Ancient Country Returns to Ruins: Strange News from the Western Regions

  I was suddenly filled with black lines, I wanted to say a sentence, you bastard has been dead for so long, but looking at the beauty's face, I still endured. I straightened my back and said: "Beautiful girl, I breathe evenly, my heartbeat is normal, which one of me looks like a dead person?"

  Yang Cangcang looked at me with a suspicious gaze, her mouth constantly making a hissing sound like a snake spitting out its tongue. This was not the first time I had heard this sound. Suddenly, I recalled a dream I had before coming to Xiyu, in my dormitory. A blue-faced man took me into the palace, he turned around and made such a sound, only at that time it seemed like someone in my mind was translating, he said: "You're finally back."

  I immediately realized that this hissing sound must be a language, but when Yang Cangcang spoke it out, I couldn't understand it at all. Could she be in cahoots with the blue-faced man? This girl's skin was as white as snow, didn't seem like it?

  I was thinking, Yang Cang couldn't help but ask: "How come you're not reacting? Did I see it wrong?"

  I stared at her in a daze: "Sister, what reaction do you want me to have?" Then I imitated her and hissed for half a day, "Is this the reaction you want?"

  Yang Cangcang gave me a sideways glance: "Shh, don't be like that, just pretend I made a mistake."

  Lao San's eyebrows danced with excitement as he looked at me and said: "This little girl is absolutely not a fool, she even knows your sister."

  "You think everyone looks like a fool." I'm too lazy to bother with Lao San, looking at his sly appearance, no less than Xiao Lao.

  Yang Cangcang seemed to suddenly remember something, looking at Fu Ma said: "Hey, that piercing-eyed handsome guy, are you feeling numb all over, dizzy in the head? Your piercing eyes will probably close soon. Someone who has been poisoned by a human-faced scorpion for so long and still can hold on, his consciousness is quite firm." Fu Ma seemed to have fainted, I poked him several times but he didn't respond.

  Karamay slapped his thigh: "Ah, right! The venom of this human-faced centipede will turn people into zombies. That person in our village was bitten by it and only eats corpses."

  "And it's a golden scorpion, you guys are really something, afraid that the scorpion isn't poisonous enough?" Yang Cangcang said with disdain.

  "Miss, since you've said so, do you know the way to resolve this? Please enlighten us, old man Xiao and others will be eternally grateful."

  Yang Cang sighed and said: "If it were just a human-faced scorpion, I would have a way to deal with it. Now this golden-scaled human-faced scorpion is probably not something my ancestors can handle, unfortunately he died many years ago. Besides, distant water cannot put out the fire nearby, luckily this handsome guy has feelings and righteousness, previously when encountering other people they only knew how to scramble to escape, in the end they all became a pile of white bones, otherwise I wouldn't have saved you guys."

  Xiao Lao rolled his eyes and stared at the flute Yang Cangcang had blown before, saying: "Miss, are you a descendant of the Xuan clan?"

  Yang Cangcang seemed slightly astonished: "Oh, you old man know quite a lot, no wonder this team brought someone with combat power as low as yours. Not bad, I am indeed from the Xuan tribe."

  Karamay suddenly shook: "It's actually the Xuan tribe, sorry about that. That girl can just save Ma Fu."

  Yang Cangcang gave him a slanted glance and said, "You can tell by looking at my age that I'm not capable of controlling the Golden Scaled Human Scorpion. If you want to blame someone, blame yourselves."

  Several people fell silent for a long time, and I looked at Fu Ma's face turning from yellow to green. I really felt like the most incompetent person in the world. Suddenly, Xiao Lao lifted his head and broke the silence: "Miss, if your blood is added to his, there might be a way to cure him." Xiao Lao pointed at me.

  Yang Cangcang furrowed her brow and looked at me: "He?"

  Xiao Lao nodded: "Time is pressing, no time to explain to the girl, let's treat a dead horse as if it were alive."

  Xiao Lao took out a water bottle from his backpack, unscrewed the cap and handed it to me saying: "Jun Yang, drip your blood into this." I didn't think much of it either, took out the knife Wu Zihan gave me and made a small cut on my left hand, filling half the bottle with blood. Xiao Lao then handed it to Yang Cangcang saying: "Thank you, Miss Cangcang." Yang Cangcang was also very straightforward, smoothly cutting her finger and squeezing out a few drops of blood. What's strange is that both mine and her blood were red in color, but after mixing together, they turned light blue.

  "As expected." Xiao Lao looked at us with satisfaction. Yang Cangcang and I were both shocked.

  Xiao Lao quickly gave the light blue medicine to Fu Ma to drink, and after a few minutes, Fu Ma's face slightly improved, and he gradually became more alert. "How do you feel?" I asked.

  Fu Ma nodded weakly and said in a low voice: "Much better." The rest of us also breathed a sigh of relief.

  Lao San looked at Xiao Lao and asked: "What's going on? Did Red turn blue? I'm done, my chemistry was taught by a physical education teacher."

  Xiao Lao pretended to be mysterious, smiling but not answering. Yang Cangcang was an impatient person and looked at Xiao Lao saying: "Old man, can you please say it? Otherwise, the young lady will let a centipede bite your face."

  Xiao Lao hastily waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it, actually I didn't have full confidence either, just trying with an attitude of giving it a try. Miss used the Jiaowei flute to save us, the Jiaowei flute is a treasured heirloom passed down through the Xuan clan, and the bloodline of the Xuan clan is the natural enemy of the human-faced scorpion."

  "What's with the Xuan family?" I chimed in.

  Yang Cangcang gave me a white eye: "It's your ancestor." I was suddenly choked and speechless.

  Xiao Lao chuckled and said, "Cang Cang young lady, Jun Yang's friend has little contact with the spiritual world and knows very little about it. Please forgive him. The Xuan tribe is a branch of the ancient divine tribe, and it is said that they have a deep connection with bats. They have night vision eyes, and the Huo Wei flute is their treasured heirloom. Whoever obtains this flute becomes the leader of the tribe."

  "Blazing Tail Flute?" Lao San's eyes lit up as he stared at the flute in Yang Cang's hand. The flute was made of a white material that couldn't be identified, with six holes on it, and its tail had a segment that seemed to have been charred, forming a strong contrast with the white flute.

  "It was this flute that, legend has it, came from the corpse of Nü Gui. " Xiao Lao said to Yang Cangcang, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that Nü Gui's corpse was born and killed by fire after ten days. After being cremated, everything else turned to ash, but this flute remained, with only the lower half burnt. This flute is naturally divine, and its power varies depending on who plays it."

  Karamay stared at Yang Cangcang without speaking, suddenly breaking the silence: "The Xuan tribe has not appeared for a long time, I don't know why you would appear here?"

  "Being able to gather so many extraordinary talents, I'm afraid you're from the Hidden Bureau, aren't you? How are Director Zheng and Deputy Director Zhou doing?" Yang Cangcang asked with narrowed eyes.

  "Director Zheng? Now it's Mother Director?" I replied, and for some reason, when mentioning Mother Director, Karamay subconsciously glanced at me.

  "Mother Director? It seems I've been trapped in this scorpion's lair for too long." Yang Cangcang looked a bit dejected.

  "Is the Deputy Director Zhou you're referring to Zhou Yuanzhi? He's the grandfather of Junyang's little friend." asked Old Xiao, furrowing his brow.

  Yang Cangcang was shocked at first, then burst out laughing: "I finally understand, it seems there's hope for going out, I've been trapped here for a long time."

  "Are you trapped here? Were you also a member of the underground organization before? There's no food here either, how did you survive?" Lao San asked with furrowed eyebrows.

  "Why are you trapped in this, it's not what you should be asking, the power of this ear chamber is not something ordinary people can break, and as for food, isn't there a bunch of scorpions all over the ground?" Yang Cangcang said impatiently.

  Lao San's throat seemed to be choked with something: "Scorpion? That thing that can kill people, you're eating it?"

  Yang Cangcang hummed: "This handsome guy, have you eaten dog meat?" Lao San nodded, "That thing eats shit too, didn't you eat it too?" Lao San slipped away to hide behind me and stopped talking.

  Xiao Lao looked at Lao San with a sly smile, and immediately became serious again: "Cang Cang girl, didn't you just say that going out would be hopeful? What's the matter?"

  Yang Cangcang looked me up and down with her green eyes, making my heart feel hairy. She said: "Isn't he the grandson of Old Zhou's family? Although I don't know what connection there is between them, but just now he used the ancient country's residual soul stone statue to purify a room full of dark mist, can't he just use his spiritual power to open the door again?"

  "How does it start?" My husband's monk was at a loss.

  Yang Cangcang looked at me with a bit of anger, but Xiao Lao immediately smoothed things over: "Miss Yang, you don't know the situation - Junyang's friend has been sealed by the Raksha curse and his spiritual power is blocked."

  "What's so special about your Zhou family, even the Luosha Ghost Curse can be driven away? This ghost curse can only be lifted when the person who cast it dies, but there is no absolute way to lift it. I can weaken the sealing power of the ghost curse, but you'll only have one chance and it will bring unknown harm to you. Do you want to try?" Yang Cangcang looked at me with a provocative gaze.

  Fu Ma's complexion had improved a lot, although with Yang Cangcang around there was no need to worry about the human-faced scorpion, it wasn't a long-term solution. Everyone was staring at me in unison, waiting for my decision. I nodded and said: "Let's decide then, let's start."

  Yang Cangcang looked at me and smiled slightly, "What's coming next might be a bit painful, you must hold on." She said to me, I hummed in response.

  Yang Cangcang first chanted in front of the stone statue of King Daisu for half a day, possibly some kind of spell. She drew a hexagon on the ground with her own blood and had me draw a circle around the hexagon with my blood as well. We sat together at the center of this pattern, and I suddenly felt like this scene was similar to Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl practicing the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra. Hmm! I'm getting worse again!

  Cui Cui chanted a few more spells, then started blowing the scorched tail flute. Two golden scaly human-faced scorpions slowly crawled over, she dripped her own blood onto the scorpions, and then those two scorpions began crawling towards me. Scared, I stood up ready to run, but she quickly pressed down on me saying: "It's okay, their venom can weaken the spell, hurry."

  Xiao Lao turned pale with fright: "You want to use the Soul Devouring Curse, no way, stop right now." Xiao Lao was about to rush in, but was held back by Kalamayi, who shook her head and said: "Let her try, don't go and disturb her."

  Suddenly, he felt his heart racing wildly, and his body was gradually filled with strength. The stone statue of the King of Daxiu began to shake violently. Yang Cangcang suddenly opened her eyes and shouted: "You're actually a Raksha ghost!" Then she spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted.