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Chapter 173 Mantis Catching Cicadas

The old man was indeed cunning, but it was not only Wu Wei who was even more cunning than him. He Xiaoyong has not appeared yet. Wu Wei had to re-evaluate He Xiaoyong in his heart. This guy who usually looks inconspicuous is actually a hidden master.

The old man stood in the shadow of the alley for a while and walked towards an alley to the east. Wu Wei was glad that he had not chosen to hide just now.

However, after the old man got into the alley, Wu Wei was a little confused. Should he continue to wait here? Or should he turn around and go east and rush in front of the old man to the next street intersection. The former may be able to capture He Xiaoyong's traces, while the latter will not lose the old man.

After hesitation, the old man's figure completely disappeared from Wu Wei's sight. Wu Wei sighed in his heart, gritted his teeth secretly, and decided to wait for He Xiaoyong to appear before talking.

After a while, a figure finally appeared in the alley where the old man walked out. In a very common saying, even if this figure turned into gray, Wu Wei could recognize it. He Xiaoyong, who had been called out for a long time, finally appeared.

He Xiaoyong observed the entrance of the alley for a while, quickly passed through the quiet street intersection, and followed the alley where the old man had just disappeared. Wu Wei noticed that He Xiaoyong was lowering his head and observing the ground carefully. Wu Wei guessed that this guy should have put some kind of tracking drugs on the old man, and Wu Wei felt much more at ease.

After He Xiaoyong's figure also disappeared, Wu Wei received a pigeon letter from Jiang Zhiqian. Jiang Zhiqian had already followed He Xiaoyong. Wu Wei felt relieved and immediately turned around and ran along the alley. He wanted to reach the next street intersection in front of He Xiaoyong.

When everyone disappeared in the box, Shancheng returned to the darkness. Compared with the city at the foot of the mountain, it was a bit scary. Luo Yu's figure appeared silently in the shadow of the street against the wall, with his mouth slightly raised. After listening carefully for a while, he turned around and disappeared in the deep alley.

He Xiaoyong used some kind of tracking drug to stare at the old man who opened the store. Wu Wei and Jiang Zhiqian, Ren Hongtu stared at He Xiaoyong. Behind Jiang Zhiqian, Luo Yu used the listening and voice defense technique to keep up tightly. This group of people with each thought went further and further away, and disappeared into the mountains and forests to the west after leaving the city.

After entering the forest, Luo Yu immediately accelerated to approach Jiang Zhiqian. After that, he even surpassed Jiang Zhiqian and included He Xiaoyong in his listening and voice defense skills. Luo Yu did this because he was worried that He Xiaoyong would not be able to keep up with the old man. After all, it was much more difficult to track in the forest.

However, He Xiaoyong's tracking ability is indeed very good, and he is very careful. The old man's several anti-tracking measures failed to discover He Xiaoyong behind him.

In the dark forest, the group of people stumbled for two hours. Finally, the old man who had been in circle for a long time began to adjust his direction. After crossing a ridge, he found a small path. He accelerated his pace and walked for another hour. A dilapidated temple appeared in front of the old man.

The old man stopped in front of the temple. After looking around for a while, he entered the small temple and disappeared.

After a while, He Xiaoyong, with his face covered, quietly approached the Xiaomiao with the help of the surrounding trees. Instead, he went around in circles and approached the Xiaomiao from behind. He squatted at the base of the wall and listened carefully for a while. He Xiaoyong slowly moved to a round window on the side. The window was gone, only half of the frame was left. He Xiaoyong carefully straightened his waist and looked inward.

The small temple is not big. Although the light is not good, you can still see the real temple at a glance, a tattered wooden stand lying on the ground, an altar with one leg missing, and a clay Buddha without its own. There is nothing else, but what about that old man!?

He Xiaoyong was shocked, but did not act recklessly. Instead, he looked up at the beam of the roof. However, he still couldn't find the old man's figure. He Xiaoyong looked for a long time and felt that except for the half-parted clay Buddha, there seemed to be no other place to hide a living person.

After hesitating for a moment, He Xiaoyong quickly ran towards the temple gate, carefully observed for a while, and confirmed that there was indeed no one in the small temple. He Xiaoyong touched it in, and the old man was indeed gone.

However, He Xiaoyong was not in a hurry. He believed that the old man could not fly, and there was no other exit in the Xiaomiao. The old man either entered a secret passage or entered the copy space. No matter which result, as long as he waited patiently here, the old man had to come back.

Of course, there is another possibility that there is another exit for the tunnel, but this exit may not be found for a while, unless He Xiaoyong also enters the tunnel.

Regardless of whether you enter the tunnel or not, what you need to do now is to find out whether the tunnel exists. If it is just a copy, He Xiaoyong doesn’t have to worry.

He Xiaoyong squatted on the ground and began to carefully search for traces of the old man from the door. He did not notice at all that in the bushes behind him, several figures were quietly approaching the small temple, surrounding the small temple quietly.

Wu Wei was not in a hurry to go in. Since He Xiaoyong had already entered the small temple, it means that the old man was no longer in the small temple. Wu Wei quickly made the same judgment as He Xiaoyong. The old man had a high chance of reappearing in the small temple. Therefore, as long as the way out of the small temple was blocked, a mantis would stalk the cicada oriole would be behind him.

Of course, there is a small probability that the tunnel will have another exit. Wu Wei thought for a while and quietly sent a pigeon letter to Ren Hongtu, asking him to search around to see if he could find any special place. Ren Hongtu didn't think too much and turned around and left. Jiang Zhiqian looked deeply at the place where Wu Wei was hiding.

He Xiaoyong didn't know what was happening outside the small temple. He was excitedly looking for the old man's trace. He sprinkled a tracking potion that he bought with a lot of money in front of and behind the old man's house. This potion emits a faint fluorescence when viewed with a special glasses. Therefore, he could follow the old man in the complex mountains and forests of the illusion.

But no matter how good the medicine is, it will be consumed gradually. After walking such a long mountain road, there are very few medicines left under the soles of the old man's shoes. He must carefully observe to find the luminous medicine powder. He Xiaoyong was almost lying on the ground to find the faint luminous powder in the dust of the small temple.

It is precisely because of this that He Xiaoyong took a long time to determine the old man's trace. His footsteps disappeared behind half of the clay Buddha. There was about one and a half meters of space between the clay Buddha and the wall. There was a stone-studded base under the clay Buddha, which was about one and a half meters high.

He Xiaoyong could not determine whether the secret passage was on the ground, on the base, or on the wall behind. Of course, no matter where the secret passage entrance was, what was more important was the way the secret passage was opened.

He Xiaoyong hesitated for a moment, stretched his head from behind the clay Buddha pedestal and looked out the temple door. Then he carefully took out a lamp, then wrapped it up with a piece of clothing, revealing only one direction, like a small flashlight.

Holding this modified small flashlight, He Xiaoyong carefully searched on the base and the wall. After that, he really found a trace of He Xiaoyong. Thanks to no one here for a long time, no one has been here, so there are dust and spider webs everywhere. The system recreated the desolate abandoned temple very well, and also left the traces of the old man.

A trace appeared at the base of the clay Buddha near the ground. The trace seemed to be rubbing on the ground with someone's feet. It could be seen from the width and narrowness of the mark. The purpose of this rubbing was to kick to a certain part of the base. He Xiaoyong lay on the ground and carefully illuminated it with a small flashlight. There were obvious traces of scratches on a stone on the base.

He Xiaoyong quickly put away his smile. The question in front of him is whether to open this secret passage. Opening the secret passage may alarm the old man in the secret passage. But if it is not opened, what if there is another exit for the secret passage?

After struggling for a while, He Xiaoyong finally gritted his teeth and stood up, carefully aimed at the stone, and kicked it gently.

No response!

He Xiaoyong pressed the stone with his toes and pushed forward hard, but he still couldn't push it. He Xiaoyong simply used internal force. This time he finally moved. The stone fell silently inward. Then, the base of the half-parted clay Buddha suddenly slid silently from the height of his calf, revealing a dark hole. He Xiaoyong was startled. After a while, there was no movement. He Xiaoyong raised the lamp to shine. This was a stone step extending downward. Because of the turning, he could not see a deep place.

He Xiaoyong hesitated for a moment, then raised his legs and walked into the secret passage. After his figure completely disappeared into the secret passage, the base quietly closed up again, and everything returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

After a while, two more black shadows rushed in.

"Look for the secret passage quickly."

Wu Wei whispered, his tone a little anxious.

Jiang Zhiqian nodded, took out a lamp directly, and imitated He Xiaoyong's method and wrapped it with a piece of clothing, leaving only one direction transparent.

"Awei, what did you ask Lao Ren to do?"

"I asked him to see if there were exits of secret passages around, just in case."

"Oh, you're still thinking carefully. That guy was behind the clay Buddha just now, and the mechanism must be there."

"Good, look for it carefully."
Chapter completed!
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