Chapter Forty-Six: The Phoenix in Fire
Fan thought that what would emerge from the tunnel would be ant-like skeletons, just like the "Adventures of Sinbad" that he saw on TV as a child. But when a stream of heat blew out of the tunnel, he realized that he was wrong, and there was no shadow of a skeleton in front of him, but a sea of fire that shimmered with hellish light, and a human figure could be faintly seen.
These burning bodies frantically pounced towards Fan Li, as if they couldn't see the obstacles in front of them, and almost knocked Fan Li's back on his back, but fortunately there was a crossbow behind him, so he would not be knocked to the ground, but he knew that even if he could block such an attack, the shield that continued to heat up would crumble after ten seconds, because he was about to lose his grip on such a hot shield.
Jialan shot two life-seeking arrows and hit the eye of the nearest skeleton, and the momentum of the flames decreased, but instead of falling, it pulled out the wooden arrow that had been inserted into the eye socket by itself.
"Withdraw! Evacuate! Wu Meiyan shouted to Fan Li, who turned back with difficulty, and the crossbow turned around and grabbed the injured rose, but the rose let out a miserable scream, and she only felt a piece of red-hot iron touch on her skin.
"Kaiba, your hand!" Jialan shouted at the overwhelmed Kai Crossbow, and the Kai Crossbow reacted at this time, raising his red hand in a daze.
"Go help Fan Li!" Wu Meiyan pulled up the rose and retreated to the rear, but fortunately, the tunnel was so narrow that the skeletons could only run from one direction, and if they surrounded them like a pack of zombies from all sides, no one would be able to withstand such an attack.
"Is there a way?" Wu Meiyan shouted at Rose, who shook her head fiercely.
"There's no way, we've all tried, the sheriff used the wind to suck away the oxygen, and only then temporarily forced back some of the monsters, and then Hu Pengyue simply smashed them to completely break the flames on their bodies, but none of us can do this!" Fan Li's shield was slammed into the ground, and he ran back with the crossbow, several people ran back desperately, and the skeletons behind him hit the shield hard, and a few jumped from the shield with a ladder to chase after him, and fell to the ground by Wu Meiyan's throwing knife.
"It's over, it's all over! It's a big deal, I'll die with them, you guys run, I'm going to blow up these things! Rose took out the iron lump again, but was snatched by Wu Meiyan.
"Don't be stupid, there's always a solution." They returned the way they came, the heat behind them getting closer and closer, and when Fan Li's shield shattered, the skeletons rushed over like the waves of the ocean. Because with the wounded roses, they can't run fast at all.
"Let me be loyal, hurry up, you guys hurry up and find another way to rescue the sheriff." Rose was still screaming, but how could Wu Meiyan, who was running with her, take her point of view, but the troubles behind them gradually made them realize that they had to think about it. They were already five meters away, and seeing that the skeletons behind them were about to drown them like a tide, the crossbow suddenly turned around and ran in the direction of the skeleton army, shouting as he ran.
"Let's go! Leave me alone! ”
"Kai crossbow!" Fan Lifu tried to hold the crossbow, but he had already run two meters away. I saw that the crossbow was like a rhinoceros with soaring hair, heading towards the skeleton army, and forcibly pushed all the skeletons in the front row to the ground, he was not afraid of the burning of the flames, but the heat wave still made him hoarse and grinned, and he endured this painful feeling and pulled all the skeletons that wanted to jump over his body behind him. After a moment of entanglement, the skeletons immediately understood that they would never be able to get over it without killing the stumbling block in front of them, so they swarmed up and crushed the crossbow to the ground with the weight of many people.
"Grandpa's!" Fan Li heard Jialan scolding bitterly, and it was the first time he heard Jialan scolding the street.
"What a hero he is!" Rose looked at the downed crossbow with adoring eyes, her two large eyes full of admiration for the hero, and then she only felt that something was pulling her upwards.
"Let's go! Don't waste his sacrifice! Wu Meiyan grabbed the rose and was about to leave, when a figure appeared in front of her, five meters away from her.
"Get down!" Wu Meiyan shouted angrily, turned over and pressed the rose under her, Fan Li and Jialan couldn't help but fall to the ground when they heard her warning, and then a more violent heat wave passed over their heads, hitting the group of skeletons that were pressed on the Kai crossbow in layers, those skeletons were like a group of crabs that greeted the waves, completely incapable of resisting, and were blown behind by this heat current.
"Huh?" Without the pressure on his body, Kai Crossbow sat up suddenly, only to see that after the flames were over, Xie Ling appeared in front of him with a flamethrower.
"My goddess!" Kai crossbow looked obsessed, and when he stood up, he was about to rush over and hug Xie Ling.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" He opened his arms and waited for Xie Ling's embrace, not wanting Xie Ling to push him away, once again holding the flamethrower in his hand, and spraying more violent flames at the skeleton legion that surged back in front of him, Kai Crossbow only felt a huge power coming from his back, he looked back at those skeletons, but he was almost unable to open his eyes by this hot current, but he could still see that the skeleton frame in the front row was instantly blown away by this flame, and the skeletons in the back were immediately divided by the five horses.
Xie Ling walked forward, the heat wave pushing the skeleton legion, and from time to time arms and legs flew out of the flames. Fan Li was dumbfounded when he saw the scene in front of him, he didn't expect that what came out of Xie Ling's flamethrower would be something even more terrifying than hellfire.
"That's what a hero is!" Rose once again looked at Xie Ling's back with adoring eyes, when Xie Ling suddenly twisted the muzzle of the flamethrower, and the flames stopped abruptly, leaving only a mess in front of him. The skeletons were either burned or shattered by the heat, and only the last few were rushing towards Xie Ling, as if they had no fear at all.
"Be careful!" Seeing that the skeleton was about to rush to Xie Ling's side, the crossbow jumped up and blocked between Xie Ling and the skeleton, but he didn't expect Xie Ling to pull him out of sight with one hand, and grab the skeleton's head with the other hand, only to hear a crisp sound, the skull actually let Xie Ling crush it alive. Xie Ling waved his iron fist at the other skeletons, and in a few seconds, there was a mass of corpses left in front of him, and only one skeleton was left who was hesitating to rush up. It was different from the other skeletons, who were naked and black, while he was wearing gold armor, which was supposed to be their head.
Xie Ling suddenly grabbed the thing by the neck and lifted it up with one hand, and the thing immediately let out a piercing scream, which shook Fan Li's ears and made their ears tingle.
"Go back and tell the heart slave that I'll get back what belongs to me."
"Yes...... Be! Xie Ling let go of the thing, and it fled in fright, this posture was completely inconsistent with the beautiful armor.
"What is this flamethrower made of, it's so powerful!" Seeing that thing ran away, Kai Crossbow stood beside Xie Ling and looked down at the flamethrower in her hand.
"Why did you put it in?" Fan Li walked up behind her and asked.
"These skeletons are all recruited by it, it is the general under the heart slave, let it go back to ventilate and report, it is the rule of the road, let's continue to walk."
"Where's Hu Pengyue?" Fan asked again.
"Here." A familiar voice came from behind him, and Fan Li turned his head to find that Hu Pengyue had leaned against the wall behind him for some time. She looked tired and pale, and Fan Li immediately thought of something.
"You're hungry." He took out a handful of compressed biscuits and handed them to Hu Pengyue, but when she saw the biscuits, she shook her head.
"I'm not hungry, just take a break, give me some water." She replied.
"How did you get her back?" Jialan walked up to Xie Ling and asked, Xie Ling was re-hanging the flamethrower on his back, Fan Li found that this thing didn't have any place to store fuel, Xie Ling used it to spew out a lot of flames just now, could it all be generated by the gun itself?
"I don't know very well, but I beat her up." Xie Ling replied.
After eating the biscuits, Hu Pengyue accidentally saw the rose that was still in a demented state, and she patted her head.
"You're here too, where are the Hollow Valley and the Sheriff?" She asked, but Rose didn't answer, but looked at Xie Ling with confused eyes.
"I swear, whoever saved my life, I will promise to me, even women, what a big hero!" She muttered to herself, not taking Hu Pengyue's words seriously at all.
"I'm talking to you!" Hu Pengyue slapped her again, this time increasing the intensity.
"We got lost with the sheriff, and they controlled the hollow, and they wanted to kill me, and I had a hard time running out of her, and I met them." Rose explained.
"By the way, Hu Pengyue, aren't you controlled, why do you still want to smash those skeletons?" Fan asked as he handed her the kettle.
Hu Pengyue took the kettle and poured it hard.
"I didn't know, I felt very angry, very angry, I wanted to hit someone, and I didn't feel that my body was controlled by anyone, and then I lost consciousness, and when I woke up, I saw this tall man standing next to me." Hu Pengyue pointed in Xie Ling's direction.
Fan Li thought of the scene where Hu Pengyue threw a stone at herself before, and felt that it was the blind spot of her consciousness at that time, so she didn't mention it, so as not to make her feel guilty.
"Let's keep walking, I can't wait to kill that old slave." Xie Ling's voice came from the front, and the cooled Kai Crossbow walked to Rose's side and set her up, she was a little resistant at first, but thinking that Kai Crossbow was also a self-sacrificing hero, she accepted his help with a smile.
They followed Fan Li's direction, entered through the secret passage under the second tunnel, and went straight to the Flame Temple. But along the way, the front was quiet, they crawled out of the secret passage one by one, because of safety issues, Xie Ling volunteered to walk in the front, and when Fan Li came out, he found that Xie Ling was just standing alone in the temple, surrounded by a mess, there was no sarcophagus, no shadow of Fang Tian's halberd, and there were no heart slaves and skeletons.
"What's the matter, it was here last time, I opened the mechanism and saw Fang Tian's painting halberd, about four meters long!" Fan Li looked at the traces left by the sarcophagus and said. He lowered his head to carefully look at the marks on the ground, and then looked up at the shelf that held Fang Tian's painting halberd before.
"They must have removed the contents of this, when I came, there were still weapons and armor burned by the flames, and now all that is left is the groove that holds them." Fan explained.
"The heart slave is a scheming undead ghost, and it is not a good thing when he is alive." Xie Ling said viciously to the groove of the sarcophagus, and her sentence attracted Fan Li's attention, and he looked at Xie Ling with strange eyes for a while.
"But they will never be able to escape from the hidden capital, and the time has not yet come for the heart slaves, and they have not yet obtained vehicles that can be attached." Wu Meiyan looked down at the debris and grooves on the ground. "By the way, are there any other more luxurious places in the secluded capital, such as lying on one or two very eye-catching bodies?"
Fan Li shook his head.
"I dreamed of a temple with daggers, and there were only a few charred corpses and some fish-shaped statues in it, and those corpses were not unusual, they were friends who died when my grandfather's generation brought people to the hidden capital."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Seeing Fan Li's face sank, Wu Meiyan hurriedly apologized.
"I do remember that there was a place for ancient corpses in here, and it had a large skeleton shelf, almost three meters high." Rose's faint voice rang out from the crossbow's side, and all eyes were on her.
"I ran aimlessly until I reached a secret room, and the skeletons seemed to be very afraid of that place, and they all disappeared halfway through the chase, and there was a sarcophagus inside, and the sarcophagus was tightly knit, and in front of the sarcophagus was a throne, and on the throne sat an ancient corpse, and the corpse was wearing armor in some places, and wrapped in strips of cloth in some places, which frightened me, so I didn't dare to stay in it longer."
"Do you know the way?" Hearing this clue, Xie Ling couldn't wait to ask.
Rose nodded, and shook her head again.
"I ...... I can only take you by impression. ”