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Chapter 340 Scream
Lu Qing was taken aback, then quickly got up and went to the door with Lu Yan to help Yan Daoxin drag the unconscious talisman from outside into the room, and then closed the door again.

Yan Daoxin took out the packet of golden-tailed ox-hair silver needles again and said to Zhu Yu beside him, "You taught me a wonderful trick!"

As he spoke, he took out several needles from his needle case and, with such swiftness that they were almost invisible, stuck them into the fingertips of the talisman.

When the two brothers had about three or four fingers pricked, they began to wake up. When their hands were almost completely pricked, they woke up one after another. When they saw the other people surrounding them, they immediately realized what had happened and quickly turned over and knelt on the ground.

"Master...we brothers are incompetent; we couldn't hold on!" Rune said with some annoyance. "Please punish us, Master!"

Fu Lu reacted even more directly, punching his leg hard, his face full of anger.

"Putting all that aside, there's definitely something strange about this courtyard." Lu Qing knew that those who possessed talismans and runes were loyal and had considerable skill, unlike Lu Zhang, who lacked a foundation and was easily bewitched.

"So what do we do now?" Lu Yan was getting anxious. Given his personality, it was already quite difficult for him to have endured this long, and now he could hardly sit still.

Lu Qing also noticed this. He looked at the others and said, "Since there's something strange going on, we can't just stay obediently in the courtyard. It's too passive."

Lu Yan, come out with me. We'll go in two directions, just along the top of the wall, don't go down, to avoid being discovered. Let's try to get a good grasp of the terrain and situation inside this Immortal Fortress from a high vantage point.

"Do not reveal your whereabouts. Only use the cover of night to get a general idea of ​​what's going on, and return as soon as possible."

Lu Yan was overjoyed and nodded quickly. He got up and stretched his legs to make sure that his movements were not affected.

Lu Qing then said to Yan Daoxin and Zhu Yu, "Use the same method you used to wake up the talismans to wake up Lu Zhang and Yan Wei. Their situation is unclear right now, so it's best to keep them conscious."

"Don't worry, no problem." Zhu Yu nodded.

Lu Qing's gaze lingered on her hand for a moment, feeling somewhat reluctant, but staying sober was indeed the safest and most secure state at the moment, so he could only give up.

"Don't worry, I'm here! The talisman has woken up too! Everything will be fine, you guys go and come back quickly!" Yan Daoxin saw Lu Qing's unspoken worry and waved to him.

Lu Qing then looked at the runes and talismans: "From this moment on, you two must be even more vigilant and make sure you don't fall into their trap again."

"Yes! Master, don't worry, it won't happen again!" Fu Lu quickly clasped his hands in a fist and made a gruff promise.

Lu Qing said no more. He and Lu Yan discussed their respective routes, then opened the door and went out. They lightly leaped up, touched the wooden railing with their feet, and jumped into the night, quickly disappearing from sight.

Yan Daoxin quickly closed the door again and, together with Zhu Yu, used silver needles to prick the fingertips of Lu Zhang and Yan Shu, and soon they successfully woke them up.

The talisman guarded the door, while the other four sat around the table, all listening intently, afraid of missing any noise outside.

It was very quiet in private. The group of people held their breath for a while, but they didn't hear anything.

"Is anyone else feeling sleepy?" Yan Daoxin asked.

Zhu Yu shook his head, as did Lu Zhang and Yan Shu. "What about you two?" Yan Daoxin asked Fu Wen and the others.

The runes and talismans also shook their heads, indicating that they were very energetic at the moment.

Upon hearing this, Yan Daoxin reached out and removed the silver needle from Lu Zhang's fingertip. Lu Zhang shuddered in pain, but the persistent pain in his fingertip quickly subsided after the needle was removed.

He secretly breathed a sigh of relief and looked down at his fingertips.

The needle was so thin that it hurt terribly when it pricked my fingertip, but now that it's been pulled out, there's not even a trace left, as if I'd never been pricked at all.

He sighed inwardly, and then, under the watchful eyes of the others, he swayed, his eyes rolled back, and he looked as if he was about to fall onto the table.

Yan Daoxin grabbed the back of his collar, pulling Lu Zhang, who was about to fall into a deep sleep again, up. She then re-inserted the needles into his fingertips. Lu Zhang felt a sharp pain and instantly woke up, his expression suggesting he was frightened.

"How did I suddenly faint again?" he asked Yan Daoxin in astonishment.

Yan Daoxin's gaze, however, fell on his fingertips: "It seems that if I want to stay awake, these silver needles cannot be removed easily!"

To be on the safe side, he also inserted silver needles into the fingers of the runes and talismans.

Suddenly, a piercing scream reached everyone's ears.

Yan Shuteng stood up abruptly, and Zhu Yu also quickly got up.

Sure enough, they had indeed heard screams the night before; it wasn't just a hallucination they all had.

The screams rang out intermittently, sounding extremely shrill. The sound didn't seem far away, but it wasn't close either. Several people tried going to the corridor by the door, or opening the windows in the rooms, or going to other rooms to listen, but they still couldn't pinpoint the direction from which the sound came.

The screams reached their ears at a seemingly distant distance, then abruptly stopped as they tried to pinpoint the direction from which the sound came, and were never heard again.

"That person screamed so pitifully..." Yan Shu shuddered. Although she was a Jie person, she had witnessed more of the Jie people's swift and decisive nature since childhood. "Why is there no sound now? Could he have been beaten to death?"

While the King of Jie disapproved of and would punish Lu Yan for wiping out an entire enemy camp at the slightest disagreement, such incidents still occurred occasionally.

However, Yan Shu had never heard of or seen anything like torture that could lead to someone's death since she was a child.

Zhu Yu didn't know how to respond to this, since they couldn't even see where the person was, so they naturally couldn't be sure what kind of situation the other person was in.

This time, however, they were all conscious and could hear clearly that the shrill scream definitely came from a man.

Thinking back to the smiles on the faces of those farmers when they first saw them in the flower field, the empty eyes of the servant who delivered meals these past two days, the familiar scent of the fabric, their inexplicable drowsiness just now, and the screams that still seemed to linger in his ears, Zhu Yu couldn't help but shudder.

This mysterious Fairy Castle appears to be a paradise on the surface, but who knows what terrible secrets it hides in private? There are just too many strange things about it.