Chapter 240: Shadow Eater
A sudden cry for help came from the bottom of the valley, which disturbed Wang Zhaolin, who was climbing, and he looked back and looked down, but he couldn't see anything.
Anyway, the distance is too far, and the life or death of that person has nothing to do with him.
The current task was to find the Youkang Sanatorium, and he should not be swayed by this little thing, he opened the map given to him by the female clerk of the Tiangong Hut, and moved his index finger to the location marked with a red cross to make sure that he was not going in the wrong direction.
There are more than ten high mountains about two thousand meters above sea level in the Forest of Purple Mist, and there is still the next one after turning over one, and the vegetation passing through is grassland, shrubs, and woods in turn, and then it is the same scenery, and it is inevitable to see visual fatigue after seeing it for a long time.
Although it is not easy to get lost in the map in hand, but the consequences of excessive physical wear and tear are quite serious, Wang Zhaolin used a flash step to gallop for more than ten kilometers is the limit, not to mention that he can't find food, in order to avoid dehydration, he ripped off a piece of fabric from his sleeve, wiped the sweat on his body, and screwed it into a bottle.
This bottle belonged to the strong man who was eliminated on the first day, and when he first picked it up, Wang Zhaolin was still happy that it was filled with water, but he didn't expect that only two days later, it could only be used to hold sweat. At first taste it tasted bitter and greasy, like urine's urine, but in order to survive and win the game, he had to endure until there was not a drop left in the bottle.
Wang Zhaolin leaned on the edge of a boulder to bask in the sun, he rubbed his temples to calm his nervousness, he hadn't seen a sunny day for a long time, the climate in Suhua Village was capricious, unlike here, he would take a nap after a long rest, and he forgot that the Kongyuan Sword in the scabbard of the Tiankun Sword had been more than three days.
When he was full of energy, he happened to meet the pair of blood-colored eyes, reached out and touched the scabbard, but only pulled out the hilt of the Void Abyss.
The Empty Abyss Sword is one of the top ten famous swords in the world, how can it even be "devoured" by the scabbard of the Tiankun sword, there is no reason!
Before Wang Zhaolin could get up, the "beast" had already set up and pounced on him.
He couldn't dodge, his right arm was cut open by the steel claw, and blood immediately gushed out, he didn't care about the severe pain, he waved the Tiankun sword scabbard with his left hand, blocked the second slam blow, quickly turned over and jumped onto the stone, and finally recognized the "beast" that attacked him.
The tiger is a large cat distributed in temperate regions, and the cold climate around the Purple Mist Plateau is not adapted to their activities.
No, this is no ordinary "Sword Tiger Beast", its whole body is made of dark iron, and the friction of gears can be clearly heard with every movement.
It really made him encounter the beast, but unfortunately the Empty Abyss Sword was destroyed, and the terrain was extremely unfavorable to him, so if he wanted to survive, he could only escape.
Wang Zhaolin obviously underestimated the speed of the Yan Beast, and the treatment of his hand injury consumed half of his spiritual power, and it was basically impossible to get rid of it with a flash step.
It didn't take long for him to lose his strength and be knocked flying by a claw from a wive beast with dynamic vision, the force of which caused his body to shatter three trees in a row.
Fortunately, Wang Zhaolin pierced the end of the Tiankun sword scabbard into the ground in time, and he barely controlled his body, he covered his chest, forcibly endured his vomiting, and tried to find the direction where the Yan Beast was, but the other party slowly walked behind him, opened his mechanical mouth, and gathered all his energy into one point.
Wang Zhaolin quickly dodged to the right, only to see a laser erupt from the mouth of the Yan Beast, flattening all the woods where he was just now.
He couldn't hold back any longer, a mouthful of blood sprayed to the ground, and he angrily scolded the organizers in his heart for deliberately making things difficult for the contestants, such a superb Yanshu is by no means something ordinary people can master, if he can't find his weaknesses, he will definitely give up the competition.
It's a big deal to go back to his hometown to herd sheep, he is really incompetent for the position of "savior brave", and he should not lose his life for this.
Don't think I can't hear what you're thinking.
The soft female voice came from the hilt of the Void Abyss Sword to Wang Zhaolin's heart, and it turned out that Idoris was talking to him.
Hey, you think I don't want to hold on, I really don't have a life-saving weapon.
Have you forgotten what the original form of the Abyss Sword was?
Wang Zhaolin tried his best to avoid the laser shot by the Yan Beast, and this made him suddenly realize, remembering the moment when he had just picked up the hilt of the Void Abyss...... Neither of the two forces has the upper hand?
The current situation is very critical, he was forced to the cliff by the beast, the slightest carelessness will fall a few steps behind him 100 meters of abyss, in order to carry out the humiliating but useful idea of asking for help, his right hand touched the signal canister in the bag.
Don't give up easily, you can't be brave? Put the Void Abyss Sword into the Heavenly Kun Scabbard, and you'll know what's going on.
Wang Zhaolin had no other way but decided to give it a try.
At the moment when the hilt of the Void Abyss and the scabbard of the Heavenly Kun were combined, the strong light was dazzling, wrapping the entire sword and scabbard into a blue sword.
This is the effect of the fusion of "Devouring Power" and "Void Power", the final form of the Void Abyss Sword - Sword Devouring Body, I will now teach you the second form of the Lianying Technique - Devouring Shadow, you can listen to me.
Then Idoris whispered softly and reached Wang Zhaolin's heart.
While dodging the attack of the Yan Beast, Wang Zhaolin memorized the spell formula, and with the Lianying Formula as the foundation, he learned quickly, and gradually gained the upper hand, keeping up with the rhythm of the Yan Beast.
However, the body of the beast was extremely hard, and Wang Zhaolin's sword skills failed to cause substantial damage, but fortunately, Idoris gave timely guidance.
The essence of the Shadow Eater recipe lies in the "shadow", everything in the world has a "shadow", and the sword also has a "sword shadow", and the "devouring" and "nothingness" are integrated into the "sword shadow" to contain everything in the world.
Adoris's words made Wang Zhaolin take the lead in the face, and hurriedly gathered the spiritual power around him in the sword shadow of the empty abyss, turning into a black vortex under the beast, and sucking it in.
He had thought that the strong gravitational pull in the whirlpool would tear the beast to pieces, but after half a minute, the beast would be able to escape and run into the depths of the forest.
At the same time, the reaction force of the recruitment shook Wang Zhaolin to the ground, he got up and touched his buttocks, glad that he still had the spiritual power to heal the external injuries caused by the Yan Beast, but the effect of this move was not satisfactory.
If a person is sucked into it by the Devourer, it has long since disappeared, and the key is that someone is remotely manipulating the beast.
"This man must be a sorcerer, if that's a story for later. When Wang Zhaolin pulled out the Void Abyss Sword, the blade and scabbard instantly returned to their original appearance, "But there is one thing I have to ask you, how can the second form of the Lianying Technique, the Shadow Devouring Technique, be related to the Tiankun Sword Sheath?"
"Uh...... This ......," Idoris said with hesitation, ending the telepathic conversation, "This scabbard originally belonged to Gabriel, the first owner of the Abyss Sword, but as for that man's deeds...... I'm sleepy, I'll tell you later. ”
After that, no more voices came from within the Void Abyss Sword.
Wang Zhaolin just asked casually, and since Idoris didn't want to deal with it, he had to tidy up his belongings and move on.
After walking some distance, he opened the map and found that he was very close to the Youkang Sanatorium, and he could only climb over the broken low wall in front of him.
At this time, the sky was completely dark, except for the footsteps and wheezing of Wang Zhaolin on the turf, there was a dead silence all around, and his eyes stretched along the abandoned fountain, and a simple lonely house appeared in front of him.
Having run out of flashlights, he had to find new lighting tools before he could enter the sanatorium to explore. He searched for a long time, found a kerosene lamp next to the well in front of the courtyard, lit it and used it as a light source to walk to the main entrance.
There was a sign hanging on the door, and he lifted the kerosene lamp up and shone it on it that read:
Closed to any use or encroachment on the building, date: February 1, 712 A.D
Upon entering the main hall, the floor was littered with rubble and rubble, and next to the staircase leading to the second floor, there was a foundation stone that read:
Opened in 711 A.D., the Harmony Sanatorium is dedicated to maintaining the physical and mental health of its patients.
Next to it was a dusty desk, and on the table was a map of the nursing home, and after careful inspection, Wang Zhaolin sorted out that the whole hospital was divided into three areas: the first floor was used for diagnosis and treatment, and the second floor was used for the patient's residence and rehabilitation center.
The passage to the medical and laboratory areas was boarded off, and he had to make his way to the room at the end of the hallway, where the sign "Special Treatment Room" hung with the words "Special Clinic", and through the rectangular mirror, he saw a man in black pacing around the room, holding a notebook in his hand, and writing something on a piece of paper while examining the damage on the beast's body.
Wang Zhaolin guessed that this person was the judge of this selection competition - the Yanshu who made the beast, in order to see the appearance of the man in black, he accidentally knocked over a bottle of fire extinguisher, seeing that the person heard the sound, he quickly hid under a hospital bed, and observed the situation outside through the gap between the white cloth and the floor.
After a sound of footsteps, a pair of bright red shoes appeared outside the white cloth, and the woman's feet did not mean to go, but stopped in front of the hospital bed, and after a while, judging by the roar of machinery behind the door, the beast operated again, and galloped away with the man towards the exit of the sanatorium.
He re-lit the kerosene lamp in his arms, illuminating the half-hidden door, as well as the maintenance tools, mechanical parts, and design drawings on the central table, and there were many wooden bottles full of preservatives on the wooden shelves against the wall, which contained the heads of various animals, some of which he couldn't name, and looked particularly terrifying.
Filing cabinets are attached to the table, and the diagnosis and treatment reports of various patients are scattered all over the place, one of which reads as follows:
In response to the Ming Ye company's catastrophic mining accident, our hospital yesterday admitted 12 patients, after nutritional infusion and multi-day care, these miners seem to be in good spirits, we expect them to recover soon, fortunately they found emergency spare food in the mine, but individual miners have slight signs of breathing difficulties, I believe they will recover in a few days.
On a psychological level, the 20-day experience of being trapped has caused some people to suffer from a phobia of confinement, and they are arranged to live in a well-ventilated ward as much as possible.
Treatment:
Due to the unstable condition of some patients, we will set up an isolation area on the second floor of Youkang Nursing Home and closely monitor them 24 hours a day.
After reading the report, Wang Zhaolin couldn't help but gasp, the 12 miners referred to in this article were the group of crystal monsters in the abandoned mine pit, and the curse of devouring their own kind made them all mutate.
Before learning the Shadow Devouring Technique, with Wang Zhaolin's cultivation, it was not easy to deal with this group of crystal monsters, if it weren't for the high reward of points promised by the female clerk, he would have quit a long time ago, not to mention that the beasts could be beaten away by him, and he was afraid that these crystal monsters would not succeed?
So, Wang Zhaolin, who was full of self-confidence, packed the map in his bag and walked out the door.