Chapter 82: The Stygian Sea (2)
Not long ago, the three of them thought they were going to die in the air. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
And whether it is crushed into flesh foam by the wind or completely devoured by blood clotting worms, there will be no corpse left.
"It's the most bleak way to die I can imagine."
Not long after Xia Yi said this. The black insects on the top of their heads seemed to have received some order, and the tide receded.
The water flowing in the air was already about to become a waterfall, but it receded with the insect tide, leaving only a black hole ~ the whirlpool of the hole spinning in the sky.
The wind swept towards the whirlpool, converging with it and scurrying towards the distant sky.
Then they saw the sun.
The white eagle broke through the clouds, circled in the air a few times, and landed on the man's shoulder. Flapping its wings, it conveyed to him the message that its master had asked him to bring.
"It's okay down there, and the little girl has been found."
The man frowned, looking at the birds around him anxiously fluttering and jumping, slightly surprised: "You said Yun Ze is missing?" ”
Shiratori fell silent, nodded at him, and flapped his wings a few more times, as if asking for his opinion.
"I can't figure out where he's going to go. The altar is so big, he can't run far after a while, so he can always find it if he looks carefully. ”
Xia Yi waved his sleeves, and a gust of wind came out from under his feet, blowing away the heavy clouds below.
The crowd of people on the altar rested on the clouds, blurring into view.
Hong Yuan stood in the middle of the altar, with his hands behind his back, the corners of a folding fan peeking out of his sleeves, and he looked motionlessly at the corpses that were constantly being dragged away around him.
The man could only see a vague shadow of him in the sky, but it was not difficult to imagine the man's expression at this time.
The corners of his mouth should be a little smiling, but his eyes are more like mockery.
All mild courtesy is pretended. Although he will nod and smile at the people who pass by, and occasionally say a few words of hard work, he will always stand still and will never help himself.
"Hongyuan is lazy again."
Xia Yi came to a categorical conclusion: "There will be no second possibility." ”
"Coincidentally."
The man chuckled softly and nodded at Xia Yi: "I think so too." ”
"How can you say that about him?"
Fei Yan obviously had a different opinion, he sank down a little, relying on his good eyesight, and looked at the people below: "I guess, he is already asleep." ”
"No matter how you say it, he won't be ......"
The man seemed to want to refute, but when he thought of Hongyuan's "glorious deeds", he felt that it seemed to make sense: "It's ...... Maybe. ”
"Don't lose hope in your brother so early, okay?"
Xia Yi couldn't help but defend himself: "You see the wind and snow down there, how can he sleep!" ”
"No, I've always thought that Lord Hongyuan-sama could sleep there."
Fei Yan squinted his eyes and looked down, and the things he saw through the eyes of the insects before were still a little blurry, as if everything below was shrouded in a swirling black mist.
Vague figures appeared and disappeared in the black mist, many of them familiar faces, but fled in horror as more and more sunlight leaked out.
They all looked like people who had just died.
Does that bug still have this effect?
"Tsk...... It's miserable......"
Fei Yan shook his head, counting one after another acquaintances who had had one or several faces, and couldn't help but sigh: "You human race is really too fragile, and a lot of people died so easily......"
It was only halfway through its words of emotion, when it suddenly stared at the extraordinarily gray smoke behind Hongyuan in surprise, and exclaimed, "Yun Ze! ”
At the same time, Yun Ze below also raised the knife in his hand and stabbed at Hongyuan.
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"How?"
The man put down his bow and asked Fei Yan, "Did you shoot?" ”
Fei Yan nodded: "You can see for yourself, he has already come out." ”
"It's just right to come out."
Xia Yi stretched out a hand forward, and collected all the wind that had successfully returned after dispelling the clouds into his long sleeve: "It should be fine, let's go down too." ”
The burns on his face faded too slowly, and after all this time, it still didn't look much different from before.
"You're going to go on like this?"
Fei Yan grinned gloatingly: "I'm not afraid of scaring your master." ”
"Seems to make sense."
Xia Yi nodded suddenly, turned around and turned into a white giant beast, jumped up and stepped on Feiyan's head and ran down: "Thank you for reminding me." ”
Fei Yan roared angrily, followed his back and fell, spitting out flames one after another along the way, but it never burned even a single white hair on the tip of his tail.
The man on its back should have been looking down and counting the remaining feathered arrows on his body, unprepared for its sudden movements. It staggered down the black dragon's smooth scales and fell from the high clouds.
The wind was howling, and the cold, soft water vapor passed by. In front of me were rapidly swirling clouds, and the blinding sunlight suddenly lit up at that moment.
It's over, I'm going to die......
The man closed his eyes in grief, cursing in his heart at the two distant shadows in front of him.
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"Ahh
Xia Beifeng exclaimed in surprise and opened his eyes suddenly.
"Yo!"
Xia Yi was sitting cross-legged on the ground observing his situation, and when he saw him open his eyes, he stretched out his hand to say hello, "I finally remembered what this thing was." ”
He was holding a slender worm in his hand, constantly writhing his body trying to break free from Xia Yi's hands. The body of the insect is transparent, and if it weren't for a layer of bright red blood, the shape of the thing would not be visible at all.
Xia Beifeng stared at the slowly dripping blood beads in front of him, and raised his hand to touch the side of his face.
There was a bleeding wound, and when he touched it, he began to consciously transmit painful messages to his brain.
"I remembered, too."
Fei Yan circled his body, stared down at the wound on his face, and said slowly, "What came out of the Stygian Sea when it was flowing backwards. can drill into people's brains and peep into memories~ peeping into memories, and a fire can burn them off, but if you leave it alone, your brain will be gnawed away by it, and your body will be taken over by them...... Later, Yun Ze raised a group of people, and they caused us a lot of trouble. ”
"This thing is originally a specialty of the Stygian Sea, so it's not surprising to see it here."
A flame burst out of Xia Yi's palm, burning the insect into a ball of charcoal quickly, turning into black residue and falling to the ground: "It's just that I didn't expect that Yun Ze was still raising this thing." ”
"Maybe the prisoner's life is too lonely, after all, he is the only living creature except for a bunch of sculptures, and it is better to raise a few bugs to play."
Fei Yan blew a breath at the ground, blowing the tiny ashes away without a trace.
"How do I remember that he still had a crooked bird?"
When Xia Beifeng spoke, he touched the wound on his face with a hot pain, as if someone had sprinkled a handful of salt on the wound.
However, in addition to the pain, he was also surprised to find that the deep wound was healing at a miraculous speed.
"It just got too deep, and we were worried that you wouldn't get better for a while after taking it out, so we did something to deal with it."
As if seeing his doubts, Xia Yi gloated and said, "Fei Yan spat in your face, you can beat it now." ”
"I'm going to beat you up first, okay?"
Fei Yan raised his head angrily and shouted. A fireball rushed towards Xia Yi quickly, and was shattered by the wind, scattered into sparks, and quickly extinguished before it landed.
Xia Beifeng lay flat on the ground, blinked his eyes, and saw the bowl-sized ice cave above Xia Yi's head, as well as the slowly flowing water above the ice.
Oh, I'm back.
He thought in hindsight, his body seemed to be still immersed in the experience of weightlessness at high altitude and had not yet returned.
"Later, did you really just throw me down like that?"
"What did you just say?"
Xia Yi looked at him suspiciously, stretched out his hand and shook it twice in front of his eyes: "Why don't you turn your eyes, shouldn't that thing really gnaw your brain." Come, tell me, how much is this? ”
"Nope."
Xia Beifeng raised his hand weakly and commanded the two hands shaking in front of him, and sat up from the ground with force.
Another bout of dizziness.
Memories of the past flashed intermittently in his mind, and familiar but unnamed faces dangled back and forth, making him a little confused for a while.
Ay? Who am I?
What am I doing here? Why should I ...... now?
Memories that flashed suddenly under the stimulation of strange bugs gradually blurred as the pain in his brain subsided.
Oh, my name is Xia Beifeng.
I'm here to find my younger brother Shen Luotian and save the world by the way.
As for the witch kings, altars, mountain and river lamps, and the backward flow of the Stygian Sea, they have nothing to do with me anymore.
The afterimage in front of him gradually faded, and the distant memories settled down peacefully with his identity, turning into a very ordinary piece of information, no longer jumping to disturb his emotions.
"I probably know where to find Yun Ze."
He looked down at his palm, searching through the clutter of information for the familiar scene in front of him.
If all the broken sculptures around it were removed, it would have been a large cave.
Once upon a time, I was here with that young man named Hongyuan (I would never admit that the miserable little cub who was terrible at first sight was my brother). The purpose was the altar of this small tribe that had been exterminated by the union of the various tribes.
Xia Yi was watching the door outside the cave and didn't come in, so he didn't know about it. As for Feiyan......
He looked down at the black dragon wrapped around his wrist and sighed silently.
This guy was still in the dragon abyss at that time, and he didn't know us yet.
The small tribe worshipped the creatures of the Stygian Sea, feared and hated by the people of the earth, and the cave where the altar was located was a cave that communicated directly with the Stygian. The population is small, and they are isolated from the world all year round, but they are very capable of doing things, and almost every young man who walks outside is comparable to a biological weapon.
If memory serves, their altar is the lair of the Blood Clotted Worm that leads straight to the Stygian Sea. The so-called holy places are nothing more than places for feeding blood clotting worms.
The rite of passage in the clan is to push people into the altar, sleep with blood clotting worms for one night, and then come out alive before they are recognized as adults.
Of course, whether it came out intact or not, whether it was parasitized by blood clotting insects, they didn't care at all.
When they led people to exterminate this tribe, they didn't notice it for a while, and they were almost packed and fed with insects together.
It wasn't until Hongyuan made a move that he rescued himself from the brink of death.
Then in order to vent our anger, we burned down the altar, and as a result, we directly stabbed the worm nest and broke many people's hands.
A few years later, at the Chosen Sacrifice Festival, Yun Ze stole the mountain and river lanterns and fled here to hide for a full fifty years.
It turns out that at that time, we were already involved with the monsters in the Styx?
It turns out that it all started at this time?
When Xia Beifeng thought of this, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and finally found the original cause of the incident.
He remembered the strange idol in the altar.
When he was surrounded by the insect swarm and was confused and on the verge of death, he seemed to see the scene of Hongyuan and the idol talking face-to-face.
It's just that he was so miserable at that time that he didn't care about this little thing at all. His mind was full of how to deal with the insects that kept devouring flesh and blood and burrowing into his body, and he was just in time for a while of busyness afterwards, and he never remembered to ask Hongyuan what they were talking about.
With a vague memory, he pieced together a small part of the conversation.
It seemed like the god who lived in the statue, or something else that had escaped from the Stygian Sea, wanted Hongyuan to help him.
He didn't hear the specific content clearly, and he couldn't escape boring things like attacking the human world if he wanted to come left and right.
Then the statue was smashed by the incomprehensible little cub with a sword.
That's why it chose Yun Ze as the next best thing?
He remembered the location of the idol in his memory, and stood up with the jagged sculpture next to him. After a few turns around the small space, I finally found a faint mark on the ground.
"Yun Ze has a bunch of things piled up here, only there is a gap here, why do you think it is?"
Xia Beifeng asked Xia Yi beside him, but before he could answer, he said the answer himself: "Because this place was not deliberately left by him, but naturally formed." ”
He pressed his injured hand to the ground, and sure enough, he heard the sound of rustling under the ground: "As for these statues, they are not collectibles...... Rather, it is a ration specially prepared for this group of things. ”
The things below were really attracted by the blood.
He took a step to the side, dodging the crashing ground. Pretending to be frightened, he patted his chest, pointed to the black hole that appeared on the ground and said, "This is it, if you want to find Yun Ze, you probably have to jump from here first." ”
Xia Yi's face suddenly became very ugly.
"Are you kidding me?"
He said in an unkind tone, and the silver whip poked out of his sleeve, shining in the palm of his hand: "This kind of joke is not easy to make casually. ”
"What I said is true."
Xia Beifeng spread his hands innocently: "Do you remember, when Yun Ze died, he was already made of these things......
Xia Yi's face became even more ugly.
"Do you remember everything?"
He exclaimed in disbelief: "When did it happen?" ”
Xia Beifeng stretched out his finger and pointed to the wound that still had bruises at the corner of his eye: "Thanks to it, I think of something that is just right to use." ”
Fei Yan shrunk into Xia Beifeng's sleeve and heard it confused, so he poked his head out curiously and glanced into the black hole.
Countless black insects were densely packed in the hole, twisting and rolling, and the scales on its body stood up when I saw it, and I shivered unconsciously.
(To be continued.) )