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Chapter 27 The Python and the Accident

"Meng Tan, wake up!"

Meng Tan reluctantly opened his eyes, the heat source beside him was leaving him.

"What's the matter..." he asked, his voice was dazed when he just woke up, and at the same time, his body subconsciously rubbed against Xie Ran.

"Someone is coming this way." Xie Ran stood up and put on his clothes and said in a low tone. Meng Tan heard the unusualness in his words, so he got up to light the wax, but Xie Ran stopped him.

"Don't order!" He said, Meng Tan nodded, and began to put on his clothes in the dark, feeling a little uneasy, what's wrong?He didn't hear any voice, and always felt that something was wrong with Xie Ran.

After Meng Tan put on his clothes in twos and threes, he felt that the outside was getting brighter and brighter, and there were noises of footsteps.

"I see, they're in the temple!" said one woman.

"Sou, don't let these outsiders take that thing out!" A middle-aged man shouted.

Hearing this, Meng Tan nervously grabbed Xie Ran's sleeves. This group of people was obviously coming towards them. Soon, the voices of the masters came from outside, and they were arrested.

At the same time, Meng Tan saw that the door was kicked open, and two tall and rough farmers rushed in with torches.

"What are you doing!" Meng Tan shouted loudly, Xie Ran hugged him and made him quiet.

"Go out with them." Xie Ran whispered to Meng Tan.

All the masters gathered in the yard, most of them didn't even put on their clothes, surrounded by villagers, bustling, Meng Tan didn't expect that there were so many villagers in a village that seemed to be deserted during the day, but they Some of the expressions were indifferent and ruthless, some were fierce and crazy, and in this environment, they looked like evil spirits.

"We are just teachers. We passed by here and stayed overnight in the temple. I don't know where we have offended you. Please let me know." The oldest one among the masters said.

A middle-aged man walked out of the crowd, he looked at them and said: "Some of you have stolen the most important thing in our village, if you hand it over, we will naturally not do anything to you, if not, then don't blame us, you are welcome .”

After finishing speaking, the villagers raised the weapons in their hands, and the master's face was serious. It's not that they don't know that troublesome people come out of poor mountains and rivers, but it's the first time they have encountered such a situation, which makes people who are good at talking but not using hands The wives were all dumbfounded.

Meng Tan leaned on Xie Ran and asked secretly: "Xie Ran, why didn't you make a move?"

Xie Ran bowed his head: "Do you think I can beat hundreds of people by myself with a group of literati?"

Xie Ran's words made Meng Tan realize his innocence, but although he was afraid, with Xie Ran around, he would not panic.

"Village chief, no!" A young man led a group out of their house.

The middle-aged man looked at them coldly and shouted: "Whoever takes it, hand it over!"

"Hand over it!"

"Hand it over!" The villagers collectively shouted, their voices shaking the sky.

"We don't even know anything, what do you ask us to pay?"

"That's right, we've only been here for a day, and we didn't even know the way, how could we possibly take your things."

The madness of the villagers made it impossible for the masters to sit still.

"Everything is gone as soon as you come here, who are you?" said an old peasant woman.

Xie Ran took a step forward and said: "What if it's your own people? Take advantage of us outsiders coming and stealing your things, and then blame us!"

His words were obviously provocative, but this simple provocation was very useful, and the villagers had already shown suspicious and defensive eyes.

"Don't talk nonsense! Village chief, you can't let them go!" the old woman said, and the others echoed.

The village chief nodded and said, "Dedicate them to the snake god."

After speaking, the villagers smiled strangely, especially the whole family. The joy on their faces could not be concealed at all. He said to himself: "Great, my son is saved, my son is saved."

The masters were driven to the mountain by them. Behind a huge stone tablet, there was a mountain gate. The village chief opened the gate, and the gate was dark. The villagers showed fearful eyes, and they drove Meng Tan and the others in.

Meng Tan grabbed Xie Ran tightly, Xie Ran squeezed his hand, Xie Qiao stepped forward, took out the fire pocket and asked.

"Young master, what shall we do?"

Xie Ran took the fire folder in his hand, approached the wall, stretched out his hand, the fire folder touched the wall, the wall immediately lit up, and the flame spread to the distance, and everyone realized that this was a tomb passage, and there were filled with fire on the wall. Channels for kerosene.

"The mountain gate is tightly closed, but the flames are bright, so there must be a place for ventilation." Zhang Chengxue said, and everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't be too happy, that scumbag mentioned what kind of snake god is feeding us, maybe that exit is the old nest of that snake god." Wen An said, biting his nails. Ever since he was caught, he had been extremely irritable. He bullies people, no matter where he has been bullied, when he goes out, he will lead people to wipe out the village.

"Let's go forward first!" Xie Ran said, the others had no objection, they had no idea when they suddenly encountered such a clueless thing.

Meng Tong approached his young master, tremblingly said: "Master, could there be ghosts here?" He was most afraid of these things.

"Bah, don't talk nonsense." Meng Tan said this, feeling a little scared himself.

They traveled along the way, encountered many side roads, and encountered nothing other than that.

"Let's take a break first." Someone suggested.

So they stopped, with a gloomy expression and no words. Meng Tan wanted to lean against the wall, but he fell back as soon as he leaned against it. He jumped in, followed by Xie Qiao.

"Senior brother!" Zhang Chengxue ran over, but the door on the wall was closed and could not be opened again.

Meng Tan and the others fell into a dark place along a road. Xie Ran grabbed him at the right time to prevent him from falling. Xie Qiao was fine with martial arts. The worst was Meng Tong, who landed on his buttocks. , screaming in pain, and didn't get up for a long time.

"This—" Meng Tan wanted to ask where it was, but Xie Ran covered his mouth, and soon he heard the sound of something rubbing against the ground.

Suddenly, the whole place lit up. It turned out that Meng Tong followed Xie Ran's method and lit the kerosene in the channel.

"Xie Qiao!" Xie Ran roared, Xie Qiao threw Meng Tong away immediately, and then a huge object hit the wall, and they saw clearly that it was a giant black python. If Xie Qiao hadn't thrown Meng Tong away, Tong, I'm afraid he has been eaten by now.

Meng Tan fell silent in shock, slipped his feet and immediately pulled Xie Ran back to him. There were many bones on the ground, including human bones and various animals, which were almost piled up like a mountain.

They finally knew what the snake spirit in the villagers' mouths was. The giant black python moved and opened its mouth wide, with mucus dripping from its sharp teeth, as if it had seen delicious food.

"Thank you...Xie Ran..." Meng Tan couldn't stop shaking his legs.

The next moment the giant python attacked, Xie Ran drew out his sword, hugged Meng Tan and hid there, the sword cut across the python's skin without leaving a trace.

"Find a place to hide." Xie Ran said to Meng Tan, and Meng Tan hid behind a coffin. Over there, Meng Tong stopped being frightened and stood motionless. While the giant python was not paying attention, he ran over and stuffed the person into a hidden place.

Xie Ran, master and servant, focused on dealing with the giant python, Meng Tan was anxious, he had already discovered that the sword had no effect on the giant python's skin.

"What should I do? What should I do?" Meng Tan looked around, but there were only piles of white bones and the excrement of giant pythons around.

Among the two wrestling with the giant python, Xie Qiao lost his strength.

"Master, don't blind its eyes!" Xie Qiao shouted.

After hearing this, Xie Ran directly denied: "This is underground, it will go crazy if you are blind, there is no guarantee that this place will not collapse."

Just when several people were about to despair, Meng Tong rushed out suddenly, holding a bunch of things in his hand.

"Master Xie, use this!" he shouted.

Xie Ran saw that it was the shedding skin of a giant python, so he called out "Xie Qiao", and Xie Qiao immediately understood.

The two picked up the long molted skin, one on each side, jumped up and directly wrapped around the giant python's head, then switched to the opposite side, strangled the giant python vigorously, the giant python struggled for a long time, and finally became silent.

As the saying goes, overcome strength with rigidity, and weaknesses must always be found from the source.

"Are you okay!" Meng Tan ran to Xie Ran, Xie Ran shook his head.

Gathering their minds, they walked to the place where the giant python was entrenched at first, and there was a golden coffin here.

"This is the golden coffin that Zhang Chengxue said, isn't it opened?" Meng Tan asked while looking at the golden coffin.

"It was opened, they took out the contents, and put it back in order to appease the giant python." Xie Ran said.

Meng Tan was puzzled, how did Xie Ran know, just as he was about to ask, he found that Xie Ran had knocked on the wall in front of the golden coffin, turned the oil lamp around, and the ground moved, the wall split into two, forming two doors, open in front of them.

"No wonder, there is already a tank for kerosene here, so why is it unnecessary to install oil lamps." Meng Tanruo realized something.

The four of them walked in, and there was light shining down from above, and there was a plank road along the mountain wall.

"It's the exit!" Meng Tong said happily.

But he was not happy for too long, but Xie Ran's master and servant had a problem. Meng Tan saw Xie Ran holding his head with one hand, and the soft sword fell to the ground. It's the same.

"Here... was drugged." Xie Ran frowned and said with restraint.

"Why are Meng Tong and I okay?" Meng Tan supported Xie Ran to sit in the corner, and Meng Tong also supported Xie Qiao to sit on the other side.

"It's only aimed at people with internal strength." Xie Ran grabbed his clothes, revealing a large chest, and Meng Tan put his hand on it to try, it was very hot.

"I'll go find an antidote!" Meng Tan couldn't watch Xie Ran's accident, so Xie Ran grabbed him.

"It's useless, it's too late, help me to a place where they can't see." Xie Ran hurriedly finished speaking, the clarity in his eyes was losing.

Without even thinking about it, Meng Tan went behind a dead tree with him, but then he heard Meng Tong's shout.

"Let me go... don't..."

Meng Tan couldn't see what was going on with them, and was about to get up, but was pushed down by Xie Ran. Meng Tan was thrown into a daze, and his world was spinning for a moment. When he saw clearly, Xie Ran's eyes were red and he was about to lose his mind.

"Hurry up!" Xie Ran struggled.

Meng Tan didn't understand, wanted to get up, and when he bent his legs, he realized that something was wrong.

"Does it need that to detoxify?" Meng Tan asked, Xie Ran had already lowered his head and began to bite him, but Meng Tan was not willing at all.

"Master, save me... ah..."

Meng Tong's cry made Meng Tan struggle, but the irrational Xie Ran pressed it down. Looking at the sky above, Meng Tan shed tears in despair, experiencing a dilemma for the first time.

[The author has something to say]: Forgive this month for the bad taste of the two masters and servants breaking their sleeves together.If you like it, please collect comments and communicate more this month!