Volume 1 Darkness Rising Chapter 25 The Ghost Lingers
After Kana came out of the cave, she walked up to Zhou Chang and handed him the book in her hand.
Zhou Chang was a little hesitant, not knowing whether to take it or not.
At this time, the fat man on the side saw Zhou Chang's hesitation, thinking of the huge power of the book and bracelet combination, thinking about the road ahead, I don't know what dangers there will be, if there is this kind of artifact to defend himself, he will not always be worried.
At that moment, he reached out for Zhou Chang and took the book in Kana's hand.
Seeing the fat man take the book, Zhou Chang couldn't help but glance at the fat man, and saw that his already tattered shirt was now completely cracked, and three-quarters of his upper body was exposed, so he couldn't help but laugh and said: "Fat man, if you are pork, you can sell it for a good price." ”
The fat man also wanted to joke with Zhou Chang, but suddenly he found that the clothes on his body were all over the place, and he couldn't cover his fat body at all, and he was worried that he would lose his image in front of the beauty, and he didn't have the heart to joke with Zhou Chang, thinking about how to cover this fat body.
Just when the fat man was worried that his majestic image might not be able to be kept, Taizhang suddenly said coldly to Kana, "Miss Kana, who are you, it's time to give an explanation." ”
As soon as Taizhang said this, everyone looked at Kana, as if they wanted to know what secret was hidden in Kana.
"I've already told Zhou Chang, you can ask him. Kana replied coldly.
"...... me?" Zhou Chang didn't expect Kana to lead the conversation to him, but Kana did explain it to him, but Kana's explanation probably wouldn't even believe her, right?
At that moment, Zhou Chang told the others the reason why Kana said it was Hanyu.
This explanation disappointed the others, and there was no explanation as to why Kana was able to beat the skeleton so easily.
Everyone even thought with bad intentions: Could it be that the piece of cold jade on her body is omnipotent? After wearing it, everything can happen?
However, they are not really out of danger yet, they are still near Night City, and they can't doubt their teammates too much, and they can only hold back the dissatisfaction in their hearts for the time being.
After a short rest, Tamar began to survey their surroundings, where they were at the junction of a canyon and a basin surrounded by mountains. The surrounding bushes were thick, and from time to time a few roe deer and wild deer poked their heads out of the woods to look at them.
Tamar took a deep breath and placed his right hand on a tree, using the power of exploration, sensing the memories of the tree and its surroundings.
After about ten minutes, Tamar suddenly said to the others, "I used the power of exploration to sense that there are demon beasts nearby, everyone should be careful. ”
Before he could finish speaking, there was a rustling sound from the woods, as if something was walking through the bushes.
Everyone immediately looked vigilantly in the direction where the sound came from, and the fat man also handed the book to Zhou Chang, asking him to be ready to shoot the monster that might jump out at any time.
The crowd first saw the leaves shaking a few dozen meters away, and then the leaves shaking ten meters away. It didn't take long for a fierce Stygian Jiao to poke its head out of the forest, shaking its head in all directions.
Soon, the Dark Jiao Beast spotted Zhou Chang and them, opened its large mouth full of fangs, let out a dull low roar, and then took a few steps closer.
Seeing the salivating Stygian, the fat man involuntarily shrank back and said to Zhou Chang, "Kill this monster with books and bracelets." ”
Hearing what the fat man said, Zhou Chang nodded, turned the book to the page with bone characters, took off the bracelet again, and looked at the underworld.
The Stygian Jiao was really agile, and when he saw a ray of light coming, he kicked the ground with both feet and jumped away. The lilac light shone on a big tree not far away, and it only squeaked and fell crookedly on another big tree.
Zhou Chang's attack seemed to infuriate the Stygian, only to see it let out a dull roar again, kicked hard under its feet, jumped in front of Zhou Chang and the others, opened its big mouth and pounced on Zhou Chang.
Zhou Chang was stunned, and his body was wooden.
Seeing that the Stygian Jiao was about to knock Zhou Chang down, a figure suddenly flashed out from the entrance of the cave and rushed towards the Stygian Jiao like an arrow off the string. The figure was extremely powerful, knocking the Stygian Jiao to the ground with all its might.
The figure flipped over in mid-air and landed firmly on the ground.
Everyone looked at the figure, and it was the blackened skeleton.
After the skeleton man knocked down the Stygian Jiao, which was several times larger than him, he didn't wait for the Stygian to get up, stepped forward in two steps, and steeply plunged his right hand into the Stygian's stomach.
The skin of the Stygian Jiao is similar to that of a crocodile, but it is much harder than the skin of a crocodile, and it is difficult to cut it with sharp weapons, but the slender finger bones of the skeleton man are cut into the soft sand, and they are deeply immersed in the belly of the Stygian.
Then, the skeleton man put his entire arm into the belly of the Stygian, stirring from side to side. The blood of the Stygian Jiao flowed out of his arm, staining the green grass below him a blood-red color.
The Stygian Jiao was stirred in the stomach by the skeleton man's hand like this, and suddenly lost the ability to resist, and its huge body curled up into a ball. The black eyeballs rolled upward, and he was killed on the spot.
At this moment, the skeleton man's bony hand was taken out of the belly of the Stygian, and there was a bloody flesh and blood on the bloody bony hand, which was like a human fist. The thing was still throbbing, apparently the heart of the Stygian.
The Skeleton Man lifted the heart of the Grim Jiao above his head, and the blood on the heart flowed to the Skeleton Man's skull, making the already terrifying Skeleton Man even more terrifying.
The skeleton man's upper and lower jaws kept moving, and he suddenly stuffed the heart of the Stygian Jiao into his mouth, chewing on the heart of the Immortal Jiao with the few remaining teeth. As soon as he bit it, the unfinished blood in his heart suddenly splattered countless blood splashes, all of which fell on the skeleton man.
Soon, the skeleton man chewed up the entire heart of the Skeleton Jiao, and the heart of the Skeleton Jiao flowed down the laryngeal bone to the location of the human stomach in the ribs.
Seeing this series of terrifying and strange actions of the skeleton man, everyone's stomachs suddenly felt like a river and a sea. I don't know who let out a 'wow' sound first, and everyone else vomited too.
The pungent smell of undigested food spit out of the stomach, combined with the smell of blood emanating from the body, made people feel suffocated.
The fat man threw up while covering his nose and scolded: "What kind of monster is this guy? Lao Tzu is about to be driven crazy by him!"
When the fat man spoke, Zhou Chang had already held up the book, and the other waved his bracelet and said to the skeleton man, "Don't come here, otherwise, I will shoot you." ”
The skeleton man's body originally leaned towards Zhou Chang's side, but when he saw Zhou Chang's posture, his body shrank back again, his head shook from side to side a few times, and he suddenly ran towards the dense bushes.
Looking at the skeleton man's distant back, Tamar suddenly looked frightened, "Have you seen it?"
"See what, see that skeleton man eating the heart of a monster?" replied the fat man reflexively.
As soon as the fat man's words fell, Tamar suddenly said, "I saw flesh grow from the skeleton man's bone hand. ”
"What......" the fat man almost jumped up in shock, "Miss Tamar, you can't be mistaken, can you?"
Tamar smiled bitterly, "I hope I'm wrong, too. ”
Listening to Tamar's tone, it didn't seem like he was joking, the skeleton man's hands have grown flesh, then he may also grow flesh in other places, and then he will become a real person, and then he will come to find the fat man. Without distinguishing whether he was a skeleton man or not, the skeleton man suddenly slashed the killer, and with the speed at which the skeleton man fought and killed the Stygian Beast, no one could stop him at all.
Thinking of this, the first person who felt uneasy was not Zhou Chang, who had a skeleton bracelet and a book in his hand, but the fat man, because Taizhang's sentence 'You released that evil spirit, he will haunt you for the rest of his life' always echoed in his mind.
Zhou Chang was also a little scared, but he didn't almost write the word 'scared' on his face like a fat man. He pretended to be calm and smiled, "Whatever, he's going to kick him to death." ”
As he spoke, he couldn't stand the unpleasant smell anymore and called everyone to the deep basin.
At this time, the cry of the heavenly snow eagle suddenly sounded in the sky, and Angelina heard the familiar call, first happy, and suddenly frowned.
Except for Tamar, the rest of the people saw Angelina's expression, and their hearts rose, because Angelina would only have this kind of expression on her face if Snow Eagle brought bad news.
Sure enough, Angelina learned that there were many demon soldiers in this forest, and they were searching the mountain forest, and it seemed that they had escaped from the underground cell.
Taizhang looked up at the sky, heavy dark clouds blocked the sunlight, and the birds in mid-air were flying north, and the trees that enveloped them showed no signs of being blown by the wind. Judging from these signs, it should be raining heavily.
Taizhang frowned and said to everyone, "It should rain soon, we have to find a hidden place to hide from the pursuers and the heavy rain." ”
said, looking at Tamar, "Miss Tamar, you are an explorer, the mountains and rivers, landforms, astrological positioning, it is easy for you, whether you can find a good place to live, it depends on you." ”
Tamar tucked the hair behind her ears and snapped her fingers, "No problem, just follow me." ”
As he spoke, he leaned down and tilted his head to the ground with one ear on the ground, as if listening to the sound of the earth.
After about a minute, Tamar jumped up from the ground with his hands on his hands, "Follow me." ”
As he spoke, he walked in the direction of his left, and the group followed closely behind Tamar.
The mountains are densely forested, and the branches and leaves between the trees are connected, so it is difficult to tell the direction when you are in them, and if you are not careful, you will get lost. Fortunately, Zhou Chang and they had Tamar to lead the way, and they didn't make many detours, and after walking for about two hours, they approached a small peak.
Tamar led the people around the north side of the mountain, to a place overgrown with deep grass.
Tamar brushed aside the weeds with both hands and walked deeper into the grass. Everyone followed her example and pushed away the weeds and marched forward.
Soon, they came to the end of the grass, where there was a cave more than a meter high.
Tamar beckoned to the others and walked into the cave with his head bowed.
The cave is very large, and the stone wall at the top of the cave has many irregular holes, and the light that penetrates through the holes illuminates the whole cave. In the middle of the cave there is an upside-down triangular boulder, surrounded by uneven gravel, fortunately the light is bright, otherwise it is easy to trip over the stone.
After Zhou Chang and the others entered the cave, they each found a clean place to rest. Before he could sit down, the fat man suddenly got up, pointed to the bottom of the upside-down triangular boulder, and said, "There is a man there." ”
Everyone looked in the direction of the fat man's finger, and sure enough, there was a black figure, curled up in a ball. However, the position of the black shadow was just under the shadow of the boulder, so it was not clear to see, and it was not certain that it was a person.
Seeing that the shadow had not been awakened by the fat man's voice, Tamar made a silent gesture and crept towards the shadow.
When Tamar was about to walk to where the shadow was, the shadow suddenly moved.
Seeing this, Tamar's body involuntarily shrank back.
At this moment, the black shadow suddenly stood up, and it was a human form.
Tamar saw clearly that it was a gray-haired, old, thin old woman, but her eyes were very attentive.
The old woman, dressed in black, looked at Tamar and the group of uninvited guests behind her.
"Explorer?...... human" The old woman's voice was so small that Tamar didn't hear it.
"Who are you, and why are you in my place?" the old woman's voice echoed through the cave for a long time, not at all like the voice of an old woman.
Listening to the old woman's tone, this cave seemed to be her residence, and Zhou Chang and the others were uninvited guests who broke in without greeting their master.