Chapter 1198: New Life (Fifty-Four)
And most of the corpses devoured by Tai Sui's body just now were voodoo people, which shows that in essence, Qianqian also seems to be indifferent to voodoo personnel, she seems to have a higher and farther goal, and although this goal is not completely clear to me, it is certain that it will not be beneficial to us, or even to all the living.
Judging from the current situation, this attack on the entire Dongkou Province of Voodoo is probably carried out under the manipulation of Qianqian behind the scenes, I originally thought that this person must be the Moon Spirit, but if I look at it this way, I am afraid that this is not the case.
The surroundings, including those Qianqian phantoms falling from the sky, are very fast, and the goal is quite clear, that is, they are coming straight for us, I still have a glimmer of hope, thinking that my energy may also be able to expel these phantoms, so that they dare not approach, but now it seems that I am purely thinking too much.
Fortunately, the group of wanderers who originally followed Ouyang Shuo led by me all had weapons and equipment in their hands, and most of them were specialized in dealing with energy creatures, so they were quite stable when dealing with these phantoms at first, but the key is that these phantoms are simply endless, and it is basically difficult to completely eliminate them, at most they can only be repulsed, which leads to the increasing number of phantoms we face, and finally to the point where they are completely irresistible.
In this case, if you continue to insist blindly, you will find death, and I immediately asked all the wanderers to start ignoring the phantoms chasing behind them and in the sky, and instead quickly retreat directly in the direction of the Life No. 2 stronghold.
The cost of doing so would certainly result in some of the wanderers who couldn't keep up with the group dying at the hands of those Phantoms, but I think it's at least better than having everyone buried here.
In fact, there is no need for me to give orders at all now, because those loitering people themselves have already messed up, although these loitering people have followed Ouyang Shuo, but in the final analysis, their nature is difficult to change, and their execution is more than one grade worse than mine.
The consequence of this casualness is that some wanderers who did not have to die have also died under the push and crowd of people.
But I don't care about them anymore, and to put it bluntly, I don't care too much about the lives and well-being of these wanderers.
My current focus of protection is still on the few people around me, especially Duan Xiaoxiao, I must not let her have an accident, followed by Yuechen, if I don't have the bargaining chip of Yuechen in my hands now, plus Yueling's harassment, maybe we will be even more embarrassed.
The current sky can be described as a dark night, and it is still the kind of dark night with ghosts, but fortunately, after my energy recovery is enhanced, my night vision ability has also returned to normal.
But those wanderers were not so lucky, the darkness of the night and the scattered shadows in the air soon completely dispersed their path, and later, many wanderers disappeared directly from our field of vision.
I took the people around me to move quickly in the direction indicated by the compass on my mountain opening knife, and now except for Wen Yun, the Holy Maiden and others, the number of wanderers around me was less than twenty people, which was more than half of the total number at the beginning.
The wanderers all looked sad, as if they had never experienced such a horrible thing before.
At this time, the worse situation appeared, only to see that in addition to Qianqian's phantom, some strange creatures that we had been in contact with before appeared one after another, including Tai Sui, two-headed monsters, and those Gu creatures with long-distance jumping ability.
Although they may also be unable to adapt to Qianqian's energy control now, which has caused their combat effectiveness to decline, they can't stand the large number of them, and they still cause us great trouble.
Eventually, I realized that if I continued to walk on the ground, I would have to be surrounded by these things sooner or later.
I immediately turned to Yabu and Zaka, as well as the other living wanderers in the vicinity, to ask if they knew of a nearby shortcut to the underground, especially to the subway where the underground station was located.
However, those wanderers actually had a very shallow understanding of the land under their feet, and they were completely confused about my problem, but fortunately, Yabu and Zaka had already explored the nearby paths inside and outside when they followed Ouyang Shuo before, and after I used the compass and Wenyun's detector to determine the location simply, they found the nearest entrance to take the subway.
But Jabb warned me that the situation underground might not be much better, especially since it was still unclear whether the subways would be usable now.
But there is no way back for us now, because we are now overwhelmed by the two-headed monsters that are surging all around, and these monsters with terrifying individual combat abilities can almost single-handedly take out those wanderers...... If this continues, I am afraid that all the wanderers will die.
I really hope that Zhao Youkuang or other Burmese Gu masters can make some movement to resist these guys, but unfortunately, since Qianqian's phantom occupied the sky, these resistance forces have disappeared one after another, and I am even a little worried about Zhao Youkuang's safety now.
Our current position is actually still wandering around the no-man's land, because although we were traveling at full speed all the way just now, we were blocked by the Qianqian Phantom and other monsters, which caused us to take some detours.
The underground entrance to the area was still inside the no-man's land, so we took the opportunity to turn back.
These wanderers who followed Ouyang Shuo should not have belonged to the people near the Qinhuai Mountain Range, and there were not many wanderers in the no-man's land itself, so the remaining wanderers were completely blind, and it would be of no benefit to take them with me now, but it would add a burden.
But at least they can absorb some of the vitality of the Illusory Shadow for us, and it's not completely useless when you think about it.
Sure enough, when we finally rushed to the entrance point, seven or eight more wanderers were taken away by Qianqian's phantoms, and I didn't have time to check what would happen to them after they were taken captive, but judging from some of the facts I saw, these wanderers should not be killed immediately, and I felt that those Qianqian's phantoms were more like looking for a host for the second time, but as for the other consequences of entering the bodies of those wanderers, I don't know.
Yabu said that the passage in the no-man's land used to operate normally in the Qinhuai Mountains, but later due to the appearance of semi-infected people in the no-man's land, the place was forcibly closed, and the internal passage was blocked.
But this is not too much of a problem for me, as long as there is an entrance, I can use brute force and quickly carve out a path.
The intersection was blocked by a large number of stones, this is actually the simplest part, after I added the saint and the others to use the energy, the blockage of the entrance was quickly opened, and then there was a large number of masonry and concrete inside, although this part was a little more laborious, but because Yabu found the weakest area in advance, we still quickly opened the passage.
What I didn't expect during this period was that there was actually a part of the blood melt stone in the material blocking the entrance, although the number was not large, but it could indicate that at least when the subway entrance in this area was blocked, there were probably related non-loitering members active here, and the most likely of them were those semi-infected people who were deceived by the people of Taoyuan Island.
Having said that, I am also quite puzzled about the whereabouts of these semi-infected people, because on the way back to the no-man's land and the peak of the headquarters, we didn't even see half of the semi-infected people.
You know, the number of these semi-infected people is not a few, almost all of them are laborers who escaped from the hands of those wanderers nearby, according to what I have seen and heard in the Qinhuai Mountains before, they should be all over the entire mountain range, and the total number of large and small communities is probably no less than hundreds, how can they not see a single one?
Even if you can't see the living, you should encounter the dead, right?
But in fact, all the way down, we didn't even see their shadows.
I immediately asked the loiterers around me what the semi-infected laborers were doing when the voodoo attack began, and the loiterers replied that most of the laborers had been forcibly driven to the front by the loiters.
My heart sank, and my heart said badly, according to the previous situation of the people of Taoyuan Island, even those semi-infected laborers who did not escape are very problematic, and I even suspect that some of them have been reversed a long time ago, but they deliberately chose not to escape in order to be an eyeliner.
Now that the loitering is driving these half-infected to the front, it is undoubtedly tantamount to planting a time bomb on their own people, and once these half-infected laborers begin to collectively turn the finger back to the loiterers, coupled with the deliberate help of voodoo, it is likely to deal a devastating blow to those loiterers.
And this fact can almost be verified, because we have seen countless corpses of wanderers in the Qinhuai Mountains, but we have not seen the shadow of half of the infected people...... Not to mention the corpses.
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After opening the passage, I led the way and walked inside, and found that there was a lot of smoke and dust in the place, and there were still murals on the walls on both sides.
It was evident that the wanderers were terrified of this place, and I asked them if they knew there was a subway, and the answer was no.
It seems that Zhao Youkuang has done a very perfect job of hiding the entire underground layer, as I said before, it is so perfect that it can't be explained by normal theories, and it must be related to some special energy.
I asked Wen Yun to check the situation on some detectors, and Wen Yun told me that basically all the energy sources are above the ground now, and the energy sources underground are almost invisible.
Although this is a good thing for us, it is obviously abnormal, because when I rescued Wen Yun, there were no fewer energy creatures underground than on the ground, why can't we see any of them now?
I feel like the only explanation is that they're all called up by some kind of energy.
In addition, I continued to observe the murals on both sides, and found that these patterns were still similar to some kind of ancient written symbols, and there were only a few narrative style murals, which depicted the scene of a group of people holding sacrifices around a stone platform.
I asked Wen Yun what she thought of the mural patterns, and I thought she would say something inspiring to me, but to my disappointment, Wen Yun didn't know much more about the murals than I did.
Then I put my hope on Duan Xiaoxiao, because Duan Xiaoxiao had personally told me that she remembered some content through these mural patterns when she passed by Yongdao before, but now Duan Xiaoxiao still has no more new memories.
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Yabu said that it takes about ten minutes to walk along this route to the first platform, where two subways are normally parked.
Halfway through the walk, I suddenly heard what seemed to be a large number of footsteps roaring overhead, and I thought it was the presence of monitor lizards that were very similar to me, but judging by the situation on the detector, there was no energy source above.
Is it just some simple large animals that have not been infected by the Gu worm virus? This is unlikely, not to mention whether this kind of creature still exists, and even if there is, it is impossible to move in such a large number in the Qinhuai Mountains.
I listened carefully for a while, and soon realized that it wasn't footsteps, the roar was more like some large truck machine moving, and that I couldn't think of anything other than a heavy off-road vehicle for a large device that could travel through the mountains.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for me to hear some further engine sounds, and I was a little surprised, could it be some completely normal living person driving an off-road vehicle past us?
With such a dense number of voices, it's hard for me to imagine that so many normal people can form a group...... And you can also move freely in the Qinhuai Mountains.
I even felt the urge to take the initiative to establish contact with this group of people, but reason told me that I could not do this yet, and the danger of our initiative was extremely high until the identity of this group of people was clarified.
The roar lasted for about two or three minutes above us, and then it went away, probably in a westerly direction, which made me relieved that at least they weren't targeting Life Two.
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At this time, we had arrived at the platform that Yabu had mentioned, but we didn't expect that there were actually two subway stops here, and we could see that the wanderers were also shocked when they saw these two subways.
It seems that even Ouyang Shuo did not clearly explain the situation here to them.
Jab and Zaka quickly checked the situation on the subway and found that one of the trains was not starting, but the other was intact.