Chapter 519: Hidden in the Shadows
Luo Youfang had successfully refined living people into corpses, since he could use living people to refine corpses, why couldn't the old man who appeared in Dazhai back then use mountain demons to refine corpses?
And I suspect that this demon corpse may still be alive, and it is hiding in the depths of the honeycomb cave at the moment.
I thought about this as I made my way through the intricate caverns. I noticed that the caves seemed to have been corroded in a short period of time, and the walls of the caves were filled with small holes, each about the thickness of a little finger and about half a centimeter deep. Their presence makes the walls of these caves look like steel that has been corroded by acid.
After passing through several caves, a huge hole five meters wide appeared in front of me, and the evil god's Qi field came from inside, and at the same time, there was a very faint fire and a noise from afar.
I immediately turned off the flashlight, and the second master also turned off the lights.
I leaned against the cave wall and listened, and the noise sounded ...... It's as if someone is singing, and it's as if someone is crying.
Liu Shangang came up to me, stuffed something into my hand, and whispered to me: "I will bring such a lamp like this, you lead, you bring it." ”
It was pitch black all around, and it was only after I heard his voice that I realized that it was him.
After speaking, Liu Shangang lit the lamp, and the light blue light sprinkled lightly around us, showing the outline of everyone.
The light travels a very short distance, and I can't see the light at all if I don't get within five meters.
I put my headlamp on my forehead and said to him, "Take care of Lao Yang." ”
Liu Shangang nodded and turned to leave, but I grabbed him again and asked him, "Can you hear the voice in front of you?" ”
He leaned over again, listened with his ears open for a while, and then glanced again in the direction from which the fire came, and then said to me, "The great shadows are dancing around the fire, as if they were worshipping, and I do not understand what they are saying." Brother Dao, those things should be dwarf mules, and there are very many of them. Do we have to walk this hole? ”
I also looked in the direction of the fire, but unfortunately I saw nothing but the little bit of fire.
"You have to go, the evil god is in the depths of this cave." I said to Liu Shangang: "Is the distribution area of the dwarf mule very wide? ”
Liu Shangang: "It's not wide, they are very concentrated, and they are all around the fire." But...... It's hard to say, some places are too dark, and I'm not sure if there are dwarf mules in those places. ”
I asked him, "Can you come to me without turning on the lights just now?" ”
"That's because I remember everyone's location before turning off the lights, which is one of my usual training sessions," said Liu. ”
I nodded and instructed him again: "Protect Lao Yang." ”
Liu Shangang let out a "hmm" and quickly retreated to the back.
The location of the fire was on the left side of the cave, and in order to avoid the large number of dwarf mules there, I deliberately followed the cave wall on the right side slowly, and every distance I walked, I had to stop and carefully observe the surroundings to make sure that there were no dwarf mules lurking in the darkness nearby.
But the cave was wide at first, and narrower the deeper we went, and by the time the light of the fire came into view of me, we were close to the mule.
The group of dwarf mules knelt in a circle around the campfire, occasionally waving their arms and making a sound similar to chanting a mantra.
A little further into the campfire, there were small stone tablets standing around the campfire, each with a pattern of a truncated root, and next to it a tree that was growing in a sinuous way, the size of the root.
Soon I recognized that the tree was the sacred tree that had been contaminated with blood and distorted, and that cut of tendrils was the "head" of the mountain demon.
Can't be wrong, the demonic spirit here must be related to the mountain demon!
At this time, the second master's big hand touched me from behind, I turned to look at him, and saw him wave his hand at me, and then retreated to the end of the team, and Liu Shangang came over again, replacing the second master, becoming one of the leaders of the team.
Previously, the second master was by my side to deal with the unexpected situation ahead, but now it is replaced by Liu Shangang, so that Liu Shangang can play the role of a scout and explore the situation ahead with me.
Liu Shangang came to me and pointed to the shadow to the right of the campfire.
The firelight did not hit that area, and Liu Shangang walked in that direction, which seemed to indicate that he confirmed that there were no dwarf mules there.
I turned around again and glanced at Lao Yang, at this time Du Kang was beside Lao Yang, and when he noticed that I was looking at Lao Yang, he nodded at me and signaled that he would take care of Lao Yang.
After that, I turned off my headlights.
As soon as the lights went out, we could see nothing but the light of the fire twenty meters away and the dwarf mules kneeling near the firelight.
The people behind me could only follow my pace by judging the sound of my footsteps, but in order to prevent exposure, I had to deliberately slow down, so before I acted, I touched Liu Shangang and grabbed his clothes.
Liu Shangang immediately understood what I meant, he grabbed the corner of my clothes with one hand, and then patted Du Kang behind him again, and I could hear the sound of his palm slapping on Du Kang's body.
I waited a long time before heading into the shadows.
I took a step, Liu Shangang followed suit, and then the people behind acted in turn.
In this way, we quietly came to a place less than ten meters away from the dwarf mule.
If I were in an area lit by fire, I wouldn't have seen anything in the shadows, but the mules here have been breeding in the dark for thousands of years, and they are very adaptable to light and darkness, and I'm not sure if they can see us.
I was unspeakably apprehensive that there were at least two hundred dwarf mules on the other side of the campfire, and that if they suddenly pounced on us, things would be very troublesome.
When we fought the mules in the tunnel, the tunnel was only more than two meters wide, and the mules could not surround us from all sides, but now, although the cave is getting narrower, it is still much wider than the tunnel......
When I think of this, I can't help but break out in a cold sweat.
I am holding a green steel sword in my right hand, and my left hand is also involuntarily placed on the Fantian seal, if it really alarms these dwarf mules, I still have two life-saving tricks, one is Gangbu, and the other is Fantian Yin. But now that we are so close to the evil god, as long as I urge the Fantian seal or go to Gang, the evil god will definitely find us.
Which is more ferocious, the evil god or the dwarf mule? Hardly.
I was so worried, I lowered my voice and quietly walked forward.
As I walked, Liu Shangang suddenly pulled me hard from behind, and although I stopped, the leg I had just stepped out of touched a fluffy thing.
I immediately realized that I must have kicked a dwarf mule just now!
My leg was attached to the mule, and the mule moved, and I felt it turn sideways and something relatively hard hit my calf.
I couldn't see anything clearly, but I could guess that the mule must have been on my leg with his shoulder as he turned.
I recreated its current position in my mind's eye, and then I made a quick move and grabbed it by the neck with some precision. The first touch of contact with my throat came from my hand, and I immediately reached forward with my palm, grabbed the back of the mule's neck, and squeezed it hard.
In the next moment, the mule's body went limp, and its shoulders slid down my legs, and I was afraid that it would make a noise when it landed, so I grabbed it by the neck and gently placed it on the ground.
I breathed a sigh of relief as the mule's body rested on the ground, but at that moment the mule by the campfire suddenly stood up, staring at me with wide eyes and raising its arms high.
My left hand touched the slippery buckle of the silk cloth and was about to take out the seal of Fantian, but the dwarf mule beside the campfire leaned down again, and it was prostrate on the ground, holding the stone tablet directly in front of me with both hands, looking extremely reverent.
After this incident, I was more careful, and I had to wait a few seconds before taking a step, and Liu Shangang didn't pull me before I dared to step my legs.
We spent a great deal of time avoiding the mules, but there was no danger, and it was not until the sound of the mule's chanting and the light of the fire was far away from us that I cautiously turned on my headlamp.
Liu Shangang, who was behind me, also breathed a sigh of relief.
I turned around and looked at the people behind me, no one was lost, even Lao Yang, who I was most worried about, followed Du Kang closely.
As we are still uncertain if there are other dwarf mules lurking in the shadows of the cave, we still have to be very careful on the rest of the journey.
I followed the evil god's field to the edge of the cave, where there was only a semicircular opening in the cave wall, and its shape was very regular, more than two meters high and two meters wide, and I felt that this cave was more like a door carved out by man.
Dwarf mules can paint murals on earthen walls, but I don't believe that with their abilities, they can dig such a regular semicircular doorway in such a hard stone wall.
But if it weren't for the mule, who left the door?
Liu Shangang quietly approached me, lowered his voice and asked me, "Are you going in?" ”
I patted him on the shoulder: "Be careful. ”
As I spoke, I quickly drilled into the hole.
The height of two meters is still a little short for the second master, he had to bend down when he entered the hole, and I looked back at him a few times halfway, for fear that he would hit the top of the cave.
If it hit, his inhuman strength and steely flesh would surely make a loud noise. In this silent honeycomb cave, such a sound may cause a huge chain reaction.
Fortunately, as we gradually went deeper, the cave became wider, and later the second master was able to walk upright, and the left and right width of the cave was enough for several of us to walk side by side.
Since entering the cave just now, the Evil God Qi Field has been maintained in a very dense state, and it has not changed, but as we go deeper, the demonic qi and corpse qi have become more and more refined.
And I unexpectedly noticed that there were two demonic qi in the depths of the cave, one strong and one weak, the two were very similar, only extremely subtle differences, they were far away before, even I thought there was only one demonic qi source here.
Whew-whew-
I don't know how far I went, there was a heavy breathing sound behind me, at first I thought it was Lao Yang, but at this time, Liu Shangang pulled me hard from behind.
I immediately stopped.
As soon as the people behind saw me stop, they all stopped.
After the footsteps disappeared, the sound of breathing became clearer.
Lao Yang was also panting now, but his voice was a little weaker, far less thick than the other one.
The second master turned around and looked in the direction where the wheezing sound came from, and whispered to Liang Houzai, "Something is coming." ”