Chapter 386: Drowning, thirsty for water
Ao Yulie, the salted fish, lay on the ground, turned over, made some muttering sounds, and slept soundly.
The Empress's face was hideous.
After the person in front of him did not turn into a salted fish, the second anomaly appeared, the guy behind him who was sleeping heavily.
Can't suck it!
The guy who slept very dead and salted fish could only suck a little bit of energy to come out.
It's like a stubborn stone, and if you try your best to scratch it with a knife, you can only scrape a little bit of powder.
"Focus." Tang Luo said.
The Empress's eyes lit up, and she refocused on the person in front of her.
His right hand was steady and heavy, and he couldn't break free of it at all.
And if the salted fish behind him who slept very dead was a stubborn stone, then the one in front of him was a mountain, and he didn't even have the ability to turn him into a salted fish.
Not to mention absorbing any essence from him.
This is true even if there is contact between the two sides.
"I, I am the Empress......" the Immortal Empress said with difficulty, realizing her fear.
"yes, I know." Tang Luo nodded, "Soul Degree." ”
Spit out the word two words, and have already exerted the soul.
He wanted to see what the immortal empress was like.
The dilapidated throne, worn crookedly on the top of the head, is not half gorgeous, but shows a crown with the meaning of a dead end.
The queen sat on the throne, her body hunched, her skin tarnishing and lifeless, her face full of intertwined furrows, and she was too old to look good.
At her feet were a bunch of souls piled up into a hill.
The lowest layer of the hill pack, the largest number, presents the appearance of white bones, but not human bones.
It's some kind of "foreign body".
More, like the bones of a fish, various features are clearly visible.
Higher, there are mutilated corpses, half-man, half-fish—not the mermaids with the upper body of a human body and the lower half of a fish, but an upright walking fish-man.
The appearance is strange and hideous, and the body exudes a thick mist.
Piled together, twitching slightly, exuding an aura called "salted fish".
The top layer, which is closer to a human, is full of fish features, such as fins, scales, and gills near the mouth.
The throne behind the empress sprawled out black "tubes".
Dense and numerous, piercing into the hill at your feet.
You can see that the tubes bulge and flow from time to time, as if there are small mice scurrying in them.
Everything about these souls is being absorbed into her body by the queen, maintaining her vitality.
In addition, there is a part of the pipe connected to the water on the ground, trembling slightly, it should be absorbing the spiritual qi of other "salted fish" in the Water Source Palace.
She's very old, very old.
Judging from his appearance alone, he is older than the 150 years old that Lu Xiuqi's unknown friend inferred.
Perhaps, the fourth is her, the fifth is her, and the third and second are also her.
After two glances, Tang Luo ended the state of soul and let go.
The immortal empress fell to the ground with a terrified face.
Although she can absorb the essence of others to maintain immortality, her soul is actually in a state of lingering.
Very weak, very weak.
Tang Luo used his soul to pull it out of his body, as if he had pulled a person out of a warm house and thrown him into the cold ice field—the kind without clothes.
It's like kicking someone out of a cruise ship into the sea.
"The poor monk has something to ask you." Tang Luo squatted down, looked at the immortal empress, and spoke.
"What do you want to know?" The Empress was very cooperative.
She lay on her stomach in the water, like a greedy fish thirsting for water.
In fact, it was similar, because Ao Yulie found the empress in the big lake next to the Water Source Palace.
In addition, the name Water Source Palace was also chosen by the empress herself - showing the empress's desire for water.
found the empress, Ao Yulie felt that the task had been completed, and without saying a word, he fell asleep on the spot, and was just dragged back by the empress.
"A lot, like where you come from. There are many more 'anomalous' information in this world. Tang Luo said.
It has been speculated before that the relationship between the walking of gods and demons and strange events should actually be "mutual attraction".
In a sense, the walking of gods and demons can also be regarded as a "strange event" in this superficially calm world.
So, will the weird events and the weird events also attract each other?
Even if she doesn't, the immortal empress, as the head of state, knows something that ordinary people don't know, right?
Journalists can find out something.
The age of the empress is indeed more than 120 years old, but it is not too much.
Once upon a time, the Empress was no different from most people in the world, until an accidental drowning accident.
The accident was not a big deal, she was not an empress at that time, and the situation of the royal family was not particularly good.
Not many people paid attention to the accident.
But for the Empress, the accident was a turning point.
That time, she was in a coma for two days, and when she woke up, she found that the world was different!
She has changed, she has become close, she loves water, and she wants to be in the water 24 hours a day.
There are no scales, no gills.
The empress can stay in the water for a long time, and she can keep breathing by simply swallowing water.
Then, she gradually discovered more of her abilities—for example, absorbing the essence of people.
At the beginning, it was naturally the people around him who suffered, one after another, they were salted fish, they were weak, and their real bodies were hollowed out.
Premature aging and early death.
At first, the empress could only absorb the essence through physical contact, but as time passed, the empress was able to absorb the essence and energy through water.
But this water is not ordinary water.
It is water that has been continuously infected and successfully polluted by the empress, and can be controlled to a certain extent.
For example, the large lake next to the Water Source Palace, a large amount of water in it was polluted by the empress and became her tentacles, spreading to the shore, absorbing the essence of people.
And the specific reasons for this change.
The Empress herself doesn't know very well, and although she has survived for a long time, she is actually not in particularly good shape.
Many memories are gone, and most of what happened has been forgotten.
On the contrary, it absorbs the essence and energy, and it has become an instinct similar to eating to live, and it is impossible to forget.
As for other strange incidents, I'm sorry, the empress didn't even know about the fog caused by the Feng family next door.
She is a standard mascot, eating, drinking, sleeping, and absorbing energy and energy every day.
Like in the past few days, I suddenly felt that my limit was approaching, and I was ruthless, and I poured out this water and poured it out to have a full meal and maintain my state.
"It turned out to be a mascot." Tang Luo was a little disappointed, the pure mascot was really the kind that didn't care about anything.
Lu Xiuqi's missing friend (who is also a journalist) has nothing to do with the empress.
She didn't know about it at all.
Maybe it was the one who checked and checked, and he managed to scare himself, so he threw the information on the side of Lu Xiuqi and ran away.
The Empress did not speak, her expression uncertain.
"Then ......" Tang Luo reached out and pressed it on the top of the empress's head.
"What are you going to do? I'm the Empress, you can't kill me! "Feeling the catastrophe that has befallen her, the immortal empress - in fact, this term is wrong, she is just absorbing the essence and vitality of others to maintain her own survival.
It's not that you don't die, you also die if you are injured.
It's not that you're not old, it's just that the process of aging to death is constantly delayed.
It's still easy to kill this empress.
"Poor monks are monks." Tang Luo said, "It's just a female donor." ”
"Does it make a difference?" The empress just has a vague memory of the past, and she is not stupid, and her mind is still very clear.
"Better?" Tang Luo said, casting his soul again.
This time it wasn't just a look, Tang Luo took a shot and cut off a large number of tubes that had grown from the dilapidated throne—things that felt like blood vessels.
The Empress's soul let out a wail, and it dissipated quickly.
The "foreign objects" that were connected to her also disappeared.
Back in reality, the empress was lying on the ground, no longer able to breathe, but she didn't look old and dry.
The surrounding lake dries up at a rate visible to the naked eye, and soon only a few water stains remain.
Tang Luo walked over and kicked Ao Yulie.
Ao Yulie opened his eyes blankly, and then jumped up all of a sudden: "Master, I'm cooking again?" ”
"It's just right for your salted fish heart." Tang Luo said.
Ao Yulie was greatly affected because this guy himself was a salty dragon.
Salted fish is very compatible with Ao Yulie.
"Oh, it's okay, it's okay." Ao Yulie breathed a sigh of relief.
"But the dishes are also real dishes." Tang Luo said.
"Ahem, ahem!" Ao Yulie coughed.
"The aftermath will be handed over to you." Tang Luo said.
With the death of the empress, these staff who are salted fish, eager to retire on the spot, and lie down to enjoy their old age will slowly return to normal.
What happens these days will also have a series of subsequent effects.
These are not stupid or amnesia, they are really pure laziness, too lazy to move, too lazy to even care about their own lives, let alone anything else.
After returning to normal, all kinds of strange things will happen in the Water Source Palace, and they will definitely be put on the agenda for a secret investigation.
Although Tang Luo did not mind appearing in front of people, he was not interested in becoming a suspect in the death of the empress and making trouble for himself as an enemy of the state apparatus.
Let Ao Yulie "clean up" and remove them from this matter.
As for the death of the Empress, it is a very reasonable thing for a 120-year-old man to die of old age in a nursing home.
Anyway, it must be reasonable to the outside world.
It is enough to "take out" the funeral that has been prepared for more than 20 years.
And the disappearance of the empress, the lake that overflowed the shore, the empress who reappeared but died in the lobby, the strange changes in the workers, the missing memories, and the surveillance video that was deleted and completely destroyed.
This series of strange things that are enough to write hundreds of thousands of suspenseful horror stories will be left to the authorities to have a headache.
The quest requires the gods and demons to walk to find strange events and solve them.
This time, the "Immortal Empress", with the death of the Empress, has undoubtedly been resolved.
The 3 in the message has become 4, announcing the failure of the enemy camp's mission. Of course, the enemy camp has already been annihilated, and defeat or not will have no effect on them.
Coincidentally, this strange incident.
The feeling for Tang Luo, like that "ghost call", also has an unknown shadow looming behind him.