Chapter 57: The Siege

I don't know when, densely, the surroundings are already surrounded by 'participants'!

Far or near, sitting or standing, they couldn't see their faces clearly, and they couldn't tell whether they were animals or humanoids, except for a pair of dark green eyes and clusters of fluttering phosphorus fire.

In an instant, the feeling of suffocation surrounded by heavy surrounds was deeply felt by Xiao Xia.

"I didn't expect you to dare to chase it out!" Guan Zheng asked confidently.

"You're waiting, if we don't come, won't we disappoint you?" Ruan Zhan-for-tat, "Don't bother you to go back to the Octagonal Tower." ”

"Even if you're smart, you know you can't dodge. But you don't have that array, and you only carry these two burdens, how can you fight me? ”

"Whether you can fight or not will only know after trying." Ruan Zhan replied to him in Guan Zheng's words, "It's useless to talk more." ”

Guan Zheng's face changed slightly, he snorted coldly, and ripped open the placket, revealing a small drum around his waist. This is the same as Huang Boheng's behavior, but everyone present knows that his skills are not comparable to Huang Boheng. That's just a puppet of him, just accepting a little of his thoughts, and this person in front of him is the real person behind the scenes!

I saw Guan Zheng slowly raise his hand and land heavily on the snare drum.

Strangely, there was no drum sound, which was completely different from the earth-shattering sound that Huang Boheng knocked out that day, but despite this, there was still a burst of movement around him, which made the three people who were surrounded by the circle obviously feel that something was approaching again.

"Isn't that some ultrasound? Is it what animals can hear, but humans can't? Or microwave? "Wanli is still in the mood to analyze this at this moment, and he is not nervous at all.

"Are you going to cook? Also microwave? Ruan Zhan didn't reply and reprimanded.

Xiao Xia, who was standing behind him, didn't say anything, she felt Ruan Zhan's shoulders tense, obviously on guard. She understands that he is taking a defensive position, because the enemy is strong and I am weak, and defensive counterattack is the best strategy!

I saw that Guan Zheng's movements were very similar to Huang Boheng, but they were far from being so exaggerated, and he didn't dance the witch dance, just beating the drum one by one, moving the direction lightly under his feet, moving quickly and slowly, and there was no sound at all during the whole process.

But despite his quietness, the effect is surprisingly good, and it is obvious that the difference between his magic power and Huang Boheng is not a matter of grade - but the difference between absolute control and puppets.

I only heard the rustling sound getting stronger and stronger, and although the shadowy black shadows in front of me didn't move much, everyone knew that the attack was begining.

All three of them did not speak, but watched the situation around them vigilantly. If you listen carefully to the source of the strange 'rustling' sound, you always feel that it seems to be coming from the ground. And when they followed the sound and looked down, the other two were fine, and Xiao Xia immediately exclaimed!

Huang Boheng just controlled a few snakes, which had already made her have nightmares repeatedly, and now the ground was crawling with even more disgusting things-countless tropical reptiles that she had never seen before, strange-shaped snakes, insects, rats and ants, crawling all over the ground, just as you hugged me and squeezed towards the three people in the circle in a regular manner! At first glance, it was as if a black circle was surrounding them, shrinking and shrinking.

Seeing this, Ruan Zhan immediately waved out a fire handprint, which still slapped on the ground, spreading outward with the flying dust, forming a circle of fire around it, not only blocking those reptiles from the outside, but also causing them to scatter and flee as the flames swallowed up.

Seeing that the situation had eased for the time being, Ruan Zhan looked up.

Far away, through the dancing flames, Guan Zheng's face was cloudy, but he always had a contemptuous smile, and he didn't care at all after seeing Ruan Zhan blocking the reptile attack with fire, and it was not at all like Huang Boheng's panic at that time.

He just grabbed a handful of powder made of something from his pocket and sprinkled it into the air, and then as soon as the powder hit the ground, he accelerated and increased the frequency and amplitude of his movements, and in just a dozen seconds, those reptiles actually returned to the regular siege and began to attack the fire circle!

Xiao Xia on the side was stunned.

Any animal would be afraid of fire, not to mention that this was not an ordinary fire, but a fire with mana supported by Ruan Zhan's mana, which had even more powerful destructive power. But these reptiles completely violated their biological instincts, and with the command that Guan Zheng couldn't hear, they squirmed towards the fire ring one after another, ignoring the existence of the curse fire!

Zizi-

The smell of burnt meat came, the first wave of reptiles has been devoured by the ruthless fire, the larger reptiles and snakes did not burn to death for a while, and they were still tossing and writhing painfully in the fire, making a 'hiss' sound that I don't know if it was a miserable scream, but this did not have any deterrent effect on the insects behind, the first wave of 'siege' had not stopped, the second wave had already arrived, and then the third and fourth waves, surging like a tide!

"Oh my God, he's got all the worms in the forest!" Wanli took a breath.

"The fire won't last long." Ruan Zhan said calmly, but his expression was a little abnormal, "But we have to wait until reinforcements come." ”

"What then?" Wanli asked, "This bastard doesn't care about these lowly lives at all, and uses the worm sea tactic, so that your curse fire will be extinguished." ”

"It must be delayed until three o'clock in the morning." Ruan Zhan shook his body slightly, "I will add another spell fire, and then I will set up an enchantment." The two of you are standing back to back, and this time you're going to be a gold medal fighter too. He pointed to the wooden stick covered with charms in Wanli's hand, and then turned to Xiao Xia, "Xiao Xia, you are in charge of the broken flag." Remember, no matter how hard it trembles, don't let it go. I see Guan Zheng like this, and I probably won't cherish ghosts, but I'm afraid that my baby banner will be squeezed a little bit today. Tell me, I can count on you. ”

"You can." Natsu swears.

Ruan Zhan nodded. For a moment, Xiao Xia actually felt that his eyes were extremely gentle, but before she could delve further, Ruan Zhan turned to Wanli again.

"I don't care if you live or die." At this time, Ruan Zhan actually made a joke about Wanli, but Wanli's expression was serious.

"You—not now—" Wanli asked, in a hesitant voice.

Ruan Zhan didn't speak, turned around and didn't let Xiao Xia see his face. Seeing that the first spell fire was already weak and about to be extinguished, he immediately cast another fire handprint, and added an invisible protective barrier to the void drawing, that is, a transparent barrier was beside Xiao Xia and Wanli, and he was standing outside the barrier.

After doing all this, even Xiao Xia could see that his steps staggered, not to mention Guan Zheng, who had been staring at the situation inside from a distance around Wan Li and from afar.

Guan Zheng was stunned for a moment, and at first thought that Ruan Zhan was using some tricks, but then he understood what was going on, and couldn't help laughing proudly, "I said how can this person surnamed Wan be able to fall into my Death Gu and not die, and I thought that you used some high trick to break my Absolute Gu Technique, it turned out that you lured his Gu to you." Haha, great friendship, admire! Admire! ”

In a word, it was like a muffled thunder directly slashing at Xiao Xia's defenseless heart!

Did he lure Wanli's Gu to himself? Therefore, he has always refused to say what method he used to save Wanli! That's why he would have hurt so much that day! So will he die? Will he, like all ghosts, be invisible and untouchable? Will she lose him forever?

She turned white and turned her head to look at Wanli.

Wan Li nodded in annoyance, "That's right, this bastard forcibly lured my Gu to him without asking my opinion, which made me feel so guilty from that day that I didn't even dare to breathe." If he dies, I will even have the heart to bury him. ”

Xiao Xia couldn't speak, but it was as if a hand was tearing in her heart. She didn't understand whether it was pain or soreness, and she felt that her whole heart had been emptied, and only a shell was slowly shattered. This is completely different from the extreme distress and reluctance she felt when she learned that Wanli was going to die, chaotic, powerless, and couldn't even tell what she felt in her heart.

"If we kill Guan Zheng, will he be fine?" She asked in a trance, but she couldn't hear Wanli's answer in her ears, and she put all her body and mind on things outside the barrier.

I saw that Ruan Zhan was standing very straight, trying his best to restrain the trembling caused by the great pain, and still standing there proudly. Guan Zheng laughed wildly for a while, and suddenly changed to a sinister smile.

"Gu is in the body of ordinary people, completely under my control, I don't know what about in your body?" He kept directing the reptile to attack, "Do you think we should try it?" ”

"Don't!" Xiao Xia on the side screamed.

She didn't want to see him suffer, the last time she saw him was enough. She would rather see him with that smile that rejects people thousands of miles away, and would rather he ignore her than see him suffer!

But she forgot that her words would be counterproductive, because Guan Zheng couldn't tolerate the slightest bit of the 'thing' he fancied belonged to someone else. Therefore, before her words fell, Guan Zheng began to summon the death Gu lurking in Ruan Zhan's body.

His movements continued, but the incantation began to begin to recite in his mouth. Every time he said a word, Ruan Zhan's body would bend down a little, and finally he simply sat cross-legged on the ground, as if meditating, closed his eyes, and made a strange decision in his hand, obviously fighting against the strange Gu in his body.

At this time, the first layer of the circle of fire has been crushed by all kinds of insects and snakes that are desperately crawling inside, and those controlled reptiles have already passed the first line of defense and are trying to pass through the second circle of fire, but Ruan Zhan is like a settler, and Xiao Xia and Wan Li in the enchantment can't go out to help him, so they can only do it in a hurry.

Probably because of Ruan Zhan's distraction and the struggle with the death Gu in his body, the fire on the second layer of the fire ring formed by the fire handprint was obviously not as good as the first layer of protection circle, and the faint flames were only less than half a foot high, allowing some animals that could jump through in one jump, while other reptiles that could not come directly still pressed the fire with their bodies, and in a moment the flames were pressed like charcoal fire.

Guan Zheng smiled even more proudly when he saw this, probably feeling that the time had come, and immediately changed the rhythm and footwork of beating the drum two times in a row, driving other things hiding behind the dense forest to come out.

First there were the larger animals, the black gurgling throats couldn't see what they were, probably quadrupeds like wild boars and wild dogs, then the big pythons with their heads held high, and finally the ghosts of all shapes! Some have no heads, some lack arms and legs, and some simply attach themselves to strange plants, moving around little by little!

After those controlled animals rushed into the second layer of the fire ring, they immediately pounced on the three people, but for some reason, they did not attack Ruan Zhan, but just surrounded him, although the inaudible drum was urgent, but they just didn't dare to enter within three feet of Ruan Zhan, and could only hesitate to wander in pain outside.

Especially those ghosts, as soon as they got closer, the bloodwood sword on Ruan Zhan's lap began to shake violently, emitting a brilliant red light, frightening those ghosts to 'squeak' and hide backwards, if it weren't for the relationship that was under Guan Zheng's control, they would probably have fled as far as they could.

And although they didn't dare to attack Ruan Zhan, they wouldn't be polite to Wan Li and Xiao Xia. Although these two were in the middle of the barrier, they couldn't attack for a while, but they bravely pounced on the barrier wall!

In a matter of moments, the walls of the barrier were filled with 'besiegers', and they attacked the barrier in various ways, trying to break through the last fortress in the same way that they broke through the two rings of fire! Reptiles gnawed their claws, quadrupeds repeatedly collided, python swimmers, and goblins thrashed with all their tools, making the entire enchantment feel a little shaken.

Xiao Xia clung to Wanli's back at a loss, panicked and anxious.

Originally, it was dark and there was no moon, but now the small barrier created by Ruan Zhan was tightly blocked by various monsters, and it was pitch black inside, not only could she not even see Wanli's face clearly, but what made her even more unbearable was that she couldn't see Ruan Zhan's situation.

The only light came from the insects themselves, and the skeletal eyes of those trying to rush in, unable to tell whether they were animals or ghosts!

"Don't be afraid!" Wanli's stable voice came from behind, which made Xiao Xia feel a little more at ease, which made her understand in her heart that she was not alone!

"I'm worried about Ruan Zhan!" Xiao Xia's voice was shaking, "I can't see him, I can't rest assured." ”

"Me too. I'll figure it out, stand up! Wan Li said as he took a step away from Xiao Xia.

Xiao Xia only felt empty on her back, but before she realized what was going on, she heard a loud 'bang', and then her eyes suddenly lit up.

I saw a blank space on the barrier wall, and Wan Li stood there waving the wooden stick full of spells, and struck down again, and a cyan spark burst out from the place where it collided, shaking the things lying on the barrier wall one after another.

It turns out that he is shaking down those things that are in the way of the eyes in this way!

Seeing this, Xiao Xia immediately ran to the empty space to look out, not caring how disgusting the thing was shaking in front of her eyes!

"Wait a minute." Wanli pulled back Xiao Xia, who hadn't found Ruan Zhan's figure yet, "Let me maintain it, I can't continue to mess around like this." Although the spell wooden stick he made will not destroy his own barrier, but now he has internal and external troubles, and he can't help but prevent it! ”

Wan Li said as he lifted the stick, leaned over to the light to look at it, and after hesitating for a moment, he took one of the charms and repasted it on the wall of the barrier that had not been blocked.

With a flash of red light from the spell, the reptiles and goblins trying to reclaim the territory immediately flashed aside in horror.

"It seems that I am not mistaken, I think I have the talent to be a mage!" Wan Li smiled, "Why are you stunned, come and see!" ”

When Xiao Xia heard this, she immediately jumped to the place like a small window and looked out.

Ruan Zhan was still sitting there, his clothes clinging to his thin but powerful body, obviously soaked with sweat. And the things around are still only besieged and not attacked, maintaining a stalemate.

And Guan Zheng in the distance looked a little impatient, and while continuing to beat the drum, he walked over to Ruan Zhan, who was motionless!

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