Chapter Thirty-One: A Scheme Within A Scheme

  For the entire day, Fu Chuan couldn't think of a way to re-enter Shiyin Village. The village was now surrounded by a green eerie aura that only allowed exit, not entry. If one were to force their way in, they would likely be possessed by the aura and become like the mindless zombies outside.

  As for the dog hole that Xing Chengtian crawled through last time, in the thick fog, Fu Chun had already lost his position and couldn't find it anymore. Now, Fu Chun has been staying in the inn all day, and everyone in the inn is extremely cautious, not even daring to make a sound while walking around, for fear of being discovered by the zombies outside.

  Fu Chuan called over San Yang and told him to grind the cinnabar blocks he had brought into powder. "It's time to make some cinnabar bullets," Fu Chuan said.

  After Fuhe took over as the leader, in addition to inheriting the family business of the Fu family, he also improved many of the family's magical artifacts. Cinnabar can exorcise demons and drive out ghosts, which is very useful for driving out spirits. However, every time it is used, it must be drawn on yellow paper, which is very troublesome. Therefore, Fuhe created cinnabar bullets. As long as the cinnabar bullets are loaded into a gun and fired accurately, they are very effective and also very convenient.

  Three lambs imitated, sat on the ground and started doing it. Fu Chuan bit his finger and dripped blood into the bowl. San Yang asked: "Master, what is this for?"

  "It's useful, never mind, just continue." Fu Chuan's intention was simple. The blood in his body was the blood of the Fu family, the orthodox blood of Mao Shan. A few drops in cinnabar would enhance the effect of driving out demons and ghosts.

  "Master, I don't know if Master Shu has gone down the mountain yet?" San Yang cautiously glanced at Fu Chuan, who didn't respond and instead calmly took out a cigarette. Seeing that Fu Chuan wasn't speaking or scolding him, San Yang's courage grew, "Master Shu is just a woman, going down the mountain alone, who knows what might happen? Master, yesterday Master Shu cried so sadly, you didn't see her like that."

  Fu Chuan's heart suddenly ached, but he still didn't speak. Fu Chuan remained silent, and San Yang felt that continuing to talk alone was meaningless, so he also stopped speaking. At this time, Xing Chengtian walked over. Xing Chengtian had spent the whole day in the hotel studying the book about ancient India that Li Baobao gave him before leaving. The book contained a table comparing ancient Indian texts with modern texts, which was not extensive but sufficient to help Xing Chengtian.

  Those untranslated texts were all copied by Xing Chengtian on the stone wall, and he had been translating these texts for a whole day. When he walked in front of Fu Chuan, Xing Chengtian said to Fu Chuan: "Her lover was killed, and she wants to revive her loved one, so she must have a woman's soul exchange with the underworld."

  "It is recorded on the stone wall like this."

  Fuhe shook his head and said, "There is no woman to exchange with the underground Yan Wang." Xing Chengtian knew what he meant. "Yes, Baobao has left, Baobao was the only useful person, but have you forgotten? There were people in the inn before."

  Fu Chuan knew he was talking about Xing Chen and the others, "They all became zombies outside." San Yang said at this time: "Then will it catch up with Master Shu?"

  Fukawa looked out of the window in shock.

  Fu Chuan couldn't understand why he couldn't summon the spirit of Fifth Uncle, and when he was casting his spell, a very strong force was blocking him. Xing Chengtian asked: "How is it? Can't you summon it?"

  Fujiang shook his head, now they could only hope to summon the soul of Fifth Uncle, and they had to know what was going on in the village.

  Fu Xiang was worried about Li Baobao and wanted to force his way in, but he was stopped by Xing Chengtian. Xing Chengtian told him that forcing his way in now would be suicidal, and besides, they didn't even know if Li Baobao had really been taken away.

  Fu Chuan was in such a hurry because he had already called the airline to ask if there was anyone named Li Baobao who had bought a ticket to fly to C market, and the airline's answer was no.

  Li Bao didn't get on the plane, and Fu Chuan naturally became uneasy. Given Li Bao's temperament, she should have gotten on the plane and gone home long ago, regardless of whether Fu Chuan lived or died. But she hadn't, so Fu Chuan grew even more worried in his heart.

  Fu Xiang recalled an incident from his past, when he was young and accompanied his master to Jiangxi to catch ghosts. At that time, he and his master were trapped, but later managed to escape using the Earth Escape Technique.

  However, Fu Chuan was not good at escaping techniques, or rather, his skills were not yet refined.

  Fujiang couldn't break through to get the demon energy, he really wanted to use Xunxiao, but Xunxiao's magical power was too strong, and he was afraid that in the end, even Li Baobao would be harmed.

  Xing Chengtian asked Fu Chuan: "How did you get from the stockade to the cave? Actually, we can try going back to the stockade from the cave."

  "Are you saying we go back the same way?"

  Xing Chengtian nodded, "Perhaps this is the way we can enter the village, we blew up another entrance, the road in is intact, as long as we can reach the bottom of the cave smoothly, there will be opportunities."

  Fuhe also thought that Xing Chengtian's method was the only one now, he agreed with Xing Chengtian's idea, so they decided to set out overnight.

  The savage blocked their way, drawing gestures with his hands that they didn't understand. It was only later that they realized he didn't want to let them go to their deaths, as the place was very dangerous and had many zombies.

  Fu Chuan said that the walking corpse was nothing to be afraid of and was easy to deal with. Xing Chengtian also staked everything on this, Fu Chuan pushed away the wild man and asked him if he would go with them to rescue people.

  They did not force the savage, but in the end the savage still followed them and climbed up the waterfall again along that small path in the forest when night fell.

  The cave has been occupied by the undead, and the original skeletons inside have also been awakened by an unknown force, guarding the cave. The passage is on the left, and they must use a rope to climb up, but there are many undead in the cave, so they can only climb quietly.

  Fu Xiang came up with a plan, he drew four talismans and stuck them on their backs. These were invisibility charms that only lasted for ten minutes, so they had to climb up to the entrance within those ten minutes.

  When they struggled to climb up, the wild man had already taken a step ahead of them and climbed up first. He had very strong climbing ability, and this height was nothing for someone who had been living in the wilderness for a long time.

  But at this moment, the talisman on San Yang's back fell off, and he appeared in front of Xing Shi. Xing Shi was grabbing San Yang at the entrance of the cave, and San Yang couldn't escape. Fu Chuan flipped over and jumped down, but there were too many corpses for him to handle. Xing Tian was also struggling to pull the rope. At this moment, Ye Ren jumped down and held up Fu Chuan and San Yang. The two of them stepped on the rotten holes on the stone wall and went up with difficulty. Fu Chuan turned around and stretched out his hand towards Ye Ren, but Ye Ren had already been dragged away by the corpses to a place far from the entrance of the cave. Ye Ren kept shouting at them to roll, which was something he learned from Fu Chuan scolding Li Baobao.

  Fu Xiang endured the guilt in his heart and led others forward. San Yang asked, "Master, are you going to let him go?"

  Fu Chuan didn't speak, but instead Xing Chengtian told San Yang to stop talking. The wild man saved them, making Fu Chuan feel guilty in his heart. If San Yang continued asking like this, Fu Chuan wouldn't know if he would return to kill him quickly, and by then it would be too late to save even one person.

  They arrived at the bottom of the sky well, above which a green mist floated by, and this was the passage leading to the village.

  Fu Chuan let them go up first and also gave two red sand guns to San Yang and Xing Chengtian. He said, "If you encounter any danger when you go up, this can help you resist for a while."

  This is just buying insurance, in fact, after Fu Chuan and the three of them climbed up to the attic and arrived at the village smoothly, nothing happened, and the village was very quiet, as if it had never been inhabited before. The three of them wandered aimlessly in the village, but gained nothing.

  Fuhe felt that something was amiss, so he stopped in his tracks and asked Xing Chengtian, "These past few days, it should have known we were staying at the inn. Why didn't it control the zombies to attack the inn? Instead, people with us at the inn were safe and sound, but those zombies you discovered hadn't been around for days, wandering outside instead. But today, when we came out, except for the zombies in the cave, everywhere else seemed clean."

  "What do you mean by that?" Xing Chengtian asked, he didn't quite understand Fu Chuan's meaning, was he intentionally diverting their attention?

  Fu Chuan didn't know what he wanted to express, his mind was too messy. But the events of the past few days were too calm, abnormally calm, which made Fu Chuan think deeply about it. After all, that thing had always been extremely cunning. "These days, it has been diverting our attention, and we've been thinking about how to get into the village. But with such a strong evil aura outside, even if we rack our brains, we can't get in. In fact, this is the trap it set for us."

  "After entering the village, we didn't see a single soul," said Fu Chuan.

  Xing Chengtian nodded, and suddenly a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. He exclaimed: "It's actually been letting us walk out by ourselves all along. We've completely wasted our time in the cave. In fact, it's always been in the village, waiting for Li Baobao to leave the forest."

  "Right."

  Fuhe suddenly thought of something and shouted loudly: "It's bad, the altar!" The altar was where Fuhe had rolled into the well at first.

  In the thick fog, Fu Chuan parted the grass and found that Li Baobao had already been taken halfway to the village. She was tied up on a cross-shaped frame, wearing a bright red garment wrapped around her entire body, and her consciousness seemed extremely unclear.

  A man wearing black tattered clothes stood on the altar, and it wasn't until he turned around that Chuan川 saw his face clearly. Half of his face was like withered wood, and his tongue could be seen clearly through those rotten holes, but the rest of him was intact.

  It should be the great wizard who just revealed his true identity, Fuchuan covered his eyes with a yuzu leaf and then opened them again. He didn't see any soul on the great wizard's body, indeed it was a soulless corpse.

  "Come out!"

  At this moment, the man let out a loud roar towards the thicket, and Fu Chuan felt as if he was about to be blown away by a gust of evil wind. Fu Chuan could only jump out from the grass thicket.

  "Monster! Grandfather is here!" Fu Chuan raised his head and gave the great witch a provocative look, then jumped in front of Li Baobao. Just as he was about to untie Li Baobao, someone behind him pointed a finger, and Fu Chuan flew out tens of meters, landing on the ground with fresh blood spilling from his mouth.