blueteamnovel #726 - Two things
#726 - Two things
“Th-That, what is that thing…?”
Although those two bizarre hand-bone insects had already been dealt with by Lu Jing and Xia Huai, Li Zongjie's heart was still pounding.
It took him a while to be able to speak again, asking in a trembling voice.
“Uh… you can think of it as a kind of ferocious beast unique to this place,” Lu Jing said.
“But you don’t need to worry too much, their numbers are very small, and it will be difficult for you to encounter them again in the future.”
Li Zongjie widened his eyes.
Although he had always lived in the countryside and had not seen much of the world, he also knew that Lu Jing was talking nonsense.
What kind of beast could grow into that terrifying appearance, and even run into people's stomachs, and then break open their stomachs to run out.
Speaking of this, Li Zongjie looked at his two fellow villagers again.
And his second uncle, Li Fu, was already checking the bodies of the two men, shaking his head after a moment, with a sad expression on his face.
Li Zongjie was not surprised by this result, because no one could survive after being cut open in the stomach, not to mention that he had just glanced at it and found that the eight-fingered man and the white-haired old man’s stomachs were already empty.
Their organs and intestines had disappeared, eaten up by those hand-bone insects.
Even with Lu Jing's eye skills, he couldn't find any fault in them.
When he and Xia Huai relaxed their vigilance in the middle of the night, those hand-bone insects secretly drilled out of the eight-fingered man and the white-haired old man's stomachs, which could indeed have the effect of catching them off guard.
Although, as far as the final result was concerned, it was no different from directly going up to deliver heads.
Li Fu, with red eyes, hastily wrapped the bodies of the two fellow villagers in straw mats.
He didn't plan to take the two men back anymore, not because he thought the bodies were too heavy to carry, but mainly because such a death was really too tragic.
He couldn't bear to let the two men's families see it and be stimulated again.
So he and his nephew unified their story, planning to go back and say that they had accidentally fallen off a cliff while gathering medicine.
He saw that Li Zongjie seemed to have a lot of questions and wanted to ask Lu and Xia again, but he took the initiative to stop the latter, persuading, “Zongjie, sometimes knowing too much is not a good thing.
Since the two heroes are unwilling to say, then they must have their intentions.”
Li Zongjie had always listened to Li Fu's words.
He knew that he could survive tonight, relying on Lu and Xia on the one hand, and his second uncle on the other.
If the latter hadn't stopped his mouth in time, that hand-bone insect would probably not mind solving him first, and then going to find Lu Jing and Xia Huai's trouble.
So he didn't pester Lu Jing anymore.
Seeing that the heavy rain outside was getting smaller and smaller, Lu Jing and Xia Huai packed their bags and prepared to continue on their way.
However, just before leaving, Lu Jing stopped again, calling Li Zongjie over, “If you want to practice martial arts in the future, you can go to Qinglong Mountain in Ju County, Yuzhou, and find a guy named Ge Ping, um, just tell him that I sent you.”
“Benefactor, you are…”
“Lu Jing, Lu Jing of Wujiang.”
After Lu Jing finished speaking, he ignored the shocked Uncle and Nephew Li Fu and walked out of the temple gate with Xia Huai.
The two didn't wait for dawn, and continued to rush forward in the dark of night.
However, this time Lu Jing didn't choose to take the remote path, but instead headed for the nearest county town.
The two had used up all their dry food in that mountain temple and needed to replenish it.
In addition, they had been traveling in the wild for these days and hadn't had a good rest or a hot bath.
Although with the martial arts cultivation of the two, they would not be troubled by this kind of thing.
But Lu Jing didn't want to live too hard.
Of course, the main reason was that his previous plan had failed.
They had been careful enough, but they were still easily discovered.
Since that was the case, why drill into the mountains?
“You said Mr. Ji's people have a way to track us?”
Xia Huai said while eating breakfast with Lu Jing in the restaurant.
Lu Jing nodded, “That guy can travel in spirit, but it’s not his day to travel in spirit yet, so I’m more inclined to think that he found us by some other means.”
“What means?”
“Um, first of all, of course, are some strange objects or strange things with positioning functions.
If that’s the case, then it’s useless no matter where we hide, but I personally think this possibility is very small.
“Because Guo Shaojian secretly sent his confidant to bring the knife to us, and very few people know that the knife is in our hands.”
“That makes sense.”
“The greater possibility is that there is something on us that can be tracked,” Lu Jing picked up a small steamed bun and continued.
Xia Huai thought for a while, “But most of the things on us are our own, so there shouldn’t be any problem.”
“Yes, so the only two things that are really suspicious.”
Xia Huai quietly waited for Lu Jing's next words.
“First, it’s the knife itself, which I think is the most likely thing to be tracked,” Lu Jing said.
“I got this knife from a guy surnamed Ruan.
He is the current successor of the Myriad Demons Palace.
When I first met him, he tricked a group of demonic people to Xiayi County, preparing to use them to refine the knife.
“At first, I thought that Mr. Ji sent him this knife simply to win him over.
After all, Mr. Ji is rebelling now, and he certainly hopes that the more allies he has, the better, and he can’t win over the righteous path, so of course he will set his sights on the demonic path.
“However, later I heard that this knife was stolen from the Sitianjian, and I realized that Mr. Ji also values this knife very much.
Maybe he lent it to the guy surnamed Ruan just to let the successor of the Myriad Demons Palace help him refine the knife, and then take it for himself after it was refined, and also avoid dirtying his own hands.
“Since that’s the case, he’s certainly likely to have tampered with this knife, and be able to find this knife by some means, so as not to have it hidden by the guy surnamed Ruan at that time.”
“Your speculation is indeed the most likely,” Xia Huai also said, pausing, she asked again, “What about the other possibility?”
“Um?”
“You just said there were two things, right.”
“Ugh… another possibility is that someone tampered with that paper frog,” Lu Jing spread his hands, “The only two things on us that came from outside.”
“But isn’t that paper frog Guo Shaojian’s?”
“I’m talking about Guo Shaojian,” Lu Jing said, “Maybe it’s because I’m more used to judging a gentleman’s heart with the belly of a villain.
Anyway, when I first received this errand, I suspected that this matter was Guo Shouhuai directing and acting to find out the spies in the Sitianjian.
“Because using us as bait is something he can do.”