Chapter 61: The Demon Butterfly of the Underworld

The Chinese characters on the illustrated book are described as follows: Electric light flowers, growing along the River Styx, perennial entwined herbaceous plants that can grow up to 40 feet (12 m) tall and have large, bulb-shaped flowers that are purple or yellow-green. Because it draws on the water of the River Styx, the stamens contain flammable substances, and after the flowers bloom, the core of the flower burns for 15 days before withering.

After reading the explanation of the illustrated book, Tianxuan stretched out his right palm and swung it up and down a few times before saying, "Don't worry too much, this is just an ordinary plant, called Electric Light Flower, but it can emit light." ”

After listening to Tianxuan's words, everyone's tense nerves finally relaxed. So, everyone went to the vicinity of the electric light flower to sit down and repair, and gave emergency treatment to the wounded.

At this time, the berserker who had been supporting Tianxuan asked him, "Captain Tianxuan, what should we do now?"

Tianxuan shook his head and said, "I don't know, but it seems that I have temporarily avoided the siege and interception of the trench ronin, and after I observe the terrain, we will leave immediately, who knows when that group of pirates will appear again." ”

"Well, I understand, I'll help you walk around!"

"Okay, thank you so much! Oh, I haven't asked you what your name is after all this time? Tianxuan asked the berserker who was holding him.

"My name is Gint!" Berserker replied.

"Okay, Gint, I'll trouble you!" After saying that, Tianxuan, with the support of Jinte, began to investigate the route around the area of the Electric Light Flower.

At this time, Hercules on the other side of the river seemed a little anxious after seeing the skyrocketing fire, and he asked Radamandis for instructions: "Your Excellency Commander, now Tianxuan and they seem to be in trouble, I ask to bring a team of people to support!" ”

Radamandis shook his head and denied: "No, although the front army is in a predicament now, our troops cannot effectively contact them, and we are completely unfamiliar with the terrain and environment. ”

"But ......," Hercules still tried to convince Radamandis.

"Really not, Hercules, now this group of pirates must have designed an ambush, no matter how many troops are invested, they will be in the mouth of a tiger, not only can they not be rescued, but they will also increase unnecessary casualties." Radamandis rightly refused Hercules' request.

Hercules saw that the request was fruitless, and there was no way, so he had to shake his head helplessly and leave. At this time, he secretly prayed for Tianxuan in his heart: "You kid must survive, life without you and me will become tasteless!" ”

"Ah Qiu" Who is talking about me behind his back, Tianxuan rubbed his nose and said.

"Huh! Maybe someone is missing you! Ginter said with a smile.

"Cut, I hope so!" Tianxuan said with a smile.

After more than half an hour of investigation, Tianxuan had a general understanding of the direction of travel. He said to the people, "Listen to me, the electric light flower grows very close to the riverbank, and we only need to find the river Styx and the river now." I remember that when we came, we went down the river, so when we found the river, we walked against the tide and found the place where we landed! ”

"Order!" After the unanimous answer, everyone cheered: "Okay, there is hope now." ”

Tianxuan looked at everyone's joyful smiles, and showed a hint of a smile. Later, he counted the number of people and found that by this time there were only 1,400 left.

"You guys have now suffered most of our casualties, so we must always be vigilant in the future, and the distance between the groups should not exceed 1 meter, so that it is convenient to support each other!" Tianxuan waved at everyone and said.

When the troops set up their formation, Tianxuan, with the support of Jinte, led the troops to start searching for traces of the river from the forest.

After some time, they still did not find any trace of the river, and the people began to feel hopeless and slack.

For this situation, Tianxuan also began to waver, and stopped and hung his head. However, Gint immediately straightened him at this time and said softly: "Anyone can be discouraged, but you can't, you are now the backbone of our people, if you fall, I am afraid that they will not even have the will to fight when they encounter the enemy." ”

Tianxuan was enlightened by Jinte's words, and hurriedly responded in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" ”

The corners of Jinte's mouth curled slightly and smiled, "It's okay, it's good that you understand!" ”

So, Tianxuan sorted out his thoughts, raised his tone, and told everyone to continue searching.

After a while, Tianxuan gradually smelled a smell of crude oil, which was very faint but very clear. So, Tianxuan hurriedly said loudly to everyone: "Everyone, I really want to smell the Styx, everyone should be able to get out if you work harder." ”

After finishing speaking, Tianxuan touched the wound on his left arm, which was already inflamed and suppurated, and couldn't help but think, "It doesn't seem to be a good sign!" ”

Jinte looked at Tianxuan and asked softly, "Are your injuries okay?" ”

"It's fine at the moment, but I don't know how long it will last!" Tianxuan closed his eyes and said with a deep breath.

Just as he was talking to Ginter, a fresh breeze blew, and a burst of purple cotton wool began to float in the air. This cotton wool in the sky blocked everyone's view, so Tianxuan ordered to stop advancing, and put it back to back in place for defense.

"What is this?" Ginter asked.

"I don't know, let me use the illustrated book to see." As he spoke, Tianxuan swept it with the illustrated book, but he couldn't sweep it out.

"I can't read what this is, maybe it's just ordinary cotton wool, not animals and plants, so I can't show it!" Tianxuan said to Jinte.

"Oh! You have a point! Ginter said.

The cotton wool accompanied the wind more and more, sticking to Tianxuan's face, neck, and hands, feeling very uncomfortable. So he wiped and wiped with his right hand. After about half an hour, the nasty batting finally stopped.

"Oh! The delivery is stopped! Ginter said as he dusted off the purple cotton wool on his body.

"Yes!" Tianxuan also sighed and said.

Just as everyone was about to get up and continue to pull, Tianxuan glanced at his left arm and suddenly found a large ball of cotton wool on the wound on his left arm.

"What's going on?" Tianxuan's eyes widened and he said in horror.

"What's wrong, Commander?" Jin Tezheng was asking, and suddenly saw the situation on Tianxuan's left arm, and his mouth grew and he was surprised: "What happened?" ”

"I don't know!" Tianxuan shook his head and took out the illustrated book and began to scan it, while at the same time, the cotton wool on his left arm suddenly shrank, and faintly glowed purple from the inside.

A large red cross appears in the video, followed by four Chinese characters: "Unknown Creatures"

"Unknown creatures?" Tianxuan patted his forehead as he spoke, rubbed his eyes and said to Jinte, "It's over, it's completely over now." ”

"No, it's still too late!" As he spoke, Jint pulled out the photon cutter.

"You...... What do you want to do?" Tianxuan said as he took a few steps back.

"Don't worry, I'll do it quickly, and I'll cut it off in an instant!" Ginter said.

Looking at Jinte's cold expression, Tianxuan felt furious in his heart, and instinctively retracted his hand behind his back. However, the shiny cotton wool shook slightly.

He glanced at his left arm, thought about it carefully, and felt that what Gint said was right, so he decided to let Gint use a photon cutter to cut it. So, he stretched out his arms, closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and said, "Do it!" ”

"Hmm!" As he spoke, Gint lifted the photon cutter up.

At the moment when Jinte was about to cut off, Tianxuan's nerves suddenly did not obey the call, and his whole body trembled violently. Jinte was stunned for a moment, and when he reacted, he hurriedly waved his hand to cut it down. However, it was too late, and Tianxuan fell to the ground at this moment and rolled out of the distance.

Seeing this, Jinte quickly picked up his knife and hurried after standing firm.

"There won't be any aliens!" Tianxuan screamed in despair in his heart, but now his body was completely disobedient.

Just as Gint was about to feel Tianxuan's side, the cotton wool suddenly stopped shining and turned into a thick oval cocoon. Just as Tianxuan was wondering, a crack appeared above the cocoon, and then two spiky things popped up.

At this time, Tianxuan was really taken aback, but soon his mood stabilized again, because what appeared from the cocoon was not an alien, but a huge butterfly.

"Butterflies?" Gint said in surprise when he saw the butterfly, and put down the photonic cutter in his hand.

At this time, I saw this butterfly fluttering its wings and spinning above Tianxuan's head. This butterfly is really unusually beautiful: a pair of almost 50-centimeter-long black forewings glow a lilac fluorescence with each flap, while the golden body connected to the wings does not look like an insect with antennae, a bit humanoid.

Tianxuan was fascinated, and suddenly the callus on his left arm fell off, he looked at it, and suddenly found that the wound on his arm had actually healed, and the abscess was gone. Hurriedly smiled and stretched out his left arm to Gint, "Kint, look, my injuries are actually healed!" ”

Jinte looked at Tianxuan's arm and said with a smile while putting away the photon cutter: "This is indeed amazing, it seems that this butterfly is not a monster, hehe!" ”

"Yes! It scared the hell out of me! It's a good thing you didn't cut it down, otherwise my injury would not only not have healed, but my left hand would have been scrapped! Tianxuan rolled his eyes at Jinte and blamed.

"Sorry, sorry! The situation was urgent, and this is an unknown creature! Ginter bowed his head and apologized embarrassedly.

Looking at Jinte's embarrassment, Tianxuan sneered, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, forget it, anyway, I will be a blessing in disguise, and there is no problem with it, so I won't pursue you." ”

As he was talking, the butterfly flew to the top of Tianxuan's head and flapped its wings, and the small golden particles instantly fell on his head, and then gradually integrated into his body, and after a while, Tianxuan shook his shoulders and said in surprise: "Oh, the spirit came in an instant, and the whole person is much better!" ”

"That's great! Then let's move on to the river! Ginter said.

But at this time, this butterfly seemed to have spirituality, and stopped in front of Tianxuan. Tianxuan blocked his way every time he turned around, and only when he was in the southeast direction did the butterfly not stop him.

Tianxuan lowered his head and touched his chin, thought for a while, and said to Jinte: "Jinte, this butterfly seems to understand my thoughts, maybe it will find the bank of the River Styx along the southeast direction." ”

"Yes! You can give it a try, but now it's hopeless anyway, maybe you can succeed with this butterfly. Kim nodded in agreement.

Tianxuan snapped his fingers and said, "Okay, that's it." But I'll have to give the creature a name and include it in the PokΓ©dex. ”

"What are you going to call it?" Ginter asked.

"Huh!" Tianxuan held his chin with his fingers and turned around and said, "That's it! Call it the Underworld Demon Butterfly! ”

"Underworld Demon Butterfly?" After hearing this, Gint shook his head, said speechless, and after a few seconds of pause, he said, "I'd better go and gather the team and get ready to go!" ”

"Then I'm sorry for you!" Tianxuan said with a smile.

A moment later, Tianxuan led the remaining 1,400 people and began to follow the Demon Butterfly of the Underworld to find the banks of the River Styx. After about an hour, after walking around the forest, they finally heard the sound of water flowing.

When the last bushes were removed, the banks of the River Styx came into view.

This novel is from the Book King