The ominous aura raged in the windy midnight sky, under the rolling dark clouds, the four figures confronted each other in twos and twos, and in the face of gluttonous questioning, the black shadow never said a word, like an unconscious puppet, just standing beside Qiqi, silently watching gluttony and Jiang Yao.

Golem, puppet undead!?

Jiang Yao, who came back to his senses, endured the sharp pain in his chest and stood up shakingly. In the strange light and shadow, he saw the 'puppet undead' with a missing corner of the mask standing motionless in the fog in front of him.

Really a puppet undead...... What he has in his hand is the "Soul Suppression Stone"??

Jiang Yao looked at the black shadow and was shocked for a while. Bursts of mana fluctuations continued to spread around the golden object in the black shadow's hand, and even just a glance at it made it seem as if it was about to capture people's souls, making people feel uneasy. However, for some reason, the moment he saw this 'puppet undead', a strange feeling suddenly surged in Jiang Yao's heart, a certain sense of familiar and unfamiliar contradiction lingered, and a faint uneasiness quietly fermented in secret.

"Hmph, it's a lot of things! It's between me and him, what are you here to make a fuss about?"

An impatient voice broke the momentary silence, and even though he escaped the crisis with the help of the dark shadow, the rescued Qiqi did not appreciate it at all. Under Qiqi's reprimand, the 'puppet undead' seemed to finally react, only to see it raise its head slightly and glance in a certain direction in the sky.

"Woohoo——!

A monster's roar suddenly pierced the night sky, quickly from far to near. The stunned Jiang Yao hurriedly raised his head, and just in front of his line of sight, he saw a rusty red "fire" breaking through the fog and falling abruptly from the top of everyone!

"Is this ...... 'scourge'!?" Jiang Yao looked at the black giant dog flying by in surprise, and was surprised to find that the other party's originally dissected belly had actually healed as before. Not only that, but the 'Scourge' also protected the 'puppet undead' directly, staring at Jiang Yao and Glutton.

"You can even subdue the 'Scourge', you are really different from the ordinary 'puppet undead'. Gluttony stared at the dark shadow in front of him and whispered. "What is it that makes you what you are now......

"Boom ......"

The low roar of thunder stirred the sharply gloomy sky, and in the night that was approaching zero, a blurred shadow began to gather in the sky, and echoing this was the red shimmer that gradually diffused over the county town of Yudu in the distance.

"Is it a 'soul sucking circle'...... Tsk, there's no time to grind around here. ”

Qi Qi looked at the red lines that appeared from under the county seat, and finally seemed to realize something, so he could only suppress the anger that had not yet been extinguished in his heart. He turned his head and swept his gaze over the gluttony below, then focused on Jiang Yao's blue face.

"Hehe, even if there is gluttony to protect you, you are just a human being after all. Qi Qi stared at the gradually revealing cyan lines on Jiang Yao's neck, and a sneer suddenly rose at the corner of his mouth. "It seems...... I don't need to do it anymore. ”

"Whoa——!

A bitter hurricane swept up from Qi Qi's body, and quickly enveloped the 'puppet undead' beside him. Seeing that the 'puppet undead' was about to flee again, the gluttony was unwilling to let it go, but at this moment, he suddenly found that Jiang Yao behind him seemed to be a little wrong.

"Huh!?"

Jiang Yao grabbed his chest and staggered to his knees. Hearing, smell, touch...... One by one, his senses gradually moved away from him under the erosion of the poisonous gas in his body, and the burning sting pain in his chest also burst the embankment in an instant, and rushed towards his head.

"What's wrong with you?" Taotao, who noticed something different, immediately turned around and rushed to Jiang Yao's side, and when he saw those cyan lines on Jiang Yao's neck, Taotao's eyes suddenly changed.

"This is ......!" Tao Tian's face froze, he reached out and opened the placket of Jiang Yao's chest, but saw that Jiang Yao's heart was covered with lines caused by the erosion of poisonous gas, and unconsciously, the poisonous gas inhaled before had spread to Jiang Yao's whole body.

“…… Qiqi!" The gluttonous face suddenly sank, and he raised his head suddenly, and his red eyes showed a rare anger that he had never seen before.

"Hmph...... You've finally revealed your 'true is,' gluttony. Qi Qi looked down at the slightly hideous face of the glutton, and said coldly. "Unfortunately, it's too late. ”

"Hmm...... Forehead......!"

Jiang Yao fell painfully into gluttonous arms, and in the sneer of Qiqi, Jiang Yao vaguely saw the 'puppet undead' in front of him suddenly turn his head and turn the skeletal mask full of cracks in his direction.

"Gala ......"

The cracks in the mask intensified in the hurricane, and behind the fog that had been blown away, the brown eyes hidden under the cracks in the mask were finally revealed

This...... What are these eyes!?

Jiang Yao's heart suddenly "chuckled", his eyes widened, and he stared tremblingly at the skull mask in front of him, and an ominous premonition surged from the depths of his heart.

"Ga...... Ga...... Whoa—'

The broken mask finally couldn't resist the cold wind, and it fell apart in an instant, and the pale face behind the mask was completely displayed in front of Jiang Yao.

The delicate facial features, the familiar face, and the face in front of him are still exactly the same as the person in Jiang Yao's memory, but the brown eyes that were originally gentle and slightly worried are now no longer half agile, replaced by a bottomless hollowness and woodenness.

Xiao ...... Xiao Yuan...... You are...... Xiao Yuan!?"

The moment he saw that face, Jiang Yao's psychological defense line completely collapsed. The man who had been with him for a whole year, the man who had sent him a distress message at the last moment, but finally died in front of him as a demon, stood in front of him like a puppet at this moment, staring at him with strange eyes.

"No, no, it can't be!!why...... Why would it be your ——!!?"

Jiang Yao roared, and the cruel reality tore the scar in his heart into blood again. In the face of Jiang Yao's shouting, Xiao Yuan's face did not have any emotional fluctuations, he had turned into a 'puppet undead', he just turned around calmly, and in the howling of the wind, he flew into the night sky with the 'Scourge' and disappeared at the end of the sky.

"No, don't go, Xiao Yuan!" Xiao Yuan ——!" Jiang Yao couldn't care about the pain in his chest, and struggled to get up and chase in Xiao Yuan's direction, completely forgetting that his crisis had not been resolved.

"Pound!"

A cloud of wind blades mixed with poisonous gas suddenly formed from mid-air, stabbing at Jiang Yao below, and was blocked by the Teng Snake guarding Jiang Yao's side. The poisonous gas blade that was bounced off pierced into the woodland on the side, instantly turning the mountain forest into scorched earth within a radius of tens of meters.

"Thinking about others when you are dying, it seems that you kid is not only incompetent, but also hopelessly stupid. ”

The grim voice echoed through the mist, poisonous mist, in the gloomy night sky.

"Even if Teng Snake helped you block the blow just now, as long as you are poisoned by me, you won't live long. ”

Qi Qi looked down at the cyan lines on Jiang Yao's cheeks, and then moved his gaze to the angry gluttony on the side, and sneered in a low voice.

"From the moment you choose to grovel as a lackey of humanity, you no longer deserve to be called the head of the 'Four Fierce Beasts,' gluttony. ”

Qi Qi said with a squint, and in a burst of demonic light, the pair of huge pale bone wings behind him spread their wings again in the demonic hurricane, bringing Qi Qi into the sky.

"I'll let you know, 'traitor'...... It's not qualified to guard anything!"

As soon as the words fell, Qi Qi waved his bone wings and disappeared in the swept demon wind.

"Hmm...... Cough...... Ahem!"

Jiang Yao's face turned pale and coughed violently. Bits of black blood flowed out of his seven orifices, and under the previous agitation, the poisonous gas had penetrated into his internal organs. At this moment, Jiang Yao could no longer see anything, nor could he say any words, deprived of all perception, he fell to the ground weakly, and the breath of life had begun to gradually withdraw from him.

"Jiang Yao...... Jiang Yao!" Tao Tao half-knelt on the ground, leaned over to pick up the man on the ground, but found that the other party had no reaction. The light belonging to the living soul gradually faded in Jiang Yao's half-open dark eyes, and a trace of cyan lines climbed to his cheeks, poisoning him into the bone marrow, obviously powerless to return to the sky.

“……”

Gluttony stared at the man who was about to die in his arms, he had always been at ease in trouble, but at this moment there was a trace of confusion in his eyes.

[The 'answer' you want can only be found through this man.] And he is also the 'only key' for you to unlock the truth of the year. 】

"The only ...... 'key' ......"

Bai Ze's prophecy lingered in the gluttonous mind, facing Jiang Yao, whose temperature was gradually disappearing, the light in the gluttonous eyes began to slowly become colder, and in the depths of the red pupils, there was a bottomless darkness.

"Rather than let you die like that, ...... Just 'be a part of me.'" ”

"Boom!!"

The blood-red thunder light staggered over the county town of Xudu where the red light spread, and the increasingly thick energy body in the air announced the approach of zero point. In this wave of ominous spell fluctuations, even the young Teng Snake that was originally entrenched beside Jiang Yao seemed to sense something. I saw that it suddenly raised its head, glanced in the southeast direction, and then left the ginger and gluttony on the side, and withdrew in the rising clouds.

……

"Huh? That's ...... Teng Snake!?"

Mu Jianyun looked at the giant shadow flying in mid-air in surprise, and his steps under his feet stagnated slightly.

"That Teng snake flew out of the forest in front, maybe Jiang Yao is there!" Lu Xingyue rushed forward in a hurry, and roared loudly:

"Jiang Yao, Jiang Yao, where are you!?Jiang ......"

"Whoa——!

A bolt of lightning fell from the night sky, reflecting two black shadows that were half-kneeling on the ground in the pupils of Lu Xingyue and Mu Jianyun.

I saw that Jiang Yao in front of him was lowering his head weakly, and blood was flowing down his neck, and it was the red-haired man who was holding him from behind who was biting Jiang Yao's neck at this moment.