Chapter One Hundred and One: The Far North
With the faint blue glow emanating from the night pearl in her hand, Mulan quietly approached the entrance of the demon cave in front of her. When I came to the entrance of the cave, a strong smell came from the cave. I hadn't noticed this before, the smell of the demon clan was so stinky, and this thought quickly flashed through Mulan's mind.
The deeper you go into the cave, the more you snort and the snoring gradually pour into your ears. Although there is the reflection of the blue glow of the night pearl, the scene in the cave is still not clear. Mulan took a deep breath, her footsteps softer, and continued to walk inside against the cold cave wall.
Suddenly, Mulan seemed to step on something under her feet, and she bent down and brought the Night Pearl closer to her feet. Mulan was shocked, it turned out that she stepped on the tail of a demon, but fortunately, her steps were slight and she didn't wake it up. So, she pushed the Night Pearl to the reverse of the tail, and with the blue glow of the Night Pearl, she found that the demon who had been stepped on the tail was sleeping soundly on the stomach of the other demon. In the demon colony in the Western Regions, the demons were sleepy, so the Western Expeditionary Army could easily kill them. To Mulan's great surprise, the same is true of the demons in the Far North, once the demons fall asleep, it is difficult to wake them up unless there is a particularly large vibration. It seems that Mulan's initial caution in entering the cave seems to be redundant. Mulan thought like this.
Mulan retracted her thoughts and continued to walk deeper into the cave. Perhaps because of the numbness of the nose, the fishy smell when entering the cave at the beginning is no longer so pungent. Her eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness of the cave, and with the blue glow of the Night Pearl, her vision and range expanded. She found that the demons in the cave were sleeping on the ground on the left and right sides, although the sleeping position was messy, but in the middle of the space, there was a road deliberately set aside, and it reached a width enough to accommodate two people walking side by side.
Hua Mulan didn't know why, and with this question, she continued to walk towards the extension of the cave. Between the lethargic habits of the demons, she walked cautiously, relaxed a lot, and the frequency also accelerated a lot, and the soles of her feet were rustling from time to time. As her stride quickened, she suddenly kicked a pebble into the air. As the stone rolls forward, it makes a crisp sound of touching the ground. Hua Mulan's heart rippled slightly, paused, and subconsciously looked around, there seemed to be no accident, and there was still snoring one after another around her.
Mulan sank down and continued to walk towards the depths of the stone cave. Gradually, she found that the tunnel under her feet began to have an inclined arc, although it was not large, but the further she went, Mulan's stride became slower and slower. And the coldness in the air is getting stronger, and it seems that it is about to reach the end of the tunnel. Mulan gasped for a moment, looked up at the front, there was a faint fluorescence flickering, she held up the night pearl, high above her head, but the fluorescence disappeared.
Mulan's doubts doubled, and the pace under her feet quickened a lot. It didn't take long for her to get close to the place where the fluorescent light had just flickered, so she took a deep breath and picked up the Night Pearl again. As if echoing the pearl of the night, the fluorescence reappeared. Mulan leaned her head forward, only to see that it was a huge head of a demon race, but it was missing an eye, and it was a one-eyed beast. It turned out that this fluorescence was the ghostly light reflected by the green eyes of the demons under the reflection of the blue glow of the night pearl.
Mulan was shocked, and a cold air swept away from the soles of her feet towards her back.
I saw that the one-eyed beast, with its embarrassed eyes, its fangs exposed, and its mouth hissing, was slowly getting up from the ground. Mulan's first stress reaction was to turn around and run in the direction of the hole, and a low roar of a unicorn came from behind her.
However, to Mulan's rejoicing, the unicorn's cry did not wake up the surrounding demons, and the surrounding snoring was still one after another.
How could there be a demon who had not slept at the end of the cave? Could it be that the flying stone woke him up? Or did he smell his own breath? Is he a guard in this cave? Or is it the leader of this demon clan in the cave? These questions flashed in Mulan's mind.
Behind him was the chaotic and dull footsteps of the one-eyed beast, which seemed to be not as fast as Mulan had imagined. With deep doubt, she quickly glanced back, only to see that the green eyes were not much taller than her height. Apparently the one-eyed beast was running around the cat's waist, which indicated that the cave was not high enough for the demons to walk upright. At this moment, Mulan's nervous heart was relieved a lot.
Night Pearl clutched tightly in Mulan's palm, and as her arm swung, Lan Hui alternately scattered in front of her. In this way, Mulan quickly ran forward with the glimmer of light and the sense of memory cultivated since entering the cave.
Xiaozi, who had been standing in place waiting for the captain, suddenly saw Mulan rushing towards her from the entrance of the cave through the dim silver light of the snow, and it was obvious that she was in trouble in the cave. My long-anxious heart became more suspicious and apprehensive.
When Mulan was about to approach her, Xiao Zi asked eagerly, "Captain, what's wrong, are you in any danger?" ”
"There's a demon chasing after you, let's retreat quickly." Mulan gasped a little.
"Huh?" Xiaozi's eyes were slightly open, and his mouth was slightly open, very frightened. "Then what are you waiting for, let's run." After a brief moment of fright, he added.
It wasn't long before they ran out in the direction of the team. The roar of the one-eyed demon could be heard in the distance behind them, and the footsteps of the two of them became more urgent.
Because of the low inner wall of the cave, this demon couldn't run with all his strength, and when he came to the outside of the cave, he used all his strength. Before Mulan and the team could join up, the one-eyed beast had already chased after them.
Hua Mulan sensed the danger approaching behind her, and hurriedly pulled out her heavy sword from behind, turned around and accumulated her strength in place for a moment, and with a slap of the dragon, she slammed the sword qi of the powerful bully towards the demon clan behind her. At the same time, the demons were jumping high, their fists clenched, and they were struggling to smash down on Mulan.
The demon didn't have time to dodge, and the sword qi that galloped like the wind struck his chest like lightning. The one-eyed demon clan was immediately hit to the ground by this surging sword qi, and there was a faint green juice flowing in his chest.
The demon clan felt the strength of the opponent, and his eyes hurriedly swept around, and suddenly the appearance of a stone came into his eyes. I saw him quickly get up and run towards the snow-covered boulder. He lifted the boulder above his head and attacked Mulan again.
Seeing that this demon was holding a boulder in his hand, it was menacing, and she once again charged her heavy sword, and when the demon clan approached, she swept the sword qi towards him.
The demon ran a few steps again, jumped high, and the boulder in his hand struck Mulan with a howling wind. With her heavy sword, Mulan swept towards the boulder again, and the sharp sword qi split the boulder into two petals in an instant, landing on both sides behind Mulan. And the small gravel that fell galloped towards the body of the demon. I only heard a few sounds of "poof, poof, poof", and a few stones wedged into the body of the demons.
Before the demons could land, Mulan suddenly changed several sword styles, and a swift burst of brilliance was quickly unleashed. I saw four pale yellow sword qi connected together, swept towards the demon clan like a storm.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom." Several sword qi fell steadily on the chest of the demon clan, and the demon clan suddenly fell to the ground with a bang. It was a long time before he struggled to get up, and this time he learned to be obedient, limping back to the mouth of the cave.