Chapter 221 Scarecrow
Inside the Lingshi Mine.
Chen Lin stood deep in the mine, looking at the huge collapse area in front of him with a solemn expression.
Four huge stone pillars stand in four directions, with a huge chain extending from the top of each stone pillar, hanging a sarcophagus in the middle!
Whether it is the stone pillar or the sarcophagus, there are strange patterns engraved on it, and I don’t know what they mean.
"Are there any other abnormalities?"
Hearing Chen Lin's question, Feng Kuocheng immediately replied: "Not yet. After the miners dug here, the ground suddenly collapsed, exposing such an underground Space, a few miners in the early stage of Qi training fell into it, but it was nothing, they all followed the pillars Climb up."
Chen Lin nodded and said: "That's good, organize people to seal this place immediately, I will send a message to Zhenren He to come and deal with it."
He didn't want to deal with such a weird situation by himself. No matter whether there were treasures or evil objects in the sarcophagus, he didn't want to be contaminated.
"Elder Chen, would you like to open the sarcophagus and take a look?"
Feng Kuocheng had some ideas, but was immediately denied by Chen Lin: "It's better not to think nonsense. This coffin is sealed here at first glance. The chance of there being treasures inside is extremely small. And with such a big battle, the sealed things inside Surely extraordinary, once alive, with you I’m afraid I can’t handle it with my strength.”
“Well, I’ll organize people to seal this place off immediately, and wait until Master He comes.”
Feng Kuocheng felt that what Chen Lin said made sense. He was stuck in the late stage of foundation building for too long and was a little impatient.
After leaving the mine, Chen Lin immediately took out the communication talisman, explained the situation here and then activated it.
What he didn't expect was that the other party responded immediately, but said that he was busy with things recently and asked him to handle it by himself. He didn't even say that he would send someone to help.
"Elder Chen, what should I do?"
Feng Kuocheng next to him asked with a strange look on his face.
Chen Lin did not conceal the voice of the messenger just now, he also heard it, and there seemed to be some impatience in Master He's tone.
Chen Lin smiled and said: "Zhenren He is responsible for presiding over the overall situation. How can he have so much time? In this case, let's seal the mine first! I will go back tomorrow and go to the Formation Hall Invite an array master to come over and add a seal to the mine. Since the sarcophagus has been here for so many years, it is unlikely that something will go wrong in the past few days. We will slowly figure out how to deal with it."
"That's all we have to do. Yes." Feng Kuocheng nodded.
He heard that Elder Chen didn't seem to be well received by Zhenren He. He even lost his position as the deacon elder of the Pill Hall and was sent here. It was probably impossible to invite Zhenren Jindan to come here.
However, Feng Kuocheng will not look down upon Chen Lin because of this. After all, Chen Lin is still the registered disciple of Baiyin Fairy and is proficient in alchemy, especially the Seven Star Pill. He may be able to ask Chen Lin for help in the future. When in the woods.
Zhenjun Yuanying's named disciple has nothing to do with him, but there is no need to offend an alchemy master in any case.
Thinking of this, he spoke again: "If Elder Chen wants to deal with it, I can also invite some foundation-building monks to come over and leave it alone. If something goes wrong then, I'm afraid I will be very angry with Elder Chen. It has an impact."
Chen Lin glanced at the other party and realized that this was a good sale. It seemed that he had not yet reached the point of being beaten by thousands of people.
After thinking about it, he nodded and said: "Okay, if it needs to be dealt with, I will discuss it with you in advance."
The other party is right. This thing really cannot be ignored. He is responsible for supervising the construction of this city. If it is a coffin There really is something demonic inside, and it's also a hidden danger. If something goes wrong, Master He will definitely use it as a pretext, and even the Silver Fairy will probably be displeased.
There is nothing else. If you lose your identity as a registered disciple, you will have no shame in staying in Silver Immortal City, and you will have to continue wandering.
It’s not that he is attached to power, but that there are too few stable places to practice in this world, and he is reluctant to part with this hard-won life.
One night, Chen Lin was thinking about how to deal with it perfectly, but he couldn't think of any good way.
If that didn't work, he would use his hands to dig out the stone pillars, and then send the stone pillars and the sarcophagus far away without even seeing them.
Anyway, he would not be curious enough to open the sarcophagus and take a look.
Having just made his decision, he did not expect to receive news that surprised him the next day.
“What did you say!”
Chen Lin looked at the Qi Practitioner who came over to report, his face full of astonishment, feeling like he was hearing hallucinations.
"Report to Elder Chen, several early-stage qi-training monks who fell into the mine yesterday turned into scarecrows!"
The qi-training monk looked frightened and his voice was trembling.
"Scarecrow?" Chen Lin looked at the other person steadily, "You read that right, right?"
Even if those people went crazy or turned into monsters, Chen Lin wouldn't think so. It was strange, after all, this world was already full of monsters and monsters, but it turned into a scarecrow. This was really beyond his imagination.
The Qi Practitioner said eagerly: "You read that right, Senior Feng and the others are all there to check on the situation. Let me come over and inform you."
"Let's go and have a look!" Chen Lin still didn't believe it. He thought it was some kind of cover-up or there was some other inside story.
There are now empty houses in the city, so even the monks who are in the early stage of Qi training live in one courtyard. At this moment, there is a group of monks surrounding one of the courtyards, and Feng Kuocheng is among them.
"Brother Feng, what's going on?"
Chen Lin walked closer and asked Feng Kuocheng first.
"Come here, Elder Chen. Let's take a look. I'm afraid we have provoked something we shouldn't provoke!"
Feng Kuocheng pointed to the room in the courtyard, his tone full of shock.
Chen Lin frowned, held in his hand a demon-suppressing talisman and the talisman given to him by Master He, and then walked in.
Sure enough, there was a scarecrow lying on the bed in the room. His body was the same size as that of a normal human being, his face was pricked up so vividly that he looked like a real person, and he also exuded a very strange aura.
“Who discovered it first? What about the others? Are they all the same?”
Chen Lin did not step forward to check rashly, but asked in a deep voice.
“Reporting to Elder Chen, I discovered it first. Lu Qiang didn’t go to work this morning, so the team leader asked me to come over and have a look, and I saw this scarecrow on the bed. At first I thought it was a prank. , and ignored it until he discovered that the one that fell into the mine yesterday Several companions didn't work, so they realized something was wrong and reported it to the captain. After checking, they found that there were scarecrows with the same appearance as them on the beds of several other people. "
The one who spoke was a short young man. , it was also the early stage of Qi training, and my voice was a little trembling at this moment.
"No one else has touched him, right?" Chen Lin pointed to the scarecrow on the bed.
"No, no one dares to touch it. Now everyone is in panic. What does Elder Chen think should be done? Otherwise, should we report it to Master He again?"
Feng Kuocheng glanced at Chen Lin and made suggestions.
Chen Lin shook his head, "Don't panic. This matter is too bizarre. Let's talk about it after we find out more about it. Let's go see a few others first."
Now that Chen Lin said so, Feng Kuocheng He didn't object anymore. After asking someone to look at the yard, he took Chen Lin to look at the residences of the other three Qi Practitioners. Sure enough, there was a scarecrow on everyone's bed.
"Is there anything abnormal in the mine?"
After reading the last one, Chen Lin was not sure whether it was true or not, and asked Feng Kuocheng in a deep voice.
"The entrance to the cave over there has been sealed. There is no abnormality from the outside. It's hard to say what's going on inside. Do you want to take a look?"
Chen Lin shook his head, "No need for now, I'll try to see if this scarecrow has any There’s nothing special about it, everyone should leave.”
Everyone retreated outside the yard. Chen Lin patted the storage bag, took out the monkey puppet, and controlled it into the room.
After a while, he frowned and watched the monkey puppet walk out holding a handful of straw in one hand.
Feng Kuocheng and other foundation-building monks also looked at a loss. They had used their spiritual consciousness to check the situation in the room just now. After the monkey puppet entered, it gradually dismantled the scarecrow, but nothing abnormal happened throughout the process. A scarecrow is really just a scarecrow.
After careful consideration, Chen Lin began to give orders.
"Let people search a hundred miles radius. Who has tracking spirit beasts on them? Try to see if you can track them through the aura on their belongings. I want to see if it is true. There are ghosts, but there are still people pretending to be ghosts!”
He still doesn’t believe that a good living person can become a scarecrow.
Not to mention the Golden elixir monk, even the Nascent Soul monk probably does not have such an ability. In fact, he has never seen such an outrageous ability in any classics, unless it is really a god coming to the world.
He even suspected that the four Qi Practitioners ran away because of something, so they put on such a show to draw their attention elsewhere.
After thinking about it, he added: "Send someone to take a look at the sarcophagus in the mine. Be careful not to get close. Just take a look from a distance."
Following Chen Lin's instructions, Feng Kuocheng immediately went to arrange manpower. , Chen Lin put away the monkey puppet and waited quietly.
The information will be fed back soon. There is no abnormality in the mine, but the four monks who are in the early stage of Qi training are nowhere to be seen. I don’t know if they ran away or if something else happened.
A female cultivator named Xiao Linghui, who was in the late stage of Qi training, actually raised a spiritual beast with tracking ability, but she also failed to track it.
After the spirit beast sensed the aura residue on the personal belongings of the four qi-training monks, it simply wandered around the city, where people here used to work.
After a lot of trouble, Chen Lin saw that it had no effect, so he asked everyone to disperse first, and reassured them that there was no need to panic, as he would find out the matter soon.
Night.
Chen Lin had not rested for several days. Although monks meditating can be considered a rest, he still felt a little sleepy, so he lay on the bed and took a nap.
After he fell into a deep sleep, an aura exactly like that of the scarecrow emanated from his body.
(End of this chapter)