Chapter 569 The Pretender (Part 2)
I walked a few steps towards him, and he quickly retreated, still maintaining a distance of more than ten meters from me.
I asked him: "Who are you? Do you know Luo Youfang's identity?"
He said: "If you can ask this, it means you already know Luo Youfang's true identity. Zuo Youdao, you are indeed very smart. Luo Youfang did not misjudgment. If he knew about it in the spring, he would definitely be very pleased."
Me: "Luo Youfang is dead?"
He shook his head: "I'm not dead, but his current situation is very dangerous. If you think he is a human being, please find a way to save him."
I asked, "Where is Luo Youfang? How can I save him?"
He still shook his head: "I don't know. My time is coming soon. Finally, I would like to tell you not to trust anyone..."
Speaking of this, the expression on his face suddenly began to twist, and his body began to twitch violently. He gritted his teeth and squeezed out the last few words from his teeth: "The inner ghost's left foot... has no... palm lines... kill me!"
At this time, his body quickly shrank into a ball, and the beam of the flashlight hit him. I saw the skin on his face begin to fall off quickly, and Luo Youfang's face gradually revealed, but soon, Luo Youfang's skin also began to fall off quickly, and unfamiliar faces continued to appear. His body seemed to be wrapped with layers of fake skin.
When the last face collapsed and wrinkled, a faint corpse gas emanated from him.
I am so familiar with this corpse aura. The shadow corpse that appeared in Erlong Bay and the old Huang family's underground palace all have the same weird corpse aura.
I immediately stepped forward with the green steel sword. As soon as I arrived beside him, I saw a long crack in its back, and a withered shadow corpse burst out from it.
This evil corpse was very fast. In order to prevent it from escaping, I swung my sword and slashed it as soon as it appeared.
There was a slight sound, and the green steel sword passed by its shoulders, and a touch like fine sand rubbed, and its left arm broke in response to the sound.
At this time, I had already found the soul sealing talisman, and it suddenly turned sideways, trying to escape from the skin. But at this moment, the collapsed skin suddenly stretched out its hand and grabbed the Shadow Corpse's legs. Taking advantage of the short opportunity when Shadow Corpse stopped, I immediately threw out the Soul Cloak.
As soon as the soul sealing talisman was stuck to the shadow corpse's face, it instantly dispersed the corpse energy on its body. The shadow corpse's body trembled twice, then collapsed and began to rot quickly.
I squatted down and looked at the skin that looked like a deflated ball. On the collapsed face, I could no longer tell the expression, but those eyes were staring at me. I saw that those eyes were still radiant. He seemed to be thinking of me begging me to give him a relief.
The Qinggang Sword could not hurt him. I took out a mountaineering nail from my backpack and penetrated it hard into his chest. I saw that the skin sac slowly collapsed after shaking violently, and the light in the eyes gradually dissipated.
I sat on the ground, looking at the skin that was still slowly collapsing, and my mind was in chaos.
Who is this person disguised as Liang Houzai? Is he a human or something else? Why is there a shadow corpse in his body? What is his relationship with Luo Youfang? Why is one of the faces Luo Youfang? How did he avoid Liang Houzai and Senior Brother Geng coming here? What exactly happened to Luo Youfang?
His sudden appearance brought me countless questions, and these questions circling in my mind, as if they formed a huge vortex, making me dizzy and unable to calm down.
After a long time, I felt a little relieved, got up and looked at what he had thrown on the ground before, and realized that it was a rolled up soul-suming banner, which was a cylindrical banner. At first I thought it was an extended pistol.
Hasn’t this soul-summoning banner always been on my master? Why did it fall into his hands?
I had a vague premonition, could something happened to my master?
Carefully put the soul-summoning banner into my backpack, I took the flashlight and prepared to leave. When I was about to walk out of the tomb passage, I remembered the backpack on the backpack on the fake Lianghouzai. His backpack was exactly the same as Lianghouzai, and there was no difference in the position of the kettle.
In fact, it was not just a backpack, every detail on him was exactly the same as Liang Houzai, so I really misunderstood him as Liang Houzai at the beginning, and it was not until he said the wrong thing that he showed his strength.
Since I met Liang Houzai and I, except for the first one or two years, Liang Houzai has never called me by my name.
I returned to the skin, picked up the backpack on the ground, opened it and saw that there was nothing else inside, filled with empty medicine bottles the size of a cup. I took a flashlight and found that some medicine bottles still had some powder left in them.
I looked at the flashlight that fell on the ground again. Judging from the appearance, it was not much different from my flashlight, but I moved the button on it and found that this flashlight could not be dimmed.
There are also engineer shovels that don’t take on the backpack, which are lighter than we usually use.
It seems that he knew we were coming a long time ago and made careful preparations for this, but probably because there was not enough time and some details were not prepared enough.
I left the tomb passage with his backpack. When I returned to the ground, Liang Houzai and Senior Brother Geng were still standing next to the big pit.
When I dragged my backpack full of medicine bottles to the outside of the pit, Liang Houzai saw the backpack in my hand and frowned: "Isn't this my backpack?"
As he said, he reached out and touched his back, and his face immediately changed: "Someone pretended to be me!"
I put the backpack in my hand on the ground: "There are empty medicine bottles inside, and some of them still have medicine powder. The person who pretended to be you just now has been killed by me. In fact, it cannot be said that I killed him. When I started, he had only half his life left, and there was a shadow corpse hidden in his body."
Senior Brother Geng also came over, looked at me, and asked me, "You are not injured, are you?"
"I'm fine," I waved my hand and said, "I found a Zhuhua in the tomb. It died miserably. Not only was it beheaded, but its eyes were also dug out. This time, the Burial Sect sent a master to the tomb, and that person's cultivation was above my master."
Senior Brother Geng seemed a little panicked: "The cultivation level is higher than Uncle Chai? In the entire industry, the Taoist craftsman who can be comparable to Uncle Chai is the old monsters of the Secret Cultivation Sect. If you want to say that the cultivation level is higher than Uncle Chai... Could it be Zhang Zhenren from Longhu Mountain, or..."
I interrupted Senior Brother Geng: "It shouldn't be someone in the industry. I suspect that this time the leader of the Burial Cult took to the tomb himself."
When I was talking, I glanced at Liang Houzai. He seemed to have thought of something, but due to the presence of Senior Brother Geng, he did not speak.
I continued to say to Senior Brother Geng: "It is best to take the medicine bottle in my backpack back to Jihunzhuang, let Senior Brother Zhuang and the others analyze it and don't hand it over to the organization."
Senior Brother Geng seemed a little confused: "Why?"
"The inner ghost is hiding very deeply," I said to Senior Brother Geng: "They learned the news in advance and knew that we were coming long ago. Otherwise, it would be impossible for someone to disguise themselves as Liang Houzai. Senior Brother, please pay attention to the backpack, which is almost exactly the same as Liang Houzai's."
Senior Brother Geng looked at Liang Houzai's backpack and said with a worrying look: "Can someone be following us all the time?"
I said, "It's not necessarily that we are following us, but he must know our details and trends. But I guess the inner ghost should not know the coordinates, otherwise the Burial Cult will not be able to start now. The time when the Burial Cult got to the tomb was stuck at Dawei's return to the organization to report, and we were stranded in the army. So I think the inner ghost should be the senior organization's leadership. Dawei reported our action plan to him, and the inner ghost leaked this plan to the Burial Cult."
Senior Brother Geng frowned: "The senior organization... there is no insider, right?"
I asked Senior Brother Geng: "Senior Brother, think about it carefully. Is there any senior executive who contacted us directly, or directly contacted Senior Brother Zhuang or Dawei?"
Senior Brother Geng thought for a while and said, "There is really one, but I don't know who that person is."
I asked Senior Brother Geng: "Does he know the coordinates?"
Senior Brother Geng shook his head: "I probably don't know. At present, only the boss, Senior Brother Zhuang and the people in Dawei's team know about it, plus a few of us. Well, there are only so many people, and others cannot know about it."
"Who is the boss?"
Senior Brother Geng suddenly laughed: "Guess, you know this person."
The first thing I think of is nothing more than the old men like Taoist Chen and Master Zhang Er. But after careful consideration, I felt that something was wrong.
At this time, Liang Houzai said from the side, "It's not Wang Dafu, is it?"
Senior Brother Geng looked at him in surprise: "How did you know?"
Liang Houzai said: "Wang Dafu is the last generation of tomb guards. It is perfect for him to be responsible for the nine tombs."
"Or you are smart, you will think of it when you think about it," said Senior Brother Geng: "It's indeed Wang Dafu. In fact, when Wang Dafu entered the Dragon King's tomb to guard the tomb, he was no longer an ordinary military position. I heard from Senior Brother Zhuang that Wang Dafu was an organization at that time and his position was very high."
I asked Senior Brother Geng: "Is Wang Dafu the big head of the organization now?"
Senior Brother Geng shook his head: "No, he is considered the second-in-command or third-in-command. He is mainly responsible for the affairs of the nine tombs. He said he would retire when the matter is over."
Speaking of this, I remembered the scene when I first met Wang Dafu. At that time, I always felt that he seemed not as simple as it seemed, including Yin Yu being robbed, and he seemed to have expected it.
At that time, I only thought he was a person with a story, but I didn't expect that he was a person in the organization.
I remember a few years ago, he took Liangzi to Jihunzhuang to find me and my master and asked us to investigate the affairs of the nine tombs. At that time, the dialogue between Master and him always gave people a tacit feeling. I think, maybe at that time, Master already knew his identity, but Liangzi seemed to be kept in the dark.
Senior Brother Geng told me that only a very small number of people know Wang Dafu's identity at present. He told me this because Wang Dafu and I already knew each other, and our team is the main force of the nine tomb missions.
I asked Senior Brother Geng, besides us, are there anyone else involved in the nine tombs?
Senior Brother Geng shook his head and said that our actions are highly confidential, and only a few senior executives of the organization knew our movements.
Now the problem has returned to the starting point. Everyone is suspected of who leaking our whereabouts, but the person who was directly in contact with Dawei and the others is the most suspected.
I said to Senior Brother Geng: "Senior Brother, I think it is necessary for us to check the people who are in contact with Dawei, but we can only investigate privately and not let the people in the organization know."
Senior Brother Geng seemed a little embarrassed: "This...is not very good. Besides, who will ask him to investigate?"
I thought about it and said, "I can only let Senior Brother Bao take action. Now is an extraordinary period, so I have to use some extraordinary means."
Chapter completed!