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

  Fu Ma tried to get Ah Quan to dodge the beast's fangs, and immediately pushed her away. Ah Quan's father moved extremely quickly, and before Ah Quan could even react, he bit down. After biting, he seemed to have lost all his strength, and lay back down on the ground.

  The horse rushed to Ah Quan's side, and that one bite was on the neck, only a little blood came out, and even the wound couldn't be found.

  "Are you okay?" Fu Ma asked with concern.

  A Qiu shook her head and ran to her father's side, crying and shaking his body vigorously: "Father, what's wrong with you? Wake up!"

  "Hurry up and pull A Qiang: 'Danger! Let's figure out what's going on.'"

  Xiao carefully placed his right hand in front of the noses of those people, holding a gun with his left hand, ready to be attacked at any time. He opened their eyes and took a look, saying: "Except for Karamay, they should all be dead, and also controlled by something."

  As soon as this was said, A Quan burst into loud wailing, and Lao San ran to Kelamayi's side, calling out for half the day without waking him up, looking at Xiao Lao in confusion.

  "Breathing evenly, heartbeat steady, should just be fainted." Old Xiao said.

  "Why is Karamay the only one that's fine?" I asked in surprise.

  "This, I'm afraid only he can tell us what happened when he wakes up." Xiao Lao sighed, "Niangzi, stop crying, if you need any help in the future, come find Uncle Xiao."

  A Qian cried almost to the point of fainting, Fu Ma supported A Qian to a place leaning against the wall and let her sit down to calm her emotions.

  Xiao Lao moved his mouth, as if he wanted to say something to us. Fu Ma waved his hand: "Don't say anything, I can be sure she's fine, her heartbeat is normal." He looked at Ah Quan in the corner with a sympathetic gaze, who was almost collapsing.

  Lao San's gaze was fixed on the figure with its back to us, he tiptoed quietly closer to the figure, as if afraid of being discovered. When he reached the front of the figure, suddenly, Lao San froze in place, motionless, like a statue.

  I found something was wrong with Lao San, so I quickly patted Xiao Lao and Fu Ma: "Lao San——" I shouted loudly, but Lao San didn't react at all. We immediately ran over to him.

  Lao San's whole body was stiff, his eyes didn't even blink. I turned to Fu Ma: "What's wrong with Lao San?"

  Fu Ma frowned: "Lao San seems to have entered some kind of illusion."

  I raised my head to look at the figure, and suddenly felt a thud in my heart. The figure seemed to be a woman with brown hair that was very long. She appeared to be wrapped in an animal hide, only exposing her two arms, with skin that was light blue, just like the blue-faced person I dreamed of that night, which also earned me a round of ridicule from Old Fourth. The woman's face was covered by a golden fox-shaped mask, making it impossible to discern her true features.

  "Xiao Lao, could this woman be a rice dumpling?" Fu Ma asked. Xiao Lao seemed to be deep in thought and didn't answer immediately.

  "Ma Ge, this big sister has been wrapped up like this, can she still become a zongzi?" I was about to go and remove the mask to see what kind of face an ancient person had.

  Xiao Lao shook his head and stopped me with a hand: "Be careful, there's trickery!"

  "It's either human or ghost, we have to face it." I said to Lao San who was as still as a statue, Xiao Lao released his hand and held his breath, staring at the woman's face.

  My hand trembled slightly as it touched the mask, and it fell off by itself. I immediately gasped in shock, staring blankly at the woman, unsure of what to do.

  The woman's face was also pale blue, very terrifying, her eye sockets were large, staring at us with a pair of green eyes. The woman seemed to have no eyelids, like a goldfish, both eyes protruded out, looking very frightening.

  "Did ancient women all look like this? Or... or are modern women better." My upper and lower lips started trembling, and I couldn't speak smoothly.

  Fu Ma narrowed his eyes: "Why do I feel like this woman's eyes were put on afterwards?"

  "The heroes see things similarly, you lift up Xiao You, looking at the female corpse's eye sockets are very uneven, before death she should have been dug out of her eyes and then installed with these blue eyes, only... " Xiao Lao suddenly seemed to think of something, constantly using his sleeve to wipe away sweat from his face.

  "What's that?"

  "I've heard that a thousand-year-old fox's eyes will be green, could it be that these eyes are..."

  Suddenly, the green-eyed female corpse's eyes seemed to roll up, scaring us several people to hastily retreat backwards, with Fuma shouting loudly.

  "What's wrong, Ma Ge!" I looked at Fu Ma anxiously.

  He shook his head like a madman, "Impossible - impossible - impossible!"

  Xiao Lao raised his hand and slapped Fu Ma a loud slap, "Big eyes, calm down, what's wrong with you?"

  Fu Ma finally calmed down in a daze, he looked at us with an unbelievable gaze: "Impossible!" He turned his back to us, rolled up his clothes with his hand, revealing the back of his waist. I and Xiao Lao were shocked at the same time, Fu Ma's eyes on his lower back had closed unknowingly.

  "It's impossible, it seems out of my control now, I can't hear anything."

  I was just about to persuade Fu Ma, but found that the female corpse stared at us with her bulging green eyes in the huge eye sockets, Xiao Lao and Fu Ma immediately became like Lao San, stiffened there like a statue. The female corpse's mouth turned left, revealing a terrifying smile. A Quan squatted in the corner of the wall, looking at us coldly with a gloomy face.

  Suddenly, the room was filled with white mist, and the mist floated around me and the green-eyed female corpse. From the wall hole where we just entered, another old three, Fu Ma and Xiao Lao walked in. I looked at the statues of the three of them around me and suddenly became dizzy.

  The corner's A Qiang gave me a sly smile, and immediately changed his expression, with tears in his eyes, pitifully rushing towards them: "Where did you guys go, why did you leave me here by myself?"

  Fu Ma quickly helped A Quan wipe away her tears: "Just now I had a dream, in the dream a green-eyed female corpse was staring at us several people, and suddenly woke up with a fright, only to find that the three of us don't know when we fell asleep on the eaves, A Quan how did you end up here?"

  "I fell asleep just now too, and then..."

  "Ah Juan, have you seen my second brother?" Lao San's expression was very anxious.

  "Ah, nodded: "En, saw it, before we all fell asleep, I saw Brother Junyang get up and walk to the grave by himself, muttering 'I brought them here, can I go out now?' Don't know who he was talking to, I thought it was suspicious so I quietly followed him from behind."

  "Are you saying that Junyang's little friend is talking to himself?" Xiao Lao was somewhat perplexed.

  "Yes." A Qiang said resolutely, "Later, a door suddenly opened on the wall, and Jun Yang Ge walked in. I heard him say, 'The person has arrived, can he be let out now?'"

  "Who was he talking to? Did you see clearly?" Fu Ma asked in a hurry.

  "She is a very beautiful woman, somewhat like the Rakshasa queen in the mural." Ah Quan said thoughtfully.

  "Is Second Brother talking to the Rakshasa Queen? Did he deliberately bring us here?" said Third Brother in a tone of utter disbelief.

  "I don't know about that, but I heard the queen say that only one person can leave alive, and the rest have to stay in the tomb. Then they seemed to find me, and I wanted to run quickly, but I fainted. When I woke up, I saw you guys." A Chuan's whole body shivered with cold.

  When Ah Quan said that only one person could leave here alive, the three of them exchanged a strange glance.

  "I still don't believe it, is all of this a trap set by Jun Yang? Jun Yang isn't that kind of person." Fu Ma shook his head.

  "You can't see into someone's heart, and you can't hear their inner voice either. I've known Second Brother for so long, but he didn't know I was a mole, and I didn't know he was a man full of secrets."

  Xiao Lao suddenly broke the silence: "Jun Yang's little friend, Luo Ye Gui Shou's ghost hand chain is not something that ordinary people can control. At least it proves that his family has a deep connection with the Luo Ye Gui."

  "Jun Yang saved us under the Bodhi tree, everyone saw it with their own eyes. What's his purpose in bringing us here?" Fu Ma added emphasis to his tone.

  "Ahh... I remember! The queen said that if she eats a few more people, she can fully revive. And she also told Brother Junyang to hold onto the hand chain tightly, don't let it fall into someone else's hands, or else even the queen won't be able to protect him."

  Lao San threw the machete to the ground: "Damn it, this time we've been thoroughly outsmarted. I said why Lao Gui was so obedient to him, turns out he has the queen backing him up. Let's just wait for the queen to revive and be our pastry."

  Xiao Lao fell silent, and Fu Ma furrowed his brow: "I still don't believe it. Although I've known Jun Yang for a short time, even if I couldn't hear his heartbeat, I'd rather trust my own intuition."

  A Qiang suddenly burst into tears and said in a spoiled tone: "Fu Ma Gege, don't you believe me?" Fu Ma hurriedly tried to coax her.

  "Don't say it's useless, hurry up and find Zhou Junyang, getting his chain is the way to go." Lao San said indignantly.

  When I heard this, I roughly understood that the three of them must have been bewildered by the green-eyed female corpse and saw illusions. After Ah Quan was bitten by her father, she wasn't Ah Quan anymore. She sowed discord among us, wanting us to kill each other. The sentence "only one person can survive" made my whole body tremble. This move is really poisonous. Just now, when I heard Fu Ma's words, my heart felt warm. No matter what, there are still people who trust me. But this green-eyed female corpse wants to snatch my bracelet for some reason, leaving me puzzled.

  I struggled with all my might to break free and run over to them to explain, but it seemed like my whole body was not listening to me, only my mind was clear.

  "Several brothers, my father is already dead, I don't want to die here, let's go find Brother Junyang quickly." A Quan looked at everyone with tears in her eyes.

  Lao San said fiercely: "A Quan, don't worry, Dragon Brother is here."

  A'quan turned around and gave me a sly smile, instantly the fog around me began to disperse. Lao San rubbed his eyes and shouted: "Zhou Junyang?"