It's a lot like the Twenty-One King Worm, but I know, that's not.

The difference in smell.

Only I, who have the blood of the pure king worm in my veins, can smell it. But how did this monster come about? It seemed to be asleep at the moment, and there was a vertical line on its chest, which was a closed vertical eye. That's it, it chased me all the way before, and then took Mina's things.

But what I don't understand is that Mina is not among the floating people in mid-air.

Where will she be?

"Uncle...... Uncle, you, do you see it, that thing's wings are there, in, moving, it, it, is it going to wake up?? Yao Qianwen's voice trembled, so scared that she pointed to the monster in the middle of the half-cut eggs in the pumice stone. The thing's wings were shaking, and they were bulging, as if something was in there!

Could it be Mina?

I walked towards the Chain Bridge, one step closer to the lava beneath my feet, and before I could touch it, the heat nearly destroyed my body. If I fall into it, no matter what kind of blood I have in my veins, there will be no chance for me to evolve. And the tremor of the monster's wings reached the extreme at this moment!

Click!

On the eve of spreading its wings, it suddenly opened the vertical eye on its chest! Facing me, his eyes were yellow, exuding a ghostly aura, and the intermittent and distorted voice echoed in my ears again: "Again...... Meet...... Scold...... Hehe......"

"Give her back to me."

At this moment, I am in the middle of the chain bridge, shaking the position most violently.

It suddenly spread its wings, and a powerful wind came at me! It made it even more difficult for me, who was already shaky, to control the balance of my body, I grabbed the left and right chains with both hands, and there was a "swish" sound in my palms!

The palms are probably cooked.

But I didn't have the heart to feel the pain it was transmitting to me.

Just staring at the basket that fell after the monster spread its wings......

It's Lan Lan, not Mina.

"You...... Want this? "It asked me.

"Another one!" I responded.

"Then I'm afraid you won't see it." The monster's voice became hideous, and it became much clearer.

It struggled to writhe, as if it had been imprisoned for a long time and was about to be cast. At that moment, countless illusory shadows appeared in the sky, all in its form, huge and demon-like insect-headed monsters, with yellowed vertical eyes on their chests, they flew over the heads of everyone suspended in mid-air, and then spread their wings and enveloped them.

When the wings open, the person has disappeared.

The temperature of the magma has been raised to the extreme, and the chains under your feet have been burned red!

I quickly ran forward to the levitating boulder. When I stopped, I couldn't control it, and I got down on one knee, sweat running down and casting large shadows on the ground......

But the monster's words kept repeating in my head: Then I'm afraid you won't see it!

I can't see ......

What does that mean?

I slowly turned my head and saw that those illusory shadows were still wrapped around Zuo Yuan's hands one by one, making them disappear. Look at the cloth basket containing Lan Lan that rolled out of the monster's arms......

I understand.

Just like I thought at the beginning, Zuo Yuan did doubt whether Lan Lan was Du Youlan from the very beginning. But he wasn't sure who Mina was, so he hesitated between the two.

He has some kind of relationship with this monster, and that relationship is not discussed for the time being. only said that Zuo Yuan's purpose, for the sake of this monster, he brought Du Youlan.

In addition to Du Youlan, there are also these subordinates, and now it seems that these people are more like sacrifices.

And Zuo Yuan doesn't break it, doesn't say it, and acts all the way, because he is not confident that after the showdown, he can get Du Youlan. Even if there is no weakened version of the Gu King.

But this monster confidently took Du Youlan's cloth basket into his arms, to the point that if he sensed danger, it was impossible not to make a move.

So it can only be said that Du Youlan is not the opponent of this monster.

So the question is, it's so powerful, wouldn't it be better to catch us in the first place? Why chase it for so long and make it so complicated?

Unless it can't move at all, as I can see, the egg isn't as simple as getting stuck on it, it's a temporary restriction that can't be broken. But it has an ability, that is, those phantoms in the sky, which can wander in this dark covenant dungeon as it pleases.

But they don't seem to be entities, otherwise they wouldn't need Zuo Yuan to lead the way and cause such trouble.

The only ability of those phantoms is probably to make people disappear.

Like the first bone corridor I've ever been to.

All the abilities of the fake king worm are copied from the real king worm, which is also one of the abilities......

So Mina, who disappeared behind me at that moment, was not taken away.

Rather, it was killed.

"Why?" I asked.

When imagining the process, there is a feeling of suffocation, a feeling of the soul being withdrawn from the body. But somehow, when I said these three words, my emotions were inexplicably calm, and there was not so much pain.

It's like, all illusions are false.

No, not fake, but in addition to some mistakes.

Why do you think this way? Maybe it's just because the Golden Heart is too calm, and I always feel that Mina's "death" has gone wrong again.

"There is no why...... Would you justify killing an ant? ”

But in addition to Mina's death, I have more questions that I care about.

I shook my head: "I'm not asking this, I'm asking, why am I alive?" Isn't it almost the same to kill one more and one less? Or is there something that needs to be killed in the space in front of you to be able to help you accomplish something? ”

"You are more useful than them, these people, it doesn't matter where they die, because the entire underground palace of the Covenant of Darkness is a huge ......"

When the monster said this, the basket that had fallen to the ground suddenly opened!

Lan Lan's little hand stretched out, she got out of the basket, stretched her waist, and sat on the basket upright, followed the monster's words, and said, "...... The Dark Covenant Dungeon is a big Gu Ding. ”

"Awake?" I asked.

"Pretending to be tired, I've already woken up." Lan Lan responded, and after speaking, she raised her head to look at the vertical eyes on the monster's chest, and stretched out a small hand: "Where are my things?" ”

It seems that Lan Lan has known about the existence of this thing for a long time.

It seems that seeing it is also the real purpose of Lan Lan coming here.

"In my head, do you want to see it? It's a pity you don't have a chance. ”

"Why?" Lan Lan asked.

He ...... More suitable than you. "The vertical eye in that chest seemed to shoot a ray of death, locked on me.

Am I more suitable?

The meaning of these words seems to be that my appearance has taken the place of Du Youlan's previous position. I said before that the entire underground palace is a Gu Ding, so what is the most important thing in coming to this Gu Ding?

It's a Gu worm!

It's Gu refining!

"You can really talk big, which of us is the Gu King, it's not necessarily. But seriously, I'm not unusual, you're not a human anymore, and what I need is the Gu King of Human Gu. Lan Lan's tone was cold, she jumped down from the basket, walked step by step to the monster that was as huge as a hill, walked to the chrysalis under the monster, stretched out her finger and poked, "Do you think that refining the Gu King will be able to break this restriction by putting it in the body?" If a mortal wants to become a god, it is not that simple. You use the infected in the Twenty-One King Worm Ritual to artificially synthesize yourself into a King Worm and trap yourself in the worm chrysalis for a hundred years, which is a good idea, but unfortunately it's not like you're going to die, hehe......"

"Even if you die, you die before me." The monster suddenly opened its mouth, and a black tentacle pierced Lan Lan's chest!

In mid-air, Lan Lan's blood flowed down the tentacle to the monster's mouth.

The mouth opened wider and wider, and it seemed to be ready to swallow Lan Lan's whole person.

Lan Lan was ready to move and struggle, but a tentacle instantly gave birth to countless fine hairs, binding Lan Lan's entire body tightly and unable to move.

She had already reached the mouth of the monster and suddenly shouted, "Zoraku! Are you watching the play, shouldn't you save me? ”

I didn't move.

She continued to shout: "Zoraku!! ”

"Is Mina dead?" I asked.

"How do I know, I knew I was going to die! If I die, you won't be able to save any of those villagers!! ”

"They'll be fine, and as for you, if you're dead, you'll be dead." I smiled and sat down on the floor.

"You ......" Lan Lan looked back at me, her eyes showed despair, and at the last moment she opened her mouth wide and looked in the direction of me, as if she was asking for help, but before she could shout, she was swallowed.

Really dead?

But that doesn't matter.

The important thing is the direction she looks back, I turned my head, and at the end of the chain, it was Yao Qianwen.

Behind Yao Qianwen, a terrifying figure appeared, his body was almost shattered, but he was still walking slowly and with difficulty, it was Zuo Yuan. It seems that he solved the trouble, but the price was not small. His one-eyed eye looked at me, and the hatred in his eyes was extreme.

But if you look closely, I was wrong, and he wasn't looking at me.

It's the monster.

"You ate her? You ......," he said, his voice trembling.

Sure enough, the relationship between him and Du Youlan is not a simple hatred.

"Don't you just want her dead?" The monster asked rhetorically.

"I hope she's better alive than dead, and ...... Even if she dies, she should face me before she dies, and I still have many questions to ask her! Why are you in such a hurry? You liar! ”

Zuo Yuan roared frantically.

"Enough! Shut up!! ”

The monster's roar made the ground tremble and the magma boiled!!

The illusory shadow floated above Zuo Yuan's head, and the monster's voice echoed throughout the space, "Du Youlan is of little use to me, but you did a good job and found a better Gu King for me." ”

Zuo Yuan's anger, suppressed, tried to adjust his voice: "Can you take her...... Spit it out...... Even if it's a corpse. ”

"Get out." The monster's response was very simple.

"I ...... I just want that corpse. "Zuo Yuan has become so humble.

The phantom is constantly falling, and it is going to get close to Zuo Yuan and Yao Qianwen.

"I, I know. I'll go down now......" Zuo Yuan finally surrendered, and suddenly turned his gaze to Yao Qianwen, "What about her?" ”

"It doesn't matter, let's kill it."

"No, it's not...... Me, I...... It's my business, I'm ...... Ay! Uncle!! Yao Qianwen shouted in a panic.

I've had enough rest at this point.

Got up from the ground, walked to the basket in front of Lan Lan, picked it up, and then threw it aside. I thought this thing was getting in the way, so I asked, "I see you're talking about it for the rest of the day, it's time to say something about me." ”

"Your business?" The Vertical Eyes Monster retracted its outstretched wings and pointed its vertical eyes at me, "What's the matter?" ”

"I'm going to kill you next, until then, if you can tell me what the hell is Mina you killed earlier...... I'll let you die less painfully. ”

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