, even if he was just knocking on the clappers, he could hear it clearly.

The Wen family was not well off, and they had done their best to survive in the city. Therefore, when I heard the clappers at midnight, I would get up secretly as a little girl, and I could see my father working under the light of a lamp in the next room.

My father was a farmer, and he also did odd jobs as a lead actor in opera troupes.

Those bits and pieces of silver threads, silk, colorful woolen threads and bird feathers could always be transformed into beautiful pompoms, beautiful silk flowers, heroic feathers, and finally into exquisite headpieces worn by Huadan and Wudan actors on the stage through his big hands, which seemed obviously rough.

For a little girl, such a beautiful thing has infinite appeal. She would not take it off every time she put it on, and wanted to learn how to make it. But her father would always pull her little hand, pretend to look at it, and then scratch her nose and laugh: "Pointy fingers are diligent, round fingers are clever, and purse fingers are stupid until old. You are stupid until old."

Later, the largest family in the city fell, and the troupe disbanded. After all, even having a full meal was a luxury these days, so how many people could afford to support a troupe?
I heard that most of the people in the opera troupe ventured to the south, where the climate is warmer and some cities are relatively close to each other, so the troupe seems to have an easier time.

Without his father's income, the Wen family had a hard time making ends meet. It wasn't until he joined a sect and later, by chance, got a Dao Seed and became a demon hunter that things started to get better.

Now, every time I go home, my father will make me a new headpiece. My room is almost full of space. The coolness of my little feet on the floor, the dim candlelight in the room, and my father working are the warmest images in my memory.

But Wen Yilan never dreamed that one day, this familiar voice would become a death warrant!

Wen Yilan looked at the sky, her thoughts drifting away unconsciously, and then at a certain moment she suddenly woke up - she didn't know how long she had been unconscious, it seemed as long as ten thousand years, and as fast as just a flash of thought.

But she found that she didn't hear the third gong!

The clappers at the third watch sound one slow and two fast. If the rhythm is normal, when the second clapper sound is sounded, the third clapper sound will also come within half a second.

It can be said that the two bangzi sounds are basically connected.

But... now not only did Wen Yilan not hear the third gong sound, but she also keenly discovered that Hu Gao's face in the sky, which was frozen with a strange and hideous smile, had changed at some point.

His eyes were still dark, like some kind of insect. The corners of his mouth were still split to his ears, and he seemed to be smiling. But he tilted his head and stared in one direction, with a confused expression, as if he was thinking hard about something.

Wen Yilan felt something and subconsciously followed Hu Gao's line of sight.

Then, she saw a young man.

The boy was of medium height, a little thin, and wore a blue shirt that was already a little wrinkled. He had a handsome face, but his expression was a little dull. What made Wen Yilan's pupils suddenly dilate was that at this moment, blood was flowing from all the orifices on the boy's face.

Eyes, nose, mouth, ears...

He walked out from behind a half-collapsed earth wall, drops of blood gathered into lines of blood, which kept flowing. His steps were very slow, as if he was under endless pressure, and every step he took required all his strength.

******
Su Daoshan already regretted it.

At this moment, he had a splitting headache, and it felt like there were 10,000 bombs in his head, exploding one after another. His body was under invisible pressure, and his bones creaked with every step he took.

And all this comes from the backlash of the strange technique [Asking Questions].

Su Daoshan felt the intense pain and his legs softened, and he knelt on one leg. If he hadn't supported himself with his hands in time, he would have almost fallen.

Su Daoshan felt that he must have been possessed by a demon, or maybe he had read too many martial arts novels in his previous life.

What a shitty Jianghu. I was hiding nearby, and could have run away quietly if things got bad. But who knew that seeing the fight going on, everyone was fighting to the death. I got carried away and actually took action. But I forgot an old saying about Jianghu.

People are floating in the rivers and lakes, how can they not be knifed?

"Damn it, it's all Song Xier's fault. Nothing good ever happens when you meet her!" Su Daoshan cursed inwardly. He didn't forget that when he first met Song Xier after traveling to this world, he almost died.

What no one knew was that when Song Xier and the others made their move, Su Daoshan also made his move, and his move was only one beat slower than Song Xier's.

In fact, when he was hiding nearby just now, his mind was relatively clear. After all, at that time, he saw the threads of black energy emanating from Hu Gao's body, and he had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Therefore, his only thought at that time was to pray that Hu Gao would die suddenly.

This guy looks like a ghost, and his vitality has probably been almost drained away. After such a fight, it's not surprising that he has used up the last bit of his energy.

However, what made Su Daoshan depressed was that the guy became more and more energetic as he fought, swinging his blade and slashing at people with great enthusiasm and high morale. Not to mention dying suddenly, he didn't even cough.

Therefore, Su Daoshan, who considered himself a man of the world, could only wait for Song Xier to take action.

Su Daoshan knew that his sister, who insisted on staying to save people, was a little mentally ill, but she was definitely not a fool. Otherwise, how could a demon girl from a demon sect become the "Snow Fairy" admired by countless young men from the righteous sect?
Let alone anything else, just to say that anyone with slightly worse acting skills cannot pretend to be as cold and holy as her, keeping people at a distance and yet still bewitching a group of admirers to death.

In the previous life, it would be a top textbook example of green tea!
Therefore, once this demon woman makes a move, she will definitely choose the most rare opportunity. And at that time, I just need to be a step slower than her - for me, that is the best time to make a move.

It's always better to be cautious when entering the martial arts world. Su Daoshan had already planned the steps for the attack.

If there was no problem with those lines, and Song Xier succeeded in her attack, her loyal junior brother would suddenly appear. Even if he couldn't help, he would still do her a favor.

And if anything went wrong, he would first ask a [hypothetical question] from a distance to test the waters. If it worked, he would rush out without hesitation, showing the spirit of a young hero who was righteous and heroic.

But if asking questions has no effect... then of course I will just run as far away as possible. At most, I can burn some more paper for my senior sister during festivals, and build a snowman in winter to pay tribute to her.

This is what Su Daoshan planned and did. However, he never expected that plans could not keep up with changes. Even though he was so cautious, he still stepped into a trap.

Su Daoshan knelt on the ground and looked up at the sky.

Although the blood in his eyes made his vision blurry, his scholar's nature still allowed him to clearly see the threads connecting Song Xier and the other two.

Only Su Daoshan knew that when Song Xier and the other two launched the siege, they had actually become prey long ago.

These invisible threads extended from the black air behind Hu Gao and spread silently around, swaying like water plants, waiting.

As soon as Song Xier and the other two entered the 30-meter range around Hu Gao, they shot out like a spirit snake and silently sank into everyone's body. The strange thing was that none of the three extraordinary warriors noticed anything unusual.

Then, Su Daoshan heard the harsh and unpleasant nursery rhyme, saw the strange scene where everyone was frozen in time and space, and also saw the appearance of the secret weapon.

This thing emerged from the black air behind Hu Gao, just like an undersea moray eel that poked its body out from the cracks in the reef while hunting its prey.

It is completely black, and looks like it has a handle. In front of the handle is a board. It looks like a stretched and deformed table tennis racket. The board is rectangular in shape. There are multiple rows of hooks on the edge of the board. The other ends of the lines that are spread out are tied to these hooks.

At first, Su Daoshan did not recognize this thing.

The time was too critical. Song Xier and the others were frozen, and the first clapper sound of Hu Gao's [Three Watches] sounded again. Su Daoshan didn't have time to think about it, and subconsciously activated [Hypothetical Question]. Just like when he used hypothetical questions on Pingting and Zhou Qinghe before, as the strange technique was activated, the surrounding space in the field of vision became hazy. All the real objects seemed to have turned into virtual objects composed of spiritual light at this moment. And the mind entered the space composed of spiritual light, just like a fish entering the water.

Then, Su Daoshan selected Hu Gao from among the spiritual worlds that were like glowing balls of light, and entered into them with his thoughts extending like tentacles.

I have to say that Su Daoshan’s previous guess was correct.

Compared with the rich spiritual world of normal people, Hu Gao's spiritual world at this moment is full of gray and depressing atmosphere, empty and almost defenseless.

The small balls of light that represented memories and thoughts in the spiritual world were very small, floating around weakly. This meant that Hu Gao had no distracting thoughts in his mind at the moment, and he didn't even have normal thinking.

He's just a fighting machine.

Su Daoshan was relieved at that time. After all, [Asking a Question] only activated a strand of his own thoughts, which were extremely weak. Once discovered, he would have no power to fight back. But now, when a thief breaks into someone else's house and finds that the owner is so weak that he can't even get out of bed, he will naturally do whatever he wants without restraint.

So, Su Daoshan left his question without hesitation - Who are you?

If the opponent was a normal person, then Su Daoshan would be asking for trouble with this question. But for a person who was parasitized by a secret weapon and had lost his self, this question was heartbreaking!
As the question was implanted, Su Daoshan was delighted to see that the thought ball generated by the question swept away all other thoughts almost instantly, occupied Hu Gao's entire spiritual world, and became stronger and stronger.

It was so powerful that Hu Gao didn't even have the thought of striking the gong for the third time.

Su Daoshan was very happy at that time. He looked at Hu Gao's face in the air, which suddenly became puzzled, and wanted to know what kind of expression Hu Gao would have when he found the answer.

However, at this moment, something strange happened!

"Who are you!" A huge mental force that did not belong to Hu Gao rose from the depths of his spiritual world like an erupting volcano, instantly grabbing Su Daoshan's thought tentacles, and even rebounding towards Su Daoshan's own spiritual world.

Bang the ground.

At that moment, Su Daoshan felt as if his brain had been hit hard. Not only did his thoughts shatter, but even his spiritual world was shattered by the terrifying spiritual power.

And Su Daoshan could clearly distinguish that it was a spiritual power that did not belong to human beings at all.

It is so terrible, as if it is filled with all negative emotions such as violence, greed, jealousy, hatred, suspicion, etc. If a person is just touched by it, his entire spiritual world will be dyed black.

But if you experience it carefully, it is not the case. Its existence is a kind of unknown horror, and those negative emotions are just released from the depths of your heart the moment you come into contact with it.

The moment he came into contact with this power, Su Daoshan felt as if his soul was captured by a powerful force, separated from his body, and continued to climb upwards, flying towards the magnificent star mark in the starry sky. Immediately, his eyes blurred, and he felt that he had broken through the starry sky, came to the outside of the sky, and saw a figure.

Su Daoshan couldn't describe the figure he saw in words. It was not a human, nor was it any creature Su Daoshan had ever seen. Even its shape seemed to be between the void and the entity, filled with an extremely terrifying, chaotic and chaotic aura that did not belong to the rules of the world.

It just exists quietly, as if it has been there since time immemorial.

Then, Su Daoshan felt it looked at him. At the same time, countless similar eyes were cast towards him from the depths of the endless void.

Then, Su Daoshan's soul instantly returned to his body. When he came to his senses, he had a severe headache, which made him want to roll around holding his head. In his mind, the voice kept asking questions.

"Who are you... who are you..."

Blood flowed down his seven orifices. Su Daoshan's first reaction was to run. But he found that he could no longer run. His spiritual world was tightly connected to Hu Gao's spiritual world by this huge pressure.

When Hu Gao was answering this question, he was also answering it. His sharp intuition and sudden enlightenment told him that if Hu Gao didn't die, he would die!
"Crack..." The bones made a teeth-grinding sound, and Su Daoshan used all his strength to stand up from the ground.

One step, two steps...

Su Daoshan was pale and sweating profusely. He walked forward with difficulty, as if he was walking against a force 15 gale or carrying a mountain, and he exerted all his strength in every step.

Finally, with a step forward, Su Daoshan approached within thirty meters of Hu Gao - this was the farthest distance that his copy of [Wu San] could reach!
******
Wen Yilan stared blankly at the young man in front of him. He watched him walk over from the mud wall, watched the blood flowing from his seven orifices gather on his chin, drip onto his blue shirt, and drip into the dust on the ground.

Wen Yilan didn't know who this boy was. But for some reason, the moment she saw him, she was inexplicably certain that it was this boy who stopped Hu Gao's third bangzi from sounding.

She watched the boy walk towards her step by step, and the next moment, his figure turned into a cloud of mist and disappeared.

Wen Yilan raised his head suddenly, and the thin figure had already emerged in front of Hu Gao. When he looked more closely, he saw that he was holding a piece of yellow paper in his hand, and he slapped Hu Gao slowly and weakly, but with great determination.

"who are you?"

As if he had thought of something, Hu Gao's face suddenly revealed an expression of extreme fear.

"Who are you?" The voice in Su Daoshan's mind became louder and louder. It was like a wild boar in a cage, rushing around madly.

"you guess!"

Su Daoshan's hand touched Hu Gao's chest and abdomen, and he patted him firmly. The demon-suppressing talisman in his hand suddenly exploded and turned into a ball of ash and dissipated.

Wen Yilan looked at the sky.

She saw clearly that after being hit by the young man's palm, Hu Gao's strong body was hit like an invisible sledgehammer, and a black thing in his body was shaken out through his back, then sank into the void and disappeared.

As this thing left his body, Hu Gao's body seemed to have aged several dozen years in an instant, becoming shrunken. At the same time, the solidified time and space seemed to have released some kind of seal.

The next moment, the three figures of Song Xier, Pan Gang and Liu Huan crossed each other at high speed.

Song Xier stabbed Hu Gao in the back with a sword, and the tip of the sword came out from his heart. Hu Gao's scream had just sounded when Pan Gang's sword had already drawn a sharp arc and chopped off his head.

Liu Huan's sword was carrying a blazing fire dragon, which pierced through Hu Gao's lower abdomen like a cannon, leaving a hideous big hole.

What was even more terrifying was that the three men's surging energy rushed into Hu Gao's body at the same time along with their swords, instantly tearing Hu Gao into pieces. Among the intertwined figures, blood, broken flesh, and limbs fell like rain.

"died?"

Wen Yilan stared at the scene in front of him in a daze, not even noticing a few drops of blood splashing on his body.

She felt like she was dreaming. She couldn't believe that the powerful and hopeless Hu Gao had just turned into a pile of minced meat falling from the sky. She couldn't believe that the situation, which had already reached a desperate point, had been reversed in an instant.

"Da... Da..." With the sound of several footsteps, Song Xier, Liu Huan and Pan Gang also landed one after another. The three of them looked a little dazed. It was as if they had just woken up from a nightmare and had not had time to come back to their senses.

The next second, everyone turned their heads suddenly and focused their attention on another figure landing not far away.

"You..." The voice in my mind disappeared.

Su Daoshan's body shook and he fell to the ground.

Before he lost consciousness, the scene of watching puppet shows as a child suddenly emerged in his mind, and he remembered what that thing was - it was a tool for controlling puppets.

[Puppet Check Card]!
(End of this chapter)