Chapter 158: Nothing to do
Liu Shenghan had been groping around his body, and at this time he seemed to have finally found something, grabbed it with his fist, and spread out his palms. The three of them looked at each other, and the pill in her hand looked a little familiar.
"It's ...... Hyakkamaru? Do you have this too? ”
Liu Shenghan nodded.
"I'm a pharmacist after all...... Although it is a stopgap measure, it can also buy us time. ”
This is exactly the pill that Qi Huan gave to his two companions to shield his breath at the seaside where Yaksha haunted at that time. It was larger than the original circle in his hand, and Liu Shenghan's nails were also long, and he moved carefully, breaking out almost four equal pieces. Even at this critical juncture, Qi Huan couldn't help but glance at Bai Ya. He is still the little pill that Bai Ya pinched into powder. Bai Ya didn't know if he really didn't think about it, or if he deliberately didn't see it.
The tengu was quieter, and it seemed to have crawled up, pacing aimlessly, squeezing the cracks, crushing rocks, shaking the vegetation, and clogging the river. It seemed to be closer to them. They all understood the effect of the Hundred Flowers Pill, and hurriedly took a petal from Liu Shenghan's hand, stretched their necks, and swallowed it urgently.
After doing all this, they dared to poke their heads out of the shadows of the rocks.
In the night, a huge beast stood awe-inspiring, covering the sky and the moon. The tengu resembles a hungry wolf with knotted hair, but with a pair of pitch-black wings tucked behind its towering shoulder blades. Occasionally, when they stretched, darkness reigned in front of the eyes of several tiny humans. Its head looked extraordinarily large, with a bony ridge protruding from the midline of its skull, and a dark red light reflected in its sunken eye sockets, illuminating the eagle's beak at the mouth and nose, and splitting to the base of the ear.
The moon had hung in the sky, and it was pitifully small compared to the huge monster in front of it, not even a piece of bread. When the dog raised its head and the outline of its muzzle approached, the moon ring was like a small lump of food at its fingertips. The exaggerated and absurd picture of the legend of Tengu Eating the Moon was presented to them in front of them at this time, on this Moon-Eating Mountain, which had been in disarray like a natural disaster.
The beast lowered its head and sniffed roughly around the mountains. It kept circling around their direction, and people broke out in a cold sweat at the sight. To make matters worse, the distance between it and them is shrinking, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before it is discovered.
As the tengu approached, Qi Huan felt that the strange feeling he had felt had intensified again. He heard a lot of muffled voices, some of them the little prince, and some others. What shocked him even more was that he felt the consciousness of the tengu—even if he didn't look or listen, he knew exactly where it was, like a dazzling light in the night, and a person could sense it through his eyelids. This connection reminded him of the connection he had with his friends thanks to the influence of Blue Per. In contrast, he didn't know what Tengu was thinking, but he seemed to have a certain amount of empathy with it in the dark, and was able to capture sporadic intentions.
For example, at this moment, he inexplicably knew that Tengu had discovered something very important. It is not there to hunt or eat, it is simply to find this being. Qi Huan closed his eyes tightly, trying to feel more. If the tengu hadn't come for them, would there still be a chance to escape?
In the darkness, a birdsong fell faintly overhead.
Qi Huan looked up in shock like his friends. It was dark and dark, and nothing could be seen.
But the tengu seemed to hear something and suddenly pounced. At its size, that's just a few steps away.
"Run, run!"
They staggered and fled, and there was a loud bang behind them, and the boulder was easily overturned by the tengu and slapped away. It roared with its head back, stomping on the gravel and running wildly. Qi Huan was creepy, and his intuition reminded him that danger was coming. Before he had time to hesitate, he braked sharply and drove his friends to the other side:
"Run over there—trust me!"
They didn't take two steps before the tengu slammed into the direction they had just rushed forward, shocking the four of them to the ground. It screamed angrily, but its massive body didn't turn, and by the time it adjusted, they were out of the way again.
The human voice and the anger from the tengu wrapped Qi Huan heavily. Qi Huan didn't know how to describe it, but these feelings were far more than the individual could have, and at first made it difficult for him to breathe. After gradually getting used to it, it was like having many more eyes and many ears, which broadened the range of his mental perception and made the previously hazy feeling clearer.
At a certain moment, a thought crossed. It seemed to flash many times, and this time, Qi Huan finally caught it.
Woodcarving.
In Tengu's consciousness, the attraction it feels comes from the wood carvings in its hands. It was caught in Kihwan's hands like a firefly waddling and flying, and the tengu was committed to pounce on it.
Countless wills are still hustling, and under their guidance, Qi Huan has a vague guess. He summoned a paper figure with a shaking hand, and it grabbed the wooden carving and flew in the opposite direction—the tengu was unmoved.
Qi Huan's perception could read that it could no longer see the eye-catching wood carvings that shimmered like light. In its place, there was a concrete scene around it, and four humans who had invaded its territory. Before it could get angry at the loss of its target and take them out on it, Qi Huan caught its target back in time. He felt the tengu confused for a moment, and then continued to chase after him. Its breath turned into a scorching wind, smashing their backs.
Qi Huan completely understood.
The wood carvings attracted the attention of the tengu the most, and with it, the tengu were able to leave behind even their small mortals. However, it is only when the wood carving is held in the hands of a living person that the tengu can "see" it.
Bai Ya's eyes were sharp, and he saw that Qi Huan's behavior was a little strange. At this moment, he saw Qi Huan running while untying the strip of cloth wrapped around his hand. He had always thought that this was similar to the habit of martial arts practitioners to protect their hands, until today he realized that things were far from that simple.
As the fine cloth spread, a glimmer of light came through Qi Huan's hands. He was wounded, the edges of the cloth and his skin were stained with blood, but there were other things on his hands. After changing direction again to avoid the tengu, Bai Ya grabbed Qi Huan's wrist: Shucang.com
"What are you doing this—this is, Demon Pattern!?"
The other two were also attracted to attention. Now they could all see clearly that the back of Qi Huan's hand was full of strange veins, like a web of green tendons, but it was by no means like the distribution of human blood vessels.
"Demon Pattern?" Jun Aoyan adjusted his breathing and asked loudly, "What is that?" ”
"If a person and a demon make a contract, the traces left behind are demon patterns...... It is an unequal contract, where people accept the power of the yokai but are dominated by the yokai. But - Bai Shaoxia, Shao'an is not impatient. It's not a demon pattern. ”
It's just that Liu Shenghan doesn't know what this should be. She held up Qi Huan's hand and glanced at it hurriedly, and in this urgent situation, she couldn't even say why for a while.
"I'll tell you when I have the chance." Qi Huan finally spoke, he was frighteningly calm compared to before, and Bai Ya remembered ominously when he was dying after being hit by a dragon, "I have a lot to do...... I haven't had time to say it yet. I promised to tell you, but now is not the time. However, for the time being, I have a solution. ”
"What's the solution?"
"I'll lure the tengu away, and it will chase me. You run first. ”
"How do you know - what do you do?"
"I know what to do, someone taught me. Hurry up—go! ”
He knows what to do...... This is the only way he knows.
So Qi Huan shook off Bai Ya violently, and rushed towards the direction of the rift. The figure jumped up on the edge of the cliff, barely rising, and fell into the valley like a meteor.
Tengu's huge black shadow followed, plunging headlong.
The ground shook again. It felt different from before, when the surface of the mountain was disturbed and shattered, and now the whole mountain itself was shaking, slowly but surely closing, as if it were about to put the tengu back in a cage. But the movement was not steady, and they realized to their horror that more and more rocks were crumbling, as if there were two invisible hands, crushing them and breaking them, filling them into the rift valley in large chunks. It is foreseeable that this fission will soon spread to their foothold.
Even though Bai Ya was determined, he felt that he was about to go crazy. He stared in the direction of the rift, his eyes splitting. After repeated accidents, there is no way to escape after sacrificing friends, will they all die here in vain? Even in the face of the tengu, they can still fight to the death and bite off a piece of meat, but with such the power of heaven and earth, how can manpower fight against it?
"Bai Shaoxia, come up!"
Liu Shenghan shouted behind him.
He turned his head, and a huge, blood-red feather trembled slightly from waist-high height. Bai Ya's eyes widened in astonishment, and he didn't dare to slow down, jumping onto this strange vehicle, his mind turned sharply:
"It's you...... Drawn? Where did you get the paint, you just ......"
Why didn't you do something just now - it was too much of a reproach, too sharp. Bai Ya swallowed it back.
"When I touched Qi Gongzi's hand earlier, I got a little blood." Liu Shenghan explained tiredly, the brush in his hand did not stop, and the wind held up the three of them out of thin air, "only a little bit...... Nothing else can be done but to take us out of here at this moment...... Pray for him. ”
A huge bird waved its wings and flew farther and farther away from the Moon Eclipse Mountain. Two long golden feathers fluttered on its tail, its main body was as dark as the thick night, but there was a faint red layer on the surface of the feathers.
It circled, looking left and right, as if looking for something. Eventually, it saw a strange figure on a high cliff. The outline of the humanoid form was edged with twisted limbs.
The black man stood up, looking at the scenery of the landslide in the distance, and pinched the trick with his hand behind his back. There was the sound of wings flapping around him, and when he fell to the ground, he had turned into the sound of human footsteps. He did not turn to the other party, but raised his twisted hand to look at it, and said idly:
"This mountain trick is very easy to use."
"Now they are more than lucky. Tengu and landslides, even weak humans can't stand it. Ling Ge said coldly, she stepped forward and also looked in the direction of Moon-Eating Mountain, "Although I wouldn't be stupid enough to believe that you had the good heart to design all this for me, you did help me. ”
"No thanks, I know it. After all, I can't guarantee how many of your enemies have died. Ants have the survival of ants, the strength of insects is weak, and the vitality can be very tenacious. ”
"You're really optimistic about them."