"Boom" A wild tiger fell to the ground with blood stains all over its body, startling a bird cry in this forest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Candle Ye looked at the fallen tiger and clapped his hands, turned around and raised a hand to high-five Lingyu, but the other party ignored him, and walked towards the tiger's corpse as if he didn't exist, and began to cut up its flesh.

"We cooperate so tacitly, don't we show it?" said Candle Ye with a smile.

This is not a joke, they have been entering this forest for more than a month, and in this month or so, they have encountered all kinds of beasts and demonic beasts, mainly by Candle Ye to attract their attention, and then by Lingyu to use his attributes to go around their backs and kill them with one blow. After more than a month of fighting, the cooperation between them is indeed getting better and better.

"Why don't you come over and help when you have that time, have you forgotten how miserable we were last time?"

"Forehead ......" For this sentence, Candle Ye was irrefutable, so he obediently began to help cut the meat of this tiger.

Just last time, they met a black magic giant ape that was still in its infancy, even in its infancy, its strength was no less than that of the median Lingwu, and they were very embarrassed, but fortunately, most of this giant ape was restless and irritable, and had low intelligence, and finally it was led away by Candle Ye, and after Lingyu arranged the trap, Candle Ye introduced it, and the two of them ran desperately before it broke free from the trap.

"Hehe...... Seeing that Zhu Ye was deflated in words for the first time, and obediently listened to her words, Lingyu felt a trace of secret joy in her heart.

"You said that if we were caught by that big guy at that time, would he arrest you to be your daughter-in-law?" while cutting the meat, Candle Ye said coldly.

“……”

……

The two of them successfully took the meat from the tiger and sprinkled it with air-dried powder bought from Luo'an City, which is a specialty of this world, and when sprinkled, the meat will be as good for preservation as if it had been air-dried. After packing the meat into their backpacks, the two continued on their way. It didn't take long for the two to arrive at a village, which was not marked on the map, but the sign clearly said "Hualong Village".

The two walked into the village, there was not a single pedestrian on the road, and the sky gradually darkened, so they knocked on one of the houses and wanted to spend the night here, although it is not impossible to live in the wilderness, but wouldn't it be better if they could live in the house?

"Who?" asked from inside the room.

"We were passing through and wanted to spend the night here. ”

The door was opened, and the owner of the house, an old woman in her sixties, was covered in clothes, barely showing a trace of skin, even with gloves on her hands, and only one face was exposed. Seeing two seven or eight-year-old children outside the door, there was a fleeting surprise on their faces, but they still beckoned the two to come into the house, and each made a cup of hot tea for them.

"Old woman, aren't you dressed like this?" asked Candle Ye. Lingyu didn't say anything from beginning to end, just picked up the hot tea in front of him and took a sip, then nodded, as if to say "good tea".

"It's not hot, it's not hot, alas, it's a lot of things when people get old, and it's not like the last time I just got a cold, so I quickly grabbed a few more clothes and put them on my body. The old woman waved her hand.

Candle Ye was just about to ask a few more questions about this village, when a baby's cry suddenly came from the next room.

"Hey, my grandson really doesn't save me trouble, you drink tea first, and when I serve my grandson well, I will cook for you. With that, the old woman hurried into the room, and there came the sound of coaxing the child, which made the baby's crying less.

Candle Ye also took a sip of tea, looked at Lingyu, and saw that the latter didn't seem to have much energy, so he asked out loud: "What's the matter, I shouldn't have said anything to make you unhappy, right?"

"I seem to be a little dizzy. Lingyu said weakly, and fell on the table.

"Lingyu! Lingyu!!" Candle tried to wake her up, but found that she was also starting to get dizzy.

"Could it be...... Tea ......" Candle Ye finally couldn't support it anymore and collapsed on the table.

The old woman walked out of the room, still holding the baby in her arms, and saw the two people lying on the table, tears kept flowing out of her eyes, and her mouth was saying "I'm sorry", "I'm sorry", and then looked at the baby in her arms, her body was covered with black dragon scales, and the high fever did not go away, even if she was taken away by death in the next second, it was not strange.

"I'm sorry...... I'm sorry...... For the sake of my grandson, for the sake of the villagers, I can only do this......"

……

Candle Ye and Lingyu gradually woke up, and both found themselves tied to a cross made of wood, which had been inserted deep into the earth. And on the ground where they were, mysterious runes were painted one after another, and all the runes were combined to form a larger and mysterious formation. A group of villagers gathered outside, some with apologies on their faces, others with unparalleled excitement in their eyes. There was only one white-bearded old man who was in the middle of the formation like Candle Ye, and it seemed that he was the one who put up this formation. Although the formation was one of the fields studied by alchemists, and Candle Ye knew a little about it, it was the first time he had seen such a mysterious formation.

Lingyu didn't care about this, and quickly urged the spiritual power in his body to break free from the rope tied to his body, but the spiritual power in his body didn't move at all as if it was blocked.

"It's useless, that rope is specially made for spirit masters, you can't activate spiritual power," the old man standing in the formation said, "I am the village chief here, I will tell you about the situation here, so that you can understand the death." ”

"I'm sure you saw it when you came, right? This village is called Hualong Village, and the origin of this village's name is precisely because of the strange diseases brought about by this village. The village chief lifted his hood to reveal his face beneath it, which was covered with black dragon scales, making him look like a half-dragon, half-human, terrifying.

The other villagers also showed their true faces, without exception, all of them were the same as the village chief, but the symptoms were mild or severe.

Candle Ye and Lingyu both stared blankly at all this.

"It doesn't matter if the disease just makes us look hideous," the village chief continued, "but the dragon scales that grow on us not only make us faceless, but also absorb our nutrients, making our lifespan much shorter than that of ordinary people, and some people are even taken away from us at a young age." ”

"But we still found a solution, which is to transfer our illness to someone else, but that person will definitely be drained of nutrients by the dragon scales and die. So we've been waiting for the travelers to pass by, so that we can become ours—"

"For the dead. ”

The village chief's words made Candle Ye and the others fall into an ice cellar, and they all knew who the village chief's "ghost for the dead" was.

"Come in if you don't want to die, I'm going to start launching a formation to transfer the dragon scales on your body. The village chief said to a group of onlookers outside.

The villagers swarmed in and stood on the other side of the formation, opposite the position of Candle Ye and the two of them.

But I didn't expect that there was still a person left outside the formation, it was the old woman just now, she didn't enter the formation, but just put the baby in her arms into the formation.

"I'm not going in, I've lived enough, I don't have to worry about it, but my grandson," the old woman sobbed, "my grandson is still young, I really don't want to ......"

"I'm sorry, you're just two kids. The old woman said to the two of them.

"It's noisy, old woman, don't let it start?!"

"That's it, it's obvious that you deceived people, and you still have the face to say. ”

"Yes, yes, you don't want to sacrifice them for your grandson. ”

“……”

The other villagers began to talk about the old woman's words and deeds, but the latter did not answer, but kept hiding his face and crying.

"Don't make any noise, I'm going to start the formation, don't come in if you don't want to come in, as long as you don't regret it when the time comes. The village chief spoke, and there seemed to be a slight dissatisfaction with the old woman in his words.

"That...... Village Chief?" Candle Ye said suddenly.

"What's the matter? It's useless to stall, as long as the rope is tied, you're left to our slaughter. ”

"No, I've already accepted my fate, I won't resist, just a small request. ”

"What request?"

"I don't think there are many people in your village, so I think it's enough for me to be a substitute for the dead ghosts. So—"

"If I manage to absorb all of your dragon scales, I want you to let her go. Candle Ye still had a smile on the corner of his mouth, if it was a few months ago, he would probably have been so scared that he would have cried out by now, and I don't know why, after the death of the master, he looked down on life and death a lot.

This should be an improvement, right?

As soon as Candle Ye's words came out, the villagers immediately exploded and began to discuss, and even Lingyu turned his head to Candle Ye with a surprised expression, obviously wondering if his ears had heard it wrong.

There was anyone in the world who was willing to sacrifice her life in exchange for her life? This is something she never thought about since she was a child.

"Okay, yes, this is very manly, I like it, as long as you can really use your body to absorb the dragon scales of our whole village, I will let your girlfriend go. The village chief waved his hand and agreed to Candle Ye's request.

Candle Ye watched Lingyu being inserted out of the formation by them with a cross, closed his eyes and said "thank you".

"Formation activated!!"

Lingyu, who was removed from the formation, was still a little stunned at first, her eyes stared directly at Zhu Ye's figure, as if she was stunned, until the formation was activated and the bright light lit up, and she began to whisper in her mouth: "Don't ......"

Then, as if he understood that this was not his fantasy, he shouted at the candle in the array in a screaming voice: "Don't-hey...... Candle Ye—"

This seems to be the first time she called me by my name, alas, why didn't she call it earlier? Unfortunately, I can't hear it later, Master, I'm sorry for you, I can't help you fulfill your last wish...... Goodbye, damn another world.

Just as Lingyu was shouting hoarsely, Candle Ye, who had originally closed his eyes, suddenly opened his eyes, moved his lips slightly at Lingyu outside the array, and said a few words softly, and then the strong light mercilessly covered Candle Ye's figure, leaving only Lingyu who was tied outside the array.

Hearing Candle Ye's whisper, Lingyu finally couldn't control it anymore, and burst into tears in an instant, if she hadn't been tied to the cross, she would probably have weakened her legs and collapsed to the ground.

"I'm sorry to leave you alone to cry again. ”