Chapter 37: 40-41
Under Bai Qi's guidance, the ark opened into a hidden passage, which was filled with dozens of large-leaved plants like water lilies.
"Boy, step on these leaves one by one to find a shortcut."
"Could this be the legendary formation that can unlock the seal at a specific pace?"
When the ark stepped on the seventh leaf, suddenly his feet were empty, the ark was caught off guard, leaned over, and the whole person was planted in it, and there was a pit under the leaf.
At this time, Bai Qi's voice sounded faintly: "This is the shortcut." ”
"Bai Qi!"
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The ark slid down a diagonal downward passage, a smooth rocky passage that was long, and the ark glided faster and faster, and the ark felt its ass burn with the rapid friction. But you can't turn around, you don't want to experience prostate brakes for yourself.
"No, you have to find a way to slow down, or you'll turn into a humanoid fireball rat."
When he saw the tears in his hand, the ark had an idea.
On one side, the ark inserted tears into the rocks in an attempt to increase the resistance of the slide, so as to reduce the speed of the slide.
But at this time, the tears are too sharp, and the bad side is revealed.
The tears of the heart are unparalleled, and the hard rock is easily split in two like tofu under its blade, and it has no effect on slowing down at all.
Bai Qiyu mentioned: "Why don't you try the tears in your heart the other way." ”
"Yes."
The Ark pulled out the Tear and turned it upside down, plunging the hilt of the Tear into the ground.
But once, twice...... Can't plug it in.
"You ......"
If Bai Qi had an entity, he would probably be so angry that he vomited blood.
Fang Zhou also realized the mistake, and he laughed awkwardly: "Haha..."
Then quickly straighten the tears, turn the blade upside down, and turn the back side of the tear knife forward.
"Click..."
Sure enough, the back of the knife of the Tear did not have the indestructible characteristic, and the Tear stopped after plowing a few rocks.
Fortunately, Fang Zhou grabbed his tears hard and didn't let go, but the inertia of his body rushing forward almost broke Fang Zhou's arm.
By this time, the slope had eased a lot, and the ark could walk slowly down by leaning against the rock wall.
Gradually, small flowers that glow red begin to appear on the surrounding rock walls.
Moments later, the ark came to the exit of the passage, and the rock walls on either side of the exit were filled with small flowers that glowed red.
Fang Zhou, who could see the surrounding situation through this red fluorescence, couldn't help but gasp, the mouth of the passage was facing a bottomless abyss, and if he slipped straight down, he was afraid that he would fall directly into this abyss.
There is a hole in the opposite rock wall, but there is an abyss a hundred meters wide between them.
Ark noticed a white bridge crossing the abyss above the abyss on the left, and he cautiously walked slowly along a narrow path to the left side of the hole.
When the ark came to him, he saw that the white bridge was a hundred meters long white bone, and he didn't know what kind of giant beast had such a huge bone.
The ark crawled cautiously on the bridge of bones, and the abyss below was also a big test for the ark.
The Ark finally climbed to the center, and the Ark raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his head, but forgot that he was holding tears in his hand. The blade of the tear gently slashed across the white bone bridge, and the solid white bone bridge suddenly broke in half from the middle, and the ark also fell into the abyss along with the broken bone fragments.
The abyss echoed with the cry of the ark: "Damn it~"
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The lower area of the anthill, the first echelon of attack
After the team eliminated tens of thousands of Dam ants, one of the members of the navigation team reported: "Report to the captain, we are only three hundred meters away from Target One, but there is a lot of life fluctuating around Target One. ”
"Solve it quickly, but change later."
"Yes."
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Outer space on the Carlo planet, the main ship of the Red Kite.
The fleet commander is standing in front of the virtual light projection screen and looking at the real-time battle analysis map.
At this time, an officer with the rank of second lieutenant came up and reported: "Report to the chief, a strange wave of information has just been detected from below the position of the combat unit. And this information wave is spreading to the entire planet Carlo. ”
"Have you analyzed the information carried by this information wave?"
"Analyzing."
Su Mei frowned: "Try to stop the spread of information waves, and strengthen the defense line on the periphery of the island." ”
"Yes."
Su Mei looked at the Red Kite members fighting on the screen, holding the tarot card that would not fail in her hand.
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On an island 2,300 miles northeast of the Red Kite Fleet's combat area, a flock of birds suddenly flew up in the originally quiet jungle.
Then, one by one, the dummy ants flew out of the jungle and gathered in the sky to form a black shadow that obscured the sky and the sun, heading southwest.
1,700 kilometers to the west, a huge dark cloud is moving rapidly, but if you look closely, you will find that this dark cloud is composed of all dummy ants, and the number is as large as a million.
In the sea area 210 kilometers to the east, a black ball composed of wingless dummy ants with a diameter of thousands of meters is moving on the water, and every time the dummy ant ball rolls a step, the dummy ants on the surface will fall into the water, and the dummy ants are not aware of water, that is to say, every step of the dummy ant ball is paved by the dummy ants with their lives, but they are still resolutely moving towards the location of the red kite fleet.
And this is not just a few cases, but it is happening everywhere in Carlo.
At this time, hundreds of millions of dummy ants were moving towards the location of the Red Kite Fleet by various means.
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Fang Zhou woke up from a coma, looking at the unfamiliar environment around him, and his head did not react for a moment.
He seemed to be in the middle of a pitch-black water, and he clearly remembered that he had fallen into the abyss, how could he come here?
What's even stranger is that he is lying on the water at this time!
Ark tried to get to his feet, and he found that he could stay on the water, and with every step he took, ripples, the water was like a touch screen.
However, it is strange to feel the touch of water when you touch it.
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Fang Zhou was puzzled and decided to ask Bai Qi's opinion: "Bai Qi, do you have any suggestions?" ”
"Flowers in the mirror, moon in the water."
Bai Qi simply said a few words, and then stopped speaking.
"Mirrors." Ark muttered these words, but did not understand the meaning for a moment.
Although Bai Qi gave some hints, it was not enough to get the ark out of its current predicament.
For example, what to do next.
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The water was empty, and there were no obvious references in sight.
But soon, the ark discovered something different, a small red flower floating on the water.
This is not the first time I have seen this kind of small flower ark, after coming down from that passage, I can always see this small red flower.
Fang Zhou stepped forward to pick up the little red flower, looked at it carefully, and found nothing different.
There was also a small red flower in front of him, and when the ark looked into the distance, he saw that the small red flowers floating on the surface of the water seemed to be connected into a path.
Is this showing him the way? Or is it a trap?
The Ark didn't know, but it was the only clue he'd found so far, and he decided to find out.
"Da Da Da ......"
The ark ran fast on the water, like a dragonfly dotting the water, leaving a series of ripples behind it that gradually spread.
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I don't know how long later, a line of brown appeared in the field of vision of the ark, it was land,
Before the ark could rejoice for a moment, a black shadow silently appeared in the water at the foot of the ark.
Before the ark could react, the ark felt his ankle sink, and then the whole person was pulled directly into the water.
(41.)
In the icy waters, the ark saw the attacker, who was like a snake but had two claws in the front of his body, covered in scales, a triangular head with cat-like ears, and long, narrow eyes that shone green.
The snake didn't give the ark a chance to resist, its long body wrapped tightly around the ark's body, its two claws clamped on the ark's shoulders, and then it opened its mouth to reveal two sharp fangs and bit down on the ark's neck.
Threads of scarlet blood spread out in the water, and the snake's hollow teeth frantically sucked the ark's blood.
At this time, the limbs of the ark were entangled in strange snakes, and the tears in his hands could not be waved.
Feeling the flow of blood, a hint of fierceness flashed in Fang Zhou's eyes.
Want to kill me? I want you to die first!
The ark bit the neck of the strange snake that was close at hand, and although the ark's teeth were not sharp, they were extremely forceful, and they bit through the scales of the strange snake.
If you bite me, I will bite you. Come on! Who's afraid of whom!
Both sides sucked each other's blood hard to see who couldn't withstand it first.
It's a willpower contest that stakes your life.
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The first to be unable to resist was the strange snake, but it was not caused by being sucked by the ark, but by sucking the ark's blood.
After the blood of the ark entered its body, the blood of the ark suddenly boiled and began to erode the body of the strange snake, tearing its blood vessels.
Gradually, the strange snake's green eyes began to fill with a layer of blood mist.
The blood in the snake's eyes grew thicker and thicker until the dark green of its eyes was completely taken over by blood, but the blood was indeed a dull and lifeless blood.
It died under the backlash of the blood of the Ark, and the blood of the Ark could not be coveted by anything.
As the serpent died, its body wrapped around the ark gradually loosened, and the ark regained its mobility.
But at this time, the ark, because of the loss of blood in his body and the lack of oxygen for a long time, his body was extremely weak, and he couldn't swim, and the ark gradually sank with the dead strange snake.
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As the darkness in his vision increased, Ark's consciousness became more and more blurred, and just when his world was about to fall into darkness, several figures suddenly appeared in Ark's mind, and these figures were blurry, and they couldn't see their faces clearly.
But the appearance of these figures filled Fang Zhou's heart with reluctance, and he tried to open his eyes:
"I... How can I die here... Dead ....."
The ark raised his tears again and swung a knife with all his might.
He didn't know why he was swinging the knife, and who was it aimed at? He just subconsciously swung the knife.
But the tears in my heart felt the heart of the ark, and the mottled knife was instantly full of blood.
With a swing of the knife, the blood flames were monstrous.
A round of crimson sword light pierced the heavens and the earth.
In an instant, it was like a blood moon.
"Wow~"
The blood moon divided the heavens and the earth, the blood moon fell, the lake was neatly divided into two, the ark fell on the bottom of the lake, the ark did not stop, and slowly walked towards the shore with a weak body.
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After coming ashore, Ark's blood-soaked body could no longer think clearly, and only dragged its tired body forward mechanically.
I don't know how far he went, he felt a warmth envelop him, he looked up, and at this moment he seemed to see heaven.
In front of the ark is a vast grassland, dotted with wildflowers and a meandering river. The gentle sunlight shone down a thin golden veil for all this, and a few familiar small red flowers bloomed in the shade of the flowers and plants.
Ark's tired body lay on it, and the soft feeling made Ark reluctant to get up again.
The breeze brings a charming floral scent.
What a wonderful thing it is, how intoxicating it is.
Seeing that Fang Zhou was about to fall asleep here, Bai Qi's voice sounded: "Fang Zhou, why do you stop, have you forgotten your goal?!" ”
"I'm resting for a while, just for a while..."
As he spoke, Fang Zhou's eyes slowly closed.
After Fang Zhou closed his eyes, Bai Qi's figure suddenly appeared on this grassland, and a chill enveloped Bai Qi's body, and every step Bai Qi took, everything under his feet would wither and disappear.
"It's over."
With Bai Qi's words, this grassland suddenly ignited a fire in the sky, and the bright sky was also dyed with a touch of blood.
The ark was awakened by the firelight, and he watched in amazement as everything faded into naught like ripples.
When the ark came to its senses, the wonderful world was gone, replaced by a dimly lit cavern.
He was sitting in a sea of small red flowers, but by this time the red flowers had all withered, making him look more like he was sitting in a pool of blood.
He raised his hand and said blankly, "Are those all fake?" ”
"That's right."
The voice sounded behind Fang Zhou, and Fang Zhou realized that Bai Qi was actually standing behind him.
Fang Zhou shook his head that was a little swollen and painful and said, "What's going on?" ”
Bai Qi walked over and sat on the opposite side of the ark, and then he waved his hand, and a small withered red flower flew to his palm: "This flower is called Lethe." It is a plant with a strong hallucinogenic effect, and the moment you smell its floral scent, you will enter its tricks. It creates what you fear and yearn for in your consciousness. When you fear its horror or indulge in its tenderness, you will not be able to wake up. ”
Bai Qi slowly held Lethe Chuanhua in his hand: "You won fear, but you lost to gentleness. ”
Fang Zhou thought back to everything just now, when he was immersed in illusory tenderness and forgot about anything else, he responded with a somewhat depressed mood: "Yes, I lost." ”
Bai Qi's expression remained unchanged, but his tone was a little heavier: "Okay, don't give me a discouragement." ”
"I let you go into the illusion of Lethe River Flower just to let you understand your own shortcomings. Remember, failure is not terrible, you can win it back if you lose once, and you can win it back if you lose it twice. Remember, with me behind you, you can win back even if you lose a hundred times or ten thousand times. But if your heart loses, no one can help you. ”
Bai Qi pointed to the tears in Fang Zhou's hand and said: "Just like its name, the heart can shed tears, but you can't admit defeat." ”
"Remember, you're not alone, and we're not going to let you die."
"Alright, that's all said and done, think for yourself." After speaking, Bai Qi's figure gradually turned into nothingness and disappeared.
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After Bai Qi left, Fang Zhou stared at the tears in his hand, and after a long time, he raised his tears: "Yes, I have never been alone, how can I admit defeat!" ”
Because what happened just now was illusory, Fang Zhou naturally didn't have any real injuries.
He stood up and walked forward, leaving behind a resolute back, but there was something strange in this resolute back......