Chapter 44 Ancestors
Dominated by speed, the fluorite embedded in the stone wall turned into meteors in the howling wind.
Countless tiny dots of light flowed from the edge of my eye sockets, wrapped in multicolored light, and fell to the end of the cave without hesitation. But at the bottom of this deep well that seemed to be patched together like a glare of light, it was a crumbling beast.
And if I'm not mistaken, it's called Wei Ming.
"How can this be ......"
For a moment, my brain was completely vacuumed, and I was left with my tongue and tongue to mutter.
"When's that time! You're still thinking about that!! ”
Suddenly, an irritated roar came from overhead, and I raised my eyes to meet the gloomy face.
But for some reason, looking at her extremely anxious expression, I couldn't help but want to laugh, and the already dying heart in my chest was rekindled by this concern from a familiar person. Although it is not the ideal scene of old tears, at least the reunion after a long absence is not too bad.
It's a pity that I, who was immersed in the short-term beauty, completely ignored how embarrassed I looked at this time.
Perhaps observing my inexplicable demeanor, she squinted her eyes with a light hum, and without saying anything, she stuffed the long sword that was still stained with milky white pus, and then turned around and took the first step and said,
"There's only one chance!"
It was only now that I woke up from a dream, and I turned my eyes to the monster running like a giant ape behind me, and the distance between it and us was gradually shrinking with an unstoppable trend.
"Damn—"
I cursed, my eyes wide, and the threat that had just been almost swept away reappeared in front of me. You're right, if it goes on like this, in no more than five minutes, we'll be the scraps at the monster's feet.
Not daring to delay any longer, I immediately retracted my feet, hooked my shoulders leaning forward with one hand, and pointed the hilt of my sword, which had not yet been hot, at the monster's hideous face with the other. In that distorted countenance of flesh and blood, I really tasted some of death.
She was still speeding away, and I was carried by her side like a satchel, and the stones that flew from the ground hit my back, making me grin in pain every time.
Suddenly, after passing over a raised rock, all the fluorites around it emitted a scarlet glow, and the strange colors folded and fused with each other, shining on the cramped interior of the cavern, and finally fell on the disgusting body of the monster.
It is the coldest fear buried in the depths of the nightmare, the darkest frontier of the human imagination.
I trembled in a daze, and the sound of molars trembling thundered through my skull.
If you insist on finding out the parts related to Wei Ming from this sneaky creature, I'm afraid that only that slender arm is left, but this arm is now sticking out of its mouth.
Out of instinctive fear, I clenched the sword in my hand as my eyes scanned the monster's appearance, trying to flip over its majestic body to a human silhouette, but as I made closer recognition, the idea of a heavenly conversation burst like foam.
That thing crawled out of hell at all!
As far as the eye could see, there was only a deep crimson that was intense to pitch black, a filthy color that covered the monster's body like moss. And on its broad shoulders, it rests a huge and exaggerated head, and the bloated and deformed pus pockets push the features to the edge, revealing a terrifying pale under the branches like blood vessels.
Staring at the winding ravine, I suddenly gasped, because this creepy shape is not the human brain?
But in the skull cavity of the monster's sac, it is stuffed with large and small pieces of brain tissue, which shake at will like bread soaked in milk.
I gritted my teeth, desperately suppressing the gastric juice that was about to squirt.
However, before I could gather my broken spirit, a question from the depths of my soul drifted to my ears - where did so many brains come from?
Suddenly, my pupils shrank, and the answers that rushed to my lips were like red-hot coals!
"Xun!"
I looked down as if I was crazy, and in the cracked sternum of the monster was a myriad of squeezed entrails!
"Wei Ming! It puts those men under it! All! Full-"
In the middle of my sentence, I stopped as if I had a fish in my throat, and the few words that lingered in my dreams drowned me out almost instantly.
Why does it use such a gentle tone? Why does it murmur like it sees a lover? Why collect these organs? Why do you say you're wrong?!
At this point, I figured it all out.
In an instant, I was so shocked that I couldn't say half a sentence, and it took a long time to barely spit out a small fragment of broken words.
"Gnomes...... Those creatures, all, all of them were made from the remains of its wife! And they are now! Now—"
I remembered the vicissitudes of life in my sleep, and I was fascinated to read it,
"—Blended into one."
Goosebumps climbed up my spine, and I swallowed, but my lips were still horribly dry.
Just as the temples on both sides of me were swollen to the point of almost bursting, she suddenly bent down and whispered in an extremely serious tone.
"Hold on!"
I didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, so I hurriedly twisted my waist and turned around, and completely lay on her back. Perhaps because of the nervousness and not controlling the strength, as I put away the blade of the sword, I let out a slight muffled grunt.
Suddenly, the slope of the passage suddenly increased, and I only felt my center of gravity sink, and my whole body flew down like a swoop.
The debris of the stones mingled with the floating dust, like a bright spark in the dim red light.
Against the strong wind, I struggled to open my eyes, and over the long flowing hair, a cliff suddenly appeared in front of me, and the vines in the sky fell from the dome of unknown height.
"Damn!"
I exclaimed,
"You don't think—"
But she didn't pay attention to it, she just pressed her body down suddenly, almost touching the ground, and at the same time, her legs swayed at a very fast speed and amplitude! In an instant, the red light on both sides flashed like a burning arrow, and all the details of the world turned into blurred lines at this moment!
I couldn't hear anything except the howling hurricane, and the short distance seemed to be stretched into a slender ladder, and every time she took a step, she stepped back half a minute as if she had been deliberately moved.
I half-shrunk my head, staring at the cliff that was becoming clearer and clearer, and when my heart was beating violently, all kinds of hormones burst out of my body rushed to my brain, bringing the pain of dying.
Almost subconsciously, I whispered silently,
"Fifty meters, twenty meters, ten meters, five meters......"
In the end, even vision is useless.
Click.
With a crunching sound, the noise that filled the pinna also dissipated in the whiskers.
The cold wind flowed like a torrent across the face, buried in the skin, and soared in the air, with only a diffuse roar of anger behind the ears.
I slowly twisted my neck, time seemed to be soaked in a bowl of viscous soup, even every twitch of my muscles, every contraction of my blood vessels, in this less than two seconds of suspension turned into a memory engraved into the bone marrow.
Standing on the edge of the cliff was Wei Ming's hateful and terrifying face.
Then, vines that look like a dense forest move horizontally out of the back of the head, cutting the image between the eye sockets into thin rectangular strips of different widths, playing frame by frame like an old movie.
But no matter what kind of drama the scene, there is an ending.
The screams rang out, and my shoulder felt like it had hit a hard boulder. The majestic impact turned into an unparalleled force in an instant, tearing me apart from me.
Gravity is like a whirlpool, and my only option is to enjoy the fall.
"Ahh!!!!h
I tore my throat open and roared uncontrollably among the vines.
In the extreme darkness, I clutched at everything I could reach, and my body was full of piercing pain.
Suddenly, my flying arm touched a rattan with the mouth of a bowl, and before I could react, I pulled myself like an ape.
Thorn -
Inertia is like a cruel executioner, and the moment I cling to the vine, the rough bark scrapes my skin like a razor.
"Rely on the !!!"
As I shouted, I felt as if I was holding a red sticker.
But despite the help, the speed of the fall could not subside in a short time, and before I could figure out the current situation, the solid ground came as expected.
"Ahem! Ahhhh......h Ah......h
With the huge impact, all my internal organs wailed.
Enveloped in indescribable pain and vomiting, I couldn't even scream in a decent way, but curled up on the ground like a maggot, holding my left shoulder, which had fallen first, and moaning in extreme detail.
"No, are you alright?"
Just as I was about to see Lord Yama smiling and waving at me, the cry of the Yama came into my ears at an inopportune time. However, when I opened my mouth, there seemed to be a thousand-pound boulder in my throat, leaving only dry and cold air in and out around my tongue.
Luckily, it wasn't me, and she obviously knew a lot about it. As the sound of stones and cloth rubbing, a faint glimmer appeared among the staggered vines.
"Hello? Hey, ha! Found you! ”
In the distance, I saw her face filled with excitement and joy. As soon as she saw me, she immediately raised the white light stone in her hand, rushed over at a very fast speed, and then half-knelt beside me and asked blankly and excitedly,
"How? You okay? Are there any injuries?! ”
Facing the extremely concerned gaze, I had no choice but to bite my lips and nod stiffly.
"Great, great......"
It was only at this moment that this brave girl was finally able to leak this relaxed and relieved look.
"Come on, I'll help you up, we still have a long way to go."
Surrounded by the soft arms of the Emperor, I suddenly felt a little awkward, as if someone was sweeping the fragile blood vessels around the heart with a brush, although it was not resistant, but it was also strange...... Restlessness.
"It's okay, I can do it myself."
As I spoke, I nudged my hands and struggled to maneuver the joints that had been broken and scattered, and stood on the ground again.
When my body was stable, I immediately closed my eyes and took a long breath, savoring the hard-won life at this moment.
However, with the recovery of reason, Yu Fangcai's words seemed a little strange, I opened my eyelids, and asked the girl with spring next to me with some curiosity,
"Uh...... You say there's still a long way to go, ...... you mean? ”
But when she heard my doubts, she laughed even more.
"We're going to meet someone, it's an ancestor left over from antiquity, it's seen countless years and times, and it's saved my life—"
She looked me squarely and added in a very quiet voice,
"—when I wasn't 'Yet'."