Chapter 268: Lost Hunger
——Since being opened by the explosion of the landed dragon fire** before, Mulan has fallen into the Wujiang River.
Her thin body had become like a piece of iron under the weight of the impact, and it had been sinking under excessive weight.
The icy river water continued to sweep over her, washing away the dust and the temperature of her skin. And the heavy water pressure rose more and more, and the all-round weight brought unbearable pressure on her soft body.
But the most dangerous and pressing thing is breathing, after losing the breathable air under the river, the suffocation of death soon forced the nasal cavity and pupils, forcing the semi-unconscious Hua Mulan to wake up immediately.
She instinctively opened her eyes and mouth under physiological stimulation, but was rushed by the water that was instantly poured into her throat. Realizing the danger, Mulan immediately held her breath, frowned and moved her cold gaze upward, and then desperately swam upstream with a mouthful of cold river water.
At that time, Hua Mulan had sunk more than 90 meters below the surface of the river, because of the semi-unconscious state after the strong impact, she had not reacted in the process of sinking, if it were not for the suffocation from the respiratory nerve to the brain, she was afraid that she would continue to sink until the bottom of the river.
But now that I'm sober, I'm still not in a good situation. The water pressure, which had sunk to a depth of more than 90 meters, equivalent to several times the gravity in the air, had really fallen on her.
It is not easy to swim against such heavy water pressure, and the river is constantly flowing, and her body is likely to have been washed far away underwater, and it will definitely take a lot of time to swim out of the river and rush back to the battlefield.
Yes, even to the point where she fell into the water for nearly 100 meters, so lonely and so suffocating, Mulan still thought about rushing back.
It's not that she thinks she has the ability to do anything, and she doesn't want to fight Ying Zheng Candle Dragon to the death, but she is worried about Zhang Liang.
With Zhang Liang's last state of being seriously injured and half dead, it was too dangerous to stay on the battlefield in Qianjiangling, and she had to go back. Although there are many dangers on the battlefield, although such Zhang Liang is likely to have lost his life in the fire, she still has to go back.
Hua Mulan looked up, across the ninety-meter-deep river, and could only see a cold and vast darkness upward. But she clung to the sky in her hand, let the water wash away her hair, and floated upwards without hesitation.
In the process of going upstream, Mulan has been deliberately maintaining consciousness and calmness, because the empty period of breathing is gradually lengthened, and the continuous lack of oxygen is extremely stressful to the human body, and it is likely to produce physiological coma and hallucinations. It was quite a dangerous situation, so in the face of the 90-meter-deep river Mulan, you must always be careful.
However, it was this sober and calm consciousness that made Mulan suddenly notice something abnormal—she gradually felt that something strange was happening inside her body. She couldn't explain the anomaly, and she didn't know what was going on inside her body.
But she can be sure that all this is real, and definitely not a hallucination caused by a strong feeling of suffocation!
The icy water rushed overhead, but Mulan's brows became more and more condensed, and a layer of gloom fell on her eyebrows for a long time.
In an extremely cold state of consciousness, she vaguely felt that something indescribable had left a strange mark on the abdominal cavity of her body...... Imprint...... In the abdominal cavity......
- "Is it ......?" ”
Mulan woke up in an instant, as if a cold lightning bolt suddenly fell in her heart. Then her vague eyes became solemn, and she had guessed something in that moment. If those abnormalities still came from the abdominal cavity, then all the doubts and speculations in her heart would be certain.
In fact, she guessed it when she woke up from Xianyang Palace, how did she, who accidentally triggered the resonance of the national seals of Qin Chu and Tang Cao, survive that extreme oppression?
Anyway, she alone has absolutely no such ability, and there is no other person in the environment at that time to save her, so her survival in the end means that there is only one most unlikely possibility - the Cloud Dragon Jade Seal and the Sun Moon Phoenix Seal decided to let her live!
It's really unbelievable when I think about it, but only Mulan, who has experienced it herself, can feel that those two lifeless national seals may really have some kind of consciousness.
So why did the two national seals keep her alive? After that resonance, where did the two national seals go? Hua Mulan didn't know that she hadn't been able to see anything before she fell unconscious, but she had a very bold idea, those two mysterious national seals were probably in her now......
"Goo......" Mulan's brows furrowed in shock, and a hint of anger faintly appeared on her face. It wasn't her voice, it was her abdomen, and with it, a long, intense hunger pang began to rise from her stomach and reach the tip of her tongue.
It's hunger, just like the hunger after experiencing Xianyang Palace.
But obviously when she arrived in Qianjiangling today, she had already eaten thirty servings of food, and even Liu Bang, who was watching her eat, was stunned. With such a large intake, it is impossible to digest it so quickly!
But at this moment, her stomach felt empty, as if all the food she ate had been pumped into the black hole of the void, and it had disappeared completely without any digestion. And that strange hunger pang has always lingered, and now it is surging upwards like the waves of high tide.
"Is it because of that seal again......" Mulan narrowed her gaze, faintly hateful in her heart. Since leaving Xianyang Palace, this strange hunger has tormented her all the way. It's just that I didn't expect it to make a comeback so quickly after eating so many things.
There's really no way to do it, and it's like driving people to death!
"Damn it!" Although she hated it in her heart, Mulan didn't have anything to do. The rapid increase in hunger will increasingly affect her movement and consciousness, and she herself is in the water and even breathing is a problem, and there is no way to solve the hunger.
Anyway, I'll have to swim out first. After a difficult swim, Mulan was now only forty meters away from the water, so she endured her intense hunger and used all her strength to swim downward.
After another thirty seconds, Mulan finally reached the surface of the water from the turbulence. She lunged up with all her might, and then raised her head out of the river and took a big breath of air as if saving her life.
She spat out her mouth full of turbid river water, and breathed for a while before it gradually calmed down. Then she kept her feet floating, wiped the water stains all over her face with one left hand, and opened her moist eyes as she wiped, only to see her current situation.
At this moment, she has fallen to the downstream section of the south of the Wujiang River, and the coast is full of scenery that she has never seen before. But the night was misty, and it was difficult for her to judge her current exact position, and when she raised her gaze, she could not find the golden red of the candle dragon in the distant night sky.
"It's strange, why can't you even see the candle dragon......" Mulan looked at her in surprise, feeling that something was wrong. It stands to reason that no matter how dark the night is and how far away it is, the candle dragon's thousand-meter-long brilliant golden red should be easy to see.
But no matter which direction she looked, she couldn't see the golden and red figure of the candle dragon above the night sky, which was really amazing.
Could it be that when she sank underwater before, she had already flowed far away with the turbulent undercurrent? The undercurrents under the seemingly calm river are often urgent, and it is not a problem for her to float for miles in just a few minutes.
Hua Mulan was a little puzzled, but fortunately, when she raised her eyes, she caught a glimpse of the flames burning dozens of meters away—the flames that were obviously left on the ground after the impact of the dragon fire of the candle dragon, and the burning was surrounded by a scorched pit ruins. So there, it should be a wreck that was attacked by Ying Zheng with pure dragon fire.
There was a place that had been attacked by pure dragon fire a few dozen meters away, which meant that this place was not too far from the hinterland of Qianjiangling, so she should be able to hurry back to the battlefield quickly.
After Hua Mulan took a breath, she immediately prepared to swim to the shore, and she had to rush back to find Zhang Liang no matter what. Although she doesn't have much magic blue energy left now, and the hunger in her stomach is still getting worse, she can only hold on to her qi and work hard, and it is impossible to leave Zhang Liang there.
However, just as Mulan swam to the shore, a faint murderous aura quickly swept from under the river. Mulan's eyes lit up, and she immediately noticed an unusual sound of running water. Then there was a frightening sound of the waves, and a strange white finless porpoise suddenly broke through the water and fiercely pounced on the floating Mulan from behind.
But a sword roar pierced the river, and the ancient silver sword blade stabbed out in reverse in an instant, just inserting it into the white dolphin's open bloody mouth.
Leng Rui is like Mulan, how can he be attacked so easily. She slowly turned her gaze and saw the fierce fish monster behind her.
The head is like a dolphin, the mouth is full of sharp teeth, the five-meter-long white body does not produce scales, and the more special thing is that the back is covered with a row of eighteen sharp bone spurs - the spine white dolphin, a rare monster that only grows in the deep waters of the Wujiang River.
Hua Mulan has never seen this kind of wild monster and monster, it should be a special breed of Qin Chu Kingdom. But in her impression, the fish, dolphins and wild monsters in the Dafan River are generally relatively mild, and rarely take the initiative to attack people. But this white dolphin looked fierce and abnormal, until she pierced the throat with a sword, it was still swinging wildly on the water, desperately trying to bite it.
Then on the side of her gaze, Mulan noticed that the two tiny eyes on the white dolphin's head were all red like blood.
"Was it over-panicking?" Seeing the blood in her eyes, Mulan was probably clear. She knew that in the case of excessive panic, wild monsters and monsters were prone to violent madness.
And because the candle dragon is above Qianjiangling, the supreme imperial coercion alone is a huge intimidation to the entire Qianjiangling life. Within a radius of ten miles, wild monsters and monsters are fleeing, dying, and those who can survive will definitely go crazy, just like this white dolphin with crimson eyes.
Mulan coldly turned her gaze back, ready to finish off the red-eyed monster with a single sword. But at this moment, her cold and sharp gaze suddenly flickered, and her arm instantly weakened, almost causing the fierce white dolphin to pounce again.
Mulan frowned, and immediately grabbed the sky hard, but she felt the feeling of emptiness and powerlessness still spreading in her body.
It was hunger, and the hunger that was getting more intense was depriving her of her body's strength, making her limbs limp, and even holding a sword with great difficulty. Not only that, but the excessive hunger also stimulated her other physiological reactions, such as the accelerated secretion of stomach acid and the contraction of the abdominal intestines, which caused her a lot of pain.
"Goo...... ...... "My stomach started barking again." The pain of hunger is getting deeper and more unbearable.
"Damn it!" Hua Mulan couldn't bear it anymore, she was tormented by this hunger, not to mention rushing back to the battlefield, even if she had no strength to swim to the shore. It's really hateful to think about, why did you torture her at such a critical time? The seriously injured Zhang Liang is still lying on the battlefield and his life and death are uncertain, and everyone else is also facing the danger of destruction at all times.
And she, she's stuck on this downstream surface and fighting her hunger? Isn't that ridiculous!
However, in the midst of this indignation, Mulan's resentful gaze unintentionally fell on the firelight not far away. The flames that remained in the crater dozens of meters away were still burning, burning hot and violent.
Hua Mulan stared at the firelight, and subconsciously turned her eyes to look at the spine thorn white dolphin behind her.
Suddenly, Mulan had a witty idea.
"It stands to reason that the meat of the fish and dolphin monsters should be delicious......"
Silent thoughts swirled back and forth in her mind, and Mulan, who was extremely hungry, couldn't take care of it too much.
Extraordinary times, informal. The corners of her mouth curled slightly, her resentful gaze began to shine, and her hungry body sparked new motivation. Then he stabbed with his sword without hesitation with his right hand, directly ending the last madness of the spine-piercing white dolphin.
After the blow, Mulan took advantage of the situation to drag the body of the white dolphin that still had residual warmth with her sword, and then forcibly took the more than 1,000 catties of "white pork meat" towards the remnants of the fire on the shore......
At the same time, in the ruins of the riverbank in the heart of Qianjiangling, Han Xin, who was covered in mud, finally got up from his soreness and fatigue.
Scarred and scorched with his armor, he stood at the bottom of the pit with his hair scattered, gasping for a while before he could barely move forward with his spear.
Han Shin was too powerless and too painful. So far, they have died and been injured, and even Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, has disappeared in front of his eyes. And what is the use of him who is still barely surviving? Why did he survive?
Han Xin's eyes were dark, but when he climbed out of the seven-meter-deep pit over the remnant fire, he saw an unbelievable scene - the thousand-meter candle dragon that was supposed to destroy them all, had actually fallen to the ground, under a giant sword of light that surpassed reality.