Chapter 40: The Burial of Remains
I felt my body tremble, and I was about to scream and remind Dongfang to wait, but suddenly I felt a hard thing under my feet.
I subconsciously stopped, flashlight to look at the thing, but this is not illuminated, but under the light, what appeared in the light turned out to be a dagger.
"East!" I finally stopped him, and put down Liu Ran on my body, and suddenly felt as if half of the weight on my body was missing, and my body was as light as a swallow.
Dongfang then turned around, walked back again, and also looked at the dagger, and under the flashlight, I felt that the dagger looked very familiar, as if I had seen it not long ago.
When Dongfang picked up the dagger, he said a name to himself, "Hunting Edge!" How did it end up here? ”
Seeing him talking to himself like this, I guessed that he might know something, and immediately asked, "Do you know who this dagger is?!" ”
Dongfang was stunned for a moment, then withdrew his puzzled gaze, and nodded slowly, "The name of this dagger, called Hunter Feng, is one of the twelve Flying Shadow Immortal Swords under the hammer of the forger Zhou Ye, when we came, we brought a few of them, and those were given by Mr. Zhou's disciples a few years ago." ”
"Zhou Ye?!" I was a little puzzled, and I was even more curious about the name of the so-called Soldier Forge in the mouth of the East.
Seeing that I asked Zhou Ye's name, Dongfang explained again, "It's reasonable that you don't know him, after all, you rarely come into contact with these." ”
"Speaking of which, his status in our circle is not small, legend has it that he studied under the Tang Dynasty sword-casting master hermitage, and there are many ways to talk about the origin."
"I don't have anything else to tell you, just talk about this Zhou Ye, with the casting technique passed down from his ancestors, he used a piece of natural dark iron at the bottom of the Bohai Sea to cast twelve Flying Shadow Fairy Knives, and each one has its own strengths."
Looking at the dagger in my hand, I pulled out a few more from my backpack to see that the material was indeed similar to the one on the ground.
"Zhou Ye's knives all have their own usefulness, with cutting, cutting, chopping, chopping, stabbing, chopping, the main attack, and the last six are the main defense. But although it is said that there are twelve, there are only eight that can be circulated outside, and the rest are guarded by the disciples in the door, because those four are the only ones in the world, and it is difficult for him to copy them by himself. ”
As he spoke, he picked up the one I had for comparison and said, "This is the dogwood, the main blade, suitable for short hits, but difficult to resist." ”
If we look closely, we only brought eight, and the style of each one is different from the blade, the shadow of the knife, the handle, the edge, the tip of the knife and the body, and the dagger we just picked up is completely different from what we brought.
This seems to indicate that the owner of the dagger has a deep relationship with that soldier casting master Zhou Ye, and it is even very likely that he is one of Zhou Ye's apprentices, otherwise this dagger would not have fallen into the hands of this person.
Dongfang held the dagger, and under the flashlight, he looked at it repeatedly for a long time without speaking, and he had many associations about the identity of the owner of this dagger and the reason why it appeared here.
In fact, I also have a lot of curiosity in my heart, such as these Flying Shadow Fairy Knives, and Zhou Ye, but just about to ask, I suddenly heard the sound of arrow steps,
When I heard that voice, I hesitated at first, because what I thought in my heart was that it was my own delusion again.
But when Dongfang was also vigilant and clenched the dagger in his hand fiercely, I understood the voice, and he heard it.
The sound grew from far to near, and it became clearer and clearer, and we immediately shook the light in our hands, but the light kept moving between the walls and the floor, and we didn't notice anything at all.
Dongfang and I went one after the other, each paying attention, but no one found the source of the sound, and at this moment, Liu Ran on the side had slowly stood up.
As I followed the footsteps and searched around, I suddenly heard a burst of laughter behind me, which was very piercing in the dark stone cave.
I heard a scream, but just as I was about to turn back, I heard the sound of wings flapping overhead,
For a moment, the sound was in my ears, stirring people upset in the darkness, and when I turned back to turn the flashlight, I saw a bat hovering over our heads.
In the light, the strange scene I will never forget, the bat flapped its long wings, circled in the air a few times, and suddenly fell to the stone wall on the left.
It was so fast that I didn't have time to react, only to see an afterimage fly away, and when I looked after it, I found a pair of small footprints left on the stone wall.
Then came the creepy laughter, the sound of a bat-like in the air, and the sound was strange, like a sinister laugh mixed with human emotion.
Thinking of this, I retreated again and again, gathered with Dongfang, the pillar of light in my hand kept shaking, and a sense of tension arose.
The bat's shadow flew in the light, appearing and disappearing, and it was difficult for us to determine its position, and it was difficult to try to resist its sudden attack.
At this time, Dongfang had already discovered everything around him, but his movements were faster than mine, but he did not follow the light to look for bats, but pricked up his ears and carefully followed the sound.
After a while, he seemed to have noticed something, grabbed my shaking flashlight, and then turned around and threw out the dagger with one hand.
When it was too late, I saw a flying light flash in the darkness, flying towards a black shadow not far away, but when I saw this, I also subconsciously chased after it, and then pounced on the black shadow.
In the shaking light, after the dagger flew out, I followed it, and I saw the black-haired bat leaning over, its wings against the stone wall, and flew under my armpit, and when I looked back again, I found that the thing also left two red footprints on my arm.
I cursed, picked up the dagger in my hand, and after a few more steps, flew again, and stared at the black individual, ready to cut it in half with a single sword.
But I think it's good, but damn it, it's cunning, and it's small, and it's more agile.
As I pounced, the thing screamed again, and then the tail of its wings was closed, and its body flipped out of thin air with the force of a slight sag, and stabbed its head behind me.
I didn't know what I knew, and I didn't have time to think about anything, so I immediately turned around and stabbed it diagonally on the thing's wings.
The wings of bats are generally very thin, and when the wings are opened, the body will appear large, so I didn't leave it blank this time.
But this knife only cut off one of its wings, and not even its wing bones.
However, I can't be blamed for this, because the blade of this dagger is no more than a dozen centimeters long, barely a little longer than the hilt, and it is not suitable for dealing with such a quick little thing.
As soon as the blade swept past its left flank, I immediately retracted the strength of my hand, so as not to lose my strength and let myself fall to the ground.
Time waits for no one, my knife just made the black-haired bat pause in the air for a few seconds, and then it flew straight ahead of Liu Ran.
When I turned around in a panic, I found that Dongfang had walked to Liu Ran's side at some point, but what I saw was such a scene;
Dongfang hugged Liu Ran from behind, and on Liu Ran's body, a blood mark flowed, and when I looked at the source, I found that the blood mark came from the bat.
Its wings closed slightly, and its body landed on Liu Ran's body, and the sharp weapon that killed it was also a dagger.
At this time, this dagger had been snatched from Dongfang by Liu Ran and held it in her own hand.
The blood continued to flow down the blade, falling to the ground drop by drop, and seeing all this, I moved my gaze to Dongfang again.
"You're all right!" I finally asked, but none of them answered me, and the atmosphere froze.
To say that this bat that didn't know where it came out is dead, the two of them should be safe, but why do I feel that they have become more dignified now?
Just like that, there was silence all around, and I slowly moved the flashlight, and heard the blood of the bat dripping on the ground.
The voice was so clear that I even felt that my sense of hearing had become so sharp that I wondered if it was because of the sudden silence around me.
Drops of blood fell, and I finally moved the flashlight to the ground, and at the same time, the bat's corpse suddenly fell, right in a pool of blood.
Through the light, a blood-red color was reflected on the bat's corpse, and red bone lines were faintly soaked on it.
Bang bang bang!
In the darkness, the sound of bats flapping their wings sounded again, perhaps they had heard them a long time ago.
However, looking at the corpse in front of him, the voice was very abrupt, like a group of dead souls reenacting their lives.
I don't know what they're thinking, but I have to wake them up now, I can't stay here any longer.
This time, however, I was about to call them when I was pushed away by Dongfang, and he ran forward.
I looked at him in a hurry and hurriedly called him, but he didn't even look back as if he hadn't heard me at all.
Watching him keep moving away, I looked back at Liu Ran again, she was still the same, her eyes were empty, but the dagger in her hand was constantly trembling, as if she was in an extremely cold place, and she had an instinctive reaction.
Now in this situation, I really don't know what to do, but I was stunned in place, and it was not a solution, and finally I gritted my teeth, forced myself to calm down, and carried Liu Ran on my back.
This girl is not very heavy, so I don't have a hard time carrying it, but if I have to chase Dongfang again, I will be a little overwhelmed.
Even so, I kept picking up my pace, calling her name out of my mouth, reminding her to stay calm, and whatever she heard, it was an illusion.
Maybe this happened to the man who ate bats many years ago, but the fact that he was able to eat so many bats and still survived shows that this hallucination will not be fatal immediately, at least there is a way to alleviate it.
I don't know when she started like this, but it must have something to do with these bats, maybe it was because of killing these bats that she and Dongfang became like this.
As I guessed in my heart, I began to hear the sound that gradually became clearer, and it made me feel numb in my scalp and make me want to rush out of this place in one step.
But compared to the hallucination last time, I was much more immune this time, so I quickly calmed down.
"Liu Ran, don't you have anything to do!" I said this and took her right hand around her arm holding the knife.
The metallic texture from the dagger made me slowly settle down, but I didn't dare to snatch it from Liu Ran's hand rashly, let alone let go.
In this case, I'm not sure how she'd react, the dagger was too dangerous to fall into her hands.
After running with her on my back for about ten minutes, I felt out of breath and a layer of hot sweat on my body.
But when he looked up and looked forward, he still didn't see the shadow of the east, I really didn't know where he was now, but along the way, he didn't see a fork in the road, if there was only one road here, then he must be in front.
Although he was bewitched by that voice, he was also a human being, and there would be times when his strength was exhausted, and as long as that time came, it was possible to catch up with him again.
Thinking so, I gasped a few times before I got up again, ready to continue, and at the same time, the strange sound of a bat flapping its wings followed.
It's just different from just now, the current sound is not around, but behind us, as if behind us there are those invisible but sound-making bats chasing after us.