Chapter 002: The Line Between Life and Death
The night is like the sea, boundless.
Ling Yu didn't argue in the waist-deep barren grass, he just ran forward desperately, his hands and face had already been marked by the blades of grass. He didn't have the strength to do it anymore, gasped for breath, and fell to the ground.
He fell to the ground and listened, and the grass rattled in a tight night wind, like the tide of the night. In the distance, the beams of light of two flashlights swept ghostly across the grass, and the blades of grass were shaken to a white and dazzling color. The man in black had already caught up.
"Mom, is it ......" Ling Yu was thinking wildly in his heart, but there was a faint curse from a person in the wind: "Damn, the old woman is slippery like a loach, if it weren't for the strong man in the gang, we would all have to die under her hands." β
"It's useless for her to go into the mountains, the people of the 'Ghost Clan' are waiting there, this time it's a net, and no one can escape. It's not bad for us to catch that little one! The other smiled happily.
"Yes, several other people have been deceived by me to other places, isn't it good that the bounty is our brothers?"
"Well, well, thank you, third brother."
Hearing this, Ling Yu didn't dare to delay any longer, he got up and ran towards the depths of the wasteland.
"He's there, there!" A voice shouted, and at the same time, a bright light shot towards Ling Yu.
"Damn, stop, don't stop shooting!" A voice behind him shouted loudly. The light of the flashlight became brighter and brighter, constantly sweeping over Ling Yu's back, and Ling Yu became desperate.
However, in the fire of Wulinwan Village, my mother resolutely sacrificed herself to save herself, the tragic image of the flames flying, and the strong maternal love,...... He is unwilling, he is deeply unwilling!
"Ah-" he roared, his voice desolate and hoarse as a beast. He tried his best and sped forward again.
"Damn, the little cub is so stubborn!" There was a heavy wheezing sound behind him, and two gunshots rang out, and two bullets passed through Ling Yu's ears with a whistling sound, shooting into the swaying wild grass. This whistling bullet is not lethal to the strong, but it is a huge threat to ordinary people like Ling Yu!
"Da Da" was another two shots, Ling Yu only felt a pain in his calf, and his leg fell into the wild grass as soon as he went limp. However, Ling Yu didn't want to wait for death on the spot, he gritted his teeth and plunged into the wild grass that was taller than a human head, he covered his wounds in pain, changed direction alertly, and escaped with difficulty at the moment when the wind shook the wild grass.
His body was as soft as a noodle, and he stumbled under his feet, and planted himself headlong into another deep grass under a dirt slope.
The wind is gusting and the grass is rolling. His whereabouts were vanished into the weeds, as if he had been submerged in the depths of the sea.
"He's got into that pile of grass!" A voice shouted, and the flashlight swept brightly.
Ling Yu was under the dirt slope, his chest was like a big drum being beaten, and the sound of the wind drowned out his gasping sound. The two flashlights flashed indiscriminately in the wild grass overhead, and from time to time there was the sound of "bang-la-la" turning of the wild grass and the sound of "stepping" footsteps.
"Damn, where did the drill go?" He heard a curse, followed by the sound of a submachine gun, and two bullets let out two sharp whistles at his feet, and two clouds of smoke and dust scattered with it. He pressed the gunshot wound on his leg with one hand, and did not dare to move.
Half an hour passed, and the flashlight finally shook to the barren grass above his head, the miserable white blades of grass, flapping with the wind, Ling Yu's heart, with the surging hot blood to his throat. The blood vessels around the body are constantly opening with the sound of the heartbeat. The time of that moment was so long that it seemed as if everything around me stood still.
Suddenly, a low beastly roar interrupted all this. The roar of the beast suddenly came from not far away, and it seemed to be the low roar of a mutated blood wolf. If there are one or two blood wolves, the Bronze Star powerhouse can still deal with them. If they encounter a pack of blood wolves, they will not be able to escape no matter what.
"There are strange beasts! We're not looking for it! A voice said in horror, as if turning away.
"But, just let this kid escape?" Another voice said with some hesitation.
"Hmph, be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, with a reward, you have to have a life to spend. Don't go yet! ......" The man's voice was decisive and crisp, and he immediately gave up the pursuit.
"Hey, just leave you, you wait, it's really ......"
The panicked footsteps quickly faded away. The two men in black retreated decisively, which could be regarded as extremely cautious.
Ling Yu was afraid that they would go and return, so he stayed in the grass for more than half an hour, until there was no movement, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he felt a little hot. The wound on the leg, but there was a tingling sensation.
He let go of the hand covering the wound in a slight surprise, and by the faint light of the sky, he faintly saw that on the side of his calf, there was a three-inch blood groove grazed by a bullet, and the blood had already coagulated, and the wound began to heal.
"So fast?" Ling Yu was slightly surprised. Under the careful care of his mother, he was rarely injured since he was a child, and he never found that his resilience was so strong. He kept touching the wound with his hand, and the itching made him scratch it twice, but he actually grabbed a piece of blood scab that had fallen off, and the wound had miraculously healed without a trace of scarring.
Ling Yu felt a surprise in his heart. This strange constitution is really unexpected! Generally speaking, it would take at least a week for such a wound to heal, but Ling Yu had already healed in less than an hour. He raised his head and looked at the wasteland in the distance, but there was a trace of joy and yearning in his heart because of his physique.
The night was like ink, and the lead clouds were low. A blood-red electric glow shimmered in the depths of the clouds, illuminating the overgrown wilderness. The rumbling thunder was breathtaking, the rain poured down, and the sky and the earth were suddenly misty.
The bean-sized raindrops smashed coldly on Ling Yu's face, and he shuddered suddenly. Under the cover of the pouring rain, he did not stop, and turned and ran into the depths of the wasteland.
After three hours of running, in the rain, he didn't know how many times he fell. He had been quietly digging in the cold rain for a while, and finally gathering some strength, he tried to look ahead, and in the fog, a straight dirt slope appeared in front of him.
"That's, it's the roadbed! It's a road! He muttered, wiped the rain from his face, and stood up again. He knew that along this road from the imperial capital, all the way to the east, he could smoothly reach the second largest city in the empire, Jin'an City. His eyes were full of longing, he gritted his teeth and slowly crawled towards the highway.
The cold wind came with an unpleasant stench. He faintly heard a low roar behind him in the rain.
He was startled, and when he looked back, there were a few faint red lights in the rain, which seemed to be ghost fires floating on the thick fog, which made people shudder. He shuddered.
A loud wolf howl suddenly sounded behind him, as if a battle horn was blown. Less than twenty meters behind him, the grass was swaying, and something was chasing after it at a rapid pace, getting closer and closer, and he heard the wheezing of the beast!
He ran with his legs mechanically on his feet, his spirit almost collapsed, and he couldn't help shouting:
"Helpββ!"
Before the words could be spoken, a blinding light, accompanied by a deafening thunder, exploded overhead, and a large willow tree on the left was struck by lightning, igniting a raging fire.
"What's that!" He exclaimed.
In the firelight, he saw a childlike black figure, standing quietly in the rain. A huge egg-shaped head, almost the size of a torso, with two wizened arms, with three half-foot-long fingers, hanging long at the feet! What was surprising was that in the eyes the size of two fists, there was a silver flame light reflected!
Ling Yu rubbed his eyes and ran forward, in a panic, Ling Yu stumbled under his feet, rolled forward several times in the muddy water, and finally lay down completely, desperately looking at the gray and hazy sky, letting the cold raindrops "crackle" on his face, some pain, some itching. But he didn't have the strength to move anymore.
The rain gathered into a stream, flowing coldly among the grass nests under him, and behind him, two beast-shaped black shadows calmly passed through the rain curtain, they kept shaking off the raindrops on their manes, raising bursts of mist, and the four blood-red eyes stared at Ling Yu deadly.
They were two black blood wolves with broad snouts and red eyes. The blood wolf is a mutant species of the gray wolf, a species that suddenly appeared after the thousand-year destruction, the Barrows, and was bred through genetic modification. Using this blood wolf as a vanguard, the Barrow people have seized large swathes of the Nine Heavens Empire, slaughtering thousands of civilians. Now scattered blood wolves have been distributed throughout the Nine Heavens Empire.
Looking at the approaching blood wolf, Ling Yu shook his head weakly. His hands and feet swiped among the grass, but his body didn't move a bit. A blood wolf brought its nose to Ling Yu, and an unpleasant stench rushed into his nostrils. He twisted his head to the side and closed his eyes, and he couldn't escape death today.
He was completely desperate, and all he could do was shout: "Ulin Bay! Ulin Bay!! βγ
A scarlet light, with a hint of buzzing, suddenly shot from a distance, and disappeared in a flash, the two blood wolves didn't even snort, and they were instantly broken into four sections, and the four wolf corpses did not shed a trace of blood, as if they dried up in an instant.
Ling Yu was startled, raised his head desperately, and looked under the tree, under the blazing tree pole, the weak humanoid figure had already disappeared. He let out a long breath and slowly fell.
When he fell, he fell asleep in the rain.
I don't know how long it took, he slowly opened his eyes, got up, and was suddenly startled.
"And the blood wolf! Blood wolf again! Ling Yu exclaimed in surprise and stood up, it seemed that the sleep just now was not bad for him who was almost collapsing.
Sure enough, it's really a blood wolf again! Blood wolf, it is said that it has the combat power of copper two stars to copper four stars, but its IQ is far less than that of the copper star powerhouse.
I saw this blood wolf leisurely circling around the corpses of his companions for a while, and then set his eyes on Ling Yu. Ling Yu's heart trembled slightly, but fortunately, he had regained a lot of strength. He had never faced a blood wolf alone, and now he was a little scared, but reason desperately told him to calm down.
"I'm not afraid!" He muttered to himself as he bent over the ground and clutched at the ground, trying to catch a stone or something to use against the enemy. He suddenly grabbed a smooth stick, not long, but with some weight.
He wiped the rain from his face, raised the short rod high above his head, and strode forward, the grass and muddy water under his feet rattled.
He shouted, "Come on, come on, you're the first blood wolf I killed, come on!" You've made me change everything, come onβ" he yelled.
This roar gradually stimulated his will to fight, and suddenly, as if enchanted, he desperately rushed towards the blood wolf, waving his short stick, with the sound of the wind, and smashed towards the blood wolf.
His helplessness, his loneliness, his anger, his sorrow were all poured out into this heavy blow!
However, the expected hit to the blood wolf did not materialize, and the black and red wolf body quickly dodged backwards, easily dodging his blow.
He panted with his short stick, and the light of the burning tree shone on his slightly pale face, and after a pause, he swung it again.
At this moment, the blood wolf moved, it dodged violently, dodged Ling Yu's blow again, and the lightning waved a pitch-black thick wolf claw, "Smack!" With a bang, it hit the back of his immature hand hard, and three inch-long blood channels appeared on the back of his hand, Ling Yu exclaimed, and the short stick took off his hand in response.
He suddenly found that the short stick turned out to be a snow-white human leg bone, and he was now barehanded!
"I'm not afraid! I can beat you with my bare hands!! Ling Yu shouted, stretched out his hands, and pounced again like crazy.