Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 780 Your Third Brother Doesn't Play with Hidden Weapons
"Grandpa's village has changed; it's all in chaos."

Amei, who is already forty years old, cried like a child in front of the four elderly people.

“In the past, the high priest of our Da Nanshan Mountain was always my Zhu family's grandmother, who carried the grandmother for generations. That was a rule passed down from our ancestors.”

"In villages where people are familiar with the Miao people, matters are discussed with the village elders. In villages where people are not familiar with the Miao people, messages and gifts must first be sent through our Zhu family."

Amei wiped away her tears, her voice trembling, "Things have gone wrong ever since that mysterious city came to us!"

"I don't know which cave these shamans and sorcerers crawled out of, and then five or six people appeared claiming to be high priests!"

With red eyes, Amei said, "They are not following the path that we Miao people believe in at all. They have no guidance from our ancestors and no approval from the village elders. They claim to be new gods descended to earth, and they want to change the old rules. They want a high priest king to unify the commands and even demand that Amei hand over the Gu Mother passed down by the high priests of all generations."

Amei naturally wouldn't agree to such a thing, but the other party's strength far exceeded her own, even beyond her comprehension.

In particular, the Gu worms he cultivated were easily controlled by the other party.

In the end, his Gu Mother was forcibly taken away by the other party.

Having lost the Gu Mother, Amei has also lost the ability to control Gu, which is why she rejected Xiao Zhenye.

"so."

Xiao Zhenye frowned, looked up at Zhao Qingming beside him, and said, "What do you think?"

"Humph."

Zhao Qing glanced at him, knowing that Xiao Laosi was setting a trap for him, but he still cooperated and said, "What else can we do? Kill them and take back the Gu Mother."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Xiao Zhenye slapped his thigh: "I knew my brother was a kind-hearted man."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Shang frowned, but after careful consideration, he realized they couldn't ignore the matter.

Gu Xuan's tomb was sealed off by Sun Miao.

If they wanted to enter the tomb, they had to find a skilled tomb raider, but Gu Xuan's tomb was full of Gu worms, and the surrounding area was also teeming with poisonous insects and snakes.

They suffered a lot of losses in this regard back then. Three of the men that Cat Four brought died on the road in a daze. When everyone checked the bodies, they found that they had been bitten by something.

It was a very small wound, almost negligible.

In Wang Shen's team, there was a skinny guy who got bitten by a mosquito, and it looked like a tumor grew on his neck. The tumor grew bigger and bigger, and the short guy died on the road in just one day.

After the short man died, something was still wriggling inside the tumor. When they cut it open, they found it was full of worm eggs, a sight that sent chills down their spines.

So no matter what, they do need a Gu worm expert to help them drive away the worms and clear the way.

"Grandma!"

Amei knew that Xiao Laosi and his gang were not ordinary people, but she had also witnessed their methods and knew that they were not to be trifled with.

"rest assured!"

Xiao Laosi gestured to Amei that she didn't need to say anything more; he knew how to deal with this kind of thing. "Amei, tell Grandpa, where are these people now?"

Seeing Amei's hesitant look, Xiao Laosi gently comforted her, "Don't worry, we're professionals at dealing with bad guys."

"They are in Pengjia Village behind."

"Oh."

Xiao Laosi nodded. He had been to this place before; it wasn't far from here.

He asked Amei to cook some dinner for Li Qing and Zhou Shang.

After the two had eaten and drunk their fill, the sky outside gradually darkened. It wasn't until nearly midnight that the four of them opened the door to Amei's house.

Xiao Laosi pointed eastward.

The four of them then quickly ran into the night.

Pengjiazhai is another place where Miao people live near Bijie.

If you search for this place on Baidu Maps, you'll only find its name; you won't even find the road. That gives you an idea of ​​how remote this place is.

However, after the arrival of the Lost City, Pengjia Village suddenly became the largest fortified village in Bijie.

The village walls stand tall, and the village is brightly lit. Even though it is already past midnight, you can still hear bursts of cheerful singing and dancing in the village.

Men and women gathered around the campfire, eating meat and drinking wine.

If it weren't for the dozen or so corpses hanging nearby, people who didn't know better would probably think this was a local tourist attraction.

"Dry."

Several men dressed in Miao clothing clinked their bowls together in front of the campfire, their faces flushed and beads of sweat forming on their foreheads.

"This corn liquor is even stronger and purer than the homemade kind, it's so good!" A Miao man with a ruddy complexion and an open chest smacked his lips, and before he could finish speaking, he hurriedly stuffed a large piece of greasy fat into his mouth.

"Hehe, Zhang Laosan, you've got a really discerning palate, can you even taste the difference in corn liquor?" A tall, thin man next to him chuckled, holding a bowl of liquor, and wiped the foam off his beard with his sleeve.

Zhang Laosan swallowed the meat hard, making a gurgling sound in his throat: "You're talking nonsense! Is my tongue made of a weight? I can tell the difference between light and heavy! In which month of the village does the corn wine made have any strength?"

As the men were talking, a man wearing a hat walked over. Seeing their drunken state, his expression turned cold, and he scolded, "Have you put away all the offerings? Don't let the wild animals outside get their breath on them and disturb the high priest's ritual."

"Don't worry, bro, that thing is hung very high. Even stray dogs will avoid it if they smell it. We can just patrol it again when it's just getting light tomorrow morning."

Zhang Laosan said this with an indifferent expression.

"Hmph, it's best this way."

Upon hearing this, the man ignored his brothers and walked straight to the wooden house next to him.

After he left, Zhang Laosan coldly curled his lip and said, "He looks all respectable, but if it weren't for us brothers supporting him, would he be where he is today? Drink up!"

He then picked up his wine and drank heartily with his brothers.

Amidst the clinking of glasses and exchanging toasts, none of the group noticed a bird slowly circling overhead.

The bird circled in mid-air for a long time, but didn't even flap its wings. After a while, it slowly entered the woods next to it.

With a gentle pinch, a bird was held between the fingertips. It was then clear that the bird was actually made of paper.

Zhou Shang put the bird away and said, "There are quite a few people in the village, about a hundred men and women. None of them are from any province. If we start fighting, it will be a matter of the whole village being mobilized."

"Isn't this just like Luodian back then?"

Xiao Zhenye said dismissively.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Shang immediately added, "It's more troublesome than Luodian. I met a few women there who were quite strange, while the men were just strong men at best."

"That's normal. Miao people's Gu magic is passed down to women, not men. Men don't have a high status at home and are all miserable."

At this moment, Zhao Qingming interrupted, "Stop with the nonsense, tell me, what's the strategy?"

"Playing style?"

Xiao Zhenye stood up, his aged face revealing a ruthlessness Xiao Ran had never seen before: "We'll do the same thing we did to Luodian back then. Either beat them into submission or wipe them out completely. What other methods do you need?"

"You old bastard, you're still as ruthless as ever."

Li Qing grumbled, but his hand had already taken out a Bagua compass and a handful of dark coffin nails from his bag: "Alright, I'll go set up the formation!"

"Slow down, don't fall."

Zhao Qingming watched Li Qing stagger through the woods and couldn't help but worry about his old body.

The campfire crackled and popped as Zhang Laosan swayed to his feet and walked toward the corner of the village wall, preparing to release the water.

Upon seeing this, everyone immediately knew what he was about to do, and they all laughed and cursed: "Get out of the way, pee away from here, damn it, your pee smells like it could be smelled from miles away!"

Before Zhang Laosan had even taken his pants off, he turned around and cursed, "You think you have a good nose? You dog nose!" He cursed back, but still walked a few more steps away, until he reached the shadows in the corner of the wall, stopping about ten meters away from the fire.

Here, near the edge of the village, the tree branches stretched wildly in the night. He let out a loud burp, fumbled to unzip his pants, squinted, and "splish-splash," a stream of urine shot intermittently onto the damp soil in the corner.

A night breeze blew by, carrying the coolness of the forest as it brushed against his burning cheeks, making him let out a long, comfortable breath, and his mind seemed to clear for a moment.

"Hiss... That feels good..." Zhang Laosan muttered, his body shuddering involuntarily as he was about to pull up his pants.

Just then, Zhang Laosan frowned and looked at the woods ahead: "It's not raining, so why is it foggy?"

As the thick white fog drifted over from the woods like a wisp of smoke, Zhang Laosan blinked, muttering to himself.

Sudden.

A flash of light streaked through the fog, moving faster than Zhang Laosan's alcohol-numbed nerves could process.

"Plop!" A soft, muffled sound, like a ripe watermelon being punctured.

The cold star pierced Zhang Laosan's forehead with perfect precision, leaving a hole the size of a fingernail.

Zhang Laosan's body jolted violently, his entire body instantly stiffening. All the dizziness and exhilaration of being drunk receded like the tide, replaced by a cold, indescribable pain and emptiness.

With a "thud," it fell straight to the ground.

The white mist in front of them continued to slowly extend into the village, and soon it engulfed Zhang Laosan's body in the mist.

"Has the third brother finished peeing? Did he fall into the latrine? Hahaha..."

In the distance, shouts came from around the campfire. A man shouted something with a thick lisp, followed by another burst of laughter.

They called out for a while, but Zhang Laosan did not respond.

Seeing this, the others didn't take it seriously: "Is this guy already drunk?"

"Go check it out, we still have work to do late into the night."

"I'll go take a look." The tall, thin guy who was drinking with him patted the dust off his butt and muttered discontentedly, "That idiot third brother probably got knocked out by pee."

As he said this, he swayed and walked towards the shadowy corner where Zhang Laosan had just urinated.

He had barely stepped out of the firelight's reach when his figure was swiftly swallowed by the thick, silently spreading white mist.

A few people around the campfire were holding bowls of wine, their cheers caught in their throats halfway through. "Huh? Why is it foggy?"

"That's strange, it wasn't there just now..."

"Old corn! Old corn!"

A man shouted at the top of his lungs into the white mist. His voice carried through the silent night, but it was like a pebble thrown into a deep pool, failing to elicit the slightest echo.

"What's all this nonsense!" Another man frowned, slamming his wine bowl heavily on the ground. The lingering effects of alcohol on their faces instantly vanished, and they all put down their bowls and chopsticks and stood up.

Some people looked alert, placing their hands on the swords at their waists, while others picked up their whistles to sound the alarm.

At that moment, footsteps echoed from the depths of the white mist.

"Shh...shh...shh..." The footsteps were slow and hesitant as he approached the campfire.

The group immediately tensed up, instinctively moving closer to the center of the fire, their eyes fixed on the direction from which the sound was coming.

Before long, the edge of the white mist seemed to be a living curtain, rippled slightly.

A blurry figure gradually came into focus; it was Old Baogu, who had just walked in. Seeing him return, the group first breathed a sigh of relief, their hearts sinking slightly, but then a surge of anger rose within them.

"Son of a bitch!"

The man closest to him immediately started cursing, spitting almost onto the old man's face: "I've been calling you for ages, are your ears stuffed with donkey hair? Are you deaf?! My voice is practically splitting from shouting!"

However, as the cursing continued, everyone realized that something was wrong, and Old Baogu lowered his head and remained silent.

Suddenly, someone's gaze fell on Old Baogu's body.

"hiss!"

His expression changed drastically: "Look, his body is upside down!"

Upon hearing this, everyone noticed that Old Corn was facing them, but at the same time, his back was to them.

In shock, Old Bao suddenly raised his head, his stiff face still showing a look of horror, and his head made two teeth-grinding cracking sounds on his neck.

His head, which had been hanging low, suddenly snapped upwards, and his entire body, like a puppet controlled by invisible strings, rotated 180 degrees in place at an angle that no ordinary person's bones could withstand!

A demonic face appeared on the back of Lao Baogu's head, then opened its mouth and spat out a cloud of black smoke at everyone.

The black smoke surged toward the nearest man like a living thing, instantly engulfing his entire face!

A terrifying sizzling sound, accompanied by the stench of melting flesh, filled the air!
The man instinctively covered his face with his hands, but between his fingers was a bloody mess, and the bright red muscle tissue was turning black and dissolving at a visible speed, to the point that the bone was visible!

Blood mixed with black smoke dripped down, and an eyeball quickly collapsed and dissolved in its socket.

"what!!!"

A piercing scream rang out, finally bringing everyone back to their senses.

For a moment, the piercing sound of whistles echoed through the village.

however.

"Woo..."

The whistle emitted only a short, hoarse sound before abruptly stopping! The man who blew the whistle stared wide-eyed, and a hole had appeared on his forehead at some point.

In the gloom, flashes of cold light occasionally appeared.

It was as if someone was holding a silenced pistol, silently reaping the lives of many.

Speed ​​and convenience.

In the distance, Zhao Qingming watched Li Qing walking in the white mist and couldn't help but praise, "Third brother has really figured out the Xie family's hidden weapon techniques over the years."

"Ah."

Xiao Zhenye nodded. This flying fire meteor hidden weapon technique had been lost for many years. Seeing it in Li Qing's hands made Xiao Zhenye feel very gratified.

But then I thought about it again and couldn't help but complain, "But he didn't pass on this skill either."

Zhao Qingming thought about it and realized that it made sense. He stomped his foot and said, "What a waste of this skill."

As the two were arguing, Li Qing slowly walked into the village.

He was surrounded by a thick white fog, so thick that even if you stretched out your hand, you might not be able to see your palm, let alone see people, but this did not affect Li Qing at all.

Often, with a casual flick of the wrist, a round metal marble would fly out, instantly killing a person who would fall to the ground.

Soon, the ground was covered with corpses.

A single, decisive blow; clean and swift.

However, at this moment, Li Qing suddenly stopped what he was doing, his ears twitched a few times, and then he raised his hand and a handful of metal marbles flew out of his palm.

These flying metal marbles traced distinctly different trajectories in the air before rapidly colliding with each other.

"Crackling"

The metal marbles burst into blinding flashes of light in mid-air. The flashes flickered and were pulled together like threads, intertwining in an instant to form a large net.

Instantly, countless tiny flying insects were ignited in the large net and fell to the ground with a "drip, drip!" sound.

"What a trick!"

After the gloom, a voice of praise rang out: "Senior's skills are extraordinary. I have never seen such a mysterious technique of hidden weapons, nor have I ever heard of such a person as you. May I ask your esteemed name and why you came to my village to kill people? Have we offended you in some way?"

Li Qing raised his eyelids, his gaze piercing through the white mist in front of him, and immediately locked onto the woman who came out of the room.

The woman was very tall, and looked to be in her early thirties. She had slightly dark skin and wore unique Miao silver ornaments.

“I have a junior who lost her Gu Mother to you. I have no choice but to come here in person to ask for her back.”

Upon hearing Li Qing's words, the woman frowned: "Hmph, you are not a Miao person. The Gu Mother is an internal matter of our Miao tribe and has nothing to do with you. On the contrary, you broke into the village and killed people. I'm afraid I can't let you leave today."

Upon hearing this, Li Qing simply sighed. His ruthless actions were actually intended to make the other party back down, soften their stance, and hand over the item.

However, the other party clearly failed to understand what he meant.

Seeing that the other party was still stubborn, Li Qing stopped talking and once again raised his hand, throwing out a dense array of marbles.

This time, Li Qing threw out more than ten marbles.

More than a dozen marbles collided rapidly in the air, sparking sparks. As if controlled by an invisible hand, they traced dazzling trajectories, weaving a net from tricky and unpredictable angles, aiming straight for the Miao woman's vital points.

The woman's expression froze instantly, her eyes filled with horror.

The trajectory of these flying metal marbles was far more treacherous than she had anticipated! This was no ordinary concealed weapon technique.

She hastily took a step back, her hands forming a strange hand seal in her haste. Several silver bracelets on her wrists vibrated violently, emitting a piercing buzzing sound. Instantly, a strange, pungent, and fishy odor filled the air, and a thick, inky black mist surged forth from her sleeve!

The black mist did not dissipate; instead, it rapidly gathered and solidified, instantly transforming into a giant snake in front of her, its body entirely black and its scales faintly visible!

Its eyes were blood-red, and the moment it appeared, it coiled its body into a ball, firmly protecting the woman inside.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The countless marbles struck the giant snake, making a crisp sound. The scales on the snake's body were instantly shattered by the marbles, leaving it a bloody mess. The giant snake hissed in pain.

"court death!!"

Realizing her giant python couldn't withstand such an attack, the woman became enraged. She pulled a dark red bone whistle from her waist, brought it to her lips, and a fierce glint flashed in her eyes. Instead of blowing a long, drawn-out tune, she exhaled a short, extremely sharp breath into the whistle's hole!

"call out!"

A sharp, almost ear-piercing screech tore through the air, accompanied by an unsettling, ultra-high-frequency vibration.

Almost the instant the whistle blew!

The surrounding air seemed to be stirred up by an invisible rod, and the ground began to tremble violently, followed by...

"Buzz buzz~~"

A chilling, dense buzzing sound suddenly erupted! The pitch-black night fog seemed to come alive, transforming into a surging black tide composed of countless tiny black dots.

That’s not all!

The dead leaves and soil on the ground were pushed aside, and colorful venomous snakes of different sizes shot out like arrows!

The large, colorful spiders, multi-legged centipedes, and glistening scorpions were like a black torrent bursting its banks, densely packed and layered. They crawled, swam, and jumped, and even from a distance, everyone could smell the pungent, fishy odor in the air.

"So many!! Can the third brother handle it?"

Seeing so many densely packed Gu worms from a distance, even though he was quite old, Zhou Shang felt a chill run down his spine and his whole body broke out in goosebumps.

"I'll go help him."

Seeing this, Xiao Zhenye was also about to take action immediately.

"and many more!"

At this moment, Zhao Qingming stopped Xiao Zhenye. Zhao Qingming stared at Li Qing's back below and said, "Fourth brother, have you forgotten? Your third brother doesn't use hidden weapons."

Xiao Zhenye was taken aback, and his expression turned strange.

Li Qing's master was the Taoist Danlu.

Wild Maoshan, who had already made a name for themselves in the martial arts world back then.

Even experts who could hold their own against Li Jingqi.

After the Li Jingqi incident, Danlu Daoren was also seriously injured. After passing on his mantle to Li Qing, he passed away peacefully.

Over the years, how much of the methods that the Danlu Daoist had inherited and to what extent he had studied them remains a mystery, not only to Xiao Zhenye but also to Zhao Qingming.

They watched as swarms of Gu worms attacked.

A hint of weariness showed on Li Qingman's weathered face.

"I told you, just take the stuff out. Why are you fighting to the bitter end?"

While Li Qing sighed, he swiftly took out three iron talismans from his backpack and threw them out with a backhand.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Three iron talismans were stuck around Li Qing in a triangular formation.

Li Qing then formed a hand seal and silently chanted a spell.

"Rumble..."

A dull, deep sound came from the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the woman felt a tingling sensation all over her body, as if every strand of her hair was about to float up.

This immediately gave the woman a sense of impending doom. She didn't know what the old man was going to do, but she dared not relax at all. Instead, she blew the bone whistle in her hand even more vigorously, ordering the Gu worms to pounce on Li Qing.

At the same time.

The marbles that Li Qing had just thrown out suddenly floated up from the ground.

Then, a ray of silver light flashed in Li Qing's eyes.

Pinch with your fingers.

"Thunder Magic: Heavenly Net!"

"boom!"

A blinding silver-white bolt of lightning suddenly struck down from the pitch-black night sky!
However, just as the lightning struck the ground, the thick bolt of lightning suddenly split apart!

Countless electric currents, thinner than spider silk yet gleaming with blinding light, precisely adhered to each of the metal pellets that Li Qing had previously tossed into the air!
In an instant, the entire sky and ground above Pengjiazhai were covered by an unprecedentedly huge and airtight electric grid!

The electric currents, fine as raindrops, intertwined, shimmered, and pulsed, emitting a dense, crackling sound that sent chills down one's spine.

Only where Li Qing stood was the electric current blocked by three iron plates. No matter how violent the current spread in front of him, it did not even touch the hem of Li Qing's clothes.

(End of this chapter)