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Chapter 37 Bats

At the beginning of the new year, Chen Yao's wound has finally healed.

The little goddess still didn't come home, and Xu Xuan got impatient for a long time, and when Chen Yao recovered from his injury, he dragged him to the mountains.

Walking to the entrance of the village, Chen Yao took a fancy to a maroon horse and wanted to buy it, but Xu Wei hurriedly stopped him.

Xu Xuan: "I don't ride a horse."

"It's so far away, I don't want to run," Chen Yao didn't intend to get used to his faults, bought the horse, jumped on it, and stretched out his hand to pull Xu Xuan up, but Xu Zhen refused to say anything, and Chen Yao frowned She lowered her eyebrows, seeming a little displeased.

Seeing that he was about to get angry, Xu Xuan bit his lip and climbed onto the horse, feeling dizzy in front of his eyes, and gripped the saddle tightly with both hands.

"Don't be afraid, you'll be fine in a while," Chen Yao wrapped him in his arms, pinched the horse's belly with his legs, and the horse raised its front hooves and ran forward.

Chen Yao originally thought that Xu Zhen was just timid, thinking that he would get used to it after a while, but he underestimated Xu Zhen's fear of this kind of riding.

He pressed against Xu Xuan's back, freed up a hand to hold Xu Zhen's hand, feeling extremely cold.

"Xu Ming?"

"Don't, don't touch me..."

The horse was running to the side of the field, and suddenly felt a chill on its back, and the horse raised its front hooves in shock. Chen Yao grabbed the rope but couldn't restrain the horse. The horse seemed to be frightened by something, and kicked wildly. , as if to throw the person on his back out.

Chen Yao tugged at the reins, suddenly felt a burning sensation in his chest, and looked down to see a mass of purple-red flames emerging from Xu Ding's back.

"Xu Xuan!"

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The winter in Nanyuan is very short. After the Spring Festival, the days are getting warmer day by day. Xu Zhen suddenly woke up with sweat on his forehead and back. He looked out the window. Knowing that he had a nightmare.

He looked at Chen Yao, got up quietly, and slipped out of the room barefoot.

The early spring rain has not yet come, and the snow has melted away. The old trees in the yard have sprouted new buds, and the branches are shining with greenery, which is extraordinarily fresh.

When Chen Yao woke up, he felt that the bed beside him was already cold, and he didn't know when he left, so he felt a little confused.

He got up and put on his clothes, but found that Xu Zhen's shoes were still in the room, and felt even more inappropriate, so he ran out of the room in a hurry, the early morning sun was shining on the ground of the yard, he stretched out his hand to block it, and looked up at the tree.

Sure enough, the man fell asleep on the branch again.

He sighed, stood under the tree and called out softly. Xu Xuan woke up when he heard someone calling his name, turned over and jumped down, and fell to the ground as silently as snow.

"Why did you climb the tree again?" Chen Yao touched the clothes on Xu Zhen's body, and the thin single clothes were covered with dew, which made them feel damp and cold.

Xu Xuan shook his head, rubbed his eyes with his hand, turned around to avoid Chen Yao's hand, and ran back to the house.

Chen Yao felt inexplicable, hadn't he been fine these few nights, why did he suddenly want to avoid him again?

After Xu Xuan changed his clothes, he went to the back kitchen and took a few steamed buns and stuffed them into Chen Yao's hands, telling him to eat quickly. After eating, he went up to the mountain. He wanted to ask questions, but Xu Xuan stuffed the steamed buns into his mouth to keep him from talking. When he went out, he grabbed the "fly" that was spinning around.

"Xu Xuan! What are you doing? How did I provoke you again?"

"No," Xu Wei shook off Chen Yao's hand, bowed his head and thought for a while, and then ran under the tree to hold Mr.'s bamboo stick in his hand.

"What's the matter? Are you going to draw a line with me again? Why don't you give me a stick on the forehead?"

When Xu Xuan heard Chen Yao talk about the past, he suddenly felt embarrassed, quietly hid the bamboo stick behind his back, bowed his head and did not speak, as if he admitted his mistake when he was caught by his husband when he was a child.

Chen Yao couldn't see him like this, his tone softened, and he asked softly, "What's wrong?"

"I... I, I dreamed that you forced me to ride a horse..." Xu Xuan faltered with a blushing face, and stared at Chen Yao with grievances, as if Chen Yao really wanted to force him to ride a horse.

Hearing this explanation, Chen Yao really couldn't laugh or cry, stretched out his hand to pinch Xu Zhen's face, and scolded with a smile: "Are you still young?"

Xu Zhen just bowed his head and said nothing, he didn't dare to tell Chen Yao that there was still a restless evil fire in his body, he didn't know when that evil fire would come out out of control.

Just like at the Song family at that time, if the oil-paper umbrella hadn't stopped Chen Yao in time, the fire would have burned Chen Yao too.

"Okay, if you don't ride a horse, don't ride a horse. You're still losing your temper. How about I lead you a donkey?" Chen Yao didn't know what was going on in his mind, and he was happy to coax him as long as he was a child.

The way up the mountain is not far away, according to Xu Zhen's speculation, if the little goddess is in the mountain, no one can hurt her.

Xu Wei couldn't tell why, he just had an intuition that the little goddess was not in danger, otherwise he wouldn't have waited until the beginning of spring to find the little goddess.

Chen Yao, however, felt a faint sense of uneasiness, whether it was because of the little goddess or his mother, or it was from the demigod beside him who always kept him elusive.

In the beginning of spring, the mountain gods were busy with the rain and dew in the sky and the flowers on the ground. Xu Wei didn't intend to bother the other busy gods in the mountain, so he took a detour and found the cave where Chen Yao healed him at that time based on his impression.

There was a burning smell in the cave, Xu Zhen lit a piece of talisman paper, looked up at the dark cave roof, as if a fire had happened here once, and burned all the traces of their existence to these ashes.

Chen Yao walked up to the big rock and pushed hard, but couldn't push it.

"Take the sword and cut it," Xu Xuan glanced at the black lacquered stone, walked behind Chen Yao, drew out the sword in the umbrella, and the tip of the sword scratched a few sparks on the stone.

"Aren't you afraid of being hacked?"

"Otherwise you kick him with your feet?" Xu Xuan rolled his eyes at him, raised his sword and swung it down, only to hear a harsh scraping sound, the sword fell out of his hand and fell to the ground.

The long sword was unharmed, Xu Xuan covered his wrist, raised his foot and kicked on the big rock, the rock shook slightly, a crack opened in the middle, and the gap continued to split into smaller and denser cracks on both sides. It shattered and fell down.

Xu Xuan picked up the long sword, picked up the broken stones, and leaned over to get into the hole.

This time there was no blue will-o'-the-wisp to guide the way. The will-o-wisp summoned by Xu Zhen with the talisman was purple-red, jumping out of sparks.

Chen Yao took the sword and saw him rubbing his wrist, so he knew it was hurt when the sword was dropped just now, and asked him if he was better.

"It's okay," just as he was talking, he tripped over something. Fortunately, Chen Yao held his arm in time to prevent him from falling.

He lowered his head, saw that it was a thigh bone, and couldn't help but smiled wryly: "This can't be the bone that tripped you up last time, can it?"

But Chen Yao couldn't laugh. With the light of the will-o'-the-wisp, he felt that there seemed to be more rotting bones in the hole.

There is also a faint smell of corpses.

He raised his head and saw the bats' heads crowded against the top of the cave. He couldn't see his eyes clearly, and he probably wasn't woken up by the movement just now.

"Follow me," Xu Xuan sniffed and frowned, as if he had aimed at the target, he dragged him for a while, saw the stone platform next to him, and climbed up.

After climbing up the stone platform, the stench of corpses became even stronger. Chen Yao couldn't help covering his mouth and nose, but Xu Wei picked the bamboo pole in his hand towards the black figure in the center of the stone platform.

The black shadow turned around, and a dozen bats suddenly flew out of the black shadow, and they were about to charge towards them. Chen Yao quickly opened the paper umbrella and held Xu Zhen in his arms.

"It's okay," Xu Xuan broke free, and the will-o'-the-wisp who was following them stretched out a wing, covered it in front of the paper umbrella, and roasted all the bats that hit it, until they fell to the ground and were still emitting black smoke.

Xu Xuan stepped forward and used a bamboo pole to pick apart the black shadow's clothes. It was a man who had been eaten by bats until only half of his face remained.

There were marks of will-o'-the-wisp burns on the man's face. Chen Yao felt sick and covered his mouth and nose. He only intended to take a look, but he didn't expect this face to be so familiar, so he couldn't help but tremble.

"What's the matter? Do you know each other?"

From the beginning to the end, we know each other. This is the old domestic servant who has taken care of Chen Yao since he was a child. He used to be with his mother all the time. Later, when his mother passed away, this old domestic servant was the only one who was willing to take care of his unlucky son.

Xu Zhen didn't know any old servants, so he squatted down and stretched out his hands to untie the clothes on the corpse's chest. As expected, there was the same piercing wound as Mr. Wang's on the chest.

He was examining the corpse, when the will-o'-the-wisp seemed to go out suddenly, he raised his head, and was taken aback.

"Chen Yao, Chen Yao," he hurriedly tugged on Chen Yao's sleeve, pointed at the extremely high and deep cave roof opposite the stone platform, his throat moved: "Then what is that..."

Chen Yao narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction he was pointing at, couldn't help but clenched his long sword tightly, and dragged him behind him.

A pair of huge lantern eyes lit up in the dark hole, whistling out a bloody wind, which made the will-o'-the-wisp tremble.

"What should we do now, Xiaoxian doesn't want to be treated as dinner again."

"How do I know, I just know that for you, it's dessert after dinner at most," Chen Yao held Xu Xuan's hand, and while looking into those eyes, he slowly retreated behind the stone platform, and those eyes closed. After a while, it opened suddenly, and a strong wind blew out from the hole. Chen Yao pushed Xu Xuan off the stone platform, raised his sword to block in front of him, and threw a pair of sharp claws towards him.

Xu Xuan fell off the stone platform, feeling the wind blowing above his head.

"Chen Yao!" Xu Xuan panicked, his will-o'-the-wisp was blown out by the bat's wind, the cave was pitch black, but Chen Yao's voice could not be heard answering him.

He yelled again in the direction where he fell just now, and suddenly someone covered his mouth from behind and dragged him backwards. Before he could react, he felt something flying down from his front, brushing against the tip of his nose .

"Don't bark, I'm fine," Chen Yao panted, lowered his voice and whispered in his ear.

He nodded quickly, before Chen Yao let him go, and sat down against the stone wall to catch his breath. When the bats came down just now, he wanted to block with his sword, but he was a little overwhelmed, and he grabbed the cooked little bats on the ground just now. Throw it towards the big bat's eyes.

Although the bat is blind, it seems that it still tends to avoid the sudden attack in front of it. It flapped its wings and deviated from the direction, and he took the opportunity to roll down the stone platform.

Xu Xuan turned around and hugged him suddenly, which startled him. In the dark, he felt as if something had bitten his neck.

"Did you get bitten by a bat? Why did you bite me?" Before Chen Yao could recover, he felt Xu Zhen's body trembling slightly, so he patted his back lightly and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Don't save me, Chen Yao, I don't allow you to save me."

"Okay, I won't save you, go and kill that big bat."

Chen Yao was talking casually, but he didn't know that Xu Zhen was serious. Suddenly, he felt that a few acupuncture points on his body were tapped quickly, and he couldn't help being startled.

"Xu Xuan! What are you doing?"

"Get rid of that big bat, and then I'll save you," Xu Xuan took off his coat and covered Chen Yao to prevent him from seeing the outside. He took out two pieces of talisman paper from his arms, bit his index finger and quickly wrote on the paper Two lines of incantations were pasted on the clothes, and after a while the clothes became the same color as the surroundings.

Xu Xuan picked up the bamboo stick, jumped onto the stone platform, held the bamboo stick in his hand and spun it, the wound on his back was faintly hot, and the heat was transferred to the bamboo stick along his arm, the bamboo stick turned faster and faster, and both ends burst Out of purple flames.