manynovel Chapter 3174 Xiaoman (not spring water)
Chapter 3174 Xiaoman (not spring water)
After the two elders of the Lin family saw Zhou Wenlun off, they hurriedly caught up with Hu Xiaoman and the other two.
When the five people walked into the house, the two elders of the Lin family immediately covered their noses when they saw the smell of blood coming from the large secret room in Lin Ying's room.
What made people even more uncomfortable was that the bottles on the shelf across the room were emitting a rotten stench, the smell mixed with the smell of blood, which almost made people vomit.
A hint of doubt flashed in Hu Xiaoman's eyes.
"These bottles contain beating hearts."
"It was still very fresh before, why is it so smelly now?"
As she spoke, she took out a mask from Manzhoushikong and put it on.
Hua Nian and Yang Rui also tacitly took out the masks they had prepared before and put them on silently with skillful movements.
Yang Rui looked at the bottles emitting black gas and said thoughtfully: "Could it be because Lin Ying and the black cat are both dead? Without them to maintain them, these hearts can't stay fresh?"
Hu Xiaoman nodded: "That must be the case."
"The Sky Stone fragments have some kind of power that can keep these things fresh."
"Now that the fragments are gone, they will naturally rot."
She said to the two elders of the Lin family who were covering their mouths and noses, "This is filled with rotten hearts. After we leave, remember to clean it out as soon as possible to prevent more evil spirits from breeding."
After saying that, he took Yang Rui and Hua Nian into the secret room that was full of flower corpses.
Now, the evil and ghostly spirits of those flower corpses have long been sucked away by Hua Nian.
The secret room was empty, with only a faint residual scent left.
As for Xiao Taozi, she had been taken back to Manzhou Shikong by Hu Xiaoman a long time ago, and was now taking a bath in the spiritual spring to heal her wounds.
With the nourishment of the spiritual spring, its injuries recovered quickly.
Because of this, Hu Xiaoman can clearly sense all the movements in the secret room and enter and exit freely.
Several people walked quickly through the secret room and came to the red door.
When the two elders of the Lin family saw the rows of jars in the secret room - the jars were filled with sky blue potions, and the potions were soaked with human limbs, Mrs. Lin was so scared that her legs went weak and she almost fell to the ground.
Mr. Lin was quick to reach out and support her, and his face became very ugly.
Hu Xiaoman turned to look at the two elders: "Mrs. Lin mentioned before that the limbs of the thousands of people who disappeared in Feiyang City in recent years are all soaking here."
Mrs. Lin clutched her chest and coughed violently several times, her voice filled with grief and anger: "What a sin!"
"What a sin! How could this evil creature Lin Ying do such a cruel thing!"
Hu Xiaoman sighed softly and bowed to the two elders: "Mrs. Lin, Mr. Lin, the Lin Mansion still needs two more managers. We have urgent matters to attend to in Feiyang Territory, so we'll take our leave now."
Mrs. Lin and Mr. Lin watched Hu Xiaoman, Yang Rui, and Hua Nian walk into the dark door that emitted a dim light.
The two elders of the Lin family looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion and shock.
Their Lin Mansion actually has a secret passage leading to Feiyang Realm?
Although the two elders of the Lin family are fourteen good men and have protective cinnabar on their bodies, their cultivation ultimately remains at the foundation-building stage.
As they grew older, they were no longer geniuses in cultivation. Their current foundation-building skills were built up by buying countless elixirs with the money they had saved over the years.
They knew that with their limited abilities, if they followed Hu Xiaoman and the other two into the secret passage, they would not only be of no help but would only be a hindrance.
What is more important right now is to properly bury the human limbs soaked in the sky blue potion.
Let these people who died unjustly be buried in peace and rest in eternal sleep.
On the other side, Hu Xiaoman took Yang Rui and Hua Nian into the secret passage of the secret room.
Dark-colored luminous pearls are embedded on both sides of the secret passage.
The cold and dim light made the winding and rugged stone road even more eerie.
The air was filled with the fishy smell of soil, the damp smell of mold, and a faint stench of decay that made people feel stuffy in their chests.
This secret passage is narrow and deep. As soon as you speak, your voice will bounce back and forth between the stone walls, making a huge echo.
Therefore, the three of them kept silent tacitly and just walked forward silently. The sound of their footsteps seemed particularly clear in the silence.
Only Yang Rui couldn't stand the pungent smell. He would cough softly occasionally, and his face was paler than when he came.
Whenever he coughed, Hua Nian, who was walking at the end, would quietly take half a step forward and gently place her hand on his back.
A trace of warm yin energy slowly flowed in.
But in just a moment, the itching and stinging in Yang Rui's throat, like ant bites, would mostly disappear.
At this moment, a "tick-tick" sound suddenly came from the front, like water falling on stone ground.
Hu Xiaoman paused, frowned slightly, and lowered his voice to the lowest level, almost just a whisper: "Is there a spring hidden here?"
The sound was crisp, indeed like spring water seeping out from the cracks in the stone wall, dripping onto the ground drop by drop.
But how could there be a spring in this secret passage buried deep underground?
The narrowest part of this secret passage is only wide enough for one person to pass sideways.
Therefore, the three of them can only move forward in a line:
Hu Xiaoman walked in front to explore the way, Yang Rui was in the middle, and Hua Nian was the last one to come, and they were very close to each other.
Yang Rui looked in the direction of the sound and replied in a low voice: "Junior Sister, that's not spring water."
Hu Xiaoman turned around to look at him and saw that Yang Rui's face was even paler than before, and there was a hint of subtle strangeness in his eyes.
She asked, "Fourth Brother, are you scared?"
Yang Rui nodded, then shook his head, forcing a smile.
I'm not afraid!
He has Hua Nian, a lively medicine.
Plus, there is my junior sister in front.
Junior sister has the Ghost King, he is not afraid!
"The smell is so strong that even with a mask on, I can't block out the rancid odor. It makes me feel sick."
"It stinks so bad I want to die!"
Hu Xiaoman: “…”
"Fourth Brother, you just said the sound in front wasn't a spring. What was it then?"
Yang Rui looked at the deep darkness ahead and said, "Junior Sister, take a few more steps forward, and you'll know when you get there."
Hu Xiaoman nodded, asked no more questions, turned around and continued walking forward.
The further we went, the louder the "tick-tick" sound became, gradually changing from crisp to dull.
The smell in the air became stronger.
In addition to the damp, moldy smell and the stench of decay, there was also a strong smell of blood.
The rusty smell rushed into the nose, making people's scalp tingle.
Finally, a little faint light appeared at the end of the narrow secret passage.
It was warmer than the glow of the night pearls in the dark passage, yet carried an indescribable weirdness.
Hu Xiaoman was the first to step out of the secret passage. The moment he saw the scene clearly, his pupils suddenly contracted and his feet froze in place.