Chapter 128: Suspicious
After taking a deep breath, Lin Xiao finally woke up from his slumber. She felt that she had been wandering in a rather terrible nightmare for a long time, and she had never been able to find a way out, and just when she was about to despair, she saw a little light in the nightmare, and Tang Dou's voice came from there.
Following that voice, she finally got out of that terrible nightmare and woke up. When she opened her eyes, the first person she saw was Tang Dou.
"Yo, little girl, awake? Tut-tut, what a pitiful, look at your appearance, it's so embarrassing! Tang Dou looked at Lin Xiao with a smile on his face.
The half-elf girl pouted suddenly, and just wanted to refute something, but the memory quickly organized, and then she understood the current situation: "You rescued me back?" Or are you out? ”
"Do you think this place looks like a workshop?" Tang Dou pointed around.
Lin Xiao was indeed poisoned, but that bit of poison was nothing to Tang Dou, a drop of blood could completely remove the poison, the real trouble was the "evil" that invaded Lin Xiao's body and soul world, if it was used by normal means, even if Lin Xiao could wake up, she would never be able to completely get rid of that terrible nightmare, she would always be affected by phantoms and nightmares. Eventually, you'll either become a madman, or you'll die in some hallucination or nightmare.
But with Qiqi, a beast that feeds on evil, all evil is completely clear without consequences, so Lin Xiao has forgotten about the nightmare in just one minute after waking up, and her memories before she fell into a coma have been completely restored.
For Lin Xiao now, the only thing she can remember is the feeling of being saved by hearing Tang Dou's voice in despair, but all the clear memories have disappeared, because those bad memories have been eaten by Qi Qi along with "evil".
"Are we still in the midst of that cliff?" Lin Xiao couldn't hold on to her coma after climbing the cliff, so she could remember the environment of the cliff cave.
"Yes, that's the way it is. What do you think? Little girl, how are you feeling? Tang Dou pretended to check the pulse of the half-elf girl, although he couldn't understand the situation at all, he still shook his head, and with a look of "I already know the truth", he almost didn't say such a bastard as "The pulse is peaceful, like a bead, it's a happy pulse".
Hearing Tang Dou's concern, Lin Xiao's little face flushed slightly, and then he reflected the same arrogance: "Hmph, I really disappointed you, I'm not dead!" ”
"Yes, yes, yes, it's not dead," Tang Dou withdrew his hand without a trace, and smiled evilly: "But I almost died, that embarrassed look." Tsk, that's ......."
"I, I'm ......" Lin Xiao blushed all of a sudden, gritted her teeth and looked at Tang Dou, as if she wanted to rush up and bite the other party, after a while, the half-elf girl was deflated, lowered her head, and said in an undetectable voice: "I'm sorry to disappoint you!" ”
Tang Dou grinned: "I'm not disappointed. Your life is the greatest achievement. For me, whether this mission succeeds or fails, it will allow you to gain experience, and you will still be alive, even if you have achieved your goal. And let's be honest, it's even better now! ”
"Better?" Lin Xiao looked at Tang Dou puzzled.
"A lot of times, trouble means opportunity. In this Foggy Hidden Continent, there are still many things that I don't know, there are many enemies that I don't know, and now another enemy has jumped out. At any given time, a known enemy is far less terrible than an unknown one. Tang Dou smiled: "Okay, now you can tell me what happened!" Although the boy Cuchu told me what happened, I want to hear your observation of the whole thing! ”
Lin Xiao nodded, sat up, and began to organize his memories.
This mission was not too difficult to do, although the arrival of the Martha storm made the Fog Hidden Continent even more chaotic, but now it has only been more than a month, and some people living in the interior still don't know about the arrival of the Martha storm, only after almost three months, those who live in the inland find that the caravan has not arrived, and then they will slowly begin to notice that something is wrong.
Historically, the real chaos caused by Martha's storm has often begun five months after the storm falls, and then reaches its peak in the seventh to tenth months, and by the eleventh month, those who can be chaotic have already passed the chaos, and those who will die are almost dead. The rest of the people basically don't have much strength to toss, and when they only have the strength to die, they will slowly calm down again.
And after the end of the Martha Storm, the starving continent will lead to a period of high outbreak of scavenging monsters, followed by a slow recovery of the relative order and a slow recovery of the population. It will take at least three to five years for the entire continent to completely erase the effects of a single Martha.
And if the situation is too serious, such as the last Storm Martha, it will take 15 years to calm the whole storm. At that time, Kinunu City was not only a human-controlled area, but even the demon-controlled area was almost completely reshuffled, and only the elves survived.
But also because of this reason, humans and demons had to unite against the possible operation of the elves due to the last Martha storm, and until now, humans and demons still maintain a subtle connection, so that the elves have been excluded to a certain extent.
It can be said that the last Martha Storm affected all the forces in the entire Fog Hidden Continent.
Although the Martha Storm will bring great disasters to the Fog Hidden Continent, the Martha Storm that has just arrived for more than a month has not yet received news except for the people in the city of Kinunu who knew about it at the time.
It is not very dangerous to carry out the mission at this time.
And the whole mission was the same as expected at the beginning, it was quite smooth at the beginning, Kuqiu led everyone to Yabu's homeless settlement, told Yabu about the arrival of Martha's storm, and brought a handwritten letter from Ilia to Yabu, and at the same time, Lin Xiao also sent an invitation to Yabu in his "official capacity" when he set off, that is, as a disciple of Tang Dou.
Yabu is indeed a very chivalrous person, but there is nothing meaningless about a person like him.
In fact, few people living in the Fog Hidden Continent are so stupid. Kindness is a choice, but people who die to save face and suffer will not be able to live in the Fog Hidden Continent.
Yabu still believed in the Sword Hunter Troupe, with Kuqiu's testimony, Iliya's handwritten letter, and Lin Xiao, a person who was a "disciple of the platinum powerhouse", personally sent an invitation, and after a little discussion with his subordinates and representatives of the homeless people, he made the decision to join the workshop.
It took three days to prepare for the migration, and then on the fourth day, the road was safe, all the way to the south, and soon arrived near the Valley of Ten Thousand Lakes.
And then at this very moment, the enemy appeared.
But until now, no one knew who the enemy was, and these enemies suddenly appeared, and at first everyone thought that they had encountered a bandit, because the other party's initial action pattern was no different from that of the bandit - suddenly covering the neighborhood, following the encirclement, and starting to kill.
The soul cultivators in the team immediately organized a counterattack, Kuqiu, Lin Xiao, and Yabu, these silver-level masters, were the main force among the people, and they blocked more than seventy percent of the enemy's attacks at that time, while the rest of the people blocked the remaining enemies.
The only good news was that the enemy was not outnumbered by much, and although there were some outcasts and one of Yabu's men killed in battle, the overall situation was good.
The team fought and retreated, and reached the Valley of Wansee, where they held a makeshift camp to defend against the enemy.
But the enemy's support soon arrived, and it was a group of gold-level masters who immediately crushed the team, and just when they were desperate, the protector who had been following them struck.
"That person killed all the other party's gold-level masters at that time, but I never saw the appearance of that person, and I only saw a shadow all the time, including when the other party talked to us after killing the enemy, and let us immediately switch to the cliff to wait for support, I didn't see the other party's appearance. I can only see a plausible shadow! ”
Lin Xiao described the mystery of the protector and looked at Tang Dou with a strange expression: "Where did you invite the protector from?" ”
"Well, don't care about the details, if you're serious, you'll lose!" Tang Dou took a snort.
Lin Xiao was not stupid, he knew that Tang Dou would not speak, so he also said a sentence: "Later, we followed the protector here, but at that time we didn't understand, obviously those gold-level masters were killed, and the enemies were all dead and escaped, so we didn't return to the workshop immediately, but what did we want to stay here for." But the protector insisted that we stay here, and we had to listen! ”
"It turned out that very night, something strange hit us. I can't tell what it is, there are people on the other side, and there are monsters. But whether it's a human or a monster, it's quite strange, I can't say anything strange, but those enemies are quite abnormal! ”
"Lord Protector let us defend here, and I fought against the strong among the enemies, at that time I found out that the enemy among the enemies was actually platinum-level, I was startled, that similar aura I only felt in you, well, it is the kind of breath when you were about to kill. But even more frenzied. ”
"The Protector seems to only have a gold level, but he has always appeared as a shadow, and the enemy can't seem to hurt him, so he can barely block the platinum powerhouse among the enemies. But it's only enough to block it. There were still many enemies, and we took advantage of the terrain to defend for a whole day, after which I was wounded, crushed the rune stone before I fell unconscious, and then I fell unconscious! ”
Lin Xiao's memories were over, and Tang Dou sorted out the various situations a little: "Why didn't you ask me for help at the beginning?" Is there a problem with the runestone, or is it something else? ”
Lin Xiao nodded: "Actually, I wanted to send a signal when the enemy first dispatched a large number of gold-level masters, but before it was sent out, Lord Protector had already killed all the enemies." After that, he also deliberately told me not to send a signal. It wasn't until I was injured and was about to fall out of a coma that he said he could send a signal! ”
"I see, it seems that there are still some things you don't know. Well, you take a break first. I still have to analyze the intelligence! Tang Dou asked Lin Xiao to rest, got out of the cave, came to the platform, looked up, then chose a direction and jumped up.
After a few ups and downs, he had already come to a height of more than 100 meters on the platform, which was already halfway up the mountain. The place where Tang Dou settled was a crooked neck tree with a thick waist, which grew horizontally on the mountain wall, looking a little lonely and a little arrogant.
"Yo, long time no see! Let's talk! Tang Dou spoke to the empty side.
After a while, a black shadow rose from the shadow of the crooked neck tree, revealing only a pair of cat-like eyes, but no face could be seen, as Lin Xiao described before, this was a shadow-like guy.
This is the protector, the man introduced to Tang Dou by Impatiens Flower Ji, and the master who guarded the workshop that Xuanjizi found when he came to the workshop before.
"Although you have been protecting the workshop for a long time, we haven't seen it directly even when we were in the Daredevil Army last time, thank you!" Tang Dou greeted each other very warmly.
Then the shadow didn't answer, and there was no emotion in the cat's pupils, as if he hadn't heard Tang Dou's words at all.
"I feel like you're even more bored than the last time we met. Three new realms? Tang Dou didn't care about the other party's speechlessness, but continued to pull his light.
Tang Dou was verbose for three minutes, and the other party didn't react at all, as if Tang Dou was talking to himself to a ghost-like shadow.
It seemed that he also felt that this was a little boring, Tang Dou touched his nose with a little embarrassment, and finally brought up the topic: "I just came to ask you, do you know who the enemy is?" ”
Shadow finally shook her head, indicating that she didn't know.
"You stopped Lin Xiao from signaling at the beginning, did you find something?" Tang Dou asked again.
This time the shadow finally spoke, and the voice had a rather transparent and ethereal feeling, but there was no emotion, and there was no difference between men, women, and children, and it didn't even look like a human voice.
"The evil aura has blocked all the aura here, and it is impossible to succeed in calling for help. If you have wounded the enemy, you will have a chance to call for help! ”
Tang Dou made up for the middle guest in the other party's words in his mind, and touched his sweat: "It's really hard for you, and it's really hard for me!" I probably understand, you feel a special aura blocking all possible signals for help, so you wait until you injure the leader of the other party, and wait until this shield reveals a flaw, and then you ask for help! ”
The shadow nodded.
"Can you still feel that breath now? I didn't feel any breath! Tang Dou asked again.
"The breath is still there, but it's changed, it's not shielded!" The shadow reluctantly replied a few words.
"Looks like the water is very deep!" Tang Dou touched his chin and muttered a few words, and then looked at the shadow: "What, why don't you go down and join everyone?" ”
Not only did the shadow not answer Tang Dou this time, but he didn't even have any interest in continuing to communicate with Tang Dou, so he sank directly into the shadows and disappeared.
"These three no-girls are really interesting!" Tang Dou shook his head, smiled, and jumped off the crooked neck tree. (To be continued.) )