I didn't expect that the old, ugly, blind mother-in-law would turn out to be so young and beautiful. I couldn't help but be stunned!
But the girl bit her lip in hatred, pulled out a spiked whip from behind her waist, and swung it towards me.
He shouted angrily: "Kill you little brat!"
I saw her rushing toward me without her life. Lao Jiang suddenly felt that something was wrong and wanted to come over to protect me, but he was entangled by another blind mother-in-law and could not escape.
I was about to draw the bow, but as if the whip had eyes, it rolled up my long bow and threw it away.
Now I know how big the strength gap between the two sides is!
Without thinking, I ran towards the crowd, but was whipped so hard on my back that my skin was torn apart and I almost cried.
This woman is so beautiful, but her attacks are so cruel.
Just when I turned my head, the girl put on the human skin mask again and sneered: "Anyone who sees my appearance must die!"
The head of the long whip came toward my neck. At the critical moment, a wolf-fang arrow shot out, saving my life.
I looked over in surprise and saw that it was the new mayor.
Other residents of Lei Town also came with bows and arrows. Another blind mother-in-law saw that something was wrong, threw a smoke bomb into the crowd and shouted: "Sister, leave quickly!"
We were so thick with smoke that we couldn't open our eyes. When the smoke cleared, the blind mother-in-law and the graceful girl were nowhere to be found.
Lao Jiang then came back to me and asked me how my injury was.
I glanced at the black knife on Lao Jiang's waist, and the pain in my back became more severe. I couldn't help but complain: "I almost thought you had to recruit disciples again..."
"Wherever you go, you will definitely be the last one."
Lao Jiang laughed loudly, but when he checked my back, he took a breath and showed a look of distress.
"It's actually so seriously injured."
Lao Jiang took out a small bottle and sprinkled the white medicinal powder inside evenly on my back. He said it was Yunnan Baiyao, which could quickly stop bleeding and restore wound healing.
At the same time, he simply bandaged me and reminded me that the wound must not be exposed to water in the past few days.
At this time, the group of enemies fled to death, and peace returned to Lei Zhen.
The new mayor was not happy at all. Instead, he arranged for the residents to fetch water to put out the fire in a panic.
I originally thought I was afraid that the ancestral temple would burn down, but I never expected that after the fire was extinguished, the new mayor ordered everyone to return home. Without his whistle, no one could go out.
Only then did I remember what the blind old woman said when she burned down the ancestral temple: "You bunch of old immortals, I know where you are hiding."
The ancestral hall is only so big. Could it be that... there is something else going on in this ancestral hall?
Not a single resident resisted the new mayor's order, they all obeyed silently.
Gou Sanzi and Er Dan were so enthusiastic that they invited me to his home. I was about to go back to recuperate, but the new mayor stopped me: "Jinglan, you and the old gentleman stay here."
I want to ask what happened to the new mayor?
But he lit a torch and motioned for me to follow him as he walked into the ancestral hall.
He stopped in front of the huge bronze stick in the courtyard of the ancestral hall. He took a small hammer and knocked on the big stick nine times.
In an instant, a huge echo spread from the ground, making the soles of our feet numb.
"What are you doing?" I asked curiously.
Lao Jiang was muttering to himself: "Why did this echo come from the ground?"
Suddenly he realized: "I know! Half of this giant bronze rod is connected to the ground. There is definitely a big space underground, or that is the real Thunder Town."
Old Jiang's words were a bit unbelievable, but the new mayor nodded and said, "You are right."
"A long time ago, in order to avoid being hunted, our ancestors had to move around, but in the end they discovered that whether they lived in the mountains or in the forest, the enemy would eventually come for them. So they came to Zhanghe River and proposed He came up with a bold idea, which was to build a town underground first, and then build an identical town above ground.”
“So from the beginning, there were two Thundertowns here…
"The new mayor explained: "Later, as time passed and dynasties changed, there were no more enemies chasing us. We all lived peacefully in Lei Town above, while Lei Town below was used to hide an unstoppable enemy. Tell-tale secret! ! ! "
After saying that, the new mayor glanced at me: "Jinglan, I know you hate Lei Zhen and hate us for dragging your parents into the ancestral hall and turning you into an orphan. But please believe me, you will be let go soon." You see the truth!"
Just as I was about to say something, I suddenly felt a landslide shaking beneath my feet, as if a small earthquake had occurred centered on the ancestral hall.
The leaves on both sides fell, and the dust in the yard was kicked up.
It lasted like this for nearly a minute, and a huge ravine opened up in the middle of the courtyard. The ravine was flat and smooth. It was obvious that it was not formed by nature, but by a mechanism.
Seeing this scene, the new mayor held a torch and lay on the edge of the crack and shouted, "Dad, are you all okay?"
An old voice came from the dark crack: "Fortunately you arrived in time, otherwise we would have been trapped underground."
It was the old mayor who answered. I will never forget that voice even in my dreams. It was he who ordered my parents to be imprisoned in the ancestral hall!
I angrily cursed into the ravine: "Old immortal, where did you hide my parents?"
By the light of the torch, I saw that although it was gloomy and dark in the ravine, there was indeed the outline of a small town. There were small bungalows built in the hollowed out ground, housing at least seventy or eighty people. .
The lower half of the giant bronze rod stands in the center of those bungalows. There are dense chains extending from the giant rod. From a height, it looks like a spread spider web. I don’t know what its use is?
After my yelling and cursing reached the underground, people inside asked me who I was.
The new mayor quickly explained: "He is the ghost boy who escaped more than ten years ago, Li Jinglan. We were all kidnapped by a group of enemies. Fortunately, Jinglan appeared in time and saved us."
After saying that, he took Lao Jiang and me down.
It turned out that there was a row of soft ladders in the ravine, and we reached the underground easily. The people below also lit all the lighting lamps.
For a moment, the fire was bright, and the thunder formation built underground looked like a miracle.
As soon as I landed, I was ready to go to the old mayor to settle the score. Before I could find a stick, an elderly woman suddenly rushed out: "Jinglan? Is this our Jinglan?" ?”
The moment I saw the woman, my mind went blank.
Although the other party's whole body was wrapped tightly in black cloth and only half of her face was exposed, I immediately recognized that this was my mother.
"Auntie?" I asked stiffly.
"Son, my son!" The woman rushed out and held me tightly in her arms. Even after more than ten years, our appearance has changed slightly, but we can still recognize each other as long as we see each other again. .
She is my grandma, the mother I miss day and night.
I looked at the old mayor beside me. He was also wearing a simple black robe, with a black cloth wrapped around his forehead, which looked extremely weird.
But he looked at me with a kind expression and said, "It's great that you can go home safe and sound."
What is all this about? Isn't the old mayor a bad person? how……
I asked my mother-in-law: "Where is my father?"
Aniang tilted her head and sighed: "Your father passed away."
Immediately, Aniang told me that it was their own choice to enter the ancestral hall, and they did not blame the old mayor. Instead, they should thank the old mayor, otherwise they would have died when Xi was ten years old.
I became more and more confused, but Lao Jiang asked seriously: "Is it because of the curse?"
"Curse?" The men in black robes around them were all shocked when they heard this word.
Lao Jiang continued: "After I came down, I noticed that all of you have a circle of black cloth around your head. Isn't it to cover the third eye? Don't worry, I won't treat you as monsters. I just want to know. the truth."
"If I were a bad person, I would never take Jinglan home, let alone help you get rid of those enemies. But you have to think clearly, if you continue to hide this secret, those people will come again. "
The old mayor's expression was a little annoyed, and he looked at his son.
But the new mayor shook his head repeatedly: "Father, it's not what I said, it's all their own guesses!"
Seeing the old mayor's reaction, Lao Jiang and I both knew that our previous guesses about Lei Zhen were basically correct.
In order to make the old mayor believe us, Lao Jiang immediately detailed what happened in these days one by one, and said that a mysterious force has been eyeing Leizhen.
"It was our accident that saved Lei Zhen."
Regarding this point, the new mayor also had good words to say: "It was indeed Jinglan and this old gentleman who killed several enemies before we were rescued from the prison. If they hadn't arrived in time, that group of people would have set fire to it. Ancestral hall, use smoke to smoke out the seniors from underground..."
The old mayor said that he had a premonition of something happening in Leizhen as soon as possible, so he closed the underground world.
But he still hesitated about secret matters: "How can I be sure that you have not been bribed by the other party? Did you deliberately act together in this drama just to deceive Lei Zhen's secrets?"
My mother stood in front of me without hesitation and said loudly: "Jinglan is not that kind of person. He is my son. He will not harm his hometown."
"But you haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and people's hearts will always become..." The old mayor walked around on crutches.
At this moment, Lao Jiang took out a rubbing from his arms, which was the pattern of the six underworld beasts copied from the copper box in Xiushui Village.
The old mayor was shocked when he saw those patterns. Someone next to him asked, "Hey, isn't this the tattoo on our backs?"
"Where did you get this?" the old mayor asked in a low voice.
I didn't answer, but called Lao Jiang.
Lao Jiang no longer hid it, and carefully took out the human skin scroll: "This is the note left by your ancestor, the tomb robber king Wen Tao. The death sentence written on it cannot be recognized by anyone in the world, but it is the only way to break the curse." Opportunity. Now, do you still doubt us?"
